A profunda influência de Sir David Attenborough na compreensão pública do mundo pure levou inúmeros investigadores a homenageá-lo, nomeando espécies recentemente descobertas em seu reconhecimento.
De delicadas borboletas a dinossauros antigos, o reverenciado naturalista emprestou seu nome a uma notável variedade de flora e fauna.
Em homenagem ao 100º aniversário de Sir David, no dia 8 de maio, aqui está uma seleção dessas espécies fascinantes.
Falcão de Attenborough (Hieracium attenboroughianum)
Esta flor silvestre tem a distinção de ser a primeira espécie viva no Reino Unido e na Irlanda com o seu nome.
Foi descoberto em 2004 em Brecon Beacons, mas demorou uma década para os cientistas estabelecerem se period realmente novo ou não.
O naturalista Sir David Attenborough planta um pinheiro Wollemei em Kew Gardens, em Londres, em 10 de maio de 2005 (AFP/Getty)
O taxonomista Tim Wealthy, que fez parte da equipe de pesquisadores que descobriu a flor silvestre, disse ao Guardião que ele decidiu nomear a “plantinha especial” em homenagem a Sir David, pois “ele me inspirou a estudar ecologia quando eu tinha 17 anos.
“Este é um agradecimento pessoal pelos anos de fascínio que ele me proporcionou, indo a lugares diferentes em busca de coisas novas.”
Sir David disse: “Dar um nome a uma nova espécie é certamente um dos maiores elogios biológicos e estou verdadeiramente grato.
“É uma alegria adicional que Hieracium attenboroughianum seja tão bonito e viva numa parte tão encantadora do país.”
Euptychia attenboroughi
Uma borboleta amazônica rara, encontrada nas florestas tropicais de várzea da bacia amazônica superior na Venezuela, Colômbia e Brasil.
Trigonopterus attenboroughi
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A Anthropic, que o Departamento de Guerra dos EUA designou como “risco para a cadeia de abastecimento” no início deste ano, não fazia parte do acordo
O Pentágono disse que chegou a acordos com grandes empresas de inteligência synthetic para integrar as suas capacidades avançadas de IA nas redes confidenciais da agência.
O Departamento de Guerra dos EUA tem negociado ativamente com os líderes da indústria desde o início do ano, enquanto tenta expandir a aplicação da IA em operações militares e diversificar o leque de empresas que fornecem a tecnologia.
Está a avançar com o impulso, apesar das preocupações entre os especialistas quanto à capacidade da IA de operar de forma confiável dentro das leis de guerra existentes e a sua possível utilização para invadir a privacidade de civis em tempos de paz.
Acordos foram fechados com SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Net Companies e Oracle para implantar seus sistemas de IA para “uso operacional authorized”, o Pentágono disse em um comunicado na sexta-feira.
A inteligência synthetic será integrada às redes de Impacto Nível 6 e Impacto Nível 7 do Departamento de Guerra para “simplificar a síntese de dados, elevar a compreensão situacional e aumentar a tomada de decisões dos combatentes em ambientes operacionais complexos”, a declaração lida.
A plataforma oficial de IA do Departamento de Guerra dos EUA, GenAI.mil, foi usada por mais de 1,3 milhão de funcionários nos últimos cinco meses, “gerando dezenas de milhões de prompts e implantando centenas de milhares de agentes”, disse. Segundo o Pentágono, a tecnologia tem permitido agilizar a execução de determinadas tarefas “de meses a dias.”
Separadamente, a Marinha dos EUA concedeu à empresa de IA Domino Information Lab, sediada em São Francisco, um contrato de 100 milhões de dólares para ajudar no combate às minas iranianas no Estreito de Ormuz, que tem sido efectivamente bloqueado desde os primeiros dias da guerra EUA-Israel no Irão.
“A Marinha está pagando pela plataforma que lhe permite treinar, governar e colocar em campo essa IA na velocidade necessária para águas contestadas”, O CEO da Domino, Thomas Robinson, disse à Reuters em entrevista na sexta-feira. Washington está apostando na velocidade da IA na análise de uma riqueza de dados de vários tipos de sensores para melhorar rapidamente a detecção de minas em drones subaquáticos dos EUA, disse o veículo.
Os recentes acordos do Pentágono com empresas de IA excluíram visivelmente a Antrópico, que teve um desentendimento com o Pentágono no início deste ano, depois de se ter recusado a afrouxar as salvaguardas para a sua tecnologia. A empresa argumentou que a sua IA poderia ser usada para vigilância doméstica ou para a implantação de armas automáticas sem supervisão humana.
O Departamento de Guerra respondeu por meio de uma chamada Antrópica “risco da cadeia de abastecimento”, um rótulo raro normalmente reservado a entidades ligadas aos adversários estrangeiros de Washington, afastando efectivamente a empresa de quaisquer contratos futuros.
