Plus, why Wimbledon is falling behind in the grand slam arms race
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What a week! We have had both our hottest June day and night on record. Multiple hospitals declaring a critical incident and over a thousand schools shutting. Tarmac and train tracks have buckled and London Ambulance received its most Category One, life-threatening calls in their history. There were worries about our national power supply. Britain is melting, literally, writes disaster responder Lucy Easthope, who says government emergency planners like her are surveying the wreckage of what we have brought on ourselves and trying to work out where to go from here. Read her piece on why she believes we've left it too late to cope with what is coming next.
And if the weather wasn't shaking things up enough, there have been more earthquakes in Westminster as Sir Keir Starmer announced he was stepping down as prime minister. The new MP for Makerfield, Andy Burnham, was all smiles as, tipped for the top job, he took a happy snap hours after Starmer gave his emotional speech. Seven prime ministers in ten years doesn't make us appear a terribly serious country and Chloe Combi talks to teenagers who have never known any political stability in their young lives. Being left feeling like nobody is really in charge is leading to a generational mindshift and it could have bleak consequences for us all. Read why here.
The relentless newsroom drama has certainly meant I've got a few more grey hairs than I had hoped for, that's for sure. But, according to the author of a new book, The Age Code, it's our diets that are making the real difference to our age. Read all about 'inflammaging' – and what you can do about it – here.
Meanwhile, Hayley Spencer has taken off to South Korea to find out why it is fast becoming the world capital of rejuvenating beauty treatments. Can you really check in and leave looking ten years younger? The results are in
One person who would probably like to disappear for a bit is Nigel Farage, who is struggling to give a consistent story about the £5m gift he accepted from Christopher Harborne. I don't know if you heard how rattled he was when interviewed by Nick Robinson last week, but telling us to mind our business about how he spent the cash is only having the reverse effect. If he wants to spend it all on Ferraris, apparently it's none of our business. It's an entirely private matter, apparently. Au contraire, writes Alan Rusbridger: a would-be prime minister who trousers £5m from a billionaire living the other side of the world is very much our business, and the Reform leader is rattled for a very good reason.
And Farage wasn't the only person taking to Substack because journalists were being so mean about them. Former news presenter and registered sex offender Huw Edwards was on there too last week. Billing his online reboot, he said it was a way he could 'make a positive contribution', but Helen Coffey wonders why disgraced men still feel they deserve a place in the spotlight at all?
You might want to cool off with a chilled red – the drink coming after Whispering Angel's crown as the tipple of the summer. But if you do, please make it one of these eight bottles only, says Hannah Twiggs.
Cheers!
Victoria Harper
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Why Wimbledon is falling behind in the grand slam arms race |
The All England Club continues to face legal hurdles in its bid to expand its grounds to Wimbledon Park, while the other major events flaunt their capacity to turn tournaments into ‘three-week’ events. Jamie Braidwood
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