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美国因公开处决计划面临全球愤怒

David Smith 华盛顿

美国因一项通过枪决处决一名残障人士并向公众直播的“野蛮”计划而面临全球谴责，批评者将该政府与伊朗和阿富汗的独裁政权相类比。

美国国防部在周四晚上确认，将在12月3日直播处决尼达尔·马利克·哈桑。哈桑被判定在2009年于德克萨斯州 Fort Hood 军事基地杀害13人。

工党赞扬 在对抗 波兰斯基的 补选中获胜

副党魁表示，在霍本和圣潘克拉斯的胜利表明，在伯纳姆的领导下，左翼选民正在回归该党。新闻页 12→

联合国人权事务高级专员办事处昨日警告称，广播杀戮行为将等同于公开处决，且将“违反禁止酷刑的绝对禁令”。

该计划还引起了美国国内及海外政治人物、宗教领袖和人权活动家的谴责。前美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿在社交媒体上写道：“一个野蛮的想法，有损我们作为一个国家的尊严。抵制这一行为。”

亚萨明·安萨里，首位当选美国国会的伊朗裔美国民主党人，发帖称：“在特朗普的美国，我们现在竟然在进行公开处决。搞什么鬼。这就是在伊朗和阿富汗等残暴独裁政权下发生的事情。这都是特朗普接管美国权威主义的一部分。”

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分析 海格塞斯的提议使美国陷入尴尬境地 第 7 页

死刑 为何美国的处决人数在增加 第 7 页

PTSD 风险 专家警告直播杀戮将带来创伤 第 6 页

在 20 世纪 60 年代就废除了死刑的英国，平等事务大臣兼工党主席布里奇特·菲利普森在英国广播公司第四电台的《Today》节目中表示，她认为这个概念“相当令人不安”。

根据美国军事法，总统必须批准

照片：NICK EAGLE / ITV

午餐新点子 → Feast

外加

切片面包试用报告 → Feast

争夺王冠

天空之民

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国际法院法官因倡导国际法获诺贝尔和平奖

朱利安·博格（Julian Borger） 瑞秋·萨维奇（Rachel Savage）

诺贝尔和平奖已授予纳维·皮莱（Navi Pillay）。这位南非籍的前联合国人权事务负责人曾主持联合国委员会，该委员会得出结论认为以色列在加沙犯有种族灭绝罪。

挪威诺贝尔委员会表示，目前在国际法院（ICJ）担任法官的皮莱已“证明法律手段有助于防止战争与暴力行为”。

“纳维·皮莱对普适法律原则的承诺以及她坚定的道德准则贯穿于其漫长的职业生涯中，”委员会表示，并提及了她早年在南非种族隔离制度下为纳尔逊·曼德拉（Nelson Mandela）辩护的工作，以及她在国际刑事法庭任职、担任联合国人权事务高级专员，以及主持联合国巴勒斯坦被占领土独立国际调查委员会的经历。

该委员会去年得出结论，以色列国在加沙犯有种族灭绝行为，“其具体意图是摧毁加沙地带的巴勒斯坦人”，并称该国总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Benjamin Netanyahu）、总统艾萨克·赫尔佐格（Isaac Herzog）以及前国防部长约阿夫·加兰特（Yoav Gallant）“煽动了种族灭绝的实施”。

“很明显，通过符合《种族灭绝公约》所设定标准的行为，存在着摧毁加沙地带巴勒斯坦人的意图，”皮莱在去年9月委员会调查结果公布时表示。

以色列拒绝与该委员会合作，认为其存在偏见，并将其报告斥为“令人震惊”。以色列外交部在昨日得知皮莱获奖的消息后反应激烈。

“如果有一项关于谎言、仇恨和血腥诽谤的奖项，纳维·皮莱不仅会是竞争者，而且会是领跑者，”该部门在 X 上表示，并补充道：“授予皮莱诺贝尔和平奖并非是对正义的认可，而是将一项奖项怪诞地武器化，以使反以色列的仇恨和偏见合法化。”

“既然诺贝尔委员会奖励了21世纪最大的谎言，约瑟夫·戈培尔（Joseph Goebbels）一定在地狱中鼓掌。”

新闻

▶ 纳维·皮莱在德国纽伦堡参加会议时被告知获奖

在声明中，诺贝尔委员会表示，85 岁的皮莱“为加强国际法机构做出了贡献”。

“她的独立性、专业知识和坚定信念使她成为我们时代最受尊敬的国际法学家之一，”委员会

“［皮莱］为加强国际法机构做出了贡献”

诺贝尔委员会 补充声明：“在授予今年的诺贝尔和平奖时，挪威诺贝尔委员会希望提醒世界，国家和国际法治是我们为确保和平及以非暴力方式解决冲突而建立的体系之基石。”

委员会表示，在昨天的宣布之前，未能联系上皮莱。当时她正在德国纽伦堡参加一次人权律师和法学家的会议，该地曾是战后纳粹领导人战争罪审判的所在地，她是从同事那里得知这一消息的。她的反应是不敢相信。

“我对这件事并不太了解。问题是：这是真的吗？作为一名律师和法官，我仍然希望核实它，”她说道。

“我最后做的工作是关于加沙的报告，将那里发生的事情定性为种族灭绝，”皮莱补充道，“人们对该报告的主要反应之一是[称赞]我的勇气。你可以想象我有多惊讶。说出真相为什么需要勇气呢？”

在宣布获奖几小时后，特朗普政府公布了针对国际刑事法院（ICC）的广泛新制裁，皮莱也曾在该法院任职。美国国务卿马可·鲁比奥表示，这些措施是为了确保该法院永远不会起诉美国人。

国际刑事法院尚未起诉任何美国国民，并且此前曾指出，它是一个最后的追诉法院，对于拥有有效法律体系的国家来说是不必要的。去年，长期渴望获得诺贝尔和平奖的唐纳德·特朗普对被认为参与调查美国人或以色列人的国际刑事法院官员实施了个人制裁。此次新制裁的目标是该法院作为一个机构，冻结国际刑事法院在美资产，并给予美国公司和个人六个月的时间来终止与该法院的所有业务往来。

国际刑事法院表示，这些制裁是“企图阻碍司法进程，并防止法院履行其创建之初的职责”。

皮莱获奖受到了人权活动人士的欢迎，并在曾产生过四位获奖者的南非引起轰动。该国总统西里尔·拉马福萨表示：“皮莱法官荣获诺贝尔奖，让我们能够庆祝她为加强和平、维护人类尊严以及为南非和全球人民带来希望所做出的进步性贡献。”

去年将和平奖授予委内瑞拉反对派领导人玛丽亚·科里纳·马查多引发了广泛批评，因为她曾呼吁美国对其国家进行军事干预。马查多在1月将她的获奖奖牌交给特朗普，进一步加剧了争议。奖项委员会坚持认为，诺贝尔奖获得者的荣誉不可转让。

面对法拉奇引发的猜测，竞争对手们正为补选做准备

罗温娜·梅森 (Rowena Mason) 白厅编辑

在关于尼格尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）收受500 万英镑m礼物的标准调查即将结束的猜测中，他的竞争对手们正准备在未来几个月参加克拉克顿（Clacton）的补选。

保守党消息人士表示，该党已准备好在法拉奇的席位展开竞争，尽管影子内阁的高层对于在法拉奇夏季补选获胜的情况下该席位是否能赢回仍存在分歧。

包括极右翼的“恢复英国”（Restore Britain）在内的其他政党，在抵制了上次投票后，预计这次都将在该席位派出候选人。

如果对法拉奇实施的制裁较为严重，威斯敏斯特也将迎来一场关于改革英国党（Reform UK）未来的博弈。

如果决定即将做出，该进程理论上可以在圣诞节前完成，但以往案例的时间线表明，如果实施严重制裁，更有可能在明年进行。

苏格兰民族党（SNP）议员玛格丽特·费里尔（Margaret Ferrier）因违反新冠封锁规定，以及保守党议员彼得·博恩（Peter Bone）因被发现霸凌员工，这两起案例从专员报告结束到补选日期均耗时六个月以上。

《卫报》在5月披露加密货币亿万富翁克里斯托弗·哈博恩（Christopher Harborne）在2024年上次大选前不久向法拉奇赠送了500 万英镑m后，法拉奇因该礼物被立案调查。

这位改革英国党领导人表示，这是个人事务而非政治事务，这笔钱无需申报。规则规定，如果议员在进入议会前的12个月内收到与议员职务相关的财务支持，则需要登记。

根据流程，如果发现严重违规，专员将向由议员和外聘成员组成的标准委员会提交备忘录。

随后，委员会将进行进一步讨论，并举行进一步听证会或邀请该议员提供证据，最后决定处罚——这一过程可能需要数周时间。议员还有权向独立专家小组提出上诉，这可能还需要一个月或更长时间。

如果议会同意对其处以超过10天的下议院停职处罚，则可以发起撤职请愿——这需要该议员选区$10\%$的选民签名。

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在六周的时间里，为在近期启动的改革电视（Reform TV）频道推广法拉奇主张而雇佣的人数。在博恩和费里尔的案例中，两人都没有参加其席位的竞选，保守党希望法拉奇也能避战。“问题在于他是否会再次参选，”一名影子内阁部长表示。

但改革英国党消息人士坚称，法拉奇将再次参战，此前他在对抗包括比法斯伯爵（Count Biface）在内的独立候选人的补选中，以超过12,000票的优势获胜。

他还开始了全国巡访，以巩固其核心支持，并对其党总部进行了重组。这包括启动一个改革电视（Reform TV）频道，将政党的主张直接传递给选民，并雇佣了一支由12名“记者”组成的团队。

在最近的补选中，法拉奇将他的领先优势从上次大选时的8,000票提高（上次大选他击败了现任保守党议员吉尔斯·沃特林）。在2019年，当时该席位没有脱欧党候选人，保守党曾以超过24,000票的优势赢得该席位。

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冲浪盛世将终？气候危机威胁全球部分关键冲浪点

达米安·卡林顿 (Damian Carrington) 环境编辑

由于全球部分顶级的冲浪点正被海平面上升所淹没，冲浪的未来正受到气候危机的威胁。

一项针对指定“世界冲浪保护区”中数十个著名浪点的分析发现，超过四分之三的浪点由于潮位变化、海岸线硬化和沙层偏移而处于高风险之中。这些影响不仅关乎捕捉海浪的冲浪者，还关乎依赖数十亿美元冲浪经济的社区，而这些社区往往位于除此以外几乎没有其他产业的地方。

研究中被评为风险最高的浪点包括：北德文郡克罗伊德 (Croyde) 强有力的海滩破浪点、澳大利亚努萨 (Noosa) 和萨尔瓦多奥里恩特-萨尔瓦赫 (Oriente Salvaje) 的尖端破浪点，以及加利福尼亚州圣克鲁斯 (Santa Cruz) 的礁石浪点（如 Sewer Peak 和 Wind and Sea）。

顶级的冲浪波是由海底形状、涌浪方向和潮汐的复杂组合而形成的。“冲浪点是极其独特的海洋学现象——所有这些因素恰到好处地汇聚在一起才形成了海浪——因此，这些过程非常敏感，”加州州立大学海峡群岛分校 (California State University Channel Islands) 的研究共同作者丹·雷内曼 (Dan Reineman) 表示。

全球变暖正在推高海平面，并改变影响沉积物移动的降雨模式。

同样面临风险

雪上运动：全球变暖已经导致欧洲数百条滑雪道关闭。

耐力跑：近期研究表明，气温升高降低了马拉松纪录被打破的可能性。网球：今年球员和球迷在极端高温中备受煎熬。野外游泳：更高的

野外游泳：更高的温度增加了开放水域出现有毒藻类爆发的风险。帆船：低水位使水库活动面临风险，且不可预测的天气可能会干扰海上航行。哈丽埃特·理查兹（Harriet Richards）

这可能会破坏微妙的平衡并摧毁海浪。然而，研究人员表示，可以利用冲浪者专业的本地知识来帮助保护海浪。

“气候变化将以不同方式影响全球各地的冲浪点，”来自“拯救海浪联盟”（Save the Waves Coalition）的研究共同作者特伦特·霍奇斯（Trent Hodges）表示，“我们直接从当地冲浪者那里了解到他们如何看待海浪的变化。这也是一个‘煤矿里的金丝雀’——当海浪发生变化时，通常意味着海滩也在发生变化，而每个人都喜爱海滩。”

这项发表在《气候变化》（Climatic Change）杂志上的研究指出：“气候变化和海岸管理对于全球多个具有重要意义的冲浪点的未来生存能力，以及由此支撑的无数独特的当地社区、文化和经济，都具有显著的负面 ◀ 冲浪波是由海底形状、涌浪和潮汐等因素复杂组合而成的 摄影：BRENT BIELMANN / WSL

影响。”

近 200 名专家分析了分布在 8 个国家、11 of the 13 个世界冲浪保护区内的 57 个冲浪点。然而，研究人员警告称，全球数以千计的其他冲浪点也面临类似的危险。

一项关键发现是，较为自然的海岸线能够通过向内陆转移和重新分布沉积物，更好地适应气候变化带来的改变。赖内曼（Reineman）表示，海堤、防波堤和丁字坝等开发工程降低了海滩和海浪的韧性。

北德文世界冲浪保护区（North Devon World Surfing Reserve）的联合创始人、参与该研究的冲浪者之一亚当·霍尔（Adam Hall）表示：“北德文非常特别。我们有桑顿沙滩（Saunton Sands），这是一个世界闻名的长板冲浪点，拥有非常长且平缓的骑行体验；还有克罗伊德（Croyde），那是英国最好的海滩破浪点。我们有左手和右手点破浪，还有一个在风太大、浪太高时可以避风的地点。无论你想怎么冲，这里都能满足。”

他表示，冲浪对当地经济非常重要，而且不仅仅是在夏天：“冲浪者全年都会来。在 1 月、2 月和 3 月涌浪良好时，他们会填满酒吧、餐厅和停车场；而如果你去任何其他没有冲浪资源的旅游目的地，那时它们就‘死掉’了。”

研究人员希望更多当地冲浪者能使用他们开发的工具来评估自己的冲浪点，并与当地政府和其他团体合作，保护海浪免受海岸开发和气候危机的影响。

一些地方已经在这样做。澳大利亚的黄金海岸已将冲浪保护纳入规划法，新西兰将具有国家意义的冲浪点设为指定区域，而秘鲁的《破浪法》（ley de rompientes）则保护列入名单的冲浪点。

“冲浪是当地经济的巨大驱动力，”霍奇斯说，“这些资金支持了当地企业、酒店、旅馆等等。”他表示，仅在圣克鲁斯，冲浪每年就带来约 2亿美元 的收入。

“在萨尔瓦多的东部，你可以找到一些最完美的点破浪，那里的整个经济几乎完全依赖于冲浪。”

37年后，格罗米特终于开口说话了——配音演员是马丁·弗里曼

亚历克西·达金斯（Alexi Duggins）

他已经在荧幕上出现了37年，但从未说过一句话。现在，格罗米特将首次开口说话——由出演过《霍比特人》的明星马丁·弗里曼（Martin Freeman）配音。

这只黏土动画狗与他那古怪的发明家主人华莱士（Wallace）共同主演了一系列获得奥斯卡奖的电影，包括《错误的裤子》（The Wrong Trousers）、《近在咫尺》（A Close Shave）以及《华莱士与格罗米特：狼兔诅咒》（Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit）。本月，他将发行一部自传，其中包含有声书版本。

“当你创造一个没有声音、全靠面部表情传情的角色时，如果出版商提醒你还需要出有声书，你该怎么办？”该系列的创作者、动画师兼电影制作人尼克·帕克（Nick Park）说道。“谁能为这样一个每个人都觉得熟悉、但实际上没人听过声音的角色配音？我思考得越多，就越意识到马丁·弗里曼其实是最显而易见的选择。当他答应时，我真的感到非常激动和荣幸。”

弗里曼此前在获得英国电影学院奖（Bafta）和艾美奖的《神探夏洛克》（Sherlock）中，饰演本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇（Benedict Cumberbatch）饰演的难以捉摸的侦探身边的约翰·华生医生，磨练了饰演“受气陪衬”角色的技巧。

这应该使他在为格罗米特配音时得心应手——因为格罗米特不得不忍受华莱士各种各样的行为，比如爱上一个连环杀手，接纳一只资深罪犯企鹅作为房客，以及发明一个可被黑客攻击的机器人地精，从而产生了一支邪恶的花园装饰品大军。

受气陪衬：格罗米特与弗里曼

不过，弗里曼不会在角色塑造上采取太多的创作自由。“马丁并不是在做某种格罗米特的‘标志性嗓音’，”帕克说。“他是在以格罗米特的口吻讲述格罗米特的故事：他的内心想法、坦率的见解和无穷的机智，并赋予其他一贯的色彩、深思熟虑和冷幽默。”

这本书并不是唯一在筹备中的衍生作品。名为《 Larger Than Life》的沉浸式幕后体验将于周三在伦敦国王十字区的 Lightroom 展馆开幕，该体验将在四面11米高的墙壁上进行投影。

▼ 2009年，士兵们冲进位于德克萨斯州 Fort Hood 军事基地的设施，尼达尔·哈桑曾在此开火 摄影：DAVID MORRIS / KILLEEN DAILY HERALD / AP

美国计划直播枪决引发愤怒

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通过枪决方式处决。据美国国防部称，特朗普是在其国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯的建议下如此决定的。

赫格塞斯在此前表示处决将公开后，再次确认了直播计划。在接受保守派广播电台“真实美国之声”（Real America's Voice）采访时，他表示人们应该能够观看，因为他们需要明白此类犯罪会带来“严重的后果”。当被问及哈桑是否有任何最后的请求时，赫格塞斯回答道：“不在乎。我们12月3日见。”

然而，JD·万斯在昨天似乎对直播计划表示怀疑。这位副总统表示：“我看到了这些公告。我不确定这是否真的会发生。”他驳斥了相关争议，称“这家伙残忍地谋杀了许多无辜的人”，但表示如果真的直播，他不会观看。

现年 56, 岁的哈桑在 2013 年被军事陪审团判处死刑，此前他被判定犯有 13 项预谋谋杀罪和 32 项预谋谋杀未遂罪。在死者中，有12人是士兵；在伤者中，有 30 人是士兵。

这名前陆军精神科医生于 2009, 11月 5 日在Fort Hood军事基地的一处医疗设施内使用手枪开火，当时士兵们正在等待部署前的医疗检查。他在被捕过程中被一名警察开枪击中，导致部分瘫痪，目前使用轮椅。

此次处决预计将成为

心理学家的观点：专家警告创伤风险

专家表示，在美国确认计划广播Fort Hood枪击案凶手尼达尔·哈桑的死亡过程后，直播处决可能会导致观众产生创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）及其他持久性伤害。

诺丁汉大学的法医心理学家西蒙·达夫（Simon Duff）博士表示，虽然关于观看处决影响的研究并不多，但针对记者目击暴力经历的研究表明，存在创伤反应的证据。他补充道：“最近的事件表明，处决并不总是按计划进行，”他指的是上个月在田纳西州对克里斯塔·派克（Christa Pike）进行的致命注射处决失败事件。“必须承认这种可能性，以及这可能会增加观众创伤的可能性。”

伦敦国王学院精神病学、心理学与神经科学研究所的国防心理健康教授尼尔·格林伯格（Neil Greenberg）表示，触发警告通常不能让人们避开那些可能令其感到痛苦的媒体内容。“他们在‘创伤’画面出现之前可能会遭受预期焦虑，随后有些人会陷入痛苦……我的建议是完全不要观看该事件，并且我希望主流媒体不要传输具有高度创伤性的图像或声音。”

美国国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯（上图）在宣布哈桑将被公开处决时表示：“这是一次身着制服、在军队内部发生的激进伊斯兰主义袭击，因此他将被士兵组成的枪决队处决，理应如此，而且我们将确保人们能够观看，确保它是公开的，因为人们需要明白后果是严重的。”

开放大学的历史学家罗莎琳德·克罗恩（Rosalind Crone）教授表示：“公开处决——以及处决本身——并不能起到威慑作用。如果非要说有什么影响的话，使用视频广播这样的媒介可能会在管理人群反应和回应方面产生新的、潜在更危险的问题。”

克罗恩表示，英格兰和威尔士的公开处决已于 1868 年被废除，这是为了应对人们日益关注其对人群产生的影响，因为当时的人群越来越多地由旷工前来观看的人，以及醉酒、喧闹且带有庆祝气氛的人组成。尼古拉·戴维斯（Nicola Davis）报道

▲ 尼达尔·哈桑，他因在 Fort Hood 军事基地枪击事件中杀害 13 人而被定罪，目前面临公开处决

“产生更多狂热分子的最快方式，就是拥抱死亡崇拜并制造一名殉道者” 内德·普赖斯 (Ned Price) 前美国外交官

分析 杰森·伯克 (Jason Burke)

赫格塞斯的计划使美国陷入了极其可疑的行列

如果美国国防部长彼得·赫格塞斯（Peter Hegseth）继续推进直播处决一名被极端伊斯兰主义激进化、并在德克萨斯州一个军事基地杀害 13 人的士兵的计划，美国将加入一个由小国和流氓行为者组成的杂乱群体，这些人近年来一直在进行公开处决。

目前只有两个国家系统性地在公开场合执行死刑：伊朗和阿富汗。根据国际特赦组织的统计，2025 年，塔利班当局执行了 6 起此类杀戮，而德黑兰政权则执行了 11 起。

去年 4 月，塔利班在三个不同的城市处决了四名被指控谋杀的男子。所有人都在拥挤的公共体育场被枪杀。在 20 世纪 90 年代末伊斯兰民兵运动掌权期间，此类事件十分常见。当时与现在一样，塔利班声称已遵循正当的法院程序。

7 月，伊朗当局在伊斯法罕的中央广场绞死了两名被指控杀害警察的年轻人。人权监测机构报告称，过去五年中伊朗发生了约 30 起公开处决。

沙特阿拉伯在城市广场斩首定罪罪犯数十年后，似乎已经结束了这一做法。

法律专家和历史学家表示，公开处决发挥着不同的功能。如果法治不稳或刑事司法系统的效能受到质疑，公开处决为当局提供了一种向社区证明罪犯必将受到惩罚的方式。

此类公开奇观也可以成为恐吓民众的一种手段。武装激进组织经常诉诸公开处决以维护其权威。在 2014 年至 2019 年间统治伊拉克和叙利亚大片地区的伊斯兰国，针对从同性恋到盗窃等指控的罪行进行了数千次处决。其中许多在公开场合进行或被拍摄下来。另一些则经过精心编排，旨在提供一种恐吓敌人并吸引支持者的奇观。

这是自 1945 年一名名为埃迪·斯洛伐克（Eddie Slovak）的陆军二等兵因在第二次世界大战期间逃兵被处决以来，美国军队首次采用枪决方式执行。最后一次任何形式的美国军事处决发生在 1961 年，当时约翰·本内特（John Bennett）被绞死。

哈桑的案件出现之际，正值上周田纳西州死刑囚克里斯塔·派克（Christa Pike）在致命注射失败后，美国死刑制度再次受到审视。她的律师表示，她在医院醒来时感到“愤怒且困惑”，并被锁在医院病床上。随后有报道称，她在医院房间内走动。

媒体过去曾试图将美国的处决过程电视化，但被法院阻止。专家表示，目前已知没有其他国家将合法处决进行电视转播或直播。

事实上，公开处决在世界范围内已基本消失。国际特赦组织记录到 2025 年共有 17 起，其中包括伊朗的 11 起和塔利班统治下的阿富汗的 6 起。

在美国，处决在过去九十年里一直私下进行。1936 年在肯塔基州对雷尼·贝西亚（Rainey Bethea）的绞刑有数千人见证，通常被认为是该国最后一次公开处决，尽管次年在密苏里州又发生了一起绞刑。

专家表示，目前尚无已知直播合法处决的先例。2001 年对俄克拉荷马城爆炸案凶手蒂莫西·麦克维（Timothy McVeigh）的处决向受害者亲属开放，但并未向公众广播。

拟议的广播引发了宗教领袖的批评。美国天主教主教会议主席保罗·科克利（Paul Coakley）大主教表示，这是“对死亡文化的野蛮推广，必须重新考虑”。

两党政治人物也纷纷发声。众议院军事委员会最高级别的民主党人亚当·史密斯（Adam Smith）表示，该计划“令人不安，是对我们法律制度的嘲弄”，而民主党参议员克里斯·墨菲（Chris Murphy）则将公开处决描述为“中世纪”的行为。

共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（Thom Tillis）表示，哈桑应当面临死刑，但直播其处决过程“令人极其厌恶”，并认为公开处决与压迫性政权相关联。

其他人则警告称，这种奇观将产生反作用，并成为美国敌人寻求新鲜宣传素材的招募工具。

美国前联合国代表副手内德·普莱斯（Ned Price）在 X 上发帖称：“你可以听听我们这些多年从事反恐工作的人怎么说：产生更多激进狂热分子的最可靠方式就是美化暴力，拥抱死亡崇拜，以及

2025年10月，由于哈马斯试图重新加强对加沙人口的控制，该组织公开处决了六名涉嫌与以色列合作的男子。2017年，该组织处决了三名被指控犯有同样罪行的男子，并在 Facebook 上部分直播了该事件。

尼达尔·哈桑（Nidal Hasan）曾任陆军少校兼精神科医生，于 2009 年在 Fort Hood 军事基地开火，他的处决将成为美国多年来的首次公开处决。

美国的公开处决在 20 世纪 30 年代基本停止，尽管在 2001 年，一些幸存者和受害者亲属被允许观看蒂莫西·麦克维（Timothy McVeigh）被注射致死，后者被判定在 1995 年对俄克拉荷马市的一处政府办公室进行了血腥轰炸。

▲ 急救人员转移一名 Fort Hood 枪击事件的伤员

2025 年，大赦国际记录到全球共有 2,707 起处决，为 1981 年以来的最高总数，比前一年增加了三分之二。这一剧增主要源于伊朗的 2,100 多起处决。该活动团体表示，当局将死刑置于“有缺陷的公共安全和‘严厉打击犯罪’叙事的中心，以加强控制、展示国家权力并获取政治筹码”。

报告称：“这种趋势在那些当局通过限制公民空间、压制异议以及无视国际人权法和标准所建立的保护措施，从而加强权力掌控的国家中最为明显。”

为该事业制造一名烈士。或者看看 [基地组织] 和伊斯兰国，他们的战术与赫格塞斯的提议在现代最为接近。无论如何，很难找到比这更生动地体现他标志性表演式虚张声势的例子了，这种行为经常损害美国的形象，而在此案例中，这种令人毛骨悚然的做法使我们更加脆弱。”

专家们对直播是否能在法庭上受到质疑提出了疑问。耶鲁法学院的军事法专家尤金·菲德尔（Eugene Fidell）表示，哈桑可以寻求法律行动以阻止公开展示其死亡过程。

加州大学伯克利分校死刑诊所共同主任伊丽莎白·塞梅尔（Elisabeth Semel）表示，这一公告引发了关于被处决囚犯的尊严以及政府策划如此异常奇观之动机的严重质疑。她告诉美联社（Associated Press）新闻社：“这位总统追求的是奇观，我认为这正是他打算传递的信息。”

另一些人则认为，公众接触可以增加死刑的透明度。福特汉姆法学院的死刑专家德博拉·丹诺（Deborah Denno）告诉美联社，在田纳西州的一次处决失误引发人们对州政府如何处决囚犯重新产生质疑之际，直播可以让过程更加透明。

目前尚不清楚哈桑是否会寻求在民事法院挑战其处决，此举可能会显著推迟程序。

▼ 克里斯塔·派克（Christa Pike）在 18 岁时因谋杀 19, 岁的同学科琳·斯莱默（Colleen Slemmer）而被判处死刑。照片：路透社

克里斯塔·派克：她那次失败的处决能否终结公众对死刑的支持？

埃德·皮尔金顿 (Ed Pilkington)

为了建立两条静脉注射管，以便向克里斯塔·派克 (Christa Pike) 注射大剂量且通常足以致命的镇静剂戊巴比妥，执行人员花费了一个多小时。在这段时间里，她竭尽全力地协助那些试图杀死她的人。

“请试这里，”她一遍又一遍地对田纳西州的执行团队说道，在他们反复用针刺她时，她指着身体上她认为可能找到静脉的具体部位。“请试我的肩膀上面，再高一点。”

当他们终于建立起一条他们认为可以运作的注射管，使得处决得以继续时，50 岁的派克特意向他们表示了感谢。“派克女士很友善，而且很配合，”她的律师兰迪·斯派维 (Randy Spivey) 说道，他是处决室的见证人。

接下来的事情全世界都知道。由于目前尚未完全查明的原因，药物并未进入她的血液循环，很可能是渗入了她的手臂组织中。

派克因在 18 岁时（1995 年）谋杀其同学科琳·斯莱默 (Colleen Slemmer) 而被判处死刑，她活了下来。她是唯一一个在完整的“致命”注射处决中幸存下来的人。

周二，她奇迹般地恢复了意识。她的律师表示，她现在能够说话并在房间里走动。在接受记者采访时，斯派维表示，那次令人心惊胆战的失败处决一直令他心有余悸。“我所看到的绝不应该是再次发生的事情。这是以我们所有人的名义执行的。”

过去 10 天发生的事件——从派克协助她的处决者，到她醒来时被锁在纳什维尔的一张医院病床上，手臂肿胀得极其恐怖，面临着漫长且不确定的康复之路——让美国陷入了疯狂。如果这就是以“我们所有人的名义”执行的惩罚结果，那么美国人对此在做些什么？

“这是一个非常关键的时刻，”美国废除死刑运动（US Campaign to End the Death Penalty，一个废死团体联盟）执行主任劳拉·波特 (Laura Porter) 表示。“当你看到如此恐怖的事情时，其影响是巨大的，因为它将人们的注意力吸引到了死刑的缺陷上。”

波特参与美国与死刑的斗争已近四分之一个世纪，自 2003 年她成为“纽约反对死刑组织”的领导人以来便是如此。当年美国共有 65 起处决（低于 1999 年 98 起的顶峰）。此后，处决人数在近二十年里稳步下降，在 2021 年达到了 11 起司法杀戮的低点。

短短几年就能产生如此巨大的差异。六年前，人们对这一惯例的消亡如此自信，以至于

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权威的死刑信息中心 (DPI) 在其年度报告的开头写道：“2019 年，死刑在美国各地继续萎缩。”

但正如马克·吐温 (Mark Twain) 可能会说的那样，关于死刑之死的报道被证明是夸大其词。快进到去年，DPI 记录显示 2025 年的 47 起处决创下了 16 年来的最高记录。

无需猜测死刑回升背后的关键人物。在 DPI 发表“萎缩”宣言不到一年后，唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 开启了现代美国历史上最密集的一波国家杀害其公民的行动。在他第一任总统期的末尾，特朗普政府处决了 13 名联邦死刑囚。

自去年重返白宫以来，特朗普利用总统职权的全部力量来加速处决。在他回归的第一天，他发布了一项关于“恢复死刑”的行政命令，其中他表示，死刑是“威慑和惩罚那些犯下最令人发指罪行之人的重要工具”。

这一声明是典型的特朗普式捏造。美国司法部（DOJ）本身已得出结论，没有证据表明这种惩罚能震慑犯罪分子。许多死囚不能被描述为“最残暴”的，尤其是根据保守估计中那 4% 的无辜者。

利用其三军统帅的权力，特朗普本周成功下令对 2009 年 Fort Hood 军事基地大规模枪击案凶手尼达尔·哈桑执行军事枪决。

周四，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯宣布，哈桑将于 12 月 3 日在 Fort Hood 面对士兵组成的枪决队，这将是美国自 1936 年以来首次公开处决。“我们将确保人们能够观看，确保它是公开的，因为人们需要明白，这类行为会带来严重的后果。”

特朗普还敦促那些死刑活动最频繁的死刑州“加速执行”。许多州照做了。其中以佛罗里达州为首。即将离任的州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯似乎深受特朗普 2020-21 年杀戮狂潮的启发，去年他批准了创纪录的 19 起处决，并且有望在 2026 年达到同样数量。

在全国范围内，美国今年预计将处决多达 38 人——最近的一次就在周三，德克萨斯州处决了一名被定罪的谋杀犯贾马尔·霍华德。这一数字虽然低于去年的高点，但仍代表了自 2013 年以来规模最大的国家杀戮。

在为死刑复兴呐喊时，特朗普得到了一个由基督教民族主义者组成的支持团队的背书。这些圣经原教旨主义者将他们那种“以眼还眼”的报复性正义注入到了更广泛的 MAGA 运动中。

田纳西大学诺克斯维尔分校的助理教授布鲁克林·沃克研究了基督教民族主义者对正义的看法。她发现，与美国其他宗教团体相比，他们更倾向于接受报复，包括死刑。

极右翼宗教专家为死刑注入的能量，正影响着目前在田纳西州爆发的关于派克（Pike）应如何处置的激烈辩论。共和党田纳西州州长候选人马莎·布莱克本希望重新启用电椅。

布莱克本的呼吁充分说明了死刑的现状。派克在尝试被处决时出现的恐怖场景，是致命注射法全面崩溃的一部分，而致命注射法在过去近 50 年里一直是美国的主导方案。

基督教民族主义领导人经常引用旧约中关于惩罚性正义的概念，“将其作为创建社会秩序并要求人们适应其中的一部分想法”，沃克说道。

根据 DPI 的计算，仅在过去五年中就有 12 起处决失败。包括派克在内的五名囚犯在过程中幸存，这意味着他们在被一群戴面具的陌生人长达数小时无法杀死期间，处于无法动弹的状态。

“在每一个我们废除死刑的运动中……受害者的家属都是主导发声者之一”

1865 年 7 月 7 日由亚历山大·加德纳拍摄的处决亚伯拉罕·林肯刺客的照片 照片：UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP / GETTY

劳拉·波特 活动人士

在如此难以忍受的痛苦面前，致命注射法声称其是一种医疗化且人道的终结生命方式的说法已然破产。

支持者被迫寻找可能避免致命注射某些缺陷的替代方案。但一旦他们引入这些通常陈旧的方法，就陷入了全新的麻烦之中。

两名在近期致命注射中幸存的囚犯艾伦·米勒和肯尼斯·史密斯，一年后被阿拉巴马州用一种实验性技术——氮气处决。兽医认为这种方法对于猫狗的安乐死来说过于残酷，目前联邦法院已禁止将其用于人类。

致命注射在过去近 50 年里一直是美国最主要的执行死刑方式。 照片：PAUL BUCK / 一名牧师在 1928. 年为一名被判处电椅死刑的男子祈福。在克里斯塔·派克（Christa Pike）被致命注射处决失败后，出现了要求恢复电椅死刑的呼声。 照片：GAMMA-KEYSTONE / GETTY IMAGES

其他一些州尝试过枪决。但去年南卡罗来纳州在对被定罪的谋杀犯米卡尔·马赫迪（Mikal Mahdi）执行此项手段时，射手未能击中囚犯的心脏，导致其经历了漫长且可能极其痛苦的死亡过程。

作为一名资深的废死主义者，波特（Porter）知道她面对的是特朗普和基督教民族主义者这些强劲的对手。但她从 23 个已经废除死刑的州中获得了力量；如果加上 4 个暂停执行死刑的州，废死阵营就占据了多数。

此外，不再支持这种惩罚的美国年轻人数量也在增加。在最近一次就此问题进行调查的盖洛普（Gallup）民调（2024, 年）中，仅有 $42% 的 18 至 34 岁人群表示赞成。（在去年的民调中，整体支持率已从 1995 年 $80% 的高点下降至 $52% 。）

最重要的是，她从一个出人意料的来源获得了强大的支持，这让她倍感鼓舞：那就是死刑案件受害者的家属。在悲痛之中，一些家属拥有足够的勇气和信念，加入到这场旨在赦免那些杀害其亲人之人的斗争中。

“在我参与过的每一次废除死刑的运动中——无论是在康涅狄格州、马里兰州、弗吉尼亚州还是其他许多地方——受害者的家属始终是主导发声者之一，”波特说道。

随着时间的推移，我们或许能在这些声音中增加一个。这将是最不可思议的一个——一个现代国家即便动用所有手段也无法使其噤声的女性的声音：克里斯塔·派克。

她的律师表示，她现在感到愤怒且困惑，意识模糊。但她能够询问他人的近况，包括她的受害者科琳·斯莱默（Colleen Slemmer）的家人。她的律师斯派维（Spivey）表示，这一切留下了太多疑问。“我们必须问，‘多少痛苦才算足够？’”

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城堡传奇杰里成为《叛徒》中的绝对混乱之源

斯图尔特·赫里蒂奇 (Stuart Heritage)

按理说，杰里·霍尔 (Jerry Hall) 已经不应该继续参加《名人叛徒》(The Celebrity Traitors) 了。如果这世界上还有正义可言，那些“叛徒”在周四那一集的开头就应该冷酷地将她除掉。而他们没有这么做，恰恰说明了这个女人是个多么绝对的传奇。

那件足以让她被判“死刑”的罪行发生在第二集的一次任务中，当时所有人都与一名搭档被活埋。参赛者必须在等待被挖掘出来，或者大喊“Haggis”（哈吉斯）之间做出选择；后者虽然能让他们获救，但也会使他们成为被谋杀的目标。毋庸置疑，在游戏开始后的大约一纳秒内，霍尔就大喊了“Haggis”。没有其他人喊。就其在逆境面前表现出的纯粹软弱而言，她理应被除掉。

然而，或许叛徒们让她活下来是对的，因为显而易见，霍尔在节目中发挥最大作用的角色就是一名“绝对混乱之源”。有些参赛者在下棋，有些在下四维空间的棋。

▶ 演员兼模特杰里·霍尔如此地迷惑并干扰其他参赛者，以至于她实际上可能会赢得《叛徒》 照片：EUAN CHERRY / BBC / STUDIO LAMBERT

与此同时，她几乎没意识到这里正在进行一场游戏。霍尔将整个尝试视为一个借口，让自己四处游荡，并在任何时刻脱口而出脑海中闪过的任何疯狂胡言乱语。

在周四的一集中，有一个典型的例子。霍尔和汉娜·弗莱 (Hannah Fry) 一起走进早餐区。大家的预期是其中一人会被谋杀。所有人的怀疑情绪立即激增。究竟发生了什么样的阴险勾当，才能确保她们两人在夜晚都安然无恙？就弗莱而言，她意识到自己将成为焦点，并据此采取行动。而霍尔则像个刚失去丈夫的寡妇一样，在毫无关联的情况下哀嚎道：“那理查德怎么办？”没有人知道她为什么这么做。这是一种策略？还是一个计谋？或者，很有可能的情况是，她单纯地生活在一个气泡里，不受因果关系或逻辑等简单事物的影响？

公平地说，这大概就是我们对霍尔的预期。说她经历过丰富的人生将是一个极大的轻描淡写。这个女人在 20 世纪 70 年代曾在布莱恩·费里 (Bryan Ferry) 和米克·贾格尔 (Mick Jagger) 之间来回跳跃。她曾在格拉斯顿伯里演出，还当过小丑的女友。她担任过惠特布雷德图书奖的评委，并出演过 Bovril 的广告。她还嫁给过鲁珀特·默多克 (Rupert Murdoch)。如果这些事情都发生在你的身上，那么你生活在一个自创的现实屏蔽罩中也是可以原谅的。

▲ 杰里·霍尔的人生极其丰富：图中是 1983 年她与前长期伴侣米克·贾格尔。她还与鲁珀特·默多克结婚并离婚

然而，这确实让她成为了《叛徒》中一个不可思议的参与者。这意味着，在经历了一周半时间里对所有事情都极其离谱地判断错误之后，她依然有信心吹嘘自己曾是学校里的掰腿冠军。

无法预料这将如何收场。也许其他参赛者厌倦了她无意识的滑稽行为，会集体反击她。也许她会如此地迷惑和诱导每个人，以至于最终获胜。也许她会变成一名叛徒，然后不小心把城堡给拆了。我们讨论的可是杰里·霍尔。一切皆有可能。

《熊家餐厅》效应：梅根的锅具填充水龙头与“大厨级”装备的兴起

埃莉·薇奥莱特·布拉姆利（Ellie Violet Bramley）

萨塞克斯公爵夫人并非普通的家庭厨师，但当她本周出现在 Instagram 上，站在一个配有特制锅具填充水龙头（pot-filler tap）的炉灶前时，这预示着日常厨房的一种变化——“大厨级”装备的兴起。

虽然锅具填充水龙头现在最常出现在豪华住宅厨房中，但它在 20 世纪初被发明时，是作为商业厨房的功能性固定装置。它与大量其他已渗透进我们家庭的餐厅设备一样，从挤压式橄榄油瓶到不锈钢搅拌碗套装，不一而足。

根据英国专业食品品牌 Sous Chef 的食品编辑霍莉·汤姆森（Holly Thomson）的数据，该品牌厨师压盘（chef presses）的销量增长了 26%，而厨师托盘的销量则在激增。

对于《厨房之书：每日美食》（The Kitchen Book: Good Food for Every Day）的作者埃拉·里斯布里杰（Ella Risbridger）来说，“餐厅厨房与家庭厨房之间界限的模糊是一件令人惊叹的事情。” 无论是通过餐厅的开放式厨房，还是社交媒体上的“大厨网红”（chefluencers），我们对专业厨师工作状态的可见度在增加，这意味着餐厅厨房的实用主义和各种小工具正日益成为人们向往的目标。

“人们现在可以看到专业厨房里在发生什么，”里斯布里杰说，“而且很可能，如果你在看《熊家餐厅》（The Bear）或很多大厨风格的 Instagram 账号，算法会知道这一点，并知道你可能想为自己买什么。”

从白色 T 恤到日本长谷川（Hasegawa）切菜板，人们在准备周中晚餐时，想要效仿卡米（Carmy）和悉德（Syd）。

汤姆森怀疑这可能与经济环境有关：人们在想“我不想花 90 英镑吃顿饭，但我可能会投资这些产品，帮我在家用餐时能更认真一点”。

根据餐具品牌 David Mellor 的发言人詹姆斯·劳莱斯（James Lawless）的说法，这种转变还与疫情有关，疫情“重新点燃了人们对家庭烹饪的兴趣”。

“专业厨师的设备 更多家庭厨师正试图效仿《熊家餐厅》中的卡米，购买锅具填充水龙头和‘大厨级’食用油，见下文 摄影：哈维·琼斯（下方）

可能具有专业功能——但它并不特殊，”劳莱斯说。“它们首先是执行特定功能的工具。”

对于汤姆森来说，它们是“一件能增加便利、精致感或简化流程的额外装备”。

当然，一个人的实用之物可能是另一个人的空间浪费。在普通厨房里，锅具填充水龙头可能是多余的，但根据 deVOL Kitchens 的创意总监海伦·帕克（Helen Parker）的说法，它“已成为大型厨房中必须拥有的配置”。

有时，你不知道自己不知道什么。正如汤姆森在谈到挤压式橄榄油瓶时所说，“精准挤出真的太好用了，一旦你试过一次，你就会觉得，‘噢，这比从瓶子里咕嘟咕嘟地倒油好多了’。”

“为爱好购买一些高级货感觉很不错，”里斯布里杰说。“这通常是让自己显得更专业的一种捷径。

“它让你感觉更像个专业人士。这会增加信心。从而让你做出的东西更好，无论你是否能在没有这个小工具的情况下达到同样的效果。”

国家

内政部被指就新难民安全通道给加沙民众带来虚假希望

Rajeev Syal 内政事务编辑

内政部正面临指责，称其给加沙民众带来了虚假希望。此前有消息披露，一项针对巴勒斯坦难民的新安全通道将仅向那些已经逃往黎巴嫩或约旦的人员开放。

内政大臣沙巴娜·马哈茂德（Shabana Mahmood）在上个月的工党年度会议上宣布重新启动一项难民安置计划。其部门的一份声明称：“大约四分之一的推荐名额将面向逃离战争和迫害的阿富汗妇女、女孩以及巴勒斯坦难民。”

但负责运行该计划的机构已确认，其仅会推荐“极少数极其紧急的案例”，且所有案例都将在约旦和黎巴嫩进行处理。

沙巴娜·马哈茂德 上个月在工党 会议上宣布了 难民政策

支持难民的联盟组织“巴勒斯坦社区”（Communities for Palestinians）表示，这一关键细节并未出现在马哈茂德的演讲或随后的内政部声明中，这让加沙民众及其支持者认为他们可以申请。

该联盟的联合创始人维基·莫勒（Vicky Moller）表示：“会议上对沙巴娜宣布的消息所产生的掌声，是基于一个能让逃离战争和迫害的巴勒斯坦人获得安置计划的前景。人们认为这意味着将从加沙营救人员。”

内政部坚称，马哈茂德重新启动的英国安置计划一直以来都是面向那些身处原籍国以外的人员。

一名发言人表示：“留在加沙的巴勒斯坦人最初不在这些通道的适用范围内。然而，已经逃离加沙的巴勒斯坦人可以通过国际难民援助项目（Irap）被推荐至英国。”

关于该计划资格的限制是在该联盟与负责推荐的 Irap 之间的一系列电子邮件往来后披露的。

根据 的网站，它将推荐“极少数极其紧急的人道主义案例至英国，以考虑安置”。该网站补充道：“这些案例将由约旦和黎巴嫩的人道主义组织推荐给 ，随后 将进行面试，以确定这些案例是否可以推荐给英国政府。”

该计划侧重于“在约旦或黎巴嫩生活已无法维持的极度脆弱的难民”。该非营利组织的网站补充称：“ 不知道英国政府将在巴勒斯坦安置计划下接收多少人。”

“这最终由英国政府决定，并取决于资金以及地方当局的承接能力。”

由英国管理的其他安全合法通道曾允许少量人员直接从原籍国前来，其中包括针对阿富汗难民的计划。

巴勒斯坦难民不属于国际难民公约和联合国难民署的管辖范围。相反，联合国的救济机构服务于被定义为“在 1946 年 6 月 1 日至 1948 年 5 月 15 日期间，正常居住地为巴勒斯坦，且因 1948 年冲突而失去家园和生计手段”的任何人员。

因此，巴勒斯坦难民生活在难民慈善机构和非政府组织所称的巴勒斯坦地区（换言之，即约旦河西岸和加沙地带），以及叙利亚、黎巴嫩和约旦等第二居住国。

难民委员会（Refugee Council）首席政策分析师乔恩·费顿比（Jon Featonby）表示，部长们应当承认，巴勒斯坦人在仍生活在自己国家的情况下也可以是难民。

亚历克斯·卡茨（Alex Katz）1984 年的亚麻油画《达林卡》（Darinka），描绘了艺术家达林卡·蔡斯（Darinka Chase）和其他人物，是苏富比 Frieze 周拍卖会的亮点之一，估价高达 120 万英镑m。

照片： WIKTOR SZYMANOWICZ/ NURPHOTO/ SHUTTERSTOCK

另一名自由民主党高层辞职，戴维面临反叛

亚历山德拉·托平 (Alexandra Topping) 政治记者

在一名资深前台人物于昨日辞职后，埃德·戴维 (Ed Davey) 在领导自由民主党期间面临着日益增长的反叛。

《卫报》获悉，自由民主党财政部发言人查理·梅纳德 (Charlie Maynard) 已提交辞呈，试图罢免戴维。此前数月，梅纳德一直对该党未能有效吸引选民感到沮丧。

副党魁黛西·库珀 (Daisy Cooper) 立即对戴维表示支持，称他得到了“绝大多数国会议员”的支持，他们希望由他带领该党参加下一次选举，并对“这次干扰行为感到愤怒”。

库珀在一份声明中表示：“我们自由民主党是抵御改革英国党（Reform UK）政府的最后一道防线，无论下一次大选何时到来，埃德都决心带领一个强大且统一的政党参加选举。”

梅纳德的辞职最早由《金融时报》报道，而就在四天前，自由民主党护理发言人艾莉森·本内特 (Alison Bennett) 刚刚离开了前台岗位。

戴维自 2019. 年起领导该党。在 2024 年的大选中，他带领该党取得了 100 多年来最成功的结果。目前该党拥有 71 名国会议员，是下议院第三大政党。但在全国民调中，该党已下滑至第四或第五位，未能吸引选民的情况引发了不满情绪。

在上个月于布莱顿举行的党代会上，戴维淡化了一位自由民主党议会领袖的批评，后者质疑他是否是该职位的合适人选。德文郡议会的朱利安·巴西尔 (Julian Brazil) 表示，该党正在“在昏睡中走向无关紧要”，且“缺乏雄心”。

戴维在一次演讲中宣布了一项 170亿英镑 的所得税减免计划，旨在巩固前保守党选民对该党的支持。

但在安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 的劳工党大会演讲中，劳工党提出了修改养老金三倍锁定机制以资助国家护理服务的建议，戴维对此表示抵制，这遭到了自由民主党高层及后座议员的反对。

维珍公司揭晓跨英吉利海峡列车，将与欧洲之星展开竞争

Gwyn Topham 交通记者

闪耀的内饰、精致的美食，甚至可能还设有酒吧：维珍公司（Virgin）揭晓了其未来跨英吉利海峡列车的模型，并承诺将打造“真正具有创新意义的产品”。

该集团计划在 2030 年启动从伦敦前往欧洲大陆的铁路服务，这将使欧洲之星（Eurostar）自英吉利海峡隧道开通以来首次面临竞争。

▲ 计划于 2030 年投入使用的高速跨英吉利海峡列车模型

维珍公司已向制造商阿尔斯通（Alstom）订购了 12 列高速列车，其最高时速可达 190 英里，在速度上与欧洲之星持平，但旨在通过客户体验将其超越。

尽管维珍公司上一次尝试重塑英国铁路旅行的巅峰可能是 2013 年其城际服务中出现的会说话的马桶座圈，但该公司表示，未来的列车将从其航空、邮轮和酒店部门汲取灵感。

虽然具体细节尚未公开，但该公司表示，将借鉴维珍航空（Virgin Atlantic）的机场休息室（即 Clubhouses）来设计“出发前及车上的社交空间”，从而提供“更灵活的办公、放松或时尚社交空间”。餐饮方面将受其邮轮航线菜单的影响。

维珍铁路（Virgin Trains）预计从 2030 年起，每天提供 20 趟往返于伦敦、巴黎、布鲁塞尔和阿姆斯特丹的服务，每年为网络增加近 7.5m 个座位，并创造多达 1,000 个新就业岗位。

维珍集团首席执行官乔什·贝利斯（Josh Bayliss）表示：“我们正在利用在旅游和酒店业积累的四十多年经验，来创造一些真正新颖的东西。”

“我们有信心，英国与欧洲之间将有更多旅程选择火车。我们每年将为数百万次额外的国际铁路旅行增加运力，从而扩大整个市场。”

维珍公司还希望将其铁路和航空网络连接起来，有可能将来自法国的乘客引导至维珍航空的航班。此外，该铁路服务也将被纳入其忠诚度平台。

铁路与道路局（Office of Rail and Road）周四公布了一项与欧洲之星达成的协议，允许维珍公司在伦敦东部斯特拉特福（Stratford）附近的坦普尔米尔斯（Temple Mills）国际车库对其列车进行维护，且在英国的轨道使用权已确认至少持续到 2040 年。

已经运行至巴黎的意大利铁路公司（Trenitalia）预计也将推出跨英吉利海峡的服务。

国家

安德鲁在放弃租赁权后被要求支付 150 万英镑m 用于维修皇家小屋

▲ 3月警方搜查期间的皇家小屋。一名法官本周裁定，用于此次搜查的搜查令是非法的。摄影：PIXEL8000

杰米·格里尔森（Jamie Grierson）

在正式交还租赁权后，安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎（Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor）面临一项 180 万英镑m 的账单，用于支付其位于温莎的前住所——皇家小屋（Royal Lodge）的维修和修复费用。

这位前王子因提前放弃这处占地 40 公顷（98 英亩）房产的租赁权而获得了 30.2 万英镑 的补偿金，这意味着他的总支出为 150 万英镑m。

在终止租赁时，追回因房屋损毁而产生的费用是一项标准程序。《卫报》获悉，此次维修涵盖了整个庄园，其中包括多栋建筑、花园和大型附属建筑。

安德鲁有权获得补偿，因为根据其租赁条款，他在前 25 年内交还了租赁权。《泰晤士报》报道称，查尔斯国王为维修费用提供了出资。

皇室地产（Crown Estate）发言人表示：“皇家小屋的租赁期已结束，我们现在的重点坚定地放在其未来的用途，以及通过提前收回该房产为国家创造额外财务价值的机会上。”

今年，随着美国司法部（DOJ）公布与儿童性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）相关的文件，这位前约克公爵搬出了这座温莎豪宅。由于公众对其在皇家小屋支付的低廉租金表示愤慨，他被迫搬到位于诺福克郡国王桑德灵厄姆庄园的马什农场（Marsh Farm）。

今年6月，国家审计署（National Audit Office）的一项调查显示，已故女王的次子在二十多年里仅支付象征性的极低租金（peppercorn rent），却通过转租皇家小屋庄园内的三栋小屋获得了数额不明的私人收入。皇室地产发言人表示，该房产现在将由两家国家认可的代理机构进行市场推广。

周四，蒙巴顿-温莎在一场针对泰晤士河谷警察局（Thames Valley police）关于搜查其住所的搜查令的法律挑战中获胜。这位前王子对该警局以及授予搜查令的中央刑事法院的行为合法性提出了司法复核。在伦敦市中心高等法院审理此案的希利亚德法官（Mr Justice Hilliard）表示，泰晤士河谷警察局（TVP）已承认其在错误的法定条款下获得了搜查权，并裁定该

由于提前放弃租赁权，安德鲁的账单通过 30.2 万英镑 的补偿金得到了降低

搜查令是非法的。这一事件令泰晤士河谷警察局感到尴尬，但警方认为这不会影响调查的成功。

此次逮捕是基于爱泼斯坦文件中披露的信息。据指称，蒙巴顿-温莎在担任英国贸易特使期间，与爱泼斯坦分享了敏感信息。他否认有任何不当行为。警方在他被捕当天开始搜查其在桑德灵厄姆庄园的住所和皇家小屋，并没收了文件和电子设备。

去年年底，国王因其与爱泼斯坦的关系，剥夺了其兄弟的王子头衔和公爵爵位。蒙巴顿-温莎从国王的私人基金中领取年度津贴（金额未公开），但一名宫廷消息人士告诉记者，宫方已明确表示该资金不应用于资助此次司法复核。

蒙面团伙从托斯卡纳葡萄园盗走 30,000 瓶葡萄酒

安吉拉·朱弗里达 (Angela Giuffrida) 罗马

托斯卡纳一家享有盛誉的酒庄被盗数千瓶葡萄酒，价值 500万欧元 (420 万英镑m)，这被认为是意大利此类抢劫案中规模最大的一次。

至少七名蒙面人员在关闭警报和闭路电视监控后，闯入了马基西·安蒂诺里 (Marchesi Antinori) 酒庄的酒窖。该酒庄是一家家族企业，历史可追溯至 1300 年代后期。歹徒利用公司的叉车将 30,000 瓶葡萄酒装入两辆大型卡车后逃离。

被盗酒瓶中包括最受鉴赏家推崇的品种，如 Solaia、Guado al Tasso 和 Tignanello，其中 Tignanello 以托斯卡纳地区首批不含白葡萄生产的红葡萄酒之一而著称。所有被盗酒瓶的价格在每瓶 €120 和 €400 之间，均来自该公司的 2023 年年份产品。

此次盗窃发生在周六，当时这家位于山城科尔托纳 (Cortona) 的公司正准备进行一次大规模的海外发货。然而，直到周一早晨员工到岗上班时，抢劫行为才被发现。

“这个团伙准备得非常充分，”马基西·安蒂诺里酒庄的首席执行官伦佐·科塔雷拉 (Renzo Cotarella) 告诉《晚邮报》(Corriere della Sera)。“如此规模和价值的盗窃案在意大利此前从未发生过。”他表示，他“非常有信心”调查人员能够

500万欧元

从马基西·安蒂诺里酒庄被盗葡萄酒的总价值，单瓶价格在 €120 到 €400 之间

这次针对科尔托纳这家拥有 640 年历史酒庄的袭击被认为是意大利此类规模最大的抢劫案 摄影：MARC HILL / GETTY / REUTERS

追踪被盗的葡萄酒，其中包括 3,000 瓶 Barolo Ginestra，其中一些是马格南大瓶装。

“两辆卡车不可能凭空消失，”他补充道，“托斯卡纳的道路上到处都是摄像头。运气好的话，我们至少能找回一部分酒瓶。”

近几个月来，意大利多家酒庄发生了多起盗窃事件，包括 9 月中旬发生在北部皮埃蒙特大区阿尔巴 (Alba) 的一起案件。

但科塔雷拉怀疑可能是同一个团伙所为，他从未想象过自己的公司会遭遇如此规模的盗窃。不幸的是，公司的保险单并不涵盖如此巨额价值的葡萄酒抢劫损失。

他告诉《晚邮报》：“我们一直考虑过在运输过程中丢失几箱葡萄酒的可能性，但绝对没想过两辆卡车能卷走如此巨大的收获。”

《晚邮报》指出，此类大规模的葡萄酒抢劫通常经过精心准备，且可能由对葡萄酒有深入了解的人员实施，目标目的地可能是收藏家、酒吧或餐厅。然而，此类葡萄酒供应量的突然增加可能会引起怀疑。

在调查人员继续搜寻之际，科塔雷拉表示，这家成立于 1385, 年的公司已警告客户，警惕非官方渠道的葡萄酒销售。

国家政治

工党称补选获胜标志着斯塔默时代后左翼选民的回归

萨米·盖克索伊勒 (Sammy Gecsoyler) 彼得·沃克 (Peter Walker)

工党副党魁声称，在击败扎克·波兰斯基 (Zack Polanski) 和绿党赢得霍本和圣潘克拉斯 (Holborn and St Pancras) 补选后，该党正开始赢回那些在基尔·斯塔默 (Keir Starmer) 领导期间感到失望的左翼选民。

工党的萨加尔·阿卜迪-瓦利 (Sagal Abdi-Wali) 在投票率相对较低的情况下获得了 45% 的选票，为该党保住了斯塔默曾经所在的北伦敦席位；而代表其领导政党的波兰斯基则以 33% 的得票率位居第二。

虽然结果大致符合预期，但工党战略制定者们对此感到振奋，因为该党在这样一个多元化的市中心区域取得了相对轻松的胜利，而这类区域正是绿党近期通过成功经验重点瞄准的目标。

露西·鲍威尔 (Lucy Powell) 表示，这一结果“向那些近年来对工党失去信心的选民发出了一个明确的信号”。

上个月，她曾呼吁如果该党想要赢得下次选举，就应该在安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 的领导下团结进步选民。

在补选获胜后，她告诉《卫报》：“我们听到了你们的声音，我们一直在倾听，并且我们知道我们需要更清晰地表明我们的立场以及我们希望看到的国家类型，自豪地将我们的价值观置于核心位置。”

“我们很高兴有这么多的人再次支持我们。”

此次补选发生在绿党上周末在党代会上投票通过一项极具争议的政策之后，该政策将犹太复国主义等同于种族主义，并称以色列应被一个单一的巴勒斯坦国家所取代。

波兰斯基因在绿党记忆中最具毒性的内部争论中表现出极少的领导力而受到批评，

霍本和圣潘克拉斯 2026年补选 得票率，% 工党 绿党 保守党 自由民主党 改革英国党 独立候选人

来源：PA

犹太绿党主席表示他应该辞职。

此次补选是在斯塔默被伯纳姆赶下台后不久辞去下议院席位而触发的。尽管绿党进行了大规模的竞选活动，但投票率仅为 38.7%，这可能是由于广泛的预测认为工党势在必得。

投票率还表明，伯纳姆在吸引部分城市地区（尤其是伦敦）选民方面可能仍面临挑战，绿党在 5 月的地方选举中控制了伦敦的三个议会。

在一次充满感情的胜利演说中，曾于 20 世纪 90 年代从索马里来到英国的前儿童难民阿卜迪-瓦利抨击了“那些试图分裂我们的人”。这似乎是在回应改革英国党（Reform UK）的齐亚·尤苏夫 (Zia Yusuf)，后者在补选宣布后不久暗示她并非英国人。

“I hope this moment says something about who gets to belong,” 她说，“对于那些长得像我的人，我希望他们能在这个地方看到自己的影子，并知道他们的道路同样属于这里。这就是卡姆登，这就是英国。”

针对此次失败，领导绿党在英格兰和威尔士事务的波兰斯基表示，虽然结果显示他的政党仍然是对工党的重大威胁，但许多选民告诉他，他们想“给安迪·伯纳姆一个机会”。

这是绿党历史上第二好的补选结果，进一步证明了自波兰斯基在 13 个月前就任领导人以来，该党的知名度和竞选能力的提升。

最好的结果出现在 2 月，当时绿党夺取了一个同样稳固的工党席位——大曼彻斯特地区的戈顿和登顿 (Gorton and Denton)，这次重大意外削弱了斯塔默的地位。大约在同一时间，绿党在全国民调中达到峰值 $21\%$，高于工党。他们现在的支持率约为 $11\%$ ，落后于伯纳姆的政党 15 个百分点以上。

自犹太复国主义动议通过以来，波兰斯基的地位受到了审视，批评者指责他在缺席辩论去参加补选竞选后放弃了领导责任，且没有就他是否支持该动议给出明确信号。

在补选失利后的采访中，波兰斯基表示，如果他出席了会议，他本会投票反对该动议，因为他支持的两项修正案都被否决了，这两项修正案均主张，巴勒斯坦未来的国家结构应由巴勒斯坦人决定，而非强加一个单一国家体制。

昨天，犹太绿党主席薇薇安·利希滕斯坦表示，身为犹太人的波兰斯基在避开投票方面犯了一个“大错”。在被问及他是否应该继续担任其职务时，她告诉 Times Radio：“不，我认为他应该辞职。”

然而，犹太绿党的其他成员表示，利希滕斯坦的言论并不代表该团体的多数观点，并且一项针对她的不信任投票已经提交。

在补选结果公布前不久，绿党前党魁及首位国会议员卡罗琳·卢卡斯表示，波兰斯基“本应该在场并参与投票”。

在接受 Newsnight 采访时，她表示：“我本希望他能成为该动议的强力批评者，因为在我看来，该动议从头到尾都存在缺陷。它是危险的，具有分裂性的，而且在已知存在多种定义的情况下，它试图给犹太复国主义下一个单一的定义。”

在被问及波兰斯基是否应该下台时，卢卡斯并未明确表示他应该继续担任党魁：“我认为让我们看看在……接下来的几天和几周内会发生什么。”

绿党并没有驱逐党魁的正式机制。不过，党魁每两年重新选举一次，这意味着在 2025 年 9 月接任的波兰斯基将在不到一年的时间里再次面对党内成员的选举。

▲ 绿党的汉娜·斯宾塞（中）在二月份赢得了戈顿和登顿选区。扎克·波兰斯基未能重复这一壮举。照片：TEMILADE ADELAJA / REUTERS

“真正的交易”

萨加尔·阿卜迪-瓦利：从儿童难民到国会议员的旅程

埃丝特·阿德利 (Esther Addley)

萨加尔·阿卜迪-瓦利 (Sagal Abdi-Wali) 在昨天清晨的补选获胜演说中表示，接替基尔·斯塔默 (Keir Starmer) 在其北伦敦选区的席位是一件“极其私人化”的事情。

这位 43 岁的女性自 20 世纪 90 年代起就居住在该地区。当时她年仅七岁，随母亲和四个哥哥逃离战火纷飞的索马里。他们定居在卡姆登的福音橡树 (Gospel Oak)，该地大部分属于她现在的霍本和圣潘克拉斯 (Holborn and St Pancras) 选区。她从难民到国会议员的奋斗历程，让她希望能够激励“那些像我一样的人——这就是卡姆登，这就是英国”。

然而，尽管她代表了这个多元且年轻社区中的许多人，但阿卜迪-瓦利在很大程度上也是工党内部人士。数十年的社区志愿服务与多年的地方党派政治相结合，甚至在她 2022 年当选区议员之前就是如此。两年后，她成为了负责住房的工党内阁成员，并在 5 月被选为卡姆登议会首位黑人女性领导人。她还曾担任当地选区党主席四年。

朋友们表示，深厚的党派和社区根基解释了为什么在斯塔默上个月辞职后，阿卜迪-瓦利能从 100 多人的候选名单中脱颖而出，代表工党竞选该席位——而这在击败绿党领导人扎克·波兰斯基 (Zack Polanski) 的挑战中也起到了至关重要的作用。一度以来，他被视为这个长期由工党把持的席位的真正威胁。

“她确实深深植根于选区的许多不同部分，”一位参与其竞选的亲密朋友说道，“我想所有议员都希望自己是这样，但对于萨加尔来说，这是实实在在的。”

“那里有着真正的社区联系 [并且] 我认为绿党和扎克·波兰斯基低估了工党竞选活动的活力和规模。我认为他们不知道选区中存在如此深厚的根基。”

“这就是补选的特点，你只有四周时间。所以如果这些根基已经存在，那么你就拥有了巨大的领先优势。”

▲ 昨天清晨，萨加尔·阿卜迪-瓦利在霍本补选获胜后与工党支持者合影 摄影：DAN KITWOOD / GETTY IMAGES

邻近的汉普斯特德和海盖特 (Hampstead and Highgate) 选区的工党议员图利普·西迪克 (Tulip Siddiq) 表示：“她对卡姆登的热爱如此明显，人们非常看重这一点。她非常细心，非常接地气，而且她确实对政治和公共服务充满热情。”

西迪克表示，在经历了过去“许多平庸的候选人”之后，“人们喜欢一点热情”。

在 2010 年代紧缩政策时期，走在国王十字区 (King's Cross) 看到越来越多无家可归的人，促使阿卜迪-瓦利更加积极地参与政治。她曾表示，“直到我足够成熟，能够以哲学的方式回顾并思考这件事时”，她才注意到“我的母亲一直在照顾我们，让我们的生活变得美好、宁静……无论我们是在难民营还是临时住房中”。

她在就职演说中表示，无家可归和住房将是她作为议员的优先事项之一。此外，她还将呼吁将泰晤士水务 (Thames Water) 纳入公有制，并致力于增加年轻人获得工作和学徒机会的机会——所有这些主张都与首相安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 的理念相契合。

‘她对卡姆登的热爱如此明显，人们非常看重这一点。她非常接地气’

议员 图利普·西迪克

阿卜迪-瓦利长期参与服务青少年的社区团体，包括担任几所学校的校董，并创办了足球俱乐部。据她的亲密朋友称，她现在仍定期参加比赛，并且“在球场上相当激进”。

这位朋友还说，她是一名“狂热的”热刺球迷，“这在 [由阿森纳主导的] 选区中可能会成为她的不利因素”。

住房问题是阿布迪-瓦利（Abdi-Wali）面临批评的领域。在一名监察员发布一份谴责报告，称议会的服务态度粗鲁、防御性强且不足时，她正是负责卡姆登区（Camden）住房事务的内阁成员。

朋友们指出，她当时就职仅六个月，并为其负责该项工作的记录进行辩护。

在被选定时，阿布迪-瓦利对改革英国党（Reform）的齐亚·尤苏夫（Zia Yusuf）发布的一条推文不以为意。劳工党代表迅速称该推文“显然具有种族主义色彩”，甚至连改革英国党内部的其他高级人物也对此表示谴责。

阿布迪-瓦利随后告诉西迪克（Siddiq）：“我觉得自己对此很有韧性。这让我更加坚定地要继续前行并完成这项工作。”

留下还是离开？波兰斯基态度强硬但压力日益增加

亚历山德拉·托平 (Alexandra Topping) 政治记者

当扎克·波兰斯基 (Zack Polanski) 在今年2月的戈顿和登顿 (Gorton and Denton) 补选获胜后，面对兴高采烈的竞选人员发表讲话时，他宣布：“工党的选举垄断已经结束了。”

他继续说道，汉娜·斯宾塞 (Hannah Spencer) 当选为大曼彻斯特选区的绿党议员是一次地震般的胜利：“我说过我们是为了取代工党而来的，而这就是‘取代’的样子。”

但在周四的霍本和圣潘克拉斯 (Holborn and St Pancras) 补选中，波兰斯基遭遇失败，加之党内就犹太复国主义立场引发的一场灾难性争论，关于什么（或谁）可以被取代的讨论，现在转移到了波兰斯基本人身上。

昨日，这位英格兰和威尔士绿党领袖在输给工党的萨加尔·阿卜迪-瓦利 (Sagal Abdi-Wali) 后表现得十分强硬。阿卜迪-瓦利获得了 45% 的选票，而波兰斯基获得了 33%。当被问及党内出了什么问题——在戈顿和登顿获胜后，绿党在部分民调中的支持率曾高达 21%，现已跌至 10% 到 11% 之间——波兰斯基表示：“如果说我们刚刚将得票率翻了三倍，并取得了绿党历史上第二好的补选结果还算‘出了问题’，那么你知道吗？我接受这个评价。”

在强调绿党成员最终将决定他们想要谁担任领袖的同时，他表示在失败后“我当然可以继续担任”。毫无疑问，过去几个月对绿党——尤其是对波兰斯基个人——来说非常艰难。根据 More in Common 的最新民调，波兰斯基在选民中的受欢迎程度低于奈杰尔·法拉奇 (Nigel Farage)，并且是英国主要政党领袖中最不受欢迎的一位，净支持率下降了四个百分点，至 -28。

由于未能缴纳市政税以及转发批评警察的帖子而引发的一系列争议，他的声望已受损，而上周末在布赖顿举行的绿党会议上通过的一项争议性动议，进一步损害了他的地位。该动议将犹太复国主义（建立犹太国家的运动）等同于种族主义。

波兰斯基为了在霍本和圣潘克拉斯补选中进行竞选而决定在辩论和投票中弃权，这一决定遭到了批评者的攻击，而且更重要的是，也受到了其党内高层的批评。

绿党首位当选议员卡罗琳·卢卡斯 (Caroline Lucas) 周四告诉 BBC 的《新闻之夜》(Newsnight) 节目，波兰斯基“本应该在场，并且应该投票”。当被问及他是否应该辞职时，她表示：“我想让我们看看未来几天和几周会发生什么。显然，他完全被这次补选给占据了。”在他失败后，她似乎缓和了立场，称波兰斯基“改变了政党”，并希望他现在能“帮助解决我们面临的巨大问题并改造我们的内部结构”。

昨日，压力进一步增加。犹太绿党领袖薇薇安·利希滕斯坦 (Vivien Lichtenstein) 要求波兰斯基辞职，称他没有发言并投票支持修正案是一个“巨大的错误”，该修正案主张任何未来的巴勒斯坦国家结构应由巴勒斯坦人决定，而非强加一个一国方案。

▲ 扎克·波兰斯基在布赖顿的绿党会议上发表讲话，会上成员们就犹太复国主义的路线进行了辩论 摄影：SEAN SMITH / THE GUARDIAN

但在波兰斯基的忠实支持者中仍有乐观情绪。支持他竞选领导权的左翼派系“绿党组织” (Greens Organise) 表示他应该留任。该团体表示：“并非所有的增长和成功都是线性的；会有起起伏伏。一个政治组织真正的考验在于我们如何面对失败。我们已经重塑了政治版图。绿党仍然可以成为我们需要的生态社会主义政党。扎克依然是能带领我们实现这一目标的领袖。”

绿党支持者指出，在这次于传统工党安全席位举行的补选中，该党吸引了 13% 从工党转移而来的选票。

波兰斯基的支持者表示，自他于 2025 年 9 月当选领袖以来，该党的成员人数已增长至四倍，超过 230,000 人。除了在英格兰北部赢得首个席位外，他还领导绿党在 5 月的地方选举和市长选举中取得了最佳成绩，包括在东伦敦的哈克尼（Hackney）赢得了该党首个直选市长席位。

More in Common 的主任卢克·特里尔（Luke Tryl）表示，北伦敦的选举结果揭示了波兰斯基面临的双重挑战。虽然安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）取代基尔·斯塔默（Keir Starmer）使失望的进步主义者回归工党，但波兰斯基已成为一个更具争议的人物。

特里尔表示，一系列失误损害了他在英国广大公众中的受欢迎程度，而这一切始于他在戈尔德斯格林（Golders Green）刺杀事件后分享了一篇批评警察的社交媒体帖子。

伦敦大学学院（UCL）政策实验室的詹姆斯·巴加利（James Baggaley）表示：对于渴望希望与变革的年轻选民，重建波兰斯基受欢迎程度的途径将在于回归他最初关于“被宰的英国”和世代公平的经济主张，而非陷入分裂的内部斗争。

“绿党和波兰斯基面临的问题是：他们是想在反犹主义问题上给选民以保证，还是回归到他们真正能获胜的领域——经济问题？”

▲ 右侧为前绿党国会议员卡罗琳·卢卡斯（Caroline Lucas），她表示波兰斯基本应出席会议，就犹太复国主义辩论进行投票。照片：DAVID SMITH / ALAMY

工党忠实支持者在利物浦的会议上对安迪·伯纳姆的宏伟愿景赞不绝口。照片：ZEYNEP DEMIR ASLIM / ZUMA / SHUTTERSTOCK

小修小补，宏大愿景：No 10 计划针对“日常烦恼”

皮帕·克雷拉（Pippa Crerar） 杰西卡·埃尔戈特（Jessica Elgot）

在工党年度会议结束后的几天里，党内人士一直在分享由民调机构 More in Common 制作的一张词云图，图中显示了选民与安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）联系最紧密的词汇。

此类民调很少会让政治家感到受宠，首相的版本中也有相当一部分负面评价，但其中最显著的词汇之一——也是最令工党战略制定者产生灵感的词汇——是“尝试”。

在周一于切克斯（Chequers）举行的内阁闭门会议以及周四举行的特别顾问会议上，一个核心主线是：尽管经济背景困难，但政府正在尽最大努力改善人们的生活。

一名政府内部人士表示：“公众认为，唯一能触动那些杠杆的人就是你。他们理所当然地会问，你能不能做到？如果不能，他们会寻找替代方案。”

一名党内战略制定者说：“选民不希望看到我们绝望地举手投降，他们希望我们卷起袖子干活。他们不希望我们在全球性问题面前无能为力，他们想要答案。”但伯纳姆能够提供这些答案吗？

在工党会议上，他阐述了自己的宏大愿景——涉及社会护理、养老金三重锁、欧盟以及选举制度改革。党内忠实支持者对此非常认可，民调显示“伯纳姆效应”仍在持续。

虽然工党议员们对拥有一位政治方向明确的领导人感到欣慰，但许多人担心，仅在下次大选后提供宏大承诺，不足以缓解人们对剧烈变革的渴望。

No 10 认为，部分答案在于其所谓的“日常修复”——即生活成本措施。这些措施单看可能影响不大，但累积起来可以产生影响，同时也能表明政府在努力。

在政策部门和内阁办公室生活成本工作组的监督下，每个部门都设有“孵化器”用于构思提案——许多方案已在筹备中，例如关于汽车停车应用程序的规定以及无品牌校服的规定。这些措施可能无法登上头条，但战略制定者表示，它们能提高在线参与度——仅上周在所有社交平台上的浏览量就达到了 85m 次。在 28 October 伯纳姆政府首次预算案出台之前，还将公布更多措施。

一名顾问说：“我们希望证明，我们可以解决人们认为生活中不可避免的日常烦恼。”但几位顾问也承认，他们对这种密集的小规模干预措施持有某些顾虑。

另一位顾问补充道：“我们现在采取的是极小规模的干预，而对三年后则有巨大的雄心。我们在中期还需要中等规模的变革，而这正是目前缺失的。”

政府面临着一个困难的预算案。由于通货膨胀以及伊朗战争导致借贷成本飙升，据认为公共财政出现了 120亿英镑 的缺口，这迫使财政大臣约翰·希利（John Healey）考虑通过增税和削减开支来为缓解生活成本的计划提供资金。

预计该声明将保持“低调”，重点将放在财政分权上，包括一个侧重于降低能源账单的家庭支持方案，以及为小企业提供更多帮助。消息人士称，明年的支出审查将需要更多收入，但具体细节尚需等待。

一名 No 10 助手表示：“预算案是一个关注度最高、也可能是风险最高的时刻。我们无法做到所有想做的事，所以我们必须对民众坦诚，告诉他们我们不能一次性解决所有问题，但我们正在尝试。”

但对于一些议员来说，他们对此次预算案中较低的雄心水平感到日益不安，尤其是在生活成本措施方面，而伯纳姆政府已将其视为关键考验。

有人表示：“如果到下次选举时选民的生活还没有改善，那我们就完蛋了。就目前情况来看，这像是一个‘氛围更好’的里夫斯预算案。我希望这还不是全部，但我真的很担心这其实就是全部了。”

财政部内部人士承认，预算案需要“启动”长期变革——而且，如果将重大决定推迟到明年，而仅发布一份“低调”的声明，可能无法满足公众的期待。

一名政府助手表示：“这次预算案将是我们第一次‘迎面重击’的时刻。”他补充说，首相办公室与财政部在平衡财政责任与希望之间存在“一些摩擦”。“唐宁街10号希望发出意向信号：我们无法立即获得所有成果，但我们会达到目标的。”

另一位顾问表示，关于“在阴云笼罩之下这一切如何能算得过来”的问题依然存在。“考虑到财政空间的紧缺，根本无法想象任何人如何能平衡我们所需的额外支出。”

部长们和顾问们预计，保守党和改革英国党（Reform UK）将在福利问题上发起猛烈攻击——但他们认为，将在预算案后不久公布的米尔本（Milburn）和蒂姆斯（Timms）审查报告将有助于他们进行反击。

唐宁街预计预算案发布后的几天将充满波动，但乐观地认为伯纳姆的沟通能力将有助于阐明理由，且公众目前将继续对他保持信任。

一名消息人士表示：“我们在预算案上会受到一些打击，接下来的两周会很艰难。但随后我们将向十年计划推进。如果我们能把那个计划做好，明年人们可能会说：‘是的，虽然困难，但我们信任这个人’。”

在内阁闭门会议上，伯纳姆告诉部长们：“政治已经变得太令人窒息了，我们需要更大的雄心。国家目前的状态并非应有的样子，没有任何简单的办法能让我们摆脱现状。我们需要展示一个进程和一项长期计划。”

部长们看到了一项民调结果，结果显示，在选民观看了一段伯纳姆解释其计划的视频后，对工党社会护理政策（包括调整养老金三倍锁定机制）的支持率上升了四分之一。一名党内战略家告诉他们：“在社会护理和三倍锁定机制上，我们需要一次又一次地不断阐明理由。当我们阐明理由时，我们就拥有说服力。”

政治学中有一个公理：如果你在解释，就意味着你在输。但工党的战略家们在反驳这一观点。政府内部的主流观点是，伯纳姆是唯一能够向全国阐明他所有重大承诺理由的人。

并非所有工党内部人士都认为这行得通。一名内部人士表示：“我不确定向人们传递同样的信息——‘我们想做更多，但我们受限’——能有多少说服力。”

但部长们希望通过专注于能发出意向信号的政策，来度过困难的几个月。“我们需要对选民诚实。我们为自己设定了应对生活成本的目标，但很多事情是我们无法控制的。”

唐宁街10号的洞察研究显示，人们仍然愿意接受将伊朗冲突作为生活如此艰难的解释，而不是将其视为一个借口。

当议会于周一复会时，伯纳姆将发表声明，向国会议员通报过去几周的情况并回答提问。在此过程中，他将旨在向公众表明他与民众站在一起。但一名工党高层警告说：“我们都希望他对于接下来的行动有计划。那种‘他懂情况且会继续努力’的感觉不会永远持续下去。”

Cop31 举办国敦促气候支出应远高于国防支出

亚当·莫顿（Adam Morton） 楠迪（Nadi）

下届联合国峰会的举办国表示，富裕国家在应对气候危机上的支出应远高于北约成员国承诺用于国防的 5% of GDP，因为“气候问题就是安全问题”。

但在可能引发争议的言论中，Cop31 候任主席穆拉特·库鲁姆（Murat Kurum）在谈到各国下个月在土耳其会晤时，是否应尝试重复一项关于“摆脱化石燃料”（气候危机的主要原因）的协议时，态度含糊。

土耳其气候变化部长库鲁姆告诉《卫报》，世界“已经处于转型之中”，并暗示化石燃料的使用可以通过其他步骤来解决。

本周，库鲁姆与各国领导人、部长、官员及公民社会成员一同前往斐济，为 Cop31 做准备。Cop31 将于 11 月在土耳其城市安塔利亚举行。澳大利亚在 Cop31 中担任新的“谈判主席”角色，此前一直推动在 Cop 前期会议在太平洋地区举行，以引起人们对岛国的关注。

地缘政治动荡、历史性的能源危机以及一个不可预测的美国政府——再加上许多人将在几周后的气候主峰会上出席——这意味着只有 13 位领导人与澳大利亚总理安东尼·阿尔巴尼斯（Anthony Albanese）一同前往斐济城市楠迪，且其中大多数来自太平洋地区。

越南岘港的军方正在撤离民众，本周该地强降雨引发了山洪。 照片：NGUYEN KHOA CHUONG / VNA / AP

但现场还有约 30 位部长（包括来自印度和欧洲国家的部长）、来自大排放国中国和沙特阿拉伯的代表、全球机构负责人以及约 4,000 名其他与会者。

周二，一个代表团飞往北方向图瓦卢考察。图瓦卢是一个人口约 10,000 人的低洼环礁国家，是气候危机中风险最高的国家之一。他们了解了一个大部分海拔仅 2 米的国家的生活现状，在那里，上涨的海平面、风暴潮和日益剧烈的极端天气对生存构成了加速威胁。

回到楠迪后，斐济气候部长琳达·塔布亚（Lynda Tabuya）在闭幕致辞中激动得流下眼泪，并获得了全场起立鼓掌。她敦促代表们“将太平洋的一部分带在身边”。

约 190 个国家的政府将前往安塔利亚，而此时已有明确的证据表明行动迟缓。联合国环境规划署最近的一份报告警告称，在最乐观的未来情景下，全球升温将至少达到 1.8℃，远超《巴黎气候协定》1.5℃ 的上限。报告呼吁立即且持续地削减排放，并表示每避免一度的升温都将挽救生命并减少经济损失。

在 Cop 前期会议期间，太平洋地区领导人重复了他们的要求：各国必须采取行动以“维持 1.5℃ 的目标”；气候资金必须让那些并未造成问题但风险最高的人群能够轻松获得；且必须优先考虑海洋健康。

库鲁姆表示，由于“对自身安全和保障的担忧”，北约国家已承诺到 2035 年将国防预算增加至 GDP 的 5%，但尽管表达了担忧且气候危机构成了更大的风险，他们在应对气候危机方面的投入却少得多。当被问及他是否认为气候支出应与国防支出相当时，他回答道：“要多得多。”

库鲁姆通过翻译告诉《卫报》：“气候问题本身就是安全问题。如果你在灾难发生前不花 1. 单位的钱，那么在灾难发生后，你将处于必须花费 10 个单位钱的境地。”

库鲁姆与澳大利亚气候变化部长克里斯·鲍文（Chris Bowen）重申，他们将在安塔利亚重点争取支持，以实现到 2035. 家庭和企业能源的 $35 来自电力这一目标。目前这一比例约为 $21 。

关于如何逐步淘汰化石燃料的问题则更为棘手。在斐济，两个东道国都支持一项主张全球“摆脱化石燃料转型”的声明。但两国也都因继续支持新的煤炭和天然气开发而面临批评。

库鲁姆表示，世界“已经处于转型之中”，并暗示气候谈判中对“摆脱化石燃料转型”措辞的关注可能并无成效。

青年失业：米尔本将呼吁建立学徒制路径

理查德·帕廷顿 (Richard Partington) 高级经济记者

政府将被告知，英格兰应引入一项国家学徒准备计划，以弥补年轻人离开学校与开始工作之间的差距。

正在领导一项关于英国青年就业危机重大审查的艾伦·米尔本 (Alan Milburn) 将呼吁建立一条新的“国家预学徒路径”，为年轻人提供进一步的教育、培训和工作经验。

在阐述其备受期待的最终报告（该报告已推迟至本月预算案之后发布）的建议时，这位前工党内阁部长警告称，需要采取行动以应对过去十年中青年学徒起始人数的剧烈下降。

随着青年失业率飙升，仅有五分之一的学徒岗位由 16-18 岁的青少年占据，而 19 岁以下注册参加学徒培训的人数在十年内几乎减半。

由于唐宁街担心他的报告可能与 28 October 的预算案产生冲突，安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 政府正将米尔本的完整建议推迟到至少 11 月。

曾任托尼·布莱尔 (Tony Blair) 内阁部长的米尔本已发出信号，对英国福利制度的大调整将成为其报告的核心支柱，同时还包括增强就业支持、培训和学徒制的措施。

作为回应，部长们正在探讨全面改革福利计划的方案，包括取消针对 25 岁以下人群的残疾津贴，并将其替换为一项价值数十亿英镑的就业支持方案。

伯纳姆及其财政大臣约翰·希利 (John Healey) 已表示准备遏制政府不断上涨的福利开支。包括工作和养老金大臣帕特·麦克法登 (Pat McFadden) 在内的其他工党高级人物表示，由于中东战争动摇了公共财政，改革福利制度既有“道德理由”也有经济理由。

但政府采取了谨慎态度，以避免引发类似之前的福利制度反弹，此前该反弹曾迫使基尔·斯塔默 (Keir Starmer) 和瑞秋·里夫斯 (Rachel Reeves) 陷入尴尬且代价高昂的政策反转。

米尔本的审查原定于下周发布。

相关知情人士确认了推迟的消息，但淡化了其重要性。其中一人表示，唐宁街正在研究如何将该报告与包括蒂姆斯 (Timms) 残疾津贴审查在内的其他几项重大审查，以及预算案和首相的政府 10-year 计划共同呈现。

他们表示这“并非什么大事。更多是一个顺序问题——待处理的事项排成了长队”。

伯纳姆已承诺解决不从事教育、就业或培训（Neet）的青年人数上升至近 100 万 的问题。目前，开始参加学徒培训的人员中，此前为 Neet 的比例低至 2%。

在介绍其预学徒计划的细节时，米尔本表示，英格兰的一项新计划将针对那些缺乏获得并维持完整学徒资格所需的资质、信心或经验的年轻人。该计划将主要通过继续教育学院实施，将英语和数学与技术学习以及雇主的实践经验相结合。

▼ 凯米·巴德诺克 (Kemi Badenoch) 出席保守党党代会，罗伯特·詹里克 (Robert Jenrick) 在会上遭到大量嘲讽 摄影：JACOB KING / PA

詹里克反击“肯辛顿凯米”，排除与她的“僵尸保守党”结盟可能

罗温娜·梅森 白厅编辑

罗伯特·詹里克昨日对凯米·巴登诺克发起了猛烈攻击，称其为大都市精英的一员，并表示与保守党达成联盟协议就像被“铐在僵尸身上”一样。

这位改革英国党（Reform UK）的经济发言人多次称呼保守党党魁为“肯辛顿凯米”，并声称她的政党是服务于那些抱怨梅费尔俱乐部衰落、抱怨在商店里找不到奥托伦吉食谱食材的人。他指责保守党在分发“贝尔格莱维亚的贿赂”，此前他曾所属的政党在秋季会议上承诺，如果赢得政权，将免除家庭住宅的遗产税，并将免费托儿服务扩展至收入超过 10 万英镑 的人群。

他对巴登诺克的攻击发生在保守党与改革英国党关系恶化的时刻，而巴登诺克的公众支持率近期有所提高。

今年早些时候投奔改革英国党的詹里克，在保守党会议上成为了许多嘲讽的对象。在一段讽刺性的拜约挂毯中，他在多个位置被描绘成一个哭泣的“叛徒”。

巴登诺克在会议演讲中排除了通过改革英国党与保守党达成协议来“统一右翼”的任何举措，她质问谁会愿意与一个质疑她那在英国出生、混血的孩子是否为英国人的政党联手。

改革英国党党魁奈杰尔·法拉奇周四淡化了达成协议的想法，称其“极不可能”。但詹里克在新闻发布会上对保守党采取了更强硬的立场，称他们“不过是一个为最富有阶层服务的大都市压力团体”。

“肯辛顿凯米知道她的支持者是谁。是百万富翁，而不是曼斯菲尔德的人，”詹里克说。“是富人，而不是工人。她是为那些抱怨梅费尔俱乐部不如从前的人服务的。为那些难以找到奥托伦吉食谱所有食材的人服务的。而这些人的人生与我在纽瓦克的选民几乎没有任何共同点。”

詹里克将与保守党的协议描述为被“铐在僵尸身上”，并表示该党已经“退缩到了肯辛顿和切尔西的腹地”，尽管改革英国党的许多高级人物也曾居住在该地区。

在脱欧年间，法拉奇住在肯辛顿和切尔西的一栋房子里，由脱欧捐赠者阿伦·班克斯出资；而改革英国党的名誉司库尼克·坎迪今年出售了他位于切尔西价值 2.75 亿英镑 的豪宅。

去年，法拉奇和坎迪共同宣布了一项专门旨在吸引亿万富翁的政策，为非定居身份者提供 25 万英镑 的统一税率，以吸引他们来到英国。当时，法拉奇感叹富人正“迅速逃离”伦敦中心地带，以及在肯辛顿和切尔西“很难卖掉房子”。

法拉奇同时也是一家名为 5 Hertford Street 的梅费尔专属俱乐部的成员，而他的政党去年在梅费尔时尚的 Oswald's 举行了一场筹款活动。

当被问及改革英国党是否也是亿万富翁的政党时，詹里克表示，该党专注于为 4000 万 中等收入者提供减税。

詹里克还被问及改革英国党部分人士的言论，这些言论暗示巴登诺克因为拥有尼日利亚血统而不能是英国人。

他表示这场争论被“过度夸大了”，并且可以将种族、文化认同和公民身份区分开来：“是否存在‘英国种族’这种东西？是的。虽然并不总是容易定义。但这与国家认同不同。”

“国家认同是指你是否认同、是否融入我们的遗产、我们的文化、我们的规范和礼仪。而这与你的卧室抽屉里是否有一本英国护照同样不同。”

詹里克表示，他最担心的是那些持有英国护照但“不热爱我们国家”的人。他随后为其关于英国“伊斯兰化”的言论辩护，而这些言论目前已被举报至警方以及英国的反激进化计划“预防”（Prevent）。

他没有回应警方报告，而是坚持己见，声称沙里亚法的使用有所增加，且出现了强迫年轻女孩遮面以及教堂被改为清真寺的情况。他表示，在改革英国党（Reform UK）政府的领导下，这种情况不会发生。

Palantir 的汤姆·沃森警告部长们警惕“暴民统治”

杰米·格里尔森（Jamie Grierson）

最近加入 Palantir 的前工党副党魁汤姆·沃森（Tom Watson）警告称，在授予公共合同方面应警惕“暴民统治”。

沃森勋爵目前担任这家美国科技公司的高级副总裁。在被问及政府与其新雇主合作引发的担忧时，他表示英国部长们可能会让自己陷入“巨大的麻烦”。

Palantir 由支持特朗普的亿万富翁彼得·蒂尔（Peter Thiel）共同创立，曾向以色列军队以及白宫的 ICE 移民打击行动提供 AI 驱动的软件，这导致公众和政界对其参与英国公共服务产生强烈抵制。

首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）正面临来自工党议员和工会的压力，要求将 Palantir 从政府合同中剔除，其中包括一项与 NHS 价值 3.3 亿英镑 的软件交易。该公司还因伦敦市长萨迪克·汗（Sadiq Khan）阻止一项价值 5000 万英镑 的 AI 应用合同（用于大都会警察局调查）而与其在法庭上交锋。该公司正寻求在英国获得更多公共部门业务，其在英国的年营业额已达 4.27 亿英镑。

沃森在 BBC 的播客节目《与尼克·罗宾逊探讨政治思考》（Political Thinking with Nick Robinson）中表示：“我想对我以前的同事说的一件事是：你们是希望让法治引导采购实践，还是希望让暴民统治引导采购实践？因为如果你选择后者，你会让自己陷入巨大的麻烦。”

他补充道：“我认为我们成为了那些针对以色列公司的人的目标。我们不是一家以色列公司，但因为我们在以色列的工作，我们发现自己处于加沙抗议冲突的中心。”

沃森在播客中表示，如果情况允许，他愿意与改革英国党（Reform UK）政府合作开展移民打击行动，他说：“我们实际上并不从事该领域的工作，但是的，当然我们会合作。”

上个月宣布新职位时，他称 Palantir 是“地球上最有趣的公司”。该公司表示，他的工作部分是为了“通过更好的英国公共服务、就业和技能，深化其工作所创造的社会和经济价值”。

▲ 前工党副党魁汤姆·沃森在 Palantir 工作

沃森曾在托尼·布莱尔（Tony Blair）任内担任国防部长，并在戈登·布朗（Gordon Brown）政府中担任数字参与部长。自 2019, 退出议会以来，他一直担任博彩和音乐行业的顾问，并在 2024 成为 Palantir 的兼职顾问。

Palantir 表示，沃森已向上议院申请休假，并在伦敦为该公司工作期间放弃了议会通行证。

担任科学、创新和技术委员会主席的工党议员奇·翁武拉（Chi Onwurah）告诉 BBC Radio 4 的《今日》（Today）节目：“汤姆并不是第一个被科技炒作蒙蔽的政治家。关键问题是我们不能如此依赖一家公司。”

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画架上的波普：大型展览揭示利希滕斯坦艺术的深层内涵

大卫·史密斯（David Smith） 华盛顿

当美国艺术家罗伊·利希滕斯坦（Roy Lichtenstein）在 1983 年创作其巨幅作品《格林街壁画》（Greene Street Mural）时，他从拜约挂毯（Bayeux tapestry）中汲取了灵感。然而，尽管关于诺曼征服的描绘在近千年后依然令人赞叹，但这部特定场域的壁画在六周后便被销毁，这符合艺术家的意愿。

四十多年后，《格林街壁画》将再次令艺术爱好者们着迷。下周，该作品的一个 29 米（96英尺）的重建版本将横跨《罗伊·利希滕斯坦：如新》（Roy Lichtenstein: Like New）展览的入口。这是 33 年来纽约首个关于这位波普艺术家作品的大型回顾展，在惠特尼美国艺术博物馆（Whitney Museum of American Art）举行。

“他对拜约挂毯非常感兴趣，”客座策展人亚历克斯·达·科特（Alex Da Corte）表示，“这与‘逐帧’的概念以及一种序列化的叙事模式相关联，我们现在通过卷轴和海量照片能很好地理解这一点。”

如果公众将利希滕斯坦记忆为一个从浪漫漫画和口香糖包装纸上截取图像的冷峻讽刺主义者，那么这次展出 130 件作品的展览则揭示了一位更为严谨且复杂的艺术家。其论点核心在于利希滕斯坦终身痴迷于一位鲜为人知的学术导师：俄亥俄州立大学的霍伊特·L·谢尔曼（Hoyt L Sherman）教授。

利希滕斯坦在 20 世纪 40 年代师从谢尔曼，随后返回学校与他共同任教。在整个职业生涯中，直到 1997 年去世，利希滕斯坦一直将谢尔曼视为对他影响最大的人。

《溺水女孩》，1963；右上，《大笑的猫》，1961。 利希滕斯坦经常与漫画图像的讽刺性运用联系在一起，但惠特尼博物馆的展览揭示了一位严谨且复杂的艺术家。 照片：纽约现代艺术博物馆 / SCALA / ART RESOURCE, NY ▼ 艺术家工作室《舞蹈》，1974。利希滕斯坦的图像包含了对马蒂斯等艺术家的引用。 照片：纽约现代艺术博物馆 / SCALA / ART RESOURCE, NY

谢尔曼是光学和视觉感知领域的先驱，他建立了被称为“闪光实验室”的专业实验室环境。在这些漆黑的房间里，机械装置会在几分之一秒内闪现静物或几何形状的图像。谢尔曼指示学生在完全黑暗中画出他们所看到的景象，训练他们的思维以整体而非顺序的方式处理空间形式、图底关系和视觉记忆。

与梅格·昂利（Meg Onli）共同策划此次回顾展的达·科特表示：“霍伊特·谢尔曼的教学方法很古怪。他雇佣了一大批当时在职的光学理论家，他们对我们如何观察事物感到好奇——这可以追溯到亚里士多德和达芬奇，以及 20 世纪早期的当代人。”

利希滕斯坦并非简单地复制大众媒体，而是通过流行图像探索光学与感知方面的深奥问题。

▲ 《金鱼静物》，1972，使用本戴点（Ben-Day dots）来唤起漫画印刷中的色彩。

这挑战了贯穿其职业生涯的持久批评：剽窃、未经授权的复制以及懒惰的挪用。在 20 世纪 60 年代波普艺术的高峰期，评论家经常质疑利希滕斯坦的实践究竟是纯艺术还是商业盗窃。《生活》（Life）杂志在 1964 年发表了一篇题为“他是美国最糟糕的艺术家吗？”的文章。

对于昂利和达·科特来说，这些批评从根本上误解了他的实践。在《如新》展览中，参观者可以将原始的

速写本、素材剪报和初步草图与漫画分镜放在一起观察，从而看到利希滕斯坦对素材进行重新加工的频率之高。达·科特将他的技巧与传统的版画制作或漫画生产进行了直接类比，指出视觉艺术在根本上一直具有协作性和迭代性。

“任何从事漫画工作的人都知道，没有人能独立完成；这是一个协作过程。他修改事物的方式成为了作品真正的焦点，”达·科特（Da Corte）说道。他补充说，利希滕斯坦（Lichtenstein）的

《格林街壁画》（Greene Street Mural）最初于 1983 年为卡斯特利（Castelli）位于纽约苏豪区（SoHo）格林街 142 号的空间而创作。利希滕斯坦将他自己的艺术词汇编织成一个充满活力的组合：本戴点（Ben-Day dots，一种用于彩色印刷的技术）、卡通之手、金字塔、笔记本封面，以及对毕加索和马蒂斯的引用。

微妙的调整将一种安静的、私人化的幽默植入了作品之中。“每一幅画都需要观众去分析，”他说，“在他那些熟悉的图像中，他嵌入了某种类似于写日记时的那种幽默感。”

昂利（Onli）表示：“我们在整个展览中都运用了利希滕斯坦那种冷面幽默的元素。当利奥·卡斯特利（Leo Castelli）最初在 1983, 年邀请他为格林街空间绘画时，罗伊（Roy）说：‘利奥，我真的不知道该画什么。’然后他思考了一下，说：‘好吧，我得把我之前用过的每一个图像都用上。’”

“他与现成物（found object）或既成品（readymade）互动的方式与[达达主义创始人马塞尔]·杜尚（Duchamp）并不相似，即选取某样东西并对其进行轻微调整。它看起来既完全平庸，又具有挑衅性。”

昂利强调：“我们想要强调的一点是，罗伊的作品具有如此强烈的手工感。当你通过照片看到它时，它看起来极其流畅且像机器制造的。甚至在 1965 年，罗伊还开玩笑说，哦，我的作品之所以成功，是因为它非常适合通过传真机传输。但在整个展览中，所有这些作品都是手工完成的。这与我们今天理解图像的方式有着截然不同的感觉。”

这是首个将利希滕斯坦的壁画纳入其中的回顾展。

此次展览共有四幅壁画。包括户外展出的《窗边的女孩》（Girl in Window，1964）在内，壁画的每一英寸都由达·科特的工作室团队绘制，从而保留了定义利希滕斯坦作品的关键张力。

事实上，在 1968, 年，随着大众媒体在电视、印刷品和广告领域的扩张，利希滕斯坦已经在讨论他著名的本戴点与数据的关系。他着迷于视觉信息如何被分解为离散的单元，跨距离传输，并在观众的大脑中重新组装。

对于昂利和达·科特来说，这为向习惯于算法、触摸屏、像素和无尽数字循环的 21 世纪观众呈现利希滕斯坦提供了关键。

达·科特将利希滕斯坦的作品视为被无尽数字媒体淹没的艺术家的关键生存指南。“当他在 20 世纪 60 年代创作这些作品时，他所认知的世界正被图像、产品和物体所淹没，”他说，“波普艺术家们试图弄清楚他们是如何被广告轰炸的，以及这一切看起来像什么。”

“如果你现在问任何年轻艺术家他们的困境是什么，这个困境就是东西太多了。世界上有太多的图像，有太多需要应对的东西。你如何才能有意义地参与其中？……他向年轻人展示了，你实际上可以将每天冲刷你的那些图像，将它们转化为有意义的东西。”

致命的延误？为何格林威探索死亡的电影陷入僵局

杰弗里·麦克纳布 (Geoffrey Macnab)

彼得·格林威 (Peter Greenaway) 的新电影本应成为他及其主演达斯汀·霍夫曼 (Dustin Hoffman) 的一次辉煌绝唱，后者是凭借《毕业生》和《图西》获得奥斯卡奖的明星。2023. 年底，两人在托斯卡纳的卢卡 (Lucca) 开始拍摄时均已年过 80。当时两人都不知道前方将有风暴，也不知道这极有可能成为这位英国电影制作人职业生涯中最麻烦的项目。

将时间拨回 2023 年 11 月，过去 20 年一直定居荷兰的格林威在阿姆斯特丹国际纪录片电影节领取终身成就奖后的问答环节中，难以掩饰他的兴奋。格林威之前的作品包括 1989 年的《厨师、小偷，他的妻子和她的情人》以及《枕边书》(1996)。他告诉观众，他第二天早上将飞往意大利，“如果一切顺利，我们将在接下来的几天内正式开始拍摄”。

这部电影当时名为《卢卡之死》(Lucca Mortis)，格林威解释说它探讨的是死亡。他说他已经拍了“相当多”关于性（“爱欲 / Eros”）的电影，“但另一件事则是死神 (Thanatos)”。

“我们的电影实际上是关于死亡观念的，它提出了一个相当荒诞且可笑的问题——死亡是必要的吗？现在的流行媒体完全被关于辅助死亡、安乐死以及自杀合法性的讨论所覆盖。我认为我们必须更严肃地对待死亡，”他说道。

格林威的构思是，《卢卡之死》并非一部“充斥着棺材、头骨和阴森活动”的恐怖片。相反，这是一部关于一名纽约作家思考自身死亡的剧情片；一个希望以最整洁、最优雅的方式为人生收尾的男人。雅各布·祖基尼 (Jacob Zucchine，由霍夫曼饰演) 在孩提时代被收养并在美国长大。他回到托斯卡纳的卢卡寻找自己的意大利根源。电影背景设定在 11. 事件前后。与纽约一样，卢卡被耸立的高塔所主导，这些塔不仅激发了作者创作故事，也让他感到死亡在潜行跟踪他。

不祥的是，《卢卡之死》从一开始就遇到了困难。2023, 年底，导演及其剧组抵达卢卡，但主演们尚未到达。布景已经搭建完毕，剧组人员坐等了数周等待工作开始——但工作始终没有开始，他们最终被送回家。看来制作方已经出现了现金流问题。

不过，对于一部雄心勃勃且由独立资金资助的电影来说，这样的延误并不罕见。

该片由 89, 岁的达斯汀·霍夫曼主演，在托斯卡纳城市卢卡的 25 个地点拍摄。 照片：KEN WELSH / UCG / GETTY

制作终于在 2024 年初开始——这一次演员们到齐了。行业媒体报道称，《卢卡之死》的预算为 1500万欧元 (1200 万英镑m)，并将使用卢卡的 25 个拍摄地点。这座城市全力支持这部电影。许多当地居民参与其中，托斯卡纳的媒体报道称，拍摄期间的气氛像费里尼电影一样具有狂欢色彩。

然而，随着不断的延误吞噬了大量预算，这种魅力很快消失了。该片由 Facing East 制作（其之前的作品包括罗比·威廉姆斯的传记片《更好的男人》和连姆·尼森的惊悚片《在圣徒与罪人之地》），电影预算主要来自瑞士的私人出资方 Jumpy Cow Pictures。此外还得到了意大利和荷兰税收返还的支持。

当大部分拍摄工作完成后，格林威（Greenaway）和萨斯基亚·博德克（Saskia Boddeke，他的荷兰籍妻子兼创意伙伴）开始与他们的团队协作。该片的初剪版本于 2024 年底交付，据报道受到了热烈欢迎。然而，就在此时，紧张局势威胁到爆发点。接近格林威的消息人士表示，导演的合同赋予了他最终剪辑权，但制片方随后决定在没有他参与的情况下，自行制作一个更具“商业性”的剪辑版本。制片方的立场是，由于电影超支，他们有权介入。Facing East 未回应置评请求。

最终结果是，目前流传着两个版本的电影，且两者都未完全完成（尽管据称制片方的剪辑版进度更先进）。讽刺的是，看过这两个版本的人表示，它们并没有那么大的区别。

此外，关于谁控制该片版权的争端仍在继续——目前该片正陷入僵局。

卢卡（Lucca）的市民对此并不满意。在制作开始三年后，电影依然没有面世的迹象。卢卡市议员雷莫·桑蒂尼（Remo Santini）本周表示：“我们感到很失望，因为作为市政府，我们投入了时间和精力来拍摄这部电影……不幸的是，这种僵局并不是我们的错。”

甚至连片名也成为了争议点。部分原因是卢卡市不希望与死亡联系在一起，因此该片现在被命名为《塔楼故事》（Tower Stories）。

这部长片在后期制作的“炼狱”中停留的时间越长，其 84 岁的导演以及在 8 月刚满 89 岁的主演，就越没有足够的精力和能力对其进行适当的宣传。

现在的讨论集中在如何保护《卢卡之死》（Lucca Mortis）的“尊严”。为了实现这一点，所有相关人员都需要接受一个从一开始就应该是显而易见的事实，即：当你委托彼得·格林威拍摄一部电影时，你得到的正是那样一件作品——一部彼得·格林威风格的电影——如果你试图将其变成其他东西，你将面临灾难。

广告中使用 AI 是否会毁掉下一代电影导演？

马克·斯威尼 (Mark Sweeney)

长期以来，广告业一直是英国电影和电视人才的摇篮，许多人随后前往好莱坞发展，其中包括艾伦·帕克 (Alan Parker) 和盖·里奇 (Guy Ritchie)，两人最初都从事商业广告制作；以及《帕丁顿在秘鲁》的导演道格拉斯·威尔逊 (Dougal Wilson)，他的作品集包括多部约翰刘易斯合伙公司的圣诞广告。

当里德利·斯科特 (Ridley Scott) 因其执导《异形》、《角斗士》和《火星救援》等电影的辉煌职业生涯而获得英国最高荣誉时，他在英国电影电视艺术学院 (Bafta) 的活动上提醒在场的人，制作广告曾是他的“电影学校”。他曾在 1973 年制作了著名的 Hovis “自行车”广告。

然而，广告业为了降低客户成本并避免被大型科技公司边缘化，正惊慌地竞相引入 AI 技术，这引发了人们的担忧：可能会出现一个“失落的一代”，他们可能会被剥夺成长为优秀的英国电影和电视导演的机会。

“100% 是的，我对此感到担忧，”斯科特的儿子卢克 (Luke) 表示。他经营着一个包含里德利·斯科特协会 (RSA) 在内的集团，而 RSA 是由其父亲共同创立的媒体制作公司。

“我已经足够成熟，能够意识到变革是不可避免的。但就我所看到的生成式 AI 输出而言，情况非常复杂。你可以依赖它完成某些事情并说‘看我做了什么，难道不令人振奋吗’。但这具有很强的误导性，而且在某种程度上向我们介绍了一种伪造的创造力。”

“再像埃尔维斯一点！”或者更像 XTC？布里廷在 BBC 可能会使用的其他歌词

“巨大的危险在于一切的单一文化化。创意产业是通过实践来学习的。实践过程才是最有价值的。驾驶无人机不像飞行，它没有那种直观的感受，你并没有真正地在飞行。面对那失去的一代，该怎么办？也许在 20 或 30 年后

斯图尔特·赫里蒂奇（Stuart Heritage）

BBC 总干事马特·布里廷（Matt Brittin）在巨大的危机时刻接任此职。资金短缺，岗位被削减，为了遏制颓势，很可能会有整个频道被砍掉。

这是一个需要强大激励魅力的时刻，这就是为什么——在最近一次与全体员工的通话中——布里廷敦促 BBC 员工要“再像埃尔维斯（Elvis）一点——少一点交谈，多一点行动”。

显然，这并不太高明。但也许现在的情况就是这样。也许如果你真的想团结一群士气低落的员工来面对一场巨大且不可避免的衰落，你就得开始给他们引用歌词。

考虑到这一点，以下是布里廷在下次员工通话中可以使用的一些歌词。

再像滚石乐队（Rolling Stones）一点：“你不能总是得到你想要的” 考虑到 BBC 目前糟糕的情绪，这可能是一个更好的策略。当然，员工们可能会希望得到很多东西，比如更大的委约预算、更多大型体育赛事的独家报道，以及一个能正常运转的 BBC Three 频道。但米克·贾格尔（Mick Jagger）曾说过

◀ 1957. 的埃尔维斯·普雷斯利。布里廷告诉员工要更像埃尔维斯：“少一点交谈，多一点行动”。没错，XTC 乐队可能也很有用

我们目前工作的广告业之整体概念，将会是一个[过时的]笑话。”

上个月，广告集团 WPP 在伦敦东区一座改造后的仓库中正式开设了其旗舰制作设施。这是其 6 亿英镑m WPP 制作业务全球推广计划中的首个设施，旨在将“世界一流的创意和先进的 AI 能力整合在同一个屋檐下”。

曾就职于微软的 WPP 首席执行官辛迪·罗斯（Cindy Rose）表示，AI 正在开启一个“营销的黄金时代”。

“WPP 以及整个行业正处于一个关键的拐点，”她说道，背景是一辆福特 Capri 正在 生成的巴黎街道上巡航的拍摄画面。“我们必须更好地利用我们拥有的 优势。我们不再需要将客户的预算花在昂贵的海外拍摄上。我们可以在工作室里完成[并]彻底改变我们内容供应链的经济模式。我们可以以文化传播的速度交付内容。”

一位行业人士表示，某些广告的成本最高可降低 60%，这使得一些客户开始采用 驱动的广告，以向财务总监“证明他们正在节省开支”，尽管其产出往往看起来像“模具刻出来的”，且由于导演作用的削弱导致了创意的“侵蚀”。

你不能总是得到你想要的，但如果你有时尝试，你可能会发现你得到了你需要的。注：这只有在你的需求是让罗梅什·兰加纳坦（Romesh Ranganathan）主持所有节目时才真正有效。

再像皇后乐队（Queen）一点：“演出必须继续” 无论 BBC 面临多少次削减都无关紧要。无论它必须失去多少员工都无关紧要。该机构的宗旨是告知、教育和娱乐，无论如何，它都将履行职责。如果这意味着索菲·罗沃思（Sophie Raworth）必须在衣柜里通过 Zoom播报新闻，那就这样吧。如果这意味着奥运会必须被数小时之久、雨滴在窗户上赛跑的画面所取代，那就来吧。

再像史密斯乐队（The Smiths）一点：“有一盏灯永不熄灭” BBC 正处于极端紧缩的时刻，每一分钱都必须被利用到其

该来源质疑，如果《壮志凌云》（Top Gun）是在一个日益以 AI 为先的广告行业中制作的，它是否还能成为那样一部典型的 20 世纪 80 年代大片。该片的制片人唐·辛普森（Don Simpson）和杰里·布鲁克海默（Jerry Bruckheimer）在选择导演时，选择了已故的里德利·斯科特之弟托尼（Tony），因为他能发挥最大优势。因此，开启办公室洗手间的灯光太贵了，所以被禁止。你的手机有手电筒，不是吗？

莫里西（Morrissey）和史密斯乐队（the Smiths）的强尼·马尔（Johnny Marr） 布里廷（Brittin）还可以敦促 BBC 激发其内在的弗雷迪·默丘里（Freddie Mercury）精神，变得更像皇后乐队（Queen）一点。毕竟，“演出必须继续”。 照片：RICHARD E AARON / REDFERRNS

“为奈杰制定计划” 这件事不言而喻。运营 BBC 的很大一部分工作就是弄清楚如何处理奈杰·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）。如果布里廷想要与前任管理层保持任何形式的延续性，那么这意味着要尽可能多地让他出现在电视上。给一个想要废除电视执照费的人这么多播出时间，会对公司造成伤害吗？绝对会。但同时，他能不能客串主持几周的《One Show》节目？问问也没坏处。

看到 1983 年的一则电视广告，其中他将一辆萨博（Saab）汽车与一架战斗机赛跑，其风格完全可以被视为该电影电影化风格的预告片。

WPP Production 的首席执行官理查德·格拉森（Richard Glasson）表示，行业一直以来都拥抱新技术，使用 AI 也不例外。

他说：“这是内容的未来方向，是一个面向未来的 AI 制作中心。我们用来创作作品的底层技术正在发生变化。它已被引入电视和电影，但到目前为止在广告业中尚未被广泛采用。”

格拉森补充说，那些需要跟上内容创作步伐的客户正在拥抱 AI，因为他们需要面对的数字媒体平台数量比广告公司以往需要跟进的要多出数十倍。“要战胜算法，你必须生产新内容，而不能仅仅将一个广告活动重复使用六个月，那种日子已经过去了。”

Cinzano 在 1979 年拍摄的由伦纳德·罗西特（Leonard Rossiter）和琼·柯林斯（Joan Collins）主演的“客机”广告是由艾伦·帕克（Alan Parker）制作的，他后来执导了《名声》（Fame）。

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顶尖研究员称英国绝不能依赖外国人工智能

丹·米尔莫 (Dan Milmo) 全球技术编辑

艾伦·图灵研究所 (ATI) 所长表示，英国绝不能依赖那些可能在短时间内被关闭的外国人工智能系统，必须开发该技术的自主版本。

乔治·威廉姆森 (George Williamson) 表示，面对美国和中国在该领域飞速领先的局面，英国需要在人工智能领域建立更强大的国内地位，而“国家韧性”是 ATI 的一个关键重点。

该研究所是英国领先的人工智能研究机构。在政府（其主要资金来源）要求进行战略转型后，该研究所目前处于新的领导层之下。

威廉姆森表示：“随着人工智能在国防、国家安全、关键基础设施和医疗保健等关键服务领域变得更加深入，我们不应仅仅依赖那些我们无法检查或控制，或者可能会被限制甚至关闭的系统。”

今年 6 月，华盛顿暂时阻止了 Anthropic 最新模型在美国境外发布，据报道，美方还要求领先的人工智能实验室在这些模型被美国 AI 安全研究所（AISI）的对应机构审查之前，不得将其交给英国 AI 安全研究所（AISI）进行测试。

他说：“我们现在已经看到，政治和商业压力意味着在某些我们希望使用 [人工智能] 的情况下，我们可能无法获得访问权限。这不是一个国家所希望处于的状态。在某些情况下，如果我们拥有无需请求他人许可即可使用的技术，将是一个明智的选择。”

他表示，在对地缘政治局势以及日益强大的人工智能系统所带来风险感到担忧之际，国家韧性将成为 ATI 工作的重点。

首相安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 上个月宣布成立一个新的国家中心以应对国家支持的虚假信息，而 Anthropic 则预测该技术在 2030 年之前导致人类灭绝的可能性大于 10%，这些情况凸显了上述担忧。

威廉姆森说：“现在正是国家韧性绝对是国家所需之物的时刻，我认为图灵研究所绝对可以在这方面提供帮助。”

“我们正面临一个更具对抗性的世界，我们的关键基础设施遭受冲击的频率更高，而现在强大的人工智能正在放大这些威胁。为了加强国家韧性，图灵研究所将专注于确保关键系统免受干扰，应对来自人工智能本身的威胁，并帮助英国构建正确的战略人工智能能力。”

威廉姆森表示，该研究所可以通过帮助开发“为了公共利益”的人工智能用途来协助构建这种韧性，工作领域涵盖从天气预报到农业，以及帮助识别虚假信息。

在提到国家主导的虚假信息活动时，他说：“这对民主状态非常危险，而且这是一个我们可以监测的领域。”

威廉姆森曾任英国政府通信中心 (HM Government Communications Centre) 的负责人。这是一个为英国情报机构制造设备的秘密机构，二战时期的密码破译者及人工智能先驱艾伦·图灵也曾是其员工。

威廉姆森表示，显然英国需要“在获取技术方面拥有更多自主权”，并在人工智能领域拥有更强大的主权地位。他说：“如果你在需要使用技术时没有一定的控制权或能力，感觉会非常不安；而且很难想象，你如何在一个随时可能消失的基础之上构建经济。”

最近几周，欧洲中央银行行长克里斯蒂娜·拉加德 (Christine Lagarde) 和欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩 (Ursula von der Leyen) 均敦促欧洲在人工智能方面更加自给自足。

在担心中国制造的系统可能与“我们的价值观不一致”的情况下，威廉姆森将中国列为增强国内人工智能能力的另一个原因。他说：“这是我们这个时代的定义性技术。我们希望能够塑造这项技术……使其与我们的身份和价值观相一致。”

舞台评论：迷失之影的双重世界中一场完美的戏剧反转

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如何将村上春树这部具有双重叙事结构的史诗小说搬上舞台，而又不让观众陷入混乱？导演兼编舞菲利普·德库夫莱（Philippe Decouflé）采取了大手笔，为高桥亚子（Ako Takahashi）改编的版本在巨大的巴比肯舞台上填满了万花筒般的梦幻世界。这本可能变成一段杂乱无章的故事，但现在却被转化为一场漫长且完美的戏剧反转（coup de théâtre）。

主角“我”（藤原龙也 饰）有两个版本——一个在东京，另一个在梦境世界。城市充满了黑色电影的风格，而后者则美丽却危险，故事情节涉及人类与影子分离、一座围墙之城，以及一位收集头骨以通过声音引导过去经验的教授（池田成志 饰）。

教授 17 岁的孙女（富田美羽 饰）

$\triangle$ 剧作万花筒梦幻世界中的喜田驹根（左）与森田美里 摄影：TRISTRAM KENTON / THE GUARDIAN

在东京陪伴着“我”，像一位庸俗的先知。 “我”寻求逃离，以便能与自己的影子（宫尾俊太郎 饰）重聚，但却被这个奇怪的世界以及与一名图书管理员（森田美里 饰）的浪漫关系所吸引。

起初，剧情陷入了一个充满奇迹的兔子洞，带有古怪的幽默感并引用了西方文化，从古代神话到刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝》以及路易斯·布努埃尔的《一条安达鲁狗》。由 K Ishihara 设计的布景以一种俏皮的方式展示了其自身的剧场构建感。

从巨大的投影到暗示动漫的舞蹈速度与灵活性，视觉上的绚烂效果将观众深深吸引。村上笔下的生物种类繁多，从长满豪猪刺的生物到一群如芭蕾般优雅的独角兽。

德库夫莱的编舞具有弹性般的优雅和运动感，且不显得像马戏团表演。其美学效果如此迷人，以至于故事在前半部分不易理解也无关紧要。村上春树的粉丝们会知道，故事的统一性将在随后出现。

中场休息后，情况变得明朗：这是一种受控的混乱，反映了“我”的心境。随着村上的世界揭示出孤独、悲伤、对消失和死亡的恐惧等潜在主题，舞蹈也变得充满情感。

而关于代表“真实”自我的迷失之影的故事，显得具有预见性（该书出版于 1985 年）。这个世界看起来像《矩阵》中尼奥的世界，并与娜奥米·克莱恩（Naomi Klein）在《分身》（Doppelganger）一书中的观点相呼应。这个梦幻社会所培养的完美主义之阴暗面，可能是对战后日本的评论，或者是对我们这个 AI 时代以及真实与虚假自我的世界的评论。

它让你感觉到，你正与他人共同梦见一个迷失之影和冷漠人类的世界，但同时也梦见了独角兽、美感与想象力——这些既属于我们的世界，也属于另一个世界。

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《帝国反击战》电影光剑将拍卖

达斯·维达在《帝国反击战》中的决斗所使用的光剑将进行拍卖，预计起拍价至少为 $1 (77.5 万英镑)。在那场决斗中，他在砍掉儿子的手之前告诉卢克·天行者：“我是你的父亲”。

该道具是下个月由洛杉矶 Heritage Auctions 拍卖的 20 多把来自《星球大战》电影和电视剧的光剑之一。由伊万·麦格雷戈饰演的欧比旺·肯诺比和海登·克里斯滕森饰演的安纳金·天行者在《西斯之复仇》中使用的光剑预计每把将拍出 $10,000。

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今年 9 月，窃贼闯入卡涅叙梅尔（Cagnes-sur-Mer）的博物馆，成功盗走两幅这位法国印象派画家的作品，并在逃跑时遗弃了另外两幅。市长布莱恩·马松（Bryan Masson）表示：“这两幅画不仅仅是艺术品，它们是我们城市历史的一部分。得知它们已被追回，我感到极大的宽慰。”

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穿出风格：为何“星二代”成为本季时尚趋势

克洛伊·麦克唐奈 (Chloe Mac Donnell)

膝长裙和将内衣当作上衣穿着是本周结束的时尚月两大主要看点。但最大的趋势与服装无关。从纽约、伦敦到米兰和巴黎，各大时装秀成为了“星二代”（nepo-baby）接管时尚界的终极证明。

约翰·特拉沃尔塔 (John Travolta) 的女儿埃拉·布鲁 (Ella Bleu)，26岁，在 Miu Miu 完成了她的巴黎 T 台首秀；克里斯·马丁 (Chris Martin) 和格温妮丝·帕特洛 (Gwyneth Paltrow) 的女儿苹果·马丁 (Apple Martin)，22岁，走过了 Chloé 的秀场；娜奥米·沃茨 (Naomi Watts) 和利夫·施赖伯 (Liev Schreiber) 的女儿凯·施赖伯 (Kai Schreiber)，17岁，为 Vivienne Westwood 担任模特。与此同时，在米兰举行的 Vogue World 活动中，包括意大利男高音安德烈·波切利 (Andrea Bocelli) 的儿子马特奥 (Matteo)，29岁，尼克·凯夫 (Nick Cave) 的儿子厄尔 (Earl)，26岁，以及演员里斯·威瑟斯彭 (Reese Witherspoon) 和瑞安·菲利普 (Ryan Phillippe) 的女儿艾娃·菲利普 (Ava Phillippe)，27岁。

公关顾问马克·博科夫斯基 (Mark Borkowski) 将这种“星二代”现象描述为“青春、怀旧与继承而来的名望之绝佳混合体”。

《星二代实操指南》(The Field Guide to Nepo Babies) 的作者弗兰·霍普夫纳 (Fran Hoepfner) 表示，一个“星二代”必须同时拥有家庭关系以及直接或相关的行业联系，这一点至关重要。“仅仅拥有富有的父母并不能自动让人成为星二代。那只能说明你运气好，”她说。

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此前，名人的子女倾向于淡化其家庭关系，甚至更改姓氏。尼古拉斯·凯奇 (Nicolas Cage) 出生时的姓氏是科波拉 (Coppola)——他的叔叔是美国传奇电影制作人弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉 (Francis Ford Coppola)——而安吉丽娜·朱莉 (Angelina Jolie) 则从名字中删除了

沃特 (Voight)，试图与她的演员父亲乔恩·沃特 (Jon Voight) 保持距离。

根据博科夫斯基的说法，我们现在看到的是“继承名望的工业化”。他将其描述为一种文化转变。“多年来，人们试图逃离父母的阴影，因为这实际上阻碍了他们的职业生涯。而现在，他们不再为自己的特权而道歉。”

妮可·基德曼 (Nicole Kidman) 带她的女儿费思·基德曼-厄本 (Faith Kidman-Urban)，15岁，参加了 Chanel 的活动；而《外交官》(The Diplomat) 主演凯莉·罗素 (Keri Russell) 在路易威登 (Louis Vuitton) 秀场上的陪同者是她 13 岁的女儿威拉 (Willa)。在其他地方，超模凯伦·埃尔森 (Karen Elson) 和克里斯汀·麦克梅纳米 (Kristen McMenamy) 与她们的女儿斯嘉丽·特蕾莎·怀特 (Scarlett Teresa White)，20岁，以及莉莉·麦克梅纳米 (Lily McMenamy)，32岁，在 H&M 的 T 台上共舞。

在《纽约》杂志宣布 2022 年为“星二代之年”四年后，这一热潮没有放缓的迹象。对于品牌而言，吸引力很简单：起用一名

▲ 巴黎时装周期间在 T 台上的苹果·马丁、凯·施赖伯和埃拉·布鲁·特拉沃尔塔；下方为周一在 Chanel 时装秀上的妮可·基德曼及其女儿费思·基德曼-厄本

星二代能立即捕捉到大众观众的注意力。

这不仅限于时尚领域。新版电影《理智与情感》(Sense and Sensibility) 的演职员表读起来就像一份星二代点名册。萨曼莎·莫顿 (Samantha Morton) 的女儿埃斯梅·克里德-迈尔斯 (Esmé Creed-Miles)，26岁，饰演玛丽安·达什伍德 (Marianne Dashwood)；而斯汀 (Sting) 的非二元性别孩子埃利奥特·萨姆纳 (Eliot Sumner)，36岁，饰演帕尔默先生 (Mr Palmer)。与此同时，基里安·墨菲 (Cillian Murphy) 的儿子阿兰 (Aran)，19岁，目前在电视剧《青春》(Youth) 中饰演莎伦·霍根 (Sharon Horgan) 的儿子；而凯特·温斯莱特 (Kate Winslet) 的儿子乔·安德斯 (Joe Anders)，22岁，主演了 Netflix 改编自约翰·斯坦贝克 (John Steinbeck) 1952 年小说《伊甸之东》(East of Eden) 的剧集。

“这是一种营销工具，”博科夫斯基说。“起用一名无名模特或演员是一回事，但起用好莱坞传奇人物的女儿，能给品牌带来所有那些继承而来的名望和数十年的文化认可度。”

互联网对于星二代的夺权至关重要。在这个任何拥有手机和网络的人都能成名时代，为什么不利用著名的家庭根源呢？“你不需要有任何真正的才华就能建立粉丝群，”博科夫斯基说。

2023年，时年16岁的罗米·马斯（Romy Mars）在社交媒体上走红，她是电影制作人索菲亚·科波拉（Sofia Coppola）和音乐家托马斯·马斯（Thomas Mars）的女儿。她发布动态称，因为试图用父亲的信用卡租赁直升机去和朋友共进晚餐，结果被禁足。

在其他方面，26岁的弗朗西斯卡·斯科塞斯（Francesca Scorsese）是一名崭露头角的演员和电影制作人，但让她获得数百万粉丝的是那些由她父亲马丁（Martin）主演的 TikTok 视频。在其中一段视频中，她要求这位《好家伙》（Goodfellas）的导演识别包括月经杯在内的“女性用品”；在另一段视频中，她则测试父亲对 Z 世代俚语的了解程度。

霍普夫纳（Hoepfner）表示：“对于自己是‘星二代’（nepo baby）这一事实，他们其实无能为力，所以不如坦然承认。而处理这件事最好的方式，或许就是带着某种风格，大胆地公开承认。”

诡异季节来临：万圣节正变得像圣诞节

佐伊·伍德 (Zoe Wood)

圣诞树已立好，门前挂上了花环。感觉现在非常像……万圣节。

如果这听起来像噩梦，那正是其目的所在：英国人正越来越多地用诡异版本的圣诞传统来装饰家居。

可以将其视为“万圣圣诞节”（Halloweenmas）。在线批发平台 Faire 的夏洛特·布罗德本特（Charlotte Broadbent）表示：“传统上仅为一夜的庆祝活动，现已演变成一个为期一个月、镜像许多圣诞传统的活动，但没有那么高的期待值。”

对该平台销售交易的分析显示，万圣节产品的数量大幅增加——四年内增长了 500% 以上，从 2021 年的 425 种增加到去年的 2,632 种。增长最显著的领域是圣诞树、花环和装饰品。

根据廉价零售商 Wilko 的说法，万圣节树是 2026 年最大的装饰趋势之一。该公司表示，9 月份的人造树销量比一年前高出 200%。

该零售商表示：“万圣节树真的没有任何规则。”

“你可以全力以赴，也可以用一棵小树和几个惊悚配件来保持简约。”

这一点在社交媒体上显而易见，其风格涵盖了从学生派对风（一棵形状像女巫帽的黑色闪光树）到适合儿童的可爱风。工艺品零售商 Hobbycraft 在其网站上提供了“装饰枯枝树的五种方法”，其中包括用冰棍棒制作的 DIY 蜘蛛网和毛毡南瓜。

在线派对用品和礼品零售商 The Box Party 的利比·埃瓦特（Libby Ewart）今年增加了 40% 的库存。她说：“人们装饰房屋的时间更早，且比以前考虑得更周全。此外，今年的万圣节恰逢周六，所以再没有比这更好的开派对理由了。”

研究机构 Mintel 的高级零售分析师艾米莉·维伯格（Emily Viberg）表示，万圣节“不再仅仅关乎服装和糖果；它关乎一整个季节的参与、送礼和主题活动”。

其研究表明，尤其是英国年轻人将其视为表达自我以及尝试时尚和妆容的机会，16 至 34 岁的人群在奇装异服、化妆品和装饰品上的支出高于平均水平。

约翰刘易斯（John Lewis）的一棵万圣节树契合了 2026 年的装饰趋势。

维伯格补充道：“消费者越来越倾向于购买万圣节所营造的氛围和社会时刻。年轻人是这一转变的核心，他们将万圣节从一夜的庆祝活动转变为一个更广泛的自我表达和体验驱动型消费季节。”

“病毒式的服装趋势、化妆教程和家居装饰灵感正在塑造消费支出，并帮助将这个季节延长到 10 月之后。”

有些人可能认为这过于夸张，但布罗德本特认为，万圣节已成为分享优质时光的理由，且“无需花费巨资”。

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NHS 专家级 ADHD 和自闭症服务人员大规模流向私立诊所

▲ 护理质量委员会将开始对提供 ADHD 或自闭症诊断评估的私立诊所进行检查 摄影：JOHNER RF / GETTY

丹尼斯·坎贝尔 (Denis Campbell) 健康政策编辑

在儿童和成年人对获取诊断需求巨大的背景下，NHS 正面临 ADHD 和自闭症服务人员辞职加入私立诊所的人才流失危机。

由于专业人员流向私营部门，英格兰的一家 信托基金已被迫将其神经发育服务的准入限制在仅限最紧急的病例。

据称，心理学家、精神科医生、护士及其他人员的这种“人才流失”正使 变得“更弱”，并增加了人们被迫选择私立医疗的可能性。

护理监管机构昨日表示，将开始对提供 ADHD 和自闭症诊断评估的私立诊所进行检查，这些诊所目前处于不受监管状态。护理质量委员会 (CQC) 的这一举措是在政府委托的一项关于心理健康和神经多样性的审查报告发布之后采取的。该报告敦促部长们确保所有服务提供者都受到适当监管，此前有指控称，提供诊断测试的私营企业正处于一种“无法无天”的状态。

近年来，大量私立诊所纷纷成立，提供 ADHD 和自闭症的评估、治疗或两者兼而有之。由于神经多样性诊断需求的激增导致服务不堪重负，造成了漫长的等待时间和巨大的积压，这些诊所利用大量无法获得 护理的人群实现了资本化。

CQC 心理健康护理临时督察亚德里安·詹姆斯 (Adrian James) 表示，这项新职责将“填补我们监管中的一个重大空白，这意味着接受这些诊断的人可以对他们所接受的服务产生更高的信心”。

彼得·福纳吉 (Peter Fonagy) 教授的报告——被认为是迄今为止全球此类规模最大的调查——表达了对私营公司可能面临“经济激励”诱惑而导致误诊和误治患者的担忧。

CQC 已经对提供诊断和治疗的服务进行监管。但此次变动意味着，未来仅提供诊断评估的非 诊所必须在监管机构处注册。

卫生大臣伊薇特·库珀 (Yvette Cooper) 表示，更严格的监管意味着“人们可以确信评估是高质量的，且 不会被独立或私立提供者过度收费”。

英格兰约有 810,000 名儿童和成年人在 ADHD 或自闭症评估的候诊名单上。

上周，《健康服务杂志》(Health Service Journal) 披露，赫里福德和伍斯特郡健康与护理 信托基金 (Herefordshire and Worcestershire health and care trust) 因该原因被迫限制儿童和青少年的神经发育服务准入，这凸显了 因人员流向私营部门而面临的风险。

提交给该信托基金董事会的一份文件报告称：“神经发育人员大幅减少，大多数离职者选择在 ISP [独立部门提供者] 和 RtC [选择权] ND [神经多样性] 提供者处就职。”

“许多员工将彻底离开，使 处于更弱的境地”

西娅·斯坦 (Thea Stein) 纳菲尔德信托基金 (Nuffield Trust) 首席执行官

“选择权”赋予 患者在私立提供者处接受 资助的 ADHD 或自闭症评估的权利，以帮助他们更快地获得护理。

该信托基金上个月通过将 18 岁以下人群的准入限制在仅限症状最严重者来应对此次人员流失。它将于下周一恢复正常服务。该信托基金已有总计 1,298 人等待 ADHD 或自闭症评估至少两年。

纳菲尔德信托基金（Nuffield Trust）首席执行官兼政府 ADHD 任务组员西娅·斯坦（Thea Stein）表示，当工作人员加入私营运营商时，NHS 服务会受到影响，这种情况在物理治疗以及儿童和青少年心理健康服务中也曾发生。

她表示：“一些工作人员在获得私营部门工作后仍会兼职留在 NHS，但许多人将完全离开，这使得医疗服务处于更弱势的地位并承受更大的压力。”

斯坦补充道：“如果 无法维持完整的团队编制，或无法扩大规模以满足对 ADHD 支持日益增长的需求，令人担忧的不平等现象将进一步扩大。如果这些服务继续流失员工，那么那些能够负担得起私立医疗费用的人将获得快得多的支持。”

代表各信托基金的 联盟（ Alliance）确认了这种持续的人员流失。该联盟心理健康网络主任丽贝卡·格雷（Rebecca Gray）表示：“我们正越来越多地面对一个分布在 和私营部门不同供应商之间的统一 ADHD 劳动力群体。”

“私营部门市场的显著增长，使得寻求服务的人通常比在压力巨大的 服务中能更快地获得诊疗，这将使独立部门的工作对部分员工产生吸引力。”

代表许多非 企业的贸易团体——独立医疗提供者网络（Independent Healthcare Providers Network）对 CQC 增强的角色表示欢迎。其政策负责人肖恩·菲利普斯（Sean Phillips）表示：“虽然所有提供 ADHD 和自闭症评估的 IHPN 成员都已在 CQC 注册——其中 83% 被评为‘良好’或‘优秀’——但我们长期以来一直呼吁对神经发育服务进行更全面的‘端到端’监管，很高兴看到 CQC 确认他们现在将监管所有 ADHD 和自闭症评估的提供者。”

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舞台剧评论：斯雷尔法尔饰演的小丑与令人动容的国王

《李尔王》 皇家交易所剧院， 曼彻斯特 ★★★☆☆

马克·劳森 (Mark Lawson)

电视剧《继承之战》(Succession) 在一定程度上是以《李尔王》为原型的，其家族姓氏 Roy 便源自法语中表示君主的 roi。而马修·邓斯特 (Matthew Dunster) 的这部作品则以一种互补的方式，将焦点集中在年轻人之间的王朝权力动态上，他们围绕着一个分崩离析的领袖人物地进行策划。

这种解读得到了现代场景的支持——用车钥匙和手枪取代了马匹和剑——舞台上布置着闪闪发光的绳索，将空间划分为夜总会、英格兰和法国、地牢；而在暴风雨场景中，这些绳索则充当浴帘，让观众免受淋雨。

通过语言上的强调，邓斯特突出了关于为人父母和兄弟姐妹的指涉——乔纳森·斯林格 (Jonathan Slinger) 饰演的格洛斯特异常令人厌恶，他抚养埃德蒙和埃德加的方式似乎参考了李尔王的育儿手册；而更常规的则是对衰老失智的刻画，大卫·斯雷尔法尔 (David Threlfall) 饰演的国王在精神病学层面上显得极其精准。

除此之外，邓斯特的改编具有显著的颠覆性。他让斯雷尔法尔独自在舞台上发表第三幕的演说作为开场，并为年轻一代设计了开篇的色情哑剧。曾获得水星音乐奖提名的音乐人纳丁·沙 (Nadine Shah) 饰演的冈内利，无疑成为了第一个对着自己律动的作品表演性爱哑剧的冈内利。这种将诱惑作为权力手段的强调，以及暗示生育对继承的重要性，契合了最后一幕中残酷的

▲ 大卫·斯雷尔法尔饰演的李尔王与被弄瞎的格洛斯特（由乔纳森·斯林格饰演），出现在一部类似《继承之战》风格的制作中。摄影：海伦·默里 (HELEN MURRAY)

三角关系——帕迪·斯塔福德 (Paddy Stafford) 饰演的埃德蒙在周旋于李尔的两个女儿之间时，色情地品尝着两杯葡萄酒——但这感觉就像是《继承之战》变成了《权力的游戏》。

最剧烈的改写是删除了一个伟大的莎士比亚角色。斯雷尔法尔一人分饰君主和小丑，像个嘴巴在动的腹语师一样地完成两人对话的两个部分。对着看不见的人说话可能是痴呆症的症状，但这种改变意味着我们失去了唯一能对李尔说出坦率真相的人。

在这些噱头之中，斯雷尔法尔呈现了一个相当经典的李尔，在临终场景中令人深感触动；但在确立了该角色的民族主义倾向后，他用一句通常毫无波澜的台词“我在法国吗？”赢得了巨大的笑声。伊索贝尔·阿库武迪克 (Isobel Akuwudike) 令人好奇地暗示，考迪利娅可能继承了她父亲固执的愤怒。

《李尔王》中的词语回响包括 40 多次使用“信件”或“便条”，而邓斯特让这一点变得异常具体：一些通常仅在口头提及的信件被实际递交并拆开。你怀疑导演将会收到许多关于那个消失的弄臣的来信。没有小丑的李尔，在两种意义上都毫无幽默感。

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权力平衡：锂矿开采给智利盐滩带来的代价

Thea Riofrancos

一片高海拔沙漠高原横跨阿根廷、玻利维亚和智利。我正身处智利境内，与另外两名研究人员一起坐在吉普车的副驾驶座上。午后的空气稀薄且凛冽，但阳光却异常刺眼。

这里的地貌是对比与轮廓的研究：宽阔的盆地被大幅度的曲线地貌突然截断，平坦的延伸地带被近乎垂直的陡坡切开。利坎卡布尔火山（Licancabur volcano）巍然耸立。随着海拔升高，植被和湿度水平迅速变化，带来了更低的温度、更湿润的空气和更茂密的植物。

我们正开车前往阿塔卡马盐滩（Salar de Atacama）——它是智利北部数十个盐滩中最大的一座，也是全球第三大盐滩。这片亮白色的平原位于海拔 2,300 米（7,500英尺）的盆地中，东接更高的安第斯山脉，西接多梅伊科山脉（Domeyko range）。

这片令人震撼的景观——盐滩、栖息于此的火烈鸟以及邻近的原住民社区——正受到一个反直觉来源的威胁：我们试图将地球从灾难性气候变化中拯救出来的努力。就在我的脚下，蕴藏着全球近四分之一的锂储备，它们悬浮在比海洋更咸的水中。

锂对于应对气候危机至关重要。它是可充电电池的关键成分，而这种电池在消除交通和能源（这两个排放最高的部门）碳排放方面发挥着核心作用。

阿塔卡马沙漠的盐滩和盐湖由极端的海拔、干旱和高水平的太阳辐射所塑造 摄影：TATSUYA OHINATA / GETTY IMAGES

但开采这些锂将带来不断升级的社会和环境成本。正是这一困境将我带到了这座盐滩。

安第斯火烈鸟——“湿地健康的晴雨表”——在阿塔卡马盐滩以卤水虾为食 摄影：SANTIAGO URQUIJO / GETTY IMAGES

在阿塔卡马，一旦下雨，洪水之猛烈难以言表。在夏季月份，雨锋起源于亚马逊，沿着安第斯山的陡坡向上移动，随后玻利维亚的高海拔风将其推向山脊并越过山脊，直到其洪流浸透智利的高原。

像阿塔卡马这样封闭盆地的科学术语是“内流”（endorheic，从词源学上讲，“inside”意为内部，“flow”意为流动），因为水可以流入阿塔卡马盆地，但无法离开——除非通过蒸发。而这正是阿塔卡马拥有非凡锂卤水的关键。在暴雨之后，水从周围的山脉倾泻而下；在风暴之间漫长的干旱期，水则从珍贵的高山泉水中沿着峡谷缓缓流下。

在流动过程中，水从火山岩中浸出锂，收集被风蚀的锂尘，并将其带到盐滩的中心（nucleus）。这些汇集的地表水只能通过蒸发逃逸，而每蒸发一滴水，剩余卤水中的锂浓度就会增加。如果没有干旱且被烈日灼烧的阿塔卡马这种极高的蒸发率，锂浓度将无法达到矿业公司所看重的“经济”水平。

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▲ 一台机械挖掘机在锂矿加工区的蒸发池之间移动 摄影：MARTIN BERNETTI/

然而，进一步的锂富集在视线之外进行。剩余的水渗入地下，形成了富含锂的盐水地下井。这些水井与复杂的水热系统相连。随后，岩浆的热量（尤其是在安第斯山脉的活跃断层线附近）驱动地下盐水通过裂缝和多孔地质层循环，从而从地下岩石中溶解出更多的锂。

由此产生的盐水沉积在盐壳下方 1.2 到 30 米不等的深度，这对企业来说代表着潜在的巨额财富。阿塔卡马沙漠在气候、地质、地热和水文条件上的独特巧合，使其成为地球上开采锂成本最低的地方之一。

而且在每一个步骤中，“开采水”的过程都与最初形成这些价值巨大的沉积物的环境条件密切相关：矿工将地下盐水抽到地表巨大的池塘中，在那里，自然蒸发再次使盐水浓缩，将其锂含量提高了 40 倍，从大约 0.15% 增加到惊人的 6%。根据盐水质量和天气条件，一个循环过程可能需要 10 到 24 个月。

但这种成本相对较低、技术简单且据称影响较低的提取过程，仍然危及着将阿塔卡马视为家园的社区和物种。

这个世界上最古老、最干燥的沙漠看起来似乎毫无生机。生态学家将其称为“多重极端”环境，因为它具有高海拔、强太阳辐射、干旱、巨大的昼夜温差以及高盐度的湖泊。研究此类环境的人将其描述为低多样性，具有相对“简单”的生命网，或者在生物多样性方面令人“震惊”。这完全取决于视角。植物和动物已经进化到能够适应更少且更咸的水，以及最重要的是，利用永不停歇的太阳所提供的充足能量。极端环境激发了自然的创造力。

卤虫（Artemia），即盐水虾，在大多数物种无法忍受的高盐湖泊中繁衍生息。这些微小的生物是该高原食物链的关键。盐水虾以细菌和浮游植物为食，反过来又成为智利火烈鸟的食物。火烈鸟同样适应了盐湖，其喙部进化出了一种类似于牡蛎或鲸鱼层状膜的过滤器，用以从盐水中过滤出微小的动植物。

火烈鸟是湿地健康的晴雨表。当这些鸟类在盐滩上寻找食物和配偶时，它们将盐湖连接成一个栖息地网络。随着这些栖息地的受损，火烈鸟的数量也随之下降：阿塔卡马盐滩特有的三种火烈鸟物种均在减少。

导致这种数量损失的不同驱动因素揭示了影响这一脆弱环境的复合伤害。气候变化导致的平均温度升高使地表水蒸发加快，减少了火烈鸟和卤虫饮食中至关重要的蓝绿藻。而与采矿作业相关的噪音和交通似乎直接干扰了火烈鸟的繁殖。

研究人员正努力预测改变阿塔卡马的多种过程的总体方向。科学只能在伤害发生很久之后记录其影响，处于追赶状态。锂提取对支撑其生态系统的液体的威胁是一场具有全球性原因和后果的慢动作灾难。这一事实为地球的零碳未来提出了生存性的质疑。

峡湾被用于倾倒矿业废料引发挪威愤怒

丹尼尔·谢勒 (Daniel Shailer) 韦夫林 (Vevring)

6月17日，来自西海岸小镇韦夫林的当地居民在聆听来自奥斯陆的消息。挪威最高法院对政府做出了不利裁决：法院称，一项允许将矿业废料直接排放到两英里上游的弗尔德 (Førde) 峡湾的许可是非法的。

这一时刻标志着一场持续17年斗争的结束。对于住在峡湾岸边的渔民、挪威自然保护联盟 (Naturvernforbundet / Friends of the Earth Norway) 志愿者安妮-莱恩·廷内斯·弗尔松 (Anne-Line Thingnes Førsund) 来说，这是一种解脱。她说，就像一座大山从肩上移开了一样。

就在弗尔松等人庆祝之时，一名政府律师制定了临时许可计划，允许该矿山在此期间继续排放废料。四天后，该矿山申请了新的许可，并在9月获得了挪威气候与环境部的批准。

“当我们听到污染将继续时，感觉就像他们把我们脚下的地毯抽走了一样，”弗尔松说。“我们回复了每一封信，对每一次咨询发表了评论，只要有机会就投诉。我们被击倒了这么多次，而这次本可以是改变的机会。”

批评者担心，在争夺关键矿产的竞赛中，这将预示着一波允许污染挪威峡湾的许可浪潮。

“这不仅仅关乎峡湾、我们以及我们的生活，”弗尔松说。“这关乎原则。当你有一个不尊重最高法院的政府时，你是在改变制度本身。”

海底尾矿处置 (STD) 是通过水下管道泵送破碎的岩石和化学废料。挪威政府自己的海洋研究机构已发出警告，这种方式会释放有毒废料的微小颗粒，这些颗粒会在小型海洋生物体内累积并破坏生态系统。该行为在北美、澳大利亚、俄罗斯、巴西、中国和大多数欧洲国家被禁止。

Engebø 钛矿由 Nordic Mining 公司于2006年提出，政府在不到10年后授予了将废料排放到峡湾的许可。挪威自然保护联盟发起了法律挑战，并在2026年春季进入最高法院听证。该矿山于2024年晚些时候开始排放废料。

Nordic Mining 没有回应置评请求，但在社交媒体的一篇帖子中表示：“有人说我们的运营是非法的，说我们必须关闭，说我们的工作必须停止。事实并非如此，”并补充称其将继续“以负责任的态度行动，尊重峡湾和山脉，以及我们周围的当地社区”。

关于该许可的法律争端集中在欧盟的《水框架指令》(WFD) 上，该指令适用于作为欧洲经济区成员的挪威。《水框架指令》允许工业活动在存在“压倒性的公共利益”时污染水体。

最高法院裁定，最初授予许可时给出的理由不够充分。然而，政府辩称，自从欧盟在2020年将钛添加到其“关键矿产”名单后，这些理由变得更加充分。一名发言人表示：“挪威政府认为 Engebø 项目对挪威和欧洲具有重大意义”，因为“Engebø 山包含世界上已知最大的金红石（一种含钛矿物）矿床之一。在欧洲，挪威和乌克兰是仅有的拥有此类重大资源的国家。”

“那是错误的。许可要么存在，要么不存在，而最高法院的决定非常明确：该许可是非法的，”挪威内陆大学行政法与宪法学副教授塔杰伊·埃林森·罗斯沃尔 (Tarjei Ellingsen Røsvoll) 表示。“那么，政府就是在公开允许一家公司非法地向峡湾倾倒一大堆东西。”

▲ 批评者称，倾倒行为威胁到挪威最纯净的峡湾之一

“这是前所未有的；它损害了信任，并破坏了宪法和行政法的基本结构。他们应该为做出这一无效且非法的决定承担责任。”

在 Nordic Mining 等待新的三年期许可证期间，该公司继续在福尔德峡湾（Førde fjord）处置废物。挪威负责白领犯罪和环境犯罪的部门 Økokrim 正在考虑开展调查。

▲ 英格兰和威尔士的学校在六月热浪期间关闭

工会领导人：学校必须为酷暑做好准备

马修·泰勒 (Matthew Taylor)

据英国最大教育工会的领导人称，为了适应英国日益严重的热浪，学校应考虑调整上课和放学时间，重新安排假期，并将考试移出夏季月份。

全国教育工会 (National Education Union) 总书记丹尼尔·克贝德 (Daniel Kebede) 表示，今年夏天反复出现的极端高温对教师和学生产生了毁灭性影响，教室温度达到了 40℃ (104°F)，数十万名儿童被遣送回家。

克贝德呼吁政府启动一项大规模的改造计划，以确保那些为“不同气候”而建的学校在明年夏天受厄尔尼诺现象影响的高温到来之前，能够更好地应对极端高温。

他表示：“我们需要就如何确保在气候变化的环境中维持教育的连续性进行一次非常严肃的讨论。”

“你们可能需要考虑调整学年安排或延长暑假。你们可以考虑提前上课和提前放学，而且也许我们不希望考试在一年中最热的时期举行。”

在 6 月的热浪期间，英格兰和威尔士至少有 760,000 名学童因学校关闭而缺课，学生们损失了超过 1500 万小时的课堂时间。

一名小学教师告诉《卫报》：“成年人几乎无法应对，大多数孩子都在呼唤他们的爸爸妈妈。根本没有学习，我们只是在尽力生存。”

克贝德表示，孩子们经常被送回无法应对极端高温的公寓，而他们的父母和看护者则无法居家办公或请假。

“这对生活在贫困城市地区的儿童影响尤为严重。这将形成一个两级体系，即富裕地区的学校能够应对极端高温。”

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▶ 拉兹·扎法蒂 (Raz Zarfati)，其姐姐罗恩·扎法蒂 (Ron Zarfati) 在 10 月 7 日的哈马斯袭击中丧生，他在一场纪念三周年的活动上 OHAD ZWIGENBERG / AP PHOTO

▲ 纽约市无线电城摇滚舞团 (Radio City Rockettes) 在 2026 年版《圣诞盛典》演出前进行公开排练 DAVID DEE DELGADO / REUTERS

“人塔搭建者” (Castellers) 在加泰罗尼亚城市塔拉戈纳的一场人塔搭建比赛中就位 MATTHIAS OESTERLE / SHUTTERSTOCK

▲ 曼谷在暴风雨中被雷电击中；这座泰国首都经历了 15 年来最严重的洪水 ADRYEL TALAMANTES / SHUTTERSTOCK ◀ 抗议者聚集在巴黎的共和国纪念碑周围，这是全国学生抗议活动的一部分，他们称学校系统过于拥挤、设备不足且人员短缺 PHOTOGRAPH: VÉRONIQUE DE VIGUERIE / GETTY IMAGES

一名艺术品搬运工拿着卢西安·弗洛伊德 (Lucian Freud) 1982 年的画作《女孩之首》，该作品将在伦敦的佳士得拍卖行拍卖 WIKTOR SZYMANOWICZ / GETTY IMAGES

一只孟加拉虎及其幼崽在印度拉贾斯坦邦的兰坦博尔饮水，当地的野生种群数量有所增加 ANDY ROUSE / WWF / PA

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“我们要求的不是奢侈” 法国郊区学生感到被遗弃

安吉丽克·克里萨菲斯 (Angelique Chrisafis) 塞夫朗 (Sevran)

在正常的上学日，穆罕默德 (Mohammed) 早上 6 点起床，照顾年幼的弟妹以帮助他的单身母亲（一名保安），然后乘坐两趟拥挤的巴士和一列当地火车，前往位于塞夫朗的高中。塞夫朗是巴黎东北郊区一个低收入的 banlieue（郊区）。

“椅子和课桌不够用，所以有些学生必须站着听课，”穆罕默德说。“教室里挤得水泄不通，你根本无法与老师互动。在今年的热浪中，没有遮阳帘或窗帘的拥挤教室里感觉有 40℃。太热了，我的大脑无法运转。”

这名 17 岁的学生正处于高中的最后一年，他希望在巴黎的一所大学学习管理学和数字传播。但他表示，条件如此糟糕，让他觉得他和同学们的胜算非常渺茫。

“当缺勤的员工没有被替换时，我们中的一些人必须在没有老师的情况下度过数月，”他说。“有一个班级在高考（baccalaureate）前几个月没有法语老师，所以他们甚至无法学习考试要求的所有指定文本。最近我们需要一名

“当我们聚集在学校外面时，骑警冲向我们，向我们发射催泪瓦斯”

穆罕默德 高中生

通过英语教学的科目老师，但当那位老师到达时，他们竟然不会说英语。”

本周，该国几十年来规模最大的青年抗议运动让数十万人走上街头，抗议教育系统的不平等、学校的破败、教师短缺以及班级规模过大。数百所学校被封锁，数千名青少年被捕，人权组织警告称存在涉嫌警察暴行的行为。一名儿童失去了眼睛的视力，另一名失去了手。

穆罕默德和他的同学——通常得到了家长和老师的支持——一直在封锁他们的学校，即位于法国本土最贫困省份之一的塞纳-圣但尼省 (Seine-Saint-Denis) 的布莱兹-桑德拉尔高中 (Lycée Blaise-Cendrars)。他们投票决定将抗议活动延续到下周，将他们的诉求提交给当地市长、民选官员和教育代表。许多当地政治家支持他们的要求。甚至总理勒科尔纽 (Sébastien Lecornu) 也承认，法国青少年的担忧是合理的。

塞夫朗学生的手机照片显示，教室里的椅子破损，墙上和天花板上有洞，有霉菌，用桶接漏水，灯光故障。他们表示基本需求未能得到满足——一些厕所损坏，另一些没有门，且经常没有卫生纸或肥皂。视频投影仪和科学设备也匮乏。

“我们要求的不是奢侈，只是在体面的条件下学习的最基本条件，”穆罕默德说。“然而，当我们聚集在学校外抗议时，骑警冲向我们，向我们发射催泪瓦斯并进行逮捕。”

塞纳-圣但尼省的高中一直是抗议活动的驱动力，该郊区紧邻巴黎北部。该地区拥有法国本土最年轻的人口、最高的出生率之一以及最低的平均收入之一。其高中的年轻教师流动率很高。

位于巴黎东北部塞夫朗的布莱兹-桑德拉尔高中椅子破损，墙上有洞，灯光故障。下方，一名学生正在接受媒体采访。

▲ 周四在波尔多的一次高中抗议活动中，一名抗议者将警察发射的催泪瓦斯罐扔了回去 摄影：CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/

尽管共同举办了2024年奥运会，且政府出台了众多计划以应对长期存在的 inequality（不平等）和贫困问题，但巴黎东北部地区与首都相比仍然处于劣势。自2005年两名在电力变电站躲避警察的男孩死亡，引发全法住房区数周的动荡以来，塞纳-圣但尼省（Seine-Saint-Denis）已过去了20多年。

本周的抗议活动表明，巴黎郊区的不平等和歧视问题尚未得到解决，年轻人与警察之间的不信任依然存在。

穆罕默德所在的学校拥有1,000多名学生，此前曾是抗议活动的中心。2024年，学生和教师制作了一段关于教室、厕所和设备状况的视频并迅速走红。当地的法兰西岛大区（Île-de-France）表示，已针对高中建筑启动了一项重大翻修工程。但青少年们表示，关键问题并未得到解决。

“我们的起点就不公平，因为我们的父母不像其他人那么富有——他们不能给我们买书，不能带我们去看电影，”17岁的伊利安（Ilian）说道，他的父亲是一名交通管理员。“在这些抗议活动期间，我们缺课了，在考试年我们面临掉队的风险，我们渴望回到教室学习，但我们面对的环境太糟糕了，在政府承诺采取行动之前，我们不能停止。”

教育部本周承诺提供3,000名教师以填补紧急缺口，但教师工会对此表示怀疑，并称需要更长期的计划和资金，尽管政府辩称几乎没有多余的资金。

儿童心理健康也是塞纳-圣但尼省的一个问题。伊利安已经等待看儿童精神科医生好几个月了。在高中里，没有校医，且缺乏针对残障儿童的支持人员。

“警察轻视我们，就像对待动物一样，”伊利安说，“他们说话如此残酷。”他表示，一些青少年指控警察在抗议期间对他们使用了种族侮辱性语言。

本周与学生会面的塞纳-圣但尼省议会社会党负责人斯特凡·特鲁塞尔（Stéphane Troussel）表示：“警务工作造成了部分困难，这是不可容忍的。”在警方因造成人员受伤而暂停使用震爆弹后，他呼吁警方停止使用一种橡胶子弹发射器。法国内政部长洛朗·努涅兹（Laurent Nuñez）为警务战术辩护。

塞夫朗（Sevran）市长斯特凡·布朗谢（Stéphane Blanchet）表示，他支持抗议者的诉求。他说，在他这个拥有52,000人口的小镇上，许多人感到被国家“贬低”和遗忘了。

17岁的萨拉（Sarah）希望在巴黎的一所顶尖工程学院学习，她的父亲在仓库工作，她说：“郊区（banlieue）的青少年真的感到被抛弃了。”

“本周，法国其他较富裕地区的青少年走上街头支持我们，这让我们感到惊讶且非常感激。我们知道自己处于劣势，必须比别人努力10倍才能摆脱针对我们邮政编码的歧视。但在这种环境下，我们甚至无法保证在学校有一把椅子坐，根本无法正常学习。”

学生姓名已做化名处理

前部长称，博索纳罗获胜将是亚马逊 rainforest 的灾难

汤姆·菲利普斯 (Tom Phillips) 里约热内卢

巴西前环境部长玛丽娜·席尔瓦 (Marina Silva) 警告称，如果弗拉维奥·博索纳罗 (Flávio Bolsonaro) 当选总统，他将寻求完成其极右翼父亲雅伊尔·博索纳罗 (Jair Bolsonaro) 发起的肆意破坏雨林的“邪恶计划”。

在雅伊尔·博索纳罗 2019-23 年的总统任期内，亚马逊地区陷入混乱，巴西的环境和原住民保护机构被削弱，环境罪犯横行，导致森林砍伐和暴力事件激增。

照片：MICHAEL DANTAS / 尽管如此，博索纳罗的长子弗拉维奥仍被认为是 10 月 25 日总统选举第二轮中击败左翼现任总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦 (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) 的热门人选。在第一轮投票中，45 岁的弗拉维奥以超过 200 万票的优势领先 80 岁的卢拉；与此同时，一股反现任政府和反左翼的情绪将创纪录数量的极右翼政治家推入了本就保守的国会。

席尔瓦是一位世界著名的环保主义者，直到 4 月为止一直担任卢拉的环境部长。她警告称，第二个博索纳罗总统任期将给这个全球至关重要的生态系统、其居民以及气候带来灾难。

她表示：“我毫不怀疑，这一次他们将试图完成他们随博索纳罗开始的邪恶计划。如果他们当选——愿上帝和巴西人民让他们无法当选——他们将利用任期尽可能地加速所有他们能推动的倒退，包括为了让自己维持权力。”

“他们对亚马逊的愿景与他们对所有事情的愿景是一样的。他们是否认主义者。他们的愿景是必须为了经济活动而清除森林。”

“他们将再次鼓励非法采矿、入侵原住民土地以及针对原住民和基隆博拉 (Quilombola) 社区的暴力行为。”

席尔瓦担心，唐纳德·特朗普对拉丁美洲的企图可能会加速激进的资源开采，例如美国入侵委内瑞拉以强占其巨大的石油储备。博索纳罗家族是特朗普的盟友，而特朗普在 1 月份短暂的战争中将委内瑞拉的石油称为“战利品”。

▲ 亚马逊地区的一场非法火灾，该地区正面临农民和伐木者的威胁

席尔瓦认为弗拉维奥·博索纳罗政府将“屈从”于美国，她表示：“巴西不能[被]一个想要让自己变成美国保护国的政治团体[治理]，就像今天的委内瑞拉那样。”

席尔瓦在圣保罗发表讲话时，回想起她在 2023 年 1 月接管一个被削弱且士气低落的环境部，并开始尝试限制亚马逊破坏时所面对的“焦土”局面。

卢拉上任后的首批行动之一就是派遣军队，将数千名非法矿工从该国最大的原住民领地驱逐出去。

席尔瓦表示，环境和安全部队的“艰巨努力”已经取得了成效。在卢拉任内，亚马逊的森林砍伐量下降了近 50%，今年估计损失 2,600 平方公里，而博索纳罗最后一个完整任职年份的损失量接近 11,600 平方公里。

非法矿工和牧场主已被从一系列原住民领地中驱逐。在博索纳罗破坏时代被冻结后，数百亿加元用于雨林保护的国际资金已得到恢复。

现在，席尔瓦认为所有这些成就都处于危险之中。这位 68 岁的政治家出生在亚马逊一个采胶工家庭，她表示：“这令人深感悲哀和不安。”

她补充道：“矛盾的是，就在我们即将实现 [十多年来] 最低砍伐率，并达成一个曾经不可想象的 2030 年零砍伐目标之时，我们却面临着一个……会将这一切全部推回原点的政府的威胁。”

▲ 玛丽娜·席尔瓦公开谴责弗拉维奥·博索纳罗，右图

即便博索纳罗败选，国会向极右翼的转移也意味着，在世界上生物多样性最丰富的这个国家，未来几年的环境状况可能会变得极其糟糕。

在最近的选举中，博索纳罗领导的自由党在 81 个参议院席位中赢得了 54 个待选席位中的 19 个，并在 513 个众议院席位中赢得了 121 个，这使得立法者更容易取消对环境和原住民的保护。

席尔瓦曾寻求参议院席位，但被一名前特种部队警察和另一位博索纳罗主义政治人物击败。

她表示：“这是一个毁灭性的过程。我担心的不仅是亚马逊，还有我们所有的生物群系，比如大西洋沿岸森林、塞拉多、潘塔纳尔和潘帕斯草原。巴西所有的生物群系都同样受到这种‘特朗普主义’愿景的威胁。”

席尔瓦认为，如果博索纳罗家族重新掌权，巴西的民主制度本身将面临风险。贾伊尔·博索纳罗因在 2022 年大选失利后策划政变而被判处 27 年监禁，预计他将被释放并被任命为部长。

本周，当弗拉维奥·博索纳罗宣布他将寻求使巴西“重新民主化”并修改宪法（可能允许延长总统任期）时，这些担忧进一步加剧。

席尔瓦说：“这是一个非常危险的词，因为对于一种威权主义心态来说，‘重新民主化’意味着什么？这意味着民主是为了让他们无限期地掌权；肆意践踏宪法规则；干扰权力分立的逻辑；拥有任命最高法院法官的权力。”

“实际上，他们就像是委内瑞拉[在被废黜的领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗统治下]所做之事的右翼版本。”

周四，民调机构 Datafolha 的一项调查显示，在决选中，博索纳罗以 52% 对 48% 的领先优势超过卢拉。

德国顶级间谍被捕引发“毁灭性”影响，促使各界呼吁改革

◀ 奥古斯特·汉宁（August Hanning）被指控从事间谍活动；上图为联邦司法法院的标志，该法院已安排举行听证会。 摄影：MICHAEL KAPPELER / DPA / AP

Deborah Cole 柏林

前情报首脑奥古斯特·汉宁曾将德国情报机构批评为在 prowling 掠食者之中的“素食主义者”，并要求赋予其更广泛的权力，以在充满危险的世界中确保国家安全。他经常被描述为德国 21 世纪安全架构的“教父”，而现在，他在战后最惊人的涉嫌情报泄露事件之一中，被指控犯有叛国间谍罪以及向外国势力提供国家机密。

如果属实，汉宁可能已经对德国的全球安全合作造成了不可修复的损害，并暴露了严重的内部漏洞，这段情节仿佛是从政治惊悚小说中截取而来的。

“这是一起有可能升级为真正国家丑闻的事件，”联邦议院（Bundestag）成员、情报委员会成员康斯坦丁·冯·诺茨（Konstantin von Notz）表示。

他警告称，合作伙伴国家之间将出现“毁灭性”的信任丧失，而“在当前极其紧张的安全局势下，我们不能没有这些国家的支持”。

周二，蒙面特种部队将汉宁从他出生地诺德瓦尔德（Nordwalde）的庄园带到一辆黑色警车中。他戴着眼镜，白发梳理得整整齐齐。他的表情平静且专注，手腕上没有戴手铐。

专家表示，考虑到汉宁之前的职级，这位 80 岁老人的被拘留事件在西方民主国家中尚属首次。他曾在 1998 年至 2005 年期间领导联邦对外情报局（BND）。

联邦检察官认为，汉宁将他前任幕僚长（仅被识别为 Manfred D）作为 BND 的内线，在 12 年间向其支付报酬，以秘密转移近 2,000 份文件，其中至少部分文件属于机密级别。

据称，他随后将这些情报用于其退休后创办的私人咨询公司的客户——这种合法的商业模式此后遭到了猛烈批评。

汉宁目前处于审前拘留状态。“这是一起有可能升级为真正国家丑闻的事件”

▲ 警方进入一家与汉宁有关联的公司办公室。上方为 总部。 主图：ANNEGRET HILSE / REUTERS

康斯坦丁·冯·诺茨 联邦议院成员。汉宁已通过其律师否认将机密文件传递给外国势力。如果被定罪，他可能面临 10 年监禁。

据信，许多被泄露的文件是为包括德国总理在内的高级官员准备的简报文件。

前 副局长阿尔恩特·弗赖塔格·冯·洛林霍文（Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven）将这些资料描述为“ 的皇冠上的明珠”，并告诉《镜报》（Der Spiegel），这些是“ 局长提供的最重要的评估报告”。

此案导致盟友的情报机构紧急评估可能的损失。一名西方官员告诉路透社，从 窃取的文件中包含了美国对外情报的内容。美国中央情报局（CIA）尚未对此发表评论。

科隆大学情报服务研究部门负责人卢卡·曼斯（Luca Manns）称此案是对 的“心口一刀”，给盟友合作造成了无法估量的损害。他预测这将导致“伙伴关系的缓慢侵蚀”，并表示“这不会是一个突然的断裂”。

奥地利格拉茨大学专门研究情报机构的历史学家迪特尔·巴赫（Dieter Bacher）表示，这次涉嫌背叛的行为不仅会损害公众认知，还可能在机构内部产生腐蚀作用。他说：“信任的丧失无疑是不可避免的。由于合作伙伴机构提供的信息显然也牵涉其中，这对机构‘业务’的影响就更大了。”

该消息披露之际，德国情报机构负责人正向议会作证，讨论包括俄罗斯和中国在内的强权所带来的日益增长的威胁。

现任联邦情报局（BND）局长马丁·耶格尔（Martin Jäger）警告称，与莫斯科之间可能会发生暴力冲突，并指责克里姆林宫正发动一场由混合战争和无人机袭击组成的“影子战争”。

德国秘密情报机构正面临一项改革推动，而此前由于对纳粹和共产主义统治时期滥用权力的敏感性，该改革长期受阻。一项预计于今年通过的法律将取消战后时期实施的许多限制。

曼斯警告不要响应任何停止这些措施的呼吁，并表示这将“正中那些希望德国外交部门弱化之敌手的下怀”。

黑山在担忧局势动荡之际逮捕俄罗斯博主

Pjotr Sauer

官员表示，一名据报道与俄罗斯情报部门有联系的领先亲克里姆林宫俄罗斯军事博主在黑山被捕，此前已有警告称有人企图破坏这个巴尔干国家的稳定。据当地媒体报道，影响力巨大的战争博客 Rybar 的创始人米哈伊尔·兹温丘克（Mikhail Zvinchuk）昨日在亚得里亚海度假小镇里桑（Risan）被警方和安全特工逮捕，其妻子及另外三名俄罗斯人也被一同拘留，他们涉嫌传播俄罗斯影响力。

黑山总理米洛伊科·斯帕伊奇（Milojko Spajić）在 X 平台的一篇帖子中确认了兹温丘克被拘留的消息，并表示此前已有警告称该国将面临破坏稳定和混合战争的企图。

俄罗斯 Telegram 新闻频道 Baza 表示，执法人员在里桑的 Mövenpick 豪华酒店拘留了兹温丘克。该频道称，该团体被带往黑山首都波德戈里察接受审讯，手机和护照被没收。

Rybar 由曾任俄罗斯国防部新闻官的兹温丘克于 2018 年创立，是报道乌克兰战争最受欢迎的俄罗斯军事博客之一，在 Telegram 上拥有超过 1.5m 名订阅者。它是推广弗拉基米尔·普京入侵乌克兰的大规模在线媒体生态系统的一部分。

其活动范围远超乌克兰，在非洲和中东地区推广亲克里姆林宫的叙事。最近，它被指责放大关于北非西班牙领土休达（Ceuta）移民危机的极右翼叙事。

该频道在 Telegram 上表示：“由于没有违反当地法律，我们预计所有被拘留者都将被释放。”

英国在 2025 年对兹温丘克和 Rybar 实施了制裁，原因是他们在传播克里姆林宫宣传和破坏乌克兰方面发挥了作用。

克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·佩斯科夫（Dmitry Peskov）表示，莫斯科已知晓兹温丘克被拘留的情况，并将努力确保其获释。

俄罗斯前总统德米特里·梅德韦杰夫（Dmitry Medvedev）暗示，莫斯科可能会拘留欧洲和美国公民，以便在囚犯交换中确保兹温丘克获释。

黑山于 2017 年加入北约并寻求加入欧盟，在俄罗斯 2022 年入侵乌克兰后对俄实施了制裁。

◀ 米哈伊尔·兹温丘克，前俄罗斯国防部新闻官，于 2018 年创建了他的亲战争博客 Rybar

国际

王室成员告急：爱子公主能否解决日本的继承危机？

爱子公主与佳子公主，日本 11 位女性王室成员中的两位

贾斯汀·麦卡里（Justin McCurry） 东京

她的面孔频繁出现在杂志封面上。粉丝们涌向网店抢购她的同款服装。在官方活动中，大批人群在酷暑中苦苦等待，只为一睹这位因其“皇室尊严、美丽与气质”而备受推崇的女性的风采。

24, 岁的爱子公主是日本皇室中最受欢迎的成员，但根据法律，她永远无法成为女天皇。随着国家王室成员的日益短缺，越来越多的人在质疑原因。自爱子（德仁天皇与雅子皇后的独生女）从一名害羞的小学生成长为一名能够从容应对公众和媒体关注的年轻女性以来，这场辩论在过去几年中愈演愈烈。

根据一项近 140 年前制定的法律，女性被禁止登上菊花王座。但这项规定违背了公众的支持，人们希望通过变革允许女性成为女帝，从而避免迫在眉睫的继承危机。

皇室正面临着与国家其他地区相同的人口结构压力：三十年前，皇室有 30 名成员；现在仅剩 16, 人，其中只有 5 名男性。无论政治立场如何，日本公民都支持做出改变。在《每日新闻》4 月进行的一项民意调查中，72% 的受访者支持女性成为天皇，仅 10% 表示反对。

改变仅限男性的继承法的压力正在增强。该法律于 1947 年通过，但基于 1889 年明治 era, 时期引入的立法。这迫使高市早苗（Sanae Takaichi）领导的保守派政府必须解决这个拥有 1,500 年历史的王座缺乏男性继承人的问题。目前继承顺序中仅有三名男性——德仁天皇的弟弟秋篠宫文仁亲王；其子悠仁亲王；以及天皇的叔父、现年 90 岁的久宫久宫亲王。

如果 20 岁的大学生悠仁（四十年来皇室中首位出生的男性）没有儿子，继承线就将走到尽头。

之前的政府曾试图通过考虑立法，将性别平等最终引入东京皇宫那些高不可攀的走廊，以此解决继承问题。但来自保守派议员的压力，以及悠仁在 2006 年的出生，使这场辩论戛然而止。

今年夏天，高市早苗引发了愤怒，因为她的政党及其盟友强行通过了修正案，旨在确保未来几代人仍维持仅限男性的继承制。

这些将于本月生效的变更允许女性在嫁给非王室成员后保留其王室身份，并恢复 11 个“旁系分支”中男性后裔的身份，这些分支在第二次世界大战后离开了皇室。

理论上，这意味着只要一名远亲男性是单身且年满 15. 岁，就可以被“收养”进皇室核心。如果他结婚且妻子生下儿子，该孩子将进入继承顺序。皇室的命运引起了国际关注。2024, 联合国妇女权利委员会敦促日本政府允许女性担任天皇。东京方面将这一干预斥为“令人遗憾”且“不恰当”，称皇室继承是“基本国家认同”的问题。

▲ 根据 1889. 起源的一项法律，爱子被禁止登上日本王座。左图为 2010 年的爱子及其父母德仁天皇与雅子皇后。 照片：AKIM KYUNG-HOON / ; GAMMA / IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD

联合国和日本的公众舆论在由高市早苗——日本首位女性首相——所信奉的保守意识形态这块坚硬的岩石面前撞得粉碎。

在关于继承权修订的辩论中，她告诉国会议员：“皇室血统通过男性传承了 126 代，这一无与伦比的历史事实是天皇权威与合法性的基石。”

高市表示，修订的目的仅在于缓解继承危机，而非解决关于女性天皇的争论。

东京中央大学的皇室血统专家大川真教授表示，鉴于“公众对于仅因女性身份就剥夺某人继承王位可能性的不安”，爱子公主的人气可能会迫使人们重新思考。

爱子不会是第一位登上皇位的女性。日本曾有过八位女性君主，尽管她们的作用是在男性继承人出生前维持皇室血统。其中最近的一位是 1762 年至 1770 年在位的高樱町天皇。

被禁止评论政治的日本皇室成员采用了典型的委婉措辞，来传达他们对现状的不安。

天皇在谈到继承权辩论时表示：“我希望关于如何确保皇室成员数量的讨论……能获得民众的理解。”

他的弟弟秋篠宫则更进一步地表示：“社会不断进步至关重要……我认为皇室的职责是响应社会的请求。”

他补充道：“我认为男女之间没有任何区别。”

“蟑螂党”声称警方在抗议前进行大规模逮捕

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印度“蟑螂人民党”（Cockroach Janta party, CJP）正成为年轻人中的一股政治力量。该党表示，在今天德里举行的一场大规模反政府抗议活动之前，当局已开始大规模拘留其成员。

反对党、其学生组织以及“蟑螂青年运动”此前几乎每天都举行示威活动，要求首席选举专员吉亚内什·库马尔（Gyanesh Kumar）因一项极具争议的选民名单修订而辞职。

在这个全球最大民主国家愤怒情绪日益高涨的背景下，预计今天将有数千人前往新德里的指定抗议地点——詹塔尔·曼塔尔（Jantar Mantar）进行游行。

CJP发言人阿舒托什·兰卡（Ashutosh Ranka）在X平台的一篇帖子中表示，来自CJP抗议活动、基层团体、学生组织和政党的“至少 10,000”人在全国范围内被拘留。

警方当局没有立即回应路透社的置评请求。

在X平台上发布的视频显示，活动人士被装进面包车带走。

CJP表示，被拘留者中包括一群来自西部城市浦那的学生，他们原计划前往参加 10 月 10 日在德里的抗议活动。该党称，他们被一辆巴士带到了一个未知地点。

此次全国范围的选民名单审查已在印度大多数邦和联邦直辖领地开展，到目前为止已有超过 1.3 亿 个名字被删除。数百万人已针对删除行为提出申诉。

反对派表示，删除名单不成比例地影响了支持他们的选民，而更有可能支持总理纳伦德拉·莫迪（Narendra Modi）所属的印度人民党（BJP）的选民则被保留或添加到名单中。

选举委员会和政府否认了这些指控。

此次运动部分由“蟑螂运动”领导，该运动始于 5 月的一场在线青年活动，此后在全国范围内组织了街头抗议。

在此次抗议发生前几个月，由CJP领导的类似抗议活动曾迫使莫迪的教育部长因试卷泄露事件而辞职。

▲ 本周在班加罗尔举行的一场反对选举审查的示威活动

世界

ICE特工在孩子在车内时开枪击中男子，纽约引发愤怒

Lex McMenamin Joanna Walters 纽约

在一名联邦执法人员向一辆车内坐着一名五岁儿童的男子开枪，引发激烈抗议后，纽约领先的民主党人表达了愤怒，并要求限制美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）的暴力行为。

据报道，周四在纽约市南布朗克斯繁忙的马布尔希尔（Marble Hill）社区，正值孩子们放学回家之时，执法人员至少开了七枪，该男子颈部中弹。

纽约州州长凯西·霍楚尔（Kathy Hochul）、亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez）以及该市市长佐兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）——均为民主党人——带头谴责了这一事件。

在当地警方与示威者发生冲突的混乱中，民主党国会候选人达里亚利扎·阿维拉·切瓦利埃（Darializa Avila Chevalier）被撞倒。

当局表示，该男子在医院中意识清醒。但据市长称，他随后被 ICE 从医院带走。

马姆达尼称此次事件“令人无法容忍”，并表示隶属于国土安全部（DHS）的 已将他从纽约长老会艾伦医院（New York-Presbyterian Allen hospital）“迅速带走”。

上个月在德克萨斯州发生了一起类似事件：一名男子在奥斯汀被一名 特工开枪击中，尽管背部留有一颗子弹，仍被联邦当局从当地医院带往约 140 英里外的 拘留所。

马姆达尼在一份声明中表示，关于纽约枪击事件的初步报告显示，特工们在住宅区将该男子及其车内的一名五岁儿童包围，随后开了多枪。他说，孩子没有受伤。霍楚尔和马姆达尼通过电话与唐纳德·特朗普以及国土安全部长马克韦恩·马林（Markwayne Mullin）进行了沟通。

“我一直与特朗普总统和马林部长通电话，协商释放被 特工枪击的男子。那些谈判没有成功，”马姆达尼说。他要求特朗普政府让 停止在纽约市的执法行动。他说：“ 已腐败至极。”

尽管 在 1 月份撤出了明尼阿波利斯并采取了更隐蔽的执法方式，但今年以来，该机构一直在通过多种方式加强逮捕行动。

霍楚尔和马姆达尼要求 停止在纽约的执法行动，州长表示，她代表所有纽约人向特朗普政府表达了愤怒。她说，这次事件很容易演变成一场悲剧。

国土安全部随后表示，该男子来自多米尼加共和国且有前科，纽约警察局也注意到他此前曾被逮捕。这名 28 岁的男子尚未公开姓名，他与该儿童的关系尚不明确，不过昨日有报道称，该儿童目前由其他家庭成员照顾。

马林昨日表示，参与枪击的 特工在行动时并不知道他们目标人物的车辆中有一名儿童。他说，霍楚尔曾要求国土安全部暂停在纽约的执法行动。“不，我们不会暂停执法，”他说。他批评了马姆达尼，指责其未能执行法律或支持该市警方。

在第二任特朗普政府期间，至少有 20 人被联邦移民特工枪击，且拘留期间的死亡人数有所增加。

奥卡西奥-科尔特斯也呼吁废除该机构。她说：“ 是一个脱缰的、无法无天的准军事监视机构。它不属于纽约市……废除 。”

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夏洛特·希金斯（Charlotte Higgins）与玛丽亚娜·马特维丘克（Mariana Matveichuk）报道，地点：霍尔蒂察（Khortytsia）

在一个温暖的九月日子里，一群水下考古学家和研究人员在第聂伯河畔的营火上烧水沏茶，帐篷就搭在沙质的岸边。他们对霍尔蒂察周边水域的调查已经进行了三周——这是一个长8英里、宽1.5英里的岩石岛屿，位于乌克兰东南部扎波罗热市的下游。

在岛屿高空，一架“见证者”无人机发出尖锐的鸣响，正向目标飞去。一名乌克兰拦截员和来自地面的轻武器火力试图将其击落，但未能成功。考古学家们对此不予理会。这就是在俄罗斯对乌克兰战争的战斗区28英里之外的生活。

乌克兰考古研究所的高级研究员奥莱娜·德兹内拉泽（Olena Dzneladze）展示了团队的发现：一个青铜时代的鹿角，其尖端被加工成用于在陶器或皮革上压印图案的工具；一块极有可能是由草原上的古代游牧民族斯基泰人制作的陶瓷碎片；一块拜占庭时期的双耳细颈瓶碎片；以及一个18世纪的锚。

最令人惊叹的是一艘完整的船，由单根树干掏空而成，在河水中浸泡千年而保存完好——这是在第聂伯河这一区域发现的许多卓越船只之一。团队计划在第二天将其从河中打捞起来。

霍尔蒂察及其周边较小的岛屿构成了一个自然和历史保护区——这里在乌克兰的国家叙事中具有深远的象征意义，被视为扎波罗热哥萨克的第一个据点，且密集分布着数千年人类生活的痕迹。

▼ 远景为扎波罗热大坝的霍尔蒂察；左侧，阿纳托利·沃尔科夫（Anatoliy Volkov）正在挖掘一处青铜时代遗址 摄影：JULIA KOCHETOVA / THE GUARDIAN

霍尔蒂察位于一片被称为“大草甸”的广阔景观之首。这片面积2,155平方公里的区域，从20世纪50年代新卡霍夫卡大坝建成起直到2023年6月6日，一直被水库覆盖。就在那一天，这座高30米、长2英里的建筑被炸毁——据分析人士称，是俄罗斯人所为。

在失去大坝约束后，水库中18立方公里的水咆哮着向下游奔涌，淹没了前线两侧的城镇和村庄，造成了一场人道主义危机。现在，一群由历史学家、自然主义者、生态学家和考古学家组成的团体强烈希望将“大草甸”保护为联合国教科文组织世界遗产地。

前水库河床以惊人的速度自我再生，恢复到了类似于大坝建成前的状态：一个由湿地、草地和岛屿组成的栖息地。专家表示，大坝绝不能重建。

100多家乌克兰非政府组织正式支持这一举措。一份意向书已发送至联合国教科文组织，并寻求乌克兰政府文化部的合作。但其他利益方则希望重建水库，以为乌克兰南部的农田提供灌溉。在大坝被毁后不久，乌克兰政府与国有的乌克兰水电公司（Ukrhydroenergo）启动了一个试点项目，为战争结束后的重建做准备。

在岛上领导考古团队的瓦列里·内费多夫（Valeriy Nefedov）正是那些敦促保护重新显现的“独特历史和自然环境”的人之一。1999年，他在这些水域发现了一艘18世纪的战舰，目前该战舰保存在岛上的航海博物馆中。

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内费多夫在2023年6月6日服役期间很快听到了大坝被毁的消息。对他而言，这具有某种讽刺意味：自20世纪90年代以来，他就一直主张逐步拆除大坝、排干水库并恢复那片巨大的草甸。但绝不是以这种方式，通过一次单一的灾难性事件来实现。

“第一桩罪行是建造大坝，”他说，“第二桩则是将其炸毁。”

那个月，他被邀请加入一个新组建的专家军事单位——成员包括历史学家、生态学家、科学家和其他研究人员——旨在调查水库河床。

后果是惊人的：曾经的水库在极短时间内变成了裸露的水体底部。但另一方面，也存在着一种危险感。

“我对可能会看到什么有一些预期，”内费多夫说，“但当我们到达该区域时，我所感受到的印象和情感是无法用语言描述的。”

这里是灰色地带，是“极其紧张”的无人区，他说道。这里有持续的炮击，俄罗斯破坏小组也在四处潜伏。而且他们能看到被占领的扎波罗热核电站。“处于我们的乌克兰军队与俄罗斯敌军阵地之间，是一种非常奇怪的感觉。”

不仅如此：一个他作为潜水员极其熟悉的水域现在变成了陆地。“感觉就像是在未知之地（terra incognita）——仿佛我们是第一批踏足这里的人，”他说，“我们在那里看到和发现的一切，让我们觉得自己像是探险家或发现者。”

“极其不寻常、近乎幻想般的景观在我们面前展开。古老的河道、海峡和岛屿显露了出来。我们看到了定居点的遗迹、房屋的地基和道路。我们还发现了直接躺在表面的考古材料，时间跨度从新石器时代一直延伸到20世纪。”

▲ 奥莱娜·兹内拉泽（Olena Dzneladze）及其同事展示之前的发现；考古学家准备搬运一艘古船

水库河床上还存在有毒重金属，霍尔季察（Khortytsia）团队成员之一的生物学家帕夫洛·奥利尼克（Pavlo Oliinyk）正参与对其进行监测。但他说，该地区植被的快速生长可能会提供一层“绿色盾牌”。

他说，树木在短短三年内已经长到了7米高。“建造大坝是生态灭绝，摧毁大坝也是生态灭绝，而重建大坝将成为第三次生态灭绝，”他说。

这片广阔的第聂伯河泛滥平原一直具有巨大的意义。在书面记录中，最早提到这里的是公元前5世纪的希腊历史学家希罗多图。第聂伯河的这一段是黑海以北最后一段易于航行的河段，再往上游的扎波罗热地区则有急流，除了最资深的航行者外，其他人都无法掌控这条河。

这为哥萨克人创造了一个避风港。他们在16世纪逃避迫害，在此建立了一个自由的、准民主的政体。这个哥萨克国家成为了19世纪知识分子的重要参考，其中包括领导现代乌克兰民族项目的民族诗人塔拉斯·舍甫琴科（Taras Shevchenko）。

该地区的重要性可以追溯到更早的时期。9月份在岛上工作的人员中还包括考古学家安纳托利·沃尔科夫（Anatoliy Volkov），他正在挖掘一系列青铜时代石围栏之一。“我们处于前线地区，”他说。

“导弹或火箭弹随时可能落下，所以我们研究和保护得越多，就越好。”

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作者：肖恩·沃克 [1] 一只手拿着一叠标记为“A##”和“B##”的纸张，这些纸张可能被用于造纸。纸张包含多张细小、碎片化且被拆分的纸页或文档。

哈瓦那综合征之谜 2019年4月的一天凌晨1点刚过，一名在伦敦出差的中央情报局（CIA）官员在酒店房间里被一阵剧烈的头痛惊醒，那是他经历过的最强烈的疼痛。他的身体被汗水浸透，感觉眼睛在眼眶中打转。他艰难地爬下床，希望能走到洗手间呕吐，但发现自己失去了平衡感。最终，他重新陷入了一场不安且浅浅的睡眠。

次日，在抵达此次出差的目的地——工作会议时，这名中央情报局人员发现自己无法想起房间里同事的名字，而这些人是他非常熟悉的。随着会议开始，他几乎无法跟上讨论的流程。起初，他将其归结为一次糟糕的——尽管相当奇怪的——食物中毒。但在接下来的几周里，令人担忧的症状持续出现：脑雾、平衡感丧失以及日益严重的耳鸣。

到了9月，他终于开始感觉好转，并开始了另一次工作旅行，这次是前往波兰。在华沙的酒店房间里，他再次被恐怖的头痛惊醒，甚至比在伦敦时更严重。他后来将这种感觉描述为“有人拿着棒球棍站在我上方，不断地击打我的头部”。他觉得在疼痛量表上这达到了9或10级，比他能记得的任何疼痛都要糟糕。

两小时后，同样的感觉再次袭来，他开始怀疑发生的事情可能不是内部生理过程，而是某种外部力量在攻击他。他强撑着离开床铺，蜷缩在地板上，剧痛才稍微减轻。那是他最后一次产生这种“袭击”感，但此后多年，他一直遭受慢性神经痛、疲劳和其他严重的健康问题。

消息人士将该男子描述为一名高级中央情报局官员，最近被分配了一项与针对俄罗斯的全球行动相关的重要工作。当时，他仅模糊地知道两年前从古巴传出的报道，关于美国外交官认为他们可能遭到声波武器攻击的消息。

在这些事件中，相关人员报告称感受到了各种异常的声音、压力和疼痛感，随后会出现持续数年的后遗症，这些事件因该现象首次大规模报告的城市而被称为“哈瓦那综合征”。随后，

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数十名在全球各地任职的中央情报局（CIA）官员报告称出现了“哈瓦那综合征”症状，在官方文件中，这些症状被称为“异常健康事件”（AHIs）。许多人认为，这些异常健康事件是俄罗斯情报部门一项阴险行动的结果，旨在通过一种此前未知的、能发射声波或脉冲微波能量的武器，来伤害或恐吓美国秘密特工。

针对这一理论一直存在持续的抵制。一些科学家坚持认为，能够造成此类伤害的便携式武器仅存在于科幻小说中。他们表示，多种情况都可能导致疼痛、眩晕和认知问题。多位专家建议，异常健康事件可能是由环境因素、毒素甚至蟋蟀的鸣叫声引起的。一种解释认为，这些症状是心理性的，是“集体癔症”的结果；而中央情报局内部甚至有人指责相关人员为了获得医疗赔偿而伪造伤情。关于哈瓦那综合征成因的分歧，导致该情报机构内部出现了激烈的争论，甚至导致友谊破裂。

2022年，由美国政府召集的一个科学专家小组得出结论，认为“异常健康事件的体征和症状是真实且令人信服的”，并且“可能是由外部刺激引起的”。但次年，一份期待已久的报告给出了美国情报界的官方评估。一份非机密摘要写道：“现有情报一致表明，美国对手并未参与导致报道中的事件。”报告结论认为，一个阴险的俄罗斯行动是异常健康事件幕后推手的可能性“极低”。

