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What happened Labour to the rescue? David Cameron handed the campaigning baton to Labour this week as the EU referendum battle entered its final ten days – and a string of opinion polls suggested that the Leave side had opened up a significant lead, with one putting it eight points ahead. The backing of many of the nine million people who voted Labour at the last election is vital if Remain is to win the referendum on Thursday, but pro-EU campaigners fear concerns about the impact of mass immigration are pushing traditional Labour voters towards Brexit. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who had come under fire from colleagues for failing to make the case for Europe, sought to move the focus of the campaign on to the NHS, warning that a…

Dublin Abortion reform: Ireland’s health minister, Simon Harris, has described his country’s abortion laws as “utterly unacceptable” in the wake of a landmark UN ruling urging their reform. The UN’s human rights committee ruled last week that Ireland had violated a woman’s human rights, and subjected her to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, by refusing her an abortion even though her foetus had congenital abnormalities that meant it was sure to die in the womb or soon after birth. Amanda Mellet (pictured) travelled to England to have her pregnancy terminated. Dublin has proposed a “citizens’ assembly” to consider reform, with a view to a subsequent referendum. Berlin Ban on short-term lets: A court in Berlin has upheld a ban on people letting out flats and houses to short-term visitors –…

1 Main Title/Approaching the Death Star/Tatooine Rendezvous from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi by John Williams, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and John Williams2 When You Are a King by John and Roger Hill, performed by White Plains3 Oxygène Part IV, written and performed by Jean-Michel Jarre4 Lean on Me by Bill Withers, performed by Club Nouveau5 Groovy Kind of Love by Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager, performed by Phil Collins6 Every Time You Go Away by Daryl Hall, performed by Paul Young7* Monsters Theme (from the film Monsters), written and performed by Jon Hopkins8 Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (from Monty Python’s Life of Brian) by Eric Idle, performed by Monty Python Book: The Guinness Book of Records Luxury: Pen and paper *…

If we leave, Europe will unravel Jonathan Freeland The Guardian Which is scarier: President Donald Trump, or Brexit? No contest, says Jonathan Freedland. Trump in the White House is a dreadful prospect, but he’d be restrained by the Supreme Court and the Senate, and could be ejected in four years. “Brexit is of a different order.” It could destroy the UK, by prompting Scotland to break away. More serious even than this, though, is its potential impact on Europe. My fear is that just as the EU would unravel without France or Germany, so it would without the UK. Europe is already struggling under the weight of the eurozone crisis. The departure of one of its “big three” would not so much tug at a thread as yank out a…

Are America’s two main parties both intent on throwing this election away? You’d think so from their campaigns, said Charles Krauthammer in the National Review. The Democrats are poised to nominate Hillary Clinton, an “unloved, untrusted” candidate “living under the shadow of an FBI investigation”. Any of a dozen Republican candidates could beat her. Yet who is the GOP set to nominate to take her on? The unhinged Donald Trump, whose campaign to date has consisted of little more than a series of “outrageous provocations”. Last week Trump appalled critics again, by attacking a judge who is hearing a class-action lawsuit against his now-defunct Trump University, a for-profit education company set up in 2005 to offer courses in real estate. Trump claimed Judge Gonzalo Curiel was biased against him because…

Stem cell stroke “cure” Patients left paralysed by a stroke have been able to walk again after having stem cells injected into their brains. “One 71-year-old woman could only move her left thumb. She can now walk and lift her arm above her head,” Dr Gary Steinberg, a neuroscientist at Stanford University, told New Scientist. He described the results of his trial as “unprecedented”. The procedure involved drilling a hole in patients’ skulls, and implanting stem cells into areas of the brain damaged by the stroke. The cells, extracted from the bone marrow of healthy donors, had previously been engineered to carry a gene which, in babies, activates aspects of brain development. Research on rats suggests that the implanted cells disappear after a few weeks, leaving behind growth factor proteins…

