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The people who claim they can remember their birth
In one of his most famous songs, Sir Paul McCartney longs for yesterday. Now, the Beatle has claimed his memory extends much, much further back. "I have this feeling that I kind of remember being born," he said on the Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast. "So I kind of remember white tiles – very sort of hygienic white tiles – and chrome instruments, and a clanging because I was a forceps birth.
The Green Party voters horrified by Zack Polanski – and turning to Labour
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The Green Party voters horrified by Zack Polanski – and turning to Labour
Zack Polanski is hoping to turn Holborn and St Pancras Green – but many former supporters say they can no longer vote for his party - Getty /Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket “No Green Party bull---- please!” says the sign on a teal-coloured door halfway up the street. On this picturesque period terraced home in Kentish Town, north London, the sentiment is by no means confined to just one household.
The Green Party voters horrified by Zack Polanski – and turning to Labour
"No Green Party bull---- please!" says the sign on a teal-coloured door halfway up the street. On this picturesque period terraced home in Kentish Town, north London, the sentiment is by no means confined to just one household. Here and elsewhere in the Holborn and St Pancras constituency, where Green Party leader Zack Polanski is hoping to be elected to Parliament for the first time in this Thursday's by-election, others share this disgust.
The battle to fix Britain’s broken social care system
When she looks back now, Trish Sweeney can see the signs that her husband was changing had been there for a while. Subtle things, like the way in which he withdrew from conversation at times or misfiled paperwork. Mike Sweeney, in his mid-50s at the time, was a successful businessman. A vibrant, warm and easy-going husband and father, his intelligence meant that he could, at first, compensate for the effects of the disease quietly taking hold in his brain. By 2019, doing so had grown harder.
The battle to fix Britain’s broken social care system
When she looks back now, Trish Sweeney can see the signs that her husband was changing had been there for a while. Subtle things, like the way in which he withdrew from conversation at times or misfiled paperwork. Mike Sweeney, in his mid-50s at the time, was a successful businessman. A vibrant, warm and easy-going husband and father, his intelligence meant that he could, at first, compensate for the effects of the disease quietly taking hold in his brain. By 2019, doing so had grown harder.
Can 90 minutes of free parking really revive our high streets?
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Can 90 minutes of free parking really revive our high streets? Original
The shopping streets in Christchurch have much in common with other town centres in Britain. They are dotted with empty premises, and among those open for business are barbers and nail bars, cafes and charity shops. But unlike so many town centres, this one in Dorset is noticeably bustling.
How the Midlands became the country’s overlooked ‘buffer zone’
"We don't seem to fit in either the North or the South," says David Milson from behind the counter of the butcher's shop in Thrapston. "If we went up to Leeds, we'd be called Southerners. In London, we'd be called Northerners." In this Northamptonshire market town, he has neatly summed up the predicament (one of them, anyway) of the Midlands. A vast swathe of the country, comprising 12 ceremonial English counties, it is nonetheless at risk of neglect both by policymakers and the public imagination.
How the Midlands became the country’s overlooked ‘buffer zone’
“We don’t seem to fit in either the North or the South,” says David Milson from behind the counter of the butcher’s shop in Thrapston. “If we went up to Leeds, we’d be called Southerners. In London, we’d be called Northerners.” In this Northamptonshire market town, he has neatly summed up the predicament (one of them, anyway) of the Midlands. A vast swathe of the country, comprising 12 ceremonial English counties, it is nonetheless at risk of neglect both by policymakers and the public imagination.
I travelled the ‘border’ between North and South. Here’s what I learnt
Rosa Silverman Tue, September 1, 2026 at 1:01 AM EDT 16 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Add Yahoo on Google Rosa Silverman traversed the width of England, asking residents to define the differences between North and South - Paul Grover for The Telegraph A sign by the estuary warns of danger, but it's hard to see much to be afraid of here apart from the nettles and a fairly ominous sky.