然而，哈瓦那综合征之谜并未消散。今年夏天，唐纳德·特朗普即将离任的国家情报总监撤销了2023年的“极低”可能性评估，并声称该评估基于有缺陷的分析。现在，在哈瓦那首次出现相关报告十年后，两名从一开始就报道该故事的哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）记者将出版一本书，阐述俄罗斯至少是其中部分事件幕后主使的论据。

该书还指责美国政府和情报界的部分人员掩盖证据。本文基于对他们研究结果的提前获取，以及《卫报》对情报来源、异常健康事件患者和科学家的采访。

2022年领导哈瓦那综合征官方科学小组的斯坦福大学教授大卫·雷尔曼（David Relman）告诉《卫报》，他认为有一部分异常健康事件病例“最合理的解释是接触了脉冲微波能量”。他的小组可以查阅患者记录以及1,000多份关于该主题的机密文件。他说：“对于任何查看了我所能看到的所有证据的理性的人来说，这不可避免地会导致一个结论，即可能存在掩盖行为。”

迈克尔·雷（Michael Rey）和奥里亚娜·齐尔·德·格拉纳多斯（Oriana Zill de Granados）是CBS节目《60 Minutes》（60分钟）的资深制片人。在曼哈顿中城该节目工作室的一次采访中，两人讲述了他们十年前如何首次接触到这个故事。他们在2015年报道了奥巴马政府恢复与古巴外交关系的政策，因此，当次年出现关于哈瓦那重新开放的大使馆员工患上某种神秘新病症的报道时，他们联系了一位曾被派驻在那里的美国资深外交官。“我原以为他会说，‘这全是胡扯’，”齐尔说，“但他却说，‘噢不，这完全是真的。我可以帮你联系一群受影响的人。’”

两人在非正式的情况下与其中十多人进行了交谈，但当他们准备整合报道时，

出现了关于驻中国美国外交官中发生类似病例的新报道。随后，又有传闻称这种情况发生在全球其他地点。

一旦首批探讨该话题的《60分钟》节目播出，受害者们便开始主动联系制作人，渴望讲述自己的故事。其中许多新线索提供者是——或曾经是——美国中央情报局（CIA）的秘密特工，这意味着他们无法公开谈论，因为其工作的绝大部分细节均属于机密。但分布在世界不同地区、互不相识的人们，讲述的故事却惊人地相似。

一个显著的模式将一些关键案例联系在了一起：所谓的受害者是那些在涉及俄罗斯利益的领域工作、或曾在该领域工作的人员。在某些情况下，所谓袭击发生的地点本身就具有特殊意义：在莫斯科的盟友国家中，部分精英阶层正寻求改善与西方的关系。古巴的情况便是如此，最初的一组案例发生在奥巴马时代与美国关系回暖期间，这激怒了古巴政权的强硬派及其在莫斯科的支持者。

在其他报告发生事件的地点也是如此，例如越南、格鲁吉亚、吉尔吉斯斯坦和塞尔维亚。几名在2014年迈丹革命期间驻扎在基辅的CIA官员（弗拉基米尔·普京总统谴责该革命为美国支持的政变），随后在世界不同地点遭受了急性健康事件（AHIs）。

“我对这个故事以及我们听到的所有疯狂事情曾有过数年的怀疑，”齐尔说道。但她和雷会见的线索提供者越多，他们就越觉得这里确实有问题。“我们正在会见这些高效的情报官员，而他们讲述的都是同一个故事的不同版本，”雷说。

“哈瓦那综合征”的起源可以追溯到哈瓦那事件很久之前。一个基石案例是迈克·贝克（Mike Beck），他是国家安全局的一名反情报官员。20世纪90年代，他被派往一个未公开地点执行临时任务，检查美国外交设施是否存在窃听设备，随后他病倒了。贝克在45岁时患上了一种罕见的帕金森病，并于今年早些时候去世。

一份被解密的国家安全局声明（包含在他2014年的职场补偿申请中）指出，“有2012年的情报信息显示，贝克先生在20世纪90年代后期前往的那个敌对国家，拥有一种高功率微波系统武器，该武器可能具有在一段时间内削弱、恐吓或杀死敌人且不留证据的能力”。消息人士称，这个未具名的“敌对国家”是俄罗斯。

在当代这一批案例中，首起已知的AHIs发生在2014年后期，当时法兰克福领事馆的几名美国政府雇员相继发病。雷和齐尔报道称，其中一人在感到胸口突然承受剧烈压力并听到“高频尖叫声”后，被发现昏迷在领事馆内部的一个楼梯间里。

记者 迈克尔·雷 与 奥里亚娜·齐尔·德·格拉纳多斯

即便特朗普公开否认俄罗斯干预了2016年大选，该机构仍计划强力反击俄罗斯的活动。“显然，我们没有权限对俄罗斯人执行致命行动，

下一批AHI患者包括处于一项新CIA对俄政策核心的人员。2017年，随着唐纳德·特朗普首次就职，该机构发起了一场行动，以反击莫斯科情报机构日益肆无忌惮的全球触角。“他们希望我们将全球反恐战争中所采用的战术和精神应用于俄罗斯人，”马克·波利默罗普洛斯（Marc Polymeropoulos）说道，他在2017年被任命为欧洲和欧亚地区行动副主管。波利默罗普洛斯职业生涯的大部分时间都在中东度过，他是被调任至专注于俄罗斯的高级职位的几位“反恐战争”资深人员之一。

次年，一名美国国防研究所的研究员（她要求《卫报》不要公布其姓名）在巴尔干地区进行访问，与美国国防武官一同会见东道国的军官。她的行程包括黑山（当时正处于申请加入北约的过程中）以及塞尔维亚（俄罗斯的盟友，因 1999 年北约轰炸南斯拉夫而对美国心怀怨恨）。

马克·波利梅罗普洛斯 出现了 该综合征的 症状

在贝尔格莱德的最后一个晚上，当她走在返回酒店的热闹步行街上时，该研究员确信有人在跟踪她。随后，当她走到酒店房间门前时，她在一次电话采访中回忆道，她感到“一种下坠感，就像身处一部突然下降的电梯”。进入房间后，她继续感受到奇怪的身体感觉。“我就是有一种坠落感，一种重力在拉扯我的感觉，并且感到恶心，”她说。在某个时刻，她打开了政府配发的笔记本电脑，发现屏幕上闪烁着蓝色的静电干扰。她说，那台电脑再也没有启动过。

她能够继续行程，但在接下来的几周里，她感到虚弱，说话困难，并出现了感觉“像钻头钻进眼睛里”一样的疼痛。她在工作中无法集中注意力。“我用完了所有的年假，然后是病假，之后同事们捐献了他们的假期。最终，我不得不辞职，”她说。直到很久以后，她才将自己在塞尔维亚的经历与关于哈瓦那综合征的报道联系起来。

来源：Michael Rey, Oriana Zill de Granados, 《哈瓦那综合征》 插图：Alex Mellon / 《卫报》

“但我们可以做一些以前没那么常做的事情，比如寻求多个友好情报机构的帮助，揭露俄罗斯人的所作所为，”波利梅罗普洛斯在华盛顿市外的一家餐厅接受采访时说道。

在 2017, 12 月初，波利梅罗普洛斯和另一名中央情报局（CIA）高管前往莫斯科进行联络访问，会见俄罗斯对外情报局（SVR）和联邦安全局（FSB）的同行。正式会议气氛糟糕且缺乏实质内容。一天深夜，波利梅罗普洛斯在酒店房间里突然惊醒。“我感到眩晕，头痛欲裂。起初我以为是食物中毒，我觉得自己快要呕吐和拉稀到昏过去，我记得当时在想，天呐，房间在旋转，我的耳朵在鸣响，”他说。

回到华盛顿后，波利梅罗普洛斯饱受持续且无法缓解的偏头痛之苦，而他的上级则坚持认为他的症状与其他异常健康事件（AHIs）无关。他在私人时间看了很多医生，但由于工作的机密性质，他无法透露发病时的具体地点。他在 2019 年离开中央情报局（CIA），由于在申请医疗评估时遭到阻挠而感到沮丧，他成为了第一位以真实姓名公开讲述哈瓦那综合征经历的中央情报局官员，向记者朱莉娅·约费（Julia Ioffe）讲述了在莫斯科发生的事情。

随之而来的公众关注促使中央情报局（CIA）将他送往沃尔特·里德军事医疗中心，他在那里被诊断为轻度创伤性脑损伤。2023 年，他被认定有资格根据《哈瓦那法案》获得补偿，该法案授权向“在执行任务期间因敌对行动而遭受脑损伤的人员”支付款项。虽然经济赔偿数额不多，但在经过多年争取认可的斗争后，他将其视为一次巨大的道义胜利。

早期的一个理论认为，异常健康事件（AHIs）可能是失败的情报搜集尝试——一种旨在从特工电子设备中提取机密数据的机器，在功率调得过高时产生了不幸的副作用。一些人仍然认为这是一种可能性，尽管即便情报搜集是最初的想法，其对健康的损害效果也会很快被操作员察觉。

一些观察人士坚称，“哈瓦那综合征”的整个概念就是一项捏造。他们质疑，如果俄罗斯拥有一种神秘的“大脑煎炸”武器，为什么不将其用于更广泛的敌人？为什么没有更多关于附带受害者的报告？社会学家罗伯特·巴塞洛缪（Robert Bartholomew）和神经学家罗伯特·巴洛（Robert Baloh）合著的一本书宣布整个故事是一个骗局——“一个关于群体心理源性疾病社会构建的案例研究”——源于高压工作环境，并由激进的记者传播。

细胞神经科学家、多本大脑相关书籍的作者道格拉斯·菲尔兹（Douglas Fields）在一篇期刊文章中声称，那些显示认知变化的患者医学研究采用了不健全的方法论，且能量武器的理论“违背了物理定律”。他建议，对哈瓦那综合征的报道不应被看得比目击尼斯湖水怪更严肃。

其他科学家（包括一些审查过患者医疗记录的人）则强烈反对。乔治城大学医学中心神经学荣休教授、哈瓦那最初一批病例的法医神经科学家詹姆斯·乔丹诺（James Giordano）表示：“早期的怀疑是完全恰当的，但随着时间的推移，我们开始看到经历过临床评估的人数在增加，而这些评估是无法造假的。”

“我们讨论的是呈现出非常独特模式的客观体征，”乔丹诺说。关键症状包括“强烈的翻滚或坠落感”，以及头部、胸部和喉部的压力感，以及认知影响。他表示，化学物质或药物接触确实可能引起类似症状，但这在血液检测中会显现。另一个关键因素是突然发作，以及感觉到攻击最强烈的特定位置。

当拜登政府于2021年就职时，时任中央情报局（CIA）局长比尔·伯恩斯（Bill Burns）和国家情报总监艾夫丽尔·海恩斯（Avril Haines）誓言要彻查此事。伯恩斯会见了包括波利梅罗普洛斯（Polymeropoulos）在内的许多AHI群体成员，仔细倾听他们的故事并承诺进行全面调查。伯恩斯还解雇了中央情报局的首席医疗官，后者因指责一些AHI患者伪造症状而激怒了他们。同年，超过100名中央情报局特工和其他美国政府官员在全球各地报告了AHIs。

在维也纳，病例之多导致中央情报局分站的工作基本陷入瘫痪，分站站长被召回。一批政府雇员也在美国本土报告了相关事件，其中几人声称在白宫 grounds 内遭到袭击。这究竟是一个对手在升级其全球攻击行动，还是关于AHIs的宣传增加，导致更多人将其他状况或发作误认为哈瓦那综合征？

伯恩斯和海恩斯启动了两项调查，一项旨在重新审查

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关于是否有外国对手在“哈瓦那综合征”背后操纵的情报，以及另一个召集科学家和医生小组以确定是否存在能导致这些症状的武器的小组。

担任该科学小组主席的斯坦福大学教授雷尔曼（Relman）表示，小组成员被允许查阅关于脉冲射频能量的公开来源和机密科学研究，这些研究表明，存在一种能导致 AHI（急性健康事件）症状的“设备”在科学上是可行的。他表示，持反对意见的科学家只是没有意识到几个国家（尤其是苏联，随后是俄罗斯）数十年来一直在进行此类技术的研发。

在医疗结果方面，雷尔曼承认，许多——甚至绝大多数——AHI 的主张可以用其他因素来解释。但他表示，有数十起案例“其特征之独特，且基于已知的医疗和环境条件几乎无法解释，显得非常异常”。简而言之：围绕 AHI 的宣传可能引发了一波虚假报告，但核心的一小部分案例似乎是真的。

确定谁可能实施了此类攻击超出了雷尔曼的职权范围。这属于第二个专家组的职责，该小组在 2023 年发布评估认为，由外国对手造成的可能性“极低”，这令许多希望最终弄清健康问题原因的 AHI 患者感到沮丧。

即使是看过哈瓦那综合征情报的人，在这些情报意味着什么的问题上也会产生分歧。两个消息人士向《卫报》提供了关于机密数据中俄罗斯可能参与情况的截然不同的解读。

其中一人强调缺乏“确凿证据”——即能够证明俄罗斯特工讨论使用定向能攻击美国人的情报或截获信息。该消息人士在提到美国情报部门在 2022 年 2 月入侵乌克兰之前就掌握了普京的战争计划时说：“每个人都知道我们对俄罗斯的搜集能力有多强。如果这真的是一个大规模的俄罗斯计划，我们应该能在其中一些渠道中看到相关信息，但我们没有。”

另一位前情报官员则持有不同意见：“如果你在产生信心之前，还在等待一段截获的录音，内容是‘我叫伊戈尔，我要按下我秘密激光器的按钮’，那么这种情况可能永远不会发生。但对于任何能够接触到情报并知道如何解读情报的理性的人来说，俄罗斯的指纹是清晰的。”

如果事实确实如此，那么它

一种模式将一些关键案例联系了起来：据称的受害者在工作中，或曾在工作中，与俄罗斯的利益发生冲突

由迈克尔·雷（Michael Rey）和奥里亚娜·齐尔·德·格拉纳多斯（Oriana Zill de Granados）撰写的《哈瓦那综合征》（The Havana Syndrome）于周四由 WH Allen 出版，书中提出了一个问题：为什么 2023 年的情报界评估认为外国参与者的可能性“极低”。在拜登政府执政末期，一个修订版本称，虽然五个美国情报机构仍认为可能性“极低”，但现在有一个机构认为，在若干次攻击中，外国参与者使用了“一种新型武器或原型设备”的可能性“大致相当”。

今年夏天，这两份拜登时代的评估都被特朗普任命的国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德（Tulsi Gabbard）在离职前发布的一份备忘录中撤销。加巴德表示，早先的评估受到了“选择性排除证据”和“对来源的错误定性”的影响，尽管该声明并未公布任何新证据或提供修订后的评估。

尽管加巴德在情报界声誉参差，但代表 30 多名 AHI 患者的律师马克·扎伊德对她的备忘录表示欢迎，并称这是揭露中央情报局（CIA）掩盖真相行为的第一步。当被问及中央情报局为何可能实施此类掩盖行为时，扎伊德暗示这可能是为了在之前的失职后保护其名誉。他说：“这种情况已经积累到了一个程度，以至于该机构不能让真相公开，因为这将让他们显得非常糟糕。”

伯恩斯在为雷和齐尔的书撰写的评论中表示，“中央情报局存在‘掩盖行为’纯属不实”，并将早期的调查描述为“整个情报界的一次严谨努力”。

雷和齐尔认为，所谓的掩盖行为是多年来多种因素共同作用的结果。

“并没有一个充满雪茄烟雾的密室会议导致了这些决定的做出，”雷说。“更多的是像‘这太麻烦了’或者‘总统不想听到这个’之类的情况。存在官僚机构的功能失调、功利主义，以及一些阻碍正确调查的因素。”

他举的一个例子是，在哈瓦那袭击事件发生后，联邦调查局（FBI）派遣的是刑事调查员，而非能够接触机密信息的反情报调查员。

另一个例子是 2019 年底中央情报局总部开展的一项初步调查，据报道，该调查发现，在某些情况下，与俄罗斯情报人员相关的电话曾出现在疑似“哈瓦那综合征”事件的附近。其中包括当年发生在伦敦和华沙的两起针对中央情报局高级官员的袭击。

在伦敦，一部可疑电话据称距离他的酒店房间仅 9 米（30英尺）。但当时中央情报局局长吉娜·哈斯佩尔在听取这些调查结果的汇报时，据称她抱怨这些证据不够充分，不足以呈报给总统，因为总统对俄罗斯相关事务非常敏感。雷和齐尔写道：“在哈斯佩尔大喊如果她把这样的报告交给特朗普总统，她会被撤职后，会议突然结束了。”

如果你不喜欢卡森的诗，我想我无法真正与你成为朋友 —— 艾玛·布罗克斯 (Emma Brockes)

最近出现的最重要证据，或许是据称美国政府在一次秘密行动中获取了一台“哈瓦那综合征风格的设备”。独立记者萨沙·英格伯 (Sasha Ingber) 在今年早些时候首次报道了此事，两名消息人士向《卫报》证实，在从暗网卖家处购买后，该设备于 2024 年底被运往美国进行测试。

雷 (Rey) 和齐尔 (Zill) 的书进一步深化了这一报道，讲述了他们与一名自称是获取该设备秘密行动小组成员的人的会面。该消息人士告诉他们，该设备是“单兵便携式”的，可发射非热脉冲微波，且购自一个“复杂的俄罗斯非法网络”。人们认为该设备并未被用于特定的哈瓦那综合征事件，但据报道，对动物的测试表明，它可能会引起与异常健康事件 (AHIs) 类似的症状，这可能证明制造此类设备在科学上是可行的。

照片：JONATHAN BUCKMASTER / MIRRORPIX; STEFAN ROUSSEAU / PA

这将使某些哈瓦那综合征事件涉及武器的说法变得更加可信，同时也会引发新的、令人担忧的问题。如果此类武器已经扩散到可以在暗网上购买的程度，那么外界可能存在多少台此类设备，谁又能接触到它们？因此，AHIs 的肇事者是否并非只有一个，而是有多个？未来此类武器是否会成为战争中的普遍元素？乔丹诺 (Giordano) 表示：“我们知道这项技术已经达到了可以被武器化的水平。我认为这是一个清晰且现实的威胁。”

对于那些多年来遭受症状折磨的人来说，该设备的获取以及被撤销的情报评估提供了一些希望，让他们相信有一天能获得官方确认，证明他们确实成为了外国对手的目标。对其中许多人而言，国内缺乏认可所带来的愤怒甚至超过了袭击本身。

“俄罗斯人是我们的敌人，我把他们与基地组织、塔利班或我曾对抗的任何其他组织放在同一个类别里，”波利梅罗普洛斯 (Polymeropoulos) 说道，“我想看到他们被追究责任吗？当然。但我实际上对自己的政府感到更失望，觉得受到了更大的背叛。”

保守党证明了 他们破坏 像狗和啤酒 这样普通乐趣 的能力 与 Reform 一样高效

周一

“有人担心肺鼠疫吗？”这是一位医生朋友在读到周末的一则报道后发给我的短信。报道称，一名 28 岁的俄罗斯女性在西伯利亚的一家“鼠疫研究实验室”工作期间死亡。由于依赖于那个以“公开”著称的俄罗斯国家的细节，这则简短得令人心痒的新闻项必然带有某种阴暗的潜台词。即：出于未知原因培育的实验室疾病，死亡率高达 $100\%$，从俄罗斯设施中泄露到普通人群中，而这里距离伦敦仅 8 小时飞行路程。换句话说，我们都死定了。

我的第一个想法是：这比之前那个接触过埃博拉病毒的人坐地铁去布鲁克林打保龄球的情况更好还是更糟？答案当然是，在新冠疫情之后，情况变得更糟了；我们非常清楚这些事情是如何发展的——它们始于微末，是一则被埋在报纸第 20 页深处的简讯，每隔几天在新闻列表中缓慢上升，直到西伯利亚实验室里的一次孤独死亡，一步步地导致僵尸末日的到来。

与此同时，“鼠疫”这个词依然让人感到极度不安，尽管《纽约时报》已尽力对其进行背景解读。在阐明能杀死你的各种不同类型的鼠疫——肺鼠疫、败血性鼠疫和腺鼠疫——之后，我必须说，考虑到黑死病之类的事情，我原本认为腺鼠疫是最糟糕的。然而，显然最剧烈的鼠疫形式正是目前讨论的这种，即肺鼠疫，它通过咳嗽或打喷嚏传播，并引起“严重的快速发作性肺部感染”，可在几天内致人死亡。我在纽约的医生朋友给出的建议是：“给每个人都准备抗生素”，或者，培养一种客观衡量事物的心态。

周二

在这一周的讨论话题宾果卡上，我并没有写上“让我们增加更多行刑队”，但这就是目前美国正在进行的严肃讨论。此前，被判死刑的谋杀犯克里斯塔·派克（Christa Pike）经历了一场可怕且失败的处决：在田纳西州未能成功将其杀死后，她在周二恢复了意识并开始说话。

这是该州今年第二次处决失败，也是自 1972 年以来美国所有处决中显然有 7% 的失败案例之一。被提及的最常见原因包括药物过期和行刑人员未经培训，此外还有导致囚犯起火的故障电椅，以及未能折断颈部的不彻底绞刑。

结果，美国唯一一种从未出现过失败尝试的囚犯处决方法就是行刑队。这在所谓的现代世界中勾勒出令人难以理解的画面：射手们排成半圆，没有人承担唯一责任，向被处决者的头部方向开火。自 1945, 年以来，美国军方计划于 12 月在德克萨斯州执行一次此类处决。本周，美国国防部长赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）承诺将对此进行直播，这完全无视任何类似于正常人类行为的行为准则。

周三

关于保守党在经历了如此多次“致命注射”后仍不愿躺平接受命运，大概能开个玩笑，但我还没想好怎么把这个梗圆回来。相反，在本周于伯明翰举行的党代会上，我们看到一个看起来兴致高昂的凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）走上舞台，表演她那套名为“常识”的滑稽戏。她巧妙地将改革党称为“那个”（意为“我们不会与‘那个’联合”），而且即便保守党的民调处于低位，她依然给对手制造了麻烦。这位保守党领袖在塑造形象方面做得极其出色，让自己看起来像个直率且普通的人，以此与一方面是改革党，另一方面是可能被委婉地称为“成分特殊”的绿党形成对比。

值得记住的是，当巴德诺克卸下伪装时是什么样子。如果说鲍里斯·约翰逊的真面目是一个准备不足、过度自信的男人在政府中苦苦支撑，同时像恐怖电影里的玩具一样自顾自地咯咯笑，那么巴德诺克给我的印象则是一个陷入了“不惜一切代价获胜”的单一模式、目光锐利的人。与此同时，年轻保守党人在党代会上狂欢的片段永远不会过时，这与保守党领袖——快捂住脸——自封为“化学反应”（Kemistry）的 30,000 字政策文件，在“最尴尬时刻”的竞争中不相上下。谁能告诉她，你不能给自己起绰号。

周四

安妮·卡森（Anne Carson）获得了诺贝尔文学奖（请原谅我，但偶尔当生活给你机会让你变得令人难以忍受时，你不能不抓住它），因此针对这个消息我想说，去年我和诺贝尔奖得主安妮·卡森在冰岛徒步时，我突然想到……

其实并没有想到什么；我只是想把这次徒步的事摆在台面上——好吧，其实只是在岩石斜坡上走了一小段——总之，那是和诺贝尔奖得主安妮·卡森一起，我一直深爱她，并且自多年前在密歇根相识以来就一直认识她。她才华横溢，幽默且睿智，我可以引用她诗集中的很多句子，但我最喜欢的一句出自她 2006 年诗集《去创造》（Decreation）中的诗作《线条》（Lines）：“致我的母亲 / 我生命中的 / 爱人，我向她描述我早午餐吃了什么。”我对这些诗句的感觉，就像麦当娜曾说她对弗里达·卡罗（Frieda Kahlo）自画像的感觉一样，那就是如果你不能感受到它在你的系统中震动，我就永远无法真正成为你的朋友。（我知道大多数人对此会觉得没问题）。

周五

从崇高到荒诞，从安妮·卡森到埃隆·马斯克。马斯克是亚历克斯·吉布尼（Alex Gibney）时长四小时的纪录片的主角，该片本周上映，我迫不及待想看了。预热宣传集中在马斯克的前妻贾斯汀·威尔逊（Justine Wilson）对电影的贡献上。她与麦肯齐·斯科特（MacKenzie Scott，原姓贝佐斯）一样，都是“科技巨头前妻俱乐部”的成员，通过这个俱乐部，人们可以衡量那些极富之男从娶普通女性到娶那些看似没有内心世界的女性的转变历程。“他经常评论我不足的地方，”威尔逊说，她还告诉吉布尼，她的前夫曾对她说：“如果你是我的员工，我会把你开除。”这世上没有任何 amount of money 能弥补这一点，对吧？

我写那些让全世界流泪的歌，我写……

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▲ 太酷了？…… Jon Shard，Miss Flesh at the Haçienda, 1993-95 摄影：JON SHARD

艺术 90年代 泰特不列颠美术馆，伦敦 ★☆☆☆☆

这不是一场真正的展览，而是一页杂志排版

杰克·查普曼和迪诺斯·查普曼在 20 世纪 90 年代被一些人斥为为了震惊而震惊的“巨婴”，然而，正是他们的作品让这场极其浅薄的展览在某些时刻触及了深度。他们的雕塑作品《针对死者的伟业》（Great Deeds Against the Dead）展示了被肢解、流血的裸体尸体被挂在树上。它提出了关于艺术是否能具有道德目的的问题。 20 世纪 90 年代最优秀的英国艺术就是这样的：初看傲慢、庸俗、阴森，但同时又充满智慧与情感。不幸的是，这次展览两者皆无。

你会认为英国泰特美术馆（Tate Britain）会希望公正地对待那个它在米尔班克（Millbank）场馆扮演主角的十年——在那些年里，这里举办的透纳奖（Turner prize）曾以被剖开的牛、混凝土房子和象粪引发全国争论。在 90 年代初，没有人认为英国是当代艺术的领导者。但到了千禧年，我们因新艺术而闻名，甚于新小说。

一场以壮丽方式回顾世纪末英国艺术的展览本会是一个有趣的提案。然而，前《Vogue》编辑爱德华·恩宁富尔（Edward Enninful）却上演了他个人幻想中的那个十年，将艺术与时尚混为一谈——且重点显然在时尚上。关于伊莎贝拉·布洛（Isabella Blow）的内容比关于瑞秋·怀特里德（Rachel Whiteread）的多，后者仅由一个热水袋内部的早期铸模作品代表。达米安·赫斯特（Damien Hirst）则有几条看起来无害的小鲨鱼平衡在一个圆形轨道上。

这不是一场真正的展览。它是一页杂志排版。展览中不仅出现了时尚杂志，其设计也具有一种时尚杂志排版的急促浅薄感，用一组华丽的并列图像来吹捧其轻率的主题。但将时尚摄影与概念艺术作品放在一起是一个糟糕的主意。

尤尔根·泰勒（Juergen Teller） 1996 年拍摄的摄影作品《克里斯汀·麦克梅纳米 No 3》（Kristen McMenamy No 3）被挂在萨拉·卢卡斯（Sarah Lucas） 1997 年的作品《鸡内裤》（Chicken Knickers）旁边。泰勒的照片描绘了模特裸体抽烟，身上画着一个写有“Versace”字样的口红心形。除了“买 Versace”之外，这还表达了什么？现在看看卢卡斯的照片，一只生鸡被粘在某个人的内裤上。这很有趣——这是一位擅长制造疏离感的艺术家对一只死鸡所实施的“伟业”。

泰勒被揭露为一个仅仅是聪明的造型师，他的图像缺乏诗意或意义。他为凯特·摩丝（Kate Moss）拍摄的肖像，完全没有加里·休姆（Gary Hume）画作中那种距离感或神秘感，后者笔下的她拥有一张闪亮的、金属般的镜像脸。休姆提供了时尚与艺术真正重叠的少数时刻之一——但作为波普艺术，他笔下的凯特更多是对名气的一种不祥评论，而非对“酷英国”（Cool Britannia）的赞美。

而且，这次展览对于更广泛的流行文化热潮也没什么可说的。有一整个房间充满了描绘俱乐部场景的派对照片，但 90 年代的另一个重点无疑是英国主流流行音乐的复兴——我想恩宁富尔太高端了，不愿为 Oasis 或 Blur 留出空间，更不用说 Fat Les 了。

相反，我们看到的是高级定制。你显然可以将亚历山大·麦昆（Alexander McQueen）视为一名艺术家。但说实话，处理“身体恐怖”的房间里充斥着一些仅仅是矫揉造作且自命不凡的服装。在同一个房间里，肖恩·埃利斯（Sean Ellis）为《Face》杂志拍摄的那些傲慢且糟糕的图像占据了整面墙。正是在这些作品的衬托下，杰克和迪诺斯看起来如此深刻。

其他纯艺术家的境遇则不那么好。海伦·查德威克（Helen Chadwick）得到了两件象征性的诡异摄影作品，而哈马德·巴特（Hamad Butt）那些痴迷于死亡的艺术作品（不久前曾在怀特教堂美术馆精彩展出）则被挤在画廊的尽头。克里斯·奥菲利（Chris Ofili）仅通过《没有女人，没有哭泣》（No Woman, No Cry）被提及；特蕾西·艾敏（Tracey Emin）则只有一件霓虹灯作品。

还是说我错了？年轻英国艺术家（Young British Art）是否真的配得上泰特美术馆给它的这种轻视对待——要知道，泰特美术馆曾从这些艺术家身上获益匪浅？也许这真的就是一堆胡言乱语。但即使你不认同我的观点，不认为那个时代的某些艺术具有力量且经久不衰，它理应获得足够的空间被人们看到并评判。

仅仅经过七个房间后，展览就突然结束了。我原希望所见之物只是序幕，后面还会有更多拥有足够欣赏空间的艺术品。但事实并非如此。当你离开时，那种不满足感就像是在牙医诊所的候诊室里翻阅一本 30 年前的《Face》杂志一样。 乔纳森·琼斯 展至 2 月 14 日

剧场 《随你所愿》 皇家莎士比亚剧院， 斯特拉特福-upon-Avon ★★★★☆

RSC的全男性卡司具有神奇的颠覆性

“为了自由，而非流放，”西莉亚对罗莎琳德惊叹道。罗莎琳德是一名流亡者，在伪装成男性的过程中找到了自由。这是莎士比亚这部具有变革意义、模糊性别界限的田园喜剧中的关键陈述，紧接着篡位者弗雷德里克公爵的宫廷就被亚登森林的浪漫所取代。在导演丹尼尔·埃文斯（Daniel Evans）执导的全男性制作的首演之夜，这一重大场景的揭晓导致了长时间的技术故障，演出被迫暂停了一个多小时以进行修复。撇开技术故障不谈，这是一次令人心醉的舞台呈现。

在严酷的宫廷戏份中几乎没有喜剧成分，其中包含一种令人畏惧的肢体冲突，以反映弗雷德里克公爵的暴行，包括扇耳光、推搡以及一场构造精良的WWE风格摔跤赛。随后，场景切换到安妮莎·菲尔兹（Anisha Fields）设计的精美布景——亚登的翠绿山丘，美到近乎妖娆。由科林·里士满（Colin Richmond）设计的宫廷黑色伊丽莎白时代长袍具有清教徒风格，但点缀着装饰；这些服装令人惊叹，正如瑞安·戴（Ryan Day）在灯光设计中为早期场景营造的棋盘格阴影戏一样出色。

乔纳森·格罗夫（Jonathan Groff）是一位美国荧幕明星，部分得益于他在《汉密尔顿》中饰演国王的表现，他也成为了百老汇的顶尖人物。他饰演的罗莎琳德很有趣，或许在开始时过于夸张，但随后变得更加丰富且细腻。他迅速与菲萨约·阿基纳德（Fisayo Akinade）饰演的西莉亚建立了化学反应，后者是本剧中一个出人意料的亮点，在演绎女性特质时没有陷入刻板印象，为两人的关系增添了额外的张力。

全男性卡司带来了深度与微妙感。这种做法是精巧而非噱头，既具有怀旧感又符合当下：它向男孩和男人扮演女性角色的伊丽莎白时代致敬，但现在则更具酷儿色彩和颠覆性。奥兰多（埃利奥特·巴恩斯-沃雷尔 饰）与罗莎琳德伪装的男性化身加尼美德之间的爱情保持在表面，但在那些安静的时刻，当格罗夫带着欲望徘徊时，同性情欲的表达更为有效。

整体而言，喜剧部分轻快且活泼。同时饰演弗雷德里克公爵和流亡的资深公爵的加里·威尔莫特（Gary Wilmot）在台词处理上从不过分夸张。一个极其古板的菲比（蒂姆·普雷斯顿 饰）带来了“图书管理员式”的喜剧效果，体现在她对牧羊人西尔维乌斯（爱德华·贾奇 饰）的轻蔑，以及对加尼美德的一见钟情。触石（格雷格·海斯特 饰）与奥黛丽（加雷斯·斯努克 饰）之间粗俗的浪漫情事则旨在引发音乐厅式的笑声；后者留着夸张的大头发，举止轻佻且放荡，简直像个圣诞剧中的反串女角色。

亚登森林本身被设定在威尔士乡村。这是否是出生于威尔士的埃文斯对世外桃源的个人愿景？当布景向舞台前方滚动，覆盖掉宫廷的阴暗时，展现出一种令人心旷神怡的壮丽，而莎士比亚的歌曲被威尔士民谣赞美诗所取代（音乐由西奥·詹米森作曲、编曲并监督）。在此之前，声音设计师保罗·格鲁特豪斯（Paul Groothuis）创作的宏大警报声使其变得优美，并与灯光相结合，营造出音乐般的雷鸣电闪。

这部作品唯一的（其他）缺陷在于节奏，在后期阶段感觉过于缓慢，这可能是由于之前那次重大的技术暂停造成的。然而，当亚登森林的宏大场景最终揭晓时，依然令人震撼。埃文斯在这里创造了奇迹。 阿里法·阿克巴尔（Arifa Akbar） 演出至11月7日

苏格兰电影《直到钟声响起》（Till the Bells Ring）可能是世界上第一部故事长片有声电影。该片背景设定在格拉斯哥，由格雷厄姆·莫法特（Graham Moffat）用苏格兰语编写，比好莱坞1927年的《爵士歌王》早一年首映。

艺术

阿佛洛狄忒

牛津大学阿什莫林博物馆 ★★★☆☆

对爱之女神的一种低俗对待方式

波提切利的维纳斯将她的贝壳停在你的屋前，在深夜前来拜访。她闪耀的发丝在黑暗中熠熠生辉。毫无疑问，她就是波提切利《维纳斯的诞生》中的女神，出现在这里的是另一幅风格非常相似的画作，创作于 1490 年左右，同样出自波提切利及其工作室之手。

波提切利激发了一种从未停歇的现代胃口。从他那些令人着迷的画作中，一大批丰腴的性感女神崛起，统治了欧洲艺术，直到米开朗基罗·皮斯托莱托在 1967 年创作的讽刺作品《破布维纳斯》（此处展示的是 1974 年的版本），在作品中，一堆衣服在从背后看到的理石裸体周围溢出，美与混乱交织在一起。

▲ 混乱……《破布维纳斯》，1974年，米开朗基罗·皮斯托莱托 著 照片：TATE / MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO

但这次展览并不叫“维纳斯”；它讲述的不是她的艺术故事，而是将她视为原版希腊爱之女神阿佛洛狄忒的廉价罗马替代品，而后者又被揭露为是对曾经在塞浦路斯被崇拜的母系神灵的抄袭。其结果是世界级借展作品与考古学执念的混合体。

一件古典理石材质的《蹲姿维纳斯》让你立刻感受到其品质与缺失。这里没有探讨它对后世艺术的影响。这件古希腊原作的罗马复制品在原主人查理一世被斩首后，由克伦威尔的共和政权出售。它被艺术家彼得·莱利购得，后者创作了其自身神秘的、裸体的、反清教徒的杰作《泉边宁芙》。在此之前，鲁本斯曾见过这座雕像，并以此为基础创作了画作《寒冷的维纳斯》。

对我而言，波提切利才是阿佛洛狄忒 / 维纳斯的真正信徒。在罗马帝国灭亡后的 1,000 年里，她被基督教所排斥。她的崇拜在文艺复兴时期复兴。当你凝视他笔下维纳斯那深不可测的双眼时，你也会相信爱是神圣之物，值得拥有自己的神灵。 乔纳森·琼斯 展至 4 月 11 日

音乐剧《租房》

汤姆·斯托帕德剧院，伦敦 ★★★☆☆

《怪奇物语》星领衔音乐剧——粉丝挚爱

《出租公寓》（Rent）是否属于伟大的音乐剧之列？它一直是粉丝们的挚爱，其创作背景在戏剧爱好者的心中占据着特殊地位。该剧的创作者乔纳森·拉森（Jonathan Larson）在1996年离百老汇首演前不久去世，年仅35岁——这与剧中那些在纽约生活快节奏、恐惧早逝的波希米亚流浪汉们形成了令人心酸的呼应。

导演卢克·谢泼德（Luke Sheppard）通过环绕空间的舞台座位将这部作品包裹在社区氛围中，将那些充满希望的流浪者们编织在一起。演员们在场景之间观看，在椅子上合唱并起舞。在演唱永恒的《爱的季节》（Seasons of Love）时，演员们甚至形成了一个类似祈祷圈的阵型。

我们置身于一个垃圾摇滚时代的纽约——甚至霍华德·哈德逊（Howard Hudson）的灯光设计看起来也灰暗且粗粝。每个人都穿着二手大衣、靴子和贝雷帽以抵御严冬，而汤姆·杰克逊·格里夫斯（Tom Jackson Greaves）设计的编舞则通过碰撞的肘部和扭动的腰肢捕捉到了这座残酷城市的特质。

这在某种程度上是《波希米亚》（La Bohème）的故事——讲述了一群艺术家和追梦者的朋友圈，从停电时的邂逅一直到最后一幕的悲剧，并借鉴了普契尼那些催泪的旋律。浪漫情愫在闪现与破灭之间摇摆，野心在妥协，艾滋病则是挥之不去的焦虑。

盖登·马塔拉佐（Gaten Matarazzo，《怪奇物语》）饰演叙述者马克（Mark），一个用Super 8摄像机见证伙伴们胡作非为的弱势青年。他观察着好友罗杰（Roger，由咆哮的特拉维斯·罗斯饰演）与迷茫的米米（Mimi，亚历克莎·洛佩兹饰演）之间紧张的暧昧关系；以及他粗心的前女友莫琳（Maureen，雷齐·薇奥莱特饰演）与乔安（Joanne，丹妮尔·菲亚曼亚饰演，一名学院风且古怪的女性）之间的关系。

失去太早地潜入了这些年轻人的生活。《爱的季节》之所以令人心碎的部分在于，孩子们不应该去计算时间的流逝（“五十二万五千六百分钟”），而应该看到未来的时光在他们面前延伸。当吉万·布雷奇（Jeevan Braich）饰演的闪耀变装皇后去世时，她的爱人陷入了挽歌之中：比利·内弗斯（Billy Nevers）失落且沙哑的低吼让空气中充满了悲伤。

这部剧给予了作曲家拉森充分的肯定，乐队在高架台上全力演奏乐谱，演员们则释放出令人震撼的唱功。但作为作词家的拉森则显得不那么出色。这次复排制作充满诚意，但时长接近三小时，同样需要一些剧作上的“严厉之爱”。

这部剧的辉煌在于其歌曲：拉森将一切都倾注在了《出租公寓》中，从心碎的赞歌、机智的探戈到昂首阔步的流行乐。他一定希望未来能创作更多音乐剧，但他的写作方式却像是在与时间赛跑；那种渴望去爱、去生活的绝望感，正是这部剧紧迫的核心。 大卫·杰斯（David Jays） Until 29 May

电影

社会清算

索金续作：全新的邪恶傀儡扎克伯格

院线电影

★★★☆☆

距离由亚伦·索金编剧、大卫·芬奇执导的《社交网络》已经过去了十六年；那部电影讲述了 Facebook 在哈佛大学充满男性至上竞争、学生性别歧视和书呆子式自怜的熔炉中诞生的故事，由杰西·艾森伯格饰演那个说话快、傲慢且不一定是邪恶的天才马克·扎克伯格。

现在，索金带着一部某种意义上的续作回归，并亲自执导自己的剧本——而现在的扎克伯格基本上就是邪恶的。故事讲述了在 2021 年，扎克伯格的 Facebook 帝国如何受到勇敢的举报员工弗朗西斯·豪根（麦基·麦迪逊 饰）和《华尔街日报》调查记者杰夫·霍维茨（杰里米·艾伦·怀特 饰）的挑战。他们的使命是告诉全世界，扎克伯格因担心收入下降而修改了算法，从而利用愤怒诱饵和仇恨言论来极大地增强用户参与度。此外，Facebook 没有对政治广告进行事实核查，从而导致全国范围内极端主义团体的大规模激增。

杰里米·斯特朗在饰演扎克伯格时进行了一次有趣的模仿：他的站姿和坐姿像个 Thunderbird 傀儡，将他在《继承之战》中饰演的肯德尔·罗伊那种迟钝的忧伤进行了修改，将其转化为一种不紧不慢的轻蔑——这种轻蔑源于一个人在意识到自己比其他所有人更富有、因此更聪明时，所同时感受到的负担感与能量感。

电影节奏轻快且具有娱乐性，但仍有不和谐之处。最令人不安的一场戏显示一名醉酒女性在直播她对交通警察的种族主义辱骂。在接近结尾时，我们再次瞥见她，她对自己变成的样子感到震惊。在现实中她会感到震惊吗？或者这仅仅是电影制作者的愿望达成？

片尾字幕承认 Facebook 至今仍未对政治广告进行核查。此外，电影背景设定在 2020-24 年特朗普权力间隙期的开始；而如今，特朗普及其科技大佬随从们比以往任何时候都更加自负。这部电影未能正视我们正在生活的未来。 彼得·布拉德肖

电视评论 《皮埃尔》（Pierre） Channel 4 ★★★★☆

大卫·哈伍德的明星气场点亮黑色犯罪剧

我们中的一些人太年轻，没能看到大卫·哈伍德（David Harewood）在 97 年于国家剧院带来的那场具有历史意义的《奥赛罗》。但基于这位演员在这部以伦敦为背景的犯罪剧中所展现的明星气场，你可以确信他当时一定震撼全场。

《皮埃尔》（Pierre）的共同编剧罗伊·威廉姆斯（Roy Williams）或许不是莎士比亚，但他是另一位备受赞誉的剧作家，关注黑人男性在这个国家的生存状况。这部由他与约翰·多内利（John Donnelly）共同创作的剧集以自信且简洁的风格立足，这在很大程度上归功于哈伍德对剧中同名警局值班律师的演绎。他走进房间，在发出威胁或保证之前解开西装外套扣子的样子；以及那带有伯明翰口音的轻微颤音，在多年艰辛的伦敦生活磨砺下变得更加锐利。

剧情是带有反转的黑色风格：一名年轻黑人在告诉皮埃尔他正在搜集一名警员骚扰他的证据后被发现死亡。那么，这是一部警察剧——但关键在于，这个主角并非警察。皮埃尔作为一个根植于社区、稳固的中产阶级黑人专业人士，其特定身份赋予了他更广泛的活动范围。他能与死党侦探罗尼·米勒（Ronnie Miller，杰森·弗莱明 Jason Flemyng 饰）在享用英式全餐时轻松地开玩笑，也能同样自然地在一名被谋杀青少年的守夜仪式上安慰悲痛的亲属。他能被私人会员俱乐部接纳，而当被告知该俱乐部的命名者是通过“糖业”发家时，他会冷冷地回答：“真是个惊喜。”

至于皮埃尔个人所承受的屈辱与妥协，这些不仅被探讨，还受到了他许多黑人同僚的有力挑战，包括他的律所合伙人夏洛特（Charlotte，米歇尔·奥斯汀 Michele Austin 饰，一如既往地出色）以及他的妻子塞莱斯特（Celeste，萨拉·鲍威尔 Sara Powell 饰）。

作为剧集的《皮埃尔》——就像作为人的皮埃尔一样——有时会在涵盖过多内容的压力下显得吃力，例如，试图将现代种族与警务政治浓缩在几句闲聊式的对话中，其效果之生硬，简直就像铁砧砸在人行道上一样毫无委婉可言。

但尽管如此，他在高层和基层的朋友们都一致认为：没有人能像皮埃尔那样处理事情。因此，如果他负担过重，唯一可行的解决方案就是给他更多时间，为所有依赖他的人解决问题。在我看来，这听起来像是应该续订第二季了。 艾伦·E·琼斯（Ellen E Jones）

商业

TUC称保守党为大银行减税导致损失60亿英镑，敦促贷款机构支付“公平份额”

Kalyeena Makortoff 银行业记者

据活动人士称，针对大银行的减税使英国政府损失了£6bn的收入。他们呼吁财政大臣约翰·希利（John Healey）在即将出台的预算案中提高税收，并强制贷款机构支付其“公平份额”。

代表英格兰和威尔士境内超过530 万名工会成员的英国工会大会（TUC）的计算结果显示，由于保守党财政大臣杰里米·亨特（Jeremy Hunt）在2023年引入的减税政策，公共金库损失了数十亿英镑。

当时的政府同意将该年对贷款机构利润征收的额外税项——银行附加税——从8%削减至3%。此举旨在抵消公司税从19%提高到25%带来的影响，此前该行业辩称，更高的税收将使其在与纽约等其他大型金融中心竞争时处于不利地位。

然而，就在减税实施之时，得益于利率上升，贷款机构开始获得丰厚收益。英国四大贷款机构——汇丰银行（HSBC）、国民西敏寺银行（NatWest）、巴克莱银行（Barclays）、劳埃德银行集团（Lloyds Banking Group）——在过去五年中已创造了£200bn的税前利润。

TUC表示，2023年的减税最终抢走了英国金库的税收收入。其对英国税务海关总署（HMRC）公司税收回执的分析显示，英国公众在2023-24年度损失了23亿英镑，在2024-25年度进一步损失17亿英镑，在2025-26年度损失20亿英镑——三年总计60亿英镑。

鉴于银行赚取了创纪录的利润，TUC表示，在10月28日的预算案中，附加税应提高到2023年之前的水平之上。这最高可筹集600亿英镑，可用于支付不断上涨的家庭账单，作为首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）应对生活成本危机计划的一部分。

“保守党为银行提供的税收优惠已使英国公共金库损失了60亿英镑，且数额还在增加。现在是时候确保银行支付其公平份额了，”TUC总书记保罗·诺瓦克（Paul Nowak）表示。

“在许多家庭正与飙升的能源成本作斗争之际，通过对银行激增的利润征税来降低账单，纯粹是常识。有大量证据表明银行能够负担更多的税收——尤其是他们去年支付的创纪录的£25bn奖金池。”

“本月的预算案是一个拨乱反正的机会。”

在去年预算案中侥幸避开更高税项后，银行高管们一直在密集游说反对提高银行税收。美国最大银行摩根大通（JP Morgan）首席执行官杰米·戴蒙（Jamie Dimon）在上个月的一次会议上告诉伯纳姆和希利，进一步征税可能会使投资和就业面临风险。

今年5月，戴蒙警告称，如果英国政府对银行采取敌对态度，他可能会取消在伦敦建立一座耗资£3bn的新总部的计划。

TUC表示，将附加税提高到16%（即保守党减税前税率的两倍），可以在接下来的筹集£24bn的税收收入。

快时尚零售商 Shein 在英国销售额增长 26% 后超越 Asos

Sarah Butler

由中国创立的在线快时尚零售商 Shein 去年在英国的销售额增长了略高于四分之一，超越了其英国竞争对手 Asos。

根据提交给公司注册处（Companies House）的账目，该公司全球母集团上月在香港交易所上市，估值略高于 260亿美元 (200亿英镑)，其英国分公司的销售额增长了 26%，达到 25.8亿英镑。

税前利润增长 18% 至 4520 万英镑m，而该集团在英国的雇员人数（主要分布在销售和营销部门）从一年前的 91 人增加到 113 人。公司支付了 1120 万英镑m 的企业所得税，高于一年前的 960 万英镑m。

Shein 表示，销售额的增长得益于与 Wireless 和 Creamfields 音乐节的营销合作，以及在伦敦牛津街开设的弹出式商店，以及在爱丁堡、曼彻斯特、利物浦和伦敦举办的圣诞礼品活动。

强劲的交易数据可能会增加政府提前采取行动修改“最低限额”（de minimis）规则的压力，该规则一直是 Shein 和 Temu 等在线专营商快速增长的基础。

对中国零售商和制造商在英国倾销商品的担忧自美国去年

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四年。与此同时，35% 的银行附加税（这将与保守党对能源公司征收的超额利润税税率一致）将在四年内带来 600亿英镑。该组织表示，即使只是撤销附加税削减并将其设定为 8%，也能在同一时期内筹集 90亿英镑。

“撤销上届政府的减税政策，是本届政府为了追回近年来交给银行的数十亿损失而能做的最起码的事情，”活动团体 Positive Money 的一名发言人说道。该团体一直在推动在预算案中提高银行税。“由于利率提高，银行无需费力即可获得创纪录的利润。”

“有大量证据表明，银行能够负担支付更多税款” Paul Nowak TUC

英国银行游说团体 UK Finance 的首席执行官 David Postings 表示，强大的银行部门对于强大的英国经济至关重要，且盈利的贷款机构将能够投资于更好的客户服务，发放更多贷款，并提供诸如股东分红等“回报”，以支持人们的储蓄和养老金。

“银行还为公共财政做出了重大贡献，而且在英国面临的总税率已经明显高于其他领先的金融中心，”他说道。“进一步增加税收将削弱英国的竞争力，抑制投资和就业创造，并违背政府实现增长的雄心。”

财政部已收到置评请求。

中国广州 Shein 公司办公大楼内显示 Shein 宣传视频的屏幕 PHOTOGRAPH: TINGSHU WANG / REUTERS

撤销了针对中国制造商品的最低限额豁免，从而遏制了 Shein 在那里的扩张。

该零售商的模式基于将廉价服装直接从中国工厂运送到家中，使每笔订单的价值足够低，从而避免进口关税。

在美国的豁免规定下，寄给个人的价值低于 $800 的包裹可免征进口税。欧盟也正在逐步取消对低价值包裹的关税豁免。欧盟于 7 月开始，用 €3 的统一海关关税取代了 €150 (£125) 的最低限额减免。

前任财政大臣瑞秋·里夫斯表示，她将在2028年前取消英国的一项规定，该规定允许海外卖家将价值在£135或以下的商品直接发送给购物者而无需缴纳任何关税。然而，零售业巨头们表示，政府应当加快推进。

投资者对全球监管变化的担忧，意味着希音（Shein）在上市时的估值远低于几年前的预期。

在2022年4月的一轮融资中，其估值达到了1000亿美元，成为全球第三大最有价值的初创公司；随后在2024年考虑在伦敦证券交易所进行一次价值£50bn的上市，但最终选择在香港上市。

希音的大部分运营在中国进行，但所有商品均在境外销售。它在2022年初左右将总部迁至新加坡，并于近期开始在包括土耳其和巴西在内的其他国家进行生产。

在强迫劳动问题引发关注后，希音表示已加强了其供应商政策。

上周，希音报告其集团季度利润下降67%至1.73 亿英镑m，将其归咎于与伊朗战争相关的油价和运费上涨。

▲ 新加坡商业区，查尔斯·格雷厄姆在此未经HiFX事先批准而远程办公。照片：SHIH-WEI / GETTY IMAGES

悉尼交易员因在新加坡远程办公被解雇，被裁定为不公正解雇

一名因未经批准在新加坡远程办公而被解雇的悉尼货币交易员在不公正解雇诉讼中获胜，但未获得赔偿。

尼诺·布奇 (Nino Bucci)

澳大利亚公平工作委员会（Fair Work Commission）周三裁定，查尔斯·格雷厄姆（Charles Graham）于去年12月被 HiFX Australia（以 Xe 名义经营）不公正解雇。

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格雷厄姆在给 Xe 的书面回复中表示，他前往

新加坡度假，且这与他之前提出的搬迁申请无关；重新安排返回澳大利亚航班的决定是在周末做出的，而当时并没有要求或先例规定他必须在非工作时间联系其经理。

在 Xe 发现格雷厄姆明知必须获得事先批准才能在海外工作，且每周需到岗三次后，他被解雇了。他表示，此前他在新加坡度假，但随后其伴侣因细菌感染患病，导致他无法返回。他提供了相关证明文件，称该文件显示其伴侣需要接受医疗救治。

他表示，当他从新加坡登录系统时，“被数百封未读邮件的分类处理工作所淹没……并且需要处理一名高价值客户的合规投诉”，这比告知经理他被困在海外更为紧迫。

格雷厄姆此前曾询问 Xe 是否可以搬迁至新加坡，但请求被拒绝。

在格雷厄姆的经理要求一名 IT 工作人员利用其“FBI 技能”追踪其笔记本电脑的 IP 地址后，他被解雇了。结果发现他当时在新加坡工作。此外还发现，他此前曾在巴厘岛工作，而当时他告诉经理自己是在家办公，因为有个水管工“要过来处理一些反复出现的浴室问题”。

公平工作委员会官员阿拉娜·马特森（Alana Matheson）表示，在公司于去年 11 月 17 日发送电子邮件告知格雷厄姆其发现情况后，到第二天，“语气……显然发生了转变”，当时他被告知“关于涉嫌违反公司政策的行为，存在需要解释的情况”。

他还表示，他仅打算在海外停留短时间，并未被告知关于混合办公的具体政策，且他打算在可行的情况下尽快告知经理他在海外。

该公司在 12 月 2 日向他发送了一封终止雇佣合同的信函，称公司已审查其提交的材料，发现他未能提供带有其姓名的航班截图、其伴侣的医疗证明、关于未告知经理的充分解释，并且“刻意选择不遵守”缺勤流程。

信中写道：“你的行为构成了对公司政策的严重违反，未能遵守合法且合理的指令，导致信任与信心遭到不可修复的破坏。”

格雷厄姆告诉委员会，在 2025 年 11 月之前，他曾 2 次远程办公：一次是前一年在北昆士兰州的汤斯维尔（Townsville），另一次是 2025 年 4 月和 5 月在巴厘岛。但他的经理表示，她此前并不知晓他在海外远程办公。

马特森认为，尽管解雇理由成立，但由于程序不公正，该解雇行为是不合理的。她认为恢复原职是不恰当的，但决定不给予赔偿，部分原因是违规行为导致了此次解雇。

OpenAI 表示预计营收比预测低 200亿美元

马克·斯威尼 (Mark Sweeney)

OpenAI 透露，其预计营收比近期向投资者暗示的金额低约 200亿美元，这引发了人们对 AI 需求极速增长情况的质疑。

这家 ChatGPT 的创建者告诉投资者，根据截至 9 月底的销售额预测，其今年的营收将达到 500亿美元 (370亿英镑)。

然而，这显著低于上个月在提供给投资者的信息中暗示的 700亿美元，而该信息此前已被广泛报道。

包括 的竞争对手、Claude 的制造商 Anthropic 在内的领先 AI 厂商的年化营收预测，被市场密切关注，以此作为衡量这项吸引巨额投资的技术整体需求的指标。

正处于早期谈判阶段，计划在一次融资轮中筹集 300亿美元，此次融资将使该公司的估值达到约 $1.4tn。

关于 200亿美元 缺口的消息在周四冲击了美国科技股，由科技股主导的纳斯达克指数收盘下跌 1.4%。芯片制造商英伟达 (Nvidia) 下跌 2.9%，甲骨文 (Oracle) 下跌 5.5%，美光 (Micron) 下跌 4.8%。

这一差异源于 的投资者试图将其与 Anthropic 衡量预计营收的方式进行更直接的比较，后者在 7 月底的预测营收达到了 650亿美元。

Anthropic 将营收计入

在 透露其通过亚马逊 AWS 和谷歌云等云合作伙伴实现的销售营收低于预期后，由科技股主导的纳斯达克指数出现下跌，而 则不将此类营收计入。

上个月， 首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼 (Sam Altman) 表示，出于对 AI 安全性的担忧，该公司将不会像预期那样在今年上市。在此决定之前，曾出现 AI 代理失控黑入外部系统，以及安全研究人员因技术风险而辞职的情况。

最近一次融资是在 3 月，当时完成了一轮 1220亿美元 的融资，估值为 8520亿美元。两个月后，Anthropic 表示其已筹集 650亿美元，公司估值为 9650亿美元。

昨天有消息透露，日本投资公司软银 (SoftBank) 的创始人孙正义 (Masayoshi Son) 正寻求从海湾国家筹集高达 1000亿美元，以扩大其本已巨大的 AI 投资规模。

据《金融时报》报道，软银已激进地转向 AI，包括向 投资 650亿美元，并与包括阿拉伯联合酋长国在内的海湾投资者进行了谈判。

自由、平等……灾难？法国经济困境令欧洲恐慌

菲利普·英曼 (Phillip Inman)

自燃料价格上涨引发“黄马甲”示威者走上法国街头以来，已经过去了八年，那次事件引发了埃马纽埃尔·马克龙在爱丽舍宫任期内的第一次重大危机。随着这位法国总统考虑在明年离任，动荡再次以学生抗议的形式席卷街头，但这一次，金融市场同样感到不安。

投资者担心政府未能控制支出，且无法结束长期的“财政失禁”。英国、美国以及最近的意大利也出现了类似趋势，令金融市场感到不安，从而引发债券市场的紧张情绪。但法国已成为最大的担忧点，公共和私营部门的债务使其陷入重围，限制了将国家从日益加深的深渊中挖掘出来的空间。

法国的债务与GDP之比在2025, 年为 $116%，而其预算赤字为 $5.1%，相比之下，英国的这两个数字分别为 $94% 和 $4.3%。

在英国，财政大臣约翰·希利 (John Healey) 正致力于在今年和2027. 年减少预算赤字。他的法国同行罗兰·莱斯库尔 (Roland Lescure) 在今年赤字上升至 5.4% 后，承诺将采取同样行动，但尚未说明具体方式。

不确定性导致的一个经济受害者是企业投资。法国最大的雇主联合会 Medef 的一项调查显示， $82% 的公司对下一届政府经济政策的影响持悲观态度。在给所有政治人物的警告中， $66% 的公司表示，如果经济政策在未来五年内仍处于僵局，其企业将变得脆弱甚至破产。欧洲中央银行可能会发起救援行动，但法国将要求无条件支持，而欧洲央行的规则规定，救助必须附带严格的条件。

年度支出赤字 年度百分比变化

来源：IMF, ONS。注（图表 1）：英国数据截至2026 年8月

欧洲工商管理学院 (INSEAD) 经济学教授安东尼奥·法塔斯 (Antonio Fatas) 表示，政治和经济局势已将法国推向金融崩溃的边缘：“我对经济形势非常担心，因为增长低迷，很难看出动态将如何改变。此外还有债务数字，情况很糟糕，金融市场认为政府失去了控制。”

“如果我看政治局势，我会感到恐慌。因为太多的政党在说‘让法国燃烧吧’。他们希望出现危机，认为这将提高他们的得票率。”

法国的经济状况中有很多方面反映了英国和美国发生的情况。疫情期间的大规模支出之后，又是一轮补贴，以抵消2022 年俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰所带来的最严重副作用。

投资者已对向这三个国家提供贷款变得谨慎，但利率上升对法国的损害最大。

116% 去年法国的债务与GDP之比，而英国为 $94%

66% 认为财务僵局危及未来的法国公司比例

埃马纽埃尔·马克龙在2024. 年选举后试图将退休年龄提高到 64 岁的尝试陷入停滞。随着他的任期接近尾声，法国遭到了学校抗议和公共部门罢工的打击。

上周，法国10年期债券的收益率（即利率）达到了2002年7月以来的最高水平，接近5%。当债券价格下跌时，收益率会上升。

根据许多衡量指标来看，很难看出为什么法国会受到如此严重的影响。法国经济拥有许多优势，从相对较低的电价到高于平均水平的基础设施。近期抗议活动关注的学校，其资金投入也高于发达国家的平均水平。在账单的支出项方面，马克龙计划通过将退休年龄从62岁提高到64岁来节省资金，但在2024年选举后议会陷入僵局，该计划停留在62岁零9个月。

如果经济在增长，这可能影响较小，但马克龙大肆吹嘘的经济复苏仍处于起步阶段。

索邦大学的历史教授洛朗·瓦卢泽（Laurent Warlouzet）表示，考虑到明年总统选举的领先者玛丽娜·勒庞（Marine Le Pen）表示她将把退休年龄恢复到62岁，并同时通过全民公投引入“债务刹车”，国际投资者对法国感到困惑是可以理解的。

对于金融市场交易员来说，考虑法国退出欧元区似乎不太可能，但据了解，几位欧元区财政部长和欧洲央行（ECB）官员已向法国政府提出建议，敦促其制定一套能在议会获得多数支持并赢得主要贷款方认可的预算方案。

正如美国诺贝尔奖得主经济学家保罗·克鲁格曼（Paul Krugman）最近所言：“如果法国确实需要救助，那将极其昂贵。”

检查您的屋顶

Checkatrade 的成本指南专家亚历克斯·彼得斯（Alex Peters）表示：“第一道防线始于屋顶，强风会使脆弱的结构脱落，并产生可能损坏您房屋的危险飞行碎片。”

瓦片经常会出现破损、松动或下滑的情况。理想情况下，您应该上去查看，但只有在拥有适当安全设备的情况下才这样做——否则，请致电专业人员。

彼得斯表示：“定期对屋顶和烟囱进行检查以确保其结构稳固至关重要。一次专业的屋顶检查费用约为 £250，用于检查瓦片是否松动或砂浆是否腐朽。”

根据 Checkatrade 的数据，大多数屋顶维修费用在每平方米 £110 到 £160 之间，具体取决于屋顶类型和材料。

苔藓的堆积会导致瓦片及其下方的木材受潮损坏，因此如果可能，请将其清除。最佳时间是在一段干燥天气之后，此时您可以用硬扫帚将其刷掉（但如果没有适当的安全设备，请不要尝试这样做）。

屋顶“附属设施”——如烟囱、天窗和通风口——是用称为“泛水板”（flashing）的金属条密封的，这些金属条应紧贴表面，不能有水分渗入的缝隙。如果您的泛水板不紧贴，您可以在大多数 DIY 商店购买泛水条、屋顶密封胶和填缝剂，但同样地，这项维修工作可能更适合由专业人员完成。

维护您的排水沟... 彼得斯表示：“排水沟将大雨安全地从屋顶线引导至外部排水管，但如果它们被堵塞，水就会积聚并导致一系列问题。”

这些问题包括水分渗入砖墙导致内部潮湿，或不受控制的排水侵蚀房屋地基周围的土壤，久而久之可能会使其不稳定。

现在是清理排水沟并进行任何维修的好时机。根据 Checkatrade 的数据，费用取决于房屋的大小，熟练技工的费用约为每小时 £20-£30。

房屋服务市场 MyBuilder 的安迪·西姆斯（Andy Simms）表示，现在应该检查房屋附近的任何树木，并补充道：“悬垂或不健康的树木可能会造成各种损坏，同时堵塞排水管。”

修剪工作通常花费约 £100 即可完成，但对于较大的工程，树艺师的费用通常每天在 £240-£400 之间，具体取决于您居住的地方。

...以及砖墙 检查墙壁是否有明显的薄弱点，包括渲染层开裂、污渍或

▲ 现在是检查排水沟、清理并进行维修的时候了

雨水积聚的地方。

来自专业房屋改良公司 PureBuilt 的迈克尔·戴维（Michael Davie）表示，房主最容易低估的问题之一是由微小外部缺陷引起的潮湿。

他说：“渲染层开裂或损坏的部分起初看起来可能并不严重，但如果水分能够渗入其后方，问题会迅速扩散。”

“我们经常看到一些案例，原本可以通过相对简单的维修解决的问题，因为水分来源未得到处理而变成了大工程。一次约 £500 的维修在潮湿影响到灰泥、内部饰面或房屋较大区域后，可能会变成数千英镑的支出。”

密封门窗

修复门窗周围的任何裂缝或密封条。彼得斯表示：“如果存在任何缝隙或裂缝，请贴上防风胶带或使用填缝剂，以帮助防止冷风和水分进入。”

窗户密封胶 300 毫升一支的价格约为 £10，而防风胶带的价格约为每 £5-£15 a

保持温暖：发现热量泄漏的关键线索

● 窗户、门和阁楼盖板周围的冷风。选择一个微风习习的日子，将房屋加热到平时温度。然后拿着蜡烛或烟雾笔（约 £20）四处走动。或者，购买一个热量泄漏检测仪。该设备在检测到冷空气时闪蓝灯，正常时闪绿灯，温暖时闪红灯。

● 窗玻璃之间积水。Glevum Windows 的营销与开发总监安东尼·希斯（Antony Heath）表示：“双层玻璃窗之间出现雾气或积水，可能表明密封单元失效。一旦密封破损，窗户的隔热效果可能会降低。”

● 窗户上的冷凝水。Barratt Redrow 的技术与创新总监奥利弗·诺瓦科维奇（Oliver Novakovic）表示，窗户内侧出现的冷凝水（尤其是清晨时分）可能表明该处表面温度较低且热量正在流失。这可能有多种原因，包括通风不良。较旧的单层玻璃窗会导致更多的热量损失，从而加剧这一问题。

● 暖气一直开启，但房子依然感觉很冷。如果您的家中难以维持舒适的温度，可能是热量通过墙壁、地板或屋顶流失。房间温度不均也可能是散热器工作不正常，或某些区域热量流失较快的迹象。诺瓦科维奇说：“房屋通过良好的绝缘和气密性在保温方面表现越好，维持舒适度所需的能量就越少。”

- 屋顶上的雪融化得更快。如果您的屋顶上的雪融化很快，而附近的房产依然被积雪覆盖——或者那里成了鸟类的聚集热点——这可能是热量流失的迹象。一座较旧或未安装绝缘层的房屋可能会通过屋顶流失 $25\%$ 的热量。

停车 使用 App 支付 为何可能贵 40%

幻想购房之旅 面向首次购房者的 新建房屋

卷。另一种低成本的修复方法是安装门封——通常是一圈安装在门框周围或门边缘的橡胶、乙烯基或硅胶条。

您可以使用基础的自粘泡沫条，或者花更多钱购买刷状密封条和压缩条（不要忘记信箱口和钥匙孔盖）。

根据 Checkatrade 的数据，聘请专业人员为漏风的开口安装密封条的价格约为每扇窗户 £50，或每扇外门 £100。

固定花园物品

在风暴来临前，应将花盆、花园家具和蹦床存放在室内或进行固定。

大门和围栏尤其容易受损，因此，大多数标准房屋保险单不允许就其维修费用提出索赔。

您可以使用混凝土柱来加固围栏，并考虑将围栏板更换为 50% 透风的面板（这类面板设有可让风通过的缝隙）。

维修价格因材料而异，但围栏板通常售价 £45, 而围栏柱的价格约为 £25.

◀ 2025 年，在风暴 Éowyn 和风暴 Floris 之后，英国房屋风暴损失的赔付额激增 32% CHARLES MCQUILLAN / GETTY IMAGES

主要成本在于人工，这取决于您居住的地点和工作量的大小，但 £950 是一个大概的数字。

为管道安装绝缘层 由管道冻结和爆裂造成的损失可能非常严重。根据英国保险协会（ABI）的数据，2024, 家庭保险公司处理了大约 8,000 起与天气相关的管道损坏索赔，总赔付金额达 2.5 亿英镑。平均每起索赔金额接近 3.3 万英镑。

为暴露在外的热水管安装绝缘层是一项简单的 DIY 工作。大多数 DIY 商店都有出售廉价的管道绝缘材料（通常称为管道包裹层）。根据节能信托基金会（Energy Saving Trust）的数据，安装此类材料每年可为您节省约 £6 的能源费用。

大多数现代热水箱都有充足的绝缘层，但旧款水箱的绝缘层可能很少。该信托基金会表示，增加一个内置 25mm 泡沫的 80mm 绝缘套，可以让英国的房主每年节省 £45。这种绝缘套的价格约为 £20，在 DIY 零售商处广泛销售。

此外，请找到您的止水阀——它通常在厨房水槽下方。该阀门允许您关闭进水供应。如果管道爆裂，这一点至关重要；如果您打算让房产处于无人居住状态，可能也需要使用它。在关闭供水后，将管道中剩余的水排空是一个好主意。

准备应急物资 政府正敦促人们通过储备瓶装水和罐头食品等必需品，为紧急情况“做好准备”。

您的应急包应包括便携式手机充电器、手电筒和电池、毯子以及保暖衣物。同时，请随手准备一份紧急电话清单。其中应包括停电报修电话 105 或燃气泄漏报修电话 0800 111999。

考虑为您的锅炉进行保养。彼得斯表示：“极寒风暴条件会导致室内温度迅速下降，迫使锅炉加大工作强度。”

“保养可以发现压力下降、沉积物堆积或部件磨损，这些问题可能会在重负荷运转下触发系统锁定。”一次保养通常花费约 £100, 但价格因锅炉类型而异。

▲ 固定围栏和花园家具以避免损坏

防止洪水

“洪水玛丽”（Flood Mary）活动的发起者、防洪倡导者玛丽·隆-多诺（Mary Long-Dhonau）在其网站上提供了一份专门从事防洪相关工程的建筑商名录。

隆-多诺警告说，“大量的水可以通过通风砖进入家中——事实上，这里通常是洪水进入房屋的首个位置”。

她建议将通风砖更换为带有 Kitemark 认证的自动关闭式通风砖。或者，您可以购买临时覆盖物。在紧急情况下，她建议使用宽铝箔胶带创建临时密封——一卷大胶带可以覆盖多个通风砖，可在网上或 DIY 店购买。

一旦洪水威胁过去，您应当移除所有临时覆盖物，以确保空气流通和温度调节正常。

人们通常认为防洪意味着要花费数千英镑——FPS 集团创始人、被称为“洪水专家”的西蒙·克劳瑟（Simon Crowther）表示，确实如此。但某些单一措施其实更容易实现。

“一套基础的家用防洪泵设备可能只需几百英镑，而一道门槛挡水板可能也就几百英镑，”他说。“目前市场上的示例显示，小型完整泵套装的价格大约在 £150 起，而一些家用门槛挡水板的价格大约在 £400-£600。”

如果您已经拥有防洪设备，现在就是测试它的时机。

“检查挡水板的密封件和固定件，确保所有部件齐全，并练习安装，”克劳瑟说。“如果您有水泵，请运行它并检查软管、连接处、浮球开关或传感器。”

房屋保险覆盖范围 价格比较网站 Compare the Market 的保险专家艾米·鲁瑟姆（Amy Rootham）表示，房屋建筑和财产保险通常提供针对天气或风暴损坏的部分保障。如果您的房屋无法居住，保险还可能资助替代住所。

但保险公司对于什么构成“风暴”有具体标准，其中可能包括风速或降雨强度。此外，此类保险旨在覆盖突然且不可预见的损坏，因此他们会评估风暴是否是问题的直接原因，或者是否只是暴露了原本就需要维修的问题。

鲁瑟姆表示，过去两年房屋保险保费一直在下降，但她警告房主在比较保单时不要“仅关注价格”。她说：“请仔细检查保障限额、免赔额和除外责任。”

储蓄

顶尖存款产品利率达 5% —— 但需迅速行动

鲁珀特·琼斯 (Rupert Jones)

国家储蓄与投资局 (NS&I) 提高了部分账户的收益率，其中许多账户的利率在近三年来首次超过 5%。

储蓄市场的竞争日益激烈，导致利率达到了多年来的最高水平。

然而，Moneyfactscompare.co.uk 网站的瑞秋·斯普林加尔 (Rachel Springall) 表示，在当前环境下，极具吸引力的产品并不总是能维持太久。如果供应商吸引了足够的储蓄资金，就会停止销售该产品。

NS&I 提高了其“英国储蓄债券” (British savings bonds) 的利率，这些债券是其担保增长债券 (guaranteed growth bonds) 和担保收益债券 (guaranteed income bonds) 的重新命名版本。它们提供 1 年、两年、三年或五年的固定利率。

这些产品面向新客户以及现有账户到期的客户。在增长版中，利息每年累加并在债券到期时支付；而在收益版中，利息每月支付。

观察增长债券，一年期产品的最新利率为 4.99%（高于之前的 4.82%），两年期利率升至 5.07%（此前为 4.81%）。三年期利率从 4.83% 上升至 5.1%，而五年期利率则提高至 5.17%（此前为 4.85%）。

这些利率相当具有竞争力，但正如咨询公司 AJ Bell 的个人财务主管莎拉·科尔斯 (Sarah Coles) 所说，“在其他地方仍然可以赚到更多钱”。

在撰写本文时，最高的一年期固定利率债券支付 5.12%，而最高的一五年期固定债券提供 5.37%。但为了获得最高利率，有时意味着需要选择知名度较低的——

4.99%

&I 一年期增长债券支付的利息。两年期最高为 5.07%，三年期为 5.1%

数字银行 Starling 为注册其 Easy Saver 账户的客户提供的顶尖利率

▲ &I 提高了其“英国储蓄债券”的利率

——机构。一年期产品来自印度联合银行（英国），而五年期产品来自 GB Bank。

如果你有一笔巨大的资金需要存放——例如房屋出售的款项或遗产——这些 &I 债券有一个巨大的优势：每人在每期债券中最高可投资 100 万英镑。最低投资额为 £500.

正如 &I 所言，“大多数银行仅担保你最高 100 万英镑 的储蓄”，而它由财政部支持，是“唯一能确保你超过此金额的 100% 储蓄安全的供应商”。

此外，这意味着你将资金存入了政府的储蓄银行，并且“你的储蓄将被重新投资于支持英国”。

投资于 &I 英国储蓄债券的资金在固定期限结束前不能取出。

这并不适合所有人，因此将部分资金留在高利率的便捷访问账户中以支付意外账单等费用是一个好主意。

本月早些时候，数字银行 Starling 宣布，注册其 Easy Saver 账户的人将享受 5% 的顶尖利率。该账户提供无限次无罚金取款，但该利率（由 2.5% 的可变标准利率加上为期六个月的 2.5% 固定利息奖金组成）仅适用于在 10 月 1 日或之后开设（或已开设）Starling 活期账户的人。该利率适用于最高 2.5 万英镑 的余额。

在此之前注册的 Starling 客户在开设新的 Easy Saver 账户时可享受 4% 的利率。这包括为期六个月的 1.5% 固定利息奖金。

与此同时，储蓄供应商高盛旗下的 Marcus 本周将其一年期固定利率储蓄账户的利率从 4.3% 提高到 4.75%。

停车费：被迫使用应用程序的司机最高需多支付 40%

安娜·蒂姆斯 (Anna Tims)

随着越来越多的议会转向仅限应用程序（app）的支付方式并强迫客户承担费用，司机们在不知不觉中支付的停车费最高增加了 40%。

英格兰许多议会（包括伦敦的若干议会）已经拆除了自动缴费机，取而代之的是应用程序支付。大多数地方当局鼓励司机通过应用程序支付以避免排队，而当缴费机故障时，应用程序往往是唯一的支付方式。然而，许多停车场的标志并未提及应用程序支付可能会产生额外的服务费。

停车应用程序通过省去安装和维护缴费机的成本为议会节省了资金，但虽然少数议会直接向应用程序提供商支付服务费，许多议会则通过“便利费”或“服务费”让司机承担部分或全部账单。

这些费用通常在 10 便士到 30 便士之间，但即使在应用程序是唯一支付选项的情况下，它们也不包含在停车场的广告停车费率中，且在应用程序内部通常没有显著标明。

在《卫报》测试的停车应用程序中，没有一个在支付阶段之前清晰地显示服务费，而且即便到了支付阶段，有些仍要求客户点击信息符号才能查明价格上涨的原因。

这些附加费可能会大幅推高一小时停车位的成本。在北约克郡的哈罗盖特（Harrogate），在市中心停车并使用应用程序支付的司机需承担 30 便士的强制性服务费——在 80 便士的费率基础上上涨了 $38%。

与此同时，在切斯特（Chester）议会管理的克里斯托尔顿路（Christleton Road）停车场，当 20 便士的便利费被添加到 50 便士的费率中时，两小时的停车价格飙升了 $40%。

根据广告标准管理局（Advertising Standards Authority）的规定，报价必须包含所有强制性费用，合同才有效。司机一旦接受停车场的条款并停放车辆，就与议会签订了合同。

然而，很少有人意识到，如果选择在线支付，他们实际上是与应用程序提供商签订了一份单独的合同。因此，应用程序费用在法律上可能不需要显示在议会的停车标志上。

《卫报》通过在全国各地的停车场预订一小时停车位来测试这些应用程序。

RingGo 的便利费在兰开斯特（Lancaster）Kings Yard 的 £2 费率基础上额外增加了 20 便士。

通常人们别无选择，只能通过应用程序支付停车费，但大多数驾驶员并未意识到这些隐藏的附加费。 克里斯托弗·汤蒙德 (CHRISTOPHER THOMOND) / 《卫报》

司机在选择位置后，必须点击显眼的“下一步”按钮上方的一个微小的“查看价格”链接才能看到费用。支付页面再次提及了该费用，但仅在点击最终价格旁边的“i”符号时才会显示。

PayByPhone 在伯明翰 Dudley Street 停车场的 £5.10 停车费基础上收取了 15 便士的服务费。该费用的存在直到支付页面才被解释，且被隐藏在 Apple Pay 按钮之后。

使用 JustPark 的客户必须在预订流程结束时，点击最终价格旁边一个极小的浅灰色“i”符号才能发现其交易费。在多塞特郡莱姆里吉斯（Lyme Regis）的 Charmouth Road 停车场，这在 £3.50 的停车费基础上增加了 12 便士。

MiPermit 在预订结束时的最终价格上方列出了其 10 便士的费用。这是在西萨塞克斯郡利特尔汉普顿（Littlehampton）£1.90 停车费之上的额外征收。

RingGo 表示，该费用用于资助其提供的服务，至于是否在停车场标志上显示，取决于与其合作的议会。其母公司 Arrive 的亚当·多尔芬（Adam Dolphin）表示：“根据现有规定，只要 RingGo 应用程序中显示价格信息，我们也会显示任何额外费用。”

JustPark 表示，强制性费用已包含在支付时提供的报价中。一名发言人表示：“在支付阶段不会增加任何费用。‘i’图标仅为那些想要了解详情的驾驶员展示该全包价格的构成。”

PayByPhone 表示其定价是透明的。一名发言人表示：“与停车、短信选项和服务费相关的定价要素在支付确认前均已呈现。适用的定价信息——无论是费用、停车费率还是选项——均可在网站和应用程序中查到。”

已联系 MiPermit 寻求评论。

代表各议会的英国地方政府协会（Local Government Association）表示，确保费用清晰且透明由应用程序提供商负责。

英国交通部表示，停车资费和附加费由各议会决定。一名发言人表示：“驾驶员在支付停车费之前，应当能够清晰地看到将被收取的费用。”

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为办理青少年护照，父亲被要求进行 DNA 检测

我的青春期女儿因为英国对双重国籍者必须持有英国护照的新要求，而无法见到她的祖父母。

我是英国公民，配偶是法国国民，我们居住在法国。我们的两个大孩子同时持有法国和英国护照。我们的第三个孩子是在我们居住在津巴布韦期间出生的，目前仅持有法国护照。

我从 2 月开始为她申请英国护照。我必须提交我妻子怀孕时的照片、从出生至今的家庭照片、医院记录以及法国结婚证和出生证明的官方翻译件。

在一次官方面试中，我被问到了我的工作、通勤情况以及房子的布局，但关于我与女儿关系的询问却寥寥无几。

随后我被告知，证明我父亲身份的证据不足，并被建议考虑进行 DNA 检测，这将花费 £600 且需要更多时间。

我们需要去英国探望我年迈且身体不适的父亲，但由于担心女儿被拒绝登机，我们不敢冒险。 BN，法国

您的女儿是 2 月起生效的新规定下的受害者，这些规定实际上拒绝了没有英国护照的双重国籍英国人的入境。

外国国民可以使用其居住国签发的护照自由入境，但外籍人士除非支付 £589 办理权利证明书（certificate of entitlement），否则无法做到。

由于英国政府不承认您的女儿是英国国民，您询问她是否可以使用法国护照旅行。没有人能回答这个问题。

结果，您将面临与父母分开度过圣诞节的局面。内政部规定，如果申请人拒绝 DNA 检测，官员必须根据“概率平衡”原则审理护照申请。他们还必须解释拒绝申请的原因。而您

▲ 新规定让许多双重国籍英国人的生活变得困难

从未被告知为什么您提供的海量父亲身份证明被认为是不充分的。

内政部不会对个案发表评论，但它确实告诉我，可能会要求提供额外的证据（例如房屋布局）以增加“可信的真实性”。

不久之后，您被通知申请最终获得了批准，尽管自 4 月以来并未要求提供任何新文件。

BT 在线路中断的情况下仍向我收取数月费用

自 2025 年 5 月 BT 将我的电话切换为数字语音（Digital Voice）以来，我就没有了固定电话。几周过去了，每次给 打电话都意味着至少一小时的电话等待，并且在被转接到不同部门之前，还得回答安全问题。

最终，去年 12 月，两名工程师被派来检查，发现升级过程中有一根电线被切断了。他们说需要一台高空作业车才能将其重新连接到原位置，并表示会回来处理。但他们没有回来。

我给 打了电话但无济于事，而一直以来，我都在为一条无法使用的固定电话付费。

由于患有严重疾病，我被列入了优先服务名单，现在我只能在无助中流泪。 ——HH，约克

您每月为一条失效的固定电话和宽带支付 £32.99，不过宽带并未受影响。 声称在您去年 12 月投诉之前，他们并未意识到这个问题。您坚持认为在此之前已经报告过，但没有记录具体时间。事实证明，在工程师们那次无果的访问后，该案件在 12 月被关闭了。

您随后在 1 月再次投诉，但 承认再次关闭了该案件，因为到那时，您的固定电话已被从账户中移除，尽管您仍在被收费。

表示，直到我在 7 月介入之前，他们没有再次收到您的消息。

您表示，您之前相信了关于修复工作正在进行中的承诺。

在我联系之后，一名投诉经理给您打了电话，您被提供 £6.46 作为对其失职的“补偿”。您的线路最终在 9 月激活。

电信监管机构英国通信管理局（Ofcom）要求，如果报告的故障在两个工作日内未得到纠正，供应商每天需支付 £10.34 赔偿金，这意味着从理论上讲，您有权获得超过 4,600 英镑 的赔偿。

我已将此问题提交给 ，但 态度强硬，因为他们声称您在报告问题前等待了数月。由于您无法提供证据来反驳这一点，我无法就此据理力争。

您可以选择向通信申诉专员提出投诉，但您已接受 £689 的赔偿，这涵盖了 承认符合赔偿规则的 60 天无服务期，以及对其记录在案的两起投诉处理不当的补偿。

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幻想购房指南：面向首次购房者的新建住宅

由 Anna White 编译

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当布伦特十字镇（Brent Cross Town）的改造完成后，这里将拥有 6,700 套住宅和 50 家商店、餐厅和咖啡馆，以及 20 公顷（50 英亩）的公园绿地和室内设施。在 Ashbee 大楼的一楼，有一套带私人庭院的单身公寓出售。住户可以使用休息室、健身房和电影室，此外还提供礼宾服务。新的布伦特十字西站（Brent Cross West station）可在约 15 分钟内将您带到伦敦市中心。布伦特十字镇，020 3319 0729

◀诺福克波特罗 (Pott Row, Norfolk) 42.5 万英镑

对于那些跳过传统的购房第一阶梯、直接购买家庭规模住宅的首次购房者，这里有一栋位于 Russell Court 的四卧室瑞士风格别墅，该项目是一个被农田环绕的小村庄乡村开发区。它位于金斯林（King's Lynn）以东三英里处，靠近桑德林厄姆（Sandringham）和诺福克海岸国家景观区。一楼有两个卧室，二楼在家庭浴室旁边有两个卧室。该房屋在设计时考虑了能源效率，一楼设有地暖并配备空气源热泵。能源效率评级为 B。Sowerbys，01553 766 741

◀ 肯特郡，埃布斯弗利特花园城市 224,995 英镑

这是一个长期再生项目，旨在肯特郡西北部靠近海岸的地方打造一座拥有 15,000 套住宅的新城镇。埃布斯弗利特十字区（Ebbsfleet Cross）距离布鲁沃特（Bluewater）购物中心仅两英里，是一组位于公园绿地中的一居室、两居室和三居室住宅。这里有一套位于二楼的一居室公寓，建筑面积为 50 平方米（538 平方英尺）。走廊连接着一个开放式厨房-餐厅和起居空间，并设有通往阳台的出口。旁边是一个斜角设计的双人卧室。从埃布斯弗利特乘坐高速火车前往伦敦圣潘克拉斯车站大约需要 18 分钟。Foxtons，020 7133 7744

▲ 坎布里亚郡，阿尔斯顿 42.5 万英镑

在据称是英格兰最高集镇的阿尔斯顿边缘，有名为 Forest Drive 的开发项目，包含 13 栋独立住宅。目前有一栋三居室房屋出售，带有一个由传统石墙环绕的花园和一个独立双车库。走廊设有地暖，主起居室位于一侧。厨房位于后方。Finest，0330 111 2266

▼ 伦敦，布罗姆利-拜-鲍 46 万英镑

俯瞰利河（River Lea）的是 Waterside 计划的一居室和两居室公寓。政府“你的第一套房”（Your First Home）计划的详情预计将在预算案中公布。与此同时，开发商正在提供自己的激励措施：2 万英镑 用于抵扣印花税成本。七楼有一套带阳台的一居室公寓出售。 JLL Residential，0207 087 5100

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火车轨道（Train tracks）

LITTERRUGC 字母轮

Sugrun

密码字（Codeword）

数和（Kakuro）

第 132 号答案 快速隐喻

数和（Kakuro）

填充网格，使每个区块的数字之和等于其上方或左侧方框中的总数。您只能使用数字 1-9，且每个区块中不能重复使用同一个数字。

密码字（Codeword）

破解代码以填充填字游戏网格。字母表中的每个字母在网格中至少出现一次，且无论出现在何处都由相同的数字表示。部分字母已被解码，以帮助识别网格中的其他字母和单词。

Suguru

填充网格，使每个轮廓区块中的每个方格包含一个数字。两个方格的区块包含数字 1 和 2，三个方格的区块包含数字 1, 2 和 3, 依此类推。相邻方格（包括对角线）中不得出现相同的数字。

火车轨道

铺设轨道，使火车能够从 A 村行驶到 B 村。数字表示每行和每列中轨道的节数。只有直线轨道和曲线轨道。轨道不能自我交叉。

三明治数独

中等难度

在每行、每列和 3x3 宫格中填入数字 1-9。网格外的线索显示该行或该列中，位于 1 和 9 之间数字的总和。

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快速填字游戏 no 17,607

横向

1 移动到新位置 (4) 3 表示感激的声音 (8) 9 避免 - above it (字母易位) (7) 10 大约 (5) 11 折叠 (5) 12 深蓝色 (6) 14 被称为“同辈之首”的人 (5,8) 17 古希腊的城邦 (6) 19 非法猎捕动物 (5) 22 被……包围 (5) 23 作为替代方案 (7) 24 短暂的 (8) 25 政治哲学家 Karl ____，卒于 1883 年 (4)

纵向

1 气动武器 (8) 2 家 —— 还是恐怖之所？ (5) 4 比如雨或雪 (13) 5 易于理解的 (5) 6 竖立 (7) 7 英国民谣歌手兼词曲作者 MacColl，卒于 1989 年 (4) 8 象征负责任职位的服装 (6) 13 常规的 (8) 15 向内坍塌 (7) 16 顽皮的 (6) 18 完全地 —— 荣誉的 (5) 20 游戏或观看的场所 (5) 21 无家可归的孩子 (4)

单词轮

使用轮盘中的字母尽可能多地寻找单词。每个单词必须包含中心字母和至少另外两个字母。字母只能使用一次。不得使用复数、外来词或专有名词。至少有一个九字母单词。目标：优秀-29。非常出色-25。良好-21。目标-16。

《卫报》快速隐晦填字游戏 No 132 由 Dice 出题

横向 1 食物盒缺乏活力，根据斯普纳主义 (Spooner) 的说法 (6,5) 7 上升并抛投以捕鱼 (7) 8 潘多拉所持的麻烦，不吉利的 (3) 9 下跪，去掉头部，一丝光芒透出 (3) 10 斯普纳主义对工人的昵称，在热水里喝酒的人？ (3,3) 13 标记猪，斯普纳主义者说，为了香肠三明治 (3,3) 15 哪个人？多么醉！ (3) 17 容器中未开启的牛奶类型 (3) 18 主要的垃圾，根据斯普纳主义，一碗绿色的东西？ (3,4) 19 斯普纳主义的照明指示灯显示一个人能看到多少 (4,2,5)

向下

1 困在爷爷的尝试派中，仅限一人 (6) 2 急匆匆奔跑，丢了帽子，变成了热食 (5) 3 性别歧视的教育者，在某种程度上，“曾经是一回事” (7) 4 猪肉派是我想享用的餐食的一部分 (3) 5 羚羊，伪装在许多 lannea 之中 (5) 6 正义的 Spooner 说：“看那个男人！” (4) 11 FA 在周围徘徊，为了亚洲国民 (7) 12 Pho tot 翻转过来是一种炖菜 (3,3) 14 频繁地在驱逐第一个之后变得更温和 (5) 15 生长错误地——它不对 (5) 16 在线注册欺凌者隐藏面孔 (4) 18 专家在某种程度上是平易近人的 (3)

今日技巧：线索以答案的定义开始或结束。其余部分属于以下类型之一： 字母易位：答案的字母易位，并提示有易位。例如“Senator arranged crime (7)”得出 TREASON。 隐藏词：答案隐藏在线索的词语中。例如“Some have altered meat (4)”得出 VEAL。 Spoonerism（首音互换）：答案中词语的首音互换。例如“Spooner says rowers let slip sea creature (4,4)”通过“crew blab”得出 BLUE CRAB。 去首字母：答案是另一个词去掉首字母。例如“Beer in story without intro (3)”得出 ALE。

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Chris Maslanka 解答

1 他们将其发音为 queue-knee-form，而那个古板的老头坚持认为应该是 cue-nay-i-form，就像中足那些楔形的小骨头一样（你知道的，在舟骨和前三个跖骨之间）。好吧，如果你的外科医生那样发音，而且博学的欧文·芬克尔博士（Dr Irving Finkel）——他能读写这种文字——也那样发音，我们又怎么能反驳呢？

但不要以为 Pedanticus 看不出语言误用中的幽默之处。在一次关于 Ndrangheta 的节目中，当他听到 FBI 通过一个“双向窗户”（two-way window）监视嫌疑人时，他笑得前仰后合了好久。

2 Candy 是这样做的：如果 $\text{ab} / (\text{a} + {b}) = {k}$ ，其中 ${a, b}$ 和 ${k}$ 是正整数。那么 ${ab} - {k}({a} + {b})$ 。在等式两边同时加上 ${k}^2$：${} - {k}({a} + {b}) + {k}^2 = {k}^2 = ({a} - {k})({b} - {k}) = {k}^2$ 。那么，我们总是可以将 ${k}^2$ 分解为 $1 \times {k}^2$ 或 ${k} \times {k}$ 。因此，我们总是可以选择 $({a} - {k}) = 1$ 且 $({b} - {k}) = {k}^2$；那么 ${a} = {k} + 1$ 且 b = k(k + 1)；因此对于每个正整数 k，我们都能为 a 和 b 找到相应的正整数；所以存在无数个 (a, b, k) 全为正整数的例子。

3 两个较小的三角形相似；因此 (a - l) / l = l / (b - l)；由此得出 (a - l)(b - l) = l² 且 - bl - al + l² = l²，从而 l = / (a + b)。正方形的面积为 S = l² = [() / (a + b)]²；三角形的面积 T = () / 2。因此分数 f 为 S / T = [() / (a + b)]² / [() / 2] =

$2ab / (a + b)^{2}$ 。如果 $2ab / (a + b)^{2} = 1 / 2$ ，那么 $a^{2} + b^{2} + 2ab = 4ab$ ；因此 $(a - b)^{2} = 0$ 且 a = b。证毕。思考点：f 的最大可能值是多少？

4 最初必须是 3 个红球和 6 个白球，或者反之。 [思考点：你怎么知道的？]

无论哪种情况都可以用来计算增加的蓝色球数量。增加正确数量的蓝色球必须使概率保持不变。

设其为 x。那么 $[3.2 + 6.5 + x(x - 1)] / [(9 + x)(8 + x)] = \frac{1}{2}$ 。解 x：x = 0 或 19。 [验证：$[3.2 + 6.5 + 19.18] / [28.27] = [6 + 36 + 342] / $

[28.27] = 378 / (4.7.27) = 54 / (4.27) = 2 / (4) = 1 / 2.

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伊赛亚斯 (Isaias) 已成为 2026 年飓风季的首个大西洋飓风，风速达 80 英里 / 小时，最低气压为 975 毫巴。根据美国国家海洋和大气管理局 (NOAA) 的数据，预计在昨日接近美国北部墨西哥湾沿岸之前，它将进一步增强为 2 级飓风。

由于今年的强厄尔尼诺现象，大西洋飓风季异常平静。事实上，该季首个飓风出现得如此之晚，此前可追溯至 1905 年 10 月 8 日。

伊赛亚斯定于当地时间昨日傍晚登陆，预计将给墨西哥湾沿岸带来 75 毫米 (3 英寸) 至 150 毫米的降雨。部分地区降雨量可能高达 250 毫米，存在山洪爆发和局部河流泛滥的风险。NOAA 还表示，墨西哥湾北部部分沿岸地区出现危及生命的风暴潮风险正在增加，佛罗里达州狭长地带、阿拉巴马州南部和密西西比州部分地区可能出现破坏性的飓风级强风。

当地居民已被告知要为长时间停电的可能性做好准备，听从当地官员的建议，并在接到通知时撤离。Megan Davies MetDesk

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那天让他不安的原因就是这些狗。“那是一个非常滑稽的时刻，”他说，“它们看起来就像两个窥视窗帘的邻居，虽然并不怎么隐蔽。我喜欢它们被完美地框在画面里，砖墙和树篱提供了令人愉悦的质感，但真正让这张照片出彩的是它们脸上那种不赞同的表情。”

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出生于贝德福德郡卢顿的斯泰西·杜利 (Stacey Dooley)，39, 岁，她在 15 岁时离开学校，担任店员。2007 年，她被选中参加 BBC 的真人秀系列节目《血汗与 T 恤》(Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts)。这促成了《斯泰西·杜利调查》(Stacey Dooley Investigates) 系列的诞生，以及她作为深度纪录片主持人的职业生涯。2018, 年，她与一名伊斯兰国士兵的面对面交锋为她赢得了“一个世界媒体奖”(One World Media award)，她还因在广播电视领域的贡献被授予 MBE 勋章。她为 BBC 拍摄了三部新的调查电影，并主持 BBC 系列节目《点击诱饵诊所》(Clickbait Clinic)。她在参加《舞动奇迹》(Strictly Come Dancing) 期间与舞者凯文·克利夫顿 (Kevin Clifton) 结识并成为搭档；他们育有一个女儿，现居住在默西赛德郡。

你最厌恶自己的哪个特质？

我相当贪婪。每当我达成某个目标，或者感觉某件事进展得非常顺利时，我就会想：“好了，接下来要做什么？接下来要得到什么？”

你最厌恶他人哪个特质？ 没礼貌。

最尴尬的时刻？我在 O2 体育馆参加《舞动奇迹》（Strictly）现场巡演时，裙子掉下来了。于是我就穿着内裤站在 O2 的舞台中央——而且那甚至不是我的内裤，是借来的大号舞台内裤。

你会选择名声还是匿名？ 名声。

用三个词描述你自己 幸运，比人们认为的更幽默，没组织能力。

如果能拥有超能力，你希望是什么？能够听到人们在我离开房间后说了什么。

我在 O2 的《舞动奇迹》 现场巡演期间 裙子掉下来了。 当时我穿着 借来的大号 舞台内裤。

什么会让你不开心？ 自从当了母亲，我变得焦虑了很多。对事情进行灾难化想象的感觉相当糟糕。

你最不喜欢自己外貌的哪一点？当我意识到自己要上电视，而前一天晚上没洗头时，我看剪辑片段会想：“我为什么不干脆起来洗个头呢？”

如果你能让某种灭绝的事物复活，你会选择什么？多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）。

你最不讨人喜欢的习惯是什么？执拗——我无法接受被拒绝。

成长过程中你想成为什么？我想经营一家酒店，在市场工作，或者开一家干洗店。

爱是什么感觉？无条件的，坚定不移的，不可协商的。这是唯一真正重要的事情。

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你最常过度使用的词语或短语是什么？这就是演艺圈（That's showbiz）。

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上一次你改变对某件重大事情的看法是什么时候？我经常改变对政治领导人的看法。我认为改变主意是健康的。

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你离触犯法律最近的一次经历是什么？ 年轻的时候我经常在商店偷东西——蓝色眼线笔、冰棍——所有必需品。长大后，我经常和一些身份可疑的人混在一起。

生活教会你最重要的道理是什么？认真对待重要的事情，但不要太把自己当回事。

经历：在 99 岁时，我成为了世界上年龄最大的人群冲浪者

口述给亚历山德拉·西姆斯（Alexandra Sims）

2013 年，当时我 87 岁，在俄亥俄州和从大学回家休假的孙子罗斯（Ross）一起打篮球。他拍了一段我封盖他投篮的视频并发布到网上，人们非常喜欢。我们开始一起拍喜剧短剧，现在在 Instagram 上拥有超过 400 万粉丝。在拍了很多短视频之后，我们决定拍一部关于我生活的纪录片。作为其中一部分，我们整理了我的遗愿清单。我想做的事情之一就是打破一项世界纪录。罗斯和我花了几个月时间思考一件既离谱，又有趣且具有包容性的事情。最后我们决定让我成为世界上年龄最大的人群冲浪者。

罗斯认识乡村歌手布兰特利·吉尔伯特（Brantley Gilbert），后者愿意在德克萨斯州贝尔维尔的一场演出中帮我们实现这个愿望。起初，在人群冲浪期间，我本打算被绑在罗斯制作的一块板子上以保护我的背部，但那块板子弯曲得太厉害，所以他改用担架将我绑在上面。

这件事发生那天，我 99 岁 274 天。这是我第一次尝试人群冲浪。为了打破纪录，我必须在空中停留至少 10 秒。现场有 20,000 人——我们计划让他们将我沿直线从后方传到前方。但在预定开始前 20 分钟，我们发现主观众席的所有人都坐在椅子上，椅子之间有空隙。罗斯开始恐慌。于是我们改用了冲撞区（mosh pit），我以 U 型路线从舞台右侧传到了舞台左侧。

我穿了一件白 T 恤，上面印着我脸部的红色轮廓，这样我就能从人群中脱颖而出。布兰特利向大家介绍我时说：“要是你们把奶奶弄掉了，我就揍你们。”

我被抛向空中，感觉就像在飞行。我知道我必须信任每一个人。罗斯很紧张，因为舞台两侧之间有一条通道，中间有 10 英尺的间隙和一道高栅栏，我必须被传过那里。就在我经过时，他跳过了栅栏

我如此满足。我张开双臂，感觉触手可及天空

“活出最精彩的人生，永远不嫌晚” 保琳·卡纳（Pauline Kana），100 岁

跨过围栏，安保人员将我托举起来。我被托举了三分钟多——几乎是一整首歌的时间。我如此满足。我张开双臂，感觉触手可及天空。

当我回到舞台上时，人群在齐声高喊：“奶奶，奶奶”。我站在那里，沉浸在这一切之中。这让我起了一身鸡皮疙瘩。我被吉尼斯世界纪录认证为在演唱会上进行“人群冲浪”的最年长人士。

所有的点子都是罗斯（Ross）想出来的。他说他是史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格，而我是贝蒂·怀特。直到有一天我去杂货店，人们要求和我拍照时，我才意识到大家有多喜欢我们的视频。

这对我来说是全新的生活。我在俄亥俄州的一个农场长大，是七个孩子中最小的一个。那时我们没有电视，也没有电话。我从小就要做家务。第二次世界大战期间，我在一家武器工厂制造弹药，之后一直在工厂工作直到 83. 岁退休。我一直很努力工作——这给了我目标感。

拍视频是一种新型的工作。结识新朋友是我最喜欢的部分。我在红毯上见过教皇利奥，还见过汤姆·霍兰德（Tom Holland）和坏痞兔（Bad Bunny）这样的名人。我喜欢结识那些通过社交媒体认识我们的朋友。他们走过来对我说：“我在医院里感到孤独和悲伤，看你们的视频让我振作了起来。”有人说，在看到罗斯和我在一起的样子后，他们与家人重新建立了联系。当我躺在临终之床时，我希望知道我们让每个人的日子都变得好了一点点。

罗斯还是婴儿时由我照顾，但这段经历让我们关系更近了。以前，我一年只能见他几次，但现在我们一起住在俄亥俄州。

今年夏天我满 100 岁了，我举办了两场数百人参加的派对。我不敢相信自己已经 100. 岁了。在我的兄弟姐妹中，我是唯一一个活到这么大年纪的人。并非每天都那么美好。变老最困难的部分是各种酸痛。制作视频给了我一个目标，这在我感觉不那么舒服的日子里给了我动力。

我希望我们的视频能让人们意识到，活出最精彩的人生永远不嫌晚。如果你想尝试新鲜事物，现在就去做。享受每一刻，因为时间转瞬即逝。 保琳·卡纳

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访谈：埃里卡·布伊斯特（Erica Buist） ● 爱德华，38, 布里斯托 职业 中学英语教师 投票记录 爱德华在工党和绿党之间摇摆 开胃小点 他在布里斯托组织口述诗之夜

马丁，55, 布伦特福德 职业 私人教练 投票记录 主要投给保守党，但曾投给托尼·布莱尔 开胃小点 他曾是一名压力巨大的、身体不健康的游说者，后来决定做出剧烈改变。他开始跑10公里，然后是超马，在他 50 岁时，他在一个400米的跑道上跑了 24 小时，“因为我是个白痴”

首先

马丁 我有点担心，想知道这是否会演变成一场争吵。但他真的是个很好的人。爱德华 我们相处得非常好。那是一个愉快的夜晚。

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马丁 我先点了鱿鱼，然后是开心果辣椒蟹肉意面——非常美味。此外，还有一杯西西里柠檬水和我最喜欢的甜点，阿芙佳朵（affogato）。爱德华 我先点了一份非常美味的金枪鱼塔塔，主菜是牛肉烩面（beef ragu）和一杯红葡萄酒，最后以一份阿芙佳朵收尾。

激烈的争论

马丁：我对净零排放的看法是，我们已经知道这基本上是不可能的，如果你给人们一个不可能完成的目标，他们就会放弃。碳捕集对于英国实现净零排放至关重要，但目前还没有人证明它在测试站点之外具有可扩展性。爱德华：如果你完全没有目标，那么就没有人会为此努力。但我确实认为需要更多的监督，确保我们将资金投入到最有可能产生最大影响的事项中，而不仅仅是为了勾选完成项。马丁：温度限制本应是 1.5℃，但情况可能会恶化到 3。如果我们偏离目标这么多，那就毫无意义了。爱德华：他当时说我们反正可能会达到 3℃，那么花钱还有什么意义？我认为这种想法有点虚无主义。

分享餐盘

马丁：公务员系统雇佣了超过 550,000 人。我认为这太多了。鲍里斯·约翰逊时期的前 No 10 通讯主管发现，通讯人员比他们意识到的多出了 4,000 人。我认为我们可以通过技术来解决很多问题，而不是通过增加人手。爱德华：考虑到他们需要解决的问题规模和人口数量，我不认为这是一个疯狂庞大的雇员人数。我们需要的是更好的管理。我们不需要那些在这些领域毫无经验的部长进来，为了让自己的简历好看而做出巨大的改变。

甜点时间

马丁：我认为我们需要增加国防开支，不是在士兵身上，而是在网络战争和无人机技术上。我觉得爱德华有一个非常有趣的观点：国防的部分成本可能会由气候危机触发。因为如果我们继续目前的路线，将会出现资源冲突，以及某些国家因变得不再适宜居住而导致的大规模移民。

爱德华：我们一致认为，未来的攻击不太可能是炸弹或人员入侵英国，而是对银行系统的攻击，或者可能是无人机攻击。对我来说，国防意味着如果某些东西与外界被切断，你能够独立生存并维持自身。如果你作为一个国家在石油价格方面很脆弱，那么你在冲突面前就很脆弱。我认为对抗外国恶意行为者最强有力的防线之一就是能源独立——只要有适当的投资，我们就可以实现。我们周围有海洋，有阳光，有风，还有核能。

总结感悟

马丁：我原以为爱德华会认为核能是令人厌恶的。但他并不这么认为。所以我的感悟是意识到，并非所有参与或投入到环保运动中的人都持有相同的想法。我不知道他是否改变了我的想法，但他确实让我思考了。

爱德华：能遇到一个我平时可能不会接触到的人，真的非常愉快。我原以为他会比实际情况激进得多。我认为我们在目标上并没有那么大的分歧，只是达成目标的途径不同。

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回顾

加雷斯·马隆：“在拿到圣诞单曲 No 1 后，我开始与西蒙·考威尔会面，与加里·巴洛喝茶，并与安德鲁·劳埃德·韦伯共进晚餐”

采访：哈丽特·吉布森 主肖像：波尔·汉森 造型：安迪·雷德曼

1990年 我在弹奏降B大调——我怀疑那是《Hey Jude》

加雷斯·马隆（Gareth Malone）1975年出生于伦敦，是一位合唱团指挥和广播员。他的职业生涯始于为伦敦交响乐团管理青少年和社区合唱团，并于2006年的《合唱团》（The Choir）节目中首次亮相。此后，他创建了由莱斯特校童、艾尔斯伯里囚犯以及“军嫂合唱团”（Military Wives）组成的合唱团，后者创作了 No 1 单曲《Wherever You Are》。他与妻子和三个孩子住在伦敦。他的新现场演出《Sing-A-Long-A-Gareth: At the Movies》将于今年秋季在英国巡演。

那时我15岁，正处于自信心增长的阶段，从那身双层牛仔装和姿势就能看出来。这张照片应该是在我父母位于伯恩茅斯的家中举办的一次派对上拍的。在不帮客人斟酒的时候，我会弹奏一些歌曲——看起来我当时在弹降B大调，所以我怀疑那一刻弹的是《Hey Jude》。

在此之前的几年里，学校生活一直很艰难。在我10岁时，我们从温布尔登一个绿树成荫的宜居区搬到了伯恩茅斯，在那之前，我的朋友既有女孩也有男孩。进入一个新地区的纯男生文法学校是一次剧烈的转变，我很难交到朋友。虽然没有肢体上的欺凌，但在中学的前三年里，我经历了一段持续的被排挤时期，这种情况一直延续到 year 10。这件事从未被讨论过。学校没有说过“你正在被欺凌，如果你和其他男生有任何问题，请来找我们”。我父母可能知道，因为我从来不带朋友回家。相反，我学会了如何处理自己的问题，那就是通过音乐和戏剧。那是我的救赎。

我觉得很幸运学校里有音乐工作室——在商业研究和数学的海洋中，那里是一个可以表达自我的地方。弹奏合成器开启了我对制作和全方位音乐极客研究的终身热爱。我们家里也有一架钢琴，我以前常坐在琴前，感觉在那儿创造声音能坐上好几个小时。

母亲曾在艾比人寿保险公司（Abbey Life Assurance）和公务员系统工作。父亲在一家银行工作。他们两个都不是特别追求事业的人——他们享受生活、家庭和房子，因此经常有朋友来访。我的祖父母也非常重要。作为独生子长大让我很习惯独处，但这确实意味着我没有掌握其他男孩拥有的一些肢体语言。当其他孩子捣乱时，我经常反应过度。“你为什么那样跟我说话？没人那样跟我说话。你为什么表现得这么愚蠢？不，我不想粗鲁地玩，也不想去踢足球，因为那是五岁小孩才做的事。”我更愿意坐下来聊天。这一切可能就是为什么我在学校里更倾向于和女孩们在一起——她们更理智一些。

在青少年时期，我非常迷恋齐柏林飞艇（Led Zeppelin）和平克·弗洛伊德（Pink Floyd）。我经常在乐队里唱歌——但我也痴迷于肯尼斯·布拉纳在《亨利五世》中的表现，所以我决定在东英吉利大学学习戏剧。我对假装成一只猪，以及进行大量小丑表演和面具表演有着美好的回忆。在那之后，我前往伦敦的皇家音乐学院学习音乐。对我来说，这是一个艰难的过渡——我从照片中那种傲慢的、处于中间过渡阶段的状态，变成了意识到自己与同龄人相比其实相当平庸。

毕业后，我回到了伯恩茅斯。在投递简历的同时，我通过卖冰淇淋来赚点钱。一个朋友联系我说，他们看到一个在普尔（Poole）从事青年工作的广告，觉得我很适合。他们需要一个年轻且懂音乐的人，去指导一群住在贫困程度较高社区的当地孩子。那里有一个小音乐室，里面有几件破旧的乐器，我尝试教孩子们如何演奏。我对为每个人提供机会——一个安全空间和音乐——的热情便源于此。

我也意识到，要让人们信任我，我必须做真实的自己。我来自完全不同的社会阶层，而且眼神天真，毫无经验。孩子们能闻到我身上那种中产阶级的气息，所以任何试图装酷或冷漠的行为都行不通。我必须彻底地做我自己。

我的工作是给他人信心，但在我自己的自尊心方面，我也经历了一段心路历程，尤其是在面对镜头时。当我第一次获得出演电视节目的机会时，我正与伦敦交响乐团合作并领导一支合唱团。《合唱团》（The Choir）的制作人看到我们在谷歌上的评分很高，于是联系了我。

2026 没有一天是我不在钻研音乐的——那个少年时期的我会欣喜若狂的

这部剧讲述了在米德尔塞克斯郡的诺索尔特高中（Northolt high school）组建合唱团的故事。在整个过程中，我尝试在镜头前运用我在青年小组中学到的那种真实方法。我被赋予了一份从未尝试过的绝佳工作，但我是在全国电视节目中学习如何完成它的。我一直被拍摄着。导演说：“I want you when you’re angry, I want when ’re upset, I want when ’re happy. I won’t make look like an idiot.” 他信守承诺，但我记得当时我很紧张，试图让自己看起来掌控全局，而且犹豫不决。

当你被认出来时，这可能是一份伟大的礼物，但当你，比如，在倒垃圾时，这又成了一种负担。当《军妻》（Military Wives）拿到 No 1, 时，我突然被推向了一个新的名人层级：我见到了西蒙·考威尔（Simon Cowell），与加里·巴洛（Gary Barlow）喝茶，与安德鲁·劳埃德·韦伯（Andrew Lloyd Webber）共进晚餐。我对那段时间的记忆是极其强烈的——当你拿到圣诞 No 1, 时，就像是加入了一个奇怪的俱乐部，成员包括 Slade 乐队的 Noddy 和 Shakin' Stevens 这样的人。然而，所有的光环从未让我忘记 20 年前我进入这个行业的初衷。那就是专注于我对音乐的热情以及艺术在人们生活中的重要性。音乐和在合唱团中唱歌具有某种治愈力。当人们聚集在一起时，会被此激励。今年年初我失去了一位朋友，在他去世前，他对我说了句深情的话：“我们终究没能去喝那杯啤酒。”这很残酷。如此简单的一件事，却因为我们都沉溺于事业而变得不可能。电视节目、学位——所有这些成就都很棒。它们是我许多幸福感的基石。但这并不是最重要的。人与社区才是。

当我 15 岁时，我对成年后的生活有一个清晰的愿景。那包括一个放满各种乐器的音乐工作室。少年时期的我会欣喜若狂地知道，在我的花园尽头有一个小窝，里面有钢琴、鼓、沙锤、马拉卡斯、吉他、邦戈鼓、合成器、一台电脑和扬声器——没有一天是我不在做音乐的，一半时间是独自钻研，其余时间是与他人共同创作。他可能会对我现在练习大量热瑜伽感到困惑。但会很高兴地知道我依然喜欢牛仔衬衫。

为什么我心爱的衣服更长寿

汉娜·罗切尔最喜爱的时尚单品是她最快乐回忆的载体

我对衣服产生情感依恋，得感谢我的母亲。妈妈在阁楼里藏了一大堆服装和配饰，时间跨度从 60 年代起延续数十年。如果某种趋势已经过时，但她依然喜爱一件羊毛裙或一双靴子，她就会把它们打包存放，直到有一天她想再次穿上它们为止。在我青少年时期，妈妈经常宣布她的宝库里恰好有我正在寻找的那件古着单品，尽管遗憾的是，那经常是一双鞋，而我们的脚码并不一样。

尽管如此，这在潜移默化中让我意识到，当你热爱你的衣服时，你应该保留并呵护它们。服装的作用不仅仅是遮体；它充满了与我们共同经历的回忆。在我的阁楼里，我也有一盒具有纪念意义的衣服，从 1995 年我去伦敦迈尔恩德体育场看 Blur 乐队演出时穿的那件古着毛圈 T 恤，到我 13 岁生日时得到的那双紫色匡威全明星鞋。它们现在已经穿不下了，但对我来说太特别了，不能扔掉。

更棒的是那些——我母亲的以及我的——我现在依然能穿的单品，让我们在穿着它们的同时创造新的回忆。没有什么比被称赞穿着得体，然后回答道：“谢谢，我一岁时有一段视频，记录了我妈妈穿着这件衬衫和我在一起的样子”更惬意的事了。而这一切之所以成为可能，关键在于我对衣服的呵护——减少洗涤频率、进行修补、使用温和且合适的洗涤剂，并小心存放。以下是我最喜爱的几件单品。

父亲的“尼特太太”针织背心（见右图） 在 20 世纪 70 年代，我祖母的一位名叫尼特太太（Mrs Neat）的朋友为我的父母织了两件配套的背心。她对费尔岛风格（Fair Isle-style）的掌握如此精湛，以至于我一度以为她的名字其实叫“针织太太”（Mrs Knit）。父亲的那件是简单的 V 领，而母亲的那件版型更修身，配有光滑的圆纽扣。快进二十年，青少年时期的我痴迷于英伦摇滚（Britpop），进而痴迷于古着针织背心。妈妈察觉到了这一点，搬出梯子，将它们从阁楼的藏品中翻了出来。从那时起，我就时而穿上它们。妈妈的背心对我来说有点紧，所以你更有可能看到我穿着父亲的那件。多亏了尼特太太使用的彩虹色羊毛，这件美物几乎可以搭配任何衣服。我知道父亲认可这些粉紫色灯芯绒裤，因为他第一次见到我祖父母时（那是 1968 年），就穿着一条类似的裤子，配一件粉色衬衫，而且没穿鞋。

这件衣服我只需要洗过几次；羊毛天然具有抗味和抗污能力，因此偶尔用 Ecover 的羊毛丝绸专用洗衣液手洗即可。在冬天，我会将背心装入密封袋中，并放入雪松球以防止飞蛾侵害，确保尼特太太的手工艺在半个世纪后依然能被人们欣赏。

我在“一年不购物”之后买的第一件东西

2019年，我决定重塑我与购物之间的关系。尽管在我的记忆中，我一直对衣服有种情感依赖，但我冲动消费的情况却越来越多，而穿着这些衣服的次数却在减少。于是，我向自己许诺一年不买任何新衣服，为了重新想起热爱已有衣物的感觉。这是我做过最正确的事情之一，从此我再也没有回到快时尚。在那一年里，我研究了未来打算消费的那些独立慢时尚品牌。减少购买意味着我可以购买更高质量的产品，并为符合伦理标准的服装支付稍高一点的价格。我找出了衣橱中的缺失项，并为自己在2020年分配了六件待购单品。这件由有机棉精制而成的格子衬衫就是第一件。它能与我的许多单品搭配，而且我至今依然如此热爱它。棉质面料易于打理，使用像 Ecover 无生物分解洗衣液这样的温和洗涤剂在低温下洗涤效果很好，但我确实有在衣领上沾上化妆品的习惯。这没什么大不了的，用小苏打和水调成糊状在洗涤前预处理即可解决。这是一个代代相传的小窍门，就像我那些传家宝般的背心一样。

我订婚时穿的那条裙子

我是1997.夏天买的这条裙子。我超级喜欢它。我以前习惯搭配 Converse One Star 拖鞋（为什么我没把那些鞋留下来？）和复古 T 恤。当气温下降时，它与我的冬季衣橱依然能完美契合。我把它和一双像瑞秋·格林（Rachel Green）那样厚底的短靴，以及一件棕色 V 领罗纹针织衫搭配在一起。我记得那件 V 领针织衫花了我比买任何东西都要多的钱，我只能推测它没能在我学生时代的洗衣习惯中幸存下来，因为我不记得 1998. 之后还见过它。而这条裙子，大概会比我活得更久，因为它是由 $100 聚酯纤维制成的，而且在 30 年里似乎完全没有老化。多亏了那个稍微松了一点的弹性腰带，它现在依然合身。我现在不会再买聚酯纤维的裙子，但对于已经拥有的聚酯纤维衣物，你能做的最好的事情就是穿着它们，这样它们就不会最终进入垃圾填埋场。在极少数需要洗涤的情况下，我会把它放进 Guppyfriend 洗涤袋中，以防止微塑料被释放到水中。由于这是我在 1997, 11 月在巴黎订婚时穿的衣服，我绝不会想到要舍弃它——这又是另一件正在形成的传家宝。

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以及 她的 下一个 绝活……

她不是一名传统妻子（tradwife），她希望你知道这一点。她也不是一名“前传统妻子”——尽管《纽约时报》在一篇关于“前传统妻子”运动如今与最初的传统妻子一样受欢迎的专题报道中将她列入其中。她也不是在通过 18, 岁结婚、24, 岁前生四个孩子，以及花费数小时烹饪并将其记录在网上，来推销一种类传统妻子的生活方式选择。顺便说一句，她也不是摩门教徒。虽然，是的，她的丈夫——模特兼前青少年偶像 Lucky Blue Smith 是在摩门教环境下长大的，但我们稍后会谈到这一点。她也没有在内容中传递潜意识的宗教信息：“这里没有秘密议程。”她也没有通过留一个干练的小波波头来放弃她的混血血统。她也没有在迎合 20 世纪 50 年代的家庭主妇原型——即便是在穿着一件粉红红点波点迷你裙批量烹饪酸种面包的时候。

Smith 希望你抛弃所有你认为关于她的认知，重新开始。她同样不在乎你是否这样做。就像她的内容一样：“懂的人自然懂，不懂的人自然不懂。这完全没问题。我告诉人们：‘如果你不喜欢我的内容，我不会看到你刷走我。’‘如果你为了自己的心理健康需要屏蔽我，请尽管这么做。我保证我不会知道。’而如果你想留下来，那太美好了，我很感激，欢迎。”

对于那些还不了解娜拉·史密斯（Nara Smith）的人来说，她是一位模特兼网红，在 TikTok 上拥有 12.5m 粉丝（以及 8.79 亿个赞），在 Instagram 上拥有 4.8m 粉丝。她拍摄风格古怪且极具诱惑力的烹饪视频，在视频中，她用一种被动的、低沉的声音叙述每一个步骤，同时从零开始制作超市里常见的日常产品替代品。她的视频都以同样的套路开始：她的丈夫或孩子提出一个要求——例如：“Lucky 凑过来问我，想不想在孩子们睡觉后去买些冷冻酸奶。我转向他，告诉他如果我自己做，味道会更好。尽管他起初有些犹豫，但最终还是同意了。”她穿着一件定制的 $900 白色缎面紧身胸衣连衣裙——没有围裙——在过滤酸奶发酵剂，将其与开菲尔酸奶、香草、糖、软木胶混合；榨苹果汁和樱桃汁来制作顶部的软糖熊，并搅拌入明胶和蜂蜜。在整个过程中，史密斯面无表情。在整个过程中，她的动作像模特一样流畅。她的衣服正面从未溅到任何东西（她坚持说这是运气，而不是因为她超越了所有完美标准）。

这些片段让人们大开眼界。她的烤奶酪视频被观看了 49.6m 次。此外，她还制作了能多拉（Nutella）、番茄酱、Cheez-Its 饼干、Pop-Tarts 塔饼、彩虹糖（Skittles）和士力巧（Snickers）。她甚至制作了泡泡糖。这些食谱具有新奇感——她即将出版一本名为《Homemade》的从零开始制作的食谱书。此外还有她的服装。她穿着一套 $5,000 的普拉达（Prada）羊绒套装制作鸡腿，穿着一套 $10,000 的夏帕瑞利（Schiaparelli）为意式土豆团酱汁擦番茄。尼格拉（Nigella）、格温妮丝（Gwyneth），你们的“家庭女神”风被彻底超越了。

这一切将我带到了康涅狄格州里奇菲尔德（Ridgefield）这个白色护墙板小镇上的“德博拉·安甜品店”（Deborah Ann's Sweet Shoppe）。史密斯坐在我对面狭窄的红色卡座里，用亚克力美甲敲击着手机。我们周围是冰淇淋冷藏设备发出的巨大嗡嗡声，以及热巧克力酱和棉花糖的味道。这里有糖罐和餐巾纸分发器，收音机里播放着 Jay & the Americans 的《Come a Little Bit Closer》。史密斯选择这里作为讨论自己并非 1950 年代家庭主妇的背景，肯定是有幽默感的吧？“这里的软冰淇淋最棒了，”她说道，带着一丝微笑，“而且 Lucky 会来买棉花糖冰淇淋。”

今天，在距离 25 岁生日还差两周之际，史密斯穿着牛仔裤、白色背心、香奈儿平底鞋，佩戴着许多闪闪发光的珠宝（“我喜欢钻石戒指”）。郑重声明，她是开自己的车来到这里的。虽然 Lucky 确实曾说过他无论如何都会开车，且他会对“女人开车载男人”的景象感到“困扰”，但她热爱驾驶。她在开车时会听最喜欢的播客——由 Skims 创始人艾玛·格雷德（Emma Grede）主持的《Aspire With Emma Grede》，以及为了娱乐而听的《The Girls Bathroom》——“非常有趣。而且我也很喜欢有声书。我喜欢奇幻类。你喜欢奇幻吗？”我问她正在嚼的口香糖是不是她自己做的。她笑了。“今天不是。”

史密斯的内容吸引了数百万加元的广告收入（除其他品牌外，她还与 Marc Jacobs、Miu Miu 和 YSL 合作）。除了食谱书，她还从事演艺工作，有两部电影处于后期制作阶段。一部是她不能透露的独立电影。另一部是《暴君》（Tyrant），这是一部由查理兹·塞隆（Charlize Theron）、黛米·摩尔（Demi Moore）和帕帕·埃西杜（Paapa Essiedu）主演的“烹饪惊悚片”。此外还有一个“消费品品牌”。我问是什么品牌。“我们以后再聊。我们还在规划中。”

她赚的钱比她丈夫多吗？“这是一个带有诱导性的问题。我该怎么回答？”她可以用一个灿烂的微笑来回答吗？“是的，我会这么做。”她的牙齿非常完美。

令人惊叹的是，史密斯不仅负责设计和研究食谱本身，还独立承担所有的造型、妆容、艺术指导、视频剪辑、配音和混音，为了一个90秒的片段，她每天要花费八小时以上的时间。她的经纪人和经理恳请她雇人帮忙。“我总是拒绝。我是典型的 A 型人格。”A 型人格？“非常刻板，计划性极强。”她对细节的勤勉关注以及对她所谓“艺术”的投入，意味着“我还在摸索在哪些地方可以放弃控制权”，她说道。

我问她如果有些事情不完全正确，是否就像《豌豆公主》那样敏感。“那简直就是我。那应该作为书名。我会失眠，翻来覆去，心力交瘁。”这本食谱书是一部制作精良、极尽奢华的著作，但其中的食谱却以一种居家的方式显得非常接地气。其中包含了一些她德国童年时期的食物：牛奶米布丁（milchreis）、炸肉排（schnitzel）、卷肉（rouladen）。她并不避讳精制糖。书中有肉类、奶油鸡，还有用鸭油煎的烤土豆。“我每天全天都吃糖和鸭油吗？绝对不会。但偶尔吃烤土豆？绝对可以。偶尔吃一点甜点？绝对可以。”

在她告诉我这一切时，我试图记住史密斯有四个孩子：Rumble Honey, Slim Easy, Whimsy Lou 和 Fawnie Golden。（“不寻常的名字能塑造性格；Lucky 的名字就很不寻常，这在某些方面对他有所帮助。”）这本书的拍摄是在最小的孩子出生三周后进行的。因此，在组织拍摄并穿上封面那件 Rodarte 定制的格子裙的同时，她还在给新生儿喂奶，并监督他们刚刚搬入的康涅狄格州家庭住宅的装修工程。

不久之后，在食谱书仍在编辑期间，她的女儿 Whimsy Lou 被诊断出患有癌症。去年年底，全家人在一起为节日季拍摄家庭照时，是 Lucky 的母亲首先注意到了“她身体上的那个东西”（为了保护女儿的隐私，史密斯不想透露细节）。“我的婆婆当时说，‘我不想让你惊慌，但也许你应该去急诊室。’长话短说，医生做了一系列检查，从活检到超声波，然后通知我们说：‘她患了癌症。需要立即开始治疗。’”

史密斯的世界“翻转”了。在那之前，这对夫妇甚至没有请育儿嫂。突然之间，他们得在工作、孩子、化疗预约之间周旋，“同时还要确保我们在她面前没有崩溃”。大约每两周有五天，根据 Whimsy 的血细胞计数情况，Lucky 会陪她在医院接受治疗，而史密斯则在家里喂奶。他们无法向 Whimsy 解释她身上发生了什么。“她还不满两岁，所以能理解的东西不多。”但他们向两个较大的孩子解释了情况，“我们买了一些关于癌症的儿童绘本，通过故事来解释脱发以及这段旅程中的不同阶段”。

他们找到了一个互帮互助的家长“社区”——这就是史密斯在 Whimsy 病情缓解后公开披露其病情的理由。“直到你身处医院那种境地，你才会意识到有多少家长或孩子在经历类似的经历，”她说，“人们谈论这件事会让你觉得不再孤单。”

那种震惊感清晰可见。当她列举诊断之前的家庭剧变——新房子、新书、新宝宝，以及严重的产后焦虑时，她的声音听起来有些恍惚。“当这件事发生时，我还在精神上努力应对这一切，被拉向多个不同的方向。然后，我唯一想要的就是陪伴在 Whimsy 身边。这很艰难。”史密斯的母亲乔伊斯是一名护士，刚刚结束她自己的乳腺癌治疗，她从德国飞来帮忙。“我的家人都团结起来了，看到那一幕真的很美好。”

毫无疑问，这段经历改变了她。“当你如此接近一件足以改变生活的事情时，你看世界的眼光会变得有些不同。”一方面，她开始欣赏“平凡时刻”之美；另一方面，她变得更坚强了。现在，她会花很多心思思考她的工作在孩子网络曝光方面意味着什么。“但我一直给孩子们设定了界限。在承认他们是我生活一部分的同时，我尽可能少地展示他们。”当人们走过来要求合影时，她的孩子们会自动转身，或者站在她身后，或者移到他们所在商店的某个角落。“如果可以的话，我会尽量避开高峰时段去某些地方。”

她会让孩子们远离屏幕吗？“比如手机屏幕？”她的脸上写满了惊恐。“噢，我不会给他们买手机的！不，我会给他们买个小——我不知道叫什么，Firefly？还是Brick（砖头机）？我想让他们能和我沟通，能联系到我。我会给他们买相机，因为我的孩子们热爱拍照。但我认为没有必要让他们接触社交媒体，或者玩电子游戏，或者做那些事。我特意搬到了一个有自然环境的地方，让他们可以在户外活动和探索，而不是盯着屏幕。”到几岁为止？“我不知道，18岁？我的意思是，如果时光能倒流，我会做得完全不同。”她是否曾好奇，如果没拍过所有这些视频，她的生活会是什么样子？

“一直都在。一直。在。好奇。”随后她说：“社交媒体的格局已经发生了巨大的变化。我不得不通过惨痛的教训来学习，并重新审视我发布在互联网上的内容。”

大多数夜晚，史密斯会把电脑带到床上。她的睡前习惯非常具体。“我需要干净的床单，这是没商量的事。我热爱刚洗过的床单。”每晚都这样吗？她迟疑了。“大概一周两次。亚麻床单。我每晚都需要洗澡，卸妆，做护肤，刷牙，在床头柜上放水，然后我就在床上工作，直到眼睛打转。”经常地，她回头一看，Lucky已经睡着了。“有时他会说，‘你可以去睡觉了，我保证明早邮件依然在那儿。’”在经历一次夜间干扰后，她在六点左右起床（她坚持和Fawnie一起值夜班：一是由于经常出差而产生的愧疚感，二是这个宝宝是她的“最后一个”）。起床后的第一件事，她带着他们的狗Archie去后院。它是一只大白熊与比特犬的混血（它是领养的。Lucky想要一只小狗，但她拒绝了）。得知她不运动在某种程度上令人宽慰。“我希望我能运动。但那感觉……太累了。”

她故事中的一个共同主题是：在愿意从零开始时的那种细致。在康涅狄格州的厨房装修好三个月后，因为屋顶的冰坝导致厨房被淹。把整个厨房拆掉并没有你想象中那么头疼，因为她说：“我讨厌设计师做的每一个决定。我信任他们而不是自己的直觉。所以，我们按照我想要的方式重新装修了，现在它很漂亮，而且完全不同。”

“我觉得自己现在像个成年人了，第一次买了房子并布置它。”整体氛围是：“我想让人们觉得这里住着一位祖母，而不是一个24岁的人。带有英伦风情的‘祖母时尚’（Grandma chic）”——因为她说，里奇菲尔德让她想起了科茨沃尔德，如果可以，她会“毫不犹豫地”搬到那里。

我问她什么会让其崩溃。“混乱，”她迅速回答道。“混乱让我压力很大。我不喜欢乱糟糟的房子。我不喜欢乱糟糟的厨房。我不喜欢乱糟糟的衣橱。混乱会过度刺激感官。在家里发生的其他所有事情之上，四个孩子跑来跑去，尖叫之类，混乱会让我彻底崩溃。所以，我不一定会发火。我会说，‘我们把它收拾干净，好吗？大家开始收拾自己的东西。’”

孩子们会收拾吗？“我会让孩子们收拾自己的东西。任何他们可能需要帮助的地方，比如把袜子配成对，有时他们做不到，我会帮忙。但通常孩子们收拾自己的乱摊子，我收拾我们的乱摊子，这样我们能很快地把家里搞定。”

她每月请两次清洁工来做“深度清洁”。除此之外，其余的都由她和 Lucky 亲自操持。洗衣服？“我来。”熨衣服？“我用挂烫机。”如果我打开她的橱柜，里面会整洁有序吗？“会。因为这样能让一切更高效。无论是穿衣、洗衣服、安排时间表、日常惯例还是厨房，我都热爱一套系统。如果你不必考虑这些琐碎的小事，生活会变得轻松得多。”

在她说话时，史密斯在我们的层压板桌面上的模拟收拾动作。谈到女儿自己选择衣服可能带来的“潜在风险”时，她显得很有趣。“我的大女儿非常有主见。她的品味很好，所以通常我没意见。”如果女儿品味不好，她会干预吗？“我会。”她笑着说，“有时那些搭配简直疯了。我必须介入并进行一点讨价还价。我会说：‘在裤子外面穿连裤袜和袜子？这太疯狂了。’”

在其他方面，这种对掌控感的追求可能会让人感到“压力重重”。“过去六年里很多事情发生了变化。当发生一些我无法控制的事情时，这种极强的‘A型人格’会让情况变得困难，”她说。任何“不可控因素”都会引发过度焦虑。“当这种情况出现时，我不知道那是怎么回事。”她读过自助书籍，接受过个人心理治疗，她和 Lucky 还一起参加了伴侣咨询。

她说自己曾深信自己是一个“卓越”的沟通者，直到她参加了伴侣治疗，说到这里她笑了。在需要的时候，他们会面对面地进行咨询。“我们结婚很早，未来还有很长的路要走，所以这更多是预防而非治疗，如果这么说能解释得通的话。”

“我在德国长大。他是美国人。有时，我们之间会有一些误会。有一次我对某件事说‘我不在乎’（I don't care），他当时反应是：‘你不在乎？’其实我的意思是：‘我不想再讨论这件事了。’因为我说德语，语言体系不同，当我把它翻译成英语时，在美国人听来会显得很刻薄、很生硬。他当时会说：‘喔，亲爱的，这有点太疯狂了。’但都是些小事。”

娜拉·阿齐扎·史密斯（NARA AZIZA SMITH）出生在南非，父亲是德国人，一名历史和生物老师；母亲是莱索托人，在种族隔离制度下长大（“她见到了任何人都绝不应该见到、经历或必须面对的事情”）。史密斯出生后，全家搬到了法兰克福，两个年幼的弟妹随后也搬了过去。孩提时代，史密斯患有多种过敏症，包括对鸡蛋过敏，年幼时曾因湿疹两次住院（她还记得后来做过一次关于她那‘糟糕’脚趾的手术）。她形容自己是个想和成年人待在一起的孩子，将孩子桌视为一种惩罚：“我跟这些同龄孩子能干什么？玩捉迷藏吗？”她对历史和神话人物着迷：玛丽·安托瓦内特、美杜莎、雅典娜。她能背诵玛雅·安杰卢的《尽管如此，我依然崛起》（Still I Rise）。

由于被父母禁止使用 Facebook，她注册了 Instagram（当时父母从未听说过这个软件），并将其作为进入模特行业的途径。她在 14 岁时通过一个在线项目被 IMG Models 挖掘，父母带她参加试镜。在很多方面，这是一次很棒的经历。“但这对我 14 岁的心智来说也是一种负担：必须维持某种特定外貌的压力；关注点仅在于你的长相。”她说，当时的尺寸要求非常苛刻。“随着年龄增长，身体会发生变化。所以，有时为了维持标准[体重]对我来说很困难。”她不“一定”希望她的孩子们进入这个行业，但如果他们想进，她会支持。 “但如果让他们在模特和其他可能的兴趣之间做选择，我会推荐这个吗？不会。”

“显然”，她在见到 Lucky Blue Smith 之前就知道他是谁。“我 15 岁的时候很迷他。我看过他在 Ellen 节目中的采访，记得当时在想，‘那个家伙真的太帅了。’ 后来几年，当他在 Instagram 上给我发私信时，我简直——戏剧性地深吸一口气——‘就是他！’” 在第一条信息中，Lucky 询问她来自哪里。他没有回复她的回答。一段时间后，他发来消息：“我要和朋友去露营，所以会暂时失联一段时间。但我回来后，很想和你通个电话。” 当时他在洛杉矶；

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她被他的冷静所吸引。他看起来是那么成熟。“而且他很帅，这是额外的加分项。”在第一次见面后不久，他们决定结婚。他们把这一切都发到了网上，包括他们裹着浴巾的照片和戒指。这原本很可爱，直到你看到评论区。她是如何应对种族主义的？“种族是我一直与父母讨论的话题。在德国长大，且长得不像其他金发女孩，让我一直对此有所意识。我记得有一次：我第一次在学校洗手间里把马尾辫散开，当我走出来时，我的一个朋友突然大笑起来。我感到非常窘迫。之后我在学校再也没有散过头发。”

“当我和 Lucky 在一起时……我不知道，我大概就把它忽略了，因为这更多地反映了对方的人品以及他们选择如何对待他人。我跟 Lucky 谈过这件事吗？当然。我有时会因此感到难过吗？是的。但我只是试着去忽视它。”

当她搬到美国与 Lucky 生活时，旧的健康问题开始复发。她开始检查所食用食物的标签。“我之前没意识到里面包含这么多成分。面包有 20 多种成分，其中一些并不一定应该存在。我意识到如果我自己开始制作，会更简单也更健康。”就这样，从零开始烹饪变成了“一种必然……我并不是在随兴地发明一些疯狂的食谱。”

与其他 Z 世代一样，史密斯（Smith）早期的内容是“穿搭检查”和“跟我一起准备”类视频。当她开始把手机架在三脚架上，拍摄自己制作比如奥利奥冰淇淋或牧场沙拉酱的替代品时，她与其他“辣妈”网红并没有太大区别。但这个整体组合中的某些特质——精致的面孔，在炉灶边逗她的迷人丈夫，时尚的装扮，以及因为在孩子午睡时间录制、不想吵醒孩子而采用的轻柔单调语气（但被所有人比作 ASMR）——使她脱颖而出。

随后是她不断尝试突破上限的意愿。她制作止咳药片。她制作防晒霜。她制作可口可乐。她将服装与食谱相协调，比如穿着一件黄色气球袖长裙制作 Capri-Sun 饮料。同行厨师鲁比·坦多（Ruby Tandoh）在评价史密斯的内容时写道：“这令人上瘾。那种想看看她这次会把‘过度’发挥到什么程度的低压悬念。”在不到一年的时间里，史密斯的粉丝数从不足 100 万 增长到了 900 万。其中包括贝拉·哈迪德（Bella Hadid）、亚莉安娜·格兰德（Ariana Grande）、赛琳娜·戈麦斯（Selena Gomez）、SZA 和 Doja Cat。

这一切恰逢网络上出现的一种新型且有害的运动：传统妻子（tradwives）。这是美国政治右倾在家庭生活中的体现。宗教往往在她们致力于维护父权结构的过程中发挥作用。那些声称唯一抱负就是服务男性的女性突然充斥在互联网上，为丈夫准备午餐盒。史密斯的行为看起来与之如出一辙。网络侦探在她的一个片段背景中发现了《摩门经》。他们争论说，这是一个后台道具，是一次大规模传教的尝试。

史密斯与汉娜·尼尔曼（Hannah Neeleman）关系友好，这让情况变得更糟。尼尔曼是一名36岁的朱利亚德学院毕业生，也是九个孩子的母亲，她在犹他州的摩门教社区“芭蕾舞农场”（Ballerina Farm）穿着复古草原裙拍摄家庭烹饪视频。互联网生态鼓励影响力人物之间进行交叉推广。史密斯和尼尔曼曾一起挤牛奶。她们在农场的门廊上摆拍，孩子被抱在腰间，丈夫们穿着牛仔裤和牛仔靴，神情自信。史密斯被指责推广退步的性别角色、鼓吹青少年怀孕，以及“文化挪用”摩门教生活并疏远自己的黑人血统。随后，分析文章、模因（memes）以及大量的 Reddit 讨论接踵而至。

纳拉·史密斯与丈夫 Lucky Blue Smith 出席 2024 年米兰时装周（上图），以及在她的 TikTok 账号上穿着高级定制服装烹饪，图中包括他们的三个孩子（右上）

当我向史密斯提及这些时，她叹了口气。“首先，我当时并没有深入思考自己在做什么。烹饪是我为了健康且因为热爱而做的事，而且我也热爱时尚。我只是觉得好玩，就把它发到了网上。人们开始过度解读，分析我的服装，认定我在表达一些我压根没想过的事情。”

现在她认为，在厨房里谋生永远具有政治色彩。“事实就是这样，”她说，“我觉得人们总是想把女性定义在某个框架里，试图解释她们，解读她们的行为。而这只是我通过食物和时尚表达自我的一种方式。人们关注我是因为我的声音，或者时尚，或者食谱，或者全部。”

她认为自己是女权主义者吗？“是的，绝对是。女性应该拥有掌控一切的权利，拥有做任何她需要做的事情的权利。”

她投票吗？“如果我在美国，我会投票，但我不是美国公民，所以我不被允许。”但她担心政治问题。“现在到处都让人感到恐惧。”她与家人、朋友以及 Lucky 讨论德国选择党（AfD）的崛起，但刻意不在网上讨论。“认识我的人知道我的立场。我有四个孩子。我是一个母亲，一个女人。我希望人们能把这些碎片拼凑起来。我觉得没必要在社交媒体上谈论这些，因为那里是我进行艺术表达的地方。”

关于摩门教的事？她承认，她确实感到好奇。那是她丈夫的背景，她愿意倾听，看看自己是否能产生共鸣。“如果你嫁给一个在那种环境下长大的人，并且你们在组建家庭，你得摸索出一条路来。就在那时，我的社交媒体关注度爆炸了。”她的孩子们是摩门教徒吗？“不。我们家不是。这是人们的一种认知，但我不是摩门教徒，我也从未成为过。我从未受洗，从未做过任何让我成为摩门教徒的事。我们已经决定了家庭的生活方式，那就是不成为（摩门教）教会的一员。”

每周三和周四，史密斯都会通过 Zoom 与一名洛杉矶的老师进行三小时的表演课，当她在该市时，还会增加面对面的个人课程。她在拍摄《暴君》（Tyrant）期间染上了表演的“瘾”。她看到好莱坞的大牌演员犯错、重新尝试、用不同的方式诠释台词，意识到你不需要在第一次尝试时就完美。不知为何，这让她大开眼界。她意识到表演其实就是她一直在做的事情的延伸。“之后我给我的团队打了电话，说：‘我们需要一名表演经纪人。’”她与一名知名经纪人签约，并开始参加试镜。

她是否能预见到有一天她不再拍摄烹饪视频，或者至少不再那么强调这一点？“是的。我可以预见到我的内容会演变。但我永远不会离开社交媒体，因为它是我的工作、我的事业以及我与人们建立联系的核心支柱。”

她好胜吗？她发出“嗯”的一声，头向一侧倾斜。“我不会说好胜。我想想，那个词怎么说？”她在空中打了个响指。“雄心勃勃。这就是我想找的词。我非常有野心。但那是为了超越我自己。我一点也不在乎超越别人。我在自己的赛道上，并且有一个想要达到的目标。”

我们准备离开了。当我们从椅子上站起来时，一群我之前没注意到的十几岁女孩聚集过来。在史密斯 6 英尺的高挑身材面前，她们显得很娇小。她们一直在等待，手机摄像头已准备就绪。“你，就像是激励了我。我一直在尝试从零开始做东西，”一个戴着轨道式牙套的女孩笑着说。“我太喜欢这样了，”史密斯说。“你一直在做什么？”“我尝试做面包。但进展不太顺利……”“你知道吗？这需要花很长时间。我也花了好长时间才学会。但你会做到的。”她给了她们一个小小的拥抱。● 《Nara Aziza Smith 的自制美食》（Homemade by Nara Aziza Smith）将于 10 月 13 日由 4th Estate 出版。如需支持《卫报》，请在 guardianbookshop.com 订购您的副本。可能会产生配送费用。

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在整个法国，前学生们正在砸毁设备并纵火焚烧教室。这场袭击小学的暴力破坏浪潮背后隐藏着什么？是贫困？社交媒体的同辈压力？还是纯粹的无聊？菲尔·霍德（Phil Hoad）报道

像大多数法国小学一样，位于里昂东郊的马塞尔·帕尼奥（Marcel Pagnol）学校在 2024 年 6 月 19 日（周三）关闭。但那天傍晚 6 点 30 分，有两个男孩回到了学校——只不过晚了两年。这两个 13 岁的孩子曾是这里的学生，他们试图用一把园艺叉和一把扫帚击碎前门窗户上脆薄的格栅。在使用了破窗器后，他们终于创造了一个足够大的开口，以便在不伤到自己的情况下强行进入。

接下来的经过被这对搭档随后发布在 Snapchat 上的视频记录了下来。进入校内后，他们在教室、走廊和食堂中徘徊，随意挥舞滑板车，砸毁电脑设备，触发灭火器并掀翻家具。他们从冰箱里拿走 Capri-Sun 饮料袋：“我根本不在乎——我要全部拿走。”在他们穿过建筑时，那个没在拍摄的男孩点起几处小火，每处都喷上一点打火机燃料。“我喜欢这里发生的一切！”他的同伙说，“我爱火。”

但兴奋很快变成了恐慌。随着浓黑的烟雾在主走廊的天花板上蔓延，他们意识到该离开了：“快点，快点，到处都是烟。操，我什么都看不见！”随后，他们在光天化日之下逃向周围的街道，摄像者一边啜饮着他的 Capri-Sun，一边看着学校升起一柱浓烟，警车正向现场汇集。

马塞尔·帕尼奥学校的纵火案或许是近年来席卷全法国的一种现象中最严重的事件：对学校场所进行全面的破坏，这已远远超出了孤立的破坏行为。2025 年至少发生了 15 起此类案件；2024 年的数量与之相近。此类事件在其他国家也会出现，但在这里，它们似乎符合一种狂欢式的破坏模式——就像城市骚乱期间的大规模焚车一样——这似乎具有鲜明的法国特色。在某种意义上，这种破坏行为相当于美国的校园枪击案——尽管显然致命性低得多，且通常由群体而非独狼实施。

举几个例子：2024 年 3 月，位于维特里-叙尔-塞纳（Vitry-sur-Seine）的拉伯莱（Rabelais）中学出现电脑被砸和窗户被打破的情况，这是六个月内的第四次闯入；在波尔多附近的贝涅-圣拉德贡德（Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde）安德烈·马尔罗（André Malraux）中学，思想混乱的暴徒留下了万字旗、无政府主义符号和反对国民联盟（RN）的标语；在巴黎南缘蒙热龙（Montgeron）的让·穆兰（Jean Moulin）小学，一片狼藉之中写着“Foke les profs”（操老师）；2025 年，在普罗旺斯城市阿尔勒（Arles）的工人阶级社区，一所小学和两所幼儿园被洗劫一空。

在数量惊人的案例中，被攻击的是小学。当犯罪者被抓获时，他们通常是处于初中阶段、返回母校制造混乱的孩子。在许多情况下，他们破坏的是其年幼弟妹仍在就读的同一所学校。“我妹妹明天还要在这里上学，”在马塞尔·帕尼奥学校的视频中，一名闯入者得意地叫嚣道。一方面，此类行为中有一种节日般的无序感：被油漆泼溅的墙壁，被掀翻的架子，散落在游戏区像彩虹一样五颜六色的积木碎片。另一方面，这在游戏中带有某种心理上的自我伤害，类似于摧毁自己的家。这种迷人而矛盾的动机很难调和。

显而易见的是，这次事件对周边社区产生了深远影响。袭击发生两年后，在一个潮湿的六月周一早晨——夏季假期前的最后一个周一——学生和家长们正缓缓走向马塞尔·帕尼奥学校（Marcel Pagnol）开始新的一天。学校位于梅齐厄（Meyzieu）郊区，这里是里昂一个相对富裕且平凡的通勤卧城，坐落在向城市机场延伸的耕地上。学校那奶油色的两层建筑已被修复至崭新状态——梅齐厄市政府为此支付了190万欧元（部分由保险覆盖）。

但这次袭击造成了一种真实的被侵犯感。“我很伤心，”六岁的利诺（Lino）在纵火案发生后立即告诉BFM电视台的记者，“我所有的画都被烧掉了。”这种感觉至今依然挥之不去。“他们用一种有毒产品点燃了学校，”一个八九岁的小男孩埃文（Evan）说道，他的大拇指勾在背包带里，“当时有火焰。”家长协会成员奥德丽·格兰杰（Audrey Granger）指出，孩子们必须面对墙上被烧焦的画作和被烧毁的练习本。她没有告诉在隔壁幼儿园就读的女儿发生了什么。“我们想让她留在自己的小世界里，”她说。

“这就好像你离开办公室，有人告诉你：你没有权利回来了，”校长朱利安·福里亚（Juliane Fauriat）说。“你对此毫无预料，你必须抛下所有东西离开，这非常困难。”她的员工用市政厅提供的板箱搬走了尚可挽救的设备；两名遭受创伤的教师则拿着空盒子，走出了被完全烧毁的教室。

在接下来的学年里，马塞尔·帕尼奥学校的240名学生被安置在对面一片空地上的预制附属建筑中——对其中一些孩子来说，这是一种新鲜体验。但由于食堂严重受损，午餐时间不得不分在另外两个学校场地进行：年幼的孩子需要乘车前往一个场地；年长的孩子则需要步行15分钟前往另一个场地。“他们必须在酷暑和严冬中这样奔波，”一名穿着花裙子、在接孩子放学后逗留的母亲萨布丽娜（Sabrina）说，“你能想象吗？我的女儿有时会哭——她总是迟到。”

两名13岁的肇事者——其中一人在视频中露脸并指认了另一人——几乎立即被抓获。他们没有犯罪记录，警方此前并不认识他们；梅齐厄市政府教育服务协调员桑德琳·卡罗兹（Sandrine Carroz）表示，其中一人的学业记录“无可挑剔”。另一人则处于一个“脆弱时期，与父母的沟通很复杂”。但此前没有任何迹象表明他会以这种方式爆发。马塞尔·帕尼奥学校所在区域的梅齐厄副市长西尔维·诺曼（Sylvie Normand）表示：“我认为这些年轻人是互相怂恿去做某事，然后产生了一个糟糕的想法，在没有考虑后果的情况下就付诸行动。”

网络上的私刑暴徒聚集了起来：“再给他们一次机会吧——他们只是在表达对第五次留级 year 3 的愤怒，”一条发布在YouTube新闻报道下的讽刺评论这样写道。其他人则暗示着在法国公共生活中激化的社会和种族紧张局势——这种情况在作为极右翼活动中心的里昂尤为严重：“把他们赶出这个国家，连同那些在领取我们家庭津贴的父母一起赶走。”（根据视频中一名男孩提到的名字及其俚语，许多评论者认为他们具有移民背景；当然，他们作为未成年人的身份受到法律保护。）当地国民联盟（RN）候选人蒂法尼·琼库尔（Tiffany Joncour）迅速赶到现场拍摄视频并宣称：“是时候停止这些肆无忌惮、破坏我们所有生活的罪犯了。”

两人被判处四个月缓刑，并被置于法院特别监督之下 18 个月。市政府与这两个家庭达成协议，将其兄弟姐妹转至其他学校。在马塞尔·帕尼奥学校（École Marcel Pagnol）对面的面包店，员工米里亚姆比大多数人更谨慎：“这原本可能是我的孩子——因为你永远不知道会发生什么，尤其是如今社交网络的这种影响。我希望这能让他们清醒一点。他们的家人也一样，因为他们必须承担一定的责任。”

由于马塞尔·帕尼奥学校的肇事者是未成年人，无法向他们询问那个关键问题：那天是什么导致他们破门而入的？但或许可以追问第二个问题：这些来自青少年潜意识的混乱震颤，共同揭示了法国社会的什么问题？

“他们认为这不值得尊重——所以他们把它毁掉。”今年 3 月，在阿尔勒的路易-米歇尔小学（Louise-Michel primary school）门外，家长艾蒂安·贝克尔认为，正是对国家机构根本性的蔑视，导致四名年龄在 11 到 13 岁之间的青少年在 2025 年 7 月强行闯入该校，造成了约 €30,000 的损失。他正将六岁的儿子送到一栋像军营一样、色调古铜色的建筑中。路易-米歇尔小学位于格里夫伊（Griffeuille）的边缘，这是一个被边缘化的社区，由半渲染的公共住房楼群主导，其中 57% 的居民生活在贫困线以下。

法国国家的价值观——“自由、平等、博爱”——被展示在全国几乎所有学校外的标志上（正如贝克尔指出的，路易-米歇尔小学却奇怪地缺失了这些）。在像格里夫伊这样的地方，人们很容易假设，破坏学校可能是一种攻击形式（无论是有意识还是无意识的），针对的是这些崇高理想在实践中是如何转化的。资深研究员、曾任国际学校暴力观察站负责人并为法国政府提供建议的埃里克·德巴比约证实了这一点，他认为对于袭击者来说，“这是一种表达方式：学校没有兑现承诺。展示出来的价值观与现实中的价值观并不一致。”

这或许可以解释为什么这种形式的混乱在法国如此频繁地发生，因为这里的学校装饰着法兰西第五共和国的标志和辞令。但很难对其进行精确量化，因为全国年度学校暴力统计数据并未列出具体事件数量。仅给出了在报告的所有事件中，财产损失所占的百分比（2024-25 年度，小学为 3%，中学 / 高中为 4%）。言语和肢体暴力要普遍得多（在小学报告的事件中分别占 45% 和 34%）。

仅仅因为破坏学校在统计学上频率较低，并不意味着它们不重要。恰恰是其极强的可见性——对公共空间的肆意侵犯——赋予了它们力量。德巴比约强调了这些行为的特殊性质：“它们像是一种游戏。背后可能存在某种群体性的狂欢：这是这些孩子表达自己的方式。”他认为此类事件至少从 20 世纪 90 年代（即法国学校暴力统计首次开始时）起就一直在发生，并且此后稳步上升。

与里昂一样，围绕去年袭击阿尔勒东区的一系列事件，周围笼罩着沉默。市政府拒绝评论，我遇到的一位教师表示，教育委员会禁止他们向媒体谈论此事。路易-米歇尔小学外的家长们猜测入侵者的动机，这些人是在触发警报后被抓获的，且在某些情况下被父母强迫参与清理工作。但今天在这里没有人知道他们的身份，或任何具体细节。

在北面2公里处的特雷邦（Trébon）社区，维多利亚·莱尔斯（Victoria Lyles）幼儿园的情况也是如此。2025年2月，该幼儿园以及附近的一所小学被当地八名中学生洗劫，这些学生被监控摄像头拍到，并被判定破坏学校财产罪名成立。同样，其中一些人有年幼的兄弟姐妹在维多利亚·莱尔斯就读；他们在学生学习的教室里小便。

在这个三月的午餐时间，懒散的棕色蚊子在接孩子的家长周围盘旋。对于这次闯入事件，人们普遍处于一种不解与无奈之中。“我们很担心孩子，因为这里没有任何像样的安保措施，”一组三名母亲中的一位说道。该市镇的资源十分紧张；它是法国面积最大的市镇，拥有大量学校，但

纳迪亚·阿布扎维（Nadia Abzaoui，左）和马努埃拉·德尔贝克（Manuella Delbecq）来自马克·布洛赫学校（École Marc Bloch）的家长协会，她们正试图改善学校家长与教师之间的关系

税基较低。在2025年发生的这三次破坏事件之后，阿尔勒（Arles）市政府投入了€650,000用于加强受影响学校的安保，包括将学校的警报系统与中央监控中心联网。

在路边的便利店里，我被告知特雷邦没有人会打破关于这八名违规者的普遍“缄默法则”。像这里和格里福伊（Griffeuille）这样的社区是导致校园暴力驱动因素的热点地区。法国国家科学研究中心（CNRS）的犯罪社会学专家洛朗·穆基耶利（Laurent Mucchielli）指出了麻烦制造者的三个关键指标：学业失败；来自“贫困或被污名化”的社区；以及家庭内部的困难。但他强调第一点至关重要：“在他们18岁之前，学校是年轻人集体社会融合的核心结构，也就是你所谓的‘儿童社会’。因此，学业失败是社会排斥的第一种形式。”不难看出，为什么这类孩子会通过将愤怒发泄在让他们感到受辱的场所来做出反应。

穆基耶利强调，法国校园暴力的整体水平自20世纪90年代以来一直保持稳定——这与媒体和政治叙事中关于“野蛮青年”的说法相反。他还淡化了社交媒体的影响，称其并未创造新的行为模式。但显然，社交媒体塑造了一些个别事件；它不仅像在马塞尔·帕尼奥学校（École Marcel Pagnol）那样提供了传播手段，还提供了煽动手段。两个消息来源告诉我，路易-米歇尔学校（Louise-Michel）的闯入事件是对青少年在社交网络上发起的在线“挑战”的回应；其中一名来自阿尔勒市政厅的消息人士称，违规者是从格里福伊以外的地方来破坏学校的。但这种社交网络上的同辈压力很难追踪，因为它们通常以瞬时消失的Snapchat或TikTok故事形式发布，并带有通用的、旨在吸引算法的标签。副市长诺曼（Normand）推测，在线内容具有一种脱敏作用：“他们看到这类东西，虽然是虚拟的，但随后他们会产生认同感，然后付诸行动。”

两名不得不处理此类事件的教师在要求匿名的情况下，就另一种早于21世纪社交媒体的解释达成了一致：无聊。他们认为这是主要的驱动因素——尤其是许多破坏行为发生在长达两个月的学校假期期间。“考虑到学校建筑在很长一段时间内没有人，可能更容易自发地决定去做一些恶作剧，”其中一人说道。另一人则表示，父母的忽视加剧了这种情况：“当孩子在假期里无事可做时，他们还太小，不能整天被晾在一边自生自灭。”

第一位教师提供了另一种解读：在过去的十年里，她观察到学生们对归属感的渴望有所增加。“他们想要成为一个群体的一部分，分享相同的行为准则，”她说。尽管将这种情绪发泄在社区资产上显得极其讽刺，但这种对凝聚力的需求可能会采取更具破坏性的形式：无论参与者的背景如何，他们都产生了一种一起去砸毁学校财产的冲动。

“学校对此保持沉默，希望能以此换取和平”

德巴比约认为，这种“破坏者之间的团结”概念是有道理的。他回忆起 20 世纪 60 年代在北部城市图尔宽（Tourcoing）上学时，曾参与过一种他称之为 le chahut 的现象：集体地对某些不幸的教师进行起哄。他几乎带着一种怀旧的情绪表示，这种仪式化的折磨有助于巩固工人阶级学生之间的纽带。或许在身份政治主导的 21 世纪，学校被洗劫破坏的行为，正是这种通过无政府状态建立纽带的复兴——只不过这一次，发生在课后时间。

法国教育部并未在官方层面将学校被洗劫破坏的行为认定为一项全国性问题，或者任何形式的问题。当我向教育部发送一份 2025 年网上报道的 16 起事件清单时，其发言人回复道：“您提到的是 0.3% 的学校建筑。很难将其称为一种‘洗劫现象’。”

但统计数据无法衡量实际产生的影响。官方将重点放在财产而非人员身上，这一点耐人寻味。政府层面没有意愿在更深层的情感层面分析这波浪潮，也没有意愿将这些青少年违规者作为个体或群体现象来理解。由于地方当局在发生此类事件后不愿引起更多关注，且教师作为公务员通常受保密义务的约束，这些事件很快就被掩盖了。

理论上，法国的青年文化之家（Maisons des Jeunes et de la Culture）和青少年之家（Maisons des Adolescents）网络应为问题儿童提供支持服务，并作为法国青少年整体心理健康的反馈渠道。但与英国的青年俱乐部一样，这些部分由国家资助的组织正面临日益增长的财务压力，许多已经关闭。在缺乏对该问题更广泛把握的情况下，应对措施依然是零散的。教育部强调，每个地方市镇——作为学校场所的所有者——必须进行调查、起诉、加强安保并寻找其他解决方案。

针对教师的震惊恐怖袭击，例如 2020 年在埃拉尼（Éragny）发生的萨缪尔·帕蒂（Samuel Paty）被斩首事件，以及 2023 年在阿拉斯（Arras）发生的多米尼克·贝尔纳（Dominique Bernard）被致命刺杀事件，加速了近几十年来加强学校安保的趋势。在贝尔纳被谋杀后，1,000 所“高风险”法国学校被列入加强保护名单——例如安装警报按钮、闭路电视（CCTV）以及与视频监控中心相连的警报器和安检门。但德巴比约认为，此类措施强化了共和制机构“碉堡化”的感觉，使其被定义为与所服务社区相对立，这反而产生了反作用：“学校越是封闭，你越是将它们与周围社区‘隔离’，它们看起来就越像敌人。”

教育部发言人强调，该部认真对待所有学校被洗劫的事件。他们指出，内政部长洛朗·努涅兹（Laurent Nuñez）和教育部长爱德华·热弗雷（Édouard Geffray）最近在去年 12 月发生一起纵火袭击后，访问了第戎（Dijon）的尚波利翁（Champollion）中学。据报道，这次袭击是对周边格雷西耶（Grésilles）社区反毒品贩运行动的报复，这属于法国学校暴力由外部人员实施的极少数情况——仅占 5%（帕蒂和贝尔纳袭击事件处于这一类别的极端情况）。而另外 95% 的事件，包括许多学校被洗劫的行为，则源于系统内部的人员：教师、学生或其他工作人员。因此，需要一种超越周边安保的应对方案。

在蒙彼利埃市南部西北边缘，马克·布洛赫学校（École Marc Bloch）山下的一座小公园里，家长协会主席马努埃拉·德尔贝克（Manuella Delbecq）坐在长椅上，谈到了面对学校遭受袭击时的愤怒与沮丧：“事实上我们知道，潜入学校、纵火、偷窃和破坏的正是社区里的孩子。所以我们想要传达的信息是：这是你们弟弟、你们表弟就读的学校。”

马克·布洛赫学校最严重的一次破坏发生在 5-6 August 2023. 由于为了升级校舍而搭建了脚手架，入侵者很容易进入。他们关闭了警报，然后开始了惯常的混乱破坏：摧毁了七间教室，用橱柜里的油漆在室内喷涂，并掀翻了一个鱼缸，幸运的是缸里没有鱼。

该校的一位教师表示，入侵者留下了几件“名片”：一份还插着叉子的半吃完的沙拉，以及一瓶打开但未动过的啤酒。墙上喷涂的“DZ”标签（阿尔及利亚的国际缩写）暗示了他们的背景。警方在被亵渎的教室中采集了指纹，但没有人员被逮捕或定罪。在夏季余下的时间里，一名夜间保安和一只狗在学校翻修期间对马克·布洛赫学校进行监视；他们在9月开学前又阻止了更多入侵者。在父母的遮掩下，大多数学生对这次破坏一无所知。

陪同德尔贝克的是家长协会的秘书奈玛·哈马达（Naïma Hamada）和财务主管纳迪亚·阿布扎维（Nadia Abzaoui）。他们所在的莱奥-德-马桑（Les Hauts de Massane）社区是蒙彼利埃西侧规模更大、更为破旧的拉莫松（La Mosson）区中相对富裕的顶端。这三人与其他家长一起，在 2020, 一次早前破坏事件后曾在学校外抗议，当时入侵者给一座新附属楼造成了 €30,000 的损失。这些事件从未有人被追究责任。

该团体在要求加强马克·布洛赫学校安保的同时表示，他们是在向肇事者本身传递愤怒的信号——即这种对社区财产的不尊重是不能被容忍的。通过这样做，他们想证明自己是那种积极关注孩子教育质量的家长。“我们不是把孩子送到学校就随他们怎么想，”阿布扎维说，“不，我们参与他们的生活。”他们的目标是反击那些认为移民背景家庭被剥夺权利且不负责任的刻板印象。“正是这种污名化和指责，导致许多家长不愿参与其中，”她说。

他们希望改变家长们的情绪。“存在一种羞耻感，”德尔贝克说，“他们认为自己没有权利发声。”在 2002, 来到这座南部城市之前，她在20世纪80年代成长于巴黎贫困的维特里-叙尔-塞纳（Vitry-sur-Seine）区。“那时家长和学校之间存在着相互尊重，”她说。

在蒙彼利埃西侧的其他学校同样遭到袭击后，该协会试图在 2021 3月组织一次静默游行。但最初联系他们的那些学校的家长从未出现；只有这三人以及少数几位来自马克·布洛赫学校的母亲，举着横幅向拉莫松区巨大的塔楼建筑群走去。哈马达感到非常沮丧；人们似乎因为担心遭到毒品帮派的报复而不愿现身，这些帮派要么在保护参与破坏的青少年，要么不希望社区受到关注从而干扰其贸易。

这三人认为，这种惯性在马克·布洛赫学校内部同样存在——而这正是他们希望通过抗议来打破的另一件事。德尔贝克描述了学校在发生破坏性事件（如洗劫）后的一种习惯性自我禁言：“他们不想谈论这些。”她补充道：“他们保持沉默，希望以此换取平静。但事实上，这导致了另一种结果，即那些破坏性的青少年能够占据越来越多的空间。”

该团体所描述的这种推诿态度，似乎与 #pasdevague（不要激起波澜）的文化相一致。引用这个讽刺性的标签，法国教师多年来一直在社交媒体上用它来表达在面对校园暴力（尤其是由种族和文化冲突引起时）缺乏上级支持的现状。在马克·布洛赫学校的案例中，家长协会声称他们被告知停止与媒体接触，并被排挤在外。该学校未对本文的查询做出回应。

该协会目前已停止活动；这种分裂似乎正是德巴比约所描述的法国教育系统中家长参与度处于“灾难性”水平的典型表现。在梅齐厄，副市长诺曼表示，在马塞尔·帕尼奥学校纵火案之后，重建学校、支持人员与家长之间的联系是她的首要任务。“你必须深入基层，”她说，“正是这些人能帮你改善现状。”

在马塞尔·帕尼奥学校门外，热浪已经消退，学年即将结束，一切都恢复了秩序。火灾造成的损坏已被清除；校门安保人员在周边警戒以防骚乱（他们盘问了一名令人厌烦的《卫报》记者）。但当那一波兴奋的面孔进入校园后，里面发生了什么？也许连那些穿着制服的人也无法告诉我们。在消失在郊区之前，两位母亲对真正令她们孩子感到不安的事情感到惊讶：“他们唯一感到震惊的，是这件事竟然是其他孩子干的。”

我们曾与极右翼抗争。

极端主义在英国日益抬头——但活动人士在过去曾于足球、政治、音乐等各个领域将他们击退。他们是如何做到的？作者：萨姆·沃拉斯顿 (Sam Wollaston) 肖像：法比奥·德·保拉 (Fabio De Paola)

……并且赢了

“如果你没有组织起来，你就会被欺负。当你组织起来时，他们往往会逃跑。”

塔里克·马哈茂德（Tariq Mehmood，上图左）很早就遇到了极右翼——就在小学时期。“当白人孩子在操场上把你围在中间，唱着‘上帝创造了黑色的小人们，他在深夜创造他们，他匆匆忙忙地创造他们，结果忘了把他们涂成白色’，而学校对此不采取严厉措施时，你就是生活在极右翼的环境之中。这不仅仅是一个组织，而是一场群众运动。”

我想那些孩子当时可能用了另一个词来代替“黑色的小人们”，但我实在没勇气去询问。马哈茂德是通过视频通话与我交谈的，他目前在贝鲁特的美国大学任教。现年 70 岁的他于 1967 年从巴基斯坦移民到布拉德福德，他的祖父和叔伯们曾在当地的纺织厂工作，而他抵达后立即经历了种族主义。“校长会告诉我们要感激能来到英国，我们在上学的路上被白人男孩殴打，那时存在着剧烈的暴力和一种无助感。”

直到他意识到自己并非无助，也并非孤身一人。“我们知道不能单独去学校，所以我们会先在某个地方集合，一起下车，然后一起走到教室。”

后来，在 70 年代后期，当他自己在奥特利（Otley）的一家工厂工作时，马哈茂德成为了

（对面图：塔里克·马哈茂德，联合黑人青年联盟成员。上图：詹·克拉夫特，劳工党瑟罗克选区议员）

布拉德福德亚裔青年运动（Bradford Asian Youth Movement, AYM）的创始人之一。AYM 是一个反种族主义团体网络，要求平等权利和更公正的世界，并保护其社区免受国民阵线（NF）和英国运动（BM）等团体的攻击。

由于 AYM 内部出现分歧，马哈茂德在 1981 年加入了一个分裂出来的团体——联合黑人青年联盟（United Black Youth League, UBYL）。“警方试图将我们的分裂描绘成是因为 UBYL 想要暴力，但这绝非事实，”他说。“有些人想在体制内工作——AYM 的创始人之一后来成了国会议员，这在我当时和现在看来都是根本无法认同的。”

布拉德福德的南亚裔社区经常遭到攻击。“每当国民阵线举行示威活动时，你总可以打赌，在酒吧打烊后，那些光头党群体——五、六、七个人开着一辆车到处转悠，看看能搞什么破坏——就会攻击我们。”

因此，就像马哈茂德在学校时所做的那样，UBYL 组织了起来。“如果你没有组织起来，你就会被欺负。当你组织起来时，他们往往会逃跑，你就不必战斗。我们不能信任警察；他们要么是无能，要么是不在乎，要么就是骚扰我们。”

当他们得知许多法西斯分子计划前往布拉德福德时，他们做好了准备。“我们动员了数百人，其中许多是白人，他们在街上行走，确保人们知道我们就在这里，他们没什么好害怕的。我们说如果有必要，我们会武装自己。我们中的一些人制作了汽油弹。”

汽油弹需要一些背景解释。“记住，那是伦敦青少年被屠杀的那一年，”他说道，指的是纽克罗斯（New Cross）房屋火灾，导致 13 名黑人青年死亡（尽管从未证明这是一次种族主义袭击）。“UBYL 的成员们封堵了自己的信箱，以防有人往里面倒入汽油并点燃房屋。那是当时的现实，而我们说，不，我们要自卫。”

1981 年夏天，包括马哈茂德在内的 12 名 UBYL 成员在一次警方突击搜查中被捕，警方发现了 38 个装满汽油的牛奶瓶。这 12 人后来被称为“布拉德福德 12 人组”，被指控共谋引发爆炸并危及生命。他们没有否认制作莫洛托夫鸡尾酒（汽油弹），但表示这是为了自卫而采取的预防措施。

在监狱中等待审判期间，梅穆德发现了另一种武器：笔。他写了他的第一部小说《手握太阳》（Hand on the Sun），讲述一名经历种族主义的年轻移民的故事。“故事让我们成为完整的人。我想告诉后代，我们曾是自豪的产业工人，我们不满足于仅获得碎屑，我们具有政治意识且怀揣希望。我至今仍保有那份希望。”经过积极的活动和漫长的审判，1982年6月16日，梅穆德以及其余的“布拉德福德12人”——他们主张这是正当防卫——被陪审团宣判无罪。

他说，如今极右翼的情况并没有好转。事实上，情况恰恰相反：“现在的氛围比80年代更加恶劣，主要是因为那时我们面对的是源于英国殖民历史的旧式种族主义。而今天的伊斯兰恐惧症是一种更暴力、更剧烈的形式；它自十字军东征以来一直潜伏在表面之下，但规模从未像今天这样大。当时的极右翼只是这里那里有几千名示威者，而不是10万、50万。而且他们不仅在英国，而且遍布整个欧洲。”

他认为这是左翼、工党和工会运动的失败，未能教育白人工人阶级意识到“真正的敌人是顶层的亿万富翁”。此外，还有社区组织的缺失。关于今天如何应对极右翼，梅穆德传达的信息是像他们当年那样做：组织起来并反击。“最重要的教训是，如果你认为存在不公正，那么就与之抗争。”

塔里克·梅穆德的回忆录《反叛：正当防卫与布拉德福德12人的故事》（Rebellion: Self-defence and the Story of the Bradford 12）由 Daraja Press 出版。一部同样名为《反叛》且由梅穆德共同执导的纪录片，将于10月14日和15日在 BFI 伦敦电影节首映。

“这个想法是将音乐与政治结合起来，共同对抗法西斯主义和种族主义”

那是半个世纪前，1976年那个炎热的夏天，但雷德·桑德斯（右）对此记忆犹新。他是一名摄影师，当时也是一个激进剧团的成员，当时他正在伦敦苏豪区的一家工作室里排练。“有人进来说道：‘你看到关于埃里克·克莱普顿的那些烂事了吗？’”

一家音乐杂志的文章称，在伯明翰的一场演唱会上，这位音乐家告诉观众要投票给埃诺克·鲍威尔（即发表过“血河”演说的人），以防止英国变成一个“黑色殖民地”，并高喊国民阵线（NF）的口号：“保持英国纯白”。

“我是克莱普顿的粉丝，去过他的演出，有他的专辑。我简直不敢相信，”现年 80 岁的桑德斯在萨福克郡的家中对我说道。他给音乐媒体写了一封信，并邀请了几位志同道合的朋友共同签名，包括罗杰·哈德尔和乔·雷福德。信中指出了克莱普顿的虚伪，称他是“摇滚乐界最大的殖民主义者”，且他自己的音乐根植于蓝调、节奏布鲁斯和雷鬼。信的结尾发出了号召，号召音乐家和粉丝们起来反抗：“保持信念，黑白团结，共同战斗。”（克莱普顿后来为此道歉，并对这次言论表达了深深的羞愧。）

随着这封信，“摇滚反种族主义”（Rock Against Racism）诞生了。“这个想法是将音乐与政治结合起来，这可能会成为对抗法西斯主义和种族主义的强大组合。”音乐是关键，旨在争取年轻人的支持。第一次活动是爵士歌手卡罗尔·格赖姆斯在东伦敦森林门的一家酒吧举行的演出。“我们选择爱丽丝公主酒吧，是因为那里所在的区域在地方选举中，国民阵线获得了相当多的选票，”桑德斯说。他承认，他们当时很担心遭到国民阵线或英国运动（British Movement）那些暴力新纳粹分子的袭击，因此请了一群码头工人担任安保。

最终，除了与酒吧在钱的问题上发生惯常的分歧外，活动平安结束。从那时起，“摇滚反种族主义”规模日益扩大，通过现场音乐对抗种族主义，并在全国各地安排黑人乐队和白人乐队同台演出。桑德斯特别记得在伦敦中央理工学院举行的一场演出，演出嘉宾包括雷鬼乐队 Misty in Roots 和朋克乐队 Sham 69，后者的许多粉丝是光头党。事实上，桑德斯说，尽管该乐队的主唱吉米·珀西强烈反对极右翼政治，但乐队周围的一些人是英国运动的成员。

桑德斯记得后台的紧张气氛。“Misty 乐队在进入音乐和文化状态时，在朗读《钦定版圣经》。他们玩多米诺骨牌，方式极具戏剧性的挑衅，用力拍下骨牌，所有动作都指向周围围观的法西斯分子和光头党。气氛紧张得像触电一样，我觉得随时都会爆发冲突。”不知为何，这种“枪手式”的战术化解了局面，演出在两支乐队同台展现团结中落下帷幕。

这些演出演变成了大规模的狂欢节，最著名的是在伦敦维多利亚公园举行的一场，演出嘉宾包括 The Clash、Steel Pulse、Tom Robinson Band 等；活动始于从特拉法加广场出发的游行，据信有 100,000 人参加。但这场运动同样在于全国各地小规模的基层响应。桑德斯记得收到过一个来自阿伯里斯特威斯的孩子的来信。“她说她在音乐媒体上读到了我的信，而且她的一个老师是纳粹，她该怎么办？我回信说：‘现在你就是阿伯里斯特威斯的“摇滚反种族主义”了。’当我们下次收到她的消息时，她已经成立了一个俱乐部——当地所有的朋克乐队都在那里演出。”

桑德斯表示，如今的极右翼及其黑面罩纵队比以往任何时候都更令人恐惧。“这种虚伪——口口声声说他们在保护妇女和儿童，结果我们发现其中许多人因家庭暴力被举报至警方。”他的号召是认清极右翼的真实意图和身份，并公开揭露他们。“他们试图清除英国的黑人和棕色人种。他们是彻头彻尾的、100%的种族主义者。”

“我们的足球赛规模很大。彼得·库克还亲自来担任裁判”

可以说，在1977年，国民阵线（NF）和托特纳姆热刺足球俱乐部正朝着截然相反的方向发展。由约翰·廷代尔领导的国民阵线当时仍在崛起，在大伦敦议会的选举中势头强劲。与此同时，热刺则被降级到了旧的第二级别联赛；白鹿巷球场的看台并非一个快乐的地方。“当球队表现糟糕时，社区氛围也会变差，”球迷理查德·巴克韦尔（见对面页顶部）说道。他当时二十多岁，今天通过视频通话与我交流，他目前居住在诺丁汉。

国民阵线在足球场及其周边地区进行宣传和招募。“我想，从历史上看，足球是白人男性的首要休闲活动，”巴克韦尔说。当热刺重新崛起并签下阿根廷球员奥西·阿尔迪莱斯和里基·维拉时，出现了许多敌意。但参与反纳粹联盟活动的巴克韦尔以及少数志同道合的支持者却持有相反观点。“我们分发传单，上面写着‘这里欢迎他们’。这就是‘热刺反纳粹’（Spurs Against Nazis）的开端。”

该组织通过一次公开会议启动，大约有60人参加。1978年10月，他们组织了一场五人制足球赛。“那是一次盛大的活动——有47支球队报名参加。Aswad乐队参与了，比尔·奥迪参加了比赛，彼得·库克还亲自来担任裁判。”喜剧演员库克是热刺的高调支持者，他的参与在俱乐部最初试图阻止其公鸡标志被使用时起到了很大帮助。

他们印制了T恤，制作了徽章和横幅，并在比赛日分发传单，有时国民阵线也在做同样的事情。“我记得有一天，在球场外发传单时，突然看到一群年轻人向我们跑来。我想，这到底是怎么回事？是国民阵线吗？”但事实恰恰相反：他们跑过我们，冲向并驱逐在后方进行宣传的国民阵线成员。这种信息正在传达出去。

随后，“足球迷反纳粹”的信息传播到了其他俱乐部：莱顿东方、西布罗姆维奇、埃弗顿、斯旺西市、诺维奇、阿森纳。总共有大约11家俱乐部成立了基层反法西斯团体，以对抗极右翼对球迷群体的渗透。这种信息甚至传到了国外。“我们的一些T恤被寄给了当时罗得西亚反对白人少数统治的自由战士。”巴克韦尔为了“留作纪念”，至今还保留着一件“热刺反纳粹”的T恤。在视频通话中，加入我们的不是一名津巴布韦自由战士，而是巴克韦尔的妻子简，她举起了这件最后幸存的衬衫。此外，还有一张有趣的漫画，画的是一名足球运动员将一名穿着国民阵线衬衫的光头青年踢出界外。

巴克韦尔记得，当他们看到国民阵线的涂鸦时，习惯将其修改为“NF = No Fun”（国民阵线 = 没意思）。他说，包括足球迷在内的反法西斯运动无疑在国民阵线的衰落中发挥了重要作用，尽管廷代尔和其他成员将余烬带走，在英国国家党（BNP）中点燃了新的极右翼火焰。在整个80年代，种族主义在足球看台上继续肆虐，且在很大程度上未受到制约。

直到今天，这种情况也尚未被完全根除。“最近产生影响的一件事是‘单膝下跪’，许多俱乐部在很长一段时间内都坚持这样做。而且（前英格兰队主帅）加雷斯·索斯盖特产生了巨大的影响。”但像“踢出种族主义”（Kick It Out）和“给种族主义出红牌”（Show Racism the Red Card）这样的运动资金不足，他希望看到来自政府以及——尤其是——来自俱乐部自身的更多支持。“他们只是口头支持。大俱乐部里流动的资金量如此之大，他们本可以做得更多。”

现年74岁的巴克韦尔仍在诺丁汉与“挺身反种族主义”（Stand Up To Racism）组织一起对抗极右翼。他担心斯蒂芬·亚克斯利-伦农（化名汤米·罗宾逊）及其同伙。“目前的情况令人恐惧。但我参加了‘共同联盟’（Together Alliance）的游行，那场面非常壮观。诺丁汉是一个非常多元且多文化的城市。”

“我站在房间中央，看着这场恐怖的暴力——这不是我想要的改变”

1989年一个夏日的傍晚，在后来被称为“韦灵之战”（Battle of Welling）的事件中，马修·柯林斯（Matthew Collins，见下文）改变了立场。作为一名在伦敦东南部长大、“内心不安且爱惹麻烦的青年”，他在青少年时期加入了国家阵线（NF）。“我当时是个极其恶劣且凶残的种族主义者。我不喜欢我周围所看到的一切。”他后来成为了国家阵线在南伦敦的组织者。

80年代中期，国家阵线开始分裂且组织涣散，柯林斯同时也开始在新兴的英国国家党（BNP）担任志愿者，并晋升为该党南伦敦分部主席。英国国家党在韦灵开设了一家书店以分发极右翼资料，一群担忧的当地居民在图书馆举行了会议，讨论如何应对此事。

下文：马修·柯林斯，曾在转向线人之前为英国国家党担任志愿者；他现在就职于“希望而非仇恨”（Hope Not Hate）。

对面： “摇滚反对种族主义”（Rock Against Racism）创始人雷德·桑德斯（Red Saunders），以及一张 1978 年该组织音乐会的海报。上文：理查德·巴克韦尔（Richard Buckwell），一名热刺球迷，他协助建立了“热刺反对纳粹”（Spurs Against Nazis）。

四十名新纳粹分子——包括柯林斯在内——冲进建筑并袭击了他们。在他记忆中，那是一场血洗。九人被送往医院。会议上的大多数人是南亚裔女性。“我站在房间中央，看着这场恐怖的暴力，人们在图书馆里袭击女性，我意识到自己一直以来找错了方向——这不是我想要的改变。”在感到厌恶之后，第二天他给反法西斯杂志《搜寻灯》（Searchlight）打了电话，告知了参与者的身份。柯林斯反水了；他现在成了一名线人。

在接下来的两年半左右时间里，他继续从事极右翼活动，但向《搜寻灯》汇报情况，积累情报、预警袭击并识别人员。这带来了巨大的压力，如果被发现，他可能会被杀掉，“尤其是到后期，当 Combat 18 [英国国家党的安全部门] 出现，且所有活动都围绕着走私枪支和毒品时”。而且他不能告诉任何人，无论是家人还是女友。“这是不可能的，因为你仍然必须以一个种族仇恨者的身份生活。”

柯林斯参与了电视节目《行动世界》（World In Action）对 Combat 18 的揭秘报道，当时他的脸被涂黑且声音被替换，但由于他所说的话，他依然处于危险之中。当特勤局（special branch）拜访他，告知他们收到情报称有人威胁他时，他意识到是时候离开了。柯林斯去了澳大利亚生活了 10 年，在那里从事服装贸易并结婚。

如今 54, 岁的柯林斯回到了英国，就职于“希望而非仇恨”（Hope Not Hate）。这是一个反对法西主义的倡导组织，由《搜寻灯》衍生而来。他是情报主管，这意味着他现在负责管理极端组织内部的线人。他曾管理举报者罗比·穆伦（Robbie Mullen），后者协助瓦解了极右翼组织“国家行动”（National Action）；该组织的一名成员曾密谋杀害当时的工党议员罗茜·库珀（Rosie Cooper），这一事件也是 ITV 剧集《潜入者》（The Walk-In）的主题（由斯蒂芬·格雷厄姆饰演柯林斯）。

他不会告诉我所有的行业秘诀，但基本上，他们会寻找那些感到失望和不满的人。“他们经常发生分裂和争吵，因为这个国家的极右翼现在完全被毒品和酒精驱动。你只需要挑选，找到某个人，然后向他们施压。”

柯林斯想要摧毁当今的极右翼。“摧毁、瓦解并使其迷失方向。而我实现这一目标的方法之一，就是找到那些素质较高的人并引导他们脱离。我们将那些装备更好、行为更得体的人重新带回社会。”

他将极右翼造成的痛苦分为两种：“一种是在意识形态、社会和文化上受制于他们的痛苦；另一种是那些生活在恐惧中的人们所承受的痛苦，因为他们担心自己的窗户被打破或遭到殴打。”

“我对我们所取得的成果感到非常自豪，我们将他们拒之门外，将他们击溃”

在 2010 年大选前夕，极右翼势力正试图渗透进詹·克拉夫特（Jen Craft）的管辖区域。“在离我的家乡不远的地方，有一些本质上的法西斯分子，我想尽一切可能阻止他们。”

幸运的是，她当时处于能够采取行动的位置。克拉夫特（见第 23 页照片）在埃塞克斯郡的瑟罗克出生并长大，当时在巴金为工党议员（现为贵族院议员）玛格丽特·霍奇（Margaret Hodge）工作。英国国家党（BNP）将东伦敦的这个选区视为他们能够获胜的目标。他们在 2005 年的大选中表现良好，并在次年赢得了 12 个议会席位。

克拉夫特解释说，该地区人们对住房短缺、达格纳姆福特工厂可用岗位大幅减少以及人口结构的快速变化（从以白人工人阶级为主转变为人口构成明显更加多元）感到非常沮丧。“那里简直就是一个火药桶。”一个自满的当地工党

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拥抱变革。政党和议会意味着人们“觉得他们没有能力联系任何人，或者觉得政治家并不站在他们这一边”。

英国国家党（BNP）比之前的国家阵线（NF）更聪明。“他们接触人们的方式不是敲开你的门就说：‘你不喜欢所有这些搬进来的某某人，对吧？’他们会说：‘公园里的那个操场看起来有点破旧，我们会来把它刷漆。我敢打赌你很多年没见过政治家了，告诉我们你在担心什么。’ ”

克拉夫特（Craft）的成长岁月正值布莱尔政府时期，她认为自己的立场比他显著偏左，她深知英国国家党的本质。她认为他们是在针对霍奇（Hodge）个人，“因为她是犹太人，而且她刚刚失去了丈夫。他们认为可以利用这一点。”

克拉夫特在 2010 年时 25 岁，她负责霍奇的竞选活动。“如果你打算倾尽所有去击败极右翼，那是最好的时机——当你还没有真正的责任，且每周可以花 80 小时全力以赴的时候。”

具体怎么做？“如果你敲开某人的门，发现他们打算投票给英国国家党，然后你说：‘你知道他们是一群种族主义者吗？’那么那个人听到的就是你在骂他是种族主义者。”他们也不会以“你好，我来自工党……”开头，因为由于不信任感如此之深，他们经常会被对方直接甩门在脸前。因此，他们采取了与对手类似的策略。“那就是：‘我和你的当地团队一起出来了，你有什么问题，我们可以解决什么？不是试图说服他们我们的世界观是正确的，而只是通过说‘我们在这里，我们在倾听，我们站在你这边，我们能为你提供什么？’来打开那扇门。”他们组织了咖啡下午茶和街头会议，以了解人们关心什么。

随后，会出现一些“你知道英国国家党是谁吗？”的引导。这也是招募志愿者和组建竞选团队的方法。“这就是他们的真面目，这就是他们构成的威胁，快来帮我们，因为如果他们在这里获胜，他们下一步会去哪里？他们不会停止的……”

英国国家党没有获胜。尽管工党在全国范围内失利，但在巴金（Barking），霍奇增加了得票份额，而英国国家党被挤到了第三名。这是其支持率的一个转折点；该党随后分崩离析，成员流向了右翼新出现的政党，例如英国独立党（Ukip）。“我对我们取得的成果感到非常自豪，将他们拒之门外，将他们击溃，”克拉夫特说。

之后，她成为了一名公务员，暂时远离政治。2024 年，她代表工党在瑟罗克（Thurrock）参选并获胜。现在她是一名国会议员，我们正在她的威斯敏斯特办公室交谈。原任的保守党议员被挤到了第三名，落后于改革英国党（Reform UK）的候选人。

同样的问题——移民、经济的不确定性与不安全感、对政治的厌倦——意味着“在我的地区，那些极右翼的信息再次开始产生影响”。现在的不同之处在于社交媒体。“在巴金，那是模拟时代——信件、传单。我们只需要拥有比他们更快的打印机，向更多人家中投递更多资料，并投入更多人力。但社交媒体的出现意味着人们可以非常、非常迅速地传播谎言和扭曲的信息——比如净移民人数在上升，或者小船跨境人数在增加，而实际上情况恰恰相反。”

克拉夫特认为，要对抗当今的极右翼，最需要的是加强对社交媒体公司及其所有者的监管。“埃隆·马斯克希望我们反目成仇并互相攻击。我们不对他进行监管，就是在逃避维护这个国家安全的职责。”

这比她看到的一些策略会更有效。“如果你举着标语大喊‘纳粹！’，你可能会觉得自己做得很好，但在真正关键的地方——也就是投票箱前，你并没有采取任何行动来对抗他们。”

2024年夏天，抗议者聚集在利物浦的阿卜杜拉·奎利亚姆清真寺外，伊玛目亚当·凯尔威克（Adam Kelwick）在现场。

“我和那个人聊了五分钟……然后给了他一个拥抱”

2024年夏天，在南波特（Southport）一家舞蹈课上发生三名女孩被杀事件后，误导信息和暴力行为在英国境内蔓延。暴徒砸碎窗户和汽车，企图纵火焚烧安置寻求庇护者的酒店，并亵渎穆斯林坟墓；与此同时，极右翼的“键盘侠”们在海外的日光浴躺椅上，为这场战火火上浇油。

8月2日当晚，在利物浦，一群愤怒的人群聚集在全英最古老的阿卜杜拉·奎利亚姆（Abdullah Quilliam）清真寺外。不顾警方的建议，该清真寺的伊玛目之一亚当·凯尔威克（Adam Kelwick，见上图）穿过马路去与他们交谈。他带了食物——汉堡和薯条——以及饮料。“你听说过‘共进晚餐’（breaking bread）这个概念，而且通往男人心的道路是通过胃的，”凯尔威克在利物浦家中通过电话说道。有一张著名的照片记录了凯尔威克与其中一名男子的交谈。“我和他聊了五分钟，我们产生了共鸣，建立了一种关系，如果你愿意，可以称之为友谊，然后我给了那个人一个拥抱。”