The former Pirelli calendar model Christina Estrada last week requested a divorce settlement from her ex-husband – the Saudi oil baron Walid Juffali – totalling a quarter of a billion pounds. Her claims include a seven-storey, £68m London home, as well as a £4.4m country retreat in Henley; a new fur coat worth £40,000 every year; £1m a year to spend on art; £162,000 for cocktail dresses and matching jewellery; and a full retinue of staff, including a live-in butler, housekeeper, nanny, reserve nanny, chauffeur, chef, two cleaners and an office manager. Estrada left Juffali in 2014, after discovering he had made a bigamous second marriage to a 25-year-old TV presenter. His lawyer last week described Estrada’s demands as “firmly in ‘gasp’ territory”. Jeremy Corbyn revealed an unexpected thespian side…

It has been a “long, long journey”, Hillary Clinton declared in her victory speech in Brooklyn last week. But now, at last, said Polly Toynbee in The Guardian, “a woman leads a major US political party to fight for the presidency”. During her last run at the Democratic nomination, in 2008, Clinton was narrowly defeated by Barack Obama. Then, she declared that her campaign’s 18 million votes had put “18 million cracks” in the glass ceiling. Now she has returned to complete the job. If she beats Donald Trump in November, what a “bonus that as the first woman to enter the White House, she will also step through the door as by far the most qualified and experienced arrival there for generations”. “The election is Clinton’s to lose,” said…

Rugby union: England get revenge on Australia When England met Australia last October, they were torn apart, said Stephen Jones in The Sunday Times. The humiliating 33-13 loss knocked them out of the World Cup, making them the first hosts to exit the competition in the group stage. But last Saturday, in the first Test of a three-match series, England finally got their revenge. They won 39-28, in what was only their fourth victory over the Wallabies in Australia; never have they beaten them by a bigger margin. England were the sleeker, quicker side, turning the clock back to the days when “English forward power” was something to be proud of. It was a “marvellous achievement”. On a night of impressive individual performances, James Haskell “stole the show”, said Eddie…

To The Guardian When I worked on a factory production line in Birmingham in the mid-1960s, working conditions were, if anything, worse than those at Sports Direct; minus the electronic tagging and security searches perhaps, but plus the noise and dirt. The work rate was controlled by the speed of the line, much as in the great Chaplin film Modern Times. So what was different? We were well paid, and had permanent contracts, fixed hours and overtime. We were 100% unionised and prepared to strike if managers were seen to be out of order. But the thing that really equalised power relations was full employment. Labour was in short supply, even with high levels of immigration. Managers generally worked to retain workers and provided facilities well beyond the job, such…

Fire at Sea Dir: Gianfranco Rosi 1hr 54mins (12A) Poetic documentary about the migrant crisis The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa was for years just a small, isolated fishing community. But in the past two decades, it has developed a separate identity, as the prime entry point into Europe for thousands of desperate people fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East. Gianfranco Rosi’s film opens with some searing statistics – about the 400,000 migrants who have reached its shores, and the 15,000 who have died in the attempt; thereafter there is no text, no commentary, said David Sexton in the London Evening Standard. This “delicate”, “selfeffacing” film just shows. Rosi has captured images of “scorching power”, said Robbie Collin in The Daily Telegraph. On crammed boats, we…

1876-2016: a Celebration at the Fine Art Society Since it was founded in 1876, the Fine Art Society has operated from the same New Bond Street premises, where it has exhibited work by everyone from James McNeill Whistler to Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Graham Sutherland. To mark its 140th birthday, the gallery is exhibiting a sort of “greatest hits” display, featuring more than 50 works by top-flight artists, most of whom it has been associated with in the past. Highlights include a group of paintings by Walter Sickert, who famously described the Society as “the best shop in London”; a never-before-exhibited maritime painting by Eric Ravilious; and a glowing seated figure by John Craxton. Central to the gallery’s story are the works here by two of the first artists it showed,…

There’s a real buzz around the British drinks industry, says Susy Atkins in The Daily Telegraph. Never before have we seen so many new brewers, craft distillers, and cider, perry and wine producers starting up. Here’s a selection of the best of Britain in a glass: Sibling Gin, Cheltenham (£40 for 70cl; Majestic). A thoroughly modern gin (made by four siblings, the eldest just 24), with a smooth, fruity, vanilla-tinged flavour. Camel Valley Classic Cuvée 2013, Cornwall (£28; M&S). An award-winning, fine vintage sparkler, from one of England’s best wineries. Expect tongue-tingling freshness, a citrus edge and a richer, toasty layer. Waitrose The Limes Selection English Dry White 2014, Surrey (£8.99). Aromatic, juicy white wine, more affordable than most, with notes of racy lime and green apple fruit. Bath Ales…