Think you know where the North-South divide is? Take our test
As borders go, it's not a hard one. There is no customs union required to bridge it, yet the North-South divide occupies an important place in the English psyche. We all think we know which side of it we fall, and for many, this is clear-cut. More contested is where exactly the invisible dividing line runs. There are county borders, of course, but which counties are included in the North or the South, and where on earth do we file the Midlands?
Think you know where the North-South divide is? Take our test
Rosa Silverman Mon, August 31, 2026 at 1:00 AM EDT 2 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Add Yahoo on Google As borders go, it's not a hard one. There is no customs union required to bridge it, yet the North-South divide occupies an important place in the English psyche. We all think we know which side of it we fall, and for many, this is clear-cut. More contested is where exactly the invisible dividing line runs.
The daredevil trend turning Britain’s roads into death traps
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The clips are like scenes from a video game. One in which the player is racing a car, and it doesn't matter what they smash into since nothing is real. Yet this is all too tangible. It is drivers – usually young ones – filming themselves speeding down highways and byways, with apparently zero regard for other road users, or their own lives. It is social media content created for likes, the consequence of which can be death.
The nightmare of owning a listed home
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The nightmare of owning a listed home
Lee Browne lives in a beautiful 16th-century house adjoining what she describes as a "very ugly barn". Since the barn was built much later, in Victorian times, she foresaw no reason why it should not be demolished and a new, more liveable home built in its place. She and her husband, Patrick Browne, hoped to sell the main house and retire to the planned one attached. But they faced a major problem: their East Anglia home is Grade II listed.
The ‘generous’ social care models Burnham could borrow from abroad
There has long been broad agreement that our adult social care model is broken. What no one has yet agreed on is how to fix it. Andy Burnham is determined to be the leader who finally solves the seemingly intractable problem of how we pay to look after our ageing society – or at least the large section of it that will need some form of care.
Revealed: The 42 million wasted hours caused by train delays
Passengers on British trains will be wearily familiar with the gamut of reasons for their frequent failure to run on time, or at all. We continue showing up at the station in good faith, because once we accept the timetable is merely a suggestion and not a fixed truth, where on earth does that leave us? (Probably still at Euston, in many cases.) But our belief in trains is often rewarded with one of a range of excuses. It is too hot for them to function, or the rails may buckle.
Releasing violent criminals early is forcing victims and their families to relive their trauma
Sarah Wilson was just 11 when groups of men in Rotherham started grooming and abusing her in 2003. She was targeted while in her school playground, abused until she was 16 and trafficked around the country. For more than a decade, Wilson, now 34, has been fighting for justice against the men who abused her. Seven have been convicted of offences against her, and she has sat through three different trials. One ended just a few months ago.
Releasing violent criminals early is forcing victims and their families to relive their trauma
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There’s something very British about bringing your own lunch
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There’s something very British about bringing your own lunch
Writer Rosa Silverman admits she takes homemade food wherever she can - Rii Schroer I’m not mad about the term “love language”, but if my husband and I share one it revolves around the contents of our fridge. We both subscribe to the philosophy of “no cheese left behind”. Or prawn, or tomato, or whichever morsel might be at risk of neglect to the point it becomes unsafe to eat (which still doesn’t stop one of us, and let’s just say it’s not me).
The downfall of the teenage hacker who crippled TfL from his bedroom
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In his bedroom in a 22-storey tower block in east London, Thalha Jubair entered another world. As a teenager, he was, like so many, a gamer. But his skills led him into a dark sphere of cyber criminality, and his actions would end up causing serious financial harm and land him in prison. This week, the 20-year-old was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail after pleading guilty to a cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL).
Bishop of Blackburn: ‘The Church is adding to the rising tide of anti-Semitism’
On the streets of urban Lancashire, war in the Middle East looms large. "Just down the road from me," says the Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev Philip North, "is an enormous, very complex, overlapping set of Muslim communities. What unites them is Gaza and a really visceral, intense antipathy towards the state of Israel." But there is also what he calls a "tiny, beleaguered" Jewish community.