拥抱需要两个人共同完成。“所以他内心深处也有这种想法。在来到清真寺抗议之后，他能够伸出手同样拥抱我——而他之前正对着这群人表达敌意。”随后，当局面平静下来且摄像机离开后，凯尔威克偷偷将他带进了清真寺。“我带他进去，我们四处走走，进行了一次有趣的对话。”

凯尔威克认为，“你在这些抗议活动中看到的绝大多数人，只是被卷入了一些他们可能并不完全理解的事情的、纯粹的普通人”。这就是为什么对话至关重要。“你必须参与其中，否则你们会离得越来越远，那么产生敌意和敌对情绪就很容易了。”

从那时起，凯尔威克一直致力于建立这些联系。他向我讲述了不久后他们组织的一次前往北威尔士的巴士旅行——参与者包括一群参加了利物浦“拯救我们的孩子”（Save Our Kids）抗议活动（该活动以暴力冲突开始）的家庭，以及来自穆斯林社区的家庭。“我们将所有人混合地安排在两辆巴士上；你应该看看北威尔士当地人的表情，当车门打开，所有这些利物浦人（scousers）和一些看起来相当保守的穆斯林家庭一起走下来时。我想学者们将其称为‘接触理论’（contact theory）——即如果你有面对面的互动，就越不容易对彼此产生负面情绪或维持负面刻板印象。”

这种偏执是双向的。“穆斯林社区的很多人认为，这些抗议活动中的每个人都想把他们吊死、拖行并分尸——所以我一直在与双方共同努力。”

凯尔威克经常旅行，他表示，这种由极右翼团体和个人在高层推动并资助的叙事在各地都是一样的：“移民是有害的，这是军龄男性的入侵，他们不融入，他们犯下了所有这些罪行并强奸我们的女孩……在美国、法国、德国，以及整个欧洲都是这样。”

但凯尔威克对人类抱有信心。“我们都是人类，流着同样的血，生活中面临同样的问题。无论向其中投入多少亿资金，如果你能促进不同社区的人之间产生真实的互动，这种能力就能让那些资金雄厚的企图变得无关紧要。”我想知道，他是否愿意坐下来与汤米·罗宾逊（Tommy Robinson）本人聊聊？“这不是绝对的拒绝。在他入狱期间，我几乎安排了去探视他。我认为那将是一次理想的会面，没有摄像机，不需要向任何人证明什么，只是一次纯粹的坐下来交谈，无需进行任何宣传噱头——那将会是有益的。”

讨论而非辩论才是目的。“我不喜欢扮演攻击者；这会把人们推开。进行这种互动的全部目的就是为了拉近距离。当你将事情简化到人性层面时，美好的事情就会发生。你可以对每一个人都这样做——即使是对汤米·罗宾逊。” 那么，亚克斯利-伦农先生，邀请已经发出。甚至可能还会给你一个拥抱 ●

爱如何让我变成了一个“食人族”

当演员瑞秋·斯特林（Rachael Stirling）透露，在首演之夜她会吃几片母亲戴安娜·里格（Diana Rigg）的骨灰时，人们的反应从撇嘴到厌恶不等。但她写道，这正是她母亲希望看到的。

'我是她的独生女，并追随她的脚步进入演艺界。她对此强烈反对'：瑞秋·斯特林与挂在她书桌上方的一幅母亲肖像合影

最近出现了一些头条新闻，将我描绘成一个每晚吞噬母亲焦黑遗骸的、贪婪骨灰的野蛮人。上个月，十几家新闻机构宣称“瑞秋·斯特林在登台前食用母亲戴安娜·里格的骨灰”，而另一些则将其称为“只有她自己才真正理解的奇怪习惯”，以及“戴安娜女爵的女儿承认食用其骨灰以进行古怪的致敬”。我写了一本关于我们关系的书，名为《关于我的母亲》（All About My Mother），在书中我确实承认自己曾轻抿一两粒骨灰，但我没料到会被媒体塑造成一个弑母的食人族。

我的母亲是戴安娜·里格，一位拥有60年职业生涯的标志性演员。年轻人会认识她在《权力的游戏》中饰演的荆棘女王，那位戴着头巾、在电视荧幕上发表最犀利毒舌评论的人：“我认识过很多聪明人。我比他们都活得久。你知道为什么吗？因为我无视他们。”与此同时，年长者在回忆起她60年代在《复仇者》中饰演的艾玛·皮尔（Emma Peel）时，会因那身皮革紧身衣带来的电视荧幕辉煌而眼含泪光——她是首位在西方电视上表演功夫的女性。她也是唯一一位与詹姆斯·邦德结婚的女性。她出演了《大木偶抢劫案》，是因为我深深地爱上了猪小姐（Miss Piggy）；而她饰演的杀子凶手美狄亚则在百老汇大获赞誉。她曾获得艾美奖和托尼奖，并因其众多的舞台表演而获得无数荣誉。她是一个完全的原创人物，而且极其风趣。

我如此强烈地思念她，以至于我写了这本书来让她地复活。母亲在生前从未想要过传记，因为之前有几部乏味的传记让她显得有些沉闷，或者犯了最严重的错误——显得过于严肃。我的母亲并不严肃。她是诚实的，有时诚实得令人难以忍受。

我是她的独生女，并追随她进入了演艺行业。她强烈反对我的职业选择，我可以告诉你，这引发了一些骚动。我们经历了一切从A到Z的情绪波动，最终我们回到了早年间的那种爱。最终，我们之间的爱战胜了所有糟糕的部分，尽管其中有一些令人愉悦、而有些则令人瞠目结舌的故事可以分享。这恰好将我们带回了骨灰以及我摄入骨灰的话题。

格劳乔·马克斯（Groucho Marx）希望被火化，并将十分之一的骨灰“交给我的经纪人，正如我的合同中所写的那样”。在新冠封锁期间去世的母亲也希望被火化，但不需要仪式，并将骨灰撒在她喜爱的地方。她直到最后都非常务实，甚至在去世前确保我们已经用她的银行卡支付了火化费用。然而，我们从未想到要决定她的遗骸将用什么容器装回，所以直到她去世后，我才发现自己在浏览所提供的“撒骨灰管”选项。

骨灰散播管是各种尺寸的纸板容器。有些是素色的，有些则印有图案。这些图案相当缺乏创意，大多是鸽子和日落——或者是日出——以及在我看来有些过于直白的图像。事实证明，在面对死亡时，大多数事物都相当直白。这里没什么讽刺空间的市场。很少能见到骷髅头和交叉骨，或者红色细高跟鞋，或者写着“我就告诉过你们我病了”的管子。最终，我选择了几种不同尺寸的容器，上面印着最不令人反感的花卉装饰。我需要数量，因为我母亲要去很多地方。她将被她的飞行员朋友特雷西·柯蒂斯-泰勒（Tracey Curtis-Taylor）驾驶双翼飞机，从空中散播在英格兰的绿野之中；她将被散播在她在法国的花园里，以及我在伦敦的花园里；还有在科文特花园的演员教堂遗址上。

我没预料到人类的骨灰会这么重。但它们确实非常重。在一个明媚的九月早晨，当我母亲的遗骸被送还给我时，我发现了这一点。火葬公司在安排交付时告诉我，接收骨灰可能会是一个充满情感的时刻。诚然，我亲爱的母亲被碳化后的尸身是我预想过最奇怪的交付物，而且绝对不能被留在门廊上或交给邻居。于是我坐在那里等待，像一只听话的狗在正门等待她的女主人。

一位来自约克郡（我母亲的出生地）火葬公司的、极其温文尔雅的绅士将我母亲送到了我面前。他从后备箱里把她拿了出来，她被装在一个用素布包裹的盒子里。他用温和的目光审视着我的脸，大概是想看看我是否会突然号啕大哭而把她掉在地上，然后他将她交给我，那动作之温柔，就像在递交一个刚出生的婴儿。

虽然火葬让家属能够在大自然中，远离葬礼那种沉闷的正式感来庆祝挚爱的生命，但事情并不总是按计划进行。大家都看过那种电影：骨灰被散播出去，结果风突然刮起，将骨灰吹到了哀悼者的脸上。关于骨灰意外最精彩的故事发生在我的岳父唐纳德·加维（Donald Garvey）的散播仪式上，他是七个优秀孩子的父亲，其中第六个是我的丈夫盖伊·加维（Guy Garvey）。我们和他的庞大家族一起，在兰迪德诺的大奥姆（Great Orme）庆祝人们深切怀念的唐纳德，那里是加维家族多次度假的地方。唐纳德曾表示，他希望这一天能模仿杰克·维特里亚诺（Jack Vettriano）的一幅画：一个穿着红裙的女人在暴风雨之日的海滩上，与穿着燕尾服的伴侣共舞。人们在悬崖顶上发表了感言，少数勇敢的人走到了岸边。孙女露西穿着一件深红色的露肩连衣裙，提起裙摆，涉入异常清澈平静的蓝色大海中，按照他明确的遗愿，将她心爱的爷爷散播在威尔士的潮汐中。任务完成后，当露西庄重地走回岸边的家人身边时，她脱口而出了一句如今已成经典的话：“我想我内裤里沾了些爷爷。”

装载我母亲的最小的管子大约三英寸高。我想指出的是，我认为散播管的设计非常糟糕。它们的开启方向与看起来应该开启的方向完全相反，所以你很容易误将挚爱的骨灰散播出去。这个管子里的内容物——大部分——已经去了它们该去的地方，但里面仍然残留着零星的一两粒或 20 粒我母亲的骨灰，所以我绝对不能把它扔掉。而且它恰好是口袋大小，于是我开始随身携带她的残余部分去任何地方。到目前为止，一切还算正常。

我接下来参演的戏剧是在我疫情前最后一次演出的同一家剧院。那是我母亲生前看到的最后一场戏，在汉默史密斯的抒情剧院（Lyric in Hammersmith）上演的《爱，爱，爱》（Love, Love, Love）。新剧《丑闻小镇》（Scandaltown）是由同一位编剧迈克·巴特利特（Mike Bartlett）创作的，同样在抒情剧院演出。一切感觉都惊人地相似，但在两部剧之间，母亲去世了，整个世界也彻底乱了套。现在，我回到了同一个排练室参加排练，身边还有一些熟悉的人，但再也没有母亲可以一起聊聊关于

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“我在无国界医生组织断断续续工作了二十年，但我依然记得我参与的第一个项目。当时我们正在刚果民主共和国的一片森林中建立一家医院。该地区曾发生过大量战斗，尽管冲突已经平息，但战争留下的创伤依然清晰可见。周边地区约有 125,000 人居住，但这里没有任何服务，甚至连基础医疗都无法获得。女性在需要时无法进行剖腹产手术；这里没有药物，没有疫苗，也没有疾病治疗方案。情况极其绝望，于是无国界医生组织派我们去建立并运行一家应急医院。

从一开始，我们的目标就是提供医疗护理并挽救生命。但我们知道，为了让这项工作能够持续并产生深远影响，我们不能仅仅提供医疗护理。我们需要让社区参与进来；我们需要雇佣当地员工，并培训当地人来承担我们正在从事的工作。于是，我们就这样做了。

看到这项救命工作产生的直接影响，感觉太棒了。但真正让我惊讶的是，看到这家医院如何改变了整个地区。我依然记得我们启动发电机，为医院及其周边区域提供照明的那一天。突然之间，学童们开始聚集在灯光下做作业。在接下来的几周里，商业店铺纷纷出现，当地经济得到了增长。

这些年来，我在战争地带、埃博拉疫情爆发区以及自然灾害现场工作过，我一次又一次地看到，我们作为无国界医生组织所采取的简单行动，能给人们、他们的家庭及其社区带来巨大且积极的连锁反应。

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在一天结束时，戏正演到高潮。真是个奇怪的新世界。

在参加该剧工作的第一天，当我把装有她的试管放入背包时，我记得当时在想，如果她能再次回到排练室，一定会多么激动。临近首演之夜，我决定让她在我的化妆间里长期驻留。我的母亲曾在 1985, 年使用过同一个化妆间，当时她正在演出《小埃约夫》（Little Eyolf），这是一部由亨利克·易卜生创作于 1894 年的阴郁北欧剧作。这是“Number One”化妆间，也就是离舞台最近的房间，而现在她再次回到了这里，坐在那一圈亮灯环绕的好莱坞镜子前，尽管这次她是在试管里。她唯一错过的就是真正和我一起登台。毕竟，那是她最快乐的地方，但我无法将试管藏在我的紧身金色金属织物套装里的任何地方，否则我的服装上会出现一个非常奇怪的凸起。于是，她就留在她的化妆间里，等待着那个永远不会到来的登台指令。

演员在状态最好的时候也是一个情感充沛的群体，到了首演之夜，我简直崩溃了。这是我第一次在没有母亲在场的情况下迎来首演，这让我感到悲伤，但这是一部高能量的复古风格喜剧，所以我必须迅速振作起来。我看着那个装着母亲残骸的小试管，我不知道当时在想什么，但我发现自己打开了它。方向反了。几粒灰烬掉在了我的梳妆台上，就在我惊慌失措地尝试将它们一颗颗捡回去（成功率参差不齐）时，广播系统大声响起：“斯特林小姐，请准备登台。” 到了我出场的时候了。肾上腺素开始分泌，我的心怦怦直跳。该出发了。

在惊慌之中，我就像电影里那些不能忍受浪费哪怕一粒好药的可卡因成瘾者一样，我舔了舔手指，捡起那几粒洒出的灰烬，将她放进了我的舌尖。如果你好奇的话，口感是颗粒状的，但这感觉并不不对，反而感觉完全正确。我对着自己和这个荒诞的局面大笑起来。然后，就这样，我的紧张感消失了。

“将我的母亲——我的来源——重新放回她在子宫内塑造我的那个口中，这有那么奇怪吗？” 斯特林婴儿时期与母亲的合影，见右侧，约 1965 年《复仇者》时期。

我知道这听起来像疯了，但对我来说完全合理。毕竟，很多人认为他们每周都在食用基督的身体，而且至少这样我可以真正地说，在那晚我带着她一起登台了，回到了她所属的舞台之上。

当我在之后的派对上告诉一位寡妇我所做的事情时，她的眼睛因认同而睁大，并急切地低声说道：“我也这么做！”

不同之处在于，她从未提起过这件事。没人提起。这是一种秘密的动物本能，而且坦白说，大多数人在私下里做过更糟糕的事，只不过他们保持沉默罢了。但对我而言，讲述真相感觉更为重要——而且我热爱那种感觉，觉得她的某些部分正与我一同站在舞台上。毕竟，她生前拒绝退休，而这就是我让她能够继续前行的方式。

从那以后，每逢首演之夜，我都会这样做。在每次媒体之夜前，当广播里响起五分钟提醒时，我会打开那个管子——我已经对此驾轻就熟了——伸进手指，将收集到的一切放进嘴里。有些人上场前听音乐，有些人做俯卧撑。而我则吃掉母亲最后的残余。2023年诺埃尔·考沃德的《私生活》首演之夜，她就与我同在舞台上。仅仅是知道她在那里，就给了我当晚演好这个角色的信心，让我能够展现出喜悦，像她以前在我的首演贺卡里写的那样，“飞翔吧，我的女孩”。

当我出演《神圣的S夫人》中的莎拉·西登斯时，她一定会非常热爱与我一同登上汉普斯特德剧院的舞台。那是一部关于18世纪演员的剧作，西登斯在表演中革命性的现实主义风格曾令观众尖叫昏厥。妈以前常对我引用西登斯的名言。她会说：“只要在自然界中能找到，我就知道它可以被演绎。”所以，当我对着聚光灯说出同样的话时，她当然想陪在我身边。2024年在皇家法院剧院首演《巨人》之前——这部关于罗尔德·达尔反犹主义的爆款剧作中，我饰演他的妻子费利西蒂·克罗斯兰，而约翰·

利索饰演罗尔德——我再次抿了一小块碎屑。如今我无法停止这样做，尽管几乎没有什么剩下了；但心意最重要。

宝贝，她甚至回到了百老汇。今年三月《巨人》转场纽约时，我母亲随我一同前往。噢，没有什么比演艺事业更精彩的了。有一次糟糕的夜晚，演出结束后我回到化妆间，发现椅子上方的屋顶发生了严重渗漏，所有东西都被淋得湿透了。我的第一个念头是：噢不，妈妈变软了！但事实上，管子外面只有一点点潮湿，里面依然干透。

爱是动物性的，悲伤当然也是。狗通过嗅屁股来打招呼；我妈经常咬我的屁股，而且还在国家电视台上公开说过。“我把牙齿深深地陷入她的肉里！我把鼻子埋在她的肚子里！”她对着一脸困惑的迈克尔·帕金森如此宣称。这难道不是同一回事吗？而我将我的母亲——我的来源——重新放回她在子宫内塑造我的那个嘴巴里，这真的那么奇怪吗？这是我自己的信仰之举。正如鲍伊所写，“尘归尘，土归土，古怪归古怪”，“我已爱过我所需的一切，亲爱的。肮脏的细节随后便至……”

爱让我们两人都成了食人族。尽管一位寡妇认为我的行为有其道理，但从我告诉大多数人的反应来看，很少有人认同。反应从像吃了酸柠檬般的鬼脸到彻头彻尾的厌恶不等。尽管如此，我不会被说服而放弃这个习惯。我将坚持我的“食灰”之举直到死亡，对于任何质疑我神智的人，我回答道：“这是自然的！我确定是真的！我保证我没疯。这是她希望我这么做的！” ● 瑞秋·斯特林的《关于我的母亲》（All About My Mother）由约翰·默里出版社出版，售价 £25。如需以 £22.50 订购副本，请访问 guardianbookshop.com

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2022 年， 被 入选 入摇滚名人堂。这感觉像是一件大事，是对该乐队跨越五个十年的职业生涯、1 亿张唱片销量以及一系列经典金曲（如《Save a Prayer》、《Rio》、《Hungry Like the Wolf》、《Girls on Film》）的一次甜蜜认可。由演员小罗伯特·道尼主持入职仪式；德鲁·巴里摩尔、娜奥米·坎贝尔和格温·史蒂芬妮也在现场表达了由衷的敬意。正如键盘手尼克·罗兹（Nick Rhodes）所指出的，“这是美国一次面向数百万观众的大型全国电视直播，”因此乐队安排了一些热身演出。“恰好在 10 月 31 日拉斯维加斯有一个档期，”罗兹说，“我看了看大家，说：‘好吧，我们不能演一场普通的演出。万圣节的拉斯维加斯——这绝对是个开玩笑的好机会，不是吗？’”

他们准备了一套主题契合的曲目，包括翻唱比莉·艾利什（Billie Eilish）的《Bury a Friend》和 Talking Heads 乐队的《Psycho Killer》。当然，演出中还涉及服装，因为正如罗兹干巴巴地指出，“ 什么时候没打扮过？”

他说得有道理，尽管即使在他们“新浪漫主义”的盛装时期， 也没有这样打扮过。演出中出现了乐队首席心跳担当——贝斯手约翰·泰勒（John Taylor）出人意料的造型，“银色长发垂到腰间，像某种斯堪的纳维亚的兽人”，这场演出取得了巨大的成功，以至于 的万圣节演出变成了一项年度活动——他们在 2024 年在纽约麦迪逊广场花园演出，2025 年在曼彻斯特的 Co-op Live 演出，而今年的演出则在伦敦的 O2 体育馆举行——并催生了一张专辑，即 2023 年的《Danse Macabre》。在 2007 年离开乐队并在摇滚名人堂入职仪式上宣布患有 4 期转移性前列腺癌的吉他手安迪·泰勒（Andy Taylor）回归参与了该专辑的录制。而在翻唱曲目中，潜伏着一个 Specials 乐队的《Ghost Town》版本，这是一个耐人寻味的选择，因为回溯到 80 年代初，Specials 乐队具有政治参与感的社会现实主义被认为与 那种赤裸裸的、追求名利且奢华的环球旅行风格截然相反。

“我记得在一次早期排练后，我和约翰坐在出租车里聊天，”主唱西蒙·勒邦（Simon Le Bon）点头回忆道，“我之前在过一个摇滚乐队和一个叫 Dog Days 的朋克乐队，我说：‘但是约翰，街头可信度（street credibility）怎么办？’约翰说：‘西蒙， 的街头可信度大概和香奈儿 19 号香水差不多。’在那一刻，我想：‘好吧，我就听他的。’”

在此过程中，万圣节演出的规模变得越来越宏大（曼彻斯特的演出有烟火、舞者和吞火表演），而即使是勒邦——他自己承认“不是万圣节的粉丝，我认为它已经变成了一种营销手段”——在面对整个项目的热情上也无可挑剔。

“在第一次演出时，我扮成了一只狼人，但之后这个想法不断演变。下一次，我像是一个北大西洋护航船长的幽灵。当时有一种航海主题，这非常适合我。”年岁足以记得杜兰杜兰（Duran Duran）鼎盛时期的读者可能会想起勒·邦（Le Bon）驾驶其78英尺长的“鼓号”（Drum）游艇的冒险经历——该船在1985年的法斯特内特（Fastnet）赛船赛中倾覆，导致这位歌手仅穿着内裤就被直升机救离险境。“另一次我扮成了一个疯马克斯（Mad Max）和木乃伊的结合体，但我还设计了一个场景，决定戴上鹿角，像个德鲁伊之神。而上一次我试图尝试某种风格，但效果不佳：我扮成了一只水母，但结果看起来像……我想说像《鲁保罗变装皇后秀》（RuPaul's Drag Race）里的东西，但那样太自夸了。这一次，我想尝试像‘毁灭之神湿婆’那样的造型。”

这一切都指向了一种某种自由，一种无论是否被认为“酷”都要做自己想做之事的欲望。“问题是，我根本不在乎人们怎么看我，”现年67岁且拥有四个孙辈的勒·邦说道——或者用他在社交媒体上的话来说，他是个“华丽祖父”（glamfather）。“我不是代表整个乐队说话——我确定他们中有些人是在意的——但对我来说，我只做我想做的事，仅此而已。”

这也体现了一种自嘲式的幽默感，罗兹（Rhodes）认为，在他们1982年的专辑《里约》（Rio）将他们推向超级巨星地位之后，这种特质可能被忽视了。当时，杜兰杜兰完全有理由称自己为世界上最伟大的乐队。公平地说，在昂贵的喷气机生活视频、超模女友和安东尼·普莱斯（Antony Price）西装的掩盖下，这种幽默感并不总是那么容易被察觉。“我认为有些人错过了这一点，”他说。“但我们是在《蒙提·派森》（Monty Python）和《福尔蒂酒店》（Fawlty Towers）以及所有那些精彩的70年代英国电视节目中长大的，所以，不可避免地，那是我们行为的一部分。这并不意味着我们要把它写进歌里——我想我们永远不会写出像《大笑侏儒》（The Laughing Gnome）那样的歌——但与此同时，你知道，视频里充满了幽默感。看看《杀死那个间谍》（A View to a Kill）或《里约》。它就在那里。”

与乐队四名成员探讨他们的鼎盛时期十分有趣。大家都一致认为，那正是他们最初想要的。他们热爱登上《流行之巅》（Top of the Pops）——他们近期单曲《自由去爱》（Free to Love）的视频就是对该节目的深情致敬——并且显然很享受那个时代那种张扬的风格，与安迪·沃霍尔（Andy Warhol）在纽约结交，给超模的经纪人打电话邀请她们的客户共进晚餐。“单身的时候很有趣，”当被问到他怀念那个时代（era,）的什么时，勒·邦微笑着说，随后他的表情发生了变化。“我不该这么说的，对吧？结婚后的生活一直很美妙。”

同样，人们很难不感觉到，他们在80年代享有的那种全球知名度——更不用说死忠粉丝“杜兰迷”（Durannies）们永不停歇的关注——是一项沉重的负担。“实际上，那简直让人崩溃，”鼓手罗杰·泰勒（Roger Taylor）表示。“我16岁时还坐在卧室里自学打鼓；到21岁时，我们已经在麦迪逊广场花园演出。我完全没有为此做好任何准备。我的父亲在汽车工厂工作；我的母亲在一家仓库的接线板工作。我的生活中没有任何应对巨大成功的基础。在进入这种状态五年后，我想：‘我不确定我能否承受这种程度的审视。’音乐媒体在围追堵截，小报在穷追不舍。那是他们第一次真正想将音乐人作为新闻报道的一部分。粉丝群在12到16岁之间，且非常狂热。那时绝对到了需要抽身而退的时候了。”

他在1986年离开了杜兰杜兰（Duran Duran），搬到了格洛斯特郡。令他欣喜的是，在他离开乐队的那一刻，那些在他家门外扎营的粉丝们消失了。“愿上帝保佑他们，但这确实让人松了一口气。唯一能追踪到我行踪的是《太阳报》，他们在早上六点猛敲我的门，然后写了一篇标题为‘罗杰·泰勒：流行乐界的隐士’的特写报道。但不用被干扰，过着安静简单的生活感觉太棒了。”

到1989年，杜兰杜兰的热门金曲枯竭了。“我感到巨大的焦虑，就像浴缸里的水流干了一样那种焦虑，”勒邦说道。自1980年加入以来，他与罗兹是杜兰杜兰仅有的两名常驻成员。他们卷起袖子，在乐队的低谷期艰难支撑。

“我曾装扮成狼人，以及一名大西洋海上护航舰队船长的幽灵” 1985年的生日派对；与《杀出重围》主演格蕾丝·琼斯和塔尼娅·罗伯茨在一起；去年在曼彻斯特的万圣节演出；以及1984年的一排杜兰杜兰粉丝。

非凡的世界（主图）如今的杜兰杜兰；（本页，从左上角起顺时针方向）1981年乐队在《流行之巅》节目中的样子；尼克·罗兹在安迪·沃霍尔的……

在低谷期，他们与美国吉他手沃伦·库库鲁洛同行，后者是个古怪的人物，曾一度销售一款以自己阴茎为原型的成人玩具，但他也共同创作了1993年的单曲《Ordinary World》，这首歌让杜兰杜兰短暂地回到了全球排行榜的高端位置，并且至今仍是他们流媒体播放量最高的单曲。在某个阶段，勒邦写了一首歌叫《Undergoing Treatment》，描述乐队“在新闻中看着他人”，而发现自己则“屈就于中价折扣区”。如今，他觉得那些荒原岁月成就了乐队。

“我们挺过了‘修剪高罂粟’（指打击出头之辈）的阶段，我认为这在某种程度上让我们赢得了人们的好感，”他说。“这实际上证明了我们很坚韧。我们看起来可能像一群软弱、精心打扮的中产阶级家伙，但实际上，我们非常强悍。”

确实，自原有的五人组在2001年重组以来，人们对杜兰杜兰的看法发生了明显转变。在他们鼎盛时期一直困扰他们的糟糕评论似乎已成为过去。“我记得有一天演出结束走下台，有人说：‘观众的声音变了，’”贝斯手约翰·泰勒说。“声音从那种尖锐的高音降低了一个八度。显然，我们已经脱离了杜兰杜兰过去吸引的那类观众——主要是女性和青少年，这对我们来说没问题，但那种观众群体往往被轻视。那感觉就像是，‘好吧，我们现在处于平等的位置了。我们可以前进了。’那些男人不再讨厌我们了。”

如果你想要他们成为“国民瑰宝”的证据，那么，他们刚刚出现在一系列皇家邮政的邮票上。从贝克（Beck）到杀手乐队（The Killers）的布兰登·弗劳尔斯，再到情绪摇滚乐队Panic! at the Disco，所有人都将他们视为影响来源。此外，他们似乎永远不缺可以合作的年轻艺术家：马克·朗森共同制作了2015年的《Paper Gods》，Blur乐队的格雷厄姆·考克森出现在其续作《Future Past》中，去年夏天，勒邦和约翰·泰勒出人意料地与萨布丽娜·卡彭特一起出现在海德公园的舞台上，高唱《Hungry Like the Wolf》。勒邦对成功说服来自马盖特的Pigeon乐队在巡演中为他们担任开场嘉宾感到非常兴奋，尽管杜兰杜兰的粉丝们会对他们的“无波迷幻朋克”有何看法仍有待观察。“我们非常尊重年轻的活力。你希望在团队中、在录音室中获得一些这样的活力。”

尽管如此，他们似乎对 21 世纪音乐的某些方面非常警惕。罗兹对人工智能对音乐的影响持谨慎乐观态度，前提是“将其作为一种艺术工具”，但勒邦表示，他最近听到了一首由 AI 演绎的 Duran Duran 的歌曲，且这次经历似乎仍让他心有余悸：“简直太糟糕了！那是一首极其难听的曲子——人声简直惨不忍睹。我不记得歌名了，但封面是一个女孩站在游艇上，完全没有避开陈词滥调。我担心人们可能会开始习惯并接受它，就像你接受极其糟糕的学校晚餐一样，仅仅是因为你饿了且那是食物。这太令人震惊了。”

此外，正如他所指出的，既然原班人马依然在，且打算继续活跃，那么就没必要搞一个 AI 版的 。“我认为在乐队中能给我动力、能量和积极性，让我努力保持

精神灵活，身体强健。我特意上下楼梯跑动，因为我不想突然有一天说：‘噢，我得搬到平房里住了，我的膝盖不行了。’我无法改变我的年龄，但我可以尽可能地表现得年轻，我认为这能让你维持得更久。直到我在舞台上猝死？说实话，这其实是个不错的结局。”

的万圣节演出将于 10 月 31 日在伦敦 O2 体育馆举行，这是他们 2026 年英国和欧洲巡演的一部分。

俱乐部（从上至下）约翰·泰勒、西蒙·勒邦、尼克·罗兹和罗杰·泰勒与小罗伯特·道尼在 2022 年入选摇滚名人堂时合影；以及勒邦去年在曼彻斯特不断演变的万圣节装扮

勒邦最近 听到了一首 AI 演绎的 他的音乐：“简直 太糟糕了！ 人声简直惨不忍睹”

真诚歌单

阿洛·帕克斯 (Arlo Parks)

这位歌手的第一次下载是 Arctic Monkeys，Portishead 的歌让她落泪 —— 但哪首歌是她需要谨慎聆听的？

我爱上的第一首歌 我记得在我很小的时候，听过 Eurythmics 的《Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)》。开头的那句歌词让我完全沉醉其中。

第一次下载 我购买了

在我大约 10 或 11, 岁的时候，我会戴上耳机，满心焦虑地在公园里漫步，听着 Arctic Monkeys 的《Fake Tales of San Francisco》，这是我在 iPod Nano 上的第一次下载。我热爱其中的叙事感、人物以及他们所描述的那些粗粝的场景：尽管那离我成长的地方很遥远，但感觉如此真实。

我莫名其妙记得所有歌词的歌曲 有很多首，但 Jamelia 的《Superstar》让我感到快乐 —— 这是一首典型的泡泡糖流行乐。

派对上最适合播放的歌曲 我在化妆间里为我的团队播放 Janet Jackson 的《All for You》，每个人都在随之律动。我觉得选她的歌永远不会出错。我热爱她的嗓音 —— 它能让人们变得温柔。

我再也无法聆听的歌曲 即使是与痛苦经历挂钩的歌曲，我也不会回避。Sufjan Stevens 的《Fourth of July》令人心碎。听这首歌时我必须小心，因为它会勾起太多关于悲伤和失去的忧郁之情。

改变我生活的歌曲

Radiohead 的《House of Cards》中有太多的留白；Thom Yorke 的声音空灵。我在写《Collapsed in Sunbeams》前几年发现了它，它具有同样的极简主义风格。

我偷偷喜欢但告诉所有人我讨厌的歌曲 我接纳很多人喜欢的音乐，因为一定有某种东西让我们集体地被其吸引。比如 Lady Gaga 的《Starstruck》 —— 我会在车里毫无顾忌地大声播放。

让我落泪的歌曲

Portishead 的《Glory Box》。它如此具有穿透力，尤其是 Roseland 剧院的现场版本。听到 Beth Gibbons 嗓音中细微的破碎感，她向观众袒露自我，这让我热泪盈眶。

我希望在葬礼上播放的歌曲 Velvet Underground 的《Sunday Morning》：它有一种如此温暖的感觉，令人心安，像是一个新的开始。它忧郁，但带着一线希望。

口述给 汉娜·牛顿 (Hannah Newton)

《Ambiguous Desire》现已发行；阿洛·帕克斯将于 10 月 17 至 26 日在英国和爱尔兰巡演；巡演从都柏林开始。

我的文化觉醒：“艾米莉让我接纳了自己的神经多样性”

口述给 Olivia Ladanyi 插画：Martin O'Neill

艾米莉喜欢用小勺敲开法式焦糖布丁的声音，喜欢将手伸进谷物袋里，喜欢在电影院里回头观察黑暗中人们的脸庞。我喜欢书的味道，热爱电影，但我讨厌人们吃爆米花的声音。

艾米莉并不是我在电影中看到的第一个具有神经多样性特征的女性角色。之前有《皇家 Tenenbaums》里的 Margot Tenenbaum 和《月升王国》里的 Suzy Bishop——这两个韦斯·安德森笔下的角色让我看到了自己的影子。但艾米莉是第一个处于故事中心的人；她是标题人物，我们通过她的眼睛来看世界。这是我第一次在银幕上看到一个女性以我的方式在世界上穿行：过度敏感，有些孤独且害怕未知，习惯于独处，有着坚定的喜好，以及强烈的社会正义感。

我的父母在我小时候就怀疑我有自闭症：我没有朋友，更喜欢独处或与父母在一起，而且我不明白为什么其他孩子会那样表现。他们觉得我很古怪。我有过度专注的倾向和强迫性的特殊兴趣。医生们接受的培训是寻找男孩身上典型的自闭症迹象，而自闭症在女孩身上的表现可能有所不同，女孩们往往更多地进行“掩饰”（模仿神经典型人士的行为）。我的幽默感、共情能力以及对历史和文化的兴趣（而非数学或科学），意味着我直到 20 岁出头才被正式诊断。但诊断对我来说从未显得重要。这就是我热爱艾米莉的地方：她在电影中从未被贴上自闭症的标签，但作为一个神经多样性人士，对我来说很明显，她也是。

在片头字幕中，年幼的艾米莉在耳边拍手，旋转硬币，用手指沿玻璃杯边缘滑动——这些行为我现在意识到是“自我刺激”（stimming，即通过重复的动作、声音或词语来帮助处理感官输入或管理情绪）。成年艾米莉的不知所措不仅通过

她像我一样行走在世间：过度敏感，有些孤独且心怀恐惧

奥德丽·塔图的表演，是通过电影摄影来呈现的。当她乘坐巴黎地铁时，广角镜头和强化的声音唤起了感官过载的体验。当艾米莉快乐时，万物闪耀；当她悲伤时，她简直就成了地板上的一滩水。

十年前，我在剑桥大学读二年级，第一次在房间里用 DVD 播放机独自观看《艾米莉》。我深深地爱上了这部电影。那天晚上看了两遍之后，我反而害怕再次观看，担心自己无法再产生同样的共鸣。但在过去的一年里，为了弥补失去的时间，我把《艾米莉》看了五遍，而且每次观看都能看到不同的东西。

随着这些年来我对自己的认知不断演变，我对艾米莉的理解也随之改变。现在，我产生了一种想要帮助她的冲动，仿佛通过帮助她，我也能帮助年轻时的自己。我想与她对话并告诉她：不要如此恐惧那些感觉陌生且新奇的事物。

我在八月份举办了一场新书发布会，看到来自我生命中不同阶段的这么多人们出席，我的父母激动不已。他们从未想过我能拥有这样的友谊。我希望我能告诉那个把自己锁在图书馆里的 14 岁时的自己，或者那个在房间里独自循环观看《艾米莉》的 19 岁时的自己，这一切都在她的未来等着她。她将策划并组织神经多样性电影放映活动，身边会有一个自闭症人士组成的社区。她的骨头并非玻璃制成，她能够承受生活的打击，就像电影中玻璃人告诉艾米莉的那样。她将克服恐惧，学会如何在自己的生活中占据一席之地，正如多年前艾米莉向她展示的那样，这一切都是可能的。

莉莉安·克劳福德（Lillian Crawford）

《医生的心智：横跨〈神秘博士〉的神经多样性宇宙》（The Mind of the Doctor: Across the Neurodiverse Universe of Doctor Who），作者莉莉安·克劳福德，现已出版。

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里奥·赖希（Leo Reich）的新情景喜剧 《情况在恶化》（It Gets Worse）通过三个面对着永久危机、住在破旧合租房里的功能失调的朋友，戏谑地展现了 Z 世代所有自恋的辉煌。他讨论了成为一代人发声者的前景……以及性行为是多么古怪

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文字：瑞秋·阿罗埃斯蒂（Rachel Aroesti）

利奥·赖希（Leo Reich）在 Channel 4 的新情景喜剧是“《女孩们》（Girls）遇见《窥视秀》（Peep Show）。这向来是我在推销任何项目时最喜欢的部分：挑选两个非常出色的作品，然后说它是两者的结合！”这位喜剧演员带着一丝狡黠的微笑说道。不过，这确实是一个公正的总结：《情况在恶化》（It Gets Worse）是一部坦率得令人振奋、偶尔带有挑衅意味的“闲逛式”喜剧，讲述了二十多岁的年轻人在大城市中职业与生活双重受挫的窘境，并伴随着浓浓的英式阴郁气息（首先看看标题就知道了）。然而，这个总结忽略了一个关键点。虽然《女孩们》和《窥视秀》分别涵盖了千禧一代和 X 世代的艰辛，但《情况在恶化》发生在当下——使其成为了英国首部真正的 Z 世代情景喜剧。

或者并非如此。“我对‘代际之间在所有方面都有某种真正的统一特征’这一观点持怀疑态度，所以我不想让它变成那种：这就是一部 Z 世代情景喜剧！”这位 28 岁的演员说道。事实上，人们很快就会发现，《情况在恶化》是刻意地不设立独特销售主张（USP）。我们第一次见到赖希饰演的伊森（Ethan）——“一个中产阶级的失败同性恋男子”——以及他的伙伴萨姆（Sam）和艾比（Abi），当时他们正收拾伦敦合租房准备搬走，因为房租上涨而被强行驱逐。但这并不是一场关于生活成本危机的沉思——或者关于任何其他事情的沉思。“重点不在于有什么宏大的概念，比如每个人都是超级英雄，而在于：这就是一些人，等等。”当我问最终的剧集与他的最初构思有多接近时，赖希斜眼看着我。“我想说，那个构思相当宽泛……”

我敢打赌，真正的构思——主导的构思，唯一的构思——就是给赖希一部情景喜剧（任何一部都行）。自疫情以来，赖希以惊人的轻松姿态将自己确立为喜剧的未来。在剑桥大学的 Footlights 剧团经历了一段时间，并在封锁期间创作了几段聪明且刻薄的 TikTok 视频（在一段标题为“告诉我的孩子们我狂野的 20 岁”的片段中，他打趣道：“对我们来说，没有规则！除了显然不能出门”），赖希在 2022 年将他的首场单口喜剧表演带到了爱丁堡边缘艺术节。在《谁在乎？！》（Who Cares?!）中，他把自己塑造为一个典型的 Z 世代的夸张讽刺版：正如次年一篇赞赏性的《纽约客》人物特写所描述的那样，他是一个“极度自我中心、碎片化获取信息、习惯性自怜且全面愤世嫉俗的 Z 世代成员”。（一名英国评论员将他的角色比作 21 世纪的

身无分文 利奥·赖希；（下方）与奥利夫·格雷（Olive Gray，左）和艾米莉·费恩（Emily Fairn）

《年轻人们》（The Young Ones）中的里克。）赖希在表演他那精妙的剧本时，打扮得像个前拉斐尔派的俱乐部青年：戏剧性的眼影，超短裤，一头卷发。这立即获得了成功，并迅速被 HBO 选中拍摄特辑——这对于一名初出茅庐的英国喜剧演员来说是闻所未闻的。难怪他被给予了充分的自由，将他的审美带到电视荧幕上。

当我访问位于伦敦东南部的《情况在恶化》拍摄现场时，一座前香料仓库被临时用作萨姆搬入的占屋房。赖希正在拍摄这一场戏——一场尴尬的性派对，但他仍抽空走到监视器旁查看效果，并且——我通过查看手中的剧本很快意识到——他即兴发挥了伊森一半的荒诞闲聊（剧本页面上完全没有提到图坦卡蒙，也没有提到社会“我们需要回归土地”的想法）。

随后，在楼上，赖希（Reich）一边抽着电子烟，一边抿着罐装咖啡。他鼓励即兴发挥：这部剧“讲述的是混乱，以及人们他妈的愚蠢和妄想，所以我认为某种粗糙感很合适……谢天谢地！”然而，作为一名长期的单口喜剧迷（他的偶像包括西蒙·阿姆斯特尔和詹姆斯·阿卡斯特），他对喜剧艺术依然持有严肃的态度。他将自己在片场扮演的角色描述为“某种笑话监护人”，当演员们的台词“节奏稍微有点不对”时，他就会介入。我注意到关于一名派对客人的某句台词——“来自特林（Tring）的里昂的表亲”——无论是在句法还是韵律上都是不可更改的。

赖希可能会对任何“一代人的发声者”之类的标签不以为然，但《情况在恶化》（It Gets Worse）确实给人一种鲜明的时代感。这部分归功于主角们的设定：他说，一个“做作的同性恋男子、一个拘谨的北方女孩和一个混血艺术家”在过去通常被限制在荧幕上的“配角”地位。但这与那个令人沮丧的剧名也有很大关系。虽然 Z 世代并非铁板一块，但其成员确实有一个显著的共同点：他们是在“永久危机”中成长的——那种无处不在的财务、政治和生态上的不稳定性，让许多人感到未来毫无希望。“我想在不显得尴尬的前提下表达这一点，但现在正处于一个非常特殊的时期，人们不得不面对余生的未知，”赖希说，“有一种模糊的、巨大的焦虑感。”

据推测，赖希本人感受到的恐惧程度并没有那么深。自从成名以来，他出演了莉娜·邓纳姆（Lena Dunham）在 Netflix 的回归之作《太多》（Too Much）（邓纳姆在此剧中通过饰演艾比的老板来回报他，剧中还包括安德鲁·斯科特和扎迪·史密斯在内的众多大牌客串），而且现在显然有了自己的情景喜剧。但这并不意味着他无法认同自己的角色。《情况在恶化》并非一部以议题为导向的剧集，而是一次尝试，“去重建一种无助的情绪或感觉，这与物质层面的成功无关。这是一种迷茫、愚蠢且不知所措的存在主义感受。”

赖希表示，在剧中，三位主角对“更广泛的存在主义焦虑”有着“截然不同的反应”。伊森将自己视为一个“迷人的小丑”，其哲学是“管它呢，让我们开心就好，活在当下，这样就不用规划未来”。他是三人组中最幸运的——当他搬回伦敦与母亲（由极其易怒的维基·佩珀戴恩饰演）同住时，他的居住问题就解决了——但他的生活远非令人向往。他在那些令人尴尬的性经历中（包括一次与由斯科特饰演的治疗师的经历）展现出一种类似《弗利巴》（Fleabag）式的虚无主义，这与伊森“被生活操弄但似乎挺享受”的感觉相契合。赖希倾向于认为性本身就是极其好笑的（“那是件如此疯狂的事情！”）。

与此同时，由艾米莉·费恩（Emily Fairn）饰演的艾比则走的是“好女孩”路线，试图通过勤奋的完美主义来追求那种适合发在 Instagram 上的生活标志。

“在此时此刻面对余生，这种感觉非常微妙”

赖希表示，萨姆（由奥利夫·格雷饰演）是一名导师兼业余作家，她试图通过建立“自己的生活方式并拒绝社会规范”来追求同样的意义和掌控感。她的愤世嫉俗也导致了一种激进的独立。“我认为，”格雷说，“她是那种认为没有人欠任何人任何东西，每个人都要为自己负责的人——不幸的是，这对她自己以及周围的人都造成了不利影响。”

与许多混乱的千禧一代喜剧不同，《情况在恶化》（It Gets Worse）显然旨在用多样性取代短视。费恩很欣赏该剧对阶级动态的认可，比如“伊森嘲笑艾比工作太努力，但那是她支付房租的方式”。她被鼓励保留原生的利物浦口音，并将自己作为“北方工人阶级”的经历融入到艾比这个角色中——艾比会根据情况强化或淡化她的口音，偶尔还会蹦出一些斯考兹（scouse）方言。（是费恩建议让艾比称萨姆为“假作家”（jarg writer）。利奥当时说：‘我甚至不需要知道那是什么意思，这听起来就很有趣！’）

即便如此，伊森显然是喜剧的引擎。就像赖希本人一样，他具有迷人的自嘲精神，坦率得令人卸下防备，能言善辩，且是一个极其有趣的陪伴者。他与赖希在《说真的，谁在乎？！》（Literally, Who Cares?!）中那个长期自恋的人设自然有某些重叠，但伊桑意识到自己的荒诞，并且能自嘲。而且，如果说那场单口喜剧表演是一件精准打造的讽刺作品，那么《情况在恶化》则是对友情的由衷赞美，而且在某种奇怪的意义上，是对其创作者的一种“愿望达成”：他从未和朋友一起住在肮脏的公寓里，而是直接从父母家搬到了自己的住处。

即便如此，任何感伤都被密集的笑点以及赖希对严肃主义的厌恶所抵消：他仍然在试图讽刺他的同龄人，只是方式稍微微妙了一些。尽管 Z 世代面临着真正的困难，但这最终是一部关于“那些并没有真正严重问题的人却一直在抱怨”的剧集。因此，他预见到至少会有一些跨代际的抵触。“我不知道是否每个人都总是有心情听一个条件优渥的 28 岁年轻人说：‘事实上，对未来感到有点害怕真的很辛苦！’ 这种感觉就像是：‘好吧，其实并不辛苦！’”《情况在恶化》将于本月晚些时候在 Channel 4 播出。

出行

外出与居家

本周文化指南，无论你是坐在剧院顶层的廉价席，还是独自在楼下……

电影

《社交清算》现已上映

由大卫·芬奇执导的《社交网络》随着时间的推移似乎显得更加精明，由马克·扎克伯格共同创立的那个网站被认为是对各种社会弊端负有责任。在这部由亚伦·索金（执导并编剧）根据 2021 年 Facebook 内部备忘录泄露事件改编的续作中，扎克伯格不再由杰西·艾森伯格饰演，而是由杰里米·斯特朗（见上图）饰演。

保罗·格林格拉斯（《联航 93》）探讨了 1381 年的农民起义，这场骚乱部分是由一项决定引起的：引入每人 4 便士的新税，无论你是贪婪的精英还是全年收入可能仅约 £2 的工人。率领这些有诉求的反抗者的是安德鲁·加菲尔德和科斯莫·贾维斯。

《图阿姆的失踪儿童》现已上映

2017 年，《纽约时报》记录了业余当地历史学家凯瑟琳·科莱斯发起的一场运动，旨在揭露爱尔兰修女的虐待行为，该行为导致爱尔兰近 800 名儿童和婴儿死亡。这部戏剧化作品由莫妮卡·多兰饰演科莱斯，由连姆·尼森监制。

《另一个妈妈》(Other Mommy) 现已上映

在由罗布·萨维奇（Rob Savage，《行车记录仪》导演）执导的这部 Blumhouse 恐怖片中，杰西卡·查斯坦同时饰演普通母亲厄苏拉及其超自然分身，分身在屋内潜行并与八岁的贝拉（Arabella Olivia Clark 饰）互动。凯瑟琳·布雷（Catherine Bray）

演出

Manifest

伦敦温布利体育馆，周五 与同时代的女子组合 Katseye 一样，这个土耳其六人组是通过电视歌唱比赛创建的。他们的音乐基因也有相似之处，Manifest 的歌曲色彩明快，像含糖软饮一样充满活力。助演嘉宾为英国新人 XO。迈克尔·克拉格（Michael Cragg）

606 俱乐部 50 周年庆典 606 俱乐部，伦敦，周一至 10 月 25 日

西伦敦深受喜爱的 606 俱乐部将用两周时间庆祝其成立 50 周年，特邀嘉宾包括杰米·卡勒姆（周二）、格威利姆·西姆考克（周四）以及许多英国爵士乐的先驱。在萨克斯管演奏家史蒂夫·鲁比（Steve Rubie）的经营下，“The Six”对优秀音乐的执着一如既往。约翰·福特汉姆（John Fordham）

牛津国际歌曲节 多个场馆，今日至 10 月 24 日 这一雄心勃勃的当地活动已发展成为重要的国际盛事，本届节日庆祝第 25 个赛季，演出主题为“爱”。亮点包括男中音马蒂亚斯·格尔内（Matthias Goerne）和钢琴家塔玛拉·斯特法诺维奇（Tamara Stefanovich）演绎的舒伯特《冬之旅》（今日），以及男中音本杰明·阿普尔（Benjamin Appl）和钢琴家詹姆斯·拜利尤（James Baillieu）演绎的乔治·库尔塔格（György Kurtág）的作品（周一）。弗洛拉·威尔逊（Flora Willson）

Arab Strap 周日至 10 月 17 日，巡演从爱丁堡开始

这对苏格兰组合（见下文）上个月推出了他们的第九张专辑《Half-Told Tales》。这是一部包含 14 首歌曲的合集，其中有关于衰老的、奇怪且具有舞曲感的颂歌（《You You You》），关于手淫的愤怒警告（《I Get Noise》），以及贯穿始终的黑色幽默感，这应该会是一个愉快的夜晚。MC

艺术

光与魔幻：艺术摄影的诞生

周三至 2 月 21 日 泰特美术馆的秋季大展将从全球视角审视摄影中更具概念性、更具艺术感的一面，展出来自全球 80 位艺术家的 200 幅作品，其中包括叶冯德夫人（Madame Yevonde，作品见上图），她将相机视为不仅仅是记录工具。

Prem Sahib, Gordon Matta-Clark 德拉沃展馆，贝克斯希尔海滨，今日至 1 月 4 日

Prem Sahib 在过去几年中创作了英国一些最有趣的艺术作品，全部围绕酷儿亲密关系和俱乐部文化，他在这里与才华横溢的已故美国概念艺术家戈登·马塔-克拉克（Gordon Matta-Clark）一同获得了应得的机构关注。

Julia Isidrez 诺丁汉当代艺术馆，至 1 月 10 日

英国博物馆对原住民艺术的痴迷在这次展览中依然不减，展出巴拉圭瓜拉尼艺术家 Julia Isídrez 的陶瓷作品，其中充满了神话生物和多头两栖动物。

Frieze 艺术博览会

伦敦摄政公园，周三至 10 月 19 日 每年秋天，Frieze 都会在摄政公园的一个巨大帐篷中亮相，接待全球顶尖的艺术画廊。这是一个文化现象，如果你能承受得起入场费，非常值得一去。埃迪·弗兰克尔（Eddy Frankel）

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舞台

《樱桃园》 哈罗德·平特剧院， 伦敦，至 1 月 9 日 秋天是所有舞台之星 在西区登场表演的季节—— 而其中最耀眼的莫过于 克里斯汀·斯科特-托马斯， 她与斯蒂芬·曼根共同主演 契诃夫的最后一部剧作。米里亚姆·吉林森（Miriam Gillinson）

中景 (Middlemarch) 第一与第二部分

天鹅剧院，斯特拉特福—

斯特拉特福-upon-Avon天鹅剧院，至1月16日 尼娜·雷恩将乔治·艾略特那部精美的小说改编成了分两部分上演的戏剧，由杰里米·赫林执导。尼亚·托尔饰演多萝西亚·布鲁克，而阿曼达·鲁特则同时饰演乔治·艾略特和媒婆卡德瓦拉德夫人。MG

英国国家芭蕾舞团 (English National Ballet) 利物浦帝国剧院， 周四至10月17日； 巡演至10月25日 本周有两种方式观看英国国家芭蕾舞团的演出：在现场观看鲁道夫·努里耶夫排演的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》；或者准备好爆米花，在电影院观看他们华丽的《睡美人》（周二至10月18日）。林赛·温希普

哈丽雅特·肯斯利 (Harriet Kemsley) 布赖顿，周日；赫尔，周三；利兹，周四；巡演至2月26日 在舞台上，这位《最后大笑的人》(Last One Laughing) 的明星给人一种混乱且过度分享的印象——但如果没有技巧和专注，你无法成为一名成功的单口喜剧演员。肯斯利目前的演出《轻佻女》(Floozy) 以一种看似傻气的方式，讲述了这位39岁演员在离婚后约会的经历。瑞秋·阿罗埃斯蒂

流媒体

宝岛 (Treasure Island)

Paramount+，周一

罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森于1883年创作的小说——塑造了大众想象中海盗的刻板形象——在75年前首次被改编为电视剧。这个新版本由大卫·奥耶洛沃、杰克·休斯顿（上图）以及海莉·阿特维尔主演，后者饰演贝丝·霍金斯，她帮助儿子吉姆寻找传说中的财富。

幻视任务 (VisionQuest)

Disney+，周三

虽然有时显得幼稚，但漫威的设定也催生了近年来一些最聪明的电视剧。这部基于2021年《旺达幻视》(WandaVision) 的令人惊叹的衍生剧，让保罗·贝坦尼饰演的前复仇者幻视回归，讲述他试图理解成为一个安卓机器人意味着什么的经历。詹姆斯·斯佩德共同主演，饰演他的创造者，反派AI奥创。

时间 (Time)

iPlayer & BBC One，周日，晚上9点 这部令人振奋且残酷的监狱剧回归第三季，这一次将焦点转移到被关押在青少年犯管教所的心理紊乱青少年身上。希奥班·芬尼兰再次饰演一名心灰意冷的牧师，而大卫·特南特加入演员阵容，饰演一名濒临崩溃的监管经理。

杀死安娜 (Killing Anna)

Channel 4，周一，晚上11点

一名旅居海外的叙利亚学者看到一段发生在大马士革的平民大屠杀视频，并利用社交媒体追踪首席凶手；随后她伪装成政权支持者安娜，鼓励他透露其工作细节。这部非凡的纪录片探讨了数字时代的私刑行为。RA

游戏

动物之园 2 (Planet Zoo 2)

PC, PS5, Xbox；周三发售

这款广受欢迎的动物园管理模拟游戏（上图）回归，允许玩家利用一套庞大的详细栖息地工具集来建立自己的动物王国。水族馆和鸟类保护区的加入，带来了更多可观察和照顾的动物。

死亡之谷 (Valor Mortis) PC, PS5, Xbox；周三发售 一名拿破仑军队的阵亡士兵发现自己在一个充满瘟疫怪物的平行19世纪中复活了。一场充斥着激烈战斗和超自然危险的史诗奇幻冒险将是他的必然命运。基思·斯图尔特

专辑

Dawn Richard - 《克里奥尔文化》(Creole Culture)

现已发行

在与前卫多乐器演奏者斯宾塞·赞合作了两张专辑后，从女团成员转变为实验艺术流行实践者的 Dawn Richard（上图）凭借这张第七张专辑回归个人创作。受其黑人与美洲原住民女性血统的影响，如单曲《教堂》(Chuuuuurch) 等歌曲带来了持续不断的震撼感。

Troye Sivan - 《她是最好的》(She's the Best)

现已发行

在2023年《给彼此的东西》(Something to Give Each Other) 取得商业成功后，这位澳大利亚金曲制造机 Sivan 的续作中透出一种明显的自信感。其同名主打歌是口述文字与90年代 Trip-hop 的实验性融合，而充满多巴胺的快歌《派对》(Party) 则将麦当娜的《音乐》(Music) 扭曲成了新的形态。

Jamie T - 《Ghosts (100 Days of Morning)》现已发行

在获得首张 No 1 专辑四年后，来自南伦敦的 Jamie T 带着这张第六张专辑回归，其中还包含与 Damon Albarn 的合作。正如标题所示，其歌词聚焦于他过去的各种幽灵，而其中最浓厚的怀旧之作则是快节奏的主打单曲《3310》。

Remi Wolf - 《Mud》现已发行

这位来自加利福尼亚的流派炼金术士（见下文）带着她的第三张非主流流行专辑回归。相比之前的作品，这张专辑减少了古怪感和霓虹色彩，Wolf 在沉思之作《Bottle》中探讨心碎，而断续的《Twiggy》则通过一段洗脑的旋律在记忆中穿梭。MC

脑力食粮

《13 Minutes》播客

BBC 的太空播客回归，推出关于哈勃望远镜的新系列，触及了其推迟且超预算的发射，以及在构建过程中发现的致命缺陷。我们将听到科学家们是如何挽救这次行动的。

@Dictionarycom Instagram

dictionary.com 的 Instagram 账号成功地让词典这种平凡的功能变得更有趣，它会发布不寻常的“每日一词”精选，以及对泰勒·斯威夫特（Taylor Swift）等艺术家的语言选择分析。

《The Last First: Winter K2》

Apple TV，现已发行

Apple TV，现已发行 这部令人眩晕的电影讲述了在 2021 年尝试成为首批在冬季登顶巴基斯坦-中国边境 K2 山峰的极限登山者。在这次艰苦的远征中，他们揭露了现代登山运动已变得多么危险地商业化。 Ammar Kalia

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90 年代经典电视剧《北方的朋友们》（Our Friends in the North）正在进行舞台改编。其演员阵容能否不负原版中那些成就星途的角色——而其关于丑闻与腐败的主题在 30 年后是否依然能令人震惊？

历史重演

在纽卡斯尔（Newcastle upon Tyne）Live剧院顶层的一个小房间里，四名演员正在赋予一部电视史上最受喜爱的剧集中的主要角色以生命。他们围坐在摆满了咖啡杯、水瓶和带有批注的剧本的桌子旁。托斯克（Tosker）和乔迪（Geordie）在夜总会里喝酒，盘算着搭讪成功的机会；玛丽（Mary）和尼基（Nicky）则在争论两人是否还有未来。

这些场景出自《北方的朋友们》（Our Friends in the North）的新舞台剧版本。这部具有里程碑意义的九集剧集于1996年在BBC Two首次播出。该剧以工党政治和警察腐败为背景，记录了四名工人阶级纽卡斯尔人30年的生活，并让马克·斯特朗（Mark Strong）、丹尼尔·克雷格（Daniel Craig）、吉娜·麦基（Gina McKee）和克里斯托弗·埃克尔斯顿（Christopher Eccleston）成为了明星。它深受评论家和观众的喜爱，屡获殊荣，并经常出现在“史上最伟大”的名单中。

现在，这部作品回归了。Live剧院的艺术总监杰克·麦克纳马拉（Jack McNamara）说服了起初并不情愿的编剧彼得·弗兰纳里（Peter Flannery），让他重新审视这些角色。弗兰纳里最初在1982, 年为皇家莎士比亚公司的一出戏创作了这些角色，随后又为荧幕重新编写并扩展了故事。

“在某种程度上，这部作品源于一种挫败感，即在一个历史上一直资金不足的地区，总是不得不考虑规模小且可控的项目，”麦克纳马拉说。“我们需要一个更宏大的举措。一个面向更广泛观众、具有熟悉轮廓，但仍然是人们从未在舞台上见过的更宽广的故事。简单来说，我想在大型舞台上导演一部全新作品中的12名演员。《北方的朋友们》的深远意义和灵活性为实现这一点提供了难得的机会。”

由于该剧的规模及其潜在的后续生命力，它是由Live剧院、纽卡斯尔皇家剧院（Theatre Royal in Newcastle upon Tyne）以及制作公司Eastlake Productions共同制作的。弗兰纳里将两集设定在1979年和1984, 年的电视集数改编成了一部两幕剧。他引入了合唱团，并为了解释目的从其他剧集中借用了几处内容。舞台设计使其成为一部节奏快速的剧作。

北方之魂 （上图，从左至右） 饰演尼基的克里斯托弗·埃克尔斯顿； 饰演玛丽的吉娜·麦基； 饰演托斯克的马克·斯特朗；以及 饰演乔迪的丹尼尔·克雷格； 以及他们在2026年的对应演员（对面页，从左至右） 瑞安·诺兰（Ryan Nolan）；萨姆·尼尔（Sam Neale）； 杰克·罗伯逊（Jack Robertson）；以及 斯科特·特恩布尔（Scott Turnbull）； （最右侧）导演杰克·麦克纳马拉

在电视版中，麦基是四位主演中唯一来自该地区的人。而对于这部舞台剧，剧组选用了四名来自东北部的演员。瑞安·诺兰饰演政治理想主义者尼基（电视版由埃克尔斯顿饰演）。萨姆·尼尔饰演内心坚定且低调的玛丽（麦基饰）。杰克·罗伯逊饰演渴望创业的托斯克（斯特朗饰）。斯科特·特恩布尔饰演运气不佳的乔迪（克雷格饰）。

在全员排练开始前几天的剧本围读会上，在麦克纳马拉的指导下，各个场景接受了压力测试。关于如何让一个特定的笑话产生最佳效果，演员们进行了长时间的讨论，涉及该笑话的两名演员尝试了多种不同的表达方式。在剧本中，一个角色因为错过了儿子的足球决赛而被责备。“‘足球决赛’有点陈词滥调了，”斯科特开玩笑说。“也许应该改成‘巴松管独奏会’。”大家哄堂大笑。

“我知道这是一个阴郁的社会视角，但这些角色是幸存者”

演员们想知道麦克纳马拉是否希望他们模仿电视版前作的表演，但他对模仿不感兴趣。他说，向原角色扮演者致敬的方式，就是做出自己的诠释。

现场有一种解脱感，但四位演员敏锐地意识到，《北方的朋友们》（Our Friends in the North）是一部深受喜爱的电视剧，因此承载着巨大的期待。

“我尽量不让自己陷入焦虑的恶性循环，但那种压力确实存在，挥之不去，”尼尔说道，她回忆起曾与母亲一起观看这部剧的情景。

“我确实觉得压力很大，”特恩布尔说，“这部剧必须执行到位。”

麦克纳马拉很清楚演员们感受到的压力，但他喜欢保持灵活。“总会有实验性的成分，”他说，“我不会把分镜脚本规划得过于死板。我喜欢保留一点开放性，这样在排练时会觉得一切皆有可能。”

可以理解的是，麦克纳马拉禁不住地想象接下来的发展方向。人们希望这部剧在纽卡斯尔的短期演出之后能有更长远的生命力，但麦克纳马拉表示，“在去往其他地方之前，它必须先在这里落地并产生真正的共鸣”。

随后，在全员排练中，能量水平明显高于剧本围读时。在经过几个小时的排练后，麦克纳马拉要求演员们即兴表演几个场景。 他提醒他们，即兴表演不是记忆力测试，而是一种探索意图的方式。其中已经清晰地显现出某些片段具有成为强大剧场体验的潜力。

“这部剧讲述的是友谊以及它是如何演变和破裂的。

其中还涉及大量关于政治乐观主义与政治失败，以及两者如何共存的内容，”麦克纳马拉说。

已故的调查记者保罗·富特（Paul Foot）曾写道，“通过工党实现真正变革的可能性是《北方的朋友们》的核心关注点”，但没有人会将这部剧——或这部剧本——视为对政治家的赞歌，尤其是他们与警察之间的关系。在《北方的朋友们》中（部分情节基于富特揭露的一桩丑闻），正直的工党政治家被愤世嫉俗的投机分子和极端分子击败。诚实的警察被腐败警察算计，且在人数上可能处于劣势。立法和执法机构已烂到根子里。

尽管该剧经过充分研究并基于事实，但编剧弗兰纳里表示，一些电视剧观众认为故事中关于警察腐败的线索被夸大了。“我不认为现在有人会像 30 年前那样感到震惊，”他说，“（腐败）情况已经恶化了。从那时起，已有在职警员因强奸和谋杀被起诉。”

谈到政治诡计，弗兰纳里说：“我看不出有什么改变。围绕尼尔·汉密尔顿（Neil Hamilton）、穆罕默德·法耶兹（Mohamed Al-Fayed）以及‘现金换问题’丑闻的公开报道肯定让他们改变了策略，但我认为他们仍在故伎重演。现在议会周围有这么多付费说客。如果不是为了收买议员、购买他们的选票和支持，他们在那里做什么？这就是毁掉美国政治的原因，如果我们不小心，它也会毁掉英国政治。”

在接近 75 岁之际，弗兰纳里表示这可能是他写的最后一部作品。“我敏锐地意识到，我交给观众的是一个相当阴郁的社会视角，”他说，“然而，这些角色充满活力，而且他们都是幸存者，即使是乔迪，他也显得某种程度上不可战胜。无论被泼了多少桶脏水，他总能站起来再次尝试。我希望观众能从这些角色身上获得希望。”

弗兰纳里坚持认为，安迪·伯纳姆就任首相是一件好事。“我认为整个体制都在反对他，他会发现每一步都困难重重。我见过这种情况一次又一次地循环，通常不会有任何真正的改变。但是，我是一个乐观主义者。虽然这是希望战胜了经验，但在被证明错误之前，我将坚持这样认为。”《北方的朋友们：撒切尔时代》将于周四至10月24日在纽卡斯尔-upon-Tyne的皇家剧院上演。

博德明沼泽之兽 “在康沃尔的家庭度假期间，我们往返都会穿过博德明沼泽，”希尔史密斯说。“那头野兽是一只大猫：可能是猞猁或狮子，也许是从动物园逃出来的。真相有可能刺破神话，而这反而让它更加恐怖。”

← 光荣之手 “如果你切下并腌制一个死人的手，并进行一些咒语仪式，你就可以在巫术中使用这只手。据说它可以开启任何房产的锁，当你点燃指尖时，它会让住在那里的人全部陷入沉睡，以便你抢劫他们的房子。这听起来像神话，但惠特比博物馆里就有一只。”

$\downarrow$ 乌尔班·格兰迪埃 “这是一个关于一名臭名昭著的好色法国牧师的故事。为了除掉他，一群修女假装被恶魔附身，并称他用巫术蛊惑了她们。这本质上是一个‘取消’的故事，只不过这个男人被浇了圣水，并被压碎到骨髓从粉碎的骨头中渗出为止。”

里斯的碎片

从《绅士联盟》到《Inside No 9》，一种哥特式的不安感始终贯穿于里斯·希尔史密斯（Reece Shearsmith）的作品之中。他的新书将神话、回忆录以及他自己那些令人不安的绘画结合在了一起。

文字：菲奥娜·斯特吉斯（Fiona Sturges）

当里斯·希尔史密斯还是个男孩时，他在一次新年聚会上无意中听到亲戚们在聊天。“其中一个人在谈论他们曾在凌晨三点看到一个站在村庄绿地上的女人（的鬼魂），”他回忆道，“另一个人认识一个女人，她醒来后发现一个身影坐在她的床尾。这是我第一次记得自己被真正吓到，并且对此深感热爱。”

从那时起，希尔史密斯便对所有诡异的事物着迷。他会熬夜看汉默（Hammer）恐怖电影，并沉浸在包括《汉林恐怖之书》（Hamlyn Book of Horror）、柯南·道尔的夏洛克·福尔摩斯故事以及埃德加·爱伦·坡的作品在内的书籍中。这种痴迷延续到了他的成年生活和工作中：希尔史密斯最著名的身份是《绅士联盟》（The League of Gentlemen）、《心理小镇》（Psychoville）以及恐怖选集《Inside No 9》的共同创作者。“我成功地将儿时热爱的事物锻造成了自己的职业，”他说。

现年 57 岁的希尔史密斯（右图）写了一本书，名为《我从黑暗中带走的东西》（Things I Took from the Dark），讲述他对阴森事物的热爱。这是一部恐怖故事集，配有他自己的插图，同时也是一部关于他早年生活的回忆录——那时他会在邻居下班回家时，戴着一个荧光德古拉面具，在雷鸣和狼嚎的背景音中把他们吓得半死。

这本书围绕一座虚构的博物馆展开，希尔史密斯将那些令他恐惧并塑造了他的传说和文物放置其中：这些包括博德明之兽（Beast of Bodmin）、海格特吸血鬼（Highgate Vampire）以及在苏格兰格拉米斯城堡出没的怪物。希尔史密斯在北伦敦的家中有一个阁楼房间，用来存放他那些诡异的收藏品，包括古董书、道具、电视剧中的服装以及一台 Gottlieb 鬼屋弹珠机：“那个房间在扇看起来像书架的门后面，”他兴高采烈地说道。

书中充满了童年轶事，比如有一次他和哥哥坐在祖父的 Reliant Robin 汽车里，车子擦到了路缘，翻了过来，车顶在路上滑动，火花四溅。不知怎么地，所有人都没有在车祸中受伤。

“我们被这种诡异感惊悚，但又从‘死亡未必是终结’的想法中获得希望”

斐济美人鱼 “美国表演家兼慈善家 P.T. 巴纳姆是这个伪造美人鱼的幕后推手，他将其放在纽约的一家博物馆里。它拥有猴子的木乃伊化头部和躯干，以及一条鱼尾。它不像是一个长发飘飘的美丽塞壬，而是一个长着尖牙的、干瘪的怪物。”

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→克罗格林庄园的恐怖 “这是一个流传数百年的吸血鬼故事，讲述一个住在卡莱尔附近房子的家庭。一个怪物般的男人从窗户爬进来，咬了一名女人的脖子。她的兄弟们听到尖叫声后冲进来，向那个生物的腿部开枪。当地人随后在棺材里发现了一具腿上有弹孔的尸体，并将其焚毁。”

除了德古拉的把戏，希尔史密斯的童年课外活动还包括练习魔术、制作他最喜欢的怪物模型以及重现电影场景。他甚至与克里斯托弗·塔克（Christopher Tucker）建立了通信往来，后者是参与《狼群》（The Company of Wolves）和《象人》（The Elephant Man）制作的特效与化妆大师。希尔史密斯毕业后，塔克邀请他到自己的工作室进行实习，在那里他为《歌剧魅影》制作了乳胶面具。

最终，希尔史密斯对表演的热爱超过了他从事特效工作的愿望，于是他在韦克菲尔德附近的布雷顿霍尔学院（现已与利兹大学合并）学习戏剧。在那里，他结识了史蒂夫·彭伯顿、马克·盖蒂斯和杰里米·戴森，随后他与他们共同创作了《绅士联盟》。

希尔史密斯从未停止过绘画和创作，因此他很高兴能为《我从黑暗中带走的东西》提供插图。他说，他在电视项目中那些令人毛骨悚然的角色几乎总是先以绘画形式构思，然后由他展示给化妆和服装部门。

希尔史密斯书中的故事能够流传至今，有些甚至延续了几个世纪，这衡量了我们集体对诡谲之物的痴迷。对于希尔史密斯来说，超自然力量的诱惑不仅在于讲故事，更在于“我们自身死亡的黑色恐怖。我们被那种阴森感惊吓，但我们又执着于死亡未必是终结的想法，而这其中蕴含着慰藉。” 里斯·希尔史密斯的《我从黑暗中带走的东西》现已出版。

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《时间旅行者的妻子》让奥黛丽·尼芬尼格成为了全球明星。20多年后，她写了一部续作——而这一次，它是政治性的。她与索菲·麦克贝恩探讨了写作、艺术以及变得激进的过程。

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“是的，《时间旅行者的妻子》很浪漫，但它也很沉重。并非所有事情都能圆满”

艺术家兼小说家奥德丽·尼费尼格（Audrey Niffenegger）在2012年，即奥巴马连任后不久，开始撰写其畅销处女作《时间旅行者的妻子》（The Time Traveler's Wife）那部期待已久的续作。她现在回忆道，那是美国政治中一个“乐观”的时期，“是这里能达到的最好状态”，但她的新小说要求

她想象世界在20年、40年、60年后会是什么样子。在她花费14年探索各种反乌托邦未来的过程中，美国政治发生了演变。而她的想象开始显得令人担忧地真实。

新书中的一个早期场景涉及一群在家庭聚会上的新纳粹分子。当她撰写这一情节时，很少有人相信美国会见证新纳粹主义的复兴。她告诉我，她并不是什么“预言家”，线索一直都在。“我记得在新闻中读到的第一件事就是水门事件，所以我是在里根以及共和党势力日益增强的环境中长大的，以至于我们迎来的每一任共和党总统都更像一场灾难。我认为这在逻辑上的演进就是法西斯主义，”她说。

《时间旅行者的妻子》——这部2003年的小说因极受欢迎而成为一种文化现象——讲述了一位名叫克莱尔（Clare）的艺术家与亨利（Henry）相爱的故事。亨利因为患有一种罕见的遗传病，导致他在时间中不由自主地前后跳跃，因此经常在克莱尔面前突然消失。亨利注定要不断地重新经历人生中最痛苦的章节，并且知道——但无法改变——他们共同未来中将发生的苦难。尼费尼格的续作《失序之生》（Life Out of Order）讲述了他们的女儿阿尔巴（Alba）的故事。阿尔巴天生患有同样的疾病，但她对时间旅行的控制力稍强，并且更愿意尝试利用她的特殊能力来服务于个人和政治目的。

尼费尼格一直认为《时间旅行者的妻子》比许多读者认为的要“阴暗得多”。人们会告诉她这个故事“如此浪漫”——

“而我的反应是，是的，它确实很浪漫。但它也挺沉重的，”她说。“因为其中包含很多不可避免性，他们选择在当下获得幸福，尽管知道事情最终不会发展得那么顺利。”而在这部新小说中，这种阴暗面是不容忽视的。

我们在她与苏格兰艺术家埃迪·坎贝尔（Eddie Campbell）共有的、堆满书籍的芝加哥家中见面，两人结婚已十余年。墙上挂着尼费尼格大胆且梦幻的画作，她还拥有一个令人印象深刻的动物标本收藏：前厅里有一只美洲鸵，钟形玻璃罩里有两只鸽子，咖啡桌上有一只穿山甲（很久以前买的古董）。她以前展出的标本要多得多，但她的三只猫是“野蛮人”，它们在幼猫时期开始“以奇怪的方式与标本互动”。她担心其中一只会被以前放在厨房边柜上的巨大豪猪给刺穿，因此她后来将标本移到了楼上。

63岁的尼费尼格散发着一种书卷气的波希米亚风格，戴着猫眼眼镜，穿着摇曳的耳环，留着银色短发。她说话轻柔，但当话题转向政治（对话经常偏向这个方向）时，她会诉诸于尖刻的讽刺。她目前正在从一场长期且严重的疾病中恢复，她不想谈论这件事，因为她不希望它掩盖她的作品。她观察到，人们总是痴迷于艺术家的生活如何影响其作品，却忘记了艺术在多大程度上能改变创作者本身。她写的每一本书都改变了她的生活。《时间旅行者的妻子》为她打开了世界的大门。

当尼芬格（Niffenegger）开始创作这部作品时，她正担任芝加哥哥伦比亚学院书籍与纸艺中心的艺术家兼教授。她制作自己的手工装订、手工印刷书籍，那是些插图华丽的哥特式童话，每套仅发行10.本。有一天她在写生时，“时间旅行者的妻子”这个短语突然跳入脑海。“这是一个很好的标题，因为它交代了两个人，他们之间的关系以及他们所处的境地，”她说。她曾想象这部由小型独立出版社 MacAdam / Cage 于 2003 年出版的小说可能只能卖出几千册。而事实上，它在全球售出了超过 900 万册。

尼芬格解释说，她经历了几次幸运的转机。当时她不认识太多其他作家，但她将这本书交给了一位同样在芝加哥的艺术家安妮特·图罗（Annette Turow），后者很喜欢这本书，并将其转交给她的丈夫、小说家斯科特·图罗（Scott Turow），随后他在接受美国《今日》（Today）节目采访时推荐了这本书。在英国，这部小说被选入了“理查德和朱迪读书会”（Richard and Judy's Book Club）。很快，时间旅行带来的浪漫与悲剧显然引起了共鸣。她开始收到电子邮件，发件人通常是那些在异地恋中挣扎的人。“很多共鸣源于人们生活中缺失了某个人。所以，你会看到类似‘我的丈夫在服兵役，我的朋友在监狱里，我的妻子在远方上学……我们两人一起读这本书，然后在电话里讨论’的情况，”她说。她还收到了年轻人们的便条，他们与男友或女友分享这部小说；她还知道有“惊人数量”的孩子随后被命名为亨利（Henry）或克莱尔（Clare）。

突然获得商业成功的感觉“非常奇怪”，她回忆道：“到处奔波、接受采访，以及人们深入挖掘小说并提出非常复杂的问题，这一切都太不可思议了”。这种审视并没有太困扰她——这让她想起了在艺术学校接受评议时的情景——但她曾与“冒充者综合征”作斗争。

在至今的大部分人生中，尼芬格很少有机会旅行。她从未去过密西西比河以西，如果她有机会离开芝加哥，通常要么去纽约，要么去欧洲。突然之间，她去了各地。有一次，她在两周内每天访问一座不同的美国城市，她觉得这太累了。在澳大利亚的一次文学节上，她几乎不认识任何人——这在当时很常见——但当时在台上采访她的作家尼尔·盖曼（Neil Gaiman）将她介绍给了一位名叫海莉·坎贝尔（Hayley Campbell）的年轻记者。海莉最终将她介绍给了她的父亲埃迪（Eddie），多年来，这对情侣不知怎么地维持着布里斯班与芝加哥之间的异地恋，在世界各地约会。

与此同时，《时间旅行者的妻子》中提到的那些普通的芝加哥餐厅受到了很多关注，“我相信这让他们很困惑”。亨利工作的这座城市的纽伯里图书馆（Newberry Library）访客如此之多，以至于他们不得不为前台打印一份《时间旅行者的妻子》常见问题解答表；而故事中出现的一处平凡楼梯间，本身也成了一个旅游目的地。2009, 《时间旅行者的妻子》被改编成好莱坞电影，由瑞秋·麦克亚当斯（Rachel McAdams）主演。该改编版遭到了评论家的抨击。尼芬格从未看过这部电影。“我的意思是，你可以让人们做他们自己的事情，而不对其发表任何看法，这没关系，”她说。2022, 它还被 HBO 改编成了剧集。

由于获得了巨大的成功，尼费内格尔在她的第二本书《她的恐惧对称》（Her Fearful Symmetry，2009年）中获得了$5m的预付款，这是一部以伦敦为背景的鬼故事。为了进行研究，她搬到了这座城市，并在海格特公墓担任导游。“我没预料到人们会知道这件事，”当我问起这笔预付款时，她说道，语气礼貌，但意图非常明确。“我不明白这竟然会成为新闻，而且人们会知道并问我。这就像是‘这只是我的财务状况。为什么有人会关心我的银行账户发生了什么？’。”随后她回答了自己的问题：“人们大概是觉得很着迷，因为我能赚钱——无论何时——这件事很奇怪。”

尼费内格尔在芝加哥的家中；以及（左图）HBO改编的《时间旅行者的妻子》

她说，她的绘画从未非常“时尚”，在艺术界她相对默默无闻。“那些似乎需要艺术家进行长篇解释的作品现在很流行，”她观察到，而她的作品一直是以叙事和具象为主。她画有蝴蝶、猴子和鸟类的自画像，骷髅是一个经常出现的主题：戴着派对帽的骷髅、蜷缩在猫身边的骷髅、与人交织在一起的骷髅，以及一个像拿着巨大的充气气球一样托起母亲脸庞的儿童骷髅。

她说，赚钱的最大好处是它能为你赢得从事创作的时间：“比如，如果你能掌控自己的时间，那就太棒了。”多年来，她减少了教学工作，以便专注于写作和艺术，并经营着一家名为“艺术家图书之家”（Artists Book House）的小型非营利艺术学校，该校由她于2019年创立。在她做这一切的同时，在《她的恐惧对称》出版后的许多年里，发生了一件好事。“人们就这么忘了我的存在，”她说，而这似乎让她感到很满意。

尼费内格尔在埃文斯顿长大，那是芝加哥北部的一座城市，离她现在的住处很近。“我想人们想象我的童年应该是某种巴洛克式的。

实际上，我只是度过了非常典型的美国中产阶级郊区童年，”她说。她的父亲是一名为百货连锁店 JC Penney 工作的土木工程师，她的母亲是一名被褥制作者。尼费内格尔在芝加哥艺术学院学习，之后花了几年的时间教学和工作，主要从事画框制作，然后在西北大学获得了艺术硕士（MFA）学位。她的一个研究生项目——插画小说《三个乱伦的姐妹》（Three Incestuous Sisters）目前正被改编成一部由豪华演员阵容出演的默片：小说家奥特莎·莫什费格（Ottessa Moshfegh）与导演爱丽丝·罗瓦赫（Alice Rohrwacher）共同参与创作，达科塔·约翰逊（Dakota Johnson）、西尔莎·罗南（Saoirse Ronan）和杰西·巴克利（Jessie Buckley）将饰演三姐妹，她们之间令人窒息的亲密关系因对灯塔看守人之子的爱而分崩离析。尼费内格尔已经读过剧本，这一次她计划“彻底地”观看这部电影。“这会很疯狂，”她赞许地说道。“它太夸张了，我的意思是，它比书要奇怪得多，而我能欣赏这一点。”

几十年来，她的艺术兴趣从未动摇：“爱与失去、死亡、摇滚乐、性与浪漫，对我来说这些才是最大的议题，”她说。只不过现在，因为她一直在写关于

“无论你能做什么，现在就是时候。如果你能做的只有投票，那就投票”

未来，她更多地在思考政治。阿尔巴和亨利都发现，在时间中向后移动比向前移动更容易，因为未来更难以想象，但他们这样做得越多，未来就变得越具体。尼费尼格意识到，这一点在更广泛的层面也是成立的。我们发现很难应对比如气候危机所带来的威胁，是因为我们很难将气候崩溃视觉化。在她的书中，她描述了整个城市被淹没、公共设施失效、食物短缺以及天气呈现出末日般诡异的场景，试图让极端的全球变暖感觉不再那么抽象。她发现，自己在尝试想象 2040 年上花费的时间越多，与美国的政治话语之间产生的脱节感就越刺耳。“我就觉得，好吧，当然，给自己建个地堡吧，”她在谈到特朗普时说道，语气中透着轻蔑，“好吧，亿万富翁们，去火星吧，没问题。”

她说，现任政府让她变得激进起来。“在最近的特朗普 debacle 之前，我不是一个会去参加游行的人。我在某些方面有政治意识，但我不是那种会放下所有事情，你知道，冲到街上大喊大叫的人。但现在我是了，”她说。她感到一种紧迫感。“我觉得无论你能做什么，现在就是时候。如果你能做的是投票，那就投票。如果这就是你能做的全部，那也很好。如果你能为某个事业捐款，太棒了。如果你能去参加游行，那就更出色。人们应该关注现状并采取相应的行动。”

她说，成为一名写作缓慢的作者的一个好处是，她能够对时事做出反应。她现在意识到，如果她在疫情之前出版这本书，而书中完全没有提到冠状病毒封锁，那将会很奇怪。她说，写作耗时如此之久的部分原因是，她在“等待某些现实世界事件的结果”。有些结果感觉是可以预见的，而有些则完全不是。在想象一个虚构未来的社会动荡时，她目睹了因警察杀害乔治·弗洛伊德而引发的抗议活动震惊美国，并确信某些事情最终会改变，“但没有，这似乎就像一块石头掉进池塘里一样，”她说道，听起来很沮丧。

尼费尼格很快将开始她的图书巡演，尽管规模会很小。她还有艺术作品要创作，有新的写作项目要投入其中。她正考虑将她的图形小说《夜间流动图书馆》（The Night Bookmobile）扩展成一系列互相关联的短篇故事。她也在考虑干脆不要做太多事情。“在花 14 年时间做一件事之后，我很乐意休息一下，”她说。

奥德丽·尼费尼格的《Life Out of Order》由 Jonathan Cape 出版。

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对 Doge 说“不”的人们

一位卓越的 讲述者揭示了 美国公务员体系中的 英雄们 萨姆·弗里德曼 (Sam Freedman)

政治 《阻碍者》(Blockers) 深层政府中的 反叛者 迈克尔·刘易斯 (Michael Lewis) ALLEN LANE 出版，£25

唐纳德·特朗普那些灾难性的错误吸引了如此多的关注，以至于他的系统性错误很容易被忽视。当全世界惊愕地看着他在伊朗发动的荒诞战争、移民海关执法局 (ICE) 特工的暴行，以及对加拿大和丹麦等前盟友的小丑式攻击时，美国政府的核心职能正在缓慢瓦解。

让人们关注国家机器更为困难，因为其影响往往是缓慢且难以确定的。疾病的爆发——例如近期席卷全美的爆发性腹泻浪潮——或许无论如何都会发生，但很可能因为疾病控制与预防中心 (CDC) 的裁员而变得更加严重。同样，特朗普并不直接对自然灾害负责，但过去一年的响应时间可能受到了国家气象局大规模裁员的阻碍。税收征管的削减似乎也导致收入减少了数十亿，尽管我们无法确定其中的因果关系。

另一个问题是，官僚机构很难变得有趣。他们的工作技术性强且复杂，而且大多数官员被教导在公开场合避免发表任何引人入胜的言论。等到记者解释完一个机构是做什么的以及为什么它很重要时，读者很可能已经点击进入下一个页面了。

因此，没有什么人比迈克尔·刘易斯更适合迎接讲述这个故事的挑战了。他是全球最畅销的非虚构类作家之一，擅长寻找能够穿透复杂性的切入点。在职业生涯中，他曾让读者对信用违约互换（《大空头》）和赛伯计量学（《点球成金》）感到兴奋，现在他决定尝试帮助人们理解公务员的重要性。

埃隆·马斯克在 2025 年的 CPAC 会议上

《阻碍者》是《第五种风险》的一个宽松续作。在《第五种风险》中，刘易斯关注的是从奥巴马政府到特朗普政府的过渡，以及新团队因几乎完全缺乏对工作的兴趣而造成的混乱。该书重点探讨了不同部门和机构的职能及其重要性。而这一次，问题不再是冷漠，而是蓄意的破坏。所谓的“阻碍者”是指那些致力于阻止埃隆·马斯克的 Doge 或其他混乱代理人肆意且往往是非法地摧毁他们毕生事业的忠诚官员。他们涵盖了从从事预防山火研究的人员，到试图阻止马斯克的打手进入办公大楼的保安，以及试图防止个人税务数据被用于驱逐无证移民的律师。

事实上，他们并没有做出多少真正的“阻碍”——因为他们要么在被要求执行非法指令时选择辞职，要么被解雇。书名更多是指马斯克及其同僚的一种假设，即认为这些人是阻碍进步的人，需要被清除。书中的大部分篇幅都在描述他们在被踢出局之前所做的有价值的工作。

如果能对反派角色多写一些就更好了，他们参与 Doge 的动机各不相同。他们既有被马斯克部署的、社交能力有限且思维混乱的年轻程序员，也有寻求安逸生活的叛变官僚，还有一些非常奇怪的人物，比如卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪，他对动物尸体组织有着古怪的痴迷。特朗普那荒诞的商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克也短暂出场，他决定任何超过 $100,000 的支票都必须由他亲自签字。感觉关于导致人们如此行事的个人心路历程，还有更多值得探讨的空间。

这一点在反派头目罗素·沃特（Russell Vought）身上体现得尤为明显，这位共和党特工是为特朗普第二任期制定“2025计划”（Project 2025）的核心人物。马斯克虽然制造混乱，但很快就对政府效率部（Doge）感到厌倦并回到了硅谷。而沃特才是真正的狠角色，他悄无声息且系统性地瓦解国家机器，同时让自己远离聚光灯，让其他人为他干脏活。

他在书中最引人入胜的章节之一中出场，该章节聚焦于弗朗西斯·柯林斯（Francis Collins）。柯林斯是一位科学家，他帮助发现了一种治疗囊性纤维化的成功疗法，使患者能够延长寿命。柯林斯在奥巴马时期出任美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）院长，任期贯穿了特朗普的第一任期和拜登的部分任期，随后卸任并负责管理一个 NIH 研究实验室。在特朗普再次当选后，他实际上被逼离职，称其职位已变得“无法维持”。刘易斯列举了一系列可能的罪魁祸首，沃特的削减成本计划便是其中之一。尤其令人震惊的是，沃特自己的女儿就患有囊性纤维化。意识形态是一种强效药物。

但或许所有角色中最有趣的是萨希尔·拉文吉亚（Sahil Lavingia）。作为一名成功的软件工程师，他认同马斯克的愿景，进入美国退伍军人事务部为政府效率部（Doge）工作。他仅坚持了 55 天，随后在一次公开采访中指出：“其实还行——因为政府在运转。坦白说，它不像我想象中那么低效。我原本希望能获得更多轻松的胜利。”这番话不符合官方口径，于是他被扫地出门。

然而几个月后，在政府效率部（Doge）分崩离析之际，他被少数幸存者之一邀请回来，后者当时留在财政部工作。拉文吉亚被委派改进美国国税局（IRS）的计算机系统，尽管他并不缺钱，但似乎真心致力于让事情运转得更好。通过拉文吉亚，刘易斯让我们窥见了旨在增强国家能力的严肃工作本应是什么样子。

无论是在英国还是美国，政府的运作方式都存在真实的问题，这些问题是由资源匮乏、系统功能失调，以及技术人员薪资远低于私营部门造成的。在刘易斯笔下的明星公务员之外，还有一些已经心灰意冷或被体制化的人。拉文吉亚为了更换一个饮水机而进行的漫长斗争，让我想起我在教育部工作时，想要让电梯正常运转有多困难。

政府效率部（Doge）短暂存在期间，最令人恼火的一点是，那些本应更明理的人发表了一连串评论文章，庆祝终于有人尝试实施改革，即便这种改革是以笨拙且激进的方式进行的。实际上，马斯克过度膨胀的傲慢、油腔滑调以及完全缺乏准备，严重损害了正规改革的合理性。这不仅是因为他以及像沃特这样的人制造的混乱，还因为他们让“提高国家效率”这个想法本身蒙羞。

刘易斯非常擅长挖掘优秀的公务员并讲述他们的故事。但政府机构和部门不应依赖于那些在失效系统中苦苦支撑、因为对公共服务极度忠诚而每周工作 90 小时且薪水微薄的无名英雄。大多数大型组织中的雇员并非如此。高效的政府需要一套即使由从事朝九晚五工作的普通人使用也能运转的流程。我们不应试图复制这些“顶尖人才”，而应理解这些超级明星在做什么，并将其植入我们制度的结构之中。

如需购买本书，售价 £22.50，请访问 guardianbookshop.com。萨姆·弗里德曼（Sam Freedman）曾任特别顾问，著有《失败国家》（Failed State，麦克米伦出版社）。

艾滋病时代剧集《罪孽》（It's a Sin，2021）中的一个场景

小荧幕故事 《It's a Sin》创作者 谈电视事业 丽贝卡·尼科尔森 (Rebecca Nicholson)

回忆录 《最酷的同志》(The Queerest of Folk) 电视生涯 罗素·T·戴维斯 (Russell T Davies) 著 BANTAM 出版，£25

电视是一种亲密的艺术形式，它曾被传输到客厅里，而现在则出现在我们正对着的设备上。

编剧罗素·T·戴维斯深谙这种亲密感。无论是讨论他早期开发那些已湮没在历史中的肥皂剧衍生剧的经历，还是凭借先锋同性恋剧集《酷儿》(Queer As Folk) 引起轰动，亦或是让《神秘博士》(Doctor Who) 重获极高赞誉，他总能让你觉得就好像正和他一起在酒吧里，安顿下来准备听他讲述最精彩的故事。

这部温暖且充满八卦气息的自传揭开了英国电视产业的幕后一角，因此，它在戴维斯个人生活故事上的笔墨较轻。相反，他以自己的电视节目为框架，快速地回顾了在这一行从事的五十年时光，推动书籍高速前进。他 1963 年出生于斯旺西，家庭成员都热爱看电视。当他在牛津大学学习英语时，一位朋友建议他，既然他觉得电视如此伟大，应该考虑将其作为职业。

事实证明，那是一个灵光乍现的时刻。戴维斯曾从事儿童电视节目，为木偶剧编写剧本，随后在曼彻斯特的格拉纳达工作室（Granada Studios）积累经验，与萨莉·温赖特 (Sally Wainwright)、保罗·艾博特 (Paul Abbott) 以及已故的伟大编剧凯·梅勒 (Kay Mellor) 共事。不久之后，在创作了一部名为《大酒店》(The Grand) 的时代剧后，他发现观众在纷纷关掉电视。显然，通过虐待、谋杀和绞刑来堆砌悲剧并没起作用。书中还有另一个启示：一位朋友告诉他他很有幽默感，所以应该那样写。此后，便再也没有什么能阻挡他了。

幽默感驱动了《酷儿》，这是他的代表作之一。很难夸大这部 Channel 4 剧集所产生的影响，该剧于 1999 年播出。在当时，酷儿故事依然极其罕见且大多充满悲情。业内人士对这个想法不屑一顾，认为关于男同性恋的故事必然是严肃且枯燥的。这部幽默、色彩绚丽且大胆露骨的剧集的出现改变了这一切。在许多有趣的题外话中，戴维斯提到这部剧原本打算叫《酷得离谱》(Queer As Fuck)，直到一名公关人员指出，这样的话理查德和朱迪 (Richard and Judy) 永远不会在节目中讨论它。“对我来说，那是底线，”他打趣道。

他的另一个超级热门作品是《神秘博士》。他曾将《神秘博士》的粉丝文化写入《酷儿》之中，而当他在 2005 年重启这部深受喜爱的科幻剧集时，这似乎实现了他终生的梦想。他的第一任“博士”是克里斯托弗·埃克尔斯顿 (Christopher Eccleston)，随后是大卫·特南特 (David Tennant)，在经历长时间间隔后，他带着恩库蒂·加特瓦 (Ncuti Gatwa) 回归，后者的任期较为短暂。戴维斯在描写这一切时充满了爱，因此任何希望听到八卦的人都会失望。即使是迪士尼交易的破裂以及他第二次离开该剧，也被他优雅地处理了。

在书的开头，戴维斯预先通过写道他将称许多人为“可爱”来化解批评。他确实这么做了。他热爱艾博特和梅勒。他热爱比莉·派珀 (Billie Piper) 和大卫·特南特。制片人、导演：其中许多人也非常可爱，他也热爱他们。但在他觉得有必要时，他也绝不含糊。格温妮丝·帕特洛 (Gwyneth Paltrow) 曾表示，在拍摄性爱戏时使用亲密协调员会让她感到“受限”，对此戴维斯给予了简短且严厉的批评。“你是多么地遥远、麻木且享有特权，”他刻薄地写道。他回忆起一次与哈维·韦恩斯坦 (Harvey Weinstein) 的资金会议，以及注意到这位制片人身上那种“阴森的权力”时是多么令人不安。他曾与《一场非常英国的丑闻》(A Very English Scandal) 的制片人们进行过紧张的讨论，对方教训他如何制作高端电视节目。“但你们根本没拍过任何一部！”他反驳道，并补充说，“老伊顿公学的人永远不该在打架中挑战一个斯旺西综合学校出来的男孩。”

有时，戴维斯的轻盈笔触委婉得近乎腼腆，而在其他地方，他的直率则令人振奋。他的丈夫安德鲁在病痛折磨八年后，于 2018 年死于脑癌。他以一种强而有力且令人动容的坦诚记录了这些年。当人们告诉他安德鲁在天上注视着他时，他写道：“我总在想，我他妈希望他没这么做！”

他以一份面向未来的宣言结束全书：这是一次对发明与创造力的集结号，是在独裁者、人工智能以及预算崩溃对艺术持续构成威胁之际，对希望与乐观的呼唤。他为《驯鹿宝贝》和《我可能毁了你》这类作品喝彩，同时也赞赏《背叛者》和《追逐赛》。如果说戴维斯有一套电视美学，那就是不存在所谓的“高雅”或“低俗”。他对这一切持有令人兴奋的民主态度，无论是一部直接发行录像带的拉斯维加斯版《街道冠冕》特别篇，还是他那部关于艾滋病流行、屡获殊荣的剧集《这是一个罪》。这是一部对英国电视温暖且激昂的致敬之作。如需购买，售价 £22.50，请访问 guardianbookshop.com。

探索之旅：当被遗忘的天才获得第二次机会 / 萨克德夫·桑杜 (Sukhdev Sandhu)

历史 《睡美人》 好主意为何会陷入沉睡，以及它们如何苏醒 大卫·拜恩 (David Byrne) CANONGATE 出版社，£26

在过去的半个世纪里，大卫·拜恩几乎从未停止过他的活跃——穿梭不停，舞步前行，选择古怪。作为 Talking Heads 乐队的主唱，他横向跨界进入芭蕾舞、舞蹈和实验剧场；与同样博学的布莱恩·伊诺 (Brian Eno) 合作创作了原 ambient 风格的专辑《我住在鬼魂的丛林里》(My Life in the Bush of Ghosts)；执导电影，创作音乐剧（当然，主题是关于伊梅尔达·马科斯的）；共同创立了一个唱片公司 (Luaka Bop)，将 Os Mutantes 和 William Onyeabor 等艺术家介绍给新一代听众；出版了树木绘画集，还设计过自行车架。

按照大多数衡量标准，拜恩的职业生涯极其成功，而这一切是建立在语码切换、不安分的才智以及风格上的“不忠”之上的。因此，乍一看，《睡美人》(Sleeping Beauties) 这本书致力于探讨“失败”令人感到惊讶——它关注那些被忽视、被嘲笑、被遗忘的艺术家；被认为古怪或异端的想法；以及那些由于政治原因而常被认为不足且从我们的集体记忆库中被抹除的世界思考方式。

在他研究的三十多个案例中，有些比其他的更广为人知，例如卡拉瓦乔 (Caravaggio) 和日心说。还有安东尼·高迪 (Antoni Gaudí)——他现在被誉为西班牙最受欢迎的建筑（尚未完工的圣家堂）的建筑师——但在 1926 年被有轨电车撞死时，他被误认为是一个乞丐。他的职业生涯当时已经陷入困境。一位著名的加泰罗尼亚评论家称他为“建筑界的瓦格纳式怪物”，称他的作品是“胀气产生的屁声……[它]是花岗岩形式的德国音乐”。乔治·奥威尔 (George Orwell) 后来将他的大教堂描述为“世界上最丑陋的建筑之一”。然而，第二次世界大战后，高迪在达利 (Dalí) 那里找到了强有力的支持者。时尚发生了变化：欧文·彭 (Irving Penn) 在《Vogue》的一场拍摄中以这座建筑为背景。体制上的支持则体现在联合国教科文组织将其列为世界遗产。现在，在一名祈求他恢复视力的女性突然能够看见之后，他距离成为圣徒仅差一个奇迹。

最具有启发性的章节避开了艺术，转而讲述环境和基础设施的故事。在其中一章中，拜恩讲述了在公元 1280 年结束的朱罗王朝 (Chola dynasty) 期间，统治者如何资助建立一个由水池、水井和水箱组成的复杂网络，使季风引发的溢流水能被引导至下游湖泊。人们开发了弧形石块来拦截淤泥和污泥。水权由当地人管理，他们确保河岸附近果树繁茂，湖中鱼类充足，且该地区比该国其他地区更不容易遭受干旱。后来，东印度公司引入了更笨拙的管理系统，将利润置于当地专业知识之上。直到在破坏性洪水之后，由坚韧的当地活动人士采取行动，才使这些古老而睿智的水道得以复兴。

拜恩的副标题——《好主意为何会陷入沉睡，以及它们如何苏醒》——使其听起来像机场书店文化产业区的一本商业手册。他给出的答案涵盖了从经济转型到倡导者所扮演的关键角色（例如，马克斯·布罗德 (Max Brod) 对其好友卡夫卡手稿的抢救）。虽然他的散文有时显得过于随意（在谈到卡拉瓦乔时他问道：“他为什么是个如此疯狂的混蛋？”），但他也能够表现得讽刺（“对于那些将资产隔离在日内瓦自由港等地的当代收藏家来说，这是一个教训——作品有脱离讨论范围的风险。”）

被重新发现的艺术可能会再次消失：作家伊恩·辛克莱（Iain Sinclair）曾提到过一类他称之为“被再次遗忘者”的作者。此外，伯恩（Byrne）也简短地暗示，被重新发现的思想既可能是进步的，也可能是反动的。尽管如此，这里有一套（跨）国课程，学校和大学应当大力倡导：接触科学与艺术，对游戏和隐喻保持开放态度，思考所有违背直觉的事物。还有更多建议吗？“追随年轻人、坚持不懈者以及业余爱好者。”这绝非糟糕的建议。

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一代之声：惠特尼·休斯顿的深刻画像 Priya Elan

传记 《掌控闪电：惠特尼·休斯顿的一生、爱情与艺术》 Emily Lordi 著 WHITE RABBIT 出版，£25

自惠特尼·休斯顿于 2012 年去世以来，大量书籍和纪录片相继出现，其中大多数将她的生活描绘成一个警示故事。在这本新传记中，范德比尔特大学的英语教授 Emily Lordi 拒绝将休斯顿的故事简化为另一个“好女孩变坏”的叙事。相反，她对休斯顿的一生采取了多元化的视角，其中休斯顿的酷儿身份、药物使用和古怪行为不再被视为异常（正如她生前被对待那样），而是将其置于她的才华以及要求她体现“黑人卓越”的压力这一更广泛的背景下审视。

Lordi 描述了休斯顿家庭不稳定的基石（她的母亲 Cissy 所在的 The Sweet Inspirations 乐队是曾与埃尔维斯合作，并参与录制 Van Morrison 的《Brown Eyed Girl》和 Dusty Springfield 的《Son of a Preacher Man》的录音室音乐人）。当 Cissy 还是一名孩子时，休斯顿的祖母在一次流产后中风，最终在后来的怀孕期间死于脑出血。面对这一创伤的反应是将其掩埋。正如 Lordi 所写：“这里有一个教训，即压抑你的情感并继续生活。”但在本书中，多次提到在痛苦中歌唱的行为，然而令人惊讶的是，关于休斯顿在童年时期遭受猥亵的报道（这是 Kevin Macdonald 2018 年纪录片中的关键部分，该片将此与她的成瘾行为联系起来）却未被讨论。

1999 年的惠特尼·休斯顿

在经历了一年糟糕透顶的时光（包括父母婚姻的破裂）后，青少年时期的休斯顿在与一名夏令营朋友的关系中找到了慰藉。这段联系始于性，但由于对其他歌手的声乐技巧以及最终对休斯顿自身音乐的共同兴趣而深化。在某个时刻，镜头捕捉到了 Crawford 在巡演中对休斯顿在歌曲中表演的每一次即兴发挥进行对口型模仿。Lordi 将其称为一种“令人惊叹的关注行为”。Crawford 对休斯顿与鲍比·布朗的婚姻感到困惑（她说这就像在看一部没有字幕的外语电影），但 Lordi 认为他们被表演欲和传统价值观联系在一起。

Lordi 将休斯顿定义为音乐天才，这一决定可能会迫使一些读者调整他们对该词的定义。毕竟，在 Prince 和 Michael Jackson 等词曲作者 / 制作人 / 表演者的时代，她并非词曲作者，但作者认为，休斯顿在乐句处理、音调、抑扬顿挫和肢体动作上所做的选择是独特的创作行为。她的花腔演唱风格产生了涟漪效应，成为了从 Ariana Grande 到 Taylor Swift 等所有人的音乐原点。然而，Lordi 承诺其书籍将剖析休斯顿“被严重低估且缺乏分析的作品集”这一目标并未完全实现。书中确实有一些深入的解读（她分析了《I Will Always Love You》独特的乐句表达，以及休斯顿对《星条旗》进行的亲黑人改造），但太多的冷门作品被忽略了，考虑到休斯顿相对精简的唱片目录，这是一个奇怪的决定。

书中后半部分对休斯顿天才之论的论证最为有力。洛迪没有将她《保镖》（Bodyguard）之后的作品视为坠入药物地狱的沉沦，而是将其描绘为她“最黑、最酷儿、最女权主义作品”的涌现期，其中包括《等待呼气》（Waiting to Exhale）和《不对但没关系》（It’s Not Right But It’s Okay）。休斯顿开始培养年轻的黑人人才，提供她在出道之初曾获得的那种音乐指导。在洛迪的叙述中，像《我的爱就是你的爱》（My Love Is Your Love）这样的专辑是对休斯顿被媒体剥削的即兴演绎，预示了像碧昂丝的《柠檬水》（Lemonade）这类专辑的出现。正是在这段时间，她抛弃了80年代的“黑人芭比”形象，允许不完美进入她的艺术。

最终，《捕捉闪电》（Holding Lightning）是自克劳福德的《为你而歌》（A Song For You）以来最温柔的休斯顿画像。虽然尚未达到定论的高度，但它对这位曾被简单称为“天籁之声”的艺术家进行了始终如一且富有洞察力、清新且具有修复感的刻画。如需购买一本售价 £22.50 的副本，请访问 guardianbookshop.com

生命之调的 歌曲

在《铜头恶魔》（Demon Copperhead）的续作中 探讨音乐、爱与失去 拉拉·费格尔（Lara Feigel）

《组曲》（Partita） 芭芭拉·金索尔弗（Barbara Kingsolver） FABER 出版社，£20

艺术在艺术家的生命中扮演什么角色？你应该为了希望成为一名伟大的大师而全身心地投入到磨练才华中吗？还是应该利用你的艺术天赋来丰富自己的生活以及你所在社区的生活？在《组曲》中，备受赞誉的美国小说家芭芭拉·金索尔弗通过一个从钢琴神童转变为音乐教师的故事，严肃且充满激情地探讨了这些问题。

小说在当下展开，莉维亚（Livia）在自己成长所在的田纳西州农村地区担任学校音乐教师，丈夫是一名曾在她父亲农场工作的农民。平静的中年生活被西古德（Sigurd）的一个电话打破，那是她在大学期间曾与之陷入一段全心投入且具有毁灭性情爱的男人。这将她拉回了过去：包括她 11 岁时哥哥自杀的那段时期，以及她凭借音乐奖学金逃往印第安纳州、坚信自己将永远离开父母世界的那些年。我们发现，她成为世界级钢琴家的梦想被一次导致手部受伤的事故击碎，而西古德在其中扮演了某种角色。

这两个时间线呈现了音乐在生命中作用的两种愿景，以及关于爱的两种愿景。当下的莉维亚似乎满足于成为一名能给当地学生带来启发的音乐教师——而她自己当年为了寻找这样的老师必须走得更远——但很明显，20 岁的莉维亚会将这样的生活视为失败，而且她对自己才华的信心是合理的。现在的莉维亚将性视为一种慰藉而感到满足——“就像在酸痛的肌肉上敷热敷垫”。然而，她仍然依赖另一种性的记忆来达到高潮——与西古德的性爱，在她记忆中包含了音乐般的紧张与释放：“和声的紧张，动态的紧张，噢我的天呐，那种弹性速度（rubato），他的动作慢下来，慢下来，剥夺了节奏的真实感，直到我乞求公正……有时我们两人都会流泪。”

芭芭拉·金索尔弗

脱离语境地引用关于性的描写是不公平的，我在此时这样做也感到不安，但这种气喘吁吁、过于激昂的散文风格贯穿了利维亚与西格德私通的叙述，几乎威胁到整部小说的平衡。从金索尔弗的其他小说中我们知道，她的写作通常是多么自信，因此这种笨拙感显得格格不入。但金索尔弗比大多数小说家更热衷于投入到主角的语言中，所以我最终认定，这里发生的情况必然如此。在《铜头恶魔》（Demon Copperhead）中，毫无疑问，那种鲁莽的方言是恶魔自己的，因为那种声音更接近口语而非书面语。而在这里，利维亚的声音更具文学色彩，因此更难将其与金索尔弗本人的风格区分开来。但像“这绝非正经之事：手指渴望触碰他下颌如砂纸般的触感”这样的句子无疑是利维亚的，而这种华丽的散文则表明，她被生命中情欲巅峰的回忆所冲昏了头脑。

事实上，令人深思的是，当涉及到音乐时，利维亚的声音变得更加微妙，因为音乐陪伴她走到了中年，而情欲之火早已熄灭。金索尔弗本人曾凭借音乐奖学金在大学学习古典钢琴，她显然对音乐以及如何描写音乐深感兴趣，她的天赋在对钢琴曲的描述中似乎与利维亚交织在一起。受伤后重新学习弹琴的利维亚尝试演奏肖邦的《b小调前奏曲》，缓慢而试探地弹奏，并发现自己的悲伤在其中得到了映射与转化。“悲伤全部在旋律线中，左手不断地从下方将其托起，一个缓慢的琶音试图从黑暗中攀爬而上，但在上升几个音符后，它又跌落回去……这就是悲伤最诚实的真相。它无法化解。”

利维亚在这里的发现意义重大；她开始意识到，即使演出被评为二流，一段音乐依然能丰富表演者及其观众。金索尔弗是一位坚定的社会小说家——她甚至设立了一个奖项来表彰具有社会参与感的小说——而最终，《组曲》（Partita）是一篇充满激情的证明，证明了普通社区对艺术的需求，以及艺术对平凡的需求。这反过来意味着，这些社区必须放下对艺术精英主义的猜忌，通过在必要时送走身边的艺术家去深造，来尊重他们的才华。

利维亚在早些时候说过，当你拥有天赋时，“感觉就像有一条规则要求你必须坚持下去。不仅是因为你欠自己的，你还欠这个世界的。也许还欠上帝的。作为对借来的天赋的偿还。”即便对于她而言，“坚持下去”的含义发生了变化，她依然设法维持这一愿景。她的嫂子——本人也是一名才华横溢的文学学者，如今安于教授英语——帮助她意识到，“艺术的意义在于帮你更好地热爱你的生活”，而这意味着成为一名当地的钢琴教师，而非一名国际独奏家。“那时我需要的就是这个，”利维亚悲伤地想，“有人能告诉我这一点。”

《组曲》没有提供像《铜头恶魔》那样直接的满足感；它是一本更安静的书，铺陈较慢，且需要更多时间才能让其世界变得迷人。但它是一部丰满的小说，我发现它与我这位读者开启了一场对话，且在阅读结束后的很长时间里依然在延续。金索尔弗没有轻视利维亚所失去的一切，因此，当她坚持认为在中年的妥协中同样能获得许多东西，且艺术家在寻找方法将其艺术融入社区中充满活力、充满爱的集体生活时，才最充分地履行了他们的天职，这种观点才更具说服力。

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曼德利之梦：达夫妮·杜穆里埃的一次虚构情事 克莱尔·克拉克

《管家》 罗斯·特雷曼 CHATTO & WINDUS 出版，£20

那些最初以短篇小说形式面世的著名小说名单之长且之多样，令人惊讶。在弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《达洛维夫人》中，克拉丽莎·达洛维著名的买花情节出现两年前，她曾在伍尔夫的短篇小说《邦德街的达洛维夫人》中买手套；埃文·S·康奈尔的《布里奇夫人》和杰弗里·尤金尼迪斯的《处女自杀》最初都作为短篇故事发表在《巴黎评论》上。瑞秋·卡斯克于2025,年9月在《纽约客》上发表的故事《项目》，几乎逐字地成为了她新小说《M的生活》的开篇。

该名单上的最新成员是罗斯·特雷曼的第17部小说《管家》，该书通过想象可能启发了《蝴蝶梦》（Rebecca）的事件，向达夫妮·杜穆里埃的《蝴蝶梦》致敬。特雷曼最初在2014年的一篇同样名为《管家》的故事中探讨了这个想法，该故事被收录在她广受好评的短篇集《美国情人》中。无论当时还是现在，她的主角都是莉莉安·达诺夫斯基，一名波兰犹太人，童年时随父亲逃离了波格罗姆（pogroms）大屠杀，现在在康沃尔郡福伊附近的曼德维尔庄园负责管理庞大的员工队伍，行事克制且高效。当杜穆里埃来吃午餐时，被雇主称为丹妮（因为“达诺夫斯基”读起来像“满口鱼刺”）的达诺夫斯基被委派带她参观房屋，她自豪地鼓励杜穆里埃查看已故女主人那间维护得极其整洁的卧室里的衣服，并带她前往船屋。正是达诺夫斯基，在与杜穆里埃经历了一年热烈的情事后，被扭曲成了那个心怀恶意且阴险的丹弗斯夫人。

已婚的杜穆里埃对女性有着强烈的吸引力：她对自己性取向那种复杂且深藏不露的态度，赋予了《蝴蝶梦》许多阴郁且带有情色意味的张力。在2014年的故事中，特雷曼呼应了这种紧张感，凭借其对时代背景精准的直觉，呈现了一场关于20世纪30年代克制之美的典范。丹妮在杜穆里埃面前完全失去了防线，她谨慎的盔甲被撕碎，但就像石黑一雄《长日将尽》中的管家史蒂文斯一样，她被长久以来谨慎低调的习惯所束缚；因此，她成了一个守口如瓶的叙述者。丹妮是恳求者，是承载者；她知道自己没有权力。当恐惧曝光的杜穆里埃简单地将其切断联系时，丹妮竭力寻找理由为她开脱，试图抓住她们共同拥有的点滴。一年多以后，当她发现杜穆里埃将她永恒地塑造为那个刻薄且阴险的丹弗斯夫人——“丑陋且被嫉妒病噬”——时，这让她崩溃了，将她深情珍藏的记忆击得粉碎。

是什么促使一名作家在十年后重新审视一个已完成的故事，并将其在小说的宏大画布上重新创作？就特雷曼而言，是因为她的故事被改编成了电影。由安东尼·霍普金斯和海伦娜·波汉姆·卡特主演的电影《管家》计划于近期上映；特雷曼编写了剧本。

“昨晚我梦见再次见到了达芙妮，”小说开篇时丹妮如此宣告，这让人想起文学史上最著名的开篇第一句之一。《丽贝卡》本身当然是哥特小说复杂交互的一部分，从《简·爱》到让·里斯的《宽阔的萨加索海》，每本书都在改变读者对其他书籍的理解。特雷曼的小说中充斥着对《丽贝卡》和杜穆里埃的引用，但其更大的篇幅使其失去了《丽贝卡》那种颠覆性的复杂感。相反，故事变得臃肿了，原本令人心碎的克制让位于某种更柔软、更缺乏实质的东西。在特雷曼的原作中，边缘人物被以一种令人不安的精简方式勾勒，而现在则膨胀成了漫画式的人物：丹妮那言简意赅、傲慢无礼的雇主德·威瑟斯勋爵，变成了笨拙的格伦维尔-威瑟斯勋爵，像个善良的迷路小男孩；而他那自我中心的侄女则固化成了一个尖叫的妖妇。丹妮死去的父亲被以格言的形式回忆起来，这些话更像幸运饼干里的句子而非哲学。更关键的是，达芙妮与丹妮之间那种精妙的紧张感——她们本身就是强大的丽贝卡与平庸、阴郁的第二任德·温特夫人之回响——未能维持住。有了充足的篇幅可以发挥，特雷曼

将我们带入了她们私情的深处，但尽管这个版本的丹妮倾诉了一切，场景依然显得奇怪地苍白：有手、有唇、有舌，但没有火，没有心。杜穆里埃曾有名言称《丽贝卡》是“一项关于嫉妒的研究”，但赋予那部小说眩晕般紧张感的、那种摇摆不定的恶意与黑暗之感在此缺失了。失去了这一点，达芙妮最后对丹妮那可怕的背叛感觉就像是琐碎的恶意。

“我该拿你怎么办，丹妮？我该如何让你活过来？”达芙妮在《管家》的开篇页中戏谑地问道。当然，杜穆里埃在创作《丽贝卡》时也面临同样的问题，并取得了惊人的成功，创造了一个具有如此高耸的复仇心、违规权威的女性，以至于即使在死亡之后，她依然崛起并主导了整本书。特雷曼却做了相反的事。通过剥夺她笔下丹妮那激烈而安静的尊严，她夺走了她的力量。 欲以 £17 购买副本，请访问 guardianbookshop.com

浪漫之石：一位诗歌之星回归，依旧古灵精怪

里希·达斯蒂达尔 (Rishi Dastidar)

《玛瑙头 / 石汤》(Agate Head / Stone Soup) 帕特里夏·洛克伍德 (Patricia Lockwood) 布鲁姆斯伯里出版社 (BLOOMSBURY)，£18.99

在时隔 12 年出版的首部诗集序言中，帕特里夏·洛克伍德写道：“近十年间……我一直无法听到那个声音。我写的诗无法完结……发生了太多的事情，人们关注的焦点发生了变化。” 并不是她不希望诗歌到来。在《洞穴壁画》(Cave Painting) 中写道：“她还在写诗吗？ / 自我病起，再未写完一首。 / 五年了。我一直说我是在 / 私下创作。私密到连 / 我自己都不知道。”

在中间这段时期，洛克伍德的地位已从因病毒式传播的《强奸笑话》(Rape Joke) 而闻名的有趣美国诗人，跃升为文学巨星：一位备受赞誉的回忆录作家和小说家，她那随性、反传统的风格在许多人看来，是将互联网的漩涡套索捕捉并重新呈现在纸页之上。除了她，还有谁能将一次与教皇的会面转化为一篇辛辣的喜剧散文？

因此，她的回归诗坛是一件真正的大事。在《玛瑙头 / 石汤》中，无数时刻提醒着读者，她的诗歌之声是独一无二的：迷人、古怪且亲密；能够呈现极具美感的意象、深刻的哲学洞见，以及公众形象背后创意生活的片段。其回忆录《祭司爸爸》(Priestdaddy) 的读者们会很高兴地看到她的父亲在几首诗中再次出现。“我父亲一直在喝酒…… / 他总能搞出新花样， / 但我得说，我没料到 / 他会买价值 5-600 美元的顶级橄榄油。”

一块玛瑙晶洞

《玛瑙之首 / 石汤》（Agate Head / Stone Soup）采用了 tête-bêche（头尾相接）的装订方式——在法语中意为头尾相接，两卷书上下颠倒且背靠背排列。虽然这看起来像是一种噱头，但这两部作品集在质感上的差异足以支撑这种设计。《玛瑙之首》感觉更偏向于面向公众，而《石汤》则在与更深层的存在主义忧虑作斗争。

两部作品集都从各种形状和种类的石头、宝石和金属中汲取灵感。洛克伍德（Lockwood）从小就开始收集化石和矿物，她和丈夫还花时间学习了金属工艺。这为她提供了丰富的探索领域。值得注意的是，玛瑙通常与脚踏实地感和平衡感联系在一起；这似乎是在试图抵消所有其他形式的“关注”。

洛克伍德的诗歌在技术上也出现了可察觉的转变。在 2014 年的《祖国父国故乡性》（Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals）中，许多诗歌采用了长句，允许句子延伸并积聚势头，直到抵达其顿悟之点或点睛之笔。而在这里，她的诗句在感觉上更像断奏，句法地跳跃，例如在《未见玻璃花》（Not Seeing Glass Flowers）中：“生长。是因为 / 它们看起来很真实？我问过每个人。 / 还是因为某种更深层的东西？马克斯·贝克曼的画作依然是一场恐怖。”

这意味着许多诗歌给人的初步印象更加尖锐。但这最终对作品有利，因为思想在不断累积，向着不可预见的方向移动，最后化为一次强有力的启示。正如《火中锻造》（Forged in Fire）中所写：“艺术家，没有人真正 / 知道他们来自哪里， / 他们从天空坠落很远 / 然后之字形着陆”。

这两部作品集并非完美无缺。在某种程度上，人们无法摆脱自传式的细节，因此一些诗歌变成了一种高级的八卦，让我们像把鼻子贴在名气的玻璃窗上一样窥视。例如，《沉积》（Sedarising）给人的感觉是自鸣得意而非幽默。

有时，被讨论的物体无法承载被赋予它的隐喻重量。《波兰燧石》（Polish Flint）就是这种情况：“我用来与自己结婚的完美戒指 / （由波兰燧石制成）在我跌落时被撬开了。 / 似乎是在慢动作中，被游客们 / 环绕，有足够的时间去思考 / 一切。”

但这些只是小瑕疵，因为洛克伍德一次又一次地给你留下深刻的印象：她能神奇地将世俗转化为深邃，将神圣转化为滑稽，这一点在《修道院圣像：天堂之窗》（Monastery Icons: Windows into Heaven）中表现得最为出色：“听起来有点像 / 你可以从这本目录里订购一个完整的丈夫 / 只要他的名字叫‘主’ / 而你是一个‘祈祷的处女夜灯’： / 这正是我们在这些挑战时期所需要的。”

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回归黑暗：当金重返“领地”时带来的诡异恐怖

作者：艾莉森·弗鲁德 (Alison Flood)

《除此之外的其他世界》(Other Worlds Than These) 斯蒂芬·金 (Stephen King) 与 彼得·斯特劳布 (Peter Straub) 著 HODDER & STOUGHTON 出版，£25

请耐心地听我讲述，因为在讨论我今天要评论的这本书之前，需要先交代一些背景故事。早在 1984, 斯蒂芬·金和彼得·斯特劳布合作写了一部奇幻小说《护身符》(The Talisman)。像所有最出色的金式故事一样，它讲述了一个小男孩的故事：这一次是 12, 岁的杰克·索耶 (Jack Sawyer)，他的母亲莉莉 (Lily) 奄奄一息。杰克得知，一个名为“护身符”的魔法物品或许能救她——前提是他能在一个被称为“领地”(the Territories) 的平行世界中找到它。斯特劳布和金在 2001 与推出了续作《黑屋》(Black House)，在书中，成年后的杰克调查了一系列儿童谋杀案，而这些案件最终被发现与“领地”有着令人不安的联系。

这两本书截然不同：一部是关于成长的跨国探索之旅，杰克在两个版本的美国之间来回穿梭；另一部则是带有奇幻和恐怖色彩的谋杀谜案。两者都是卓越且经久不衰的经典，在我的书架上永远占有一席之地——为了准备阅读《除此之外的其他世界》，我重新阅读了这两本书，总计 1,800-odd 页，再次感受到了初读时那般被吸引的愉悦。

于是：在 2013 Straub 产生了一个想法，想为《护身符》三部曲写最后一卷，让杰克（此前被留在了一个悬念之中）重返战场。金当时没有采纳这个想法，而斯特劳布在 2022. 去世了。现在金 79, 岁了，正如他在一段带有告别意味的后记中所写，“是时候考虑收拾收尾了，尽管对于一个脑子里依然塞满了酷点子的作家来说，这类事情能做到什么程度尚不可知”。于是他回到了那个旧想法——虽然最初的电子邮件丢失了，但故事的核心依然是斯特劳布所描述的在“领地”远西地区发生的一系列“毫无动机的残暴罪行”。

杰克，“他的潮汐……正在退去”，现在 57. 岁。在“美国侧”和“领地”之间来回穿梭，杰克得知一名老警察朋友在追踪一对“杀人孩子”时失踪了，这对孩子在内布拉斯加州留下了一串尸体。他被告知，这些孩子被恶魔“寄生”了——而且这种寄生正在向“领地”的孩子们蔓延。

对于真正的金迷（他称之为“忠实读者” Constant Reader）来说，《除此之外的其他世界》中有一些令人战栗的喜悦时刻——尤其是书名，它取自金的《枪手》(The Gunslinger) 中的一个关键场景。正如金的风格，书中也有真正的恐怖时刻，而且写得很好，随着青少年感染在“领地”蔓延。

但我无法向任何非“忠实读者”的人推荐这部 800-plus-page 的巨著。我本想说我会跟随杰克·索耶去任何地方，但随着“旅行者杰克”在“领地”干涸的沙漠之地上穿行，他的旅程开始让人觉得漫无边际，且重复得令人厌倦。“又是一个回响。它们变得令人厌烦了，”杰克说道，这句评论相当直白地指出了美国与“领地”之间那种诡异的（在提到第 n 次时已不再诡异）相似性。

这是刻意为之吗？是的，毫无疑问：“ka [命运] 是一个圆轮”，正如我们被告知过（不止一次）；杰克在一个无尽的循环中行走在为他铺就的道路上。但这一次，这一切变得有些过于自命不凡、自我指涉且自我沉溺——而且，恕我直言，很无聊。

我依然认为斯蒂芬·金是个天才。我依然认为《护身符》是完美的成长类黑暗奇幻小说。所以，金先生，感谢您带来的无数小时的阅读乐趣。但与前作不同，《除此之外的其他世界》不会进入我的重读书单。 欲购买副本（售价 £22.50），请访问 guardianbookshop.com

BOOKS OF THE MONTH

科幻、奇幻与恐怖小说

对 H.P. 洛夫克拉夫特的有力回击；遥远星球上的爱情；退伍军人医院里的哥特式恐怖；以及来自巴勒斯坦的幽灵。作者：丽莎·塔特尔 (Lisa Tuttle)

《黑汤姆之歌》(The Ballad of Black Tom) 维克多·拉瓦尔 (Victor LaValle) 企鹅出版社 (PENGUIN)，£9.99 这部短篇小说在 2016 年于美国出版后，几乎赢得了所有类型文学奖项。作为一名黑人作家，拉瓦尔与 H.P. 洛夫克拉夫特的作品之间存在着一种矛盾的关系。孩提时代，他热爱那些宇宙恐怖故事，但随着成长，他意识到了作者的偏见，于是决定针对其中一部种族主义色彩最明显的作品——《红钩恐怖》(The Horror at Red Hook) 撰写自己的回应。他通过一名 20 世纪 20 年代哈莱姆区骗子（后被称为“黑汤姆”）的视角重新构建了故事。这是一个以纯粹的才华讲述的强有力的恐怖故事。

《当你醒来，打破外壳》(As You Wake, Break the Shell) 贝基·钱伯斯 (Becky Chambers) HODDERSCAPE 出版社，£22 这是一个设定在遥远星球上的温馨科幻爱情故事，人类殖民者的生活是一场持续的挣扎。书开篇时，植物学家西格尼 (Signy) 尚未遇到她一生的挚爱——长须鲸飞行员科拉 (Cora)。长须鲸是巨大的星际生物，由人类飞行员训练，飞行员通过植入物在运输物资时与这些巨兽沟通。第 1 章之后直接跳到了第 764 章，时间跨度超过十年，此时两人已幸福地结婚。这种非线性叙事可能反映了书中提到的长须鲸的时间观，但它也消除了大部分悬念。角色们非常可爱，关于在人工环境中种植植物的细节，以及科拉与她的长须鲸之间的关系都令人愉悦，但读者可能会对极其缓慢的节奏感到不耐烦。甚至连“天生孤独”的长须鲸也会向科拉表白。在最后几页，基调发生了转变，并以一个悬念结尾：科拉和西格尼如何生存将在续作中揭晓。

《歌利亚之眼》(The Eye of Goliath) 迭戈·穆齐奥 (Diego Muzzio) 著，拉胡尔·贝里 (Rahul Bery) 译 普希金出版社 (PUSHKIN)，£12.99 这部由获奖阿根廷作家创作的首部小说，是一个关于疯狂和战争恐怖的传统故事。在 1920 年左右爱丁堡郊区的一家精神病院里，皮尔斯医生 (Dr Pierce) 希望通过催眠来治疗受严重创伤的患者。包括医生在内的所有男性都带着第一次世界大战留下的伤痕。他最新的病例大卫·布拉德利 (David Bradley) 曾是一名工程师，但现在除了在陆地上拼命尝试游泳直到精疲力竭外，什么也做不了。布拉德利的日记揭示了他逐渐陷入疯狂的原因：在一座废弃灯塔中，他寒冷且饥饿，而他期待的救援始终未能抵达。布拉德利发现了最后一名灯塔看守留下的文件——那是一个擅长标本制作且杀害了自己家人的自然主义者，这为这部极具吸引力且令人心惊胆战的哥特恐怖小说增添了另一个环环相扣的片段。

《我们的盐分》(Our Cut of Salt) 迪娜·赫尔姆 (Deena Helm) ORBIT 出版社，£22

2002 年，玛丽娜 (Marina) 是一名拥有混血血统的美国年轻人，她前往海法旅行。她的巴勒斯坦祖母努哈德 (Nuhad) 孩提时代曾住在那里，直到 1948 年全家被以色列占领军驱逐。努哈德从未谈起过那段可怕的时光，现在她去世了，玛丽娜想要了解真相。当她找到祖母的房子时，房子是空的，正在出售，且普遍被认为闹鬼。之前的住户要么失踪，要么在神秘的情况下死亡。进入屋内后，她感到了愤怒，但随后涌现出努哈德童年时期的快乐回忆。这座房子不仅仅是闹鬼——它已成为复仇的容器，在渴望心爱的家人回归的同时，引导着死亡。尽管有几处瑕疵，但这仍是一部关于巴勒斯坦人的丧失与创伤的强有力且感人的小说。

我生命中的书籍

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布莱克莫尔 (Blakemore)

诗人兼小说家论 F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的才华与弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的趣味

我最早的阅读记忆 林利·多德（Lynley Dodd）的 《唐纳森乳品店的毛毛麦克拉里》（Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy）——讲述一群形状各异的狗一起散步的故事——在我很小的时候就潜入了我的潜意识。

我成长过程中最喜欢的书 我有很多由伟大的科基·保罗（Korky Paul）绘制插图的绘本。我最喜欢的是

珍妮·威利斯（Jeanne Willis）写的《淘气蛋糕》（The Rascally Cake）。书中一个名叫鲁弗斯·斯库姆金斯·奥帕斯利（Rufus Skumskins O'Parsley）的圆滚滚、绿头发的男人用令人作呕的东西（烂鸡蛋、蜘蛛腿、花园蜗牛等等）做了一个蛋糕，结果蛋糕竟然活了过来并试图吃掉他。

在青少年时期改变我的书 我在英语 GCSE 考试中学习了 F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的《大盖茨比》，它完全

重塑了我的大脑。我仍然认为它是一部小说所能达到的最接近完美的境界。世上所有愚蠢的可爱与渴望，被浓缩成一幅幅意象，而其核心则是炽热的愤怒——愤怒于极端财富如何导致极端的残酷。每个人都应该读读这本书。

改变我想法的作家

我在五月生了一个孩子，在产后最初的几周里，当我的儿子在我的肚子上打盹时，我阅读了诗人兼活动家艾德里安·里奇（Adrienne Rich）的《女性诞生》（Of Woman Born）。这让我意识到，我之前错误地持有这样一种观念，认为为人母必然意味着要放弃想象力的工作，以及在创作视野上的狭隘。

让我想要成为作家的书

塞利玛·希尔（Selima Hill）的《我爱人的马之肖像》（Portrait of My Lover As a Horse）。大约 14 岁时，我因为书名和封面的古怪，在查令十字路的 Foyles 书店用一张图书代金券买了它。我在回家的火车上从头到尾读完了整部集子，然后又从后往前读了一遍。到第二天，我就在自己的小诗中尝试模仿希尔那种天真且晦涩的风格。

我重新回归的作者 简·奥斯汀。直到 20 多岁中期，我一直认同那种出人意料地普遍且片面的观点，认为她仅仅是一个写富人互相在家里吃晚餐的小说家。但现在我成了一个富人（至少在全球范围内是这样——我的意思是，我有香奈儿粉底液和房贷），而且我也喜欢在别人的家里吃晚餐，于是我觉得，这太棒了。

我反复阅读的书 我经常发现自己在重读弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《奥兰多》中的片段。对于一个——愿上帝保佑她——整体上有点像“扫兴者”（Debbie Downer）的作者来说，这是一部如此大胆且有趣的作品。

我再也无法阅读的书

《太阳照常升起》。对于一个 teenage girl 来说，我当时对欧内斯特·海明威痴迷得令人担忧，而现在我觉得他有点像个蠢货。

我在成年后才发现的书

我想利用产假终于尝试读读唐娜·塔特（Donna Tartt）的作品。我艰难地读完了《金翅雀》，觉得它极其愚蠢且糟糕。

我目前正在阅读的书 我刚刚读完波莉·巴顿（Polly Barton）的《我是什么，一只鹿？》（What Am I, a Deer?），我完全被震撼了。这是一部杰作。

AK 布莱克莫尔（AK Blakemore）的《末日绘画》（Doom Painting）由 Granta 出版。

汤姆·高尔德（Tom Gauld）

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《生命之书》 (Book of Lives) 某种形式的回忆录 玛格丽特·艾特伍德 (Margaret Atwood) VINTAGE DIGITAL，25小时36分钟

玛格丽特·艾特伍德曾被劝说去写一部回忆录。起初，写关于自己的想法似乎“枯燥得要命。谁想读一个坐在书桌前把白纸弄得乱七八糟的人的故事？”然而，她接着写道，随着时间流逝，写回忆录的可能性产生了一种“妖艳的磷光。‘这个想法难道没有吸引力吗？’我阴险的另一个自我低语道……我可以感谢我的恩人，奖赏我的朋友，诋毁我的敌人，并清算那些除了我之外所有人都早已忘记的旧账。”

《生命之书》是这位加拿大作家对其爱情、失去以及文学成就的记录，也是其智慧与机智的绝佳展示。书中包含的少量清算行为纯粹是为了制造笑点。20世纪70年代初，一名诗人告诉艾特伍德，她的写作风格像个男人——对方意在赞美——而她告诉他，他忘了标点符号。“你的意思是：‘她写作。像个男人一样’。”

这本书由作者本人朗读，她今年 86 岁。她的叙述节奏舒缓，嗓音沙哑，冷幽默十足，具有典型的艾特伍德风格。尽管她承认对早期的作品记忆模糊，但她对重要作品的记忆依然清晰，尤其是 1986 年的《使女的故事》，这部设定在反乌托邦未来的小说是她的里程碑之作。当她向小说家瓦莱丽·马丁 (Valerie Martin) 展示初稿时，艾特伍德说：“我觉得我会陷入麻烦。”马丁读完后告诉她：“我觉得你会赚很多钱。”

菲奥娜·斯特吉斯 (Fiona Sturges)

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这部紧张的间谍惊悚小说讲述了卡姆兰 (Kamran) 的故事。他是一名犹太裔伊朗牙医，在被驱逐出伊朗后定居瑞典，随后作为摩萨德特工返回故乡。由法杰·阿尔-凯西 (Fajer Al-Kaisi) 朗读。

《元素》 (Elemental) 亚瑟·斯内尔 (Arthur Snell) WILDFIRE，12小时28分钟

前外交官斯内尔朗读了他这部引人入胜的研究著作，探讨了气候危机引发的地缘政治问题以及如何解决这些问题。

“爱丁堡有时会让人感到有点压抑”

伊恩·兰金准备挑战超级富豪，为此他需要将故事背景设定在伦敦。他与亚历克斯·克拉克探讨了他的新侦探角色，以及里巴斯未来的走向。

伊恩·兰金爵士很少看电视。在他位于爱丁堡的公寓里，那个他用来写作、听音乐和搭建复杂乐高模型（包括披头士四人组、他们的黄色潜水艇，以及曾经搭建过的一个6英尺高的埃菲尔铁塔模型）的角落里，确实没有闪亮的平板电视。他难道没看过他最著名的创作——侦探督察约翰·里巴斯（John Rebus）最近的一次荧幕化呈现吗？这次由理查德·兰金（Richard Rankin，两人无亲属关系）饰演，此前则由肯·斯托特（Ken Stott）和约翰·汉娜（John Hannah）演绎。“看过，”他承认道，“他们给了我DVD，所以我可以在电脑上播放。”

啊，他的电脑——屏幕和硬盘都更换过，按键上有磨损的凹痕。它摆在一张简朴、紧凑的折叠桌上，那是他在1987年从伦敦查令十字路（Charing Cross Road）买的，然后通过地铁费力地搬回了他在托特纳姆（Tottenham）的公寓；这两样东西都陪伴他从伦敦搬到了法国西南部多尔多涅（Dordogne）的乡村，他在1990年代与妻子米兰达（Miranda）在那里生活了几年，随后又回到了爱丁堡，此后夫妻俩和两个儿子一直定居于此。

但如果这一切让他听起来像是固执地依恋过去、警惕变革与现代性，那么他的作品则形成了鲜明的对比。在26本里巴斯系列书籍、一个关于侦探马尔科姆·福克斯（Malcolm Fox）的小系列，以及多部独立小说和剧本中，兰金证明了自己对当代生活中最严肃的方面有着极其敏锐的关注。“我感兴趣的犯罪小说，”他告诉我，“是那些审视社会、审视我们陷入的混乱以及我们如何走到这一步的犯罪小说，而且它主要是政治性的。”

他的新小说《高地》（The Heights）以戏剧化且华丽的风格迎接了这一挑战。书名指的是一座位于骑士桥（Knightsbridge）的公寓楼，目标客户精准锁定在房地产市场的最高端，住户是那些认为住所中配备电影院和水疗中心是理所当然的富豪与名流。他们或许没料到，他们的礼宾员会被发现头部遭到钝器击打，而侦探警佐吉莉安·吉什（Gillian Gish）会迅速出现在现场，询问他们的行踪。

在塑造吉什这个全新主角时，其中一个影响来源是20世纪70年代的美国电视侦探《神探可伦坡》（Columbo），兰金在当年看电视的时代觉得这个角色极具魅力。“我青少年时期观看时没有意识到，但他是一个社会主义色彩的人物，”兰金说，“他闯入这些极富之人的生活并将其撕碎，而他们在被撕碎之前根本不知道他在这么做。我觉得这太不可思议了。这关乎阶级：他是底层阶级，他们是顶层阶级，而他要将他们拉下马。里巴斯在相当多的一本书中也这么做过。而我认为，吉什在内心深处非常享受这种想法——通过提出‘错误’的问题，通过干涉他们极其舒适、被娇惯的世界，来扰乱他们。”

吉什拥有里巴斯所缺乏的那种背景支撑；她深深植根于自己的社区，也就是兰金曾经生活过的托特纳姆，下班后她回家照顾母亲。她的业余生活有助于

“我对探讨社会以及我们身陷其中的混乱的小说感兴趣。这是政治性的”

将伦敦描绘成一系列极度脱节的地点和社会环境。我问他，离开写了这么久的爱丁堡背景是否让他感到紧张？“我没有感到任何不安，”他回答道，“在某些方面，那里可能会有一点压抑。当你产生一个故事灵感时，你会想：‘嗯，这个故事能被限制在爱丁堡之内吗？如果不能，那我还能写它吗？’”

他坚信，他关于财富的张扬表演与超级富豪对隐私的痴迷之间这种矛盾结合的故事，在爱丁堡是行不通的。尽管那是一座繁荣的城市，但“你不会在那里看到劳斯莱斯或布加迪 Veyron。那里的财富是低调的。”

当然，小说的成功让兰金本人也成为了富翁，尽管直到他 60 多岁时——他现在 66 岁——才拥有了自己的办公室。多年来，他在一个接一个的客房、阁楼中工作，甚至曾在一部剧烈抖动的洗衣机旁写作，头顶上还架着晾衣架。他说，他很高兴自己年轻时没有大红大紫：“我那时很傻。我敢肯定我当时会买一辆兰博基尼，并在家里的每个房间都放一台弹珠机。”

现在，他和米兰达住在距离写作公寓几分钟路程的地方，并经常前往遥远的地方旅行。“米兰达几年前决定，既然孩子们已经离开了，而且我们银行里有钱：在太老之前，我们应该去旅行。我对度假没有主见。是她告诉我，好了，你要去这里，你要去那里。”

在外出期间，他会进行调研但无法写作。在最近一次南美洲邮轮旅行中，他甚至没有带那台古老的笔记本电脑，而是在用手写记录，这时一名乘客提出借给他一台电脑——这解释了《高地》（The Heights）结尾的那段感谢词。

但除了购买黑胶唱片、偶尔看一场现场乐队（他 ruefully 地承认，现在只能看坐席演出）、玩乐高和度假之外，兰金的收入还有另一种用途。每年，他净收入的 30% 到 40% 都会捐给由他和米兰达设立的慈善信托基金，他们的长子杰克也在该基金工作。“我的钱比我能花掉的要多。一旦你买了一套不错的 Hi-Fi 系统和一辆好车，你还能做什么？”

该信托基金的重点是小型慈善机构，通常是那些支持年轻人和有特殊需求成年人的机构——比如兰金的小儿子基特，他患有安格曼综合征（Angelman syndrome），这是一种遗传性疾病，意味着他有严重的学习障碍，并且还经历过癫痫和视力问题。基特现在 30 出头，住在附近的一家护理机构中，他们一家四口每个周日都会见面。“当我们离开这个凡尘世界时，留下的任何钱都将转交给他，以确保他始终得到照顾。而我们的长子将参与到这种财务照顾他的过程中。”

我觉得在离开之前不能不问问关于里布斯的消息，我们最后一次见到他是在他老对手、黑帮头目“大格”卡弗蒂去世后被关在狱中。兰金对他的下一个项目守口如瓶，但确实透露了一些关于里布斯未来的线索。我说，毕竟你把他留在了一个相当糟糕的状态。 “大家都这么说，但这不对，”他抗议道，“在书的结尾，他的律师说：‘你有一些非常好的消息。’所以他显然要出狱了。你知道上诉将会被审理，他将会获释。我毫不怀疑这就是一个圆满结局。”

说完，伊恩·兰金爵士便准备在出门社交前写一会儿东西。也许他会顺道去牛津酒吧，那里当地人对他身份提升的唯一认可就是问一句：

“你的马在哪儿？”而你能感觉到，他并不希望情况有任何改变。《高地》由 Orion 出版。

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重大议题

唐纳德·特朗普关于格陵兰岛的观点有道理吗？

他的方法可能完全错误，但北极的重要性不容否认，拉娜·福鲁哈尔（Rana Foroohar）撰文指出

唐纳德·特朗普最阴险的天赋之一，就是能够以错误的方式触及正确的问题。自第一任期以来，特朗普一直痴迷于北极——尤其是格陵兰岛——这件事让许多人，尤其是欧洲人感到困惑和愤怒。他最早在 2019 年提出从丹麦购买这片冰封土地的想法。在赢得连任后，他开始升级关于以“某种方式”获取该岛的言论，威胁到北约联盟以及第二次世界大战后安全体系的基石。

特朗普如愿以偿了——谢天谢地没有动用武力——在 9 月，美国和丹麦签署了一项协议，允许更多美国军队驻扎在该岛上，尽管并没有总统喜欢拿来“开玩笑”的那种接管行为。特朗普在社交媒体上写道：“美国将永远拥有在格陵兰岛采取必要行动的完整能力。我们将与格陵兰人民共同致力于其开发与建设。”

如果欧洲人怀疑美国总统会帮助任何国家进行发展，更不用说格陵兰岛了，这种怀疑是可以被原谅的。但事实是，特朗普对一个驯鹿比人多的地方如此痴迷是有原因的，而且他并不是第一个建议美国应该拥有该岛的人；安德鲁·约翰逊总统在 1867 年就曾提出过这个想法。事实是，自冷战以来，格陵兰岛在北美安全中发挥了至关重要的作用，这里拥有靠近东海岸的机场、巨大的矿产资源，且地理位置极适合追踪北极天气（这对军事行动至关重要）。

最近，它已成为美中地缘政治斗争中的一枚棋子。正如美国驻格陵兰岛特使杰夫·兰德里（Jeff Landry）在 2026 年初所写，美国在该地区加强存在将“有助于部署先进的导弹防御系统”，并“挤出敌对的中国和俄罗斯影响力”。虽然目前岛上没有明确的中国或俄罗斯安全威胁，但政府内部许多人担心，如果格陵兰岛实现独立——正如其表示希望在 2033 年前实现的那样——它将更容易受到中国或俄罗斯影响力活动的影响。

无论你是否同意他们的观点，该地区确实正在成为一个地缘战略热点。俄罗斯正在增加那里的能源运输以避开全球战略咽喉点，而中国在 2018 年宣布自己是一个“近北极国家”。两国都在阿拉斯加附近的美国领海附近进行了安全和军事演习。所有这一切都使得美国最大的对手直接进入了其后院，而此时，新的后新自由主义世界秩序将如何演变，以及欧洲或格陵兰岛将如何融入其中，尚不明确。

除了地缘政治，人们对北极如此感兴趣还有另一个原因：气候变化。当世界之顶的海域被冻结时，没有人太在意那里发生了什么。但在过去的几十年里，全球变暖开启了

延伸阅读 深入研究的 三本书

《咽喉点》（Chokepoints） 爱德华·菲什曼（Edward Fishman）著 ELLIOTT & THOMPSON 出版， £10.99

资源开采的可能性（北极海床充满了天然气、石油和稀土矿产，其中大部分尚未被开采，甚至尚未被各国申领）。它还使得能源供应和商品的海上运输成为可能——这是各国强权数百年来一直觊觎的目标。

今年8月，一家名为“海传”（Sea Legend）的中国航运公司启动了一条每周一次的跨极地商业航线，穿越俄罗斯领海横跨北极。该公司声称，这次航行将使欧洲与亚洲之间通常需要40天的航程缩短一半；考虑到红海地区胡塞武装的威胁，这一点似乎非常有吸引力。当然，要利用北极的新航道，你需要船只，尤其是破冰船。美国在该领域的能力非常有限，近期已开始尝试与芬兰共同制造破冰船，该项目得到了乔·拜登和特朗普两人的认可。但破冰船的匮乏只是一个更大问题的缩影。

1975, 年，美国造船业在全球产能方面排名第1，国内有超过70艘商业船只在排产订单中。仅仅50多年后，美国目前的商业船舶产量不足全球的1%。与此同时，在过去二十年里，中国的产量相对于美国增长了三倍，去年生产了超过1,000艘远洋船舶，而美国仅为10. 艘。由此产生的不对称不仅给美国带来了商业和军事上的担忧，对于任何依赖美国提供安全保障的国家也是如此。超过90%的军事装备、物资和燃料是通过海路运输的。

这涉及到一个更宏大的观点——北极地区的冲突是在新自由主义 era, 时代终结的背景下发生的。那个时代带来了现代全球化和巨大的财富，但也加剧了不平等，并让人感觉到，那些在国家利益的高层运作的政策制定者，有时与基层社区的经济现实脱节。

现在，钟摆正在回摆。在美国，共和党人和民主党人都在推动工业政策，以恢复造船和芯片制造等产业。虽然这些努力有时被包裹在排外和反华的修辞之中，但事实是，任何一个国家主导任何战略产业都不符合工人或民族国家的利益。欧盟现在也开始意识到这个问题，因为廉价的中国电动汽车、钢铁、锂电池和太阳能电池板正从美国市场转向欧洲。

那么，特朗普对格陵兰岛的关注可能并不像乍一看那样离谱。但他的方法中有一个明显的缺陷。在一个将被新的势力范围所主导的世界里，美国需要朋友。欧洲同样需要。共享的供应链、安全协议和贸易路径都可以被用来实现互利。但这需要精心的外交手腕，而这恰恰不是本届政府所擅长的。

特朗普的边缘系统知道格陵兰岛以及整个北极地区很重要。但他似乎不明白如何放下自己的自尊和野心，以确保美国能以不破坏现有联盟的方式，保障其自身的半球后院。希望下一届政府能做得更好：美国的未来将取决于此。

拉娜·福鲁哈尔（Rana Foroohar）是《金融时报》（FT）的专栏作家和副编辑，著有《海变：美国在北极圈的新大博弈》（Sea Change: America's New Great Game in the Arctic Circle，Swift出版）。

《下一场世界大战》 彼得·阿普斯（Peter Apps） WILDFIRE出版社， £12.99

《解冻》 米娅·本内特（Mia Bennett） 与 克劳斯·多兹（Klaus Dodds） 耶鲁大学出版社，£20

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在与家人采取“断绝联系”之前，需要问自己的 11 个问题

在英国，五分之一的家庭受到永久性疏远的影响——但与难以相处的亲戚切断联系并非一个可以轻率做出的决定。以下是专家建议在采取“断绝联系”之前，您需要问自己的 11 个问题。

文字：劳拉·波特 (Laura Potter) 插图：皮特·加姆伦 (Pete Gamlen)

我是否在逃避困难的情绪？

确保您并非因为逃避比面对挑战性问题更简单而选择离开，这一点至关重要。“有时，疏远正是为了安全和疗愈所必需的。而另一些时候，它则是一种试图逃避悲伤、冲突、失望，或逃避‘父母无法成为一个人所渴望的样子’这一痛苦事实的尝试，”临床心理学家、《疏远规则》(Rules of Estrangement) 一书的作者约书亚·科尔曼 (Joshua Coleman) 表示，“单纯的距离无法解决这些情绪。”

《兄弟、姐妹、陌生人》(Brothers, Sisters, Strangers) 的作者费恩·舒默·查普曼 (Fern Schumer Chapman) 表示，人们可能会因为在家庭动态中习得的沟通技巧匮乏而变得疏远：“当父母无法表达感受并协商分歧时，他们就无法示范必要的技巧——如倾听、道歉、冷静。结果，微小的分歧可能会演变成严重的裂痕。那些沟通技巧匮乏的人可能会通过简单的封闭和切断联系来应对压力。”

不过，心理学家、《祖父母育儿》(Grandparenting) 的作者特里·阿普特 (Terri Apter) 表示，最终，“决定疏远的人是认为接触所带来的不适程度已到了无法忍受的地步”。

我需要这段关系提供什么？

这关乎重新审视您的期望。“最困难的心理任务之一，就是区分一个人‘应该是’什么样子和他们‘能够成为’什么样子，”科尔曼说，“许多成年人理所当然地渴望父母能够变得在情感上契合、给予认可或表示歉意。最健康的结果并不总是获得您想要的关系；有时，它是通过哀悼那段从未拥有过的关系，同时决定什么样的接触程度才是可持续的。”

临床社会工作者兼心理治疗师菲尔·莱恩 (Phil Lane) 与其父亲疏远已有八年，他补充道，“考虑对方是否愿意且 / 或能够提供您所需的东西是很重要的。这并不是建议如果对方不符合我们的期望就将其切断，而是可以帮助我们判断我们的期望是否合理，以及是否是我们而非对方需要做出调整。”

我是否应该重新审视我的童年？

正如科尔曼所说：“大多数家庭既非完全充满爱，也非完全有害。”因此，用成年人的眼光重新审视是有益的，这能让我们“理解父母当年面临的压力——精神疾病、经济困难、离婚、创伤、文化期待——这些在孩子时期是对我们不可见的”。但至关重要的一点是，科尔曼补充道：“背景不能成为伤害行为的借口。”

疏远问题研究员兼咨询师贝卡·布兰德 (Becca Bland) 与父母疏远已有 18 年，她对此表示赞同：“理解背景很重要，但不能用背景来掩盖伤害。伤害就是伤害。在背景中看待一个人，并不能消除其对您产生的影响。”

他们的观点是否僵化？

亲情疏离——例如家庭不接受某人的宗教信仰、性取向或生活伴侣——以及这些观点的僵化程度至关重要。“如果每个人都能灵活应对且相互尊重，家庭内部在道德、价值观和信仰上的分歧是可以妥善处理的。而当家庭成员执意要求对方必须认同某种价值观时，一切就崩塌了，”布兰德说道。科尔曼对此表示赞同：“如果双方都能接受差异，而无需不断尝试去感化、羞辱或控制对方，许多关系是可以调适的。但如果每一次互动在心理上都变得不安全，那么保持更大的距离可能会更健康。”

我是否受到了压力？

决定断绝联系是一个极其私人的决定，因此必须在不受外界影响的情况下做出。科尔曼指出，压力可能来自浪漫伴侣、网络社区、朋友、兄弟姐妹、其他亲戚以及心理治疗师，他希望将有益的互动与无益的互动区分开来。“支持是极其宝贵的，但压力则不同，”他说，“最终的决定应当反映你经过深思熟虑后的个人判断。”具体到社交媒体和“治疗术语”时，应保持谨慎。“像‘有毒’（toxic）、‘自恋者’（narcissist）、‘煤气灯操纵’（gaslighting）和‘界限’（boundaries）这类词汇在谨慎使用时是有用的，但社交媒体往往奖励确定性而非复杂性。优秀的治疗会增加好奇心，而糟糕的建议则鼓励过早地得出定论，”科尔曼说道。

阿普特警告称，“不负责任的治疗师在从未见过对方的情况下，就对家庭成员的性格做出评判，这可能会影响来访者的看法”。

我是否考虑过附带损害？

切断联系可能意味着同时失去其他关系。舒默·查普曼与她的哥哥疏离了数十年，她就经历了这一点。随着她失去了作为妹妹的角色，她同时也失去了作为嫂子和姑姑的身份，她的孩子们也失去了表亲。“我觉得我们这个小家庭的一整个分支被锯掉了，照顾父母的所有责任都落在了我身上，”她说。她将这种疏离描述为“一种悲伤状态，它会产生持续的痛苦、深层的不安全感和渴望，且可能持续数十年”。在阿普特看来，最终“总是存在权衡的。在大多数情况下，你认定自己无法承受这段关系带来的痛苦、屈辱或混乱，因此必须接受随之而来的附带损害”。莱恩对此深有共鸣：“虽然我坚持自己的决定，但面对儿子无法与祖父建立关系这一事实，我依然感到悲伤。这类因素应当被深切地考虑在内。”

我还能修复这段关系吗？

这关乎于让你确信自己已经尝试了一切，从而使决定尽可能地坦然。莱恩花了五年时间“以及极其痛苦的考量”才决定疏远。“我觉得我已经穷尽了所有选择。我当时快 40 岁了，所以这绝对不是一种年轻气盛或冲动的反应。有时，信任自己的直觉很重要，即使直觉告诉你去做一些违背常理的事情。”

布兰德建议邀请专业人士参与，因为他们“能看到更全面的局面，并能以一种较少冲突的方式帮助识别盲点。在尝试修复关系时，我们可能会因为对方伤害、忽视或损害了我们而感到愤怒。引入一名懂得何时说‘停止’的专业人士会有所帮助。”

在分开一段时间后，你或许能够痊愈。舒默·查普曼在一年时间里最终设法与她的哥哥达成和解。“我们每周见面一次。有时我们会一起骑车，重新认识彼此。有时我们会讨论疏远的事，讨论发生了什么以及原因。其他时候，我们会回忆往事，对童年趣事开怀大笑，这让我们产生了纽带感。”她说最重要的改变是沟通方式：“当我们不可避免地产生分歧时，我们会把分歧谈开。”

'虽然我坚持我的决定，但我的儿子无法与祖父建立关系，这一事实令我感到悲伤'

我该如何应对“如果……会怎样”的疑虑？

你无法预知你的亲属是否陷入困境、患病甚至去世。你需要考虑自己是否能承受这种程度的不确定性。“许多人想象疏远会带来解脱。而他们没那么准备好应对的是‘模糊丧失’（ambiguous loss）——即不确定是否能达成和解，是否会通过第三方得知对方患病，或者在任何问题解决之前对方就去世了。这些都是值得考虑的负担，”科尔曼说道。布兰德警告说：“这是一种未解决的依恋，而我们的大脑想要解决它。这并不是‘他们离开了我的生活，就离开了我的脑海’的情况——相反，他们会在你脑海中出现得更多。我的研究发现，人们几乎每隔几天就会重新考虑自己的决定。”与此同时，莱恩将这种不确定性描述为最终必须“将其视为过程的一部分而接受，并相信最终的结果对你而言将是积极且健康的”。

我是否有情感支持基础？

这对于你能够应对情感后遗症至关重要。“我认为如果没有社会支持，人们无法做到这一点，因为那种孤立感是毁灭性的，”布兰德说。“关键在于你身边有能够理解你正在摆脱严重虐待模式的人。”布兰德的其他家庭成员在她做出决定以及坚持决定方面起到了关键作用：“他们向我证实了我的父母是不安全的，这强化了我认为自己做出了正确选择的信念。”

莱恩将情感上的后果描述为产生“悲伤，这与失去一名家庭成员时的悲伤非常相似。在孤立状态下经历悲伤和丧失在心理上是不健康的。”这还可能与污名化和羞耻感相关。布兰德描述了她经常看到“虐待的实施者因为将自己伪装成受害者而获得其他家庭成员的同情。人们可能会评判你的决定，因为他们不了解你内部真实的相处关系。”在这种情况下，支持至关重要。

限制接触会有用吗？

布兰德建议你“考虑你的耐受窗口。你是否能忍受每隔几个月在公园里见一次面？这样做带来的代价是否比完全没有关系更高？”她将其描述为一种成本 / 效益分析，但补充道：“如果人们处于一个存在虐待的极具伤害性的环境中，我不建议采取低频接触，因为这无法帮助他们摆脱这种循环。”

莱恩见过“许多客户改变了关系的性质，实施界限并重新调整预期，以改善负面关系”。科尔曼表示，疏远“存在于一个光谱之中”，许多人可以从“限制接触、缩短访问时间、主要通过短信或电子邮件沟通、避免波动性话题、仅在群体环境中会见亲戚，以及对接触的频率和时长有明确的预期”中获益。有时，这些安排在保护情感健康的同时，能保留足够的联系。

阿普特补充道：“大多数人在决定与家人断绝关系之前，会尝试低频接触，但许多人发现，设定界限或避免痛苦的互动是不可能的。”

我感到安全吗？

这可能是你能问的最关键的问题。科尔曼说：“疏远有时是最健康的选项，尤其是当存在持续的虐待、胁迫或反复违反界限的情况时。”莱恩表示赞同，她说：“如果一个人持续让你感到不安全——无论是身体上还是情感上——你将生活在一种持久的危机感之中。长期以往，这种情况将变得不可持续，移除虐待或有害因素可能是必要的。” ●

自 2009 年起为《卫报》读者牵线搭桥 “最尴尬的时刻？当她捏死我额头上的昆虫时”

格雷姆 47, 森林管理员

你原本期待什么？说实话，在见面之前，我的预期相当低，只希望有一个有趣且尴尬情况最少的夜晚。

第一印象？ 一位非常积极、迷人且笑容美丽的女士。

你们聊了什么？ 种植食物、种子的乐趣、观鸟、年轻人对于正统狂欢派对（raving）的匮乏、表观遗传学以及打破代际循环。

最尴尬的无心之举！ 霍莉用大拇指用力捏死了一只落在我的额头上的蚜虫。我得说明一下，可怜的蚜虫并不在那家漂亮的餐厅里；而是在另一个完全不同的地方，那里有吊篮。

餐桌礼仪好吗？无可挑剔。

霍莉最棒的地方？ 和霍莉聊天极其轻松。她自信的性格和广泛的兴趣让她成为一个令人愉悦的陪伴者。

你会把霍莉介绍给你的朋友吗？毫不犹豫。

用三个词描述霍莉 细腻，闪耀，小众。

你认为霍莉对你的看法如何？我想她对我能叫出她腿上纹身的所有鸟类品种感到非常惊讶。

你们之后还去了其他地方吗？ 是的，去了附近的一家酒吧，然后是一家小型夜总会。

那么……你们接吻了吗？ 是的，接吻了。

如果能改变约会中的一件事，你会改变什么？ 我会克制一下自己过度分享的倾向。

10 分制打分？ 9.8。

会再次见面吗？我非常期待再次见面。

霍莉 42岁，园艺师

你当时期待什么？希望能遇到一个有趣且好玩的人。

第一印象？ 热情，自信。格雷姆很快就让我感到很自在。

你们聊了什么？ 我们对这个夜晚共同的紧张感。在户外工作的乐趣。为了生物多样性而进行的林业管理。乡村生活。跳舞的重要性。

最尴尬的时刻？我对菜单太兴奋了，点了很多食物。我们其实不需要那份额外的沙拉。

餐桌礼仪好吗？ 非常出色：他一直帮我们斟满杯子，并且很愿意分享菜肴。

格雷姆最棒的地方？他有着非常强烈的好奇心，而且是一个极佳的倾听者。

你会把格雷姆介绍给你的朋友吗？他会和他们相处得很好。

用三个词描述格雷姆 热情，聪明，开朗。

你认为格雷姆对你的印象如何？我希望他觉得我是一个容易沟通的人。

你们之后还去了其他地方吗？去了。我们充分利用在城市的机会，去找了一些音乐和舞蹈！

那么……你们接吻了吗？ 是的。

如果可以改变这次约会的一件事，会是什么？ 没什么——我度过了一个非常愉快的夜晚。 格雷姆是个可爱的家伙，很容易沟通，而且很幽默。

10分制打分？稳稳的 8 分。

会再次见面吗？我们住得相当远，但到时候看吧……

霍莉和格雷姆在爱丁堡的 Palmerston 餐厅用餐。想要尝试盲约吗？请发送邮件至 blind.date@theguardian.com

关于我们性生活的真实故事

这就是我们的方式

“在我们的年纪，我们可以醒来后说：今天我们做什么？让我们做爱吧”

海伦，71岁

15年前我们相识时，伊恩正在和我的好朋友苏珊约会。苏珊邀请我去他家吃晚餐，当他打开门的那一刻，我想：天呐，他好帅。在他们约会10个月后分手，且苏珊开始与其他人约会后，我询问了他的联系方式，随后我们开始约会。当我打电话告诉苏珊我爱上了他时，她完全沉默了。要么是她，要么是伊恩。我选择了他。这是我做过的最正确的决定之一。

伊恩比我更注重性：他的爱之语是肢体接触，而我的是高质量的陪伴。我并不像他那样经常思考性。他想要做爱的频率高于我，这曾导致过紧张关系，但我们从未就此讨论。直到五年前，在一次公路旅行中，为了打发时间，我们听了播客《与艾米莉谈性》（Sex With Emily）。我以前从未听过有人那样讨论性。在那之后，我们会一起听性爱播客，暂停并讨论，现在我们能够就性进行对话，这让亲密关系变得好得多。我变得更加

好奇且敢于尝试：我发现自己喜欢被拍打，而且因为我更加放松，我的高潮变得强烈得多。

我们现在还会计划性生活——大约每周两次——这给了我进入状态的时间。但我需要先有高质量的陪伴：如果我们一直在聊天且感觉亲近，我更有可能想要性生活。伊恩则相反——他需要通过性来感受亲近。

伊恩拥有与男性发生关系的许可，尽管他很少使用。性并不威胁我，但情感上的亲密感会。伊恩让我感到安全且被渴望，有时甚至有些过头。他会在超市里捏我的屁股，或者在我做饭时亲我的脖子，我已经明白这是他表达爱意的方式，而不一定是试图发起性行为。

因为我们在50多岁时相识，且孩子们都已经长大，我们可以专注于成为彼此的伴侣。我们有更多的空间和时间去探索。我们可以醒来后说：今天我们做什么？晚点做爱吧。管它做什么呢！我们把这种日子称为“雪天”——就是单纯地闲逛，随心所欲。

伊恩，74岁

如果可以，我想每天都和海伦做爱，周日得做两次。我想用性开启和结束每一天。它是我们的粘合剂。但虽然我利用性来感受亲近，随着时间的推移，我意识到对于海伦来说，必须先感受到亲近。因此，我尝试通过带她去狗狗公园、买菜、共度时光来给她所需——这就像是前戏。

如果我们一周没有性生活，我会想念那种亲近感，并开始变得敏感，甚至推开海伦。我会开始问自己：为什么我们没做爱？我们吵架了吗？有人生病了吗？但我已经学会了不要将其个人化。幸运的是，我们很少超过一周没有性生活。

几年前，我脱口而出我想探索与男性发生关系的幻想。海伦对此表示认可，因为这让她没有受到威胁感。在过去的五年里这种情况只发生了两次，但我感到很幸运，我们拥有这样一种关系：如果其中一方真的想尝试某些事情，我们就可以去做。

我们还有一个客房，我们称之为“游乐场”，在那里我们探索了一些kink（特殊性癖）。

我第一次见到海伦时，觉得她像个闪闪发光、明亮的事物；如此轻盈且有趣——与我的前任完全相反，前任总是消极且控制欲强。我每天都更深地爱上海伦。她身材很棒——她71岁了，但看起来像51岁——但真正让我兴奋的是她对待人们的方式。

性对我来说一直是一种认可，现在依然如此，但程度不再那么深。我仍然经常思考性，但随着年龄增长，我对此变得平静许多。现在我的身体不再像以前那样反应，我变得更有耐心，性也不再那么以目标为导向。现在我们有更多的时间，压力更少，我们的亲密关系得到了增长。

姓名已更改 口述给 Olivia Ladanyi

您和您的伴侣愿意匿名分享你们性生活的经历吗？请发送邮件至 sexlives@theguardian.com，简要描述你们的经历。

你来评评理：我和朋友合买了一个帐篷，但她搬走了。现在帐篷归谁？

采访：乔治娜·劳顿 (Georgina Lawton)

控方：艾娃 (Ava) 我支付了帐篷一半的费用，所以即使我们不再住在同一个国家，我也应该拥有平等的使用权

我和露丝 (Ruth) 在西班牙同居并参加当地音乐节时合买了一个帐篷。我们使用它度过了一段美好时光，并带着它参加了西班牙和葡萄牙的四个不同音乐节。在那之后，我们每年参加音乐节和露营旅行时都会用到它。

它一直是我们共同的帐篷，而不是露丝的帐篷而我偶尔借用。我在 2024 年搬回了英国，露丝留在西班牙，所以帐篷留在她那里比较合理。我没必要把“半个帐篷”带回伦敦，而且当时也没有理由正式决定它归谁所有。我们是朋友，一直共同使用它，所以我认为它仍然属于我们两人。

现在我们都有了伴侣，且都需要这个帐篷。我准备回西班牙参加一个音乐节，于是问露丝我是否能和男朋友迈克尔 (Michael) 一起使用这个帐篷。问题是，她也要和伴侣路易斯 (Luis) 一起参加这个音乐节，并且想把它据为己有。

露丝说这个帐篷实际上是她的，因为帐篷一直放在她的公寓里，而且自从我搬走后，她使用它的次数多得多。帐篷破洞时，她还支付了修理费用。我承认她一直很照顾它，但这都不能改变我从一开始就支付了一半费用的事实。

我一直认为在某个阶段我能够使用它，或者让她出钱买断我的份额。她确实提出了这个方案，但她认为不应该支付我最初支付的同等金额，因为这些年一直是由她保管。我认为这太荒谬了。

此外，我搬走时并没有把我的那份帐篷份额给露丝。我没有把它卖给她，也没有告诉她可以永久保留。我对它仍然拥有所有权——但现在我需要它时，它突然不再属于我了。

如果这是一个法庭，我仍然拥有这个帐篷的权益。我希望公众舆论能站在我这一边。我们需要承认我仍然拥有其中一半。

辩护：露丝（Ruth）表示，艾娃（Ava）已经很多年没用过那个帐篷了，而一直是我在存放并支付维护费用。我理应拥有优先使用权吧？

是的，我和艾娃最初确实分摊了帐篷的费用。那是 2018 年我们住在一起的时候买的，当时我们经常一起参加音乐节和露营。在那时，称它为“我们的帐篷”完全合理，因为我们共同生活，并且确实一起使用它。

但后来艾娃搬回了英国，帐篷留在了我在西班牙的住处。从那时起，我成了实际使用它的人。它一直存放在我的公寓里，占用我的空间，而且每当需要处理问题时，都由我来解决。

有一次帐篷破了个洞，需要修理。修理费是我付的。在我继续维护和使用帐篷期间，艾娃在英国并没有分担这些费用。我认为，一个人不能在某件物品的实际所有权中消失多年，然后突然在想要再次使用时，就期望拥有完全相同的使用权。

事实上，她直到现在才想起这个帐篷，而且从未询问过维护或存放的情况。现在她为了参加一个音乐节要回来，并想使用它。不幸的是，我也要去同一个音乐节，我也需要它。

我拒绝她并不是因为我占有欲强，也不是因为我忘记了她最初出过钱。我只是对一件实际上已由我持有数年的物品有了既定的用途。我排在第一位；我拥有优先权。

我该怎么办？把这个由我存放、使用和维护的帐篷交给她，然后我自己再去买一个新的？艾娃就是这么想的。

也许现在最公平的做法是我们正式理清所有权，而不是继续假装一个帐篷可以平等地属于两个住在不同国家的人。我可以出钱买断她的份额，但基于上述所有原因（存放、修理），我认为原价返还她一半费用并不是答案。这也无法解决现在谁能使用它的困境。在我自己需要它的时候要求我放弃，是不合理的。（姓名已更改）

卫报读者的陪审团

艾娃是否应该接受自己处于劣势？

既然露丝负责了帐篷的存放和维护，她理应保留它。如果艾娃坚持部分所有权，那么她应该向露丝支付修理费用，但这看起来太小家子气了。为什么不利用这次音乐节重新建立朋友关系呢？艾娃应该放弃这个帐篷。

考虑到帐篷在这段时间内的价值已经贬值，且露丝支付了修理费，最公平的解决方案是露丝以较低的价格买断艾娃的份额。要么就在这次音乐节上共用这个帐篷。 Alden, 29

我承认露丝在存放和修理帐篷方面承担了费用，但过去两年她也免费使用了它。露丝应该以一个同类二手帐篷价格的一半买断艾娃的份额。 Mark, 32

艾娃，你回英国已经两年了。这个帐篷已经八年了，你还在争夺监护权？露丝一直在存放和修理它，在你不需要的时候期望免费存放是不礼貌的。升级一下吧，给自己买个新帐篷。

她们两个在这个破旧的帐篷问题上都太无趣且太有占有欲了。她们的男朋友都没有帐篷吗？！拥有男朋友的少数好处之一不就是能用到帐篷吗？但既然这个帐篷一直让露丝的家显得凌乱，那么艾娃只需要大方一点，放弃所有权即可。 Kitty, 34

裁决 有罪：艾娃有点慌了 0 无罪：露丝可以安稳地在她的帐篷里睡觉了 5

你已经听完了双方陈述，现在由你决定…… 扫描二维码对本周的争议进行投票，分享你自己的故事，或成为陪审团的一员。

我伴侣在儿子足球赛上的丑陋行为让我对他感到厌烦

咨询安娜丽莎·巴比耶里 (Ask Annalisa Barbieri)

我和我的伴侣在一起 25 年了，我们有两个儿子，分别是 14 岁和 16 岁。两个孩子都对足球痴迷，而且从小就开始踢球。我伴侣的竞争心是我最初被他吸引的原因之一（我想要一个有进取心的人）。

然而，当孩子们参加比赛时，他性格中糟糕的一面就显现出来了。他大吼大叫，指责，最糟糕的是，他对青少年球员咒骂。我为此感到非常尴尬，而且这也影响到了孩子们。他们的队友听到了他父亲的话，这造成了紧张气氛。我试过和他谈这件事，但他不以为意。我们的儿子和教练也和他谈过，但都没有效果。

这听起来可能很极端，但我感觉自己因为这件事而不再爱他了。我怎么能和一个对自己的孩子、孩子的朋友和队友，甚至对教练和裁判都毫无尊重的人在一起？

我认为这听起来并不极端——这是你伴侣身上非常缺乏魅力的一面。这不是竞争心，而是他在扮演一个混蛋，我由衷地希望他在生活的其他方面不会这样。

我咨询了英国心理治疗实践委员会（UKCP）注册心理治疗师露西·富勒（Lucy Fuller）。我们都对这件事中“为什么是现在，为什么在这里”的方面感兴趣。你说你的儿子们从小就开始踢球；他是从小就对他们大吼大叫，还是这种行为是最近才出现或在增加的？

“你的伴侣需要反思他的行为是否合适，”富勒说。“我想知道，他过去获得支持 / 鼓励的经历是否就是被人在场边‘大吼大叫’？这是否成了他心中关于‘支持’的唯一模型？他的自我意识和竞争心淹没了局面，而这在这里是不恰当的。”

你是否尝试过在远离场边、每个人都冷静下来的时候和他谈谈？这会引发他什么样的反应？他的青少年时期是什么样的，特别是当他处于儿子们现在的这个年龄时？“当你的孩子达到某个年龄时，有时会触发你内心的一些感受，”富勒说。而这些感受可能需要挖掘一下才能发现。

我们还想知道他在生活的其他方面是什么样的。“这种情况是否反映了他的生活态度以及他在整体生活中的定位？”富勒问道。“如果有人能帮助他反思他人如何看待他，他将会从中受益。也许这种行为方式在其他情况下对他起过作用？”

富勒还认为，这件事的核心是挫败感——但关键在于“是对什么的挫败感”。他是一个怀才不遇的球员吗？他的职业生涯（也许是在专业水平上）是否受挫了？深入挖掘行为背后的原因是有价值的，因为所有的行为都是一种沟通。“就好像他太沉浸在比赛中，以至于他在对自己生气，”富勒说。“这充满了情绪。究竟是什么如此重要，以至于他必须以这种方式表现？他是否觉得他真的能影响比赛结果？我会质疑这一点，因为被大吼大叫并不能激励人们。”

在冷静的时候，他能否尝试换位思考？如果这种行为曾经针对过他，他能记得那种感觉吗？他能想象其他人是什么感觉吗？

选择一个合适的时机尝试与他讨论这一切。真正的竞争并不意味着必须以这种方式表现，这不符合体育精神。我关于“投射”的播客可能值得一听，以尝试弄清楚究竟是什么被投射到了这些足球比赛中。

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这个季节， 氛围是 那位 慵懒闲适、 而非社交午餐 的女士

杰斯·卡特纳-莫利谈趋势

每当“淑女风”（ladylike）作为一种趋势、一种氛围或无论什么形式重新流行起来时，总会让我感到有一点点不安。用我们辛苦赚来的薪水去扮演那些过着午餐会和悠闲生活的人，这怎么说得通？

不过，你不能否认这些衣服确实很可爱。一件粗花呢外套能让你觉得，即便身在异国，下一个转角或许就能看到埃菲尔铁塔。一双小细跟鞋能让你想象自己在午餐时喝着一杯桑塞尔白葡萄酒（Sancerre），而现实中，一罐圣培露气泡水已经是你能接触到的最令人兴奋的东西了。这种接近淑女风格的装扮自带一种温柔的魅力和礼貌感，能缓解艰苦一天的压力。

因此，我对本季这种“带有反转的淑女风”持谨慎的、临时性的乐观态度。把它称作“慵懒淑女”，而非“午餐淑女”吧。慵懒淑女穿着外套、细跟鞋，甚至可能戴着珍珠项链，但她搭配的是牛仔裤，而且绝对不会系那种蝴蝶结领结。同样的基因，不同的目的。淑女装扮的诱惑力在于那种关于从容、关于脱离工作时间生活的美妙幻想。这不是真实生活，没错。但偶尔做个梦或许也没什么坏处。

马修·布拉齐（Matthieu Blazy）的香奈儿（Chanel）是这种情绪的母舰。香奈儿是许多淑女视觉语言的来源：精致的小外套、链条包、双色鞋、珍珠。布拉齐一直在挑战可可（Coco）的经典波波头，将男性化的剪裁与品牌更保守的本能相对抗，将包袋重新设计成一种揉皱的、有生活气息的松垮感。这就像是可可从男朋友的衣橱而非精品店里挑选衣服。缪缪（Miu Miu）的秋季秀场也出现了线索，缪齐亚·普拉达（Miuccia Prada）用“温柔”和“浪漫”来描述它，在那里，铅笔裙搭配雨靴，系蝴蝶结的迷你裙则搭配行走靴。

这是脱掉鞋子的淑女风，而它可能始于一件纹理外套和一条牛仔裤。外套应该自然地搭在肩上，而不是将肩膀固定在某个位置。牛仔裤要有一种随性感——低腰而非“妈妈牛仔裤”，有助于打破外套的刻板感。内搭可以尝试一件挺括的衬衫或一件纯白色背心。或者将牛仔裤换成铅笔裙，但要穿一件大号毛衣而非精致的开襟衫。丝绸衬衫需要搭配男性化长裤；一枚胸针则需要一件破旧的大衣。

你的装扮中需要一些能像“把胳膊肘撑在桌上”那样随意的元素。如果一个造型中的每个元素都在表达同样的事情，会让人感觉像机器人一样刻板且千篇一律。个人风格总得带点粗粝的边缘。不要低估发型和妆容的力量。或者更准确地说，是比衣服所预期的妆发稍微少一点的力量。睡醒后的乱发或近乎素颜的面孔，是珍珠和粗花呢极佳的对比点。

如今的趋势更像是一场自助餐，而非

这是脱掉鞋子的淑女风，而它可能始于一件纹理外套和一条牛仔裤

品鉴菜单。如果一对华丽的宝石色皮革手套让你感觉美极了，那就穿上它；如果它们让你觉得应该在马车里挥手致意，那就避开。淑女配件在看起来像是“走错了装扮”时效果最好，所以把胸针别在牛仔布上，或者用丝巾搭配卫衣。这并不完全是为了让休闲装变得更正式，或让华丽装变得更随性，而更多是为了让整体造型难以被简单定义。我们可以玩味成为淑女的幻想，而无需打算全职地承担这个角色。

旧的淑女风感觉像是在表演一种你并不拥有的生活。而这一次，它让你在过真实生活的同时，穿着一件如此漂亮的外套，以至于人们会好奇你要去哪里吃晚餐。拥有粗花呢吧。拥有珍珠吧。如果机会出现，就喝杯桑塞尔白葡萄酒。然后重新穿上那些小细跟鞋，回到工作中去。

担心 与年龄相关的 脱发？ 这里有 有效的 治疗方案

[⚠ 低质量翻译，建议复核] 萨莉·休斯 (Sali Hughes) 论美

我 51 岁，正处于围绝经期。在刚开始出现的小腹凸起，以及想要与公共交通工具上的乘客吵架的冲动（为什么人们不再戴耳机了？）之间，脱发出现了。太棒了。

并不是说我起初的发量就很丰盈。不过，脱发产品至少是我可以从专业角度去探索的东西，所以我一遍又一遍地测试，心想其中一定能写出一篇专栏。结果并没有。

最终，我采取了之前建议我最亲密朋友们采取的行动：我订阅了 Hair+Me，这是一个每月 34.99 英镑的订阅服务，由临床医生提供经过验证的脱发药物，如米诺地尔（Minoxidil，适用于所有性别）以及片剂或软膏形式的非那雄胺（Finasteride）和度他斯特律（Dutasteride）（仅限生物学男性）。

我知道这会有效。我曾向我最好的朋友凯特 (Cait) 推荐过，当时她——一个一直以浓密发量自豪的人——因为看到淋浴间地板上大把掉落的头发会毁掉接下来一周的心情，而停止了洗头。她注册了服务，上传了照片，而他们提供的每晚服用药片（外用软膏通常不建议宠物主人使用，因为对某些动物有毒）几乎创造了奇迹。在几周之内，绒毛开始生长，脱发速度恢复正常，凯特找回了自我。另外两个听从我建议的女友也一样。

除了我的基础发量截然不同（我的头发一直很细且扁塌），我在使用 Hair+Me / 米诺地尔后的轨迹是完全相同的。两个月后，新头发明显在生长（我的下巴上也长出了新发，这是一个常见的副作用，所以我增加了拔毛的频率）。

我告诉你们这些并不是为了提供医疗建议（我没有资格提供），而是为了说明，真正有证据支持的帮助——而不是那些在网上被盲目推广的迷迭香洗发水和可疑的科技小玩意——是真实存在的。如果你能遇到一位体谅你的全科医生 (GP)，甚至可以免费获得。如果是这样，我向你表示祝贺。但由于预约时间被压缩到了极致（假设你还能约到的话），为了节省时间和眼泪，探索一个提供相同治疗的付费订阅服务或许是个选择。

对脱发的焦虑并非某种轻飘飘、虚荣的“香槟问题”（富贵病）。在我们的生活已经压力过大的时候，这可能是一种痛苦。即使是那些几乎不涂保湿霜，更不用说尝试肉毒杆菌毒素 (Botox) 等非侵入性美容治疗的朋友，也发现与年龄相关的脱发是他们的底线，并选择抛弃愧疚感，而不是抛弃头发。

停止锻炼后，肌肉真的会变成脂肪吗？

“这不是真的，”莱斯特大学肌肉生理学专家利·布林（Leigh Breen）教授表示。但他经常听到这种说法，尤其是来自那些长期停止锻炼的人。“他们经常提到肌肉‘变软’了，或者感觉不再那么紧致。”

事实是，这两种组织之间没有生化联系。肌肉和脂肪是截然不同的。“人体内没有任何已知过程能支持肌肉转化为脂肪，反之亦然，”布林说道。

他认为，这种误解源于我们停止锻炼（尤其是抗阻训练）后发生的情况。我们可能会开始失去通过训练建立的一部分肌肉。而如果我们减少运动但依然保持同样的饮食量，可能会导致能量盈余，从而导致体脂增加。

“肌肉量减少与脂肪量潜在增加的结合，会给人一种一种组织转化为另一种组织的错觉，”他说，“但事实并非如此。”

如果你在常规训练计划中休息几周，但仍保持相对活跃，那么与因受伤而长期完全无法活动相比，你看到的改变可能会更少。

在运动休息期间的饮食也会影响肌肉和脂肪量的增减。布林建议在适当减少热量摄入的同时，保持高蛋白质摄入。

归根结底，我们的身体在不断变化，训练间歇期肌肉和脂肪量的轻微波动通常是正常的。“只要在数月和数年的时间里保持一致的运动和饮食习惯，轻微的波动通常无需担心，”布林说道。凯特·劳埃德（Kate Lloyd）

凯特·劳埃德

土壤需要 一些 细心呵护？ 那么 是时候 为豆类作物 腾出空间了

克莱尔·拉蒂农 (Claire Ratinon) 谈水果与蔬菜

我正陷入一场与土壤的永恒之战。诚然，我热爱大地，并相信它具有赋予生命的奇迹属性。但如果我说我有时（或

经常）对我菜地里那些顽固的重粘土感到深切沮丧，那我就在撒谎了。粘土在营养密度方面尤其神奇。然而，讽刺的是，对于园丁来说，作物从这种土壤中获取营养比从其他土壤类型中更具挑战性。

答案——就像几乎所有在无化学、基本无需挖掘的花园中遇到的问题一样——是添加有机质覆盖层（堆肥或腐熟的厩肥），这些物质可以通过昆虫融入土壤，昆虫在此过程中会改善土壤的质地。然而，这种可靠的方法在我的菜地里却很棘手，因为我们住在山坡上，地块的一侧与另一侧之间大约有1米的落差。这种情况（加上被潮湿冬季浸透、随后又被热浪夏季晒干而变得坚硬的土壤之顽固）意味着我去年铺设的堆肥层要么被冲走了，要么没有很好地融入深层土壤中。

综上所述，我在生长季开始时的情况并不理想，现在秋天到了，我正在考虑明年土壤需要什么。当然，我会继续热情地铺设覆盖层，但我也在寻找一种可以提供救援的关键植物类型——豆类植物。豆类植物能够从空气中吸收氮气并将其储存在体内（在一些精巧的细菌帮助下），以便供未来的植物使用，因此它们是

能够从空气中吸收氮气，这些关键植物是有机种植者的有效盟友

对于那些需要额外细心呵护（TLC）的土壤的有机种植者来说，豆类植物是有效的盟友。

现在播种的箭叶vetch（也称为冬芜耳）、蚕豆（如图）和饲料豌豆——它们的理想播种时间是9月，但我认为在气候较温和的地方，10月播种应该也没问题——将在接下来的几个月里将根深深地扎入土壤中。然后，到了春天，在它们开花之前且茎干仍然柔软时，可以将它们从基部剪掉；如果你倾向于挖掘，可以将它们融入土壤；或者，如果你像我一样不倾向于挖掘，可以将它们切成碎片作为表面覆盖层，或者放入堆肥桶中腐烂。无论哪种方式，根系都会在地下分解，这对土壤最为有益，不仅能改善其结构和保水能力，还能排除多余的水分。

虽然这意味着我的那些蔬菜床无法种植我最喜欢的冬季准备或越冬作物，但这应该意味着明年春天土壤将处于一个更好的状态。

吉内尔·里昂 (Gynelle Leon) 的室内植物技巧：重复使用育苗盆是环保还是冒险？

问题

大多数植物爱好者最终都会拥有无穷无尽的塑料育苗盆，塞在橱柜或袋子里。把它们扔掉感觉很浪费，但重复使用可能会将害虫、真菌孢子或疾病传播给新植物。

技巧

重复使用，但首先要彻底清洁。育苗盆非常适合室内植物，因为排水孔可以防止根腐病。彻底浇水并让多余的水流出，然后将盆套在装饰容器中。

方法

清除旧的堆肥和根系，然后用热水肥皂水清洗花盆并刷洗，尤其是害虫喜欢隐藏的边缘和排水孔。如果它之前盛放的是患病或受害虫侵害的植物，为了保险起见，我会将其回收处理。但如果你不介意冒险，可以用 1:9 的漂白剂与水溶液对其进行消毒，使其完全干燥并检查是否有裂缝。一旦塑料开始分解，就将其淘汰。

测试

多年来我一直重复使用育苗盆，干净的盆子没有给我带来任何问题。

结论

育苗盆的设计初衷就是为了耐用，而且许多盆子已经使用了回收塑料。只要确保在更换植物之间进行清理，在它们最终出现裂缝时将其回收，并将它们隐藏在更美观的花盆中即可。

我终于加入了能干之人的行列

蒂姆·道林论现代生活

或者在某个奇妙的瞬间，一切似乎都尽在掌握：花园整洁且没有枯枝，这要感谢园艺师史蒂夫；而那扇在整个夏天大部分时间里都无法正常关闭的后门，在天气转凉后竟然自行恢复了正常。我就把它当作一次胜利吧。

浴缸的爪形脚架支撑在两块长木板上，将巨大的重量安全且均匀地分散在柔软且下陷的浴室地板上。理论上，这里还需要进行进一步的维修，但我已经到了一个必须对自己心中所谓的“永久解决方案”做出剧烈调整的年纪。如果没有其他意外发生，这样就行了。

厨房的桌子经过了打磨和重新上漆，由我亲手完成。起初，效果在我的妻子看来有点太偏橙色了，但在接下来的几天里，考虑到得把整件事全部重做一遍的可能性，木材的颜色似乎变得好看了起来。

随着夜晚渐长，只剩一项真正的工作：厨房的三按钮调光开关面板坏了——其中一盏主灯怎么也点不亮。

“我可以修好它，”我鲁莽地说。

“你确定吗？”我妻子问。

“如果你能找到一个完全相同的开关面板替换件，我就能把它装上去，”我更加鲁莽地说。

“我不应该请个电工吗？”她说。

“不用，”我说，“我能搞定。”

我妻子寻找新开关面板的速度比我想象的要快得多。第二天东西就到了。我打开盒子，查阅说明书。

“本产品应由能干的人员安装，”我读道。

“呃哦，”我妻子说。

“例如，一名合格的电工，”我说。

“我们需要叫个人来，”她说。

“合格的电工只是能干人员的一个例子，”我说，“其他例子还包括特许会计师，或者市长（Lord Mayor）。”

“看起来很复杂，”我妻子看着我肩上的接线图说。

“别担心，我把那些都忽略了，”我说，“我打算直接把旧开关从墙上拆下来，然后完全照抄我在后面看到的接线方式。”

“到那时我可能不在家，”她说。

第二天早晨，在我妻子出门遛狗后，我开始工作。我首先关闭了全屋的电源——小心驶得万年船。然后我拧下损坏的开关面板，轻轻地将其从墙上拉开。

出现了一个我没有预见到的问题：在没有灯光的情况下，很难看清我在做什么——我必须用手机手电筒照着工作区域。有时，当安装过程变得繁琐时，我不得不把手机叼在牙缝间。

电线的数量比我想象的要多得多，但新开关拥有

“我没预料到会这样，”我妻子说，“我还以为会发现你坐在地板上大哭呢”

基本布局和旧的一样。我不敢完全拆掉旧的开关面板，因为电线没有标记。于是我逐根拆卸电线，并立即将其连接到新开关面板上相应的触点上。这样操作很刺激——我觉得自己像是在尝试绕过警报系统去抢劫博物馆。

终于，到了重新接通电源的时候。我咬紧牙关，扳动了开关。

“我没预料到会这样，”我妻子说，她顺时针旋转最左边的按钮，看着厨房餐桌上的灯光逐渐增强。“我还以为会发现你坐在地板上大哭呢。”

“那部分你错过了，”我说。

“没出问题？”她问。

“有那么一会儿我陷入了恐慌，不得不停下来半小时，”我说，“去自学前沿触发（leading edge）和后沿触发（trailing edge）调光器之间的区别。”

“区别是什么？”她一边问，一边将按钮旋回。

“前沿触发调光器很便宜，但会导致 LED 灯泡出现问题，”我说。“后沿触发，或者叫反相调光器，是大多数场所的最佳选择。”

“我们用的是哪种？”她问。

“我们的可以在两者之间切换，”我说，“但后沿触发是默认设置。”

“所以其实我根本不需要听这些，对吧？”她说。

“我学到了，”我说，“所以总得找个地方把它说出来。”

“不管怎样，这感觉很令人满意，”她说，移向下一个按钮。

对我来说，这不仅仅是满意。每次我打开厨房的灯时，我的心都会漏跳一拍。

埃迪斯·普里切特论千禧一代的生活

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作者：Jane Knight

勃朗峰隐藏在云层之后，但南针峰（Aiguille du Midi）如长矛般刺破天空，下方山坡上燃起一片赤褐、金黄与棕褐之色。枫树火红，花楸树上点缀着深红色的浆果。