Suján Rajmahal Palace, Jaipur, India “Resonating with a history of maharajas and Mountbattens, princes and polo players”, the Rajmahal Palace opened as a hotel last year, says Condé Nast Traveller. Built in 1729 by the maharaja of Jaipur and still owned by the family, it has been renovated by manager Jaisal Singh (owner of the “polished” Suján Safari Camps) and the acclaimed designer Adil Ahmad. The rich and colourful interiors have marble floors, decorative wallpaper, chandeliers, gilded mirrors and silk rugs. With just 14 rooms and suites, the place never feels crowded; and there’s a “stylish” art deco pool with views over the gardens. Doubles from £250. +91 11 4617 2700, www.sujanluxury.com.…

Sir Peter Shaffer 1926-2016 Sir Peter Shaffer, who has died aged 90, was a giant of postwar theatre, responsible for a string of hit plays, ranging from psychological dramas to comedies. Two of them were turned into hugely successful films (Equus and Amadeus), and another, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, about the Spanish conquistadors, contained perhaps the “second trickiest stage direction” ever written, said Mark Lawson in The Guardian: “They cross the Andes.” Shaffer took the script to the West End impresario Binkie Beaumont, who on coming to the instruction, exclaimed simply: “Fancy!” At that moment, Shaffer – whose previous plays had been domestic dramas – realised he’d given his new piece to the wrong man. Happily, the director John Dexter loved its ambition, and in 1964, The Royal…

When Satya Nadella took over at Microsoft in 2014, he pitched a new vision for a company in need of radical change, said The Times. The latest sign of that strategy is a surprise bid to acquire LinkedIn, the languishing business social network, for $26bn. The takeover, which values LinkedIn at a generous 50% premium over its pre-bid closing price, is by far the biggest in Microsoft’s history. It is also the largest tech deal done so far this year; it will “stoke speculation” that a new wave of US tech buyouts is imminent, with Twitter among the most vulnerable targets. This is Microsoft’s “most ambitious move” in years “to reassert itself in the technology market it once dominated”, said Nick Wingfield in The New York Times. It’s also another…

Jobs in the City “still top the salary charts”, says Jack Torrance in Management Today, but plenty of other vocations are catching up. According to salary benchmarking site Emolument’s list of the 12 jobs enjoying “the biggest pay increases this year”, marketing and comms is making a big comeback. IT and digital marketing are also “hot property”; you only need “some experience” to command “fastincreasing pay packages”. The data isn’t perfect, because it is based on data provided by Emolument’s 15,000 users, and it covers London only. But it gives “a flavour” of how pay is shifting. 1. Marketing and comms manager – up 37% to £70,000 2. Corporate banking associate – up 37% to £82,000 3. Human resources manager – up 31% to £80,000 4. Senior business development manager…

Tom Perkins The “swashbuckling” investor, who has died aged 84, pioneered the venturecapital model that put Silicon Valley on the map, says Kevin Allison on Reuters Breakingviews. His firm – Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers – funded a host of successful start-ups, from Compaq to Airbnb. But Perkins was “equally famous for his antics outside the boardroom”. A keen yachtsman, who was once convicted of involuntary manslaughter in France after an accident at sea, he spent more than $150m building the Maltese Falcon – a stateof-the-art square-rigged clipper “that became of a symbol of Silicon Valley’s exploding wealth”. In 1998, Perkins married the romance novelist Danielle Steel. They soon separated, but Steel’s influence stuck. In 2007, Perkins penned a novel, Sex and the Single Zillionaire, and dedicated it to her.…