‘The Church is adding to the rising tide of anti-Semitism’
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The Cambridge housing farce that exposes Britain’s broken planning system
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The Cambridge housing farce that exposes Britain’s broken planning system
On the eastern fringe of Cambridge lies a large expanse of land. It is dotted with airport hangars, but the rest is mainly grass, carved in two by a runway.
Can Reform survive without Nigel Farage?
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Can Reform survive without Nigel Farage?
The question is an unexpected one, as revealed by the looks of surprise on voters' faces when it is posed. Reform without Nigel Farage ? You might as well ask about Ernie Wise without Eric Morecambe. Or the status of the Vatican without a pope. Yet even in sunny Havering, the east London borough that has become an electoral bastion of Reform, you can detect a glimmer of recognition that while the poor will always be with us, Nigel may be with us for only a short time.
UK Telegraph: ‘We were told to eat less red meat. It may have unleashed an environmental catastrophe’ – ‘A boom in industrial chicken farming is creating a waste product that campaigners claim is ‘like asbestos’ for our waterways’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2026/05/24/is-chicken-dinner-poisoning-britains-rivers/ We were told to eat less red meat. It may have unleashed an environmental catastrophe A boom in industrial chicken farming is creating a waste product that campaigners claim is ‘like asbestos’ for our waterways By Rosa Silverman Excerpt: The river Wye is where British tourism started.
The real story of Andy Burnham’s Manchester
From the 16th floor of Hanover Towers in Stockport, you can see the soaring skyscrapers of central Manchester. They rise, six miles to the north, those shining beacons of modernity: glass and reinforced concrete monuments to progress. A story of post-industrial northern prosperity written on the skyline. It is one story, anyway.
Britain is sweltering, so why does Ed Miliband want to keep air con on ice?
Britain is melting in heat like a blanket that wraps itself thickly around us day and night. For those without air conditioning – which, in summer 2026, is still most of the population – it's become a relief to step into a mechanically cooled office or supermarket. But why, in an age of rising temperatures and ferocious heatwaves, do so many of us still lack air con at home? Why are schools closing due to inadequate cooling, and hospitals often struggling on without it?
The powerless homeowners blighted by ‘ghost’ construction sites
Leslie and Carole Bevis-Smith say the crane towering above a neighbouring development has prompted safety concerns - David Rose Troopers Drive is a quiet suburban street of neat, red brick houses with driveways. Residents know their neighbours – it’s that kind of place. It’s less than two miles from the M25, yet there’s little traffic noise. What there is, however, is what one homeowner bluntly describes as “a flipping eyesore” of a view.
Labour is giving 16-year-olds the vote. Many of them don't want it
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Labour is giving 16-year-olds the vote. Many of them don’t want it
Wakefield teenagers meet to discuss Labour’s lowering of the voting age in one of two focus groups commissioned by the Telegraph - Lorne Campbell/Guzelian Ltd “We don’t really have the knowledge to be able to make such a big decision,” says 16-year-old Amber. “It’s not a good idea.” The school pupil is reflecting on the looming prospect of the vote being extended to her age group.
We were told to eat less red meat. It may have unleashed an environmental catastrophe
Chicken poisoning rivers: illustration The river Wye is where British tourism started. Winding its way from Wales’s Cambrian Mountains down to Chepstow and the Severn Estuary, its beauty has drawn visitors since the mid-1700s. Today, the picturesque Wye Valley still attracts millions of tourists a year. However, campaigners say its long-treasured waters are being poisoned – by our love of chicken dinners and the intensive poultry farming required to feed this hunger.
We were told to eat less red meat. It may have unleashed an environmental catastrophe
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How Labour let a century of control in Wales go up in smoke
Following Labour’s defeat, Morgan acknowledged that the party has ‘tough days ahead’ - Finnbarr Webster/Getty It was around midday when Labour all but surrendered in Wales. The unthinkable had come to pass and all that was left to do was await official confirmation. Welsh Labour, feted as the most successful party in the democratic world, had lost control after a century of dominance.
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