我们的小团体乘坐勃朗峰登山铁路（Tramway du Mont Blanc）缓缓抵达了蒙拉沙站（Mont Lachat station，海拔 2,115 米）。这条拥有百年历史的齿轨铁路从法国阿尔卑斯小镇圣热尔韦莱班（Saint-Gervais-les-Bains）出发，攀爬起不可思议的陡坡。该铁路自 1909 年起投入运营，最初计划抵达海拔 4,809 米的勃朗峰顶，但战争、冰川地形和资金匮乏终结了这一雄心。即便是在蒙拉沙，眼前的景色也足以令人屏息。一边是比奥纳塞冰川（Bionnassay Glacier）沿山坡壮丽地滑下，一只鸢在底部的乳绿色冰川湖上空盘旋；而另一边，夏蒙尼山谷（Chamonix valley）则沐浴在柔和的秋日阳光中。

秋天是阿尔卑斯山的黄金季节，此时你可以找到更安静的徒步路线、更低廉的价格，以及足以唤醒感官却又不至于冻伤手指的清爽空气。该地区的度假胜地曾纯粹专注于冬季运动，但多年来一直在提升其夏季竞争力，提供穿行于繁花草地的徒步和骑行活动。现在，为了满足人们对非高峰期逃离都市日益增长的需求，它们也在推广其平季（shoulder season）旅游。

圣热尔韦莱班是一个水疗小镇，距离日内瓦 50 分钟车程，夹在比它更奢华的邻居夏蒙尼和梅热夫（Megève）之间，地理位置极佳，足以利用这一趋势。与许多度假胜地不同，这座拥有 5,800 人的小镇在积雪（或夏季游客）消融后并不会陷入沉寂，这在很大程度上归功于其在 19 世纪初被发现的热泉水。

现在，一个名为 Le Valléen 的全年运行缆车将位于山坡下方、热泉水疗中心所在地的勒法耶村（Le Fayet）火车站与圣热尔韦镇中心连接起来。该缆车于 2024 年底开通，这意味着你可以从伦敦经巴黎乘火车抵达，无需汽车即可到达度假区中心。“如果你在平季去梅热夫，那里空无一人，”长期担任市长的让-马克·佩莱克斯（Jean-Marc Peillex）说道，“但这里并非如此。秘诀在于，与其考虑游客，不如考虑生活在这里的人。这样一来，游客也会感到快乐。”

圣热尔韦（海拔 850 米）或许缺乏梅热夫的精致，但它拥有自己静谧的魅力：一座中世纪防御工事住宅，一座带有几何形彩色玻璃窗的 17 世纪教堂，水疗中心附近优雅的美好时代（belle époque）建筑，以及每周四热闹的集市。几家优秀的餐厅全年营业，而我们入住的 Coeur des Neiges 酒店像巧克力盒一样精致，其房价不足夏季或冬季的一半，使其成为秋季探索的理想基地。

圣热尔韦温泉（Les Thermes de Saint-Gervais，左图）于 1806 年开业

从这里，我们乘坐勃朗峰登山铁路行驶一站到达海拔 1,400 米的莫蒂冯（Motivon），然后徒步行走一小时，期间未见任何人影；唯一的声响是牛铃轻柔的叮当声。我们的目的地是圣热尔韦勃朗峰蒸馏厂（Distillerie Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc），它是欧洲海拔最高的微型蒸馏厂之一，位于 1,365 米处。它实际上是由一个改建的驴舍而成的，窗外是松林和深谷，架子由旧雪板制成，并配有两台闪闪发光的铜制蒸馏釜。

在这里，身着苏格兰裙的苏格兰人詹姆斯·艾博特（James Abbott）每年生产约 450 瓶单麦芽威士忌（斯佩塞风格），以及伏特加、传统的草本利口酒 génépi，以及一种注入了附近山坡上的蓝莓和野生草药等成分的绝佳山地金酒。

“当地人注意到我去参加派对时带的是威士忌而不是葡萄酒，”詹姆斯笑着说，“他们说：‘你为什么不自己酿一些——反正你喝得够多。’”事实证明他做得相当出色：威士忌售价 €95，金酒售价 €50，在山间空气中度过一天后，在我们跳回有轨电车之前，这两款酒都极其畅饮。

虽然有轨电车从 9 月底起停止运行，但从镇上直接延伸出的风景优美的徒步路线并不少，这些路线在一年之中的稍晚时间依然可以前往，此外还有一项免费的全年巴士服务，连接着构成圣热尔韦（Saint-Gervais）市镇的各个村庄。我们原计划第二天早上乘坐巴士前往圣尼古拉斯-德-韦罗斯（Saint-Nicolas de Véroce）徒步，那里的巴洛克式教堂拥有华丽的蓝金内饰和壁画天顶，但一场暴雨推迟了我们的计划。

这并不是问题，因为就在路尽头（或者乘坐免费的齿轨升降机下山），便是圣热尔韦温泉（Les Thermes de Saint-Gervais）。自 1806 年公证人约瑟夫-马里·贡塔德（Joseph-Marie Gontard）发现这些泉眼以来，这里一直在舒缓疲惫的身心。这些富含矿物质的水源充满了硫、镁、钙和锌，以 39℃ 的温度从地下涌出，支撑起一套三小时的健康疗养流程。

我们在不同温度的水池之间漂浮，慵懒地从桑拿房移步至蒸汽房，享受雨林水疗，并在户外尽情浸泡，任由水流喷射

缆车驶向 南针峰（上图）。 圣热尔韦温泉（右图）的 泉水以 39℃ 涌出

白朗峰有轨电车的贝尔维站（上图），以及木制售票处（右图）。圣尼古拉斯-德-韦罗斯教堂华丽的内部（左图）

我们慵懒地在桑拿房和蒸汽房之间穿梭，而缆车在头顶静静地滑过

在缆车于头顶静静滑过时，揉捏我们的背部。谁在乎下雨呢？

当我们走出房间时，风暴已经消散，于是我们继续前往圣尼古拉斯（St-Nicolas）。从这里开始，一条陡峭的徒步小径蜿蜒而上，需行走两小时即可到达蒙若利避难所（Refuge du Mont-Joly），那是一家有着百年历史的木屋旅馆，弥漫着木烟和融化奶酪的味道。通常在露台上可以俯瞰勃朗峰的壮丽景色，但今天山峰被云雾笼罩。

我们或许无法看到群山，但可以品尝到当地的产物，尤其是那一大块蓝莓挞，紧随其后的是一份足以满足一名相扑选手的塔蒂弗莱特（tartiflette）奶酪土豆炖菜。正当我大快朵颐时，雪开始落下。到了早晨，它们会被夏末的阳光融化而消失。但此刻，雪花在室外厚厚地铺开，柔软地将世界染成白色，仿佛纳尼亚的冰雪女王随时可能推门而入。这就是阿尔卑斯山的秋天。

此次行程由圣热尔韦-勃朗峰旅游局（saintgervais.com）提供。Coeur des Neiges 酒店的双人间仅房费 €108 起（hotelcoeurdesneiges.com），或 Le Fayet 的 Plan B 酒店仅房费 €76 起（planb-livingsaintgervais.com）。蒙若利避难所在 3 月底至 5 月底，以及 11 月至 12 月中旬期间关闭。勃朗峰登山铁路（Tramway du Mont Blanc）在 7 月线路延伸后，现在停靠在鹰巢（Nid d'Aigle）观景台（2,380 米）。

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疗愈之水：欧洲 10 个最适合秋季休养的水疗小镇

文字：Fiona Kerr

捷克，马里安斯凯拉兹涅 (Mariánské Lázně) 2021 年，联合国教科文组织将欧洲 11 个历史悠久的水疗小镇指定为一个跨国世界遗产地，认可它们是“欧洲水疗现象的卓越见证，该现象在 1700 年左右至 1930 年代达到了最高峰”。这是最初的健康旅游，这些宏伟的疗养胜地包括英国的巴斯 (Bath) 和比利时的斯帕 (Spa) 小镇，以及波希米亚西部的卡洛维发利 (Karlovy Vary)、弗朗齐什科夫拉兹涅 (Františkovy Lázně) 和马里安斯凯拉兹涅 (Mariánské Lázně) 构成的水疗三角区。

在这三者之中，卡洛维发利最为知名，且距离布拉格仅一日行程，但马里安斯凯拉兹涅可以说最为美丽。该镇提供三种天然疗愈传统：矿泉、被称为“玛丽亚之气”的二氧化碳泉，以及治疗性泥浆（泥土和粘土）。捷克国民至今仍会被开具数周的水疗疗养处方，以从手术、重病或慢性病中恢复，但任何人都可以入住 Nové Lázně 酒店（双人间含早起价 €234，含水疗设施使用权），这是一座建于 1896 年、面向中央公园的金黄色新文艺复兴风格建筑。

其水疗中心仿佛一次时光旅行：浴池被大理石柱环绕，治疗室装饰精美，其中一间是为曾到访九次的爱德华七世国王而建。

距离阿尔加维海滩向内陆深入仅几英里，蒙希克 (Monchique) 周边的山区提供了宁静与祥和。

与游客和当地人一起，拿着特制的瓷杯一边沿柱廊散步一边饮用泉水，别忘了搭配水疗威化饼——这是一种大而薄且酥脆的甜点，内含榛果或巧克力等甜味馅料。这里并不全是克制与养生。

葡萄牙，蒙希克温泉 (Caldas de Monchique) 在塞拉-德-蒙希克 (Serra de Monchique) 山脉的高处，被栓皮栎和桉树林环绕，白色房屋林立的蒙希克山城提供了比附近阿尔加维海岸节奏更慢的秋季避世之所。其鹅卵石街道两旁排列着工艺品店、陶瓷工作室和简单的酒馆，供应着搭配小杯 medronho（果类白兰地）的 chouriço（烟熏香肠）。在城镇下方的一个林谷中，蒙希克温泉村 (Caldas de Monchique) 仅由一个阴凉广场和公园周围的少数几栋 19 世纪建筑组成，你可以在这里的公共喷泉饮用微温的泉水。

在蒙希克温泉别墅水疗度假村 (Caldas de Monchique Villa Termal Spa Resort) 享受更长时间的碱性水浴（双人间起价 €84，90 分钟温泉水循环疗程 £17）。

该水疗中心提供包括维希淋浴、按摩和浴疗在内的水疗仪式，或者在户外泳池浸泡前，体验围绕泳池、桑拿房和土耳其浴的温泉水循环。

之后，拥有彩色玻璃窗的 1692 餐厅供应蒙希克风味鳕鱼 (bacalhau à Monchique)（用烟熏香肠和火腿填心的盐渍鳕鱼）。从这里前往 Fóia 山并不遥远，它是阿尔加维最高峰，海拔 902 米。为了那里的景色，值得步行至山顶，或者再徒步 2½ 英里 (4km) 前往 Barbelote 瀑布，在雨季，瀑布会从岩石峭壁上倾泻而下。

葡萄牙，沙韦斯 (Chaves)

在葡萄牙北部靠近西班牙边境的地方，有一系列小型的温泉小镇，构成了一条穿过 Pedras Salgadas、Carvalhelhos、Vidago、Carlão 和沙韦斯的疗养路线。

在沙韦斯，这里的泉水是欧洲最热的泉水之一，出地温度高达 76℃。罗马人曾在此建造了一个大型治疗洗浴综合体，直到 2006 年在建设地下停车场时才被意外重新发现。现在，免费开放的沙韦斯罗马温泉博物馆 (Museu Termas Romanas de Chaves) 允许游客探索这些水池和浸浴池，由于 4 世纪的一次地震将它们密封了数千年，这些设施被完美地保存了下来。

如今若想体验温泉，可前往 Aquae Salutem 温泉综合体（€30 for 90 minutes），这是一个于 2025 年开放的户外泳池、桑拿、蒸汽浴和淋浴循环区。

沿着公路行驶约半小时，Pedras Salgadas 温泉自然公园坐落在另一个小型温泉小镇的边缘。业主在水源地的松树林中建造了 18 栋生态屋和高脚树屋（双人间含早餐 £171 起，每房额外支付 £17 可使用温泉）。

客人在进入由葡萄牙最著名的建筑师之一阿尔瓦罗·西扎 (Álvaro Siza) 重新设计的温泉中心进行温泉水水力按摩之前，可以先体验一下森林浴，或者在公园的粉色泉水亭之间漫步。

斯洛伐克，皮耶什佳尼 (Pieštany) 的温泉岛 在跨过柱廊桥前往皮耶什佳尼温泉岛之前，有一尊男人折断拐杖的雕像，象征着该镇温泉水和硫磺泥的治愈能力，这些资源被利用在瓦赫河 (Vâh River) 上的这个健康圣地中。岛上第一批简单的木制浴室建于 1778, 年，但随着 1912 年 Thermia Palace 酒店及其 Irma 温泉疗法馆 (Irma Balneotherapy House) 的开业，这里变成了一个健康度假胜地。

捷克共和国马里安斯凯拉兹涅 (Mariánské Lázně) Nové Lázně 酒店的温泉中心（左），是一次“回到过去之旅”

葡萄牙 Pedras Salgadas 温泉自然公园的生态小屋（上）非常适合森林浴。在法国，位于巴尼奥勒-德-洛恩 (Bagnoles-de-l'Orne) 的 Château du Gué aux Biches（左）拥有一家新餐厅，并与附近一家高端水疗中心建立了合作伙伴关系。

进一步的酒店和水疗中心点缀在树林之间，当你远离桥梁时，建筑风格变得越来越混凝土化且功能化。

Thermia Palace 仍然是最豪华的选择，其水疗中心提供一系列治疗方案，从广泛的诊断和实验室测试到泥浴和泳池（双人间半食宿 €210 起，包含温泉使用权）。这种蓝黑色的黏稠物质在 45℃ 的温暖温度下被涂抹在全身，停留约 10 分钟后，被毫不客气地用水管冲洗掉。

在室外，温泉公园同样让人感到恢复活力，这里有睡莲池、喷泉和自由漫步的孔雀。

在镇上，Elektrárna Pieštany 是一家由旧发电厂改建而成的文化中心，这里举办电影节和摇滚演唱会，显得出奇地充满活力；而风格鲜明的粗犷主义艺术之屋 (House of Arts) 则举办室内管弦乐队和探戈音乐三重奏的演出。

法国，巴尼奥勒-德-洛恩 (Bagnoles-de-l'Orne) 当地传说，在经历了许多场战斗后，中世纪领主于格·德·特塞 (Seigneur Hugues de Tessé) 在诺曼底的安丹森林 (Andaines forest) 中释放了他的忠实战马“快步” (Rapide)，让它在平静中度过余生。令这位贵族惊讶的是，这匹马后来回到了他的身边，变得更加强壮且充满

斯洛伐克 Thermia Palace 酒店的泥浴池

生命力，随后将他的主人引向了巴尼奥勒（Bagnoles）温泉那温暖且富含硫磺的水域。几个世纪后，这里兴起了一座水疗度假胜地，以便巴黎的中产阶级也能汲取这股青春之泉；在森林中心的湖畔，分布着许多美好年代（belle époque）风格的别墅（如今，对于寻求健康疗养的英国人来说，这里距离卡昂的轮渡码头不到一个半小时车程，十分便捷）。

那个美好年代街区是当地政治家阿尔伯特·克里斯托夫勒（Albert Christophle）的构想，他位于村庄边缘的前狩猎小屋现在成了非常迷人的五卧室 Gué aux Biches 城堡酒店（含早双人间起价 €195）。

今年夏天，其丹麦业主克劳斯·本廷（Klaus Bentin）和索伦·拉斯穆森（Soren Rasmussen）在旧厨房中增设了一家新餐厅，供应 smørrebrød（开放式三明治）。

该酒店与附近的 B'O Resort 水疗中心建立了合作伙伴关系，这意味着克劳斯或索伦会为你安排疗程；此外还提供自行车租赁，你可以骑行几公里前往体验黏土身体包裹或水力按摩。

周围的森林纵横交错着徒步、骑行和越野跑路线。在秋季，你可以通过在安丹（Andaines）森林地表生长出的 1,700 多种真菌中采蘑菇，以一种更具冥想感的方式慢下来。

读者旅行建议：健康假期

获胜建议

多尼戈尔郡的完美桑拿 如果你恰好在多尼戈尔郡南部的野生海岸，请前往蒂林码头的 Sliabh Liag 桑拿房。在经历了一天的徒步（以及前一天晚上可能喝的一两品脱波特黑啤）之后，码头上的这个小型木柴加热桑拿房是放松身心的绝佳场所。随后，我们就在几步之遥的海湾中浸泳。如果你有时间，可以将桑拿与前往令人难忘的 Sliabh Liag 海边悬崖的船 trip 结合起来，那里高出海面 601 米（1,972 英尺）。—— Peter Henry

约克附近的野泳 在 Pool Bridge 农场的野泳保证能让你从约克的喧嚣中获得一次健康的休憩。这里有四个湖泊，以及充足的休息和用餐空间。一次焕发活力的浸泳最好搭配一次桑拿体验（£16.50）。最后，前往附近的 Wheldrake Ings 自然保护区，它是北约克郡顶级的野生动物目的地之一，尤其是水禽类。随着秋季洪水上涨，迁徙鸟类的数量也随之增加。—— Fin

保加利亚索非亚附近的沐浴时光 索非亚的天然矿泉意味着浴场是一种生活方式。位于附近班基亚（Bankya）的豪华中央矿泉浴场由当地政府所有，因此它既有日常的市政浴场气息，又拥有 20 世纪初的卓越建筑风格。你可以花不到 €10 参观这里，除了天然泉水，它还提供热力区、盐室、芳香疗法、桑拿房、蒸汽房和按摩服务。—— Sarah Collings

汉普郡的天堂级海水浴 在牧羊人小屋风格的桑拿房里，新鲜的姜汁调制饮品、橙片和一位友好的桑拿师迎接了我们，透过画框般的窗户可以俯瞰历史悠久的利明顿海水浴场（Lymington Sea Water Baths）。瑞典式桑拿帽、舒缓的精油香气，以及可以选择通过在冰桶中进行令人振奋的跳水（或在阳光温暖的海水浴池中进行更温和的浸泳）来缓解热度，这让远离现实生活的几个小时变得非常有恢复力。—— Claire Edwards

如需参加我们的读者建议竞赛并查看条款与条件，请访问 theguardian.com / readers-travel-tips（必须为英国居民方可参加）。由 Lonely Planet 的 Tom Hall 评选出的本周最佳建议将赢得一张价值 £200 的 Coolstays 房产住宿代金券。以下是部分建议选集：更多内容请见我们的网站。

奥地利，巴德加施 Tain (Bad Gastein)

这座位于高陶恩阿尔卑斯山脉（Hohe Tauern Alps）的优雅小镇建立在水之上；事实上，一条咆哮的瀑布直接穿过城镇中心。其热泉中富含氡气的疗养名声，促使 19 世纪兴建起许多豪华酒店，用以接待前来治病的皇帝、贵族、作家和思想家（包括西格蒙德·弗洛伊德）。

“疗养饮泉”的时尚虽已消退，但近年来出现了一定程度的复兴，一批新酒店相继开业。Cōmodo 酒店（双人间含早 €188 起）便是其中之一，这是一个由 20 世纪 60 年代的疗养院改造而成的时尚场所。卧室可俯瞰山谷和群山，充满热水的室内泳池亦然。这里有几个公共喷泉，你仍然可以直接饮用水源（温暖，带有轻微的咸味和金属味），但或许更令人愉悦的是在粗犷主义风格的 Felsentherme 公共浴场综合体中浸泡，那里有众多泳池（一日票 €40）。

同样令人温暖——但健康益处较少——的是在 Schafflinger Alm 温馨木屋里喝一碗 Kaspressknödelsuppe（加入奶酪丸子的牛肉汤，汤类 €4.50 起，主菜 €17 起），这通常发生在一次清爽的森林徒步，或是在 Schlossalm-Angertal-Stubnerkogel 滑雪区滑雪之后，该地的雪季于 11 月下旬开始。

德国，巴特-维尔德巴德 (Bad Wildbad)

这座位于黑森林北部的温泉小镇，提供了除浸泡在温泉水中之外的多种亲近自然的方式。耸立在城镇之上的索默山（Sommerberg，意为“夏季之山”）将让人们心跳加速。缆车将游客快速送至山顶，这里是徒步和骑行路线的起点。为了获得更令人心潮澎湃的视野，无障碍的树顶漫步道（Treetop Walk，€12.50）在茂密的松树之上呈螺旋状上升，直至 40 米高的观景塔，中间还有一个滑道可以快速滑下，增加刺激感；而 Wildline 吊桥（€9.50）则拥有 380 米长的走道，

斯洛文尼亚的 Rogaška 大酒店拥有一家先进的水疗中心——横跨在恩茨河谷（Enz valley）之上，以获得最大视野。

回到镇上，有两个温泉浴场可以浸泡：现代化的 Vital Therme，关节和背部有问题的人员在此接受运动疗法和水疗护理（三小时 €14）；以及历史悠久的 Palais Thermal，其泳池被大理石柱、维纳斯雕像和摩尔式瓷砖所环绕（三小时 €21）。Mokni 的 Palais 酒店与 Palais Thermal 建筑相连，这意味着客人们可以穿着浴袍直接走过去（双人间含早起价 €183 起，包含水疗中心使用权）。

德国，巴特-基辛根 (Bad Kissingen) 德国拥有约 350 个指定的温泉小镇，其中包括三个联合国教科文组织认定的“欧洲伟大温泉城镇”：名流青睐的巴登-巴登（Baden-Baden）、宁静的河畔巴特-埃姆斯（Bad Ems）以及位于巴伐利亚的优雅之城巴特-基辛根（Bad Kissingen）。后者的建筑风格可以说在三者中最有趣，中心温泉区的大部分建筑在 20 世纪初由德国明星建筑师马克斯·利特曼（Max Littmann）重建。这包括一座拥有彩色玻璃屋顶的宏伟喷泉大厅，在那里，Brunnenfrauen（喷泉女侍）通过青铜管分发不同的矿泉水；以及巨大的巴西利卡风格 Wandelhalle，镇上的温泉爱乐乐团每天在此演出多次。

音乐一直是温泉体验的一部分——基辛根国家温泉浴场爱乐乐团（Staatsbad Philharmonie Kissingen）保持着一年内演出场次最多的世界纪录（727 场！），而美丽的艺术风格 Regentenbau 则拥有欧洲最好的音乐厅之一。

位于城镇南边缘的现代 KissSalis Therme（两小时 €19 起）是如今主要的公共浴场，设有室内外温泉池、泥疗以及各种——无需穿着衣物的——桑拿房。

在水疗光谱的更经典一端，凯撒霍夫-维多利亚大酒店（Grand Hotel Kaiserhof Victoria，双人间含早起价 €209 起，包含水疗使用权）坐落在镇上 Kurgarten 的 Wandelhalle 隔壁。这里水疗中心使用的水直接从盐水泉中泵出，而吸入室则有一个覆盖着结节状盐沉积物的木制梯度塔，模拟矿物质丰富的海风的疗效。

Felsentherme（左）是奥地利巴特-加斯泰因（Bad Gastein）领先的温泉水疗中心之一。巴伐利亚的巴特-基辛根（右）以其建筑而闻名。意大利的 Terme Berzieri（左）以其惊艳的室内设计著称。德国黑森林巴特-维尔德巴德美丽的 Palais Thermal（右）。

罗加什卡-斯拉蒂纳，斯洛文尼亚

这座位于斯洛文尼亚东部的城镇以 Donat Mg 闻名，它是世界上镁含量最高的水矿泉水之一，传统上被认为具有助消化的功效。该公司现在每年销售数百万瓶此类矿泉水，但在水源地，你可以从 Pivnica 饮水大厅的喷泉中免费品尝——尽管其咸味、起泡且带有金属感的风味需要一定的适应期。

与同类城镇一样，罗加什卡在 19 世纪吸引了欧洲的名流权贵，其建筑风格的融合便是对此的证明。从饮水大厅出发，穿过修剪整齐的花园，步行不久即可到达奶油黄色的罗加什卡大酒店（Grand Hotel Rogaška），这里仿佛直接地将人们带回了该镇的黄金时代（双人间半食宿价格 €198 起，包含水疗中心使用权）。客房风格传统，但水疗中心设施齐全，从二氧化碳浴、矿泉水吸入疗法到足底反射疗法和磁疗应有尽有。

对于一座以饮用水闻名的城镇来说，罗加什卡同样以玻璃制品著称，这显得十分契合——游客可以参观罗加什卡水晶工厂（€12），观看玻璃吹制过程，然后在现场商店购买用于饮用 Donat Mg 的玻璃杯。周围的林区山丘则是秋季散步的绝佳去处。

萨尔索马焦雷温泉，意大利

在艾米利亚-罗马尼亚大区所谓的“美食谷”中，离帕尔马不远，这座小型温泉镇将帮助人们抵消部分饮食过度带来的负担。去年，意大利温泉品牌 QC Spa of Wonders 重新开放了美丽的装饰艺术风格的 Terme Berzieri，其镀金的内部装饰——包括壁画、马赛克、马约里卡瓷砖和灰泥装饰——与富含碘和溴的咸盐泉水一样具有吸引力（五小时水疗疗程 €62 起）。这里有常规的温泉景点，以及桑拿电影院和屋顶无边泳池，而木桶治疗则向该地区的酿酒业致敬。

你可以前往萨尔索马焦雷郊外山丘上的 Cantina Il Poggio 葡萄园品尝这些葡萄酒，那里生产多种风格的酒，包括当地的 Malvasia di Candia Aromatica 起泡酒（品鉴 €30 起）。随后可以访问帕马森干酪（parmigiano reggiano）生产商（如 Caseificio Ugolotti，参观及品鉴 €23）继续品尝，然后在帕尔马著名的 La Prosciutteria 购买一些火腿。在传奇三明治店 Pepèn 停下来吃一个烤猪肉三明治，然后欣赏包含国家美术馆、帕拉廷图书馆和法尔内塞剧院在内的 Pilotta 宫殿建筑群，而华丽的雷吉奥剧院（Teatro Regio）则在 10 月举办一年一度的威尔第音乐节。距离萨尔索马焦雷约 10 分钟车程的有机农家乐 Case Zucchi 是一个非常适合美食爱好者的落脚点，客房以香草命名，每天早晨早餐桌上都堆满了新鲜面包、鸡蛋、火腿、奶酪和水果（双人间含早价格 £104 起）。

谜题答案

（谜题见第 78 页）

Thomas Eaton 出题的测验答案

1 Zohran Mamdani（纽约市市长）。 2 .ai。 3 你会对前东德产生“东德情结”（Ostalgie）。 4 圣家堂被复制在乐高最大的套装中（12,060 块）。

5 威廉·华兹华斯和多萝西·华兹华斯曾住在鸽子屋（Dove Cottage）。 6 Saffie Osborne 是第一位赢得英国经典赛（圣莱格赛马赛）的女骑师。 7 国家三峰（National Three Peaks）。 8 David Olusoga。 9 年鉴的创始人。 10 《小猪佩奇》的前四位配音演员。

11 葡萄牙的统治王朝（12 世纪至 1910 年）。 12 主要穆斯林节日的日期：开斋节和宰牲节。 13 《格列佛游记》中格列佛遇到的生物。 14 全部是非牛顿流体。 15 以芝加哥为背景的电影。

Sy 出题的周末纵横字谜答案

儿童问答 Molly Oldfield

本问答环节旨在回答孩子们提出的问题——你的得分会比父母高吗？

1 Itamar（11岁）问：谁在20世纪90年代末发明了表情符号（emojis）？ A SoftBank 和 NEC 公司 B 日本设计师 栗田行雄 (Shigetaka Kurita) C 史蒂夫·乔布斯 (Steve Jobs) D 三星 (Samsung)

周末纵横字谜 Sy

2 Ruaridh（9岁）问：每窝幼崽中是否总有一个最弱小的（runt）？ A 是的，它只是这窝幼崽中最弱的一个 B 不是，成为最弱小者是由遗传因素和健康特质决定的 C 不是，只有某些品种会有最弱小者 D 不是，现实生活中不存在最弱小者

3 Frank（6岁）问：蜜蜂为什么要酿蜜？ A 为了吸引它们真正想要的：熊 B 它们用蜂蜜把蜂巢粘在一起

C 它们需要蜂蜜来维持能量水平 D 它们觉得蜂蜜看起来很漂亮

4 Devrim（5岁）问：昆虫的卵长什么样？ A 湿漉漉且黏糊糊的 B 它们是正方形的 C 取决于昆虫的种类 D 所有昆虫的卵都很小且在黑暗中发光

5 Piran（9岁）问：为什么大城市很少发生龙卷风？ A 因为电信号，龙卷风无法在城市中形成 B 城市仅占陆地面积的一小部分，因此被龙卷风袭击的概率低于乡村 C 空间不足意味着龙卷风永远无法积聚并变得危险 D 龙卷风只发生在小城市，不发生在大城市

扫描二维码，为未来的问答环节向 Molly 提问

答案（不许偷看！） 1 A. 栗田行雄通常被认为是表情符号的发明者，因为他在 1999 年设计了一套可能是最著名的早期表情符号。然而，包括 SoftBank 和 NEC 在内的其他日本公司在 80 年代末和 90 年代初就为便携式设备设计了表情符号。 2 B. 并非每窝幼崽中总有一个最弱小者，但有几个因素会增加这种可能性。例如在狗类中，某些品种的混血、母犬的年龄或一窝幼崽的数量可能会增加出现最弱小者的可能性。 3℃. 蜜蜂酿蜜是为了喂养它们的群体。它们利用蜂蜜维持能量水平，并在冬季依赖储备，因为冬季通常太冷而无法离开蜂巢。 4℃. 卵的样子取决于昆虫。杨叶甲的卵看起来像小果冻豆，而绿花蛉的卵则悬挂在叶片下方像头发一样的细柄上，看起来像一簇微小的气球！ 5 B. 城市很少发生龙卷风，是因为城市所占的土地面积与农村土地相比很小，因此龙卷风更有可能发生在远离城市的地方。

Molly Oldfield 的新书《阳光之下的一切：环游世界》（Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World）基于她的播客，现已出版。你的孩子有问题吗？如需提交，请扫描上方二维码。

横向

6 Trevor ....，南非 喜剧演员 (4) 7 Raymond ......, 教师 因其著作《文化与社会》(1958) 而被铭记 (8) 10 美国软饮料，现成为 大胆勇气的代名词 (5) 11 披头士乐队的最后一张专辑？(3,2,2) 12 DH ......, 《儿子与情人》 的作者 (8) 14 .... Blyton，《著名的五人组》 故事的作者 (4) 16 The ..., 诺福克郡与林肯郡 之间的河口 (4) 17 见 16D 21 挑战雅典娜并 变成蜘蛛的人？(7) 22 Daniel ..., 《鲁滨逊漂流记》(1719) 的作者 (5) 24 总部位于里昂的 跨国执法机构 (8) 25 .... Mountains, 欧洲与亚洲 之间的山脉 (4)

纵向

1 / 23 涉及“雪球”和“拿破仑”的奥威尔小说 (6,4)

2 朱利叶斯·亨利……，更广为人知的名字是格劳乔 (4) 3 一种可密封袋品牌 (6) 4 2006年被降级为矮行星的天体？ (5) 5 比利时港口城市 (6) 8 ……·葛兰西，以《狱中笔记》闻名的作者 (7) 9 影响了第2题人物的德国哲学家？ (5) 13 乔治……，1546年被当作异教徒烧死的苏格兰新教徒 (7) 15 《……之传说》，任天堂电子游戏 (5) 16 / 17 切尔尼舍夫斯基的小说——还是列宁的政治小册子？ (4,2,2,2,4) 18 美洲野猫 (6) 19 ……兄弟，其热门歌曲包括《Bye Bye Love》的二人组 (6) 20 ……，位于伦敦桥街32号的伦敦地标 (5) 23 见第1题

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托马斯·伊顿测验

1 哪位高知名度的美国政治人物曾以 Mr Cardamom 的名义说唱？ 2 安圭拉利润丰厚的互联网域名是什么？ 3 “Ostalgie”（东德情结）是对哪个前国家生活方方面面的向往？ 4 乐高最大的套装中重建了哪座教堂？ 5 哪对兄妹 / 姐弟曾住在格拉斯米尔的鸽子小屋（Dove Cottage）？ 6 萨菲·奥斯本在九月份如何创造了赛马历史？ 7 哪项挑战从威廉堡附近开始，在 Yr Wyddfa 结束？ 8 哪位电视历史学家曾与 Gazza 同校？ 共同点是什么： 9 本杰明·富兰克林；弗朗西斯·摩尔；约瑟夫·惠特克；约翰·威斯登？ 10 莉莉·斯诺登-法恩；塞西莉·布鲁姆；哈莉·伯德；艾米莉· Bea 史密斯？ 11 勃艮第；阿维斯；哈布斯堡；布拉干萨？ 12 霄月之初（Shawwal之首）和 宰库尔之十（Dhul-Hijjah之十）？ 13 小矮人；巨人；不切实际的知识分子；会说话的马；野蛮的人类？ 14 番茄酱；血液；油漆；流沙；傻瓜粘土；牙膏？ 15 《费里斯·布勒的休息日》；《小鬼当家》；《逃犯》；《不可触碰》？

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亨利·哈里斯 (Henry Harris) 瑞士奶油挞

乔·奥特威 (Joe Otway) 秋季玉米香草沙拉

古迪普·洛亚尔 (Gurdeep Loyal) 土耳其羊肉辣酱面

卡勒姆·富兰克林 (Calum Franklin) 巴尔蒂派配辛辣绿 चट泥

费利西蒂·克洛克 (Felicity Cloake) 如何制作南瓜汤

本杰米娜·埃布埃希 (Benjamina Ebuehi) 太妃苹果巴斯克芝士蛋糕

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汤姆·亨特 (Tom Hunt) 苹果黑莓布朗贝蒂甜点

瑞秋·罗迪 (Rachel Roddy) 马麦酱意面

格蕾丝·登特 (Grace Dent) “优雅且带有几分古灵精怪”

亨利·哈里斯 (Henry Harris)

通常，最顶级的佳肴是由极少的食材组成的，这款挞就是其中之一。它基于弗雷迪·吉拉德 (Frédy Girardet) 的一个旧食谱，仅需简单的工艺处理即可带来惊艳的效果。在挞皮壳中铺上糖和奶油，点缀上黄油并撒上肉桂粉。不过，它不需要盲烤，直接填入馅料并在高温烤箱中烘烤即可。这听起来不对，但实际上并非如此：需要剧烈的高温来烘烤挞皮，并使奶油、糖和黄油融合。我仍然使用吉拉德的配比，因为不出所料，它们地完美契合。谢谢，主厨。

准备时间 10 分钟 烹饪时间 1 小时 + 冷却 分量 4-6 人份

挞皮原料 140克 普通面粉（另需少量用于撒粉） 5克 泡打粉 1 撮 盐 1 大撮 细砂糖 60克 无盐黄油（室温，切成小块） 50毫升 冷全脂牛奶

馅料原料 100克 细砂糖 1 大撮 普通面粉 250毫升 淡奶油 (double cream) 50克 冷无盐黄油（切丁） 少量 肉桂粉（现磨的虽然麻烦但值得）

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沃州奶油挞 (Tarte Vaudoise à la creme)

将烤箱预热至 220℃（风扇模式 200℃） / 燃气档 7。制作面团：将面粉筛入大碗中，然后拌入泡打粉、盐和糖。加入黄油，用指尖揉搓，直到混合物像粗面包屑一样。

倒入牛奶，尽可能轻柔地搅拌，使面团揉成一个球状。不要让面团静置，因为这会过早激活泡打粉，导致面团在烘烤过程中从填料中鼓起。在撒有少量面粉的平面上将面团擀成一个圆饼，大小足以铺满一个 25cm 的挞盘，然后将其铺在盘中，用叉子在面团上戳满小孔。

制作填料：将糖和面粉混合，然后均匀地铺在挞皮底部。倒入奶油，撒上黄油丁和少许肉桂粉。烘烤约 25 分钟，直到挞皮边缘呈现漂亮的饼干色，且奶油起泡并显得浓稠，几乎快要分离。

从烤箱中取出，将挞盘移至晾架上完全冷却。食用时，小心地将挞从盘中取出并切成片。

亨利·哈里斯（Henry Harris）是伦敦 EC1 区 Bouchon Racine 餐厅的主厨兼共同所有者。他的著作《Racine 效应》（The Racine Effect）由 Quadrille 出版，售价 £40。如需以 £36 的价格订购副本，请访问 guardianbookshop.com

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Rukmini Iyer 一次烹饪，两次享用

我很高兴烤盘季节再次到来，而没有什么比一道“扔进烤箱即可”的粘稠味噌辣椒鸡更能开启这个季节了。如果你愿意，可以提前将腌料涂在鸡肉上（在这种情况下，再挤一点青柠汁），但如果你时间紧迫，在烹饪前五分钟处理也可以达到效果。蔬菜在鸡肉下方烹饪，就像烤鸡下面的土豆一样，但味噌为其增添了风味。最后，为了让味道真正出彩，还配有一款浓郁的芝麻辣椒香菜酱汁。

准备时间 15 分钟 烹饪时间 1 小时 10 分钟 供 2 人食用，含剩余食材

30ml 芝麻油 60g 味噌酱 —— 红味噌或白味噌均可 4 瓣大蒜，去皮并细磨成泥 5cm 新鲜生姜，去皮并细磨成泥 3 根中等大小的韭葱，修剪并切成 $2 \frac{1}{2} \mathrm{~cm}$ 厚的圆片 1 个中等大小的奶油南瓜，去皮，对半切开，去籽并切成 4cm 的块状 1-1.2kg 带皮带骨鸡腿肉

酱汁配料 1 tbsp 酱油 30ml 芝麻油 1 个无蜡青柠的细磨皮和汁 2 根小葱，修剪并细切 1 个红辣椒，细切片（若希望辣味减轻，请去除蒂和籽） 10g 新鲜香菜，粗切 海盐，适量

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味噌鸡肉配烤南瓜和韭葱

将烤箱预热至 200℃（风扇烤箱 180℃） / 燃气档 6。将芝麻油、味噌、大蒜和生姜在碗中混合，然后取一满汤匙该混合物，在大型烤盘中涂抹在韭葱和南瓜上。（烤盘应足够大，使所有食材几乎能铺成一层。）

用锋利的刀在每块鸡腿肉上切几刀，然后将它们放在蔬菜上面。将剩余的味噌混合物涂在每块鸡肉顶部，然后烘烤一小时，直到鸡肉呈深褐色且完全熟透，蔬菜变软。

在烤盘出炉前 10 分钟，调制酱汁。将酱油、芝麻油、青柠汁和皮、春葱、辣椒和香菜在碗中搅拌均匀，品尝，如有必要，加入少许海盐或更多酱油。

将辣椒香菜酱汁淋在鸡肉和蔬菜上，趁热食用。

二次利用

将意大利短粒米煮熟（约半小时），将 1 根胡萝卜和一把薄荷或香菜细细磨碎，然后将 60g 花生酱（顺滑或颗粒状）、1 个青柠的皮和汁、20ml 酱油以及 1 平茶匙棕榈糖或深棕色糖搅拌均匀。加入约一汤匙水稀释，直到混合物的质地像单层奶油一样，然后品尝，根据需要加盐。

食用时，将剩余的鸡肉撕成丝（在盖有盖子的碗中加入一汤匙水，用微波炉加热 40 秒），并重新加热剩余的南瓜和韭葱。将米饭沥干水分，加入一汤匙油拌匀，然后分装在 2 个碗中。在上面铺上鸡肉、热蔬菜和香草胡萝卜混合物，最后淋上酱汁。如果愿意，可以撒上额外的花生碎和辣椒。

乔·奥特威 (Joe Otway) 英国之最

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初秋是使用英国农产品烹饪最丰盛且最令人慰藉的时期之一：甜玉米正值巅峰，随着天气转凉，南瓜开始变甜，而像红菊苣这样的苦叶菜则为这个季节的丰饶提供了平衡。今天的食谱是对英国食材的简单庆祝，仅使用少数精心挑选的成分，让每种蔬菜都能大放异彩。两道菜都依赖于在食材季节性巅峰期进行烹饪，并让自然引导菜单。

海盐和黑胡椒 4 根新鲜甜玉米棒，或 1 x 400g 罐装高品质甜玉米 150g 酸奶油 100ml 特级初榨橄榄油 $\frac{1}{2}$ 个柠檬的汁 海盐 20g 新鲜牛至叶，另留部分用于装饰 30g 帕玛森芝士片

酸奶油牛至玉米沙拉

将一大锅盐水烧开，放入玉米棒，煮 4 或 5 分钟直至软嫩，然后沥干并迅速冷却。待玉米棒冷却至可以手持时，将玉米粒切下放入碗中（如果使用罐装玉米，请跳过焯水步骤，直接将罐中的水沥干）。

将酸奶油与 20ml 橄榄油、柠檬汁和一小撮盐混合。将牛至与剩余的橄榄油混合搅拌至出香味。用牛至油给甜玉米调味，然后加入足量的盐，如果需要，再加入少许柠檬汁。

将酸奶油混合物铺在平盘上，将调好味的玉米舀在上面，撒上几片牛至叶，最后撒上足量的帕玛森芝士碎和少许黑胡椒。

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90g 无盐黄油，另需少量用于抹油 120g 普通面粉，另需少量用于撒粉 110g 成熟切达芝士，细碎 70g 全蛋 25ml 全脂牛奶 10g 成品英式芥末酱，或按口味调整 110ml 双倍奶油 海盐和黑胡椒

首先，制作面团。将黄油揉入面粉中，直到混合物像粗面包屑一样，然后加入 60g 碎切达芝士，轻轻揉捏直到混合物形成面团。将其分成四份，包裹好并冷藏至少 30 分钟。

与此同时，制作蛋奶冻。将鸡蛋、牛奶、剩余的 50g 碎切达芝士和芥末酱搅拌至顺滑，然后用手搅拌入奶油，并按口味调味。

将烤箱预热至 180℃ (160℃ fan) / gas 4, 并在四个 8-10cm 的个人塔模中抹油并铺好衬纸。在工作台上轻撒面粉，将每块面团擀开，然后铺在模具中。在每个面团底部铺上烘焙纸，填入烘焙豆或类似物品，然后盲烤 15 分钟，直到呈浅金色。取出纸和烘焙豆，将塔皮重新放入烤箱再烤 5 分钟，直到底部酥脆且呈金色。

小心地将蛋奶冻倒入每个塔壳中直到几乎填满，然后根据您的烤箱情况再烤 15-25 分钟（毕竟家用烤箱的实际温度差异较大），直到蛋奶冻表面呈浅褐色，且中心微颤但已凝固。

放置至室温冷却，然后搭配沙拉食用。 Joe Otway 是曼彻斯特 Higher Ground、Bar Shrimp 和 Flawd 的主厨 / 共同所有者。

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Gurdeep Loyal 快捷简便

Biber salçası 是一种由浓缩熟红椒和盐制成的土耳其酱料。它有两种品种：acı（辣）和 tatlı（甜）。在这道在土耳其被称为 markana 的意面食谱中，辣味版本为用孜然调味的羊肉增添了深沉的鲜味辣感。传统上，markana 搭配蒜味酸奶，并淋上大量用 pul biber（土耳其辣椒粉）和苏马克（sumac）调味的辣椒黄油。由于风味如此浓郁，最好使用像 paccheri（大管面）这样的大型意面形状，因为其宽大的中空部分可以容纳令人满足的馅料。

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1 汤匙橄榄油 1 个大红洋葱，去皮并切丁 细盐 500g 羊肉末 2 茶匙孜然籽，压碎 6 瓣大蒜，去皮并压碎 4 汤匙 acı biber salçası（土耳其辣椒酱） 3 汤匙番茄膏 1 茶匙干薄荷 糖 400g paccheri（大管面） 200g 天然酸奶 1 个大号无蜡柠檬的细柠檬皮屑和柠檬汁 50g 无盐黄油 1 茶匙 pul biber 或辣椒碎 1 茶匙苏马克 15g 新鲜莳萝，叶子切碎

PHOTOGRAPH: LOUISE HAGGER / THE GUARDIAN. FOOD STYLING: EMILY KYDD. PROP STYLING: JENNIFER KAY. FOOD STYLING ASSISTANT: LAURA LAWRENCE

土耳其羊肉辣椒大管面

将橄榄油倒入一个宽而深的煎锅中，然后加入洋葱和四分之一茶匙盐，翻炒 4 分钟。加入羊肉末、孜然和 4 瓣压碎的大蒜，烹饪 6 到 7 分钟，直到肉类刚刚开始变褐。

加入辣椒酱、番茄膏、干薄荷、1 茶匙细盐和一大撮糖，烹饪 2 分钟。倒入 250ml 水，将火力调至中低火，小火炖 10 分钟。

与此同时，按照包装说明在加盐的沸水中煮熟意面，然后沥干。

在一个小碗中，将酸奶与剩余的 2 瓣压碎的大蒜和柠檬皮屑混合。

在小煎锅中融化黄油，烹饪 3 到 4 分钟，直到它刚刚开始呈现褐色。拌入 pul biber 和苏马克，然后离火。

将大部分柠檬汁和大部分莳萝拌入羊肉酱中，然后加入沥干的意面并充分搅拌均匀。淋上蒜味酸奶，接着淋上苏马克黄油，用更多莳萝和再次挤入的柠檬汁点缀，直接用锅盛出食用。 《风味英雄：15 种提升烹饪水平的现代厨房食材》（Flavour Heroes: 15 Modern Pantry Ingredients to Amplify Your Cooking），作者 Gurdeep Loyal，由 Quadrille 出版，售价 £27. 如需以 £24.30, 订购副本，请访问 guardianbookshop.com

Calum Franklin 派之极乐

辛辣绿酸辣酱

这是我一直以来最喜欢的派之一，诞生于英格兰中部。在伯明翰大学学院学习期间，当时该学院食品系主任 Lewis Walker 和我住在同一个租房里，在狂欢之夜后经常在深夜出没于巴尔蒂（balti）餐厅。这些派让我想起那段非常特别的时光。它们是对多元文化英国的一次精彩庆典。

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准备时间 15 分钟 分量 150 毫升

1 瓣大蒜，去皮 2 厘米姜块，去皮 1 个青辣椒 ½ 茶匙孜然籽，轻微烘烤 ½ 个柠檬的汁 60 克新鲜香菜，摘叶 40 克新鲜薄荷，摘叶 1 撮细食盐

这是一款清新而浓郁的酱汁，制作非常简单。它与巴尔蒂派（balti pies）是绝佳的搭配。

在搅拌机中，将大蒜、姜、辣椒、孜然、柠檬汁和 4 汤匙水搅拌至顺滑。加入香菜叶、薄荷叶和一撮盐，再次搅拌至顺滑。存放在冰箱的密封容器中，这种蘸酱可保存长达一周。

摄影：YUKI SUGIURA / THE GUARDIAN。食物与道具造型：AYA NISHIMURA。食物造型助手：ALEX JORGE

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6 块带骨鸡腿肉 细食盐 1 茶匙中等口味咖喱粉 1 加拉姆马萨拉（garam masala） ½ 姜黄粉 ½ 辣椒粉 ½ 孜然粉 ½ 肉桂粉 70 克黄油 1 个红洋葱，去皮并切碎 1 个青椒，去籽并切成小方块 1 瓣大蒜，去皮并切碎 2 厘米姜块，去皮并切碎 400 克罐装切碎番茄 1 番茄膏 200 毫升鸡汤 1 满汤匙玉米淀粉 1 个青柠的皮屑和汁 10 克新鲜香菜，粗切 16 片冷冻罗提帕拉塔饼（roti paratha） 1 个蛋黄，过滤后与 1 水搅拌，用于刷蛋液 各 1 撮黑种草籽和茴香籽，用于装饰顶部

将烤箱预热至 210℃（风扇模式 190℃） / 燃气档 6½。将鸡肉放入烤盘，撒盐调味，烘烤 25 分钟直至熟透。晾凉后，将肉从骨头上撕下，切成小块。

将烤箱温度调低至 205℃（风扇模式 185℃） / 燃气档 6。将研磨好的香料撒在铝箔纸上，放入烤箱烘烤 10 分钟。关闭烤箱。与此同时，在宽底锅中融化 50 克黄油。加入红洋葱、青椒、大蒜和姜，用小火烹饪至软化。加入烘烤过的香料，烹饪 1 分钟，然后加入番茄、番茄膏和鸡汤，慢炖至液体减少一半。

在小碗中，将一汤匙冷水混入玉米淀粉中，然后搅拌入酱汁中。持续搅拌，使酱汁达到微沸状态。拌入鸡肉，然后加入青柠皮屑和汁。根据口味调味。拌入切碎的香菜，晾至室温，然后放入冰箱冷藏。

使用剩余的黄油在不粘 12 孔马芬烤盘的 8 个孔中抹油。将帕拉塔饼从冷冻库取出，迅速地将其中 8 片擀至约 11 厘米，用来铺在抹了油的马芬孔中。填入四分之三的鸡肉混合料。在露出的帕拉塔饼上轻轻刷水，然后用剩余的帕拉塔饼封口，轻轻捏紧边缘。冷藏 15 分钟。

将烤箱预热至 220℃（风扇模式 200℃） / 燃气档 7。在每个派的顶部切一个小孔，在顶部轻轻刷上蛋液，然后撒上黑种草籽和茴香籽。烘烤 30 分钟，然后趁热搭配对面页面的绿蘸酱食用。这些食谱摘自 Calum Franklin 所著的《The Modern Pie Maker》，由 Bloomsbury 出版，售价 £26。如需订购副本（售价 £23.40），请访问 guardianbookshop.com

Felicity Cloake 大师课：南瓜汤

南瓜汤在理论上非常美味——甜美、丝滑，带着淡淡的秋意——但在现实中却经常令人失望。由于南瓜含水量高，其味道和浓稠度往往不足，这可能会让最尽职的厨师在品尝后，后悔当初没有在有机会时就将那些万圣节剩下的南瓜边角料扔进堆肥堆里。但我想无需多言，这道南瓜汤并非如此。

1 将胡萝卜、芹菜、洋葱和辣椒切碎作为汤底，将鼠尾草叶粗略撕碎，并擦碎奶酪

准备时间 20 分钟 烹饪时间 1 小时 分量 4-6 人份

约 1½kg 南瓜或冬瓜（例如：皇冠王子南瓜、糖南瓜、日本南瓜），洗净 油 盐 2 升清鸡汤或蔬菜汤 1 个大红洋葱或黄洋葱，去皮切碎 1 根芹菜，切成小丁 2 个小胡萝卜，去皮切成小丁 1 个小红辣椒，切碎，或撒入少许辣椒碎（可选） 糖（可选） 2 汤匙黄油 4 片鼠尾草叶，粗略撕碎，或 2 枝百里香的叶子 1 把擦碎的帕玛森奶酪，或格鲁耶尔奶酪或类似奶酪 肉豆蔻

1 关于南瓜的说明 这里最关键的一步是南瓜的选择。寻找那些相对于体积而言感觉较重的南瓜。我喜欢质地浓稠、像软糖一样的皇冠王子南瓜，或者带有坚果香味的日本南瓜；但如果都没有，奶油南瓜（butternut squash）也可以。亚洲、非洲和加勒比地区的杂货店通常比超市提供更丰富的品种，当地的蔬菜店或农贸市场也是如此。

2 去皮 南瓜的含水量可能高达 90%，因此值得将果肉烤制以浓缩其风味。将烤箱预热至 200℃（风扇模式 180℃） / 燃气档 6。洗净南瓜，然后切掉一端的部分表皮，使其能稳固地立在砧板上。使用 Y 型削皮刀或锋利的刀去除其余表皮，并将削下的皮放入一个中号锅中。

2 将南瓜对半切开，去籽并去皮，然后切成方块，拌入油和盐，烤 40 分钟

9 最后点缀 如果搭配棕色黄油食用（滴入冷南瓜油是很好的纯素替代方案），将黄油加热至金黄色，拌入鼠尾草，立即倒入耐热碗或壶中。在汤上撒上奶酪（如果使用）、擦入少许肉豆蔻，淋上棕色黄油和鼠尾草或油，并撒上几颗烤籽。

摄影：DAN JONES / THE GUARDIAN。食物造型：STEVIE TAYLOR

8 加入烤南瓜 将烤好的南瓜块拌入汤底中，然后滤入南瓜皮熬出的汤（丢弃皮渣）。加热至微沸并烹饪约 10 分钟，或直到南瓜变得非常柔软。使用手持搅拌棒或搅拌机将其打成泥（如果使用后者，请先让汤稍微冷却），然后品尝并调整调味，根据需要加入少量糖或用水稀释。

7 开始准备汤底 在大型炖锅中倒入两汤匙油，用中低火加热，然后加入洋葱、芹菜、胡萝卜和一大撮盐，经常搅拌地翻炒至变软但不要变色。拌入辣椒（如果使用），再翻炒约一分钟（如果汤底在南瓜烤好之前就准备好了，请将锅移离火源）。

6 烘烤南瓜籽 如有必要，清洗预留的一勺南瓜籽，去除附着的果肉，然后用干净的茶巾或厨房纸巾吸干。将种子放在一个新的托盘上，拌入少量油和盐，然后在南瓜烹饪时间的最后 10 分钟将其放入烤箱。取出备用，使其变得酥脆。

5 煮南瓜边角料 在南瓜烹饪期间，将高汤倒入盛有皮的锅中——我最喜欢用新鲜的鸡汤，因为它比蔬菜汤更浓郁且味道更中性，但大多数品种都可以，纯水也可以。煮沸后，调低火力，轻轻炖煮 30 分钟。

4 烘烤南瓜 在南瓜块上淋入少量油（橄榄油不错，但任何味道不过浓的油都可以），并拌入少量盐。烘烤约 40 分钟，直到变软并开始上色。如果南瓜块上色不均匀，在时间过半时将托盘转动方向，并取出那些看起来可能在其他部分完成前被烤焦的块。

3 去籽并切南瓜 将南瓜切成四等分，然后去除种子（以及周围的果肉）。将除一勺以外的所有种子加入盛有皮的锅中，其余的暂时留出。将果肉切成大小均匀的大块，放在烘焙托盘上（如果数量过多无法舒适地铺成一层，请使用第二个托盘）。

7 用油将切好的洋葱、胡萝卜和芹菜炒至软烂，然后加入辣椒炒一分钟即可

8 加入南瓜和高汤，炖煮 10 分钟，然后打成泥。搭配焦化黄油、种子和奶酪食用

5 留出一把种子，将南瓜边角料在高汤中炖煮，然后过滤。将预留的种子烘烤至酥脆

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米娜·霍兰德：阴天，且有“统治”之雨

几个世纪前，杰弗里·乔叟曾观察到“世上没有不古老的新时尚”。这个真理——即太阳之下没有新鲜事——无疑也适用于葡萄酒：每年，某种有据可查或古老的葡萄栽培实践都会被重新包装，而主流市场则欣喜地将其视为一项创新。橙酒！桶装酒！冰镇红酒！而在 2026 年，则是浑浊酒（cloudy wine），这要归功于马莎（Marks & Spencer）推出的桃色半透明有机桃红酒 Trouble，这个名字在法语中意为“浑浊”。

Trouble 是英国超市中首款上市的浑浊静止葡萄酒。自从 pét nat（天然起泡酒）大受欢迎以来，这一发展似乎就已不可避免；这是一种古老的起泡酒酿造方法，在发酵完成之前就进行装瓶。

四款提升心情的浑浊葡萄酒

Trouble Cloudy Organic Rosé £12 Ocado, 12.5%。一款略带咸鲜味、非常易饮的南法桃红酒。

Alma 4 Phos Pét Nat £12 Tesco, 12.5%。适合搭配食物的阿根廷霞多丽天然起泡酒。轻微起泡且富有质感。

Alella 'La Rumbera' 2022 £32 Dynamic Wines, 11%。一款严肃的、未经澄清且未经过滤的接触果皮葡萄酒。

Ottolenghi Red Wine £26, 10%。一款浑浊的黑皮诺混酿，是 Ottolenghi 的店酒，很可能也会成为我的心头好。

通常情况下，天然起泡酒不进行除渣（即不去除发酵后留下的死酵母细胞），这就是它们呈现浑浊外观的原因。它们通常清新且酸爽，因此适合温暖的天气，但很难想象在秋日的夜晚，还有比搭配外卖披萨更好的选择。反应迅速的马莎（M&S）拥有自有品牌的英格兰桃红天然起泡酒（目前缺货），而乐购（Tesco）则销售一款来自阿根廷的霞多丽天然起泡酒。

葡萄栽培中的“澄清”一词是指使传统葡萄酒变得如此晶莹剔透的几种工艺——即胶凝（添加药剂以结合形成雾气的颗粒）和过滤（将颗粒从酒中去除）。有些澄清方法既不涉及胶凝也不涉及过滤，例如移桶或静置，因此，浑浊酒也可以经过过滤，而未经过滤的酒也可以是清澈的。Waitrose 的货架上没有“浑浊”葡萄酒，但确实有几款未经过滤的葡萄酒。

那么，为什么要选择浑浊或未经过滤的葡萄酒呢？“它有质感，有肉感，有圆润的水果味，”Ottolenghi 集团的葡萄酒主管扎伊娜布·马杰里科娃（Zainab Majerikova）说道，该集团的三款店酒全部是未经过滤且浑浊的天然酒。“这使得它们更令人回味，且更适合搭配风味浓郁、复杂的食物，”马杰里科娃说。

我总觉得，与酒泥（那些死酵母细胞）接触时间越长，浑浊酒就越像食物；它虽然是饮料，但具有一种“脆感”。为了充分发挥其风味和在口感上的分量，马杰里科娃建议在开瓶前摇晃酒瓶，将沉淀物与液体混合。无论如何，她说，浑浊感为葡萄酒带来了“灵魂、活力和复杂性”，让人们找回传统的乐趣。

The good mixer All Roads 戴基里 (daiquiri)

1 人份

菠萝苏格兰帽辣椒果酱配料 75克新鲜菠萝，粗略切块 30克细砂糖 1 小片苏格兰帽辣椒（或根据口味增加），或 1 撮辣椒碎

饮品配料 10毫升高酒精度白朗姆酒 —— 我们使用 Wray & Nephew 45毫升白朗姆酒 —— 我们使用 Havana Club 3-Year-Old 25毫升新鲜青柠汁 30克菠萝苏格兰帽辣椒果酱（见上述配料及方法）

我们的戴基里概括了 All Roads 的精髓：熟悉的风味，带一点点反转。菠萝、朗姆酒和青柠是经典组合，而苏格兰帽辣椒果酱的加入带来了一种微妙的暖意，使其在阳光明媚的日子里表现出色，同样也适合秋季最初的那些清爽夜晚。

首先制作果酱。将菠萝和细砂糖放入炖锅中，用小火加热直到水果开始变软。搅拌至顺滑 —— 我们使用手持搅拌棒 —— 然后根据口味加入苏格兰帽辣椒，继续小火慢炖 20-25 分钟，期间定期搅拌，直到果酱浓稠并呈现浅金色。离火，完全冷却，然后取出并丢弃辣椒（如果使用辣椒碎，则保留在内）。倒入小罐或容器中，放入冰箱冷藏备用。

调制饮品：将所有配料放入装满冰块的鸡尾酒摇酒壶中，用力摇晃至充分冷却，然后通过双重过滤倒入冰镇的浅碟形杯（coupe）中。Malika Green 和 Paschelle Brown，All Roads，伦敦 SW9

Benjamina Ebuehi 甜蜜之点 (The sweet spot)

我最近最常做的芝士蛋糕是巴斯克焦香芝士蛋糕。它非常美味，甚至不需要饼干底，而这可能正是某些人不喜欢它原因。但巴斯克芝士蛋糕很少过甜，因为焦掉的顶部提供了恰到好处的苦味来平衡整体，而内部则保持着极高的奶油质感。不过，如果我要给你一个建议，那就是确保在它还非常晃动时就将其从烤箱中取出，这样才能获得最佳的凝固效果。烤过头的巴斯克蛋糕一点乐趣也没有。

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750克奶油芝士 220克细砂糖 $1 \frac{1}{2}$ 茶匙香草籽酱

4 个大鸡蛋，外加 1 个蛋黄 300毫升双层奶油 (double cream) 1 茶匙细海盐 20克普通面粉

太妃苹果配料 3 个食用苹果 60克黄油 80克深棕色糖 ½ 茶匙肉桂粉 120毫升双层奶油 (double cream)

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太妃苹果巴斯克芝士蛋糕

我为这款蛋糕加入了一些简单的秋季元素，在顶部铺上厚厚一层带有轻微香料味的太妃苹果片。

将烤箱预热至 240℃（风扇烤箱 220℃） / 燃气档 9。将两张大张烘焙纸揉皱，然后将其铺平在 20 厘米深的圆形蛋糕模具的角落里。

将奶油奶酪、糖和香草放入大碗或立式搅拌机中，短时间搅拌至顺滑。依次加入鸡蛋，最后加入额外的蛋黄，确保不要高速搅拌，以免混入过多空气。搅拌入奶油和盐。

舀出约八分之一的面糊放入一个小碗中，在上面筛入面粉。充分搅拌确保没有结块，然后将其刮回主混合物中，搅拌均匀。

将面糊倒入准备好的模具中，烘烤 35-40 分钟，直到顶部呈深褐色但仍有剧烈晃动感。（如果顶部颜色不够深，只需将其放在高温烤格下烤几分钟即可。）让芝士蛋糕冷却至室温，然后放入冰箱冷藏，最好冷藏过夜。第二天，将芝士蛋糕从模具中取出。

制作太妃苹果：将苹果去皮去核，然后切成厚度均匀的八等分片。在宽锅中加热黄油，放入苹果片，翻动使其均匀裹上黄油，烹饪三到四分钟，直到边缘开始变软。加入糖和肉桂，搅拌均匀，待糖融化后，倒入奶油。短时间烹饪直到酱汁顺滑，小火炖一分钟，然后离火，搅拌入一小撮盐。

待苹果冷却，将苹果和部分焦糖酱舀在芝士蛋糕顶部。如果喜欢，可以在切片后的芝士蛋糕上搭配额外的酱汁食用。

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Tom Hunt 过滤器：切片全麦面包

摄影与食物造型：ROBERT BILLINGTON / THE GUARDIAN

为了寻找一款真正出色的切片全麦三明治面包，我本周打破了我一贯严格的同类对比方法。遗憾的是，大多数此类面包都是采用标准的、为了节省时间且依赖添加剂的楚利伍德工艺（Chorleywood process）制造的，每一款都像彼此的纸板复制品，仅有极其细微的差别。然而，我确实发现了两款风味卓越的产品，以及一款质地显著良好且坚实、非常适合涂抹食材的产品；令我惊讶的是，其中几款在添加剂的缺失方面表现出色，且性价比都很高。

综合最佳 Jason's sourdough wholemeal ciabattin

一款顶部圆润的小型模具面包，气孔闭合，质地浓密（非常适合涂抹），外壳色泽均匀。带有甜美的小麦草香气，口感中等偏硬，风味简单。具有甜美的坚果味且没有任何苦味。成分表简单，零添加，不含棕榈油。

Wildfarmed 再生切片种子面包

£2.25 (550g), Ocado ★★★★☆ 一款非常柔软且含有大量种子的面包，带有烤大麦和发酵酵母的香气。 风味甜美，具有复杂的坚果味和烤麸皮的余韵，大量种子带来了额外的口感。B Corp 认证，零添加，不含棕榈油，是本周最值得挥霍的选择。

Asda Exceptional 全麦超级种子切片面包

£1.60 (800g) Asda ★★★☆☆ 切片厚实，面包心中等且紧实，带有诱人的甜味和坚果香气。口感略有黏糊，但很有分量，且由于含有大量种子，咀嚼感良好。风味均衡，且不含添加剂。不过，含有棕榈油和棕榈脂肪。

Sainsbury's Taste the Difference 多种子全麦农舍面包 £1.60 (800g) Sainsbury's ★★★☆☆

一款令人自豪的面包，带有深色的焦糖色外壳。香气甜美、带有麦芽味但略显酸味，面包心浓密且坚实，其中分布着混合种子。口感坚实且酥脆，带有甜美的坚果风味，没有苦味。不含添加剂，但含有棕榈油。

Tesco Finest 全麦种子与谷物面包 £1.75 (800g) Tesco ★★★☆☆ 一款柔软的种子面包，顶部覆盖着小麦片。具有浓郁的麸皮主导香气，风味简单，带有咸鲜的坚果收尾，咀嚼感尚可。不含添加剂，且不含棕榈油。

最佳性价比 Aldi Specially Selected 全麦种子面包 99p (800g) 一款超级柔软的面包， 点缀着种子， 带有清新且 健康的麦芽 香气。口感非常柔软 且易于咀嚼， 种子和有嚼劲的 外壳都提供了 良好的质感。含有三种添加剂， 但不含棕榈油。

M&S 中等全麦超级柔软面包 75p (800g), Ocado ★★☆☆☆ 一款柔软的面包，面包心紧实，质地黏糊。带有甜美的坚果香气，但收尾带有苦涩的焦味。起初味道甜美，中间带有不错的坚果味。一款不错且不含添加剂的日常面包，但确实含有棕榈油。性价比也极高。

Hovis 谷仓全麦面包

£2 (800g), Waitrose ★★☆☆☆ 一款色泽深褐、顶部覆盖小麦片的浓郁面包。带有甜美的坚果香气和非常柔软的质地。简单的麸皮主导风味，带有苦涩的后味。不含棕榈油，但含有三种添加剂。

Allinson's The Champion 全麦面包 £1.78 (650g), Asda 一款深色的圆顶 三明治面包，具有 紧实的面包心和柔软、 黏稠的质地。带有刺鼻的、过度烘烤的麸皮香气，以及独特的麦芽味但苦涩的麸皮风味。不含添加剂或标注的人工防腐剂，且不含乳化剂。含有经过认证的“可持续”棕榈油。

Co-op Bakery 农舍全麦面包

£1.30 (800g) Co-op ★☆☆☆☆ 一款标准柔软面包，面包心紧实，带有甜美但略显合成的香气，质地黏糊。以甜味为主的风味，带有微妙的坚果气息和令人愉快的后味。含有三种添加剂，以及棕榈油和棕榈脂肪。

厨房助手：熬制清澈鸡汤的秘诀是什么？

为什么我的鸡汤总是浑浊的？——来自 Ryan 的电子邮件

从清汤、意式炖饭到酱汁和炖菜，毫无疑问，一份风味浓郁的高汤将为你提供极大的便利。“这是一个被低估的厨房工作，”伦敦西南部 Trinity 餐厅的主厨兼店主、《Trinity: The Cookbook》一书的作者亚当·拜亚特（Adam Byatt）说道。

拜亚特表示，Ryan 遇到的浑浊问题“仅仅是因为熬汤速度太快，或者让油脂沸腾回流到基液中”造成的。因此，关键在于采取“低温慢炖”的方式。你还需要一个“足够大且足够重的锅，以便给骨头留出足够的活动空间，以及一个用于过滤的极细筛网”。

在实际操作方面，《Lozhka》的作者阿里莎·蒂莫什金娜（Alissa Timoshkina）主张冷水下锅。她将鸡腿、小腿或烤鸡骨架放入大锅中，加入高汤蔬菜（例如洋葱、胡萝卜、芹菜、大蒜）和香料（例如月桂叶、欧芹茎、胡椒粒），然后倒入冷水没过所有食材，并非常缓慢地将其加热至沸腾。随后，她调低火力，使其在极微小的沸腾状态下慢炖。如果这份精心熬制的汤依然浑浊，蒂莫什金娜会尝试通过细筛网过滤，并搅拌入一汤匙柠檬汁来缓解，这样做还有一个额外好处，就是“对提升风味也很有帮助”。

与此同时，爱丁堡 The Palmerston 餐厅的主厨兼共同所有者劳埃德·莫尔斯（Lloyd Morse）喜欢先炖骨头，“偶尔摇晃一下”，使更多浮沫升至表面：“你需要把浮沫撇得干干净净。”直到这时他才会加入蔬菜：“并且要持续撇沫，”他补充道，意识到这一点很重要——“搅拌越多或锅内温度越高，汤就越浑浊”。

伦敦 Osteria Vibrato 餐厅的主厨路易斯·林伍德（Louis Lingwood）认为，本质上，“只要没有任何东西真正沸腾，Ryan 的汤应该是清澈的”。他熬制鸡汤时会“用尽可能最低的火力炖一整天”，然后扔掉骨头，让汤静置直到所有油脂升至顶部。用汤勺将其撇掉，然后非常缓慢地浓缩高汤。

林伍德还掌握了另一个诀窍：利用冷冻库。“通过铺有细布的筛网进行解冻，汤就会变得晶莹剔透。”说到冷冻库，将高汤冻在冰格中，然后放入密封容器里，对于那些只需要少量高汤的场合来说，是一个很方便的操作。

当然，莫尔斯说，Ryan 可以通过简单地在烤箱中熬汤来让生活变得轻松得多：“我的顶级建议是使用耐烤容器，比如 Le Creuset [当然也有其他品牌]，然后将其放入烤箱中一夜慢炖，”他指的是大约 90℃。“间接加热能熬出最清澈的汤，而且当你醒来时，厨房里会弥漫着迷人的香味。”这就是便捷美食的极致体现。

安娜·贝里尔（Anna Berrill） 有烹饪难题？ 发送邮件至 feast@theguardian.com

物尽其用……陈面包 —— 汤姆·亨特（Tom Hunt）

每年九月女儿入学的第一天，我们都会为她做一个某种水果派。去年是一个简单的苹果派，但我们打算尝试各种传统甜点，从碎屑派（crumbles）、酥皮派（crisps）到果馅酥派（cobblers）。今年，我们做了一个“棕色贝蒂”（brown betty），这是一种用陈面包制成的类似碎屑派的甜点。我们选用季节性的苹果和黑莓，不过任何水果组合其实都可以。这次我用枫糖浆来增加甜味，但你可以使用任何你喜欢的甜味剂。

苹果黑莓布朗贝蒂（Brown Betty）

将四个去核的苹果切成粗块（果核可用于堆肥，或制成果胶果冻），与100克黑莓、40克枫糖浆（或其他甜味剂）、一茶匙香草精以及可选的50毫升水（或白兰地；酒精在烹饪过程中会挥发，留下迷人且复杂的风味）混合均匀。倒入一个直径约20厘米的煎锅或耐烤盘中，然后在表面点缀25克黄油（或特级初榨橄榄油）。

将三片陈旧的棕色面包（约85克；我使用了面包皮）撕成碎片，然后用搅拌机脉冲式打碎成粗面包屑。根据口味加入30-40克选定的甜味剂、50克融化的黄油（或特级初榨橄榄油）、50克可选的混合种子或粗碎坚果、半茶匙海盐和一茶匙肉桂粉，搅拌均匀。将混合物撒在水果上方，以200℃（风扇烤箱180℃） / 燃气档位6烘烤40-45分钟，直到表面呈金褐色且冒泡。

取出后，在台面上静置10分钟，然后将您的布朗贝蒂与酸奶、奶油、冰淇淋或卡仕达酱一同食用。

瑞秋·罗迪：来自意大利厨房的故事

Marmite 酵母提取物意面 这是一个简单且实用的食谱，我相信对于许多没有时间在厨房进行长时间准备的母亲们来说会很有用。像往常一样将意面煮熟，沥干水分，加入少许黄油和帕玛森芝士拌匀。然后，针对四人份，取一勺肉提取物，在小炖锅中加入几滴沸水将其溶解。将肉提取物淋在面条上，搅拌后即可食用。你会惊讶地发现，仅需极少的时间投入，面条就能获得如此精致的口味。

这是对意大利食谱 spaghetti con l'estratto di carne（肉提取物意面）的一次大致逐字翻译。这道菜出自艾达·博尼（Ada Boni）的《幸福护身符》（Il Talismano della Felicità），该书上个月首次以英文出版。据美食作家兼编辑安吉拉·弗伦达（Angela Frenda）称，这本书“仍被认为是所有食谱书中最为精准和详实的一本”。

让我注意到 spaghetti con l'estratto di carne 的是美食历史学家、《面食简史》（A Brief History of Pasta）的作者卢卡·切萨里（Luca Cesari）。最近我和卢卡在伦敦的 St John 餐厅共进晚餐，在享用烤骨髓吐司、烤肾脏吐司、威尔士干酪吐司和炸牛肚的同时，我们聊了很多话题，包括对食谱的愤怒。Marmite 意面被作为一个例子提及，卢卡指出，就方法、口味和精神而言，它与艾达那道标志性的且“精致”的食谱几乎完全相同。

他还指出，使用一勺肉提取物作为意面酱，在精神上——以及作为一种快捷版本——与 pasta al sugo d'arrosto（烤肉酱意面）是一致的。也就是说，当你烤完一大块肉后，锅底留下的那些浓郁、美味且焦脆的肉汁，可以用少许水或葡萄酒来稀释，或许再加入一些迷迭香（或任何你喜欢的配料），然后将其用作意面酱。如果你愿意，可以称之为“肉汁意面”。（当我制作迷迭香大蒜红酒炖鸡时，我尤其喜欢将最后凝固的锅底肉汁用作意面酱。）

你要么爱它，要么恨它（但大概率会爱它）： 黄油意面

最早写到黄油、芝士和 意面的是伟大的安娜·德尔·孔特（Anna del Conte），她 1925 年出生于米兰，1949 年移居伦敦。她在自传《烩饭与荨麻》（Risotto and Nettles）中提到，这是她本人会制作（且深受孩子们喜爱）的一道菜。我想知道安娜是否知道艾达的版本？她在著作中确实提到了 pasta al sugo d'arrosto。而安娜启发了尼格拉·劳森（Nigella Lawson）制作她自己的 意面版本，这也是我遵循的食谱，尽管它很难被称作一个正式的食谱。

四人份：在大量微咸的水中煮 400-500g 意面，因为 和芝士本身已经很咸了。与此同时，用小炖锅在小火上加热两汤匙水，加入一到两茶匙 、Bovril 或 Vegemite。

待面条煮熟但仍保持 al dente（有嚼劲）的状态时，将其捞入温热的碗中（保留部分煮面水），加入 60g 切块的无盐黄油和两到四茶匙帕玛森或格拉纳帕达诺（grana padano）碎芝士，充分拌匀。将提取物混合液淋在意面上再次搅拌，如果你觉得需要，可以加入少量预留的煮面水，直到酱汁呈现出柔软且顺滑的质感。立即食用。

当然，Marmite 是一种由浓缩酵母提取物制成的深色、黏稠且咸鲜的涂抹酱。酵母提取物和肉类提取物的共同点在于都含有谷氨酸或游离谷氨酸盐，这是一种能提供咸鲜、令人垂涎的“鲜味”（umami）的氨基酸。番茄、蘑菇和奶酪也含有高浓度的游离谷氨酸盐，因此在 Ada、Anna 和 Nigella 的食谱中，通过加入帕玛森奶酪来提供双倍的鲜味；而黄油对于为最终成品增加油脂感、风味和顺滑度至关重要。我希望这款意面所呈现的绝佳风味能让你感到惊喜，而且这一切仅需投入极少的时间即可实现。

格蕾丝·登特：“伯明翰美食界的佳话”

摄影：JACKSPICER ADAMS / THE GUARDIAN

位于伯明翰布里斯托街的 Indian Cafe Racer 在其初创时期，曾蜷缩在 Wellington 酒馆后方的一道帘子后面，距离它现在华丽的新店址仅几家之隔。那里曾有一辆皇家恩菲尔德摩托车、棋盘格地板和迷幻的印度背景音乐，但很快，这家由 Azad Kayes 创办的小巧且充满家庭气息的店便成了小众追捧之所，随后客满，最终需要一个更大的空间。对于伯明翰（Brum）的美食界来说，这是一个佳话。

对于那些还记得的人来说，伯明翰南部的“巴尔蒂三角区”（Balti Triangle）曾沿着 Ladypool 路和 Stratford 路分布着 30 家繁忙的餐厅——而现在仅剩两家。供给与需求之间出了问题。与此同时，Indian Cafe Racer 拥有足够的粉丝来支撑一家全新的、可容纳 65 人的成熟餐厅。这里提供不断变化的菜单，在我们访问时，菜单包括 shaktimaan 沙拉（以一名印度漫画超级英雄命名）、gol gappa（填入鹰嘴豆和土豆的脆壳）、黑胡椒炸鸡以及烤茄子和波托贝罗菇（被称为 farzi 牛排）。

Kayes 的灵感汲取自孟买、德里、钦奈和加尔各答，并点缀了一些印中风格的小碟菜：gobi manchurian（油炸

Indian Cafe Racer

88-90 Bristol Street, Birmingham B5, 0121-238 7972。周三至周日午餐营业时间为中午 12 点至下午 4.30pm，晚餐全周营业，5-7pm。单点菜品每人约 £30 起，另加饮料和服务费（如酸甜酱花椰菜和辣子鸡）。

鸡尾酒吧提供冰冷且强劲的提神饮品，名称如“愤怒青年”（Angry Young Man）、“红地毯”（Red Carpet）和“老虎骑车”（Tiger Rides Bike），此外还有供应不绝的卡拉克茶（karak chai）——一种加入大量香料、味道极甜、用小豆蔻和炼乳浓缩冲泡的奶茶。菜单上写着：跳上我们的 Cafe Racer，让我们带您体验一次绝佳的印度风味。无需签证。

这家新开的 Indian Cafe Racer 带有几分 Dishoom 的影子：使用伪旧世界字体的纸质菜单、可擦拭的桌面，以及实用而非奢华的款待服务。新店面优雅且带有少许古怪的点缀，人们能感觉到在扩建过程中，一些轻率之举已被收拾得井井有条。巨大的玻璃窗正对着双车道的现实景象，室内色调偏暗。

尽管如此，迎接我们的态度依然热情，我们以一盘 dahi puri 开场：圆润且膨胀的脆壳中填满了土豆、甜酸奶、酸枣和薄荷 चट泥。我们知道规矩：必须一口吞下，尽管它们体积如此之大且汁水如此之多，以至于在极致的快感与在法律意义上被“水刑”之间仅有一线之隔。

恢复状态后，我们尝试了 chicken 65, 根据询问的不同，其得名原因可能是因为它在 1965 年的一家钦奈酒店菜单中排在第 65 位（当然还有其他起源说法）——用咖喱叶、青辣椒油炸，且芥末籽可能放得稍微多了一点。一盘香料羊排——每份两块，经过一夜腌制并在坦都里烤炉中完成——口感确实鲜嫩多汁。

店主秘制马萨拉口味的坦都里国王虾同样讨喜，带有碎姜的辛辣感且因蜂蜜而黏稠，而拉贾斯坦羊肉则是亮点：经过慢炖，最后用烟熏木炭和黄油收尾。

如今随处可见的奶油黄豆汤（dal makani）端上来时，其奶油番茄酱汁味道浓郁且偏甜，但烤馕（naans）稍微偏薄且过于简单。Indian Cafe Racer 的烹饪有时恰到好处，有时则略显草率，但像 gobi manchurian 这样的菜肴

这家“优雅”的新 Indian Cafe Racer 凭借“实用而非奢华的款待服务”经营，其招牌菜如羊肉比尔亚尼（gosht biryani，上图）和古拉布贾蒙（gulab jamun，下图）能满足大多数人的口味

会再次激起你的兴趣。如果此时觉得鸡尾酒太浓，总有一杯冰冷的孟买自行车 IPA 啤酒（Bombay Bicycle IPA）在候着。

Cafe Racers 是指在 60 年代在路边咖啡馆之间骑摩托车竞赛的青年们，他们骑的车型如皇家恩菲尔德（Royal Enfield），该品牌曾产于附近的雷迪奇（Redditch）。如今，皇家恩菲尔德在钦奈生产。

这款摩托车从伯明翰边缘传到了印度，而这家餐厅则完成了这个圆环。可以说，随着 Indian Cafe Racer 拥有了成熟的新店址，一些全速狂飙的混乱精神已经消失了。

不过，它每天营业（包括周一），如果你有一大群人需要喂饱，它会给予极大的关注，并且有足够的选择来让想要拉贾斯坦羊肉和芒果鱼（mango machli）的印度美食信徒感到兴奋，同时也不会吓到像希拉（Sheila）那样“不吃”辣的人——她可以点 paneer makani。Indian Cafe Racer 非常值得一试，甚至值得再次光顾。

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“我进入了中年性感时代！”罗莫拉·加莱谈到火辣新剧《通奸》

莱比（Layby）路边的约会对于罗莫拉·加莱（Romola Garai）在她火辣的新剧《通奸》（Adultery）中来说不过是日常工作。她与迈克尔·霍根（Michael Hogan）探讨了假装高潮、扮演出轨妻子——以及如何让观众晕厥。

“在车里拍性爱戏很有挑战性”

去年冬天，在皮克区（Peak District）的一场狂风暴雨中，一辆蓝色丰田 Yaris 停在偏僻的路边，车内正在拍摄一场性爱戏。“根据车的大小，这可能会带来挑战，”罗莫拉·加莱（Romola Garai）轻笑着说。“我和多米尼克 [库珀]（Dominic Cooper）钻进这辆两厢车，问：‘这些座椅能往后调到什么程度？’很快，外面刮起了大风。我们在车里准备拍摄，而外面的整个剧组正被强风吹得东倒西歪。他们喊道：‘你们留在里面，千万别出来！’与此同时，所有的灯光都被吹跑了。”

这场车内幽会是新剧《出轨》（Adultery）中的关键时刻，该剧由获得 BAFTA 奖的编剧丹尼·布罗克尔赫斯特（Danny Brocklehurst，《无耻之徒》、《欺骗》、《粗鲁》）创作。这部六集剧集被定位为一部“火辣且充满丑闻的浪漫剧”，讲述了一场威胁到两个家庭的旋风般的情事。私人教练贝丝（加莱 饰）和全科医生汤姆（库珀 饰）均已婚，但当他们的青少年子女开始约会时，两人被凑在了一起。由于彼此之间有着无法抑制的吸引力，这对男女陷入了一场激烈的禁忌之恋。

他们能保守秘密吗？愧疚感是否会变得难以承受？他们是否会离开各自的配偶？随着故事展开，这部剧呈现出《福斯特医生》、《冷脚》和《情事》的影子。这位 44 岁的演员——她贴心地解释说她的名字发音是“Romola，重音在‘Rom’而不是‘ola’，而 Garai 的发音像 Neville 或 Barlow 里的 Gary”——承认这个前提让她犹豫过。

“我拿起一个由男性编写的关于出轨妻子的剧本时，确实有一点犹豫，”她承认道。“在我们的文化想象中，不忠的女性一直没有得到公正的对待，而且往往是男性不安全感的投射——从夏娃开始就是如此。但我最喜欢的一些书，比如《包法利夫人》，远不止于此。幸运的是，丹尼的剧本非常出色。它们深入探讨了婚姻失望这一复杂领域。贝丝的不满并非基于什么大事。她的丈夫是个好人，但她不得不压抑自己。当贝丝意识到自己在婚姻中放弃了太多时，已经太晚了。当你与另一个人产生极强的身体连接，且这种连接生长在婚姻失望的肥沃土壤中时，灾难随之而来。”

加莱立刻与贝丝这个角色产生了共鸣。“我太了解她了。我的生活中出现过很多个版本的这种女性。一个因为做了所有‘正确的事’而精疲力竭的人。接送孩子，洗球队的足球装备，通过两份不同的工作为家庭提供经济支持。她是‘三明治一代’的一员，她快崩溃了。我觉得：太能共情了。根本不需要演技。她还不得不放弃自己的事业。我认识很多女性，她们曾拥有高管职位，但为了家庭而将其搁置。那些工作曾给她们的生活带来意义，给她们在社会中带来价值。失去这些可能是毁灭性的。怨恨就像一个小妖精一样潜伏在你的内心。”

婚外情发生在汽车里、厨房里和厕所里——更不用说城市农场的储藏室了。“我再也不会用同样的眼光看待城市农场了，”加莱说。“作为一个两个孩子的母亲 [她嫁给了演员兼导演萨姆·霍尔，他们有两个孩子，分别 10 岁和 13 岁]，我在那些地方度过了很多日子，但绝对没有发生过类似的事情。我当时只是喝了一盒果汁，买了一个松鼠钥匙扣。”

自加莱出道以来，性爱戏已经发生了变化。“以前这些戏从来没有被正确地导演过，”她说。“当时的情况就是‘随你们怎么演。只要她把胸露出来就行，其他不重要。’这对 90% 的人来说很糟糕，但对 10% 的人来说很棒。现在有了亲密协调员，情况好多了。会有尊重且技术性的沟通。基本上就像在拍特技戏一样，相当于由一名动作导演告诉每个人具体该做什么。遗憾的是，必须在情况变得如此糟糕之后，改变才到来。”

幽默感也很有帮助。“性爱戏依然很奇怪，而且有点令人尴尬。与另一个人的肢体亲密会释放各种化学物质。你的身体在产生反应，而你的大脑有时不知道如何处理。所以，有一个能一起大笑的对手戏演员很有用，这能缓解紧张情绪。”

当镜头停留在加莱（Garai）达到高潮的面孔上时，她迎来了一个“梅格·瑞安式”的时刻。“我们的亲密戏指导问：‘这里的叙事重点是什么？’而我的想法是：‘嗯，我觉得她达到了高潮。’贝丝在婚姻中在性方面得不到满足。让她获得生活中缺失的特定东西——性快感——这一点至关重要。”她笑了，“现在唯一缺少的就是一个在餐厅里的女人说：‘我要她点的那样。’希望观众能帮我填补这个空白！”

她意识到通奸是一个敏感话题。“仅仅是通过告诉人们这部剧讲了什么，我就已经经历了一些相当激烈的对话。在理发店或学校门口，我会说这是一个关于两个平凡的已婚人士出轨的故事，人们立刻就愤怒了。出轨是一个影响或伤害过每个人的问题。”街上会出现窃窃私语吗？“希望如此，”她咧嘴一笑，“我的生活太无聊了，我很喜欢能引发丑闻议论这个想法。也许我会成为出轨者的领袖。女性可能会走过来对我说：‘现在你明白为什么我对贾斯珀（Jasper）如此惯于不忠了！’而我会说：‘我真的不明白！可怜的贾斯珀！’”

《通奸》（Adultery）没有回避出轨带来的后果。“它没有保留，”加莱说，“我在片场就像个级长（prefect），我认为展示这对配偶和孩子所受的影响很重要。”她怎么像个级长？“你知道在《名人叛徒》（Celebrity Traitors）中，汉娜·弗莱（Hannah Fry）教授说她身上散发着级长的气息吗？我也有一种类似的氛围，尽管原因没那么学术。比起其他演员，我更喜欢讨论场景中的道德层面。我这么说不是在自夸，这可能非常令人厌烦！”

她还指出了人们在评判男女出轨时的双重标准：“女性被称作‘荡妇’。而男性在性方面缺乏自制力时，并没有相应的侮辱性词汇。你也永远不会称一个男人为‘家庭破坏者’。”甚至这部剧的剧名也引起了误会。“人们会问我的孩子们：‘妈妈在哪儿？’他们会回答：‘她在曼彻斯特做通奸（Adultery）。她正忙着通奸呢。’”

加莱的丈夫以及库珀（Cooper）的伴侣詹玛·陈（Gemma Chan）会开始用异样的眼光看待他们吗？“我就知道你会问这个！”她说，“谢天谢地没有，因为对于中年婚姻的压力来说，拍这样一部剧没有什么比这更有帮助的了。它真的能让你讨论其中的陷阱。我希望它能引发居家夫妇之间的对话。贝丝和汤姆都是积极参与育儿的父母，他们是照顾者。但正是他们陷入了禁忌的关系。他们是做坏事的好人。”

《通奸》的大部分悬念是通过技术手段展开的。发送性感自拍，部署手机追踪应用，潜伏在 Instagram 账号中。青少年经常因为盯着设备而被责骂。“当然，这全是胡扯，”加莱说，“孩子们完全有权说：‘滚蛋吧，成年人们。你们工作时一直在用电子邮件，在 Hinge 上约会，为了收包裹装了 Ring 门铃。’这部剧抨击的就是这种虚伪。技术已经根植在他们所有人的生活中。就我个人而言，我是一个彻头彻尾的技术恐惧症患者，对社交媒体持有非常矛盾的情绪，但它是现代关系中极其重要的一部分。”

内容可能火辣…… 多米尼克·库珀与罗莫拉·加莱 出演 《通奸》

加莱是 2017 年指控哈维·韦恩斯坦涉嫌性行为不端的 80 多名女性之一，这些指控引发了 #MeToo 运动。现在是否取得了足够的进展？“现在女性在工作中遭受性侵犯的难度大了很多，这只能说是一件好事。社交媒体发挥了巨大作用。它赋予了女性反抗系统性虐待的力量。她们可以匿名且大规模地揭露这种行为。我感到高兴，但同时也感到悲哀，因为如果没有社交媒体，这一切就不会发生。对于技术本身，我仍然持有矛盾的态度。”

二十年来，加莱在舞台和荧幕上一直以稳定且卓越的表现著称。她的电视突破发生在 2011 年，当时她因在《深红花瓣与白花》中饰演一名博学的性工作者而获得英国电影学院奖（Bafta）提名。次年，她凭借时代新闻编辑室剧集《小时》获得金球奖提名。其他电视作品包括《艾玛》、《天生杀手》、《微缩模型师》、《表现正常》、《独家报道》、《背叛》和《警戒》。在这些角色之间，穿插着广受好评的剧场作品。

去年，她凭借在安妮·埃尔诺回忆录改编剧《岁月》中的激烈表演赢得了奥利维尔奖。事实上，加莱获得了两次提名，分别是因为她在《岁月》和《巨人》（一部关于围绕罗尔德·达尔引发的反犹主义争议的戏剧）中的连续表演。这导致了一个奇怪的场面：加莱在与自己竞争，当获胜者公布时，两个特写镜头同时出现了她的身影。“那太超现实了，”她笑着说。当她的《巨人》合作演员约翰·利斯高领取最佳男演员奖杯时，他以“罗莫拉，我想我要晕过去了！”开始他的获奖感言——这是在引用《岁月》中关于地下堕胎的露骨场景，该场景因导致观众晕厥而臭名昭著。

“那太激烈了，”加莱说。“这并没有完全让我措手不及，因为这部作品最初在荷兰的国家剧院上演，导演警告过我有人晕倒过。我当时想：‘这里不会发生这种事的。我们是英国人，我们不会晕倒的！我们演过《科利奥兰纳斯》和莎拉·凯恩的剧作。我参加过的演出里甚至有人被砍掉手。’但当我第一次说出‘胎儿’这个词时，砰，砰，砰。人们就这样直接倒在地上。几乎每晚都会发生。太不可思议了。我怀疑作为一名演员，我以后再也不会经历类似的事情了。”

通过《通奸》，她即将给一批全新的观众带来震撼。“我希望我能接到更多出轨妻子的角色，”她说。“我之前处于我的 nun era, 扮演了很多保守的角色。现在我希望成为一个性感且不可信的妻子。进入我的 midlife sexpot era. 那会很棒。”《通奸》将于今年 10 月在 ITV1 和 ITVX 开播。

时间

大卫· Tennant 和 希奥班·芬尼兰 在这部卓越且令人惊悚的电视节目中表现出色

弗朗西丝·瑞安 (Frances Ryan)

在秋天，需要很大的动力才能让我离开那些舒适的电视节目。这得归咎于日益缩短的日照时间，或是那令人绝望的新闻周期，但在十月份，我能接受的最接近“电视创伤”的体验，就是看喜剧演员们在《名人叛徒》(The Celebrity Traitors) 中自掘坟墓。我想我不是一个人这么想的。我不想对英国公众进行心理分析，但我敢打赌，我们现在集体能承受的极限，大概就是看乔什·威迪科姆 (Josh Widdicombe) 在《舞动奇迹》(Strictly) 的舞池里，在艾玛·威利斯 (Emma Willis) 身边试图寻找存在感（据报道，即便如此也十分吃力）。

这时，传奇人物吉米·麦戈文 (Jimmy McGovern) 带着获得 BAFTA 奖的监狱剧《时间》(Time) 的新剧集（周日晚上 9 点，BBC One 播出）登场，将全国人民从与《烘焙大赛》(Bake Off) 相关的昏睡状态中拽出来。在前两季中已经涵盖了男女监狱的惨状，好消息是，麦戈文和共同编剧塞缪尔·贝利 (Samuel Bailey) 的这个三部曲肯定不会变得更令人心碎了。新剧集的背景设定在——查看笔记——一家少年犯管教所。好吧，太棒了。关于入狱的孩子。谢谢你，吉米！希望你开心！因为除此之外没人会开心。

当然，麦戈文长期以来一直以在《破案》(Cracker)、《湖区》(The Lakes) 和《希尔斯堡》(Hillsborough) 等标志性剧集中探讨社会现实主义和制度不公而闻名，他不会在没有正当理由的情况下让观众承受如此煎熬。随着监狱过度拥挤占据头条，以及年轻男性面临的多方面危机，《时间》第三季显得如此紧迫且具有预见性，以至于你会怀疑 BBC 是否想过将剧名改为 Time(ly)（意指“及时的”）。

尽管如此，在观看之前最好做好心理准备。在 90 秒之内，一名少年就被五名成年狱警横向地拖向牢房；当他大声辱骂时，一只手半遮住他的下颌。那只手属于大卫·特南特 (David Tennant)，他饰演资深狱警鲍比·贝利 (Bobby Bailey)。特南特将贝利演绎成一张令人印象深刻的白纸：一个几乎一直出现在屏幕上，但对话和情感如此匮乏的人物，以至于在某些时刻，他——以典型的麦戈文风格——被定义为一种平凡，很难被简单地归类为“好人”或“坏人”。

与他搭档的是《快乐谷》(Happy Valley) 的希奥班·芬纳兰 (Siobhan Finneran)，她回归饰演监狱牧师玛丽-路易丝 (Marie-Louise)——她是三季中唯一的共同线索，也是一个罕见的、我敢说，充满希望的仁慈迹象。

特南特和芬纳兰都贡献了出色的表演，但饰演新入狱者的三位年轻演员肯定会成为未来的之星。其中有彼得 (Peter，由奥利·麦克纳尔蒂 Ollie McNulty 饰演)，他被夹在一名无辜者的死亡与对社区的忠诚之间，以及詹姆斯

《时间》（Time）这部剧的时效性如此紧迫且具有预见性，以至于你会怀疑 BBC 是否曾想过将剧名改为 Time(ly)（及时）

（路易·麦卡特尼 饰），在经历了一场改变人生的暴力行为后，他挣扎着面对破碎的父母。还有克里斯托弗（由楚库武伊肯·莫洛库饰演，令人心碎），他一边与口吃作斗争，一边尝试与生母重新建立联系。

《时间》的强项之一在于其卓越的剧本，但它也不惧于在无言之中传达大量信息。运送男孩们前往监狱的白色面包车，只有小方块状的黑色窗户透出点点光亮。D翼的门极少开启，将那些暴力的、尚未成年的人们隔离开来（“门是危险的，”滕南阴森地告诉芬纳兰）。囚室被命名为“Room 29”，仿佛这些男孩只是在进行为期一周的青年旅舍度假——而这种幻象在意识到该翼的每一场戏都伴随着尖叫声时被打破。

整个作品是一堂关于紧张感的课程，在监狱中的每一分钟都将观众进一步拖入恐惧与绝望的幽闭恐惧症之中。

我不会剧透，但我可以告诉你，第一集中的某个瞬间会让你在接下来的几天里不断思考。这不是一部轻松的剧集，但它本就不该如此。麦戈文提供的不是那种让你在刷 Instagram 时作为背景播放的内容。它扼住你的喉咙，要求你质疑改变是否可能，或者人为构建的体制之恐怖是否在某些人——某些孩子——真正获得机会之前就注定了他们的命运。我们所有人都应该观看这部剧，尤其是各政治光谱上的政治家们。只不过，看完后也许可以看一集《烘焙大赛》（Bake Off）来放松一下。

电视节目指南

本周推荐 Time 周日，晚上9pm，BBC One

Saturday

今日推荐 Krapopolis 11.40pm, BBC Three

这部由《瑞克和莫蒂》创作者丹·哈蒙打造、配音阵容豪华的成人动画片上个月悄然登陆 iPlayer。故事背景设定在古希腊，讲述了仁慈的提拉尼斯（理查德·阿约德 饰）——虚荣女神德利里亚（汉娜·瓦丁汉 饰）与丈夫什拉布（马特·贝里 饰）的凡人儿子——在统治克拉波利斯时运用现代思想的故事。每集 20 分钟，节奏轻快，这套 6. 集剧集将很快看完。HR

Strictly Come Dancing 6.15pm, BBC One

克里斯和艾米是第一对在舞池中跳恰恰舞离开的舞伴（而且还穿着《海滩救护队》的服装），这意味着 14 对舞伴在比赛的第三周还剩下。莱西和维托在上周节目结束时确认了一支舞：他们将伴随着吉普赛之王（Gipsy Kings）的《Bamboléo》跳一段活泼的桑巴。HR

吉米·麦戈文的监狱系列剧集从来都不是轻松的观影体验，但敢于探索英国监狱系统最阴暗角落的勇气使其成为了高质量的作品。这一次，大卫·滕南饰演在青少年犯惩教所（YOI）中郁郁寡欢的狱警鲍比·贝利——在那里，被浪费的青春和潜力只增加了阴郁的气氛。希奥班·芬纳兰回归饰演加入该惩教所的监狱牧师玛丽-路易丝。两人开局不顺，并且在紧张的第一集中必须共同面对一场悲剧。与此同时，一名新入狱者在尝试弥补过错与融入暴力朋友圈之间徘徊。这一次，故事依然令人心碎、触动人心且极具吸引力。霍莉·理查森

40 Hits of 1976 at the BBC 8.40pm, BBC Two

奇怪的年份，1976。也许是破纪录的高温煮干了唱片买家的脑子。否则怎么解释英国最畅销的单曲兼欧洲歌唱大赛冠军《Save Your Kisses for Me》？或者 Wurzels 乐队用《Combine Harvester》冲到 No 1？庆幸的是，朋克音乐当时也正在破门而入——以及 Abba 和 Dolly。阿里·卡特罗尔

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The Party, Sun

大理石大厅谋杀案 (Marble Hall Murders) 9.20pm, BBC One

凭借出色的演员阵容以及养尊处优的文人之间对八卦的渴求，安东尼·霍罗维茨这部情节复杂的悬疑剧得以延续。图书编辑苏珊（莱斯利·曼维尔 饰）正在编辑一部背景设定在1955, 年克里特岛的半自传体小说，此时她见到了作者的家人，而作者声称其中一人谋杀了他的祖母。每个人都说话尖刻得令人赞叹。Jack Seale

周六夜现场英国版 (Saturday Night Live UK) 10pm, Sky One

哦，这集一定会很精彩：当他的女儿在《舞动奇迹》(Strictly) 中奔波时，演员 / 老炮儿 / 新兴国民瑰宝丹尼·戴尔 (Danny Dyer) 将担任本期节目的主持人，该节目在休息一周后回归。音乐表演由南伦敦创作歌手萨莎·基布尔 (Sasha Keable) 提供。HR

三个女人 (Three Women) 1.30am, Channel 4

如果 1.30am 有点太晚，这部基于丽莎·塔德奥关于性与欲望的非虚构畅销书改编的坦率剧集也可以通过流媒体观看。在这一集中，考虑到

Being Muslim After 9 / 11, Mon 康奈尔大学发生的阴郁事件，剧情更具共鸣，莉娜（贝蒂·吉尔平 饰）向吉亚（希琳·伍德莱 饰）讲述了她学生时代一段令人不安的往事。Hannah J Davies

周日

今日推荐：《派对》(The Party)

11.40pm, ITV1

萨拉·索莱马尼对伊丽莎白·戴小说的一次令人欲罢不能的改编，讲述了两个一起上寄宿学校的男人——记者马丁·吉尔莫（卢克·埃文斯 饰）和保守党政治家本·菲茨莫里斯（汤姆·库伦 饰）之间的友谊，以及在本的40岁生日派对上发生的一件可怕事件。故事开篇是马丁穿着一件血染的衬衫在警察局，回忆起他获得奖学金并结识本的那一年…… HR

不情愿的吸血鬼 (The Reluctant Vampire) 6.40pm, BBC One

这部由吉本兄弟根据埃里克·莫雷坎比的儿童小说改编的喜剧，带有温和的怪诞幽默，让人想起《幽灵》(Ghosts)。倒霉的年轻吸血鬼瓦尔（伦尼·鲁什 饰）在一次前往村庄的旅行中误入古怪的格蒂家中，从而进入了人类世界。Phil Harrison

艾娃·隆格利亚：寻找法国 (Eva Longoria: Searching for France)

7.20pm, BBC Two

《绝望主妇》的艾娃·隆格利亚降落在波尔多。这部片子拍得有点像 Nespresso 的广告，艾娃听起来像个加强版的萨曼莎·琼斯，是一段令人愉悦的逃避现实之作。当然，前提是你能忍受一群顶层1%的人在讨论那些价格惊人的劣质酒。Priya Elan

天启 (Apocalypse)

9pm, Channel 4

这是“咩咩之战”，因为东区人艾利克斯偷走了西区人的山羊。塞莉亚和凯莉对此不以为然，而艾利克斯和基拉则计划装傻，以转移任何指责。但当不可避免的冲突发生时，他们将如何掩盖四足好友们发出的声音？PE

尤尔斯·霍兰德之夜 (Later ... With Jools Holland) 10pm, BBC Two

这位前 Squeeze 乐队的钢琴手在令人印象深刻的音乐嘉宾阵容中尽情演奏他的布吉舞曲。表演嘉宾包括 Beautiful South / Housemartins 的明星保罗·希顿 (Paul Heaton)、英国流行灵魂乐新星斯凯·纽曼 (Skye Newman) 以及获得 Mobo 奖的北安普顿 MC DC3。此外，还有与强尼·马尔 (Johnny Marr) 关于其新专辑的对话——以及他最近如何为慈善事业拍卖了80 多把吉他。Alexi Duggins

周一

今日推荐：《9 / 11之后成为穆斯林》(Being Muslim After 9 / 11) 9pm, BBC Two

“在25 年前，成为一名英国穆斯林是没问题的，”记者莫宾·阿扎尔 (Mobeen Azhar) 说道。“我们曾登上杂志封面，被选入议会，甚至担任英格兰板球队队长。”然后 9 / 11 发生了。他与电影制作伙伴马苏德·汗 (Masood Khan) 拍摄了这部纪录片，以探讨恐怖袭击如何影响穆斯林社区——包括他们自己的经历——以及为什么这些影响在今天依然回荡。HR

全景报道：罗曼·阿布拉莫维奇——他是如何隐藏财富的 8pm, BBC One

一项数据泄露带来的新证据使《全景报道》（Panorama）得以审视数百份文件，这些文件表明，相关资料可能被伪造以掩盖这位前切尔西所有者及寡头巨大的财富。它能否像针对曼城所有者的指控那样，成功地主导新闻议程？阿布拉莫维奇对这些指控提出异议，并否认有任何不当行为。AD

杰米的 20 分钟快餐 8pm, Channel 4

这位厨师继续他的实时烹饪课，准备一顿牛排之夜晚餐，配有干葱头白兰地酱和一份蒜香面疙瘩薯条。随后，他制作了一道配以绿色蔬菜和番茄龙蒿莎莎酱的脆皮鳟鱼。两道菜均在 20 分钟内完成。HR

斯泰西·杜利揭秘点击诱饵 8.30pm, BBC One

网红们声称睾酮水平处于历史低位的说法是否属实？“T-maxxing”（睾酮最大化）是杜利调查的下一个社交媒体“健康趋势”。她会见了一些认为通过人工提高睾酮水平可以增加骨密度、性欲、能量和肌肉质量的男性，随后向专家提出质疑。HR

皮埃尔

9pm, Channel 4

“我只是不想成为那个告诉姑姑，她的侄子并不是她认为的那种男孩的人。”充满魅力的值班律师皮埃尔（大卫·哈伍德 饰）调查他的青少年客户迈克尔的谋杀案——并质疑自己是否错了，竟然相信他想要远离犯罪。这只会让他更想深入挖掘答案…… HR

迈克尔·帕林在菲律宾 9pm, Channel 5

帕林在南部的民答那岛度过了他的第三周，也是最后一周：这里是一个禁行区，也是名声扫地的前总统罗德里戈·杜特尔特的故乡。在达沃市，这位蒙提·派森（Monty Python）的明星会见了 Budots 背后的 DJ，这首欢快的歌曲和类似 Twerk 的舞蹈热潮，竟然是以杜特尔特猎杀毒贩的死亡小队为灵感的。PE

Tuesday

今日精选 Storyville：询问 E. Jean 10pm, BBC Four

为什么记者兼建议专栏作家 E·简·卡罗尔决定起诉唐纳德·特朗普？“因为他叫我骗子，我不能就此罢休。”这部纪录片回顾了她开创性的媒体生涯，随后追溯了她在民事法院两次起诉特朗普涉嫌性虐待和诽谤的历程（分别在他在担任总统之前的 2019 年和 2022 年），这两次诉讼她均胜诉。HR

英国烘焙大赛 8pm, Channel 4

面包是保罗·好莱坞的专长，这让面包周的参赛者们十分苦恼。在第一项挑战中，汤姆和加里都在制作芝士切尔西面包卷，而康妮则在制作一种含有 4 种不同芝士和辣椒碎的 Yum Yum 风格面包。但哪位烘焙师能将恰到好处的蒜味融入其中？PE

蓝色灯光

盖里的谋杀案审判之日终于到来，这意味着前警察珍（汉娜·麦克林 饰）将快速回归，她在盖里被枪击时就在他身边。当桑德拉（安迪·奥肖 饰）在现场旁听时，请准备好迎接强烈的情绪冲击。与此同时，格蕾丝（希安·布鲁克 饰）拜访了那个试图毁掉她生活的年轻女子。HR

约翰·辛普森：在 BBC 的六十年

9pm, BBC Two

约翰·辛普森在 BBC 的职业生涯跨越了一个非凡的时间跨度：这个精彩回顾集同时也充当了二战后 era. 的历史记录。辛普森是一位亲切且睿智的向导，带领观众回顾从伊朗革命（“极其恐怖”）到纳尔逊·曼德拉获释以及弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基的艰辛等事件。PH

本·福格尔：荒野新生活 9pm, Channel 5

亨伯特一家在法属波利尼西亚一个偏远的太平洋环礁上经营着一家可持续珍珠养殖企业。当本·福格尔前来访问时，他通过潜水采集牡蛎来赚取食宿。但能否赢得该家族 83 岁祖父的好感？这位粗犷的加利克海员对蔬菜嗤之以鼻。Graeme Virtue

2026年天空艺术奖 (The Sky Arts Awards 2026) 晚上9点，Sky Arts频道

这是一场格调高雅的盛会，由格雷森·佩里 (Grayson Perry) 和丽贝卡·露西·泰勒 (Rebecca Lucy Taylor，艺名 Self Esteem) 在伦敦圆形屋 (Roundhouse) 主持，旨在表彰今年的最佳文化成就。在各项类别和提名中，尼克·穆罕默德 (Nick Mohammed) 获最佳喜剧奖提名，《格伦费尔：揭秘》(Grenfell: Uncovered) 获最佳电视节目提名，温迪·埃尔斯金 (Wendy Erskine) 则获得了最佳文学奖的提名。HR

周三

《同路人》(Fellow Travelers)

晚上10点，Channel 4频道

这部由《国土安全》(Homeland) 制作团队打造、荣获艾美奖提名的优雅且沉重的时代剧终于在英国电视荧幕上线。它既是一部浪漫剧，也是一部惊悚剧，讲述了霍克 (Hawk，马特·博默 饰) 和蒂姆 (Tim，乔纳森·贝利 饰) 在麦卡锡主义盛行时期于华盛顿特区相遇，并在接下来的三十年里发展出一段性关系的故事。HR

《修复铺：棚屋之外》(The Repair Shop: Beyond the Barn)

晚上8点，BBC One频道

更多来自工作室内部以及英国各地的感人故事。一台与三个大洲都有联系的唱片机能否重获新生？一台曾在20世纪50年代拍摄皇室肖像的禄莱 (Rolleiflex) 相机，现在需要极其精细的修复，是否还有希望？HJD

2026年度肖像画家 (Portrait Artist of the Year 2026) 晚上8点，Sky Arts频道

路易·塞鲁 (Louis Theroux) 是本周比赛中第一个勇敢坐下来让画家绘制肖像的名人。“如果你画成色块也没关系，”他向画家们保证道。前白宫通讯主任安东尼·斯卡拉穆奇 (Anthony Scaramucci) 和演员乔安娜·斯坎兰 (Joanna Scanlan) 也参与了拍摄。按照惯例，其中一人将会落泪。HR

《改变我生活的书》(The Book That Changed My Life) 晚上9点，BBC Two频道

卡米拉王后从她的父亲那里继承了对阅读的热爱，她的父亲在被关押在德国战俘营期间，在文学中找到了慰藉。在这部单集纪录片中，她分享了更多关于她对书籍的热情，随后会见五位同样被故事改变了生活的人。HR

《冬日》(Winter)

晚上9点，ITV1频道

浮夸的呈现方式与平庸的推理剧格格不入。布里斯托尔的警察正在调查一对夫妇在自家中被枪杀的双重谋杀案，而理查德·阿米蒂奇 (Richard Armitage) 饰演的才华横溢的同名病理学家提供了所有突破口。平淡的秘密和背叛被处理得如同激烈的心理剧一般。JS

《宏伟设计》(Grand Designs) 晚上9点，Channel 4频道

二十五年前，克里斯 (Chris) 和吉尔 (Gill) 接手了哈德斯菲尔德附近一座19世纪的羊毛厂，在保留其历史外壳的同时，内部填充了钢材、玻璃以及足以与邦德反派媲美的昂贵高科技设备。现在，凯文·麦克劳德 (Kevin McCloud) 回来评价道：“嗯……”。这对夫妇的激进方案现在看起来依然前卫——还是仅仅显得非常、非常像2001年的风格？AC

周四

今日推荐：《违约条款》(Break Clause)

晚上10.05点，Channel 4频道

那么，合租房里的分手能有好结果吗？在最后的双集剧集中，本 (Ben，塞缪尔·博托姆利 饰) 和莉尔 (Lil，拉拉·里科特 饰) 恢复单身并开始社交——但他们发现自己再次陷入对方的怀抱，在伦敦四处游荡……直到现实再次袭来。随着租约中六个月的违约条款即将到期，他们需要决定是复合还是彻底分开。HR

《名人叛徒》(The Celebrity Traitors) 晚上8点，BBC One频道

在撰写本文时，理查德·E·格兰特 (Richard E Grant) 已证明自己是踏入“叛徒之塔”以来最大的累赘——如果他能成功，那将是一个奇迹。本集发生在谋杀案后的夜晚，晚上将举行圆桌会议。HR

《我们的微小岛屿》(Our Tiny Islands) 晚上8点，Channel 4频道

晚上8点，Channel 4频道 本系列介绍了英国海岸线周围400多个小岛。本集走访了赫布里底群岛艾奥纳岛上一位拥有独特羊毛产品的养羊户，以及允许布里斯托尔海峡岛屿居民继续在那里生活的伦迪公司 (Lundy Company)。此外，还将关注北尤伊斯特岛一个9.5英亩小农场的园艺维护——准备好迎接一场可能会激发你进行“数字脱毒”的田园视觉盛宴吧。AD

经典电影：《生死抉择》(A Matter of Life and Death) 故事，周四 《改变我生活的书》，周三

《约克郡兽医》(The Yorkshire Vet) 晚上8点，Channel 5

彼得面对一个绝望的病例，一只刚出生的羔羊患有罕见的先天缺陷：“它没有屁股。”与此同时，肖娜为患有子宫感染的夏尔马名为格蕾丝的马进行治疗；罗欣救助了一只受伤的雉鸡；而朱利安和露西则为一只名为弗兰克·辛纳屈的布偶猫进行了一次急需的造型改造：“你觉得莫霍克发型怎么样？” AC

《经典电影：〈生死之恋〉的故事》(Classic Movies: The Story of A Matter of Life and Death) 晚上8点，Sky Arts

凭借其充满悲剧浪漫色彩的开场戏——一名二战飞行员在飞机坠落时与无线电操作员调情——鲍威尔和普雷斯伯格这部奇异的、带有超自然色彩的战争剧成为了深受喜爱的经典。在这里，评论家们兴致勃勃地深入探讨了其受欢迎的具体原因。 HR

《万物生灵》(All Creatures Great and Small) 晚上9.05点，Channel 5

这部兽医时代剧又迎来了一集充满雄性荷尔蒙且动作密集的内容：在夏洛特前往纽约之前的最后一次约会前，特里斯坦找乔什剪了一个廉价的发型。这是个好主意吗？随后发生了彻底的灾难：一只名为维纳斯的狗和一只名为邦索恩的宠物鼠都走失了。此外，赫斯顿就一头牛的问题产生了分歧。天哪。 AC

周五

今日推荐：《格雷厄姆·诺顿秀》(The Graham Norton Show) 晚上10.40点，BBC One

距离导演昆汀·塔伦蒂诺上次坐在格雷厄姆的沙发上已经过去十多年了，现在他回来了，热情地推介他由萨莎·拜伦·科恩主演的新西区闹剧《花俏的骑士》(The Popinjay Cavalier)。与他一同就座的是美国脱口秀主持人艾伦·德杰尼勒斯、带着关于其朋友的感人纪录片的柯林·法瑞尔，以及在电影《约瑟芬》(Josephine) 中与钱宁·塔图姆对戏的陈可盈。Suede乐队将现场演奏他们最新专辑《抗抑郁药》(Antidepressants) 中令人振奋的音乐。 HR

《园艺世界》(Gardeners' World) 晚上8点，BBC Two

一窥《园艺世界》的未来：本周由弗朗西斯·托菲尔领衔，而非即将离职的主持人蒙蒂·唐。她正在容器中种植大蒜，并在花坛中种植多年生蔬菜，这类蔬菜在极少维护的情况下年年都能提供丰收。 JS

《行尸走肉：死亡之城》(The Walking Dead: Dead City) 晚上9点，Sky One

来自一个极度腐朽的“大苹果”城的更多后末日血腥场面。为了加固纽约临时搭建的电网，玛吉和尼根必须招募一支由酗酒之徒组成的队伍——包括一名消防员、一名厨师和一名色情明星——进行一次高风险袭击。他们的目标？被僵尸占据的帝国大厦。 GV

《战争》(War)

晚上9点，Sky Atlantic

随着卡拉（西耶娜·米勒 饰）和摩根（多米尼克·韦斯特 饰）各自构建诉讼方案，这场体面的离婚迅速变得不堪。当卡拉告诉儿子时，孩子崩溃了并向摩根寻求答案（“你妈，她在床上放屁——我实在受不了了”）。与此同时，初级律师 / 内线约翰尼（阿奇·雷诺 饰）是否陷入了无法掌控的局面？ HR

《最后一棒》(The Last Leg)

晚上10.05点，Channel 4

乔什·威迪科姆是一个非常忙碌（且可能很疲惫）的人。在《舞动奇迹》(Strictly) 开播前一夜，他回到了与亚当·希尔斯和亚历克斯·布鲁克共同主持的深夜节目原位。该节目现已进入第35 (!) 季，首批讨论本周时事的嘉宾是喜剧演员艾莉·泰勒和蒂姆·明钦。 HR

《格里姆斯堡》(Grimsburg)

12.45am, Sky One

这部古怪的动画警察喜剧第三季继续讲述厌世侦探马文·弗卢特（乔·汉姆 配音）通过竞技木马骑行与他紧张的儿子斯坦建立感情的故事。在镇上的其他地方，怀诺娜接受了脑手术以简化她的爱情生活。这会是心碎的赛博格格雷的大好机会吗？ GV

流媒体指南

本周推荐 《泰森》（Tyson） Netflix，周二起播

授权传记的问题在于，你面临着获得一个“经过授权”的版本的故事的风险。在这种情况下，这一点至关重要。迈克·泰森在贫困中长大，遭受了无情的欺凌，直到一名对手折断了他的鸽子脖子，从而激发了他体内的暴力潜能。从那时起，他成为拳击传奇的上升之路似乎不可避免，而本片惊心动魄地捕捉到了这一过程。然而，随后的内容变得模糊不清。泰森虽然长篇累牍地讲述，但在面对家庭暴力指控或在他随后的人生中留下烙印的强奸定罪时，并未受到足够的追问——尽管他被唐纳德·特朗普描述为“非常诚实”，但这感觉并不像是一份最光彩的性格推荐信。Phil Harrison

《愿景之寻》（VisionQuest）

Disney+，周三起播

保罗·贝塔尼饰演的那个善良、困惑且具备高效杀人能力的 AI 机器人幻视，在漫威宇宙中面临一项生死攸关的任务。本剧在《旺达幻视》的巧妙基础上进一步发展，在漫威电影宇宙（MCU）反派的几代人之间来回穿梭，同时以寻找家庭这一永恒的叙事主题为支撑。幻视遇到了一名可能是他儿子的神秘少年。但他们面对的敌对力量极其强大，包括詹姆斯·斯佩德饰演的演技夸张的反英雄奥创，以及丽莎·莫利纳里（劳伦·莫赖斯 饰）——一名变成了拥有四只额外手臂的机器人罪犯的街头艺术家。一次令人兴奋且富有创意的旅程。PH

《愤怒》（Rage）

HBO Max，现已上线

在这部诡谲且富有创意的西班牙选集剧第二季中，故事、风格和充满困扰的女性角色再次发生碰撞。故事大致设定在一个电视网络公司洁净的总部内，但展开的情节涉及压力巨大的高管拉奎尔、热爱派对的清洁工查罗、癌症患者帕特里夏、演员卡拉以及在不知情中成为叙事主体的蒂娜，她们的生活混乱且交织在一起。在探讨关于现实、呈现和现代生活的观点时，《愤怒》试图涵盖的内容过多。但它始终保持着令人振奋的雄心。PH

《宠物公墓谋杀案：一个鬼故事》（The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story）

HBO Max，周一起播

这不是斯蒂芬·金作品的翻拍；这部纪录片系列探索了一个比大多数小说更悲伤、更离奇的真实故事。它围绕 1985 年多萝西·卢·汤普森的失踪与死亡展开，她是路易斯安那州托卡一家宠物公墓的隐居所有者。该案件包含一个推测性的超自然元素：这座城镇是以一名残酷的奴隶主法官命名的，且这片土地有着阴森的历史。然而，尽管离奇之处被放在了突出位置，但这个故事最终吸引人的是更现实的原因——这是一个以人性弱点为核心的悲剧。PH

《宝岛》（Treasure Island）

Paramount+，周一起播

自然地，我们从一场海难和一只鹦鹉开始。罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森这部海盗题材畅销书的改编版本不计其数，显然，这一版不会改写历史。即便如此，它在原著故事上确实做了一些受欢迎的改编：比利·博恩斯（托默·卡波恩 饰）与其说是经验丰富的老海狗，不如说是个能言善辩的骗子；而海莉·阿特维尔饰演的火辣的贝丝·霍金斯现在在故事中占据了更核心的地位。此外还有朗约翰·西尔弗，由大卫·奥耶洛沃以一种压抑的愤怒演绎，他笼罩着汤姆·斯威特饰演的聪明但天真的吉姆。那么，我们出发前往加勒比海，迎接我们的将是贫困或财富。PH

《外交官》（The Diplomat）

Netflix，周四起播

这部地缘政治惊悚剧变得越来越像肥皂剧，情节也愈发离谱（简直就像编剧觉得他们必须跑在现实前面一样），但只要你愿意暂时放下质疑，它依然很有趣。随着第四季拉开帷幕，海底核事故的影响正在逐步显现。美国人愿意让俄罗斯相信英国是清除炸弹的幕后黑手，但凯特（Keri Russell 饰）担心这可能会导致盟友之间产生分歧。同时，她发现自己越来越难以信任丈夫哈尔（Rufus Sewell 饰）。他是否与总统走得太近了？PH

塔尔萨之王 (Tulsa King)

Paramount+，周五起播

西尔维斯特·史泰龙饰演的流亡黑帮成员德怀特·曼弗雷迪是否到了洗白的时间？在第四季中，德怀特正寻求多元化发展。但过去与未来正同时威胁着他的经营：他既面临着了解其背景的哗众取宠的政客的威胁，也面临着意识到其帝国价值的新兴帮派的威胁。他将以典型的爆炸性风格来处理这些局面。《塔尔萨之王》感觉越来越陈旧，从未超越类型片的陈词滥调，但史泰龙那令人捧腹的、单一基调的笨拙魅力勉强让这部剧维持了下来。PH

NETFLIX; DISNEY+

追剧指南

缅怀达米洛拉·泰勒以及一部绝妙的喜剧

《达米洛拉：未讲述的故事》(Damilola: The Untold Story) BBC Two / iPlayer ★★★★★

下个月将是 10 岁少年达米洛拉·泰勒被杀 26 周年，当年这一事件在整个英国引发了一波悲痛与难以置信的情绪。在从当地图书馆前往位于伦敦南部北佩克汉姆庄园（North Peckham Estate）的家中途中，达米洛拉遭到了里基·普雷迪和丹尼·普雷迪两兄弟（分别为 13 岁和 12 岁）的袭击。他被玻璃瓶袭击，不久后在国王学院医院被宣布死亡。这部单集纪录片以达米洛拉朋友们的回忆开篇——他们现在已是 30 多岁的成年人。其中就包括约翰·博耶加。虽然这次杀戮可能促使博耶加和其他人努力提升自我，但它也让他们感到恐惧，令他们心有余悸，并让他们担心自己也会在毫无意义的暴力中丧命。Hannah J Davies

《不情愿的吸血鬼》(The Reluctant Vampire) BBC One / iPlayer ★★★★★

距离我们上次享受惬意的下午茶时光已经多久了？太久了！但快乐就在眼前，这要感谢尼尔和罗布·吉本斯（Neil and Rob Gibbons，近期《艾伦·帕特里奇》的创作搭档）以及他们对埃里克·莫雷坎布 1982 年儿童读物的温暖且呆萌的改编。这是一个关于吸血鬼家庭的故事：家长维克多（Victor，汤姆·戴维斯 饰）、他的妻子瓦莉塔（Valeeta，希安·克利福德 饰）以及他们的两个孩子。弗农（Vernon，由出色的加布里埃尔·纳吉 饰）简直是父亲的翻版。但他只是次子，是继承人瓦伦丁（Valentine，伦尼·鲁什 饰）的备胎。而遗憾的是，瓦伦丁并不是一个优秀的吸血鬼。最终，瓦莉塔不得不向儿子承认，他其实是一个她在维克多不在家时从火灾中救出的人类婴儿。《不情愿的吸血鬼》演员阵容强大，剧本充满笑料，且透着一种倾注心血的诚意，没有一个人在敷衍了事。简直太棒了（Fang-tastic）。——露西·曼根

《皮埃尔》(Pierre) Channel 4 ★★★★☆

我们中的一些人太年轻，没能看到大卫·哈伍德 1997 年在伦敦国家剧院饰演的《奥赛罗》。《皮埃尔》的共同编剧罗伊·威廉姆斯或许不是莎士比亚，但他是一位关注黑人男性在这个国家生存状况的剧作家，而这部剧是英国黑人犯罪剧故事中的又一个文化里程碑。这是一部带有黑色电影风格场景的警匪剧，皮埃尔在担任警察局值班律师的夜班期间经常出入这些场所。他是一名稳固的中产阶级黑人专业人士，且深深植根于自己的社区。哈伍德的表演以自信且简洁的方式奠定了全剧基调。情节同样具有黑色电影的反转：一名年轻黑人在告诉皮埃尔他正在搜集一名警官骚扰他的证据后，被发现死亡…… ——艾伦·E·琼斯

战争

《战争》(War) Sky Atlantic / Now ★★★★☆

战争……有什么好处？终于，我们有了答案：在你的电视屏幕上提供 8 小时的高质量胡扯，供你尽情享乐。万岁！因为《战争》就是乔治·凯（George Kay）最新的尝试。作为包括极其荒诞的《劫机》(Hijack) 在内的多部作品的创作者，你知道自己将迎来一场畅快淋漓的享受。这部讲述两个糟糕、富有且出名的公众人物在众目睽睽之下离婚的故事证明了这一点。多米尼克·韦斯特饰演社交媒体大亨兼花花公子摩根·亨德森。西耶娜·米勒饰演他的电影明星妻子卡拉·杜瓦尔，在 10 年之后，她受够了。这部剧极具趣味，且带有某种从新闻头条中截取的真实感，这反而增加了娱乐性。这是一部拥有充足资金、才华和情节的肥皂剧。在漫长的一天结束时，你还能要求什么更多呢？——LM

播客

本周精选

《你长大的街道》(Street You Grew Up On)

广泛发行，每周更新 《丑闻》明星凯瑞·华盛顿的网络剧现在变成了播客，邀请大名鼎鼎的嘉宾谈论他们成长的地方。马萨诸塞州剑桥市当地人本·阿弗莱克率先坦诚地谈到了父母的离婚，以及他没告诉母亲的事情——比如在 14 岁时遭遇持刀抢劫。“我喜欢听他分享的一切，”华盛顿说，“尽管他有时试图反过来采访我。” ——汉娜·J·戴维斯

《深层秘密》(Deep Secrets)

广泛发行，每周更新 在成为父亲后，喜剧演员亨特·希尔决定制作一个关于育儿的播客。然而，在尝试研究自己父亲的过程中，他陷入了一个让他质疑所有家庭认知深渊——包括他的养羊祖父是否真的是一名秘密 CIA 特工。这是一个充满细节、讲述方式极具吸引力的狂野故事。 ——亚历克西·达金斯

Eras: Spice Girls

BBC Sounds，每周更新。Rosie Ramsey 利用 BBC 庞大的音乐档案，讲述了英国最著名的女子组合（见右上图）的故事。这是一次对“女孩力量”的生动庆祝，充满了趣闻（例如，成员人设的灵感来自电视剧《老友记》），并包含了音乐经理 Chris Herbert 和 Little Mix 成员 Jade Thirlwall 等人的见解。HJD

13 Minutes: Trouble With Hubble 广泛发行，每周更新。这部引人入胜的太空播客由《夜空》（Sky at Night）主持人 Maggie Aderin 主持，探讨了世界上最著名的望远镜。通过对关键人员的采访，节目为发射后的一个发现增添了戏剧色彩：其主镜的曲率偏差相当于人类头发宽度的约五十分之一——这使其变得毫无用处。唯一的选择？派遣宇航员执行一次零重力修复任务。AD

Fame Under Fire BBC Sounds，周一起每日更新

Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty 将每日在南华克刑事法院报道 Russell Brand 的审判。在审判中，他否认了三项强奸罪、三项性侵罪和一项猥亵罪。她还将探讨更广泛的话题，例如社交媒体在高关注度审判中所扮演的角色。Hollie Richardson

Radio

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? 周日，下午3点，Radio 4

这部改编自阿加莎·克里斯蒂作品的剧集始于一名在威尔士海滩上垂死的男子，他给忧郁的牧师之子 Bobby Jones（Matthew Aubrey 饰）留下了一条神秘信息。显然，这里有一个谜团需要破解，因此 Bobby 那位出身高贵且淡漠的童年好友 Frankie（Rhianne Barreto 饰）的到来恰逢其时。一场古怪的冒险随之展开，涉及吗啡中毒以及 Bobby 被迫采用多种伪装。叙事上的巧思巧妙地维持了一段令人安心且可预见的感官旅程。Phil Harrison

Winnie-the-Pooh 100 周一，上午11.45，Radio 4

在卡米拉王后的介绍之后（她回忆起小时候玩“小熊维尼捡木棍”的游戏），Lenny Henry 启动了为期一周的朗读活动，以纪念 AA Milne 关于一只泰迪熊的经典儿童读本出版一百周年。Henry 从开头讲起，讲述维尼（见上图）蜂蜜用尽，试图爬树袭击蜂巢的故事。准备朗读其他故事（关于小猪、屹耳和克里斯托弗·罗宾）的嘉宾还包括 Ambika Mod, Jim Broadbent, Toby Jones 和 Hayley Atwell。Jack Seale

Life Without

周五，下午2.45，Radio 4

由 Alan Davies 主持的节目回归第二季。在该节目中，学者们想象如果我们突然从现实中删除某样东西会产生怎样的多米诺骨牌效应。考虑到蝙蝠是会飞的、吱吱作响的啮齿动物，而且会愉快地排泄出臭烘烘的鸟粪，那么把它们除掉应该没问题吧？但正如生物多样性科学家 Kate Jones 教授和动物行为专家 Christina Stanley 博士所解释的，这些吞噬昆虫、为植物传粉、且作为万圣节恐怖化身的拍翅生物，是我们生态系统中至关重要的一部分。Graeme Virtue

CrowdScience

周五，晚上8.30，BBC World Service 本系列节目专门提出古怪的问题，然后提供更古怪的答案。这便是一个很好的例子：为什么人类不产卵？毕竟，对于动物界的其他成员来说，产卵似乎是确保可持续生存率的一种高效方式。Anand Jagatia 对此事进行了研究，最终，所有线索都指向了 DNA 编码、胎盘的重要性以及对病毒的进化抗性。古怪且迷人。PH

电影指南

本周推荐 《火柴盒》（Matchbox the Movie） 现已在 Apple TV 上线

在《芭比》这部粉色巨作引发热潮之后，玩具巨头美泰（Mattel）正全力投入改编作品。在我们将《波莉口袋》（Polly Pocket）搬上银幕之前，萨姆·哈格雷夫（Sam Hargrave）这部轻松的犯罪片将一系列微型玩具车进行了戏剧性的翻新。亲切的肌肉男约翰·塞纳（Jon Cena）饰演 CIA 特工肖恩，他回到家乡参加葬礼，并与四位童年好友（被称为“火柴盒帮”）重新建立联系，其中包括由杰西卡·比尔（Jessica Biel）饰演的急救员——也是他年少时的暗恋对象——艾米。不幸的是，在一枚核弹头失踪后，肖恩成了替罪羊，于是他的伙伴们被卷入了由间谍、近身格斗以及自然少不了的闪亮快车组成的环球世界。——西蒙·沃德尔（Simon Wardell）

《动物》（Animals）

现已在 Netflix 上线

本·艾弗莱克（Ben Affleck）这部错综复杂的绑架惊悚片在 2024 年一度被搁置，因为其与斯派克·李（Spike Lee）主题相似的《Highest 2 Lowest》产生了冲突，而后者本身是黑泽明经典作品的翻拍。现在该片终于上映了，艾弗莱克在片中饰演一名竞选洛杉矶市长的律师（原定由马特·达蒙饰演，但后者当时被困在地中海的一个岛上），凯丽·华盛顿（Kerry Washington）饰演其妻子。剧情围绕他们的儿子被绑架勒索展开，而道德与政治的权衡使局势变得极其混乱。吉莉安·安德森（Gillian Anderson）饰演一名受邀协助的冷静、沉着的英国协调员，其表演极其出彩。——SW

《可怜的东西》（Poor Things）

周六，晚上 10 点，Channel 4 艾玛·斯通（Emma Stone）大胆的表演是约格斯·兰斯莫斯（Yorgos Lanthimos）这部极其古怪的故事的核心。她饰演贝拉，一名死而复生的年轻女性，被具有弗兰肯斯坦色彩的戈德温（威廉·达福 饰）用她未出生婴儿的大脑复活。随着她学会行走和说话，她渴望探索更多关于生活的真相。风流之徒邓肯·韦德本（由马克·鲁法洛 饰演，其角色极其放荡且令人捧腹）企图成为她的精神控制者——但贝拉有自己的想法。这是一部改编自阿拉斯代尔·格雷（Alasdair Gray）小说的令人愉悦且不安的喜剧，背景设定在一个惊艳且并非完全写实的维多利亚 era.。——SW

《红房》（Red Rooms）

周六，11.20pm，Film4 在加拿大蒙特利尔，一名男子因谋杀三名少女而被起诉，他将虐待并杀害这些少女的过程拍摄下来，并在暗网出售给付费客户。帕斯卡尔·普兰特（Pascal Plante）这部日益令人不安的心理剧通过模特凯莉-安（朱丽叶·加里皮 饰）的视角记录了审判过程以及周围的媒体狂热，她是法庭的常客。但她为什么在那里？她是（显然有罪的）被告的追随者？一个真实犯罪迷？还是有更阴暗的目的？加里皮神秘的表演让我们直到接近结尾都难以猜测。——SW

《杀死安娜》（Killing Anna）

周一，11.05pm，Channel 4 “我将我自己，以及我的创伤，武器化。” 萨姆·本斯特德（Sam Benstead）这部非凡的纪录片聚焦于安萨尔·沙侯德（Annsar Shahhoud），她是一位出生于叙利亚、就读于阿姆斯特丹大学的种族灭绝研究学者。在收到阿萨德政权制造的大屠杀视频后，她创建了一个名为“安娜·什”（Anna Sh）的虚假 Facebook 账号，与叙利亚官员和民兵建立友谊，并诱使他们承认在大马士革大规模屠杀平民中所扮演的角色。安萨尔为此付出的代价显而易见，但她揭露真相的意志同样坚定。——SW

《主计划》（Masterplan）

周五，Prime Video

让自己放松下来，感受受人尊敬的斯坦利·图齐（Stanley Tucci）散发的魅力……就像他在托马斯·文森特（Thomas Vincent）的这部劫盗喜剧中，饰演的绅士小偷罗杰·卡文迪什（Roger Cavendish）诱导他失散多年的孩子们——黑客基亚拉（Chiara，由《白莲花度假村》的西蒙娜·塔巴斯科饰演）和爆炸专家杰伊（Jay，由维克多·贝尔蒙多饰演）——参与一项从卢浮宫偷走《蒙娜丽莎》的荒诞计划。这个重新团聚的罪犯家庭之间试探性的情感纽带，不过是为各种精巧设备、伪装和不确定的动机这些主线剧情所做的点缀。其中很多情节借鉴了《碟中谍》的套路，但在图齐的掌控下，影片往往能闪现光彩。SW

《莫斯与弗洛伊德》（Moss & Freud）

周五，HBO Max

德里克·雅各比（Derek Jacobi）此前曾精湛地饰演过二战后英国艺术界的巨头弗朗西斯·培根（Francis Bacon，在1998年的《爱是魔鬼》中）。现在，在詹姆斯·卢卡斯（James Lucas）这部关于21世纪初的迷人快照中，他尝试挑战晚年的卢西安·弗洛伊德（Lucian Freud）。超模凯特·莫斯（Kate Moss，由选角精准的艾莉·班伯饰演）为他担任模特并绘制肖像的真实故事，是一次关于相似与对比的研究：她是英国时尚界纵情派的领军人物；而他是严肃的旧大师。但他也拥有自己需要面对的狂野一面，而她则在两人定期的会面中找到了一种稳定性。SW

体育

英超足球 阿森纳 v 利兹联 周六，11am，TNT Sports 1 曼联 v 热刺在 5pm 于 Sky Sports Main Event 播出。

英超橄榄球联盟 北安普顿 v 巴斯 周六，3pm，TNT 1 萨拉森 v 布里斯托随后于 5.15pm 播出。

英冠足球 南安普顿 v 朴茨茅斯 周日，11.30am，ITV1 在圣玛丽球场举行。

英超足球 水晶宫 v 诺丁汉森林 周日，1pm，Sky Main Event 利物浦 v 曼城随后于 4pm 播出。考文垂 v 纽卡斯尔在周一 6.30pm 播出。

英超橄榄球联盟 埃克塞特 v 纽卡斯尔 周日，2.30pm， 1 索尔福德 v 哈利昆在 5 于 2.45pm 播出。

女子国际足球 英格兰 v 希腊 周二，6.45pm，ITV4 季后赛半决赛第二回合，在莱斯特的英王权力球场举行。

欧冠足球 马德里竞技 v 曼联 周二，6.30pm，Prime Video 阿森纳 v 里尔在 7pm 于 1 播出。

场地自行车 世界锦标赛 周三，11.30am， 1 中国上海站第一天， 艾玛·菲努凯恩（Emma Finucane，见上图）预计将出场。

欧冠足球 拉斯克 v 利物浦 周三，5pm， 2 曼城 v 巴黎圣日耳曼在 1 于 7pm 播出。阿斯顿维拉 v 费内巴切在 2 于 7.45pm 播出。

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BBC One

6.0 早报 (T) 10.0 周六厨房直播 (T) 11.30 90岁的玛丽：一辈子的烹饪 (T) (R) 12.0 淘货猎人 (T) (R) 12.45 足球访谈 (T) 1.0 新闻 (T) 1.10 天气 (T) 1.15 免费之钱 (T) (R) 2.0 锤下之屋 (T) (R) 3.0 逃往乡村 (T) (R) 3.45 最终比分 (T) 5.10 新闻 (T) 5.20 地区新闻 (T) 5.25 天气 (T) 5.30 名人内圈 (T) 6.15 舞动奇迹 (T)

BBC Two

6.05 CBeebies (T) (R) 7.0 CBBC 8.45 花园世界 (T) (R) 9.45 这种野生生活 (T) (R) 10.15 电影《生死之间》（Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, 1946） (T) 12.0 马库斯·韦林厨房花园故事 (T) (R) 12.30 纳迪亚的日常烘焙 (T) (R) 1.0 自然世界：维多利亚瀑布——雷鸣之烟 (T) (R) 1.50 电影《艾玛》（2020） (T) 3.45 把它卖了！ (T) (R) 4.25 电影《蚊子中队》（1969） (T) 5.55 电影《大逃亡》（1963） (T)

ITV1

6.0 詹姆斯·马丁的从岛屿到高地 (T) (R) 6.30 与艾伦·蒂奇马什共度周末 (T) (R) 8.25 普鲁·莱思的科茨沃尔德厨房 (T) 9.25 新闻 (T) 9.30 詹姆斯·马丁的周六早晨 (T) 12.0 克洛达：居家烹饪 (T) 12.30 新闻与天气 (T) 12.45 ITV赛马：纽马克特现场直播 (T) 4.0 电影《侏罗纪公园3》(2001) (T) 5.40 名人语言 (T) (R) 6.10 新闻与天气 (T) 6.20 地方新闻与天气 (T) 6.30 《追击》名人特辑 (T) (R) 7.30 双赢 (T)

Channel 4

6.15 干杯 (T) (R) 8.05 大家都爱雷蒙 (T) (R) 10.05 弗雷泽 (T) (R) 11.35 辛普森一家 (T) (R) 12.35 四人同床 (T) (R) 3.10 阳光之所 (T) (R) 3.55 英国烘焙大赛 (T) (R) 5.30 新闻 (T) 6.0 一级方程式新加坡大奖赛冲刺赛及排位赛集锦 (T)

Channel 5

6.0 Milkshake! 9.0

MilkShake: 9.0 娱乐新闻 (T) 9.05 玛丽女王号：海上皇室 (T) (R) 10.0 走进汉普顿宫 (T) (R) 1.0 皇室无删减 (T) 2.0 迈克尔·波蒂洛的西班牙之旅 (T) (R) 4.0 本·福格尔与被掩埋的城市 (T) (R) 5.30 罗尼兄弟：失传的小品 (T) (R) 6.55 新闻 (T) 7.0 《监狱粥》：50年欢笑 (T) (R)

BBC Four

7.0 西蒙·金的设得兰冒险 (T) (R) 这位电影制作人的访问以目击虎鲸而告终。

8.35 群众智慧 (T) 由约翰·毕晓普主持的问答节目，参赛者竞标以赢取 3 万英镑 的潜在奖金。

9.20 大理石大厅谋杀案 (T) 苏珊拜访了埃利奥特的叔叔乔纳森，而阿提库斯和阿基里斯则追踪埃尔默·韦史密斯在妻子去世当天的行踪。

10.30 今日比赛 (T) 英超集锦，包括阿森纳对阵利兹联以及曼联对阵热刺。

11.50 电影《骨与所有》(2022) (T) 恐怖浪漫片，由泰勒·罗素和提莫西·查拉梅主演。

1.55 未来一周天气预报 (T) 2.0 新闻 (T)

8.40 BBC 1976年 40首热门金曲 (T) 包含 Thin Lizzy, Joan Armatrading, Dolly Parton, Wings, John Miles, Brotherhood of Man, the Wurzels, Elton John and Kiki Dee, Cliff Richard, The Rolling Stones 以及 Abba。

11.10 Abba 在 (T) (R) 在 上的难忘电视亮相集锦。

12.10 更多 Abba 在 (T) (R) 1.10 流行金曲榜：1976年故事 (T) (R) 1.55 电影《一个家庭的简史》(林建杰, 2024) (T) 中国心理惊悚片，由郭可羽主演。

3.30 这就是 Two (T)

8.35 英国之声 (T) 艾玛·威利斯主持，对决赛开始，教练包括汤姆·琼斯、will.i.am、凯莉·罗兰、汤姆·弗莱彻和丹尼·琼斯。

9.45 罗梅什·兰加纳森的家长会 (T) (R) 节日特辑，嘉宾包括拉里·兰布及其儿子乔治。

10.45 新闻 (T) 天气

11.05 英格兰足球联赛集锦 (T) 最新比赛精彩回顾，包括斯旺西对阵诺维奇。

12.35 电视购物 3.0 德莫特的爱尔兰味道 (T) (R) 3.25 克洛达：居家烹饪 (T) (R) 3.50 与ITV一起放松 (T) 5.05 弗莱彻家的家庭农场 (T) (R)

7.30 电影《少数几个好人》(Rob Reiner, 1992) (T) 三名美国海军律师为两名被指控谋杀战友的海军陆战队员辩护，在过程中揭露了一条直指一名高级军官的腐败线索。剧情片，主演包括汤姆·克鲁斯、黛米·摩尔、杰克·尼科尔森和凯文·贝肯。

10.0 电影《可怜的东西》(Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023) (T) 喜剧幻想片，主演包括艾玛·斯通和威廉·达福。

12.40 拉姆齐的酒店噩梦 (T) (R) 1.30 三个女人 (T) 2.30 辛普森一家 (T) (R) 5.0 周日早午餐 (T) (R) 5.05 克斯蒂的手工艺之家 (T) (R) 5.15 夫妻来我家用餐 (T) (R)

8.35 白金汉宫：生活一年 (T) 皇家住所正为繁忙的秋季国事访问季做准备，工作人员计划从皇家宾客套房到宴会菜单的所有细节。本系列最后一集。

10.05 《律政风云》(Sydney Pollack, 1993) (T) 惊悚片，主演汤姆·克鲁斯。 1.0 必须拥有的创意 (T) 3.0 走进汉普顿宫 (T) (R) 3.45 走进汉普顿宫 (T) (R) 4.35 迈克尔·波蒂洛游西班牙 (T) (R) 5.20 娱乐新闻 (T) 5.25 本和霍莉的小王国 (T) (R)

8.0 穿山甲：全球最被追捧的动物 (T) (R) 纪录片，探讨拯救全球非法贸易最严重的动物的尝试。

9.0 《北极护航队》(Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken, 2023) 战争剧，主演安德斯·巴斯莫·克里斯蒂安森。挪威语。

10.40 《天生贵族》(T) (R) 11.15 《维持体面》(T) (R) 市长舞会。 11.45 时空转移：饮酒规则 (T) (R)

12.45 西蒙·金的设得兰冒险 (T) (R) 1.45 穿山甲：全球最被追捧的动物 (T) (R) 2.45 时空转移：饮酒规则 (T) (R)

其他频道

BBC Three

7.0pm 神秘博士 7.50 神秘博士 8.40 米兰达 9.10 米兰达 9.40 额外内容 10.10 额外内容 10.40 超速行驶 11.10 超速行驶 11.40 克拉波利斯 12.0 克拉波利斯 12.20 12.40 1.05 1.25 1.50 2025年BBC新喜剧奖 2.20 神秘博士 3.10 神秘博士

U&Dave

6.0am 电视购物 7.10 顶级跑车 8.0 东 港口英雄 9.0 东 港口英雄 10.0 顶级 跑车：极地挑战 11.0 顶级跑车尼泊尔 特辑 12.40 我在撒谎吗？ 1.20 我在撒谎 吗？ 2.0 我在撒谎 吗？ 2.40 我在撒谎 吗？ 3.20 摇尾权 4.20 我在撒谎 吗？ 5.0 我在撒谎 吗？ 5.40 我在撒谎 吗？ 6.20 我在撒谎吗？ 7.0 幽灵 7.40 幽灵 8.20 幽灵 9.0 不出门 9.40 不出门 10.15 不 出门 11.20 我在撒谎 吗？ 12.0 我在撒谎 吗？圣诞特辑 12.40 我在撒谎吗？ 1.20 我是不是又给你带来了一些新闻 2.30 阿波罗现场 3.20 QI 4.0 电视购物

E4

6.0am 乐高大师澳大利亚 7.05 粗鲁(ish)短片 7.10 摩登家庭 7.40 别告诉新娘 8.40 切尔西制造 9.40 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版 10.40 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版 11.40 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版 12.40 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版 1.40 辛普森一家 2.10 The 2.40 The 3.10 The 3.40 The 4.10 The 4.40 The 5.10 The 5.40 The 6.15 The 6.45 《神秘海域》(2022) 9.0 名人 Gogglebox 10.0 Gogglebox 11.05 Gogglebox 12.05 初次约会 1.10 初次约会 2.10 范德庞规则 3.0 范德庞规则 3.50 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版 4.40 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版

Film4

11.0am 《救生艇》(1944) 12.55 《国王的水手》(1953) 2.40 《安娜斯塔西亚》(1997) 4.30 《穿普拉达的女王》(2006) 6.40 《哈里斯夫人去巴黎》(2022)

9.0 《愤怒之人》(2021) 11.20 《红房》(2023) 1.40 《小屋》(2019)

PBS America

6.0am 电视购物 8.0 饱经风霜：地球极端环境 8.35 冷战巨头 9.40 冷战巨头 10.50 of the 11.55 of the 1.0 饱经风霜：地球极端环境 2.0 of the 3.05 of the 4.15 of the 5.20 of the 6.30 真相揭秘 7.35 真相揭秘 8.40 The 9.50 The 10.55 The 12.0 The 1.10 饱经风霜：地球极端环境 2.0 电视购物

Sky One

6.0am 猴子生活 6.25 猴子生活 6.50 生存地球 7.45 电影《愤怒之爪：汉克传奇》(2022) 动画喜剧。 9.30 超级商店 10.0 超级商店 10.30 超级商店 11.0 超级商店 11.30 超级商店 12.0 公式 1 1.0 辛普森一家 1.30 辛普森一家 2.0 辛普森一家 2.30 辛普森一家 3.0 足球

周六 5.0 公式 1 7.0 泰德的笔记本 7.30 辛普森一家 8.0 大卫·爱登堡的 加拉帕戈斯 9.0 别管 那些吵闹的家伙 10.0 周六夜现场 英国版 11.15 电影《21跳街》(2012) 1.15 道路 战争 1.45 道路战争 2.15 力量：东北部 3.10 力量： 东北部 4.05 道路 战争 5.0 高速公路巡警 5.30 高速公路巡警

Sky Arts

6.0am 帕瓦罗蒂：十周年盛典 7.15 布林·特费尔：凯尔特贝多芬 8.30 出人意料的故事 9.0 出人意料的故事 9.30 出人意料的故事 10.0 出人意料的故事 10.30 出人意料的故事 11.0 希区柯克时间 12.0 希区柯克时间

21跳街，Sky One

1.0 大奥普里：奥普里现场 2.0 克利夫·理查德：蓝宝石巡演 4.30 年度肖像艺术家 2026 5.30 列侬的最后一个周末 7.0 强尼·卡什蒙特勒现场 8.25 强尼·卡什：英国的黑衣人 9.25 Cream 重聚演唱会 12.0 惊人旅程：谁乐队的故事 2.15 滚石乐队：通往不莱梅之桥 5.10 探索：the Doors 5.35 探索：吉米·亨德里克斯

Sky Atlantic

6.0am 鱼镇 7.0 鱼镇 8.0 谋杀案： on the 9.05 谋杀案：on the 10.10 : the 11.15 : the 12.20 : the 1.25 : the 2.30 第十一站 3.30 第十一站 4.35 5.40 6.45 7.50 9.0 囚犯 10.0 囚犯 11.0 逼近的高塔 12.0 逼近的高塔 1.0 微缩妻子 1.45 微缩 妻子 2.40 死木 3.50 死木 5.05 城市秘密

Radio

Radio 3

6.30am 早餐 9.0 周六早晨。汤姆·服务与钢琴家伊莫金·库珀对话。 12.0 早前 ... 与朱尔斯·霍兰德。杜兰杜兰乐队的西蒙·勒邦聊天。 1.0 关键变化：Radio 3 古典音乐精要史。讲述神剧如何成为维多利亚时代英国最重要的音乐形式。 2.0 唱片评论。大卫·欧文·诺里斯在“构建图书馆”节目中评述沃尔顿的《贝尔沙撒的盛宴》录音。 4.0 电影之声。鲁珀特·格雷格森-威廉姆斯讨论他为《实用魔法 2》创作的配乐。 2. 5.0 古典音乐。杰斯·吉拉姆与钢琴家西蒙·迪纳斯坦共同参与。 6.0 Radio 3 歌剧。贝利尼的《纯洁的人》在科文特花园的皇家歌剧院上演，由利塞特·奥罗佩萨 (Elvira)、弗朗切斯科·德穆罗 (Lord Arturo Talbo)、安杰伊·菲隆齐克 (Sir Riccardo Forth)、伊尔德布兰多·达尔坎杰洛 (Sir Giorgio Valton)、马塞拉·拉哈尔 (Enrichetta di Francia)、布莱斯·马拉巴 (Lord Gualtiero Valton) 和乔治·古利亚维利 (Sir Bruno Robertson) 出演，里卡多·弗里扎指挥。 9.30 音乐星球 10.30 新音乐

节目。黑光节在黑普尔的精彩回顾。 12.30 彻夜

Radio 4

6.0am 新闻与报刊 6.07 漫谈 (R) 6.30 今日农业 本周 6.57 天气 7.0 今日 9.0 周六 直播 10.0 奇案。探讨振动液体表面形成几何图案的原因。(2 / 13) 10.30 吉他故事 (R) 11.0 激进 (R) 11.30 来自我们的通讯员 12.0 新闻 12.04 钱袋子 12.30 新闻问答 (R) 12.57 天气 1.0 新闻 1.10 有任何问题吗？ (R) 2.05 有任何答案吗？ 2.45 《牧羊人》 (R) 3.0 雾中之卢德。由 Hope Mirrlees 创作的奇幻剧。一名市长发现他的儿子喜欢走私的仙子水果。(R) 4.0 周末女性时间 5.0 周六下午 5.30 尼克·罗宾逊谈政治思考 (5 / 13) 5.54 航运预报 5.57 天气 6.0 新闻 6.15 琐碎之事。Stuart Maconie 与 Si King、Chloe Petts 和 Craig Revel Horwood 聊天。 7.0 剖析 7.15 这种文化生活 (R) 8.0 Radio 4 档案库：感恩而死乐队比披头士更重要。Sean O'Hagan 讲述该乐队的故事。 9.0 希特勒日记 丑闻：综合篇 - 第二部分 (R) 10.0 新闻 10.15 美食计划 (R) 11.0 你的母亲。 Hugh Dennis 和 Hilary Whitehall 聊聊他们的母亲。(6 / 8) 11.30 英国之脑 (R) 12.0 新闻 12.15 读书会 (R) 12.48 航运预报 1.0 接入世界服务 5.30 新闻 5.34 航运预报 5.43 周日钟声 5.45 保持联系 (R)

Radio 4 Extra

6.0am 湖中女子 7.30 真格里特综合篇 (1-5 / 5) 8.40 继承轨迹 8.45 电视晚餐 (6 / 6) 9.0 埃里克·莫康比和厄尼·怀斯秀 (3 / 6) 9.30 亲爱的，把我放下在这里 (2 / 13) 10.0 温室及其他爱德华时代事物 10.20 快笔速写：奥斯伯特·兰开斯特 10.35 散文：乔治亚肖像 (5 / 5) 10.50 继承轨迹 11.0 湖中女子 12.30 真格里特综合篇 (1-5 / 5) 1.40 继承轨迹 1.45 电视晚餐 (6 / 6) 2.0 埃里克·莫康比和厄尼·怀斯秀 (3 / 6) 2.30 亲爱的，把我放下在这里 (2 / 13) 3.0 温室及 其他爱德华时代事物 3.20 快笔速写：奥斯伯特·兰开斯特 3.35 散文：乔治亚肖像 (5 / 5) 3.50 继承轨迹 4.0 与拉玛会面 (2 / 2) 5.0 湖中女子 6.30 真格里特综合篇 (1-5 / 5) 7.40 继承轨迹 7.45 电视晚餐 (6 / 6) 8.0 埃里克·莫康比和厄尼·怀斯秀 (3 / 6) 8.30 亲爱的，把我放下在这里 (2 / 13) 9.0 温室及其他爱德华时代事物 9.20 快笔速写：奥斯伯特·兰开斯特 9.35 散文：乔治亚肖像 (5 / 5) 9.50 继承轨迹 10.0 喜剧俱乐部：秘密世界 (5 / 6) 10.30 该死的谎言 11.0 讲台上的弗雷德 (3 / 4) 11.30 陈词滥调之子 (1 / 8) 12.0 与拉玛会面 (2 / 2) 1.0 湖中女子 2.30 真格里特综合篇 (1-5 / 5) 3.40 继承轨迹 3.45 电视晚餐 (6 / 6) 4.0 埃里克·莫康比和厄尼·怀斯秀 (3 / 6) 4.30 亲爱的，把我放下在这里 (2 / 13) 5.0 温室及其他爱德华时代事物 5.20 快笔速写：奥斯伯特·兰开斯特 5.35 散文：乔治亚肖像 (5 / 5) 5.50 继承轨迹

BBC One

6.0 新闻 (T) 7.40 今日比赛 (T) (R) 9.0 周日 (T) 10.0 英国政治 (T) 10.30 周日早晨直播 (T) 11.30 无偿资金 (T) (R) 12.0 淘宝猎人 (T) (R) 12.45 观点 (T) 1.0 新闻 (T) 1.10 天气 (T) 1.15 赞美之歌 (T) 2.0 电影《史瑞克第三集》(2007) (T) 3.25 王国 (T) (R) 4.15 房屋翻新 (T) (R) 5.15 新闻 (T) 5.30 地区新闻 (T) 5.35 天气 (T) 5.40 乡村档案 (T) 6.40 不情愿的吸血鬼 (T) 7.10 舞动奇迹：结果公布 (T)

BBC Two

6.40 乡村档案 (T) (R) 7.40 新闻 (T) 9.0 土地向导 (T) (R) 9.30 气象员漫步精选 (T) (R) 10.0 周六厨房最佳美食 (T) 11.30 伊娃·朗格利亚：寻找法国 (T) (R) 12.10 奈杰尔和亚当的农场厨房 (T) (R) 1.10 电影《伊普格雷斯档案》(Sidney J Furie, 1965) (T) 2.55 电影《柏林葬礼》(Guy Hamilton, 1966) (T) 4.35 这种农业生活 (T) (R) 5.35 把它卖了！ (T) (R) 6.20 名人古董之旅 (T) (R) 7.20 伊娃·朗格利亚：寻找法国 (T)

ITV1

6.0 《英国之声》(The Voice UK) (T) (R) 7.0 詹姆斯·马丁的周六早晨 (James Martin's Saturday Morning) (T) (R) 9.25 ITV新闻 (T) 9.30 与艾伦·蒂奇马什共度周末 (Love Your Weekend With Alan Titchmarsh) (T) 11.30 英甲直播 (EFL Live) (T) 南安普顿 对阵 朴茨茅斯（正午开球）。 2.25 与星共厨 (Cooking With the Stars) (T) (R) 2.50 名人语言大挑战 (Celebrity Lingo) (T) (R) 3.20 电影《侏罗纪世界：陨落王国》(Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) (JA Bayona, 2018) (T) 5.40 《追击》(The Chase) (T) (R) 6.30 新闻与天气 (T) 6.45 地方新闻与天气 (T) 7.0 《盒子》(The Box) (T)

6.10 《干杯》(Cheers) (T) (R) 8.0 《大家都爱雷蒙》(Everybody Loves Raymond) (T) (R) 9.0 《弗雷泽》(Frasier) (T) (R) 10.0 周日早午餐 (Sunday Brunch) (T) 1.0 《辛普森一家》(The Simpsons) (T) (R) 1.55 《狗狗之家》(The Dog House) (T) (R) 2.55 乔治·克拉克的神奇空间 (George Clarke's Amazing Spaces) (T) (R) 3.55 街上最糟糕的房子 (Worst House on the Street) (T) (R) 5.0 新闻 (T) 5.30 一级方程式：新加坡大奖赛集锦 (T) 7.45 名人陶艺大比拼 (The Great Celebrity Pottery Throw Down) (T)

Channel 4

娱乐新闻 (T) 9.05 《邮轮：热爱生活的英国人在海上》(The Cruise: Fun-Loving Brits at Sea) (T) (R) 11.05 与简·麦克唐纳及好友共度假期 (Holidaying With Jane McDonald & Friends) (T) (R) 12.0 《战舰：皇家海军生活》(Warship: Life in the Royal Navy) (T) (R) 1.0 《战舰：皇家海军生活》(Warship: Life in the Royal Navy) (T) (R) 2.0 直播：NFL on 5 (T) 杰克逊维尔美洲豹 对阵 费城老鹰（下午2.30开球）。 5.30 奇妙的巧克力世界 (The Wonderful World of Chocolate) (T) (R) 6.0 百万英镑房车 (Million Pound Motorhomes) (T) (R) 6.55 新闻 (T) 7.0 《格罗夫纳：伦敦的大酒店》(The Grosvenor: London's Grand Hotel) (T)

Channel 5

BBC Four

6.0 Milkshake! 9.0

7.0 《及时缝补》(A Stitch in Time) (T) (R) 一名树篱修剪工的肖像。 7.30 2026年 BBC青年音乐家 (BBC Young Musician 2026) (T) 试镜环节的更多精彩片段。

8.0 《古董路演》(Antiques Roadshow) (T) 在德文郡的达廷顿庄园，发现的物品包括一根带有秘密的手杖、一个非洲头枕和一块打捞出来的劳力士手表。 9.0 《时间》(Time) (T) 新剧集。悲剧发生在一家青少年犯管教所。监狱系列剧，由大卫·特南特和希奥班·芬尼兰主演。

10.0 新闻 (T)

10.25 地区新闻 (T) 天气 10.30 《今日比赛》(Match of the Day) (T) 英超赛事：利物浦 对阵 曼城，以及 赫尔 对阵 埃弗顿。

11.35 电影《我是特工》(The Nice Guys) (Shane Black, 2016) (T) 犯罪喜剧，由罗素·克劳和瑞恩·高斯林主演。

1.25 未来一周天气预报 (T) 1.30 新闻 (T)

8.0 《朝圣：穿越北威尔士之路》(Pilgrimage: The Road Through North Wales) (T) (R) 旅人们从埃里里国家公园外出发，向西前往林潘宁半岛。本系列最后一集。

8.0 《艾默代尔》(Emmerdale) (T) 金担心乔，而罗伯特对盖比有个主意。

9.0 《与西蒙·里夫共探荒野》(Wilderness With Simon Reeve) (T) 这位记者在加拿大崎岖且冰封的育空地区徒步和划独木舟。

10.0 《稍后...与朱尔斯·霍兰》(Later ... With Jools Holland) (T) 新剧集。包括保罗·希顿、DC3、垃圾场里的玛丽和德莫特·亨利演出。

10.45 电影《不要回头》(Don't Look Now) (Nicolas Roeg, 1973) (T)

12.35 手语区：《不再离开》(Sign Zone: Not Going Out) (T) (R) 1.05 《问题时间》(Question Time) (T) (R) 2.05 《海上救命》(Saving Lives at Sea) (T) (R)

8.30 《加冕街》(Coronation Street) (T) 基特拒绝担任莎拉的品格证人。

9.0 《政党》(The Party) (T) 新剧集。一名记者被朋友要求破坏其死对头的领导权竞选。剧情剧，由卢克·埃文斯主演。

10.0 新闻 (T) 天气

10.20 《DNA之旅》(DNA Journey) (T) (R) 由喜剧演员罗布·贝克特和罗梅什·兰加纳森主持。

11.40 《政党》(The Party) (T) (R) 政治剧，由卢克·埃文斯、汤姆·库伦和莎拉·索莱马尼主演。

12.45 电视购物 3.0 英国赛车运动 (Motorsport UK) (T) (R) 3.50 与ITV一起放松 (Unwind With ITV) (T) 5.05 普鲁·莱斯的科茨沃尔德厨房 (Prue Leith's Cotswold Kitchen) (T) (R)

9.0 《启示录》(Apocalypse) (T) 一名新的幸存者来到西营寻求庇护，并注意到存在性别分歧，女性被边缘化，因此敦促凯莉和塞莉亚采取行动。

10.15 Gogglebox (T) (R)

12.15 999: On the Front Line (T) (R) 1.10 Ramsay's Hotel Hell (T) (R) 2.0 Ramsay's Hotel Hell (T) (R) 2.50 电影《Shadowbox》(2025) 4.20 George Clarke's Amazing Spaces (T) (R) 5.0 The Simpsons (T) (R) 5.50 Countdown (T) (R)

8.0 22 Kids & Counting (T) 克洛伊和她的伴侣杰克迎来了他们的第二个孩子，而诺埃尔和苏带着他们最小的五个孩子出发去露营。

9.0 直播：NFL on 5 (T) 西雅图海鹰队 v 旧金山49人队（开球时间 9.25pm）。来自 Lumen Field 的第五周 NFC 西区比赛。

12.30 Cops (T) (R) 12.55 Motorway Cops: Catching America's Speeders (T) (R) 1.55 Entertainment News (T) 2.0 Must Have Ideas (T) (R) 4.0 The Cruise: Fun-Loving Brits at Sea (T) (R) 4.45 Spain With Michael Portillo (T) (R) 5.30 Entertainment News (T) 5.35 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom (T) (R)

9.0 Talking Shakespeare (T) (R) 塞莉亚·伊姆里在 BBC 档案库中搜寻，以庆祝威廉·莎士比亚的作品，并回顾这些年间他的最伟大剧作是如何被搬上电影和电视屏幕的。

10.0 Lesley Manville

回忆录：Top Girls (T) 10.15 Top Girls (T) (R) 1991年改编自卡里尔·丘吉尔的剧作。

12.05 Omnibus: Caryl Churchill (T) (R) 1.15 Shakespeare in Italy With Francesco Da Mosto (T) (R) 2.15 A Stitch in Time (T) (R) 2.45 Talking Shakespeare (T) (R)

其他频道

BBC Three

7.0pm EastEnders 7.30 EastEnders 8.0 EastEnders 8.30 EastEnders 9.0 The Celebrity Traitors 10.05 The Celebrity Traitors 11.10 Ice Road Truckers 11.55 Ice Road Truckers 12.40 电影《Borderlands》(2024) 2.10 The Golden Cobra 2.25 The Golden Cobra 2.40 The Golden Cobra 2.55 The Golden Cobra

U&Dave

6.0am 电视购物 7.20 Top Gear 8.10 Yukon Gold 9.10 Yukon Gold 10.10 Yukon Gold 11.10 Red Bull Soapbox Race 12.10 Red Bull Soapbox Race 1.10 Wagging Rights 2.10 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 2.50 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 3.30 Would I Lie to You? 4.10 Would I Lie to You? 4.50 Would I Lie to You? 5.25 Explore 6.30 Guy Martin: The World's Fastest Van? 8.0 Wagging Rights 9.0 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 10.0 QI 10.40 Mock the Week 11.20 Mock the Week 12.0 Live at the Apollo 1.0 QI XL 2.0 Will & Ralf Should Know Better 3.05 Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish 4.0 电视购物

E4

6.0am Hollyoaks Omnibus 7.05 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.15 Modern Family 7.45 Modern Family 8.10 Modern Family 8.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 9.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 10.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 11.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12.35 The Great British Bake Off 2.10 The Simpsons 2.45 The 3.10 The 3.45 The 4.10 The 4.45 The 5.10 The 5.40 Lego Masters Australia 6.50 Free Guy (2021) 9.0 Gogglebox 10.05 The Inbetweeners 10.40 The Inbetweeners 11.10 The Inbetweeners 11.45 The Inbetweeners 12.20 Naked Attraction 1.20 First Dates 2.25 Vanderpump Rules 3.10 Vanderpump Rules 3.55 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 4.20 Hollyoaks Omnibus

Film4

11.0am Secret Headquarters (2022) 1.05 Hidden Figures (2016) 3.35 The War Lord (1965) 6.0 Next Goal Wins (2023) 8.0 Gran Turismo

(2023) 10.40 T2 Trainspotting (2017) 1.0 Passing (2021)

PBS America

6.0am 电视购物 8.0 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 8.50 Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War 9.50 Thirties in Colour: to 10.50 in : to 11.50 Nazi's Diplomats: Dancing With the Devil 1.0 in : to 2.0 in : to 3.0 in : to 4.0 Nazi's Diplomats: Dancing With the Devil 5.15 WWII in : to Victory 6.20 WWII in : to Victory 7.25 in : to 8.35 in : to 9.40 in : to 10.50 Nazi's Diplomats: Dancing With the Devil 12.0 Women of World II: More Untold Stories 1.15 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 2.0 电视购物

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Sky One

6.0am 电影《驯龙骑士》(2021) 7.45 一级方程式赛车 1 9.45 《辛普森一家》 10.45

《辛普森一家》 11.15 《辛普森一家》 11.45 《辛普森一家》 12.15 电影《了不起的狐狸先生》(2009) 2.0 《超级商店》 2.30 《超级商店》 3.0 《超级商店》 3.30 《超级商店》 4.0 《超级商店》 4.30 一级方程式赛车 1 5.30 《泰德的笔记本》 6.0 《阿加莎·雷辛》 8.0 《罗布与罗梅什对抗英国队：冬季特辑》 9.0 电影《伦敦陷落》(2016) 11.0 《周六夜现场》 12.30 《罗梅什：不能否定这份拼劲》 2.0 《力量：东北部》 4.0 《道路战争》 5.0 《公路巡逻》

Sky Arts

6.0am 西蒙·拉特爵士：指挥的快乐 7.10 《舞动吧！》 8.20 《出人意料的故事》 8.50 《出人意料的故事》 9.20 《出人意料的故事》 9.50 《出人意料的故事》

Next Goal Wins, Film4

10.20 《出人意料的故事》 10.45 《阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克时间》 11.45 《年度肖像艺术家》 2026 12.45 安德烈·波切利：神圣咏叹调 2.20 劳雷尔与哈迪：他们的生活与魔力 4.0 迪恩·马丁：传奇音乐会 5.0 迈克尔·弗莱特利：舞王：危险游戏 6.45 《经典专辑》 7.45 鲍勃·马利：起义！现场 10.15 尘封的遗产：四王牌故事 12.30 《大奥普里：现场》 1.30 电影《路德：永不满足》(2024) 3.30 《摇滚女性》 4.45 《经典专辑》

Sky Atlantic

6.0am 《鱼镇》 78.0 《谋杀：街头生活》 9.05 《谋杀：街头生活》 10.10 : on the 11.20 : on the 12.25 : on the 1.30 : on the 2.30 《龙之家族》 3.30 《龙之家族》 4.45 《法戈》 5.50 《法戈》 6.55 《法戈》 8.0 《法戈》 9.0 《法戈》 10.0 War 11.05 《恐怖》 1.15 《死木》 2.10 《死木》 3.10 《死木》 4.10 《死木》 5.05 《城市秘密》

Radio

Radio 3

6.30am 早餐节目 9.0 周日早晨：拉威尔与拉赫玛尼诺夫。 12.0 《私人激情》。与萨克斯管演奏家考特尼·派恩聊天。 1.30 《音乐地图》。萨拉·莫尔-皮奇探索埃罗琳·瓦伦的《Mighty River》。 3.0 《音乐要义：由外而内》。有色人种谈论他们作为古典音乐家的经历。(1 / 3) 4.0 《爵士唱片请求》 5.0 《早期音乐节目》。音乐资助者瑞典女王克里斯蒂娜。 6.0 合唱晚祷 (R) 7.0 周日专题：演奏克里姆林宫曲调的人。露西·艾什记录苏联作曲家蒂洪·赫连尼科夫的崛起与统治。(R) 7.45 《文字与音乐》。一期受教区教堂启发的节目。 9.0 与汉娜·皮尔一起玩铜管乐队。这位作曲家会见创造历史的评委安妮·克鲁克斯顿。(2 / 9) 10.0 《深夜轨道》 11.30 未分类 12.30 《彻夜》

Radio 4

6.0am 新闻 6.05 Beyond Belief (重播) 6.35 On Your Farm。马利·哈里斯（Mali Harries）访问一名致力于推广英国农林业的人士。 6.57 天气 7.0 新闻 7.0 星期日报纸 7.10 星期日 7.54 Radio 4 募捐 7.57 天气 8.0 新闻 8.0 星期日报纸 (重播) 8.10 星期日礼拜。来自考文垂大教堂的礼拜仪式。 8.48 Witness History (重播) 8.58 今日推文 9.0 广播大楼 10.0 荒岛唱片 11.0 《牧羊人》(重播) 12.15 Profile (重播) 12.30 Unspeakable (重播) 12.57 天气 1.0 本周末的世界 1.30 农场 AI。夏洛特·史密斯（Charlotte Smith）探讨 AI 如何改变农业。 2.0 园艺问答时间 (重播) 2.45 Opening Lines 3.0 Why Didn't They Ask Evans? 谋杀谜案，由米兰达·埃默森（Miranda Emmerson）改编自阿加莎·克里斯蒂的小说。 4.0 Take Four Books。马龙·詹姆斯（Marlon James）谈论他的新小说《消失者》（The Disappearers）。 4.30 英国之脑 (12 / 17) 5.0 Witness History (重播) 5.10 The Verb。包括欧文·希尔斯（Owen Sheers）、杰森·艾伦·佩桑特（Jason Allen Paisant）、海伦·莫特（Helen Mort）和戴维·莫利（David Morley）的诗作。(4 / 7) 5.54 航运预报 5.57 天气 6.0

新闻 6.15 每周精选 7.0 《牧羊人》 7.15 “56年革命”的后代。娜塔莉·奥拉（Nathalie Olah）与生活在 1956 年起义阴影下的匈牙利青年对话。 7.45 大英博物馆之贼 (重播) 8.0 Feedback (重播) 8.30 Last Word (重播) 9.0 Money Box (重播) 9.25 Radio 4 募捐：Medair UK (重播) 9.30 来自我们的特派记者 (重播) 9.59 天气 10.0 威斯敏斯特小时 11.0 In Our Time (重播) 11.45 短篇作品。雪莱·罗什-雅各布斯（Shelley Roche-Jacques）的《一只幸福的熊》（One Bear from Happiness）。(重播) 12.0 新闻 12.15 人造人 (重播) 12.45 星期日的钟声 (重播) 12.48 航运预报 1.0 As World Service 5.0 新闻 5.04 Last Word (重播) 5.32 天气 5.34 航运预报 5.43 今日祷告 5.45 今日农业

Radio 4 Extra

6.0am 荒岛唱片回顾 6.45 Pursued By Bears (2 / 3) 7.0 Poetry Extra 7.30 Alive, Alive Oh and Other Things That Matter 精选集 (1-5 / 5) 8.40 Inheritance Tracks 8.50 Tristram Shandy 精选集 - 第二部分 (6-10 / 10) 10.0 Whack-O! (5 / 20) 10.30 The Clitheroe Kid (7 / 20) 11.0 荒岛唱片回顾 11.45 Pursued By Bears (2 / 3) 12.0 Poetry Extra

12.30 Alive, Alive Oh and Other Things That Matter 精选集 (1-5 / 5) 1.40 Inheritance Tracks 1.50 Tristram Shandy 精选集 - 第二部分 (6-10 / 10) 3.0 Whack-O! (5 / 20) 3.30 The Clitheroe Kid (7 / 20) 4.0 SteelHeads (2 / 5) 4.30 Over Sea, Under Stone (2 / 4) 5.0 荒岛唱片回顾 5.45 Pursued By Bears (2 / 3) 6.0 Poetry Extra 6.30 Alive, Alive Oh and Other Things That Matter 精选集 (1-5 / 5) 7.40 Inheritance Tracks 7.50 Tristram Shandy 精选集 - 第二部分 (6-10 / 10) 9.0 Whack-O! (5 / 20) 9.30 The Clitheroe Kid (7 / 20) 10.0 Comedy Club: Date Night (2 / 4) 10.30 Alexei Sayle's Strangers on a Train (3 / 6) 11.0 Party (1 / 4) 11.30 Electric Ink (5 / 6) 12.0 SteelHeads (2 / 5) 12.30 Over Sea, Under Stone (2 / 4) 1.0 荒岛唱片回顾 1.45 Pursued By Bears (2 / 3) 2.0 Poetry Extra 2.30 Alive, Alive Oh and Other Things That Matter 精选集 (1-5 / 5) 3.40 Inheritance Tracks 3.50 Tristram Shandy 精选集 - 第二部分 (6-10 / 10) 5.0 Whack-O! (5 / 20) 5.30 The Clitheroe Kid (7 / 20)

The Sky at Night, BBC Four

BBC One

6.0 Breakfast (T) 9.30 Morning Live (T) 10.45 Crimewatch Live (T) 11.30 Homes Under the Hammer (T) (重播) 12.15 Bargain Hunt (T) 1.0 新闻 (T) 1.35 地区新闻与天气 (T) 1.45 新闻 (T) 2.0 Clean It, Fix It (T) (重播) 2.30 Shift the Thrift (T) (重播) 3.0 Escape to the Country (T) 3.45 Garden Rescue (T) 4.30 Bridge of Lies (T) 5.15 Pointless (T) (重播) 6.0 新闻 (T) 6.30 地区新闻与天气 (T) 7.0 The One Show (T) 7.30 EastEnders (T)

BBC Two

6.20 Bargain Hunt (T) (R) 7.05 Sign Zone: The Great House Revival (T) (R) 7.55 Match of the Day (T) (R) 9.0 News (T) 12.15 Politics Live (T) 1.0 Impossible (T) (R) 1.45 The Answer Run (T) (R) 2.30 The Boss (T) (R) 3.15 Great British Railway Journeys (T) (R) 3.45 The Great House Revival (T) (R) 4.35 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (T) (R) 5.10 Flog It! (T) (R) 6.0 House of Games (T) 6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two (T) 7.0 Global Eye (T) 7.30 Mastermind (T)

ITV1

6.0 Good Morning Britain (T) 9.30 Lorraine (T) 10.0 This Morning (T) 12.30 Loose Women (T) 1.30 News and Weather (T) 1.55 Local and Weather (T) 2.0 Dickinson's Real Deal (T) (R) 3.0 Lingo (T) (R) 4.0 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R) 5.0 The Chase (T) (R) 6.0 Local and Weather (T) 6.30 and Weather (T) 7.30 Cooking With the Stars (T)

Channel 4

6.30 The King of Queens (T) (R) 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (T) (R) 9.10 Frasier (T) (R) 11.10 American Pickers (T) (R) 12.05 (T) 12.10 Renovation Nation (T) (R) 1.10 The Great House Giveaway (T) (R) 2.10 Countdown (T) 3.0 A Place in the Sun (T) (R) 4.0 Help! We Bought a Village (T) 5.0 Four in a Bed (T) (R) 5.30 Come Dine With Me (T) (R) 6.0 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now? (T) (R) 7.0 (T) 7.55 Chloe's Story: Stand Up to Cancer (T) (R)

Channel5

6.0 Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (T) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (T) 12.45 (T) 12.50 Matt Allwright (T) 2.20 电影《他们遗忘的女孩》(The Girl They Forgot) (Delmar Washington, 2023) (T) 4.0 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (T) (R) 5.0 (T) 6.0 Cornwall: A Year By the Sea (T) (R) 6.55 (T) 7.0 Police Interceptors (T) (R) 7.55 (T)

BBC Four

7.0 New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands (T) (R) 探讨太平洋群岛的野生动物。

8.0 Panorama: Roman Abramovich - How He Hid His Fortune (T) 亿万富翁的资金交易。 8.30 Clickbait Clinic With Stacey Dooley (T) 主持人关注一群通过提高睾酮水平来增强体能的年轻人。 9.0 Time (T) 监狱剧，由 David Tennant 和 Siobhan Finneran 主演。

10.0 (T) 10.30 Regional (T) Weather 10.40 Have I Got for You (T) (R) Alex Jones 主持该问答节目。 11.10 电影《不端行为》(Misbehaviour) (Philippa Lowthorpe, 2020) (T) 喜剧正剧，由 Keira Knightley 和 Gugu Mbatha-Raw 主演。 12.50 Weather for the Week Ahead (T) 12.55 (T)

8.0 Only Connect (T) Victoria Coren Mitchell 主持该问答节目，Frenemies 队对阵 Sinistrals 队。 8.30 University Challenge (T) 伦敦大学亚非学院 (Soas University of London) 对阵爱丁堡大学。 9.0 Being Muslim After 9 / 11 (T) 关于美国 9 月 11 日袭击事件对英国穆斯林影响的纪录片。

10.0 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (T) (R) Bob 和 Paul 在诺福克的温瑟姆河捕食红鱼。

10.30 Newsnight (T) Weather 11.05 电影《美国小说》(American Fiction) (Cord Jefferson, 2024) (T) 讽刺剧。

12.55 Sign Zone Countryfile (T) (R) 1.50 The Celebrity Traitors (T) (R) 2.55 The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked (T) (R)

8.0 Emmerdale (T) Vinny 在法庭上，Kim 被警察拦车。 8.30 Coronation Street (T) Brody 和 Bernie 在 Kit 开始治疗时给予支持。 9.0 The Party (T) 随着过去的悲剧终于揭晓，Martin 努力控制 Ben 震惊消息引发的后果。

10.0 (T) Weather 10.30 Local (T) Weather 10.45 Killer in the House: The Murder of Nicholas Billingham (T) (R)

11.40 Killer in the House: The Murders of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan (T) (R)

12.35 Shop 3.0 Wheel of Fortune (T) (R) 3.50 Unwind (T) 5.05 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R)

8.0 Jamie's 20 Minute Meals (T) Jamie 分享了一道奶油甜葱干邑火焰酱牛排，以及蒜香炸面疙瘩薯条的食谱。 9.0 Pierre (T) 律师在 Michael 去世后仍处于震惊之中，但很快被卷入另一个涉及陷入困境的家族企业的义务案件中。

10.05 Geordie Coppers (T)

11.05 电影《杀死安娜》(Killing Anna) (Sam Benstead, 2026) (T) 叙利亚战争纪录片。

12.35 24小时急诊室 (24 Hours in A&E) (T) (R) 1.30 抗击癌症 (Stand Up to Cancer) (T) (R) 1.35 拉姆齐的酒店噩梦 (Ramsay's Hotel Hell) (T) (R) 2.25 三个女人 (Three Women) (T) 4.20 周日早午餐 (Sunday Brunch) (T) (R) 4.40 Hollyoaks 综合版 (Hollyoaks Omnibus) (T) (R) 5.50 倒计时 (Countdown) (T) (R)

8.0 交通警察：精英一队 (Traffic Cops: Elite Squad One) (T) 摩托车警员乔·莫伊斯利（Joe Moisley）应对 A63 公路上一起严重碰撞事故，一辆汽车正面冲入对向车道。 9.0 迈克尔·帕林在菲律宾 (Michael Palin in the Philippines) (T) 这位旅行者开始了他在棉兰老岛的最后一段旅程。本系列最后一集。

10.0 法医：谋杀现场 (Forensics: Murder Scene) (T) (R) 发现了一只人类脚掌。

11.35 杀手拨号 (A Killer Makes a Call) (T) (R) 1.0 必须有创意 (Must Have Ideas) (T) (R) 3.0 性爱娃娃与橡胶爱好者：我们的秘密世界 (Sex Dolls & Rubber Lovers: Our Secret World) (T) (R) 3.45 与简·麦克唐纳及其好友一起度假 (Holidaying With Jane McDonald & Friends) (T) (R) 4.30 战舰：皇家海军生活 (Warship: Life in the Royal Navy) (T) (R) 5.20 娱乐新闻 (Entertainment News) (T)

8.0 法国艺术 (Art of France) (T) (R) 探讨法国大革命后艺术如何发生剧烈转变。 9.0 智力大比拼：1977 (Mastermind: 1977) (T) (R) 专业领域包括奥托·冯·俾斯麦。 9.30 猜猜我的谎言 (Call My Bluff) (T) (R) 安吉拉·里彭（Angela Rippon）、内里斯·休斯（Nerys Hughes）、彼得·布劳（Peter Brough）和乔纳森·米勒（Jonathan Miller）加入队长弗兰克·缪尔（Frank Muir）和帕特里克·坎贝尔（Patrick Campbell）的队伍。

10.0 夜空 (The Sky at Night) (T) 玛吉·阿德林（Maggie Aderin）探讨阅读障碍如何影响她的生活。

10.30 反射之肤 (Reflecting Skin) (T) (R) 邦妮·格里尔（Bonnie Greer）探讨西方艺术中对黑人的描绘。

11.30 莱昂纳多·达·芬奇 (Leonardo Da Vinci) (T) (R) 第二部分（共两部分）。纪录片。 1.10 古代世界 (Ancient Worlds) (T) (R) 2.10 法国艺术 (Art of France) (T) (R)

其他频道

BBC Three

7.0pm The Catch Up 7.05 可怕的历史 (Horrible Histories) 8.0 Top Gear 10.0 沉默的证人 (Silent Witness) 12.0 电影《折磨》(Tormented) (2009) 1.25 Hyperdrive 13.25 2022年 BBC 新喜剧奖 (BBC New Comedy Awards 2022)

U&Dave

6.0am 电视购物 7.10 Top Gear 8.0 边境执法：美国守门人 (Border Force: America's Gatekeepers) 10.0 瑞克·斯坦的康沃尔 (Rick Stein's Cornwall) 10.30 瑞克·斯坦的康沃尔 11.0 's 11.30 's 12.0 Hairy Bikers' Best of British 1.0 运河船日记 (Canal Boat Diaries) 2.0 Top Gear 3.0 我们在哥伦比亚的家伙 (Our Guy in Colombia) 4.0 's 4.30 's 5.0 's 5.30 's 6.0 Hairy Bikers' Best of British 7.0 莫蒂默与怀特豪斯：垂钓之旅 (Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing) 7.40 圣诞特辑：你会对我撒谎吗？ (Would I Lie to You? At Christmas) 8.20 你会对我说谎吗？ (Would I Lie to You?) 9.0 我能为你提供更多新闻吗 (Have I Got a Bit More News for ) 10.0 QI XL 11.0 8 Out of 10 Cats 精选 11.50 嘲讽本周 (Mock the Week) 12.30 圣诞特辑：你会对我撒谎吗？ (Would I Lie to ? At Christmas) 1.10 你会对我说谎吗？ (Would I Lie to ?) 1.50 QI XL 2.45 游戏之屋 (House of Games) 3.30 幽灵 (Ghosts) 4.0 电视购物

E4

6.0am Hollyoaks 6.55 Rude(ish) Tube 短片 7. Couples Come Dine With Me 8.0 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版 (Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA) 11.0 摩登家庭 (Modern Family) 12.0 辛普森一家 (The Simpsons) 2.0 戈德堡一家 (The Goldbergs) 3.0 摩登家庭 5.0 辛普森一家 7.0 Hollyoaks 7.30 布鲁克林九九 (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) 8.0 初次约会 (First Dates) 9.0 切尔西制造 (Made in Chelsea) 10.0 Gogglebox 11.05 裸体吸引力 (Naked Attraction) 12.10 初次约会 1.10 切尔西制造 2.15 Below Deck Down Under 3.0 辛普森一家 3.25 辛普森一家 3.50 辛普森一家 4.15 戈德堡一家 4.40 戈德堡一家 5.05 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版 (Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA)

Film4

11.0am 《狂野之河》(Wild River) (1960) 1.15 《固定刺刀！》(Fixed Bayonets!) (1951) 3.10 《苏格兰女王玛丽》(Mary, Queen of Scots) (1971) 5.45 《桂河桥》(The Bridge on the River Kwai) (1957) 9.0 《国王之爪》(The King's Man) (2021) 11.35 《瞬息全宇宙》(Everything Everywhere All at Once) (2022) 2.20 《鹿皮》(Deerskin) (2019)

PBS America

6.0am 电视购物 8.0 维多利亚时代的英国 (Victorian Britain on) 9.30 阿加莎·克里斯蒂的英格兰 (Agatha Christie's England) 10.35

反苏联战士 (The Anti-Soviet Fighters) 11.45 弗朗哥统治下的马德里纳粹逃亡路线 (Nazi Ratlines in Franco's Madrid) 1.0 维多利亚时代的英国 2.30 阿加莎·克里斯蒂的英格兰 3.30 反苏联战士 4.45 弗朗哥统治下的马德里纳粹逃亡路线 6.0 维多利亚时代的英国 7.30 阿加莎·克里斯蒂的英格兰 8.35 反苏联战士 9.45 弗朗哥统治下的马德里纳粹逃亡路线 11.0 阿加莎·克里斯蒂的英格兰 12.0 反苏联战士 1.10 苏格兰群岛大巡游 (Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands) 2.0 电视购物

Sky One

6.0am 早晨节目 6.30 早晨节目 7.0 早晨节目 Ridge 与 Frost 主持 7.30 早晨节目 Ridge 与 Frost 主持 8.0 星际之门 SG-1 1 9.0 星际之门 SG-1 1 10.0 NCIS: 洛杉矶 11.0 辛普森一家 11.30 辛普森一家 12.0 澳洲 捕蛇人：致命追击 12.30 澳洲 捕蛇人：致命追击 1.0 天海一方 2.0 天海一方 0 3.0 S.W.A.T 4.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 辛普森一家 6.0 超级商店 6.30 超级商店 7.0 辛普森一家 7.30 辛普森一家 8.0 Agatha Raisin 10.0 约翰·奥利弗之今夜秀

10.45 周六夜现场 (英国版) 12.0 格林 1.0 Evil 2.0 杰玛·柯林斯： 一切。同时发生 2.45 道路战争 3.10 天海一方 0 4.05 S.W.A.T 5.0 S.W.A.T

Sky Arts

6.0am 约纳斯·考夫曼在维罗纳竞技场 8.0 年度艺术家：大师课 8.30 年度艺术家：大师课 9.0 出人意料的故事 9.30 出人意料的故事 10.0 希区柯克呈现 10.30 希区柯克呈现 11.0 发现：西西·斯派塞克 12.0 吉尔·斯科特-赫伦：一个人碎片 1.0 出人意料的故事 1.30 出人意料的故事 2.0 希区柯克呈现 2.30 希区柯克呈现 3.0 比尔·贝利的工艺大师：

下一代 4.0 发现：艾伦·里克曼 5.0 年度风景画家 2015 6.0 出人意料的故事 6.30 出人意料的故事 7.0 希区柯克时间 8.0 帕瓦罗蒂：失落的音乐会 9.20 安德烈·里厄：欢迎来到我的世界 10.20 安德烈·里厄：欢迎来到我的世界 11.20 Classic FM 现场：名人堂 2023 1.20 国家剧院现场：无事小事 3.50 Sky Arts 大使奖学金短片 4.0 艺术走私者：盗自坟墓的宝藏 5.0 比尔·贝利的工艺大师：下一代

Sky Atlantic

6.0am 鱼镇 8.0 亿万 9.05 亿万 10.15 死木镇 12.25 戈莫拉 1.30 谋杀：街头生活 2.30 谋杀： 街头生活 3.30 亿万 4.35 亿万 5.40 龙之家族 6.50 龙之家族 8.0 法戈 9.0 亢奋 10.20 亢奋 12.0 盐沼之下 1.05 它是：欢迎来到德里 2.15 龙之家族 3.30 龙之家族 4.35 Sort Of 5.05 城市秘密

Radio

Radio 3

6.30am 早餐节目 9.30 经典精选 1.0 古典现场。现场来自伦敦威格莫尔音乐厅，小提琴手 Elena Urioste 和钢琴手 Tom Poster 演奏 Dora Pejačević 的 D 调小提琴奏鸣曲 Op 26, "Spring", 德沃夏克的 B 调夜曲 Op 40, 以及勃拉姆斯的 D 小调第三小提琴奏鸣曲 108. 4.0 本周作曲家：Tania Leon (1 / 5) 5.0 In Tune。与作曲家 Segun Akinola 一同探讨。 7.0 古典混音带。由 Segun Akinola 策划的特别混音，旨在庆祝英国黑人作曲家和艺术家。 7.30 音乐会。来自格拉纳达国际音乐舞蹈节，钢琴手 Yulianna Avdeeva 演奏肖邦的两首夜曲 62, Władysław Szpilman 的 F 小调马祖卡、肖邦的 F 小调幻想曲 49, Szpilman 的《机器生活》组曲，以及肖邦的 Andante Spianato 和降 E 大调辉煌大波兰舞曲 22, 24 Preludes, 28, 以及升 C 小调第二十首夜曲 posth. 9.45 论文：

蒙帕纳斯三百米。Joanna Robertson 探索巴黎的这个街区。

(1 / 5) (R) 10.0 夜间轨道 11.30 午夜时分 12.30 彻夜

Radio 4

6.0am Today 9.0 Start the Week（一周之始）。娜奥米·奥尔德曼及其嘉宾讨论家庭秘密、希腊神话和古代基因组。 9.45 Café Hope（希望咖啡馆）(6/10) 10.0 Woman's Hour（女性时间） 11.0 Another Country With James Rebank（詹姆斯·里班克的另一个国家）。农民兼作家詹姆斯·里班克在东萨塞克斯郡的梅菲尔德会见农村工作者。(2/3) 11.45 Winnie-the-Pooh（小熊维尼） 100 伦尼·亨利朗读 AA 米尔恩的《小熊维尼》和《一些蜜蜂》(Some Bees)。(1/5) 12.0 News（新闻） 12.04 You and Yours（你我之间） 12.57 Weather（天气） 1.0 The World at One（一点世界） 1.45 Farming Today（今日农业）(R) 2.0 The Archers（阿彻斯）(R) 2.15 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen?（宝贝简·奥斯汀怎么了？）(R) 2.45 Faith, Hope and Glory（信仰、希望与荣耀）(R) 3.0 A Good Read（好书推荐）。历史学家兼作家安德里亚·沃尔夫和作者塞琳娜·布朗推荐书籍。(1/9) 3.30 Curious Cases（奇案）(R) 4.0 AI on the Farm（农场上的人工智能）(R) 4.30 Art That Conquered the World（征服世界的艺术）(R) 5.0 PM（下午时段） 5.57 Weather（天气） 6.0 News（新闻） 6.30 Room 101 With Paul Merton（保罗·默顿的101室）。喜剧演员保罗·默顿询问迈尔斯·朱普关于他最厌恶的事物和最可怕的噩梦。(1/6) 7.0 The Archers（阿彻斯） 7.15 Front Row（前排） 8.0 The Briefing Room（简报室）(R) 8.30 Inside Science（科学内幕）(R) 9.0 Start the Week（一周之始）(R) 9.45 Café Hope（希望咖啡馆）(R) 9.59 Weather（天气） 10.0 The World Tonight（今夜世界） 10.45 Who Are You in Winnie-the-Pooh?（你在小熊维尼中是谁？）儿童作家揭秘他们在 AA 米尔恩的永恒童话中最认同哪个角色。(R) 11.0 Cobalt（钴）(R) 11.30 Today in Parliament（议会今日） 12.0 News and Weather（新闻与天气） 12.30 Appetite for Distraction（分心的胃口）(R) 12.48 Shipping Forecast（航运预报） 1.0 As World Service（世界服务） 5.0 News（新闻） 5.04 Yesterday in Parliament（议会昨日） 5.32 Weather（天气） 5.34 Shipping Forecast（航运预报） 5.43 Prayer for the Day（每日祷告） 5.45 Farming Today（今日农业）

Radio 4 Extra

6.0am Not As Far As Velma（不像维尔玛那么远）(1/6) 6.30 Deep Six（深埋）(2/6) 7.0 Chambers（议事厅）(5/5) 7.30 Dad's Army（爸爸军队）(22/26) 8.0 Plum House（李子屋）(4/6) 8.30 Winnie the Pooh（小熊维尼）(1/3) 8.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week（如何在一周内写小说）(1/5) 9.0 Unspeakable（不可言说）(6/6) 9.30 Corncrakes for Breakfast（早餐吃秧鸡）(1/5) 9.45 Daily Service（每日服务） 10.0 Fame in the Family（家族名声） 10.30 The Songs of Milne（米尔恩之歌） 11.0 Not As Far As Velma（不像维尔玛那么远）(1/6) 11.30 Deep Six（深埋）(2/6) 12.0 Chambers（议事厅）

(5/5) 12.30 Dad's Army（爸爸军队）(22/26) 1.0 Plum House（李子屋）(4/6) 1.30 Winnie the Pooh（小熊维尼）(1/3) 1.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week（如何在一周内写小说）(1/5) 2.0 Just a Minute（就一分钟）(4/6) 2.30 Trevor's World of Sport（特雷弗的体育世界）(6/6) 3.0 The Midnight Folk（午夜之民）(1/2) 4.0 Fame in the Family（家族名声） 4.30 The Songs of Milne（米尔恩之歌） 5.0 Not As Far As Velma（不像维尔玛那么远）(1/6) 5.30 Deep Six（深埋）(2/6) 6.0 Chambers（议事厅）(5/5) 6.30 Dad's Army（爸爸军队）(22/26) 7.0 Plum House（李子屋）(4/6) 7.30 Winnie the Pooh（小熊维尼）(1/3) 7.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week（如何在一周内写小说）(1/5) 8.0 Just a Minute（就一分钟）(4/6) 8.30 Trevor's World of Sport（特雷弗的体育世界）(6/6) 9.0 The Midnight Folk（午夜之民）(1/2) 10.0 Comedy Club: Unspeakable（喜剧俱乐部：不可言说）(6/6) 10.30 Brian Appleton's History of Rock'n'Roll（布莱恩·阿普尔顿的摇滚乐史）(4/6) 10.45 The Jail Diaries of Sir Ralph Stanza（拉尔夫·斯坦扎爵士的监狱日记）(4) 11.0 The News Quiz（新闻问答）(6/8) 11.30 Revolting People（令人厌恶的人）(2/6) 12.0 Fame in the Family（家族名声） 12.30 The Songs of Milne（米尔恩之歌） 1.0 Not As Far As Velma（不像维尔玛那么远）(1/6) 1.30 Deep Six（深埋）(2/6) 2.0 Chambers（议事厅）(5/5) 2.30 Dad's Army（爸爸军队）(22/26) 3.0 Plum House（李子屋）(4/6) 3.30 Winnie the Pooh（小熊维尼）

(1/3) 3.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week（如何在一周内写小说）(1/5) 4.0 Just a Minute（就一分钟）(4/6) 4.30 Trevor's World of Sport（特雷弗的体育世界）(6/6) 5.0 The Midnight Folk（午夜之民）(1/2)

BBC One

6.0 Breakfast（早餐节目）(T) 9.30 Morning Live（早晨直播）(T) 10.45 Crimewatch Live（犯罪观察直播）(T) 11.30 Homes Under the Hammer（房屋拍卖）(T) (R) 12.15 Bargain Hunt（淘宝猎人）(T) (R) 1.0 News（新闻）(T) 1.35 Regional News and Weather（地区新闻与天气）(T) 1.45 News（新闻）(T) 2.0 Clean It, Fix It（清洁与修复）(T) (R) 2.30 Shift the Thrift（节俭转移）(T) (R) 3.0 Escape to the Country（逃往乡村）(T) 3.45 Garden Rescue（花园救援）(T) (R) 4.30 Bridge of Lies（谎言之桥）(T) 5.15 Pointless（毫无意义）(T) (R) 6.0 News（新闻）(T) 6.30 Regional News and Weather（地区新闻与天气）(T) 7.0 The One Show（综合节目）(T) 7.30 EastEnders（东区东区）(T)

BBC Two

6.30 Bargain Hunt（淘宝猎人）(T) (R) 7.15 Escape to the Country（逃往乡村）(T) (R) 8.0 Sign Zone: Weatherman Walking（手语区：行走的气象员）(T) (R) 8.30 Weatherman Walking（行走的气象员）(T) (R) 9.0 News（新闻）(T) 12.15 Politics Live（政治直播）(T) 1.0 Impossible（不可能）(T) (R) 1.45 The Answer Run（答案奔跑）(T) (R) 2.30 The Boss（老板）(T) (R) 3.15 Great British Railway Journeys（英国铁路之旅）(T) (R) 3.45 The Great House Revival（大宅复兴）(T) (R) 4.35 Vintage Antiques Roadshow（复古古董路演）(T) (R) 5.15 Flog It!（把它卖掉！） (T) (R) 6.0 House of Games（游戏之屋）(T) 6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two（严格来说：需要两个人）(T) 7.0 The Hairy Bikers Go West（毛发骑士去西部）(T) (R)

ITV1

6.0 早安英国 (T) 9.30 洛林 (T) 10.0 早上好 (T) 12.30 宽松女性 (T) 1.30 新闻与天气 (T) 1.55 地方新闻与天气 (T) 2.0 迪金森的真实交易 (T) (R) 3.0 语言大挑战 (T) (R) 4.0 成交或不成交 (T) (R) 5.0 追击 (T) (R) 6.0 地方新闻与天气 (T) 6.30 新闻与天气 (T) 7.15 马丁·刘易斯理财秀：直播 (T)

Channel 4

6.30 奎恩之王 (T) (R) 7.45 大家都爱雷蒙 (T) (R) 9.10 弗雷泽 (T) (R) 11.10 美国拾荒者 (T) (R) 12.05 新闻 (T) 12.10 翻新国家 (T) (R) 1.10 豪宅赠送 (T) (R) 2.10 倒计时 (T) 3.0 阳光下的居所 (T) (R) 4.0 救命！我们买了个村庄 (T) 5.0 四人同床 (T) (R) 5.30 来和我共进晚餐 (T) (R) 6.0 阳光下的新生活：他们现在如何？(T) (R) 7.0 新闻 (T) 7.55 马修的故事：对抗癌症 (T) (R)

Channel 5

6.0 Milkshake! 9.15 杰里米·Vine (T) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (T) 12.45 新闻 (T) 12.50 马特·奥尔赖特 (T) 2.20 电影《绑架：寻找艾玛·莫雷诺》(Kaila York, 2023) (T) 4.0 阳光下的英国砍价族 (T) (R) 5.0 新闻 (T) 6.0 康沃尔：海边的一年 (T) (R) 6.55 新闻 (T) 7.0 交通警察 (T) (R) 7.55 新闻 (T)

BBC Four

7.0 骨骼之秘 (T) (R) 探讨骨骼如何辅助飞行。 7.30 贵族之风 (T) (R) 奥德丽试图挫败德维尔改变乡村的计划。

8.0 DIY SOS (T) 兰开夏郡普雷斯顿的一个家庭需要团队的帮助，以便让他们的儿子从医院回家——但这几乎是一个不可能完成的工程。 9.0 蓝光 (T) 随着盖里的谋杀案审判开始，莫糟糕的心理健康状况引发了国家与正义之间的斗争。而谢恩与李之间发生了紧张的对峙。

10.0 新闻 (T)

10.30 地区新闻 (T) 天气 10.40 斯泰西·杜利：坠落的女性 (T) (R) 关于女性坠亡案例的报道。 11.40 斯泰西·杜利的点击诱饵诊所 (T) (R) 特邀健身网红亚当·卡茨。 12.10 群体智慧 (T) (R) 12.55 未来一周天气预报 (T) 1.0 新闻 (T)

8.0 海上救生 (T) 一名遛狗者打电话报告，在波特考尔附近的休息湾悬崖下方发现一名陷入困境的冲浪者。 9.0 约翰·辛普森：在 BBC 的六十年 (T) 这位记者回顾了他在 BBC 60年的职业生涯，反思他所见证的不断变化的世界。

10.0 QI (T) (R) 嘉宾包括萨拉·帕斯科、布里奇特·克里斯蒂和德博拉·弗朗西斯-怀特。

10.30 新闻之夜 (T) 天气 11.0 9 / 11 后的穆斯林生活 (T) (R) 纪录片。

12.05 手语区：达米洛拉 - 未讲述的故事 (T) (R) 1.20 名人叛徒 (T) (R) 2.25 名人叛徒：揭秘 (T) (R)

8.0 艾默代尔 (T) 马蒂发现农场生活很艰辛，而罗伯特则感到兴奋。 8.30 街道冠冕 (T) 托德向惊恐的莎拉泄露了基特的秘密。 9.0 派对 (T) 在本的压力下，马丁必须决定为了掩盖过去的秘密并拯救他的朋友，他准备走多远。

10.0 新闻 (T) 天气

10.45 金主谋杀案：真实犯罪呈现 (T) (R) 回顾一起 2012 年的案件。 11.35 对不起，我不知道 (T) (R)

12.0 电视购物 3.0 朱莉亚·布拉德伯里的极南之地奇观 (T) (R) 3.50 与 ITV 一起放松 (T) 5.05 成交或不成交 (T) (R)

8.0 英国烘焙大赛 (T) 参赛者制作一款招牌大蒜面包和一款令人惊叹的面包展示，随后其中一人被要求离开。

9.15 诱惑财富 (T) 在泥滩上奋战之后，精疲力竭的参赛者们得到了终极逃离的机会——一次包含鸡尾酒和晚餐的游轮之旅。

10.15 英国烘焙大赛：再来一份 (T) 11.05 Gogglebox (T) (R)

12.05 Taskmaster (T) (R) 1.0 Matthew's Story (T) (R) 1.10 酒店地狱 (T) (R) 1.55 启示录 (T) (R) 3.0 三个 女人 (T) 4.0 地点， 地点，地点 (T) (R) 4.55 来我家吃饭 (T) (R) 5.50 倒计时 (T) (R)

8.0 高速公路警察：抓捕英国超速者 (T) 在 M6 高速公路上，警员 Tom Cordall 和 Greg Chadwick追踪一辆据报被盗的奥迪 A3。 9.0 Ben Fogle：荒野新生活 (T) 主持人访问法属波利尼西亚的 Ahe 环礁，拜访一个生活围绕着脱离电网的珍珠养殖场展开的家庭。

11.35 医院：生死一线 (T) (R)

12.35 警察 (T) (R) 1.0 必须有创意 (T) 3.0 我喜欢被狠狠地打屁股！ (T) (R4) 3.45 战舰：皇家海军生活 (T) (R) 4.35 与 Susan Calman 一起巡游 (T) (R) 5.20 娱乐新闻 (T)

8.0 维持体面 (T) (R) Richard 忘记了他的结婚纪念日。 8.30 城市之光 (T) (R) 这部以格拉斯哥为背景的喜剧的第一集。由 Gerard Kelly 出演。 9.0 城市之光：纯粹的精彩 (T) (R) 这部关于一名梦想成为畅销书作家的银行职员的喜剧特辑。

10.0 Storyville：请教 E. Jean (T) 美国建议专栏作家 E Jean Carroll 的一生。 11.25 999 特辑 (T) (R) 回顾 1987 年的大风暴。 12.15 夜空 (T) (R) 12.45 骨骼的秘密 (T) (R) 1.15 城市之光：纯粹的精彩 (T) (R) 2.15 新西兰：地球上的神话之岛 (T) (R)

其他频道

BBC Three

7.0pm The Catch Up 7.05 可怕的历史 8.0 整理你的生活 由 Stacey Solomon 主持 9.0 Stacey Dooley 10.0 Dooley：吉普赛成长记 10.45 美女皇后与 网络骗子 1.0 被驱逐： 边缘租客 2.0 Dooley 3.0 整理你的生活 由 Solomon 主持

U&Dave

6.0am 电视购物 7.10 Top Gear 8.0 边境执法队：美国的守门人 9.0 边境执法队：美国的守门人 10.0 Rick Stein 的康沃尔圣诞节 11.0 Rick Stein 的秘密法国 12.0 Hairy Bikers 的亚洲冒险 1.0 运河船日记 2.0 Top Gear 3.0 我们在哥伦比亚的人 4.0 Rick Stein 的康沃尔圣诞节 5.0 Rick Stein 的秘密法国 6.0 Hairy Bikers 的亚洲冒险 7.0 Mortimer & Whitehouse：去钓鱼 7.40 我会撒谎吗？ 8.20 我会撒谎吗？ 9.0 QI XL 10.0 我是不是又为你带来了一些新闻 11.0 10 只猫中的 8 只 12.0 嘲讽本周 12.40 我会撒谎吗？ 2.0 QI XL 3.0 游戏之屋 3.30 幽灵 4.0 电视购物

E4

6.0am Hollyoaks 6.55 Rude(ish) Tube 短片 7.0 情侣来我家吃饭 8.0 Ramsay 的厨房噩梦美国版 11.0 摩登家庭 12.0 辛普森一家 2.0 Goldbergs 家 3.0 摩登家庭 5.0 辛普森一家 7.0 Hollyoaks 7.30 布鲁克林九九 8.0 初次约会 9.0 Gogglebox 11.05 裸体吸引力 12.05 初次约会 1.10 Gogglebox 2.10 下层甲板：大洋洲 2.55 Ramsay 的厨房噩梦美国版 4.25 辛普森一家 4.50 Goldbergs 家 5.35 布鲁克林九九

Film4

11.0am 电影《圣菲》(1951) 12.45 电影《欢呼征服英雄》(1944) 2.50 《蛙人》(1951) 4.45 《雨中之狗》(2019) 6.50 《D-Day：6月6日》(1956) 9.0 《绿里》(1999) 12.45 《洛城机密》(1997)

PBS America

6.0am 电视购物 8.0 苏格兰群岛大巡游 8.40 被围困的堡垒， 传奇之战 9.45 宣言：黑人 美国人与

独立战争 10.50 沉默之战：原子弹的阴影 11.55 瓦科：最长的围攻 1.0 苏格兰群岛大巡游 1.40 被围困的堡垒，传奇之战 2.50 宣言：黑人美国人与独立战争 3.55 沉默之战：原子弹的阴影 5.05 瓦科：最长的围攻 6.15 被围困的堡垒，传奇之战 7.20 宣言：黑人美国人与独立战争 8.35 沉默之战：原子弹的阴影 9.40 瓦科：最长的围攻 10.50 宣言：黑人美国人与独立战争 12.0 沉默之战：原子弹的阴影 1.10 苏格兰群岛大巡游 2.0 电视购物

Sky One

6.0am 早晨节目 7.0 Ridge and Frost 早晨节目 8.0 星门 SG-1 9.0 星门 SG-1 10.0 NCIS: 洛杉矶 11.0 辛普森一家 12.0 澳洲捕蛇人：致命追击 1.0 天之海 3.0 S.W.A.T. 5.0 辛普森一家 6.0 超级商店 7.0 辛普森一家 8.0 染匠的房车公园 9.0 Gemma

Collins: Everything. All at Once 9.45 别管那些嗡嗡叫的家伙 10.30 Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life 11.30 格林 12.30 Evil 1.30 道路战争 2.0 Rob & Romesh vs 中国功夫 3.0 天之海 4.0 S.W.A.T. 5.0 S.W.A.T.