America saw its worst mass shooting in history this week when a gunman claiming links with Isis opened fire in a gay nightclub in Florida, killing 49 people and wounding 53 more. Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old US citizen of Afghan descent, burst into the packed Pulse club in Orlando early on Sunday morning armed with an assault rifle and a handgun. Partygoers fled in panic as he raked the crowd with bullets, before seizing a small group of hostages. Some people escaped through an air-conditioning duct; others were shot as they hid in the lavatories. One survivor said the killer laughed as he fired through the doors. Many of the victims used their phones to send desperate pleas and farewell messages to friends and relations. After a threehour siege, police…

At the only naked restaurant in London, all are welcome – and bookings are pouring in. But the Japanese equivalent will be rather less inclusive. The Amrita, due to open in Tokyo next month, will only admit diners aged under 60; anyone weighing 15kg more than the average for their height will also be asked to “refrain from making a reservation”. And despite being a naked restaurant, being naked will be banned. Once diners have stripped off their own clothes, they’ll be required to don a pair of paper pants, for hygiene. A woman who was in agony for days with an intense earache assumed she had an infection. But when her husband peered in to look for any tell-tale signs, he saw something moving. Appalled, Victoria Price, 42, went…

The iron blade of a dagger buried with Tutankhamun more than 3,000 years ago was almost certainly made from a meteorite, research has revealed. The finely detailed gold-handled knife was discovered hidden in wrappings surrounding the boy king’s mummy in 1925, and it has been a puzzle ever since: iron was very rare in Ancient Egypt because the Egyptians couldn’t create the intense heat needed to smelt iron ore. So where did the metal in the blade come from? The answer, according to the new study, is that it probably fell from the sky. Italian and Egyptian researchers analysed the blade with an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, and found it contains a high concentration of nickel – which “strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin”. They then tested it against 20 different meteorites…

Baton charges. Bloodied faces. Packs of football fans “descending like dogs on downed rivals”. Many thought such scenes had been consigned to history, said Owen Gibson in The Guardian. Since the turn of the millennium, serious disorder at international matches “has largely been avoided through careful policing, banning orders and a shift in the demographics of those travelling”. But the problem has reared its ugly head again, at the Euro 2016 championship. Last week there were several days of mayhem in the French city of Marseille as English and Russian fans clashed with each other and with locals and police. Dozens of the 70,000 or so England fans in the city were injured, several of them seriously. Uefa officials warned that Russia and England would be ejected from the contest…

“Blimey,” said Quentin Letts in the Daily Mail. Even “by the standards of this antsy referendum campaign”, last week’s ITV debate was amazingly ill-tempered. Energy Secretary Amber Rudd – arguing for Remain – accused her Tory colleague Boris Johnson of backing Brexit purely for reasons of personal ambition (“The only number Boris is interested in is No. 10”). Her next jab was even more below the belt: “Boris is the life and soul of the party, but he is not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening”. The clear subtext – that Boris is a “groper”, not to be trusted in taxis or referendums – was so rude that the studio audience gave a “sharp intake of breath and cast some hisses at Rudd”.…

Lendl lends a hand Andy Murray is obsessed with Novak Djokovic, says Kevin Mitchell in The Guardian. For years, the world No. 1 has “driven him to distraction”. And now, in a bid to “oust” Djokovic, Murray has reunited with his former coach, Ivan Lendl. When the pair last worked together, Murray enjoyed the greatest success of his career, winning the Wimbledon and US Open titles; but they parted ways two years ago, after Lendl tired of travelling. For “week-to-week stuff”, the Scot will continue to work with Jamie Delgado, his full-time coach. But with Lendl, he will work on becoming more consistent in Grand Slams, so he can beat his nemesis in the final. “Lendl is there to help him overcome Djokovic, plain and simple.” Eighth time lucky England’s…

Despite the success of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004), few of us were expecting a sequel, said Donald Clarke in The Irish Times. As the film ended with Christ dead on the cross, the story appeared to be more or less told. But it seems there’s more story to tell. Screenwriter Randall Wallace has confirmed that he is working on a follow-up, dealing with the Resurrection. “The Passion is the beginning,” he said. The highest-grossing religious film ever, The Passion earned $612m from a budget of $30m, said The Times of Israel. But it was not without controversy: it was hideously violent – Christ is flogged by Roman soldiers, before being hammered, in blood-soaked close-up, to the cross – and there was considerable disquiet about the way…

“Half a million people will get the chance to walk on water” thanks to a new installation by the artist Christo on Lake Iseo in north Italy, says The Guardian. Since last November, the Bulgarian-born artist – famous for wrapping Berlin’s Reichstag and Paris’s Pont Neuf – has been overseeing the assembly of 220,000 floating plastic cubes to create a two-mile walkway connecting the mainland with two islands, one inhabited, on the lake in Lombardy. The walkway, opening this week, will be wrapped in an iridescent yellow fabric; and will, for the first time ever, allow the 2,000 residents of the island of Monte Isola to cross over without taking the boat. Christo said those who use the walkway would have to watch their step; it’s like “walking on the…

Josh promotes Upper Class Eggs at Open Farm Sunday, but the sample boxes don’t sell well. Lilian and Justin get back from a weekend in the Peak District. Justin asks her whether she’ll tell Jennifer about their arrangement. Lilian says she won’t be announcing it, but if Jennifer asks then she’ll be honest. Helen phones Anna and learns that Rob is contesting the custody of Jack: there will be a custody hearing for both Henry and Jack later in the month. Anna suggests Helen needs to allow Rob supervised visits to Jack, but Helen’s adamant he shouldn’t see the baby. Anna tells Helen she needs to appear at the custody hearing via a video two-way link. Helen’s terrified by the idea of seeing Rob. Helen is emotional after the phone…

The Garden House Inn Framwellgate, Peth, Durham (0191-386 3395) On the pavement outside the Garden House Inn in Durham, there’s a blackboard sign, says Jay Rayner in The Observer. “Food now being served,” it modestly asserts. But what food! Muscular, ambitious, sometimes thrilling – this is generous cooking from a kitchen “on a mission to feed”. On-trend Korean pork belly is falling-apart soft, yet has a crisp, red-glazed shell with a hint of sriracha sauce. It’s listed as a bar snack at just £3.50, but “I could well imagine slipping in here by myself and ordering three portions of this and hoping nobody noticed”. The pick of the starters is a £10 lobster sandwich, for which you get “at least half a lobster, and enormous attention to detail”. A vast…

New cars: what the critics say Top Gear The Volvo Estate is truly “one of the great beasts of the automotive jungle”. Renowned (and occasionally mocked) for its reliability and durability, it has sold six million units in 60 years of production. Now, with the “all-new” V90 taking over from the V70, the car has been reborn. And it’s being billed as a luxury vehicle, with a price tag to match – the top-spec D5 model costs £44,000. The Daily Telegraph What a “crackinglooking” car this is. “That angled tailgate and short roof: wow”. The digital display is clear, and the safety gear is characteristically extensive: if you “veer drowsily off”, the car will wake you up with buzzers while steering itself back into the lane. It’s a comfortable car,…

Guyana’s secret wilderness Tropical Guyana supposedly inspired Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel The Lost World – and it remains a wild and “fascinating” place, says Chris Leadbeater in The Daily Telegraph. The capital, Georgetown, has a “wooden behemoth” of a cathedral, and a cricket ground where the West Indies sometimes play. But beyond the city, the chief sights are natural. Around Karanambu, a wetland ecolodge, giant otters swim amid huge lily pads, and anteaters wander the savannah nearby. At the research station of Iwokrama, you can go in search of jaguars. And the 226-metre-high Kaieteur Falls is free of tourist tat, even though it’s so spectacular, it would be a “bucket-list staple” in any other corner of the world. Dehouche (0871-284 7770, www.dehouche.com) has a 10-day trip from £4,050pp, excluding…

Google: Alpha minus When Google restructured itself into a new conglomerate called Alphabet last summer, one of its main aims was to free up the company’s entrepreneurial side from the breadand-butter business of its internet search engine, said James Titcomb in The Daily Telegraph. Among the so-called “moonshots” that Google co-founder Larry Page hoped to nurture were Calico, “a life sciences division trying to eradicate death”; Project Loon, an attempt “to beam the internet to rural Asia with gigantic space balloons”; and Boston Dynamics, “trying to build humanoid robots”. A year on, how are these outfits faring? “The early signs are not good.” Although the main Google business continues to beat revenue expectations, Alphabet’s other bets lost $3.6bn last year. “They were expected to be a money pit”, but “this…