Sky Arts

6.0am Classic FM 新星计划（Julian Lloyd Webber 主持）2021 7.0 Classic FM 新星计划（Julian Lloyd Webber 主持）2022 8.0 年度艺术家：大师课 8.30 年度艺术家：大师课 9.0 意外故事 10.0 希区柯克呈现 11.0 探索：艾伦·里克曼 11.55 经典专辑 1.10 意外故事 1.35 意外故事 2.0 希区柯克

呈现 3.0 Bill Bailey 的工艺大师：下一代 4.0 探索：哈里森·福特 5.0 年度风景画家 2015 6.0 意外故事 7.0 希区柯克时间 8.0 国家肖像美术馆故事 9.0 2026 11.0 Sky Arts 奖 12.0 电影 2.0 约翰与洋子：唯有天空在上方 2026 3.0 年度肖像画家 4.0 年度风景画家：名人特辑 5.0 一日一剧 5.0 Bill Bailey 的工艺大师：下一代

Sky Atlantic

6.0am 鱼镇 7.0 鱼镇 8.0 亿万 9.05 亿万 10.15 死木镇 11.20 死木镇 12.25 极道家族 1.30 谋杀：街头生活 2.30 谋杀：街头生活 3.30 亿万 4.35 亿万 5.40 龙之家族 6.50 龙之家族 8.0 法戈 9.0 囚犯 10.0 囚犯 11.0 潜艇 12.10 龙之家族 1.25 龙之家族 2.45 龙之家族 4.0 极道家族 5.05 城市秘密

Radio

Radio 3

6.30am 早餐节目 9.30 经典精选 1.0 古典现场。来自瑞士圣加仑音乐节，Wayne Marshall 指挥圣加仑交响乐团，中音歌手 Hadar Halevy 演绎伯恩斯坦的交响曲第一号 1, "Jeremiah"。此外，还有 Segun Akinola 的《在姑姑和叔叔的肩膀上》，由 Luis Castillo-Briceño 指挥 BBC 威尔士国家管弦乐团演出。 4.0 本周作曲家：Tania Leon (2 / 5) 5.0 In Tune 7.0 古典混音带 7.30 音乐会。在格拉斯哥皇家音乐厅，Patrick Hahn 指挥皇家苏格兰国家管弦乐团，中提琴手 Lawrence Power 演绎 JS 巴赫（Stokowski 改编）的《来吧，甜蜜的死亡》、施尼特凯的中提琴协奏曲以及肖斯塔科维奇的交响曲第五号 5. 9.45 论文：蒙帕纳斯的三百米。Joanna Robertson 讲述作家 François-René de Chateaubriand 的一生。(2 / 5) (R) 10.0 夜间轨道 11.30 午夜时分。Soweto Kinch 回顾

开拓性的定居英国的黑人音乐家 Shake

Keane, Coleridge Goode 和 Joe Harriott。 12.30 彻夜

Radio 4

6.0am 今日 (Today) 9.0 科学生活 (The Life Scientific)。吉姆·阿尔-哈利利 (Jim Al-Khalili) 对话化学家阿塞尔·萨特巴耶娃 (Asel Sartbaeva)。(6/10) 9.30 健康内幕 (Inside Health) (1/6) 10.0 女性时间 (Woman's Hour) 11.0 屏幕截图 (Screenshot) (R) 11.45 维尼熊 100。安比卡·莫德 (Ambika Mod) 朗读 AA 米尔恩 (AA Milne) 的《小猪遇到海法兰特》(Piglet Meets a Heffalump)。(2/5) 12.0 新闻 12.04 您与您的呼叫 (Call You and Yours) 12.57 天气 1.0 一点钟的世界 (The World at One) 1.45 今日农业 (Farming Today) (R) 2.0 弓箭手 (The Archers) (R) 2.15 五月日 (Maydays)。大卫·埃德加 (David Edgar) 关于 20 世纪中期理想主义与革命政治的剧作。由马克·夸特利 (Mark Quartley)、杰弗里·斯特雷特菲尔德 (Geoffrey Streatfeild) 和艾莉·肯德里克 (Ellie Kendrick) 出演。(1/3) (R) 3.0 历史的秘密英雄 (History's Secret Heroes)。一名冒着生命危险帮助马来亚抵抗运动的助产士。(8/10) 3.30 超越信仰 (Beyond Belief)。吉尔斯·弗雷泽 (Giles Fraser) 及嘉宾讨论新无神论。(4/4) 4.0 角色扮演 (Roleplay)。演员们反思在莎士比亚《暴风雨》中饰演卡利班的经历。(2/3) 4.30 医生怎么说？(What's Up Docs?) 克里斯·范·图勒肯 (Chris van Tulleken) 和赞德·范·图勒肯 (Xand van Tulleken) 探讨痤疮的成因。 5.0 PM 5.57 天气 6.0 新闻 6.30

杰夫·诺科特的工作俱乐部 (Geoff Norcott's Working Men's Club) (R) 7.0 弓箭手 (The Archers) 7.15 前排 (Front Row) 8.0 4号档案调查 (File on 4 Investigates) (5/5) 8.40 保持联系 (In Touch) 9.0 56年革命的后代 (Grandchildren of the '56 Revolution) (R) 9.30 底线 (The Bottom Line) (R) 9.59 天气 10.0 今夜世界 (The World Tonight) 10.45 你在维尼熊中是谁？(Who Are You in Winnie-the-Pooh?) 昂贾利·Q·劳夫 (Onjali Q Rauf) 和克里斯·里德尔 (Chris Riddell) 讨论猫头鹰。(R) 11.0 半衰期 (Half-Life) (R) 11.30 议会今日 (Today in Parliament) 12.0 新闻与天气 12.30 分心的渴望 (Appetite for Distraction) (R) 12.48 航运预报 (Shipping Forecast) 1.0 世界服务 (As World Service) 5.0 新闻摘要 5.04 议会昨日 (Yesterday in Parliament) 5.32 天气 5.34 航运预报 5.43 今日祷告 (Prayer for the Day) 5.45 今日农业 (Farming Today)

Radio 4 Extra

6.0am 没那么远，维尔玛 (Not As Far As Velma) (2/6) 6.30 深六 (Deep Six) (3/6) 7.0 租金 (Rent) (6/6) 7.30 傻瓜秀 (The Goon Show) 8.0 相对论 (Relativity) (1/4) 8.30 维尼熊 (Winnie the Pooh) (2/3) 8.45 如何在一周内写小说 (How to Write a Novel in a Week) (2/5) 9.0 杰夫·诺科特的工作俱乐部 (Geoff Norcott's Working Men's Club) (4/4) 9.30 早餐吃秧鸡 (Corncrakes for Breakfast) (2/5) 9.45 每日礼拜 (Daily Service) 10.0 佳作朗读 (A Good Read) 10.30 谁是维尼？(Winnie the Who?) 11.0 没那么远，维尔玛 (Not As Far As Velma) (2/6) 11.30

深六 (Deep Six) (3/6) 12.0 租金 (Rent) (6/6) 12.30 傻瓜秀 (The Goon Show) 1.0 相对论 (Relativity) (1/4) 1.30 维尼熊 (Winnie the Pooh) (2/3) 1.45 如何在一周内写小说 (How to Write a Novel in a Week) (2/5) 2.0 不可思议的真相 (The Unbelievable Truth) (4/6) 2.30 海泽尔海滩 (Hazelbeach) (3/6) 3.0 午夜之民 (The Midnight Folk) (2/2) 4.0 佳作朗读 (A Good Read) 4.30 谁是维尼？(Winnie the Who?) 5.0 没那么远，维尔玛 (Not As Far As Velma) (2/6) 5.30 深六 (Deep Six) (3/6) 6.0 租金 (Rent) (6/6) 6.30 傻瓜秀 (The Goon Show) 7.0 相对论 (Relativity) (1/4) 7.30 维尼熊 (Winnie the Pooh) (2/3) 7.45 如何在一周内写小说 (How to Write a Novel in a Week) (2/5) 8.0 不可思议的真相 (The Unbelievable Truth) (4/6) 8.30 海泽尔海滩 (Hazelbeach) (3/6) 9.0 午夜之民 (The Midnight Folk) (2/2) 10.0 喜剧俱乐部：杰夫·诺科特的工作俱乐部 (Geoff Norcott's Working Men's Club) (4/4) 10.30 伊尼斯自己的世界 (Innes Own World) (3/4) 11.0 这是火箭科学 (It Is Rocket Science) (1/4) 11.15 短小的一生 (Little Lifetimes) (3/6) 11.30 圈内人 (The in Crowd) (2/6) 12.0 佳作朗读 (A Good Read) 12.30 谁是维尼？(Winnie the Who?) 1.0 没那么远，维尔玛 (Not As Far As Velma) (2/6) 1.30 深六 (Deep Six) (3/6) 2.0 租金 (Rent) (6/6) 2.30 傻瓜秀 (The Goon Show) 3.0 相对论 (Relativity) (1/4) 3.30 维尼熊 (Winnie the Pooh) (2/3) 3.45 如何在一周内写小说 (How to Write a Novel in a Week) (2/5) 4.0 不可思议的真相 (The Unbelievable Truth) (4/6) 4.30 海泽尔海滩 (Hazelbeach) (3/6) 5.0 午夜之民 (The Midnight Folk) (2/2)

歌唱侦探 (The Singing Detective), BBC Four

BBC One

6.0 早餐 (Breakfast) (T) 9.30 早晨直播 (Morning Live) (T) 10.45 犯罪观察直播 (Crimewatch Live) (T) 11.30 锤下之屋 (Homes Under the Hammer) (T) (R) 12.15 淘宝猎人 (Bargain Hunt) (T) (R) 1.0 新闻 (T) 1.35 地区新闻与天气 (T) 1.45 新闻 (T) 2.0 清理它，修复它 (Clean It, Fix It) (T) (R) 2.30 节俭转移 (Shift the Thrift) (T) (R) 3.0 逃往乡村 (Escape to the Country) (T) (R) 3.45 花园救援 (Garden Rescue) (T) 4.30 谎言之桥 (Bridge of Lies) (T) 5.15 无用之用 (Pointless) (T) (R) 6.0 新闻 (T) 6.30 地区新闻与天气 (T) 7.0 那个节目 (The One Show) (T) 7.30 东区东街 (EastEnders) (T)

BBC Two

6.30 逃往乡村 (Escape to the Country) (T) (R) 7.15 谎言之桥 (Bridge of Lies) (T) (R) 8.0 手语区：不情愿的吸血鬼 (Sign Zone: The Reluctant Vampire) (T) (R) 8.30 气象员行走精选 (The Best of Weatherman Walking) (T) (R) 9.0 新闻 (T) 11.15 政治直播 (Politics Live) (T) 1.0 不可能 (Impossible) (T) (R) 1.45 答案奔跑 (The Answer Run) (T) (R) 2.30 老板 (The Boss) (T) (R) 3.15 英国铁路之旅 (Great British Railway Journeys) (T) (R) 3.45 伟大宅邸复兴 (The Great House Revival) (T) (R) 4.35 复古古董路演 (Vintage Antiques Roadshow) (T) (R) 5.15 把它卖了！(Flog It!) (T) (R) 6.0 游戏之屋 (House of Games) (T) 6.30 严格来说：两人组 (Strictly: It Takes Two) (T) 7.0 名人古董路演 (Celebrity Antiques Road Trip) (T) (R)

ITV1

6.0 早安英国 (T) 9.30 洛林 (T) 10.0 This Morning (T) 12.30 Loose Women (T) 1.30 新闻与天气 (T) 1.55 地方新闻与天气 (T) 2.0 迪金森的真实交易 (T) (R) 3.0 Lingo (T) (R) 4.0 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R) 5.0 追击 (T) (R) 6.0 地方新闻与天气 (T) 6.30 新闻与天气 (T) 7.30 Tipping Point: 史上最佳决赛 (T)

Channel 4

6.30 皇后之王 (T) (R) 7.45 大家都爱雷蒙 (T) (R) 9.10 弗雷泽 (T) (R) 11.10 美国拾荒者 (T) (R) 12.05 新闻 (T) 12.10 翻新国家 (T) (R) 1.10 伟大的房屋赠与 (T) (R) 2.10 Countdown (T) 3.0 阳光下的居所 (T) (R) 4.0 救命！我们买了个村庄 (T) 5.0 四人一床 (T) (R) 5.30 来和我共进晚餐 (T) (R) 6.0 阳光下的新生活：他们现在如何？ (T) (R) 7.0 新闻 (T) 7.55 摩根的故事：对抗癌症 (T) (R)

Channel 5

6.0 Milkshake! 9.15 杰里米·vain (T) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (T) 12.45 新闻 (T) 12.50 马特·奥尔赖特 (T) 2.20 电影《致命代孕》(Chester Sit, 2022) (T) 4.0 阳光下热爱砍价的英国人 (T) (R) 5.0 新闻 (T) 6.0 康沃尔：海边的一年 (T) (R) 6.55 5 News 更新 (T) 7.0 电动自行车的入侵：街道之祸？(T) 7.55 新闻 (T)

BBC Four

7.0 骨骼之秘 (T) (R) 探讨骨骼如何进化以帮助动物感知周围的世界。 7.30 蒂莫西·斯波尔重返大海 (T) (R) 在苏格兰西部。

8.0 修理铺：谷仓之外 (T) Mark Stuckey 修复了一台 20 世纪 70 年代的唱片机，Pete Woods 修复了一个加纳金贝鼓上的巨大裂缝。 9.0 你认为你是谁？(T) (R) 演员兼聋人权利活动家 Rose Ayling-Ellis 寻找她的家族历史。

10.0 新闻 (T)

10.30 地区新闻 (T) 天气 10.40 MOTD：欧冠联赛 (T) Mark Chapman 主持最新比赛的精彩片段，包括曼城对阵巴黎圣日耳曼。

12.0 名人内圈 (T) (R) 12.45 未来一周天气预报 (T) 12.50 新闻 (T)

8.0 秘密与间谍：核博弈 (T) (R) 纪录片，探讨英国如何将米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫确定为苏联领导人的潜在新竞争者。 9.0 改变我生活的书 (T) 卡米拉王后与四位杰出人士一起分享塑造了他们的书籍故事。

10.0 阿波罗现场 (T) (R) 10.30 新闻之夜 (T) 天气 11.0 约翰·辛普森的解读世界 (T) 新闻评论。 11.30 约翰·辛普森：在 BBC 的六十年 (T) (R)

12.30 手语区：与 David Olusoga 一起寻找英国的奴隶贸易商 (T) (R) 1.30 伊娃·朗格利亚：寻找法国 (T) (R) 2.10 时间 (R)

8.0 艾默代尔 (T) Sadie 想出了一个计划，而 Nicola 对 Bob 的支持表示感激。 8.30 街道冠冕 (T) Sarah 的谋杀案审判开始，Debbie 向 Abi 倾诉，Sam 遭到抨击。 9.0 冬季 (T) 侦探揭开了令人胆寒的真相：Molly 在 Benjamin 遇害前至少半小时就被杀害了。

10.0 新闻 (T) 天气

10.30 地方新闻 (T) 天气 10.45 Peston (T) 政治聊天。 11.30 顶级联赛揭秘 (T) 橄榄球赛集锦。

12.0 电视购物 3.0 今晚：买家小心 - 退休房产 (T) (R) 3.25 Pictionary (T) (R) 3.50 与 ITV 一起放松 (T) 5.05 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R)

8.0 地点，地点，地点 (T) Kirstie Allsopp 和 Phil Spencer 帮助 Peter 和 Kate 以及 Mel 和 Cody 在他们最喜欢的克拉珀姆和巴勒姆地区寻找房产。 9.0 宏伟设计 (T) 再次访问 Chris 和 Gill，他们将哈德斯菲尔德附近一座废弃的纺织厂翻修为高科技住所。

10.0 同路人 (T) 11.25 同路人 (T)

12.33 英国烘焙大赛 (T) (R) 1.45 摩根的故事：对抗癌症 (T) (R) 1.50 诱惑财富 (T) (R) 2.45 拉姆齐的酒店地狱 (T) (R) 3.35 伟大的名人陶艺大赛 (T) (R) 4.40 夫妻来我家吃饭 (T) (R)

8.0 谋杀现场：事件室 (T) 讲述 96 岁的艾玛·芬奇的故事，她的尸体在汉普郡利斯村的一栋起火平房内被发现。 9.0 死因 (T) 对 17 岁的德比郡拳击手埃德·比尔比的调查，他在比赛开始九分钟后昏迷。

12.05 救护车：红色代码 (T) (R) 1.0 必须有创意 (T) 3.0 康沃尔：海边的一年 (T) (R) 3.45 玛丽女王号：海上皇室 (T) (R) 4.30 简·麦克唐纳带你游约克郡 (T) (R)

8.0 三星堆失落之城 (T) 探讨中国四川山区的一座古城，该城在 1927 年发现一件玉器之前一直处于失落状态。

9.0 行星 (T) (R) 布莱恩·考克斯讲述太阳系的故事，从水星、金星、地球和火星的发展开始。

10.0 珍妮特·苏兹曼回忆：歌唱侦探 (T) 10.15 歌唱侦探 (T) (R) 丹尼斯·波特 1986 年超现实剧集的第一集。 11.25 歌唱侦探 (T) (R) 12.35 骨骼之秘 (T) (R) 1.05 蒂莫西·斯波尔重返大海 (T) (R) 1.35 时空转移：冰与人 (T) (R) 2.35 行星 (T) (R)

其他频道

BBC Three

7.0pm 追击 7.05 可怕的历史 7.30 电影《可怕的历史：电影版》(2019) 9.0 DIY SOS 10.0 黑色音乐混音带 11.0 英国制造：Grime 11.15 Stormzy：2019 年格拉斯顿伯里现场 12.30 英国制造：UK Garage 12.45 Radio 1 Live Lounge：UK Garage 特辑 1.10 英国制造：Jungle 1.25 Nia Archives：2024 年格拉斯顿伯里现场 2.25 黑色行动 2.55 黑人梦境 3.20 Famalam

U&Dave

6.0am 电视购物 7.10 Top Gear 8.0 边境执法队：美国的守门人 9.0 边境执法队：美国的守门人 10.0 瑞克·斯坦的秘密法国 11.0 瑞克·斯坦的秘密法国 12.0 毛刷骑手亚洲冒险记 1.0 运河船日记 2.0 Top Gear 3.0 我们在俄罗斯的人 4.0 瑞克·斯坦的秘密法国 5.0 瑞克·斯坦的秘密法国 6.0 毛刷骑手亚洲冒险记 7.0 莫蒂默与怀特豪斯：去钓鱼 7.40 我会撒谎吗？ 8.20 我会撒谎吗？ 9.0 QI XL 10.0 我有那么一点

更多 2022 新闻为你播 11.0 8 Out of 10 Cats 11.55 嘲讽本周 12.35 我会撒谎吗？ 1.55 QI XL 2.55 游戏之屋 3.30 幽灵 4.0 电视购物

E4

6.0am 荷莉欧克斯 6.55 粗鲁（差不多）管短片 7.0 夫妻来我家吃饭 8.0 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版 11.0 摩登家庭 12.0 辛普森一家 12.0 戈德堡一家 3.0 摩登家庭 5.0 辛普森一家 7.0 荷莉欧克斯 7.30 布鲁克林九九 8.0 初次约会 9.0 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版 10.0 Gogglebox 12.05 初次约会 1.05 Gogglebox 2.05 下层甲板：澳洲篇 2.50 辛普森一家 3.15 戈德堡一家 4.05 布鲁克林九九 4.25 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版

Film4

11.0am 电影《四十把枪》(1957) 12.45 《我的山谷多么青翠》(1941) 3.05 《深潜》(1943) 5.15 《黑箭》(1948) 6.55 《天堂机票》(2022) 9.0 《丽莎·弗兰肯斯坦》(2024) 11.05 《詹妮弗的身体》(2009) 1.10 《米兰达》(2002)

PBS America

6.0am 电视购物 8.0 风化：地球极端 8.35 被围困的堡垒，传奇之战 9.45 爱德华时代的彩色英国 10.50 无声之战：原子弹的阴影 11.55 中国：玉帝国的宝藏 1.0 风化：地球极端 1.50 被围困的堡垒，传奇之战 2.55 爱德华时代的彩色英国 3.55 无声之战：原子弹的阴影 5.0 中国：玉帝国的宝藏 6.05 被围困的堡垒，传奇之战 7.15 爱德华时代的彩色英国 8.15 无声之战：原子弹的阴影 9.20 中国：玉帝国的宝藏 10.25 爱德华时代的彩色英国 11.30 风化：地球极端 12.0 无声之战：原子弹的阴影 1.10 风化：地球极端 2.0 电视购物

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Sky One

6.0am 早晨节目 6.30 早晨节目 7.0 早晨节目 Ridge and Frost 主持 7.30 早晨节目 Ridge and Frost 主持 8.0 星际之门 SG-1 9.0 星际之门 SG-1 10.0

NCIS: 洛杉矶 11.0 辛普森一家 11.30 辛普森一家 12.0 澳洲捕蛇人：致命追击 12.30 澳洲捕蛇人：致命追击 1.0 天海一方 0 2.0 天海一方 0 3.0 S.W.A.T 4.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 The 5.30 The 6.0 超级商店 6.30 超级商店 7.0 The 7.30 The 8.0 乔·莱塞特的伯明翰合众国 9.0 罗布与罗梅什挑战中国功夫 10.0 电影《伦敦陷落》(2016) 12.0 格林 1.0 Evil 2.0 道路战争 3.0 天海一方 0 4.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 S.W.A.T

Sky Arts

6.0am 英国国家歌剧院演出《皮纳福号》 8.0 年度艺术家：大师课 9.0 出人意料的故事 10.0 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克呈现

11.0 探索：哈里森·福特 12.0 经典专辑 1.0 出人意料的故事 2.0 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克呈现 3.0 比尔·贝利的工艺大师：下一代 4.0 探索：梅丽尔·斯特里普 5.0 2015 6.0 出人意料的故事 7.0 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克时间 8.0 2026 9.0 年度风景画家：名人特辑 10.0 2026 12.0 九十年代 1.0 玛丽莲·梦露的神话 2.0 经典电影：《生死之间》的故事 3.0 探索：拉尔夫·费因斯 4.0 一日一剧 5.0 比尔·贝利的工艺大师：下一代

Sky Atlantic

6.0am 鱼镇 8.0 亿万 10.15 死木镇 12.25 Gomorrah 1.30 谋杀：街头生活 3.30 亿万 5.40 龙之家族 8.0 法戈 9.0 War 10.05 恐怖 11.10 恐怖 12.15 龙之家族 1.40 龙之家族 3.0 Gomorrah 4.05 客房 5.05 客房

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Radio 3

6.30am 早餐节目 9.30 经典精选 1.0 现场古典乐。来自法国 Chaise-Dieu 音乐节，伊万·费舍尔指挥布达佩斯节日管弦乐团，钢琴家伊萨塔·坎内-梅森演奏拉赫玛尼诺夫 D 小调第三钢琴协奏曲，作品 30。此外，由钱君平指挥的阿尔斯特管弦乐团演奏贝多芬的《科里奥兰》。 3.0 合唱晚祷。来自索尔兹伯里大教堂。 4.0 本周作曲家：塔妮娅·莱昂 (3 / 5) 5.0 In Tune 7.0 古典混音带 7.30 音乐会。来自爱丁堡的 Usher Hall，克里斯托弗·贝尔指挥 BBC 苏格兰交响乐团、苏格兰国家青年合唱团、国家女孩合唱团、国家男孩合唱团，女高音艾玛·莫伍德、男高音约瑟夫·杜迪和男中音保罗·格兰特共同演出杰·卡佩罗德的《世界》、乔纳森·多夫的《岁月的流逝》以及奥尔夫的《卡尔米娜曲集》。 9.45 论文：蒙帕纳斯三百米。乔安娜·罗伯逊回顾小号演奏家莫里斯·安德雷的作品。(3 / 5) (R) 10.0 夜间曲目 11.30 午夜时分 12.30 彻夜

Radio 4

6.0am 今日 (Today) 9.0 更多或更少 (More Or Less) (6/6) 9.30 奥斯汀·泰斯在哪里？ (Where Is Austin Tice?) Josh Baker 揭秘秘密谈判的隐藏世界。(6/9) 10.0 女性时间 (Woman's Hour) 11.0 File on 4 调查 (R) 11.40 本周历史 (This Week in History)：玛丽·安托瓦内特之死与披头士狂热的开始。 11.45 维尼熊 100 (Winnie-the-Pooh 100)：Jim Broadbent 朗读 AA Milne 的《屹耳过生日》。(3/5) 12.0 新闻 (News) 12.04 你与你的生活 (You and Yours) 12.57 天气 (Weather) 1.0 一个世界的正午 (The World at One) 1.45 今日农业 (Farming Today) (R) 2.0 弓箭手 (The Archers) (R) 2.15 信仰、希望与荣耀 (Faith, Hope and Glory)：由 Roy Williams 创作的戏剧。(R) 3.0 钱箱 (Money Box) 3.30 人造人 (The Artificial Human)：Aleks Krotoski 和 Kevin Fong 探讨英国是否应该拥有自己的 AI。(4/6) 4.0 当事情失控时 (When It Hits the Fan) (6/15) 4.15 媒体秀 (The Media Show) 5.0 PM 5.57 天气 (Weather) 6.0 新闻 (News) 6.30 Glenn Moore 的年鉴 (Glenn Moore's Almanac) (R) 7.0 弓箭手 (The Archers) 7.15 前排 (Front Row) 8.0 为了历史而来 (Here for the History) (3/6) 8.30 顶级评论 (Top Comment) (3/6) 9.0 科学生活 (The Life Scientific) (R) 9.30 健康内部 (Inside Health) (R) 10.0 今夜世界 (The World Tonight) 10.45 你在维尼熊中是谁？ (Who Are You in Winnie-the-Pooh?) Nick Butterworth 和 Julia Donaldson 讨论维尼熊。(R) 11.0 Kiri 的农场：土地 (Kiri's Farm. The Land.)：Kiri Pritchard-McLean 咨询土壤专家。(2/5) 11.15 大小问题 (Big Little Questions) (R) 11.30 议会今日 (Today in Parliament) 12.0 新闻 (News) 12.30 分心的渴望 (Appetite for Distraction) (R) 12.48 航运预报 (Shipping Forecast) 1.0 世界服务 (As World Service) 5.0 新闻 (News) 5.04 议会昨日 (Yesterday in Parliament) 5.32 天气 (Weather) 5.34 航运预报 (Shipping Forecast) 5.43 今日祷告 (Prayer for the Day) 5.45 今日农业 (Farming Today)

Radio 4 Extra

6.0am 不像 Velma 那样远 (Not As Far As Velma) (3/6) 6.30 深六 (Deep Six) (4/6) 7.0 亨利之后 (After Henry) (2/8) 7.30 汉考克的半小时 (Hancock's Half Hour) (6/20) 8.0 长久婚姻的对话 (Conversations from a Long Marriage) (3/6) 8.30 维尼熊 (Winnie the Pooh) (3/3) 8.45 如何在一周内写小说 (How to Write a Novel in a Week) (3/5) 9.0 Glenn Moore 的年鉴 (Glenn Moore's Almanac) (1/4) 9.30 早餐吃秧鸡 (Corncrakes for Breakfast) (3/5) 9.45 每日服务 (Daily Service) 10.0 不服从简史 (A Brief History of Disobedience) (2/4) 11.0 不像 Velma 那样远 (Not As Far As Velma) (3/6) 11.30 深六 (Deep Six) (4/6) 12.0 亨利之后 (After Henry) (2/8) 12.30 汉考克的半小时 (Hancock's Half Hour) (6/20) 1.0 长久婚姻的对话 (Conversations from a Long Marriage) (3/6) 1.30 维尼熊 (Winnie the Pooh) (3/3) 1.45 如何在一周内写小说 (How to Write a Novel in a Week) (3/5)

2.0 骗局！ (Hoax!) 2.30 伟大追求 (The Great Pursuit) (4/4) 3.0 嘘！嘘！胆敢者低语！ (Hush! Hush! Whisper Who Dares!) 3.45 短篇作品 (Short Works) 4.0 不服从简史 (A Brief History of Disobedience) (2/4) 5.0 不像 Velma 那样远 (Not As Far As Velma) (3/6) 5.30 深六 (Deep Six) (4/6) 6.0 亨利之后 (After Henry) (2/8) 6.30 汉考克的半小时 (Hancock's Half Hour) (6/20) 7.0 长久婚姻的对话 (Conversations from a Long Marriage) (3/6) 7.30 维尼熊 (Winnie the Pooh) (3/3) 7.45 如何在一周内写小说 (How to Write a Novel in a Week) (3/5) 8.0 骗局！ (Hoax!) 8.30 伟大追求 (The Great Pursuit) (4/4) 9.0 嘘！嘘！胆敢者低语！ (Hush! Hush! Whisper Who Dares!) 9.45 短篇作品 (Short Works) 10.0 喜剧俱乐部：Glenn Moore 的年鉴 (Comedy Club: Glenn Moore's Almanac) (1/4) 10.30 Mitch Benn 的音乐罪行 (Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music) (4/6) 11.0 大家都挺喜欢 Justin (Everyone Quite Likes Justin) (6/6) 11.30 二十名玩家 (Twenty Players) (1/6) 11.45 金鱼缸 (The Goldfish Bowl) (6/8) 12.0 触底：英国 IMF 危机 50 年 (Rock Bottom: 50 Years Since Britain's IMF Crisis) 1.0 不像 Velma 那样远 (Not As Far As Velma) (3/6) 1.30 深六 (Deep Six) (4/6) 2.0 亨利之后 (After Henry) (2/8) 2.30 汉考克的半小时 (Hancock's Half Hour) (6/20) 3.0 长久婚姻的对话 (Conversations from a Long Marriage) (3/6) 3.30 维尼熊 (Winnie the Pooh) (3/3) 3.45 如何在一周内写小说 (How to Write a Novel in a Week) (3/5) 4.0 骗局！ (Hoax!) 4.30 伟大追求 (The Great Pursuit) (4/4) 5.0 嘘！嘘！胆敢者低语！ (Hush! Hush! Whisper Who Dares!) 5.45 短篇作品 (Short Works)

现在不要看 (Don't Look Now), BBC Four

BBC One

6.0 早餐 (Breakfast) (T) 9.30 早晨直播 (Morning Live) (T) 10.45 犯罪观察直播 (Crimewatch Live) (T) 11.30 锤下之屋 (Homes Under the Hammer) (T) (R) 12.15 淘货猎人 (Bargain Hunt) (T) (R) 1.0 新闻 (News) (T) 1.35 地区新闻与天气 (Regional News and Weather) (T) 1.45 新闻 (News) (T) 2.0 清理它，修复它 (Clean It, Fix It) (T) (R) 2.30 节俭转移 (Shift the Thrift) (T) (R) 3.0 逃往乡村 (Escape to the Country) (T) (R) 3.45 花园救援 (Garden Rescue) (T) (R) 4.30 谎言之桥 (Bridge of Lies) (T) 5.15 无意义 (Pointless) (T) (R) 6.0 新闻 (News) (T) 6.30 地区新闻与天气 (Regional News and Weather) (T) 7.0 一个节目 (The One Show) (T) 7.30 东区东街 (EastEnders) (T)

BBC Two

6.30 花园救援 (Garden Rescue) (T) (R) 7.15 谎言之桥 (Bridge of Lies) (T) (R) 8.0 手语区：园艺世界 (Sign Zone: Gardeners' World) (T) (R) 9.0 新闻 (News) (T) 12.15 政治直播 (Politics Live) (T) 1.0 不可能 (Impossible) (T) (R) 1.45 答案奔跑 (The Answer Run) (T) (R) 2.30 老板 (The Boss) (T) (R) 3.15 英国铁路之旅 (Great British Railway Journeys) (T) (R) 3.45 伟大古宅复兴 (The Great House Revival) (T) (R) 4.35 复古古董路演 (Vintage Antiques Roadshow) (T) (R) 5.15 把它卖了！ (Flog It!) (T) (R) 6.0 游戏之屋 (House of Games) (T) 6.30 严格来说：两人组 (Strictly: It Takes Two) (T) 7.0 逃往乡村 (Escape to the Country) (T) (R)

ITV1

6.0 Good Morning Britain (T) 9.30 Lorraine (T) 10.0 This Morning (T) 12.30 Loose Women (T) 1.30 新闻与天气 (T) 1.55 当地新闻与天气 (T) 2.0 Dickinson's Real Deal (T) (R) 3.0 Lingo (T) (R) 3.59 当地新闻 / 天气 (T) 4.0 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R) 5.0 The Chase (T) (R) 6.0 当地新闻与天气 (T) 6.30 新闻与天气 (T) 7.30 今晚：如何随着年龄增长保持健康 (T)

Channel 4

6.30 The King of Queens (T) (R) 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (T) (R) 9.10 Frasier (T) (R) 11.10 American Pickers (T) (R) 12.05 新闻 (T) 12.10 Renovation Nation (T) (R) 1.10 The Great House Giveaway (T) (R) 2.10 Countdown (T) 3.0 A Place in the Sun (T) (R) 4.0 Help! We Bought a Village (T) 5.0 Four in a Bed (T) (R) 5.30 Come Dine With Me (T) (R) 6.0 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now? (T) (R) 7.0 新闻 (T) 7.55 Becca's Story: Stand Up to Cancer (T) (R)

Channel 5

6.0 Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (T) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (T) 12.45 新闻 (T) 12.50 Matt Allwright (T) 2.20 电影《岸边的陌生人》(Stranger on the Shore) (丹尼·鲍尔，2023) (T) 4.0 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (T) (R) 5.0 新闻 (T) 6.0 Cornwall: A Year By the Sea (T) (R) 6.55 新闻 (T) 7.0 Sam & Ade Go Birding (T) 7.55 新闻 (T)

BBC Four

7.0 Secrets of Bones (T) (R) 脊椎动物如何捕捉并吞噬食物。 7.30 Gareth Edwards' Great Welsh Adventure (T) (R) 从马钦莱斯出发。

8.0 The Celebrity Traitors (T) 参赛者在任务中与死亡面对面，圆桌会议带来了紧张的气氛。 9.05 The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked (T) 主持人 Ed Gamble 及嘉宾。 9.30 Not Going Out (T) Lee 和 Lucy 试图调解一场关于金钱的争论。

10.0 新闻 (T) 10.30 地区新闻 (T) 天气 10.40 Question Time (T) Fiona Bruce 在布雷肯主持。 11.40 Newscast (T) BBC 记者小组对威斯敏斯特进行每周回顾。 12.10 The Repair Shop: Beyond the Barn (T) (R) 1.10 未来一周天气预报 (T) 1.15 新闻 (T)

8.0 Monty Don's British Gardens (T) (R) 主持人走访该国一些最壮丽的景观，从英格兰北部前往北爱尔兰。 9.0 Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (T) (R) 神经外科医生 Rod Laing 尝试移除一个压迫患者脊髓的突出椎间盘。

10.0 Inside No 9 (T) (R) 一名女性及其儿子遇到了一位友好的陌生人。

10.30 Newsnight (T) 天气 11.0 Uncanny (T) (R) 关于一名似乎在监视商店员工的男子的案例。

12.0 Sign Zone Blue Lights (T) (R) 1.0 The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes (T) (R) 2.0 This Is BBC Two (T)

8.0 Emmerdale (T) Dingle 家中的紧张气氛依然浓厚。 8.30 Coronation Street (T) Tyrone 说服 Todd 在法庭上作证。 9.0 Long Lost Family (T) (R) Alan Parker 和 Katherine Fletcher 都渴望了解他们各自的父母。

10.0 新闻 (T) 天气 10.30 地方新闻 (T) 天气 10.45 深夜辩论 (T)

11.15 电影《侏罗纪公园3》（乔·约翰斯顿，2001）(T) 动作冒险续集，由山姆·尼尔和蒂亚·莱奥尼主演。

12.40 电视购物 3.0 埃塞克斯百万富翁谋杀案 (T) (R) 3.50 与ITV一起放松 (T) 5.05 成交或不成交 (T) (R)

8.0 我们的微小岛屿 (T) (R) 在约纳岛，农民乔安娜照顾着家里的羊群，同时在岛上的羊毛生产中发挥着重要作用。

9.05 任务大师 (T) 一位前参赛者回归，伊西·萨蒂辱骂了一名火车乘务员，而尼娜·孔蒂试图用香蕉和勺子欺骗格雷格·戴维斯。

10.05 终止条款 (T) 喜剧。 10.35 终止条款 (T) 系列最后一集。 11.10 Gogglebox (T) (R)

12.15 皮埃尔 (T) (R) 1.10 同路旅人 (T) 3.15 站起来对抗癌症 (T) (R) 3.20 英国烘焙大赛 (T) (R) 4.0 宏伟设计 (T) (R) 4.50 周日早午餐 (T) (R) 5.0 狗狗之家 (T) (R) 5.50 倒计时 (T) (R)

8.0 约克郡兽医 (T) 彼得·赖特试图救治一只患有罕见先天缺陷的新生羔羊。 9.0 热爱自然 (T) (R) 凯蒂·贝尔帮助保护仓鸮。 9.05 动物医生 (T) 特里斯坦为了与夏洛特的最后一次约会而精心打扮，詹姆斯与理查德发生冲突。

10.0 动物医生：幕后花絮 (T) 10.10 亚历山大·阿姆斯特朗在印度 (T) (R) 访问斋浦尔。 11.05 999：线上的杀手 (T)

12.05 致命初次约会 (T) 1.0 必须有的创意 (T) (R) 3.0 康沃尔：海边的一年 (T) (R) 3.45 与简·麦克唐纳共游约克郡 (T) (R) 5.20 娱乐新闻 (T)

8.0 电影《大逃亡》（约翰·斯特吉斯，1963）(T) 被囚禁在据称无法逃脱的拘留营中的盟军战俘计划一次精妙的大规模越狱。第二次世界大战题材剧集，由史蒂夫·麦奎因、詹姆斯·科本和理查德·阿滕伯勒主演。

10.45 《不要回头》（尼古拉斯·罗格，1973）(T) 超自然惊悚片，由唐纳德·萨瑟兰和朱莉·克里斯蒂主演。

12.30 唐纳德·萨瑟兰：逐场解析 (T) (R) 1.15 骨骼之秘 (T) (R) 1.45 加雷斯·爱德华兹的威尔士大冒险 (T) (R) 2.15 古代世界 (T) (R)

其他频道

BBC Three

晚上7.0 追击 7.05 可怕的历史 8.0 阿曼达与艾伦的意大利之旅 9.30 阿曼达与艾伦的意大利之旅 10.0 鲁保的变装皇后英国赛 11.05 《好家伙》(2016) 12.55 像莫宾一样 1.20 像莫宾一样 1.45 狗狗之家 2.0 阿曼达与艾伦的意大利之旅 3.0 鲁保的变装皇后英国赛

U&Dave

上午6.0 电视购物 7.15 Top Gear 8.0 边境执法队：美国的守门人 10.0 瑞克·斯坦的秘密法国 11.0 瑞克·斯坦的秘密法国 12.0 毛茸茸骑手们的亚洲冒险 1.0 运河船日记 2.0 Top Gear 3.0 盖伊·马丁的英国电力之旅 4.0 瑞克·斯坦的秘密法国 5.0 瑞克·斯坦的秘密法国 6.0 毛茸茸骑手们的亚洲冒险 7.0 莫蒂默与怀特豪斯：去钓鱼 7.40 我会撒谎吗？ 8.20 我会撒谎吗？ 9.0 QI XL 10.0 我能为你提供更多新闻吗 11.0 10只猫中的8只 11.55 嘲讽本周 12.35 我会撒谎吗？ 1.15 我会撒谎吗？ 1.55 QI XL 2.55 游戏之家 3.30 幽灵 4.0 电视购物

E4

上午6.0 摩登家庭 6.55 Rude(ish) Tube 短片 7.0 夫妻来我家吃饭 8.0 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版 11.0 摩登家庭 12.0 辛普森一家 2.0 戈德堡一家 3.0 摩登家庭 5.0 辛普森一家 7.30 布鲁克林九九 8.0 初次约会 9.0 Gogglebox 10.0 Gogglebox 11.05 裸体吸引力 12.05 初次约会 1.10 Gogglebox 2.10 下层甲板：大洋洲 3.0 拉姆齐的厨房噩梦美国版 4.40 戈德堡一家 5.30 布鲁克林九九

Film4

上午11.0 《来自阿拉莫的人》(1953) 12.40 《枪手的行走》(1958) 2.40 《国王的水手》(1953) 4.25 《少校与小小姐》(1942) 6.30 《隐藏人物》(2016) 9.0 《愤怒之人》(2021) 11.20 《地球妈妈》(2023) 1.25 《卡拉之歌》(1996)

PBS America

6.0am 电视购物 8.0 《风化：地球之极》 8.35 《被围困的堡垒，传奇之战》 9.40 《彩色爱德华时代英国》 10.45 《罗森堡夫妇：原子间谍》 11.55 《罗马舰队》 1.0 《风化：地球之极》 1.35 《被围困的堡垒，传奇之战》 2.40 《彩色爱德华时代英国》 3.45 《罗森堡夫妇：原子间谍》 4.55 《罗马舰队》 6.0 《被围困的堡垒，传奇之战》 7.05 《彩色爱德华时代英国》 8.10 《罗森堡夫妇：原子间谍》 9.15 《罗马舰队》 10.25 《彩色爱德华时代英国》 11.30 《风化：地球之极》 12.0 《罗森堡夫妇：原子间谍》 1.15 《风化：地球之极》 2.0 电视购物

Sky One

6.0am 早晨节目 7.0 《与里奇和弗罗斯共度早晨》 7.30 《与里奇和弗罗斯共度早晨》 8.0 《星门 SG-1》 1 10.0 《NCIS: 洛杉矶》 11.0 《辛普森一家》 11.30 《辛普森一家》 12.0 《猎豹之傲》 1.0 《夏威夷五勇士》 0 2.0 《夏威夷五勇士》 0 3.0 《S.W.A.T》 0 4.0 《S.W.A.T》 5.0 The 5.30 The 6.0 《超级商店》 6.30 《超级商店》 7.0 The 7.30 The 8.0 《大卫·爱登堡的加拉帕戈斯》 9.0 电影 《21 Jump Street》(2012) 11.0 《杰玛·柯林斯：一切，同时发生》 11.45 《格林》 12.35 《Evil》 1.35 《公路战争》 2.0 《格林斯堡》 2.30 《公路战争》 3.0 《夏威夷五勇士》 4.0 《S.W.A.T》 5.0 《S.W.A.T》

Sky Arts

6.0am 《风笛：一场庆典》 7.0 《风笛之战》 8.0 《年度艺术家：大师课》 8.30 《年度艺术家：大师课》 9.0 《出人意料的故事》 9.30 《出人意料的故事》 10.0 《希区柯克呈现》 10.30 《希区柯克呈现》 11.0 《发现：梅丽尔·斯特里普》 12.0 《经典专辑》 1.0 《出人意料的故事》 1.30 《出人意料的故事》 2.0 《希区柯克呈现》 2.30 《希区柯克呈现》

3.0 《间谍大师：伟大的间谍作家》 4.0 《发现：黛安·基顿》 5.0 Landscape Artist of the Year 2015 6.30 《出人意料的故事》 7.0 Portrait Artist of the Year 2026 8.0 《经典电影：《生死抉择》的故事》 9.0 电影 《秃鹰之日》(1975) 11.10 《导演们》 12.10 《宠物店男孩：梦幻世界 - 哥本哈根现场最伟大金曲》 2.25 《宫崎：自然之灵》 4.0 《一日一剧》 5.0 《间谍大师：伟大的间谍作家》

Sky Atlantic

6.0am 《城市秘密》 7.0 《城市秘密》 8.0 《亿万》 9.10 《亿万》 10.15 《死木》 11.20 《死木》 12.25 《格莫拉》 1.30 《谋杀：街头生活》 2.30 《谋杀：街头生活》 3.30 《亿万》 4.35 《亿万》 5.40 《龙之家族》 6.50 《龙之家族》 8.0 《法戈》 9.0 《微型妻子》 9.55 《微型妻子》 10.45 《它：欢迎来到德里》 11.50 《龙之家族》 1.0 《龙之家族》 2.0 《战争》 3.05 《格莫拉》 4.10 《客房》 5.05 《客房》

Radio

Radio 3

6.30am 早餐节目 9.30 经典精选 1.0 古典现场。马丁·布拉宾斯指挥 BBC 苏格兰交响乐团，小提琴家安东尼·马伍德演奏塞缪尔·科勒里奇-泰勒的 G 小调小提琴协奏曲，Op 80。此外，来自丹麦普雷斯特（Præstø）室内乐节的演出，由钢琴家埃利亚斯·霍尔姆、小提琴家路德维格·古迪姆和英加·沃加·高斯塔德、中提琴手迈克尔·安德烈亚斯以及大提琴手乔纳森·斯文森演奏的苏克钢琴五重奏，Op 8。 4.0 本周作曲家：塔妮娅·莱昂 (4 / 5) 5.0 In Tune 7.0 古典混音带 7.30 音乐会。中提琴手蒂莫西·里多特指挥慕尼黑室内乐团演奏莫扎特的 F 调嬉游曲 K138，多布林卡·塔巴科娃的《古风组曲》，JS 巴赫的降 E 调中提琴协奏曲（根据 BWV 169, 49 和 1053 重构）以及布里顿的《简单交响曲》，Op 4. 4. 9.45 论文：《蒙帕纳斯三百米》。探讨精神性和宗教在巴黎这个街区所扮演的角色。(4 / 5) (R) 10.0 夜间轨道 11.30 午夜时分 12.30 彻夜

Radio 4

6.0am 今日 (Today) 9.0 我们的时代 (In Our Time)。米沙·格伦尼 (Misha Glenny) 讨论美国内战中的安提塔姆战役。9.45 此处有强信号 (Strong Message Here) 10.0 女性时间 (Woman's Hour) 11.0 无限猴子笼 (The Infinite Monkey Cage)。亚当·鲁瑟福德 (Adam Rutherford) 和杰西卡·福斯特克 (Jessica Fostekew) 探讨鸟类和蝙蝠的粪便如何成为备受追捧的珍宝。(1/7) 11.45 维尼熊 (Winnie-the-Pooh) 100。托比·琼斯 (Toby Jones) 朗读 A.A. 米尔恩 (AA Milne) 的《克里斯托弗·罗宾率队北极探险》(Christopher Robin Leads an Expedition to the North Pole)。(4/5) 12.0 新闻 (News) 12.04 底线 (The Bottom Line) (4/7) 12.32 切片面包 (Sliced Bread)。格雷格·富特 (Greg Foot) 调查关于滴眼液的大胆主张。(3/14) 12.57 天气 (Weather) 1.0 一点钟的世界 (The World at One) 1.45 今日农业 (Farming Today) (重播) 2.0 拱手农民 (The Archers) (重播) 2.15 凯尔特基督：隐藏的宝藏 (Celtic Christe: Hidden Treasures)。由简·斯帕克 (Jeany Spark) 和戴维·霍尔特 (David Holt) 出演，讲述关于阿加莎·克里斯蒂 1930 年前往马恩岛旅行期间可能发生之事的剧作。3.0 漫步 (Ramblings)。克莱尔·鲍尔丁 (Clare Balding) 与戴维·沙利文 (David Sullivan) 一同探索萨里郡的林普斯菲尔德公地 (Limpsfield Common)。(2/7) 3.27 Radio 4 募捐：Medair UK

(重播) 3.30 反馈 (Feedback) 4.0 简报室 (The Briefing Room) (2/11) 4.30 内部科学 (Inside Science) 5.0 下午 (PM) 5.57 天气 (Weather) 6.0 新闻 (News) 6.30 行善者 (Do Gooders) (重播) 7.0 拱手农民 (The Archers) 7.15 前排 (Front Row) 8.0 当事情失控时 (When It Hits the Fan) (重播) 8.15 媒体秀 (The Media Show) (重播) 9.0 松散端 (Loose Ends) (重播) 9.45 此处有强信号 (Strong Message Here) (重播) 9.59 天气 (Weather) 10.0 今夜世界 (The World Tonight) 10.45 你在维尼熊中是谁？ (Who Are You in Winnie-the-Pooh?) 克雷西达·考威尔 (Cressida Cowell) 和迈克尔·罗森 (Michael Rosen) 讨论他们与跳跳虎 (Tigger) 产生共鸣的方式。(重播) 11.0 激进 (Radical) 11.30 议会今日 (Today in Parliament) 12.0 新闻与天气 (News and Weather) 12.30 分心的渴望 (Appetite for Distraction) (重播) 12.48 航运预报 (Shipping Forecast) 1.0 世界服务 (As World Service) 5.0 新闻 (News) 5.04 议会昨日 (Yesterday in Parliament) 5.32 天气 (Weather) 5.34 航运预报 (Shipping Forecast) 5.43 今日祷告 (Prayer for the Day) 5.45 今日农业 (Farming Today)

Radio 4 Extra

6.0am 没那么远，维尔玛 (Not As Far As Velma) (4/6) 6.30 深六 (Deep Six) (5/6) 7.0 资本收益 (Capital Gains) (3/4) 7.30 伯基斯之路 (The Burkiss Way) (12/15) 8.0 转世内森 (ReincarNathan) (6/6) 8.30 维尼熊 (Winnie the Pooh) (4/5) 8.45 如何在一周内写小说 (How to Write a Novel in a Week) (4/5) 9.0 行善者 (Do Gooders) (1/6) 9.30 早餐吃秧鸡 (Corncrakes for Breakfast) (4/5) 9.45 每日礼拜 (Daily Service) 10.0 伟大人生 (Great Lives) (3/8) 10.30 纪录片 (The Documentary) 11.0 没那么远，维尔玛 (Not As Far As Velma) (4/6) 11.30 深六 (Deep Six) (5/6) 12.0 资本收益 (Capital Gains) (3/4) 12.30 伯基斯之路 (The Burkiss Way) (12/15) 1.0 转世内森 (ReincarNathan) (6/6) 1.30 维尼熊 (Winnie the Pooh) (4/5) 1.45 如何在一周内写小说 (How to Write a Novel in a Week) (4/5) 2.0 我的世代 (My Generation) (4/6) 2.30 两门之隔 (Two Doors Down) (4/4) 3.0 母亲 (A Mother) 4.0 伟大人生 (Great Lives) (3/8) 4.30 纪录片 (The Documentary) 5.0 没那么远，维尔玛 (Not As Far As Velma) (4/6) 5.30 深六 (Deep Six) (5/6) 6.0 资本收益 (Capital Gains) (3/4) 6.30 伯基斯之路 (The Burkiss Way) (12/15) 7.0 转世内森 (ReincarNathan) (6/6) 7.30 维尼熊 (Winnie the Pooh) (4/5) 7.45 如何在一周内写小说 (How to Write a Novel in a Week) (4/5) 8.0 我的世代 (My Generation) (4/6) 8.30 两门之隔 (Two Doors Down) (4/4) 9.0 母亲 (A Mother) 10.0 喜剧俱乐部：行善者 (Comedy Club: Do Gooders) (1/6) 10.30 埃利斯·詹姆斯的英雄殿堂 (Elis James' Pantheon of Heroes) (1/6) 11.0 与海格利一起聆听 (Hearing With Hegley) (7/8) 11.15 湿把手 (A Wet Handle) (3/5) 11.30 生活：白痴指南 (Life: An Idiot's Guide) 12.0 伟大人生 (Great Lives) (3/8) 12.30 纪录片 (The Documentary) 1.0 没那么远，维尔玛 (Not As Far As Velma) (4/6) 1.30 深六 (Deep Six) (5/6) 2.0 资本收益 (Capital Gains) (3/4) 2.30 伯基斯之路 (The Burkiss Way) (12/15) 3.0 转世内森 (ReincarNathan) (6/6) 3.30 维尼熊 (Winnie the Pooh) (4/5) 3.45 如何在一周内写小说 (How to Write a Novel in a Week) (4/5) 4.0 我的世代 (My Generation) (4/6) 4.30 两门之隔 (Two Doors Down) (4/4) 5.0 母亲 (A Mother)

《第一个预兆》(The First Omen)，Film4 频道

格雷厄姆·诺顿秀 (The Graham Norton Show)，BBC One

BBC One

6.0 早餐 (Breakfast) (T) 9.30 早晨直播 (Morning Live) (T) 10.45 犯罪观察直播 (Crimewatch Live) (T) 11.30 锤下房产 (Homes Under the Hammer) (T) (重播) 12.15 淘宝猎人 (Bargain Hunt) (T) 1.0 新闻 (News) (T) 1.35 地区新闻与天气 (Regional News and Weather) (T) 1.45 新闻 (News) (T) 2.0 邦妮法斯修女谜案 (Sister Boniface Mysteries) (T) 2.45 逃往乡村 (Escape to the Country) (T) (重播) 3.45 花园救援 (Garden Rescue) (T) 4.30 名人谎言之桥 (Celebrity Bridge of Lies) (T) (重播) 5.15 无用之题 (Pointless) (T) (重播) 6.0 新闻 (News) (T) 6.30 地区新闻与天气 (Regional News and Weather) (T) 7.0 那个节目 (The One Show) (T) 7.30 我会骗你吗？ (Would I Lie to You?) (T) (重播)

BBC Two

6.30 花园救援 (T) (R) 7.15 谎言之桥 (T) (R) 8.0 手语区：西蒙·里夫的荒野 (T) (R) 9.0 新闻 (T) 12.30 政治思考（主持人：尼克·罗宾逊） (T) 1.0 不可能 (T) (R) 1.45 答案赛 (T) (R) 2.30 老板 (T) (R) 3.15 英国铁路之旅 (T) (R) 3.45 大宅复兴 (T) (R) 4.35 复古古董路演 (T) (R) 5.15 把它卖掉！ (T) (R) 6.0 游戏之家 (T) 6.30 舞动奇迹：两人行 (T) 7.0 新闻之夜 (T) 7.30 乡间生活 (T)

ITV1

6.0 早安英国 (T) 9.30 洛林 (T) 10.0 早上好 (T) 12.30 闲聊女性 (T) 1.30 新闻 (T) 1.55 地方新闻与天气 (T) 2.0 迪金森的真实交易 (T) (R) 3.0 语言大挑战 (T) (R) 4.0 成交或不成交 (T) (R) 5.0 追击 (T) (R) 6.0 地方新闻与天气 (T) 6.30 新闻与天气 (T) 7.30 夜晚一切都会好 (T) (R)

Channel 4

6.30 皇后之王 (T) (R) 7.45 大家都爱雷蒙 (T) (R) 9.10 弗雷泽 (T) (R) 11.10 美国拾荒者 (T) (R) 12.05 新闻 (T) 12.10 翻新国家 (T) (R) 1.10 大宅赠与 (T) (R) 2.10 倒计时 (T) 3.0 阳光下的居所 (T) (R) 4.0 救命！我们买了个村庄 (T) 5.0 四人一床 (T) (R) 5.30 来和我共餐 (T) (R) 6.0 阳光下的新生活：他们现在如何？ (T) (R) 7.0 新闻 (T) 7.55 尤夫拉杰的故事：对抗癌症 (T) (R)

Channel 5

6.0 Milkshake! 9.15 杰里米·Vine (T) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (T) 12.45 新闻 (T) 12.50 马特·奥尔赖特 (T) 2.20 电影《绝望的十二小时》(Gina Gershon, 2023) (T) 4.0 阳光下的英国砍价族 (T) (R) 5.0 新闻 (T) 6.0 康沃尔：海边的一年 (T) (R) 6.55 新闻 (T) 7.0 全球最奢华的养老院 (T) (R) 7.55 新闻 (T)

BBC Four

7.0 流行金曲榜 (R) 2000年的两期节目，嘉宾包括 S Club 7, Stephen Gately, Chris Rea, 以及 Daphne and Celeste。

8.0 名人叛徒 (T) 阴谋四起，任务中的一个错误就可能导致有人出局。 9.05 名人叛徒：揭秘 (T) 埃德·甘博听取被放逐和被谋杀选手的心声。 9.30 你有新闻给我吗 (T) 杰森·曼福德主持，珍妮特·斯特里特-波特担任嘉宾。

10.0 新闻 (T)

10.30 地方新闻 (T) 天气 10.40 格雷厄姆·诺顿秀 (T) 嘉宾包括昆汀·塔伦蒂诺、艾伦·德杰尼勒斯、柯林·法瑞尔和陈可盈。 11.30 RuPaul 变装皇后秀英国赛 (T) (R) 《慢马》主演卡迪夫·基尔万担任客座评委。 12.30 未来一周天气预报 (T) 12.35 新闻 (T)

8.0 园艺世界 (T) 弗朗西丝·托菲尔处理秋季花园的工作，艾希利·爱德华兹采访声音艺术家杰森·辛格。 9.0 露西·沃斯利的六位妻子 (T) (R) 历史学家讲述安妮·博林在亨利八世宠爱中的兴衰，揭露报道中的私人时刻。

10.0 电影《沉默的羔羊》(Jonathan Demme, 1991) (T) 连环杀手惊悚片，由朱迪·福斯特主演。

11.50 电影《织物》(Peter Strickland, 2018) (T) 喜剧恐怖片，由 Sidse Babett Knudsen 主演。 1.45 手语区 全景 (T) (R) 2.15 时间 (T) (R) 3.15 BBC Two (T)

8.0 艾默代尔 (T) 萨迪用一个悲惨的故事将露比拉回身边，而罗伯特计划大赢一场。 8.30 街道冠冕 (T) 尼克对伊德里斯干涉他的儿子感到不满，肯为丹尼尔建议了一个新的方向。 9.0 击败追击者 (T) (R) 更多参赛者在常识问答赛中挑战专家团队。

10.0 新闻 (T) 天气

10.45 电影《侏罗纪世界：陨落王国》(JA Bayona, 2018) (T) 动作续集，由克里斯·帕拉特和布莱丝·达拉斯·霍华德主演。

12.45 电视购物 3.0 埃塞克斯百万富翁谋杀案 (T) (R) 3.50 与 ITV 一起放松 (T) 5.05 成交或不成交 (T) (R)

8.0 乔治·克拉克打造家园 (T) (R) 建筑师会见克里斯和艾莉，他们在兰开夏郡的里布尔谷买了一栋破旧的平房，结果将其拆除重新开始。 9.05 Gogglebox (T) 扶手椅评论员分享他们对本周观看内容的看法。

10.05 《最后的一腿》(The Last Leg) (T) 新剧集。11.10 电影《美国大团圆》(American Reunion) 喜剧续集 (2012) (T)

1.15 《违约条款》(Break Clause) (T) (R) 1.40 《违约条款》(Break Clause) (T) (R) 2.10 电影《X》(Ti West, 2022) (T) 4.0 电影《回路中的人类》(Humans in the Loop) (2025) 5.15 《尤夫拉杰的故事：对抗癌症》(Yuvraj's Story: Stand Up to Cancer) (T) (R) 5.20 《乔治·克拉克的惊人空间》(George Clarke's Amazing Spaces) (T) (R)

8.0 《我们伟大的约克郡生活》(Our Great Yorkshire Life) (T) 《艾默代尔》的夏洛特·贝拉米在惠特比附近寻找稀有的约克郡黄金。 9.05 《今日剧场：安静的一小时》(Play for Today: The Quiet Hour) (T) 护士里亚面对紧急情况、一次几乎致命的错误以及一名好斗的截肢患者。由莎拉·路易丝·马登创作的剧集，主演为阿奇·潘贾比和保罗·凯。

10.0 皮尔斯·摩根：未审查 (Piers Morgan: Uncensored) (T) 观点主导的新闻。

12.05 《交通警察：精英小队一号》(Traffic Cops: Elite Squad One) (T) (R) 1.0 《必须拥有的想法》(Must Have Ideas) (T) (R) 3.0 《康沃尔：海边的一年》(Cornwall: A Year By the Sea) (T) (R) 3.45 《与简·麦克唐纳共游约克郡》(Yorkshire With Jane McDonald) (T) (R) 4.30 《与简·麦克唐纳共游约克郡》(Yorkshire With Jane McDonald) (T) (R) 5.20 娱乐新闻 (T)

8.15 《流行金曲》(Top of the Pops) (T) (R) 1980年节目，嘉宾包括 Showaddywaddy, Adam and the Ants, the Police 和 Madness。 8.45 《流行金曲》(Top of the Pops) (T) (R) 嘉宾包括 Sinitta, Cliff Richard 和 Living in a Box。1989年节目。 9.15 《BBC迪斯科：第一卷》(Disco at the BBC: Volume 1) (T) (R) 歌曲来自 Chic, Rose Royce, Labelle, Gladys Knight 和 Village People。

10.15 唐娜·萨默：TOTP2 特辑 (Donna Summer: TOTP2 Special) (T) (R) 该歌手的档案片段。 10.45 《迪斯科：一场革命的配乐》(Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution) (T) (R) 该音乐流派的故事。 11.45 《BBC英国黑人音乐：第二卷》(Black British Music at the BBC: Volume 2) (T) (R) 嘉宾包括 Seal, the Selector, Soul II Soul 和 FKA Twigs。 2.15 《流行金曲》(Top of the Pops) (T) (R)

其他频道

BBC Three

7.0pm 《追击》(The Catch Up) 7.05 《可怕的历史》(Horrible Histories) 7.35 电影《史瑞克第三集》(Shrek the Third) (2007) 9.0 《天堂岛谋杀案》(Death in Paradise) 10.0 《布朗太太的儿子们》(Mrs Brown's Boys) 11.30 电影《艾伦·帕特里奇：阿尔法·帕帕》(Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa) (2013) 12.55 《冰路卡车司机》(Ice Road Truckers) 2.25 《克拉波利斯》(Krapopolis)

U&Dave

6.0am 电视购物 7.10 《顶级跑车》(Top Gear) 8.0 《边境执法：美国守门人》(Border Force: America's Gatekeepers) 9.0 《边境执法：美国守门人》(Border Force: America's Gatekeepers) 10.0 《里克·斯坦的秘密法国》(Rick Stein's Secret France) 11.0 《里克·斯坦的上海味道》(Rick Stein's Taste of Shanghai) 12.0 《毛发骑士的亚洲冒险》(The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure) 1.0 《运河船日记》(Canal Boat Diaries) 2.0 《顶级跑车》(Top Gear) 3.0 《盖·马丁的英国电力之旅》(Guy Martin's Great British Power Trip) 4.0 《里克·斯坦的秘密法国》(Rick Stein's Secret France) 5.0 《里克·斯坦的上海味道》(Rick Stein's Taste of Shanghai) 6.0 《毛发骑士的亚洲冒险》(The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure) 7.0 《莫蒂默与怀特豪斯：去钓鱼》(Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing) 7.40 《这次我来》(I'll Get This) 8.20 《你会对我撒谎吗？》(Would I Lie to You?) 9.0 《QI XL》 10.0 《我有更多新闻给你吗》(Have I Got a Bit More News for You) 11.0 《8出10只猫》(8 Out of 10 Cats) 11.55 《模拟本周》(Mock the Week) 12.35 《你会对我撒谎吗？》(Would I Lie to You?) 1.15 《你会对我撒谎吗？》(Would I Lie to You?) 1.55 《阿波罗现场》(Live at the Apollo) 2.55 《游戏之家》(House of Games) 3.30 《幽灵》(Ghosts) 4.0 电视购物

E4

6.0am 《摩登家庭》(Modern Family) 6.55 《粗鲁管》(Rude(ish) Tube) 短片 7.0 《情侣》(Couples) 《来我家吃饭》(Come Dine With Me) 8.0 《拉姆齐的厨房噩梦：美国篇》(Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA) 11.0 《摩登家庭》(Modern Family) 12.0 《辛普森一家》(The Simpsons) 2.0 《戈德堡一家》(The Goldbergs) 2.30 《戈德堡一家》(The Goldbergs) 3.0 《摩登家庭》(Modern Family) 5.0 《辛普森一家》(The Simpsons) 7.30 《布鲁克林九九》(Brooklyn Nine-Nine) 8.0 电影《自由人》(Free Guy) (2021) 10.10 《裸体吸引力》(Naked Attraction) 12.15 《初次约会》(First Dates) 1.20 《沙发评论员》(Gogglebox) 2.20 《甲板之下：大洋洲》(Below Deck Down Under) 3.10 《拉姆齐的厨房噩梦：美国篇》(Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA) 4.0 《辛普森一家》(The Simpsons) 4.25 《戈德堡一家》(The Goldbergs) 5.15 《布鲁克林九九》(Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

Film4

11.0am 电影《固定刺刀！》(Fixed Bayonets!) (1951) 12.50 电影《稀有品种》(The Rare Breed) (1966) 2.45 电影《蛙人》(The Frogmen) (1951) 4.40 电影《秘密总部》(Secret Headquarters) (2022) 6.45 电影《火星救援》(The Martian) (2015) 9.30 电影《第一个凶兆》(The First Omen) (2024) 11.50 电影《阿丽塔：战斗天使》(Alita: Battle Angel) (2019) 2.10 电影《第二幕》(The Second Act) (2024)

PBS America

6.0am 电视购物 8.0 《风化：地球之极》(Weathered: Earth's Extremes) 8.35 《被围困的堡垒，传奇之战》(Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles) 9.35 《爱德华八世：英国的叛徒国王》(Edward VIII: Britain's Traitor King) 10.35 《二战女性：更多未讲述的故事》(Women of World War II: More Untold Stories) 11.50 《珠穆朗玛峰：西南壁》(Everest: The South West Face) 1.0 《风化：地球之极》(Weathered: Earth's Extremes) 1.35 《被围困的堡垒，传奇之战》(Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles) 2.40 《爱德华八世：英国的叛徒国王》(Edward VIII: Britain's Traitor King) 3.45 《二战女性：更多未讲述的故事》(Women of World War II: More Untold Stories) 5.0 《珠穆朗玛峰：西南壁》(Everest: The South West Face) 6.15 《被围困的堡垒，传奇之战》(Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles) 7.20 《爱德华八世：英国的叛徒国王》(Edward VIII: Britain's Traitor King) 8.30 《二战女性：更多未讲述的故事》(Women of World War II: More Untold Stories) 9.45 《珠穆朗玛峰：西南壁》(Everest: The South West Face) 11.0 《爱德华八世：英国的叛徒国王》(Edward VIII: Britain's Traitor King) 12.0 《二战女性：更多未讲述的故事》(Women of World War II: More Untold Stories) 1.15 《风化：地球之极》(Weathered: Earth's Extremes) 2.0 电视购物

Sky One

6.0am Jones and Melbourne 早晨节目 6.30 Jones and Melbourne 早晨节目 7.0 Jones and Melbourne 早晨节目 7.30 Jones and Melbourne 早晨节目 8.0 星际之门 SG-1 9.0 星际之门 SG-1 10.0 NCIS: 洛杉矶 11.0 辛普森一家 11.30 辛普森一家 12.0 猎豹之傲 1.0 檀香湾警探 2.0 檀香湾警探

S.W.A.T 4.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 The 5.30 The 6.0 超级商店 6.30 超级商店 7.0 The 7.30 The 8.0 史蒂夫·巴克肖尔的鲨鱼 9.0 行尸走肉：死亡之城 10.0 Rob & Romesh 挑战中国功夫 11.0 Rob Beckett: Giraffe 12.45 Grimsburg 1.15 格林 2.05 Evil 3.10 檀香湾警探 0 4.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 S.W.A.T

Sky Arts

6.0am 太阳马戏团： Corteo 8.0 年度艺术家：大师课 8.30 年度艺术家：大师课 9.0 意外故事 9.30 意外故事 10.0 希区柯克呈现 10.30 希区柯克呈现 11.0 探索：黛安·基顿 12.0 经典专辑 1.0 意外故事 1.30 意外故事 2.0 希区柯克呈现 2.30 希区柯克呈现 3.0 间谍大师：伟大的间谍作家 4.0 探索：摩根·弗里曼 5.0 2015 6.0 年度风景画家 6.30 意外故事 7.0 希区柯克时间 8.0 Guy Garvey: From the Vaults 9.0 The Specials: 考文垂大教堂现场演出 10.35 电影《Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story》(2024) 12.25 Oasis: There and Then 2.15 Oasis: Standing on the Edge of Noise 3.35 抗议之声 5.0 间谍大师：伟大的间谍作家

Sky Atlantic

6.0am 城市秘密 8.0 亿万 9.05 亿万 10.15 死木镇 12.25 Gomorrah 1.30 谋杀：街头生活 2.30 谋杀： 街头生活 3.30 亿万 4.35 亿万 5.40 龙之家族 8.0 法戈 9.0 战争 10.0 Under Salt Marsh 11.0 亢奋 2.0 龙之家族 3.10 Gomorrah 4.10 宾客之翼 5.05 宾客之翼

Radio

Radio 3

6.30am 早餐节目 9.30 经典精选 1.0 古典现场。 Gabriel Bebeşelea 指挥乔治 Enescu Philharmonic 管弦乐团，钢琴家 Jeneba Kanneh-Mason 演奏肖邦的 F小调第二钢琴 协奏曲，Op 21. 此外， 来自德国德累斯顿音乐 节， Hannah Kendall 的 The Spark Catchers，由 Edward Gardner 指挥 伦敦爱乐乐团。 4.0 本周作曲家： Tania Leon (5 / 5) 5.0 In Tune 7.0 古典 混音带。 7.30 周五 音乐之夜。 来自 Snape Maltings， Daniel Bartholomew- Poyser 指挥 BBC 音乐厅管弦乐团， 小提琴手 Nathan Amaral 共同庆祝黑人 作曲家，包括 Joseph Bologne, Avril 和 Samuel Coleridge- Taylor, Errollyn Wallen 以及 Valerie Coleman。 9.45 论文：蒙帕纳斯 三百米。 蒙帕纳斯的一些 创意人士所产生的 持久影响。(5 / 5) (R) 10.0 Late Junction。 大提琴手 Emily Wittbrodt 和打击乐手 Regan Bowering 合作

进行一场 session。 11.30 'Round Midnight 12.30 Through the Night

Radio 4

上午 6:00 《今日》(Today) 9:0 《荒岛唱片》(Desert Island Discs) (重播) 10:0 《女性时间》(Woman's Hour) 11:0 《美食计划》(The Food Programme)。Leyla Kazim 探讨再生农业。 11:45 《小熊维尼 100》(Winnie-the-Pooh 100)。Hayley Atwell 朗读《小猪完全被水包围》(Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water)。(5/5) 12:0 新闻 12:04 《反社交》(AntiSocial) (4/6) 下午 1:0 《一点钟的世界》(The World at One) 1:45 《今日农业》(Farming Today) (重播) 2:0 《阿彻斯》(The Archers) (重播) 2:15 《地下》(Underground)。Chloe Myerson 创作的惊悚剧。在关于 Edward 妻子的真相揭晓后，Thornfield 陷入火海。(5/5) 2:45 《没有生活》(Life Without) 想象一个没有蝙蝠的世界。(1/10) 3:0 《园丁问答时间》(Gardeners' Question Time) 3:45 《短篇作品》(Short Works)。Lauren Mackenzie 创作的《让他们尽情欢乐》(Let Them Have Their Fun)。 4:0 《最后的话》(Last Word) 4:30 《多或少》(More Or Less) (重播) 5:0 《PM》 5:57 天气 6:0 新闻 6:30 《新闻问答》(The News Quiz)。主持人 Lucy Porter, John Tothill 和 Stephen Bush。(7/8) 7:0 《阿彻斯》(The Archers) 7:15 《屏幕截图》(Screenshot)。Ellen E Jones 和 Mark Kermode 探讨屏幕上的受监护青少年。(4/6) 8:0 《有任何问题吗？》(Any Questions?) 8:55 《本周历史》(This Week in History)

(重播) 9:0 《自由思考》(Free Thinking)。Shahidha Bari 从历史、宗教和经济角度审视面包。 10:0 《今夜世界》(The World Tonight) 10:45 《你在小熊维尼中是谁？》(Who Are You in Winnie-the-Pooh?) Nadia Shireen 和 Charlie Higson 讨论屹耳 (Eeyore)。(重播) 11:0 《美国播报》(Americast) 11:30 《今日议会》(Today in Parliament) 12:0 新闻 12:30 《分心的胃口》(Appetite for Distraction) (重播) 12:48 航运预报 下午 1:0 世界服务广播 5:30 新闻 5:34 航运预报 5:43 今日祷告 5:45 《没有生活》(Life Without) (重播)

Radio 4 Extra

上午 6:00 《不像 Velma 那么远》(Not As Far As Velma) (5/6) 6:30 《深六》(Deep Six) (6/6) 7:0 《演员的生活属于我》(An Actor's Life for Me) (2/7) 7:30 《超出我们的认知》(Beyond Our Ken) (13/20) 8:0 《自然桌》(Nature Table) (2/6) 8:30 《小熊维尼》(Winnie the Pooh) (5/5) 8:45 《如何在一周内写小说》(How to Write a Novel in a Week) (5/5) 9:0 《你的母亲》(Your Mum) (6/8) 9:30 《早餐吃秧鸡》(Corncrakes for Breakfast) (5/5) 9:45 每日礼拜 10:0 《灵魂音乐》(Soul Music) (1/5) 10:30 《当 Wesley 去温彻斯特时》(When Wesley Went to Winchester) 11:0 《不像 Velma 那么远》(Not As Far As Velma) (5/6) 11:30 《深六》(Deep Six) (6/6) 12:0 《演员的生活属于我》(An Actor's Life for Me) (2/7) 12:30 《超出我们的认知》(Beyond Our Ken) (13/20) 下午 1:0 《自然桌》(Nature Table) (2/6) 1:30 《小熊维尼》(Winnie the Pooh) (5/5) 1:45 《如何在一周内写小说》(How to Write a Novel in a Week) (5/5) 2:0 《重点不在于你知道什么》(It's Not What You Know) (1/6) 2:30 《花掉我的遗产》(Spending My Inheritance) (6/6) 3:0 《伤停补时》(Time Added on for Injuries) 3:45 《短篇作品》(Short Works) 4:0 《灵魂音乐》(Soul Music) (1/5) 4:30 《当 Wesley 去温彻斯特时》(When Wesley Went to Winchester) 5:0 《不像 Velma 那么远》(Not As Far As Velma) (5/6) 5:30 《深六》(Deep Six) (6/6) 6:0 《演员的生活属于我》(An Actor's Life for Me) (2/7) 6:30 《超出我们的认知》(Beyond Our Ken) (13/20) 7:0 《自然桌》(Nature Table) (2/6) 7:30 《小熊维尼》(Winnie the Pooh) (5/5) 7:45 《如何在一周内写小说》(How to Write a Novel in a Week) (5/5) 8:0 《重点不在于你知道什么》(It's Not What You Know) (1/6) 8:30 《花掉我的遗产》(Spending My Inheritance) (6/6) 9:0 《伤停补时》(Time Added on for Injuries) 9:45 《短篇作品》(Short Works) 10:0 喜剧俱乐部：《你的母亲》(Your Mum) (6/8) 10:30 《Masala FM》 (2/6) 11:0 《一个可怕的瞬间》(For One Horrible Moment) (3/5) 11:15 《全部变更》(All Change) (3/5) 11:30 《边缘坠落》(Edge Falls) (5/6) 12:0 《灵魂音乐》(Soul Music) (1/5) 12:30 《当 Wesley 去温彻斯特时》(When Wesley Went to Winchester) 凌晨 1:0 《不像 Velma 那么远》(Not As Far As Velma) (5/6) 1:30 《深六》(Deep Six) (6/6) 2:0 《演员的生活属于我》(An Actor's Life for Me) (2/7) 2:30 《超出我们的认知》(Beyond Our Ken) (13/20) 3:0 《自然桌》(Nature Table) (2/6) 3:30 《小熊维尼》(Winnie the Pooh) (5/5) 3:45 《如何在一周内写小说》(How to Write a Novel in a Week) (5/5) 4:0 《重点不在于你知道什么》(It's Not What You Know) (1/6) 4:30 《花掉我的遗产》(Spending My Inheritance) (6/6) 5:0 《伤停补时》(Time Added on for Injuries) 5:45 《短篇作品》(Short Works)

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US faces global outrage over public execution plan

David Smith Washington

The US is facing global condemnation over a “barbaric” plan to execute a disabled man by firing squad and livestream it to the public, with critics comparing the administration to dictatorships in Iran and Afghanistan.

The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday night that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people at a military base at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, would be live-streamed on 3 December.

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The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights warned yesterday that broadcasting the killing would amount to a public execution and “breach the absolute prohibition of torture”.

The plan also drew opprobrium from politicians, religious leaders and human rights campaigners in the US and abroad. Hillary Clinton, the former US secretary of state, wrote on social media: “A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this.”

Yassamin Ansari, the first Iranian-American Democrat elected to the

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Death penalty Why executions in the US are on the rise Page 7

Risk of PTSD Experts warn of trauma over livestreaming killing Page 6

US Congress, posted: “In Trump’s America, we’re doing public executions now. WTF. This is what happens under brutal dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan. It’s all part of Trump’s authoritarian takeover of the United States.”

In the UK, which abolished the death penalty in the 1960s, Bridget Phillipson, the equalities minister and Labour party chair, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she found the concept “rather disturbing”.

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ICJ judge wins Nobel peace prize for international law advocacy

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The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African former UN human rights chief who chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza.

The Norwegian Nobel committee said Pillay, who is serving as a judge at the international court of justice (ICJ), has “shown that legal measures can help prevent acts of war and violence”.

“Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career,” the committee said, mentioning her early work defending Nelson Mandela under South Africa’s apartheid regime, serving on international criminal tribunal, and then as the UN high commissioner for human rights, as well as chairing the UN independent international commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory.

That commission concluded last year that the state of Israel was guilty of genocidal acts in Gaza “with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians

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in Gaza", and said the country's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, its president, Isaac Herzog, and its former defence minister Yoav Gallant had "incited the commission of genocide".

"It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the genocide convention," Pillay said on the publication of the commission's findings in September last year.

Israel refused to cooperate with the commission, arguing it was biased, and rejected its report as “scandalous”. The Israeli foreign ministry reacted furiously to news of Pillay’s award yesterday.

"If there were an award for lies, hatred, and blood libels, Navi Pillay wouldn't just be a contender. She'd be a frontrunner," the ministry said on X, adding: "Awarding Pillay the Nobel peace prize isn't a recognition of justice. It's the grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice.

"Now that the Nobel commission has rewarded the biggest lie of the 21st century, Joseph Goebbels is certainly applauding from hell."

In its statement, the Nobel committee said Pillay, 85, had “contributed to strengthen the institutions of international law”.

“Her independence, expertise and steadfastness have made her one of the most respected international jurists of our time,” the committee

'[Pillay] contributed to strengthen the institutions of international law'

Nobel committee Statement added. “In awarding this year’s Nobel peace prize, the Norwegian Nobel committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law - national and international - underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts non-violently.”

The committee said it had not been able to locate Pillay before its announcement yesterday. She was attending a meeting of human rights lawyers and jurists in Nuremberg, Germany, at the site of postwar war crimes trials of Nazi leaders, and heard the news from colleagues. She responded with disbelief.

“I don’t know about it so much. The question is: is it true? Being a lawyer and a judge, I still want to verify it,” she said.

"The last thing I did was the report on Gaza naming what's happening there as genocide," Pillay added. "One of the main reactions to that report was people [complimented] me for my courage. You can imagine how surprised I was. Why would you need courage to speak the truth."

Hours after the announcement, the Trump administration unveiled broad new sanctions against the international criminal court (ICC), on which Pillay also once served. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said the measures were to ensure the court would never prosecute Americans.

The ICC has not charged any US nationals, and has previously pointed out that it is a court of last resort, unnecessary in the case of countries with effective legal systems. Last year, Donald Trump, who has long coveted the Nobel peace prize, imposed personal sanctions against ICC officials deemed to be involved in investigations of Americans or Israelis. The new sanctions target the court as an institution, blocking ICC assets in the US and giving US companies and individuals six months to wind down any business with the court.

The ICC said the sanctions were “an attempt to obstruct the course of justice and to prevent the court from doing what it was created to do”.

Pillay's award was welcomed by human rights activists, and hailed in South Africa, home to four previous laureates. The country's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, said: "Justice Pillay's crowning as winner of the Nobel prize allows us to celebrate the progressive contributions she has made to strengthen peace, uphold human dignity and bring hope in South Africa and to peoples globally."

Last year's award of the peace prize to the Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, drew widespread criticism because of her calls for US military intervention in her country. Machado heightened the controversy in January by handing her winner's medal to Trump. The prize committee insisted that the honour of being a Nobel laureate could not be transferred.

Rivals gear up for byelection amid Farage speculation

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Nigel Farage's rivals are gearing up for a Clacton byelection in the months ahead amid speculation that the standards inquiry into his £5m gift is nearing a conclusion.

Conservative sources said the party is ready to fight in Farage's seat, although senior figures in the shadow cabinet are divided about whether it would be winnable given Farage's victory in the summer byelection.

Other parties including the hard-right Restore Britain are all expected to put up candidates in the seat this time, after boycotting the last vote.

Westminster is also poised for a battle over the future of Reform UK if the sanction imposed on Farage is a heavy one.

The process could theoretically take place before Christmas if a decision is imminent but the timelines of previous cases suggest it is more likely to be next year - if a serious sanction is imposed.

The cases of both Margaret Ferrier, the SNP MP who broke Covid lockdown rules, and Peter Bone, the Tory MP found to have bullied staff, each took well over six months from the conclusion of the commissioner's report to the date of a byelection.

Farage was put under investigation over the gift after the Guardian revealed in May that the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne had given him £5m just before the last general election in 2024.

The Reform leader has said it was a personal matter, not political, and the money did not need to be declared. The rules state that financial support related to an MP's job needs to be registered if given in the 12 months before they enter parliament.

Under the process, if a serious breach is found then the commissioner will pass a memorandum to the standards committee of MPs and lay members.

They would then have further discussions and call a further hearing or invite evidence from the MP, before deciding on a penalty - a process that can take some weeks. MPs also have a right of appeal to the independent expert panel, which can take a further month or more.

If parliament agrees with a penalty of more than 10 days of suspension from the Commons, a recall petition could be held - requiring $10\%$ of signatures from the MP's constituency

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Number of people hired to promote Farage's message on the recently launched Reform TV channel

over a period of six weeks. In the cases of Bone and Ferrier, neither contested their seats and Conservatives are hopeful that Farage could duck out of the fight. “There’s a question of whether he will stand again,” said one shadow cabinet minister.

But Reform sources insisted that Farage would fight again, having won the byelection against independent candidates including Count Biface by more than 12,000 votes.

He has also embarked on a tour of the country, in an effort to shore up his core support, and a reorganisation of his party HQ. This includes launching a Reform TV channel to put out the party's message directly to voters, hiring a team of 12 “journalists”.

In the recent byelection, Farage increased his majority from 8,000 at the last election when he beat the sitting Tory MP, Giles Watling. The Conservative previously won the seat with a majority of more than 24,000 in 2019 - when there was no Brexit party candidate in the seat.

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Surf's up? Not for much longer as climate crisis threatens some of world's key breaks

Damian Carrington Environment editor

The future of surfing is being threatened by the climate crisis as some of the world's best surf breaks are drowned out by sea level rises.

An analysis of dozens of prominent waves in designated World Surfing Reserves found more than three-quarters were at high risk owing to changing tide levels, hardened shorelines and shifting sands. The impacts matter not only to the boardriders catching the waves but also to the communities that depend on the multibillion-dollar surf economy, often located in places with little else.

The waves rated at most risk in the study included the powerful beach breaks of Croyde in north Devon, the point breaks at Noosa in Australia and Oriente Salvaje, El Salvador, and reefs in Santa Cruz, California, such as Sewer Peak and Wind and Sea.

The best surfing waves are created by intricate combinations of sea floor shape, swell direction and tide. “Surf breaks are incredibly unique oceanographic phenomena - a confluence of all these factors that fit together just right to make the wave happen - and so those processes are really sensitive,” said Dan Reineman, a co-author of the study from California State University Channel Islands.

Global heating is pushing up sea level and changing rainfall patterns that affect sediment movement,

Also at risk

Snow sports Global heating has already closed hundreds of ski slopes across Europe.

Endurance running Rising temperatures are reducing the chances of marathon records being broken, recent research suggests. Tennis Players and fans suffered in extreme heat this year. Wild swimming Higher

Wild swimming higher temperatures increase the risk of toxic algae blooms in open water. Sailing Low water levels put reservoir activities at risk, and unpredictable weather can disrupt sea sailing. Harriet Richards

which can upset the delicate balance and destroy the wave. However, the researchers said the expert local knowledge of surfers can be tapped to help protect the waves.

“Climate change will impact surf breaks all over the world in different ways,” said Trent Hodges, a co-author of the study from the Save the Waves Coalition. “We learned directly from the local surfers how they are seeing their waves change. It’s a canary in the coalmine too - when a wave changes that often means the beach is changing, and everybody enjoys the beach.”

The study, published in the journal Climatic Change, said: “Climate change and coastal management both have significant negative ◀ Surfing waves are formed by an intricate combination of factors such as seabed shape, swell and tide PHOTOGRAPH: BRENT BIELMANN/WSL

implications for the future viability of multiple surf breaks of global significance and, therefore, the myriad distinct local communities, cultures, and economies they support.”

Almost 200 experts analysed 57 surf breaks in 11 of the 13 World Surfing Reserves across eight countries. However, the researchers warned that thousands of other surf breaks across the world face similar peril.

A key finding was that coastlines that were more natural could adapt better to the changes brought by climate change, by shifting inland and relocating sediments. Development such as sea walls, jetties and groynes make the beaches and waves less resilient, said Reineman.

Adam Hall, a co-founder of the North Devon World Surfing Reserve and one of the surfers contributing to the study, said: “North Devon is so special. We have Saunton Sands, a world-renowned long-boarding wave with really long, mellow rides for and the UK’s best beach break at Croyde. We’ve got left- and right-hand point breaks and a sheltered spot for when it gets too windy and too big. Whatever you want to do, we’ve got it.”

He said surfing was very important for the local economy and not just in summer: “Surfers will come throughout the year. They fill up the pubs, restaurants and car parks when the swells are good in January, February and March, where if you go to any other tourist destination that doesn’t have surf, they’re dead.”

The researchers want more local surfers to use the tools they have developed to assess their own breaks and work with local authorities and other groups to protect waves from coastal development and from the climate crisis.

Some places already do this. Gold Coast in Australia has put surf protection in planning law, New Zealand designates surf breaks of national significance and Peru's ley de rompientes (law of the breakers) protects listed surf breaks.

“Surfing is a huge driver of local economies,” said Hodges. “That money supports local businesses, hotels, lodgings and so on.” In Santa Cruz alone, surfing brings in about \$200m a year, he said.

“In the east of El Salvador, you have some of the most perfect point break waves you will find, and the entire economy there is pretty much dependent on surfing.”

After 37 years, Gromit finds his voice - and it's Martin Freeman's

Alexi Duggins

He has been on screen for 37 years, but he has never uttered a word. Now, Gromit will speak for the first time - with the voice of the Hobbit star Martin Freeman.

The claymation dog, who has starred with his eccentric inventor-owner Wallace in a series of

Oscar-winning films including The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, is releasing an autobiography this month - including an audiobook edition.

"When you create a character who has no voice and whose facial expressions are everything, what do you do when your publisher reminds you there'll be an audiobook?" said Nick Park, the animator and film-maker who created the series. “Who could possibly be the voice of a character everyone feels they know, but nobody’s actually heard? The more I thought about it, the more I realised Martin Freeman was the obvious choice, really. I was genuinely thrilled and honoured when he said yes.”

Freeman previously honed the role of put-upon sidekick in his Bafta- and Emmy-winning turn as Dr John Watson to Benedict Cumberbatch's unpredictable detective in Sherlock.

It should stand him in good stead to voice Gromit - who has had to put up with Wallace variously falling in love with a serial killer, welcoming in a hardened criminal penguin as

Put-upon sidekicks: Gromit and Freeman

a lodger, and inventing a hackable robot gnome that spawned an army of evil garden decorations.

Freeman won't be taking too much creative licence with the character, however. “Martin is not doing a Gromit ‘voice’ as such,” said Park. “He’s reading Gromit’s story as Gromit put it: his inner thoughts, his candid insights and endless witticisms, bringing to them his usual colour, thoughtfulness and wry humour.”

The book is not the only spin-off in the works. Larger Than Life, an immersive, behind-the-scenes experience projected across four 11-metre walls, will open on Wednesday at the Lightroom in King's Cross, London.

▼ Soldiers storm the facility in Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, where Nidal Hasan had opened fire PHOTOGRAPH: DAVID MORRIS/KILLEEN DAILY HERALD/AP

Outrage over US plan to stream death by firing squad

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an execution by firing squad. Trump did so on the recommendation of his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, according to the Pentagon.

Hegseth confirmed the livestream plan after previously saying that the execution would be public. Speaking to the conservative broadcaster Real America's Voice, he said people should be able to watch because they needed to understand that there were “serious consequences” for such crimes. Asked whether Hasan had made any final requests, Hegseth replied: “Don’t care. We’ll see him on December 3rd.”

JD Vance, however, appeared to cast doubt on the livestream yesterday. The vice-president said: “I’ve seen these announcements. I don’t know that that’s actually going to happen.” He dismissed the controversy, saying “this is a guy who brutally murdered a lot of innocent people”, but said he would not watch it if it were streamed.

Now 56, Hasan was sentenced to death by a military jury in 2013 after being convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. Twelve of those killed and 30 of the wounded were soldiers.

The former army psychiatrist opened fire with a handgun at a medical facility at Fort Hood on 5 November 2009, as soldiers waited for medical checks before deployment. He was shot by a police officer during his arrest and left partially paralysed, and now uses a wheelchair.

The execution is expected to be the

Psychologists' view Experts warn of trauma risk

Livestreaming an execution could cause post-traumatic stress disorder among viewers and other lasting harms, experts have said, after the US confirmed plans to broadcast the death of the Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan.

Dr Simon Duff, a forensic psychologist at the University of Nottingham, said that while there was not a lot of research into the impact of watching an execution, studies examining journalists' experiences of witnessing violence suggested evidence of trauma response. "Recent events suggest that executions do not always go to plan," he added, referring to last month's failed execution by lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee. "That possibility needs to be acknowledged, and the likelihood that this would increase the trauma for viewers."

Neil Greenberg, a professor of defence mental health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, said trigger warnings did not routinely lead to people avoiding media they may find distressing. "They are likely to suffer anticipatory anxiety before the ‘trauma’ is shown and some people will then become distressed ... My advice would be not to watch the event at all and I would hope that mainstream media would not transmit highly traumatic images [or] sounds."

Announcing Hasan's public execution, the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, above, said: "It was a radical Islamist attack in uniform inside the ranks, and so he's going to get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be, and we'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public, because people need to understand there's serious consequences."

Prof Rosalind Crone, a historian at the Open University, said: "Public execution - and execution full stop - does not work as a deterrent. If anything, the use of a medium like video broadcast will likely generate new, potentially more dangerous problems in managing crowd responses and reactions."

Crone said public execution in England and Wales had been abolished in 1868 in response to growing concerns about the effect on crowds, which were increasingly made up of people missing work to attend, and people who were drunk, rowdy and celebratory. Nicola Davis

▲ Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people in the Fort Hood shooting spree and now faces public execution

'The surest way to spawn more zealots is to embrace a cult of death and create a martyr' Ned Price Former US diplomat

Analysis Jason Burke

Hegseth's plan now puts the US in very dubious company

f the US defence secretary, Peter Hegseth, goes ahead with plans to livestream the execution of a soldier radicalised to extremist Islam who killed 13 people

Islam who killed 13 people at a military base in Texas, the US will join a motley assembly of lesser powers and rogue actors who have conducted public executions in recent years.

Only two countries currently systematically carry out capital sentences in public: Iran and Afghanistan. In 2025, the Taliban authorities carried out six such killings and the regime in Tehran has performed 11, according to Amnesty International.

In April last year, the Taliban executed four men accused of murder in three different cities. All were shot dead in crowded public sports stadiums. Such events were common when the Islamist militia movement was in power in the late 1990s. Then as now, the Taliban claimed a due court process had been followed.

In July, Iranian authorities hanged two young men, accused

first by firing squad carried out by the US military since 1945, when an army private, Eddie Slovak, was executed for desertion during the second world war. The last US military execution of any kind took place in 1961, when John Bennett was hanged.

Hasan's case comes amid renewed scrutiny of capital punishment in the US following the botched lethal injection of the Tennessee death-row prisoner Christa Pike last week. Her lawyers said she had awoken in hospital “angry and confused” and was shackled to her hospital bed. She was later reported to have walked around her room in hospital.

Media have sought to televise US executions in the past but have been blocked by the courts. No other country is known to televise or livestream legal executions, experts say.

Indeed, public executions have largely disappeared around the world. Amnesty International recorded 17 in 2025, including 11 in Iran and six in Taliban-run Afghanistan.

In the US, executions have been conducted privately for nine decades. The hanging of Rainey Bethea in Kentucky in 1936, witnessed by thousands, is generally regarded as the country's last public execution, though another hanging took place in Missouri the following year.

Experts said there was no known precedent for livestreaming a legal execution. The execution of the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in 2001 was made available to victims' relatives but was not broadcast publicly.

The proposed broadcast has prompted criticism from religious of killing policemen, in the central square of Isfahan. Human rights monitors have reported about 30 public executions in Iran in the past five years.

Saudi Arabia appears to have ended the practice after decades of beheading convicted criminals in city squares.

Legal experts and historians say public executions perform different functions. If the rule of law is shaky or there is doubt about the efficacy of the criminal justice system, they offer authorities a way of convincing the community that criminals will be punished.

Such public spectacles can also be a way of cowing a population. Armed militant groups often resort to public executions to assert their authority. The Islamic State, which ruled a swathe of Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2019, conducted thousands of executions for alleged offences ranging from homosexuality to theft. Many took place in public or were filmed. Others were choreographed to provide a spectacle to terrorise enemies and attract supporters.

leaders. Archbishop Paul Coakley, the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, said it was a “barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered”.

Politicians from both sides of the aisle also spoke out. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives armed services committee, said the plan was “disturbing and makes a mockery of our legal system”, while a Democratic senator, Chris Murphy, described public executions as “medieval”.

A Republican senator, Thom Tillis, said Hasan should face the death penalty but that broadcasting his execution was “beyond disgusting”, arguing that public executions were associated with oppressive regimes.

Others warned that the spectacle would be counterproductive and act as a recruiting sergeant for US enemies seeking fresh propaganda.

Ned Price, a former deputy to the US Representative to the UN, posted on X: "You can take it from those of us who've spent years working on terrorism: the surest way to spawn more radicalised zealots is to glorify violence, embrace a cult of death, and

In October 2025, as Hamas sought to reassert its control over the population of Gaza, it carried out a public execution of six men apparently accused of collaborating with Israel. In 2017, the group had executed three men accused of the same crime, partially livestreaming the event on Facebook.

The execution of Nidal Hasan, a former army major and psychiatrist who opened fire at Fort Hood in 2009, would be the first public execution in the US in many years.

Public executions in the US largely ceased in the 1930s, although in 2001 some survivors and victims' relatives were allowed to watch the execution by lethal injection of Timothy McVeigh, convicted of the bloody 1995 bombing of a government office in Oklahoma City.

▲ Emergency personnel take away a casualty of the Fort Hood shootings

In 2025, Amnesty recorded 2,707 executions globally, the highest total since 1981 and an increase of two-thirds on the previous year. The sharp rise was mainly due to more than 2,100 executions in Iran. The campaign group said authorities had placed the death penalty “at the centre of flawed public security and ‘tough on crime’ narratives to assert control, project state power and score political points”.

It reported: “This trend was strongest in countries where the authorities have tightened their grip on power by restricting civic space, silencing dissent and displaying disregard for protections established under international human rights law and standards.”

create a martyr for the cause. Or take it from [al-Qaeda] and Isis, whose tactics offer the closest modern-day approximation of Hegseth's proposal. Either way, it's hard to conjure a more vivid example of his trademark performative bravado, which routinely damages America's image and, in this case, so ghoulishly leaves us more vulnerable."

Experts have raised questions about whether the livestream could be challenged in court. Eugene Fidell, a military law specialist at Yale Law School, said Hasan could seek legal action to block the public display of his death.

Elisabeth Semel, co-director of the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, said the announcement raised serious questions about the dignity of the condemned prisoner and the government's motivation for staging such an unusual spectacle. "This is a president who's about spectacle and that's, I think, precisely the message he intends to deliver," she told the Associated Press news agency.

Others argued that public access could increase transparency around capital punishment. Deborah Denno, a death penalty specialist at Fordham School of Law, told the Associated Press that a livestream could make the process more transparent at a time when the botched execution in Tennessee had renewed questions about how the state puts prisoners to death.

It remains unclear whether Hasan will seek to challenge his execution in a civilian court, a move that could significantly delay the proceedings.

▼ Christa Pike was sentenced to death for murdering her schoolmate Colleen Slemmer, 19, when she was 18 PHOTOGRAPH: REUTERS

Christa Pike Could her botched killing end public support for death penalty?

Ed Pilkington

It took more than an hour to establish the two intravenous lines through which Christa Pike would be injected with a massive and normally lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital, and in that time she did everything she could to assist those who were attempting to kill her.

“Please try here,” she said over and over again to Tennessee’s execution team, pointing to specific parts of her body where she thought they might find a vein as they repeatedly stabbed her with needles. “Please try up on my shoulder, higher.”

When they finally achieved what they thought would be a working line, allowing her execution to proceed, Pike, 50, made a point of thanking them. “Miss Pike was kind, and she was cooperative,” said her lawyer Randy Spivey, a witness in the death chamber.

The world knows what happened next. For reasons as yet not fully understood, the drug did not enter her bloodstream, probably spilling into her arm tissue.

Pike, who was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder, when she was 18, of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, remained alive. She is the only person ever to survive a full “lethal” injection execution.

On Tuesday she remarkably regained consciousness. She is now able to talk and walk around the room, her lawyers have said. In comments to reporters, Spivey said he was haunted by the harrowing failed execution. “What I saw is not something that should ever happen again. It was done in all of our names.”

The events of the past 10 days - starting with Pike assisting her executioners and ending with her waking up shackled to a Nashville hospital bed, her arms grotesquely swollen, facing a long and uncertain road to recovery - has thrown America into a frenzy. If this is the outcome of a punishment carried out in “all our names”, then what are Americans doing about it?

“This is a very big moment,” said Laura Porter, executive director at the US Campaign to End the Death Penalty, an alliance of abolitionist groups. “When you see something as horrific as this, the impact is enormous as it throws attention on the death penalty’s flaws.”

Porter has been closely involved in America's struggle with capital punishment for almost a quarter century, since she became a leader of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty in 2003. There were 65 executions that year in the US (down from the 1999 pinnacle of 98). Since then, the number has steadily declined for almost two decades, reaching a low of 11 judicial killings in 2021.

How great a difference a few years can make. Six years ago, there was such confidence in the fading away of the practice that

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the authoritative Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) began its yearly report with the words: "Capital punishment continued to wither across the US in 2019."

But as Mark Twain might have put it, reports of the death penalty's own death turned out to be an exaggeration. Fast forward to last year, and DPI was recording that the 47 executions in 2025 marked the highest incidence in 16 years.

No awards for guessing the key individual behind the resurgence. Less than a year after DPI's “withering” pronouncement, Donald Trump embarked on one of the most concentrated bursts of US state killing of its own citizens in modern times. Towards the end of his first presidency, the Trump administration executed 13 federal death row prisoners.

Since his return to the White House last year, Trump has used the full might of the presidency to supercharge executions. On his first day back he issued an executive order on “restoring the death penalty” in which he said it was “an essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes”.

The statement was a classic Trump fabrication. The US justice department itself has concluded that there is no proof the punishment deters criminals. Many prisoners on death row cannot be described as the most heinous, not least the 4% who by conservative estimations are innocent.

Using his power as commander-in-chief, Trump managed this week to order the military execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooter.

On Thursday the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, announced that Hasan would face a firing squad of soldiers at Fort Hood on 3 December in the first public execution in the US since 1936. "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public, because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things."

Trump has also exhorted death penalty states, where most capital punishment activity occurs, to hit the gas. Many have obliged. First among them has been Florida. The outgoing governor, Ron DeSantis, appears to have been so inspired by Trump's 2020-21 killing spree that he approved a record 19 executions last year, and is on track to match that number in 2026.

Nationwide, the US is set to kill up to 38 people this year - the most recent just on Wednesday when Texas executed a convicted murderer, Jamaal Howard. That tally would be down from last year's high, but still represents a larger display of state killing than in any year since 2013.

In cheerleading the revival of executions, Trump has been backed by a supporting cast of Christian nationalists. These Bible thumpers have injected their eye-for-an-eye brand of retributive justice into the wider Maga movement.

Brooklyn Walker, an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, has studied

Christian nationalist views on justice. She has found them to be far more embracing of retribution, including the death sentence, than other US religious groups.

The energy blown into capital punishment from far-right religious pundits is affecting the furious

Christian nationalist leaders frequently invoke Old Testament notions of punitive justice “as part of the idea of creating a social order, and then requiring people to fit within it”, Walker said.

debate that has now erupted in Tennessee over what should happen to Pike. Marsha Blackburn, who is the Republican candidate for Tennessee governor, wants to plug back in the electric chair.

Blackburn's call speaks volumes about the state of capital punishment. The horrifying scenes at Pike's attempted execution were part of a wider unravelling of lethal injections, the dominant protocol in the US for almost 50 years.

By DPI's calculations, there have 'In every campaign where we've ended the death penalty ... victims' families are among the lead voices'

The execution of the killers of Abraham Lincoln, photographed by Alexander Gardner on 7 July 1865 PHOTOGRAPH: UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP/GETTY

Laura Porter Campaigner

been 12 botched executions in the past five years alone. Five of the prisoners involved, including Pike, survived the procedure meaning they were rendered immobile while a team of masked strangers failed to kill them for up to several hours.

Amid such unconscionable suffering, the claim made on behalf of lethal injections that they are a medicalised and humane form of ending a life has come unstuck.

Proponents have been forced to seek alternatives that might avoid some of the pitfalls of lethal injections. But the moment they have introduced such often archaic methods they have run into a whole new set of headaches.

Two prisoners who survived recent lethal injections, Alan Miller and Kenneth Smith, were executed by Alabama a year later under an experimental technique, nitrogen gas. The method is regarded by veterinarians as too cruel for the euthanasia of cats and dogs, and it has now been blocked for human use by a federal court.

Lethal injection has been the dominant method of execution in the US for almost 50 years PHOTOGRAPH: PAUL BUCK/AFP/GETTY

A priest giving a blessing to a man sentenced to die on the electric chair in 1928. In the wake of the botched execution of Christa Pike by lethal injection, there are calls to bring back the electric chair PHOTOGRAPH: GAMMA-KEYSTONE/GETTY IMAGES

Other states have tried the firing squad. But when South Carolina took this path last year with Mikal Mahdi, a convicted murderer, the marksmen missed the prisoner's heart, causing him a prolonged and probably agonising death.

As a seasoned abolitionist, Porter knows she is facing tough adversaries in Trump and the Christian nationalists. But she draws sustenance from the 23 states that have scrapped the death penalty which, if you add the four states that have put it on hold, pushes them into the majority.

Then there is the growing number of young Americans who no longer support the punishment. In the most recent Gallup poll that asked the question, from 2024, only $42\%$ of 18- to 34-year-olds approved. (In last year's poll the overall extent of support had fallen from a 1995 high of $80\%$ to $52\%$ .)

Most of all, she's buoyed up by the powerful accord she has found from an unlikely source: families of capital murder victims. Amid their grief, some families have had the strength and conviction to join the fight to spare the lives of those who killed their loved ones.

“In every campaign I’ve been part of where we’ve ended the death penalty - in Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, and many more - victims’ families have been among the lead voices,” Porter said.

To those voices we may perhaps, in time, be able to add one more. It would be the most unlikely of all - that of a woman whom the modern state, with all its paraphernalia, could not silence: Christa Pike.

Her lawyers say she is angry and confused, her mind foggy. But she has been able to inquire after the wellbeing of others, including the family of her victim, Colleen Slemmer. It all leaves so many questions, her lawyer Spivey said. “We have to ask, ‘How much suffering is enough?’”

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Castle legend Jerry nails it as Traitors' agent of total chaos

Stuart Heritage

By rights, Jerry Hall should not still be a participant on The Celebrity Traitors. If there was any justice in the world, the

traitors would have murdered her in cold blood at the very start of Thursday's episode. The fact they did not speaks volumes about what an absolute legend this woman is.

The crime that should have condemned her to death happened during a mission in the second episode, where everyone was buried alive with a partner. Contestants had to choose between waiting to be dug up, or shouting the word “Haggis”, which would release them but also make them eligible to be murdered. Needless to say, Hall shouted “Haggis” approximately one solitary nanosecond after the game started. Nobody else shouted “Haggis”. For sheer weakness in the face of adversity, she deserved to die.

However, perhaps the traitors did the right thing in letting her live, because it has become apparent that Hall functions best on the show as an agent of total chaos. Some of the contestants are playing chess. Some are playing 4D chess.

▶ Actor and model Jerry Hall beguiles and confuses the other contestants so much she might actually win The Traitors PHOTOGRAPH: EUAN CHERRY/BBC/STUDIO LAMBERT

Meanwhile, she is barely aware that there's a game going on. Hall is treating the whole endeavour as an excuse to drift around blurting out whatever mad nonsense happens to pass through her mind at any given juncture.

A case in point. During Thursday's episode, Hall and Hannah Fry walked into breakfast together. The expectation was that one of them would be murdered. Suspicion immediately rocketed among everyone. What devious shenanigans could have taken place to ensure they both made it through the night intact. For her part, Fry realised that the heat would be on, and acted accordingly. Hall, meanwhile, wailed “WHAT

ABOUT RICHARD?" like a newly grieving widow, apropos of absolutely nothing. Nobody knows why she did it. Was it a strategy? Was it a ploy? Or, as may well be the case, does she simply live inside a bubble unaffected by simple things like causality or logic?

In fairness, this is probably what we all expected from Hall. To say that she has lived a life would be an incredible understatement. This is a woman who spent the 1970s ping-ponging between Bryan Ferry and Mick Jagger. She has played at Glastonbury and been the Joker's girlfriend. She has judged the Whitbread book awards and starred in adverts for Bovril. She was married to Rupert Murdoch. If all of these things happened to you, you would be forgiven for living inside a self-made reality shield too.

▲ Jerry Hall has lived quite the life: with former long-term partner Mick Jagger in 1983. She also married and divorced Rupert Murdoch

However, this does make her an incredible participant on The Traitors. It means that, after a week and a half of being abjectly wrong about everything, she still has the confidence to boast about being a leg-wrestling champion at school.

There is no telling where this will end. Maybe the other contestants, sick of her unintentional buffoonery, will round on her. Maybe she will confuse and beguile everyone so much that she ends up winning. Maybe she'll become a traitor and accidentally demolish the castle. This is Jerry Hall we're talking about. All bets are off.

The Bear effect: Meghan's pot filler tap and rise of 'cheffy' kit

Ellie Violet Bramley

The Duchess of Sussex is no ordinary home cook, but when she appeared on Instagram this week at a hob presided over by a special pot-filler tap, it spoke to a change in the everyday kitchen - the rise of “cheffy” kit.

While the pot filler is now most often found in luxury residential kitchens, it was invented in the early 20th century as a functional fixture for commercial kitchens. It joins a wealth of other restaurant equipment to have infiltrated our homes, from squeezy olive oil bottles to stainless steel mixing bowl sets.

At Sous Chef, a UK-based specialty food brand, sales of chef presses are up 26%, while sales of chef's trays are booming, according to Holly Thomson, the company's food editor.

For Ella Risbridger, author of The

Kitchen Book: Good Food for Every Day, “it’s an amazing thing, the blurring of lines between restaurant and home kitchens.” The increasing visibility we have of professional chefs at work, whether via open-kitchens in restaurants or “chefluencers” on social media, has meant the utilitarianism and gadgets of restaurant kitchens are increasingly aspirational.

"People now can see what is happening in professional kitchens," says Risbridger, "and likely, if they are watching The Bear or a lot of cheffy Instagrams, the algorithm knows that and knows what you might want to buy for yourself."

From the white T-shirt to the Japanese Hasegawa chopping board, people want to channel Carmy and Syd as they make their midweek dinner.

Thomson suspects it might have something to do with the economic climate: people are thinking “I’m not going to spend 90 quid on a meal, but I might invest in these products that are going to help me take eating at home a bit more seriously”.

According to James Lawless, a spokesperson at cutlery brand David Mellor, this shift also links back to the pandemic, which “reignited interest in home cooking”.

"Professional chefs' equipment

More home cooks are trying to emulate Carmy in The Bear, buying pot-filler taps and ‘cheffy’ oils, below PHOTOGRAPH: HARVEY JONES (BELOW)

may have specialist functions - but it isn't special," says Lawless. "They are first and foremost tools to perform a particular function."

For Thomson, they are “an extra piece of kit that adds a bit of ease, finesse, or streamlines the process”.

Of course, one person's useful can be another's waste of space. A pot-filler tap may be unnecessary in an ordinary kitchen, but, according to Helen Parker, creative director of deVOL Kitchens, it “has become the must-have addition to a larger kitchen.”

Sometimes, you don't know what you don't know. As Thomson says of the squeezy olive oil bottle, “precision squirting is just so useful, and once you've done it once, you're like, ‘oh, this is so much better than glugging oil out of a bottle’.”

“It’s nice to buy something fancy for a hobby,” Risbridger says. “It’s often a shortcut to taking yourself more seriously.

“It makes you feel more like a professional. Which increases confidence. Which makes the thing you make better, whether or not you could have achieved it without the gadget.”

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Home Office accused of giving false hope to people of Gaza over new refugee safe route

Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

The Home Office is facing claims it gave false hope to the people of Gaza after it emerged that a new safe route for Palestinian refugees will be open only to those who have already escaped to Lebanon or Jordan.

Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, announced the reopening of a resettlement scheme for refugees at Labour's annual conference last month. A statement from her department said: "Around one in four referrals will be for Afghan women and girls and Palestinian refugees, fleeing war and persecution."

But the body running the scheme has confirmed it would refer only “a very small number of extremely urgent cases”, all of which would be processed in Jordan and Lebanon.

Shabana Mahmood announced the refugee policy at the Labour party conference last month

Communities for Palestinians, a coalition group supporting refugees, said this crucial detail was not in Mahmood's speech or in subsequent Home Office statements, giving people in Gaza and their supporters the belief that they could apply.

Vicky Moller, a co-founder of the coalition, said: "The applause for Shabana's announcement at conference was at the prospect of a resettlement scheme for Palestinians fleeing war and persecution. People understood that would mean rescuing people from Gaza."

The Home Office insists the UK resettlement scheme that Mahmood reopened had always been for people from outside their country of origin.

A spokesperson said: “Palestinians who remain in Gaza would not initially be in scope for these routes. However, Palestinians who have fled Gaza could be referred to the UK through the International Refugee Assistance Project [Irap].”

Restrictions on eligibility for the scheme emerged after an exchange of emails between the coalition and Irap, which makes referrals.

According to Irap's website, it will refer “a very small number of extremely urgent humanitarian cases to the UK for consideration for resettlement”. It adds: “These cases will be referred to Irap by humanitarian organisations in Jordan and Lebanon and Irap will then hold interviews to determine if these cases can be referred to the UK government.”

The programme focuses on “extremely vulnerable refugees whose lives have become unsustainable in Jordan or Lebanon”. The non-profit's website added: “Irap does not know how many people the UK government will accept under the Palestinian resettlement programme.

“This is ultimately a decision for the UK government and depends on funding as well as local authorities’ capacity.”

Other safe and legal routes administered by the UK have allowed small numbers of people to come from their country of origin, including schemes for Afghan refugees.

Palestinian refugees fall outside the remit of the international refugee convention and the UN refugee agency. Instead, the UN's relief agency serves refugees who are defined as any person whose "normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948 and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict".

As a result, Palestinian refugees live in what refugee charities and NGOs refer to as Palestine - in other words, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - as well as second countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.

Jon Featonby, the chief policy analyst at the Refugee Council, said ministers should accept that Palestinians could be refugees while still living in their own country.

Alex Katz's 1984 oil on linen Darinka, featuring the artist Darinka Chase and other figures, is one of the highlights of Sotheby's Frieze Week auctions with an estimate of up to £1.2m.

PHOTOGRAPH: WIKTOR SZYMANOWICZ/ NURPHOTO/ SHUTTERSTOCK

Davey faces revolt after another senior Lib Dem quits

Alexandra Topping Political correspondent

Ed Davey faces a growing revolt against his leadership of the Liberal Democrats after the resignation of a senior frontbench figure yesterday.

Charlie Maynard, a Lib Dem Treasury spokesperson, has handed in his resignation in an effort to oust Davey after months of frustration that the party is failing to cut through with voters, the Guardian understands.

Daisy Cooper, the deputy leader, immediately backed Davey, saying he enjoyed the support of the “vast majority of MPs”, who wanted him to lead them into the next election and were “furious at this distraction”.

“We Liberal Democrats are the last line of defence against a Reform UK government, and Ed is determined to lead a strong and united party into the next general election whenever it comes,” Cooper said in a statement.

Maynard's resignation, first reported by the Financial Times, comes four days after Alison Bennett, the Lib Dem care spokesperson, stood down from the frontbench.

Davey has led the party since 2019. At the 2024 general election he steered the party to its most successful result in more than 100 years. It now has 71 MPs, and is the third biggest party in the House of Commons. But it has slipped to fourth or fifth in national polls, and frustration has risen over failure to attract voters.

At the party's conference in Brighton last month, Davey played down criticism from a Lib Dem council leader who questioned whether he was the right person for the job. Julian Brazil, of Devon county council, said the party was “sleepwalking into irrelevance” and “lacking ambition”.

Davey announced a plan for a £17bn income tax cut in a speech aimed at shoring up the party's support among former Conservative voters.

But his resistance to Labour's proposals to change the pension triple lock to help pay for a national care service, announced in Andy Burnham's Labour conference speech, was met with opposition by senior and backbench Lib Dems.

Virgin unveils its cross-Channel train that will take on Eurostar

Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Flash interiors, fancy food and maybe even a bar: Virgin has unveiled a mock-up of its future cross-Channel train, with a pledge to create “something genuinely new”.

The group is planning to launch rail services from London to the continent in 2030, with Eurostar facing competition for the first time since the opening of the Channel tunnel.

▲ Mock-up of the high-speed cross-Channel train planned for 2030

Virgin has ordered 12 high-speed trains from the manufacturer Alstom, matching Eurostar for speed at up to 190mph but aiming to outshine it on customer experience.

While Virgin's last stab at reimagining UK train travel may have peaked with the talking toilet seat on its intercity services in 2013, it has said the future trains will draw inspiration from its airline, cruise and hotel arms.

Though details are under wraps, it said it would draw on Virgin Atlantic's airport lounges, or Clubhouses, for “pre-departure and onboard social spaces” with “more flexibility to work, relax or socialise in style". Food will be influenced by its cruise line menu.

Virgin Trains is expecting to introduce 20 daily return services to London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam from 2030, adding almost 7.5m seats a year to the network and creating up to 1,000 new jobs.

Josh Bayliss, the chief executive of Virgin Group, said: "We are drawing on more than four decades of experience across travel and hospitality to create something genuinely new.

“We’re confident more journeys between the UK and Europe will be made by train. We’re adding capacity for millions more international rail journeys each year, growing the market as a whole.”

Virgin also hopes to connect its rail and airline networks, potentially bringing passengers from France for Virgin Atlantic flights. It will also include the train service in its loyalty platform.

The Office of Rail and Road on Thursday published an agreement with Eurostar for Virgin to maintain its trains at the Temple Mills international depot near Stratford in east London, with track access in the UK confirmed until at least 2040.

Italy's Trenitalia, which already runs trains to Paris, is also expected to launch cross-Channel services.

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Andrew was charged £1.5m for repairs to Royal Lodge after he had to give up lease

▲ Royal Lodge in March during the police search. A judge ruled this week that the warrants used for the search were unlawful PHOTOGRAPH: PIXEL8000

Jamie Grierson

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor faced a £1.8m bill to cover repair and restoration of his former Royal Lodge home in Windsor after the lease was officially surrendered.

The former prince was granted £302,000 in compensation for giving up the lease early on the 40-hectare (98-acre) property, meaning his total costs came to £1.5m.

Recouping costs for dilapidations is a standard process when exiting a lease, and the Guardian understands the repairs covered the entire estate, which includes several properties, gardens and large outbuildings.

Andrew was entitled to compensation because, as per the terms of his lease, he surrendered it within the first 25 years. The Times reported that King Charles had contributed to the repair costs.

The crown estate spokesperson said: “The lease for Royal Lodge has ended and our focus now is firmly on its future use and the opportunities to generate additional financial value for the nation from its early return.”

The former Duke of York moved out of the Windsor mansion this year as the US Department of Justice released files related to the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He was forced to move into Marsh Farm on the king's Sandringham estate in Norfolk amid public outcry about the low rent he paid on the Royal Lodge.

In June, a National Audit Office investigation revealed that the late queen's second son received an unknown private income from subletting three cottages on the Royal Lodge estate while paying a peppercorn rent - a small, symbolic payment - for more than two decades. The crown estate spokesperson said the property would now be marketed by two nationally recognised agents.

On Thursday, Mountbatten-Windsor won a legal challenge against Thames Valley police over search warrants used to raid his home. The former prince brought a judicial review of the legality of the force's actions and those of the central criminal court, which granted the warrants. Mr Justice Hilliard, sitting at the high court in central London, said Thames Valley police (TVP) had conceded that it had obtained the search powers under the wrong statutory provision and ruled that the

Andrew's bill was reduced by £302,000 compensation because he had relinquished the lease early

warrants were unlawful. The episode is embarrassing for TVP but police believe it will not affect the success of the investigation.

The arrest followed information that emerged from the Epstein files. It was alleged that when Mountbatten-Windsor was the UK's trade envoy he shared sensitive information with Epstein. He has denied wrongdoing. Police began searching the former duke's residence on the Sandringham estate and the Royal Lodge on the same day as his arrest. Documents and electronic devices were seized.

Late last year, the king stripped his brother of his right to be a prince and of his dukedom over his association with Epstein. Mountbatten-Windsor receives an annual stipend, the amount of which has not been disclosed, from the king's private funds, but a palace source told reporters it had been made clear this should not be used to fund the judicial review.

Masked gang steal 30,000 bottles of wine from Tuscan vineyard

Angela Giuffrida Rome

Thousands of bottles of wine worth €5m (£4.2m) have been stolen from a prestigious winery in Tuscany in what is thought to be the biggest heist of its kind in Italy.

At least seven masked people broke into the cellar of Marchesi Antinori, a family-owned winery dating back to the late 1300s, after shutting off the alarms and CCTV before using company forklifts to load two large trucks with 30,000 bottles of wine and making off.

Among the bottles targeted were those most prized by connoisseurs, including Solaia, Guado al Tasso and Tignanello, notable as one of the first red wines in the Tuscany region to be produced without white grapes. All the stolen bottles, ranging in price between €120 and €400 a bottle, are from the firm's 2023 vintage.

The theft occurred on Saturday as the company, in the hilltop town of Cortona, prepared for a major shipment abroad. However, the robbery was only discovered when staff arrived for work on Monday morning.

"The gang was very prepared," Renzo Cotarella, the chief executive of Marchesi Antinori, told Corriere della Sera. "A theft of this scale and value has never happened before in Italy." He said he had "great confidence" that investigators would

€5m

Total value of wine stolen from Marchesi Antinori, with bottles ranging in price from €120 to €400

The raid from the 640-year-old winery in Cortona is thought to be biggest heist of its kind in Italy PHOTOGRAPHS: MARC HILL/GETTY/REUTERS

trace the stolen wine, which included 3,000 bottles, some of them magnum-sized, of Barolo Ginestra.

“Two trucks can’t just disappear into thin air,” he added. “The Tuscan roads are full of cameras. With a bit of luck we’ll be able to recover at least some of the bottles.”

There have been several thefts at wineries in Italy in recent months, including one in Alba in the northern Piedmont region in mid-September.

But Cotarella, who suspects the same gang could have been involved, never imagined a theft of such scale would happen to his firm. Unfortunately, the company's insurance policy does not cover the robbery of wine at such huge value.

"We had always considered the possibility of having a few cases of wine being stolen during their transportation, but certainly not that two trucks manage to make off with such a huge haul," he told Corriere.

Such large wine robberies were usually meticulously prepared and would probably be carried out by those with an intimate knowledge of wine themselves, Corriere suggested, with the target destination possibly collectors, bars or restaurants. However, a sudden increase in the supply of such wines could raise suspicion.

As the investigators continue their search, Cotarella said the company, which was established in 1385, had warned customers to beware of wine sales outside official channels.

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Labour hails byelection win as return of leftwing voters after Starmer era

Sammy Gecsoyler Peter Walker

Labour is starting to win back voters on the left who became disillusioned under Keir Starmer's leadership, the party's deputy leader has claimed after it saw off Zack Polanski and the Greens to win the Holborn and St Pancras byelection.

Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali took 45% of a relatively low turnout to keep Starmer's old north London seat for the party, pushing Polanski, who had stood for the party he leads, into second place on 33%.

While the result was broadly as predicted, Labour strategists were buoyed by the party's relatively straightforward route to victory in a diverse inner-city area of the sort the Greens have been targeting with recent success.

The result “sends a clear message to those voters who lost faith in Labour in recent years”, said Lucy Powell.

Last month she called for the party to unite progressive voters under Andy Burnham if it wanted to win the next election.

After the byelection win she told the Guardian: “We hear you, we’ve listened and we know we needed to be clearer about what we stand for and what type of country we want to see, proudly putting our values centre stage.

“We’re delighted so many of you are backing us once again.”

The byelection came after the Green party voted at its conference last weekend to adopt a hugely controversial policy equating Zionism with racism, and saying Israel should be replaced with a single Palestinian state.

Polanski has been criticised for showing minimal leadership on the most toxic internal debate the Greens have faced in living memory, with

Holborn and St Pancras byelection 2026 Vote share, % Labour Green Conservative Lib Dem Reform Independent

Source: PA

the chair of Jewish Greens saying he should resign.

The byelection, called after Starmer resigned his Commons seat shortly after he was ousted by Burnham, had a low turnout of 38.7%, potentially due to the widespread predictions that Labour was set to win, despite a major campaigning effort from the Greens.

The turnout also suggests Burnham could still face a battle to engage some voters in urban areas, particularly London, where the Greens took control of three councils in May's local elections

In an emotional victory speech, Abdi-Wali, a former child refugee who came to the UK from Somalia in the 1990s, hit out at “those who seek to divide us”, in what appeared to be a response to Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf, who suggested she was not British shortly after the byelection was called.

“I hope this moment says something about who gets to belong,” she said. “For people who look like me. I hope they see themselves reflected in this place and know that their path too belongs here. This is Camden and this is Britain.”

Responding to the defeat, Polanski, who leads the Greens in England and Wales, said that while the result showed his party remained a major threat to Labour, many voters had told him they wanted to “give Andy Burnham a chance”.

It was the Greens' second best byelection result, and more evidence of the party's increased prominence and campaigning power since Polanski became leader 13 months ago.

The best came in February, when the Greens took an equally safe Labour seat, Gorton and Denton in Greater Manchester, in a major upset that weakened Starmer's position. Around the same time the Greens peaked at $21\%$ in national polling, above Labour. They are now about $11\%$ , more than 15 points behind Burnham's party.

Polanski's position has come under scrutiny since the Zionism motion was passed, with critics accusing him of abdicating leadership after he missed the debate to campaign in the byelection, giving no clear message about whether or not he backed it.

In interviews after the byelection loss, Polanski said he would have voted against the motion had he attended given than two amendments he supported, both saying any future structure of a Palestinian state should be decided by Palestinians rather than a one-state system being imposed, were voted down.

Yesterday, Vivien Lichtenstein, the chair of Jewish Greens, said Polanski, who is Jewish, made a “big mistake” by avoiding the vote. Asked if he should continue in his role, she told Times Radio: “No, I think he should resign.”

However, other members of Jewish Greens said Lichtenstein's comments did not reflect the majority view in the group, and that a vote of no confidence in her had been tabled.

Speaking shortly before the byelection result was announced, Caroline Lucas, the Greens' former leader and first MP, said Polanski "should have been there and should have voted".

Speaking to Newsnight she said: "I would have hoped that he would have really been a very strong critic of this motion, because the motion was flawed from top to bottom in my view. It's dangerous, it's divisive, it tries to have a singular definition of Zionism when we know that there are many."

Asked if Polanski should stand down, Lucas did not definitively say he should remain as leader: “I think let’s just see what happens in the ... coming days and weeks.”

There is no formal mechanism for ejecting a leader of the Greens. However, they are re-elected every two years, meaning Polanski, who took over in September 2025, will have to go before party members again in less than a year.

▲ The Greens' Hannah Spencer, centre, won Gorton and Denton in February. Zack Polanski was unable to repeat the feat PHOTOGRAPH: TEMILADE ADELAJA/REUTERS

'The real deal'

Sagal Abdi-Wali's journey from child refugee to MP

Esther Addley

R eplacing Keir Starmer in his north London constituency was "deeply personal", Sagal Abdi-Wali said in her byelection victory speech early yesterday morning

The 43-year-old has lived in the area since the 1990s, when she fled war-torn Somalia with her mother and four brothers as a seven-year-old. They settled in Gospel Oak in Camden, which largely falls within her Holborn and St Pancras constituency. Her journey from refugee to member of parliament was one she hoped would inspire “people who look like me - this is Camden and this is Britain”.

If she represents many in the diverse and youthful neighbourhood, however, Abdi-Wali is also very much a Labour party insider. Decades of volunteering in the community dovetailed with many years of local party politics, even before she was elected to the borough council in 2022. She became the Labour

cabinet member responsible for housing two years later, and in May was elected the first black female leader of Camden council. She also chaired the local constituency party for four years.

Friends say those deep party and community roots help explain how Abdi-Wali was selected from a longlist of more than 100 to fight the seat for Labour after Starmer's resignation last month - and were also crucial in seeing off the challenge from the Green leader, Zack Polanski. At one point, he was seen as a real threat to the longtime Labour seat.

“She genuinely is deeply rooted in so many different parts of the constituency,” said a close friend who was involved in her campaign. “I suppose all MPs like to think they are, but with Sagal it is the real deal.

"There's a real community connection there [and] I think the Green party and Zack Polanski underestimated how energetic and big the Labour campaign was going be. I don't think they knew that those very deep roots in the constituency existed.

“That’s the thing about a byelection, you only have four weeks. So if those roots are already there, then you've got a huge, huge head start."

▲ Sagal Abdi-Wali takes a selfie with Labour supporters early yesterday after her Holborn byelection victory PHOTOGRAPH: DAN KITWOOD/GETTY IMAGES

Tulip Siddiq, Labour MP for the neighbouring Hampstead and Highgate constituency, said: “Her love of Camden is so obvious, and people really value that. She’s very caring, very local, and she genuinely seems to have a passion for politics and public service.”

After “lots of flat candidates” in the past, Siddiq said “people like a bit of passion”.

Walking past increasing numbers of homeless people in King's Cross in the austerity years of the 2010s encouraged Abdi-Wali to become more active in politics. “It was only when I was old enough to look back and think about it in a philosophical way,” she has said, that she noticed “my mum was always looking after us and made our lives nice, serene … whether we were in a refugee camp or temporary housing”.

Homelessness and housing would be one of her priorities as an MP, she said in her acceptance speech. As would calling for Thames Water to be brought into public ownership and working

'Her love of Camden is so obvious and people value that. She's very local'

Tulip Siddiq MP on Sagal Abdi-Wali to increase access to jobs and apprenticeships for young people - all causes that chime with Andy Burnham, the prime minister.

Abdi-Wali has long been involved in community groups working with young people, including being a governor of several schools and founding football clubs where she still plays regularly and is “pretty aggressive on the pitch”, according to her close friend.

She is also an “ardent” Spurs fan, the friend said, “which may count against her in the [Arsenal-dominated] constituency”.

The issue of housing is one where Abdi-Wali has faced criticism. She was the cabinet member in charge of Camden's housing when an ombudsman published a damning report calling the council's service rude, defensive and inadequate.

Friends point out that she had been in post only for six months and they defend her record in charge of the brief.

Abdi-Wali also shrugged off a tweet by Reform's Zia Yusuf when she was selected, which Labour representatives swiftly called “clearly racist” and was condemned even by other senior Reform figures.

Abdi-Wali told Siddiq afterward: "I feel very resilient about it. It's made me even more determined to get on and do it."

Stay or go? Polanski defiant but pressure is building

Alexandra Topping Political correspondent

When Zack Polanski addressed his campaigners flush with victory after

the Gorton and Denton byelection in February, he declared: “Labour’s electoral stranglehold is over.”

The election of Hannah Spencer as the Green MP for the Greater Manchester seat was a seismic victory, he continued: “I said we were here to replace Labour and this is what replacing looks like.”

But in the wake of Polanski's defeat in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection on Thursday, and a calamitous row over the party's stance on Zionism, the debate around what, or who, could be replaced has shifted to Polanski himself.

Yesterday the leader of the Green party in England and Wales was defiant after losing to Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali, who took 45% of the vote, to Polanski's 33%. Asked what was going wrong in his party, which has fallen from highs of 21% in some polls following the victory in Gorton and Denton to between 10% and 11%, Polanski said: "If things are going wrong by the fact that we just tripled our vote share and had our second-best byelection result in Green party history, you know what? I'll take that."

While stressing that Green members would ultimately decide who they wanted as leader, he said “of course I can carry on” after the defeat. That the past few months have been difficult for the Greens - and Polanski in particular - is beyond doubt. Polanski himself is, according to new polling from More in Common, less popular with voters than Nigel Farage, and is the least popular major UK party leader, falling by four points to a -28 net approval.

His standing, bruised by a series of controversies over a failure to pay council tax and the sharing of a post criticising police, has been further damaged by a controversial motion that was adopted at the Green party conference in Brighton last weekend, equating Zionism, the movement for a Jewish state, with racism.

Polanski's decision to abstain from the debate and the vote in order to campaign in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection was attacked by his critics, but also, more significantly, criticised by senior figures in his own party.

Caroline Lucas, the Greens' first elected MP, told BBC Newsnight on Thursday that Polanski “should have been there and he should have voted”. Asked if he should stand down, she said: “I think let’s just see what happens in the coming days and weeks. Obviously he has been completely taken up with this byelection.” After his defeat she appeared to temper her position, saying Polanski had “transformed the party” and that she hoped he would now “help resolve huge issues we face and transform our internal structures”.

Yesterday pressure mounted, as Vivien Lichtenstein, the leader of the Jewish Greens, called for Polanski to step down, saying it was a “big mistake” for him not to have ▲ Zack Polanski addresses the Green party conference in Brighton, where members debated its line on Zionism PHOTOGRAPH: SEAN SMITH/THE GUARDIAN

spoken and voted for amendments stating that any future structure of a Palestinian state should be decided by Palestinians rather than impose a one-state system.

But there was bullishness among the Polanski faithful. Greens Organise, the leftwing faction that backed his leadership bid, said he should stay on. “Not all growth and success is linear; there will be ups and downs. The real test for a political organisation is how we deal with failure,” the group said. “We have reshaped the political landscape. The Green party can still become the ecosocialist party we need. Zack is still the leader who can get us there.”

Green party supporters pointed to the party attracting a 13% swing from Labour in the byelectron, held in a traditionally safe Labour seat.

Polanski backers say that since he was elected leader in September 2025, the party has quadrupled its membership to more than 230,000. As well as winning its first seat in the north of England, he presided over the Greens' best performance in May's local and mayoral elections, including gaining their first directly elected mayoralty in Hackney, east London.

Luke Tryl, director of More in Common, said the result in north London exposed the dual challenge Polanski faces. While the replacement of Keir Starmer with Andy Burnham has brought disillusioned progressives back to Labour, Polanski has become a more polarising figure.

A series of missteps, starting when he shared a social media post critical of police following the Golders Green stabbings, had damaged his popularity with the wider UK public, said Tryl.

James Baggaley of UCL's Policy Lab, said: the path towards rebuilding Polanski's popularity with young voters, who are desperate for hope and change, will lie in a return to his original economic messaging around ‘rip-off Britain’ and generational fairness, rather than divisive internal battles.

"The question for the Greens and Polanski is: do they want to reassure voters on questions of antisemitism and also get back to what they were actually winning on, the economy?"

▲ Caroline Lucas, right, a former Green MP, said Polanski should have been at the conference to vote on the Zionism debate PHOTOGRAPH: DAVID SMITH/ALAMY

The Labour party faithful lapped up Andy Burnham's big vision at conference in Liverpool PHOTOGRAPH: ZEYNEP DEMIR ASLIM/ZUMA/SHUTTERSTOCK

Small fixes, big vision No 10 plans to target ‘everyday frustrations’

Pippa Crerar Jessica Elgot

In the days since Labour's annual conference, party insiders have been sharing a word cloud produced by the pollsters More in Common showing phrases voters most associate with Andy Burnham.

Such polling is rarely flattering for politicians and the prime minister's version had its fair share of negatives, but one of the most prominent words in it - and the one which has caught the imagination of Labour strategists - was “trying”.

At both a cabinet awayday at Chequers on Monday and a meeting for special advisers on Thursday, the idea the government is doing its best to improve people's lives - despite the difficult economic backdrop - was a golden thread.

"The public think the only person that can reach those levers is you. They justifiably ask, can you do it or not? And if not, they'll look for an alternative," said a government insider.

“Voters don’t want us to put our hands up in despair, they want us to roll our sleeves up,” said a party strategist. “They don’t want us to be helpless in the face of global stuff, they want answers.” But will Burnham be able to provide them?

At Labour's conference, he set out his big vision - on social care and the pensions triple lock, the EU and electoral reform. The party faithful lapped it up and polling suggested the “Burnham bounce” was continuing.

But while Labour MPs are relieved to have a leader with a clear political direction, many worry that offering big promises for after the next general election will not be enough to scratch the itch for dramatic change.

No 10 believes part of the answer is what it describes as “everyday

fixes” - cost of living measures that may not on their own amount to very much, but added up can make a difference, and which also show the government is trying.

Overseen by its policy unit and the Cabinet Office's cost of living taskforce, each department has “incubators” where proposals are dreamed up - with many already in the works, such as rules around car parking apps and unbranded school uniforms. They may not grab the headlines, but strategists say they pick up engagement

'We set a target of tackling cost of living, but many things are out of our control'

Labour party insider

online - earning 85m views across all social platforms last week alone. There will be more announced in the run-up to the Burnham administration's first budget on 28 October.

“We want to show we can tackle the everyday frustrations people assume are part of life,” one adviser said. But several also admitted they had some qualms about the drumbeat of small interventions.

Another added: “We have very small interventions now and huge ambitions for three years’ time. We also need medium-scale changes in the medium term, and that is what is missing at the moment.”

The government faces a difficult budget, with inflation and soaring borrowing costs due to the Iran war thought to have blown a £12bn hole in the public finances, forcing John Healey, the chancellor, to consider tax rises and spending cuts to fund plans to ease the cost of living.

The statement - expected to be “low key” - will major on fiscal devolution, with a household support package focused on cutting energy bills and more help for small business. Next year’s spending review will require more revenue, sources said, but details must wait.

"The budget is a moment of peak attention and potentially peak peril. We're not able to do everything we want to, so we have to level with people and say we can't fix everything all at once, but we're trying," a No 10 aide said.

But for some MPs, there is a growing nervousness at the low level ambition at this budget, especially on cost of living measures, which the Burnham government has made its key test.

One said: “If voters aren’t better off by the next election, we are screwed. As things stand, this looks like a Reeves budget with better vibes. I hope this isn’t all there is. But I really fear that actually it is.”

Treasury insiders acknowledge the need to “kickstart” longer-term changes at the budget - and that a “low key” statement with the big decisions put off until next year may not be enough for the public.

"The budget will be our first punch in the face moment," a government aide said. There is a "bit of friction" between the prime minister's office and the Treasury over balancing fiscal responsibility with hope, they added. "No 10

wants to signal intent: that we won't get everything immediately, but we'll get there."

Questions lingered about “how this all adds up when we’re under grey skies”, another adviser said. “It’s impossible to see how anyone can square the additional spending we need given the tightness of the fiscal envelope.”

Ministers and advisers are expecting a barrage of attacks from the Conservatives and Reform UK on welfare - but believe that the Milburn and Timms reviews, which will be published shortly after the budget - will help them fight back.

Downing Street expects the days after the budget to be bumpy but is optimistic that Burnham's communication skills will help make the case, and that the public will continue - for now - to give him the benefit of the doubt.

“We’ll take a bit of a hit over the budget, it’s gonna be a tough couple of weeks. But then we have a run to the 10-year plan,” a source said. “If we get that right, we can potentially go into next year with people saying, ‘Yes, it’s difficult, but we trust this guy.’”

At the cabinet awayday, Burnham told ministers: “Politics has become too suffocating, we need greater ambition. The country is not where it should be and nothing simple gets us out of that. We need to show a journey and a longer-term plan.”

Ministers were presented with polling that showed support for Labour's social care policy, including adjusting the pensions triple lock, went up by a quarter after voters were shown a video of Burnham explaining his plan. A party strategist told them: “On social care and the triple lock we need to continually make the case, time after time. When we make the case we have the power to persuade.”

There is a political axiom that if you're explaining you're losing. But Labour strategists are pushing back on that idea. The prevailing view inside government is that Burnham is the only one who can go out and make the case - on all of his big promises - to the country.

Not everybody inside Labour thinks it will work. “I don’t know how convinced I am about giving people essentially the same message: we want to do more but we’re constrained,” an insider said.

But ministers hope by focusing on policies that signal intent they can get through difficult months. "We need to be honest with voters. We set ourselves a target of tackling the cost of living, but so many things are out of our control."

No 10 insight work shows that people are still prepared to accept the Iran conflict as an explanation for why things are so tough, rather than viewing it as an excuse.

When parliament returns on Monday, Burnham will deliver a statement, updating MPs on the last few weeks and taking questions. Throughout, he will aim to show the public he's on their side. But one senior Labour figure cautions: "We all hope that he has a plan for what comes next. The sense that he gets it and that he'll keep trying won't last for ever."

Cop31 host urges far higher spending on climate than defence

Adam Morton Nadi

Wealthy countries should spend far more on dealing with the climate crisis than the 5% of GDP promised by Nato members for defence because “the climate issue is the security issue”, the host of the next UN summit has said.

But, in comments that are likely to be contentious, the Cop31 president-designate, Murat Kurum, hedged on whether countries should try to repeat an agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels” - the primary cause of the climate crisis - when they meet in Turkey next month.

Kurum, the Turkish climate change minister, told the Guardian the world was “already in a transition” and suggested fossil fuel use could be addressed by other steps.

Kurum was among national leaders and ministers, officials and civil society members in Fiji this week to prepare for Cop31, which will take place in the Turkish city of Antalya in November. Australia, which has the new role of “president of negotiations” at Cop31, had pushed to hold the pre-Cop meeting in the Pacific to bring attention to island nations.

Geopolitical turmoil, a historic energy crisis and an unpredictable US administration - combined with the fact that many would be at the main climate summit in a few weeks - meant only 13 leaders joined Australia's prime minister, Anthony Albanese, in the Fijian city of Nadi, and most were from the Pacific.

The military evacuates people in Da Nang, Vietnam, where heavy rain has caused flash floods this week PHOTOGRAPH: NGUYEN KHOA CHUONG/VNA/AP

But there were also about 30 ministers, including from India and European nations, representatives from the big emitters China and Saudi Arabia, the heads of global agencies and about 4,000 other attenders.

On Tuesday, a delegation flew north to see Tuvalu, a low-lying atoll country of about 10,000 people that is among the most at risk from the climate crisis. They heard about life in a country that is mostly about 2 metres above sea level, and where rising waters, storm surges and intensifying extreme weather pose an accelerating threat to survival.

Back in Nadi, Fiji's climate minister, Lynda Tabuya, was moved to tears and received a standing ovation during her closing address. She urged delegates to “carry something of the Pacific with you”.

The governments of about 190 countries will head to Antalya with clear evidence of inaction. A recent report by the UN environment programme warned that under the most optimistic future, global heating would reach at least 1.8C, well beyond the 1.5C ceiling of the Paris climate agreement. It called for immediate and sustained emissions cuts and said every fraction of a degree of heating avoided would save lives and reduce economic losses.

Throughout the pre-Cop, Pacific leaders repeated their demands: that countries must act to “keep 1.5C alive”, that climate finance must be easily accessible for communities who have not caused the problem but are most at risk, and that the health of oceans must be prioritised.

Kurum said Nato countries had promised to increase their defence budgets to 5% of GDP by 2035 as a result of “concerns for their own safety and security”, but had committed much less to addressing the climate crisis despite expressing concerns and its posing an even greater risk. Asked if he thought as much should be spent on climate as defence, he said: “Much more.”

Kurum told the Guardian through an interpreter: “The climate issue is the security issue itself. If you don’t spend one unit of money prior to the disasters, then you are left in a position where you have to spend 10 units of money after the disaster.”

Kurum and Chris Bowen, Australia's climate change minister, reiterated they would focus in Antalya on winning support for a goal of $35\%$ of energy for homes and businesses coming from electricity by 2035. Now it is about $21\%$ .

The question of how to phase out fossil fuels is more vexed. In Fiji, both host countries backed a statement that supported a global “transition away from fossil fuels”. But both faced criticism for continuing to back new coal and gas developments.

Kurum said the world was “already in a transition” and suggested the focus at climate talks on wording about transitioning away from fossil fuels might not be productive.

Youth unemployment Milburn to call for apprenticeship route

Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent

A national apprenticeship readiness scheme should be introduced in England to close the gap for young people between leaving school and starting work, the government is to be told.

Alan Milburn, who is leading a major review of Britain's youth jobs crisis, will call for a new “national pre-apprenticeship route” to offer young people further education, training and work experience.

Setting out the recommendation from his highly awaited final report - which has been delayed until after this month's budget - the ex-Labour cabinet minister warned action was required to address a dramatic plunge in the number of youth apprenticeship starts over the past decade.

As youth unemployment soars, only one in five apprenticeship starts are taken up by teenagers aged 16-18, while the number of under-19s enrolling on an apprenticeship has almost halved in a decade.

Andy Burnham's government is delaying Milburn's full recommendations until at least November amid concerns in Downing Street that his report could sit uneasily alongside the 28 October budget.

Milburn, a former minister in Tony Blair's cabinet, has signalled that a shake-up of Britain's benefits system would form a central plank of his report, alongside measures to boost job support, training and apprenticeships.

In response, ministers are exploring plans for sweeping welfare changes, including scrapping a disability benefit for under-25s and replacing it with a multibillion-pound package of support to get into work.

Burnham and his chancellor, John Healey, have signalled readiness to stem the government's rising benefits bill. Other senior Labour figures, including the work and pensions secretary, Pat McFadden, have said there is both a “moral case” and an economic one to overhaul the welfare system as the war in the Middle East rattles the public finances.

But the government is taking a cautious approach to avoid provoking a repeat of the welfare rebellion which forced Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves into an embarrassing and costly U-turn.

Milburn's review had been scheduled for launch next week.

Sources close to it confirmed the delay, but downplayed its significance. One said Downing Street was working to decide how to present the report alongside several other major reviews, including the Timms review of disability benefits, as well as the budget and the prime minister's 10-year plan for government.

They said there was “no drama. More of a sequencing issue - there’s quite a queue of stuff on the runway.”

Burnham has pledged to tackle the rise in the number of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) to almost 1 million. Currently, as few as 2% of people starting apprenticeships were previously Neets.

Presenting the details of his pre-apprenticeship plan, Milburn said a new programme in England would be targeted at young people who lack the qualifications, confidence or experience needed to secure and sustain a full apprenticeship. Delivered mainly through further education colleges, it would combine English and maths with technical learning and hands-on experience with an employer.

▼ Kemi Badenoch at the Tory party conference, where Robert Jenrick was the target of much mockery PHOTOGRAPH: JACOB KING/PA

Jenrick hits back at 'Kensington Kemi' and rules out tie-up with her 'zombie Tories'

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Robert Jenrick launched an extended attack on Kemi Badenoch yesterday, calling her part of a metropolitan elite and saying a coalition deal with the Tories would be like being “hand-cuffed to a zombie”.

The Reform UK economic spokesperson repeatedly called the Tory leader “Kensington Kemi” and claimed her party was for people who moan about the decline of Mayfair clubs and complain that they cannot find Ottolenghi recipe ingredients in the shops. He accused the Conservatives of handing out “bungs for Belgravia” after his former party used its autumn conference to promise it would exempt family homes from inheritance tax and extend free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, if it won power.

His attacks on Badenoch, whose public approval ratings have improved, come at a time of deteriorating relations between the Conservatives and Reform UK.

Jenrick, who defected to Reform earlier this year, was the target of much mockery at the Conservative conference, where he was depicted in multiple places on a satirical Bayeux tapestry as a crying “turncoat”.

In her conference speech, Badenoch ruled out any move to “unite the right” with a deal between Reform and the Tories, asking who would want to join forces with a party that questioned whether her British-born, mixed-race children were English.

The Reform leader, Nigel Farage, downplayed the idea of a pact on Thursday, saying it was “extremely unlikely”. But Jenrick took a tougher line against the Conservatives in his press conference, saying they were “nothing more than a metropolitan pressure group for the wealthiest”.

“Kensington Kemi knows who her people are. Millionaires, not Mansfield,” Jenrick said. “The wealthy, not workers. She’s for people who complain that Mayfair clubs aren’t what they used to be. For people who struggle to find all the ingredients for that Ottolenghi recipe. And people whose lives have almost nothing in common with my constituents in Newark.”

Jenrick described a pact with the Tories as being “handcuffed to a zombie” and said the party had “retreated into the hinterland of Kensington and Chelsea”, despite a number of senior Reform figures having lived in the area.

Farage lived in a house in Kensington and Chelsea during the Brexit years, paid for by leave donor Arron Banks, while Nick Candy, Reform's honorary treasurer, sold his £275m Chelsea mansion this year.

Last year, Farage and Candy jointly announced a policy specifically designed to appeal to billionaires, offering them a flat £250,000 tax rate for non-dom status to attract them to the UK. At the time, Farage bemoaned the “very rapid exodus” of the wealthy from central London and how it was “tough to sell a house” in Kensington and Chelsea.

Farage is also a member of an exclusive Mayfair club, 5 Hertford Street, while his party held a fundraiser at the trendy Oswald's in Mayfair last year.

Asked whether Reform was also the party of billionaires, Jenrick said it was focused on delivering tax cuts for 40 million middle earners.

Jenrick was also questioned about rhetoric from some Reform UK figures suggesting that Badenoch could not be English because of her Nigerian heritage.

He said the debate was “pretty overblown” and it was possible to distinguish ethnicity, cultural identity and citizenship: “Is there such a thing as the English ethnicity? Yes. Not always easy to define. That is different from national identity.

“That is whether or not you ascribe to, you assimilate to, our heritage, our culture, our norms, our manners. And that is also different to whether or not you have a British passport in your bedroom drawer.”

Jenrick said that he was most concerned about people who have a British passport but “do not love our country”. He went on to defend his comments about the “Islamification” of the UK, which have now been reported to the police and to the UK’s counter-radicalisation programme, Prevent.

He did not address the police reports but doubled down, claiming there had been an increase in the use of sharia law and instances of young girls being forced to cover their faces and churches being turned into mosques. He said this would not happen under a Reform government.

Palantir Tom Watson warns ministers against 'mob rule'

Jamie Grierson

Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader who recently joined Palantir, has warned against “mob rule” when it comes to awarding public contracts.

Lord Watson, now a senior vice-president at the US tech corporation, said British ministers could get themselves “in a lot of trouble” as he was questioned about concerns over the government working with his new employer.

Palantir was co-founded by the Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel and has provided AI-powered software to the Israeli military and the White House's ICE immigration crackdown, leading to a public and political backlash against its involvement in British public services.

The prime minister, Andy Burnham, is under pressure from Labour MPs and unions to ditch Palantir from government contracts, including a £330m software deal with the NHS. The company is also fighting Sadiq Khan in court over the London mayor's block on a £50m contract to use its AI in Metropolitan police investigations. It is seeking more public sector work in the UK, where it already has a £427m annual turnover.

Watson told the BBC podcast Political Thinking with Nick Robinson: “One of the things I’d say to my former colleagues is: do you want to let the rule of law lead procurement practice, or do you want mob rule to lead procurement practices? Because you get yourself in a lot of trouble if you go down on the latter one.”

He added: “I think we are very targeted by the people that are targeting Israeli companies. We’re not an Israeli company, but because of our work in Israel we found ourselves in the middle of the row of the Gaza protests.”

Watson told the podcast he would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns if the situation arose, saying: “We don’t actually work in that sector, but yes, of course we would.”

He called Palantir “the most interesting company on the planet” when he announced his new role last month. The company said his job would be, in part, to “deepen the social and economic value its work creates through better British public services, jobs and skills”.

▲ Tom Watson, a former Labour deputy leader, works for Palantir

Watson was a defence minister under Tony Blair and a minister for digital engagement in Gordon Brown's government. Since stepping down from parliament in 2019, he has been an adviser to the gambling and music industries and in 2024 became a part-time adviser to Palantir.

Palantir said Watson had taken a leave of absence from the House of Lords and had relinquished his parliamentary pass while he worked for the company in London.

The Labour MP Chi Onwurah, who chairs the science, innovation and technology committee, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: “Tom is not the first politician to be blinded by tech hype. The key issue is we can't be so dependent on one company.”

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Pop goes the easel Major show revels in hidden depths of Lichtenstein's art

David Smith Washington

W hen the American artist Roy Lichtenstein created his monumental

Greene Street Mural in 1983, he took inspiration from the Bayeux tapestry. But while the depiction of the Norman conquest continues to delight after nearly a thousand years, the site-specific mural was destroyed after six weeks, in accordance with the artist's wishes.

More than four decades later, Greene Street Mural is to mesmerise art lovers once more. Next week a 29-metre (96ft) re-creation of the work will span the entrance to Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, the first major New York retrospective of the pop artist's work for 33 years, at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

“He was very interested in the Bayeux tapestry,” guest curator Alex Da Corte says. “It’s tied to this idea of the frame by frame and a kind of serial mode of storytelling that we understand very well now through scrolls and so many photographs.”

If the public remembers Lichtenstein as a cool ironist who lifted images from romance comics and gum wrappers, the 130-work exhibition exposes a more rigorous and complex artist. At the heart of its thesis is Lichtenstein's lifelong obsession with an obscure academic mentor: Prof Hoyt L Sherman of Ohio State University.

Lichtenstein studied under Sherman in the 1940s before returning to teach alongside him. Across his career, until his death in 1997, Lichtenstein cited Sherman as his single greatest influence.

Drowning Girl, 1963; above right, Laughing Cat, 1961. Lichtenstein is often associated with the ironic use of comic book imagery, but the Whitney show reveals a rigorous and complex artist PHOTOGRAPH: THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART/SCALA/ ART RESOURCE, NY
▼ Artist's Studio 'The Dance', 1974. Lichtenstein's images included references to artists such as Matisse PHOTOGRAPH: THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART/SCALA/ ART RESOURCE, NY

Sherman was a pioneer in optics and visual perception, building specialised laboratory environments known as “flash labs”. In these pitch-black rooms, mechanical devices would flash images of still lifes or geometric forms for fractions of a second. Sherman instructed students to draw what they had seen in complete darkness, training their minds to process spatial form, figure-ground relationships and visual memory holistically rather than sequentially.

Da Corte, who curated the retrospective with Meg Onli, says: "Hoyt Sherman's teaching methods were eccentric. He employed a whole bunch of optical theorists who were working at the time, curious about how we see things - going all the way back to Aristotle and Da Vinci, as well as early 20th-century contemporaries."

Rather than simply copying mass media, Lichtenstein was exploring sophisticated questions of optics

▲ Still Life with Goldfish, 1972, which uses Ben-Day dots to evoke the colours in comic book printing

and perception through popular imagery. This challenges the persistent criticism that dogged his career: accusations of plagiarism, uncredited copying and lazy appropriation. During the height of pop art in the 1960s, critics frequently questioned whether Lichtenstein's practice was fine art or commercial theft. Life magazine ran an article in 1964 titled "Is he the worst artist in the US?"

For Onli and Da Corte, these critiques fundamentally misunderstand his practice. In Like New, visitors can look at original

sketchbooks, source clippings and preliminary drawings alongside comic book panels, showing how often Lichtenstein reworked his sources. Da Corte draws a direct parallel between his techniques and traditional printmaking or comic production, noting visual art has always been fundamentally collaborative and iterative.

“Anyone who works in comics knows no one does it alone; it’s a collaborative process. The ways in which he’s altering things becomes the real focus of the work,” Da Corte says. He adds that Lichtenstein’s

Greene Street Mural was originally painted in 1983 for Castelli's 142 Greene Street space in SoHo, New York. Lichtenstein stitched together a vibrant assemblage of his own artistic lexicon: Ben-Day dots (a technique used in colour printing), cartoon hands, pyramids, composition notebook covers and references to Picasso and Matisse.

subtle adjustments embedded a quiet, personal humour into the work. “Every painting requires analysis from the viewer,” he says. “In his familiar images, he’s embedding himself with the kind of humour you would have if you were keeping a diary.

Onli says: “We used aspects of Lichtenstein’s deadpan humour throughout the show. When Leo Castelli originally asked him to paint for the Greene Street space in 1983, Roy said: ‘Leo, I don’t really know what I would do.’ Then he thought about it and said: ‘Well, I’m going to have to use every image I’ve ever worked with before.’”

"The way he engages with the found object or readymade is not dissimilar to [Dada founder Marcel] Duchamp, taking something and adjusting it slightly. It appears both completely banal and also agitates."

Onli emphasises: “One thing we wanted to stress is that Roy’s work was so emphatically handmade. When you see it in photographs, it looks super slick and machine-made. Even in 1965, Roy joked, oh, the reason my work has been successful is because it translates well into fax machines. But throughout the entire show, all of these works have been done by hand. It has a very, very different feel than how we understand images today.”

This is the first Lichtenstein retrospective to include his murals.

The show has four murals in total. Every inch of them, including the outdoor presentation of Girl in Window (1964), has been painted by Da Corte's studio team, preserving the crucial tension that defines Lichtenstein's work.

Indeed, in 1968, as mass media expanded across television, print and advertising, Lichtenstein was already talking about his famous Ben-Day dots in relationship to data. He was fascinated by how visual information could be broken down into discrete units, transmitted across distances and reassembled in the viewer's mind.

For Onli and Da Corte, this provides the key for presenting Lichtenstein to a 21st-century audience accustomed to algorithms, touchscreens, pixels and endless digital recirculation.

Da Corte sees Lichtenstein's work as a crucial survival guide for artists overwhelmed by endless digital media. “When he was making these works in the 1960s, the world as he knew it was being inundated with images, products, and objects,” he says. “Pop artists were trying to make sense of how they were being advertised to and what it looked like.

"If you ask any young artist now what their dilemma is, the dilemma is that there's too much stuff. There are so many images in the world, so much to contend with. How do you participate meaningfully? ... He shows young people that you can actually take those images that wash over you every day and make something meaningful out of them."

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Fatal delays? Why Greenaway's film exploring death is stuck in limbo

Geoffrey Macnab

Peter Greenaway's new movie was supposed to mark a glorious swansong for him and his lead actor, Dustin Hoffman, the Oscar-

winning star of The Graduate and Tootsie. Both men were in their 80s when shooting began in Lucca, Tuscany, in late 2023. Neither knew the storms ahead or that this was going to turn into arguably the most troublesome project in British filmmaker's career.

Turn the clock back to November 2023 and Greenaway, who has been based in the Netherlands for the past 20 years, could hardly conceal his excitement during a Q&A at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam after receiving a lifetime achievement award. Greenaway - whose past films include 1989's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and The Pillow Book (1996) - told the audience he was flying to Italy the next morning and “all being well, we will start shooting seriously in the next couple of days”.

The film was then called Lucca Mortis, and Greenaway explained it explored death. He said he had already made “quite a number of films” about sex (“Eros”) “but the other thing was Thanatos (death)”.

"Our film is really about notions of death and it asks the rather absurd and ridiculous question - is death necessary? The popular

The film stars Dustin Hoffman, 89, and was shot across 25 locations in the Tuscan city of Lucca, below PHOTOGRAPH: KEN WELSH/UCG/GETTY

media is absolutely covered now in considerations about assisted death, about euthanasia, about the legitimacy of suicide. I believe that we must take death more seriously," he said.

Greenaway's pitch was that Lucca Mortis was not a horror picture “full of coffins and skulls and macabre activities”. Instead, it was a drama about a New York writer contemplating his mortality; a man who wanted to round off his life in the neatest, most elegant way. Jacob Zucchine (Hoffman) was adopted as a child and grew up in the US. He returns to Lucca in Tuscany in search of his Italian roots. The film is set around the time of 9/11. Like New York, Lucca is dominated by looming towers and these inspire the author to write stories but also to feel that death is stalking him.

Ominously, Lucca Mortis encountered difficulties from the outset. In late 2023, the director and his crew arrived in Lucca but the lead actors were not yet there. Sets were built and the crew sat for several weeks waiting for work to begin - but it never did and they were eventually sent home. It appeared the production had already hit cashflow problems.

Such a delay, though, is not unusual for an ambitious, independently funded film.

Production finally began in early 2024 - this time with actors. The trade press reported that Lucca Mortis had a €15m (£12m) budget and would use 25 locations in Lucca. The city threw itself behind the movie. Many local residents were involved and the Tuscan press reported a carnivalesque atmosphere during shooting akin to that on a Fellini movie.

However, the charm soon wore off as constant delays ate up large chunks of the budget. Produced by Facing East (whose previous credits include the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and Liam Neeson's thriller In the Land of Saints and Sinners) the budget for the film came mainly from the private financiers Jumpy Cow Pictures in Switzerland. There was extra support through Italian and Dutch tax rebates.

When most of the shooting was completed, Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke (his Dutch wife and creative partner) set to work with their team. A first draft assembly of the film was delivered in late 2024 and was reportedly warmly received. However, it was at this point that tensions threatened to reach breaking point. Sources close to Greenaway have said the director's contract gave him final cut, but that the producers subsequently decided to make their own, more “commercial” cut without his involvement. Their position was that they were entitled to intervene because the film had gone over budget. Facing East did not respond to requests for comment.

The net result is that there are two versions of the film in circulation, neither of them fully completed (although the producers' cut is said to be more advanced). Ironically, those who have seen the two cuts say they are not that different.

There is also an ongoing row about who controls the rights to the film - which is now stuck firmly in limbo.

And the citizens of Lucca are not happy. Three years on from the start of production, there is still no sign of the movie. Remo Santini, a Lucca councillor, said this week: "We're disappointed because, as a municipality, we've spent time and energy making this film ... Unfortunately, this stalemate isn't our fault."

Even the title is proving contentious. Partly because the city of Lucca is not keen to be associated with death, the film is now called Tower Stories.

The longer the feature is stuck in postproduction purgatory, the less chance that its director, 84, and its star, who turned 89 in August, will be fit and able enough to promote it properly.

The talk is now of trying to protect the “dignity” of Lucca Mortis. For that to happen, everyone involved will need to accept what surely should have been obvious from the outset, namely that when you commission Peter Greenaway to make a film, that is exactly what you are going to get - a Peter Greenaway film - and you risk disaster if you try to turn it into something else.

Could use of AI in ads scupper the next generation of film directors?

Mark Sweeney

The advertising industry has long been a breeding ground for British film and TV talent who have gone on to Hollywood, including Alan Parker and Guy Ritchie, who both started out making commercials, and Paddington in Peru director Dougal Wilson, whose credits include several John Lewis Christmas ads.

When Ridley Scott was awarded the UK's highest accolade for a glittering career directing movies from Alien and Gladiator and The Martian, he reminded those at the Bafta event that making ads had been his “film school”. He famously made the Hovis “Bike” ad in 1973.

But the panicked race to introduce AI technology across the advertising industry, to cut client costs and avoid being pushed aside by big tech, has raised fears of a lost generation who may be denied the opportunity to develop into great British film and TV directors.

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“100%, yes, I have fears,” said Scott’s son, Luke, who runs the group that includes Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), the media production company co-founded by his father.

"I'm grown up enough to recognise that change is inevitable. But what I've seen in terms of generative AI output is a very mixed bag. You can turn to it and do something and say 'look what I made and isn't it edifying'. But that is very misleading and sort of introducing us to an ersatz creativity.

'Be a bit more Elvis!' Or more XTC? Other lyrics Brittin might use at the BBC

"The grave danger is the monoculturalisation of everything. The creative business is something you learn by doing. It is in the doing that is most valuable. Flying a drone isn't like flying, there isn't that visceral feeling to it, you are not actually flying. What do you do with that lost generation? Maybe in 20 or 30 years

Stuart Heritage

Matt Brittin, the BBC director general, has started the job at a time of huge crisis. Money is short, jobs are being cut and it is likely that entire channels will be culled to stem the tide.

This is a moment that requires great motivational charisma, which is why - in a recent call with all staff - Brittin urged BBC employees to be “a bit more Elvis - a little less conversation, a little more action”.

Clearly, this isn't great. But perhaps this is how things are now. Perhaps if you really want to unite a flagging workforce against a vast and inevitable decline, you need to start quoting lyrics at them.

With that in mind, here are some more Brittin could use in his next staff call.

Be a bit more Rolling Stones: 'You can't always get what you want' This might be a better tactic, given the sour mood at the BBC. Sure, employees might wish for lots of things, such as a bigger commissioning budget, more exclusive coverage of big sporting events, and a functioning BBC Three. But Mick Jagger was

◀ Elvis Presley in 1957. Brittin told staff to be more Elvis: ‘a little less conversation, a little more action’. Right, XTC could be useful too

the whole notion of the ad industry as we work now will be an [anachronistic] joke."

Last month, the advertising group WPP officially opened its flagship production facility in a converted warehouse in east London. It is the first in an international rollout spearheading its £600m WPP Production business, as it aims to bring right. You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need. Note: this only really works if what you need is having Romesh Ranganathan present everything.

Be a bit more Queen: 'The show must go on' It doesn't matter how many cuts the BBC faces. It doesn't matter how many staff it has to lose. The corporation's ethos is to inform, educate and entertain, and that is

“world-class creativity and advanced AI capabilities under one roof”.

Cindy Rose, WPP's chief executive who has worked for Microsoft, said that AI was ushering in a “golden age of marketing”.

"WPP and the industry as a whole is at a critical inflection point," she said, speaking against a backdrop of a Ford Capri being filmed cruising the what it will do, no matter what. If that means Sophie Raworth has to do the news over Zoom from inside a wardrobe, so be it. If it means the Olympics have to be replaced by footage of raindrops racing each other down a window for hours at a time, bring it on.

Be a bit more Smiths: 'There is a light that never goes out' The BBC finds itself in a moment of extreme belt-tightening, and every penny must be utilised to its

streets of an AI-generated Paris. “We have to better leverage the AI advantage we have. We no longer need to spend our clients’ budgets on expensive shoots abroad. We can do it in the studio [and] completely change the economics of our content supply chain. We can deliver content at the speed of culture.”

One industry source said that some ads could be made up to 60% cheaper, which has some clients embracing AI-led ads to “show finance directors they are making savings”, despite the fact that often the output looks “cookie cutter” and a creative “erosion from the diminished role of a director”.

The source queried whether, if made in an increasingly AI-first ad industry, Top Gun would have become the quintessential 1980s blockbuster that it did. The film's producers, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, chose their director, Ridley Scott's late brother Tony, after best advantage. As such, turning on the office bathroom lights is too expensive, and therefore banned. Your phone has a torch, doesn't it?

Morrissey and Johnny Marr of the Smiths
Brittin could also urge the BBC to channel its inner Freddie Mercury and be a bit more Queen. After all, ‘the show must go on’ PHOTOGRAPH: RICHARD E AARON/ REDFERRNS

'Making plans for Nigel' This one speaks for itself. An enormous part of running the BBC involves figuring out what to do with Nigel Farage. If Brittin wants to maintain any form of continuity with the previous administration, then this will mean putting him on television at every opportunity. Does it hurt the corporation to give so much airtime to someone who wants to abolish the licence fee? Absolutely. But also, could he guest host The One Show for a couple of weeks? Wouldn't hurt to ask.

seeing the 1983 TV ad in which he depicted a Saab car racing a fighter jet in what could pass for a trailer of the cinematic style of the film.

Richard Glasson, the chief executive of WPP Production, said that new technologies had always been embraced by the industry and the use of AI was no different.

“It is the future of where content is going, an AI production powerhouse for the future,” he said. “The underlying tech we use to create work is changing. It is being introduced in TV and film but not widely adopted in advertising to this point.”

Glasson added that it was being embraced by clients who needed to keep up with creating content across dozens more digital media platforms than ad agencies had ever had to keep pace with before. "To win against the algorithms you have to be producing new content, not just re-purposing one ad campaign for six months, those days are gone."

Cinzano's 'Airliner' ad in 1979, starring Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, was made by Alan Parker, who went on to direct Fame

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UK must not become reliant on foreign AI, says top researcher

Dan Milmo Global technology editor

The UK must not become dependent on foreign AI systems that can be switched off at short notice and must develop its own versions of the technology, according to the head of the Alan Turing Institute (ATI).

The country needs a stronger domestic position in AI in response to the US and China's runaway leadership in the field, with “national resilience” a key focus for the ATI, said George Williamson.

The institute is the UK's leading AI research body and is under new leadership after the government, its main source of funding, demanded a strategic shift.

"As AI becomes more embedded in critical services, in domains like defence, national security, critical infrastructure and healthcare we shouldn't depend solely on systems we can't inspect or control, or that could be restricted or even switched off," said Williamson.

In June Washington temporarily blocked the release outside the US of Anthropic's latest models, and has reportedly asked leading AI labs to withhold their models from being tested by the UK's AI Security Institute until they have been examined by the AISI's US counterpart.

“We’ve seen now that both political and commercial pressures mean we may not have access [to AI] in all the circumstances when we want it. That is not a place where a nation wants to be,” he said. “There’s a set of circumstances where it would be a good idea for us to have something that we don’t have to ask other people’s permission to use.”

He said national resilience would be a focus of the ATI's work amid concern about the geopolitical situation and the risk posed by increasingly powerful AI systems.

Those concerns were highlighted last month by the prime minister,

Andy Burnham, announcing a new national centre to tackle state-backed disinformation, and Anthropic predicting the technology had a greater than 10% chance of wiping out humanity by 2030.

"It's a moment when national resilience is definitely what the country needs and it's definitely a thing I think the Turing institute can help with," Williamson said.

“We are facing a more adversarial world, more frequent shocks to our critical infrastructure and now powerful AI amplifying these threats. To strengthen national resilience, the Turing will focus on securing critical systems against disruption, countering threats from AI itself and helping to shape the right strategic AI capability for the UK.”

Williamson said the institute could assist in building such resilience by helping produce uses for AI “for the public good”, working on areas from weather forecasting to farming, as well as helping spot disinformation.

Referring to state-led disinformation campaigns, he said: “It’s very dangerous for the state of democracy and it’s an area that we can monitor.”

Williamson is a former head of HM Government Communications Centre, a secretive body that makes gadgets for UK spy agencies and counts Alan Turing - the second world war codebreaker and AI pioneer - among its former staff.

Williamson said it had become clear the UK needed “more agency on access to technology” and a stronger sovereign position in AI. “It feels pretty uncomfortable if you don’t have some control or ability to use technologies when you want them, and also harder to imagine how you build an economy on the top of stuff that can disappear,” he said.

In recent weeks Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, have urged Europe to be more self-sufficient in AI.

Williamson cited China as another reason for boosting domestic AI, amid concerns that Chinese-made systems might not “coincide with our values”. He said: “This is the defining technology of our time. We want to be able to shape that technology ... in a way that accords with who we are and our values.”

Stage review Immaculate coup de théâtre in double world of lost shadows

End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland Barbican theatre, London ★★★★★

Arifa Akbar

How to stage Haruki Murakami's epic, dual-narrative novel without leaving the audience in a muddle? Director-

choreographer Philippe Decouflé goes big, filling the enormous Barbican stage with a kaleidoscope of dream worlds for Ako Takahashi's adaptation. It could have become a scramble of stories. Instead, it is turned into one long, immaculate coup de théâtre.

There are two versions of the protagonist, Watashi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) - one is in Tokyo, the other in a dream world. The city is noirish while the latter is beautiful but dangerous, with a storyline involving the sundering of humans from their shadows, a walled city and a professor (Narushi Ikeda) who collects their skulls to channel past experiences through sound.

The professor's 17-year-old granddaughter (Miu Tomita)

$\triangle$ Kiita Komagine, left, and Misato Morita in the production's kaleidoscope of dream worlds
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accompanies Watashi in Tokyo and appears like a kitsch prophetess. Watashi seeks escape, so he can be reunited with his shadow (Shuntaro Miyao), but is drawn to this strange world and a romance with a librarian (Misato Morita).

Initially, it spirals into a rabbit hole of wonderlands, with kooky humour and references to western culture, from ancient myth to Lewis Carroll's Alice and Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou. The set, designed by K Ishihara, shows its own theatrical construction with cheeky playfulness.

The visual pyrotechnics suck you in, from big projections to the speed and agility of dancing that gestures at anime. Murakami's creatures range from ones with porcupine spikes to a herd of balletic unicorns.

Decouflé's choreography has elastic grace and athleticism without seeming circus-like. The aesthetics are so ravishing that it doesn't matter if the story is not easy to grasp in the first half. Murakami fans will know that the unity of the story is to come.

It becomes clear after the interval that this is a controlled confusion, reflecting Watashi's state of mind. The dance becomes imbued with feeling as Murakami's world reveals its underlying themes of loneliness, grief, the fear of disappearing and of death.

But the story of lost shadows, representing the “true” self, feels prescient (the book was published in 1985). This world looks like Neo’s in The Matrix, and chimes with ideas in Naomi Klein’s book Doppelganger. The sinister side of the perfectionism cultivated in this dream society could be a comment on postwar Japan, or on our world of AI and of real and fake selves.

It leaves you with the sense you have been dreaming, collectively, about a world of lost shadows and unfeeling humans, but also of unicorns, beauty and imagination, both of our world, and other.

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The prop is one of more than two dozen lightsabers from Star Wars films and TV shows up for sale by Heritage Auctions in Los Angeles next month. Those wielded by Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi and Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith are expected to fetch \$10,000 each.

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Two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been recovered, a month after they were stolen from a museum in southern France, the town's mayor has said.

In September, thieves broke into the museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer and managed to escape with two works by the French impressionist painter, abandoning two others as they fled. “These two paintings are not simply works of art. They are part of our city’s history,” said Bryan Masson, the mayor. “Knowing they have been recovered is an immense relief.”

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Style it out: why nepo babies are fashion's trend of the season

Chloe Mac Donnell

Knee-length skirts and bras worn as tops were two of the main takeaways from fashion month, which wrapped up this week. But the biggest trend had nothing to do with clothing. From New York and London to Milan and Paris, the shows were the ultimate proof of a nepo-baby takeover.

John Travolta's daughter Ella Bleu, 26, made her Paris catwalk debut at Miu Miu, Apple Martin, 22, the daughter of Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow, walked the Chloé show, and Kai Schreiber, 17, the daughter of Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, modelled for Vivienne Westwood. Meanwhile, the Vogue World event in Milan included the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli's son Matteo, 29, Nick Cave's son Earl, 26, and Ava Phillippe, 27, the daughter of the actors Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe.

Mark Borkowski, a PR consultant, described the nepo baby phenomenon as “a wonderful cocktail of youth, nostalgia and inherited glamour”.

Fran Hoepfner, the author of The Field Guide to Nepo Babies, said it was vital that a nepo had both a family connection and a direct or adjacent industry connection. “Simply having rich parents does not automatically make someone a nepo baby. It just makes you lucky,” she said.

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Previously, children of famous people tended to downplay their family connections or even change their surnames. Nicolas Cage was born Coppola - his uncle is the legendary US film-maker Francis Ford Coppola - while Angelina Jolie dropped the while Angelina Jolie dropped the

Voight from her name in an attempt to distance herself from her actor father, Jon Voight.

According to Borkowski, what we are seeing is “the industrialisation of inherited fame”. He described it as a cultural shift. “For years people tried to escape from the shadow of their parents because it actually hindered their career. Now they are no longer apologising for their privilege.”

Nicole Kidman took her daughter Faith Kidman-Urban, 15, to Chanel, while The Diplomat star Keri Russell's plus one at the Louis Vuitton show was her 13-year-old daughter Willa. Elsewhere, the supermodels Karen Elson and Kristen McMenamy danced with their daughters Scarlett Teresa White, 20, and Lily McMenamy, 32, on the H&M catwalk.

Four years after New York magazine declared 2022 the “year of the nepo baby”, the boom is showing no signs of slowing. The appeal for brands is simple: the casting of a

▲ Apple Martin, Kai Schreiber and Ella Bleu Travolta on the runway during Paris fashion week and,

below, Nicole Kidman with her daughter Faith Kidman-Urban at Chanel's catwalk show on Monday

nepo instantly captures mass audience attention.

It is not just limited to fashion. The new Sense and Sensibility film's credits read like a nepo baby roll-call. Samantha Morton's daughter Esmé Creed-Miles, 26, plays Marianne Dashwood, while Sting's non-binary child Eliot Sumner, 36, stars as Mr Palmer. Meanwhile, Cillian Murphy's son Aran, 19, is currently on TV screens as Sharon Horgan's son in Youth and Kate Winslet's son Joe Anders, 22, stars in Netflix's adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 novel East of Eden.

“It’s a marketing tool,” Borkowski said. “Casting an unknown model or actor is one thing but casting the daughter of a Hollywood legend gives a brand all that inherited fame and decades of cultural recognition.”

The internet has been crucial to the nepo baby coup. In an age where anyone with a phone and internet access can become famous, why not lean into famous family roots? “You don’t have to have any real talent to develop a fanbase,” Borkowski said.

In 2023, the then 16-year-old Romy Mars, the daughter of the film-maker Sofia Coppola and the musician Thomas Mars, went viral after posting about being grounded because she had tried to charter a helicopter to have dinner with a friend using her father's credit card.

Elsewhere, Francesca Scorsese, 26, is a budding actor and film-maker but it is her TikTok videos starring her dad, Martin, that have gained millions of followers. In one she asks the Goodfellas director to identify “feminine items” including a menstrual cup; in another, she tests him on gen-Z slang.

Hoepfner said: “There’s nothing they can really do about the fact that they’re a nepo baby, so they might as well own it. The best way to go about that might as well be by doing it brazenly with some degree of style.”

'Tis the season to be ghoulish: Halloween getting Christmassy

Zoe Wood

The tree is up, the wreath is on the front door. It's beginning to feel a lot like ... Halloween.

If it sounds like the stuff of nightmares, that's the point: Britons are increasingly decorating their homes with ghoulish versions of Christmas traditions.

Think of it as Halloweenmas. "What was traditionally a single night of celebration has turned into a month-long event mirroring many of Christmas's traditions, but without the same level of expectation," said Charlotte Broadbent of Faire, an online wholesale platform.

Analysis of sales transactions on the platform revealed a huge increase in the number of Halloween products - up more than 500% in four years, from 425 in 2021 to 2,632 last year. The big areas of growth were trees, wreaths and ornaments.

According to the budget retailer Wilko, Halloween trees are one of the biggest decorating trends of 2026. It said sales of artificial trees were 200% higher in September than a year ago.

"There really aren't any rules with a Halloween tree," said the retailer.

“You can go all-out or keep it simple with a smaller tree and a few spooky accessories.”

This is clear from social media, where the looks range from student party - a black, tinsel tree shaped like a witch's hat - to child-friendly cuteness. On its website, the arts and crafts retailer Hobbycraft offers "five ways to decorate a twig tree" that include DIY spiderwebs made out of lollysticks and felt pumpkins.

Libby Ewart of The Box Party, an online partyware and gift retailer, has bought 40% more stock this year. "Houses are decorated earlier and with way more thought than before," she said. "Also, this year it falls on a Saturday so there has never been a better excuse for a party."

Emily Viberg, senior retail analyst at the research group Mintel, said Halloween was “no longer just about costumes and sweets; it's about a full season of engagement, gifting and themed activities".

Its research shows young Britons, in particular, see it as an opportunity to express themselves and experiment with fashion and makeup, with those aged 16 to 34 spending more than the average on fancy dress, cosmetics and decorations.

A John Lewis Halloween tree taps into the decorating trend for 2026

Viberg added: “Consumers are increasingly buying into the atmosphere and social moments Halloween creates. Younger adults are at the heart of this shift, transforming Halloween from a one-night celebration into a broader season of self-expression and experience-led spending.

“Viral costume trends, makeup tutorials and home decor inspiration are shaping consumer spending and helping to extend the season well beyond October.”

Some may see it as over the top, but Broadbent believes Halloween has become a reason to share quality time “without the need to spend big”.

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NHS losing specialist ADHD and autism services staff in exodus to private clinics

▲ The Care Quality Commission is to begin inspections of private clinics that offer diagnostic assessments for ADHD or autism PHOTOGRAPH: JOHNER RF/GETTY

Denis Campbell Health policy editor

The NHS is facing an exodus of staff quitting its ADHD and autism services to join private clinics amid huge demand from children and adults to get a diagnosis.

The loss of specialist personnel to the private sector has already forced one NHS trust in England to limit access to its neurodevelopmental service to only the most urgent cases.

The brain drain of psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses and other staff is said to be leaving the NHS “weaker” and making it more likely that people will be forced to go private.

The NHS care watchdog said yesterday it would start inspecting private clinics that offered diagnostic assessments for ADHD and autism, which are currently unregulated. The Care Quality Commission's move follows publication of a government-commissioned review of mental health and neurodiversity that urged ministers to ensure all service providers were properly regulated, amid claims of a “wild west” of private businesses offering diagnostic tests.

Scores of private clinics have been set up in recent years offering assessments, treatment or both for ADHD and autism. They have capitalised on the large number of people who have been unable to access NHS care because services have been overwhelmed by an explosion in demand for diagnoses of neurodiversity, creating long waits for help and massive backlogs.

Adrian James, the CQC's interim inspector of mental health care, said the new responsibility would “close a significant gap in our oversight, meaning that people receiving these diagnoses can have far greater confidence in the service they are receiving”.

Prof Peter Fonagy's report - thought to be the biggest inquiry of its kind in the world to date - voiced concern that private companies faced the temptation of “financial incentives” to wrongly diagnose and treat patients.

The CQC already regulates services offering diagnosis and treatment. But the change means non-NHS clinics offering only diagnostic assessments will in future have to register with the regulator.

Yvette Cooper, the health secretary, said the tighter regulation meant “people can be confident that assessments are high quality and that the NHS is not being overcharged by independent or private providers”.

About 810,000 children and adults in England are on the waiting list for an assessment for ADHD or autism.

The risks to the NHS of losing staff to the private sector were highlighted last week when Health Service Journal revealed that the Herefordshire and Worcestershire health and care NHS trust had been forced to restrict children and young people's access to its neurodevelopmental service for that reason.

A paper presented to the trust's board reported that: “Neurodevelopmental staffing is reduced significantly, with the majority of leavers choosing to take up employment with ISP [independent sector

'Many staff will walk away entirely, leaving the NHS in a weaker position'

Thea Stein Nuffield Trust CEO providers] and RtC [right to choose] providers for ND [neurodiversity].”

Right to choose gives NHS patients the right to have an NHS-funded ADHD or autism assessment with a private provider to help them receive care more quickly.

The trust responded to the exodus last month by limiting access for under-18s to only those with the most serious symptoms. It will revert to a normal service next Monday. A total of 1,298 people have already waited at least two years for an ADHD or autism assessment with the trust.

Thea Stein, the chief executive of the Nuffield Trust and a member of the government's ADHD taskforce, said NHS services suffered when staff joined private operators, as had also happened in physiotherapy and child and adolescent mental health services.

"Some staff stay with the NHS part-time when they get a private-sector job, but many will walk away entirely, leaving the health service in a weaker position and under greater pressure," she said.

“Concerning inequalities will widen further if the NHS can’t keep fully staffed teams or expand them to meet increasing demand for ADHD support. If these services continue to haemorrhage staff, some people will get much quicker support if they can afford to pay for private care,” Stein added.

The NHS Alliance, which represents trusts, confirmed the continuing exodus. “We’re increasingly dealing with one ADHD workforce spread across different providers both in the NHS and private sector,” said Rebecca Gray, the director of the alliance’s mental health network.

"The significant growth in the private sector market, where people accessing services can often be seen more quickly than in stretched NHS services, will make working in the independent sector attractive to some staff."

The Independent Healthcare Providers Network, a trade body that represent many non-NHS businesses, welcomed the CQC's enhanced role. "Whilst all of IHPN members who deliver ADHD and autism assessments are CQC registered - with 83% rated good or outstanding - we have long called for greater ‘end-to-end’ oversight of neurodevelopmental provision and it’s welcome to see that the CQC have confirmed they will now be regulating all providers of ADHD and autism assessments," said Sean Phillips, its head of policy.

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Stage review Threlfall plays the fool and an affecting king

King Lear Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester ★★★☆☆

Mark Lawson

The TV series Succession was partly modelled on King Lear, the family name Roy derived from the monarchic French

roi. Returning the compliment, Matthew Dunster's production centralises dynastic dynamics among the young as they plot around a splintering figurehead.

The reading is supported by a modern setting - car keys and handguns for horses and swords

- on a set of spangly strings dividing the stage into a nightclub, England and France, dungeons and, in the storm scene, serving as shower curtains to keep theatregoers dry.

Through verbal italicisation, Dunster underlines references to parenting and siblings - Jonathan Slinger's unusually unpleasant Gloucester seems to have brought up Edmund and Edgar using Lear's childcare manual - and, more conventionally, to senility, David Threlfall's king feeling psychiatrically forensic.

Otherwise, Dunster is notably disruptive. Starting with Threlfall alone on stage delivering a speech from act III, he gives the younger generation introductory erotic dumb shows. The Mercury prize-nominated musician Nadine Shah becomes surely the first Goneril to mime sex to her own pulsing compositions. This accentuation of seduction as a power tactic and the implied significance of procreation to inheritance fits the brutal

▲ David Threlfall as King Lear with a blinded Gloucester, played by Jonathan Slinger, in a Succession-like production PHOTOGRAPH: HELEN MURRAY

triangle of the final act - Paddy Stafford's Edmund lasciviously tasting two glasses of wine as he juggles Lear's daughters - but can feel like Succession becoming Game of Thrones.

The most seismic rewrite removes a great Shakespearean character. Threlfall doubles as the monarch and his Fool, doing both halves of their duologues like a ventriloquist whose mouth moves. Speaking to the unseen can be a dementia symptom but the change means we lose the one candid truth-teller to Lear.

Within this gimmickry, Threlfall delivers a fairly classic Lear, deeply affecting in the deathbed scenes but, having established the character's nationalism, winning a big laugh with the usually nothing line "Am I in France?" Isobel Akuwudike intriguingly suggests Cordelia may have inherited her dad's wilful anger.

King Lear's word reverberations include more than 40 uses of "letters" or "note", and Dunster makes this unusually tangible: some correspondence generally only spoken of is delivered and opened. The director, you suspect, will get a lot of missives about the spectre jester. Lear without Fool is, in two senses, not funny.

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Balance of power Lithium extraction comes with a cost to Chile's salt flats

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A high-altitude desert plateau traverses Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. I am on the Chilean side, in the passenger

seat of a Jeep, along with two other researchers. The afternoon air is thin and brisk, but the sun is piercing.

The landscape is a study in contrasts and contours: broad basins suddenly cut off by sweeping curves, flat expanses sliced by near-vertical ascents. The Licancabur volcano looms large. Vegetation and humidity levels change rapidly with the rising altitude, bringing cooler temperatures, wetter air and denser plant life.

We are driving to the Salar de Atacama - the Atacama salt flat - the largest of several dozen salt flats in northern Chile and the third largest in the world. The brilliant white flat lies in a basin 2,300 metres (7,500ft) above sea level, enclosed by the even higher Andean mountains to the east and the Domeyko range to the west.

This striking landscape - the salt flat, its resident flamingos, and the neighbouring Indigenous communities - is under threat from a counterintuitive source: our efforts to save the planet from catastrophic climate change. Just beneath my feet are nearly a quarter of the world's lithium

reserves, suspended in water saltier than the ocean.

Lithium is essential to addressing the climate crisis. It is a key ingredient in the rechargeable batteries that play a starring role in eliminating carbon emissions

The Atacama desert's salt flats and saline lakes are shaped by extremes of altitude, aridity and high levels of solar radiation PHOTOGRAPH: TATSUYA OHINATA/GETTY IMAGES

from transportation and energy - the two highest emitting sectors. But extracting this lithium will come at escalating social and environmental costs. It is this dilemma that has brought me to the salt flat.

Andean flamingos - 'a barometer of wetland health' - feeding on brine shrimp in the Salar de Atacama PHOTOGRAPH: SANTIAGO URQUIJO/GETTY IMAGES

When it does rain in the Atacama, it's hard to overstate the intensity of the floods. In summer months, rainy fronts originate in the Amazon and travel up the steep slopes of the Andes, where Bolivia's high-altitude winds then drive them up and over the ridges, until their torrents drench the Chilean high plateau.

The scientific term for closed basins like the Atacama is “endorheic” (etymologically, “inside” and “flow”) as water can flow down into the Atacama basin, but it cannot leave - except by evaporation. And this is the key to Atacama’s extraordinary lithium brine. After deluges, water pours down the surrounding mountains; during the long dry spells between storms, it trickles down ravines from precious mountain springs.

As it flows, the water leeches lithium from the volcanic rock, picks up wind-scoured lithium dust and carries it down to the

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▲ A mechanical digger moves between evaporation ponds in the processing area of a lithium mine PHOTOGRAPH: MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/GETTY

nucleus, or centre, of the salt flat. This pooled surface water can only escape through evaporation, and with every drop of water that evaporates, the concentration of lithium in the remaining brine increases. Without the parched and sun-blasted Atacama's extraordinarily high evaporation rate, lithium concentrations would not reach the “economical” levels prized by mining companies.

Yet further lithium enrichment takes place out of sight. Remaining water seeps into the ground, creating underground wells of lithium-rich brine. These wells are linked into complex hydrothermal systems. Then the heat of magma, especially near the Andes' active fault lines, drives circulations of subsurface brine through fissures and porous geological strata, dissolving even more lithium out of the subsurface rock.

The resulting brine deposits anywhere from 1.2 to 30 metres below the salty crust represent a potential bonanza to corporations. The Atacama's singular coincidence of climactic, geological, geothermal and hydrological conditions makes it one of the least expensive places on Earth to mine lithium.

And at each step, the process of “mining water” is intimately related to the very environmental conditions that formed the valuable deposits in the first place: miners pump the underground brine to vast ponds on the surface, where natural evaporation concentrates the brine yet again, increasing its lithium levels fortyfold from approximately 0.15% to a whopping 6%. One cycle of the process can take 10 to 24 months, depending on brine quality and weather conditions.

But this relatively low-cost, low-tech and supposedly low-impact extractive process nonetheless imperils the communities and species that call the Atacama home.

The world's oldest, driest desert may appear bereft of life. Ecologists call it a “polyextreme” environment, given its altitude and high solar radiation, its aridity, huge diurnal temperature swings and densely saline lakes. Those who study such environments also describe them as low-diversity, with relatively “simple” webs of life, or “astonishing” in their biodiversity. It all depends on perspective. Plants and animals have evolved to make do with less and saltier water and, above all, the abundant energy of relentless sun. Extremity stimulates nature’s creativity.

Artemia, or brine shrimp, thrive in hypersaline lakes that would be intolerable to most species. These tiny creatures are key in the plateau's food chain. The brine shrimp eat bacteria and phytoplankton and are, in turn, food for Chilean flamingos. The flamingos, too, have adapted to the saline lagoons, evolving a filter in their bills akin to the lamellar membranes of oysters or whales to strain the microscopic plants and animals from the brine.

The flamingos are a barometer of wetland health. As the birds travel the salt flats in search of food and mates, they link together the saline lakes into a web of habitats. And as these habitats suffer, so do flamingo populations: all three of the Atacama salt flat's endemic flamingo species are in decline.

The distinct drivers of this population loss reveal the compounding harms afflicting this fragile environment. Warmer average temperatures due to climate change evaporate surface water faster, reducing the blue-green algae essential to flamingo and Artemia diets. And the noise and traffic associated with mining operations appear to directly disrupt the flamingo's breeding.

Researchers are struggling to predict the overall direction of the multiple processes changing the Atacama. Science can only play catch-up, documenting the impacts long after the harm has occurred. Lithium extraction's threat to the liquid supporting its ecosystem is a slow-motion disaster with planetary causes and consequences. This fact raises existential questions for the planet's zero-carbon future.

Norway Fury as fjord is used for mine waste

Daniel Shailer Vevring

On 17 June, local people from the small west coast town of Vevring listened as news arrived from Oslo. Norway's

supreme court had ruled against its government: a permit to release mining waste directly into the Førde fjord two miles upstream was illegal, the court said.

The moment marked the end of a 17-year fight. For Anne-Line Thingnes Førsund, a fisher living on the banks of the fjord and a volunteer for Naturvernforbundet (Friends of the Earth Norway), it was a relief. Like a mountain lifting off her shoulders, she said.

While Førsund and others celebrated, a government lawyer set out plans for a temporary permit and to allow the mine to continue to release waste in the meantime. Four days later, the mine applied for fresh permission, and in September, it was granted by Norway's climate and environment ministry.

"When we heard the pollution would continue, it was like they snatched the carpet from under us," said Førsund. "We have answered every letter, commented on every consultation, complained whenever we could. We have been knocked down so many times and this could have been the opportunity for change."

Critics worry it heralds a wave of permits to pollute Norway's fjords in the race for critical minerals.

"This is not only about the fjord and us and our lives," said Førsund. "This is about principles. When you have a government that doesn't respect the supreme court you're changing the system itself."

Submarine tailings deposition (STD) is the pumping of crushed rocks and chemical waste through underwater pipelines. The Norwegian government's own Institute of Marine Research has warned it releases fine particles of toxic waste that can accumulate in smaller sea life and disrupt ecosystems. It is outlawed in North America, Australia, Russia, Brazil, China and most of Europe.

The Engebø titanium mine was proposed by Nordic Mining in 2006 and the government awarded a permit to release waste into the fjord less than 10 years later. Friends of the Earth Norway launched legal challenges, arriving at a supreme court hearing in spring 2026. The mine began releasing waste in late 2024.

Nordic Mining did not respond to requests for comment, but said in a social media post: “It has been said that our operation is illegal, that we have to close, that our work must stop. That is not the situation,” adding it was continuing “with the ambition to act responsibly, with respect for the fjords and mountains, and for the local community around us”.

Legal wrangling over the permit came to focus on the EU's water framework directive (WFD), which applies to Norway as a member of the European Economic Area. The WFD allows industrial activities to pollute water bodies when there is an “overriding public interest”.

The supreme court ruled the reasons given when the permit was first awarded were not strong enough. However, the government argues they are stronger since the EU added titanium to its list of “critical minerals” in 2020. “The Norwegian government considers the Engebø project to be of significant importance for Norway and Europe,” a spokesperson said, because “the Engebø mountain contains one of the world’s largest known deposits of rutile, a titanium-bearing mineral. Within Europe, Norway and Ukraine are the only countries with significant resources of this kind.”

“That’s wrong. A permit exists or it doesn’t, and the supreme court decision is quite clear: the permit is illegal,” said Tarjei Ellingsen Røsvoll, an associate professor of administrative and constitutional law at the University of Inland Norway. “The government is then openly allowing a company to dump a bunch of stuff in a fjord illegally.

▲ Critics say the dumping threatens one of Norway’s most pristine fjords

“That is unprecedented; it damages trust and undermines a fundamental structure of constitutional and administrative law. They should take responsibility for having made an invalid and illegal decision.”

While Nordic Mining awaited its new three-year permit, it continued to dispose of waste in the Førde fjord. ∅kokrim, Norway's office for white collar and environmental crime, is considering an investigation.

▲ Schools in England and Wales closed during the June heatwave

Union leader: schools must prepare for hot summers

Matthew Taylor

Schools should consider changing start and finish times, reordering holidays and moving exams from the summer months in an effort to adapt to Britain's increasingly severe heat-waves, according to the leader of the country's biggest education union.

Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union, said this summer's repeated bouts of extreme heat had a devastating impact on teachers and pupils as classrooms reached 40C (104F) and hundreds of thousands of children were sent home.

Kebede called on the government to introduce a mass retrofitting programme to ensure schools - which had been built “for a different climate” - were better equipped to deal with extreme heat ahead of next summer’s El Niño-charged temperatures.

"There needs to be a really serious discussion about how we make sure there is the continuity of education in this changed climate," he said.

“You might want to consider moving the school year around or having a longer summer holiday. You might consider an earlier start and earlier finish, and perhaps we don’t want exams to be happening in the hottest part of the year.”

At least 760,000 schoolchildren in England and Wales missed lessons owing to school closures during the June heatwave, with pupils missing more than 15m hours of lesson time.

One primary teacher told the Guardian: “The adults barely coped and most of the children were calling for their mummies and daddies. There was no learning, just surviving the best we could.”

Kebede said children were often being sent home to flats that were unable to cope with extreme heat and parents and carers who were unable to work from home or take time off.

"It's particularly impacting children who live in deprived urban areas. You will have a two-tier system where schools are more affluent areas are able to cope with extreme heat."

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'We're not asking for luxury' French students in the banlieues feel abandoned

Angelique Chrisafis Sevran

On a normal school day, Mohammed wakes at 6am, cares for his younger siblings to help his single mother, who

works as a security guard, then takes two crowded buses and a local train to get to his high school in Sevran, a low-income banlieue in the suburbs north-east of Paris.

"There aren't enough chairs or desks to go round, so some students have to stand up," said Mohammed. "Classes can be so packed you can't interact with the teacher. In this year's heatwaves, it felt like 40C in overcrowded classrooms with no shade or curtains. It was so hot my brain couldn't function."

The 17-year-old in his last year of high school wants to study management and digital communication at a Paris university. But he said conditions were so poor that he felt the odds were stacked against him and his classmates.

"Some of us have to go months without teachers when absent staff aren't replaced," he said. "One class had no French teacher for several months just before the baccalaureate, so they couldn't even study all the set texts for their exam. Recently we needed a

'Police on horseback charged us when we were gathered outside our school, firing teargas at us'

Mohammed High school student teacher for a subject taught through English, but when that teacher arrived they didn't speak English."

The country's biggest youth protest movement in decades brought hundreds of thousands on to the streets this week demonstrating against inequality in the education system, decrepit schools, a lack of teachers and large class sizes. Hundreds of schools were blockaded, thousands of teenagers were arrested, and rights groups warned of alleged police brutality. One child lost the use of an eye and another lost a hand.

Mohammed and his classmates - often supported by their parents and teachers - have been barricading their school, the Lycée Blaise-Cendrars, in one of mainland France's poorest departments, Seine-Saint-Denis. They voted to continue their protests into next week, taking their grievances to the local mayor, elected officials and education representatives. Many local politicians supported their demands. Even the prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, conceded that French teenagers had legitimate concerns.

Photos on the Sevran pupils' phones showed broken classroom chairs, holes in walls, holes in ceilings, mould, buckets to catch leaks, and faulty lights. They said basic needs weren't met - some toilets were broken, others had no doors and often no toilet paper or soap. Video projectors and science equipment were lacking.

“We’re not asking for luxury, just the basics to learn in decent conditions,” Mohammed said. “And yet police on horseback charged us when we were gathered to protest outside our school, firing teargas at us and making arrests.”

The high schools of Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburban area nudging against northern Paris, have been a driving force in the protests. The area has the youngest population in mainland France, one of the

The Lycée Blaise-Cendrars in Sevran, to the north-east of Paris, has broken chairs, holes in walls and faulty lights. Below, a pupil speaks to the media

▲ A protester throws back a teargas canister fired by police during a high school protest in Bordeaux on Thursday PHOTOGRAPH: CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

highest birthrates and among the lowest average incomes. Its high schools have a high turnover of young teachers.

Despite the co-hosting of the 2024 Olympics and numerous government plans to combat long-running problems of inequality and poverty, the area north-east of Paris is still disadvantaged compared with the capital. It is more than 20 years since Seine-Saint-Denis was, in 2005, the starting point for weeks of unrest on housing estates across France after the death of two young boys hiding from police in an electricity substation.

This week's protests showed that inequality and discrimination has not been addressed in the Paris suburbs and the mistrust between young people and police persists.

Mohammed's school, with more than 1,000 pupils, has been at the heart of protests before. In 2024, pupils and teachers made a viral video about the state of classrooms, toilets and equipment. The local Île-de-France region said it had put in place a major refurbishment project for high school buildings. But the teenagers said key issues had not been addressed.

“We’re starting at an unfair advantage because our parents aren’t as rich as others – they can’t buy us books, they can’t take us to films,” said Ilian, 17, whose father is a traffic warden. “We’re missing school during these protests, we risk falling behind in an exam year, we’re desperate to get back into class to study, but the conditions we’re facing are so bad that we can’t stop until the government promises action.”

The education ministry this week promised 3,000 teachers to fill urgent gaps, but teachers' unions expressed doubts and said longer-term plans and funding were needed, even if the government argues there is little spare cash.

Children's mental health is also an issue in Seine-Saint-Denis. Ilian had been waiting to see a child psychiatrist for months. At the high school, there was no nurse and a lack of support staff for children with disabilities.

"The police look down on us as if we're animals," said Ilian. "They talk to us with such cruelty." He said some teenagers had alleged that police had used racial insults against them during protests.

Stéphane Troussel, the Socialist head of the Seine-Saint-Denis council, who met the pupils this week, said: "It's intolerable that policing is causing part of the difficulties." He called for the police to stop using a type of rubber-bullet launcher after they suspended use of stun grenades following injuries. The French interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, defended the policing tactics.

Stéphane Blanchet, the mayor of Sevran, said he supported the protesters' demands. He said many in his town of 52,000 people felt “relegated” and forgotten by the state.

Sarah, 17, who wants to study at an elite Paris engineering faculty, and whose father works in a warehouse, said: “Teenagers in the banlieue really feel abandoned.

“We’ve been surprised and so appreciative of other teenagers in better-off places in France marching in the streets to support us this week. We know we’re disadvantaged and that we have to work 10 times as hard as others to escape discrimination against our postcode. But we can’t learn properly in these conditions when we’re not even guaranteed a chair to sit on in school.”

Pupils' names have been changed

Victory for Bolsonaro would be a disaster for the Amazon, says former minister

Tom Phillips Rio de Janeiro

Brazil's former environment minister Marina Silva has warned that if Flávio Bolsonaro becomes president he will seek to finish the “perverse project” of rampant rainforest destruction initiated by his far-right father, Jair Bolsonaro.

The Amazon was thrown into chaos during Jair Bolsonaro's 2019-23 presidency, when Brazil's environmental and Indigenous protection agencies were gutted and environmental criminals ran riot, causing surges in deforestation and violence.

PHOTOGRAPH: MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP/GETTY

Despite that, Bolsonaro's eldest son, Flávio, is the favourite to beat the leftwing incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in the second round of the presidential election on 25 October. Flávio, 45, beat Lula, 80, by more than 2m votes in the first round, amid a wave of anti-incumbency and anti-left sentiment that propelled a record number of far-right politicians into an already conservative congress.

Silva, a world-renowned environmentalist who was Lula's environment minister until April, warned that a second Bolsonaro presidency would spell disaster for the globally crucial ecosystem, its inhabitants and the climate.

She said: “I’ve no doubt that this time they will try to finish the perverse project they started with Bolsonaro. If they are elected - and God, and the Brazilian people, willing they won’t be - they will use their time to try to speed up as much as possible all of the regressions they can, including to keep themselves in power.

"The vision they have for the Amazon is the same vision they have for everything. They are denialists. Their vision is that the forest must be removed for economic activities.

“They will again encourage illegal mining, the invasion of Indigenous lands and violence against Indigenous and Quilombola communities.”

Silva feared aggressive resource extraction could be turbocharged by Donald Trump's designs on Latin America, exemplified by the US invasion of Venezuela to commandeer its ▲ An illegal fire in the Amazon, which is at risk from farmers and loggers

huge oil reserves. The Bolsonaros are allies of Trump, who has called Venezuela's oil "the spoils" of his brief war in January.

Silva, who believes a Flávio Bolsonaro administration would be “subservient” to the US, said: “Brazil cannot [be governed by] a political group that wants to turn itself into an American protectorate, as is the case with Venezuela today.”

Speaking from São Paulo, Silva recalled the “scorched earth” she encountered when she took over a defanged and dispirited environment ministry in January 2023 and set about trying to limit the destruction of the Amazon.

One of Lula's first acts was to send troops to expel thousands of illegal miners from the country's largest Indigenous territory.

Silva said the “herculean effort” of environmental and security forces had paid off. Amazon deforestation has fallen nearly 50% under Lula, with an estimated 2,600 sq km lost this year compared with nearly 11,600 sq km during Bolsonaro’s last full year in office.

Illegal miners and ranchers have been evicted from a succession of Indigenous territories. Tens of billions of dollars of international funding for rainforest protection have been restored after being frozen during Bolsonaro's era of destruction.

Now, Silva believed all those achievements were in jeopardy. "It's deeply sad and troubling," said the 68-year-old politician, who was born in the Amazon to a family of rubber tappers.

She added: “Paradoxically, just at the moment when we could be about to achieve the lowest rate of deforestation [in more than a decade] and hit a once unthinkable target of zero deforestation by 2030, we face the threat of a government which ... would set all of this back to square one."

▲ Marina Silva has spoken out to condemn Flávio Bolsonaro, right

Even if Bolsonaro loses, congress's shift to the far right means the coming years are likely to prove dire for the environment in the world's most biodiverse nation.

In the recent election, Bolsonaro's Liberal party won 19 of the 54 seats up for grabs in the 81-seat senate and 121 seats in the 513-seat lower house, making it easier for lawmakers to remove environmental and Indigenous protections.

Silva sought a seat in the senate but was beaten by a former special forces police officer and another Bolsonarista politician.

She said: “It’s a devastating process. I’m worried not just about the Amazon but about all of our biomes, like the Atlantic Forest, the Cerrado, the Pantanal, the Pampa. All of Brazil’s biomes are equally threatened by this Trumpist vision.”

Silva argued Brazil's very democracy was at risk if the Bolsonaros reclaimed power, with Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election, expected to be released and made a minister.

Those fears grew this week when Flávio Bolsonaro announced he would seek to “re-democratise” Brazil and change the constitution, possibly allowing longer presidential terms.

Silva said: “That is a very dangerous word, because to an authoritarian mindset, what does re-democratisation mean? It means democracy for them to stay in power ad infinitum; riding roughshod over constitutional rules; interfering with the logic of the separation of powers; having the power to appoint supreme court justices.

"In reality, they are a sort of right-wing version of what was done in Venezuela [under its deposed leader Nicolás Maduro]."

On Thursday, a survey by the Datafolha polling institute gave Bolsonaro a 52% to 48% lead over Lula in the run-off.

'Devastating' Arrest of top German spy sparks calls for reform

◀ August Hanning is charged with espionage; above, the logo of the federal court of justice, where a hearing has been scheduled PHOTOGRAPH: MICHAEL KAPPELER/ DPA/AP

Deborah Cole Berlin

T he ex-spymaster August Hanning once criticised German intelligence services as “vegetarians” among prowling

carnivores, demanding broader powers to keep the country safe in a treacherous world. Often described as a “godfather” of Germany’s 21st-century security architecture, he is now charged with treasonous espionage and handing state secrets to a foreign power in one of the most spectacular alleged postwar intelligence breaches.

If true, Hanning may have irreparably damaged Germany's global security cooperation while exposing grievous internal vulnerabilities, in a tale seemingly ripped from a political thriller.

"This is an incident that has the potential to escalate into a genuine national scandal," said Konstantin von Notz, a Bundestag (parliament) member who sits on its intelligence committee.

He warned of a “devastating” loss of trust among partner countries “whose support we cannot do without in the current extremely tense security situation”.

On Tuesday, masked commandos led Hanning from his estate in his birthplace, Nordwalde, to a black police van, his bespectacled face framed by neatly combed white hair. His expression was calm and focused, his wrists without handcuffs.

The detention of the 80-year-old, who ran the federal foreign intelligence service (BND) from 1998 to 2005, marked a first in a western democracy given his previous rank, experts say.

Federal prosecutors believe Hanning ran his former chief of staff, identified only as Manfred D, as a mole at the BND, paying him to spirit out nearly 2,000 documents, at least some of them classified, over 12 years.

He then allegedly exploited the intelligence for clients of the private consulting firm he launched after retiring - a legal business model that has since drawn fierce criticism.

Hanning is in pretrial detention 'This is an incident that has the potential to escalate into a genuine national scandal'

▲ Police enter the office of a firm linked to Hanning. Top, BND HQ MAIN PHOTOGRAPH: ANNEGRET HILSE/REUTERS

Konstantin von Notz Bundestag member and has, through his lawyers, denied passing on confidential documents to foreign powers. If convicted, he could face 10 years in prison.

Many of the compromised files are believed to have been briefing papers prepared for top officials, including Germany's chancellor.

The former BND vice-president Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven described the material as the “crown jewels of the BND”, telling Der Spiegel they were “the most important assessments that a BND president provides”.

The case has sent allied secret services scrambling to assess the possible damage. A western official told Reuters US foreign intelligence was included in papers stolen from the BND. The CIA has not commented.

Luca Manns, the managing director of the intelligence services research unit at the University of Cologne, called the case a “stab to the heart” of the BND, causing incalculable damage to allied cooperation. “It won’t be an abrupt break,” he said, predicting a “creeping erosion of partnerships”.

The suspected betrayal could be corrosive within the agencies as well as in public perception, said Dieter Bacher, a historian at the University of Graz in Austria specialising in secret services. “A loss of trust is certainly inevitable,” he said. “As information from partner services was apparently also involved, the impact on agency ‘business’ is all the greater.”

The news broke during a week in which Germany's intelligence service directors had testified to parliament about the heightened threat posed by powers including Russia and China.

The current BND chief, Martin Jäger, warned of a possible violent conflict with Moscow, accusing the Kremlin of mounting a “shadow war” of hybrid and drone attacks.

The German secret services are facing a reform drive long held back by sensitivities over abuses under Nazi and communist rule. A law due to pass this year would lift many of the restraints imposed during the postwar period.

Manns warned against any calls to stop the measures, saying it would “play into the hands of our opponents, who want a weak German foreign service”.

Montenegro arrests Russian blogger amid destabilisation concerns

Pjotr Sauer

A leading pro-Kremlin Russian military blogger with reported ties to Russia's intelligence services has been arrested in Montenegro, after warnings of attempts to destabilise the Balkan country, officials have said. Mikhail Zvinchuk, the founder of the influential Rybar war blog, was detained yesterday along with his wife and three other Russians by police and security agents in the Adriatic resort town of Risan, on suspicion of spreading Russian influence, local media reported.

Montenegro's prime minister, Milojko Spajić, confirmed Zvinchuk's detention in a post on X, saying it followed warnings that the country would face attempts at destabilisation and hybrid warfare.

The Russian Telegram news channel Baza said officers detained Zvinchuk at the luxury Mövenpick hotel in Risan. It said the group was taken to Podgorica, Montenegro's capital, for questioning and phones and passports were confiscated.

Founded in 2018 by Zvinchuk, a former press officer at Russia's defence ministry, Rybar is one of the most popular Russian military blogs covering the war in Ukraine, with more than 1.5m subscribers on Telegram. It is part of a sprawling online media ecosystem that promotes Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Its activities extend well beyond Ukraine, promoting pro-Kremlin narratives in Africa and the Middle East. More recently, it has been accused of amplifying far-right narratives on the immigration crisis in Ceuta, a Spanish territory in north Africa.

The channel said on Telegram: "Since there were no violations of local legislation, we expect all detainees to be released."

Britain placed sanctions on Zvin-chuk and Rybar in 2025 over their role in spreading Kremlin propaganda and undermining Ukraine.

The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said Moscow was aware of Zvinchuk's detention and would work to secure his release.

Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev suggested Moscow could detain European and American citizens to use in prisoner exchanges to secure Zvinchuk's release.

Montenegro, which joined Nato in 2017 and is seeking membership of the EU, imposed sanctions on Russia after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

◀ Mikhail Zvinchuk, a former Russian defence ministry press officer, set up his pro-war blog Rybar in 2018

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Running out of royals Could Princess Aiko solve Japan's succession crisis?

Princesses Aiko and Kako, two of Japan's 11 female royals

Justin McCurry Tokyo

Her face is splashed across magazine covers. Fans flock to online stores to snap up her outfits. At official

engagements, huge crowds wait in the crushing heat to catch a glimpse of a woman revered for her “regal dignity, beauty and aura”.

Princess Aiko, 24, is the most popular member of Japan's imperial family, but according to law she will never be empress and, as the country runs out of royals, more and more people are asking why. The debate has gathered pace in the years since Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, has transformed from a shy primary school pupil into a young woman at ease with public and media attention.

Under a law established almost 140 years ago, women are forbidden from ascending to the Chrysanthemum throne. But the regulation defies public support for changes that would allow a woman to become empress regnant and avert a looming succession crisis.

The imperial family is facing the same demographic winds buffeting the rest of the country: three decades ago it had 30 members; now there are just 16, only five of them men. Japanese citizens support a change, irrespective of their political loyalties. In a poll conducted in April by the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, 72% favoured the idea of a woman becoming emperor, with just 10% against.

Pressure to change the male-only succession law, passed in 1947 but based on legislation introduced in 1889 during the Meiji era, is intensifying, forcing the conservative government of Sanae Takaichi to address the dearth of male heirs to the 1,500-year-old throne. Just three men are in the line of succession - Naruhito's younger brother, Crown Prince Akishino; his son, Prince Hisahito; and the emperor's uncle, Prince Hitachi, who is 90.

If Hisahito, a 20-year-old university student, and the first male born into the imperial family for four decades, does not have a son, the line of succession will come to an end.

Previous governments have tried to solve the succession question by considering legislation that would finally bring gender equality to the rarefied corridors of the imperial palace in Tokyo. But pressure from conservative MPs - and Hisahito's birth in 2006 - brought the debate to an abrupt end.

Takaichi triggered anger this summer when her party and its allies pushed through amendments that will safeguard male-only succession for generations.

The changes, which go into effect this month, allow women to retain their royal status after marrying non-royals, and resurrect male-line descendants belonging to 11 “collateral branches” of the family that left the imperial fold after the second world war.

In theory, that means a distant male relative can be “adopted” into the heart of the family provided he is single and over 15. If he marries and his wife gives birth to a son, that child would join the line of succession. The fate of the imperial family has attracted international attention. In 2024, the UN women's rights committee urged the Japanese government to allow a female emperor. Tokyo dismissed the intervention as “regrettable” and “inappropriate,” saying the imperial succession was a matter of “fundamental national identity”.

▲ Aiko is barred from ascending the Japanese throne under a law originating in 1889. Left, Aiko with her parents, Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, in 2010 PHOTOGRAPHS: AKIM KYUNG-HOON/AFP/GETTY; GAMMA/IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD

The UN and Japanese public opinion have crashed against the hard rock of conservative ideology espoused by Takaichi - Japan's first female prime minister.

During the succession revision debate, she told MPs: “The unparalleled historic fact that the imperial line has been maintained through the male line for 126 generations is the foundation of the emperor’s authority and legitimacy.”

Takaichi said the revisions were intended only to ease the succession crisis, not to settle the debate over female emperors.

Prof Makoto Okawa, an expert on imperial lineage at Chuo University in Tokyo, said Aiko's popularity could force a rethink given the “unease among members of the public about excluding someone from the possibility of succeeding to the throne solely because she is a woman”.

Aiko would not be the first female to ascend the throne. Japan has had eight female monarchs, although their role was to sustain the imperial line until a male heir was born. Go-Sakuramachi, who ruled from 1762 to 1770, was the most recent.

Japan's royals, who are forbidden from commenting on politics, have employed typically nuanced language to communicate their unease with the status quo.

The emperor said of the succession debate: “I hope discussions on how to secure the number of imperial family members ... gain the understanding of the people.”

His younger brother, Akishino, went further, saying: “It is important for society to keep progressing ... I believe the duty of the imperial family is to act in response to the requests of society.”

He added: “I do not think there are any differences between women and men.”

Cockroach party claims police making mass arrests before protest

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India's Cockroach Janta party (CJP), which is emerging as a political force among young people, says authorities have begun detaining its members en masse before a major anti-government protest in Delhi today.

Opposition parties, their student units and the Cockroach youth movement have been holding almost daily demonstrations seeking the resignation of the chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, over a controversial revision of voter lists.

Thousands are expected to march today to Jantar Mantar, the designated protest site in the capital, New Delhi, amid mounting anger in the world's largest democracy.

A spokesperson for the CJP, Ashutosh Ranka, said in a post on X that “at least 10,000” people from CJP protests, grassroots groups, student organisations and political parties had been detained across the country.

Police authorities did not immediately respond to requests for comment by Reuters.

Videos posted on X showed activists being taken away in vans.

The CJP said that among those detained was a group of students from the western city of Pune who were heading for the 10 October protest in Delhi. It said they were taken away in a bus to an unknown location.

The nationwide voter list review has been carried out in most of India's states and federally administered territories, with more than 130 million names removed so far. Millions have appealed against the deletions.

The opposition says the removals disproportionately affect voters who support them, while voters more likely to back the BJP, the party of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, have been preserved or added to the lists.

The election commission and the government reject the allegations.

The campaign has been led in part by the Cockroach movement, which began as an online youth campaign in May and has since organised street protests across the country.

The protests come months after similar protests led by the CJP forced the resignation of Modi's education minister over exam paper leaks.

▲ A demonstration in Bengaluru this week against the election review

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Anger in New York after ICE agent shoots man while child was in car

Lex McMenamin Joanna Walters New York

Leading New York Democrats expressed anger and demanded curbs on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violence after a federal officer shot a man in a car where a five-year-old child was sitting, sparking fierce protests.

At least seven shots were reportedly fired and the man was hit in the neck on Thursday as children were coming home from school in the busy Marble Hill neighbourhood of the south Bronx, New York City.

New York's governor, Kathy Hochul, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the city's mayor, Zohran Mamdani - all Democrats - led condemnation of the incident.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional candidate, was knocked over in the chaos as local police and demonstrators clashed.

The man was conscious in hospital, authorities said. But he was later taken from the hospital by ICE, according to the mayor.

Mamdani called the incident “unconscionable” and said that ICE, part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), had “whisked him away” from the New York-Presbyterian Allen hospital.

A similar incident occurred in Texas last month after a man was shot by an ICE officer in Austin and, despite having a bullet lodged in his back, was taken by the federal authorities from a local hospital to ICE detention about 140 miles away.

Early reports of the New York shooting indicated agents had surrounded the man and a five-year-old child in his car in a residential area before firing multiple rounds, Mamdani said in a statement. The child was physically unharmed, he said. Hochul and Mamdani spoke to Donald Trump and Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, by phone.

“I have been on the phone with President Trump and secretary Mullin negotiating the release of the man ICE agents shot. Those negotiations were unsuccessful,” Mamdani said. He demanded from the Trump administration that ICE stop its enforcement actions in New York City. “ICE is rotten to its core,” he said.

ICE has been stepping up arrests all year in a number of ways despite withdrawing from Minneapolis in January and adopting a more covert approach to enforcement.

Hochul and Mamdani demanded that ICE cease its enforcement operations in New York and the governor said she expressed outrage to the 'ICE is rotten to its core'

Zohran Mamdani Mayor of New York City

A man is detained after a shooting by ICE agents that sparked fierce protests in New York on Thursday PHOTOGRAPH: STEPHANIE/REUTERS

Trump administration on behalf of all New Yorkers. She said the incident could easily have ended in tragedy.

The DHS later said the man was from the Dominican Republic and had prior convictions, with the New York police department also noting previous arrests. The 28-year-old man has not been named and his relationship to the child was not clear, although it was reported yesterday that the child was now being looked after by other family members.

Mullin said yesterday the ICE officers involved in the shooting did not know there was a child in the vehicle of the man they were targeting. He said that Hochul had asked DHS for a pause on enforcement in New York. "No, we are not putting a pause on enforcement," he said. He criticised Mamdani, accusing him of failing to enforce the law or stand up for the city's police.

At least 20 people have been shot by federal immigration agents under the second Trump administration, as well as a rise in deaths in detention.

Ocasio-Cortez also called for the agency's abolition. “ICE is a rogue, lawless and paramilitary surveillance agency. It does not belong in New York City ... Abolish ICE,” she said.

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After the flood Plea for Unesco status to save site exposed by Russian attack

Charlotte Higgins and Mariana Matveichuk Khortytsia

On a warm September day, a group of underwater archaeologists and researchers were boiling water for tea

on their campfire on the banks of the Dnipro River, tents pitched on the sandy shoreline. They were three weeks into a survey of the waters around Khortytsia - a rocky island 8 miles long and 1.5 miles wide that lies just downstream of the city of Zaporizhzhia, in south-eastern Ukraine.

High above the island, a Shahed drone whined on its way. A Ukrainian interceptor and small-arms fire from the ground tried, unsuccessfully, to bring it down. The archaeologists ignored it. This is life 28 miles from the combat zone in Russia's war on Ukraine.

Olena Dzneladze, senior research fellow at Ukraine's Institute of Archaeology, showed off the team's finds: a bronze-age deer antler, its tip shaped into a tool to press patterns into pottery or leather; a shard of ceramic most likely made by the Scythians, an ancient nomadic people of the steppe; a chunk of a Byzantine amphora; an 18th-century anchor.

Most spectacular was an entire boat, hollowed out of a single tree trunk and beautifully preserved by a thousand-year river immersion

- one of many remarkable vessels that have been discovered in this part of the Dnipro. The team was planning to lift it from the river the following day.

With its smaller neighbouring islands, Khortytsia comprises a natural and historical reserve - a place of profound symbolic importance to Ukraine's national narrative as the first stronghold of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks, and richly populated with the traces of thousands of years of human life.

▼ Khortytsia with the Zaporizhzhia dam in the distance; left, Anatoliy Volkov excavates a bronze age site PHOTOGRAPHS: JULIA KOCHETOVA/THE GUARDIAN

Khortytsia lies at the head of a vast landscape known as the “great meadow”. This 2,155 sq km area was, between the building of the Nova Kakhovka dam in the 1950s until 6 June 2023, covered by a reservoir. That was the day the structure, 30 metres high and 2 miles long, was blown up - by the Russians, according to analysts.

Unchecked by the dam, the waters of the reservoir - 18 cubic km of it - roared downstream, creating a humanitarian crisis as its waters inundated towns and villages on both sides of the frontline. Now, a vocal group of historians, naturalists, ecologists and archaeologists want to see the great meadow protected as a Unesco world heritage site.

The former reservoir bed has, with startling speed, regenerated itself into something like its pre-dam self: a habitat of wetlands, grassland and islands. The dam, say experts, must never be rebuilt.

More than 100 Ukrainian NGOs are formally supporting the move. A letter of intent has been sent to Unesco, and cooperation sought from the Ukrainian government's culture ministry. But other interests will want to see the reservoir remade to irrigate Ukraine's southern farmlands. Soon after the dam's destruction, the Ukrainian government set up a pilot project with the state-owned hydroelectric company Ukrhydroenergo to prepare for its reconstruction after the end of the war.

Valeriy Nefedov, who is leading the team of archaeologists on the island, is one of those pressing for the preservation of the “unique historical and natural environment” that has re-emerged. In 1999 he discovered an 18th-century warship in these waters which is now in the island’s Museum of Navigation.

Source: Esa Copernicus Sentinel 2

Nefedov was serving in the army on 6 June 2023 and quickly heard the news of the destruction of the dam. For him, there was a certain irony: since the 1990s, he had been pressing for its gradual dismantling, the draining of the reservoir, and the restitution of the great meadow. But not like this, in one single, catastrophic event.

"The first crime was building the dam," he said. "The second was blowing it up."

That month, he was asked to join a newly formed military unit of experts - historians, ecologists, scientists and other researchers - to investigate the reservoir bed.

The consequences were staggering: what had been a reservoir had, within a very short time, turned into the exposed bottom of the body of water. On the other hand, there was a sense of danger.”

“I had some expectations about what I might see,” said Nefedov. “But when we reached the area, it is impossible to describe the impressions and emotions I felt.

This was the grey zone, no man's land, “extremely tense”, he said. There was constant shelling. Russian sabotage groups were also on the prowl. And they could see the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. “It was a very strange feeling being between the positions of our Ukrainian forces and those of our Russian enemies.”

It was more than that: a watery territory he knew intimately as a diver was now dry land. “It felt like terra incognita - as if we were the first people to set foot on it,” he said. “Everything we saw and found there made us feel like explorers or discoverers.

“Very unusual, almost fantastical landscapes appeared before us. Ancient channels, straits and islands had been revealed. We saw the remains of settlements, the foundations of houses, roads. We also found archaeological material lying directly on the surface, from the Neolithic right through into the 20th century.”

▲ Olena Dzneladze and a colleague with a previous find; archaeologists prepare to move an ancient vessel

There were also toxic heavy metals on the reservoir bed, which the biologist Pavlo Oliinyk, one of the team at Khortytsia, is involved in monitoring. But, he said, the rapid growth of vegetation in the area may provide a “green shield”.

Trees, he said, had already grown up to 7 metres high in just three years. “Building the dam was ecocide, destroying the dam was ecocide, and the third ecocide would be rebuilding it,” he said.

This vast area of the Dnipro floodplain has always had huge significance. Its first surviving mention in the written record is by Herodotus, the fifth-century BC Greek historian. This section of the Dnipro was the last easily navigable stretch north of the Black Sea, before rapids upstream at Zaporizhzhia rendered the river unmanageable by all but the most knowledgeable.

This created a safe haven for the Cossacks, who, fleeing persecution in the 16th century, established a free, quasi-democratic polity here. This Cossack state became a important reference for the 19th-century intellectuals, including the national poet Taras Shevchenko, who led the modern Ukrainian national project.

The area's significance goes back even further. Also working on the island in September was the archaeologist Anatoliy Volkov, who was excavating one of a series of bronze-age stone enclosures. "We are in a frontline area," he said.

"There is always a chance a missile or rocket will land, so the more we research and preserve, the better."

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The mystery of Havana syndrome Shortly after 1am one day in April 2019, a CIA officer on a trip to London was jolted awake in his hotel room by the most intense

▼ Cubans ride past the US embassy during an anti-imperialist youth march in Havana this year PHOTOGRAPH: YAMIL LAGE/AFP VIA GETTY

head pain he had ever experienced. His body was soaked with sweat and he felt like his eyes were spinning in their sockets. He manoeuvred his way out of bed, hoping to make it to the bathroom to vomit, but found his sense of balance had deserted him. Eventually, he fell back into a fitful, shallow sleep.

The next day, arriving at the work meeting he had travelled for, the CIA man found he could not remember the names of colleagues in the room, people he knew well. As the meeting got under way, he could barely follow the flow of discussion. Initially, he chalked it up to a terrible - if rather odd - case of food poisoning. But over subsequent weeks, worrying symptoms persisted: brain fog, loss of balance and increasingly harsh tinnitus.

By September, he had finally started to feel better and was on another work trip, this time to Poland. Asleep in his Warsaw hotel room, he was again woken by terrifying head pain, even worse than in London. He later described the sensation as “someone standing over me with a baseball bat and just repeatedly hitting me on the head”. It was a nine or 10 on the pain scale, he felt, worse than anything he could remember.

Two hours later, the same feeling returned, and he started to suspect that what was happening might not be an internal process but rather something external attacking him. He dragged himself off the bed and curled up on the floor, where the intense pain subsided somewhat. That was the last time he had the “attack” sensation, but he went on to suffer chronic nerve pain, fatigue and other severe health problems for years.

Sources described the man in question as a senior CIA officer who had recently been assigned an important job relating to worldwide operations against Russia. At the time, he was only vaguely aware of the stories that had emerged from Cuba two years previously, about US diplomats who believed they may have been attacked with a sonic weapon.

These incidents, in which those involved reported feeling a variety of unusual sensations of sound, pressure and pain, followed by residual symptoms that could last for years, had acquired the name Havana syndrome, after the city where mass reports of the phenomenon first emerged. Later,

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dozens of CIA officers in postings across the globe reported Havana syndrome episodes, which in official documents were referred to as anomalous health incidents (AHIs). Many believed AHIs were the result of a sinister Russian intelligence operation to injure or intimidate American covert operatives, using a previously unknown weapon that delivered sonic or pulsed microwave energy.

There was sustained pushback against that theory. Some scientists insisted that the idea of a portable weapon that could deliver these injuries belonged in the realm of science fiction. They said a whole range of conditions could cause pain, dizziness and cognitive issues. Various experts suggested AHIs could be down to environmental factors, toxins or even the sound of chirping crickets. One explanation was that the symptoms were psychogenic and the result of “mass hysteria”, while some inside the CIA even accused those involved of faking their injuries in the hope of a medical payout. The disagreements over what was causing Havana syndrome led to bitter arguments and broken friendships at the spy agency.

In 2022, a panel of scientific experts convened by the US government concluded that “the signs and symptoms of AHIs are genuine and compelling” and “could be due to external stimuli”. But the next year, a long-awaited report delivered the official assessment of the US intelligence community. “The available intelligence consistently points against the involvement of US adversaries in causing the reported incidents,” read an unclassified summary. It was “very unlikely” that a sinister Russian campaign was behind AHIs, it concluded.

Yet the mystery of Havana syndrome refuses to die. This summer, the “very unlikely” assessment from 2023 was rescinded by Donald Trump’s outgoing director of national intelligence, who claimed it was based on flawed analysis. Now, a decade after the first reports emerged from Havana, two CBS journalists who have covered the story from the start will release a book that sets out the case for Russia being behind at least some of the episodes.

It also accuses parts of the US government and intelligence community of perpetrating a cover-up of the evidence. This article is based on early access to their findings, as well as on the Guardian's own interviews with intelligence sources, AHI patients and scientists.

David Relman, the Stanford professor who led the official scientific panel on Havana syndrome in 2022, told the Guardian he believed there was a subset of AHI cases that were “most plausibly explained by exposure to pulsed microwave energy”. His panel had access to patient records and to more than 1,000 classified documents on the topic. “To any reasonable person looking at all the evidence I was able to see, it inevitably leads to the conclusion that there may have been a cover-up,” he said.

Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados are longstanding producers for the CBS programme 60 Minutes. In an interview at the programme's studios in midtown Manhattan, the pair recounted how they had first come across the story a decade ago. They covered the Obama administration's policy of re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba in 2015, and so when reports emerged the next year of a mysterious new condition afflicting employees at the reopened embassy in Havana, they contacted a senior US diplomat who had been posted there. "I expected him to say, 'This is all bullshit'," said Zill. "But he said, 'Oh no, this is completely true. And I can put you in touch with a bunch of people who were hit.'"

he pair spoke to more than a dozen of them, off the record, but by the time they were ready to put a story together there

were new reports of similar cases occurring among US diplomats stationed in China. Then, there were whispers about it happening in other locations across the globe.

Once the first 60 Minutes episodes devoted to the topic aired, victims started proactively contacting the producers, keen to tell their stories. Many of these new sources were - or had been - undercover operatives for the CIA, meaning they could not speak openly as most details of their work were classified. But people stationed in different parts of the world, who had not known each other, told stories that seemed remarkably similar.

A notable pattern linked some of the key cases: the alleged victims were people working, or who had previously worked, on beats where they rubbed up against Russian interests. In some cases, the location of the supposed hits was notable in itself: allies of Moscow where some part of the elite was looking to improve relations with the west. This was the case in Cuba, where the original cluster of cases had come during the Obama-era thaw in relations with the US, which had irritated hardliners in the Cuban regime and their backers in Moscow.

It was also the case in other locations where incidents were reported, such as Vietnam, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Serbia. Several CIA officers who had been stationed in Kyiv during the 2014 Maidan revolution, decried by President Vladimir Putin as a US-backed coup, later suffered AHIs in different locations across the world.

“I went through years of doubts about the story, and all the crazy things we were hearing,” said Zill. But the more source meetings she and Rey had, the more they felt there really was something there. “We’re meeting these highly effective intelligence officers and they’re all telling versions of the same story,” said Rey.

The origins of Havana syndrome go back to long before Havana. A cornerstone case is that of Mike Beck, a counterintelligence officer at the National Security Agency, who fell ill when he was sent on a temporary assignment to an undisclosed location in the 1990s to check a US diplomatic facility for bugs. Beck developed a rare form of Parkinson's disease aged 45 and died earlier this year.

A declassified NSA statement, included in his 2014 workplace compensation claim, noted “there is intelligence information from 2012 associating the hostile country to which Mr Beck travelled in the late 1990s with a high-powered microwave system weapon that may have the ability to weaken, intimidate or kill an enemy, over time, and without leaving evidence”. The unnamed “hostile country”, sources said, was Russia.

The first known AHIs among the contemporary batch of cases occurred in late 2014, when several US government employees at the consulate in Frankfurt were taken ill. One was found unconscious in a stairwell inside the consulate, after feeling sudden, intense pressure on her chest and hearing a “high-pitched squeal”, Rey and Zill reported.

Journalists Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados

Even as Trump publicly denied that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election, the agency made plans to push back hard against Russian activity. “Obviously, we didn’t have permission to run lethal operations against the Russians,

The next cohort of AHI patients included people at the heart of a new CIA policy on Russia. In 2017, as Donald Trump took office for the first time, the agency launched a drive to push back against the increasingly brazen global reach of Moscow's intelligence agencies. “They wanted us to take the same kind of tactics and spirit we used in the global war on terror to the Russians,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, who was made deputy chief of operations for Europe and Eurasia in 2017. Polymeropoulos, who had spent most of his career in the Middle East, was one of several veterans of the “war on terror” who were moved to senior roles focused on Russia.

The next year, a researcher at a US defence institute - who asked the Guardian not to publish her name - was on a tour of the Balkans, attending meetings with military officers from the host nations, alongside US defence attaches. Her itinerary took in Montenegro, which at the time was in the process of applying for Nato membership, and Serbia, a Russian ally which harboured resentments towards the US over the 1999 Nato bombing of Yugoslavia.

Marc Polymeropoulos has symptoms of the syndrome

On her final evening in Belgrade, as she walked through lively pedestrianised streets on the way back to her hotel, the researcher was sure she spotted someone tailing her. Later, as she approached the door to her hotel room, she felt “a sinking feeling, as though I was in a lift that was descending suddenly”, she recalled in a telephone interview. Once inside her room, she continued to feel odd physical sensations. “I just had this falling sensation, a feeling of gravity pulling at me, and nausea,” she said. At one point, she turned on her government laptop and found the screen was flickering with blue static. The computer never worked again, she said.

She was able to continue her trip, but in the subsequent weeks she felt weak, had difficulty speaking clearly and developed pain that felt “like a drill was going into my eye”, she said. She was unable to focus at work. “I used up all my vacation, then my sick leave, then colleagues donated their leave. Eventually, I had to leave my job,” she said. It was only much later that she connected what had happened to her in Serbia with reports about Havana syndrome.

Source: Michael Rey, Oriana Zill de Granados, The Havana Syndrome
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but we could do things we hadn't done as much previously, such as enlist the help of multiple friendly services and expose the Russians for what they were doing," said Polymeropoulos, in an interview at a restaurant just outside Washington.

In early December 2017, Polymeropoulos and another senior CIA executive made a liaison trip to Moscow to meet their counterparts in Russia's SVR and FSB intelligence services. The official meetings were ill-tempered and lacking in substance. Late one night, Polymeropoulos woke up suddenly in his hotel room. “I had vertigo and a splitting headache. I thought it was food poisoning at first, I thought I was going to puke and crap my brains out, and I remember being like, holy shit, the room is spinning and my ears are ringing,” he said.

On his return to Washington, Polymeropoulos struggled with a persistent migraine that would not subside, and with superiors who insisted his symptoms were unrelated to other AHIs. He saw a variety of doctors on his own time, but due to the classified nature of his job he could not share details of where he had been when he became ill. He left the CIA in 2019 and, frustrated that he was being stonewalled in his requests for medical assessment, became the first CIA officer to go public with a Havana syndrome story under their real name, telling the journalist Julia Ioffe about what had happened in Moscow.

The resulting publicity prompted the CIA to send him to the Walter Reed military medical centre, where he was diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury. In 2023 he was found eligible for compensation under the Havana Act, which authorised payments to “personnel who incur brain injuries from hostilities while on assignment”. The financial payout was modest, but he saw it as a huge moral victory after years of fighting for recognition.

One early theory was that AHIs could be collection attempts gone wrong - a machine designed to pull classified data from operatives' electronic devices that had unfortunate side-effects when turned up too high. That is still seen by some as a possibility, although even if intelligence collection was the initial idea, the damaging health effects would have quickly become apparent to the operators.

Some observers insisted the whole concept of “Havana syndrome” was an invention. They asked why, if Russia possessed a mystery brain-frying weapon, it was not using it on a wider range of its enemies? Why were there not more reports of collateral victims? The sociologist Robert Bartholomew and the neurologist Robert Baloh co-authored a book that declared the whole story a hoax - “a case study in the social

construction of mass psychogenic illness" - borne of high-stress work environments and propagated by excitable journalists.

Douglas Fields, a cellular neuroscientist and author of several books about the brain, claimed in a journal article that the medical studies of patients which showed cognitive changes had used unsound methodology, and that theories of an energy weapon “defy the laws of physics”. Reports of Havana syndrome should be taken no more seriously than sightings of the Loch Ness monster, he suggested.

Other scientists, including some who had reviewed the medical records of patients, strongly disagreed. “The early scepticism was perfectly appropriate, but over time we started to see an increase in the number of individuals who have gone through clinical evaluations that cannot be faked,” said James Giordano, a professor emeritus of neurology at Georgetown University Medical Center and the forensic neuroscientist on the original cohort of cases from Havana.

“We are talking about objective signs that are presenting with a very distinct pattern,” Giordano said. Key symptoms included “a profound tumbling or falling sensation” as well as pressure in the head, chest and throat, and cognitive effects. It was true that chemical or drug exposure could cause similar symptoms, he said, but this would be visible in blood tests. Another key factor was the sudden onset and the sense of a specific location where the apparent attack felt strongest.

When the Biden administration took office in 2021, the then CIA director, Bill Burns, and the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, vowed to get to the bottom of the issue. Burns met many of the AHI cohort, including Polymeropoulos, listening carefully to their stories and promising them a full investigation. Burns also fired the CIA's chief medical officer, who had infuriated some AHI patients by accusing them of faking their symptoms. The same year, more than 100 CIA operatives and other US government officials reported AHIs in locations across the globe.

In Vienna, there were so many cases that the work of the CIA station was essentially paralysed and the station chief recalled. A spate of government employees also reported incidents on US soil, including several who claimed to have been hit on the grounds of the White House. Was this an adversary stepping up its global campaign of attacks, or was the increasing publicity about AHIs simply leading more people to misidentify other conditions or episodes as Havana syndrome?

Burns and Haines launched two investigations, one to re-examine

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intelligence on whether a foreign adversary was behind Havana syndrome, and another that convened a panel of scientists and physicians to determine whether it was even possible for a weapon to cause the symptoms.

Relman, the Stanford professor who chaired the scientific panel, said its members were given access to open source and classified scientific studies into pulsed radio frequency energy, which suggested the science behind there being a “device” that could cause AHI symptoms was plausible. Scientists who disagreed were simply not aware of the research into such technology that had been taking place for decades in several countries, especially in the Soviet Union and then Russia, he said.

When it came to the medical results, Relman conceded that plenty - perhaps the vast majority - of AHI claims could be explained by other factors. But there were dozens of cases “that were unusual in the distinctness of their features and the near impossibility of explaining them based on known medical and environmental conditions”, he said. In short: the publicity around AHIs may have prompted a wave of false reporting, but a core subset of cases seemed to be real.

Determining who may have carried out such attacks was beyond Relman's purview. That fell to the second expert group, which in 2023 issued the assessment that it was “very unlikely” to be caused by a foreign adversary, dismaying many AHI patients who had hoped to finally receive closure on what caused their health problems.

Even people who have seen the intelligence on Havana syndrome can disagree on what it suggests. Two sources offered the Guardian radically divergent interpretations of what the classified data shows on possible Russian involvement.

One highlighted the lack of a “smoking gun” - a piece of human intelligence or an intercept that showed Russian operatives discussing a programme to use directed energy against Americans. “Everyone has seen how strong our collection capabilities on Russia are,” the source said, referencing how US intelligence got hold of Putin’s war plans before his February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. “If this was really a large-scale Russian programme, we would have expected to see something in some of these channels, but we didn’t.”

Another former intelligence official disagreed: “If you’re waiting for an intercept of someone saying ‘My name is Igor and I’m going to press the button on my secret laser’ before you have confidence, that’s probably never going to happen. But for any reasonable person who has access to the intelligence and knows how to read it, the Russian fingerprints are clear.”

If that is indeed the case, it

A pattern linked some key cases: the alleged victims were working, or had worked, on beats where they rubbed up against Russian interests

The Havana Syndrome by Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados is published by WH Allen on Thursday raises the question of why the 2023 intelligence community assessment found it “very unlikely” that a foreign actor was involved. At the very end of the Biden administration, a tweaked version said that while five US intelligence agencies still found it “very unlikely”, one agency now believed there was a “roughly even chance” that a foreign actor had used “a novel weapon or prototype device” in a number of attacks.

This summer, both of those Biden-era assessments were rescinded by Trump's director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, in a memo issued just before she left office. Gabbard said the earlier assessments had been marred by “selective exclusion of evidence” and “mischaracterisation of sources”, though the statement did not release any new evidence or provide a revised assessment.

While Gabbard had a chequered reputation among the intelligence community, Mark Zaid, a lawyer who represents more than 30 AHI patients, welcomed her memo and said it was a first step to overturning a CIA cover-up. When asked why the CIA might have perpetrated such a cover-up, Zaid suggested it could be to protect its reputation after prior negligence. "This has built up to a level that the agency can't let the truth get out because it's going to reflect so poorly on them," he said.

Burns, in a comment for Rey and Zill's book, said it was “simply not true that there was a ‘cover-up’ by CIA” and described the earlier investigation as “a rigorous effort across the entire intelligence community”.

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ey and Zill believe the purported cover-up was a result of multiple factors over many years.

"There's not a single cigar-filled backroom meeting that led to decisions getting made," said Rey. "There was a lot of, 'This is a pain in the ass' or 'The president's not going to want to hear this'. There was bureaucratic dysfunction, careerism and things that just got in the way of proper investigation."

One example he gave is the fact that the FBI sent criminal investigators, rather than counterintelligence investigators with access to classified information, to Havana in the aftermath of the attacks there.

Another is a nascent investigation at CIA headquarters in late 2019, which reportedly found that in some cases, phones linked to Russian intelligence operatives had been in the vicinity of suspected Havana syndrome incidents. These included the two hits that year on the senior CIA officer in London and Warsaw.

In London, a suspicious phone had supposedly been just 9 metres (30ft) away from his hotel room. But when the then CIA director, Gina Haspel, was briefed on these findings, she allegedly complained it was not solid enough to take to the president, given how sensitive he was on Russia-related matters. “The meeting abruptly ended after Haspel shouted that if she took reports like this to President Trump, she would be fired as director,” Rey and Zill write.

If you don't love Carson's poetry, I'm not sure I can really be your friend Emma Brockes

Perhaps the most significant piece of evidence to emerge recently has been the alleged US government acquisition of a “Havana syndrome-style device” in an undercover operation. First reported by the independent journalist Sasha Ingber earlier this year, two sources confirmed to the Guardian that a device had been acquired and brought to the US in late 2024 for testing, after a purchase from a dark web seller.

Rey and Zill's book takes this reporting further, recounting a meeting with a person who claimed to be part of the undercover team that acquired the device. The source told them the device was “man portable”, shot non-thermal pulsed microwaves and was acquired from “a complex Russian illicit network”. It was not believed to have been used in a specific Havana syndrome incident, but testing on animals has reportedly shown that it may cause similar symptoms to AHIs, which could make it proof of concept that building such a device is scientifically possible.

PHOTOGRAPHS: JONATHAN BUCKMASTER/MIRRORPIX; STEFAN ROUSSEAU/PA

That would make the case for a weapon being involved in some Havana syndrome incidents more plausible, and would also raise new and worrying questions. If such weapons have proliferated to the extent that one can be bought on the dark web, how many devices could be out there and who may have access to them? Could AHIs thus have not one perpetrator, but multiple? And is there a future in which such weapons become a widespread element of warfare? “We know the technology has reached a level that enables it to be used in weaponisable ways,” said Giordano. “I see that as a clear and present threat.”

For those who have suffered with symptoms for years, the acquisition of the device and the rescinded intelligence assessments provide some hope that one day, they will receive official confirmation that they really were targeted by a foreign adversary. For many of them, the lack of recognition at home has angered them more than the attack itself.

"The Russians are our enemy, I put them in the same bucket as al-Qaida or the Taliban, or any other groups I worked against," said Polymeropoulos. "Do I want to see them held accountable? Of course. But I'm actually more upset and feel more of a betrayal from my own government."

Tories show they can ruin ordinary pleasures like dogs and beer just as efficiently as Reform

Monday

"Anyone worried about pneumonic plague?" This is a friend - a medic - texting me after reading reports at the weekend of the 28-year-old Russian woman who died while working at a "plague research lab" in Siberia. Relying on details from the famously open Russian state guaranteed the presence of a certain dark subtext to the tantalisingly short news item. Namely: lab grown disease cultivated for reasons unknown and with a $100\%$ mortality rate escapes Russian facility into general population, eight hours flying time from London. In other words we're all going to die.

My first thought was: is this better or worse than the time that guy who'd been exposed to Ebola took the subway to go bowling in Brooklyn? The answer to which, of course, is that post-Covid it's worse; we know exactly how these things go, how they start small, with a news in brief buried 20 pages deep in the paper, moving glacially up the news list every few days until a lonely death in a Siberian laboratory leads, step by incremental step, to the zombie apocalypse.

Meanwhile, the word “plague” remains outlandishly unrelaxing, despite the best efforts of the New York Times to contextualise it. Elucidating the various different types of plague that can kill you - pneumonic, septicemic and bubonic - I have to say my money would’ve been on bubonic as the worst, what with the Black Death and all. Apparently, however, the most virulent form of plague is the one in question, pneumonic, spread by a cough or a sneeze and causing “a severe rapid-onset lung infection” that can kill you within a few days. Advice from my medic friend in New York: “get antibiotics for everyone,” alternatively, invest in a sense of proportion.

Tuesday

I did not have “let’s have more firing squads” on my bingo card of talking points this week, but that is the serious discussion under way in the US after the horrific, botched execution of Christa Pike, the convicted murderer on death row who regained consciousness and started talking on Tuesday, in the wake of the state of Tennessee failing successfully to kill her.

This was the second botched execution by the state this year, and one of the apparently 7% of all executions in the US since 1972 that have failed to be effective. Among the most common reasons cited are expired drugs and untrained executioners but also malfunctioning electric chairs that set fire to their occupants and inconclusive hangings that fail to snap at the neck.

As a result, the single method of executing a prisoner in the US that has resulted in no failed attempts whatsoever is the firing squad, raising incomprehensible images in a supposedly modern world of the semicircle of shooters, none bearing sole responsibility, firing in the direction of the condemned's head. For the first time since 1945, the US military is scheduled to carry out one such execution, in Texas, in December, which this week Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, promised to live stream in defiance of anything resembling normal human behaviour.

Wednesday

There's probably a joke about the failure of the Tory party to lie down and accept its fate after so many lethal injections, but I can't quite bring it home. Instead, at party conference this week in Birmingham, we saw a chipper-seeming Kemi Badenoch step out on stage to perform her pantomime version of common sense, smartly referring to the Reform Party as “that” (as in “we are not uniting with that”) and even with polls sitting low for the Tories, raising a problem for her opponents. The Tory leader does an extremely good job of appearing to be a plain-spoken and regular human in contrast to Reform on the one hand and what might delicately be called the unusual makeup of the Greens on the other.

It's worth remembering what Badenoch looks like when the mask slips. If Boris Johnson's real face was the rictus of an under-briefed, over-confident man white-knuckling his way through government while chuckling to himself like a toy in a horror movie, Badenoch strikes me as someone who is stuck on the gimlet-eyed single-setting of victory at all costs. Meanwhile, footage of Young Tories partying at conference never gets old, offering a strong rival for most embarrassing moment to the 30,000-word policy document the Tory leader - hide your face

- has self-christened “Kemistry.” Someone tell her you can’t coin your own nicknames.

Thursday

Anne Carson wins the Nobel prize for literature and (forgive me, but very occasionally when life gives you the opportunity to be insufferable, you can't not take it) and so in response to this news I would like to say when I went hiking with Nobel prize winner Anne Carson in Iceland last year, the thought struck me ...

There was no thought; I just wanted to get it on the table about the hike - OK, it was a short walk up a rocky incline - anyway it was with the Nobel prize winner Anne Carson, whom I have loved for ever and have known since we met in Michigan many years ago. She is brilliant, and funny, and wise, and I could cite so many lines from her poetry but one of my favourites is this, from the poem Lines in her 2006 collection, Decreation: “To my mother / love / of my life, I describe what I had for brunch.” I feel the same way about these lines as Madonna used to say she felt about Frieda Kahlo’s self-portrait, which is that if you don’t feel it vibrate through your system, I can’t ever really be your friend. (I’m aware most people would be fine with that).

Friday

Sublime to ridiculous, Anne Carson to Elon Musk, who is the subject of Alex Gibney's four-hour documentary which launched this week and I can't wait to see. Prepublicity has focused on the contributions to the film of Justine Wilson, Musk's ex-wife, who along with MacKenzie Scott (formerly Bezos) is part of the tech titans' first-wives club via which one can measure the journey taken by very rich men from marriage to regular women to women with no apparent interior lives. "He was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking," said Wilson, who also told Gibney her ex-husband once said to her, "If you were my employee, I would fire you." No amount of money in the world, am I right?

I write the songs that make the whole world cry, I write the ...

The week in reviews

Spotlight

▲ Too cool? ... Jon Shard, Miss Flesh at the Haçienda, 1993-95 PHOTOGRAPH: JON SHARD

Art The 90s Tate Britain, London ★☆☆☆☆

This is not a real exhibition it's a magazine spread

Jake and Dinos Chapman were dismissed by some in the 1990s as overgrown adolescents selling shock for its own sake, and yet it is their work that brings this dismally shallow show closest to a moment of depth. Their sculpture Great Deeds Against the Dead is a display of dismembered, bleeding nude corpses hung on a tree. It asks questions about whether art can have a moral purpose. The best British art of the 1990s was like that: coming on as brash, vulgar, macabre, yet also intelligent and emotional. Unfortunately, this show is neither.

You'd think Tate Britain would want to do justice to a decade in which these Millbank premises played a starring role, staging the Turner prize in the years when bisected cows, concrete houses and elephant dung got the nation arguing. At the start of the 1990s, no one thought Britain was a leader in contemporary art. By the millennium, we were better known for new art than new novels.

A show that revisits fin-de-siecle British art spectacularly would be an interesting proposition. Instead, former Vogue editor Edward Enninful stages his personal fantasy version of that decade, mixing up art and fashion - with the emphasis very much on fashion. There's more about Isabella Blow than Rachel Whiteread, who is represented by an early cast of the inside of a hot-water bottle. Damien Hirst has a couple of small, harmless-looking sharks balanced on a circular rail.

This is not a real exhibition. It's a magazine spread. Not only are there style mags in the show, its design has the breathless superficiality of a glossy layout bigging up its glib theme in a glamorous sweep of juxtaposed images. But setting fashion photography alongside works of conceptual art is a terrible idea.

Juergen Teller's 1996 photograph Kristen McMenamy No 3 is hung next to Sarah Lucas's 1997 work Chicken Knickers. Teller's picture depicts its subject naked and smoking with a lipstick heart drawn on her containing the word "Versace". What is it saying other than "Buy Versace"? Now look at Lucas's photograph of a raw chicken stuck to someone's knickers. It's funny - a great deed against a dead chicken from an artist with a genius for estrangement.

Teller is exposed as just a clever stylist whose images lack poetry or meaning. His portrait of Kate Moss has none of the distance or mystery of Gary Hume's painting of her with a shiny, metallic, mirroring face. Hume provides one of the few moments when fashion and art genuinely overlap - but as pop art, his Kate is more a baleful comment on celebrity than a celebration of Cool Britannia.

Not that the show has much to say about that wider pop cultural fizz. There's an entire room full of party pics depicting the club scene, but surely another point of the 90s was that mainstream British pop was revived - I guess Enninful is too sophisticated to find space for Oasis or Blur, let alone Fat Les.

Instead we get couture. You can obviously see Alexander McQueen as an artist. But honestly. The room dealing with “body horror” is dominated by costumes that are just mannered and pretentious. In the same room, pompous, awful images shot by Sean Ellis for the Face take up an entire wall. It’s next to these that Jake and Dinos look so profound.

Other fine artists don't fare so well. Helen Chadwick gets two tokenistic eerie photoworks while the death-obsessed art of Hamad Butt, shown beautifully at the Whitechapel not so long ago, is squeezed to the end of the gallery. Chris Ofili is namechecked with No Woman, No Cry; Tracey Emin gets one neon.

Or am I wrong? Does Young British Art fully deserve the dismissive treatment that Tate, which did so well out of these artists, gives it? Perhaps it really was a load of codswallop. But even if you don't share my belief that some of the art of that time is powerful and enduring, surely it deserves enough space to be seen and judged.

After just seven rooms it suddenly ends. I hoped what I'd seen was a prologue to more art with enough space to appreciate it. But no. You leave as dissatisfied as you might after flicking through a 30-year-old copy of the Face in a dentist's waiting room. Jonathan Jones Until 14 February

Theatre As You Like It Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon ★★★★☆

RSC's all- male cast is magically transgressive

"To liberty, and not to banishment," exclaims Celia to Rosalind, the exile who finds freedom in her disguise as a man. It is a key statement in Shakespeare's transformative, gender-bending pastoral comedy, just before the usurping Duke Frederick's court is replaced by the romance of the Forest of Arden. That big reveal brought a prolonged technical difficulty on the opening night of director Daniel Evans' all-male production, which was paused for well over an hour so it could be fixed. Technical hitch aside, it is a ravishing staging.

There is little comedy in the severe court, which contains an intimidating physicality to reflect Duke Frederick's thuggery, with slaps, shoves and a magnificently constructed WWE-style wrestling match. It is replaced by Arden's verdant hills on Anisha Fields' exquisite set, so beautiful they verge on the voluptuous. The black Elizabethan gowns of the court, designed by Colin Richmond, are Puritan-like but flecked with ornament; they are stunning, as is the chequered shadow-play of the early scenes in Ryan Day's lighting design.

Jonathan Groff, the US screen star who is also Broadway royalty thanks in part to his performance as the king in Hamilton, makes a fun Rosalind, perhaps too declamatory

▼ Instant chemistry ... Jonathan Groff and Fisayo Akinade PHOTOGRAPH: MARC BRENNER

at the start but more textured and subtle later on. He instantly establishes chemistry with Fisayo Akinade's Celia, who is a runaway highlight of this show, performing femininity without caricature, and bringing an added charge to their relationship.

The all-male casting brings depth and subtlety. It's ingenious rather than gimmicky, simultaneously nostalgic and of the moment: a nod to the Elizabethan age when boys and men played female parts, yet now more queer and transgressive. The love between Orlando (Elliot Barnes-Worrell) and Rosalind's disguised male alter ego, Ganymede, stays superficial, but the homoeroticism is more effective in the quieter moments, when Groff prowls with desire.

The comedy is light and frothy on the whole. Gary Wilmot, who is both Duke Frederick and the exiled Duke Senior, never overplays his lines. A fantastically prim Phoebe (Tim Preston) brings librarian comedy with her disdain for the shepherd, Silvius (Edward Judge), and her love-at-first-sight for Ganymede. The ribald romance between Touchstone (Greg Haiste) and Audrey (Gareth Snook) is played for music-hall laughs; the latter is flamboyantly big-haired and archly bawdy, little short of a pantomime dame.

Arden itself is rural Wales. Could this be a personal vision of an idyll from Welsh-born Evans? There is a lung-opening splendour to the set as it rolls downstage, over the darkness of the court, and Shakespeare's songs are replaced by Welsh folk hymns (music composed, arranged and supervised by Theo Jamieson). It is preceded by massive alarms made beautiful by sound designer Paul Groothuis, combining with lighting to conjure musical claps of thunder and lightning.

The only (other) glitch in the production is its pacing, which feels too slow in its latter stages, perhaps due to the big technical pause. Yet the big reveal of Arden is still awesome, when it finally comes. Evans has created magic here. Arifa Akbar Until 7 November

Scottish film Till the Bells Ring may be the world's first feature-length talkie. Set in Glasgow and written in Scots by Graham Moffat, it premiered a year before Hollywood's 1927 The Jazz Singer

Art

Aphrodite

Ashmolean museum, Oxford ★★★☆☆

A trashy way to treat the goddess of love

Botticelli's Venus has parked her shell outside your house and come to pay a night-time visit. The glowing strands of her hair glitter against blackness. She is, unmistakably, the goddess from Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, appearing here in a very similar painting from about 1490, also by Botticelli and his workshop.

Botticelli inspired a modern appetite that has never ended. From his hypnotic paintings a host of lush sex goddesses rose up to rule European art through to Michelangelo Pistoletto's ironic 1967 Venus of the Rags (a 1974 version of which is shown here), in which a heap of clothes overflow around a marble nude seen from behind, a mix of beauty and chaos.

▲ Chaos ... Venus of the Rags, 1974, by Michelangelo Pistoletto PHOTOGRAPH: TATE/MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO

But this exhibition is not called Venus; it doesn't tell her artistic story but sees her as a cheap Roman substitute for the original Greek love goddess Aphrodite, who in turn is exposed as a ripoff of a matriarchal deity once worshipped in Cyprus. The result is a mixture of world-class loans and an archaeological hobbyhorse.

Both the quality and gaps hit you straight away with a classical marble Crouching Venus. There's no exploration of its impact on later art. This Roman copy of an ancient Greek original was sold by Cromwell's republican regime after the beheading of its royal owner, Charles I. It was acquired by the artist Peter Lely who painted his own mysterious, nude, anti-Puritan masterpiece Nymphs by a Fountain. Before that, Rubens saw this same statue and based his painting Venus Frigida on it.

For me it's Botticelli who is the true believer in Aphrodite/Venus. For 1,000 years, ever since the fall of the Roman empire, she was cast out by Christianity. Her worship was revived in the Renaissance. When you gaze at the unfathomable eyes of his Venus, you too believe that love is a holy thing that deserves its own deity. Jonathan Jones Until 11 April

Musical Rent

Tom Stoppard theatre, London ★★★☆☆

Stranger Things star leads musical- fan favourite

Is Rent one of the musical greats? It's a forever fan favourite and its origin story holds a special place in theatre-kid hearts. Jonathan Larson, Rent's creator, died just before the off-Broadway premiere in 1996, aged 35 - a poignant echo of its raggle-taggle bohemians in New York, living fast and fearing death will come before its time.

With onstage seating circling the space, director Luke Sheppard cradles the piece in community, knitting together its hopeful vagabonds. Actors watch between scenes, harmonising and dancing in their chairs. The cast even form something like a prayer circle for the imperishable Seasons of Love.

We're in a grunge-era New York - even Howard Hudson's light design looks grey and gritty. Everyone layers up against winter in thrifted coats, boots and berets, while the choreography (by Tom Jackson Greaves) catches the hard-knock city in rucking elbows and weaving hips.

It's the story of La Bohème, kinda - taking a friendship circle of artists and wannabes from meet-cute in a power cut to last-act misery, riffing off Puccini's sob-stringed melodies. Romances flare and falter, ambitions compromise, Aids is an ever-present anxiety.

Gaten Matarazzo (Stranger Things) plays narrator Mark, a

Wrenching songs ... Gaten Matarazzo in Rent PHOTOGRAPH: TRISTAM KENTON/THE GUARDIAN nebbish bearing witness to his pals' shenanigans with a Super 8 camera. He observes fractious situationships between his bestie Roger (a snarling Travis Ross) and lost Mimi (Alexa Lopez); between his heedless ex Maureen (Lazy Violet) and Joanne (Danielle Fiamanya, preppy, goofy).

Loss steals into these young lives too soon. Part of the wrench of Seasons of Love is that kids shouldn't have to keep toll of time ("Five hundred, twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes") but see the moments stretch ahead of them. When Jeevan Braich's shining drag queen dies, her lover falls into elegy: Billy Nevers' lost, husky growl fills the air with grief.

This show gives good value to Larson the composer, the band gunning through the score up on a gantry, the cast unleashing some rib-shaking vocals. Larson the lyricist emerges less well. The revival is produced with devotion but, nudging three hours, also needs dramaturgical tough love.

The glory of the show is its songs: Larson threw everything into Rent, from wrenching anthems and witty tango to strutting pop. He must have hoped to have more musicals ahead of him, but wrote like he was running out of time; that desperate sense to love the love and live the life is the urgent heart of the show. David Jays Until 29 May

Film

The Social Reckoning

Sorkin sequel with all-new evil puppet Zuckerberg

In cinemas

★★★☆☆

Sixteen years have gone by since The Social Network, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher; this was the movie about the birth of Facebook in Harvard's macho-competitive cauldron of student sexism and nerdy self-pity, starring Jesse Eisenberg as the fast-talking, arrogant, not-necessarily-evil genius Mark Zuckerberg.

Now, Sorkin is back with a sequel of sorts, directing his own script - and now Zuckerberg is basically evil. It is the story of how, in 2021, Zuckerberg's Facebook empire was challenged by courageous whistleblower-employee Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen

White), who were on a mission to tell the world how Zuckerberg, scared by falling revenue, changed the algorithm so that engagement was supercharged by rage bait and hate speech. Facebook, moreover, didn't factcheck political ads, thus driving a huge, nationwide surge in extremist groups.

As Zuckerberg, Jeremy Strong does an interesting impersonation: standing and sitting like a Thunderbird puppet, modifying the torpid sadness of his Kendall Roy in Succession, making this the unhurried contempt of someone simultaneously burdened and energised by knowing he's richer and therefore smarter than everyone else.

The film rattles along at an entertaining clip, although there are false notes. The most disturbing scene shows a drunk woman livestreaming her racist abuse of traffic cops. Towards the end we glimpse her again, looking appalled by what she has become. Would she be appalled in reality? Or is this just the film-makers' wish fulfilment?

The closing-credit titles concede that Facebook still isn't checking political ads. Plus, the film is set at the start of the Trump interregnum of 2020-24; nowadays, Trump and his tech bro courtiers are more vainglorious than ever. This is a film that doesn't reckon with the future we're living in. Peter Bradshaw

TV review Pierre Channel 4 ★★★★☆

David Harewood's star power lights up noir crime drama

Some of us are too young to have seen David Harewood's historic Othello at the National Theatre back in 97. On the basis of the actor's star power in this London-set crime drama, you can be assured he blew the roof off.

Pierre's co-writer Roy Williams may not be the Bard, but he is another highly acclaimed playwright, with an interest in how Black men fare in this country. This series, written with John Donnelly, establishes itself with confident concision, which is largely down to Harewood's performance as the titular police station duty solicitor. The way he enters a room and unbuttons his suit jacket before delivering a threat or assurance. The soft Birmingham burr that has been filed to a sharper edge by years of gritty London living.

The plot is noir with a twist: a young Black man is found dead after telling Pierre he was building a case of police harassment against an officer. It's a cop show, then - but, crucially, this guy is no cop. Pierre's specific identity as a securely middle-class Black professional rooted in his community allows him a wider jurisdiction. He can banter over a full English with bestie DS Ronnie Miller (Jason Flemyng) just as naturally as he comforts bereaved relatives at a vigil for a murdered teenager. He can be received at a private members' club and, when told that its namesake made his money "in sugar", wryly reply: "There's a surprise."

As for Pierre's personal collection of indignities and trade-offs, these are not only explored but also robustly challenged by his many Black peers, including his law firm partner Charlotte (Michele Austin, excellent as ever) and his wife, Celeste (Sara Powell).

Pierre the show - like Pierre the man - sometimes buckles under the burden of having so much ground to cover by, for instance, attempting to condense modern race and policing politics into a few lines of chatty dialogue, which lands with all the subtlety of an anvil on a pavement.

But, still, his friends in places high and low agree: nobody does it quite like Pierre. So if he has been overburdened, the only agreeable solution is to allow more time for him to work things out for everyone who depends on him. That sounds like a season two commission to me. Ellen E Jones

Business

Tory tax cuts for big banks have cost £6bn, says TUC, as it pushes for lenders to pay ‘fair share’

Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

Tax cuts for big banks have deprived the UK government of £6bn in revenues, according to campaigners, who are calling on the chancellor, John Healey, to increase taxes and force lenders to pay their “fair share” in the forthcoming budget.

Calculations by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which represents unions with more than 5.3 million members across England and Wales, shows that the public purse is billions of pounds worse off as a result of tax cuts introduced under the Tory chancellor Jeremy Hunt in 2023.

The then government agreed to slash the bank surcharge - an additional levy on lenders' profits - from 8% to 3% that year. The move was meant to offset a rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25%, after the industry argued higher taxes would put them at a competitive disadvantage compared with other big financial centres such as New York.

However, the cuts came just as lenders started reaping handsome earnings, thanks to rising interest rates. The UK's four largest lenders - HSBC, NatWest, Barclays, Lloyds

Banking Group - have now generated £200bn in pre-tax profits over the past five years.

The TUC says the 2023 cuts ultimately robbed the UK purse of tax revenues. Its analysis of HMRC corporate tax receipts shows the UK public lost out £2.3bn in 2023-24, a further £1.7bn in 2024-25, and £2bn in 2025-26 - totalling £6bn over three years.

With banks pocketing record profits, the TUC said the surcharge should now be increased beyond its pre-2023 level at the 28 October budget. That could raise up to £60bn, which could be used to cover rising household bills as part of the prime minister

Andy Burnham's drive to tackle the cost of living crisis.

"The Tories' tax break for banks has cost the UK public purse £6bn and counting. It's time to make sure banks pay their fair share," said the TUC's general secretary, Paul Nowak.

"At a time when families are struggling with soaring energy costs, taxing banks' booming profits to cut bills is just plain common sense. There is a mountain of evidence to suggest that banks can afford to pay more tax - not least the record £25bn bonus pool they paid out last year.

“This month’s budget is an opportunity to put things right.”

Bank bosses have been lobbying intensively against bank tax rises, after narrowly escaping higher levies during last year's budget. Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of the largest US bank, JP Morgan, told Burnham and Healey at a meeting last month that further levies could put investment and jobs at risk.

In May, Dimon warned that he could scrap plans for a new £3bn London headquarters if the UK government became hostile to banks.

The TUC has said raising the surcharge to 16% - double the rate prior to Conservative cuts - could raise £24bn in tax revenues over the next

Fast-fashion retailer Shein overtakes Asos after British sales rise 26%

Sarah Butler

Shein, the online fast-fashion retailer founded in China, increased sales in the UK by just over a quarter last year, overtaking its British rival Asos.

The company, whose global parent group listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange last month valued at just over \$26bn (£20bn), increased sales at its UK division by 26% to £2.58bn, according to accounts filed at Companies House.

Pre-tax profits rose 18% to £45.2m even as the number of people employed by the group in the UK, mostly in sales and marketing, rose to 113 from 91 a year before. The company paid £11.2m in corporation tax, up from £9.6m a year before.

Shein said sales had been helped by a marketing partnership with the Wireless and Creamfields music festivals, a pop-up shop on Oxford Street in London and Christmas gift events in Edinburgh, Manchester and Liverpool as well as London.

The strong trading figures are likely to increase pressure on the government to bring forward action to change the “de minimis” rule that has underpinned the rapid growth of the online specialists Shein and Temu.

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four years. Meanwhile, a 35% bank surcharge, which would match the windfall tax rate that the Conservatives imposed on energy companies, would deliver £60bn over four years. Even reversing the surcharge cuts and setting it at 8% would raise £9bn over that same period, it said.

“Reversing the last government’s tax cuts is the very least this government can do to claw back some of the lost billions it’s handed to banks in recent years,” said a spokesperson for the campaign group Positive Money,

'There is a mountain of evidence to suggest that banks can afford to pay more tax'

Paul Nowak TUC

which has also been pushing for bank tax rises at the budget. “Banks are making record profits without lifting a finger, thanks to the higher rates.”

David Postings, the chief executive of the banking lobby group UK Finance, said a strong banking sector was essential for a strong UK economy and that profitable lenders would be able to invest in better services for customers, issue more loans, and deliver “returns” - such as shareholder dividends - that supported people’s savings and pensions.

“Banks also make a major contribution to the public finances and already face a materially higher total tax rate in the UK than in other leading financial centres,” he said. “Further tax increases would weaken the UK’s competitiveness, discourage investment and job creation, and work against the government’s ambition to deliver growth.”

The Treasury was contacted for comment.

A screen showing a promotional video of Shein at the company's office building in Guangzhou, China PHOTOGRAPH: TINGSHU WANG/REUTERS

revoked its own de minimis exception for Chinese-made goods, curbing Shein's expansion there.

The retailer's model is based on shipping cheap clothes directly from Chinese factories to homes so that each individual order is low enough in value to avoid import duties.

Under the US exemption, parcels with a value of less than \$800 shipped to individuals had been exempt from import tax. The EU is also phasing out its exemption on customs duties for low-value parcels. It began in July by replacing the €150 (£125) de minimis relief with a flat €3 customs duty.

The previous chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said she would get rid of the UK's rule, which allows overseas sellers to send goods valued at £135 or less direct to shoppers without paying any customs duty, by 2028. However, retail bosses have said the government should move sooner.

Investors' concerns about global regulatory changes meant Shein's value was far lower when it listed on the stock market than had been expected several years ago.

It reached a valuation of \$100bn in an April 2022 fundraising round, making it the third most valuable startup in the world, and then considered a £50bn float on the London Stock Exchange in 2024 before eventually launching in Hong Kong.

Shein runs most of its operations from China but sells all its goods outside the country. It moved its headquarters to Singapore at about the start of 2022 and has recently begun manufacturing in other countries, including Turkey and Brazil.

After forced labour concerns were raised, Shein said it had tightened its supplier policies.

Last week, Shein reported a 67% fall in group quarterly profits to £173m, blaming higher oil prices and freight rates linked to the war in Iran.

▲ The business district in Singapore, where Charles Graham was working remotely without prior approval from HiFX PHOTOGRAPH: SHIH-WEI/GETTY IMAGES

Sydney trader unfairly fired for working from Singapore

A Sydney currency trader sacked for working from Singapore without approval has won an unfair dismissal case, but not awarded compensation.

Nino Bucci

Australia's Fair Work Commission ruled on Wednesday that Charles Graham had been unfairly dismissed by HiFX Australia, trading as Xe, in December last year.

Sydney

Singapore for a holiday and that there was no relation to his previous request to relocate there, that the decision to reschedule the return flight to Australia was made over a weekend, when there was no expectation or precedent that he contact his manager outside business hours.

Graham was sacked after Xe found he knew he had to get prior approval to work overseas and was to attend the office three times a week. He said he had been holidaying in Singapore before his partner became ill with a bacterial infection, preventing him from returning. He provided documentation, which he said showed his partner required medical treatment.

He said that when he did log on from Singapore, “he was bombarded with triaging hundreds of unread emails ... and dealing with an eligible complaint from a high-value client”, and this took priority over telling his manager he was stuck overseas.

Graham had previously asked Xe if he could relocate to Singapore, but his request was denied.

Graham was sacked after his manager asked an IT worker to use his “FBI skills” to track the IP address on his laptop. They found he was working from Singapore. It was also discovered he had previously worked from Bali after telling his manager he was working from home as a plumber was “coming around to sort out some recurring bathroom issues”.

Fair Work Commission official Alana Matheson said after the company emailed Graham advising him of its discovery on 17 November last year, the “tone … had clearly pivoted” by the next day, when he was told “there was a case to answer regarding alleged breaches of company policy”.

He also said he only intended to spend a short time overseas, had not been told about specific policies regarding hybrid work, and he had intended to let his manager know he was overseas as soon as practicable.

Graham said in his written response to Xe that he travelled to

The firm sent him a termination letter on 2 December stating it had reviewed his submissions and found he had not provided flight screenshots with his name, medical evidence for his partner, an adequate explanation for not telling his manager, and made “a conscious choice not to follow” absence processes.

"Your conduct represents a serious breach of company policy, a failure to follow lawful and reasonable instructions, and an irreparable breakdown of trust and confidence," it said.

Graham told the commission he worked remotely twice before November 2025: the previous year from Townsville, North Queensland, and in April and May 2025 from Bali. But his manager said she had been unaware he had worked remotely from overseas.

Matheson found the dismissal unreasonable, despite a valid reason, because the process was procedurally unfair. She found reinstatement inappropriate but decided against awarding compensation, in part because misconduct contributed to the dismissal.

OpenAI says projected revenue \$20bn below forecast

Mark Sweeney

OpenAI has revealed it is making about \$20bn less in projected revenue than it had recently indicated to investors, raising questions about the breakneck growth in demand for AI.

The ChatGPT-creator has told investors its revenues for this year would reach \$50bn (£37bn), a projection based on sales up to the end of September.

However, this is significantly less than the \$70bn that it had signalled in information provided to investors last month, which was widely reported.

Forecasts of annualised revenues by the leading AI players, including by OpenAI's rival Anthropic, the maker of Claude, are closely watched by markets as an indicator of overall demand for a technology that is attracting huge investment.

OpenAI is in early-stage talks to raise \$30bn in a funding round that values the business at about \$1.4tn.

News of the \$20bn gap buffeted US tech stocks on Thursday, with the tech-led Nasdaq closing down by 1.4%. The chipmaker Nvidia fell 2.9%, Oracle was down 5.5% and Micron declined 4.8%.

The discrepancy arose from attempts by OpenAI investors to provide a more direct comparison with how projected revenue is measured by Anthropic, which hit \$65bn in forecast revenue by the end of July.

Anthropic includes the revenue

The fall in the tech-led Nasdaq index after OpenAI revealed it was making less revenue than expected from sales via cloud partners, such as Amazon's AWS and Google Cloud, while OpenAI does not.

Last month, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said it would not float on the stock market this year as had been expected, citing safety concerns about AI. The decision followed cases of AI agents going rogue to hack external systems and safety researchers quitting their companies over the technology's risks.

OpenAI’s most recent fundraising was in March when it closed a \$122bn round of finance at a valuation of \$852bn. Two months later Anthropic said it had raised \$65bn, valuing the company at \$965bn.

Yesterday, it emerged that Masayoshi Son, the founder of the Japanese investment company SoftBank, was seeking to raise up to \$100bn from Gulf states as he scales up his already mammoth investments in AI.

SoftBank has aggressively pivoted towards AI, including making a \$65bn investment in OpenAI, and talks have been held with Gulf investors including the United Arab Emirates, according to the Financial Times.

Liberté, égalité ... calamité? France's economic woes panic Europe

Phillip Inman

Eight years have passed since rising fuel prices brought the gilets jaunes (yellow vest) demonstrators to the streets of France,

prompting the first big crisis of Emmanuel Macron's time in the Élysée Palace. As the French president contemplates his exit next year, turmoil has again gripped the streets in the form of student protests, but this time the financial markets are unhappy too.

Investors are concerned about the government's failure to control spending and end a long period of “fiscal incontinence”. Financial markets are unnerved by similar trends in the UK, the US and more recently Italy, causing jitters in bond markets. But France has become the biggest worry, hemmed in by debts across the public and private sectors, limiting the scope to dig the country out of a deepening hole.

France's debt-to-GDP ratio stood at $116\%$ in 2025, while its budget deficit was $5.1\%$ , compared with $94\%$ and $4.3\%$ for the UK respectively.

In Britain, the chancellor, John Healey, is on course to reduce the budget deficit this year and in 2027. His French counterpart, Roland Lescure, has made a pledge to follow suit after a rise to 5.4% this year, but has yet to say how.

One economic victim of the uncertainty is business investment. A survey by Medef, France's largest employer federation, showed $82\%$ of firms were pessimistic about the impact of the next government's economic policy. In a warning to all politicians, $66\%$ said their business would become vulnerable or even go bankrupt if economic policy remained deadlocked for the next five years. A rescue operation could be mounted by the European Central Bank, but France would demand unconditional support and the ECB's rules say bailouts must come with strict conditions.

Annual spending deficit Annual % change

Source: IMF, ONS. Note (chart 1): UK data to August 2026

Antonio Fatas, a professor of economics at the INSEAD business school, says the political and economic situation has pushed France close to financial collapse: "I am very worried about the economic situation because growth is low and it is difficult to see how the dynamics change. Then you have the debt numbers, which are bad, and the financial markets are thinking the government is not in control.

"If I look at the political situation, I am panicking. That's because too many political parties are saying let France burn. They want a crisis, believing it will improve their share of the vote."

There is much about the economic situation in France that $\nabla$ Emmanuel Macron's attempt to raise the pension age to 64 stalled after an election in 2024. As his term in office draws to a close, France

has been hit by school protests and public sector strikes, below PHOTOGRAPHS: ERIC TSCHAEN/ABACA/ SHUTTERSTOCK; ED JONES/GETTY

116%

Last year's debt-to-GDP ratio in France, compared with $94\%$ in the UK

66%

The proportion of French companies that say the financial deadlock puts their future in danger

mirrors what has happened in the UK and US. A huge spending splurge during the pandemic was followed by another round of subsidies to offset the worst side-effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Investors have become wary of lending to all three countries, but the rise in interest rates is damaging France the most.

Last week, the yield, or interest rate, on 10-year French bonds hit the highest level since July 2002, just short of 5%. Yields go up when bond prices go down.

According to many metrics, it is difficult to see why France should be so badly affected. The French economy has many things going for it, from relatively low electricity prices to better than average

infrastructure. The schools that are the focus of recent protests are better funded than the rich-world average. On the debit side of the ledger, Macron's plan to save money by raising the pension age from 62 to 64 stalled at 62 and nine months when parliament was deadlocked after the 2024 election.

This might have mattered less if the economy was growing, but Macron's much-vaunted economic revival remains stuck in first gear.

Laurent Warlouzet, a history professor at the Sorbonne, says it is understandable that international investors are confused about France when Marine Le Pen, the frontrunner in presidential elections next year, says she will roll back the retirement age to 62 and at the same time introduce a “debt brake” via a referendum.

It may seem improbable for financial market traders to consider France's exit from the euro but it is understood several eurozone finance ministers and ECB officials have made representations to the French government, urging it to devise a budget formula that will gain a majority in parliament and a win over major lenders.

As the US Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman said recently: “If France does need to be bailed out, it would be extremely expensive.”

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Weather damage How to storm-proof your home - from the roof down

With a wet and windy winter forecast, Zoe Wood details the practical steps to take now to make sure you and your home stay safe and dry

With the Met Office warning that this year's supersized El Niño could mean a wet and stormy winter ahead, it's never been more important to maintain your home.

Payouts for storm damage to UK homes rose 32% to £244m in 2025 amid the destruction caused by the accompanying heavy rain and strong winds of Storm Éowyn and Storm Floris.

But that is just part of the picture, with total claims for weather damage to homes and possessions hitting £758m last year, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI). It says this figure points to “the toll that increasingly severe weather is taking on homes”.

However, experts say regular maintenance can help. Here are some practical steps you can take to make sure your home is best-placed to ride out the storms.

Inspect your roof

Alex Peters, a cost guide expert at Checkatrade, says: “The primary line of defence begins at roof level, where high winds will dislodge weak structures and create hazardous flying debris that could damage your home.”

Tiles often become broken or loose, or slip. Ideally, you would get up there to have a look, but only do so if you have proper safety equipment - otherwise, call a professional.

Peters says: “It is important to undertake regular roof and chimney inspections to make sure they are structurally sound. A professional roof inspection costs about £250 a visit to check for loose tiles or mortar decay.”

Most roof repairs cost from £110 to £160 a sq metre, depending on roof type and materials, according to Checkatrade.

A buildup of moss can cause moisture damage to tiles and the wood underneath them, so remove it if you can. The best time is after a dry spell, when you can brush it off with a stiff broom (but don't attempt this without the proper safety equipment).

Roof “furniture” - such as chimneys, skylights and vents - is sealed with metal strips called flashing which should sit flush, with no gaps where water can seep in. If yours does not sit flush, you can buy flashing strips, roof sealant and caulk in most DIY stores but, again, this repair job might be better-suited to a professional.

Maintain your gutters ... Peters says: “Gutters channel heavy rain safely away from your roof line down to external drains, but if they’re blocked, water can pool and lead to a range of issues.”

These include water seeping into brickwork and causing internal damp, or uncontrolled drainage which erodes the soil around your home's foundations and, over time, can destabilise them.

Now is a good time to clean them out and make any repairs. The cost depends on the size of your home but sits at about £20-£30 an hour for a skilled tradesperson, according to Checkatrade.

Andy Simms, of the home service marketplace MyBuilder, says that any trees near your house should be checked now, adding: "Overhanging or unhealthy trees can cause all sorts of damage, alongside clogging drains."

Pruning can usually be completed for about £100, but, for bigger jobs, a tree surgeon typically costs £240-£400 a day depending on where you live.

... and the brickwork Inspect walls for obvious weak spots, including cracked render, staining, or places where

▲ Now is the time to check gutters, clean them and make any repairs

rainwater collects.

Michael Davie, from the specialist home improvement company PureBuilt, says one of the biggest issues homeowners underestimate is damp caused by small external defects.

“A cracked or damaged section of render might not look serious at first, but if water is able to get behind it, the problem can spread quickly,” he says.

"We regularly see cases where what could have been a relatively straightforward repair becomes a much bigger job because the source of the moisture has been left untreated. A repair of about £500 can turn into thousands of pounds once damp has affected plaster, internal finishes, or larger areas of the property."

Seal windows and doors

Repair any cracks or seals around your doors and windows. Peters says: "If there are any gaps or cracks, apply draught excluder tape, or caulk, to help prevent drafts and water from getting in."

Window sealant costs about £10 for a 300ml tube, while draught-proofing tape works out at £5-£15 a

Keeping warm Key clues for spotting leaking heat

● Cold draughts around windows, doors and loft hatches. Pick a day when there is a good breeze, and heat the house to its usual temperature. Then wander around with a candle, or smoke pen (about £20). Alternatively, buy a thermal leak detector. This flashes blue for cold, green for normal and red for warm.

● Water trapped between window panes. “Misting, or water trapped between the panes of double-glazing, can point to a failed sealed unit,” says Antony Heath, the marketing and development director at Glevum Windows. “Once the seal has broken, the window may no longer insulate as effectively.”

● Condensation on windows. Condensation on the inside of windows, particularly first thing in the morning, can indicate cold surfaces where heat is escaping, says Oliver Novakovic, the technical and innovation director at Barratt

Redrow. It can have several causes, including poor ventilation. Older single-glazed windows allow more heat loss, which exacerbates the problem.

● The heating is always on, but your house still feels cold. If your home struggles to maintain a comfortable temperature, it may be losing heat through walls, floors, or the roof. Uneven room temperatures can also be a sign that radiators are not working, or heat is escaping faster in some areas. “The better a home is at retaining warmth through good insulation and airtightness, the less energy is needed to keep it comfortable,” Novakovic says.

- Snow melts faster on your roof. If snow melts quickly on your roof, while nearby properties remain blanketed - or it is a hot spot for birds - this can be a sign that heat is escaping. An older or uninsulated home can lose $25\%$ of its heat through the roof.

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roll. Another low-cost fix is a door seal - typically a piece of rubber, vinyl or silicone fitted around the frame, or on the door edge.

You can use basic self-adhesive foam strips, or spend more on brush seals and compression strips (and don't forget letterbox and keyhole covers).

Hiring a professional to weatherstrip drafty openings runs at about £50 a window, or £100 for each external door, according to Checkatrade.

Secure your garden

Plant pots, garden furniture and trampolines should be stored inside or secured before a storm.

Gates and fences are particularly susceptible and, for this reason, most standard buildings insurance policies will not let you claim for the cost of repairing them.

You could reinforce a fence with concrete posts and look at replacing panels with ones that are 50% wind-permeable (these have gaps that let the wind through).

For repairs, the price varies depending on the material, but fence panels typically cost £45, while fence posts cost about £25.

◀ Payouts for storm damage to UK homes surged 32% in 2025 after Storm Éowyn and Storm Floris CHARLES MCQUILLAN/GETTY IMAGES

The big cost is labour, and this varies depending on where you live and the amount of work involved, but £950 is a ballpark figure.

Insulate your pipes Damage caused by frozen and burst pipes can be significant. Household insurers settled roughly 8,000 claims for weather-related pipe damage in 2024, paying out a total of £250m, according to the ABI. The average claim was almost £33,000.

Insulating exposed hot water pipes is an easy DIY job. Inexpensive pipe insulation (often called pipe lagging) is available from most DIY stores, and fitting it could shave about £6 off your annual energy bill, according to the Energy Saving Trust.

Most modern hot water tanks have plenty of insulation, but an older tank might only have a small amount. Adding an 80mm jacket, with 25mm foam built in, can save homeowners in Great Britain £45 a year, says the trust. The jackets cost about £20 and are widely available from DIY retailers.

Also locate your stopcock - it is usually under the kitchen sink. This valve allows you to turn off the incoming water supply. That's vital if a pipe bursts, and you might also want to use it if you are leaving your property unoccupied. It is a good idea to clear remaining water from the pipes after turning the supply off.

Get emergency supplies The government is urging people to “get prepared” for emergencies by stocking up on essentials such as bottled water and tinned food.

Your emergency kit should include a portable mobile phone charger, torches and batteries, blankets and warm clothing. Also keep a list of emergency numbers to hand. These should include 105 for a power cut or 0800 111999 for a gas leak.

Think about getting your boiler serviced. “Freezing storm conditions can cause indoor temperatures to drop rapidly, forcing boilers to work harder,” Peters says.

“Servicing catches pressure drops, sediment buildup or worn components that could trigger a system lockout under a heavy load." A service typically costs about £100, but prices vary depending on the type of boiler.

▲ It’s worth securing fences and garden furniture to avoid damage

Prevent flooding

Flood resilience champion Mary Long-Dhonau, who is behind the Flood Mary campaign, has a directory of builders who specialise in flood-related work on her website.

Long-Dhonau warns that an “awful lot of water can enter your home via the air bricks - in fact, it is often the first place flood water can enter into a home”.

She recommends replacing them with Kitemarked self-closing air bricks. Alternatively, you can buy temporary covers. In an emergency she suggests creating a temporary seal using wide aluminium tape - one large roll can cover multiple air bricks and can be bought online, or in DIY shops.

Once the danger of flooding has passed, you should remove any temporary coverings to allow for proper air circulation and temperature regulation.

People often assume that flood protection means spending many thousands of pounds - and it can, says FPS Group founder Simon Crowther, who is also known as “the Flood Guy”. But some individual measures are more accessible.

“A basic domestic flood pump setup can be in the low hundreds of pounds, and a door barrier may be a few hundred,” he says. “Current examples on the market put small complete pump kits at about £150 upwards, and some domestic door barriers at about £400-£600.”

If you already own flood-protection equipment, now is the time to test it.

“Check flood barrier seals and fixings, make sure all the parts are actually there, and practise fitting it,” Crowther says. “If you have a pump, run it and check the hose, connections, float switch or sensor.”

Home insurance cover Buildings and contents insurance typically provides some cover for weather or storm damage, says Amy Rootham, an insurance expert at price comparison website Compare the Market. It may also fund alternative accommodation if your home is uninhabitable.

But insurers have specific criteria for what constitutes a storm, which may include wind speed or rainfall intensity. Also, this sort of insurance is designed to cover sudden and unforeseen damage, so they will assess whether the storm was the direct cause of the problem, or if it exposed an issue already in need of repair.

Rootham says home insurance premiums have been falling over the past two years but warns homeowners not to “focus on price alone” when comparing policies. “Check the cover limits, excesses and exclusions carefully,” she says.

Savings

Table-topping deals hit 5% - but act fast

Rupert Jones

National Savings and Investments (NS&I) has increased the returns on some of its accounts, with many now paying more than 5% for the first time in nearly three years.

Competition in the savings market has been growing, leading to some of the highest interest rates for years.

However, in the current climate, attractive deals do not always hang around for long, says Rachel Springall at the website Moneyfactscompare.co.uk. If a provider attracts enough savings cash it will pull a product from sale.

NS&I has upped the rates on its “British savings bonds”, which are rebadged versions of its guaranteed growth bonds and guaranteed income bonds. They offer a fixed interest rate over one, two, three or five years.

The deals are available to new customers and those with existing accounts that are maturing. With the growth version, interest is added each year and paid when the bond matures, while with the income version, interest is paid monthly.

Looking at the growth bonds, the new interest rate on the one-year product is 4.99% (up from 4.82%), while the two-year rate has risen to 5.07% (was 4.81%). The three-year rate has gone up from 4.83% to 5.1%, while the five-year rate has been increased to 5.17% (was 4.85%).

Those are pretty competitive rates, though as Sarah Coles, the head of personal finance at the advice firm AJ Bell, says, “you can still make more money elsewhere”.

At the time of writing, the top-paying one-year fixed-rate bond was paying 5.12%, while the highest-paying five-year fixed bond was offering 5.37%. But getting the very highest rates sometimes means signing up with less-well-

4.99%

Interest paid on the NS&I one-year growth bond. The two-year is up to 5.07%, with the three-year at 5.1%

The table-topping rate from digital bank Starling to customers who sign up to its Easy Saver account

▲ NS&I has increased the interest rates on its ‘British savings bonds’

known names. The one-year deal is from Union Bank of India (UK), while the five-year one is from GB Bank.

If you have a very large sum that you need to stash somewhere - for example, the proceeds of a house sale or an inheritance - these NS&I bonds have one big thing in their favour: you can invest up to £1m a person in each bond issue. The minimum investment is £500.

As NS&I says, “most banks only guarantee your savings up to £120,000,” whereas it is backed by the Treasury and is “the only provider that secures 100% of your savings above this amount”.

Also, it means you are putting your money into the government's savings bank, and “your savings will be invested back into supporting the UK”.

Money invested in NS&I's British savings bonds cannot be withdrawn before the end of the fixed term.

That will not suit everyone, and it is a good idea to keep some money in a high-paying easy access account to cover things such as unexpected bills.

Earlier this month, the digital bank Starling announced that people who sign up for its Easy Saver account will enjoy a table-topping 5% interest rate. This account offers unlimited penalty-free withdrawals, but that rate (made up of a 2.5% variable standard rate, plus a 2.5% fixed interest bonus lasting for six months) only applies to those who open, or have opened, a Starling current account on or after 1 October. The rate applies on balances of up to £25,000.

Starling customers who signed up before then can benefit from a 4% rate when opening a new Easy Saver. That includes a 1.5% fixed-interest bonus for six months.

Meanwhile, the savings provider Marcus by Goldman Sachs this week upped the interest rate on its one-year fixed-rate savings account from 4.3% to 4.75%.

Parking charges Drivers forced to use app can pay up to 40% more

Anna Tims

Drivers are unwittingly paying up to 40% more to park as more councils switch to app-only payments and force customers to pick up the tab.

Many councils across England have removed pay and display machines and replaced them with app payments, including a number in London. Most local authorities encourage drivers to pay by app to beat queues, while apps are often the only way to pay when ticket machines are out of order. However, many car park signs fail to mention that app payments may incur an additional service fee.

Parking apps save councils money by removing the cost of installing and maintaining ticket machines, but while a few pay the app providers directly for their services, many leave drivers to foot some or all of the bill through “convenience fees” or “service fees”.

These typically range from 10p to 30p, but they are not included in the advertised parking tariffs in car parks, even when an app is the only payment option, and they are often not prominently flagged within the apps.

Of the parking apps tested by the Guardian, none clearly displayed the service fee until the payment stage, and even then, some required customers to click on an information symbol to find out why the price had increased.

These surcharges can push up the cost of an hour's parking slot dramatically. In Harrogate, North Yorkshire, drivers who park in the town centre and pay by app are hit with a mandatory 30p service charge - a $38\%$ rise on an 80p tariff.

Meanwhile, the price of two hours at the council's Christleton Road car park in Chester soars by $40\%$ when the 20p convenience fee is added to the 50p tariff.

According to the Advertising Standards Authority, quoted prices must include all mandatory fees for a contract to be valid. Drivers enter a contract with a council as soon as they accept the car park's terms and conditions and park their vehicle.

However, few realise that they enter a separate contract with the app provider if they choose to pay online. App fees, therefore, may not legally have to be displayed on parking council signs.

The Guardian tested the apps by booking an hour's parking at car parks around the country.

RingGo's convenience fee added an extra 20p to the £2 tariff at Kings

Often there is no choice but to pay for parking via an app, but most motorists are unaware of the hidden add-on fees CHRISTOPHER THOMOND/ THE GUARDIAN

Yard in Lancaster. Drivers have to click on a small “see prices” link above the prominent “Next” button when they have chosen their location to see the charge. It is mentioned again on the payment page, but only when the “i” symbol beside the final price is clicked.

PayByPhone charged a 15p service fee on top of the £5.10 parking tariff at Dudley Street car park in Birmingham. The existence of the charge was not explained until the payment page and was hidden behind the Apple Pay button.

Customers using JustPark have to click on a tiny pale grey “i” symbol beside the final price at the end of the booking process to discover its transaction fee. This added 12p to a £3.50 parking charge at Charmouth Road car park in

Lyme Regis, Dorset.

MiPermit listed its 10p fee above the final price at the end of the booking. This was levied on top of the £1.90 parking charge in Littlehampton, West Sussex.

RingGo said the fee funded the service it provided and that it was up to the councils it worked with whether or not to display it on car park signs. “In line with existing regulations, wherever pricing information is shown in the RingGo app, we also display any additional fees,” said Adam Dolphin at its parent company Arrive.

JustPark said mandatory fees were included in the price quoted during payment. “Nothing is added at the payment stage,” said a spokesperson. “The ‘i’ icon simply shows how that all-in price is made up, for drivers who want the detail.”

PayByPhone said its pricing was transparent. “The pricing elements related to parking, SMS options and service fees are presented before payment confirmation,” said a spokesperson. “Applicable pricing information - whether fees, parking rates or options - is available on the website and in the app.”

MiPermit was contacted for a comment.

The Local Government Association, which represents councils, said it was up to app providers to ensure their fees were clear and upfront.

The Department for Transport said parking tariffs and surcharges were a matter for councils. "Drivers should be able to see clearly what they will be charged before they pay for parking," a spokesperson said.

Consumer champion Anna Tims

Father was asked for DNA test to get teen's passport

My teenage daughter is unable to see her grandparents because of the UK's new requirement for dual nationals to hold a UK passport.

I'm a UK citizen, married to a French national, and we live in France. Our two older children have both French and UK passports. Our third child was born while we were living in Zimbabwe and only has a French passport.

I began her application for a British passport in February. I had to submit photos of my wife when pregnant, family photos from the birth to the present day, hospital records and official translations of French marriage and birth certificates.

During an official interview I was asked about my job, commute and the layout of my house, but very little about my relationship with my daughter.

I was then told that there was insufficient evidence to prove my paternity and was invited to consider a DNA test, which will cost £600 and take yet more time.

We need to visit my elderly father who is unwell in the UK but cannot risk it in case our daughter is denied boarding. BN, France

Your daughter is a victim of new rules that came into force in February and effectively deny entry to the UK to dual national Britons who do not have a British passport.

Foreign nationals can enter freely on passports issued by their country of residence, but expats cannot unless they stump up £589 for a certificate of entitlement.

Since the UK government is not accepting that your daughter is a UK national, you asked if she could travel on her French passport. No one could answer the question.

As a result, you face Christmas apart from your parents. Home Office rules state that officials must consider a passport application on the “balance of probability” if an applicant refuses a DNA test. They must also explain why an application is refused. You have

▲ New rules are making life difficult for many dual national Britons

never been told why your copious proofs of paternity have been deemed inadequate.

The Home Office will not comment on individual cases, but it did tell me that additional evidence, such as the layout of a home, may be requested to add “credible authenticity”.

Soon afterwards, you were informed that the application had been accepted after all, despite no new paperwork having been sought since April.

BT charged me for months despite line being dead

I've had no landline since May 2025 when BT switched it to Digital Voice. Weeks passed, and each call to BT involved at least an hour waiting on hold and answering

security questions before being passed between departments.

Eventually, last December, two engineers were sent and discovered that a wire had been severed during the upgrade. They said they needed a cherry picker to reconnect it to its original location and would return. They did not.

I've called BT to no avail, and all the while I've been paying for a landline that doesn't work.

I am on the priority register due to serious illness and am reduced to tears of helplessness. HH, York

You have been paying £32.99 a month for a dead landline and broadband, which was unaffected. BT claims it was unaware of the problem until you complained last December. You insist you had reported it before then, but do not have records of when. It turns out the case was closed in December after the engineers' abortive visit.

You next complained in January, but BT admits it again closed the case because, by then, your landline had been removed from your account, though you were still being charged.

It says it did not hear from you again until I intervened in July.

You said that you had believed promises that a fix was under way.

A complaints manager rang you after my contact, and you were offered £6.46 to “make up” for its failings. Your line was eventually activated in September.

The telecoms regulator Ofcom requires providers to pay £10.34 compensation a day if a reported fault is not corrected within two working days, which means you are, in theory, entitled to more than £4,600.

I've put this to BT, but it is digging in because, it claims, you waited months to report the problems. Since you can't provide proof to contradict it, I can't argue the toss.

You have the option of a complaint to the Communications Ombudsman but have accepted £689 for the 60 days without service which BT acknowledges fall within the compensation rules, and for its mishandling of the two complaints it has on record.

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Fantasy house hunt New-build homes for first- time buyers

Compiled by Anna White

▶ Brent Cross, London £399,000

When the Brent Cross Town regeneration is completed, there will be 6,700 homes and 50 shops, restaurants and cafes, as well as 20 hectares (50 acres) of parkland plus indoor facilities. In the Ashbee building there's a studio flat for sale on the ground floor with a private courtyard. Residents have access to a lounge, a gym and a cinema room, and there's a concierge service, too. The new Brent Cross West station gets you into central London in about 15 minutes. Brent Cross Town, 020 3319 0729

◀Pott Row, Norfolk £425,000

For first-time buyers skipping the traditional first rung of the ladder and buying a family-sized home, there's this chalet-style four-bedroom house in Russell Court, a rural development in a small village surrounded by farmland. It is three miles to the east of King's Lynn and close to Sandringham and the Norfolk Coast national landscape. It has two bedrooms on the ground floor and two upstairs next to the family bathroom. Designed with energy efficiency in mind, there's underfloor heating downstairs and an air source heat pump. The energy efficiency rating is B. Sowerbys, 01553 766 741

◀ Ebbsfleet Garden City, Kent £224,995

This is a long-term regeneration project to create a new town of 15,000 homes close to the coast in north-west Kent. Just two miles from Bluewater shopping centre, Ebbsfleet Cross is a collection of one-, two- and three-bedroom homes in parkland. There is a second-floor, one-bedroom flat with 50 sq metres (538 sq ft) of floor space. The hallway opens into an open-plan kitchen-dining room and living space with access to a balcony. The angled double-bedroom is alongside. A high-speed train from Ebbsfleet to London St Pancras takes about 18 minutes. Foxtons, 020 7133 7744

▲ Alston, Cumbria £425,000

On the edge of Alston, which is claimed to be the highest market town in England, is Forest Drive, a development of 13 detached homes. There's a three-bedroom house for sale with a garden surrounded by traditional stone walling and a detached double garage. There's underfloor heating in the hall, with the main living room to one side. The kitchen is at the back. Finest, 0330 111 2266

▼ Bromley-by-Bow, London £460,000

Overlooking the River Lea is the Waterside scheme of one- and two-bedroom apartments. Details of the government's Your First Home scheme are expected in the budget. In the meantime, the developer is offering its own incentive: £20,000 towards stamp duty costs. On the seventh floor is this one-bedroom flat for sale with a balcony. JLL Residential, 0207 087 5100

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Codeword

Kakuro

Solution no 132 Quick cryptic

Kakuro

Fill the grid so that each block adds up to the total in the box above or to the left of it. You can only use the digits 1-9 and you must not use the same number twice in a block.

Codeword

Crack the code to fill in the crossword grid. Each letter of the alphabet makes at least one appearance in the grid and is represented by the same number wherever it appears. A number of letters have been decoded to help with the identification of other letters and words in the grid.

Suguru

Fill the grid so that each square in an outlined block contains a digit. A block of two squares contains the digits 1 and 2, a block of three squares contains the digits 1, 2 and 3, and so on. No same digit appears in neighbouring squares, not even diagonally.

Train tracks

Lay tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village B. The numbers indicate how many sections of rail go in each row and column. There are only straight rails and curved rails. The track cannot cross itself.

Sandwich sudoku

Medium

Place the digits from 1-9 in each row, column and 3x3 block. The clues outside the grid show the sum of the numbers placed between the 1 and 9 in that row or column.

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Quick crossword no 17,607

Across

1 Move to a new position (4)
3 Appreciative sound (8)
9 Avoid - above it (anag) (7)
10 Approximately (5)
11 Fold (5)
12 Dark blue (6)
14 One's said to be first among equals (5,8)
17 City-state of ancient Greece (6)
19 Hunt animals illegally (5)
22 Surrounded by (5)
23 As an alternative (7)
24 Short-lived (8)
25 Political philosopher Karl ____, died 1883 (4)

Down

1 Air-powered weapon (8)
2 Home - or horror? (5)
4 Rain or snow, say (13)
5 Easily understood (5)
6 Erect (7)
7 British folk singer and songwriter, MacColl, died 1989 (4)
8 Garment symbolic of a responsible position (6)
13 Conventional (8)
15 Collapse inward (7)
16 Mischievous (6)
18 Totally - honourable (5)
20 Place to play or watch (5)
21 Homeless child (4)

Word wheel

Find as many words as possible using the letters in the wheel. Each must use the central letter and at least two others. Letters may be used only once. You may not use plurals, foreign words or proper nouns. There is at least one nine-letter word. Target: Excellent-29. Very good-25. Good -21. Target -16.

Guardian quick cryptic crossword No 132 set by Dice

Across 1 Box of food was short of pizzazz, according to Spooner (6,5) 7 Rise and cast for fish (7) 8 Trouble held by Pandora ill-omened (3) 9 Get on your knees, dropping head, bit of light shining through (3) 10 Spooner's nickname for worker, one in hot water for drinking? (3,3) 13 Mark pig, says Spooner, for sausage sandwich (3,3) 15 Which person? How drunk?! (3) 17 Type of milk in vessel not opened (3) 18 Main crap according to Spooner, bowl of something green? (3,4) 19 Spooner's indicator of illumination shows how much one's able to see (4,2,5)

Down

1 Stuck inside Grandpa's trying pie for one (6)
2 Run hastily, losing hat, for hot food (5)
3 Sexist educator, to some extent, 'was a thing' (7)
4 Pork pie's part of meal I enjoy (3)
5 Antelope, camouflaged among many a lannea (5)
6 Righteous Spooner's 'Behold that man!' (4)
11 FA hangs about for Asian nationals (7)
12 Pho tot spilt is a kind of stew (3,3)
14 Frequently become gentler after evicting the first one (5)
15 Grown incorrectly - it's not right (5)
16 Register online bully hiding face (4)
18 Expert is somewhat approachable (3)

TODAY'S TRICKS Clues begin or end with a definition of the answer. The rest is one of these: Anagram Anagram of answer and hint that there's an anagram 'Senator arranged crime (7)' gives TREASON Hidden word(s) Answer hidden in clue's words 'Some have altered meat (4)' gives VEAL Spoonerism Answer with words' first sounds swapped 'Spooner says rowers let slip sea creature (4,4)' gives, via 'crew blab', BLUE CRAB Decapitation Answer is another word without first letter 'Beer in story without intro (3)' gives ALE

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Chris Maslanka Solutions

1 They pronounced it queue-knee-form and the old curmudgeon insists it should be cue-nay-i-form, like one of those wedge-shaped little bones in the midfoot (you know, between the navicular bone and the first three metatarsals). Well if your surgeon says it that way, and so does the distinguished Dr Irving Finkel, who reads and writes in it, who are we to argue?

But don't imagine Pedanticus cannot see the funny side of linguistic solecisms. On a programme on the Ndrangheta he rolled around for ages on hearing the FBI spied on a suspect "through a two-way window".
2 Candy did it this way: If $\text{ab}/(\text{a} + \text{b}) = \text{k}$ , where $\text{a, b}$ and $\text{k}$ are positive integers. Then $\text{ab} - \text{k}(\text{a} + \text{b})$ . Adding $\text{k}^2$ to each side: $\text{ab} - \text{k}(\text{a} + \text{b}) + \text{k}^2 = \text{k}^2 = (\text{a} - \text{k})(\text{b} - \text{k}) = \text{k}^2$ . Well, we can always factorise $\text{k}^2$ as $1 \times \text{k}^2$ or $\text{k} \times \text{k}$ . So we can always choose $(\text{a} - \text{k}) = 1$ and $(\text{b} - \text{k}) = \text{k}^2$ ; then $\text{a} = \text{k} + 1$ and b = k(k + 1); then for each positive integer k we have a corresponding positive integer for each of a and b; so there are infinitely many examples in which (a, b, k) are all positive integers.

3 The two smaller triangles are similar; so (a - l)/l = l/(b - l); hence (a - l)(b - l) = l² and ab - bl - al + l² = l² whence l = ab/(a + b).The area of the square is S = l² = [(ab)/(a + b)]²; that of the triangle T = (ab)/2. So the fraction f is S/T = [(ab)/(a + b)]²/[(ab)/2] =

$2ab/(a + b)^{2}$ . If $2ab/(a + b)^{2} = 1/2$ then $a^{2} + b^{2} + 2ab = 4ab$ ; so $(a - b)^{2} = 0$ and a = b. QED. Point to Ponder: What is the greatest possible value of f?

4 There must initially be either 3 red and 6 white or vice versa. [Point to Ponder: How do you know?]

Either will do to work out the number of blue balls added. Adding the right number of blue balls must leave the probability unchanged.

Call it x. Then $[3.2 + 6.5 + x(x - 1)]/[(9 + x)(8 + x)] = \frac{1}{2}$ . Solving for x: x = 0 or 19. [Checking: $[3.2 + 6.5 + 19.18]/[28.27] = [6 + 36 + 342]/$

[28.27] = 378/(4.7.27) = 54/(4.27) = 2/(4) = 1/2. Wordplay Wordpool c), d), c); EPU CANCELLATION Same Difference FRIGID, RIGID Cryptic DRILL, FARTHING, BENJAMIN Missing Links a) set/piece/work b) true/blue/note c) shoe/tree/surgeon d) magic/charm/bracelet e) tie/pin/cushion f) door/bell/bottoms

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Stornoway	0620	4.8m	1829	5.0m
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Isaias has become the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season, with wind speeds of 80mph and a minimum pressure of 975mb. It was expected to strengthen further into a category 2 hurricane before approaching the US's northern Gulf coast yesterday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

As a result of the strong El Niño this year, it has been a notably quiet Atlantic hurricane season. In fact, the first hurricane of the season has not formed this late since 8 October 1905.

Isaias was set to make landfall yesterday evening local time, bringing an estimated 75mm (3in) to 150mm of rainfall across the Gulf coast. There may be up to 250mm in a few places, with the risk of flash flooding and isolated river flooding. The NOAA also said there was increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge along portions of the northern Gulf coast and of damaging hurricane-force winds over portions of the Florida panhandle, southern Alabama and Mississippi.

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Interview: Rosanna Greenstreet

Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, Stacey Dooley, 39, left school at 15 and worked as a shop assistant. In 2007 she was selected to take part in the BBC reality series Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts. This led to the series Stacey Dooley Investigates and her career as presenter of hard-hitting documentaries. In 2018, her face-to-face confrontation with an Islamic State soldier won her the One World Media award and she also received the MBE for services to broadcasting. She has made three new investigative films for the BBC and presents BBC series Clickbait Clinic. She met dancer Kevin Clifton when they were partnered on Strictly Come Dancing; they have a daughter and live in Merseyside.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

I'm quite greedy. I achieve something or something's feeling really brilliant and I'm, like, "Right, what are we doing next? What are we getting next?"

What is the trait you most deplore in others? No manners.

embarrassing moment? When I was doing the Strictly Live tour at the O2, my skirt fell down. So I am stood in the middle of the O2 in my knickers - and they weren't even my knickers, they were big borrowed stage briefs.

Would you choose fame or anonymity? Fame.

Describe yourself in three words Lucky, funnier than people think, unorganised.

What would your superpower be? To be able to hear what people say when we've left the room.

My skirt fell down during the Strictly Live tour at the O2. I was wearing big borrowed stage briefs

What makes you unhappy? I've become a lot more anxious since becoming a mum. Catastrophising about things is pretty grim.

What do you most dislike about your appearance? When I know I'm going to be on the telly and I haven't washed my hair the night before, I watch the edit and I'm, like, "Why didn't I just get up and wash my hair?"

If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose? Dolly Parton.

What is your most unappealing habit? Persistence - I can't take no.

What did you want to be when you were growing up? I wanted to run a hotel, work in a market, and run a dry cleaners.

What does love feel like? Unconditional, unwavering, non-negotiable. It's the only thing that really matters.

What was the best kiss of your life? Kevin Clifton. Our first kiss, in 2019.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse? That's showbiz.

If not yourself, who would you most like to be? Katie Taylor, the Irish boxer. I am obsessed with her.

When's the last time you changed your mind about something significant? I change my mind on political leaders all the time. I think it's healthy to change your mind.

How often do you have sex? If Kev's on tour, never. If we're at home and Minnie's not in the bed, yeah, we'll have sex.

What has been your closest brush with the law? When I was younger I was shoplifting a lot - blue eyeliner, ice poles - all the necessities. And when I was older I was going around with a lot of questionable characters.

What is the most important lesson life has taught you? Take important things seriously but don't take yourself too seriously.

Experience At 99 I became the world's oldest crowd surfer

As told to Alexandra Sims

n 2013, aged 87, I was playing basketball with my grandson Ross in Ohio while he was home from college. He made a video of me blocking his shot, posted it online, and

people really ate it up. We started doing comedy skits together and now have more than 4 million followers on Instagram. After doing lots of short videos, we decided to make a documentary about my life. As part of it, we compiled my bucket list. One of the things I wanted to do was break a world record. Ross and I spent months thinking of something that would be outrageous, but also fun and inclusive. We settled on me becoming the world's oldest crowd surfer.

Ross knows the country singer Brantley Gilbert, and he was willing to help us at a show he was playing in Bellville, Texas. Originally, during the crowd surfing, I was going to be strapped to a board Ross had made to protect my back, but it was flexing too much, so he strapped me into a stretcher instead.

I was 99 years and 274 days old the day it happened. It was the first time I'd ever crowd surfed. To break the record, I had to stay up for at least 10 seconds. There were 20,000 people in the crowd - we planned for them to move me in a straight line from the back to the front. But 20 minutes before we were due to start, we saw that everyone in the main crowd was sitting in chairs with gaps between them. Ross started panicking. We used the mosh pit instead, and I travelled in a U-shape from stage right to stage left.

I wore a white T-shirt with a red outline of my face on it so I would stand out from the crowd. Brantley introduced me and said: “I’ll beat you up if you drop Granny.”

I was launched out and I felt as if I was flying. I knew I had to trust everyone. Ross panicked because there was a walkway between both sides of the stage with a 10ft gap and a high fence that I had to be passed over. He jumped the fence as I went

I was so content. I put my arms out and felt I could touch the sky

'It's never too late to live your best life' Pauline Kana, who is 100 years young

across and security people carried me over. I was held up for more than three minutes - nearly an entire song. I was so content. I put my arms out and felt I could touch the sky.

When I got back on the stage, the crowd chanted, “Granny, Granny”. I stood there, soaking it all in. It gave me chills. I was recognised by Guinness World Records for becoming the oldest person to crowd surf at a concert.

Ross comes up with all the ideas. He says he's Steven Spielberg and I'm Betty White. I only realised how much people liked our videos when I went to the grocery store one day and people were asking to take pictures with me.

This is a whole new life for me. I grew up on a farm in Ohio, the youngest of seven children. We didn't have TV or a phone. We had chores to do from a young age. During the second world war, I made ammunition in a weapons factory, and I worked in factories until my retirement at 83. I've worked hard - it gave me purpose.

The videos are a new kind of work. Meeting people is my favourite part. I’ve met Pope Leo and celebrities like Tom Holland and Bad Bunny on red carpets. I love meeting people who know us from social media. They come up to me and say: “I was lonely and sad in hospital and I watched your videos to lift me up.” People say they’ve reconnected with family after watching Ross and I together. When I’m on my deathbed, I want to know that we made everybody’s day a little better.

I took care of Ross when he was a baby, but this has brought us closer. Before, I only saw him a handful of times a year, but now we live together in Ohio.

I turned 100 this summer, and I had two parties with hundreds of people. I can't believe I'm 100. I'm the only one out of my siblings who has lived this long. Not all days are peachy. The hardest part of getting older is the aches and pains. Making our videos gives me a purpose, and that boosts me on days I don't feel so good.

I hope our videos make people realise that it's never too late to live your best life. If you want to do something new, do it now. Enjoy every moment, because it goes by in the blink of an eye. Pauline Kana

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Edward, 38 – thinks net zero is an important target for people to work towards

Martin, 55 – says if you give people an impossible target, they give up

Dining across the divide Can breaking bread bridge political differences?

Interview: Erica Buist ● Edward, 38, Bristol Occupation English teacher at a secondary school Voting record Edward flips between Labour and Green Amuse bouche He runs spoken word poetry nights in Bristol

Martin, 55, Brentford Occupation Personal trainer Voting record Mostly Conservative, but voted for Tony Blair Amuse bouche He used to be a stressed- out, unfit lobbyist, and decided to make drastic changes. He started running 10Ks, then ultra-marathons, and when he was 50 he ran round a 400m track for 24 hours, “because I’m an idiot”

For starters

Martin I was slightly apprehensive, wondering if it would descend into an argument. But he's a really nice guy. Edward We got on really well. It was a delightful evening.

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Martin I had the squid to start, then crab pasta with pistachio and chilli - it was lovely. Also, a Sicilian lemonade and my favourite dessert, affogato. Edward I had a very tasty tuna tartare to start, then for main a beef ragu and a glass of red wine, and finished with an affogato.

The big beef

Martin My view on net zero is that we already know it's basically impossible, and if you give people an impossible target, they give up. Carbon capture is fundamental to the UK's ability to hit net zero, and nobody has yet proved that it's scalable beyond test sites. Edward If you don't have a target at all, then nobody works towards anything. But I do think there needs to be more oversight, ensuring we're putting the money into things that are most likely to have the biggest effects, and not just box-checking. Martin The temperature limit was supposed to be 1.5C, but it could be as bad as three. If we're going to miss it by that much, it's pointless. Edward He was saying we'll probably hit 3C anyway, so what's the point in spending the money? I think that's slightly nihilistic.

Sharing plate

Martin The civil service employs more than 550,000 people. I think that's too many. The former head of No 10 comms under Boris Johnson found there were 4,000 more communications staff than they realised. I think we could fix a lot

of our issues with tech, rather than throwing more bodies at them. Edward Given the scale of the issues they've got to address and the size of the population, I don't think that's a crazily large number of employees. What we need is better management of it. We don't need ministers with no experience in these areas coming in and making massive changes because they want it to look good on their CV.

For afters

Martin I think we need to increase defence spending, not on soldiers but cyberwarfare and drone technology. I thought Edward had a really interesting take: that some of the costs of defence are probably going to be triggered by the climate crisis. Because if we continue where we're going, there will be conflicts over resources and mass migration from certain countries as they become unliveable.

Edward We agreed future attacks are unlikely to be bombs or people invading the UK, but attacks on banking systems or possibly drone attacks. For me, defence means if something gets cut off from the outside, you're able to exist on your own and support yourself. If you are vulnerable as a nation to oil prices, then you are vulnerable to conflicts. I think one of the strongest lines of defence against foreign bad actors is being energy independent - which we could be with proper investment. We've got sea around us, we've got sun, we've got wind, we've got nuclear.

Takeaways

Martin I assumed that Edward would have the view that nuclear power was abhorrent. But he didn't. So my takeaway is realising that not everybody who's involved or invested in the environmental movement thinks the same way. I don't know if he changed my mind, but he definitely made me think.

Edward It was really lovely to meet somebody I probably wouldn't normally come across. I thought he was going to be much more extreme than he was. I think we're not so different in what we want, we just have different ways of getting there.

Edward and Martin ate at Citro, London N6; eatcitro.com. Want to meet someone from across the divide? Go to theguardian.com/different-views

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Gareth Malone: 'After the Christmas No 1, I was meeting Simon Cowell, having tea with Gary Barlow and dinner with Andrew Lloyd Webber'

Interview: Harriet Gibsone Main portrait: Pål Hansen Styling: Andie Redman

1990 I'm playing B flat major – I suspect it's Hey Jude

Born in London in 1975, Gareth Malone is a choirmaster and broadcaster. He began his career running youth and community

choirs for the London Symphony Orchestra and first appeared on TV in 2006's The Choir. He has since created choirs with Leicester schoolboys, Aylesbury prisoners, as well as the Military Wives, which produced the No 1 single, Wherever You Are. He lives in London with his wife and three children. His new live show, Sing-A-Long-A-Gareth: At the Movies, is on tour across the UK this autumn.

I was 15 and just coming into my own with my confidence, as you can tell by the double denim and the pose. The photo would have been taken at a party at my parents' house in Bournemouth. When I wasn't filling up guests' drinks, I'd be playing some songs - it looks like I'm playing B flat major, so I suspect at this very moment it was Hey Jude.

For a few years prior to this, school had been difficult. We moved from a nice leafy part of Wimbledon to Bournemouth when I was 10, and until that point I had friends who were both girls and boys. Going to the all-boys grammar school in a new area was an aggressive gear shift and I struggled to make friends. There was no physical bullying, but it was a sustained period of ostracisation that went on for the first three years of secondary school and dribbled on into year 10. It wasn't ever discussed. There was no “you’re being bullied. If you have a problem with any other boys, come and talk to us,” from the school. My parents probably knew because I wasn’t bringing any friends over. Instead I learned how to take care of my own problems, which was through music and theatre. My saving grace.

I feel so lucky that I had the music studio at school - a place to be expressive in a sea of business studies and maths. Playing the synthesisers started my lifelong passion for production and all-round music nerdery. We also had a piano at home and I used to sit at it and make sounds for what felt like hours.

Mum worked for Abbey Life Assurance and for the civil service. Dad worked for a bank. Neither of them were particularly career-minded - they enjoyed their life, their family and their house, hence friends often coming over. My grandparents were very

important, too. Growing up as an only child made me very comfortable in my own company, but it did mean I wasn't armed with some of the physical vocabulary that other boys had. I used to overreact when other kids were playing up. "Why are you speaking to me like that? No one speaks to me like that. Why are you behaving in this stupid way? No, I don't want to play rough, or go and play football, because that's what five-year-olds do." I was far happier to sit and have a conversation. All of which is possibly why I gravitated towards the girls at school - they were a bit more sensible.

In my teens I got very into Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. I was singing a lot in bands - but I was also obsessed with Kenneth Branagh in Henry V, so I decided to study drama at University of East Anglia. I have fond memories of pretending to be a pig, and doing lots of clowning and mask work. Once that was over, I went on to study music at the Royal Academy of Music in London. It was a difficult transition for me - I went from that arrogant tweeny, liminal stage, as pictured, to realising that I was, actually, just fairly average compared with my peers.

After graduating, I went back to Bournemouth. I was selling ice-cream to make some money while sending out CVs. A friend got in touch and said they had seen an advert for some youth work in Poole, and thought I'd be good at it. They wanted someone young and musical to work with local children who lived on an estate with a high level of deprivation. They had a little music room with a couple of ropey instruments that I would try to teach them how to play. That's where my passion for giving everyone opportunities - a safe space and music - came from.

I also realised that to get people to trust me, I had to be myself. I was from a totally different side of the tracks and I was wide-eyed, naive. The kids could smell the middle-classness on me, so any pretending to be cool and aloof wouldn't work. I had to be rigorously myself.

My job is to give others confidence, but I’ve definitely gone on a journey with my own self-esteem, especially when it comes to being in front of the camera. I was working with the London Symphony Orchestra and running a choir when I first got the opportunity to be on TV. The producers of The Choir had seen that we had a high Google rating so they got in touch.

2026 There's never a day when I'm not tinkering with music – the teenage me would be overjoyed

The show was about starting a choir at Northolt high school in Middlesex, and throughout, I tried to apply the same method of authenticity on camera that I’d learned with the youth group. I had been given this amazing job that I’d never done before, but I was learning to do it on national television. I was being filmed constantly. The director said: “I want you when you’re angry, I want you when you’re upset, I want you when you’re happy. I won’t make you look like an idiot.” He stuck to his word, but I remember being nervous, trying to look in control, and dithering quite a lot.

When you're recognised it can be a great gift, but a burden when you're, say, taking out your bins. When Military Wives got to No 1, I was suddenly thrown into a new level of celebrity: I was meeting Simon Cowell, having tea with Gary Barlow and dinner with Andrew Lloyd Webber. My memories of that time was that it was intense - when you have a Christmas No 1, it's like you've joined a weird club with people like Noddy from Slade and Shakin' Stevens. None of the bells and whistles has ever distracted me from the reason I got into this industry in the first place 20 years ago, however. Focusing on my passion for music and the importance of art in people's lives. There's something so healing about music, and singing in a choir. When people come together, they are buoyed up by it. I lost a friend at the beginning of this year and before he died he said something deeply touching to me: "We never did go for that pint." It was brutal. Such a simple thing that felt impossible as we were both absorbed in our careers. The telly, the degrees - all of those achievements are wonderful. It's the foundation upon which a lot of my happiness is at rest. But it's not the main thing. People and community are.

When I was 15 I had a clear vision of what I wanted with my adult life. It involved a music studio with lots of instruments in it. The teenage me would be overjoyed to know that at the end of my garden is a little den with a piano, drums, shakers, maracas, guitars, bongos, synthesisers, a computer and speakers - that there's never a day when I'm not doing music, half of it tinkering alone, the rest making music with other people. He'd probably be confused about the amount of hot yoga I currently do. But glad to know I still like a denim shirt.

Why the clothes I love live longer

Hannah Rochell's favourite fashion items are repositories of her happiest memories

have my mother to thank for the fact that I have an emotional attachment to my clothes. Mum has a stash of garments and accessories in the attic, spanning decades from the 60s onwards. If a trend had passed but she still loved a wool

If a trend had passed but she still loved a wool skirt or a pair of boots, she'd pack them away until such a time as she wanted to wear them again. In my teens, Mum would often announce that she had exactly the vintage item I was looking for in her treasure trove, though sadly it was often a pair of shoes, and we don't have the same size feet.

Nonetheless, it instilled in me the idea that when you love your clothes, you should keep them and care for them. Clothing serves more of a purpose than just covering our bodies; it is full of the memories it has experienced with us. I too have a box of sentimental clothes in my own loft, from the vintage towelling T-shirt I wore to see Blur play at London's Mile End stadium in 1995, to my purple Converse All Stars that I got for my 13th birthday. They don't fit me any more, but they're far too special to throw away.

Even better are the items – mine and my mum's – that I can still wear, creating new memories as we go. There's nothing better than being complimented on your outfit and saying: "Thanks, there's a video of my mum wearing this blouse with me when I was one." And key to this being possible is caring for my clothes - washing them less frequently, repairing them, using gentle and appropriate detergents, and storing them carefully. Here are a few of my favourite items.

DAD'S 'MRS NEAT' KNITTED TANK (PICTURED RIGHT) In the 1970s a friend of my grandmother's called Mrs Neat knitted matching tank tops for my parents. Such was her skill with Fair Isle-style that I thought her name was actually Mrs Knit. Dad's was a simple V-neck, while Mum's was a slimmer fit with smooth, round buttons. Fast forward two decades, and teenage me was obsessed with Britpop and, in turn, vintage knitted tank tops. Mum clocked it, got the ladder out and produced them from the attic stash. I've worn them on-and-off ever since. Mum's tank is a little snug on me so you're more likely to see me wearing Dad's. Thanks to the rainbow of wool that Mrs Neat used, this beauty goes with pretty much everything. I know Dad approves of these pinky-purple cords because he was wearing a similar pair with a pink shirt and no shoes when he first met my grandparents (it was 1968).

I've only needed to wash this a couple of times; wool is naturally odour and stain resistant, so the odd hand wash with Ecover's wool and silk laundry detergent is all that's necessary. In winter, I pack the tanks away in airtight bags with cedar balls to keep the moths at bay and to ensure that Mrs Neat's handiwork can continue to be admired half a century later.

THE FIRST THING I BOUGHT AFTER MY NO-SHOPPING YEAR In 2019, I decided to reset my relationship with shopping. In spite of having an emotional attachment to clothes for as long as I can remember, I was impulse buying more, and wearing things less. So I made a promise to not buy any new clothes for a year in order to remember what it was like to love the clothing I already owned. It was one of the best things I've ever done, and I've never gone back to fast fashion. I spent that year researching the independent, slow fashion brands I was going to spend my money with in future. Buying less meant I would buy better quality and spend a little more for clothes made ethically. I identified gaps in my wardrobe and allocated myself six items to buy in 2020. This gingham shirt, beautifully made from organic cotton, was the first. It goes with so many items I own, and I love it as much as ever. Cotton is easy to look after and washes well on a low temperature with a gentle detergent like Ecover's non bio laundry liquid, but I do have a habit of getting make-up on the collar. It's nothing a pre-wash paste of bicarbonate of soda and water can't deal with. A little hack, passed down through generations, much like my heirloom tank tops.

THE SKIRT I GOT ENGAGED IN

I bought this skirt in the summer of 1997. I LOVED it. I used to wear it with Converse One Star slides (why didn't I keep those?) and vintage tees. When the mercury dropped, it still worked brilliantly with my winter wardrobe. I paired it with chunky Rachel Green-esque ankle boots and a brown V-neck ribbed knit. I seem to remember that the V-neck cost me more than I'd ever spent on anything, and I can only assume that it didn't survive my student laundry routine since I don't remember seeing it beyond 1998. The skirt, on the other hand, will probably outlive me because it's made from $100\%$ polyester and doesn't seem to have aged at all in 30 years. And thanks to the elastic waist, which has slackened a little, it still fits me. I wouldn't buy a polyester skirt now, but the best thing you can do with polyester clothing you already own is to wear it so it doesn't end up in landfill. On the rare occasion the skirt needs to be washed, I pop it in a Guppyfriend wash bag to prevent microplastics being released into the water. Since this is what I was wearing when I got engaged in Paris in November 1997, I'd never dream of parting with it – another heirloom in the making.

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a tradwife, she wants you to know that. Nor is she an ex-tradwife - pace the New York Times who included her in a feature on how ex-tradwives are as popular a movement now as the tradwives were in the first place. Nor was she peddling a tradwife-adjacent lifestyle choice by marrying at 18, having four children by 24, and devoting hours to cooking and documenting it online. Nor is she Mormon, by the way. Although, yes, her husband, the model and former teen heart-throb Lucky Blue Smith, was raised Mormon, but we'll get to that. Nor was she telegraphing subliminal religious messages in her content: "There is no secret agenda." Nor was she abandoning her biracial heritage by wearing her hair in a sleek little bob. Nor was she leaning into a 1950s housewife archetype - even when dressed in a pink and red polka-dot minidress to batch-cook sourdough.

Smith wants you to scrap everything you think you know about her and start again. She also doesn't care if you don't. As with her content: "Those that get it, get it. Those that don't, don't. And that's totally fine. I tell people: 'If you don't like my content, I won't see you scroll past me.' 'If you need to block me for your own sanity, please do. I promise I won't know.' And if you want to stick around, that is beautiful, I'm grateful, welcome."

For those new to Nara Smith, she is a model and influencer with 12.5m TikTok followers (plus 879m likes) and 4.8m on Instagram, who makes eccentric, seductive cooking videos in which she narrates each step in a passive hushed voice while making dupes of everyday supermarket products from scratch. Her videos start with the same shtick: her husband or children have a request - eg “Lucky leaned over, asking me whether I wanted to go grab some frozen yoghurt after the kids go to bed. I turned to him and told him it wouldn’t be as good as if I just made it. And, even though he was reluctant at first, he just went with it.” In a custom-made \$900 white-satin corset dress - no apron - she’s straining the yoghurt starter, combining it with kefir, vanilla, sugar, cork gum; juicing apples and cherries to make gummy bears for the topping, whisking in gelatine and honey. Throughout, Smith stays expressionless. Throughout, her movements are mannequin smooth. Nothing splatters on her front, ever (luck, she insists, not because she exceeds all standards of perfection).

These clips blow people's minds. Her grilled cheese video has been viewed 49.6m times. Elsewhere she's made Nutella, ketchup, Cheez-Its, Pop-Tarts, Skittles and Snickers. She's even made bubblegum. There's the novelty of the recipes - she now has a cookbook of scratch-made ones, Homemade, coming out. Then there's the outfits. She wore a \$5,000 cashmere Prada suit to make chicken drumsticks, a \$10,000 Schiaparelli to grate tomatoes for a gnocchi sauce. Nigella, Gwyneth, your domestic goddessing has been out-luxed.

All of which brings me to Deborah Ann's Sweet Shoppe in the white clapboard town of Ridgefield, Connecticut, where Smith is sitting opposite me in the narrow red booth, tapping her phone with acrylic nails. Around us is the loud hum of ice-cream refrigeration units, the smell of hot fudge and candy floss. There are sugar pourers and napkin dispensers and Jay & the Americans sing Come a Little Bit Closer on the radio. Smith surely had a sense of humour when she chose this as the backdrop to talk about not being a 1950s homemaker? “They have the best soft serve,” she says, a hint of smile. “And Lucky comes for the cotton-candy ice-cream.”

Today, a fortnight shy of her 25th birthday, Smith, is in jeans, a white vest, Chanel flats and a lot of flashing jewellery (“I love a diamond ring”). For the record, she drove here in her own car. And, while it is true that Lucky once said that he drove “no matter what”, that he was “bothered” by the sight of a woman driving a man, she loves driving. She listens to her favourite podcasts while doing so - Aspire With Emma Grede, founder of Skims, and for fun, The Girls Bathroom - “so entertaining. And I do love an audiobook also. I love fantasy. Are you into fantasy?” I ask if she made the gum she’s chewing. She laughs. “Not today.”

Smith's content attracts millions from advertising (among others, she works with Marc Jacobs, Miu Miu and YSL). As well as her cookbook, she acts, and has two films in post-production. One is an indie film she can't talk about. The other is Tyrant, “a culinary thriller” starring Charlize Theron, Demi Moore and Paapa Essiedu. Then there's a “consumer goods brand”. I ask what. “We'll talk about that later. We're still figuring it all out.”

Does she make more money than her husband? "That's a loaded question. How do I even answer that?" She can answer it with a broad smile? "Yes, I will do that." She has excellent teeth.

WHAT IS STAGGERING ABOUT SMITH is that as well as devising and researching the recipes themselves, she does all her own styling, makeup, art direction, video editing, voiceover and mixing, spending upwards of eight hours a day on one 90-second clip. Her agents and managers beg her to take on help. “I always say no. I am very type A.” Type A? “Very rigid, very scheduled.” Her assiduous attention to detail and devotion to her “art” mean “I’m still figuring out where to relinquish control”, she says.

I ask if she's like The Princess and the Pea when something is not quite right. "That's literally me. That should be the title. I can't sleep. I'll be tossing and turning, bruised.” The cookbook is a sumptuous, high-production volume, but the recipes are down-to-earth in a homely way. They include some from her German childhood: milchreis, schnitzel, rouladen. She doesn’t shy away from refined sugar. There’s meat, there’s chicken in cream, there’s roast potatoes in duck fat. “Do I have sugar and duck fat all day every day? Absolutely not. But roast potatoes occasionally? Absolutely. A little dessert once in a while? Absolutely.”

What I try to keep in mind while she's telling me all this is that Smith has four children: Rumble Honey, Slim Easy, Whimsy Lou and Fawnie Golden. ("Unusual names build character; Lucky had an unusual name and it helped him in ways.") The book photoshoot took place three weeks after the youngest was born. So, as well as organising and slipping into, for instance, the Rodarte custom-made gingham dress on the cover, she was breastfeeding a newborn and overseeing renovations to the family home they had just moved into here in Connecticut.

Then not long after, while the cookbook was still being edited, her daughter Whimsy Lou was diagnosed with cancer. It was Lucky's mother who first noticed "this thing on her body" (for her daughter's privacy, Smith doesn't want to go into specifics) while they were all together on a family photoshoot for the holiday season late last year. "My mother-in-law was, like, 'I don't want to alarm you, but maybe you should go to the ER.' Long story short, the doctors did a bunch of tests, from biopsies to ultrasounds, and then called us back and said: 'She has cancer. She needs to start treatment immediately.'"

Smith's world “flipped”. Until that point, the couple didn't even have childcare. Suddenly they were juggling work, kids, chemotherapy appointments, “while also making sure that we weren’t falling apart for her”. Five days out of every fortnight or so, depending on her blood count, Lucky stayed with Whimsy in hospital when she went through treatment while Smith was at home breastfeeding. They couldn’t explain to Whimsy what was happening to her. “She was under two years, so there wasn’t a lot she’d understand.” But they explained it to the older two, “and we got children’s books about cancer that would explain the hair loss and different parts of this journey through stories”.

They found “a community” of mutually supportive parents - the reason Smith publicly disclosed Whimsy’s condition once she was in remission. “You don’t realise how many parents or children go through similar experiences until you’re in that situation in the hospital,” she says. “People speaking about it makes you feel less alone.”

The shellshock is palpable. She sounds dazed as she runs through the litany of family upheaval that preceded diagnosis - new house, new book, new baby, big dose of postpartum anxiety. “I was still in the thick of dealing with all of it mentally, being pulled multiple different directions [when it happened]. Then all I wanted was to be present for Whimsy. It was hard.” Smith’s mother, Joyce, a nurse, not long free of her own treatment for breast cancer, flew in from Germany to help. “Everyone rallied in my family, and it was beautiful to see.”

Without doubt she's been changed by the experience. "When you come that close to a life-changing thing, you view the world a little differently." On the one hand, she appreciates the beauty of "mundane moments"; on the other, she's tougher. A lot of thought now goes into what her job means in terms of exposure of her children online. "But I've always had a boundary around my kids. I show as little of them as possible while acknowledging that they are part of my life." When people come up to ask for her photograph, her children automatically turn their backs, or stand behind her, or move to a corner of whatever store they are in. "I try to avoid certain places if I can during peak hours."

Will she keep them off screens? “Like phone screens?” Her face is a picture of horror. “Oh, I’m not going to get them phones! No, I’m going to get them a little - I don't know what they're called, a Firefly? A Brick? I want them to be able to communicate with me and get a hold of me. I'll get them a camera because my kids love taking pictures. But I don't see the need in having them be on social media, or playing video games, or any of that. I deliberately moved to an area where there's nature, stuff they can do and explore outside; not be on screens." Until what age? "I don't know, 18? I mean, if I could have my time again, I would have done it so different." Does she ever wonder what her life would look like if she hadn't done all these videos?

“All the time. All. The. Time.” Later, she says: “The landscape on social media has changed so much. I had to learn the hard way and reconsider what I put on the internet.”

Most nights, Smith takes her computer to bed. Her bedtime routine is specific. “I need clean sheets, that’s non-negotiable. I love freshly washed sheets.” Every night? She stalls. “Twice a week, probably. Linen sheets. I need a shower every night, take my makeup off, do my skincare, brush my teeth, have water on my bedside table, and then I just work in bed until my eyes are rolling.” Often, she’ll look over and Lucky is already asleep. “Sometimes, he’s, like, ‘You can go to bed, and I promise the email is still going to be there in the morning.’” She gets up around six after one night-time interruption (she insists on doing nights with Fawnie: a, because of the guilt of travelling a lot, and, b, because this baby is her “last”). First thing, she takes their dog Archie out back. He’s a pyrenees-pitbull cross (He’s adopted. Lucky wanted a puppy, but she 'PEOPLE TUNE IN FOR THE VOICE, OR THE FASHION, OR THE RECIPES, OR ALL OF IT'

said no). It something of a relief to learn she doesn't exercise. "I wish I could. That just feels ... too much."

A common theme in her stories is meticulousness in being willing to start from scratch. Three months after her kitchen had been done here in Connecticut, it flooded because of an ice dam on the roof. Ripping the whole thing out was not the headache you imagine because, she says, “I hated every decision that the designers made. I trusted them instead of my gut. So, we redid it the way I wanted and now it’s beautiful and totally different.

“I feel like an adult now, having bought a home and furnishing it for the first time.” The vibe: “I want people to feel like a grandma lives here, not a 24-year-old. Grandma chic with an English twist” - because Ridgefield reminds her of the Cotswolds, she says, where she would have moved “in a heartbeat”.

I ask what makes her lose her shit. “Mess,” she shoots back. “I get very stressed out by mess. I don’t like a messy house. I don’t like a messy kitchen. I don’t like a messy closet. Messes are overstimulating. On top of everything else that’s going on in the home, four kids running around, screaming and everything, messes then set me over the edge. So, I don’t necessarily lose my shit. I’m, like, ‘Let’s just tidy it up, OK? Everyone, start picking up your stuff.’”

The children tidy? “I make the kids do their stuff. Anything they may need help with, like, putting socks together, sometimes they can’t do that, I’ll help. But usually the kids do their messes, I do our messes, and we’ll get it whipped super quick.”

Twice a month she has a cleaner who comes to “deep clean”. Everything else, she and Lucky do themselves. Laundry? “I do it.” Ironing? “I steam.” If I opened her cupboards, would they be neat and ordered? “They would. Because it just makes everything more efficient. I love a system when it comes to getting dressed or doing laundry or schedules or routines or the kitchen. It makes life so much easier if you don’t have to think about all these small things.”

While she talks, Smith is miming tidying on the laminate-top table between us. She is funny on the potential hazards of her daughter choosing her own outfits. “My eldest is very opinionated. She’s got good taste, so usually I don’t have an issue with it.” If she had bad taste, would she? “I would.” She laughs. “Sometimes it’s the craziest combinations. I have to intervene and kind of bargain a little bit. I’m, like, ‘Tights and socks over pants? That’s crazy.’”

Elsewhere, the need for this level of control can be “stressful”. “A lot has changed over the last six years. Being very type A makes it hard when things happen that I can’t control,” she says. Any “wildcard” causes excessive anxiety. “When it came on, I didn’t know what it was.” She read self-help books, had individual therapy, she and Lucky went to couples counselling.

She's laughing when she says she'd been convinced she was a “brilliant” communicator until she got to couples therapy. They go in person, when they need it. “We married so young and have so much life ahead, so it's more a prevention than cure, if that makes sense.

"I grew up in Germany. He's American. Sometimes, we kind of miss each other a little bit. One time I said 'I don't care' about something, and he was, like, 'You don't care?' It was just, like, 'I don't care about talking about it any more.' Because I speak German, and the language is different, when I translate it into English, it comes across harshly, blunt, to an American. He was, like, 'Whoa, that's a little crazy, honey.' But it's small things."

NARA AZIZA SMITH WAS BORN in South Africa to a German father, a teacher of history and biology, and Mosotho mother, who grew up under apartheid (“She saw things no person should ever see or go through or have to deal with”). After Smith was born, the family moved to Frankfurt and two younger siblings followed. As a child, Smith had a host of allergies including to eggs and was hospitalised twice at young age for eczema (she also remembers a later operation on her “janky” toes). She describes herself as a child who wanted to hang out with adults, who saw the kids’ table as a punishment: “Like what am I going to do with these kids my age? Play tag?” She was fascinated by figures from history and mythology: Marie Antoinette, Medusa, Athena. She could recite Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise.

Banned from Facebook by her parents, she signed up to Instagram, which they’d never heard of, and used it as a way into modelling. She was scouted at 14 by IMG Models through an online programme and her parents took her to castings. In many ways it was a great experience. “But it was also taxing on my 14-year-old mind: the pressure to look a certain way; the focus being only on how you look.” Back then, measurements were very particular, she says. “Getting older, your body changes. So, it was hard on me at times to maintain the standard [weight].” She wouldn’t “necessarily” want her children to go into the business, but if they did she would support them. “But would I recommend it over other interests that they may have? No.”

“Obviously” she knew who Lucky Blue Smith was before she met him. “He was a crush of mine aged 15. I watched his Ellen interview and I remember thinking, ‘That guy is really fit.’ Then when he DM’d me on Instagram years later, I was, like” - dramatic intake of breath - “it’s him!” In that first message, Lucky asked her where she was from. He didn’t text back to her reply. Sometime later he messaged: “I’m going camping with a friend so I’ll be off grid for a little bit. But when I’m back, I would love to hop on a phone call.” He was in Los Angeles;

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COLOURS SHOWN: DESERT ROSE 243, BLUE TIGER 712, GEISHA 410 night-time in Frankfurt. They spoke all night and she watched the sun come up. Over seven hours, they covered family, hobbies, interests, teen stuff. “After that there wasn’t a day that we didn’t spend time on the phone, whether it was two hours or seven hours. We would fall asleep on the phone.”

She was attracted by his calmness. How mature he seemed. “Also he’s beautiful, which was a bonus.” They decided to marry not long after their first meeting. Posted it all online, photos of them in bath towels, the ring. It was cute, until you looked at the comments. How did she deal with the racism? “Race has been something that I’ve always talked about with my parents. I’ve always been aware of it growing up in Germany and not looking like the other blond girls. I remember this specific time: I left the school bathroom with my hair out of a ponytail for the first time, and as I walked out one of my friends burst out laughing. I was mortified. I never wore my hair out in school again.

"When Lucky and I got together ... I don't know, I kind of just brushed it off because it said more about the other person and how they choose to treat people. Did I talk to Lucky about it? Sure. Did I sometimes get sad about it? Yes. But I just tried to ignore it."

When she relocated to the US to be with Lucky, old health issues started to flare up. She started checking the labels on the food she was eating. “I wasn’t aware how many ingredients were involved. Bread had 20-plus ingredients, some of which didn’t necessarily belong. I realised it would be easier and healthier if I started making things myself.” In this way, cooking from scratch became “a necessity … I wasn’t just coming up with crazy recipes.”

LIKE OTHER GEN ZS, Smith's early content was "fit checks" and get-ready-with-me videos. And she wasn't wildly different from other "mommy" influencers when she began propping her phone on a tripod to film herself cooking dupes of, say, Oreo ice-cream or ranch dressing. But something about the package - the exquisite face, the heart-throb husband who goosed her at the stove, the fashion, the breathy monotone used because she was recording at nap time and didn't want to wake the children, but which everyone compared to ASMR - elevated her above the rest.

Then there was her willingness to keep taking it to the next level. She made cough drops. She made sun cream. She made Coca-Cola. She coordinated outfits and recipes so that she made Capri-Sun in a yellow gown with balloon sleeves. Fellow chef Ruby Tandoh wrote of Smith's content: "It's addictive. The low-stakes suspense of seeing just how much Too Much she's going to do this time." In less than a year, Smith went from under 1 million to 9 million followers. Among them, Bella Hadid, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, SZA and Doja Cat.

All this coincided with a new and toxic movement online: tradwives. They were a domestic expression of the rightward swerve in American politics. Religion often played a part in their commitment to maintaining patriarchal structures. Women claiming their sole ambition was to serve men were suddenly all over the internet packing their husband's lunchboxes. What Smith did seemed of a piece. Internet sleuths spied The Book of Mormon behind her in one clip. It's a backstage prop, they argued, an attempt at mass conversion.

It didn't help that Smith was friendly with Hannah Neeleman, the 36-year-old Juilliard graduate and mother of nine who makes home-cooking videos dressed in vintage prairie dresses at Ballerina Farm in Mormon Utah. The internet ecosystem encourages influencers to cross-fertilise. Smith and Neeleman milked cows together. They posed on the farm porch, babies dandled on hips, husbands looking cocky in jeans and cowboy boots. Smith was accused of promoting regressive gender roles, of promoting teenage pregnancy, as well as “culturally appropriating” Mormon life, and distancing herself from her black heritage. Thinkpieces followed. Memes. Reams of Reddit discussion.

Nara Smith with her husband, Lucky Blue Smith, at Milan fashion week, 2024 (above), and
cooking in couture on her TikTok account, including with three of their children (top right)

Smith sighs when I put all this to her. “To begin with, I didn’t think too deeply about what I was doing. Cooking was something I did for health and because I enjoy it, and I also enjoy fashion. I had fun. I put it on the internet. People started reading into things, deciphering outfits, deciding I was saying things that would never even cross my mind.”

Now she thinks that making your living in the kitchen is always going to be political. “It just is,” she says. “I feel people always want to put women in boxes, to try to explain them, to read into things they do. This is an expression of myself through food and fashion. People tune in for the voice, or the fashion, or the recipes, or all of it.”

Does she see herself as a feminist? “Yes, absolutely. A woman should have the right to do it all, to do whatever she needs to do.”

Does she vote? “I would vote in the United States, but I’m not an American citizen so I’m not allowed.” But she worries about politics. “It’s scary everywhere right now.” She talks to family, to friends, to Lucky, about the rise of the AfD in Germany, deliberately keeps it offline. “People who see me know what I stand for. I have four kids. I’m a mum. I’m a woman. I would hope that people can put the pieces together. I don’t feel the need to speak about it on my socials because that’s for my artistic expression.”

The Mormon thing? Well, she was curious, she admits. It was her husband's background, she was open to hearing about it, to seeing if she identified with any of it. "If you marry someone that grew up that way, and you're building a family, you're figuring things out. That was happening when my social following exploded." Are her children Mormon? "No. Our family isn't. It's a perception that people hold, but I'm not a Mormon, I was never a Mormon. I never got baptised. I never did anything that would make me Mormon. We figured out what we're doing for our family, and it's not being part of the [Mormon] church."

Every Wednesday and Thursday, Smith does three hours of acting class over Zoom with a teacher in Los Angeles, which she tops up with individual in-person sessions when she is in the city. She caught the acting “bug” on the set of Tyrant. She watched the big Hollywood names make mistakes, try it again, interpret lines in different ways, and realised you didn’t have to be perfect first time. Somehow, that blew her mind. She realised acting was an extension of what she was doing anyway. “I called my team after. Like, ‘We need an acting manager.’” She signed with a big agent and has started auditioning.

Can she envisage a time where she's not doing her cooking videos any more, or at least there's less emphasis on that? “Yeah. I could see a time where my content evolves. I'll never not be on social media because it's such a pillar of my work, my business and the way I connect with people.”

Is she competitive? She hmms and tilts her head to the side. “I wouldn’t say competitive. I’d say, what’s the word?” She snaps her fingers in the air. “Ambitious. That’s the word I was looking for. I’m very ambitious. But it’s one-upping myself. I couldn’t care less about one-upping other people. I’m in my own lane, and I have a goal I want to get to.”

We're ready to leave. As we rise from our chairs, a sea of teenage girls I hadn't noticed converge. They look tiny next to Smith's towering 6ft frame. They've been waiting, phone cameras at the ready. "You've, like, inspired me. I've been making stuff from scratch," one says, grinning in train-track braces. "I love that," says Smith. "What have you been making?" "I'm trying to make bread. It hasn't gone well ..." "You know what? That takes a hot minute. It took me a hot minute. But you're going get there." She gives them a little hug ● Homemade by Nara Aziza Smith is published by 4th Estate on 13 October. To support the Guardian, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply.

CLASS WAR

All over France, former pupils are smashing up equipment and setting fire to classrooms. What is behind this wave of violent trashings hitting primary schools? Is it poverty? Social media peer pressure? Or just plain boredom? Phil Hoad reports

IKE MOST FRENCH PRIMARIES on Wednesdays, Marcel Pagnol school, in the eastern suburbs of Lyon, was shut on 19 June 2024. But at 6.30pm that evening, two boys turned up late for school - by two years. Former pupils there, the 13-year-olds struggled to break through the crispy lattice of the front-door window with a garden fork and a broom. Using a window-breaker, they finally created an opening large enough to force their way in without hurting themselves.

What happened next is captured in a video the pair subsequently posted on Snapchat. Once inside they prowl the classrooms, corridors and canteen, slinging around scooters and smashing up computer equipment, setting off fire extinguishers and upending furniture. They help themselves to pouches of Capri-Sun from the fridge: “I don’t give a fuck - I’m taking the lot.” The boy not filming sets small fires as they move through the building, squirting each one with a little jet of lighter fuel. “I love what’s happening here!” says his accomplice. “I love fire.”

But the exhilaration soon turns to panic. With a thick black canopy of smoke creeping along the ceiling of the main corridor, they realise it's time to go: "Come on, come on, there's smoke everywhere. Fuck, I can't see a thing!" They're soon scarpering into the surrounding streets in broad daylight, the cameraman sipping his Capri-Sun as a column of smoke rises from the school, and police cars converge on the site.

The Marcel Pagnol arson was perhaps the most serious incident of a phenomenon that has swept the whole of France in recent years: comprehensive trashings of school premises that go well beyond isolated acts of vandalism. There were at least 15 cases in 2025; a similar number in 2024. Such events crop up in other countries, but here they seem to fit a pattern of carnivalesque destruction - like the mass burning of cars during urban riots - that seems distinctively French. In a sense, trashings are the country's equivalent of school shootings in America - though obviously far less deadly and generally perpetrated by groups, not loners.

To highlight a few: smashed computers and broken windows at Rabelais secondary school in Vitrysur-Seine in March 2024, the fourth break-in in six months; graffiti of a swastika, an anarchist symbol and anti-Rassemblement National (RN) slogans left behind by ideologically confused hooligans at André Malraux secondary school in Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde, near Bordeaux; “Foke les profs” (Fuck the teachers) scrawled amid the devastation at Jean Moulin primary school in Montgeron, on Paris’s southern edge; one primary school and two nursery schools laid waste to in 2025 in working-class neighbourhoods of the Provençal city of Arles.

In a strikingly large number of cases, it is primary schools that are attacked. When the perpetrators are caught, they are often children of early secondary-school age returning to wreak havoc. In many cases, they're trashing the same schools in which their younger siblings are still taught. "My sister's got school here tomorrow," crows one of the intruders in the video from École Marcel Pagnol. On the one hand, there's a festive misrule in such acts: the paint-lashed walls, the upturned shelves, the rainbow debris of playbricks strewn across play areas. On the other, there's an aspect of psychological self-harm in play, akin to destroying the family home. It's hard to square this beguiling clash of motives.

What's clear is the impact on the surrounding community. Two years after the attack, on a humid June Monday morning, the final one before the summer holidays, pupils and parents are ambling up to Marcel Pagnol to start the school day. It's situated in the suburb of Meyzieu, a relatively well-off and unremarkable commuter dormitory of Lyon set in the arable land that sprawls towards the city airport. The school's cream, two-storey blocks have been restored to pristine condition - at a cost of €1.9m to the Meyzieu municipality (partly covered by insurance).

But the attack caused a real sense of violation. "I'm sad," six-year-old Lino told reporters from TV station BFM right after the arson. "All my drawings burned." And the feeling still lingers. "They set the school alight with a toxic product," says Evan, a boy of eight or nine with thumbs inside his backpack strap. "There were flames." Audrey Granger, a member of the parents' association, points out the children had to process seeing their charred drawings on the walls, the burnt exercise books. She didn't tell her daughter, who attended the nursery school next door, what had happened. "We wanted to leave her in her own little bubble," she says.

“It was as if you left your office and someone said to you: you have no right to come back,” Juliane Fauriat, the headteacher, says. “You didn’t anticipate it, you have to leave everything behind, which is very difficult.” Her staff removed salvageable equipment in crates provided by the town hall; two traumatised teachers walked out with empty boxes from their entirely burnt-out classrooms.

The following academic year, Marcel Pagnol's 240 pupils were housed in prefab annexes on an empty field opposite - a novelty for some of them. But with the canteen severely damaged, lunchtime had to be split between two other school sites: one a bus ride away for the younger children; another 15 minutes' walk away for the older ones. "They had to do it in the heat of summer and in winter," says Sabrina, a mum in a flowery dress lingering at the end of the school run. "Can you imagine? My daughter was crying sometimes - she was always running late."

The two 13-year-old perpetrators - one of whom shows his face in the video and names the other - were caught almost immediately. They had no criminal record and were unknown to the police; one had an “irreproachable” academic record, says Sandrine Carroz, a coordinator with the municipality’s education services. The other was going through a “fragile period, where communication with his parents was complicated”. But there had been nothing to indicate he might erupt in this way. Sylvie Normand, the deputy mayor of Meyzieu, the area served by École

Marcel Pagnol, says: “I think these were young people who dared each other to do something and who came up with a bad idea, which went through their heads without them thinking about the consequences.”

The online lynch mob assembled: “Give them another chance – they were just expressing their anger at having to retake year 3 for the fifth time” is one sarcastic comment under a news report posted on YouTube. Others hint at the societal and ethnic tensions inflaming French public life – heightened in Lyon, which is a centre of far-right activity: “Kick them out of the country, along with the parents who are taking our family allowances.” (Based on the name mentioned by one of the boys in the videos, and their slang, many commenters assumed they had immigrant origins; their identities as minors are of course protected by law.) Tiffany Joncour, the local RN candidate, was quickly on the scene to film a video declaring: “It’s time to stop these delinquents who act with impunity and spoil all our lives.”

The pair received four-month suspended sentences and were placed under special court supervision for 18 months. The municipality agreed with the two families to send their siblings to other schools. Over the road from École Marcel Pagnol, boulangerie worker Miriam is more circumspect than most: "It could have been my child - because you never know, especially with the influence of social networks these days. I hope it knocks some sense into them. And their families, too, because they have to take some responsibility."

As the Marcel Pagnol perpetrators are minors, it's impossible to ask them the crucial question: what led them to break down the front door on that day? But perhaps it's possible to pursue a second one: what do these messy tremors from the teenage subconscious collectively say about French society?

“THEY THINK IT’S NOT WORTHY of respect - so they trash it.” Outside Louise-Michel primary school in Arles earlier this year in March, parent Etienne Becker suggests it was a fundamental disdain for national institutions that led four youths, aged between 11 and 13, to break and enter and do approximately €30,000 worth of damage there in July 2025. He’s dropping his six-year-old son off at a squat, tan complex with a barracks-like air. Louise-Michel is on the edge of Griffeuille, a marginalised neighbourhood dominated by hal-rendered blocks of public housing in which 57% live below the poverty line.

The values of the French state - “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” - are displayed on insignia outside almost all the country’s schools (as Becker points out, they are curiously absent at Louise-Michel). It’s in places like Griffeuille where it’s easiest to assume that school trashings may be a form of aggression, conscious or not, towards how these lofty ideals translate in practice. Éric Debarbieux, a veteran researcher who formerly directed the International Observatory of Violence in School and has advised the French government, corroborates this, suggesting that for the attackers, “it’s a way of saying: schools don’t keep their promises. The values displayed aren’t the same as the values in reality.”

That might explain why this form of mayhem occurs so consistently in France, where schools are adorned with the livery and rhetoric of the Fifth Republic. But it's hard to exactly quantify it, as the national annual statistics on school violence don't list incident numbers. Only a percentage breakdown for property damage (3% in primary schools and 4% in secondary schools/ sixth-form colleges in 2024-25) among total incidents reported is given. Verbal and physical violence are far more common (45% and 34% of incidents reported in primary schools).

Just because school trashings are statistically less frequent doesn't mean they aren't significant. It's precisely their intensely visible character - the unbridled violation of a public space - that gives them power. Debarbieux emphasises the particular character of these acts: "They're a kind of game. There's possibly a kind of group jubilation behind them: it's these children's manner of expressing themselves." He believes such incidents have been occurring at least since the 1990s - when statistics on French school violence first began - and have steadily risen since.

As in Lyon, silence has gathered around the series of incidents that hit the east side of Arles last year. The municipality won't comment, and one teacher I encounter says they have been forbidden by the education board from talking about them to the press. The parents outside Louise-Michel speculate about the motivations of the invaders, who were caught after tripping an alarm and in some cases were forced by their parents to participate in the clean-up. But no one here today knows their identity, or anything specific.

The same is true at Victoria Lyles nursery school in the neighbourhood of Trébon, 2km to the north. It was ransacked, along with a nearby primary school, by eight secondary school pupils from the area in February 2025, who were caught on security cameras and convicted of vandalising school property. Again, some had younger siblings at Victoria Lyles; they urinated in the classrooms where pupils studied.

Lazy brown mosquitoes swarm the parents picking up their offspring on this March lunchtime. A general air of incomprehension and resignation reigns regarding the break-in. “We were afraid for our children, as there isn’t any proper security here,” says one of a group of three mothers. Resources are strained in the commune; France’s largest by surface area, with lots of schools, but

Nadia Abzaoui (left) and Manuella Delbecq from the parents' association at École Marc Bloch are trying to improve the relationship between parents and teachers at the school

a low tax base. In the wake of the three 2025 trashings, the Arles municipality invested €650,000 in better security for the affected schools, including linking their alarms to a central surveillance centre.

In the cornershop down the road, I'm told no one in Trébon will break the general “omertà” regarding the eight offenders. Neighbourhoods like this and Griffeuille are hotspots for the driving factors behind school violence. Laurent Mucchielli, a specialist in the sociology of delinquency at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, points out three key indicators for troublemakers: academic failure; coming from “poor or stigmatised” neighbourhoods; and difficulties within the family. But he insists the first is paramount: “Until they’re 18 years old, school is the essential structure of collective social integration for young people, what you might call the society of children. So academic failure is the first form of exclusion from society.” It’s not hard to see why such children might react by channelling their anger against the site of their humiliation.

Mucchielli stresses that overall levels of school violence in France have remained stable since the 1990s - counter to the media and political narrative of feral youth. He also downplays the effect of social media, saying it doesn't create new forms of behaviour. But it's clear that it shapes some individual incidents; providing not just, as in École Marcel Pagnol, the means of dissemination, but also of incitement. Two sources tell me that the break-in at Louise-Michel was in response to online “challenges” teenagers set each on social networks; one of them, from Arles town hall, says the offenders came from outside Griffeuille to vandalise the school. But it's not easy to track this social network peer pressure, often posted as ephemeral Snapchat or TikTok stories, with generic, algorithm-bait hashtags. Normand, the deputy mayor speculates that online content has a desensitising effect: “They see stuff like that, it's virtual, but then they identify with it and they make the leap.”

Speaking on condition of anonymity, two teachers who have had to deal with such incidents agree on another explanation that pre-dates 21st-century social media: boredom. They believe that this is the primary motivating factor - especially with many trashings taking place during school holidays that stretch out for two months. “Given the long period without anyone in school buildings, it’s maybe easier to spontaneously decide to get up to some mischief,” says one. Parental neglect exacerbates this, says the other: “When children have nothing to do during the holidays, it’s too young to be left to their own devices the whole day.”

The first teacher offers yet another interpretation: over the last decade, she has seen a rise in a desire among her pupils for a sense of belonging. “It’s wanting to be part of a group, to share the same codes,” they say. Perversely ironic though it is to take it out on a community asset, perhaps this need for togetherness can take more destructive forms: the urge to go and smash up school property together, whatever the origins of the participants.

'THE SCHOOL DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING, IN THE HOPE THAT IT WILL BUY PEACE'

Debarbieux thinks the concept of the solidarity of vandals has merit. He remembers going to school in the 1960s in the northern city of Tourcoing and taking part in a phenomenon he calls le chahut: collective heckling of certain unforunate teachers. Almost nostalgically, he says this ritualised torment helped cement bonds between working-class pupils. And perhaps school trashings, in a 21st century dominated by identity politics, are a resurgence of this bonding through anarchy - only this time, out of classroom hours.

THERE IS NO OFFICIAL RECOGNITION of school trashings as a national problem, or any kind of problem, by the French ministry of education. When I send the ministry a list of the 16 incidents reported online in 2025, it replies via a spokesperson: “You refer to 0.3% of school buildings. It’s difficult to talk about a ‘phenomenon of trashings’.”

But statistics don't tally the impact on the ground. The official emphasis on property, not people, is telling. There is no will at government level to analyse this wave at a deeper emotional level; to understand the juvenile offenders individually or as a group phenomenon. With local authorities reluctant to draw further attention to themselves after such incidents, and teachers generally bound by a duty of confidentiality as public servants, they are quickly swept under the carpet.

France's network of Maisons des Jeunes et de la Culture and Maisons des Adolescents should in theory provide support services for troubled children and a sounding board for the psychological health of French youth overall. But, as with British youth clubs, these organisations, in part state-subsidised, are under increasing financial pressure, and many are closing. In the absence of any wider grasp of the problem, the response remains piecemeal. The ministry of education stresses each local municipality - the owners of school premises - must investigate, prosecute, reinforce security and find other solutions.

Shocking terrorist attacks on teachers, such as the beheading of Samuel Paty in Éragny in 2020 and the fatal stabbing of Dominique Bernard in Arras in 2023, have accelerated the trend in recent decades towards bolstering school security. Following Bernard's murder, 1,000 “at risk” French schools were earmarked for beefed-up protection - such as alert buttons, CCTV, and alarms linked to video surveillance centres and security gates. But Debarbieux believes such measures reinforce the sense of “bunker-fied” Republican institutions defined in opposition to the communities they serve, which is counterproductive: “The more schools close in on themselves, the more you ‘protect’ them from the surrounding neighbourhood, the more they look like the enemy.”

The ministry of education says it takes all incidents of school trashing seriously, stresses its spokesperson. They point out how Laurent Nuñez, minister of the interior, and Édouard Geffray, the education minister, recently visited Champollion secondary school in

Dijon following an arson attack in December last year. Reportedly a reprisal for anti-narcotraffic operations in the surrounding Grésilles neighbourhood, it was in the small minority - 5% - of cases where violence in French schools is committed by external perpetrators (the Paty and Bernard attacks being at the extreme end of this). The other 95%, including many school trashings, stems from actors within the system itself: teachers, pupils, other staff. So a response beyond perimeter security is required.