The hearings of the Commons select committees “have become the best gladiatorial sport in Parliament”, said The Times. Over the past fortnight, the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee has also “provided the unedifying spectacle of capitalism at close to its worst”. Last week Mike Ashley of Sports Direct admitted that workers at his distribution centre in Derbyshire had been paid below the minimum wage, and that one employee had been so scared of asking for time off, she’d ended up giving birth in the toilets. Later, the top brass at BHS described the chaos unleashed at the department store after its previous owner, Sir Philip Green, sold it for £1 to Dominic Chappell, an ex-bankrupt described by one senior BHS figure as “a premier league liar and a Sunday pub…

The enduring story Anne Tyler is a determinedly domestic novelist. Her books – including the Accidental Tourist and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant – are all about relationships, families and the passing of time. Some critics complain that not enough happens in them, but she doesn’t see it that way. “I have noticed, as a woman writer – although we’re probably not supposed to speak in those terms – that an event like war is considered a more real literary subject than just a wedding,” she told Tom Shone in The Sunday Times. “I feel sort of: ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, I haven’t been to war.’ Then I think, no. What motivates me when I’m writing is that I’m actually awed over and over again just by the fact that…

Carl Hagenbeck’s revolutionary tierpark in Hamburg, which improved conditions for zoo animals, also marked a more sinister development: Hagenbeck had the idea of exhibiting indigenous people from Africa or Australasia alongside the appropriate fauna. Such displays had a long history. In the 16th century, Cardinal Hippolytus Medici had a collection of people of different races, as well as an animal menagerie. In colonial times, human zoos, or human shows, became popular. Hundreds of thousands of Europeans watched whole villages of “primitive” people act out war dances or religious rituals. In one Paris zoo, seminaked African women were displayed in pens. In 1896, Cincinnati Zoo invited a group of Sioux people to set up a village on their grounds, where they stayed for three months. In 1906, New York’s Bronx Zoo…

Storm chasers are putting lives at risk Eric Holthaus Slate The US tornado season is at its peak right now, says Eric Holthaus. May and June typically bring more than 50 tornadoes a week, often causing severe damage in states such as Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. In recent years, the residents of affected rural areas have had to contend with the additional peril of congested roads – caused not by people fleeing tornadoes but by “storm chasers trying to get to them”, a traffic phenomenon known as “chaser convergence”. Amateur meteorologists and thrill seekers have long sought to witness storms at close quarters, but doing so used to require decent forecasting abilities, and luck. However, advances in technology mean that people now just follow red dots on a weather app,…

The perpetrators of the Holocaust are the last people on Earth who should accuse others of genocide. That’s what Turkey’s President Erdogan and his friends are saying, said Stefan Braun in Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich). Furious that Berlin’s parliament has seen fit to pass a resolution condemning Turkey for the slaughter of Armenians during WWI, they’ve unleashed a torrent of “verbal aggression”. The main targets are the Green Party’s Özcan Mutlu and ten other Turkish-born German MPs who backed the resolution and are now being inundated with hate mail and death threats. Erdogan himself practically called them “terrorists”. Their blood should be “tested”, he mocked, to see if they really do have Turkish roots. It’s completely unacceptable for Erdogan to try to intimidate his foreign critics in the way he does…

Scientists have predicted that we could soon be entering a new era of “personalised” cancer treatment – significantly boosting survival rates. The premise of personalised, or “precision”, treatments is that, at a genetic level, cancers are not all the same, even when in the same tissue, so drugs that work for one won’t work for another. Some breast cancer patients already receive targeted treatments – Herceptin, for example: this works on the 25% or so of women with Her2-positive breast cancer. At the conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology last week, specialists suggested that in future all patients could get their tumours genetically profiled. This would ensure they were treated with drugs known to combat their particular mutation – and were spared gruelling rounds of ineffective chemotherapy. “It…

It started with books in 1995, but the website’s name was always a clue as to the scale of its ambition. Some 20 years on, there is almost nothing you can’t buy on Amazon – from washing machines to clothes pegs. And that’s not all. Known as one of the great digital innovators, the e-commerce giant also rents out cloud-computing space, streams music, sells web services and, more recently, has moved into television. Now, its remorseless expansion has taken another leap forward, said The Guardian, with the first international launch of its fresh food delivery service. Amazon has for some time sold tinned and other store-cupboard foods in the UK; last week, it began offering everything you can get from an ordinary supermarket, and more. For the UK roll-out, which…

“Nearly every great discovery in science has come as the result of providing a new question rather than a new answer.” Zoologist Paul A. Meglitsch, quoted on Forbes.com “The trouble with socialism is socialism – but the trouble with capitalism is capitalists.” Economist Willi Schlamm, quoted in the FT “Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement.” Don Corleone in The Godfather, quoted in The Sun “It occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.” from Mark Haddon’s novel A Spot of Bother, quoted in The Guardian “There might be a moment, one week after death, when women achieve the figure they want.” Edina from Ab…

Project Fantasy To The Times Regarding the “fantasy beliefs” of Brexiters, may I suggest a few for the Remainers? It is a fantasy to believe that uncontrolled migration will not seriously damage our public services, infrastructure and way of life; fantasy to believe that we will be unable to strike deals with major European nations, given that we had a trade deficit of £25.4bn with Germany in 2015 and significant deficits with other countries; fantasy to believe that the fifth-largest economy in the world, even if it shrinks for a short period, cannot strike trade deals with other trading blocs; fantasy to believe that the EU is capable of meaningful reform; and fantasy to believe that one of the most historically powerful, principled, influential and culturally rich countries in the…

Theatre The Deep Blue Sea Playwright: Terence Rattigan Director: Carrie Cracknell Lyttelton, National Theatre, London SE1 (020-7452 3000) Until 21 September Running time: 2hrs 40mins (including interval) No playwright “mined the depths of despair” quite like Terence Rattigan, said Ben Lawrence in The Daily Telegraph, and no actress mines those same depths quite like Helen McCrory. This “splendid” new production of Rattigan’s much-revived play, set in the aftermath of the Second World War, brings them together, and the results are “intoxicating”. McCrory plays Hester Collyer, who has left the safety of her marriage to a High Court judge to live with her self-destructive pilot lover, Freddie, in a seedy rooming house. The play opens with Hester lying crumpled beside a cold gas fire, coming to from a failed suicide attempt,…

The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett, 1908 (Penguin £12.99). This is pretty well my favourite novel of all time. It spans the lives of two sisters over 40 years, moving from the Staffordshire Potteries to the Siege of Paris. Plus, we have the advent of the railways, the birth of the department store, and a performing elephant. What more could you want? The Past by Tessa Hadley, 2015 (Jonathan Cape £16.99). Sisters also feature in the latest book by my favourite contemporary novelist. They’re gathered together one hot summer in the family’s country house, and it’s here that the past subtly releases its secrets. Nobody explores the mystery of relationships better than Hadley. She’s also spot on about the middle class, and very funny. The Pursuit of Love and…

Programmes EU Referendum: The Great Debate David Dimbleby, Mishal Husain and Emily Maitlis will be joined by politicians for a live debate from Wembley Arena. Tue 21 June, BBC1 8pm (120mins). Lucy Worsley: Mozart’s London Odyssey Mozart lived in London for a year from the age of eight. Historian Lucy Worsley traces the prodigy’s adventures in the capital. Tue 21 June, BBC4 9pm (60mins). The Border First episode of a six-part Polish drama about a border guard who is the sole survivor of a bomb attack. Tue 21 June, C4 9pm (60mins). The rest of the series will be available to view on demand on the Walter Presents foreignlanguage drama service, free via C4’s digital hub All 4. The Secret Life of a Bus Garage This film tells the story…