SEATED ON A BENCH IN A SMALL park down the hill from École Marc Bloch, on the north-western edge of the southern city of Montpellier, the president of the parents' association, Manuella Delbecq, talks of her anger and exasperation in the face of attacks there: "We knew in effect it was kids from the neighbourhood who were breaking in, setting fire to, stealing from and trashing schools. So the message we wanted to get across was: this is your little brother's, your cousin's school."

The most serious trashing at Marc Bloch occurred over the weekend of 5-6 August 2023. The intruders had an easy entry point, thanks to scaffolding that had been erected to upgrade the premises. They deactivated the alarm, then set about the usual mayhem: laying waste to seven classrooms, spraying them with paint from the cupboards and overturning an aquarium, in which luckily there were no fish.

A teacher at the school says the interlopers left a few calling cards: a half-eaten salad with a fork still in it; an opened but untouched beer bottle. The tags of “DZ” - the international abbreviation for Algeria - sprayed on the wall suggested their background. The police took fingerprints from the desecrated classrooms, but no arrests or convictions were made. A nightwatchman and a dog surveilled Marc Bloch for the rest of the summer, while the renovations continued; they stopped yet more intruders before the start of the school year in September. Most pupils, shielded by their parents, had no idea about the destruction.

Delbecq is accompanied by Naïma Hamada and Nadia Abzaoui, the parents' association's secretary and treasurer, respectively. Their neighbourhood of

Les Hauts de Massane is the comparatively affluent tip of the larger, rundown La Mosson district on Montpellier's west side. The trio, along with other parents, had already protested outside the school after an earlier trashing in 2020, in which intruders caused €30,000 worth of damage in a new annexe. No one has ever been held responsible for any of these incidents.

As much as demanding reinforced security at Marc Bloch itself, the group said they were signalling their outrage to the perpetrators themselves - that such disrespect of community property wouldn't stand. In doing so, they wanted to show they were the kind of parents who took active interest in the quality of their children's education. "We don't drop them off and then they can do whatever they want," says Abzaoui. "No - we're involved in their lives." Their aim was counteracting stereotypes of disenfranchised, disengaged families with immigrant backgrounds. "It's that kind of stigmatisation and fingerpointing that means a lot of parents don't get involved," she says.

They hoped to shift the mood among the parents. "There's a kind of shame," says Delbecq. "They think they don't have the right to be heard." Before arriving in the southern city in 2002, she grew up in the 1980s in the underprivileged Parisian district of Vitry-sur-Seine. "There was a mutual respect between parents and schools then," she says.

The association tried to organise a silent march in March 2021 after other schools on the west side of Montpellier were similarly targeted. But the parents from those schools, who had initially approached them, never showed up; only the trio and a handful of other mothers from Marc Bloch marched with their banners towards the hulking tower blocks in La Mosson. Hamada was crestfallen; people seemed unwilling to turn out for fear of reprisals from the drug gangs, who were either protecting the teenagers involved in the trashing, or didn't want any spotlight on the neighbourhood that might interrupt their trade.

This inertia is mirrored within the walls of Marc Bloch itself, the trio believe - something else they wanted to shake up through protesting. Delbecq describes a pattern of self-imposed silence from the school after disruptive incidents like the trashings: “They don’t want to talk about them.” She adds: “It doesn’t say anything, in the hope that it will buy peace. But, in fact, it’s led to something else, which is that disruptive youth are able to take up more and more space.”

The stonewalling the group describes seems consistent with the culture of #pasdevague (don't make waves), to quote the ironic hashtag under which French teachers have for years posted on social media about the lack of support from their hierarchy when faced with school violence, especially when caused by ethnic and cultural conflicts. In the case of École Marc Bloch, the parents' association claims it was told to stop speaking to the media and frozen out. The school did not reply to inquiries for this article.

The association has ceased its activities now; a rift that seems to be typical of what Debarbieux describes as the “catastrophic” levels of parental input into the French education system. In Meyzieu, Normand, the deputy mayor, says rebuilding these links between schools, support workers and parents is her priority in the wake of the Marcel Pagnol arson. “You have to get down on the ground,” she says. “It’s those people who’ll help you improve things.”

Outside École Marcel Pagnol, the heatwave has broken, the school year is winding down, and all is back in good order. The fire damage has been erased; the gate monitors watch the perimeter for disruptions (they interrogate one annoying Guardian journalist). But once the stream of excited faces have passed inside, what happens there? Maybe not even those in uniform can tell us. Before they melt away into the suburbs, two mothers marvel at what really disturbed their offspring: "The only thing they were shocked about was the fact it was other children who did it."

WE FOUGHT THE FAR RIGHT.

Extremists are on the rise in the UK - but activists have seen them off in the past in everything from football, politics, music and more. How did they do it? By Sam Wollaston Portraits: Fabio De Paola

...AND WON

'If you're not organised, you get picked on. When you're organised, often they will flee'

Tariq Mehmood (above, left) encountered the far right early - at primary school. “When white children surround you in the playground and sing, ‘God made little black people, he made them in the night, he made them in a hurry, and forgot to paint them white’, and the school doesn’t clamp down on that, then you’re living within the far right. It’s not one organisation, it’s a mass movement.”

I think it's likely those kids used another word for “black people” but I can't quite find the stomach to ask. Mehmood is speaking to me on a video call from Beirut, where he teaches at the American University. Now 70, he migrated, in 1967, from Pakistan to Bradford, where his grandfather and uncles worked in the textile mills, and immediately experienced racism. “The headmaster would tell us to be grateful to be in England, we were beaten up by white boys on the way to school, there was an intense violence and a feeling of helplessness.”

Until he realised he wasn't helpless, or alone. “We knew we couldn't come to school on our own, so we assembled somewhere, got off the bus together and walked together to the classroom.”

Later, when he was himself working in a mill in Otley in the late 70s, Mehmood was one of the founders of

Opposite: Tariq Mehmood, a member of the United Black Youth League. Above: Jen Craft, Labour MP for Thurrock

the Bradford Asian Youth Movement. The AYMs were a network of anti-racist groups demanding equal rights and a fairer world as well as defending their communities against attacks from groups such as the National Front (NF) and the British Movement (BM).

Following disagreements within the AYM, Mehmood was part of a splinter group, the United Black Youth League, that broke away in 1981. “The police tried to paint that our split was because the UBYL wanted violence, but this is anything but the truth,” he says. “Some wanted to work within the system - one of the founders of the AYM became an MP, something I fundamentally disagreed with then as I do now.”

There were frequent attacks on the south Asian community in Bradford. “Whenever the National Front had a demonstration, you could always bet that after the pubs closed they would attack us, groups of skinheads - five, six, seven of them in a car, going around, seeing what they could do.”

So, as Mehmood had done at school, the UBYL organised themselves. “If you’re not organised, you get picked on. When you’re organised, often they will flee and you don’t have to fight. We couldn’t trust the police; either they were incapable, or they didn’t care, or they harassed us.”

When they learned that a lot of fascists were planning to go to Bradford, they got ready. “We mobilised hundreds, many of them white, walking around, making sure people knew we were out, they didn’t have anything to fear. We said we’d arm ourselves if need be. Some of us made petrol bombs.”

The petrol bombs require some context. “Remember, it was the year of the massacre of the teenagers in London,” he says, referring to the New Cross house fire in which 13 young black people died (even though it was never proved to have been a racist attack). “Members of the UBYL were blocking up their own letter boxes in case someone poured petrol in and set fire to their houses. That was a reality, and we said no, we will defend ourselves.”

In summer 1981, 12 members of the UBYL, including Mehmood, were arrested after a police raid discovered 38 milk bottles filled with petrol. The Bradford 12, as they became known, were charged with conspiracy to cause

explosions and endanger lives. They didn't deny making the molotov cocktails, but said it was a precaution for self-defence.

In jail, awaiting trial, Mehmood discovered another weapon: the pen. He wrote his first novel, Hand on the Sun, about a young immigrant experiencing racism. "Stories make us human. I wanted to share with future generations that we were proud industrial workers, we weren't just going to have crumbs, we were politically conscious and had hope. I still have that hope." After an active campaign and a lengthy trial, on 16 June 1982 Mehmood and the rest of the Bradford 12 - who had argued self-defence - were acquitted by a jury.

The situation with the far right is no better today, he says. In fact, the opposite: “The atmosphere is more vicious than it was in the 80s, primarily because we were dealing with old-style racism born out of British colonial history. Today’s Islamophobia is a more violent, virulent form; it has always been there, under the surface, since the Crusades, but not at a scale you see today. The far right at that time were a few thousand demonstrators here and there, not 100,000, half a million. And they’re not just in Britain, but across Europe.”

He sees it as a failure of the left, of the labour and trade union movements, to educate the white working class that “the real enemy is the billionaires at the top”. Plus, the loss of community organisations. Mehmood’s message about what to do about the far right today is to do as they did: organise and fight back. “The most important lesson is that if you believe there is an injustice, then fight against it.”

Tariq Mehmood's memoir, Rebellion: Self-defence and the Story of the Bradford 12, is published by Daraja Press. A documentary, also titled Rebellion and co-directed by Mehmood, premieres at the BFI London film festival on October 14 and 15

'The idea was to harness music and politics together to fight fascism and racism'

It was half a century ago, the hot summer of 1976, but Red Saunders (right) remembers it clearly. A photographer and at the time also a member of a radical theatre group, he was in a rehearsal at a studio in Soho, London. “Someone came in and said: ‘Have you seen this shit about Eric Clapton?’”

An article in a music magazine said that at a concert in Birmingham, the musician had told his audience to vote for Enoch “rivers of blood” Powell in order to stop Britain from becoming “a black colony”, as well as chanting the NF slogan: Keep Britain White.

“I was a Clapton fan, I’d been to his gigs, had the albums. I couldn’t believe it,” says Saunders, now 80 and talking to me from his Suffolk home. He wrote a letter to the music press, and got some of his like-minded friends, including Roger Huddle and Jo Wreford to sign it. The letter pointed out Clapton’s hypocrisy, that he was “rock music’s biggest colonialist” and that his own music had its roots in blues, R&B, reggae. And it concluded with a rallying call for musicians and fans to rise up: “Keep the faith, black and white unite and fight.” (Clapton later apologised and expressed deep shame for the ouburst.)

With that letter, Rock Against Racism was born. “The idea was that if we harnessed music and politics together, it might be a powerful combination to fight fascism and racism.” Music was the key, to get the youth on board. The first event was a gig with jazz singer Carol Grimes at a pub in Forest Gate, east London. “We chose the Princess Alice because it was in an area where the National Front were getting substantial votes in local elections,” says Saunders. He admits they were anxious about getting attacked by the NF or the violent neo-Nazis of the British Movement, so they got a bunch of dockers in as security.

In the end, it passed off without incident, apart from the usual disagreement with the pub over money. Rock Against Racism grew and grew from there, fighting racism through live music and putting black and white bands on stage throughout the country. Saunders remembers one gig especially, at the Polytechnic of

Central London, featuring the reggae band Misty in Roots and the punk band Sham 69, a lot of whose fans were skinheads. In fact, Saunders says, although the band's frontman Jimmy Pursey was strongly opposed to far-right politics, some people around the band were members of the British Movement.

Saunders remembers the tension backstage. “Misty had a reading of the King James Bible, while getting into the mood of their music and culture. And they played dominoes, in the most theatrically aggressive way, slapping down the dominoes hard, all directed at these fascists and skinheads standing around watching. It was electric, I thought at any second it was going to kick off.” Somehow the gunslinger tactics defused the situation and the gig ended with the two bands on stage together in a show of solidarity.

The gigs grew into full-scale carnivals, most famously one in London's Victoria Park featuring the Clash, Steel Pulse, the Tom Robinson Band and more; it began as a march from Trafalgar Square and is thought to have been attended by 100,000 people. But the movement was just as much about small, grassroots responses around the country. Saunders remembers hearing from a kid in Aberystwyth. "She said she'd read my letter in the music press, and that one of her teachers was a Nazi, what could she do? I wrote back and said: 'You are now Rock Against Racism Aberystwyth.' When we next heard from her, she'd set up a club - all the local punk bands were playing."

Saunders says the far right today, with their black balaclava brigades, are more frightening than ever. “The hypocrisy – saying they’re looking after women and children, then we find out many have been reported to police for domestic abuse.” His rallying cry is to recognise the far right for what they want and who they are, and to call them out for it. “They’re looking to rid Britain of black and brown people. They’re flat-out, 100% racists.”

‘Our football tournament was huge. Peter Cook came down and refereed’

You could say that in 1977 the NF and Tottenham Hotspur FC were heading in opposite directions. The NF, led by John Tyndall, was still on the rise, resurgent in elections for the Greater London Council. Spurs, meanwhile, were relegated to the old second division; the terraces at White Hart Lane weren't a happy place. "When the team is doing bad, the community does bad," says fan Richard Buckwell (opposite, top), who was in his mid-20s at the time, and is speaking to me today on a video call from Nottingham, where he now lives.

The NF campaigned and recruited in and around football. “I suppose it’s historically the leading leisure activity of white men,” says Buckwell. When Spurs were back on the up and signed the Argentinians Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa, there was a lot animosity. Buckwell, who was active with the Anti Nazi League, and a few like-minded supporters, felt the opposite. “We handed out leaflets that said, ‘They’re welcome here’. And that’s what kicked off Spurs Against Nazis.”

It was launched with a public meeting, attended by about 60 people. In October 1978, they organised a five-a-side football tournament. “It was a huge event – we got 47 teams entering. Aswad participated, Bill Oddie played, Peter Cook came down and refereed.” Having the comedian Cook, a high-profile Spurs supporter, involved was helpful when the club initially tried to stop the use of its cockerel logo.

They printed T-shirts, made badges and banners, and handed out leaflets on match days, sometimes as the NF were doing the same. “I remember one day, leafleting outside the ground, suddenly seeing a load of youngsters running towards us. I thought, what on earth is happening? Is this the National Front?” But it was the opposite: they ran past to charge at and chase off the NF, who were campaigning behind. The message was getting across.

And the Football Fans Against Nazis message spread to other clubs: Leyton Orient, West Brom, Everton, Swansea City, Norwich, Arsenal. In all, about 11 clubs formed grassroots anti-fascist groups to counter the far-right infiltration of fanbases. The message even travelled abroad. “Some of our T-shirts got sent to the freedom fighters against white minority rule in what was then Rhodesia.” Buckwell still has a Spurs Against Nazis T-shirt, “for memory’s sake”. We’re joined on the call not by a Zimbabwean freedom fighter but by Buckwell’s wife, Jane, holding up this last surviving shirt. Plus, a nice cartoon of a footballer kicking a skinhead wearing an NF shirt into touch.

Buckwell remembers that when they saw NF graffiti, they used to alter it to read NF = No Fun. He says that anti-fascist campaigning - including by football fans - undoubtedly played a major part in the NF's decline, though Tyndall and other members took its embers to ignite a new far-right flame in the British National party (BNP). Racism continued to rage, largely unchecked, through the football terraces, throughout the 80s.

And to this day it hasn't been totally extinguished. "One thing that made a difference recently was taking the knee, which many clubs continued for a long time. And [former England manager] Gareth Southgate had a tremendous influence." But campaigns, such as Kick It Out and Show Racism the Red Card, are underfunded, and he would like to see more support, from government and - particularly - from the clubs themselves. "They pay lip service. The amount of money swilling around the big clubs, they could do a lot more."

At 74, Buckwell still fights the far right, working with Stand Up To Racism in Nottingham. He worries about Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (who goes by the name Tommy Robinson) and his lot. “It is frightening at the moment. But I went on the Together Alliance march, which was tremendous. Nottingham is very diverse and multicultural.”

'I was stood in the middle of this room watching this horrific violence – this wasn't the change I wanted' On a summer evening in 1989, at what became known as the Battle of Welling, Matthew Collins (below) changed sides. As a “troubled and troublesome youth” growing up in south-east London, he’d joined the NF as a teenager. “I was horrendously and viciously racist. I didn’t like what I saw around me.” He became the NF’s south London organiser.

In the mid-80s, the NF was becoming splintered and disorganised and Collins was also volunteering with the emerging BNP, rising to become its south London chair. The BNP opened a bookshop in Welling to distribute far-right material, and a group of concerned locals held a meeting at the library to discuss what to do about it.

Below: Matthew Collins, who volunteered for the British National party before turning informant; he now works for Hope Not Hate

Opposite: Rock Against Racism founder Red Saunders, with a poster for one of its concerts from 1978. Above: Richard Buckwell, a Tottenham fan who helped set up Spurs Against Nazis.

Forty neo-Nazis - including Collins - stormed the building and attacked them. It was, he remembers, a bloodbath. Nine people were hospitalised. Most people at the meeting were women, of south Asian heritage. "I was stood in the middle of this room watching this horrific violence, people assaulting women in a library, and realised I'd been looking in the wrong places - this wasn't the change I wanted." Sickened, the following day he phoned the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, and told them who had been involved. Collins had flipped; he was now an informant.

Over the next two and a half years or so, he continued his far-right activities but reported back to Searchlight, building up intelligence, warning of attacks, identifying people. It was incredibly stressful, and he would have been killed if he’d been found out, “particularly towards the end when Combat 18 [the security wing of the BNP] were around and it was all about shipping guns and drugs”. And he couldn’t tell anyone, not his family, not his girlfriend. “It was impossible, because you still have to live that life as a race hater.”

Collins took part in a World In Action TV exposé of Combat 18, blacked out and with his voice replaced, but because of what he said it still placed him in the firing line. When he got a visit from special branch, telling him they had intel that there was a threat against him, it was time to get out. Collins went to Australia for 10 years, where he worked in the rag trade and got married.

Now 54, Collins is back in the UK, working for Hope Not Hate, the advocacy group that campaigns against fascism and was an offshoot of Searchlight. He's head of intelligence, meaning he now runs informants inside extreme organisations. He ran Robbie Mullen, the whistleblower who helped bring down extreme rightwing group National Action, a member of which was plotting to kill then Labour MP Rosie Cooper, and the subject of ITV drama The Walk-In (Stephen Graham played Collins).

He's not going to tell me all the tricks of the trade, but basically they identify people who are disappointed and disaffected. "They have constant schisms and fallouts because the far right in this country is now completely driven by drugs and alcohol. You just pick and choose and you find someone and you put pressure on them."

Collins wants to smash today's far right. “Destroy, disorganise and disorientate. And one of the ways I do that is by finding the better-quality people and getting them out. We’re putting better-equipped and better-behaved people back into society.”

He divides the misery caused by the far right into two: “The misery of being in hock to them, ideologically, socially, culturally. And the misery of the people who live in fear of them, because they might get their windows broken or get beaten up.”

'I was really proud of what we delivered, keeping them out, squashing them'

In the run-up to the 2010 general election, the far right were moving in on Jen Craft's patch. "There were these, essentially, fascists not far from my home town and I wanted to do everything I could to stop them."

Fortunately, she was in a position to do so. Craft (pictured page 23), born and raised in Thurrock in Essex, was working for the Labour MP, now peer, Margaret Hodge at the time, in Barking. The BNP had targeted the east London constituency as somewhere they could win. They’d done well there in the 2005 general election, and gained 12 council seats the following year.

Craft explains there was a lot of frustration in the area over lack of housing, drastically fewer jobs available with Ford in Dagenham, and rapid demographic change - from predominantly white working class to a significantly more mixed population. "It was a proper tinderbox." A complacent local Labour

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Shot at Porth Island with Cornish folk group Femmes De La Mer.

EMBRACE THE CHANGE party and council meant people “didn’t feel they had the ability to contact anyone or that politicians were on their side”.

The BNP were cleverer than the NF before them. “The way they approached people, they didn’t knock on your door and say, ‘You don’t like all these so-and-so people moving in, do you?’ They’d say, ‘That playground in the park looks a bit rundown, we’ll come and paint it. I bet you’ve not seen a politician in years, tell us what’s worrying you.’”

Craft, whose formative years had coincided with a Blair government and who saw herself as significantly left of him, knew what the BNP were all about. She believes they were targeting Hodge personally, “because she’s Jewish, and because she’d just lost her husband. They thought they could capitalise.”

Craft, who was 25 in 2010, ran Hodge's campaign. "If you're going to throw everything at defeating the far right, that's a good time to do it - when you've no real responsibilities and can spend 80 hours a week going for it."

How do you go about it? “If you knock on someone’s door and find they’re voting for the BNP and you say, ‘Did you know they’re a bunch of racists?’, what that person hears is you’re calling them a racist.” Nor did they begin with, “Hi, I’m from Labour … ” because, such was the mistrust, they would often end up with the door slammed in their faces. So they adopted tactics not unlike those of their opponents. “It was, ‘I’m out with your local team, what issues have you got, what can we fix? Not trying to convince them that our way of seeing the world is right, but just to open that door by saying, ‘We’re here, we’re listening, we’re on your side, how can we deliver for you?’” They organised coffee afternoons and street meetings to find out what it was people cared about.

Later, there was a bit of “Do you know who the BNP are?” And that was the approach in recruiting volunteers and building a campaign team. “This is who they are, this is the threat they pose, come and help us, because if they do win here, where are they going to go next? They won’t stop …”

The BNP didn't win. Though Labour lost nationally, in Barking Hodge increased her share of the vote, and the BNP were pushed into third place. It was a turning point for their support; the party fragmented, losing members to new parties emerging on the right, such as Ukip. “I was really proud of what we delivered, keeping them out, squashing them,” says Craft.

After that, she became a civil servant, and took a break from politics for a while. In 2024, she stood for Labour in Thurrock, and won. Now an MP, we're talking in her Westminster office. The incumbent Tory was beaten into third place, behind Reform's candidate.

The same issues - migration, economic uncertainty and insecurity, disaffection with politics - mean that “in my area, those far-right messages are taking hold again”. The difference now is social media. “In Barking, it was analogue - letters, leaflets. We just had to have a faster printer than theirs, more things to put through doors and more boots on the ground. But the advent of social media means people can spread untruths and distortions very, very quickly - like net migration is rising or there are more small boat crossings, when actually it’s the opposite.”

Craft thinks that to fight the far right today, what's mostly needed is more regulation of social media companies, and their owners. “Elon Musk wants us to turn against and fight one another. The fact we are not regulating against him is stepping away from our duty to keep this country safe.”

That's going to be more effective than some tactics she sees. "If you go with a placard and shout, 'Nazis!', you probably feel good about yourself, but you've done nothing to fight them where it counts, which is at the ballot box."

Imam Adam Kelwick outside the Abdullah Quilliam mosque in Liverpool, where protesters gathered in summer 2024

'I spoke to the guy for five minutes ... then gave him a hug'

In the summer of 2024, after the murder of three girls at a dance class in Southport, misinformation and violence spread across the UK. Mobs smashed windows and cars, attempted to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers and desecrated Muslim graves, while far-right keyboard warriors poured petrol on the flames from their sunloungers abroad.

On the night of 2 August in Liverpool, an angry crowd gathered outside the Abdullah Quilliam mosque, the oldest in the country. Against police advice, Adam Kelwick (above), one of the imams, crossed the road to talk to them. He took food - burgers and chips - and drinks. “You’ve heard of the concept of breaking bread and the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” Kelwick says, on the phone from his Liverpool home. There is a famous picture of Kelwick talking to one man in particular. “I spoke to him for five minutes, we connected, built some kind of relationship, call it a friendship if you like, then I gave the guy a hug.”

It takes two to hug. “So he had it inside him. After coming to the mosque to protest, he could reach out and hug me as well - the same people he was manifesting enmity towards.” Later, when it had quietened down and the cameras had gone, Kelwick sneaked him into the mosque. “I took him in, we walked around, and had an interesting conversation.”

Kelwick thinks “the vast majority of people you see at these protests are just genuine, regular people who’ve been dragged into something they might not understand fully”. Which is why conversation is important. “You have to engage, otherwise you’ll go further apart, then it’s easy to hold enmity and hostility.”

Since that time, Kelwick has been devoting energy to building these links. He tells me about a coach trip they had to north Wales soon afterwards - a bunch of families who'd attended the Liverpool Save Our Kids protest, which kicked off violently, along with families from the Muslim community. “We mixed everyone up together on two coaches; you should have seen the looks on the faces of the locals in north Wales when the doors opened and all these scousers got off along with some quite conservative-looking Muslim families. I think the academics call it contact theory - that you're less likely to have negative feelings towards each other or uphold negative stereotypes if you have in-person interaction.”

The paranoia cuts both ways. “A lot of people in the Muslim community think everyone at these protests wants to hang, draw and quarter them - so I’ve been working with both sides.”

Kelwick travels a lot, and says the narrative - pushed and funded from above by far-right campaigns and individuals - is the same everywhere: “Immigration is bad, it’s an invasion of military-aged men, they don’t integrate, they’re committing all these crimes and raping our girls ... it’s the same in the US, France, Germany, all across Europe.”

But Kelwick has faith in people. “We’re all human, bleed the same blood, have the same issues in life. It doesn’t matter how many billions are pumped into this, if you can facilitate genuine interactions between people from different communities, that has the ability to make these hugely funded efforts irrelevant.” Would he sit down for a chat with Tommy Robinson himself, I wonder? “It’s not a definite no. I almost arranged to visit him when he was in prison. I think that would be the ideal meeting, without cameras, without anything to prove to anybody, just a genuine sit down where we don’t have to pull any publicity stunt – that would be beneficial.”

Discussion rather than debate is the aim. “I don’t like to be the attacker; it pushes people away. The whole purpose of having this interaction is to come closer. When you strip things down to a human level, that’s where beautiful things can happen. You can do that with every single person – even Tommy Robinson.” Over to you, Mr Yaxley-Lennon, the invitation is there. There might even be a hug in it for you ●

HOW LOVE MADE A CANNIBAL OF ME

When actor Rachael Stirling revealed that on opening nights she eats a few flakes of her mother Diana Rigg's ashes, reactions ranged from grimaces to disgust. But, she writes, it's exactly what she'd have wanted

'I was her only child, and followed her into acting. She strongly disapproved': Rachael Stirling with a portrait of her mother that hangs above her desk

THERE HAVE BEEN HEADLINES OF LATE THAT make me out to be an ash-guzzling savage nightly devouring her mother's charred remains. “Rachael Stirling eats mother Diana Rigg's ashes before going on stage” declared a dozen news outlets last month, while others referred to the “strange habit only she really understands” and “Dame Diana’s daughter admits eating her ashes in bizarre tribute”. I’ve written a book about our relationship, All About My Mother, in which I do confess to nibbling a grain or two, but I didn’t expect to be portrayed as a matricidal cannibal by the press.

My mother was Diana Rigg, an iconic actor with a 60-year career. Young 'uns will know her as the Queen of Thorns from Game of Thrones, be-wimpled spouter of the best verbal roasts on television: "I've known a great number of clever men. I've outlived them all. You know how? I ignored them." Old 'uns, meanwhile, go dewy-eyed at the memory of her leather-catsuited telly triumph as Emma Peel in The Avengers from the 60s, the first woman to perform kung fu on western television. She was also the only woman ever to marry James Bond. She appeared in The Great Muppet Caper because I was profoundly in love with Miss Piggy, and her child-murdering Medea was the toast of Broadway. She won an Emmy and a Tony, and had countless honours bestowed upon her for her many stage performances. She was a complete original and very witty to boot.

I missed her so intensely, I wrote the book to bring her back to life. Mum never wanted a biography in her lifetime, having been put off by a couple of limp jobs that managed to make her seem a bit dull or, worst of all crimes, earnest. My mother was not earnest. She was honest, sometimes eye-bleedingly so.

I was her only child, and followed her into the acting profession. She strongly disapproved of my career choice, and this caused some rumpuses, I can tell you. We ran the gamut of emotions from A to Z and eventually we made our way back to the love we'd had in the early years. In the end, the love bits between us did conquer all the awful bits, though there are some joyful and some jaw-dropping stories to share. Which brings us neatly back to the subject of ashes and my ingesting of them.

GROUCHO MARX wished to be cremated, with one tenth of his ashes to be “given to my agent, as written in my contract”. Dying in the Covid lockdown, my mother wished to be cremated, too, but with no ceremony, and scattered in places she loved. Pragmatic to the last, she even made sure we’d paid for the cremation on her bank card before she died. However, we never thought to decide what receptacle her remains would be returned in, so it wasn’t until after her death that I found myself browsing the selection of “scatter tubes” on offer.

Scatter tubes are cardboard containers of varying sizes. Some are plain, others have images printed on them. These are pretty unoriginal, pictures of doves and sunsets - or was it a sunrise - and images that felt to me a bit sur le nez. It turns out most things are quite on the nose when it comes to death. There isn't much of a market for irony. Not many skull and crossbones, or red stilettos, or tubes with "I told you I was ill" written on them. In the end I settled for a variety of receptacles in a variety of sizes, with the least offensive floral decorations on them. I needed quantity, as my mother had many places to go. She was to be scattered from the air across the green fields of England from a biplane by her aviator friend Tracey Curtis-Taylor; she was to be scattered in her garden in France and mine in London; and on the site of the actors' church in Covent Garden.

I did not expect human ashes to be so heavy. But they are very heavy. I discovered this when my mother's mortal remains were returned to me one bright September morning. The cremation company had told me, when organising delivery, that taking receipt of the ashes could be an emotional event. Certainly, the carbonised corpse of my beloved Ma was the strangest delivery I'd ever expected, and not one to be left on the porch or with a neighbour. So I sat waiting, like an obedient dog awaiting her mistress by the front door.

My mother was delivered to me by the gentlest of gentlemen from the cremation firm in Yorkshire, where my mother was born. He pulled her out of the boot in a box wrapped in plain cloth. With kind eyes searching my face, presumably to see if I was going to start bawling and drop her, he handed her to me with the tenderness with which one might hand over a newborn babe.

While cremation frees the family to celebrate the life of a loved one in the great outdoors and away from the stuffy formality of funerals, things don’t always go to plan. Everyone has seen a movie where the ashes are scattered and the wind picks up and blows them into the faces of the grieving party. The best story of an ashes mishap took place at a scattering of my father-in-law, Donald Garvey, Dad to seven glorious children, the sixth of whom is my husband, Guy Garvey. There we were to celebrate the greatly missed Don with his huge family at the Great Orme in Llandudno, the site of many a Garvey family holiday. Don had stated he wanted the day to emulate a painting by Jack Vettriano where a woman in a red dress dances with her partner in tails on a stormy day at the beach. Words were spoken on the clifftop, and an intrepid few descended to the shore. Granddaughter Lucie, in a scarlet off-the-shoulder dress, hoicked up her skirts and waded into the unusually clear and calm blue sea to scatter her beloved grandad, as per his specific wishes, in the Welsh tide. Job done, as Lucie solemnly made her way back to her family on shore, she piped up with the now immortal line, “I think I’ve got some of Grandad in mi’ knickers.”

The tiniest tube containing my mother was about three inches tall. I'd like to point out that I think scatter tubes are really badly designed. They open exactly the opposite way to the direction they look like they should, so you can easily scatter a loved one's ashes by mistake. The contents of this tube had - mostly - gone where they were supposed to go, though it still contained the odd grain or 20 of my mother, so I couldn't possibly throw it away. Plus it was conveniently pocket-size, so I took to carrying what was left of her with me everywhere I went. So far, so normal.

The next play I did was at the same theatre I had last performed at pre-Covid. It was the last show my mother ever saw, Love, Love, Love at the Lyric in Hammersmith. The new show, Scandaltown, was by the same writer, Mike Bartlett, and also at the Lyric. Everything felt eerily similar, yet between the two plays Ma had died and the whole world had turned on its arse. Now, here I was going to rehearsals in the same room, with some of the same people, but without Ma to chat to about how the

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play was going at the end of the day. Strange new world.

As I placed her tube in my rucksack on the first day working on the show, I remember thinking how thrilled she'd be, back in a rehearsal room once more. Nearer opening night, I decided she'd enjoy a permanent stint in my dressing room. My mother had used this same dressing room in 1985, when she was performing in Little Eyolf, a grim Nordic drama from 1894 by Henrik Ibsen. It is the "Number One" dressing room, the room nearest the stage, and here she was once again, sitting in front of a Hollywood mirror with its necklace of blazing bulbs, although this time in a tube. The only thing she missed out on was actually going on stage with me. That was her happiest place, after all, but I could not hide the tube anywhere in my tight-fitting gold lamé suit without having a very peculiar lump in my costume. So there she stayed, in her dressing room, waiting for the call to the stage that never came.

Actors are an emotional tribe at the best of times and come opening night I was a wreck. My maiden first night with no mother in the crowd made me sad, but this was a high-energy Restoration-style comedy so I had to pull myself together quick-smart. I looked at the small tube containing mama residue, and I don't know what I was thinking, but I found myself opening it. The wrong way round. A few grains fell on to my dressing table and as I panicked and tried to put them back one by one with varying degrees of success, the PA system blared, "Miss Stirling, this is your call to stage." It was time to make my entrance. The adrenaline started kicking in and now my heart was pounding. It was time to go.

In a panic, like a cocaine addict from a movie who can't bear to waste a grain of the good stuff, I licked my finger, picked up the few spilt cinders, and popped her on my tongue. Grainy, in case you were wondering, but it didn't feel wrong, it felt completely right. I laughed out loud at myself and the ludicrous situation. And then, just like that, my nerves disappeared.

'Is it so strange to put my mother, whence I came, back in the same mouth she formed in utero?' Stirling as a baby with her mother, seen right in The Avengers circa 1965

I know this sounds batshit, but it made complete sense to me. After all, quite a lot of people think they are eating the body of Christ on a weekly basis, and at least this way I really could say I took her with me on stage that night, back on the boards where she belonged.

When I told a widow at the party afterwards what I had done, her eyes widened in recognition and she whispered urgently, “I do that, too!”

The difference is, she didn't talk about it. No one talks about it. It's secret animal behaviour and, let's face it, most people do a lot worse in private. It's just they keep shtumm. But it felt much more important to tell the truth - and I love feeling that some of her is on stage with me. She had refused to retire, after all, and this was my way of enabling her to keep on trucking.

I have done the same on every first night since then. As the five-minute call hits the PA before every press night, I open the tube - which I have become adept at - stick my finger in and whatever is collected goes in my gob. Some people listen to music before going on; some do press-ups. I eat the last vestiges of my mother. She was on stage with me on the opening night of Noël Coward's Private Lives in 2023. Just knowing she was there gave me the confidence to play the part that night, to be joyful, to "Go Fly My Girl", as she used to write in my first-night cards.

She’d have adored going on to the Hampstead theatre stage with me when I played Sarah Siddons in The Divine Mrs S, a play about the 18th-century actor whose revolutionary realism in performance caused her audiences to scream and faint. Ma used to quote Siddons to me. She’d say, “If it can be found in nature, I know it can be played” so of course she’d want to be with me under the spotlights as I said those exact words. Before the opening night of Giant at the Royal Court in 2024, the smash hit show about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism in which I played his wife, Felicity Crosland, to John

Lithgow's Roald, once more I nibbled on a crumb. I can't not do it these days, even though there is hardly anything left; it's the thought that counts.

She's even been back to Broadway, baby. When Giant transferred to New York in March this year, my mother came with me. Oh, there's no business like show business, and there was one terrible night when I returned to my dressing room post-show to find there had been a huge leak in the roof above my chair and everything was sopping wet. My first thought was, Oh no, Mother's gone mushy! But in fact the outside of the tube was only a little damp and inside was bone dry.

Love is animal, and grief is certainly so. Dogs sniff bums by way of greeting; my mum bit mine on a regular basis and said as much on national television. “I sink my teeth into her flesh! I bury my nose in her stomach!” she declared to a bemused Michael Parkinson. Isn’t that sort of the same thing, and is it really so strange of me to put my mother, whence I came, back in the same mouth she formed in utero? It is my own act of faith. “Ashes to ashes, funk to funky,” as Bowie wrote. “I’ve loved all I’ve needed, love. Sordid details following …”

Love made cannibals of us both. Despite a widow seeing the sense in my actions, judging by the looks on the faces of most people I tell, few others are in agreement. Reactions vary from sour lemon-sucking grimaces to downright disgust. Despite this, I will not be persuaded to give up the habit. I will die on the hill of my ash-eating, and to any who question my sanity, I reply, “It is natural! I’m sure it is, really! I promise I’m not going mad. It’s what she would have wanted!” ● All About My Mother by Rachael Stirling is published by John Murray at £25. To order a copy for £22.50, go to guardianbookshop.com

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WILD BOYS

Pop's great survivors Duran Duran on entering their 'don't give a damn' era

They spent their 80s heyday on yachts, then rolled up their sleeves in the wilderness years. Ahead of a Halloween show at the O2, Duran Duran explain their staying power: 'Actually we're really tough'

Words: Alexis Petridis

N 2022, DURAN DURAN were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It felt like a big deal, a sweet moment of acknowledgment for the band's five-decades-long career, the 100m records sold, the string of bulletproof hits: Save a Prayer, Rio, Hungry Like the Wolf, Girls on Film. They were inducted by actor Robert Downey Jr; Drew Barrymore, Naomi Campbell and Gwen Stefani were on hand to pay heartfelt tribute and, as keyboard player Nick Rhodes points

out, “It’s a big national live TV broadcast in America that goes out to millions of people,” so the band booked some warm-up shows. “And it so happened that there was a date that came up in Las Vegas on 31 October,” says Rhodes. “And I looked at everyone and said: ‘Well, we can’t do a normal show. Las Vegas on Halloween – surely that’s the opportunity for a little bit of fun?’”

They worked up a set of suitably themed material, including covers of Billie Eilish's Bury a Friend and Talking Heads' Psycho Killer. There were, of course, costumes involved, because, as Rhodes drily notes, "When have Duran Duran ever not dressed up?"

He has a point, although not even in their new romantic pomp had Duran Duran dressed up like this. Replete with the unexpected sight of the band's heartthrob-in-chief, bassist John Taylor, “with silver hair down to my waist, like some kind of Scandinavian orc”, the show proved such a success that Duran Duran's Halloween gigs have become an annual event - they performed one at Madison Square Garden in New York in 2024 and at Manchester's Co-op Live in 2025, while this year's takes place at the O2 in London - and spawned an album, 2023's Danse Macabre. Guitarist Andy Taylor, who left the band in 2007 and announced he was suffering from stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, returned to play on it, while among its covers lurked a version of the Specials' Ghost Town, an intriguing choice, given that, back in the early 80s, the Specials' politically engaged social realism was seen as diametrically opposed to Duran Duran's nakedly ambitious jet-setting glamour.

“I remember being in a taxi with John after one of our first rehearsals, talking about stuff,” nods frontman Simon Le Bon. “I’d been in a rock band and a punk band before called Dog Days, and I said, ‘But John, what about street credibility?’ And John said: ‘Simon, Duran Duran’s got about as much street credibility as Chanel No 19.’ And, at that point, I thought: ‘OK, I’ll go with that.’”

Along the way, the Halloween shows have got increasingly elaborate (the Manchester gig had pyrotechnics, dancers and fire-eaters), while even Le Bon, who by his own admission is “not a fan of Halloween - I think it’s become just a sort of marketing thing”, can’t be faulted for his enthusiasm for the whole venture.

"At the first one, I was a werewolf, but since then it's developed. The next one, I was like the ghost of a north Atlantic convoy sea captain. There was a sort of nautical theme which suits me down to the ground." Readers old enough to remember Duran Duran's heyday may recall Le Bon's adventures with his 78ft yacht Drum, which capsized during the 1985 Fastnet race, resulting in the singer being airlifted to safety wearing only his underpants. "Another time I was a kind of cross between Mad Max and a mummy, but I also had this one scene where I was determined to wear antlers, like a druid god. And last time I was sort of aiming for something but it fell a bit short: I was a jellyfish, but it ended up looking like ... I was going to say something off RuPaul's Drag Race, but I'd be flattering myself. This time, I want to do something like Shiva The Destroyer."

It all points to a certain freedom, a desire to do what you want, regardless of whether it's considered cool. "The thing is, I don't give a fuck what people think about me," offers Le Bon, now 67 and a grandfather - or, as he put it on social media, glamfather - of four. "I'm not talking for the whole band - I'm sure some of them do care - but me, I just do what I do, and that's all it is."

It also suggests a sense of self-deprecating humour that Rhodes thinks might have been overlooked after their 1982 album Rio catapulted them to superstardom, when Duran Duran had fair claim to call themselves the biggest band in the world. In fairness, it wasn't always easy to spot amid the expensive jet-set videos, supermodel girlfriends and Antony Price suits. "I think it was missed by some people," he says. "But we grew up with Monty Python and Fawlty Towers and all of those amazing 70s British TV shows and so, inevitably, that was part of what we were doing. It doesn't mean we were going to put it into songs - I guess we weren't ever going to write The Laughing Gnome - but at the same time, you know, the videos are filled with humour. Watch A View to a Kill or Rio. It's there."

Talking to the band's four members about their heyday is intriguing. It was, all agree, exactly what they'd wanted in the first place. They loved being on Top of the Pops - the video for their recent single Free to Love was a hugely affectionate homage to the show - and clearly relished enjoying themselves in the grandstanding style of the times, palling around New York with Andy Warhol and calling up supermodels' agents in order to ask their clients to dinner. "Being single was good fun," smiles Le Bon, when asked what he misses about that era, before his expression changes. "I shouldn't say that, should I? Being married has been amazing."

Equally, it's hard to avoid the sense that the kind of global fame they enjoyed in the 80s - not to mention the unfailing attentions of their diehard fans, the Durannies

- was a lot to take on. “It was a mindfuck, actually,” offers drummer Roger Taylor. “I was sitting in my bedroom teaching myself the drums when I was 16; by the time I was 21 we were playing Madison Square Garden. I wasn’t prepared for it in any way. My dad worked in a car factory; my mum worked on the switchboard at a warehouse. I didn’t have any kind of grounding for great success in my life. Five years into it, I thought: ‘I’m not sure I can live with this level of scrutiny.’ The music press was hounding us, the tabloids were chasing us. It was the first time they really wanted to feature musicians as part of their journalism. The fanbase was 12 to 16 years old and very intense. It was definitely time to step away.”

He departed Duran Duran and upped sticks to Gloucestershire in 1986. To his delight, the minute he left the band, the fans that had camped outside his house disappeared. “God bless them, but it was a bit of a relief. The only people that tracked me down were the Sun, who banged at my door at six in the morning, then wrote this feature with the headline ‘Roger Taylor: The Hermit of Pop’. But it was great not to be bothered and live a quiet, simple life.”

By 1989, the hits had dried up for Duran Duran. “I felt huge anxiety, like water-running-out-of-the-bathtub sort of anxiety,” says Le Bon, who along with Rhodes is Duran Duran’s only constant member since he joined in 1980. They rolled up their sleeves and toughed it out

'I'VE DRESSED AS A WEREWOLF AND THE GHOST OF AN ATLANTIC SEA CONVOY CAPTAIN' birthday party, 1985; with A View to a Kill stars Grace Jones and Tanya Roberts; at their Manchester Halloween show last year; and a front row of Durannies in 1984

Extraordinary world (Main picture) Duran Duran today; (this page, clockwise from top left) the band on Top of the Pops in 1981; Nick Rhodes at Andy Warhol's

through the band's lean years, in the company of American guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, the latter a curious character who at one juncture marketed a sex toy modelled on his own penis, but also co-wrote Ordinary World, the 1993 single that briefly returned Duran Duran to the upper echelons of the global charts and remains their biggest streaming hit today. At one juncture, Le Bon wrote a song called Undergoing Treatment that depicted the band “watching others in the news”, while finding themselves “resigned to the mid-price section”. Today, he feels like their wilderness years were the band’s making.

“We survived the cutting of the tall poppies and I think that endeared us to people, in a way,” he says. “It proved we’re tough, actually. We might look like a bunch of soft, made-up middle-class blokes, but actually, we’re really tough.”

Certainly, you can't miss a distinct shift in perception of Duran Duran since the original quintet re-formed in 2001. The bad reviews that plagued them throughout their imperial phase seem to have been consigned to the past. “I remember coming offstage one night and someone saying: ‘The sound of the crowd has changed,’” says bassist John Taylor. “It had dropped an octave from that shrill treble. Clearly, we’d moved on from that audience that Duran Duran used to get, largely female and teenage, which was fine for us, but the kind of audience that gets pooh-poohed. That felt like, ‘OK, we’re on an even pitch now. We can move forward.’ The guys were done hating us.”

If you want evidence of national treasure status, well, they have just been featured on a series of Royal Mail stamps. Everyone from Beck to Brandon Flowers of the Killers to emo band Panic! at the Disco has cited them as an influence. Moreover, they never seem to run out of younger artists to collaborate with: Mark Ronson co-produced 2015's Paper Gods, Blur's Graham Coxon turned up on its successor, Future Past, and last summer, Le Bon and John Taylor unexpectedly popped up on stage in Hyde Park with Sabrina Carpenter, belting out Hungry Like the Wolf. Le Bon is hugely enthusiastic about

having persuaded the Margate-based band Pigeon to support them on tour, although what the Durannies will make of their “no-wave psychedelic punk” remains to be seen. “We really respect youthful energy. You want to get some of that in the group, some of that in the studio.”

That said, there are aspects of 21st-century music they seem very wary of. Rhodes offers some cautious optimism about AI's impact on music “if you use it as an artistic tool”, but Le Bon says he recently encountered an AI take on a Duran Duran song, and still seems scarred by the experience: “It was absolutely abominable! It was a horrible tune - the vocal was awful. I can’t remember the title but the cover was a girl standing on a yacht, so no cliches there. I do worry that people might just start getting used to it and accepting it in the same way you would accept really bad school dinners, just because you were hungry and it’s food. It’s shocking.”

Besides, as he points out, there's no need for an AI Duran Duran, given that the real deal is still extant and intends to remain so. "I think being in the band gives me the impetus and energy and motivation to try to

keep myself mentally flexible, physically strong. I purposely run up and downstairs because I don't want to suddenly go, 'Oh, I need to move to a bungalow. My knees have gone.' I can't change the age I am, but I can act as youthful as I can and I think that makes you last longer. Until I drop dead on stage? Well, it's not a bad way to go, to be honest with you."

Duran Duran's Halloween show is at the O2, London, 31 October as part of their 2026 UK and Europe tour.

Duran club (From top) John Taylor, Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor with Robert Downey Jr at their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2022; and Le Bon's ever evolving Halloween get-up in Manchester last year

LE BON RECENTLY HEARD AN AI TAKE ON HIS MUSIC: 'IT WAS ABSOLUTELY ABOMINABLE! THE VOCAL WAS AWFUL'

HONEST PLAYLIST

Arlo Parks

The singer's first download was Arctic Monkeys, and Portishead make her cry - but which song does she have to be careful listening to?

The first song I fell in love with I remember listening to Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics when I was really young. There was something about the line at the beginning that I was completely intoxicated by.

The first download I bought

When I was about 10 or 11, I would put my headphones on and wander through the park all angsty listening to Fake Tales of San Francisco by Arctic Monkeys, my first download on my iPod Nano. I loved the storytelling, the characters and the gritty tableaux they described: it felt so real, even though it was far away from where I grew up.

The song I inexplicably know every lyric to There are so many, but Superstar by Jamelia makes me happy - it's a kind of a bubblegum pop song.

The best song to play at a party I was playing Janet

Jackson's All for You in my dressing room for my crew and everyone was bopping. I feel like you can never go wrong with her. I love her voice - it softens people.

The song I can no longer listen to Even songs tied to painful experiences, I don't avoid. Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens is heartbreaking. I have to be careful when I listen to it, because it brings out so much melancholy about grief and loss.

The song that changed my life

There's so much space in House of Cards by Radiohead; Thom Yorke's voice is ethereal. I discovered it a few years before I wrote Collapsed in Sunbeams, it has the same minimalism to it.

The song I secretly like, but tell everybody I hate I embrace the music that a lot of people like, because there must be something that brings us towards it collectively. Like Starstruck by Lady Gaga - I blast that shamelessly in the car.

The song that makes me cry

Glory Box by Portishead. It's so piercing, specifically the live version from Roseland theatre. Hearing the little cracks in Beth Gibbons's voice, she's baring herself to the audience, it brings tears to my eyes.

The song I want played at my funeral Sunday Morning by the Velvet Underground: there's something so warm about it, it feels soothing, like a new beginning. It's melancholy but with a glimmer of hope. As told to Hannah Newton

Ambiguous Desire is out now; Arlo Parks tours the UK and Ireland, 17 to 26 October; tour starts Dublin.

My cultural awakening 'Amélie allowed me to embrace my neurodivergence'

As told to Olivia Ladanyi Illustration: Martin O'Neill

A mélie likes the sound of cracking crème brûlée with a teaspoon, plunging her hand into a sack of grain, and turning around in the

cinema to watch people's faces in the dark. I like the smell of books and I love cinema, but I hate the sound of people eating popcorn.

Amélie was not the first neurodivergent-coded woman I'd seen depicted in film. There had been Margot Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums and Suzy Bishop in Moonrise Kingdom - two Wes Anderson characters in whom I'd recognised myself. But Amélie was the first who was at the centre of the story; she's the titular character and we see things through her eyes. It was the first time I'd seen a woman on screen move through the world as I did: overstimulated, a bit lonely and afraid of the unknown, comfortable in her own company, with firm likes and dislikes and a powerful sense of social justice.

My parents suspected I was autistic as a child: I didn't have any friends, preferring my own company or that of my parents, and I couldn't understand why other children behaved the way they did. They thought I was odd. I had hyperfixations and obsessive special interests. Doctors were trained to look out for the stereotypical signs of autism in boys, and autism can show up differently in girls, who tend to mask (assimilate the behaviours of

neurotypical people) a lot more. My sense of humour, empathy and interest in history and culture rather than maths or science meant I wasn't formally diagnosed until my early 20s. But a diagnosis has never felt important to me. That's what I love about Amélie: she's never labelled as autistic in the film, yet it was clear to me, as a neurodivergent person, that she was, too.

In the opening credits, young Amélie flaps her hands over her ears, spins a coin and runs a finger round the rim of a glass - behaviours I now recognise as “stimming” (repetitive movements, sounds or words that help process sensory input or manage emotions). Adult Amélie’s overwhelm is communicated not only through

She moved through the world as I did: overstimulated, a bit lonely and afraid

Audrey Tautou's performance, but through the cinematography. When she takes the Paris Métro, the wide lens and intensified sound evoke the experience of sensory overload. When Amélie is happy, everything glows. When she is sad, she literally becomes a puddle on the floor.

Ten years ago, I was in my second year at the University of Cambridge when I first watched Amélie, on a DVD player alone in my room. I fell in love with it. After watching it twice that night, I became scared to return to it in case I didn't connect with it in the same way. But in the past year, I've watched Amélie five times in an effort to make up for lost time, and on every watch I see something different.

As my understanding of myself has evolved over the years, so has my understanding of Amélie. Now I have the urge to help her, as if by helping her I would also be helping the younger version of myself. To have a conversation with her and say: don't be so afraid of things that feel alien and new.

I had a book launch in August and it made my parents emotional how many people were there from different parts of my life. They never thought having friendships like I do would be possible for me. I wish I could tell my 14-year-old self, locked away in a library, or the 19-year-old who watched Amélie on repeat alone in her room, that she had all of this ahead of her. That she would program and organise neurodivergent film screenings and have a community of autistic people around her. That her bones aren’t made of glass, and she can take life’s knocks, as the Glass Man tells Amélie in the film. That she would overcome her fears and learn to take up space in her own life, as Amélie had shown her was possible all those years ago.

Lillian Crawford

The Mind of the Doctor: Across the Neurodiverse Universe of Doctor Who by Lillian Crawford is out now.

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Leo Reich's new sitcom It Gets Worse pokes fun at gen Z in all their self-absorbed glory - via a trio of dysfunctional friends facing up to the permacrisis in a shared hovel. He discusses the prospect of being the voice of a generation ... and how weird sex is

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Words: Rachel Aroesti eo Reich's new Channel 4 sitcom is "Girls meets Peep Show. That's always my favourite part of pitching anything: choose two really good

things and say it's a mix of those!" says the comedian with a slight smirk. Still, it's a fair summary: It Gets Worse is a bracingly candid, occasionally provocative hangout comedy about twentysomethings floundering professionally and personally in the big city, that comes accompanied by a strong stench of British bleakness (see: the title, for a start). Yet it does fail to flag one key aspect. While Girls and Peep Show covered the travails of millennials and gen X respectively, It Gets Worse is happening now - making it the UK's first true gen Z sitcom.

Or not. “I’m sceptical of the idea that generations have any real unifying features across the board, so I don’t want it to be like: this is a gen Z sitcom!” says the 28-year-old. In fact, it soon becomes clear that It Gets Worse is deliberately USP-less. We first meet Reich’s Ethan – “a middle-class loser gay guy” - and his pals Sam and Abi as they’re packing up their London flatshare, having been forced out because of a rent hike. But this isn’t the start of a meditation on the cost of living crisis - or anything else. “The point isn’t there’s some big concept where everyone’s a superhero, it’s: these are some people dot dot dot.” When I ask how closely the final show resembles his original idea, Reich looks askance. “The idea, I would say, was quite broad ...”

I would wager that the real idea - the main idea, the only idea - was to give a sitcom (any sitcom) to Reich, who since the pandemic has established himself as the future of comedy with remarkable ease. Following a stint in Footlights at Cambridge and a lockdown that birthed a few cleverly mordant TikToks (“For us, there were no rules! Apart from obviously don’t go outside,” he quips in one clip captioned “Telling my kids about my wild 20s”), Reich took his debut standup show to the Edinburgh fringe in 2022. Literally, Who Cares?! saw him pose as a heightened parody of a stereotypical zoomer: “a deliriously self-involved, fragmentarily informed, habitually self-pitying, comprehensively cynical member of Generation Z”, as a celebratory New Yorker profile put it the following year. (A British reviewer likened his character to a 21st-century

Flat broke Leo Reich; and (below) with Olive Gray (left) and Emily Fairn

Rick from The Young Ones.) Reich performed his ingenious script looking like a pre-Raphaelite club kid: dramatic eyeshadow, short shorts, mop of curls. It was an immediate hit, and swiftly picked up for a HBO special - unheard of for a fledgling British comedian. No wonder he's been given carte blanche to bring his sensibility to TV.

When I visit the set of It Gets Worse in south-east London, a former spice warehouse is doubling as the squat Sam has moved into. Reich is in this scene, an awkward sex party, but still finds time to swing by the monitors to see how things are looking and - I quickly realise from looking at the script in my hand - ad lib half of Ethan's ludicrous small talk (there's nothing on the page about Tutankhamun or the idea that as a society "we need to get back to the land").

Afterwards, upstairs, Reich is vaping and sipping a canned coffee. He encourages improvisation: the show “is about mess and people being fucking stupid and delusional, so I think it suits a level of roughness … thank God!” Yet as a longtime standup fanatic (his heroes included Simon Amstell and James Acaster), he remains serious about the art of comedy. He describes his on-set role as “a sort of joke warden”, who steps in when “the rhythm’s a little bit out” in his castmates’ delivery. I notice one particular line about a party guest - “Leon’s cousin from Tring” - is non-negotiable in terms of both syntax and cadence.

Reich may shrug off any voice-of-a-generation label, but It Gets Worse does feel distinctly of the moment. That’s partly thanks to the protagonists: “a campy gay guy, uptight northern girl and mixed-race artist” have typically been restricted to “side character” status on screen in the past, he says. But it also has a lot to do with that depressing title. While gen Z isn’t a monolith, its members do all have something significant in common: they are coming of age during the permacrisis: the omnipresent financial, political and ecological precarity that is making the future feel hopeless for many. “Trying to say this without being cringe, but it’s a very specific time to be looking down the barrel of the rest of your life,” says Reich. “There’s a vague sense of massive anxiety.”

Reich is, presumably, not feeling the fear to quite the same degree. Since his breakthrough he has appeared in Lena Dunham's Netflix comeback Too Much (she returns the favour here by playing

Abi's boss, one of a host of big-name cameos including Andrew Scott and Zadie Smith) and now, obviously, has his own sitcom. But that doesn't mean he can't identify with his characters. It Gets Worse isn't an issue-led drama but an attempt "to recreate a mood or feeling of helplessness, which isn't about success in a brutal material way. It's an existential feeling of being lost and stupid and not knowing what to do."

In the show, all three leads have “radically different responses to the broader existential anxiety”, says Reich. Ethan sees himself as “a charming clown” whose philosophy is “fuck it, let’s just have a laugh, live in the moment so you don’t have to plan your future”. He is easily the luckiest of the trio - his living situation is solved when he moves back in with his London-based mum (a sublimely irritable Vicki Pepperdine) - but far from aspirational. There is an arch Fleabagian nihilism to his humiliating sexual experiences (including one with a therapist played by Scott), which dovetails with the sense that Ethan is “being fucked by life but kind of enjoying it”, says Reich, who tends to think of sex as inherently hilarious (“It’s such an insane thing to do!”).

Meanwhile, Abi, played by Emily Fairn, takes the good girl route, chasing the hallmarks of an Instagrammable lifestyle via industrious perfectionism.

"This is a very specific time to be looking down the barrel of the rest of your life"

Sam (Olive Gray) is a tutor and wannabe writer who pursues the same meaning and control by building her “own kind of life and rejecting social norms”, says Reich. Her cynicism has also led to a kind of radical independence. “I think,” says Gray, “that she’s the type of person who believes no one owes anyone anything and everyone is responsible for themselves – to her own detriment and the detriment of the people around her, unfortunately.”

Unlike many messy millennial dramedies, It Gets Worse clearly aims to replace myopia with multiplicity. Fairn appreciated the show's acknowledgment of class dynamics, like how “Ethan makes fun of Abi for working so hard, but that’s how she affords her rent”. She was encouraged to keep her native Liverpool accent and channel her own experiences as a “working-class northerner” into Abi, who leans into or plays down her accent depending on the situation - and occasionally slips in some scouse slang. (It was Fairn’s suggestion for Abi to call Sam a “jarg writer. Leo was like: I don’t even need to know what that means, that sounds hilarious!”)

Even so, Ethan is quite obviously the comic engine. Like Reich himself, he is winningly self-deprecating, disarmingly frank, hyper-articulate and endlessly amusing company. There is naturally some crossover between him and Reich's chronically narcissistic persona in Literally, Who Cares?! but Ethan is aware of his own ridiculousness and can laugh at himself. And whereas the standup show was a precision-tooled piece of satire, It Gets Worse is a heartfelt paean to friendship and, in a weird way, a bit of “wish fulfilment” for its creator: he’s never lived in a grotty flat with friends, moving straight from his parents’ home to his own place.

That said, any sentimentality is countered by a fierce joke rate, plus Reich's aversion to earnestness: he is still trying to send up his peers, just in a slightly more subtle way. Despite the real difficulties faced by gen Z, this is ultimately a show about “people who don’t have really, really serious problems complaining all the time”. For that reason, he’s anticipating at least some intergenerational pushback. “I don’t know if everyone’s always in the mood to hear a fine 28-year-old going: ‘Actually, being kind of scared of the future is really hard!’ It’s like: ‘Well, it’s not!’” It Gets Worse starts later this month on Channel 4.

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A cultural primer for the week ahead, whether you're up in the gods or downstairs on your tod ...

Cinema

The Social Reckoning Out now

The David Fincher-directed The Social Network has come to seem more canny over time, with the site co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg being held responsible for all manner of social ills. In this sequel from Aaron Sorkin (directing and writing) based on the incidents around the 2021 leak of internal Facebook memos, Zuck is embodied not by Jesse Eisenberg but Jeremy Strong (above).

Paul Greengrass (United 93) tackles the 1381 peasants' revolt, a fracas caused partly by the decision to introduce a new tax of four pence per person, regardless of whether you were in the greedy elite or a worker who might make about £2 in a whole year. Heading up the rebels with a cause are Andrew Garfield and Cosmo Jarvis.

The Lost Children of Tuam Out now

In 2017, the New York Times chronicled the efforts of amateur local historian Catherine Corless's campaign to expose the abuse by Irish nuns that led to almost 800 child and infant deaths in Ireland. This dramatisation stars Monica Dolan as Corless and is produced by Liam Neeson.

Other Mommy Out now

Jessica Chastain stars as both regular mom Ursula and her supernatural doppelganger, creeping around the house interacting with eight-year-old Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark) in this Blumhouse horror directed by Rob Savage (Dashcam). Catherine Bray

Gigs

Manifest

Wembley Arena, London, Friday Like their girl group contemporaries Katseye, this Turkish sextet were created via a TV singing competition. They also share some of their musical DNA, with Manifest's brightly hued songs bubbling like a sugary soft drink. Support comes from UK newcomers XO. Michael Cragg

606 Club 50th anniversary festival 606 Club, London, Monday to 25 October

West London's much-loved 606 Club celebrates its 50th anniversary over a fortnight, with star guests including Jamie Cullum (Tue), Gwilym Simcock (Thur), and many trailblazers of UK jazz. Run by saxophonist Steve Rubie, "The Six" is as devoted to good music as it's ever been. John Fordham

Oxford international song festival Various venues, today to 24 October An ambitious local event turned major international fixture, this festival celebrates 25 seasons with performances on the theme of love. Highlights include baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Tamara Stefanovich in Schubert's Winterreise (today), and songs by György Kurtág from baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu (Mon). Flora Willson

Arab Strap Sunday to 17 October, tour starts Edinburgh

The Scottish duo (below) returned last month with their ninth album Half-Told Tales. A 14-song collection of strangely danceable odes to ageing (You You You), angry warnings about masturbation (I Get Noise), and an overarching sense of black humour, it should make for a fun night out. MC

Art

Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography

Wednesday to 21 February The Tate’s big autumn show takes a global look at the more conceptual, artier side of photography, with 200 prints by 80 artists from across the world, including Madame Yevonde (work pictured above), who saw the camera as more than a documentary tool.

Prem Sahib, Gordon Matta-Clark De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, today to 4 January

Prem Sahib has been making some of the most interesting art in the UK over the past few years, all about queer intimacy and clubbing, and he is getting some well-deserved institutional attention here alongside the brilliant late American conceptualist Gordon Matta-Clark.

Julia Isidrez Nottingham Contemporary, to 10 January

UK museums' fascination with indigenous art continues unabated with this show of ceramics by Paraguayan Guaraní artist Julia Isídrez, filled with mythical creatures and multi-headed amphibians.

Frieze art fair

Regent's Park, London, Wednesday to 19 October

Every autumn, Frieze shows up in a massive tent in Regent's Park and plays host to the best art galleries in the world. It is a cultural phenomenon, and well worth visiting if you can stomach the price of entry. Eddy Frankel

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The Cherry Orchard Harold Pinter theatre, London, to 9 January Autumn is the season when all the stage stars come to play in the West End - and there are none bigger than Kristin Scott Thomas, who stars alongside Stephen Mangan in Chekhov's final play. Miriam Gillinson

Middlemarch Parts 1 & 2 Swan theatre, Stratford-

Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, to 16 January Nina Raine has adapted George Eliot's exquisite novel into a play in two parts, directed by Jeremy Herrin. Nia Towle plays Dorothea Brooke alongside Amanda Root, playing both George Eliot and matchmaker Mrs Cadwallader. MG

English National Ballet Liverpool Empire, Thursday to 17 Oct; touring to 25 October There are two ways to watch the ENB this week: see them live in Rudolf Nureyev's staging of Romeo & Juliet. Or settle down with some popcorn for their sumptuous Sleeping Beauty in cinemas (Tuesday to 18 October). Lyndsey Winship

Harriet Kemsley
Brighton, Sunday; Hull, Wednesday; Leeds, Thursday; touring to 26 February
On stage, the Last One Laughing star comes across as a chaotic oversharer - but you don't become a successful standup without finesse and focus. Kemsley's current show Floozy sees the 39-year-old relate her experiences of post-divorce dating in deceptively daffy style. Rachel Aroesti

Streaming

Treasure Island

Paramount+, Monday

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel - responsible for creating the pirate caricature of the popular imagination - was first adapted for television 75 years ago. This new version stars David Oyelowo, Jack Huston (above), and Hayley Atwell as Bess Hawkins, who helps her son Jim in his hunt for fabled riches.

VisionQuest

Disney+, Wednesday

It can be juvenile, but Marvel lore has also powered some of the cleverest TV of recent times. This mind-boggling spin-off of 2021's WandaVision rejoins Paul Bettany's ex-Avenger Vision as he tries to understand what it means to be an android. James Spader co-stars as his maker, the villainous AI Ultron.

Time

iPlayer & BBC One, Sunday, 9pm The bracing, brutal prison drama returns for series three, this time shifting focus to disturbed teens locked up in a young offenders institute. Siobhan Finneran reprises her role as a disenchanted chaplain, while David Tennant joins the cast as a custodial manager at the end of his tether.

Killing Anna Channel 4, Monday, 11pm

An expat Syrian academic sees a video of a civilian massacre in Damascus and uses social media to track down the chief perpetrator; she then poses as Anna, a regime sympathiser, to encourage him to reveal details about his work in this remarkable documentary about vigilantism in the digital age. RA

Games

Planet Zoo 2 PC, PS5, Xbox; out Wednesday

The popular zoo management sim (above) returns, letting players build their animal kingdoms from a vast toolset of detailed habitats. The addition of aquariums and bird sanctuaries bring in new animals to observe and care for.

Valor Mortis PC, PS5, Xbox; out Wednesday A dead soldier of Napoleon's army finds himself reanimated in an alternate 19th century filled with plague-ridden monsters. An epic fantasy adventure crammed with gutsy combat and supernatural peril are his certain fate. Keith Stuart

Albums

Dawn Richard - Creole Culture Out now

After two albums with avant-garde multi-instrumentalist Spencer Zahn, girlband member turned experimental art-pop practitioner Dawn Richard (above) returns to more solo endeavours with this seventh album. Influenced by her heritage as a Black and Native American woman, songs such as the single Chuuuuurch are relentlessly thrilling.

Troye Sivan - She's the Best Out now

After the commercial highs of 2023's Something to Give Each Other, there is a palpable sense of confidence on Australian banger merchant Sivan's follow-up. Its title track is an experimental melange of spoken word and 90s trip-hop, while sugar rush banger Party contorts Madonna's Music into new shapes.

Jamie T - Ghosts (100 Days of Morning) Out now

Four years after scoring his first No 1 album, south Londoner Jamie T is back with this sixth record featuring a collaboration with Damon Albarn. As the title suggests, its lyrical focus is on various spectres of his past, with the nostalgia motherlode being the galloping lead single 3310.

Remi Wolf - Mud Out now

The Californian genre alchemist (below) returns with her third album of sideways pop. Less eccentric and neon-splattered than her previous outings, here Wolf contemplates heartbreak on the contemplative Bottle, while the stuttering Twiggy spins through memories via an earworm melody. MC

Brain food

13 Minutes Podcast

The BBC's space podcast returns with a new series on the Hubble telescope touching on its delayed and over-budget launch and the discovery of a fatal flaw in the build. We hear how scientists salvaged the operation.

@Dictionarycom Instagram

Managing to make the mundane functionality of the dictionary more interesting, dictionary.com's Insta account posts unusual "word of the day" picks, as well as analysis on the linguistic choices of artists such as Taylor Swift.

The Last First: Winter K2

Apple TV, out now

Apple TV, out how This vertigo-inducing film follows the extreme climbers who in 2021 attempted to be the first to summit the Pakistani-Chinese K2 mountain in winter. During the gruelling expedition they exposed how dangerously commercialised modern climbing has become. Ammar Kalia

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The 90s TV drama classic Our Friends in the North is getting a stage reworking. Can its cast do justice to the original's star-making roles – and can its themes of scandal and corruption still shock 30 years on?

History repeating

In a small room at the top of Newcastle upon Tyne's Live theatre, four actors are bringing to life the principal characters from one of television's best-loved

dramas. Sitting around a table strewn with coffee cups, water bottles and annotated scripts, Tosker and Geordie have been boozing in a nightclub and weighing up their chances of pulling. Mary and Nicky have been arguing about whether they have a future together.

The scenes are from a new stage version of Our Friends in the North, the landmark nine-episode series first broadcast in 1996 on BBC Two. Set against a backdrop of Labour politics and police corruption, it charted 30 years in the lives of four working-class geordies and made stars of Mark Strong, Daniel Craig, Gina McKee and Christopher Eccleston. It was a hit with critics and viewers, won awards and regularly makes “greatest ever” lists.

Now it is back, after Live theatre's artistic director Jack McNamara persuaded an initially reluctant Peter Flannery, the writer, to return to the characters he first created for a Royal Shakespeare Company play in 1982, before later rewriting and expanding the story for the screen.

“In a way, the production came from a sense of frustration, of always having to think small and manageable in a historically underfunded region,” says McNamara. “We needed a bigger gesture. A wider story for a larger audience that had a familiar outline, but still something no one has seen on stage before. Put simply, I wanted to direct 12 actors on a big stage in a brand new work. The significance and agility of Our Friends offers a rare opportunity for that to happen.”

Because of the scale of the show and its potential afterlife, it is a co-production between Live theatre, the Theatre Royal in Newcastle upon Tyne and producers Eastlake Productions. Flannery has reworked two of the TV episodes, set in 1979 and 1984, into a two-act play. He has introduced a chorus and there are a couple of borrowings from other episodes for explanatory purposes. The stage design allows for it to be a fast-moving show.

Northern souls (Above, left to right) Christopher Eccleston as Nicky; Gina McKee as Mary; Mark Strong as Tosker; and Daniel Craig as Geordie; and their 2026 counterparts (facing page, left to right) Ryan Nolan; Sam Neale; Jack Robertson; and Scott Turnbull; (far right) director Jack McNamara

On TV, McKee was the only one of the four principal players who was from the region. For the play, four actors from the north-east have been cast. Ryan Nolan is the political idealist Nicky (Eccleston on TV). Sam Neale is the quietly driven Mary (McKee). Jack Robertson plays the would-be entrepreneurial Tosker (Strong). Scott Turnbull is the luckless Geordie (Craig).

At the table read, a few days before rehearsals with the full cast begin, various scenes are stress-tested under the guidance of McNamara. There’s a long discussion about how best to make a particular joke land, and the two actors concerned try it in a number of different ways. In the script, one character is reprimanded for missing his son’s football final. “‘Football final’ is a bit of a cliche,” jokes Scott. “Maybe it should be a ‘bassoon recital’.” Everyone laughs.

'I'm aware it is a bleak view of society, but the characters are survivors'

The actors want to know whether McNamara expects them to model their performances on their TV predecessors, but he is not interested in impersonations. The way to pay tribute to the originators of the roles, he says, is to do their own thing.

There's a sense of relief but the four are acutely aware that Our Friends in the North is a cherished TV show, and there is a weight of expectation.

“I’m trying not to get into an anxiety spiral about it but it is there, looming,” says Neale, who recalls watching the show with her mum.

“I do feel like there’s a lot of pressure,” says Turnbull. “This needs to be executed well.”

McNamara is well aware of the pressure the cast are feeling but he likes to keep things loose. “There is always an element of experimenting,” he says. “I don’t storyboard things down to a tee. I like to have a little openness so that in rehearsals it feels like anything is possible.”

Understandably, McNamara can't help but imagine where things might go next. There are hopes the show will have a life beyond its short run in Newcastle but “it has to land here and have real resonance before it goes anywhere else”, McNamara says.

Later, at the full-cast rehearsals, the energy level is palpably higher than at the table read. After a couple of hours, McNamara asks the performers to improvise various scenes. Improvisation is not a memory test, he reminds them, but a way of exploring intentionality. There are clear glimpses of what has the potential to be a powerful theatrical experience.

"The show is about friendship and how it evolves and fractures.

And there's a lot about political optimism and political failure and how they sit alongside each other," McNamara says.

"The chances of real change through the Labour party is the central preoccupation of Our Friends in the North," wrote the late campaigning journalist Paul Foot, but no one could consider the show - or the play - a paean of praise for politicians, especially their relationship with the police. In Our Friends - some of which was based on a scandal uncovered by Foot - decent Labour politicians are bested by cynical spivs and extremists. Honest police officers are outmanoeuvred, and perhaps outnumbered, by bent coppers. Lawmaking and law enforcement are rotten to the core.

Although it was well researched and based on fact, writer Flannery says some viewers of the TV series thought the police corruption strand of the story had been exaggerated. “I don’t know that anybody’s going to be shocked now like they were 30 years ago,” he says. “That [corruption] has got worse. There have been serving officers prosecuted for rape and murder since then.”

Of the political chicanery, Flannery says: “I can’t see what might have changed. The publicity around Neil Hamilton and Mohamed Al-Fayed and the ‘cash for questions’ affair must have made them change their tactics, but I think they’re still at it. There are so many paid lobbyists hanging around parliament now. What are they there for if not to suborn MPs and buy their votes and their support? It’s what’s ruined American politics and if we’re not careful it will ruin British politics as well.”

As he approaches 75, Flannery says this will probably be the last thing he writes. “I’m acutely aware that I’m handing the audience a fairly bleak view of society,” he says. “However, the characters are vibrant and they’re all survivors, even Geordie, who seems to be kind of indomitable. No matter what bucket of shit gets poured over him he gets up and has another go. I want the audience to take hope from the characters.”

Flannery insists he sees the arrival of Andy Burnham as prime minister as a positive thing. “I think the whole system is against him and he’ll find his road blocked at every turn. I’ve watched this rolling around again and again and there isn’t usually any real change. But, I’m an optimist. It is a triumph of hope over experience but until I’m proven wrong, I’ll hang on to that.” Our Friends in the North: The Thatcher Years is at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne, Thursday to 24 October.

The beast of Bodmin Moor "On family holidays in Cornwall, we would cross Bodmin Moor to get there and back," says Shearsmith. "The beast is a big cat: a lynx or a lion, maybe escaped from a zoo. There's the possibility of truth piercing the myth and it's all the more terrifying for it."

← The Hand of Glory "If you sever and pickle a dead man's hand and perform some incantations, you can use the hand in witchcraft. It's said it can unlock any property and, when you light the fingertips, it will put anyone living there to sleep while you rob their house. It sounds mythical, yet there is one in Whitby Museum."

$\downarrow$ Urbain Grandier "This is a story about a French priest who was a notorious womaniser. To get rid of him, a group of nuns pretended to be possessed by the devil, and said he had bewitched them. It's essentially a story of a cancelling, except that this man was doused in holy water and crushed until the marrow leaked from his pulverised bones."

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From The League of Gentlemen to Inside No 9, a sense of gothic unease has always informed Reece Shearsmith's work. His new book combines myth, memoir - and his own disquieting drawings

Words: Fiona Sturges

When Reece Shearsmith was a boy, he overheard relatives chatting at a New Year gathering. "One of them was talking about [the ghost of] a woman they'd seen standing on the village green at three in the morning," he recalls. "Another knew a woman who woke up and found a figure sitting at the end of her bed. It's my first recollection of being properly scared and loving it."

From then on, Shearsmith was fascinated by all things uncanny. He would stay up late to watch Hammer horror films and immerse himself in books including the Hamlyn Book of Horror, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and the works of Edgar Allan Poe. His obsession carried through into adulthood and his work: Shearsmith is best known as the co-creator of The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville and the horror anthology Inside No 9. "I've managed to forge a career from the things I loved as a kid," he says.

Now 57, Shearsmith (pictured right) has written a book, Things I Took from the Dark, about his love of the macabre. It is a compendium of ghoulish stories, with accompanying illustrations by himself, and a memoir of his early years when he would scare his neighbours by wearing a glow-in-the-dark Dracula mask, with a soundtrack of thunderclaps and wolf howls, as they returned home from work.

The book is structured around an imaginary museum in which Shearsmith places the legends and artefacts that have terrified and

‘We are chilled by the creepiness but take hope from the idea that death isn’t necessarily the end’

The FeeJee mermaid "The American showman and philanthropist PT Barnum was behind this hoax mermaid, which he put in a New York museum. It had the mummified head and torso of a monkey and the tail of a fish. Rather than a beautiful siren with long hair, it was a monstrous, wizened thing with sharp teeth."

REECE SHEARSMITH; RORY LEWIS

→The terror of Croglin Grange "This is a centuries-old vampire tale about a family staying in a house near Carlisle. A monstrous man climbed in through a window and bit a woman on the neck. Hearing her screams, her brothers came in and shot the creature in the leg. Locals subsequently discovered a body in a coffin with a bullet hole in its leg, and burned it."

shaped him: these include the Beast of Bodmin, the Highgate Vampire and the monster that stalks Glamis Castle in Scotland. Shearsmith has an attic room in his north London home where he keeps his eerie ephemera, including antique books, props, costumes from his TV shows and a Gottlieb Haunted House pinball machine: “The room is behind a door that looks like a bookcase,” he says, gleefully.

The book is stuffed with childhood anecdotes, such as the time he and his brother were in their grandad's Reliant Robin and the car clipped the pavement, flipped over and slid down the road on its roof, sparks flying everywhere. Somehow, all emerged from the crash without injury.

Along with his Dracula routine, Shearsmith's childhood extracurricular activities included practising magic tricks, making models of his favourite monsters and recreating film scenes. He even struck up a correspondence with Christopher Tucker, the special effects and makeup supremo who worked on The Company of Wolves and The Elephant Man. After Shearsmith left school, Tucker invited him to do work experience at his studio, where he created latex masks for The Phantom of the Opera.

Eventually, Shearsmith's love of acting overtook his desire to work in special effects and he studied drama at Bretton Hall College near Wakefield (since merged with the University of Leeds). There, he met Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson, with whom he would work on The League of Gentlemen.

Shearsmith has never stopped drawing and making things, so he was thrilled to provide the illustrations for Things I Took from the Dark. He says the creepy characters in his TV projects were nearly always conceived as drawings which he would show to the makeup and costume departments.

It is a measure of our collective fascination with the uncanny that the tales in Shearsmith's book have endured, in some cases for centuries. For Shearsmith, the lure of the supernatural lies not just in the storytelling but “the black horror of our own mortality. We are chilled by the creepiness, but we cling to the idea that death isn’t necessarily the end, and there’s comfort in that.” Things I Took from the Dark by Reece Shearsmith is out now.

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'A surprising number of children were named after Henry or Clare'

The Time Traveler's Wife made Audrey Niffenegger a global star. More than 20 years on, she has written a sequel - and this time, it's political. She talks to Sophie McBain about writing, art and becoming radicalised

TEACHING BOOK

'Yes, The Time Traveler's Wife is romantic, but it's also heavy. Things don't all work out'

HE ARTIST and novelist Audrey Niffenegger began writing the long-awaited sequel to her bestselling debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, in 2012, just after Obama's re-election. It was a "rosy" time in American politics, "as good as it gets over here", she says now, but her new novel required

her to imagine what the world might look like in 20, 40, 60 years' time. In the 14 years she spent exploring various dystopian futures, American politics moved on. And her imaginings began to look worryingly realistic.

An early scene in the new book involves a group of neo-Nazis at a house party. When she was writing it, few people believed the US would witness a resurgence of neo-nazism. It’s not like she is “psychic or anything”, she tells me, the clues were all there. “The first thing I remember reading in the news was Watergate, and so I’ve grown up with Reagan, and the Republicans coming on stronger and stronger, so that every Republican president we get is more of a disaster. And I thought the logical progression of that would be fascism,” she says.

The Time Traveler's Wife - the 2003 novel so popular it became a cultural phenomenon - is about an artist named Clare who falls in love with Henry, a man who is forever disappearing on her because he has a rare genetic condition that causes him to lurch involuntarily forwards and backwards in time. Henry is condemned to keep revisiting the most painful chapters of his life, and knows - but cannot change - hardships that will happen in their shared future. Niffenegger's sequel, Life Out of Order, tells the story of their daughter, Alba, who was born with the same condition, but has a little more control over her time travel, and a greater willingness to try to harness her special abilities to serve her personal and political ends.

Niffenegger always saw The Time Traveler's Wife as a much “darker book” than many of her readers. People would tell her the story was “so romantic” -

“and I’m like yes, it’s so romantic. It’s also kind of heavy,” she says. “Because there’s a lot of inevitability, and they’re choosing to be happy in the moment, knowing that things are not going to work out so well.” With this new novel, there’s no missing the darkness.

We meet in the book-filled Chicago home that she shares with the Scottish artist Eddie Campbell, her husband of just over a decade. The walls are hung with Niffenegger's bold, dreamlike paintings, and she has an impressive taxidermy collection: a rhea in the front room, two doves in a bell jar, a pangolin on the coffee table (bought long ago, as an antique). She used to have much more taxidermy on display, but her three cats are “barbarians” and as kittens they started “interacting with it in weird ways”. She worried one would skewer itself on the huge porcupine that used to reside on the kitchen sideboard, which she has since sequestered upstairs.

At 63, Niffenegger exudes a bookish bohemianism, with her cat-eye glasses, dangly earrings and cropped silver hair. She is softly spoken, but when she talks about politics, where the conversation keeps veering, she resorts to scathing sarcasm. She is currently recovering from a long and serious illness, something she doesn't want to talk about, because she does not want it to detract from her work. People are always obsessed with how an artist's life influences their work, she observes, and they forget how much art can change the person who made it. Every book she has written has transformed her life. The Time Traveler's Wife opened up the world to her.

When she started writing it, Niffenegger was working as an artist and a professor at the Columbia College Chicago's Centre for Book and Paper Arts. She made her own hand-bound, hand-printed books, sumptuously illustrated gothic fairytales that she produced in editions of 10. She was sketching one day when the phrase “The Time Traveler’s Wife” popped into her head. “It’s a good title, because it gives you two people, their relationship with each other, and their situation,” she says. She imagined the novel, which was published in 2003 by MacAdam/Cage, a small independent press, might sell a few thousand copies. In fact it sold more than 9m globally.

She had a few lucky breaks, Niffenegger explains. At the time she didn't know many other writers, but she gave the book to a fellow Chicago-based artist, Annette Turow, who liked it and passed it on to her husband, the novelist Scott Turow, who then recommended it during an interview with the US Today show. In the UK, the novel was picked for Richard and Judy's Book Club. Quickly, it became apparent that the romance and tragedy of time travel struck a chord. She began receiving emails, often from people struggling in long-distance relationships. "A lot of the resonance comes from people having that absence in their lives. So, you know, my husband is in the military, my friend is in prison, my wife is in school far away ... we're both reading it together and talking about it over the phone," she says. She received notes from young people who were sharing the novel with their boyfriends or girlfriends and knows of a "surprising number" of children who were subsequently named Henry or Clare.

Becoming a sudden commercial success was “very odd”, she recalls: “all the running around and doing interviews and having people dig really deep into the novel and have very intricate questions was extraordinary”. The scrutiny didn’t trouble her too much - it reminded her of being critiqued at art school - but she struggled with “impostor syndrome”.

For most of her life so far, Niffenegger had few opportunities to travel. She’d never been west of the Mississippi and, if she had a chance to leave Chicago, she tended to either go to New York or Europe. Suddenly, she went everywhere. Once, she visited a different American city every day for two weeks, which she found too much. At a literary festival in Australia, she knew almost no one – as was often the case back then – but the writer Neil Gaiman, who was interviewing her on stage, introduced her to a young journalist named Hayley Campbell. Hayley would eventually introduce her to her father, Eddie, and for many years the couple somehow made a long-distance relationship between Brisbane and Chicago work, meeting for dates all over the world.

Meanwhile, the ordinary Chicago restaurants she mentioned in The Time Traveler's Wife got a lot of attention "which I'm sure confused them". The city's Newberry Library, where Henry works, had so many visitors that they had to print a Time Traveler's Wife FAQ sheet for the front desk and an unremarkable stairwell, featured in the story, became a destination

in itself. In 2009, The Time Traveler's Wife was made into a Hollywood film, starring Rachel McAdams. The adaptation was panned by the critics. Niffenegger has never watched it. “I mean you can let people do their own thing, and not have anything to say about their thing, that’s OK,” she says. In 2022, it was also made into a series by HBO.

Thanks to her runaway success, Niffenegger received a \$5m advance for her second book, Her Fearful Symmetry (2009), a ghost story set in London. For her research, she moved to the city and became a tour guide in Highgate Cemetery. “I didn’t expect people to know about it,” she says when I ask her about the advance, her manner polite, her meaning very clear. “I didn’t understand that it was going to be news and that people would know about it and ask me about it. It was like ‘That’s just my finances. Why would anybody care what’s going on with my bank account?’.” And then she answers her own question: “People are kind of fascinated because it’s weird that I would make money – ever.”

Niffenegger in her home in Chicago; and (left) the HBO adaptation of The Time Traveler's Wife

Her paintings were never very “fashionable”, she says, and in the art world she is relatively unknown. “Something where you kind of need a long explanation from the artist seems to be very in,” she observes, while her work has always been narrative and figurative. She paints self-portraits with butterflies, monkeys and birds, and skeletons are a recurring motif, a skeleton wearing a party hat, curled around a cat, skeletons intertwined with people, a child skeleton holding up his mother’s face like a giant inflatable balloon.

The great advantage of earning money is that it buys you time to do creative work, she says: “Like if you own your day, that’s great.” Over the years she has cut back on teaching so that she can focus on her writing and art, and run a small nonprofit arts school, Artists Book House, which she founded in 2019. While she has been doing all this, in the many years since Her Fearful Symmetry was published, something nice happened. “People just forgot I existed,” she says, which seems to suit her just fine.

Niffenegger was raised in Evanston, a city north of Chicago and a short drive from where she lives now. "I think people imagine I had some baroque childhood.

I actually just had a very American middle-class, suburban childhood," she says. Her father was a civil engineer working for the department store chain JC Penney and her mother was a quiltmaker. Niffenegger studied at the School of Art Institute in Chicago, took a few years out to teach and work, mostly as a picture framer, and then did her MFA at Northwestern University. One of her graduate projects, the illustrated novel Three Incestuous Sisters, is currently being adapted as a silent film with a very illustrious cast: the novelist Ottessa Moshfegh worked on it alongside the director Alice Rohrwacher, and Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan and Jessie Buckley will star as the sisters, whose suffocatingly close bond is ripped apart over their love for the lighthouse keeper's son. Niffenegger has read the screenplay, and this time she plans to "watch the hell out of" the film. "It's going to be wild," she says approvingly. "It was just so over the top, I mean it's far weirder than the book, and I can appreciate that."

Over the decades, her artistic interests have not wavered: “Love and loss, death, rock and roll, sex and romance, to me those are the biggest issues,” she says. Except now, because she has been writing about the

'Whatever you can be doing, now's the time. If all you can do is vote, then vote'

future, she's been thinking much more about politics. Both Alba and Henry find it easier to move backward than forward in time, because the future is harder to imagine, but the more they do so, the more concrete the future becomes. Niffenegger realised this is true more generally. We find it hard to respond to the threat posed by, say, the climate crisis, because we find climate meltdown hard to visualise. In her book, she describes scenes in which whole cities are underwater, utilities no longer work, food is in short supply, and the weather is apocalyptically weird in an attempt to make extreme global warming feel less abstract. And she found the more time she spent trying to imagine 2040, the more jarring the disconnect with the US's political discourse. "I'm just like OK, sure, build a bunker for yourself," she says of Trump, oozing contempt. "Like OK, billionaires, go to Mars, that's OK."

The current administration has radicalised her, she says. “Until the recent Trump debacle I was not a person who used to go to demonstrations. I was political in some ways, but I was not somebody who would drop everything and, you know, hit the street yelling. Now I am,” she says. She feels a sense of urgency. “I feel like whatever you can be doing, now’s the time. If what you can do is vote, vote. If that’s all you can do, cool. If you can give money to a cause, yay. If you can, go to a demonstration. Excellent. People should be paying attention and acting accordingly.”

She says one advantage of being a slow writer is that she is able to respond to current events. It would have been strange, she realises now, if she'd published the book before the pandemic and the coronavirus lockdowns had not been mentioned at all. Part of the reason the writing took so long, she says, is that she was “waiting to find out the resolution to certain real world events”. Some outcomes felt predictable, others not at all. While imagining civil unrest in a fictitious future, she watched the protests over the police killing of George Floyd rock the US and felt sure something would finally change, “But no, it just seems to have been like a rock falling into a pond,” she says, sounding despondent.

Niffenegger will leave on her book tour soon, though it will be a small one. There is art to make and new writing projects to get stuck into. She’s thinking of expanding her graphic novel, The Night Bookmobile, into a series of interlinked short stories. She’s also thinking about not doing too much at all. “After spending 14 years on one thing, I’m happy to have a little rest,” she says.

Life Out of Order by Audrey Niffenegger is published by Jonathan Cape.

DOGE UPDATE

The people who said no to Doge

A consummate storyteller shines a light on heroes of the US civil service Sam Freedman

POLITICS Blockers Rebels in the Deep State Michael Lewis ALLEN LANE, £25

DONALD TRUMP'S catastrophic errors get so much attention that his systemic ones can easily be missed. While the world looks on in dismay at his farcical war in Iran, the thuggery of Ice agents or clownish attacks on erstwhile allies

like Canada and Denmark, the core functions of the American government are slowly disintegrating.

It is harder to get people to focus on the machinery of the state because the effects are often slow and hard to pin down. Outbreaks of disease – such as the recent wave of explosive diarrhoea across the US – might have happened anyway, but were probably made worse by lay-offs at the Centers for Disease Control. Likewise, Trump is not directly responsible for natural disasters, but response times in the past year may have been hampered by mass redundancies at the National Weather Service. Cuts to tax collection also seem to have reduced revenue by multiple billions, though we cannot be sure of the causal relationship.

The other problem is that bureaucracies are hard to make interesting. Their work is technical and complicated, and most officials are taught to avoid saying anything engaging in public. By the time a journalist has explained what an agency does and why it is important, the reader may well have clicked on to the next thing.

So there are few better suited to the challenge of telling this story than Michael Lewis, one of the world's

Elon Musk at the CPAC conference in 2025

bestselling nonfiction writers, who has a knack for finding an angle that cuts through the complexity. After a career spent getting readers excited about credit default swaps (The Big Short) and sabermetrics (Moneyball) he has decided to try to help people understand the importance of civil servants.

Blockers is a loose sequel to the The Fifth Risk, in which Lewis focused on the transition from the Obama to the Trump administration and the disruption caused by the new team's almost complete lack of interest in their jobs. It focused heavily on what different departments and agencies do and why they matter. This time around the problem is not indifference but malicious intent to destroy. The “blockers” are the dedicated officials who try to stop the wanton and often illegal destruction of their life's work by Elon Musk's Doge or other agents of chaos. They range from a researcher working on preventing wildfires to a security guard trying to block Musk's goons from entering his building, and a lawyer attempting to keep personal tax data from being used to deport undocumented migrants.

In truth, they don't do much blocking - since they all either end up resigning when they're asked to do something illegal, or are fired. The title refers more to the assumption by Musk and his fellow travellers that these are the people who are stopping progress and need removing. Much of the book is taken up with descriptions of the valuable work they did before being turfed out.

It would have been good to have a bit more on the villains, whose motivations for participating in Doge are varied. They range from the addled young coders with limited social skills deployed by Musk, to turncoat bureaucrats looking for any easy life, and some very strange characters such as health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, with his bizarre obsession with dead animal parts. Trump's absurd commerce secretary Howard Lutnick also makes a brief cameo, deciding he needs to personally sign off any cheque for more than \$100,000. It feels as if there is more to say about the personal journeys that lead people to behave this way.

This is the particularly true of the boss baddie Russell Vought, the Republican operative central to developing the Project 2025 plans for Trump's second term. Musk causes havoc, but quickly gets bored of Doge and heads back to Silicon Valley. Vought is the real deal, quietly and systematically deconstructing the state while keeping out of the spotlight and getting others to do his dirty work for him.

He appears in one of the book's most engaging chapters, which zooms in on Francis Collins, a scientist who helped discover a successful treatment for cystic fibrosis, allowing those with the condition to live much longer. Collins ended up at the head of the National Institutes of Health under Obama, continued through Trump's first term and part of Biden's, before stepping down to run an NIH research lab. After Trump's re-election he was effectively forced out, saying that his position had become “untenable”. Lewis runs through a series of possible culprits, of which Vought's cost-cutting is one. What makes this particularly remarkable is that Vought's own daughter has cystic fibrosis. Ideology is a powerful drug.

But perhaps the most interesting character of all is Sahil Lavingia. A successful software engineer, he bought into Musk's vision and went to work for Doge in the Department of Veterans Affairs. He only lasted 55 days before giving an on-the-record interview in which he noted that “it’s kind of fine - because the government works. It’s not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more easy wins." This was not on-message and he was shown the door.

A few months later, though, once Doge had fallen apart, he was invited back by one of the few survivors, who had stayed on at the Treasury department. Lavingia was tasked with improving the Internal Revenue Service's computer systems, and despite not needing the money, seems genuinely committed to the task of making things work better. Through Lavingia, Lewis gives us a taste of what serious work to enhance the state might have looked like.

There are real problems with the way the government operates, both in the UK and the US, caused by poor resourcing, dysfunctional systems, or low pay for technical staff compared with the private sector. Alongside Lewis's star civil servants, there are people who have checked out or become institutionalised. Lavingia's lengthy battle to get a water cooler replaced reminded me of how difficult it was to get the lifts working when I was at the Department for Education.

One of the most irritating aspects of Doge's brief existence was the stream of op-eds from people who really should have known better celebrating that someone was finally trying to enact reform, even if was being done in a clumsy and aggressive manner. In reality, Musk's overweening arrogance, glibness and total lack of preparation have seriously harmed the case for proper reform. Not just due to the mess he and the likes of Vought caused, but also because they brought the very idea of making the state more efficient into disrepute.

Lewis is great at finding incredible civil servants and telling their stories. But agencies and departments should not have to rely on unsung heroes, battling failing systems, and doing 90-hour weeks for little money because of their intense devotion to public service. Most people employed by large organisations are not like that. Effective government needs processes that work when used by a regular person doing a nine-to-five job. Rather than trying to replicate the “blockers”, we need to understand what these superstars are doing and embed it in the fabric of our institutions.

To buy a copy for £22.50 go to guardianbookshop.com. Sam Freedman is a former special adviser and author of Failed State (Macmillan).

A scene from Aids-era drama It's a Sin (2021)

Small screen stories The It's a Sin creator on a career in TV Rebecca Nicholson

MEMOIR The Queerest of Folk A Life in Television Russell T Davies BANTAM, £25

Television is an intimate art form, once beamed into living rooms, now on devices right in front of our faces.

The screenwriter Russell T Davies understands that intimacy. Whether discussing his early days developing lost-to-history soap spin-offs, making a splash with the pioneering gay series Queer As Folk, or reviving Doctor Who to great acclaim, he makes it feel as if you're at the pub with him, settling in for the night, ready to hear his best stories.

This warm and gossipy autobiography offers a peek behind the curtains of the British TV industry, and as such, it goes light on Davies's own life story. Instead, he gallops through five decades in the business, using the framework of his TV shows to propel the book forward at great speed. He was born in Swansea in 1963, to a family who loved watching TV. While he was studying English at Oxford, a friend suggested that, as he thought television was so great, he should consider doing it as his job.

That proved to be a lightbulb moment. Davies worked on children's television, writing for puppets, before cutting his teeth at Granada Studios in Manchester, alongside Sally Wainwright, Paul Abbott and the great, late Kay Mellor. A little later, having created a period drama called The Grand, he found that viewers were turning off. Ladling on the misery with abuse, murder and a hanging obviously wasn't working. There is another revelation: a friend tells him he is funny, so he should write like that. Afterwards, there is no stopping him.

Humour drives Queer As Folk, one of his defining creations. It is hard to overstate the impact of the Channel 4 show, which came out in 1999. Back then, queer stories were still vanishingly rare and largely miserable. Industry people dismissed the idea, assuming that a story about gay men would be earnest and dull. The arrival of this funny, Technicolor and defiantly explicit series changed all that. In one of many amusing asides, Davies notes that it was going to be called Queer As Fuck, until a publicist pointed out that it

would never be discussed by Richard and Judy. “That was a red line for me,” he quips.

His other megahit was Doctor Who. He had written Doctor Who fandom into Queer As Folk, and when he revived the beloved sci-fi series in 2005 it appears to have been the fulfilment of a lifelong dream. His first Doctor was Christopher Eccleston, followed by David Tennant, and he returned after a long gap with Ncuti Gatwa, whose tenure was short-lived. Davies writes about it all with love, so anyone hoping for gossip will be disappointed. Even the collapse of a Disney deal and his second departure from the show are handled with grace.

Early in the book, Davies pre-empts criticism by writing that he is going to call a lot of people “lovely”. He does. He loves Abbott and Mellor. He loves Billie Piper and David Tennant. Producers, directors: many of them, too, are lovely, and he loves them. But neither does he mince words when he feels like it. Gwyneth Paltrow, who said that she would feel “stifled” by the use of intimacy coordinators for sex scenes, gets short shrift. “How remote and numbed and privileged you are,” he writes, scathingly. He recalls a money meeting with Harvey Weinstein, and how unsettling it was to notice the producer’s “baleful power”. He had tense discussions with the producers of A Very English Scandal, who lectured him on how to make high-end television. “But you’ve never made any!” he retorted, adding that “Old Etonians should never take on a Swansea comprehensive boy in a scrap.”

If, at times, Davies' lightness of touch is tactful to the point of seeming coy, then elsewhere, his bluntness is bracing. His husband Andrew died of brain cancer in 2018, after eight years of illness. He writes about these years with a forceful and moving honesty. When people tell him that Andrew is looking down on him, he writes: "I always think, I fucking hope not!"

He ends it with a manifesto for the future: a rallying cry for invention and creativity, a call for hope and optimism in the face of ongoing threats to the arts from autocrats, AI and collapsing budgets. He cheers for the likes of Baby Reindeer and I May Destroy You, while also celebrating The Traitors and The Chase. If Davies has an ethos of television, then it is that there is no high or low. He is thrillingly democratic about it all, whether a straight-to-VHS Vegas-based Coronation Street special or It’s a Sin, his award-winning drama about the Aids epidemic. This is a warm and rousing tribute to British television. To buy a copy for £22.50 go to guardianbookshop.com

Voyage of discovery When forgotten genius gets a second chance Sukhdev Sandhu

HISTORY Sleeping Beauties Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up David Byrne CANONGATE, £26

There's barely been a moment in the last half-century when David Byrne hasn't been zinging about, dancing forward, opting odd. The frontman of Talking Heads, he moved sideways into ballet, dance and experimental theatre, collaborated on the proto-ambient LP My Life in the Bush of Ghosts with his fellow polymath Brian Eno, directed films, wrote musicals (on - of course - Imelda Marcos), co-founded a label (Luaka Bop) that introduced the likes of Os Mutantes and William Onyeabor to a new generation, brought out books of tree drawings, and designed bicycle racks.

Byrne's career - by most measures a remarkably successful one - has been built from code-switching, fidgety intelligence, stylistic infidelity. At first glance then, it's surprising that Sleeping Beauties is devoted to failure - to artists who were ignored, laughed at, forgotten; to ideas deemed batty or heretical; to ways of thinking about the world that, often for political reasons, were found wanting, and wiped from our collective memory banks.

Some of his three-dozen case studies - Caravaggio, heliocentrism - are better known than others. Then there's Antoni Gaudí - now celebrated as the architect of the most popular building in Spain, the still unfinished Sagrada Família - who, when he died in 1926, after being hit by a tram, was mistaken for a beggar. His career had foundered. A prominent Catalan critic called him "the Wagnerian monster of architecture" and his work "the bum-bum of the flatulence ... [it] is German music in granite". George Orwell later described his cathedral as "one of the most hideous buildings in the world". Yet, after the second world war, Gaudí had a prominent champion in Dalí. Fashions changed: Irving Penn featured the building in a Vogue shoot. Institutional backing came in the form of Unesco making it a world heritage site. Now, after a woman who prayed to him to restore her eyesight was suddenly able to see, he is within one miracle of becoming a saint.

The most revelatory chapters eschew art for environmental and infrastructural stories. In one, Byrne recounts how rulers during the Chola dynasty that ended in AD1280 financed a complex network of pools, wells and tanks that allowed monsoon-triggered overflows to be channelled to lakes downstream. Curved stones were developed to trap silt and sludge. Water rights were managed by local people who ensured fruit trees abounded near banks, fish were plentiful in lakes, and that the area was less prone to droughts than other parts of the country. Later the East India Company brought in more clunky management systems and promoted profit above local expertise. It’s taken dogged local activists, operating in the aftermath of destructive floods, to revive the wise old waterways.

Byrne's subtitle - Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up

- makes it sound like a business manual in the cultural industries section of an airport bookshop. The answers he gives range from economic shifts to the crucial role played by advocates (for example, Max Brod's resurrection of his friend Kafka's manuscripts). If his prose can sometimes be a bit matey (of Caravaggio he asks: "Why was he such a crazy asshole?"), he can also be sardonic ("A lesson for contemporary collectors sequestering their assets in places like the Geneva Freeport - there's a risk the work will fall out of the conversation.")

Art that's rediscovered can disappear again: writer Iain Sinclair has spoken of a category of authors he calls “the Reforgotten”. And rediscovered ideas, Byrne hints at too briefly, can be reactionary as well as progressive. Still, there’s an (inter)national curriculum here that schools and universities would do well to champion: engage with science and with art, be open to play and to metaphor, consider all that is counterintuitive. More? “Follow the young, the persistent, and amateurs.” Not bad advice at all.

To buy a copy for £23.40 go to guardianbookshop.com

Voice of a generation An insightful portrait of Whitney Houston Priya Elan

BIOGRAPHY Holding Lightning The Life, Loves and Art of Whitney Houston Emily Lordi WHITE RABBIT, £25

Since Whitney Houston's death in 2012, a flurry of books and documentaries have appeared, most of them presenting her life as a cautionary tale. In this new biography, Emily Lordi, a professor of English at Vanderbilt University, refuses to reduce Houston's story to another "good girl gone bad" narrative. Instead she presents a pluralistic take on her life in which Houston's queerness, drug use and eccentricities are not dismissed as aberrations (as they were in her lifetime) but rather seen in the wider context of her talent and the pressures placed on her to embody black excellence.

Lordi describes the unsteady building blocks of Houston's family (her mother Cissy's band The Sweet Inspirations were session musicians who worked with Elvis, as well as on Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl and Dusty Springfield's Son of a Preacher Man). When Cissy was still a child, Houston's grandmother had a stroke following a miscarriage, eventually succumbing to a cerebral haemorrhage during a later pregnancy. The response to this trauma was to bury it. As Lordi writes: "Here was a lesson in suppressing your feelings and getting on with it." But in a book where the act of singing through the pain is invoked multiple times, it is striking that reports Houston was molested as a child (a pivotal part of Kevin Macdonald's 2018 documentary, which drew a line between that and her addictions) are not discussed.

Whitney Houston in 1999

After an annus horribilis which included the dissolution of her parents' marriage, a teenage Houston found comfort in a relationship with a friend from summer camp. The connection began as a sexual one, but deepened as a result of a shared interest in the vocal gymnastics of other singers and eventually Houston's own music. At one point Crawford is caught on camera lip-synching to every ad lib Houston performs in a song on tour. Lordi calls it a “breathtaking act of attention”. Crawford is mystified by Houston's marriage to Bobby Brown (she says it was like watching a foreign film without subtitles), but Lordi sees them united by showmanship and traditional values.

In a decision that may force some readers to adjust their definition of the term, Lordi brands Houston a musical genius. She was, after all, a non-songwriter in an era of writer/producer/performers such as Prince and Michael Jackson, but the author argues that the choices Houston made in phrasing, tone, inflection and gesture were unique acts of creation. Her melismatic vocal style had a ripple effect, becoming a musical ground zero for everyone from Ariana Grande to Taylor Swift. Lordi's promise that her book would dissect Houston's “profoundly under-analysed body of work” doesn't bear fruit, however. There are some in-depth interpretations (she breaks down the unique phraseology of I Will Always Love You and Houston's pro-black retooling of The Star-Spangled Banner) but too many deep cuts are passed over, an odd decision considering Houston's relatively slim discography.

The case for Houston's genius is made most persuasively in the latter half of the book. Instead of seeing her post-Bodyguard work as a descent into a druggy hellscape, Lordi portrays it as the period when her “blackest, queerest, most feminist work” emerges, including Waiting to Exhale and It’s Not Right But It’s Okay. Houston began to nurture younger black talent, offering the kind of musical mentorship given to her when she was starting out. In Lordi’s telling, albums like My Love Is Your Love riff on Houston’s exploitation by the media, presaging albums like Beyoncé’s Lemonade. It’s during this time that she jettisons the “black Barbie” image of the 80s, allowing imperfection into her art.

In the end Holding Lightning is the kindest portrait of Houston since Crawford's book A Song For You. While not quite definitive, it is a consistently insightful, refreshing, restorative portrait of the artist once known simply as “The Voice”. To buy a copy for £22.50 go to guardianbookshop.com

Songs in the key of life

Music, love and loss in the follow-up to Demon Copperhead Lara Feigel

Partita Barbara Kingsolver FABER, £20

WHAT IS THE ROLE of art in an artist's life? Should you commit everything to honing your talent in the hope of becoming a great master? Or should you use your artistic gift to enrich your life and

that of your community? In Partita, acclaimed American novelist Barbara Kingsolver grapples with these questions seriously and passionately through the story of a piano prodigy turned music teacher.

The novel opens in the present, where Livia is a school music teacher in the same part of rural Tennessee where she grew up, married to a farmer who once worked on her father's farm. Contented middle age has been disturbed by a phone call from Sigurd, a man she had an all-consuming, destructive love affair with at college. This pulls her back into her past: both the period of her brother's suicide when she was 11, and the years when she escaped on a music scholarship to Indiana, convinced she was leaving her parents' world behind for good. We discover that her dreams of being a world-class pianist were shattered by an accident that damaged her hand, and that Sigurd played a part in this.

The two timeframes present two visions of the role of music in a life, and two visions of love as well. Livia in the present seems content to be the inspirational local music teacher that she herself had to go much further to find, but it's clear that the 20-year-old Livia would have considered such a life a failure, and that her faith in her own talent was justified. Livia now is happy with sex as comfort - "like putting a heating pad on an aching muscle". Yet she still relies on memories of another kind of sex to reach orgasm - sex with Sigurd that she remembers as comprising the tension and release of music: "harmonic tension, dynamic tension, oh my dear lord, the rubato, his movements slowing, slowing, robbing me of the truth

Barbara Kingsolver

of the beat until I begged for justice ... Sometimes we both shed tears."

It’s unfair to quote sex writing out of context, and I feel bad doing it here, but this breathless, overwrought prose runs through the account of Livia’s affair with Sigurd, threatening to throw the whole novel off-kilter. We know from Kingsolver’s other novels how assured her writing usually is, so the gaucheness felt out of place. But Kingsolver commits to her protagonists’ language more fervently than most novelists and I ended up deciding that this must be what’s happening here. There’s no doubt in Demon Copperhead that the brash vernacular is Demon’s own, because the voice is closer to speech than to writing. Here, Livia’s voice is more literary, and so harder to distinguish from Kingsolver’s. But sentences such as “this wasn’t proper by a long shot: fingers craving to know the sandpaper of his jaw” are surely Livia’s, and the florid prose is a sign that she’s carried away by memories of the erotic apex of her life.

Indeed, it's revealing that Livia's voice is subtler when it comes to music, which has seen her through into middle age while lust's flame has faded. Kingsolver - who herself went to college with a music scholarship to study classical piano - is clearly fascinated by music, and how to write about it, and her gifts seem to entwine with Livia's in the descriptions of piano pieces. Injured and learning to play again, Livia tries Chopin's B minor prelude, slowly and tentatively, and finds her own sadness reflected and transformed. "The sadness is all in the melody line the left hand keeps bringing up from below, a slow arpeggio trying to climb up out of the dark, but after a few notes of rising, it falls back down ... It's the God's honest truth of grief. It doesn't resolve."

Livia's discovery here is huge; she's coming to understand that a piece of music can enrich the performer and her audience even when the performance might be judged second-rate. Kingsolver is a committed social novelist - she's even set up a prize to honour the socially engaged novel - and, ultimately, Partita is an impassioned testament to the need for art in ordinary communities, and the need for ordinariness in art. This means, in turn, that these communities have to put aside their own suspicions about artistic elitism, honouring the talents of artists in their midst by sending them away to study if necessary.

Livia says early on that when you have a gift, “it feels like there’s a rule that you have to keep doing it. Not just that you owe it to yourself, you owe it to the world. Maybe to God. As payback on the borrowed gift.” She manages to sustain this vision, even as what it means to “keep doing it” changes for her. Her sister-in-law - herself a gifted scholar of literature, now happy to teach English - helps her to see that “the point of art is to help you like your life better” and that this can mean being a local piano teacher rather than an international soloist. “This was all I needed, back then,” Livia thinks sadly, “Somebody to tell me this.”

Partita doesn't offer the immediate satisfactions of Demon Copperhead; it's a quieter book, slower to get going and to make its world enticing. But it's a rich novel and one that I've found has opened up a dialogue with me as a reader that's continued long after I finished reading it. Kingsolver doesn't make light of what Livia has lost, and so she's all the more convincing in her insistence that there's as much to be gained in the compromises of middle age, and that artists may be following their calling most fully when they find ways to make their art part of a vibrant, loving collective life within our communities.

To buy a copy for £18 go to guardianbookshop.com

Dreams of Manderley Daphne du Maurier in an imaginary affair Clare Clark

The Housekeeper Rose Tremain CHATTO & WINDUS, £20

The rollcall of notable novels that began life as short stories is surprisingly long and various. Two years before Clarissa Dalloway famously shopped for flowers in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway she was shopping for gloves in Woolf's short story Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street; Evan S Connell's Mrs Bridge and Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides all began life as stories published in the Paris Review. Rachel Cusk's story Project, which ran in the New Yorker in September 2025, serves almost word for word as the opening for her new novel, Life of M.

The newest addition to that list is Rose Tremain's 17th novel, The Housekeeper, which pays homage to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca by imagining the events that might have inspired it. Tremain first explored the idea in a 2014 story, also called The Housekeeper and included in her acclaimed collection The American Lover. Her protagonist, then and now, is Lilianne Danowski, a Polish Jew who fled the pogroms with her father as a child and who presides with reserved efficiency over a large staff at Manderville Hall near Fowey in Cornwall. When Du Maurier comes to lunch, it is Danowski, known to her employers as Danni (Danowski was “a mouthful of fishbones”), who is deputised to show her around the house, who proudly encourages Du Maurier to look through the clothes in her dead mistress’s fastidiously maintained bedroom and takes her down to the boat house. It is Danowski who, after a passionate year-long affair with Du Maurier, will be twisted into the malevolent Mrs Danvers.

The married Du Maurier was violently attracted to women: her complicated, deeply closeted attitude towards her own sexuality lends Rebecca much of its darkly erotic charge. In the 2014 story, Tremain echoes that tension, offering, with her impeccable instinct for period, a masterclass in 1930s restraint. Danni is quite undone by Du Maurier, her careful armour torn away, yet bound, like the butler Stevens in Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, by the long habit of discretion; so she proves a tight-lipped narrator. Danni is the supplicant, the vessel; she knows she has no power. When Du Maurier, terrified of exposure, simply cuts her off, Danni scrabbles for ways to excuse her, to cling to what they shared. It is the discovery, more than a year later, that Du Maurier has immortalised her as the bitter and conniving Mrs Danvers, “ugly and diseased with jealousy”, that devastates her, smashing to pieces her passionately hoarded memories.

What moves a writer to return to a finished story after a decade, to rework it on the larger canvas of the novel? In Tremain's case it was her story becoming a film. The Housekeeper, starring Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter, is slated for upcoming release; Tremain wrote the screenplay.

“Last night I dreamed I saw Daphne again,” Danni declares as the novel opens, recalling one of the most celebrated first lines in literature. Rebecca itself is, of course, part of a complex interplay of gothic novels, from Jane Eyre to Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, each book shifting the reader’s understanding of the others. Tremain’s novel abounds with references to Rebecca and Du Maurier but its greater scope gives it none of Rebecca’s subversive complexity. Instead, the story has fattened, its devastating reserve giving way to something softer and less substantial. Peripheral characters, evoked with discomfiting economy in Tremain’s original story, swell into caricature: Lord de Whithers, Danni’s terse, dismissive employer, becomes bumbling Lord Grenville-Whithers, kindly little boy lost, while his self-absorbed niece solidifies into a screaming harpy. Danni’s dead father is recalled in aphorisms more akin to fortune cookies than philosophy. More critically, the exquisite tension between Daphne and Danni, themselves echoes of the formidable Rebecca and the drab, shadowy second Mrs de Winter, fails to hold. With pages to play with, Tremain

takes us deep inside their affair but, although this Danni tells all, the scenes remain curiously bloodless: hands and lips and tongues but no fire, no heart. Du Maurier famously called Rebecca “a study in jealousy”, but the lurching sense of malignity and darkness that gave that novel its vertiginous tension is missing here. Without it, Daphne’s final terrible betrayal of Danni feels like petty spite.

“What am I to do with you, Danni? How am I to make you come alive?” Daphne demands teasingly in The Housekeeper’s opening pages. Du Maurier, of course, faced just that problem with Rebecca and pulled it off spectacularly, creating a woman of such toweringly vengeful, transgressive authority that, even in death, she rises up to dominate the book. Tremain has done the opposite. By stripping her Danni of her fierce, quiet dignity, she has robbed her of her power. To buy a copy for £17 go to guardianbookshop.com

Romancing the stone A poetry star returns, as quirky as ever Rishi Dastidar

Agate Head / Stone Soup Patricia Lockwood BLOOMSBURY, £18.99

In the introduction to her first book of poetry in 12 years, Patricia Lockwood states that, “For almost a decade ... I had not been able to hear it. The poems that I wrote would not end ... too much was happening, there was a different kind of attention being paid.” It wasn’t that she didn’t want them to arrive. From Cave Painting: “And does she still write poems? / Not a whole one since I had been ill. / Five years. I kept saying I was / Doing it privately. So private even / I didn't know about it."

In that intervening period, Lockwood's status has jumped from interesting US poet famous for the viral sensation Rape Joke to literary superstar: an acclaimed memoirist and novelist whose freewheeling, antic style is for many the internet's maelstrom lassoed and put back on to the page. Who else can claim to have turned an audience with the pope into a biting comic essay?

So her return to poetry is a genuine event, and across Agate Head / Stone Soup there are countless moments that remind you that her poetic voice is unique: charming, whimsical, intimate; able to deliver images of great beauty, piercing philosophical insights and glimpses into a creative life behind the public persona. Readers of her memoir Priestdaddy will be pleased to see her father reappear in a few poems. “That my father has been drinking ... / Always something new with him, / But I must say I didn’t see / 5-600 dollars’ worth of fine olive oil coming.”

An agate geode

Agate Head / Stone Soup is presented tête-bêche - head-to-tail in French, the volumes upside down and back-to-back. And while this might appear to be a frippery, the two collections have enough differences in texture to warrant it. Agate Head feels the more public-facing, while Stone Soup wrestles with more existential concerns.

Both collections are inspired by stones, gems and metals of all shapes and sorts. Lockwood has been collecting fossils and minerals from an early age, and she and her husband have spent time learning metalsmithing, too. This gives her rich territories to explore. It is notable that agates are associated with a sense of grounding and balance; an attempt to counteract all that other “attention”.

There is a detectable technical shift in Lockwood's poems also. Many of the poems in 2014's Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals featured long lines, allowed to run on and gather momentum to their epiphanies or punchlines. Here her lines are more staccato in feeling, jumpier in syntax, as in Not Seeing Glass Flowers: “To grow. Was it that / They looked real? I asked everyone. / Or was it something more? Max Beckmann’s painting is still a horror.”

It means a spikier initial impression for many of the poems. This ultimately works in their favour, as the thoughts accrete, moving in unlikely directions, before resolving into a revelation of some force. “Artists, no one really / Knows where they come from, / They fall a long way from the sky / And land zigzag” as Forged in Fire has it.

Neither collection is flawless. At one level, it is impossible to get away from the autobiographical detail, and so some of the poems become a form of higher gossip, our noses pressed up against the glass of fame. Sedarising, for example, comes across as smug rather than amusing.

And there are occasions when an object under discussion cannot bear the metaphorical weight being placed upon it. Polish Flint is an offender here: “The perfect ring I had married myself with / (Of Polish flint) was pried apart as I fell. / In slow motion, it seemed, surrounded / By tourists, with enough time to think / Of everything.”

But these are small bumps when time and again Lockwood leaves you with the distinct impression that she can magically make the profane into the profound, the holy into the hilarious, as she does to most brilliant effect in Monastery Icons: Windows into Heaven: “It’s sounding a little bit / Like you can order a whole husband / From this catalog, as long as his name is The Lord / And you are a PRAYING VIRGIN NIGHTLIGHT: / Just what we need in these challenging times.” To buy a copy for £17.09 go to guardianbookshop.com

Back to black Eerie horror as King returns to the Territories Alison Flood

Other Worlds Than These Stephen King and Peter Straub HODDER & STOUGHTON, £25

Bear with me, because there is some backstory to get through before we can talk about the book I am actually here to review. Back in 1984, Stephen King and Peter Straub collaborated on the fantasy novel The Talisman. Like all the best King stories, it follows a young boy: in this case Jack Sawyer, 12, whose mother, Lily, is dying. Jack learns that a magical object called the Talisman might save her - if he can find it in a parallel world known as the Territories. Straub and King followed this up in 2001 with Black House, in which an adult Jack investigates a series of child murders that turn out to have disturbing links to the Territories.

The books are very different: one a coming-of-age cross-country quest, in which Jack flips back and forth between two versions of the US; the other a fantastical and horror-inflected murder mystery. Both are brilliant and enduring classics which will always have a place on my bookshelves - I reread both of them, all 1,800-odd pages, to prepare for Other Worlds Than These and was as swept away and delighted as the first time round.

So: in 2013 Straub had an idea for a final volume in the Talisman trilogy, returning Jack (previously left on a bit of a cliffhanger) to the fray. King didn’t pick up on it back then, and Straub died in 2022. Now King is 79, and, as he writes in a somewhat valedictory afterword, “it’s time to think about tidying up, as much as such things are possible for a writer whose mind is still crammed with cool ideas”. So he went back to that old idea - the original email lost, but the concept of a “series of motiveless, brutal crimes” in the Far West of the Territories, as Straub put it, at the story’s heart.

Jack, “his tide ... going out”, is now 57. Flipping back and forth between “America-side” and the Territories, Jack learns that an old policeman friend has gone missing on the trail of a pair of “murderin’ kids” who have been leaving a swathe of bodies in their wake in Nebraska. These kids are, he’s told, “infested” by demons - and the infestation is spreading to the children of the Territories.

For the true King fan (the “Constant Reader”, as he puts it), there are moments of shivering joy in Other Worlds Than These - not least in the title, which draws from a key scene in King’s The Gunslinger. As befits King, there are moments of true horror too, and good ones, as the teenage infection spreads across the Territories.

But I cannot recommend that anyone who is not a Constant Reader embark on this 800-plus-page tome. I would have said that I’d follow Jack Sawyer anywhere, but as Ole Travellin’ Jack crisscrossed his way across the dry desert land of the Territories, his journey started to feel endless, and endlessly repetitive. “Another echo. They’re becoming tiresome,” Jack says, in a rather too on-the-nose comment about the eerie (not so eerie the nth time they’re mentioned) similarities between the US and the Territories.

Is this deliberate? Yes, undoubtedly: "ka [destiny] is a wheel", as we've been told (more than once); Jack is treading the path laid out for him in an endless cycle. But this time round, it all gets a little portentous, self-referential and self-indulgent - and, dare I say it, boring.

I still think Stephen King is a genius. I still think The Talisman is the perfect coming-of-age dark fantasy novel. So thank you for the endless hours of reading pleasure, Mr King. But unlike its predecessors, Other Worlds Than These will not be going on my reread shelf. To buy a copy for £22.50 go to guardianbookshop.com

BOOKS OF THE MONTH

Science fiction, fantasy and horror

A riposte to HP Lovecraft; love on a distant planet; gothic terrors in a war veterans' hospital; and ghosts from Palestine. By Lisa Tuttle

The Ballad of Black Tom Victor LaValle PENGUIN, £9.99 This short novel won almost every genre award following its 2016 US publication. As a Black writer, LaValle had a conflicted relationship with the works of HP Lovecraft. As a child, he loved the tales of cosmic horror, but grew to recognise the prejudices of the author, and decided to write his own response to one of the most obviously racist, The Horror at Red Hook, recasting it through the perspective of a hustler from 1920s Harlem later known as Black Tom. It's a powerful tale of horror told with sheer brilliance.

As You Wake, Break the Shell Becky Chambers HODDERSCAPE, £22 In this cosy science fiction love story set on a distant planet, life is a constant struggle for the human colonists. As the book opens, botanist Signy is yet to meet the love of her life, Cora, a rorqual pilot. Rorquals are gigantic inter- planetary creatures, trained by human pilots whose implants allow them to communicate with the beasts as they transport supplies. Chapter 1 is followed by chapter 764, set more than a decade later,

when the two women are blissfully married. The non-linear narrative may reflect what we're told is the rorqual view of time, but it also removes much suspense. The characters are adorable, and the details of growing plants in an artificial environment, or Cora's relationship with her rorqual, are enjoyable, but readers may grow impatient with the glacial pace. Even the “naturally solitary” rorqual is given to declaring its love for Cora. In the final pages there's a tonal shift that ends on a cliffhanger: how Cora and Signy survive is to be revealed in a sequel.

The Eye of Goliath Diego Muzzio, translated by Rahul Bery PUSHKIN, £12.99 This first novel by an award-winning Argentinian writer is an old-fashioned tale of madness and the horrors of war. In an asylum on the outskirts of Edinburgh, circa 1920, Dr Pierce hopes to cure severely traumatised patients by hypnosis. All the men, including the doctor, carry wounds from the first world war. His latest case, David Bradley, was an engineer, but is now unable to do anything but desperately attempt to swim on dry land, until overcome by exhaustion. Bradley's diary reveals the reason behind the man's gradual descent into madness, as, cold and starving in an abandoned lighthouse, the rescue he expects keeps failing to arrive. Bradley's own discovery of papers left behind by the last lighthouse keeper, a naturalist with a talent for taxidermy who murdered his family, adds another interlocking piece to this irresistible, haunting gothic horror.

Our Cut of Salt Deena Helm ORBIT, £22

In 2002, Marina is a young American of mixed heritage who takes a trip to Haifa, the city where her Palestinian grandmother Nuhad lived as a child, until the family was driven out by the Israeli occupation in 1948. Nuhad never spoke about that terrible time, and now that she is dead, Marina wants to understand. When she finds her grandmother's house, it is empty, for sale, and generally known to be haunted. Previous occupants have either vanished or died in mysterious circumstances. Entering, she feels anger, but then a flood of happy memories from Nuhad's childhood. The house is more than simply haunted - it has become a vessel for vengeance, channelling death while longing for a return of the family it loved. Despite a few missteps, this is a powerful, affecting novel about Palestinian loss and trauma.

THE BOOKS OF MY LIFE

AK

Blakemore

The poet and novelist on the brilliance of F Scott Fitzgerald and having fun with Virginia Woolf

My earliest reading memory Lynley Dodd's Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy - where an assortment of differently shaped dogs go on a walk - wormed its way into my subconscious when I was very young.

My favourite book growing up I had a lot of picture books illustrated by the great Korky Paul. My favourite was

The Rascally Cake by Jeanne Willis, in which a rotund, green-haired man called Rufus Skumskins O'Parsley makes a cake out of disgusting things (rotten eggs, spider legs, garden snails and so on), only for the cake to come to life and attempt to eat him.

The book that changed me as a teenager I studied F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby for my English GCSE and it entirely

reshaped my brain. I still think it's about as near to perfect as it's possible for a novel to be. All the stupid loveliness and yearning in the world, distilled down into image after image, with a core of white-hot rage, at the way extreme wealth enables extreme cruelty. Everyone should read it.

The writer who

changed my mind I had a baby in May, and in the first weeks post-partum I read Of Woman Born by the poet and activist Adrienne Rich, whilst my son was napping on my belly. It made me realise that I'd wrongly held on to this notion that mothering would necessarily mean setting aside the work of the imagination, and a narrowing of my horizons, creatively.

The book that made me want to be a writer

Portrait of My Lover As a Horse by Selima Hill. I bought it with a book voucher in Foyles on Charing Cross Road, when I was about 14, based on the strangeness of the title and cover. I read the whole collection front-to-back on the train home, and then again back-to-front. By the next day I was trying to emulate Hill's guileless, cryptic style in my own little poems.

The author I came back to Jane Austen. Until my mid-20s I subscribed to that surprisingly common, reductive view of her as the author exclusively of novels about rich people having dinner at each other's houses. But now I'm a rich person (in global terms, at least - I mean, I have Chanel foundation and a mortgage) who likes having dinner at other people's houses, I'm like, this rules.

The book I reread I often find myself revisiting bits of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. Such an audaciously fun bit of work from an author who was - bless her - a bit of a Debbie Downer overall.

The book I could never read again

The Sun Also Rises. I was worryingly into Ernest Hemingway, for a teenage girl, whereas now I think he's a bit of a pillock.

The book I discovered later in life

I thought I'd use my maternity leave to finally give some Donna Tartt a go. I staggered through The Goldfinch and thought it was extremely silly and bad.

The book I am currently reading I just finished What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton, and I was totally blown away by it. It's a banger.

Doom Painting by AK Blakemore is published by Granta.

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Margaret Atwood had to be persuaded to write a memoir. The thought of writing about herself initially seemed “dead boring. Who wants to read about someone sitting at a desk messing up blank sheets of paper?” Yet, she continues, time passed and the possibility of a memoir took on a “lurid phosphorescent glow. ‘Wasn’t there something appealing in the idea?’ my sinister alter ego whispered … I could thank my benefactors, reward my friends, trash my enemies and pay off scores long forgotten by everyone but me.”

Book of Lives is the Canadian author's account of her loves, losses and literary achievements, and a fine showcase for her wisdom and wit. What little score-settling she includes is purely for the punchline. When a poet told Atwood in the early 1970s that she wrote like a man - he intended it as a compliment - she told him he forgot the punctuation. "What you meant was, 'She writes. Like a man'."

The book is read by the author, who is 86. Her narration is leisurely, gravelly, drily funny and unmistakably Atwood. Though she admits she can't recall much about her early books, she remembers enough about the important ones, most notably 1986's The Handmaid's Tale, her landmark novel set in a dystopian future. When she showed an early draft to the novelist Valerie Martin, Atwood said: "I think I'm gonna get into trouble." Martin read it and told her: "I think you're gonna make a lot of money."

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'Edinburgh can be a wee bit stifling'

Ian Rankin is ready to take on the super-rich, and for that he needs to write about London. He talks to Alex Clark about his new detective, and what the future holds for Rebus

Sir Ian Rankin rarely watches television. Certainly, there's no gleaming flatscreen in the corner of the apartment in Edinburgh where he writes, listens to music and

constructs elaborate Lego models (all four Beatles, their Yellow Submarine and, once, a 6ft version of the Eiffel Tower). Did he not see the most recent incarnation of his most famous creation, Detective Inspector John Rebus, this time played by Richard Rankin (no relation), in the wake of previous performances by Ken Stott and John Hannah? “I did,” he concedes. “They gave me them on DVD, so I could play them on my computer.”

Ah, his computer - it's had its screen and hard drive replaced, and there are grooves in the keys. It sits on top of a plain, compact trestle-table desk he bought on London's Charing Cross Road in 1987 and lugged back to his Tottenham flat on the tube; both have accompanied him from London to rural Dordogne, in southwest France, where he lived for a few years with his wife, Miranda, in the 1990s, and back to Edinburgh, where the couple and their two sons have been ever since.

But if all this makes him sound doggedly attached to the past, wary of change and of modernity, his work stands in stark contradiction. Across 26 Rebus books, a smaller series involving the detective Malcolm Fox, and a number of standalone novels and plays, Rankin has shown himself to be fiercely attentive to the most serious aspects of contemporary life. “The crime fiction I’m interested in,” he tells me, “is the crime fiction that’s looking at society and the mess we’re in and how we got there, and it’s predominantly political.”

His new novel, The Heights, takes on the challenge in dramatic and glittering style. Its title refers to a Knightsbridge apartment building aimed squarely at the highest end of the property market, its inhabitants the rich and famous who take as read that their residence will include a cinema and a spa. They are perhaps not expecting that their concierge will be discovered with his head bludgeoned, and that DS Gillian Gish will quickly appear on the scene to quiz them as to their whereabouts.

One of the influences feeding into Gish, a brand-new lead character, is 1970s American TV detective Columbo, whom Rankin - back in his TV-viewing days - found captivating. “I didn’t realise it when I was watching as a teenager, but he’s a socialist figure,” Rankin says. “He comes into these very rich people’s lives and tears them apart, and they don’t know he’s doing it until he’s already done it. I just thought that was extraordinary. It’s to do with class: he’s the underclass, they’re the overclass, and he’s going to bring them down. Rebus has done that in quite a few of the books. And Gish, I think, secretly really enjoys the idea that she’s going to upset them by asking the wrong questions and by interfering in their very comfortable, cosseted world.”

Gish has the kind of hinterland that Rebus lacks; she's embedded in her own neighbourhood, in Rankin's previous stomping ground of Tottenham, and after work she goes home to care for her mother. Her off-duty life contributes to

'I'm interested in fiction that looks at society and the mess we're in. It's political'

the portrait of London as a series of wildly disconnected locations and social milieux. I ask him whether it was nerve-racking to leave the Edinburgh setting that he’s written about for so long? “I didn’t feel any trepidation,” he replies. “In some ways it can be a wee bit stifling. You get an idea for a story, you say, ‘Well, could that be contained in Edinburgh? And if it can’t be contained in Edinburgh, can I write it?’”

And he’s convinced that his story of the ostentatious performance of wealth combined, paradoxically, with the obsession with privacy of the ultra-rich, wouldn’t have worked in Edinburgh. A prosperous city it may be, but “You’re not going to see a Rolls-Royce or a Bugatti Veyron. The wealth here is discreet.”

The success of his novels has, of course, made Rankin himself a wealthy man, even if it did take him until his 60s - he's 66 now - to get an office of his own. Over the years, he's worked in a succession of spare rooms, attics and even next to a juddering washing machine, a clothes airer over his head. He is, he says, glad he didn't make it big when he was young: “I was stupid. I'm sure I would have bought a Lamborghini and a pinball machine for every room in the house.”

Now, he and Miranda live a few minutes' walk away from the writing flat, and take trips to far-flung places. "Miranda decided a few years ago that, now the kids have left and we've got money in the bank: before we get too old, we should travel. I am holiday agnostic. She's the one who tells me, right, you're going here and you're going there."

When he's away, he researches but can't write. On a recent cruise around South America, he hadn't even taken the ancient laptop and was making notes in longhand when a fellow passenger offered him the loan of a computer - which explains the message of gratitude at the end of The Heights.

But aside from buying vinyl, seeing the odd live band - seated gigs only these days, he concedes ruefully - Lego and holidays, Rankin has another use for his earnings. Each year, between 30 and 40% of his net income goes into the charitable trust that he and Miranda set up, for which their older son, Jack, also works. “I’ve got more money than I can spend. Once you’ve bought a nice hi-fi system and you’ve got a nice car, what are you going to do?”

The trust's focus is on smaller charities, often those supporting young people and adults with special needs

- people like the Rankins' younger son, Kit, who has Angelman syndrome, a genetic condition that means he has severe learning difficulties, and has also experienced epilepsy and vision problems. Now in his early 30s, Kit lives in a care facility nearby, and all four of them meet up every Sunday. "Any money that we leave behind when we shuffle off this mortal coil will get channelled to him to make sure that he's always looked after. And our older son will be part of that process of looking after him financially."

I feel that I can't leave without asking about Rebus, whom we last saw behind bars, following the death of his old adversary, gangster “Big Ger” Cafferty. Rankin is tight-lipped on his next project, but does shed some light on Rebus's future. After all, I say, you left him in a pretty parlous state. “Everybody says that, but it’s not true,” he protests. “At the end of the book, his lawyer says, ‘You’ve got some very good news.’ So he’s obviously getting out. You know the appeal is going to be heard and he’s going to get out. I have no doubt in my mind that’s the happy ending.”

And with that, Sir Ian Rankin is off to do a bit of writing before an evening out. Possibly he'll drop into the Oxford Bar, where the locals' only acknowledgment of his elevated status is to ask,

“Where’s your horse”? And you sense he wouldn’t have it any other way. The Heights is published by Orion.

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THE BIG IDEA

Does Donald Trump have a point about Greenland?

His approach may be all wrong, but there's no denying the Arctic's importance, writes Rana Foroohar

ONE OF DONALD TRUMP'S more diabolical talents is his ability to land on the right things in the wrong way. Since his first term, Trump has been obsessed with the Arctic - Greenland in particular - something that has

puzzled and enraged many, particularly in Europe. He first brought up the idea of buying the icy landmass from Denmark in 2019. Right after re-election, he began ramping up his rhetoric about acquiring it “one way or another”, threatening the Nato alliance and the foundations of post-second world war security.

Trump got his way - thankfully without military force - in September, when the US and Denmark signed an agreement that allowed for many more US troops on the island, albeit without the sort of takeover that the president enjoys “joking” about. “The United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland,” Trump wrote on social media. “We will work with the people of Greenland in its development and construction.”

Europeans could be forgiven for doubting that the US president would help any country in its development, let alone Greenland. But the truth is that there is something in Trump's obsession with a place that has more reindeer than people, and he isn't the first to suggest the US should own it; President Andrew Johnson floated the idea in 1867. The fact is that since the cold war, Greenland has played a crucial role in North American security, with airfields close to the eastern seaboard, vast mineral resources and a location perfectly suited to tracking Arctic weather (something crucial to military movements).

More recently, it has become a pawn in the US-China geopolitical struggle. As Jeff Landry, the US special envoy to Greenland wrote in early 2026, greater American presence there would “facilitate deployment of advanced missile defense systems” and “crowd out hostile Chinese and Russian influence”. While there are no explicit Chinese or Russian security threats on the island now, many in the administration fear that if Greenland becomes independent – as it has said it wants to be by 2033 – it will be more open to Chinese or Russian influence campaigns.

Whether you agree with them or not, the region is certainly becoming a geostrategic hotspot. Russia is upping energy transit there to avoid global choke points, and China declared itself a “near-Arctic state” in 2018. Security and military drills have been conducted by both countries close to US territorial waters near Alaska. All of this puts the US’s biggest adversaries squarely in its back yard, at a time when it’s unclear what the new, post-neoliberal world order will be, and how either Europe or Greenland will fit into it.

Beyond geopolitics, there's another reason for all the interest in the Arctic: climate change. When the seas at the top of the world were frozen solid, nobody cared much about what was happening there. But over the past few decades, global heating has opened the

Further reading Three books for a deeper dive

Chokepoints Edward Fishman ELLIOTT & THOMPSON, £10.99

possibility of resource extraction (the Arctic seabed is filled with gas, oil and rare-earth minerals, most of which have yet to be mined or even claimed by individual nations). It has also made possible the passage by sea of energy supplies and goods – something that has been coveted by various powers for hundreds of years.

In August, a Chinese shipping company, Sea Legend, started a weekly trans-polar commercial route across the Arctic, through Russian territorial waters. It claims that the voyage will cut the usual 40-day journey time between Europe and Asia in half, something that seems pretty attractive given the Houthi threat in the Red Sea. Of course, to take advantage of new pathways in the Arctic, you need ships, icebreakers in particular. The US, which has very little capacity in this area, has recently started trying to make them jointly with Finland, a project that was endorsed by both Joe Biden and Trump. But the lack of icebreakers is symptomatic of a larger problem.

In 1975, the US shipbuilding industry was ranked No 1 in terms of global capacity, with more than 70 commercial ships on order for production domestically. Just over 50 years later, the US now produces less than 1% of the world's commercial vessels. China, meanwhile, has tripled its production relative to the US over the past two decades, producing more than 1,000 ocean-going vessels last year, versus the US's 10. The resulting asymmetry comes with commercial and military concerns for the US, but also for any country that depends on it for security. More than 90% of military equipment, supplies and fuel travels by sea.

That goes to a larger point - conflict in the Arctic is happening against the backdrop of the end of the neoliberal era, which brought modern globalisation and great wealth, but also increased inequality and a sense that policymakers operating at a great height in the national interest were sometimes out of step with the economic reality of communities on the ground.

The pendulum is now swinging back. In the US, Republicans and Democrats alike are pushing industrial policy to restore industries such as shipbuilding and chip-making. While efforts are sometimes couched with xenophobic, anti-China rhetoric, the truth is that one country dominating any strategic industry isn't in the interests of workers or nation states. It's an issue that the EU, too, is now coming to terms with, as cheap Chinese electric cars, steel, lithium batteries and solar panels move from US markets to Europe.

Trump's focus on Greenland may not be as misplaced as it seems at first glance, then. But there's a glaring flaw in his approach. In a world that will be dominated by new spheres of influence, the US needs friends. Europe does, too. Shared supply chains, security agreements and trade pathways can all be used to mutual advantage. But it will take careful statecraft of the kind that this administration isn't exactly known for.

Trump's limbic brain knows that Greenland, and the Arctic at large, is important. What he doesn't seem to understand is how to put aside his own ego and ambitions to make sure that the US can secure its own hemispheric back yard in ways that don't destroy its existing alliances. Here's hoping the next administration does better: the US's future will depend on it.

Rana Foroohar is a columnist and associate editor at the FT and the author of Sea Change: America's New Great Game in the Arctic Circle (Swift).

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THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST

11 questions to ask yourself before going 'no contact' with your family

In the UK, one in five families are affected by permanent estrangement - but cutting ties with difficult relatives is not a decision to be taken lightly. These are the 11 questions experts suggest you ask yourself before going ‘no contact’

Words: Laura Potter Illustrations: Pete Gamlen

Am I avoiding difficult feelings?

It's important to be certain you aren't walking away because it feels more manageable than addressing challenging issues. “Sometimes estrangement is exactly what’s needed for safety and healing. Other times it functions as an attempt to avoid grief, conflict, disappointment or the painful acceptance that a parent cannot become the person one longs for,” says Joshua Coleman, a clinical psychologist and the author of Rules of Estrangement. “Distance alone doesn’t resolve those emotions.”

Fern Schumer Chapman, the author of Brothers, Sisters, Strangers, says people can become estranged due to poor communication skills, learned through family dynamics: “When parents are unable to express feelings and negotiate differences, they don’t model the necessary skills - listening, apologising, cooling off. As a result, small disagreements can explode into nasty rifts. Those with poor communication skills may handle stress by simply shutting down and cutting off.”

Ultimately, though, says Terri Apter, a psychologist and the author of Grandparenting, “people who decide to be estranged make the decision that the extent of discomfort from contact is unbearable”.

What do I need from this relationship?

This is about double-checking your expectations. "One of the hardest psychological tasks is distinguishing between what someone should be and what they're capable of being," says Coleman. "Many adults understandably long for parents who can become emotionally attuned, validating or apologetic. The healthiest outcome isn't always getting the relationship you wanted; sometimes it's grieving the relationship you never had while deciding what level of contact is sustainable."

Phil Lane, a clinical social worker and psychotherapist who has been estranged from his father for eight years, adds that it’s “important to consider if the other person is willing and/or able to provide what you need. This is not to suggest that we should cut someone off if they don’t meet our expectations, but rather it can help us determine if our expectations are reasonable and if we, not the other person, need to adjust.”

Should I re-examine my childhood?

As Coleman says: “Most families are neither entirely loving nor entirely harmful.” Therefore, it’s useful to take a second look through adult eyes, which allows us to “understand pressures our parents were facing - mental illness, financial hardship, divorce, trauma, cultural expectations - that were invisible to us as children”. Crucially, though, Coleman adds: “Context doesn’t excuse harmful behaviour.”

Becca Bland, a researcher and counsellor in estrangement who has been estranged from her parents for 18 years, agrees: “It’s important to appreciate context, but not to explain away harm. Harm is harm. Seeing people in their context doesn’t take away the impact on you.”

Are they rigid in their views?

estrangement - families not accepting someone's religion, sexuality or life partner, for example - and the rigidity of those views matters. “Differences in morals, values and beliefs can be well dealt with in families if everyone is adaptable and respectful. It’s when family members need values reaffirmed rigidly that it all falls apart,” says Bland. Coleman agrees: “If both people can accept differences without constant attempts to convert, shame or control one another, many relationships can adapt. If every interaction becomes psychologically unsafe, greater distance may be healthier.”

Am I being pressured?

Going no contact is a deeply personal decision, so it needs to be one that you make without outside influence. Pressure can come from romantic partners, online communities, friends, siblings, other relatives and therapists, says Coleman, who wants to distinguish between helpful and unhelpful interactions. “Support can be invaluable. Pressure is different,” he says. “The decision should ultimately reflect your own considered judgment.” Specifically, when it comes to social media and “therapy speak”, exercise caution. “Terms such as ‘toxic’, ‘narcissist’, ‘gaslighting’ and ‘boundaries’ can be useful when applied carefully, but social media often rewards certainty over complexity. Good therapy increases curiosity. Poor advice encourages premature certainty," says Coleman.

Apter warns that “unreliable therapists make judgments about a family member’s personality when they have never met them, which can influence the client’s views”.

Have I considered the collateral damage?

Cutting ties can mean losing other relationships too. It’s something Schumer Chapman, who was estranged from her brother for decades, experienced. With the loss of her role as sister, she also lost that of her sister-in-law and aunt, and her children lost their cousins. “I felt like a whole branch of our small family had been sawed off, and all the responsibilities for our parents fell on me,” she says. She describes this estrangement as “a grief state that produces ongoing distress and deep insecurity and longing that can go on for decades”. For Apter, ultimately, “there are always trade-offs. In most cases you decide that you cannot take the pain, humiliation or chaos that comes with the relationship and have to accept the collateral.” Lane echoes this: “While I stand by my decision, there is grief attached to the fact my son does not have a relationship with his grandfather. Factors like this should be considered deeply.”

Can I still repair the relationship?

This is about feeling sure you have tried everything, so the decision can be as comfortable as possible. It took Lane five years “and much excruciating consideration” to arrive at his choice to estrange. “I felt I had exhausted all options. I was nearly 40, so it was certainly not a youthful or impulsive response. Sometimes it’s important to trust your instincts, even if they are telling you to do something that goes against the grain.”

Bland recommends involving a professional, who “can see a broader picture and help identify blind spots in a less confrontational way. In attempting to repair a relationship, we can get angry with people because they’ve hurt, neglected or harmed us. It helps to include a professional who understands when to say ‘stop’.”

You may be able to heal after some time away. Schumer Chapman finally managed to reconcile with her brother over the course of a year. "We met every week. Sometimes we went for a bike ride to become reacquainted with each other. Sometimes we discussed the estrangement, what had happened and why. Other times we recalled memories and laughed about our childhood, which was bonding." She says the most important change was the way they communicated: "When we did have disagreements, which are inevitable, we talked our differences out."

'While I stand by my decision, there is grief attached to the fact my son does not have a relationship with his grandfather'

How will I cope with 'what ifs'?

You won't know if your relative hits hard times, becomes ill or even dies. You will need to consider whether you can live with that level of uncertainty. "Many people imagine estrangement will provide relief. What they're less prepared for is ambiguous loss - the uncertainty of not knowing whether they will ever reconcile, whether they will hear about

illness second-hand, or whether a death will occur before anything is resolved. Those are burdens worth considering," says Coleman. Bland cautions: "It's an unresolved attachment, and our brain wants to resolve it. It's not a case of they're out of my life, they're out of my head - they will be in your head more. My research has found that people reconsider their decision almost every couple of days." Lane, meanwhile, describes this uncertainty as something you ultimately have to "accept as part of the process, with the belief that the larger outcome will be positive and healthy for you".

Do I have an emotional support base?

This is crucial for you to be able to cope with the emotional after-effects. “I don’t think people can do it without social support, because the sense of isolation is crippling,” says Bland. “It’s about having people around you who understand you’re breaking free of a heavily abusive pattern.” Bland’s other family members were instrumental in her decision and her ability to stick with it: “They gave me validation that my parents weren’t safe, which reinforced I had made the right choice.”

Lane describes the emotional fallout as producing “grief, very similar to that associated with the death of a family member. It’s psychologically unhealthy to go through grief and loss in isolation.” It may also be associated with stigma and shame. Bland describes how she often sees “the perpetrators of abuse getting sympathy from the rest of the family because they present themselves as the victim. People will potentially judge your decision because they don’t understand the relationship you’ve had from the inside.” In those instances, support is critical.

Would limiting contact work?

Bland recommends that you “consider what your window of tolerance is. Can you tolerate one meeting in a park every few months? Would that cost you more than having no relationship at all?” She describes it as cost/benefit analysis, but adds: “If people are in a very harmful situation where there’s abuse, I wouldn’t recommend going low contact because that doesn’t help them get out of the cycle.”

Lane has seen “many clients change the nature of a relationship, implement boundaries and recalibrate expectations to improve negative relationships”. Coleman says estrangement “exists on a spectrum”, and that many people could benefit from “limited contact, shorter visits, communicating primarily by text or email, avoiding volatile topics, seeing relatives only in group settings and having clear expectations about frequency and duration of contact. Sometimes these arrangements preserve enough connection while protecting emotional wellbeing.”

Apter adds: “Most people try going low contact before they decide to cut themselves off from a family member, but many discover it is not possible to set boundaries or avoid painful interactions”.

Do I feel safe?

This is potentially the most salient question you can ask. Coleman says: “Estrangement is sometimes the healthiest option, particularly when there is ongoing abuse, coercion or repeated violation of boundaries.” Lane agrees, saying: “If a person consistently causes you to feel unsafe - physically or emotionally - you will live in a persistent state of feeling at risk. Over a long period of time, this can become unsustainable, and removing the abusive or harmful element may be necessary.” ●

MATCHMAKING GUARDIAN READERS SINCE 2009 'Most awkward moment? When she squished an insect that was on my forehead'

Graeme 47, forest manager

What were you hoping for? Really, just a fun night with minimal awkwardness was my fairly low expectation before the meeting.

First impressions? A very positive, engaging lady with a beautiful smile.

What did you talk about? Growing food, the joys of seeds, birdwatching, the failings of young people when it comes to proper raving, epigenetics and breaking generational cycles.

Most awkward innocent! Holly destroying an aphid, which had landed on my forehead, with a firm thumb squish. I should make clear that the poor aphid wasn't in the lovely restaurant; it was outside an entirely different place, which had hanging baskets.

Good table manners? Impeccable.

Best thing about Holly? Holly was incredibly easy to converse with. Her assured nature and wide range of interests meant she was a joy to be with.

Would you introduce Holly to your friends? In a heartbeat.

Describe Holly in three words Nuanced, sparkling, niche.

What do you think Holly made of you? I reckon she was hugely impressed I could name every species of bird she had tattooed on her leg.

Did you go on somewhere? Yes, a nearby pub then a little nightclub.

And ... did you kiss? Yes, we did.

If you could change one thing about the date, what would it be? I would tone down my oversharing.

Marks out of 10? 9.8.

Would you meet again? I'm hugely looking forward to doing so.

Holly 42, horticulturist

What were you hoping for? To meet someone interesting and fun.

First impressions? Warm, confident. Graeme quickly made me feel at ease.

What did you talk about? Our mutual nerves about the evening. The joys of working outside. Forestry management for biodiversity. Rural living. The importance of dancing.

Most awkward moment? I got overexcited about the menu and ordered quite a lot of food. We didn't need the extra salad.

Good table manners? Excellent: he kept our glasses topped up and was open to sharing dishes.

Best thing about Graeme? He's got a very curious mind and is a great listener.

Would you introduce Graeme to your friends? He'd get along well with them.

Describe Graeme in three words Warm, intelligent, open.

What do you think Graeme made of you? I hope he thought I was easy to talk to.

Did you go on somewhere? We did. We made the most of being in the city and sought out some music and dancing!

And ... did you kiss? Yes.

If you could change one thing about the date, what would it be? Nothing - I had a really fun evening. Graeme is a lovely guy who is very easy to talk to and up for a laugh.

Marks out of 10? A solid 8.

Would you meet again? We live quite far apart, but we'll see ...

Holly and Graeme ate at the Palmerston in Edinburgh. Fancy a blind date? Email blind.date@theguardian.com

TRUE STORIES OF OUR SEX LIVES

This is how we do it

'At our age we get to wake up and say: What are we doing today? Let's make love'

Helen, 71

Ian was dating my best friend, Susan, when we met 15 years ago. She invited me around to his house for dinner, and when he opened the door, I thought: oh my god, he's cute. After they broke up 10 months in and she started seeing someone else, I asked for his contact details and we went on a date. When I called Susan to tell her I was in love, she was totally silent. It was her or Ian. I chose him. It's one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Ian is much more sexual than I am: his love language is physical touch, while mine is quality time. I just don’t think about sex as much as he does. Him wanting to do it more than I do has caused tension, but it wasn’t something we spoke about. Then five years ago, while on a road trip, we put on the podcast Sex With Emily to pass the time. I’d never heard anyone talk about sex like that before. After that, we’d listen to a sex podcast, pause and discuss it, and now we have a dialogue about sex, which has made intimacy so much better. I’ve become more

curious and adventurous: I've discovered I like to be spanked, and my orgasms have become much stronger because I'm more relaxed.

We also plan sex now – about twice a week – which gives me time to get in the mood. But I need quality time first: if we’ve been talking and feeling close, I’m more likely to want sex. Ian is the opposite – he needs sex to feel close.

Ian has a pass to have sex with men, although he's rarely used it. Sex doesn't threaten me, but emotional intimacy does. Ian makes me feel safe and desired, sometimes too much. He'll pinch my bum in the supermarket or kiss my neck while I'm cooking, and I've learned that's his way of showing affection, not necessarily trying to initiate sex.

Because we met in our 50s and our children are grown up, we can focus on being partners to each other. There's more space and time for exploration. We get to wake up and say: what are we doing today? Let's make love later. Who cares what we do! We call them "snow days" - where we just hang out and do whatever we want.

Ian, 74

I'd make love to Helen every day, and twice on Sundays if I could. I'd start and end the day with sex. It's our glue. But while I use sex to feel close, I've learned over time that feeling close has to come first for Helen, so I try to give her what she needs by going to the dog park, grocery shopping, spending time together - it's like foreplay.

If we don't have sex for a week, I miss the closeness and start to feel defensive and push Helen away. I start to ask myself: why haven't we had sex? Did we get in a fight? Is one of us sick? But I've learned not to take it personally. Fortunately, we rarely go longer than a week.

A few years ago, I blurted out that I wanted to explore my fantasy of having sex with men. Helen is OK with it because it doesn't make her feel threatened. It's only happened twice in the last five years, but I feel lucky that we have the kind of relationship where if one of us really wants to try something, we can.

We also have a guest room that we call our playground and we've explored some kink.

When I first met Helen, I thought she was this shiny, bright thing; so light and fun - the total opposite of my ex, who was negative and controlling. I fall more in love with Helen every day. She's got a great body - she's 71 but looks 51 - but it's the way she is with people that really turns me on.

Sex has always been validation to me, and it still is, but not to the same degree. I still think about sex all the time, but since I’ve gotten older, I’m a lot calmer about it. Now my body doesn’t respond the way it used to, I’m more patient and sex is no longer so goal-oriented. Now we have more time and fewer stressors, our intimacy has grown. Names have been changed As told to Olivia Ladanyi

Would you and your partner like to share the story, anonymously, of your sex life? Email sexlives@theguardian.com with a few words about what you get up to

You be the judge My friend and I bought a tent but she's moved away. Who owns it now?

Interviews: Georgina Lawton

The prosecution Ava I paid for half of the tent, so I deserve equal use of it, even if we no longer live in the same country

Ruth and I bought a tent together when we were living together in Spain and going to festivals there. We had a good time using it, and took it to four different festivals in Spain and Portugal. And after that we used it every year for festivals and camping trips.

It was always our tent, not Ruth's tent that I occasionally borrowed. I moved back to the UK in 2024 and Ruth stayed in Spain, so it made sense for the tent to stay with her. There wasn't much point in me taking half a tent back to London, and at the time there was no reason to formally decide who owned it. We were friends, we'd always used it together so I assumed it still belonged to both of us.

Now we both have partners and both need the tent. I'm coming back to Spain for a festival and asked Ruth if I could use the tent with my boyfriend Michael. The problem is that she's going to the festival too with her partner, Luis, and wants it for herself.

Ruth says the tent is practically hers because it has been at her flat and she's used it much more since I moved away. She also paid for repairs when it got a hole in it. I appreciate that she's looked after it, but none of that changes the fact that I paid for half of it from the start.

I always assumed that I'd be able to use it at some stage, or have her buy me out. She has offered exactly that but doesn't believe she should pay the same amount that I had paid for it initially, because she's kept it all these years. I think that's ridiculous.

Besides, I didn't give Ruth my share of the tent when I moved away. I didn't sell it to her or tell her she could keep it permanently. I still have ownership over it - but now that I need it, it's suddenly not mine any more.

If this was a court of law, I'd still have a stake in this tent. I hope the court of public opinion sides with me. We need to acknowledge that I still own half.

The defence Ruth Ava hasn't used the tent in years, and I've stored it and paid for its upkeep. Surely I get first dibs?

Yes, Ava and I originally split the cost of the tent. We bought it in 2018 when we lived together and used to go to festivals and camping together. Back then, calling it “our tent” made total sense because we had a shared life and actually used it together.

But then Ava moved back to the UK and the tent stayed with me in Spain. Since then, I'm the person who has actually been using it. It has been stored in my flat, taking up my space, and whenever something has needed sorting out, I've dealt with it.

At one point the tent got a hole in it and needed repairing. I paid for the repairs. Ava hasn't been contributing towards those expenses from the UK while I've continued maintaining and using the tent. I don't think you can disappear from the practical ownership of something for years and then suddenly expect exactly the same access to it when you happen to want it again.

She actually forgot about the tent until now, and never asked about the upkeep or storage. Now she's coming back for a festival and wants to use it. Unfortunately, I'm going to the same festival and I need it too.

I'm not refusing her because I'm being possessive or because I've forgotten that she originally contributed. I simply have an established use for something that has effectively been in my possession for years. I'm first in line; I get first dibs.

What am I supposed to do? Hand over the tent I've stored, used and maintained and then go and buy myself another one? Ava thinks so.

Maybe the fairest thing now is for us to formally sort out ownership rather than keep pretending one tent can belong equally to two people living in different countries. I can buy her out, but I don't think paying her exactly half back is the answer for all the reasons above: storage, repairs. It doesn't solve the dilemma as to who gets to use it now either. It's unreasonable to expect me to give it up exactly when I need it myself. Names have been changed

The jury of Guardian readers

Should Ava accept that she's in the losing camp?

As Ruth has managed the storage and upkeep of the tent, she deserves to keep it. If Ava is going to insist on part-ownership, then she should pay Ruth for the cost of repairs, but that seems very petty. Why not use the festival to reconnect as friends? Ava should let the tent go.

Given the tent will have depreciated in value over this time, and Ruth has paid for repairs, the fairest solution would be for Ruth to buy out Ava at a reduced rate. Either that or they share the tent at this festival.

Alden, 29

I recognise Ruth has incurred costs from storing and repairing the tent, but she's also had free usage of it for the past two years. Ruth should buy Ava out for half the price of a comparable used tent. Mark, 32

Ava, you've been back in the UK for two years. The tent is eight years old, and you're fighting for custody? Ruth has been storing it and repairing it, and it's impolite to expect free storage when you don't need it. Upgrade yourself. Buy yourself a new tent.

They are both being very boring and possessive over this holey old tent. Do neither of their boyfriends have tents?! Surely one of the few perks of having a boyfriend is they have access to tents? But as Ruth has had this one cluttering her home then Ava just needs to be gracious and relinquish ownership. Kitty, 34

THE VERDICT Guilty Ava's in a bit of a flap 0 Not guilty Ruth can sleep easy in her tent 5

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My partner's ugly conduct at our sons' football matches is putting me off him

Ask Annalisa Barbieri

My partner and I have been together for 25 years and we have two sons, aged 14 and 16. Both are football crazy and have played since they were very young. My partner's competitive nature was one of the things I initially found attractive about him (I wanted someone with drive).

However, this side of him rears its ugly head when our kids play matches. He shouts, criticises and, worst of all, swears at teenagers. I'm so embarrassed by it and it's also affecting the boys. Their teammates hear their dad and it's creating tension. I've tried to speak to him about it but he brushes it off. Our boys and the coaches have spoken to him too, but to no avail.

It may sound extreme but I feel as if I'm falling out of love with him over this. How can I be with someone who shows no respect for his children, their friends and teammates, let alone coaches and referees?

I don't think it sounds extreme - it's a really unattractive side to your partner. This isn't competitiveness, it's him being an arsehole and I sincerely hope he doesn't act like this in other areas of his life.

I went to UKCP-registered psychotherapist Lucy Fuller. We were both interested in the “why now, why here” aspect of this. You say your boys have played since they were young; has he always shouted at them or is this a more recent, or increasing, behaviour?

“Your partner needs to reflect on the suitability of his behaviour,” said Fuller. “I wonder if his experience of being supported/encouraged was by being ‘shouted at’ from the sidelines? Could this be his only model of what support looks like? His own ego and competitiveness are flooding the situation and it’s not appropriate here.”

Have you tried talking to him away from the sidelines when everyone is calm? What does this bring up in him? What was his adolescence like, specifically when he was the age his sons are now? “When your children reach a certain age, sometimes it triggers feelings in you,” said Fuller. And these feelings may take a little unearthing.

We also wondered what he's like in other areas of his life. “Is this situation a reflection of his attitude to life and his position within it as a whole?” Fuller asked. “He would benefit from some help reflecting on how others perceive him. Maybe this way of behaving has worked for him in other situations?”

Fuller also felt that at the heart of this was frustration - but “at what” is the key. Is he a frustrated player? Was his career, perhaps at professional level, thwarted? It’s worth digging beyond the behaviour, because all behaviour is communication. “It’s almost as if he’s so immersed in the game, that he’s angry with himself,” said Fuller. “It’s so loaded with emotion. What is it that’s so important that he has to behave in this way? Does he feel that he can really affect the outcome of the match? I’d question that because being shouted at doesn’t motivate people.”

Can he, in a calmer moment, practise putting himself in the shoes of others? If this sort of behaviour was ever aimed at him, can he remember what it felt like? Can he imagine what it feels like for others?

Pick your moment to try to discuss all this with him. Being truly competitive doesn't have to mean behaving in this way, it's not sportsmanlike. My podcast on projection may be worth a listen to try to work out what exactly is being projected on to these football matches.

If you would like advice on a personal matter, email ask.annalisa@theguardian.com. See guardian.com/letters-terms for terms and conditions

This season, the vibe is the lady who lounges, not lunches

Jess Cartner-Morley On trends

t always makes me feel a tiny bit queasy when looking "ladylike", as a trend or a vibe or whatever, comes into fashion. How does it make sense to spend our hard-

earned paychecks cosplaying as women of lunches and leisure?

You can't deny these clothes are cute, though. A boucle jacket can make you feel as if the Eiffel Tower might come into view around the next corner, even though you are in the wrong country. A mini-heel lets you imagine you might be having a glass of sancerre with your lunch, when in reality a can of San Pellegrino is as exciting as it is going to get. There is an air of gentle charm, of courtesy, to lady-adjacent style that can take the edge off a tough day.

So I am cautiously, provisionally, glass-half-full about this season's ladylike-with-a-twist trend. Call it the lady who lounges, not the lady who lunches. The lady who lounges has the jacket and the heels and maybe even the pearls, but she wears jeans and she's definitely not in a pussy bow. Same DNA, different agenda. The allure of ladylike dressing is about the delicious fantasy of ease, of life lived off the clock. This is not real life, no. But maybe it doesn't hurt to dream a little.

Matthieu Blazy's Chanel is the mother ship for this mood. Chanel is where much of the visual language of ladylike comes from: the neat little jacket, the chain bag, the two-tone shoe, the pearls. Blazy has been ruffling Coco's bob, throwing masculine tailoring in against the house's more buttoned-up instincts, redoing bags with a crumpled, lived-in slouch. This is Coco getting dressed from a boyfriend's wardrobe rather than a boutique. There were clues at Miu Miu's autumn show, too, which Miuccia Prada described in terms of "gentleness" and "romance", and where pencil skirts were worn with wellies, and bow-trimmed minidresses with walking boots.

This is ladylike with its shoes kicked off, and it probably starts with a textured jacket and jeans. The jacket should sit on your shoulders rather than pin them into position. The jeans have an ease to them - a lower waist, rather than mom jeans, helps knocks the primness out of the jacket. Underneath, try a crisp shirt or a plain white vest. Or swap jeans for a pencil skirt, but wear a big jumper rather than a neat cardigan. A silk blouse wants a masculine trouser; a brooch wants a battered old coat.

You need something in your outfit that turns up with its elbows on the table. A look where every element is saying the same thing feels robotic and cookie-cutter. Personal style has the odd raw edge. Don't underestimate the power of hair and makeup. Or rather, the power of a little less hair and makeup than the clothes seem to expect. Slept-in hair or a bare-ish face are a useful counterpoint to pearls and tweed.

Trends are a buffet rather than a

This is ladylike with its shoes kicked off, and it probably starts with a textured jacket and jeans

tasting menu these days. If a fancy pair of jewel-coloured leather gloves make you feel fabulous, go for it; if they make you feel as though you should be waving from a carriage, steer clear. Ladylike accessories work best when they look as if they wandered into the wrong outfit, so pin a brooch to denim or wear a silk scarf with a sweatshirt. This isn't about making casual clothes smarter or fancy clothes more laid-back exactly, but more about making the outfit hard to pigeonhole. We can play with the fantasy of being a lady without having any intention of taking on the job full-time.

The old ladylike trend felt like performing a life you didn't have. This one lets you live your real life, only in such a nice jacket that people will wonder where you are going for dinner. Have the boucle. Have the pearls. Have the sancerre, should the opportunity arise. Then put those kitten heels back on and get back to business.

Worried about age-related hair loss? Here's a treatment that works

Sali Hughes On beauty

'm 51, perimenopausal, and somewhere between the newly distended stomach and urge to pick fights with fellow passengers on public transport (why have people

stopped wearing headphones?), came hair thinning. Brilliant.

It's not as though I could claim an abundance in the first place. However, hair-loss products were at least something I could explore professionally, so I tested and tested, figuring there must be a column in there somewhere. There wasn't.

In the end, I did what I'd previously told my closest friends to do: I signed up to Hair+Me, a £34.99 monthly subscription service, staffed by clinicians dispensing proved hair-loss medications such as Minoxidil (prescribed across genders) and Finasteride and Dutasteride (for biological men only) in tablet or ointment form.

I knew it could work. I'd got my best friend, Cait, on to it when she, who'd

After two months, new hair is visibly growing - as well as on my chin, so I've upped my tweezing

always prided herself on an enormous thatch, stopped hair-washing because the sight of large clumps on the shower floor ruined the next week. She signed up, uploaded her photos and their nightly tablets (topical ointment is not usually prescribed to pet owners as it's toxic to some animals), performed near miracles. Within a couple of weeks, baby hairs were forming, the shedding had slowed to normal and Cait was herself once more. Ditto two other girlfriends who followed my same advice.

Aside from my very different base level (my hair has always been thin and flat), my trajectory on Hair+Me/

Minoxidil has been identical. After two months, new hair is visibly growing (as well as on my chin, a common side-effect, so I've upped my tweezing).

I tell you all this not by way of medical advice (I'm not qualified to give it), but to explain that real, evidence-backed help - not rosemary shampoos and dubious tech gadgets promoted uncritically online - is out there. Even for free via your GP, if s/he is sympathetic. In which case, my congratulations. But with appointment times shaved to the bone (assuming they can be secured at all), it may save time and tears to explore a paid subscription for the same treatment.

Anxiety around hair loss is not some frivolous, vain “champagne problem”. It can be a misery at a time when our plates are already too full. Even friends who barely wear moisturiser, let alone engage with any non-invasive cosmetic treatments such as Botox, have found age-related thinning to be their line in the sand and opted to shed the guilt, not the hair.

Is it true that ... Muscle turns into fat if you stop working out?

“This is not true,” says Prof Leigh Breen, a specialist in muscle physiology at the University of Leicester. But it’s a statement he hears a lot, particularly from people who have taken a long break from exercise. “They’ll often refer to the notion that their muscles have ‘softened’ or don’t feel as toned.”

The reality is that there's no biochemistry linking the two types of tissue. Muscle and fat are distinct. "There's no known process in the human body that would support muscle turning into fat, or vice versa," says Breen.

He thinks the confusion comes from what happens when we stop exercising - particularly resistance training. We may begin to lose some of the muscle we built through training. And if we continue eating the same amount while exercising less, we may end up with an energy surplus, which can lead to an increase in body fat.

“This combination of a reduction in muscle mass and potentially an increase in fat mass can give the impression that one is turning into the other,” he says. “Which isn’t the case.”

If you take a couple of weeks off your usual training routine but remain relatively active, you're likely to see fewer changes than if you are completely immobilised for an extended period because of an injury.

What we eat during an exercise break can also influence how much muscle and fat mass we gain or lose. Breen recommends keeping protein intake high while slightly reducing calorie intake.

Ultimately, our bodies are constantly changing, and small fluctuations in muscle and fat mass during breaks in our training are generally normal. “Slight fluctuations are generally nothing to worry about, as long as over the course of months and years consistent exercise and dietary habits have been maintained,” says Breen. Kate Lloyd

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Soil in need of some TLC? Then it's time to make room for legumes

Claire Ratinon On fruit and veg

am locked in an eternal battle with my soil. Now, I adore the earth and believe it to be miraculous in its life-giving properties. But I'd be lying if I said I don't sometimes (or

often) feel deeply frustrated with the intransigence of the heavy clay I'm working with in my veg patch. Clay soil is especially miraculous in how nutrient dense it is. Yet, those nutrients are, somewhat ironically, more challenging for gardeners to access for their crops than with other soil types.

The answer - as with almost all problems faced in a chemical free, mostly no-dig garden - is adding a mulch of organic matter (either compost or well-rotted manure) that can be incorporated into the earth by insects, who will improve its texture in the process. And yet, this trusty approach is tricky in my veg patch as we live on a hill and there is about a metre's difference between one side of the site and the other. This situation (plus the stubbornness of soil made sodden by a wet winter and then solid by a heatwave summer) has meant the layers of compost I laid over the last year have been either washed away or not particularly well incorporated into the deeper soil.

All this is to say, I was not in a good position at the start of the growing season, and now autumn has arrived I'm considering what the soil needs for next year. Of course, I will continue to mulch enthusiastically, but I'm also looking at a key plant type that can come to the rescue - the legume. Capable of taking nitrogen from the air and capturing it in their bodies (with the help of some nifty bacteria) to be released for use by future plants, legumes are an effective ally to the

Capable of taking nitrogen from the air, these key plants are an effective ally to the organic grower

organic grower who is working with soil that needs some extra TLC.

Sown now, vetch (also known as winter tares), field beans (pictured) and forage peas - whose ideal sowing time is September, but I suspect October will be fine in milder spots - will push their roots deep down into the soil during the coming months. Then, come spring, before they've had a chance to flower and while their stems are still soft, they can be cut down at the base and either incorporated into the soil if you're inclined to dig, or if, like me, you're not, they can be chopped into pieces and laid as a surface mulch, or put in the compost to rot down there. Either way, the root systems decompose in the ground, where they will be of most benefit to the soil, improving its structure and capacity to retain water as well as dispensing with any excess of it.

While it does mean that those veg beds of mine won't be planted with my favourite winter-ready or overwintering crops, it should mean that the soil is in a much better state to work with next spring.

Gynelle Leon's Houseplant hacks Is it eco or risky to reuse nursery pots?

The problem

Most plant people end up with a never-ending supply of plastic nursery pots, stuffed in cupboards or bags. Throwing them away feels wasteful, but reusing can transfer pests, fungus spores or disease to new plants.

The hack

Reuse them, but clean thoroughly first. Nursery pots are brilliant for houseplants because the drainage holes stop root rot. Water thoroughly and let the excess run out, then slip the pot into something decorative.

The method

Remove old compost and roots, then wash the pot in hot, soapy water and scrub, especially the rim and drainage holes where pests like to hide. If it housed a diseased or pest-infested plant, I recycle it to be on the safe side. But if you don't mind taking your chances, disinfect it in a 1:9 bleach-to-water solution, let it dry completely and check for cracks. Once the plastic starts breaking down, retire it.

The test

I've reused nursery pots for years and clean ones have caused me no issues.

The verdict

Nursery pots are made to work hard and many already use recycled plastic. Just be sure to clean out between plants, recycle when they finally do crack, and hide them in prettier pots.

At last I join the ranks of competent people

Tim Dowling On modern life

or a single strange moment, everything appears to be in hand: the garden is tidy and free of dead branches, thanks to Gardening Steve; the

back door, which refused to close properly for most of the summer, has fixed itself in the cooler weather. I'll take that as a win.

The bathtub's clawed feet are sitting on two long planks, safely spreading its enormous load evenly across the squishy, sinking bathroom floor. There are, theoretically, further repairs to be undertaken here, but I've reached an age where I've had to make sharp adjustments to my idea of what constitutes a permanent solution. If nothing else happens, this will do.

The kitchen table has been sanded down and refinished, by me. At first the effect was a bit too orangey for my wife's liking, but over the subsequent days the colour of the wood seemed to improve when contrasted with the prospect of doing the whole thing all over again.

As the nights draw in, only one real job remains: the kitchen's three-button dimmer switch wall plate is broken - one of the main lights simply won't come on.

“I can fix that,” I say, rashly.

“Are you sure?” my wife says.

"If you can find a like-for-like replacement for the switch plate, I can put it in," I say, still more rashly.

“Shouldn’t I get an electrician?” she says.

“No,” I say. “I can manage.”

My wife sources a new switch plate more quickly than I'd imagined possible. It arrives the next day. I open the box and consult the instructions.

“This product should be installed by a competent person,” I read.

“Uh-oh,” my wife says.

“Eg, a qualified electrician,” I say. “We need to call someone,” she says.

“A qualified electrician is just one example of a competent person,” I say, “Other examples include chartered accountants, or the Lord Mayor.”

“It seems complicated,” my wife says, looking over my shoulder at the connection diagrams.

“Don’t worry, I’m ignoring all that,” I say. “I’m just going to take the old switch off the wall, and copy exactly what I find behind it.”

“I might not be here when that happens,” she says.

I begin work the next morning, after my wife leaves to walk the dog. I start by turning off the electricity for the entire house - you can't be too careful. Then I unscrew the broken switch plate and gently pull it away from the wall.

A problem I had not foreseen arises: without any lights on, it's hard to see what I'm doing - I have to shine my phone torch down on my work. At times, when the installation gets fiddly, I have to hold the phone between my teeth.

There are a lot more wires than I expected, but the new switch has the

'I wasn't expecting this,' my wife says. 'I thought I'd find you sitting on the floor crying'

same basic arrangement as the old one. I don't dare disconnect the old switch plate completely, because the wires aren't labelled. Instead I undo each wire individually, immediately connecting it to the corresponding contact on the new switch plate. It's exciting doing it this way - I feel as if I'm trying to bypass an alarm so I can rob a museum.

Finally, the time comes to turn the electricity back on. Gritting my teeth, I flip the switch.

“I wasn’t expecting this,” my wife says, rolling the leftmost button clockwise and watching the light over the kitchen table intensify. “I thought I’d find you sitting on the floor crying.”

“You missed that bit,” I say.

“And no problems?” she says.

"At one point I got into a panic and had to pause for half an hour," I say, "to educate myself about the difference between leading edge and trailing edge dimmers."

“Which is?” she says, rolling the button back.

“Leading edge dimmers are cheap and cause problems with LED bulbs,” I say. “Trailing edge, or reverse phase dimmers, are the best choice for most premises.”

“What do we have?” she says.

“Ours can switch from one to the other,” I say, “but trailing edge is the default setting.”

“So I didn’t really need to hear any of that, did I?” she says.

“I learned it,” I say, “so it’s gotta come out somewhere.”

“Anyway, it’s very satisfying,” she says, moving to the next button along.

It's more than satisfying for me. When I turn the kitchen lights on my heart skips a beat, every time.

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An autumn break in Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains offers thermal spa treatments and glorious walking trails before the winter ski crowds descend Overleaf: 10 more of the best European spa towns

Spa bliss in the shadow of Mont Blanc

Words: Jane Knight

M ont Blanc is hiding behind the clouds, but the Aiguille du Midi spears the sky above a mountainside

ablaze with russet, gold and tawny tones. The maples flare red; rowan trees are dusted with crimson berries.

Our little group has trundled up to Mont Lachat station (altitude: 2,115 metres) on the Tramway du Mont Blanc, the century-old cog railway that climbs improbably steep slopes from the French alpine town of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains. Operational since 1909, the railway was once intended to reach the 4,809-metre summit of Mont Blanc, but war, glacial terrain and waning funds put an end to that ambition. But even from Mont Lachat, the view is a showstopper. On one side, the Bionnassay Glacier slips scenically down the slope, a buzzard soaring over the milky-green glacial lake at its base, while on the other the Chamonix valley basks in soft autumnal sunshine.

Autumn is golden season in the Alps, when you can find quieter hiking trails, lower prices and air crisp enough to stir the senses without nipping your fingers. Once focused purely on winter sports, the region's resorts have spent years building up their summer credentials to offer hiking and biking through flower-strewn meadows. Now they're marketing their shoulder

season, too, to meet a growing demand for off-peak escapes.

The little spa town of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, 50 minutes from Geneva and sandwiched between its glitzier neighbours Chamonix and Megève, is perfectly placed to take advantage of this trend. Unlike many resorts, the town of 5,800 doesn't fall silent once the snow (or summer crowds) melts away, in large part thanks to its thermal waters, which were discovered at the beginning of the 19th century.

A year-round gondola called Le Valléen now links the train station in the village of Le Fayet, farther down the slope where the thermal spa is located, to Saint-Gervais proper. Opened in late 2024, it means you can arrive by rail from London via Paris and reach the heart of the resort without needing a car. “If you go to Megève in the shoulder season there’s no one there,” says long-serving mayor Jean-Marc Peillex. “That’s not the case here. The secret is that instead of thinking about tourists, you think about the people who live here. Then the tourists will be happy too.”

Saint-Gervais (850 metres) may lack Megève's polish but it has its own quiet charm: a medieval fortified house, a 17th-century church with geometric stained glass windows, elegant belle époque buildings near the spa and a thriving market every Thursday. Several excellent restaurants stay

Les Thermes de Saint-Gervais (left) opened in 1806

open year round, and our hotel, the chocolate-box Coeur des Neiges, offers rooms at less than half the summer or winter rate, making it an ideal base for autumnal exploring.

From here we take the Mont Blanc tramway one stop to Motivon, at 1,400 metres, then hike for an hour without seeing another soul; the only sound is the gentle clanging of cowbells. Our destination is the Distillerie Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc, one of Europe's highest microdistilleries at 1,365m. It's actually set in a converted donkey shed with windows framing pine forests and plunging valleys, shelves fashioned from old skis and two gleaming copper distillation stills.

This is where Scotsman James Abbott, kilt and all, produces some 450 bottles a year of single malt whisky (in a Speyside style), along with vodka, the traditional herbal liqueur génépi and a superb mountain gin infused with ingredients such as blueberries and wild herbs from the nearby slopes.

"The locals noticed that when I went to parties, I took whisky, not wine," James laughs. "They said: 'Why don't you make your own - you drink enough of it.'" It turns out he does it rather well: the whisky sells for €95, the gin for €50, and both go down beautifully after a day in the mountain air before we hop back on the tramway.

Although the tramway stops running from the end of September, there's no shortage of scenic hiking trails fanning straight out from town which are accessible later in the year, plus a free, year-round bus service linking the villages that make up the commune of Saint-Gervais. We're due to take it the next morning for a walk from Saint-Nicolas de Véroce, whose baroque church is resplendent with blue-and-gold interiors and frescoed ceilings, but a heavy rainstorm postpones our plans.

That's not a problem when just down the road (or a free cog lift ride down the mountainside) are Les Thermes de Saint-Gervais, which have been soothing weary bodies since 1806, when notary Joseph-Marie Gontard discovered the springs. The mineral-rich waters, packed with sulphur, magnesium, calcium and zinc, bubble up from underground at 39C, feeding a three-hour wellness circuit.

We drift between pools of different temperatures, move lazily from sauna to steam room, enjoy the rainforest spa and wallow outdoors as jets of water

A gondola heads up Aiguille du Midi (above). The springs at Les Thermes (right) bubble up at 39C

The Mont Blanc tramway at Bellevue station (above), and the wooden ticket office (right). The ornate interior of the church at Saint-Nicolas-de-Véroce (left)

We drift lazily from sauna to steam room while the gondola glides silently overhead

pummel our backs while the gondola glides silently overhead. Who cares about the rain?

By the time we emerge, the storm has cleared, so we continue to St-Nicolas. From here, a steep two-hour trail winds up to the Refuge du Mont-Joly, a century-old wooden inn that smells of woodsmoke and melting cheese. Normally there are sweeping views of Mont Blanc from the terrace, but today the peaks are shrouded in cloud.

We might not be able to see the mountains but we can taste their produce, notably in the enormous portion of blueberry tart that follows a tartiflette big enough to satisfy a sumo wrestler. As I tuck in, snow begins to fall. By morning it will be gone, melted by the late-summer sun. But now it lies thick and soft outside, turning the world white, as if the Ice Queen from Narnia might step through the door at any moment. That's autumn in the Alps for you.

The trip was provided by the Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc tourist board (saintgervais.com). Doubles at the Coeur des Neiges from €108 room-only (hotelcoeurdesneiges.com), or from €76 room-only at Plan B at Le Fayet (planb-livingsaintgervais.com). The Refuge du Mont-Joly is closed from the end of March to late May, and from November to mid-December. The Tramway du Mont Blanc now stops at the Nid d'Aigle lookout (2,380 metres), after the line was extended in July

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Healing waters 10 of the best spa towns in Europe for a restorative autumn break

Words: Fiona Kerr

Mariánské Lázně, Czechia In 2021, Unesco designated 11 historic spa towns across Europe as one transnational world heritage site, recognising their “exceptional testimony to the European spa phenomenon, which gained its highest expression from around 1700 until the 1930s”. This was the original wellness tourism, and these grand health resorts include Bath in England and the town of Spa in Belgium, as well as the west Bohemia spa triangle of Karlovy Vary, Františkovy Lázně and Mariánské Lázně.

Of that trio, Karlovy Vary is the most well known and within a day trip of Prague, but Mariánské Lázně is arguably the prettiest. The town offers three natural healing traditions: mineral springs, carbon dioxide springs known as Maria's Gas, and therapeutic peloids (mud and clay). Czech nationals are still prescribed weeks-long spa stays to recover from surgery, severe illness or chronic conditions, but anyone can check into the Nové Lázně hotel (doubles from €234 B&B, including spa access), a canary yellow neo-renaissance confection built in 1896 that faces the central park.

Its spa is a trip back in time: baths surrounded by marble columns and intricately decorated treatment cabins, including one built for King Edward VII, who visited nine times.

Just a few miles inland from the Algarve beaches, the mountainous area around Monchique offers peace and serenity

Join tourists and locals drinking the waters from special porcelain cups while walking along the colonnades, and don't forget to pair it with a spa wafer - large, thin, crispy confections with sweet fillings such as hazelnut or chocolate. It's not all virtuous.

Caldas de Monchique, Portugal High in the Serra de Monchique mountains, surrounded by cork oak and eucalyptus forests, the whitewashed hill town of Monchique offers a slower-paced autumn escape than the nearby Algarve coast. Its cobbled streets are lined with craft shops, ceramic workshops and simple taverns serving chouriço (smoked sausage) with a small glass of medronho (fruit brandy). In a wooded valley below town, the spa village of Caldas de

Monchique is little more than a handful of 19th-century buildings around a shaded square and park, where you can drink slightly warm spring water from the public fountain.

Wallow in the alkaline waters a little longer at Caldas de Monchique Villa Termal Spa Resort (doubles from €84, thermal water circuit £17 for 90 minutes).

The spa offers hydro rituals including a Vichy shower, massage and bath, or thermal water circuits around the pools, sauna and Turkish baths, before a dip in the outdoor pool.

Afterwards, the 1692 restaurant, with its stained-glass windows, dishes up bacalhau à Monchique (salt cod stuffed with chouriço and ham). It’s not far from here to Fóia, the highest mountain in the Algarve at 902 metres. It’s worth the walk to the summit for the views, or hike on a further 2½ miles (4km) to the Barbelote waterfall, which cascades over a rocky cliff face in the wetter months.

Chaves, Portugal

There's a little run of spa towns in the north of Portugal near the Spanish border, a curative route through Pedras Salgadas, Carvalhelhos, Vidago, Carlão and Chaves.

In Chaves, the waters are some of the hottest in Europe, coming out of the ground at a scorching 76C. The Romans built a large therapeutic bathing complex here, that was only rediscovered by accident in 2006 when work began on an underground car park. Now, the free Museu Termas Romanas de Chaves allows visitors to explore the pools and soaking baths, perfectly preserved thanks to an earthquake in the 4th century that sealed them for millennia.

To take the waters today, head to the Aquae Salutem Thermal Complex (€30 for 90 minutes), a circuit of outdoor pools, saunas, steam and showers that opened in 2025.

About half an hour down the road, the Pedras Salgadas Spa and Nature Park sits on the fringes of one of the other small spa towns. The owners have built 18 eco-houses and treehouses on stilts (doubles from £171 B&B, spa access additional £17 per room) among the pine trees at the source.

Guests can do a spot of forest bathing before dipping into the spa - redesigned by one of Portugal's most famous architects, Álvaro Siza - for a thermal water hydro-massage, or wander between the pink spring pavilions in the park.

Pieštany's Spa Island, Slovakia Just before crossing the Colonnade Bridge to get to Pieštany's Spa Island, there's a statue of a man breaking his crutch, symbolic of the healing powers of the town's thermal waters and sulphurous mud, harnessed on this enclave of wellness in the Vâh River. The first simple wooden bathhouses were built on the island in 1778, but the opening of the Thermia Palace hotel and its Irma Balneotherapy House in 1912 turned it into a health resort.

The spa at Nové Lázně hotel in Mariánské Lázně in Czechia (left), is a 'trip back in time'

Eco cabins at Pedras Salgadas Spa and Nature Park in Portugal (above) are perfect for forest bathing. In France, Château du Gué aux Biches (left), in Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, has a new restaurant and a partnership with a smart nearby spa

Further hotels and spas are dotted between the trees and become increasingly concrete and functional as you get further from the bridge.

The Thermia Palace is still the fanciest option, with a raft of treatment programmes in the spa, from extensive diagnostics and lab tests to mud packs and pools (doubles from €210 half-board, including spa access). The blue-black goop is applied all over the body at a toasty 45C and left for about 10 minutes before being unceremoniously hosed off.

Outside, the spa park also feels restorative, with lily ponds, fountains and free-roaming peacocks.

In town, Elektrárna Pieštany is a former power plant turned cultural centre that feels surprisingly vital, with film festivals and rock concerts, while the strikingly brutalist House of Arts hosts chamber orchestras and tango music trios.

Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, France Local legend has it that, after many battles, the medieval lord Seigneur Hugues de Tessé freed his faithful warhorse Rapide in Normandy's Andaines forest to live out the rest of its days in peace. Much to the nobleman's surprise, the horse later returned to him stronger and full of

The mud pool at the Thermia Palace hotel in Slovakia

life, then led his master to the warm, sulphurous waters of Bagnoles' spring. Centuries later, a spa resort sprang up so the Parisian bourgeoisie could also tap into this fountain of youth, with belle époque villas laid out on the shores of a lake in the middle of the forest (today, it's also handily less than an hour and a half from the ferry at Caen for British wellness seekers).

That belle époque quartier was the vision of local politician Albert Christophle, whose former hunting lodge on the edge of the village is now the very lovely five-bedroom Château du Gué aux Biches (doubles from €195 B&B).

This summer, its Danish owners, Klaus Bentin and Soren Rasmussen, added a new restaurant in the old kitchen, serving up smørrebrød (open sandwiches).

The hotel has a partnership with the nearby spa at B'O Resort, meaning Klaus or Soren will line up your treatments, and there are bicycles to borrow so you can pedal a couple of kilometres over for that clay body wrap or hydromassage.

The surrounding forest is crisscrossed with hiking, biking and trail running routes. In autumn, take things more meditatively by going mushroom foraging among the more

than 1,700 varieties sprouting from the Andaines forest floor.

Readers' travel tips Wellness breaks

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A perfect sauna in County Donegal If you find yourself on the wild coast of south County Donegal, head to the Sliabh Liag Sauna at Teelin pier. After a day of hiking (and maybe one or two pints of porter the evening before), the small wood-fired sauna on the pier was the perfect place to unwind. We followed it with a dip in the bay just steps away. If you have time, combine the sauna with a boat trip to the unforgettable Sliabh Liag sea cliffs, which tower 601 metres (1,972ft) above the waves. Peter Henry

Wild swimming near York Wild swimming at Pool Bridge Farm guarantees a wholesome retreat from the bustle of York. There are four lakes and ample space for lounging and lunching. A revitalising dip is best paired with a stop in the sauna (£16.50). To top it off, head to nearby Wheldrake Ings nature reserve, one of North Yorkshire's top wildlife destinations, especially for waterfowl. As the flood waters rise in the autumn, so do the numbers of migratory birds. Fin

Bath time near Sofia, Bulgaria The natural mineral springs in Sofia mean bath houses are a way of life. The opulent Central Mineral Bath in nearby Bankya is owned by the local authority, so it's a mix of everyday council baths and extraordinary architecture from the early 20th century. You can visit for less than €10, and as well as the natural spring water, it offers a thermal zone, a salt room, aromatherapy, saunas, steam rooms and massages. Sarah Collings

Hampshire's heavenly sea baths A fresh ginger concoction, orange slices and a friendly sauna master greeted us at the shepherd's hut-style sauna with picture window overlooking the historic Lymington Sea Water Baths. The Swedish sauna hats, the calming scent of our essential oil and the option to ease the heat with an exhilarating plunge in an ice-cold tub (or a more genial dip in the sun-warmed sea baths) made for a very restorative couple of hours away from real life. Claire Edwards

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Bad Gastein, Austria

This genteel town in the Hohe Tauern Alps was built on water; indeed, a roaring waterfall cascades right through the middle of it. The healing reputation of its radon-rich waters, which bubble up from the town's thermal springs, saw grand hotels built in the 19th century to house the emperors and aristocrats, writers and thinkers (Sigmund Freud among them) who came to be cured of their ills.

The fashion for “taking the waters” trickled away, but in recent years there’s been something of a revival, with a clutch of new hotels opening. The Cōmodo (doubles from €188 B&B) is one of them, a slick spot refashioned from a 1960s sanatorium. Bedrooms look out over the valley and mountains, as does the thermal water-filled indoor pool. There are several public fountains where you can still drink water straight from the source (warm, slightly salty and metallic tasting), but perhaps more palatable is to soak at the brutalist Felsentherme public bath complex with its numerous pools (€40 for a day pass).

Just as warming - but with fewer health benefits - is a bowl of Kaspressknödelsuppe (beef broth with cheese-infused dumplings) at the cosy cabin of Schafflinger Alm (soups from €4.50, mains from €17) after a bracing hike through the forest or carving up the Schlossalm-Angertal-Stubnerkogel ski area, where the season kicks off in late November.

Bad Wildbad, Germany

Deep in the north of the Black Forest, this spa town offers ways of immersing in nature beyond soaking in waters from the thermal springs. Rising above the town, Sommerberg (meaning “summer mountain”) will get pulses racing. A funicular railway whizzes visitors to the top, the starting point for hiking and biking routes. For more heart-pumping views, the accessible Treetop Walk (€12.50) spirals above the dense pine trees to an observation tower 40 metres up, with a tunnel slide back down the middle for extra thrills, while the Wildline suspension bridge (€9.50) - with its 380-metre walkway

Grand Hotel Rogaška in Slovenia has a state-of-the-art spa - arches over the Enz valley for maximum views.

Back in town, there are two thermal baths to dip into: the modern Vital Therme, where those with joint and back problems are prescribed movement therapy and spa treatments (€14 for three hours); and the historic Palais Thermal, where the pools are surrounded by marble pillars, statues of Venus and Moorish tiles (€21 for three hours). Mokni's Palais Hotel is connected to the Palais Thermal building, meaning guests can pad over in their bathrobes (doubles from €183 B&B, including access to the spa).

Bad Kissingen, Germany Germany is home to about 350 designated spa towns, including three of the Unesco Great Spa Towns of

Europe: celebrity favourite Baden-Baden, quiet riverside Bad Ems and elegant Bad Kissingen in Bavaria. The latter's striking architecture is arguably the most interesting of the three, much of the central spa district having been rebuilt by star German architect Max Littmann in the early 20th century. This includes the grand fountain hall, with its stained-glass roof, where Brunnenfrauen (fountain women) dispense different mineral waters from bronze pipes, and the huge basilica-style Wandelhalle, where the town's spa philharmonic orchestra performs several times a day.