Summer borscht with soured cream and chives Serves 4 4 beetroots, peeled and roughly chopped 3 carrots, roughly chopped 2 celery sticks, chopped 1 small onion, roughly chopped 400g can chopped tomatoes 1 garlic clove, chopped 1 bay leaf 4 black peppercorns 2 cloves 1 tsp sugar sea salt lemon juice soured cream snipped chives • Put the vegetables and the aromatics into a large pan and cover with 1.2 litres of water. Season with the sugar and salt. Bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer and cook for another 40 minutes. • Strain through a fine sieve, reserving the broth and discarding the vegetables (which will have lost their flavour). • Leave to cool, then season to taste. A squeeze of lemon juice will lift the flavour. •…

Scandinavian cruise A 14-night cruise on board the Celebrity Eclipse, sailing from Southampton to St Petersburg, via Stockholm, costs from £919pp full board. 020-3696 9451, www.iglucruise.com. Depart 3 July. Las Vegas bash A 3-night stay at the MGM Grand, one of the world’s largest hotel and entertainment complexes, costs from £479pp with flights. 020-3542 8888, www.travelplanners.co.uk. Travel 1-20 March 2017. Paradise in the Maldives Enjoy 7 nights for the price of 6 at the 5-star Baros Maldives island resort. Prices from £1,850pp b&b in a deluxe villa, including Gatwick flights and resort transfers. 01293-762400. Depart 3 July. 5-star Yorkshire Moors Stay 4 nights at Old Oak Cottage’s Pheasant Cottage (sleeps 7), near the village of Little Thirkleby. From £550, with welcome hamper. 01845-501258, www.premiercottages.co.uk. Arrive 27 June.…

Evidence of growing Brexit momentum rattled markets, sending the FTSE 100 below the 6,000 mark and causing further falls in sterling. New records were broken in sovereign bond markets. The prospect of a European political crisis exacerbated existing market fears about slowing global growth and the apparent inability of central bank policy to stem the decline. Equity markets rallied on Wednesday, but the mood remained fragile. George Osborne and Mark Carney were both expected to issue final warnings about the economic dangers of Brexit at the annual Mansion House dinner. MSCI unexpectedly snubbed China by refusing to include the world’s secondlargest market in its globally followed indices, citing capital controls, regulatory issues and unique local practices. Michael Sherwood, Goldman Sachs’ European co-head, bowed to pressure to appear before a parliamentary…

● Millennial flows “Active” equity fund managers have been whacked of late by concerns about high fees and underperformance, said Aime Williams in the FT: total global outflows this year are close to $35bn, according to EPFR figures. By contrast, cheap “passive” funds have “exploded in popularity”. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs), tracking everything from equity indices to commodity prices, have taken in another $7.6bn, “despite turbulent markets”. Fund managers must hope this is a blip. But research from the US asset manager Legg Mason suggests the trend could run and run. Affluent “millennial” investors (aged 18-35), currently hold more than 90% of their equity portfolios through an ETF, it notes. ETFs suit this age group because they like “simple options that capture investment themes”, said Amin Rajan of Create Research. They…

Good news is bad news for the Chancellor Larry Elliott The Guardian “In normal times, George Osborne would have been all over the good news from the manufacturing sector like a rash,” says Larry Elliott. New figures show that industrial production grew at its fastest rate in almost four years (2.3%) between March and April – surprising City analysts, who “had expected output to be flat”. But good economic news “doesn’t really suit the Chancellor at the present juncture”. His story is that the risk of Brexit has left the economy “trembling on the edge of a precipice”, so “he needs signs that consumers and businesses are taking fright”. Monthly figures tend to be choppy, and there are reasons to be cautious about the ONS data on manufacturing output. Even…

Who’s tipping what The week’s best buys Angle The Mail on Sunday Angle has developed a noninvasive blood testing device to improve cancer diagnosis. Endorsed by respected global research organisations, blue chips are investing. Not yet profitable – a good one for adventurers. Buy. 65.5p. Fulcrum Utility Services Investors Chronicle The plan to implement a direct delivery business model has proved to be “a corker of a decision” for this multi-utilities services provider. Sales growth has returned and profits have doubled, yet it is still reasonably rated. Buy. 41.1p. Moss Bros Group Shares The demise of suit-maker Austin Reed is a boon for the men’s tailoring specialist. The chain is also reaping the benefits from store refurbishments; sales are ahead and margins are improving. Yields over 5%. Buy. 106.25p. RPC…

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