Music has always been part of the spa experience - the Staatsbad Philharmonie Kissingen holds the world record for the most concerts performed in one year (727!) - and the beautiful art nouveau-style Regentenbau houses one of the best concert halls in Europe.

The modern KissSalis Therme (from €19 for two hours) on the southern edge of town is the main public bathhouse today, with indoor and outdoor thermal pools, mud treatments and various - clothing-free - saunas.

At the more classical end of the spa spectrum, the Grand Hotel Kaiserhof Victoria (doubles from €209 B&B, including spa access) sits next door to the Wandelhalle on the town's Kurgarten. The water used in the spa here is pumped up directly from the brine spring, while the inhalation room has a wooden graduation tower covered in knobbly salt deposits, which mimics the healing effects of mineral-rich sea air.

Felsentherme (left), is among the leading thermal spas of Bad Gastein in Austria. Bad Kissingen in Bavaria (right) is renowned for its architecture
Terme Berzieri (left) in Italy is noted for its striking interiors. Beautiful Palais Thermal (right) in Bad Wildbad in the Black Forest, Germany

Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia

This town in eastern Slovenia is famed for Donat Mg, one of the world's most magnesium-rich mineral waters, traditionally consumed for its digestive benefits. The company now sells millions of bottles of the stuff each year, but here at the source you can sip it for free from the fountains in the Pivnica Drinking Hall - although its salty, fizzy, metallic flavour is something of an acquired taste.

Like other towns of its ilk, Rogaška attracted the great and the good of

Europe in the 19th century, and its confection of architecture is testament to that. A short stroll away from the drinking hall, through immaculately clipped gardens, the butter-yellow Grand Hotel Rogaška is straight out of the town's golden age (doubles from €198 half-board include spa access). Bedrooms are traditional, but the spa has all the bells and whistles, from carbon dioxide baths and mineral water inhalations to reflexology and magnetotherapy.

Somewhat fittingly for a town famous for its drinking water, Rogaška is also known for its glassware - and visitors can tour the Rogaška crystal factory (€12) to see the glass-blowing in action before buying glasses for their Donat Mg from the on-site shop. The surrounding wooded hills are the place for autumn walks.

Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy

In Emilia-Romagna's so-called “food valley”, not far from Parma, this small spa town will help balance out some of that indulgence. Last year, the Italian thermal brand QC Spa of Wonders reopened the beautiful art deco-style Terme Berzieri, where the gilded interiors - all frescoes, mosaics, majolica and stucco - are as much of a draw as the salty spring waters, rich in iodine and bromide (five-hour spa sessions from €62). There’s the usual thermal attractions, as well as a sauna cinema and infinity rooftop pool, while treatments in wooden barrels nod to the area’s winemaking.

Try some of those wines at the Cantina Il Poggio vineyard in the hills outside Salsomaggiore, which produces a range of styles including the local sparkling Malvasia di Candia Aromatica (tastings from €30). Continue the tastings with a visit to a parmigiano reggiano producer, such as Caseificio Ugolotti (tour and tasting €23), before picking up some ham from Parma's famous La Prosciutteria. Stop for a roast pork sandwich at legendary panini place Pepèn, before feasting your eyes on the Pilotta Palace complex with the Galleria Nazionale, Palatine Library and Farnese theatre, while the opulent Teatro Regio hosts the annual Verdi festival in October. The organic agriturismo Case Zucchi, about a 10-minute drive from Salsomaggiore, makes a suitably foodie base, with bedrooms named after herbs and the breakfast table piled with fresh bread, eggs, ham, cheese and fruit each morning (doubles from £104 B&B).

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Cook once, eat twice Rukmini Iyer's miso chicken

Issue No.455 Saturday 10 October 2026

Henry Harris Swiss cream tart

Joe Otway Autumn corn and herb salad

Gurdeep Loyal Turkish lamb and hot pepper pasta

Calum Franklin Balti pies with spicy green chutney

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Often, the greatest dishes are made from very few ingredients, and this tart is one of them. It's based on an old Frédy Girardet recipe that calls only for a simple application of process to deliver a knockout result. A pastry case is spread with sugar and cream, then dotted with butter and sprinkled with cinnamon. It's not blind baked, though, just filled and baked in a very hot oven. That sounds wrong, but it is not: a fierce heat is needed to bake the pastry and to meld the cream, sugar and butter. I still use Girardet's quantities because, unsurprisingly, they work perfectly. Merci, chef.

Prep 10 min Cook 1 hr + cooling Serves 4-6

For the pastry 140g plain flour, plus extra for dusting 5g baking powder 1 pinch salt 1 generous pinch caster sugar 60g unsalted butter, at room temperature and cut into small pieces 50ml cold whole milk

For the filling 100g caster sugar 1 generous pinch plain flour 250ml double cream 50g cold unsalted butter, diced A little ground cinnamon (freshly ground is worth the faff)

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Heat the oven to 220C (200C fan)/gas 7. To make the pastry, sift the flour into a large bowl, then mix in the baking powder, salt and sugar. Add the butter, then work it in with your fingertips until the mix resembles coarse breadcrumbs.

Pour in the milk and mix with as light a hand as possible to bring the dough into a ball. Don't rest the pastry, because that will activate the baking powder too soon and the pastry will puff up through the filling while it cooks. Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface into a circle big enough to line a 25cm tart tin, then lay it in the tin and prick the pastry all over with a fork.

For the filling, mix the sugar and flour, then spread it in an even layer over the base of the pastry case. Pour in the cream, then scatter over the diced butter and a light sprinkling of ground cinnamon. Bake for about 25 minutes, until the edges of the pastry are a good biscuit colour and the cream has bubbled up and looks thick and almost about to split.

Remove from the oven and transfer the tin to a rack to cool completely. To serve, carefully remove the tart from its tin and cut into slices.

Henry Harris is chef/co-owner of Bouchon Racine, London EC1. His book, The Racine Effect, is published by Quadrille at £40. To order a copy for £36, go to guardianbookshop.com

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Rukmini Iyer Cook once, eat twice

I'm delighted it's roasting tin season again, and what better way to kick it off than with a chuck-it-in-the-oven sticky miso chilli chicken? The marinade can go on the chicken ahead of time, if you like (in which case, add a squeeze of lime, too), but if you're short on time, five minutes before cooking will do the trick. The vegetables cook under the chicken, in the manner of potatoes under a rotisserie chicken, but with an added hit of flavour from the miso. Then, to make it really sing, there's a punchy sesame, chilli and coriander dressing to finish.

Prep 15 min Cook 1 hr 10 min Serves 2, with leftovers

30ml sesame oil
60g miso paste - red or white, either works
4 garlic cloves, peeled and finely grated
5cm piece fresh ginger, peeled and finely grated
3 medium leeks, trimmed and cut into $2 \frac{1}{2} \mathrm{~cm}$ -thick rounds
1 medium butternut squash, peeled, halved, deseeded and cut into 4cm chunks
1-1.2kg skin-on bone-in chicken thighs

For the dressing 1 tbsp soy sauce 30ml sesame oil Finely grated zest and juice of 1 unwaxed lime 2 spring onions, trimmed and finely chopped 1 red chilli, finely sliced (pith and seeds removed if you want less heat) 10g fresh coriander, roughly chopped Sea salt, to taste

Miso chicken with roast squash and leeks

Heat the oven to 200C (180C fan)/gas 6. Mix the sesame oil, miso, garlic and ginger in a bowl, then use a heaped tablespoon of this mix to coat the leeks and squash in a large roasting tin. (The tin should be big enough that everything almost sits in one layer.)

Slash each chicken thigh a couple of times with a sharp knife, then put them on top of the vegetables. Spread the remaining miso mix on top of each piece of chicken, then bake for one hour, until the chicken is well browned and cooked through, and the vegetables soft.

When the tin has 10 minutes left in the oven, make the dressing. Whisk the soy sauce, sesame oil, lime juice and zest, spring onions, chilli and coriander in a bowl, taste and add a little sea salt or more soy sauce, if need be.

Drizzle the chilli coriander dressing all over the chicken and vegetables, and serve hot.

Eat twice

Put Italian short-grain rice on to boil (half an hour), finely grate a carrot and a handful of mint or coriander, then whisk 60g peanut butter (smooth or crunchy), the zest and juice of a lime, 20ml soy sauce and one scant teaspoon of palm or dark brown sugar. Loosen with a tablespoon or so of water, until the mix is the texture of single cream, then taste and add salt if required.

To serve, shred the leftover chicken (heat through with a tablespoon of water in a covered bowl for 40 seconds in the microwave), and reheat the leftover squash and leeks. Drain the rice well and dress with a tablespoon of oil, then divide between two bowls. Top with the chicken, hot veg and the herby carrot mix, then drizzle the dressing over the top. Finish with extra chopped peanuts and chilli, if you wish.

Joe Otway Best of British

Prep	5 min
Cook	15 min
Serves	4

Early autumn is one of the most generous and comforting times of year to cook with British produce: sweetcorn is at its peak, squash begins to sweeten as the weather cools and bitter leaves such as radicchio provide balance to the season's abundance. Today's recipes are simple celebrations of British ingredients, using just a handful of carefully chosen components to let each vegetable shine. Both rely on cooking with ingredients at their seasonal peak and allowing nature to guide the menu.

Sea salt and black pepper
4 fresh sweetcorn
cobs, or 1 x 400g
tin good-quality
sweetcorn
150g soured cream
100ml extra-virgin
olive oil
Juice of $\frac{1}{2}$ lemon
Sea salt
20g fresh oregano
leaves, plus extra
to garnish
30g parmesan,
shaved

Corn salad with soured cream and oregano

Bring a large pan of salted water to a boil, drop in the corn cobs, cook for four or five minutes, until tender, then drain and refresh. Once the cobs are cool enough to handle, cut off the kernels and put in a bowl (if you're using tinned corn, skip the blanching stage and simply drain the water from the can).

Mix the soured cream with 20ml of the olive oil, the lemon juice and a pinch of salt. Blend the oregano with the remaining olive oil until fragrant. Dress the sweetcorn with the oregano oil, then season generously with salt and a little more lemon juice, if needed.

Spread the soured cream mix over a platter, spoon the dressed corn on top, scatter over a few oregano leaves and finish with generous shavings of parmesan and a final twist of black pepper.

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Prep	10 min
Chill	30 min+
Cook	1 hr
Makes	4

90g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing 120g plain flour, plus extra for dusting 110g mature cheddar, finely grated 70g whole eggs 25ml whole milk 10g ready-made English mustard, or to taste 110ml double cream Sea salt and black pepper

First, make the pastry. Rub the butter into the flour until the mix resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then add 60g of the grated cheddar and knead gently until the mix comes together into a dough. Divide into four, wrap and chill for at least 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, make the custard. Blend the eggs, milk, remaining 50g grated cheddar and mustard until smooth, then stir in the cream by hand and season to taste.

Heat the oven to 180C (160C fan)/gas 4, and grease and line four individual 8-10cm tart tins. Lightly flour a work surface, roll out each piece of pastry, then use to line the tins. Line each pastry base with baking paper, fill with baking beans or similar, then blind bake for 15 minutes, until lightly golden. Lift out the paper and beans, then return the tarts to the oven for a further five minutes, until the bases are crisp and golden.

Carefully pour the custard into each tart case until they're almost full, then bake for another 15-25 minutes, depending on your oven (the actual temperature of domestic ovens varies a fair bit, after all), until the custard is lightly browned and just set with a slight wobble in the centre.

Leave to cool to room temperature, then serve with a salad. Joe Otway is chef/co-owner of Higher Ground, Bar Shrimp and Flawd, all in Manchester

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Gurdeep Loyal Quick and easy

Biber salçası is a Turkish paste made from concentrated cooked red peppers and salt. It comes in two varieties: acı (spicy) and tatlı (sweet). The hotter version adds a deep, umami heat to cumin-spiced lamb in this pasta recipe, which in Turkey is known as markana. Traditionally, markana is served with garlicky yoghurt and a generous drizzle of chilli butter enlivened with pul biber and sumac. With flavours this loud, it's best to use a large pasta shape such as paccheri, because its cavernous middles can hold satisfying morsels of the filling.

Prep	10 min
Cook	25 min
Serves	4

1 tbsp olive oil
1 large red onion, peeled and diced
Fine salt
500g lamb mince
2 tsp cumin seeds, crushed
6 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
4 tbsp acı biber salçası (hot Turkish pepper paste)
3 tbsp tomato puree
1 tsp dried mint
Sugar
400g paccheri
200g natural yoghurt
Finely grated zest and juice of 1 large unwaxed lemon
50g unsalted butter
1 tsp pul biber or chilli flakes
1 tsp sumac
15g fresh dill, leaves finely chopped

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Turkish lamb and hot pepper paccheri

Pour the olive oil into a wide, deep frying pan, then add the onion and a quarter-teaspoon of salt, and saute for four minutes. Add the lamb mince, cumin and four of the crushed garlic cloves, and cook for six to seven minutes, until the meat is just beginning to brown.

Add the hot pepper paste, tomato puree, dried mint, a teaspoon of fine salt and a generous pinch of sugar, and cook for two minutes. Pour in 250ml water, turn down the heat to medium-low and simmer gently for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, cook the pasta in salted boiling water according to the packet instructions, then drain.

In a small bowl, mix the yoghurt with the remaining two crushed garlic cloves and the lemon zest.

Melt the butter in a small frying pan and cook for three to four minutes, until it just begins to tint brown. Stir in the pul biber and sumac, then take off the heat.

Stir most of the lemon juice and most of the dill into the lamb sauce, then add the drained pasta and mix well to coat. Swirl over the garlic yoghurt, followed by the sumac butter, garnish with more dill and another squeeze of lemon, and serve straight from the pan. Flavour Heroes: 15 Modern Pantry Ingredients to Amplify Your Cooking, by Gurdeep Loyal, is published by Quadrille at £27. To order a copy for £24.30, go to guardianbookshop.com

Calum Franklin High on pie

Spicy green chutney

This is one of my all-time favourite pies, born in the Midlands. While studying at University College Birmingham, the now head of department at the college of food there, Lewis Walker, and I were in digs together and regularly ended up in very late-night balti houses after big nights out. These pies remind me of that really special time. They're a wonderful celebration of multicultural Britain.

V VG GF DF

Prep 15 min Makes 150ml

1 garlic clove, peeled 2cm piece ginger, peeled 1 green chilli ½ tsp cumin seeds, lightly toasted Juice of ½ lemon 60g fresh coriander, leaves picked 40g fresh mint, leaves picked 1 pinch fine table salt

A fresh yet heady dressing that is so easy to make. It complements the balti pies superbly.

In a blender, blitz the garlic, ginger, chilli, cumin, lemon juice and four tablespoons of water, until smooth. Add the coriander and mint leaves and a pinch of salt, then blend again, until smooth. Store in an airtight container in the fridge, where the chutney will keep for up to a week.

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Prep	15 min
Chill	15 min
Cook	2 hr
Serves	4

6 chicken thighs on the bone Fine table salt 1 tsp medium curry powder 1 tsp garam masala ½ tsp ground turmeric ½ tsp chilli powder ½ tsp ground cumin ½ tsp ground cinnamon 70g butter 1 red onion, peeled and finely chopped 1 green pepper, deseded and cut into small cubes 1 garlic clove, peeled and chopped 2cm piece ginger, peeled and chopped 400g tin chopped tomatoes 1 tsp tomato puree 200ml chicken stock 1 heaped tbsp cornflour Zest and juice of 1 lime 10g fresh coriander, roughly chopped 16 frozen roti paratha 1 egg yolk, strained and beaten with 1 tsp water, for egg washing 1 pinch each nigella seeds and fennel seeds, for topping

Heat the oven to 210C (190C fan)/gas 6½. Put the chicken in a roasting tray, season with salt and roast for 25 minutes, until cooked. Leave to cool, then strip the meat off the bones and chop it into small nuggets.

Lower the oven to 205C (185C fan)/gas 6. Scatter the ground spices over a sheet of foil, then lift into the oven and toast for 10 minutes. Turn off the oven. Meanwhile, melt 50g butter in a wide-based pan. Add the red onion, green pepper, garlic and ginger, and cook on a low heat until softened. Add the toasted spices, cook for a minute, then add the tomatoes, tomato puree and stock, and simmer until reduced by half.

In a small bowl, mix a tablespoon of cold water into the cornflour, then stir into the sauce. Stirring all the while, bring the sauce to a simmer. Stir in the chicken, then add the lime zest and juice. Taste for seasoning. Fold in the chopped coriander, leave to cool to room temperature, then chill in the fridge.

Use the rest of the butter to grease eight holes in a nonstick 12-hole muffin tin. Take the paratha out of the freezer and, working swiftly, roll out eight of them to about 11cm and use to line each greased muffin tin hole. Fill by three-quarters with the chicken mix. Lightly brush the exposed paratha with water, then use the remaining paratha to close the pies, gently crimping the edges. Chill for 15 minutes.

Heat the oven to 220C (200C fan)/gas 7. Cut a small hole in the top of each pie, lightly brush the tops with egg wash, then scatter with the nigella and fennel seeds. Bake for 30 minutes, then serve hot with the green chutney opposite for dipping. These recipes are edited extracts from The Modern Pie Maker, by Calum Franklin, published by Bloomsbury at £26. To order a copy for £23.40, visit guardianbookshop.com

Felicity Cloake Masterclass: pumpkin soup

Pumpkin soup, so delicious in theory - sweet, velvety, lightly autumnal - is so often disappointing in reality. Thin in flavour and consistency, thanks to squash's high water content, it's likely to make even the most conscientious cook regret not chucking those Halloween offcuts on the compost heap when they had the chance. But this, I hope it goes without saying, is not that sort of pumpkin soup.

1 Chop the carrots, celery, onion and chilli for the soup base, roughly tear the sage leaves and grate the cheese

Prep 20 min Cook 1 hr Serves 4-6

About 1½kg pumpkin or winter squash (eg, crown prince, sugar pumpkin, kabocha), washed Oil Salt 2 litres light chicken stock, or vegetable stock 1 large red or yellow onion, peeled and chopped 1 celery stick, cut into small dice 2 small carrots, peeled and cut into small dice 1 small red chilli, chopped, or a sprinkle of chilli flakes (optional) Sugar (optional) 2 tbsp butter (optional) 4 sage leaves, roughly torn, or the leaves from 2 thyme sprigs (optional) 1 handful grated parmesan, or gruyere or similar (optional) Nutmeg (optional)

1 A note on the pumpkin The single most important step here is your choice of pumpkin. Look for something that feels heavy for its size. I like the dense, fudgy crown prince or a nutty kabocha, but, if all else fails, a butternut squash will do nicely. Asian, African and Caribbean grocers often stock a wider variety than supermarkets, as will your local greengrocer or farmers' market.

2 Skin the pumpkin Pumpkins can be as much as 90% water, so it's worth roasting the flesh to concentrate its flavour. Heat the oven to 200C (180C fan)/gas 6. Wash the pumpkin, then cut off some skin from one end so it will sit firmly on a board. Use a Y-shaped peeler or sharp knife to remove the rest of the skin and put the skin trimmings in a medium pan.

2 Halve, deseed and peel the pumpkin, then cut into cubes, toss with oil and salt and roast for 40 minutes

9 Finishing touches If serving with browned butter (a drizzle of cold pumpkin oil is a good vegan alternative), heat the butter until golden, stir in the sage and decant immediately into a heatproof bowl or jug. Serve the soup topped with cheese, if using, a grating of nutmeg, a drizzle of the brown butter and sage or oil, and a few roasted seeds.

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8 Add the roast pumpkin Stir the roast pumpkin cubes into the soup base, then strain in the pumpkin-skin stock (discard the trimmings). Bring to a simmer and cook for about 10 minutes, or until the pumpkin is very soft. Puree with a stick blender or in a jug blender (if using the latter, let the soup mix cool slightly first), then taste and adjust the seasoning, adding a little sugar or diluting the soup with water, as necessary.

7 Start the soup base Put two tablespoons of oil in a large saucepan on a medium-low heat, then add the onion, celery, carrots and a good pinch of salt, and fry, stirring regularly until soft but not brown. Stir in the chilli, if using, and fry for another minute or so (if the soup base is ready before the pumpkin is roasted, take the pan off the heat).

6 Roast the pumpkin seeds Wash the reserved spoonful of pumpkin seeds, if necessary, to remove any flesh clinging to them, then blot dry with a clean tea towel or kitchen paper. Put the seeds on a fresh tray, toss with a little oil and salt, then put them in the oven for the last 10 minutes of the pumpkin cooking time. Set aside to crisp up.

5 Boil the pumpkin offcuts While the pumpkin is cooking, put the stock in the peelings pan - a good fresh chicken stock is my favourite, because it's richer and more neutral than vegetable stock, but most varieties will do, as will plain water. Bring to a boil, then turn down the heat and leave to simmer gently for 30 minutes.

4 Roast the pumpkin Drizzle the cubes with a little oil (olive is nice, but anything not too strongly flavoured will do) and toss with a little salt. Bake for about 40 minutes, until soft and beginning to brown. If the cubes are colouring unevenly, turn around the tray halfway and remove any that look as if they might burn before the rest are done.

3 Deseed and chop the pumpkin Cut the pumpkin into quarters, then remove the seeds (and the flesh around them). Add all but a spoonful of the seeds to the pan with the skin, and set aside the rest for now. Cut the flesh into large, evenly sized cubes and put these on a baking tray (use a second tray if there are too many to fit comfortably in one layer).

7 Fry the chopped onion, carrot and celery in oil until soft, then stir in the chilli and fry for just a minute more

8 Add the pumpkin and stock, simmer for 10 minutes, then puree. Serve with browned butter, seeds and cheese

5 Saving a handful of seeds, simmer the pumpkin offcuts in stock, then strain. Roast the reserved the seeds until crisp

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Mina Holland Cloudy with a chance of reigning

Centuries ago, Geoffrey Chaucer observed that “ther is no newe gyse that it nas old”. This truth - that there is nothing new under the sun - certainly applies to wine: every year, a well-documented or ancient viticultural practice is repackaged for a mainstream that greets it giddily as an innovation. Orange wine! Wine in kegs! Chilled reds! And, in 2026, cloudy wine, courtesy of Marks & Spencer’s peachy-opaque organic rosé, Trouble, a name that means “cloudy” in French.

Trouble is the first cloudy still wine available in a UK supermarket, a development that has seemed inevitable since pét nat - pétillant naturel - hit the big time; it's an ancestral method of making sparkling wine that involves bottling before fermentation has finished.

Four cloudy wines to lift the spirits

Trouble Cloudy Organic Rosé £12 Ocado, 12.5%. A slightly savoury, very drinkable take on a southern French rosé

Alma 4 Phos Pét Nat £12 Tesco, 12.5%. Food-friendly pét nat Argentine chardonnay. Lightly sparkling and textural

Alella 'La Rumbera' 2022 £32 Dynamic Wines, 11%. A serious unfined and unfiltered skin- contact wine

Ottolenghi Red Wine £26, 10%. A cloudy pinot blend that's Ottolenghi's house red, and might well become mine

Typically, pét nats are not disgorged (that is, the dead yeast cells left over from fermentation aren't removed), which is what gives them a cloudy appearance. They are also often fresh and tangy, so they suit warm weather, but it's hard to imagine a better pairing for a pizza takeaway on an autumn evening. M&S, ever quick on the uptake, has an own-label English rosé pét nat (currently out of stock), while Tesco sells a pét nat chardonnay from Argentina.

The term “clarification” in viticulture refers to several processes that make conventional wines so crystalline - namely fining (where an agent is added to bind haze-forming particles) and filtration (which removes them from the wine). There are ways of clarifying that involve neither fining nor filtering, such as racking or settling, so, cloudy wine can be filtered and an unfiltered wine can be clear. Waitrose has no “cloudy” wines on its shelves, but it does have several unfiltered ones.

So why choose a cloudy or unfiltered wine? “There’s texture, there’s fleshiness, there’s rounded fruit,” says Zainab Majerikova, head of wine for the Ottolenghi group, whose three house wines are all unfiltered and cloudy natural ones. “This makes them more moreish and a better fit for food with big, complex flavours,” Majerikova says.

I always get the sense that longer contact with lees (those dead yeast cells) makes cloudy wine more food-like; it might be a drink, but there's a crunchiness to it. For the full effect of its flavours and weight on the palate, Majerikova recommends shaking the bottle before opening to mix the sediment with the liquid. Either way, she says, cloudiness “brings soul, vibrancy and complexity” to wines for old-fashioned fun.

The good mixer All Roads daiquiri

Serves 1

For the pineapple and scotch bonnet jam
75g fresh pineapple, roughly chopped
30g caster sugar
1 small slice scotch bonnet chilli, or more to taste, or 1 pinch chilli flakes

For the drink 10ml overproof white rum - we use Wray & Nephew 45ml white rum - we use Havana Club 3-Year-Old 25ml fresh lime juice 30g pineapple and scotch bonnet jam (see above and method)

Our daiquiri sums up what All Roads is all about: familiar flavours with a little twist. Pineapple, rum and lime are a classic combination, and the addition of scotch bonnet jam brings a subtle warmth that makes this just as good for those first crisp autumn evenings as it is on a sunny day.

First make the jam. Put the pineapple and caster sugar in a saucepan and cook over a low heat until the fruit begins to soften. Blend smooth - we use a stick blender - then add the scotch bonnet to taste and keep cooking gently for 20-25 minutes, stirring regularly, until the jam thickens and turns lightly golden. Take off the heat, leave to cool completely, then lift out and discard the chilli (if using chilli flakes, leave them in). Decant into a small jar or container and keep in the fridge until needed.

To build the drink, put everything in a cocktail shaker filled with ice, shake hard until well chilled, then double strain into a chilled coupe. Malika Green and Paschelle Brown, All Roads, London SW9

Benjamina Ebuehi The sweet spot

My go-to cheesecake these days is a burnt Basque. It's so good it doesn't even need a biscuit base, which might be the very reason that some people aren't fans. But Basque cheesecakes are rarely too sweet, because the burnt top provides just enough bitterness to balance things out and the insides stay ridiculously creamy. If I can give you one tip, though, it's to make sure you take it out of the oven while it's still really wobbly, to get the best set. An overbaked Basque is no fun at all.

Prep	5 min
Cook	1 hr 10 min
Chill	Overnight
Serves	12

750g cream cheese 220g caster sugar $1 \frac{1}{2}$ tsp vanilla bean paste

4 large eggs, plus 1 egg yolk
300ml double cream
1 tsp fine sea salt
20g plain flour

For the toffee apples
3 eating apples
60g butter
80g dark brown
sugar
½ tsp ground
cinnamon
120ml double cream

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Toffee apple Basque cheesecake

I've given this an easy autumn spin with a generous topping of lightly spiced toffee apple slices.

Heat the oven to 240C (220C fan)/gas 9. Scrunch up two large sheets of baking paper, then smooth them out into the corners of a deep 20cm cake tin.

Put the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl or stand mixer, and beat briefly until smooth. Add the eggs one at a time, followed by the extra yolk, making sure you don't beat at high speed to avoid incorporating too much air. Stir in the cream and salt.

Scoop about an eighth of the batter into a smaller bowl and sift the flour on top. Mix well to ensure there are no lumps, then scrape it back into the main mixture and stir well to combine.

Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 35-40 minutes, until the top is well browned but still has a huge wobble. (If the top isn't dark enough, just put it under a hot grill for a couple of minutes.) Leave the cheesecake to cool to room temperature, then chill in the fridge, ideally overnight. The next day, remove the cheesecake from its tin.

To make the toffee apples, peel and core the apples, then slice them thickly into eighths. Heat the butter in a wide pan, then toss in the apples, turning to coat, and cook for three to four minutes, until they start to soften around the edges. Add the sugar and cinnamon, stir to combine, then, once the sugar has melted, pour in the cream. Cook briefly until the sauce is smooth, let it simmer for a minute, then take off the heat and stir in a pinch of salt.

Let the apples cool, then spoon them and some of the caramel sauce on top of the cheesecake. Serve slices of cheesecake with extra sauce, if you like.

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Tom Hunt The filter: sliced wholemeal bread

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I've broken my strict, like-for-like approach this week in the interests of just finding a really good sliced wholemeal sandwich loaf. Alas, most of these are made to the standard time-saving, additive-reliant Chorleywood process, with each one a cardboard replica of the other and with only very nuanced differences. However, I did find two with exceptional flavour and one with a notably good, firm texture that's ideal for spreading stuff on; to my surprise, several have an impressive lack of additives, too, and they all score well on value.

Best overall Jason's sourdough wholemeal ciabattin

A small, round-topped tin loaf with a closed crumb, a dense texture (perfect for spreading) and an evenly glazed crust. A sweet, wheatgrass aroma, medium-firm bite and simple flavour profile. A sweet, nutty taste without any bitterness. A simple ingredients list, zero additives and palm oil-free.

Wildfarmed regenerative sliced seeded

£2.25 (550g), Ocado ★★★★☆ A very soft and very seedy loaf with a roasted barley and fermented yeast aroma. A sweet flavour with a complex nuttiness and toasted bran finish, and extra texture from the sheer quantity of seeds. B Corp-certified, zero additives, palm oil-free and this week's best splurge.

Exceptional by Asda wholemeal superseeded sliced loaf

£1.60 (800g) Asda ★★★☆☆ A thick slice with a medium closed crumb and an appetising, sweet, nutty aroma. A bit gummy, but with substance and a good and textural bite from all the seeds. A well-balanced flavour profile, too, with zero additives. Contains palm oil and palm fat, though.

Sainsbury's Taste the Difference multiseed wholemeal farmhouse loaf £1.60 (800g) Sainsbury's ★★★☆☆

A proud loaf with a deep, caramel-glazed crust. A sweet, malty but sour aroma, and a dense, firm crumb with mixed seeds throughout. Firm and crunchy with a sweet, nutty flavour and no bitterness. Zero additives, but contains palm oil.

Tesco Finest wholemeal seeds and grains £1.75 (800g) Tesco ★★★☆☆ A soft, seedy loaf topped with wheat flakes. A rich, bran-forward aroma, and a simple flavour with a savoury, nutty finish and a decent bite. Zero additives, and palm oil-free.

Best bargain Aldi Specially Selected wholemeal seeded loaf 99p (800g) ★★★☆☆ A super-soft loaf speckled with seeds and with a fresh and wholesome malty aroma. Very soft and yielding to the bite, with good texture from both the seeds and the chewy crust. Three additives, but palm oil-free.

M&S medium wholemeal super soft loaf
75p (800g), Ocado
★★☆☆☆
A soft loaf with a closed crumb and gummy texture. A sweet, nutty aroma with a bitter, burnt finish. Sweet at first, with a nice, nutty middle. A good everyday loaf with zero additives, but does contain palm oil. Exceptional value, too.

Hovis granary wholemeal

£2 (800g), Waitrose ★★☆☆☆ A rich, tanned loaf topped with wheat flakes. A sweet, nutty aroma and a very soft texture. Simple, bran-forward flavour with a bitter aftertaste. Palm oil-free, but three additives.

Allinson's The Champion wholemeal £1.78 (650g), Asda ★★☆☆☆ A dark, round-topped sandwich loaf with a

closed crumb and soft, gluey texture. An acrid, over-toasted bran aroma and distinctive malty but bitter bran flavour. Zero additives or labelled artificial preservatives, and emulsifier-free. Contains certified "sustainable" palm oil.

Co-op Bakery farmhouse wholemeal

£1.30 (800g) Co-op ★☆☆☆☆ A standard soft loaf with a closed crumb, a sweet but mildly synthetic aroma and a gummy texture. A sweet-forward flavour with subtle, nutty notes and a pleasant aftertaste. Three additives, plus palm oil and palm fat.

Kitchen aide What's the secret to making clear chicken stock?

Why is my chicken stock always cloudy? Ryan, by email

From broths and risottos to sauces and braises, there's no question that a flavourful stock will stand you in good stead. "It's an underestimated kitchen job," says Adam Byatt, chef/owner of Trinity, in southwest London, and author of Trinity: The Cookbook.

Ryan's clarity issue, Byatt says, is “only ever caused by cooking the stock too quickly or by allowing the fat to boil back into the base liquid”. So it’s crucial to take things low and slow. You will also need a pan that’s “big and heavy enough to give the bones enough room for movement, as well as a very fine sieve for straining”.

On to the actual making, and Alissa Timoshkina, author of Lozhka, goes in cold. She puts chicken legs, drumsticks or a roast chicken carcass in a large pot, adds her stock veg - onions, carrots, celery, garlic, say - and aromats (bay, parsley stalks, peppercorns, for instance), then covers the lot with cold water and brings everything very slowly to a boil. She then turns down the heat and leaves it to cook on a very gentle simmer. In the event of that carefully made stock going cloudy, Timoshkina would seek to mollify that by straining it through a fine sieve and stirring in a tablespoon of lemon juice, which has the added benefit of being “great for flavour, too”.

Lloyd Morse, chef and co-owner of The Palmerston in Edinburgh, meanwhile, likes to simmer the bones first, “shoogling them occasionally”, to bring more scum to the surface: “You need to skim the life out of it.” It’s only at this point that he adds the veg: “And keep skimming,” he says, adding that it’s important to be aware that “the more agitation or the hotter the pot gets, the cloudier the stock will be".

Essentially, “if nothing is ever actually boiled, Ryan’s stock should be nice and clear”, says Louis Lingwood, head chef at Osteria Vibrato in London, who cooks his chicken stock “on the lowest possible heat for a whole day”, before discarding the bones and leaving the stock to sit until all the fat rises to the top. Skim that off with a ladle, then reduce the stock very slowly.

Lingwood has another trick up his sleeve: get it in the freezer. “Defrost it through a sieve lined with muslin, and the stock will be crystal clear.” Speaking of the freezer, freezing stock in ice-cube trays, then whacking them in a sealed container, is a welcome manoeuvre for those occasions when only small quantities of stock are required.

Of course, Ryan could make his life a whole lot easier by simply cooking his stock in the oven, Morse says: "My top tip is to make it in an oven-safe dish, such as a Le Creuset [other brands are, of course, available], then pop it in the oven overnight to cook super slowly," by which he means about 90C. "The indirect heat makes the clearest stock possible, plus, when you wake up, you'll have a lovely smell in the kitchen." Convenience food at its best.

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Waste not ... Stale bread Tom Hunt

We make our daughter a fruit pie of some sort for her first day of school each September. Last year, it was a simple apple pie, but we intend to make our way through the myriad heritage desserts, from crumbles and crisps to cobblers. This year, we made a brown betty, a crumble-like dessert made with stale bread. We kept things seasonal with apples and blackberries, but any combination of fruit works really. I sweetened this one with maple syrup, but use your sweetener of choice.

Apple and blackberry brown betty

Cut four cored apples into rough cubes (compost the cores, or turn them into pectin jelly) and toss with 100g blackberries, 40g maple syrup (or other sweetener), a teaspoon of vanilla essence and an optional 50ml water (or brandy; the alcohol cooks off and leaves behind a lovely, complex flavour). Tip into a roughly 20cm-wide skillet or ovenproof dish, then dot with 25g butter (or extra-virgin olive oil).

Tear three slices of stale brown bread (about 85g; I used crusts) into pieces, then pulse-blend into chunky breadcrumbs. Stir in 30-40g of your chosen sweetener, to taste, 50g melted butter (or extra-virgin olive oil), 50g optional mixed seeds or roughly chopped nuts, half a teaspoon of sea salt and a teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Scatter over the top of the fruit and bake at 200C (180C fan)/gas 6 for 40-45 minutes, until golden brown and bubbling.

Remove, leave to rest on the counter for 10 minutes, then serve your brown betty with yoghurt, cream, ice-cream or custard.

Rachel Roddy Tales from an Italian kitchen

Spaghetti with Marmite Here is a simple, practical recipe that I trust will be useful to many mothers who don't have the time for lengthy kitchen preparations. Boil the spaghetti as usual, drain it, and toss it with a little butter and parmesan. Then, for four, take a spoonful of meat extract and dissolve it in a small saucepan with just a few drops of boiling water. Pour the meat extract over the pasta, stir and serve. You will be pleasantly surprised by the exquisite flavour the pasta acquires - achieved with such a negligible investment of time.

This is a roughly word-for-word translation of an Italian recipe for spaghetti con l'estratto di carne (spaghetti with meat extract). It is another dish from Ada Boni's Il Talismano della Felicità (The Talisman of Happiness), which was published in English for the first time last month and, according to the food writer and editor Angela Frenda, is “still considered one of the most precise and accurate of all cookbooks”.

I was alerted to spaghetti con l'estratto di carne by the food historian and author of A Brief History of Pasta, Luca Cesari. I recently met Luca for dinner at St John in London and, over bone marrow on toast, kidneys on toast, welsh rarebit and fried tripe, we talked about many things, including recipe outrage. Spaghetti with Marmite came up as an example, and Luca pointed out that, in terms of approach, taste and spirit, it was more or less identical to Ada's iconic and "exquisite" recipe.

He also noted that using a spoonful of meat extract as a pasta sauce is in the spirit - and a short-cut version - of pasta al sugo d'arrosto (pasta with sauce of the roast). That is, the pan juices, and those fat and tasty, crusty bits left at the bottom of the tin when you've roasted a joint of meat, are lengthened with a bit of water or wine, maybe more rosemary (or whatever you fancy) added, before being used as a pasta sauce. Pasta with gravy, if you like. (When I make braised chicken with rosemary, garlic and wine, I particularly like the last of the congealed pan juices as a pasta sauce.)

You'll either love it or hate it (but probably love it): spaghetti with Marmite and butter

It was the great Anna del Conte, who was born in Milan in 1925 and moved to London in 1949, who first wrote about spaghetti with butter, cheese and Marmite, noting in her autobiography Risotto and Nettles that this was a dish she herself made (and that was loved by her children). I wonder if Anna knew Ada's version? She certainly mentions pasta al sugo d'arrosto in her writing. And Anna inspired Nigella Lawson to make her own version of spaghetti with Marmite, which is the recipe I followed, although it is hardly a recipe.

For four people, boil 400-500g spaghetti in plenty of lightly salted water, because both the Marmite and the cheese are already salty. Meanwhile, in a very small saucepan on a low heat, warm two tablespoons of water with one to two teaspoons of Marmite, Bovril or Vegemite.

Once the pasta is cooked but al dente, lift it into a warm bowl (reserve some of the pasta cooking water), add 60g cubed unsalted butter and two to four teaspoons of grated parmesan or grana padano, and toss well. Pour the extract mix over the spaghetti and stir again, adding a little of the reserved cooking water if you think it needs it, until the sauce has a soft and slippery texture. Serve immediately.

Marmite is, of course, a dark, sticky, salty-savoury spread made from concentrated yeast extract. What yeast extract and meat extract have in common is glutamic acid or free glutamates, an amino acid that provides a savoury, lip-smacking umami flavour. Tomatoes, mushrooms and cheese are high in free glutamates, too, so in the Ada-Anna-Nigella recipes all provide a double dose of umami by adding parmesan; butter is vital for adding fat, flavour and slippiness to the final dish. I hope you will be pleasantly surprised by the exquisite flavour this pasta acquires, and all achieved with such a negligible investment of time.

Grace Dent 'A good news tale for the Brum food scene'

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Indian Cafe Racer on Bristol Street, Birmingham, spent its fledgling era tucked behind a curtain at the back of The Wellington pub, just a few doors up from its fancy new home. There was a Royal Enfield motorcycle, chequerboard floors and a psychedelic Indian soundtrack, but quickly this small, homespun spot from Azad Kayes became culty, then oversubscribed, then in need of a bigger home. It's a good news tale for the Brum food scene.

For those who remember it, south Birmingham's Balti Triangle once ran to 30 bustling restaurants along Ladypool Road and Stratford Road - only two remain. Something has gone amiss with supply and demand. Indian Cafe Racer, meanwhile, has enough fans for a new, 65 cover, grown-up restaurant, serving an ever-changing menu that, when we visited, featured shaktimaan salad (named after an Indian comic-book superhero), gol gappa (crisp shells filled with chickpeas and potato), chicken pepper fry and grilled aubergine and portobello mushrooms, known as farzi steak.

Kayes dips into Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata, with a scattering of Indo-Chinese small plates: gobi manchurian (fried

Indian Cafe Racer

88-90 Bristol Street, Birmingham B5, 0121-238 7972. Open lunch Wed-Sun, noon-4.30pm, dinner all week, 5-7pm. From about £30 a head à la carte, plus drinks & service cauliflower in sweet-and-sour sauce), and chilli chicken.

The cocktail bar serves cold, potent liveners, with names such as Angry Young Man, Red Carpet and Tiger Rides Bike, alongside endless karak chai, a heavily spiced, very sweet, milky tea brewed strong with cardamom and condensed milk. Jump on our Cafe Racer, the menu says, and let us give you a mast taste of India. No visa required.

The new Indian Cafe Racer has a sprinkling of Dishoom about it: paper menus with a faux-oldeworlde font, wipeable tables, and functional rather than fancy-pants hospitality. The new room is elegant with small dashes of eccentricity, and there's a sense that in its expansion some of its silliness has been tidied away. The large glass windows face on to the realities of a dual carriageway, and the room errs on the dark side.

Still, the welcome is warm and we kick off with a round of dahi puri: plump, puffed shells filled with potato, sweet yoghurt, tamarind and mint chutney. We know the drill: eat them in one, though they are so large and so liquidy that there's a fine line between extreme pleasure and being legally waterboarded.

Recovering, we move to chicken 65, named, depending on who you ask, after its position on a Chennai hotel menu in 1965 (other origin stories are available) - fried with curry leaves, green chillies and arguably a little too much mustard seed. A round of spiced lamb chops - two cutlets a portion, marinated overnight and finished in the tandoor - are genuinely succulent.

The tandoori king prawns in house masala are also lovable, zinging with crushed ginger and sticky with honey, while the Rajastani lamb is a standout: slow-cooked and finished with smoked charcoal and butter.

The increasingly ubiquitous dal makani arrives deeply and sweetly rich in its creamy tomato sauce, but the naans are a bit thin and functional. Indian Cafe Racer's cooking is sometimes bang on, sometimes a little slapdash, but then dishes like gobi manchurian

The ‘elegant’ new Indian Cafe Racer trades on ‘functional rather than fancy-pants hospitality’, with favourites like gosht biryani (above) and gulab jamun (below) to please most palates

pique your interest all over again. If cocktails feel too much by this point, then there's always a cold Bombay Bicycle IPA.

Cafe Racers were the lads who raced motorbikes such as the Royal Enfield, once made in nearby Redditch, between roadside cafes in the 60s. Today, Royal Enfield is made in Chennai.

The bike went from the edge of Birmingham to India, and the restaurant closes the circle. Arguably, with Indian Cafe Racer's mature new home, some of the spirit of full-throttle mayhem has been lost.

Still, it opens every day (including Monday), will make a huge fuss of your group if you have a horde to feed, and has enough choice to excite the desi-food disciple who wants Rajastani lamb and mango machli, without spooking the horses if you're with Sheila who "doesn't do" spice - she can have the paneer makani. Indian Cafe Racer is well worth a ride, and maybe even a return ticket.

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'I'VE HIT MY MIDLIFE SEXPOT ERA!' ROMOLA GARAI ON STEAMY NEW SHOW ADULTERY

Layby hookups are all in a day's work for Romola Garai in her steamy new drama Adultery. She talks to Michael Hogan about faking orgasms, playing a cheating wife - and making audiences pass out

'Sex scenes in cars are challenging'

n a raging storm in the Peak District last winter, a blue Toyota Yaris was parked in a remote roadside spot with a sex scene being filmed inside it. "It can

pose challenges, depending on the size of the car," chuckles Romola Garai. "Me and Dominic [Cooper] got in this hatchback and asked: 'How far do these seats go back?' Soon there was a gale blowing outside. We were in the car, ready to shoot, but outside the entire film crew were being buffeted by high winds. They said: 'You guys stay in there, don't get out!' while all the lights were getting blown away."

The in-car tryst is a pivotal moment in new drama Adultery, created by Bafta-winning writer Danny Brocklehurst (Shameless, Fool Me Once, Brassic). The six-parter is billed as a “steamy, scandalous romance” about a whirlwind fling that threatens to unravel two families. Personal trainer Beth (Garai) and GP Tom (Cooper), both married, are thrown together when their teenage children start dating. Insatiably drawn to one another, the pair embark on an intense illicit affair.

Can they keep it secret? Will the guilt get too much? Might they even leave their respective spouses? There are shades of Doctor Foster, Cold Feet and The Affair as the story unfolds. The 44-year-old actor - who helpfully explains that her name is pronounced “Romola with the emphasis on ‘Rom’, not

‘ola’, and Gary as in Neville or Barlow” - admits the premise gave her pause.

"I picked up a script about a cheating wife, written by a man, with a little bit of hesitation," she admits. "In our cultural imagination, unfaithful women haven't always been well served and can often be a projection of male insecurity - from Eve onwards. But some of my favourite books, like Madame Bovary, are so much more than that. Happily, Danny's scripts were brilliant. They go into the complex area of marital disappointment. Beth's dissatisfaction isn't based on anything big. Her husband is a good guy but she's had to suppress herself. By the time Beth realises she's given up too much for her marriage, it's too late. When you have an extreme physical connection with someone else, growing in the fertile ground of marital disappointment, disaster ensues."

Garai immediately connected to the character of Beth. “I just knew her. There are so many versions of that woman in my life. Somebody who’s exhausted from doing all the right things. Ferrying the kids around, washing the team’s football kit, contributing financially to the home in two different jobs. She’s part of the sandwich generation and she’s overwhelmed. I was like: hard-relate. No acting required. She’s also had to give up her own business. I know so many women who had high-powered jobs which went on the back-burner in service of the family. It gave them meaning in their life and value in society. Losing that can be destructive. Resentment sits inside you like a little gremlin.”

Extramarital liaisons take place in cars, kitchens and toilets - not to mention the storeroom of a city farm. “I’ll never look at a city farm the same way,” says Garai. “As a mother of two [she’s married to actor-director Sam Hoare and they have two children, aged 10 and 13], I’ve spent many a day at those places but certainly never had anything like that happen. I just had a juice box and bought a squirrel keyring.”

Sex scenes have transformed since Garai started out. “They never used to be properly directed,” she says. “It was a case of ‘Do what you want. As long as she gets her tits out, it doesn’t matter.’ Which was awful for 90% of people and great for 10% of people. It’s so much better now with intimacy coordinators. There are respectful, technical conversations. You’re doing it like a stunt, basically, with the equivalent of a fight director telling everyone exactly what to do. It’s a shame it had to get so bad before change came.”

Humour helps, too. “Sex scenes are still weird and a bit embarrassing. Physical intimacy with another person releases all sorts of chemicals. Your body is responding and your brain sometimes doesn’t know how to process that. So it’s useful to have a scene partner you can laugh with. It releases the tension.”

Garai gets a Meg Ryan moment as the camera lingers on her orgasmic face. “Our intimacy director asked: ‘What’s the storytelling here?’ And I was like: ‘Well, I think she comes.’ Beth is sexually unfulfilled in her marriage. It was important to see her get the specific thing she’s lacking in her life: sexual pleasure.” She laughs. “All it’s missing is a woman in a diner saying: ‘I’ll have what she’s having.’ Hopefully the audience will fill in that gap!”

She realises adultery is a hot-button topic. “I’ve already had some pretty punchy conversations, just by telling people what the show’s about. At the hairdresser’s or school gates, I’ll say it’s two ordinary married people who have an affair and people are angry

already. Cheating is an issue that's affected or wounded everyone." Will there be whispering in the street? "Hope so," she grins. "I have such a boring life, I love the idea of causing scandalous chat. Maybe I'll become a figurehead for adulterers. Women might come up and say: 'Now you understand why I was serially unfaithful to Jasper!' I'll be like: 'I really don't! Poor Jasper!'"

Adultery doesn't flinch from the fallout from the affair. “It doesn’t pull its punches,” says Garai. “I’m like a prefect on set and thought it was important to show the impact on their spouses and children.” How is she a prefect? “You know in Celebrity Traitors where Professor Hannah Fry says she’s dripping with prefect energy? I’ve got a similar vibe, albeit for less academic reasons. I like to talk about the moral aspects of scenes more than other actors. I don’t mean that as a boast. It’s probably deeply annoying!”

She also points out the double standard of how men and women are judged for affairs: “Women get called ‘whores’. There’s no slur word for sexual incontinence in men. You’d never call a dude a ‘home-wrecker’ either.” Even the show’s title caused misunderstandings. “People would ask my kids: ‘Where’s Mummy?’ They’d reply, ‘She in Manchester doing Adultery. She’s busy with Adultery.”

Could Garai's husband and Cooper's partner, Gemma Chan, start looking at them askance? "I knew you'd ask that!" she says. "Thankfully not, because there's nothing more helpful for the stresses of a marriage in midlife than doing a show like this. It really makes you discuss the pitfalls. I hope it provokes conversations between couples at home. Beth and Tom are both the hands-on parent. They're the carers. But it's them that have the forbidden relationship. They're good people doing something bad."

Much of Adultery's intrigue is played out via technology. Sexy selfies are sent, phone-tracking apps are deployed, Insta accounts are stalked. Teens are regularly told off for being glued to their devices. "Of course, it's all bullshit," says Garai. "Kids would be perfectly within their rights to say: 'No, fuck off, older people. You're all on email for work, you're meeting people on Hinge, you've got Ring doorbells for your parcels.' The show attacks that hypocrisy. Technology is ingrained in all their lives. Personally, I'm a complete technophobe with very mixed feelings about social media but it's a huge part of modern relationships."

Contents may be hot ... Dominic Cooper and Romola Garai in Adultery

Garai was among the 80-plus women who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct in 2017, allegations that sparked the #MeToo movement. Has enough progress been made? “It’s much harder for women to get sexually assaulted at work now, which can only be a good thing. Social media played a huge role. It gave women the power to push back against systemic abuse. They could call it out anonymously and en masse. I’m happy but also sad it wouldn’t have happened without social media. The tech itself is something I’m still conflicted about.”

Garai has been a reliably excellent presence on stage and screen for two decades. Her TV breakthrough came in 2011 when she was Bafta-nominated for playing a polymath sex worker in The Crimson Petal and the White. She got a Golden Globe nod the following year for period newsroom drama The Hour. Other TV roles include Emma, Born to Kill, The Miniaturist, Just Act Normal, Scoop, Betrayal and Vigil. Such roles have been punctuated by acclaimed theatre work.

She won an Olivier award last year for her blistering performance in the stage adaptation of Annie Ernaux's memoir The Years. Garai was actually nominated twice, for her back-to-back performances in The Years and Giant, the play about the antisemitism row that engulfed Roald Dahl. This led to the strange sight of Garai competing with herself, simultaneously appearing in two closeups as the winner was announced. "That was so surreal," she smiles. When her Giant co-star John Lithgow collected the best actor gong, he began his acceptance speech with "Romola, I think I'm going to faint!" - a reference to The Years' graphic backstreet abortion scene, which infamously made theatregoers pass out.

“It was so intense,” says Garai. “It didn’t totally blindside me because the piece was originally staged at the National Theatre in Holland and the director warned me that people had fainted. I was like: ‘That won’t happen here. We’re British, we’re not fainters! We do Coriolanus and Sarah Kane plays. I’ve been in shows where people’s hands have been chopped off.’ But the first time I said the word ‘foetus’, it was bang, bang, bang. People were just hitting the deck. It happened almost every night. Extraordinary. I doubt I’ll experience anything like that again as an actor.”

With Adultery, she's about to shock a whole new audience. "I'm hoping I'll get lots more cheating wife roles," she says. "I was in my nun era, playing a lot of buttoned-up characters. Now I'm hoping to be a sexy untrustworthy wife. Entering my midlife sexpot era. That would be great." Adultery starts this October on ITV1 and ITVX.

Time

David Tennant and Siobhan Finneran are stellar in this exceptional, horrifying TV show

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t takes a lot to drag me away from comfort TV in the autumn. Blame the shrinking hours of light or the apocalyptic news cycle but the closest thing I like to get to televisual trauma in October is watching comedians get into their own graves in The Celebrity Traitors. I doubt I'm alone. I don't want to psychoanalyse the British public but I'd take a punt that collectively we are just about capable right now of looking at Josh Widdicombe trying to find a purpose next to Emma Willis on the Strictly dancefloor (and reportedly, even that's a struggle).

Enter legendary Jimmy McGovern with a new series of the Bafta-winning prison drama Time (Sunday, 9pm, BBC One) to drag the nation out of its Bake Off-related coma. Having already covered the devastation of men's and women's prisons in the first two series, the good news is that McGovern and co-writer Samuel Bailey's trilogy surely can't get any more distressing. The new episodes will be set in *checks notes* a youth offending institution for boys. OK great. It's about children in prison. Thank you, Jimmy! I hope you're happy! No one else is going to be.

Of course, McGovern - long known for tackling social realism and institutional injustice in iconic shows such as Cracker, The Lakes and Hillsborough - is not going to put the viewer through the wringer without proper reason. As prison overcrowding dominates the headlines, alongside the multifaceted crisis among young men, Time series three is so urgent and prescient that you wonder if the BBC were tempted to change the title to Time(ly).

Still, best brace yourself before going in. Within 90 seconds, a teenage boy is being dragged horizontally by five adult guards to his cell; a hand half-covering his jaw as he screams obscenities. That hand belongs to David Tennant, playing veteran prison officer Bobby Bailey. Tennant is an impressively blank slate as Bailey: a figure who is almost always on screen but has such sparse dialogue and emotion that at times he is - in classic McGovern fashion - defined by his ordinariness and hard to box as “goody” or “baddy.”

He's joined by Happy Valley's Siobhan Finneran who returns as prison chaplain Marie-Louise - the only common thread through all three series and a rare merciful sign of, dare I say it, hope.

Tennant and Finneran both give stellar performances but it's the three young actors playing new offenders who will surely be stars of the future. There's Peter (Ollie McNulty), caught between the death of an innocent man and loyalty to his community, and James

Time is so urgent and prescient that you wonder if the BBC were tempted to change the title to Time(ly)

(Louis McCartney), struggling to face his broken parents after a life-changing act of violence. Then there's Christopher (a heartbreaking Chukwubuikem Molokwu) battling a stammer and reconnecting with his birth mother.

One of Time's strengths is its exceptional writing, but it is not afraid to say plenty without a word. The white vans that transport the boys to jail with tiny square black windows for pockets of light. The gates in D-wing that are rarely opened and keep its violent not-yet-men apart (“Gates are dangerous,” Tennant tells Finneran ominously). Cells named “Room 29”, as if the boys are on a hostel break for the week - an illusion that’s only broken when you realise there’s not a scene that takes place in the wing that’s not accompanied by the sound of screaming.

The whole thing is a lesson in tension, each minute in the prison dragging the viewer further into the claustrophobia of dread and despair.

I won't give any spoilers but I will say you will be thinking about a moment in the first episode for days. This is not easy viewing but nor should it be. McGovern is not delivering content that plays in the background while you're scrolling Instagram. It grabs you by the throat, asking you to question whether it's possible to change or if the horrors of the human-made system dooms certain people - certain children - before they ever really get a chance. All of us should watch it, not least politicians across the political spectrum. Just maybe stick Bake Off on afterwards to decompress.

WHAT'S ON Television

Pick of the week Time Sunday, 9pm, BBC One

Saturday

Pick of the day Krapopolis 11.40pm, BBC Three

This starry-voiced adult cartoon by Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon quietly dropped on iPlayer last month. Set in ancient Greece, it follows benevolent Tyrannis (Richard Ayoade) - the mortal son of vain goddess Deliria (Hannah Waddingham) and husband Shlub (Matt Berry) - who uses modern ideas as he rules Krapopolis. Served up in fun 20-minute bites, this six-episode bill will race by. HR

Strictly Come Dancing 6.15pm, BBC One

Chris and Amy were the first couple to cha cha their way from the dancefloor (in their Baywatch gear, no less), which means 14 pairs are left in week three of the competition. Lacey and Vito confirmed one dance at the end of last week's show: they'll be getting lively with a samba to Bamboléo by the Gipsy Kings. HR

Jimmy McGovern's prison anthology is never an easy watch but the bravery to explore the darkest corners of the British prison system makes it quality viewing. This time, David Tennant is downtrodden prison officer Bobby Bailey at a young offender institute - where wasted youth and potential only add to the gloom. Siobhan Finneran returns as prison chaplain Marie-Louise, who joins the YOI. The two get off to a bad start and both have to deal with a tragic event in the tense first episode. Meanwhile, one new inmate is torn between attempting to make amends and fitting in with his violent friends. Once again, the story is harrowing, heart-tugging and completely compelling. Hollie Richardson

40 Hits of 1976 at the BBC 8.40pm, BBC Two

Odd year, 1976. Perhaps the record-breaking heat boiled record buyers' brains. How else to explain the UK's best-selling single and Eurovision winner, Save Your Kisses for Me? Or the Wurzels ploughing Combine Harvester to No 1? Thankfully, punk was also battering down the door - along with Abba and Dolly. Ali Catterall

Krapopolis, Sat

The Party, Sun

Marble Hall Murders 9.20pm, BBC One

A classy cast and the lure of gossip among pampered literati are keeping Anthony Horowitz's convoluted mystery drama going. Book editor Susan (Lesley Manville), working on a roman à clef set in Crete in 1955, now meets the family of the author, who alleges one of them murdered his grandmother. Everyone is wonderfully barbed. Jack Seale

Saturday Night Live UK 10pm, Sky One

Oh, this is going to be a good one: while his daughter hotfoots it on Strictly, actor/geezer/emerging national treasure Danny Dyer is the host of this edition of the show, which is back after a week off. Music comes from south London singer-songwriter Sasha Keable. HR

Three Women 1.30am, Channel 4

If 1.30am is a little late, this candid drama based on Lisa Taddeo's nonfiction hit about sex and desire is also streamable. In an episode that's all the more resonant given

Being Muslim After 9/11, Mon
grim events at Cornell, Lina (Betty Gilpin) tells Gia (Shailene Woodley) about a disturbing event from her student past. Hannah J Davies

Sunday

Pick of the day The Party

11.40pm, ITV1

Sarah Solemani's moreish take on Elizabeth Day's novel follows the friendship between two men who went to boarding school together - journalist Martin Gilmour (Luke Evans) and Tory politician Ben Fitzmaurice (Tom Cullen) - and a terrible event that happens at Ben's 40th birthday party. It opens with Martin in a blood-soaked shirt at the police station, recalling the year he got a scholarship and met Ben ... HR

The Reluctant Vampire 6.40pm, BBC One

The gently macabre humour of this comedy, adapted by the Gibbons brothers from a children's novel by Eric Morecambe, has echoes of Ghosts. Hapless young vampire Val (Lenny Rush) finds himself in the world of humans when a trip to the village leads him into the home of oddball Gertie. Phil Harrison

Eva Longoria: Searching for France

7.20pm, BBC Two

Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria lands in Bordeaux. Filmed to look a bit like a Nespresso ad and with Eva sounding like a jacked-up Samantha Jones, it's an enjoyable slice of escapism. That is, if you can stomach lots of one-percenters talking about staggeringly pricey bottles of plonk. Priya Elan

Apocalypse

9pm, Channel 4

It's the Battle of the Bleats, after Eastsider Alix stole the goats from the Westsiders. Celia and Kelly are unimpressed, while Alix and Kiera are planning to play dumb in order to distract from any accusations. But how will they manage to disguise the sound of their four-legged friends when the inevitable confrontation happens? PE

Later ... With Jools Holland 10pm, BBC Two

The ex-Squeeze pianist boogies his woogie all over an impressive lineup of musical guests. The performances include Beautiful South/Housemartins star Paul Heaton, British pop-soul sensation Skye Newman and Mobo-winning Northampton MC DC3. Plus, there's a chat with Johnny Marr about his new album - and how he recently auctioned more than 80 guitars for charity. Alexi Duggins

Monday

Pick of the day Being Muslim After 9/11 9pm, BBC Two

“There was a time, 25 years ago, when being a British Muslim was OK,” says journalist Mobeen Azhar. “We were on the cover of magazines, getting elected to parliament and even captained the England cricket team.” Then 9/11 happened. He and his film-making partner Masood Khan have made this documentary to explore how the terror attacks affected the Muslim community - including their own experiences - and why they still reverberate today. HR

Panorama: Roman Abramovich - How He Hid His Fortune 8pm, BBC One

New evidence from a data leak sees Panorama sift through hundreds of documents that suggest they may have been falsified to conceal the ex-Chelsea owner and oligarch's vast wealth. Will it manage to set the news agenda like the accusations levelled against Man City's owners did? Abramovich disputes the allegations and denies any wrongdoing. AD

Jamie's 20 Minute Meals 8pm, Channel 4

The chef continues his real-time cookery class with a steak night dinner, complete with a shallot and brandy sauce and a serving of garlicky gnocchi chips. Then he puts together a crispy trout with green veggies and a tomato and tarragon salsa. Both are ready in 20 minutes. HR

Clickbait Clinic With Stacey Dooley 8.30pm, BBC One

Is there truth behind influencers' claims that testosterone levels are at a historic low? T-maxxing is the next social media “wellness trend” investigated by Dooley. She meets men who believe that artificially increasing their levels will boost bone density, sex drive energy and muscle mass, before putting questions to the experts. HR

Pierre

9pm, Channel 4

“I just don’t want to be the one to tell the aunt that her nephew wasn’t the boy she thought he was.” Charismatic duty solicitor Pierre (David Harewood) looks into the murder of his teen client Michael - and questions if he was wrong to believe he wanted to turn away from crime. It only makes him want to dig deeper for answers ... HR

Michael Palin in the Philippines 9pm, Channel 5

Palin spends his third and final week on the southern island of Mindanao: a no-travel zone and the home of disgraced former president Rodrigo Duterte. In the city of Davao, the Monty Python star meets the DJ behind Budots, the perky song and twerking-like

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dance craze, improbably inspired by Duterte's death squads who hunted for drug dealers. PE

Tuesday

Pick of the day Storyville: Ask E. Jean 10pm, BBC Four

Why did journalist and advice columnist E Jean Carroll decide to sue Donald Trump? “Because he called me a liar and I couldn’t let it stand.” This documentary follows her groundbreaking media career before retracing her journey to suing Trump twice in the civil courts over sexual abuse and defamation allegations (before he was president, in 2019 and 2022), which she won both times. HR

The Great British Bake Off 8pm, Channel 4

Bread is Paul Hollywood's speciality, much to the chagrin of the contestants in bread week. For the first challenge, Tom and Gary are both making cheesy Chelsea buns, while Connie is creating Yum Yum-style bread with four different cheeses and chilli flakes. But which of the bakers can infuse the perfect amount of garlic into theirs? PE

Blue Lights

The day of Gerry's murder trial is finally here, which means a quick return from former cop Jen (Hannah McClean) who was with him when he was shot. Prepare for the emotions to hit hard as Sandra (Andi Osho) sits through it. Meanwhile, Grace (Siân Brooke) pays a visit to the young woman who's trying to ruin her life. HR

John Simpson: Sixty Years at the BBC

9pm, BBC Two

John Simpson's BBC career covers an extraordinary span of time: this highlights package doubles as a history of the post-second world war era. Simpson is an affable, intelligent guide to events ranging from the Iranian revolution (“extremely frightening”) to the release of Nelson Mandela and the travails of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. PH

Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 9pm, Channel 5

The Humbert family run a sustainable pearl-farming business on a far-flung Pacific atoll in French Polynesia. When Ben Fogle comes to visit he earns his keep by diving for oysters. But can he charm the clan's 83-year-old grandpa, a salty Gallic sea dog who regards vegetables with contempt? Graeme Virtue

The Sky Arts Awards 2026 9pm, Sky Arts

It's a classy affair as Grayson Perry and Rebecca Lucy Taylor (Self Esteem) host a night at London's Roundhouse rewarding the best in this year's culture. Among the categories and nominees, Nick Mohammed is up for best comedy, while Grenfell: Uncovered is nominated for best television, and Wendy Erskine has a nod for best literature. HR

Wednesday

Fellow Travelers

10pm, Channel 4

From the makers of Homeland, this suave, weighty, Emmy-nominated period drama finally lands on UK telly. It is both a romance and a thriller, following Hawk (Matt Bomer) and Tim (Jonathan Bailey) who meet in Washington DC during the height of McCarthyism, and develop a sexual relationship across the next three decades. HR

The Repair Shop: Beyond the Barn

8pm, BBC One

More emotional tales from inside the workshop and across the UK. Will a record player with a connection to three continents be brought back to life? And is there any hope for a 1950s Rolleiflex camera that once snapped portraits of the royals, but is now in need of a highly delicate restoration? HJD

Portrait Artist of the Year 2026 8pm, Sky Arts

Louis Theroux is the first brave celebrity to sit for his portrait in this week's competition. "If you do splotches, that will be fine," he assures them. Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci and actor Joanna Scanlan also take a seat. As is becoming tradition, there will be tears for one of them. HR

The Book That Changed My Life 9pm, BBC Two

Queen Camilla inherited a love of reading from her father, who found comfort in literature while held in a German prisoner-of-war camp. In this one-off documentary, she shares more about her passion

for books before meeting five people whose lives have also been changed by stories. HR

Winter

9pm, ITV1

Overblown presentation chafes against a bog-standard whodunnit as Bristol cops look into the double shooting of a couple in their own home, but Richard Armitage's brilliant eponymous pathologist provides all the breakthroughs. Humdrum secrets and betrayals are treated as if they're intense psychodramas. JS

Grand Designs 9pm, Channel 4

Twenty-five years ago, Chris and Gill took on a 19th-century woollen mill near Huddersfield, restoring its historic shell while packing the inside with steel, glass and enough exorbitant high-tech gadgetry to rival a Bond villain. Now Kevin McCloud returns to say “Hmmm”. Does the couple’s radical approach still look cutting-edge - or simply very, very 2001? AC

Thursday

Pick of the day Break Clause

10.05pm, Channel 4

So, can a breakup in a flatshare end well? In the closing double bill, Ben (Samuel Bottomley) and Lil (Lara Ricote) are single and mingling - but they also find themselves back in each others' arms, gallivanting around London ... before reality hits again. With their six-month break clause in the lease coming up, they need to decide whether to get back together or move on for good. HR

The Celebrity Traitors 8pm, BBC One

At the time of writing, Richard E Grant has proved himself to be the biggest liability ever to have stepped in the Traitors turret - and it will be a miracle if he pulled it off. This episode is the night after a murder, with a round table in the evening. HR

Our Tiny Islands 8pm, Channel 4

8pm, Channel 4 This series profiling more than 400 small isles round the UK coast visits a sheep farmer on Iona in the Hebrides with a unique wool product and the Lundy Company, which allows residents of the Bristol Channel island to keep living there. Plus, a look at the gardening upkeep of a 9.5 acre croft in North Uist - so brace for a bucolic watch that might inspire a digital detox. AD

Classic Movies: The Story of A Matter of Life and Death, Thu
The Book That Changed My Life, Wed

The Yorkshire Vet 8pm, Channel 5

Peter faces a desperate case when a newborn lamb arrives with a rare birth defect: “It hasn’t got a bottom.” Meanwhile, Shona treats Grace, a shire horse with a uterine infection; Rohin rescues an injured pheasant; and Julian and Lucy give Frank Sinatra, a ragdoll cat, a much-needed makeover: “What do you think about a mohawk?” AC

Classic Movies: The Story of A Matter of Life and Death 8pm, Sky Arts

With its tragically romantic opening scene - a second world war pilot chatting up a radio operator as his broken plane plummets - Powell and Pressburger's strange, celestial wartime drama is a beloved classic. Here, critics gleefully dig into exactly why that is. HR

All Creatures Great and Small 9.05pm, Channel 5

Another testosterone-filled, action-packed episode of the veterinary period drama: Tristan has a bargain haircut from Josh for his final date with Charlotte before she heads off to New York. Good idea or not? Then absolute calamity: a dog named Venus and a pet rat called Bunthorne both go walkabout. And there's a disagreement at Heston over a cow. Cripes. AC

Friday

Pick of the day The Graham Norton Show 10.40pm, BBC One

It has been more than a decade since director Quentin Tarantino was on Graham's sofa, and now he's back to rave about his new Sacha Baron Cohen-starring West End farce play The Popinjay Cavalier. Taking a seat with him are US chat host Ellen DeGeneres, Colin Farrell, with a moving documentary about his friend, and Gemma Chan, who stars opposite Channing Tatum in the film Josephine. Suede provide the uplifting live music from their latest album, Antidepressants. HR

Gardeners' World 8pm, BBC Two

A glimpse of GW's future: Frances Tophill takes the lead this week, rather than soon-departing presenter Monty Don. She's planting garlic in containers and perennial vegetables, the sort that should provide bounty year after year with minimal maintenance, in her borders. JS

The Walking Dead: Dead City 9pm, Sky One

More post-apocalyptic splatter from a very rotten Big Apple. To shore up New York's jury-rigged power grid, Maggie and Negan must recruit a squad of boozy miscreants - including a fireman, a chef and a porn star - for a high-risk raid. Their target? The zombie-infested Empire State Building. GV

War

9pm, Sky Atlantic

The classy divorce is quickly becoming seedy as Carla (Sienna Miller) and Morgan (Dominic West) build their cases. When Carla tells her son, he is devastated and goes to Morgan for answers (“Your mum, she farts in bed - I just can’t take it any more”). Meanwhile, is junior lawyer/mole Johnny (Archie Renaux) in over his head? HR

The Last Leg

10.05pm, Channel 4

Josh Widdicombe is a very busy (and probably tired) man. The night before Strictly, he's back on his old late-night hosting spot with Adam Hills and Alex Brooker. Now in its 35th (!) season, the show's first guests chewing over the week that has been are comics Ellie Taylor and Tim Minchin. HR

Grimsburg

12.45am, Sky One

Season three of the offbeat animated copcom continues with jaded detective Marvin Flute (voiced by Jon Hamm) bonding with his jittery son Stan over competitive hobby-horse riding. Elsewhere in town, Wynona gets brain surgery to simplify her love life. Could this be heartsick cyborg Greg's big chance? GV

WHAT'S ON Streaming

Pick of the week Tyson Netflix, from Tuesday

The problem with authorised biographies is that you risk getting the authorised version of a story. In this case, that matters. Mike Tyson grew up in poverty and was bullied relentlessly until one antagonist broke the neck of his pigeon and unlocked his capacity for violence. From that point, his ascent to boxing legend seemed inevitable and it is captured here thrillingly. However, the waters soon become muddier. Tyson speaks at length but isn't pressed hard enough on either the allegations of domestic abuse or the rape conviction that scarred his subsequent life - though he is described as "very truthful" by Donald Trump, which doesn't feel like the most glowing character reference. Phil Harrison

VisionQuest

Disney+, from Wednesday

Paul Bettany's kindly, bewildered and capably murderous AI android Vision faces a death-or-glory mission in the Marvel universe. This series builds on the cleverness of WandaVision, moving back and forth through generations of MCU villains while underpinned by the timeless narrative theme of the search for family. Vision has encountered a mysterious teenager who might be his son. But the forces against them are spectacular, including James Spader's brilliantly hammy antihero Ultron and Lisa Molinari (Lauren Morais), a street artist turned robot criminal with four extra arms. A giddy and inventive ride. PH

Rage

HBO Max, out now

Another collision of stories, styles and troubled female characters in the second season of this tricksy, inventive Spanish anthology drama. It’s loosely set within the pristine HQ of a TV network but what unfolds involves the messy and intertwining lives of overstressed executive Raquel, hard-partying cleaner Charo, cancer patient Patricia, actor Carla and unwitting narrative subject Tina. In making its points about reality, representation and modern life, Rage tries to do a little too much. But it’s never anything less than bracingly ambitious. PH

The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story

HBO Max, from Monday

It's not a Stephen King remake; this documentary series explores a real-life story that's sadder and stranger than most fiction. It centres on the 1985 disappearance and death of Dorothy Lou Thompson, the reclusive owner of a pet cemetery in Toca, Louisiana. There is a speculative supernatural element to the case: the town was named after a merciless, slave-owning judge and the land had a macabre history. However, while the uncanny is foregrounded, the story is ultimately gripping for more earthly reasons - as a tragedy with human frailty at its heart. PH

Treasure Island

Paramount+, from Monday

We begin, naturally, with a shipwreck and a parrot. Adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson's piratical potboiler are legion and, clearly, this one won't be rewriting history. Even so, it does take a few welcome liberties with the original story: Billy Bones (Tomer Capone) is more smooth-talking hustler than salty sea dog and Hayley Atwell's fiery Bess Hawkins is now more central to the story. Then there's Long John Silver, played with simmering fury by David Oyelowo, looming over Tom Sweet's smart but naive Jim. So off the Caribbean we go, where rags or riches await. PH

The Diplomat

Netflix, from Thursday

This geopolitical thriller has become increasingly soapy and far-fetched (it's almost as if the writers feel they have to outpace reality) but it's still fun as long as you're willing to suspend your disbelief. As season four begins, the ramifications of the undersea nuclear incident are playing out. The Americans are willing to allow Russia to believe that Britain was behind the removal of the bomb, but Kate (Keri Russell) fears this could set the allies against each other. She's also finding it harder to trust her husband Hal (Rufus Sewell). Is he getting too cosy with the president? PH

Tulsa King

Paramount+, from Friday

Is it time for Sylvester Stallone's exiled mobster Dwight Manfredi to go legit? In season four, Dwight is looking to diversify. But the past and the future are coming for his operation: he's facing threats from both grandstanding politicians who know his backstory and new gangsters on the block who understand the value of his empire. He's going to deal with these situations in typically explosive style. Tulsa King feels increasingly creaky and never transcends genre cliche but Stallone's hilariously one-note lunkhead charisma just about keeps it rolling. PH

NETFLIX; DISNEY+

Catchup TV

Damilola Taylor remembered and a fang-tastic comedy

Damilola: The Untold Story BBC Two/iPlayer ★★★★★

Next month marks 26 years since the killing of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor prompted a wave of grief and incredulity across the UK. While en route from the local library to the family's home on the North Peckham Estate in south London, Damilola was set upon by the brothers Ricky and Danny Preddie, 13 and 12 respectively. He was attacked with a glass bottle and, shortly after, pronounced dead at King's College hospital. This one-off documentary opens with recollections from Damilola's friends - now adults in their 30s. Among them is John Boyega. While the killing may have pushed Boyega and others to better themselves, it also terrified them, haunted them and made them fear that they, too, would lose their lives to senseless violence. Hannah J Davies

The Reluctant Vampire BBC One/iPlayer ★★★★★

How long has it been since we had a lovely teatime treat? Too long! But joy is at hand, courtesy of Neil and Rob Gibbons (the pair behind the most recent Alan Partridge) and their warm, daft adaptation of Eric Morecambe's 1982 children's book. It's the tale of a vampire family: patriarch Victor (Tom Davis), his wife Valeeta (Sian Clifford) and their two children. Vernon (a wonderful Gabriel Nagy) is a chip off the old block. But he is the second son and spare to the heir, Valentine (Lenny Rush). And Valentine, alas, is not a good vampire. Eventually, Valeeta is forced to admit to her boy that he is a human baby she rescued from a fire while Victor was away. The Reluctant Vampire has a stacked cast, a gag-packed script and the air of a labour of love, with nobody phoning anything in. Fang-tastic. Lucy Mangan

Pierre Channel 4 ★★★★☆

Some of us are too young to have seen David Harewood play Othello at the National Theatre in London back in 1997. Pierre's co-writer Roy Williams may not be the Bard, but he is a playwright with an interest in how Black men fare in this country, and this series is another cultural milestone in the story of Black British crime drama. It's a cop show with noirish locations, frequented by Pierre while on night shifts as a police station duty solicitor. He is a securely middle-class Black professional who remains rooted in his community. Harewood's performance establishes the show with confident concision. The plot, too, is noir with a twist: a young Black man is found dead after telling Pierre he was building a case of police harassment against an officer ... Ellen E Jones

War

War Sky Atlantic/Now ★★★★☆

War ... what is it good for? At last, we have an answer: delivering eight hours of high-quality balderdash to your TV screens for your glorious delectation. Hurrah! For War, you see, is the name of George Kay's latest venture. As the creator of, among many other things, the impeccably preposterous Hijack, you know you are in for a rollicking treat. And so it proves with this story of two horrible, rich, famous people, divorcing in the public eye. Dominic West plays social media mogul and philanderer Morgan Henderson. Sienna Miller plays his film-star wife Carla Duval, who, after 10 years, has had enough. It's massive fun, with a ripped-from-the-headlines feel that only adds to the entertainment. Soap opera with money, talent and plot to burn. What more could you ask at the end of a long, long day? LM

Podcasts

Pick of the week

Street You Grew Up On

Widely available, episodes weekly Scandal star Kerry Washington's web series is now a podcast, with big-name guests talking about the places they were raised. Cambridge, Massachusetts local Ben Affleck is the first to have a frank conversation on his parents' divorce, and the things he didn't tell his mum - such as being mugged at knifepoint at 14. "I loved hearing everything he shared," says Washington. "Even though he tried to interview me at times." Hannah J Davies

Deep Secrets

Widely available, episodes weekly After becoming a father, comedian Hunter Hill decided to make a parenting podcast. Until, that is, an attempt to research his dad threw him down a rabbit hole that made him question everything he knew about his family - including whether his goat-farming grandad was really a secret CIA operative. It's a wild, detail-packed listen told in highly hooky fashion. Alexi Duggins

Eras: Spice Girls

BBC Sounds, episodes weekly Rosie Ramsey draws on the BBC's massive music archive to tell the story of Britain's biggest girl group (pictured above right). It's a lively celebration of girl power, stuffed with trivia (the idea for personas was inspired by the TV series Friends) and insight from the likes of music manager Chris Herbert and Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall. HJD

13 Minutes: Trouble With Hubble Widely available, episodes weekly This compelling space podcast, hosted by Sky at Night presenter Maggie Aderin, looks at the world's most famous telescope. Interviews with the key personnel lend drama to the post-launch discovery that its primary mirror's curvature was off by the equivalent of around one-fiftieth of the width of a human hair - rendering it useless. The only option? Dispatching astronauts on a zero-gravity repair mission. AD

Fame Under Fire BBC Sounds, episodes daily from Mon

Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty will be at Southwark crown court daily to report on Russell Brand's trial, in which he denies three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault. She'll also explore wider topics, such as the role of social media in high-profile trials. Hollie Richardson

Radio

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Sun, 3pm, Radio 4

This Agatha Christie adaptation begins with a dying man on a beach in Wales, leaving an enigmatic message for morose vicar's son Bobby Jones (Matthew Aubrey). Clearly, there's a mystery to be solved so the arrival of Bobby's posh, blase childhood friend Frankie (Rhianne Barreto) is timely. An oddball adventure unfolds, involving morphine poisoning and Bobby being forced to adopt numerous disguises. The narrative contrivances cleverly sustain a reassuringly predictable emotional journey. Phil Harrison

Winnie-the-Pooh 100 Mon, 11.45am, Radio 4

After an introduction by Queen Camilla, who recalls playing Pooh sticks as a child, Lenny Henry launches a week of readings marking a century since the publication of AA Milne's classic children's book about a teddy bear. Henry starts at the beginning, with Pooh (pictured above) running out of honey and trying to climb a tree to raid a beehive. Waiting in the wings to read other stories - about Piglet, Eeyore and Christopher Robin - are Ambika Mod, Jim Broadbent, Toby Jones and Hayley Atwell. Jack Seale

Life Without

Fri, 2.45pm, Radio 4

The Alan Davies-hosted show where scholars imagine the domino effect if we abruptly deleted something from reality returns for a second series. Considering they are squeaky flying rodents who cheerfully excrete stinky guano, surely it would be OK if we got rid of bats? But as biodiversity scientist Prof Kate Jones and animal behaviour expert Dr Christina Stanley explain, these insect-guzzling, plant-pollinating, flap-happy avatars of Halloween horror are a vital part of our ecosystem. Graeme Virtue

CrowdScience

Fri, 8.30pm, BBC World Service This series specialises in posing odd questions and then providing even odder answers. And this is a good one: why don’t humans lay eggs? After all, egg-laying seems like an efficient way for other members of the animal kingdom to ensure a sustainable survival rate. Anand Jagatia looks into the matter and eventually, all roads lead to DNA coding, the importance of the placenta and evolutionary resistance to viruses. Weirdly fascinating. PH

WHAT'S ON Film

Pick of the week Matchbox the Movie Out now, Apple TV

In the wake of the pink powerhouse that was Barbie, toy giant Mattel is going all-in on adaptations. Before we get the pleasure of Polly Pocket on screen, the line of tiny toy vehicles is given some dramatic spit and polish in Sam Hargrave's breezy caper. Amiable muscleman Jon Cena plays CIA covert agent Sean, who returns to his home town for a funeral and reconnects with four childhood friends known as the Matchbox Gang, including Jessica Biel's paramedic - and youthful crush - Aimee. Unfortunately, Sean is the fall guy after a nuclear warhead vanishes, so his mates are thrown into his globe-trotting world of spies, close-quarter violence and, naturally, shiny fast cars. Simon Wardell

Animals

Out now, Netflix

Ben Affleck's knotty kidnap thriller was put on hold in 2024 after it clashed with Spike Lee's similarly themed Highest 2 Lowest, itself a remake of a Kurosawa classic. It's finally here, with Affleck casting himself (original pick Matt Damon was stuck on an island in the Med) as an attorney standing for LA mayor and Kerry Washington as his wife. The plot revolves round their son being taken for ransom, as moral and political calculations seriously muddy the waters. Gillian Anderson walks off with her scenes as a cool, collected English fixer called upon to help. SW

Poor Things

Saturday, 10pm, Channel 4 A risk-taking performance from Emma Stone is at the heart of this deeply weird yarn from Yorgos Lanthimos. She plays Bella, a young woman who died but was revived with the brain of her unborn baby by the Frankenstein-esque Godwin (Willem Dafoe). As she learns to walk and talk, she yearns to discover more about life. Lothario Duncan Wedderburn (a hilariously louche Mark Ruffalo) has designs on being her svengali - but Bella has a mind of her own. A delightful, disconcerting comedy adapted from Alasdair Gray's novel, set in a stunning, not-quite-realistic Victorian era. SW

Red Rooms

Saturday, 11.20pm, Film4 In Montreal, Canada, a man goes on trial for the murder of three teenage girls, the torture and killing of whom he had filmed for paying customers on the dark web. Pascal Plante's increasingly disturbing psychological drama follows the proceedings - and the media frenzy surrounding it - through the eyes of model Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy), who is a regular attendee at court. But why is she there? Is she a groupie of the (clearly guilty) accused? A true-crime obsessive? Or something darker? Gariépy's enigmatic performance keeps us guessing almost to the end. SW

Killing Anna

Monday, 11.05pm, Channel 4 "I weaponise myself, my trauma." Annsar Shahhoud, a Syria-born researcher in genocide studies at the University of Amsterdam, is the focus of Sam Benstead's remarkable documentary. After being sent videos of massacres by the Assad regime, she set up a fake Facebook account - under the name of Anna Sh - befriended Syrian officials and militia, and got them to admit their role in the mass murders of civilians in Damascus. The toll on Annsar is clear, but so is her will to bring the truth to light. SW

Masterplan

Friday, Prime Video

Settle back and let the estimable Stanley Tucci work his charms on you ... just like his gentleman thief, Roger Cavendish, lures his long-lost children - hacker Chiara (The White Lotus's Simona Tabasco) and explosives expert Jay (Victor Belmondo) - into a preposterous plot to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Thomas Vincent's heist comedy. The restored criminal family's tentative bonding is mere window dressing for the main business of gadgetry, disguises and uncertain motives. Much of this is from the Mission: Impossible playbook, but with Tucci in charge it often sparkles. SW

Moss & Freud

Friday, HBO Max

Derek Jacobi has already portrayed, superbly, one titan of post-second world war British art, Francis Bacon (in 1998's Love Is the Devil). Now, in James Lucas's fascinating snapshot of the early 2000s, he has a good stab at late-period Lucian Freud. The true story of supermodel Kate Moss (a well cast Ellie Bamber) sitting for a painting by him is a study in similarity and contrast: she's the hard-partying doyenne of British fashion; he's the austere old master. But he has his own wild side to reckon with, while she finds a kind of stability through their regular meetings. SW

Sport

Premier League Football Arsenal v Leeds Sat, 11am, TNT Sports 1 Man Utd v Tottenham is at 5pm on Sky Sports Main Event.

Prem Rugby Union Northampton v Bath Sat, 3pm, TNT Sports 1 Saracens v Bristol follows at 5.15pm.

Championship Football Southampton v Portsmouth Sun, 11.30am, ITV1 At St Mary's Stadium.

Premier League Football Crystal Palace v Nottingham Forest

Sun, 1pm, Sky Sports Main Event Liverpool v Man City follows at 4pm. Coventry v Newcastle is on Mon at 6.30pm.

Prem Rugby Union Exeter v Newcastle Sun, 2.30pm, TNT Sports 1 Sale v Harlequins is on TNT Sports 5 at 2.45pm.

Women's International Football England v Greece Tue, 6.45pm, ITV4 The play-off semi-final second leg, at King Power Stadium in Leicester.

Uefa Champions League Football Atlético Madrid v Man Utd Tue, 6.30pm, Prime Video Arsenal v Lille is on at 7pm on TNT Sports 1.

Track Cycling World Championships Wed, 11.30am, TNT Sports 1 Day one from Shanghai, China, with Emma Finucane (pictured above) due to feature.

Uefa Champions League Football Lask v Liverpool

Wed, 5pm, TNT Sports 2 Man City v PSG is on TNT Sports 1 at 7pm. Aston Villa v Fenerbahçe is on TNT Sports 2 at 7.45pm.

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BBC Four

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10.30 Match of the Day (T) Premier League highlights, including Arsenal v Leeds and Man United v Spurs.

11.50 FILM Bones and All (2022) (T) Horror romance, starring Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet.

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8.35 The Voice UK (T) Emma Willis hosts as the battle rounds begin, with coaches Tom Jones, will.i.am, Kelly Rowland, Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones.

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11.05 English Football League Highlights (T) Action from the latest matches, including Swansea v Norwich.

12.35 Shop on TV 3.0 Dermot's Taste of Ireland (T) (R) 3.25 Clodagh: Cooking at Home (T) (R) 3.50 Unwind With ITV (T) 5.05 Fletchers' Family Farm (T) (R)

7.30 FILM A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner, 1992) (T) Three US naval lawyers defending two marines accused of murdering a comrade-in-arms uncover a trail of corruption leading all the way to a top-ranking officer. Drama, starring Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Jack Nicholson and Kevin Bacon.

10.0 FILM Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023) (T) Comic fantasy, starring Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe.

12.40 Ramsay's Hotel Hell (T) (R) 1.30 Three Women (T) 2.30 The Simpsons (T) (R) 5.0 Sunday Brunch (T) (R) 5.05 Kirstie's House of Craft (T) (R) 5.15 Couples Come Dine With Me (T) (R)

8.35 Buckingham Palace: A Year in the Life (T) The royal residence prepares for a busy autumn season of state visits, with staff planning everything from royal guest suites to banquet menus. Last in the series.

10.05 FILM The Firm (Sydney Pollack, 1993) (T) Thriller, starring Tom Cruise. 1.0 Must Have Ideas (T) 3.0 Inside Hampton Court Palace (T) (R) 3.45 Inside Hampton Court Palace (T) (R) 4.35 Spain With Michael Portillo (T) (R) 5.20 Entertainment News (T) 5.25 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom (T) (R)

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Doctor Who

U&Dave

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E4

6.0am Lego Masters Australia 7.05 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.10 Modern Family 7.40 Don't Tell the Bride 8.40 Made in Chelsea 9.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 10.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 11.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 1.40 The Simpsons 2.10 The Simpsons 2.40 The Simpsons 3.10 The Simpsons 3.40 The Simpsons 4.10 The Simpsons 4.40 The Simpsons 5.10 The Simpsons 5.40 The Simpsons 6.15 The Simpsons 6.45 FILM Uncharted (2022) 9.0 Celebrity Gogglebox 10.0 Gogglebox 11.05 Gogglebox 12.05 First Dates 1.10 First Dates 2.10 Vanderpump Rules 3.0 Vanderpump Rules 3.50 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 4.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

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9.0 FILM Wrath of Man (2021) 11.20 FILM Red Rooms (2023) 1.40 FILM The Lodge (2019)

PBS America

6.0am Teleshopping 8.0 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 8.35 Titans of the Cold War 9.40 Titans of the Cold War 10.50 Titans of the Cold War 11.55 Titans of the Cold War 1.0 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 2.0 Titans of the Cold War 3.05 Titans of the Cold War 4.15 Titans of the Cold War 5.20 Titans of the Cold War 6.30 The Real Truth 7.35 The Real Truth 8.40 The Real Truth 9.50 The Real Truth 10.55 The Real Truth 12.0 The Real Truth 1.10 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 2.0 Teleshopping

Sky One

6.0am Monkey Life
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Surviving Earth 7.45
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9.30 Superstore
10.0 Superstore
10.30 Superstore
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Superstore 12.0 Formula
1 1.0 The Simpsons
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Sky Arts

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21 Jump Street, Sky One

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Sky Atlantic

6.0am Fish Town 7.0 Fish Town 8.0 Homicide: Life on the Street 9.05 Homicide: Life on the Street 10.10 Homicide: Life on the Street 11.15 Homicide: Life on the Street 12.20 Homicide: Life on the Street 1.25 Homicide: Life on the Street 2.30 Station Eleven 3.30 Station Eleven 4.35 Station Eleven 5.40 Station Eleven 6.45 Station Eleven 7.50 Station Eleven 9.0 Prisoner 10.0 Prisoner 11.0 The Looming Tower 12.0 The Looming Tower 1.0 The Miniature Wife 1.45 The Miniature Wife 2.40 Deadwood 3.50 Deadwood 5.05 Urban Secrets

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Radio 3

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Show. Highlights from the Black Lights festival in Blackpool. 12.30 Through the Night

Radio 4

6.0am News and Papers
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This Week 6.57 Weather
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5.0 Saturday PM 5.30 Political Thinking With Nick Robinson (5/13)
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Beatles. Sean O'Hagan tells the band's story. 9.0 The Hitler Diaries Scandal: Omnibus - Part Two (R) 10.0 News 10.15 The Food Programme (R) 11.0 Your Mum. Hugh Dennis and Hilary Whitehall chat about their mothers. (6/8) 11.30 Brain of Britain (R) 12.0 News 12.15 Bookclub (R) 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.0 As World Service 5.30 News 5.34 Shipping Forecast 5.43 Bells on Sunday 5.45 In Touch (R)

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6.0am The Lady in the Lake 7.30 True Grit Omnibus (1-5/5) 8.40 Inheritance Tracks 8.45 TV Dinners (6/6) 9.0 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (3/6) 9.30 Drop Me Here, Darling (2/13) 10.0 Conservatories and Other Edwardiana 10.20 Quick on the Draw: Osbert Lancaster 10.35 The Essay: Georgian Portraits (5/5) 10.50 Inheritance Tracks 11.0 The Lady in the Lake 12.30 True Grit Omnibus (1-5/5) 1.40 Inheritance Tracks 1.45 TV Dinners (6/6) 2.0 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (3/6) 2.30 Drop Me Here, Darling (2/13) 3.0 Conservatories and

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6.40 Countryfile (T) (R) 7.40 News (T) 9.0 Landward (T) (R) 9.30 The Best of Weatherman Walking (T) (R) 10.0 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites (T) 11.30 Eva Longoria: Searching for France (T) (R) 12.10 Nigel and Adam's Farm Kitchen (T) (R) 1.10 FILM The Ipgress File (Sidney J Furie, 1965) (T) 2.55 FILM Funeral in Berlin (Guy Hamilton, 1966) (T) 4.35 This Farming Life (T) (R) 5.35 Flog It! (T) (R) 6.20 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (T) (R) 7.20 Eva Longoria: Searching for France (T)

ITV1

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Channel 4

Entertainment News (T) 9.05
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Channel5

BBC Four

6.0 Milkshake! 9.0

7.0 A Stitch in Time (T) (R) A portrait of a hedge cutter. 7.30 BBC Young Musician 2026 (T) Further highlights of the auditions.

8.0 Antiques Roadshow (T) At the Dartington Estate in Devon, finds include a walking stick with a secret, an African headrest and a salvaged Rolex watch. 9.0 Time (T) New series. Tragedy strikes in a young offender institution. Prison anthology drama, with David Tennant and Siobhan Finneran.

10.0 News (T)

10.25 Regional News (T) Weather 10.30 Match of the Day (T) Premier League action from Liverpool v Man City and Hull v Everton.

11.35 FILM The Nice Guys (Shane Black, 2016) (T) Crime comedy, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.

1.25 Weather for the Week Ahead (T) 1.30 News (T)

8.0 Pilgrimage: The Road Through North Wales (T) (R) The travellers start outside Eryri national park, and head west towards the Llyn Peninsula. Last in the series.

8.0 Emmerdale (T) Kim is worried about Joe, while Robert has an idea for Gabby.

9.0 Wilderness With Simon Reeve (T) The journalist treks and canoes through Canada's rugged and frozen Yukon Territory.

10.0 Later ... With Jools Holland (T) New series. Including performances by Paul Heaton, DC3, Mary in the Junkyard and Dermot Henry.

10.45 FILM Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973) (T)

12.35 Sign Zone: Not Going Out (T) (R) 1.05 Question Time (T) (R) 2.05 Saving Lives at Sea (T) (R)

8.30 Coronation Street (T) Kit refuses to act as a character witness for Sarah.

9.0 The Party (T) New series. A journalist is asked by a friend to undermine the leadership bid of his arch-enemy. Drama, with Luke Evans.

10.0 News (T) Weather

10.20 DNA Journey (T) (R) With comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan.

11.40 The Party (T) (R) Political drama, with Luke Evans, Tom Cullen and Sarah Solemani

12.45 Shop on TV 3.0 Motorsport UK (T) (R) 3.50 Unwind With ITV (T) 5.05 Prue Leith's Cotswold Kitchen (T) (R)

9.0 Apocalypse (T) A new survivor arrives at the West camp seeking shelter, and notices a gender divide with the women sidelined, so urges Kelly and Celia to make a stand.

10.15 Gogglebox (T) (R)

12.15 999: On the Front Line (T) (R) 1.10 Ramsay's Hotel Hell (T) (R) 2.0 Ramsay's Hotel Hell (T) (R) 2.50 FILM Shadowbox (2025) 4.20 George Clarke's Amazing Spaces (T) (R) 5.0 The Simpsons (T) (R) 5.50 Countdown (T) (R)

8.0 22 Kids & Counting (T) Chloe and her partner Jake welcome their second child, while Noel and Sue set off on a camping trip with five of their youngest children.

9.0 Live: NFL on 5 (T) Seattle Seahawks v San Francisco 49ers (kick-off 9.25pm). The week five NFC West match from Lumen Field.

12.30 Cops (T) (R) 12.55 Motorway Cops: Catching America's Speeders (T) (R) 1.55 Entertainment News (T) 2.0 Must Have Ideas (T) (R) 4.0 The Cruise: Fun-Loving Brits at Sea (T) (R) 4.45 Spain With Michael Portillo (T) (R) 5.30 Entertainment News (T) 5.35 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom (T) (R)

9.0 Talking Shakespeare (T) (R) Celia Imrie trawls through the BBC archive for a celebration of the works of William Shakespeare, and to see how his biggest plays have been brought to cinema and TV over the years.

10.0 Lesley Manville

Remembers: Top Girls (T) 10.15 Top Girls (T) (R) A 1991 adaptation of Caryl Churchill's play.

12.05 Omnibus: Caryl Churchill (T) (R) 1.15 Shakespeare in Italy With Francesco Da Mosto (T) (R) 2.15 A Stitch in Time (T) (R) 2.45 Talking Shakespeare (T) (R)

Other channels

BBC Three

7.0pm EastEnders
7.30 EastEnders 8.0
EastEnders 8.30
EastEnders 9.0 The Celebrity Traitors 10.05 The Celebrity Traitors
11.10 Ice Road Truckers
11.55 Ice Road Truckers
12.40 FILM Borderlands (2024) 2.10 The Golden Cobra 2.25 The Golden Cobra 2.40 The Golden Cobra 2.55 The Golden Cobra

U&Dave

6.0am Teleshopping
7.20 Top Gear 8.10
Yukon Gold 9.10 Yukon Gold 10.10 Yukon Gold 11.10 Red Bull Soapbox Race 12.10 Red Bull Soapbox Race 1.10
Wagging Rights 2.10
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 2.50
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 3.30 Would I Lie to You? 4.10 Would I Lie to You? 4.50 Would I Lie to You? 5.25 Explore 6.30 Guy Martin: The World's Fastest Van? 8.0 Wagging Rights 9.0 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 10.0 QI 10.40 Mock the Week 11.20 Mock the Week 12.0 Live at the Apollo 1.0 QI XL 2.0 Will & Ralf Should Know Better 3.05 Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish 4.0 Teleshopping

E4

6.0am Hollyoaks Omnibus 7.05 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.15 Modern Family 7.45 Modern Family 8.10 Modern Family 8.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 9.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 10.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 11.40 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12.35 The Great British Bake Off 2.10 The Simpsons 2.45 The Simpsons 3.10 The Simpsons 3.45 The Simpsons 4.10 The Simpsons 4.45 The Simpsons 5.10 The Simpsons 5.40 Lego Masters Australia 6.50 FILM Free Guy (2021) 9.0 Gogglebox 10.05 The Inbetweeners 10.40 The Inbetweeners 11.10 The Inbetweeners 11.45 The Inbetweeners 12.20 Naked Attraction 1.20 First Dates 2.25 Vanderpump Rules 3.10 Vanderpump Rules 3.55 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 4.20 Hollyoaks Omnibus

Film4

11.0am FILM Secret Headquarters (2022) 1.05 FILM Hidden Figures (2016) 3.35 FILM The War Lord (1965) 6.0 FILM Next Goal Wins (2023) 8.0 FILM Gran Turismo

(2023) 10.40 FILM T2 Trainspotting (2017) 1.0 FILM Passing (2021)

PBS America

6.0am Teleshopping 8.0 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 8.50 Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War 9.50 Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War 10.50 Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War 11.50 Nazi's Diplomats: Dancing With the Devil 1.0 Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War 2.0 Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War 3.0 Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War 4.0 Nazi's Diplomats: Dancing With the Devil 5.15 WWII in Colour: Road to Victory 6.20 WWII in Colour: Road to Victory 7.25 WWII in Colour: Road to Victory 8.35 WWII in Colour: Road to Victory 9.40 WWII in Colour: Road to Victory 10.50 Nazi's Diplomats: Dancing With the Devil 12.0 Women of World War II: More Untold Stories 1.15 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 2.0 Teleshopping

Sky One

6.0am FILM Dragon Rider (2021) 7.45 Formula 1 9.45 The Simpsons 10.45

The Simpsons 11.15
The Simpsons 11.45
The Simpsons 12.15
FILM Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) 2.0 Superstore 2.30 Superstore 3.0 Superstore 3.30
Superstore 4.0
Superstore 4.30 Formula 1 5.30 Ted's Notebook 6.0 Agatha Raisin 8.0
Rob & Romesh vs Team GB: Winter Special 9.0
FILM London Has Fallen (2016) 11.0 Saturday Night Live 12.30
Romesh: Can't Knock the Hustle 2.0 The Force: North East 4.0 Road Wars 5.0 Highway Patrol

Sky Arts

6.0am Sir Simon Rattle: The Joy of Conducting 7.10 Dance on! 8.20 Tales of the Unexpected 8.50 Tales of the Unexpected 9.20 Tales of the Unexpected 9.50 Tales of the Unexpected

Next Goal Wins, Film4

10.20 Tales of the

Unexpected 10.45 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 11.45 Portrait Artist of the Year 2026 12.45 Andrea Bocelli: Sacred Arias 2.20 Laurel and Hardy: Their Lives and Magic 4.0 Dean Martin: A Legend in Concert 5.0 Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games 6.45 Classic Albums 7.45 Bob Marley: Uprising! Live 10.15 Legacy in the Dust: The Four Aces Story 12.30 Grand Ole Opry: Opry Live 1.30 FILM Luther: Never Too Much (2024) 3.30 Women Who Rock 4.45 Classic Albums

Sky Atlantic

6.0am Fish Town 78.0 Homicide: Life on the Street 9.05 Homicide: Life on the Street 10.10 Homicide: Life on the Street 11.20 Homicide: Life on the Street 12.25 Homicide: Life on the Street 1.30 Homicide: Life on the Street 2.30 House of the Dragon 3.30 House of the Dragon 4.45 Fargo 5.50 Fargo 6.55 Fargo 8.0 Fargo 9.0 Fargo 10.0 War 11.05 The Terror 1.15 Deadwood 2.10 Deadwood 3.10 Deadwood 4.10 Deadwood 5.05 Urban Secrets

Radio

Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast 9.0 Sunday Morning Ravel and Rachmaninov. 12.0 Private Passions. A chat with saxophonist Courtney Pine. 1.30 Music Map. Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores Errollyn Wallen's Mighty River. 3.0 Music Matters: Outside In. People of colour talk about their experiences of being classical musicians. (1/3) 4.0 Jazz Record Requests 5.0 The Early Music Show. The life of music benefactor Queen Christina of Sweden. 6.0 Choral Evensong (R) 7.0 Sunday Feature: The Man Who Played the Kremlin's Tune. Lucy Ash charts the rise and rule of Soviet composer Tikhon Khrennikov. (R) 7.45 Words and Music. An edition inspired by the parish church. 9.0 Brass Banding With Hannah Peel. The composer meets history-making adjudicator Annie Crookston. (2/9) 10.0 Night Tracks 11.30 Unclassified 12.30 Through the Night

Radio 4

6.0am News 6.05 Beyond Belief (R) 6.35 On Your Farm. Mali Harries visits a man on a mission to grow

UK agroforestry. 6.57 Weather 7.0 News 7.0 Sunday Papers 7.10 Sunday 7.54 Radio 4 Appeal 7.57 Weather 8.0 News 8.0 Sunday Papers (R) 8.10 Sunday Worship. A service from Coventry Cathedral. 8.48 Witness History (R) 8.58 Tweet of the Day 9.0 Broadcasting House 10.0 Desert Island Discs 11.0 The Archers (R) 12.15 Profile (R) 12.30 Unspeakable (R) 12.57 Weather 1.0 The World This Weekend 1.30 AI on the Farm. Charlotte Smith explores how AI is transforming agriculture. 2.0 Gardeners' Question Time (R) 2.45 Opening Lines 3.0 Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Murder mystery, adapted from Agatha Christie's novel by Miranda Emmerson. 4.0 Take Four Books. Marlon James talks about his new novel The Disappearers. 4.30 Brain of Britain (12/17) 5.0 Witness History (R) 5.10 The Verb. Includes poems by Owen Sheers, Jason Allen Paisant, Helen Mort and David Morley. (4/7) 5.54 Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.0 News 6.15 Pick of the Week 7.0 The Archers 7.15 Grandchildren of the '56 Revolution. Nathalie Olah speaks with young

Hungarians living in the shadow of the 1956 uprising. 7.45 Thief at the British Museum (R) 8.0 Feedback (R) 8.30 Last Word (R) 9.0 Money Box (R) 9.25 Radio 4 Appeal: Medair UK (R) 9.30 From Our Own Correspondent (R) 9.59 Weather 10.0 The Westminster Hour 11.0 In Our Time (R) 11.45 Short Works. One Bear from Happiness, by Shelley Roche-Jacques. (R) 12.0 News 12.15 The Artificial Human (R) 12.45 Bells on Sunday (R) 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.0 As World Service 5.0 News 5.04 Last Word (R) 5.32 Weather 5.34 Shipping Forecast 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today

Radio 4 Extra

6.0am Desert Island Discs Revisited 6.45 Pursued By Bears (2/3) 7.0 Poetry Extra 7.30 Alive, Alive Oh and Other Things That Matter Omnibus (1- 5/5) 8.40 Inheritance Tracks 8.50 Tristram Shandy Omnibus - Part Two (6-10/10) 10.0 Whack-O! (5/20) 10.30 The Clitheroe Kid (7/20) 11.0 Desert Island Discs Revisited 11.45 Pursued By Bears (2/3) 12.0 Poetry Extra

12.30 Alive, Alive Oh and Other Things That Matter Omnibus (1-5/5) 1.40 Inheritance Tracks 1.50 Tristram Shandy Omnibus - Part Two (6-10/10) 3.0 Whack-O! (5/20) 3.30 The Clitheroe Kid (7/20) 4.0 SteelHeads (2/5) 4.30 Over Sea, Under Stone (2/4) 5.0 Desert Island Discs Revisited 5.45 Pursued By Bears (2/3) 6.0 Poetry Extra 6.30 Alive, Alive Oh and Other Things That Matter Omnibus (1-5/5) 7.40 Inheritance Tracks 7.50 Tristram Shandy Omnibus - Part Two (6-10/10) 9.0 Whack-O! (5/20) 9.30 The Clitheroe Kid (7/20) 10.0 Comedy Club: Date Night (2/4) 10.30 Alexei Sayle's Strangers on a Train (3/6) 11.0 Party (1/4) 11.30 Electric Ink (5/6) 12.0 SteelHeads (2/5) 12.30 Over Sea, Under Stone (2/4) 1.0 Desert Island Discs Revisited 1.45 Pursued By Bears (2/3) 2.0 Poetry Extra 2.30 Alive, Alive Oh and Other Things That Matter Omnibus (1-5/5) 3.40 Inheritance Tracks 3.50 Tristram Shandy Omnibus - Part Two (6-10/10) 5.0 Whack-O! (5/20) 5.30 The Clitheroe Kid (7/20)

The Sky at Night, BBC Four

BBC One

6.0 Breakfast (T) 9.30 Morning Live (T) 10.45 Crimewatch Live (T) 11.30 Homes Under the Hammer (T) (R) 12.15 Bargain Hunt (T) 1.0 News (T) 1.35 Regional News and Weather (T) 1.45 News (T) 2.0 Clean It, Fix It (T) (R) 2.30 Shift the Thrift (T) (R) 3.0 Escape to the Country (T) 3.45 Garden Rescue (T) 4.30 Bridge of Lies (T) 5.15 Pointless (T) (R) 6.0 News (T) 6.30 Regional News and Weather (T) 7.0 The One Show (T) 7.30 EastEnders (T)

BBC Two

6.20 Bargain Hunt (T) (R) 7.05 Sign Zone: The Great House Revival (T) (R) 7.55 Match of the Day (T) (R) 9.0 News (T) 12.15 Politics Live (T) 1.0 Impossible (T) (R) 1.45 The Answer Run (T) (R) 2.30 The Boss (T) (R) 3.15 Great British Railway Journeys (T) (R) 3.45 The Great House Revival (T) (R) 4.35 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (T) (R) 5.10 Flog It! (T) (R) 6.0 House of Games (T) 6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two (T) 7.0 Global Eye (T) 7.30 Mastermind (T)

ITV1

6.0 Good Morning Britain (T) 9.30 Lorraine (T) 10.0 This Morning (T) 12.30 Loose Women (T) 1.30 News and Weather (T) 1.55 Local News and Weather (T) 2.0 Dickinson's Real Deal (T) (R) 3.0 Lingo (T) (R) 4.0 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R) 5.0 The Chase (T) (R) 6.0 Local News and Weather (T) 6.30 News and Weather (T) 7.30 Cooking With the Stars (T)

Channel 4

6.30 The King of Queens (T) (R) 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (T) (R) 9.10 Frasier (T) (R) 11.10 American Pickers (T) (R) 12.05 News (T) 12.10 Renovation Nation (T) (R) 1.10 The Great House Giveaway (T) (R) 2.10 Countdown (T) 3.0 A Place in the Sun (T) (R) 4.0 Help! We Bought a Village (T) 5.0 Four in a Bed (T) (R) 5.30 Come Dine With Me (T) (R) 6.0 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now? (T) (R) 7.0 News (T) 7.55 Chloe's Story: Stand Up to Cancer (T) (R)

Channel5

6.0 Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (T) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (T) 12.45 News (T) 12.50 Matt Allwright (T) 2.20 FILM The Girl They Forgot (Delmar Washington, 2023) (T) 4.0 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (T) (R) 5.0 News (T) 6.0 Cornwall: A Year By the Sea (T) (R) 6.55 News (T) 7.0 Police Interceptors (T) (R) 7.55 News (T)

BBC Four

7.0 New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands (T) (R) A look at the wildlife of the Pacific island chain.

8.0 Panorama: Roman Abramovich - How He Hid His Fortune (T) The billionaire's money dealings.
8.30 Clickbait Clinic With Stacey Dooley (T) The presenter looks at a wave of young men boosting their testosterone.
9.0 Time (T) Prison drama, with David Tennant and Siobhan Finneran.

10.0 News (T) 10.30 Regional News (T) Weather 10.40 Have I Got News for You (T) (R) Alex Jones hosts the quiz. 11.10 FILM Misbehaviour (Philippa Lowthorpe, 2020) (T) Comedy drama, starring Keira Knightley and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. 12.50 Weather for the Week Ahead (T) 12.55 News (T)

8.0 Only Connect (T) Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz as the Frenemies take on the Sinistrals. 8.30 University Challenge (T) Soas University of London takes on Edinburgh. 9.0 Being Muslim After 9/11 (T) Documentary on the impact of the 11 September attacks in the US on British Muslims.

10.0 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (T) (R) Bob and Paul fish the Wensum in Norfolk for roach.

10.30 Newsnight (T) Weather 11.05 FILM American Fiction (Cord Jefferson, 2024) (T) Satire.

12.55 Sign Zone Countryfile (T) (R) 1.50 The Celebrity Traitors (T) (R) 2.55 The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked (T) (R)

8.0 Emmerdale (T) Vinny is in court and Kim is pulled over by the police. 8.30 Coronation Street (T) Brody and Bernie support Kit as his treatment begins. 9.0 The Party (T) Martin struggles to contain the fallout from Ben's shock news as the tragedy from their past is finally revealed.

10.0 News (T) Weather
10.30 Local News (T) Weather
10.45 Killer in the House: The Murder of Nicholas Billingham (T) (R)

11.40 Killer in the House: The Murders of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan (T) (R)

12.35 Shop 3.0 Wheel of Fortune (T) (R) 3.50 Unwind (T) 5.05 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R)

8.0 Jamie's 20 Minute Meals (T) Jamie shares a recipe for steak in a creamy sweet shallot and flambeed brandy sauce, plus fried garlicky gnocchi chips. 9.0 Pierre (T) The solicitor is still in shock after Michael's death, but is soon pulled into another duty case involving a family business in trouble.

10.05 Geordie Coppers (T)

11.05 FILM Killing Anna (Sam Benstead, 2026) (T) Syrian war documentary.

12.35 24 Hours in A&E (T) (R) 1.30 Stand Up to Cancer (T) (R) 1.35 Ramsay's Hotel Hell (T) (R) 2.25 Three Women (T) 4.20 Sunday Brunch (T) (R) 4.40 Hollyoaks Omnibus (T) (R) 5.50 Countdown (T) (R)

8.0 Traffic Cops: Elite Squad One (T) Motorcycle officer Joe Moisley responds to a serious collision on the A63 in which a car has veered head-on into oncoming traffic. 9.0 Michael Palin in the Philippines (T) The traveller begins the final leg of his journey on the island of Mindanao. Last in the series.

10.0 Forensics: Murder Scene (T) (R) A human foot is found.

11.35 A Killer Makes a Call (T) (R) 1.0 Must Have Ideas (T) (R) 3.0 Sex Dolls & Rubber Lovers: Our Secret World (T) (R) 3.45 Holidaying With Jane McDonald & Friends (T) (R) 4.30 Warship: Life in the Royal Navy (T) (R) 5.20 Entertainment News (T)

8.0 Art of France (T) (R) How art took a dramatic turn after the French Revolution. 9.0 Mastermind: 1977 (T) (R) Specialist subjects include Otto Von Bismarck. 9.30 Call My Bluff (T) (R) Angela Rippon, Nerys Hughes, Peter Brough and Jonathan Miller join team captains Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell.

10.0 The Sky at Night (T) Maggie Aderin explores how dyslexia has affected her life.

10.30 Reflecting Skin (T) (R) Bonnie Greer explores depictions of Black people in western art.

11.30 Leonardo Da Vinci (T) (R) Part two of two. Documentary. 1.10 Ancient Worlds (T) (R) 2.10 Art of France (T) (R)

Other channels

BBC Three

7.0pm The Catch Up
7.05 Horrible Histories
8.0 Top Gear 10.0
Silent Witness 12.0
FILM Tormented (2009)
1.25 Hyperdrive 13.25
BBC New Comedy Awards 2022

U&Dave

6.0am Teleshopping
7.10 Top Gear 8.0
Border Force: America's Gatekeepers 10.0 Rick Stein's Cornwall 10.30 Rick Stein's Cornwall 11.0 Rick Stein's Cornwall 11.30 Rick Stein's Cornwall 12.0 Hairy Bikers' Best of British 1.0 Canal Boat Diaries 2.0 Top Gear 3.0 Our Guy in Colombia 4.0 Rick Stein's Cornwall 4.30 Rick Stein's Cornwall 5.0 Rick Stein's Cornwall 5.30 Rick Stein's Cornwall 6.0 Hairy Bikers' Best of British 7.0 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 7.40 Would I Lie to You? At Christmas 8.20 Would I Lie to You? 9.0 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 10.0 QI XL 11.0 8 Out of 10 Cats Best Bits 11.50 Mock the Week 12.30 Would I Lie to You? At Christmas 1.10 Would I Lie to You? 1.50 QI XL 2.45 House of Games 3.30 Ghosts 4.0 Teleshopping

E4

6.0am Hollyoaks 6.55
Rude(ish) Tube Shorts
7.0 Couples Come Dine
With Me 8.0 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA
11.0 Modern Family 12.0
The Simpsons 2.0 The Goldbergs 3.0 Modern Family 5.0 The Simpsons
7.0 Hollyoaks 7.30
Brooklyn Nine-Nine 8.0
First Dates 9.0 Made in Chelsea 10.0 Gogglebox
11.05 Naked Attraction
12.10 First Dates 1.10
Made in Chelsea 2.15
Below Deck Down Under
3.0 The Simpsons 3.25
The Simpsons 3.50
The Simpsons 4.15 The Goldbergs 4.40 The Goldbergs 5.05 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

Film4

11.0am FILM Wild River (1960) 1.15
FILM Fixed Bayonets! (1951) 3.10 FILM Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
5.45 FILM The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 9.0 FILM The King's Man (2021)
11.35 FILM Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 2.20
FILM Deerskin (2019)

PBS America

6.0am Teleshopping 8.0 Victorian Britain on Film 9.30 Agatha Christie's England 10.35

The Anti-Soviet Fighters 11.45 Nazi Ratlines in Franco's Madrid 1.0 Victorian Britain on Film 2.30 Agatha Christie's England 3.30 The Anti-Soviet Fighters 4.45 Nazi Ratlines in Franco's Madrid 6.0 Victorian Britain on Film 7.30 Agatha Christie's England 8.35 The Anti-Soviet Fighters 9.45 Nazi Ratlines in Franco's Madrid 11.0 Agatha Christie's England 12.0 The Anti-Soviet Fighters 1.10 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 2.0 Teleshopping

Sky One

6.0am Mornings 6.30
Mornings 7.0 Mornings
With Ridge and Frost
7.30 Mornings With
Ridge and Frost 8.0
Stargate SG-1 9.0
Stargate SG-1 10.0
NCIS: Los Angeles 11.0
The Simpsons 11.30 The
Simpsons 12.0 Aussie
Snake Wranglers: Deadly
Pursuit 12.30 Aussie
Snake Wranglers: Deadly
Pursuit 1.0 Hawaii Five-0
2.0 Hawaii Five-0 3.0
S.W.A.T 4.0 S.W.A.T
5.0 The Simpsons
6.0 Superstore 6.30
Superstore 7.0 The
Simpsons 7.30 The
Simpsons 8.0 Agatha
Raisin 10.0 Last Week
Tonight With John Oliver

10.45 Saturday Night Live UK 12.0 Grimm 1.0 Evil 2.0 Gemma Collins: Everything. All at Once 2.45 Road Wars 3.10 Hawaii Five-0 4.05 S.W.A.T 5.0 S.W.A.T

Sky Arts

6.0am Jonas Kaufman at Arena Di Verona 8.0 Artist of the Year: Masterclass 8.30 Artist of the Year: Masterclass 9.0 Tales of the Unexpected 9.30 Tales of the Unexpected 10.0 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 10.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.0 Discovering: Sissy Spacek 12.0 Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man 1.0 Tales of the Unexpected 1.30 Tales of the Unexpected 2.0 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 2.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 3.0 Bill Bailey's Master Crafters: The

Next Generation 4.0 Discovering: Alan Rickman 5.0 Landscape Artist of the Year 2015 6.0 Tales of the Unexpected 6.30 Tales of the Unexpected 7.0 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 8.0 Pavarotti: The Lost Concert 9.20 André Rieu: Welcome to My World 10.20 André Rieu: Welcome to My World 11.20 Classic FM Live: Hall of Fame 2023 1.20 National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing 3.50 Sky Arts Ambassador Bursary Shorts 4.0 Art Traffickers: Treasures Stolen from the Tombs 5.0 Bill Bailey's Master Crafters: The Next Generation

Sky Atlantic

6.0am Fish Town 8.0
Billions 9.05 Billions
10.15 Deadwood
12.25 Gomorrah 1.30
Homicide: Life on the Street 2.30 Homicide:
Life on the Street 3.30
Billions 4.35 Billions
5.40 House of the Dragon 6.50 House of the Dragon 8.0 Fargo
9.0 Euphoria 10.20
Euphoria 12.0 Under Salt Marsh 1.05 It: Welcome to Derry 2.15 House of the Dragon 3.30 House of the Dragon 4.35 Sort Of 5.05 Urban Secrets

Radio

Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast 9.30 Essential Classics 1.0 Classical Live. Live from Wigmore Hall, London, violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster play Dora Pejačević's Violin Sonata in D, Op 26, "Spring", Dvořák's Nocturne in B, Op 40, and Brahms's Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108. 4.0 Composer of the Week: Tania Leon (1/5) 5.0 In Tune. With composer Segun Akinola. 7.0 Classical Mixtape. A special mix curated by Segun Akinola celebrating Black British composers and artists. 7.30 In Concert. From Granada international festival of music and dance, pianist Yulianna Avdeeva plays Chopin's Two Nocturnes, Op 62, Władysław Szpilman's Mazurka in F minor, Chopin's Fantasy in F minor, Op 49, Szpilman's The Life of the Machines Suite, plus Chopin's Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante in E flat, Op 22, 24 Preludes, Op 28, and Nocturne No 20 in C sharp minor, Op posth. 9.45 The Essay: Three Hundred Metres in Montparnasse. Joanna Robertson explores the Paris neighbourhood.

(1/5) (R) 10.0 Night Tracks 11.30 'Round Midnight 12.30 Through the Night

Radio 4

6.0am Today 9.0 Start the Week. Naomi Alderman and her guests discuss family secrets, Greek myth and ancient genomes. 9.45 Café Hope (6/10) 10.0 Woman's Hour 11.0 Another Country With James Rebank. The farmer and writer meets rural workers in Mayfield, East Sussex. (2/3) 11.45 Winnie-the-Pooh 100 Lenny Henry reads Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees by AA Milne. (1/5) 12.0 News 12.04 You and Yours 12.57 Weather 1.0 The World at One 1.45 Farming Today (R) 2.0 The Archers (R) 2.15 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen? (R) 2.45 Faith, Hope and Glory (R) 3.0 A Good Read. Historian and writer Andrea Wulf and author Selina Brown recommend books. (1/9) 3.30 Curious Cases (R) 4.0 AI on the Farm (R) 4.30 Art That Conquered the World (R) 5.0 PM 5.57 Weather 6.0 News 6.30 Room 101 With Paul Merton. The comedian asks Miles Jupp about his pet hates and worst nightmares. (1/6) 7.0 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 8.0 The Briefing Room (R) 8.30 Inside Science (R) 9.0 Start the Week (R) 9.45 Café Hope (R) 9.59 Weather 10.0 The World Tonight 10.45 Who Are You in Winnie-the-Pooh? Children's writers reveal who they most identify with in AA Milne's timeless tales. (R) 11.0 Cobalt (R) 11.30 Today in Parliament 12.0 News and Weather 12.30 Appetite for Distraction (R) 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.0 As World Service 5.0 News 5.04 Yesterday in Parliament 5.32 Weather 5.34 Shipping Forecast 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today

Radio 4 Extra

6.0am Not As Far As Velma (1/6) 6.30 Deep Six (2/6) 7.0 Chambers (5/5) 7.30 Dad's Army (22/26) 8.0 Plum House (4/6) 8.30 Winnie the Pooh (1/3) 8.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (1/5) 9.0 Unspeakable (6/6) 9.30 Corncrakes for Breakfast (1/5) 9.45 Daily Service 10.0 Fame in the Family 10.30 The Songs of Milne 11.0 Not As Far As Velma (1/6) 11.30 Deep Six (2/6) 12.0 Chambers

(5/5) 12.30 Dad's Army (22/26) 1.0 Plum House (4/6) 1.30 Winnie the Pooh (1/3) 1.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (1/5) 2.0 Just a Minute (4/6) 2.30 Trevor's World of Sport (6/6) 3.0 The Midnight Folk (1/2) 4.0 Fame in the Family 4.30 The Songs of Milne 5.0 Not As Far As Velma (1/6) 5.30 Deep Six (2/6) 6.0 Chambers (5/5) 6.30 Dad's Army (22/26) 7.0 Plum House (4/6) 7.30 Winnie the Pooh (1/3) 7.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (1/5) 8.0 Just a Minute (4/6) 8.30 Trevor's World of Sport (6/6) 9.0 The Midnight Folk (1/2) 10.0 Comedy Club: Unspeakable (6/6) 10.30 Brian Appleton's History of Rock'n'Roll (4/6) 10.45 The Jail Diaries of Sir Ralph Stanza (4) 11.0 The News Quiz (6/8) 11.30 Revolting People (2/6) 12.0 Fame in the Family 12.30 The Songs of Milne 1.0 Not As Far As Velma (1/6) 1.30 Deep Six (2/6) 2.0 Chambers (5/5) 2.30 Dad's Army (22/26) 3.0 Plum House (4/6) 3.30 Winnie the Pooh (1/3) 3.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (1/5) 4.0 Just a Minute (4/6) 4.30 Trevor's World of Sport (6/6) 5.0 The Midnight Folk (1/2)

BBC One

6.0 Breakfast (T) 9.30 Morning Live (T) 10.45 Crimewatch Live (T) 11.30 Homes Under the Hammer (T) (R) 12.15 Bargain Hunt (T) (R) 1.0 News (T) 1.35 Regional News and Weather (T) 1.45 News (T) 2.0 Clean It, Fix It (T) (R) 2.30 Shift the Thrift (T) (R) 3.0 Escape to the Country (T) 3.45 Garden Rescue (T) (R) 4.30 Bridge of Lies (T) 5.15 Pointless (T) (R) 6.0 News (T) 6.30 Regional News and Weather (T) 7.0 The One Show (T) 7.30 EastEnders (T)

BBC Two

6.30 Bargain Hunt (T) (R) 7.15 Escape to the Country (T) (R) 8.0 Sign Zone: Weatherman Walking (T) (R) 8.30 Weatherman Walking (T) (R) 9.0 News (T) 12.15 Politics Live (T) 1.0 Impossible (T) (R) 1.45 The Answer Run (T) (R) 2.30 The Boss (T) (R) 3.15 Great British Railway Journeys (T) (R) 3.45 The Great House Revival (T) (R) 4.35 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (T) (R) 5.15 Flog It! (T) (R) 6.0 House of Games (T) 6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two (T) 7.0 The Hairy Bikers Go West (T) (R)

ITV1

6.0 Good Morning Britain (T) 9.30 Lorraine (T) 10.0 This Morning (T) 12.30 Loose Women (T) 1.30 News and Weather (T) 1.55 Local News and Weather (T) 2.0 Dickinson's Real Deal (T) (R) 3.0 Lingo (T) (R) 4.0 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R) 5.0 The Chase (T) (R) 6.0 Local News and Weather (T) 6.30 News and Weather (T) 7.15 The Martin Lewis Money Show: Live (T)

Channel 4

6.30 The King of Queens (T) (R) 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (T) (R) 9.10 Frasier (T) (R) 11.10 American Pickers (T) (R) 12.05 News (T) 12.10 Renovation Nation (T) (R) 1.10 The Great House Giveaway (T) (R) 2.10 Countdown (T) 3.0 A Place in the Sun (T) (R) 4.0 Help! We Bought a Village (T) 5.0 Four in a Bed (T) (R) 5.30 Come Dine With Me (T) (R) 6.0 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now? (T) (R) 7.0 News (T) 7.55 Matthew's Story: Stand Up to Cancer (T) (R)

Channel5

6.0 Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (T) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (T) 12.45 News (T) 12.50 Matt Allwright (T) 2.20 FILM Abducted: Searching for Emma Moreno (Kaila York, 2023) (T) 4.0 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (T) (R) 5.0 News (T) 6.0 Cornwall: A Year By the Sea (T) (R) 6.55 News (T) 7.0 Traffic Cops (T) (R) 7.55 News (T)

BBC Four

7.0 Secrets of Bones (T) (R) How the skeleton aids flight. 7.30 To the Manor Born (T) (R) Audrey tries to foil DeVere's plans to change the countryside.

8.0 DIY SOS (T) A family in Preston, Lancashire need the team's help to get their son home from hospital – but it's a near-impossible build. 9.0 Blue Lights (T) As Gerry's murder trial begins, Mo's poor mental health ignites a struggle between the state and justice. And Shane has a tense stand-off with Lee.

10.0 News (T)

10.30 Regional News (T) Weather 10.40 Stacey Dooley: Fallen Women (T) (R) Cases of female deaths after falls. 11.40 Clickbait Clinic With Stacey Dooley (T) (R) Featuring fitness influencer Adam Katz. 12.10 Wisdom of the Crowd (T) (R) 12.55 Weather for the Week Ahead (T) 1.0 News (T)

8.0 Saving Lives at Sea (T) A call comes from a dog walker who has spotted a surfer in trouble below the cliffs at Rest Bay near Portcawl. 9.0 John Simpson: Sixty Years at the BBC (T) The journalist takes a look back at his 60-year career at the BBC, reflecting on the changing world he has witnessed.

10.0 QI (T) (R) With panellists Sara Pascoe, Bridget Christie and Deborah Frances-White.

10.30 Newsnight (T) Weather 11.0 Being Muslim After 9/11 (T) (R) Documentary.

12.05 Sign Zone Damilola - The Untold Story (T) (R) 1.20 The Celebrity Traitors (T) (R) 2.25 The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked (T) (R)

8.0 Emmerdale (T) Matty is finding life at the farm hard while Robert is excited. 8.30 Coronation Street (T) Todd betrays Kit's confidence to a horrified Sarah. 9.0 The Party (T) Under pressure from Ben, Martin must decide how far he is prepared to go to bury the secret from their past and save his friend.

10.0 News (T) Weather

10.45 The Sugar Daddy Murder: True Crime Presents (T) (R) A look at a case from 2012.
11.35 Sorry, I Didn't Know (T) (R)

12.0 Shop on TV 3.0 Julia Bradbury's Wonders of the Frozen South (T) (R) 3.50 Unwind With ITV (T) 5.05 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R)

8.0 The Great British Bake Off (T) The contestants make a garlic bread signature and a showstopping bread display, before one is asked to leave.

9.15 Tempting Fortune (T) After battling across the mudflats, the exhausted contestants are offered the ultimate escape - a cruise complete with cocktails and dinner.

10.15 The Great British Bake Off: Second Helpings (T) 11.05 Gogglebox (T) (R)

12.05 Taskmaster (T) (R) 1.0 Matthew's Story (T) (R) 1.10 Hotel Hell (T) (R) 1.55 Apocalypse (T) (R) 3.0 Three Women (T) 4.0 Location, Location, Location (T) (R) 4.55 Come Dine With Me (T) (R) 5.50 Countdown (T) (R)

8.0 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain's Speeders (T) On the M6, PCs Tom Cordall and Greg Chadwick track a reportedly stolen Audi A3. 9.0 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (T) The host visits the Pacific atoll of Ahe in French Polynesia to meet a family whose lives revolve round their off-grid pearl farm.

11.35 The Hospital: Life on the Line (T) (R)

12.35 Cops (T) (R) 1.0 Must Have Ideas (T) 3.0 I Like a Good Spanking! (T) (R4) 3.45 Warship: Life in the Royal Navy (T) (R) 4.35 Cruising With Susan Calman (T) (R) 5.20 Entertainment News (T)

8.0 Keeping Up Appearances (T) (R) Richard forgets his wedding anniversary. 8.30 City Lights (T) (R) First episode of the Glasgow-set comedy. With Gerard Kelly. 9.0 City Lights: Pure Dead Brilliant (T) (R) A celebration of the comedy about a bank clerk with dreams of being a best-selling author.

10.0 Storyville: Ask E. Jean (T) The life of American advice columnist E Jean Carroll. 11.25 999 Special (T) (R) A look at the great storm of 1987. 12.15 The Sky at Night (T) (R) 12.45 Secrets of Bones (T) (R) 1.15 City Lights: Pure Dead Brilliant (T) (R) 2.15 New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands (T) (R)

Other channels

BBC Three

7.0pm The Catch Up
7.05 Horrible Histories
8.0 Sort Your Life Out
With Stacey Solomon
9.0 Stacey Dooley 10.0
Stacey Dooley: Growing
Up Gypsy 10.45 The
Beauty Queen and the
Catfish 1.0 Evicted:
Tenants on the Edge
2.0 Stacey Dooley 3.0
Sort Your Life Out With
Stacey Solomon

U&Dave

6.0am Teleshopping
7.10 Top Gear 8.0
Border Force: America's Gatekeepers 9.0
Border Force: America's Gatekeepers 10.0 Rick Stein's Cornish Christmas 11.0 Rick Stein's Secret France 12.0 The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure 1.0 Canal Boat Diaries 2.0 Top Gear 3.0 Our Guy in Colombia 4.0 Rick Stein's Cornish Christmas 5.0 Rick Stein's Secret France 6.0 The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure 7.0 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 7.40 Would I Lie to You? 8.20 Would I Lie to You? 9.0 QI XL 10.0 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 11.0 8 Out of 10 Cats 12.0 Mock the Week 12.40 Would I Lie to You? 2.0 QI XL 3.0 House of Games 3.30 Ghosts 4.0 Teleshopping

E4

6.0am Hollyoaks 6.55 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.0 Couples Come Dine With Me 8.0 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 11.0 Modern Family 12.0 The Simpsons 2.0 The Goldbergs 3.0 Modern Family 5.0 The Simpsons 7.0 Hollyoaks 7.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 8.0 First Dates 9.0 Gogglebox 11.05 Naked Attraction 12.05 First Dates 1.10 Gogglebox 2.10 Below Deck Down Under 2.55 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 4.25 The Simpsons 4.50 The Goldbergs 5.35 Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Film4

11.0am FILM Santa Fe (1951) 12.45 FILM Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) 2.50 FILM The Frogmen (1951) 4.45 FILM The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019) 6.50 FILM D-Day: The Sixth of June (1956) 9.0 FILM The Green Mile (1999) 12.45 FILM LA Confidential (1997)

PBS America

6.0am Teleshopping 8.0 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 8.40 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 9.45 Declarations: Black Americans and the

Revolutionary War 10.50 Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs 11.55 Waco: The Longest Siege 1.0 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 1.40 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 2.50 Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War 3.55 Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs 5.05 Waco: The Longest Siege 6.15 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 7.20 Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War 8.35 Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs 9.40 Waco: The Longest Siege 10.50 Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War 12.0 Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs 1.10 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 2.0 Teleshopping

Sky One

6.0am Mornings 7.0 Mornings With Ridge and Frost 8.0 Stargate SG-1 9.0 Stargate SG-1 10.0 NCIS: Los Angeles 11.0 The Simpsons 12.0 Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit 1.0 Hawaii Five-0 3.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 The Simpsons 6.0 Superstore 7.0 The Simpsons 8.0 The Dyers' Caravan Park 9.0 Gemma

Collins: Everything. All at Once 9.45 Never Mind the Buzzcocks 10.30 Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life 11.30 Grimm 12.30 Evil 1.30 Road Wars 2.0 Rob & Romesh vs Kung Fu in China 3.0 Hawaii Five-0 4.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 S.W.A.T

Sky Arts

6.0am Classic FM's Rising Stars With Julian Lloyd Webber 2021 7.0 Classic FM's Rising Stars With Julian Lloyd Webber 2022 8.0 Artist of the Year: Masterclass 8.30 Artist of the Year: Masterclass 9.0 Tales of the Unexpected 10.0 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.0 Discovering: Alan Rickman 11.55 Classic Albums 1.10 Tales of the Unexpected 1.35 Tales of the Unexpected 2.0 Alfred Hitchcock

Presents 3.0 Bill Bailey's Master Crafters: The Next Generation 4.0 Discovering: Harrison Ford 5.0 Landscape Artist of the Year 2015 6.0 Tales of the Unexpected 7.0 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 8.0 Stories from the National Portrait Gallery 9.0 The Sky Arts Awards 2026 11.0 The Movies 12.0 John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky 2.0 Portrait Artist of the Year 2026 3.0 Landscape Artist of the Year: Celebrity Special 4.0 A Play in a Day 5.0 Bill Bailey's Master Crafters: The Next Generation

Sky Atlantic

6.0am Fish Town
7.0 Fish Town 8.0
Billions 9.05 Billions
10.15 Deadwood
11.20 Deadwood
12.25 Gomorrah 1.30
Homicide: Life on the Street 2.30
Homicide: Life on the Street 3.30
Billions 4.35 Billions
5.40 House of the Dragon 6.50
House of the Dragon 8.0
Fargo 9.0 Prisoner
10.0 Prisoner 11.0 Das Boot 12.10
House of the Dragon 1.25
House of the Dragon 2.45
House of the Dragon 4.0
Gomorrah 5.05 Urban Secrets

Radio

Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast 9.30 Essential Classics 1.0 Classical Live. From the St Gallen festival in Switzerland, Wayne Marshall conducts the St Gallen Symphony Orchestra and mezzo Hadar Halevy in Bernstein's Symphony No 1, "Jeremiah". Plus, Segun Akinola's On the Shoulders of Aunties and Uncles, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Luis Castillo-Briceño. 4.0 Composer of the Week: Tania Leon (2/5) 5.0 In Tune 7.0 Classical Mixtape 7.30 In Concert. At the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Patrick Hahn conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and violist Lawrence Power in JS Bach's (arr Stokowski) Komm, Süsser Tod, Schnittke's Viola Concerto and Shostakovich's Symphony No 5. 9.45 The Essay: Three Hundred Metres in Montparnasse. Joanna Robertson on the life of writer François-René de Chateaubriand. (2/5) (R) 10.0 Night Tracks 11.30 'Round Midnight. Soweto Kinch reflects on trailblazing British-based Black musicians Shake

Keane, Coleridge Goode and Joe Harriott. 12.30 Through the Night

Radio 4

6.0am Today 9.0 The Life Scientific. Jim Al-Khalili talks to chemist Asel Sartbaeva. (6/10) 9.30 Inside Health (1/6) 10.0 Woman's Hour 11.0 Screenshot (R) 11.45 Winnie-the-Pooh 100. Ambika Mod reads Piglet Meets a Heffalump by AA Milne. (2/5) 12.0 News 12.04 Call You and Yours 12.57 Weather 1.0 The World at One 1.45 Farming Today (R) 2.0 The Archers (R) 2.15 Maydays. David Edgar's drama of mid-20th century idealism and revolutionary politics. With Mark Quartley, Geoffrey Streatfeild and Ellie Kendrick. (1/3) (R) 3.0 History's Secret Heroes. A midwife who put her life on the line to help the resistance in Malaya. (8/10) 3.30 Beyond Belief. Giles Fraser and guests discuss new atheism. (4/4) 4.0 Roleplay. Actors reflect on playing Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest. (2/3) 4.30 What's Up Docs? Chris and Xand van Tulleken explore what causes acne. 5.0 PM 5.57 Weather 6.0 News 6.30

Geoff Norcott's Working Men's Club (R) 7.0 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 8.0 File on 4 Investigates (5/5) 8.40 In Touch 9.0 Grandchildren of the '56 Revolution (R) 9.30 The Bottom Line (R) 9.59 Weather 10.0 The World Tonight 10.45 Who Are You in Winnie-the-Pooh? Onjali Q Rauf and Chris Riddell talk about Owl. (R) 11.0 Half-Life (R) 11.30 Today in Parliament 12.0 News and Weather 12.30 Appetite for Distraction (R) 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.0 As World Service 5.0 News Summary 5.04 Yesterday in Parliament 5.32 Weather 5.34 Shipping Forecast 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today

Radio 4 Extra

6.0am Not As Far As Velma (2/6) 6.30 Deep Six (3/6) 7.0 Rent (6/6) 7.30 The Goon Show 8.0 Relativity (1/4) 8.30 Winnie the Pooh (2/3) 8.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (2/5) 9.0 Geoff Norcott's Working Men's Club (4/4) 9.30 Corncrakes for Breakfast (2/5) 9.45 Daily Service 10.0 A Good Read 10.30 Winnie the Who? 11.0 Not As Far As Velma (2/6) 11.30

Deep Six (3/6) 12.0
Rent (6/6) 12.30 The
Goon Show 1.0 Relativity
(1/4) 1.30 Winnie the
Pooh (2/3) 1.45 How
to Write a Novel in a
Week (2/5) 2.0 The
Unbelievable Truth (4/6)
2.30 Hazelbeach (3/6)
3.0 The Midnight Folk
(2/2) 4.0 A Good Read
4.30 Winnie the Who?
5.0 Not As Far As Velma
(2/6) 5.30 Deep Six
(3/6) 6.0 Rent (6/6)
6.30 The Goon Show
7.0 Relativity (1/4) 7.30
Winnie the Pooh (2/3)
7.45 How to Write a
Novel in a Week (2/5)
8.0 The Unbelievable
Truth (4/6) 8.30
Hazelbeach (3/6) 9.0
The Midnight Folk (2/2)
10.0 Comedy Club: Geoff
Norcott's Working Men's
Club (4/4) 10.30 Innes
Own World (3/4) 11.0 It
Is Rocket Science (1/4)
11.15 Little Lifetimes
(3/6) 11.30 The in Crowd
(2/6) 12.0 A Good Read
12.30 Winnie the Who?
1.0 Not As Far As Velma
(2/6) 1.30 Deep Six
(3/6) 2.0 Rent (6/6)
2.30 The Goon Show
3.0 Relativity (1/4)
3.30 Winnie the Pooh
(2/3) 3.45 How to Write
a Novel in a Week (2/5)
4.0 The Unbelievable
Truth (4/6) 4.30
Hazelbeach (3/6) 5.0
The Midnight Folk (2/2)

The Singing Detective, BBC Four

BBC One

6.0 Breakfast (T) 9.30 Morning Live (T) 10.45 Crimewatch Live (T) 11.30 Homes Under the Hammer (T) (R) 12.15 Bargain Hunt (T) (R) 1.0 News (T) 1.35 Regional News and Weather (T) 1.45 News (T) 2.0 Clean It, Fix It (T) (R) 2.30 Shift the Thrift (T) (R) 3.0 Escape to the Country (T) (R) 3.45 Garden Rescue (T) 4.30 Bridge of Lies (T) 5.15 Pointless (T) (R) 6.0 News (T) 6.30 Regional News and Weather (T) 7.0 The One Show (T) 7.30 EastEnders (T)

BBC Two

6.30 Escape to the Country (T) (R) 7.15 Bridge of Lies (T) (R) 8.0 Sign Zone: The Reluctant Vampire (T) (R) 8.30 The Best of Weatherman Walking (T) (R) 9.0 News (T) 11.15 Politics Live (T) 1.0 Impossible (T) (R) 1.45 The Answer Run (T) (R) 2.30 The Boss (T) (R) 3.15 Great British Railway Journeys (T) (R) 3.45 The Great House Revival (T) (R) 4.35 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (T) (R) 5.15 Flog It! (T) (R) 6.0 House of Games (T) 6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two (T) 7.0 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (T) (R)

ITV1

6.0 Good Morning Britain (T) 9.30 Lorraine (T) 10.0 This Morning (T) 12.30 Loose Women (T) 1.30 News and Weather (T) 1.55 Local News and Weather (T) 2.0 Dickinson's Real Deal (T) (R) 3.0 Lingo (T) (R) 4.0 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R) 5.0 The Chase (T) (R) 6.0 Local News and Weather (T) 6.30 News and Weather (T) 7.30 Tipping Point: Best Ever Finals (T)

Channel 4

6.30 The King of Queens (T) (R) 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (T) (R) 9.10 Frasier (T) (R) 11.10 American Pickers (T) (R) 12.05 News (T) 12.10 Renovation Nation (T) (R) 1.10 The Great House Giveaway (T) (R) 2.10 Countdown (T) 3.0 A Place in the Sun (T) (R) 4.0 Help! We Bought a Village (T) 5.0 Four in a Bed (T) (R) 5.30 Come Dine With Me (T) (R) 6.0 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now? (T) (R) 7.0 News (T) 7.55 Morgan's Story: Stand Up to Cancer (T) (R)

Channel5

6.0 Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (T) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (T) 12.45 News (T) 12.50 Matt Allwright (T) 2.20 FILM Deadly Surrogacy (Chester Sit, 2022) (T) 4.0 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (T) (R) 5.0 News (T) 6.0 Cornwall: A Year By the Sea (T) (R) 6.55 5 News Update (T) 7.0 Invasion of the E-Bikes: Scourge of Our Streets? (T) 7.55 News (T)

BBC Four

7.0 Secrets of Bones (T) (R) How skeletons have evolved to help animals sense the world around them. 7.30 Timothy Spall Back at Sea (T) (R) In the west of Scotland.

8.0 The Repair Shop: Beyond the Barn (T) Mark Stuckey restores a 1970s record player, and Pete Woods repairs the giant crack in a Ghanaian djembe drum. 9.0 Who Do You Think You Are? (T) (R) Actor and deaf rights campaigner Rose Ayling-Ellis goes in search of her family history.

10.0 News (T)

10.30 Regional News (T) Weather 10.40 MOTD: Uefa Champions League (T) Mark Chapman presents action from the latest matches, including Man City v PSG.

12.0 The Celebrity Inner Circle (T) (R) 12.45 Weather for the Week Ahead (T) 12.50 News (T)

8.0 Secrets and Spies: A Nuclear Game (T) (R) Documentary that looks at how Britain identified Mikhail Gorbachev as a possible new contender for Soviet leader. 9.0 The Book That Changed My Life (T) Queen Camilla joins four remarkable people to share the stories of books that shaped them.

10.0 Live at the Apollo (T) (R) 10.30 Newsnight (T) Weather 11.0 Unspun World With John Simpson (T) News review. 11.30 John Simpson: Sixty Years at the BBC (T) (R)

12.30 Sign Zone Finding Britain's Slave Traders With David Olusoga (T) (R) 1.30 Eva Longoria: Searching for France (T) (R) 2.10 Time (R)

8.0 Emmerdale (T) Sadie comes up with a plan, while Nicola is grateful for Bob's support. 8.30 Coronation Street (T) Sarah's murder trial opens, Debbie confides in Abi and Sam comes under fire. 9.0 Winter (T) The detective uncovers the chilling truth that Molly was killed at least half an hour before Benjamin.

10.0 News (T) Weather

10.30 Local News (T) Weather
10.45 Peston (T) Political chat.
11.30 Prem Unleashed (T) Rugby union match highlights.

12.0 Shop on TV 3.0 Tonight: Buyer Beware - Retirement Properties (T) (R) 3.25 Pictionary (T) (R) 3.50 Unwind With ITV (T) 5.05 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R)

8.0 Location, Location, Location (T) Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Peter and Kate and Mel and Cody search in their favourite areas of Clapham and Balham. 9.0 Grand Designs (T) Revisiting Chris and Gill, who renovated a disused textile mill near Huddersfield into hi-tech accommodation.

10.0 Fellow Travelers (T) 11.25 Fellow Travelers (T)

12.33 The Great British Bake On (T) (R) 1.45 Morgan's Story: Stand Up to Cancer (T) (R) 1.50 Tempting Fortune (T) (R) 2.45 Ramsay's Hotel Hell (T) (R) 3.35 The Great Celebrity Pottery Throw Down (T) (R) 4.40 Couples Come Dine With Me (T) (R)

8.0 Murder Scene: The Incident Room (T) The story of 96-year-old Emma Finch, whose body was found inside a bungalow on fire in the Hampshire village of Liss. 9.0 Cause of Death (T) An investigation into 17-year-old Derbyshire boxer Ed Bilbey, who collapsed nine minutes into a fight.

12.05 Ambulance: Code Red (T) (R) 1.0 Must Have Ideas (T) 3.0 Cornwall: A Year By the Sea (T) (R) 3.45 The Queen Mary: Royals at Sea (T) (R) 4.30 Yorkshire With Jane McDonald (T) (R)

8.0 The Lost City of Sanxingdui (T) A look at an ancient city in the mountains of Sichuan, China, which was lost until the discovery of a jade object in 1927.

9.0 The Planets (T) (R) Brian Cox tells the story of the solar system, beginning with the development of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

10.0 Janet Suzman Remembers: The Singing Detective (T)
10.15 The Singing Detective (T)
(R) Episode one of Dennis Potter's surreal 1986 drama.
11.25 The Singing Detective (T) (R)
12.35 Secrets of Bones (T) (R)
1.05 Timothy Spall Back at Sea (T) (R) 1.35 Timeshift: Of Ice and Men (T) (R) 2.35 The Planets (T) (R)

Other channels

BBC Three

7.0pm The Catch Up
7.05 Horrible Histories
7.30 FILM Horrible Histories: The Movie (2019) 9.0 DIY SOS
10.0 The Music Is Black Mixtape 11.0
Made in Britain: Grime
11.15 Stormzy: Live at Glastonbury 2019
12.30 Made in Britain: UK Garage 12.45 Radio
1 Live Lounge: UK Garage Special 1.10
Made in Britain: Jungle
1.25 Nia Archives: Live at Glastonbury 2024
2.25 Black Ops 2.55 Dreaming Whilst Black
3.20 Famalam

U&Dave

6.0am Teleshopping
7.10 Top Gear 8.0
Border Force: America's Gatekeepers 9.0
Border Force: America's Gatekeepers 10.0 Rick Stein's Secret France 11.0 Rick Stein's Secret France 12.0 The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure 1.0 Canal Boat Diaries 2.0 Top Gear 3.0 Our Guy in Russia 4.0 Rick Stein's Secret France 5.0 Rick Stein's Secret France 6.0 The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure 7.0 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 7.40 Would I Lie to You? 8.20 Would I Lie to You? 9.0 QI XL 10.0 Have I Got a Bit

More 2022 News for You 11.0 8 Out of 10 Cats 11.55 Mock the Week 12.35 Would I Lie to You? 1.55 QI XL 2.55 House of Games 3.30 Ghosts 4.0 Teleshopping

E4

6.0am Hollyoaks 6.55 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.0 Couples Come Dine With Me 8.0 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 11.0 Modern Family 12.0 The Simpsons 12.0 The Goldbergs 3.0 Modern Family 5.0 The Simpsons 7.0 Hollyoaks 7.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 8.0 First Dates 9.0 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 10.0 Gogglebox 12.05 First Dates 1.05 Gogglebox 2.05 Below Deck Down Under 2.50 The Simpsons 3.15 The Goldbergs 4.05 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 4.25 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

Film4

11.0am FILM Forty Guns (1957) 12.45
FILM How Green Was My Valley (1941) 3.05
FILM Crash Dive (1943)
5.15 FILM The Black Arrow (1948) 6.55
FILM Ticket to Paradise (2022) 9.0 FILM Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
11.05 FILM Jennifer's Body (2009) 1.10
FILM Miranda (2002)

PBS America

6.0am Teleshopping
8.0 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 8.35 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 9.45 Edwardian Britain in Colour 10.50 Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs 11.55 China: Treasures of the Jade Empire 1.0 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 1.50 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 2.55 Edwardian Britain in Colour 3.55 Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs 5.0 China: Treasures of the Jade Empire 6.05 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 7.15 Edwardian Britain in Colour 8.15 Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs 9.20 China: Treasures of the Jade Empire 10.25 Edwardian Britain in Colour 11.30 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 12.0 Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs 1.10 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 2.0 Teleshopping

Sky One

6.0am Mornings 6.30 Mornings 7.0 Mornings With Ridge and Frost 7.30 Mornings With Ridge and Frost 8.0 Stargate SG-1 9.0 Stargate SG-1 10.0

NCIS: Los Angeles 11.0 The Simpsons 11.30 The Simpsons 12.0 Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit 12.30 Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit 1.0 Hawaii Five-0 2.0 Hawaii Five-0 3.0 S.W.A.T 4.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 The Simpsons 5.30 The Simpsons 6.0 Superstore 6.30 Superstore 7.0 The Simpsons 7.30 The Simpsons 8.0 Joe Lycett's United States of Birmingham 9.0 Rob & Romesh vs Kung Fu in China 10.0 FILM London Has Fallen (2016) 12.0 Grimm 1.0 Evil 2.0 Road Wars 3.0 Hawaii Five-0 4.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 S.W.A.T

Sky Arts

6.0am HMS Pinafore With ENO 8.0 Artist of the Year: Masterclass 9.0 Tales of the Unexpected 10.0 Alfred Hitchcock Presents

11.0 Discovering: Harrison Ford 12.0 Classic Albums 1.0 Tales of the Unexpected 2.0 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 3.0 Bill Bailey's Master Crafters: The Next Generation 4.0 Discovering: Meryl Streep 5.0 Landscape Artist of the Year 2015 6.0 Tales of the Unexpected 7.0 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 8.0 Portrait Artist of the Year 2026 9.0 Landscape Artist of the Year: Celebrity Special 10.0 The Sky Arts Awards 2026 12.0 The Nineties 1.0 The Myth of Marilyn Monroe 2.0 Classic Movies: The Story of a Matter of Life and Death 3.0 Discovering: Ralph Fiennes 4.0 A Play in a Day 5.0 Bill Bailey's Master Crafters: The Next Generation

Sky Atlantic

6.0am Fish Town 8.0
Billions 10.15 Deadwood
12.25 Gomorrah 1.30
Homicide: Life on the Street 3.30 Billions 5.40
House of the Dragon
8.0 Fargo 9.0 War
10.05 The Terror 11.10
The Terror 12.15 House of the Dragon 1.40
House of the Dragon
3.0 Gomorrah 4.05 The Guest Wing 5.05 The Guest Wing

Radio

Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast 9.30 Essential Classics 1.0 Classical Live. From the Chaise-Dieu festival in France, Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra and pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 30. Plus, Beethoven's Coriolan, with the Ulster Orchestra conducted by Junping Qian. 3.0 Choral Evensong. From Salisbury Cathedral. 4.0 Composer of the Week: Tania Leon (3/5) 5.0 In Tune 7.0 Classical Mixtape 7.30 In Concert. From the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Christopher Bell conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, National Youth Choir of Scotland, National Girls Choir, National Boys Choir, soprano Emma Morwood, tenor Joseph Doody and baritone Paul Grant in Jay Capperauld's The World, Jonathan Dove's The Passing of the Year and Orff's Carmina Burana. 9.45 The Essay: Three Hundred Metres in Montparnasse. Joanna Robertson reflects on the work of trumpet player Maurice André. (3/5) (R) 10.0 Night Tracks 11.30 'Round Midnight 12.30 Through the Night

Radio 4

6.0am Today 9.0 More Or Less (6/6) 9.30 Where Is Austin Tice? Josh Baker uncovers a hidden world of secret negotiations. (6/9) 10.0 Woman's Hour 11.0 File on 4 Investigates (R) 11.40 This Week in History. The death of Marie Antoinette and the beginning of Beatlemania. 11.45 Winnie-the-Pooh 100. Jim Broadbent reads Eeyore Has a Birthday by AA Milne. (3/5) 12.0 News 12.04 You and Yours 12.57 Weather 1.0 The World at One 1.45 Farming Today (R) 2.0 The Archers (R) 2.15 Faith, Hope and Glory. Drama, by Roy Williams. (R) 3.0 Money Box 3.30 The Artificial Human. Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong ask whether the UK should have its own AI. (4/6) 4.0 When It Hits the Fan (6/15) 4.15 The Media Show 5.0 PM 5.57 Weather 6.0 News 6.30 Glenn Moore's Almanac (R) 7.0 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 8.0 Here for the History (3/6) 8.30 Top Comment (3/6) 9.0 The Life Scientific (R) 9.30 Inside Health (R) 10.0 The World Tonight 10.45 Who Are You in Winnie-the-Pooh? Nick Butterworth and

Julia Donaldson discuss Pooh Bear. (R) 11.0 Kiri's Farm. The Land. Kiri Pritchard-McLean consults a soil specialist. (2/5) 11.15 Big Little Questions (R) 11.30 Today in Parliament 12.0 News 12.30 Appetite for Distraction (R) 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.0 As World Service 5.0 News 5.04 Yesterday in Parliament 5.32 Weather 5.34 Shipping Forecast 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today

Radio 4 Extra

6.0am Not As Far As Velma (3/6) 6.30 Deep Six (4/6) 7.0 After Henry (2/8) 7.30 Hancock's Half Hour (6/20) 8.0 Conversations from a Long Marriage (3/6) 8.30 Winnie the Pooh (3/3) 8.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (3/5) 9.0 Glenn Moore's Almanac (1/4) 9.30 Corncrakes for Breakfast (3/5) 9.45 Daily Service 10.0 A Brief History of Disobedience (2/4) 11.0 Not As Far As Velma (3/6) 11.30 Deep Six (4/6) 12.0 After Henry (2/8) 12.30 Hancock's Half Hour (6/20) 1.0 Conversations from a Long Marriage (3/6) 1.30 Winnie the Pooh (3/3) 1.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (3/5)

2.0 Hoax! 2.30 The Great Pursuit (4/4) 3.0 Hush! Hush! Whisper Who Dares! 3.45 Short Works 4.0 A Brief History of Disobedience (2/4) 5.0 Not As Far As Velma (3/6) 5.30 Deep Six (4/6) 6.0 After Henry (2/8) 6.30 Hancock's Half Hour (6/20) 7.0 Conversations from a Long Marriage (3/6) 7.30 Winnie the Pooh (3/3) 7.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (3/5) 8.0 Hoax! 8.30 The Great Pursuit (4/4) 9.0 Hush! Hush! Whisper Who Dares! 9.45 Short Works 10.0 Comedy Club: Glenn Moore's Almanac (1/4) 10.30 Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music (4/6) 11.0 Everyone Quite Likes Justin (6/6) 11.30 Twenty Players (1/6) 11.45 The Goldfish Bowl (6/8) 12.0 Rock Bottom: 50 Years Since Britain's IMF Crisis 1.0 Not As Far As Velma (3/6) 1.30 Deep Six (4/6) 2.0 After Henry (2/8) 2.30 Hancock's Half Hour (6/20) 3.0 Conversations from a Long Marriage (3/6) 3.30 Winnie the Pooh (3/3) 3.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (3/5) 4.0 Hoax! 4.30 The Great Pursuit (4/4) 5.0 Hush! Hush! Whisper Who Dares! 5.45 Short Works

Don't Look Now, BBC Four

BBC One

6.0 Breakfast (T) 9.30 Morning Live (T) 10.45 Crimewatch Live (T) 11.30 Homes Under the Hammer (T) (R) 12.15 Bargain Hunt (T) (R) 1.0 News (T) 1.35 Regional News and Weather (T) 1.45 News (T) 2.0 Clean It, Fix It (T) (R) 2.30 Shift the Thrift (T) (R) 3.0 Escape to the Country (T) (R) 3.45 Garden Rescue (T) (R) 4.30 Bridge of Lies (T) 5.15 Pointless (T) (R) 6.0 News (T) 6.30 Regional News and Weather (T) 7.0 The One Show (T) 7.30 EastEnders (T)

BBC Two

6.30 Garden Rescue (T) (R) 7.15 Bridge of Lies (T) (R) 8.0 Sign Zone: Gardeners' World (T) (R) 9.0 News (T) 12.15 Politics Live (T) 1.0 Impossible (T) (R) 1.45 The Answer Run (T) (R) 2.30 The Boss (T) (R) 3.15 Great British Railway Journeys (T) (R) 3.45 The Great House Revival (T) (R) 4.35 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (T) (R) 5.15 Flog It! (T) (R) 6.0 House of Games (T) 6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two (T) 7.0 Escape to the Country (T) (R)

ITV1

6.0 Good Morning Britain (T) 9.30 Lorraine (T) 10.0 This Morning (T) 12.30 Loose Women (T) 1.30 News and Weather (T) 1.55 Local News and Weather (T) 2.0 Dickinson's Real Deal (T) (R) 3.0 Lingo (T) (R) 3.59 Local News/Weather (T) 4.0 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R) 5.0 The Chase (T) (R) 6.0 Local News and Weather (T) 6.30 News and Weather (T) 7.30 Tonight: How to Stay Fit As You Age (T)

Channel 4

6.30 The King of Queens (T) (R) 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (T) (R) 9.10 Frasier (T) (R) 11.10 American Pickers (T) (R) 12.05 News (T) 12.10 Renovation Nation (T) (R) 1.10 The Great House Giveaway (T) (R) 2.10 Countdown (T) 3.0 A Place in the Sun (T) (R) 4.0 Help! We Bought a Village (T) 5.0 Four in a Bed (T) (R) 5.30 Come Dine With Me (T) (R) 6.0 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now? (T) (R) 7.0 News (T) 7.55 Becca's Story: Stand Up to Cancer (T) (R)

Channel5

6.0 Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (T) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (T) 12.45 News (T) 12.50 Matt Allwright (T) 2.20 FILM Stranger on the Shore (Danny J Boyle, 2023) (T) 4.0 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (T) (R) 5.0 News (T) 6.0 Cornwall: A Year By the Sea (T) (R) 6.55 News(T) 7.0 Sam & Ade Go Birding (T) 7.55 News (T)

BBC Four

7.0 Secrets of Bones (T) (R) How vertebrates capture and devour their food. 7.30 Gareth Edwards' Great Welsh Adventure (T) (R) Starting in Machynlleth.

8.0 The Celebrity Traitors (T) The contestants come face to face with death in the mission and the round table brings a fractious atmosphere. 9.05 The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked (T) With Ed Gamble and guests. 9.30 Not Going Out (T) Lee and Lucy try to referee an argument about money.

10.0 News (T) 10.30 Regional News (T) Weather 10.40 Question Time (T) Fiona Bruce hosts from Brecon. 11.40 Newscast (T) A panel of BBC journalists have a weekly round-up from Westminster. 12.10 The Repair Shop: Beyond the Barn (T) (R) 1.10 Weather for the Week Ahead (T) 1.15 News (T)

8.0 Monty Don's British Gardens (T) (R) The presenter travels across some of the country's most stunning landscapes, heading across the north of England to Northern Ireland. 9.0 Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (T) (R) Neurosurgeon Rod Laing attempts to remove a slipped disc that is pressing on the patient's spinal cord.

10.0 Inside No 9 (T) (R) A woman and her son encounter a kindly stranger.

10.30 Newsnight (T) Weather 11.0 Uncanny (T) (R) The case of a man who appeared to be spying on shop staff.

12.0 Sign Zone Blue Lights (T) (R) 1.0 The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes (T) (R) 2.0 This Is BBC Two (T)

8.0 Emmerdale (T) Tensions are still running high at the Dingles' house. 8.30 Coronation Street (T) Tyrone convinces Todd to testify in court. 9.0 Long Lost Family (T) (R) Alan Parker and Katherine Fletcher are both keen to know about their respective parents.

10.0 News (T) Weather 10.30 Local News (T) Weather 10.45 The Late Debate (T)

11.15 FILM Jurassic Park III (Joe Johnston, 2001) (T) Action adventure sequel, starring Sam Neill and Téa Leoni.

12.40 Shop on TV 3.0 The Essex Millionaire Murders (T) (R) 3.50 Unwind With ITV (T) 5.05 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R)

8.0 Our Tiny Islands (T) (R) On lona, farmer Joanne cares for the family's sheep, but also plays an integral role in wool production on the island.

9.05 Taskmaster (T) A former contestant makes a return, Isy Suttie insults a train conductor, and Nina Conti tries to trick Greg Davies with bananas and a spoon.

10.05 Break Clause (T) Comedy. 10.35 Break Clause (T) Last in series. 11.10 Gogglebox (T) (R)

12.15 Pierre (T) (R) 1.10 Fellow Travelers (T) 3.15 Stand Up to Cancer (T) (R) 3.20 The Great British Bake Off (T) (R) 4.0 Grand Designs (T) (R) 4.50 Sunday Brunch (T) (R) 5.0 The Dog House (T) (R) 5.50 Countdown (T) (R)

8.0 The Yorkshire Vet (T) Peter Wright tries to save a newborn lamb with an unusual birth defect. 9.0 Love Nature (T) (R) Katy Bell helps protect the barn owl. 9.05 All Creatures Great and Small (T) Tristan smartens up for a final date with Charlotte, and James clashes with Richard.

10.0 All Creatures Great and Small: Behind the Scenes (T) 10.10 Alexander Armstrong in India (T) (R) A visit to Jaipur. 11.05 999: Killer on the Line (T)

12.05 Fatal First Dates (T) 1.0 Must Have Ideas (T) (R) 3.0 Cornwall: A Year By the Sea (T) (R) 3.45 Yorkshire With Jane McDonald (T) (R) 5.20 Entertainment News (T)

8.0 FILM The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963) (T) Allied prisoners held in a supposedly escape-proof detention camp plan an ingenious mass breakout. Second world war drama, starring Steve McQueen, James Coburn and Richard Attenborough.

10.45 FILM Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973) (T) Supernatural thriller, with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie.

12.30 Donald Sutherland: Scene By Scene (T) (R) 1.15 Secrets of Bones (T) (R) 1.45 Gareth Edwards' Great Welsh Adventure (T) (R) 2.15 Ancient Worlds (T) (R)

Other channels

BBC Three

7.0pm The Catch Up 7.05 Horrible Histories 8.0 Amanda & Alan's Italian Job 9.30 Amanda & Alan's Italian Job 10.0 RuPaul's Drag Race UK 11.05 FILM The Nice Guys (2016) 12.55 Man Like Mobeen 1.20 Man Like Mobeen 1.45 The Doghouse 2.0 Amanda & Alan's Italian Job 3.0 RuPaul's Drag Race UK

U&Dave

6.0am Teleshopping
7.15 Top Gear 8.0
Border Force: America's Gatekeepers 10.0 Rick Stein's Secret France 11.0 Rick Stein's Secret France 12.0 The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure 1.0 Canal Boat Diaries 2.0 Top Gear 3.0 Guy Martin's Great British Power Trip 4.0 Rick Stein's Secret France 5.0 Rick Stein's Secret France 6.0 The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure 7.0
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 7.40 Would I Lie to You? 8.20 Would I Lie to You? 9.0 QI XL 10.0 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 11.0 8 Out of 10 Cats 11.55 Mock the Week 12.35 Would I Lie to You? 1.15 Would I Lie to You? 1.55 QI XL 2.55 House of Games 3.30 Ghosts 4.0 Teleshopping

E4

6.0am Modern Family 6.55 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.0 Couples Come Dine With Me 8.0 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 11.0 Modern Family 12.0 The Simpsons 2.0 The Goldbergs 3.0 Modern Family 5.0 The Simpsons 7.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 8.0 First Dates 9.0 Gogglebox 10.0 Gogglebox 11.05 Naked Attraction 12.05 First Dates 1.10 Gogglebox 2.10 Below Deck Down Under 3.0 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 4.40 The Goldbergs 5.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Film4

11.0am FILM The Man from the Alamo (1953) 12.40 FILM Gunman's Walk (1958) 2.40 FILM Sailor of the King (1953) 4.25 FILM The Major and the Minor (1942) 6.30 FILM Hidden Figures (2016) 9.0 FILM Wrath of Man (2021) 11.20 FILM Earth Mama (2023) 1.25 FILM Carla's Song (1996)

PBS America

6.0am Teleshopping 8.0 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 8.35 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 9.40 Edwardian

Britain in Colour 10.45 The Rosenbergs: Atomic Spies 11.55 The Roman Fleet 1.0 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 1.35 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 2.40 Edwardian Britain in Colour 3.45 The Rosenbergs: Atomic Spies 4.55 The Roman Fleet 6.0 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 7.05 Edwardian Britain in Colour 8.10 The Rosenbergs: Atomic Spies 9.15 The Roman Fleet 10.25 Edwardian Britain in Colour 11.30 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 12.0 The Rosenbergs: Atomic Spies 1.15 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 2.0 Teleshopping

Sky One

6.0am Mornings 7.0
Mornings With Ridge and Frost 7.30
Mornings With Ridge and Frost 8.0
Stargate SG-1 10.0
NCIS: Los Angeles 11.0
The Simpsons 11.30
The Simpsons 12.0 A
Cheetah's Pride 1.0
Hawaii Five-0 2.0 Hawaii
Five-0 3.0 S.W.A.T
4.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 The
Simpsons 5.30 The
Simpsons 6.0 Superstore
6.30 Superstore 7.0
The Simpsons 7.30
The Simpsons 8.0
David Attenborough's

Galapagos 9.0 FILM 21 Jump Street (2012) 11.0 Gemma Collins: Everything. All at Once 11.45 Grimm 12.35 Evil 1.35 Road Wars 2.0 Grimsburg 2.30 Road Wars 3.0 Hawaii Five-0 4.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 S.W.A.T

Sky Arts

6.0am Bagpipes: A Celebration 7.0 Battle of the Bagpipes 8.0 Artist of the Year: Masterclass 8.30 Artist of the Year: Masterclass 9.0 Tales of the Unexpected 9.30 Tales of the Unexpected 10.0 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 10.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.0 Discovering: Meryl Streep 12.0 Classic Albums 1.0 Tales of the Unexpected 1.30 Tales of the Unexpected 2.0 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 2.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents

3.0 Spymasters: The Great Spy Writers 4.0 Discovering: Diane Keaton 5.0 Landscape Artist of the Year 2015 6.30 Tales of the Unexpected 7.0 Portrait Artist of the Year 2026 8.0 Classic Movies: The Story of A Matter of Life and Death 9.0 FILM Three Days of the Condor (1975) 11.10 The Directors 12.10 Pet Shop Boys: Dreamworld - The Greatest Hits: Live in Copenhagen 2.25 Miyazaki: Spirit of Nature 4.0 A Play in a Day 5.0 Spymasters: The Great Spy Writers

Sky Atlantic

6.0am Urban Secrets
7.0 Urban Secrets 8.0
Billions 9.10 Billions
10.15 Deadwood
11.20 Deadwood
12.25 Gomorrah 1.30
Homicide: Life on the Street 2.30
Homicide: Life on the Street 3.30
Billions 4.35 Billions
5.40 House of the Dragon 6.50 House of the Dragon 8.0 Fargo
9.0 The Miniature Wife
9.55 The Miniature Wife
10.45 It: Welcome to Derry 11.50 House of the Dragon 1.0 House of the Dragon 2.0 War
3.05 Gomorrah 4.10 The Guest Wing 5.05 The Guest Wing

Radio

Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast 9.30 Essential Classics 1.0 Classical Live. Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and violinist Anthony Marwood in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto in G minor, Op 80. Plus, from the Chamber Music at Præstø festival in Denmark, Suk's Piano Quintet, Op 8, with pianist Elias Holm, violinists Ludvig Gudim and Inga Våga Gaustad, violist Michael Andreas and cellist Jonathan Swensen. 4.0 Composer of the Week: Tania Leon (4/5) 5.0 In Tune 7.0 Classical Mixtape 7.30 In Concert. Violist Timothy Ridout conducts the Munich Chamber Orchestra in Mozart's Divertimento in F, K138, Dobrinka Tabakova's Suite in Old Style, JS Bach's Concerto for viola in E flat (reconstructed from BWV 169, 49 and 1053) and Britten's Simple Symphony, Op 4. 9.45 The Essay: Three Hundred Metres in Montparnasse. The role spirituality and religion have played in the Paris neighbourhood. (4/5) (R) 10.0 Night Tracks 11.30 'Round Midnight 12.30 Through the Night

Radio 4

6.0am Today 9.0 In Our Time. Misha Glenny discusses the Battle of Antietam in the American civil war. 9.45 Strong Message Here 10.0 Woman's Hour 11.0 The Infinite Monkey Cage. Adam Rutherford and Jessica Fostekew discover how bird and bat poo became highly prized treasures. (1/7) 11.45 Winnie-the-Pooh 100. Toby Jones reads Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole by AA Milne. (4/5) 12.0 News 12.04 The Bottom Line (4/7) 12.32 Sliced Bread. Greg Foot investigates the bold claims for eye drops. (3/14) 12.57 Weather 1.0 The World at One 1.45 Farming Today (R) 2.0 The Archers (R) 2.15 Celtic Christe: Hidden Treasures. Jan Carson's drama about what could have happened on Agatha Christie's trip to the Isle of Man in 1930. With Jeany Spark and David Holt. 3.0 Ramblings. Clare Balding explores Limpsfield Common in Surrey with David Sullivan. (2/7) 3.27 Radio 4 Appeal: Medair UK (R) 3.30 Feedback 4.0 The Briefing Room (2/11) 4.30 Inside

Science 5.0 PM 5.57
Weather 6.0 News 6.30
Do Gooders (R) 7.0 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 8.0 When It Hits the Fan (R) 8.15 The Media Show (R) 9.0 Loose Ends (R) 9.45 Strong Message Here (R) 9.59 Weather 10.0 The World Tonight 10.45 Who Are You in Winnie-the-Pooh? Cressida Cowell and Michael Rosen talk about ways in which they identify with Tigger. (R) 11.0 Radical 11.30 Today in Parliament 12.0 News and Weather 12.30 Appetite for Distraction (R) 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.0 As World Service 5.0 News 5.04 Yesterday in Parliament 5.32 Weather 5.34 Shipping Forecast 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today

Radio 4 Extra

6.0am Not As Far As Velma (4/6) 6.30 Deep Six (5/6) 7.0 Capital Gains (3/4) 7.30 The Burkiss Way (12/15) 8.0 ReincarNathan (6/6) 8.30 Winnie the Pooh (4/5) 8.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (4/5) 9.0 Do Gooders (1/6) 9.30 Corncrakes for Breakfast (4/5) 9.45 Daily Service 10.0 Great Lives (3/8) 10.30 The Documentary 11.0 Not As

Far As Velma (4/6) 11.30 Deep Six (5/6) 12.0 Capital Gains (3/4) 12.30 The Burkiss Way (12/15) 1.0 ReincarNathan (6/6) 1.30 Winnie the Pooh (4/5) 1.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (4/5) 2.0 My Generation (4/6) 2.30 Two Doors Down (4/4) 3.0 A Mother 4.0 Great Lives (3/8) 4.30 The Documentary 5.0 Not As Far As Velma (4/6) 5.30 Deep Six (5/6) 6.0 Capital Gains (3/4) 6.30 The Burkiss Way (12/15) 7.0 ReincarNathan (6/6) 7.30 Winnie the Pooh (4/5) 7.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (4/5) 8.0 My Generation (4/6) 8.30 Two Doors Down (4/4) 9.0 A Mother 10.0 Comedy Club: Do Gooders (1/6) 10.30 Elis James' Pantheon of Heroes (1/6) 11.0 Hearing With Hegley (7/8) 11.15 A Wet Handle (3/5) 11.30 Life: An Idiot's Guide 12.0 Great Lives (3/8) 12.30 The Documentary 1.0 Not As Far As Velma (4/6) 1.30 Deep Six (5/6) 2.0 Capital Gains (3/4) 2.30 The Burkiss Way (12/15) 3.0 ReincarNathan (6/6) 3.30 Winnie the Pooh (4/5) 3.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (4/5) 4.0 My Generation (4/6) 4.30 Two Doors Down (4/4) 5.0 A Mother

The First Omen, Film4

The Graham Norton Show, BBC One

BBC One

6.0 Breakfast (T) 9.30 Morning Live (T) 10.45 Crimewatch Live (T) 11.30 Homes Under the Hammer (T) (R) 12.15 Bargain Hunt (T) 1.0 News (T) 1.35 Regional News and Weather (T) 1.45 News (T) 2.0 Sister Boniface Mysteries (T) 2.45 Escape to the Country (T) (R) 3.45 Garden Rescue (T) 4.30 Celebrity Bridge of Lies (T) (R) 5.15 Pointless (T) (R) 6.0 News (T) 6.30 Regional News and Weather (T) 7.0 The One Show (T) 7.30 Would I Lie to You? (T) (R)

BBC Two

6.30 Garden Rescue (T) (R) 7.15 Bridge of Lies (T) (R) 8.0 Sign Zone: Wilderness With Simon Reeve (T) (R) 9.0 News (T) 12.30 Political Thinking With Nick Robinson (T) 1.0 Impossible (T) (R) 1.45 The Answer Run (T) (R) 2.30 The Boss (T) (R) 3.15 Great British Railway Journeys (T) (R) 3.45 The Great House Revival (T) (R) 4.35 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (T) (R) 5.15 Flog It! (T) (R) 6.0 House of Games (T) 6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two (T) 7.0 Newsnight (T) 7.30 Landward (T)

ITV1

6.0 Good Morning Britain (T) 9.30 Lorraine (T) 10.0 This Morning (T) 12.30 Loose Women (T) 1.30 News (T) 1.55 Local News and Weather (T) 2.0 Dickinson's Real Deal (T) (R) 3.0 Lingo (T) (R) 4.0 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R) 5.0 The Chase (T) (R) 6.0 Local News and Weather (T) 6.30 News and Weather (T) 7.30 It'll Be Alright on the Night (T) (R)

Channel 4

6.30 The King of Queens (T) (R) 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (T) (R) 9.10 Frasier (T) (R) 11.10 American Pickers (T) (R) 12.05 News (T) 12.10 Renovation Nation (T) (R) 1.10 The Great House Giveaway (T) (R) 2.10 Countdown (T) 3.0 A Place in the Sun (T) (R) 4.0 Help! We Bought a Village (T) 5.0 Four in a Bed (T) (R) 5.30 Come Dine With Me (T) (R) 6.0 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now? (T) (R) 7.0 News (T) 7.55 Yuvraj's Story: Stand Up to Cancer (T) (R)

Channel 5

6.0 Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (T) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (T) 12.45 News (T) 12.50 Matt Allwright (T) 2.20 FILM Twelve Desperate Hours (Gina Gershon, 2023) (T) 4.0 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (T) (R) 5.0 News (T) 6.0 Cornwall: A Year By the Sea (T) (R) 6.55 News (T) 7.0 The World's Most Luxurious Retirement Homes (T) (R) 7.55 News (T)

BBC Four

7.0 Top of the Pops (R) Two editions from 2000, featuring S Club 7, Stephen Gately, Chris Rea, and Daphne and Celeste.

8.0 The Celebrity Traitors (T) Conspiracies run wild and one mistake in the mission could cause heads to roll. 9.05 The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked (T) Ed Gamble hears from banished and murdered players. 9.30 Have I Got News for You (T) Jason Manford hosts and Janet Street-Porter guests.

10.0 News (T)

10.30 Regional News (T) Weather 10.40 The Graham Norton Show (T) With Quentin Tarantino, Ellen DeGeneres, Colin Farrell and Gemma Chan. 11.30 RuPaul's Drag Race UK (T) (R) Slow Horses star Kadiff Kirwan guest judges. 12.30 Weather for the Week Ahead (T) 12.35 News (T)

8.0 Gardeners' World (T) Frances Tophill tackles jobs in the autumn garden and Ashley Edwards meets the sound artist Jason Singh. 9.0 Six Wives With Lucy Worsley (T) (R) The historian talks about the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn in Henry VIII's affections, uncovering reported private moments.

10.0 FILM The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) (T) Serial killer thriller, starring Jodie Foster.

11.50 FILM In Fabric (Peter Strickland, 2018) (T) Comedy horror, starring Sidse Babett Knudsen. 1.45 Sign Zone Panorama (T) (R) 2.15 Time (T) (R) 3.15 BBC Two (T)

8.0 Emmerdale (T) Sadie reels Ruby back in with a sob story, while Robert plans to win big. 8.30 Coronation Street (T) Nick resents Idris muscling in on his son, and Ken suggests a new focus for Daniel. 9.0 Beat the Chasers (T) (R) More contestants take on a team of experts in the general knowledge quiz.

10.0 News (T) Weather

10.45 FILM Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (JA Bayona, 2018) (T) Action sequel, starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.

12.45 Shop on TV 3.0 The Essex Millionaire Murders (T) (R) 3.50 Unwind With ITV (T) 5.05 Deal Or No Deal (T) (R)

8.0 George Clarke's Building Home (T) (R) The architect meets Chris and Ellie, who bought a run-down bungalow in Lancashire's Ribble valley, only to knock it down and start again. 9.05 Gogglebox (T) The armchair critics share their opinions on what they have been watching during the week.

10.05 The Last Leg (T) New series. 11.10 FILM American Reunion Comedy sequel. (2012) (T)

1.15 Break Clause (T) (R) 1.40 Break Clause (T) (R) 2.10 FILM X (Ti West, 2022) (T) 4.0 FILM Humans in the Loop (2025) 5.15 Yuvraj's Story: Stand Up to Cancer (T) (R) 5.20 George Clarke's Amazing Spaces (T) (R)

8.0 Our Great Yorkshire Life (T) Emmerdale's Charlotte Bellamy hunts for rare Yorkshire gold near Whitby. 9.05 Play for Today: The Quiet Hour (T) Nurse Riya faces emergencies, a near-fatal mistake and a combative amputee. Drama, by Sarah Louise Madden, with Archie Panjabi and Paul Kaye.

10.0 Piers Morgan: Uncensored (T) Opinion-led news.

12.05 Traffic Cops: Elite Squad One (T) (R) 1.0 Must Have Ideas (T) (R) 3.0 Cornwall: A Year By the Sea (T) (R) 3.45 Yorkshire With Jane McDonald (T) (R) 4.30 Yorkshire With Jane McDonald (T) (R) 5.20 Entertainment News (T)

8.15 Top of the Pops (T) (R) From 1980, with Showaddywaddy, Adam and the Ants, the Police and Madness. 8.45 Top of the Pops (T) (R) With Sinitta, Cliff Richard and Living in a Box. From 1989. 9.15 Disco at the BBC: Volume 1 (T) (R) Songs from Chic, Rose Royce, Labelle, Gladys Knight and Village People.

10.15 Donna Summer: TOTP2 Special (T) (R) Archive clips of the singer. 10.45 Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution (T) (R) The story of the music genre. 11.45 Black British Music at the BBC: Volume 2 (T) (R) With Seal, the Selector, Soul II Soul and FKA Twigs. 2.15 Top of the Pops (T) (R)

Other channels

BBC Three

7.0pm The Catch Up
7.05 Horrible Histories
7.35 FILM Shrek the Third (2007) 9.0 Death in Paradise 10.0 Mrs Brown's Boys 11.30
FILM Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)
12.55 Ice Road Truckers
2.25 Krapopolis

U&Dave

6.0am Teleshopping
7.10 Top Gear 8.0
Border Force: America's Gatekeepers 9.0
Border Force: America's Gatekeepers 10.0 Rick Stein's Secret France 11.0 Rick Stein's Taste of Shanghai 12.0 The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure 1.0 Canal Boat Diaries 2.0 Top Gear 3.0 Guy Martin's Great British Power Trip 4.0 Rick Stein's Secret France 5.0 Rick Stein's Taste of Shanghai 6.0 The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure 7.0 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 7.40 I'll Get This 8.20 Would I Lie to You? 9.0 QI XL 10.0 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 11.0 8 Out of 10 Cats 11.55 Mock the Week 12.35 Would I Lie to You? 1.15 Would I Lie to You? 1.55 Live at the Apollo 2.55 House of Games 3.30 Ghosts 4.0 Teleshopping

E4

6.0am Modern Family
6.55 Rude(ish) Tube
Shorts 7.0 Couples
Come Dine With Me
8.0 Ramsay's Kitchen
Nightmares USA 11.0
Modern Family 12.0
The Simpsons 2.0 The Goldbergs 2.30 The Goldbergs 3.0 Modern Family 5.0 The Simpsons
7.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
8.0 FILM Free Guy (2021) 10.10 Naked Attraction 12.15 First Dates 1.20 Gogglebox
2.20 Below Deck Down Under 3.10 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 4.0 The Simpsons
4.25 The Goldbergs 5.15 Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Film4

11.0am FILM Fixed Bayonets! (1951) 12.50 FILM The Rare Breed (1966) 2.45 FILM The Frogmen (1951) 4.40 FILM Secret Headquarters (2022) 6.45 FILM The Martian (2015) 9.30 FILM The First Omen (2024) 11.50 FILM Alita: Battle Angel (2019) 2.10 FILM The Second Act (2024)

PBS America

6.0am Teleshopping 8.0 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 8.35 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 9.35 Edward VIII:

Britain's Traitor King
10.35 Women of World War II: More Untold Stories 11.50 Everest: The South West Face 1.0 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 1.35 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 2.40 Edward VIII: Britain's Traitor King 3.45 Women of World War II: More Untold Stories 5.0 Everest: The South West Face 6.15 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 7.20 Edward VIII: Britain's Traitor King 8.30 Women of World War II: More Untold Stories 9.45 Everest: The South West Face 11.0 Edward VIII: Britain's Traitor King 12.0 Women of World War II: More Untold Stories 1.15 Weathered: Earth's Extremes 2.0 Teleshopping

Sky One

6.0am Mornings With Jones and Melbourne
6.30 Mornings With Jones and Melbourne
7.0 Mornings With Jones and Melbourne
7.30 Mornings With Jones and Melbourne
8.0 Stargate SG-1
9.0 Stargate SG-1
10.0 NCIS: Los Angeles
11.0 The Simpsons
11.30 The Simpsons
12.0 A Cheetah's Pride
1.0 Hawaii Five-0
2.0 Hawaii Five-0

S.W.A.T 4.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 The Simpsons 5.30 The Simpsons 6.0 Superstore 6.30 Superstore 7.0 The Simpsons 7.30 The Simpsons 8.0 Shark With Steve Backshall 9.0 The Walking Dead: Dead City 10.0 Rob & Romesh vs Kung Fu in China 11.0 Rob Beckett: Giraffe 12.45 Grimsburg 1.15 Grimm 2.05 Evil 3.10 Hawaii Five-0 4.0 S.W.A.T 5.0 S.W.A.T

Sky Arts

6.0am Cirque Du Soleil: Corteo 8.0 Artist of the Year: Masterclass 8.30 Artist of the Year: Masterclass 9.0 Tales of the Unexpected 9.30 Tales of the Unexpected 10.0 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 10.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.0 Discovering: Diane Keaton 12.0 Classic Albums 1.0 Tales of

the Unexpected 1.30 Tales of the Unexpected 2.0 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 2.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 3.0 Spymasters: The Great Spy Writers 4.0 Discovering: Morgan Freeman 5.0 Landscape Artist of the Year 2015 6.0 Tales of the Unexpected 6.30 Tales of the Unexpected 7.0 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 8.0 Guy Garvey: From the Vaults 9.0 The Specials: Live from Coventry Cathedral 10.35 FILM Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story (2024) 12.25 Oasis: There and Then 2.15 Oasis: Standing on the Edge of Noise 3.35 The Sound of Protest 5.0 Spymasters: The Great Spy Writers

Sky Atlantic

6.0am Urban Secrets
8.0 Billions 9.05
Billions 10.15 Deadwood
12.25 Gomorrah 1.30
Homicide: Life on the Street 2.30 Homicide:
Life on the Street 3.30
Billions 4.35 Billions
5.40 House of the Dragon 8.0 Fargo 9.0
War 10.0 Under Salt Marsh 11.0 Euphoria
2.0 House of the Dragon 3.10 Gomorrah 4.10 The Guest Wing 5.05 The Guest Wing

Radio

Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast 9.30 Essential Classics 1.0 Classical Live. Gabriel Bebeşelea conducts the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason in Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 21. Plus, from the Dresden music festival in Germany, Hannah Kendall's The Spark Catchers, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner. 4.0 Composer of the Week: Tania Leon (5/5) 5.0 In Tune 7.0 Classical Mixtape. 7.30 Friday Night Is Music Night. From Snape Maltings, Daniel Bartholomew- Poyser conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and violinist Nathan Amaral in a celebration of Black composers, including Joseph Bologne, Avril and Samuel Coleridge- Taylor, Errollyn Wallen and Valerie Coleman. 9.45 The Essay: Three Hundred Metres in Montparnasse. the lasting influence that some of Montparnasse's creatives have had. (5/5) (R) 10.0 Late Junction. Cellist Emily Wittbrodt and percussionist Regan Bowering collaborate

on a session. 11.30 'Round Midnight 12.30 Through the Night

Radio 4

6.0am Today 9.0 Desert Island Discs (R) 10.0 Woman's Hour 11.0 The Food Programme. Leyla Kazim explores regenerative farming. 11.45 Winnie-the-Pooh 100. Hayley Atwell reads Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water. (5/5) 12.0 News 12.04 AntiSocial (4/6) 1.0 The World at One 1.45 Farming Today (R) 2.0 The Archers (R) 2.15 Underground. Thriller, by Chloe Myerson. After the revelation about Edward's wife, Thornfield is burning. (5/5) 2.45 Life Without Alan Davies imagines a world with no bats. (1/10) 3.0 Gardeners' Question Time 3.45 Short Works. Let Them Have Their Fun, by Lauren Mackenzie. 4.0 Last Word 4.30 More Or Less (R) 5.0 PM 5.57 Weather 6.0 News 6.30 The News Quiz. With Lucy Porter, John Tothill and Stephen Bush. (7/8) 7.0 The Archers 7.15 Screenshot. Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore young people in care on screen. (4/6) 8.0 Any Questions? 8.55 This Week in History

(R) 9.0 Free Thinking. Shahidha Bari looks at bread in history, religion and economics. 10.0 The World Tonight 10.45 Who Are You in Winnie-the-Pooh? Nadia Shireen and Charlie Higson talk about Eeyore. (R) 11.0 Americast 11.30 Today in Parliament 12.0 News 12.30 Appetite for Distraction (R) 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.0 As World Service 5.30 News 5.34 Shipping Forecast 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Life Without (R)

Radio 4 Extra

6.0am Not As Far As Velma (5/6) 6.30 Deep Six (6/6) 7.0 An Actor's Life for Me (2/7) 7.30 Beyond Our Ken (13/20) 8.0 Nature Table (2/6) 8.30 Winnie the Pooh (5/5) 8.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (5/5) 9.0 Your Mum (6/8) 9.30 Corncrakes for Breakfast (5/5) 9.45 Daily Service 10.0 Soul Music (1/5) 10.30 When Wesley Went to Winchester 11.0 Not As Far As Velma (5/6) 11.30 Deep Six (6/6) 12.0 An Actor's Life for Me (2/7) 12.30 Beyond Our Ken (13/20) 1.0 Nature Table (2/6) 1.30 Winnie the Pooh (5/5) 1.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (5/5) 2.0 It's

Not What You Know (1/6) 2.30 Spending My Inheritance (6/6) 3.0 Time Added on for Injuries 3.45 Short Works 4.0 Soul Music (1/5) 4.30 When Wesley Went to Winchester 5.0 Not As Far As Velma (5/6) 5.30 Deep Six (6/6) 6.0 An Actor's Life for Me (2/7) 6.30 Beyond Our Ken (13/20) 7.0 Nature Table (2/6) 7.30 Winnie the Pooh (5/5) 7.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (5/5) 8.0 It's Not What You Know (1/6) 8.30 Spending My Inheritance (6/6) 9.0 Time Added on for Injuries 9.45 Short Works 10.0 Comedy Club: Your Mum (6/8) 10.30 Masala FM (2/6) 11.0 For One Horrible Moment (3/5) 11.15 All Change (3/5) 11.30 Edge Falls (5/6) 12.0 Soul Music (1/5) 12.30 When Wesley Went to Winchester 1.0 Not As Far As Velma (5/6) 1.30 Deep Six (6/6) 2.0 An Actor's Life for Me (2/7) 2.30 Beyond Our Ken (13/20) 3.0 Nature Table (2/6) 3.30 Winnie the Pooh (5/5) 3.45 How to Write a Novel in a Week (5/5) 4.0 It's Not What You Know (1/6) 4.30 Spending My Inheritance (6/6) 5.0 Time Added on for Injuries 5.45 Short Works

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