O secretário da Guerra dos EUA, Pete Hegseth, rotulou o CEO da Anthropic, Dario Amodei an “lunático ideológico” durante uma audiência no Senado dos EUA no início desta semana. Hegseth comparou a relutância da empresa em concordar com os termos do Pentágono “Boeing nos dando aviões e nos dizendo em quem podemos atirar.”
A Antthropic está atualmente desafiando o Pentágono em tribunal para que o “risco da cadeia de abastecimento” rótulo caiu.
Falar-se-á muito neste mês de Maio sobre a chamada “triângulo estratégico” da Rússia, da China e dos Estados Unidos.
O presidente dos EUA, Donald Trump, é esperado primeiro em Pequim, seguido pela visita do presidente russo, Vladimir Putin, ao seu homólogo chinês, Xi Jinping. Sempre que os líderes das três potências mais influentes se reúnem, surge inevitavelmente a especulação. E se eles fizerem algum grande acordo? E se o mundo de repente se tornar mais ordenado?
Tais expectativas são equivocadas. A reestruturação do sistema international já está em curso e não é um processo que possa ser interrompido ou revertido pela diplomacia de cimeiras. Mesmo assim, os momentos decisivos da história podem desenrolar-se de diferentes maneiras; cuidadosamente gerenciados ou acelerados de forma imprudente. É isso que torna as próximas reuniões significativas.
Tanto a Rússia como os Estados Unidos estão agora profundamente envolvidos em confrontos militares de grande escala. A importância destes conflitos reside não apenas no seu âmbito, mas nas suas consequências mais amplas para o sistema internacional. A China, pelo contrário, tem historicamente mantido distância de tais complicações. No entanto, está a tornar-se cada vez mais claro em Pequim que não pode permanecer isolado dos seus efeitos. As discussões na recente conferência do Clube Valdai em Xangai sugeriram que a China está a reavaliar a sua posição.
No centro desta reavaliação está uma questão simples: o que é que ainda é possível nas relações com Washington?
Durante décadas, a ascensão da China esteve intimamente ligada à sua relação económica com os Estados Unidos. O arranjo às vezes descrito como “Quimérica,” O capital e a tecnologia americanos, combinados com o trabalho e a indústria chinesa, formaram a espinha dorsal da globalização. Não foi uma parceria igualitária, mas foi mutuamente benéfica. Durante muito tempo, parecia que o interesse económico básico impediria qualquer dos lados de miná-lo.
Essa suposição agora entrou em colapso.
No ultimate da década de 2000, a insatisfação em Washington já period evidente. Os Estados Unidos encaravam cada vez mais o acordo não como uma fonte de ganhos partilhados, mas como um desequilíbrio estrutural. Com o tempo, a acumulação de tensões, económicas e estratégicas, atingiu um ponto em que os ajustamentos incrementais já não eram suficientes. O que se seguiu foi uma mudança qualitativa no próprio sistema.
Durante várias décadas, a ordem international funcionou em grande parte no interesse dos Estados Unidos como líder do bloco ocidental. A sua erosão gradual ameaça agora essas vantagens. A resposta de Washington tem sido aproveitar o precise período de transição para garantir a maior vantagem possível no futuro.
Donald Trump tornou-se a personificação mais visível desta abordagem. A sua retórica, abertamente transacional e até arrogante, pode parecer pouco convencional, mas a lógica subjacente é anterior a ele. O objectivo é claro: maximizar os ganhos imediatos e desenvolver a capacidade nacional o mais rapidamente possível. Depois use essa força acumulada para dominar a próxima fase da competição international.
Isto representa um afastamento acentuado da estratégia americana anterior, que priorizava investimentos de longo prazo no sistema internacional. Esses investimentos nem sempre produziram retornos imediatos, mas reforçaram um quadro que, em última análise, beneficiou os Estados Unidos mais do que qualquer outro país. Hoje, a ênfase mudou para vantagens a curto prazo, mesmo sob o risco de instabilidade a longo prazo.
Ainda não se sabe se esta estratégia terá sucesso. A fase inicial já produziu retrocessos. Mas é improvável que a direção mais ampla mude. As futuras administrações poderão adoptar um tom diferente, mas funcionarão dentro das mesmas restrições. A ordem internacional liberal não regressará, não por causa da personalidade de Trump, mas porque as condições que a sustentaram já não existem.
Para outras grandes potências, incluindo a China, isto tem implicações profundas. A ideia de uma abordagem abrangente “problema” com os Estados Unidos, que estabilizará o sistema international nos próximos anos, tornou-se efectivamente irrealista.
O uso frequente da palavra por Trump “negócio” é revelador. No seu vocabulário, é mais do que um mero conceito estratégico, mas comercial. Um acordo é “grande” não porque seja durável ou abrangente, mas devido à escala de ganhos imediatos que proporciona. E como qualquer transação comercial, pode ser abandonada se surgir uma oportunidade mais desejável.
Sob tais condições, são impossíveis acordos de longo prazo sobre a estrutura da ordem mundial. É pouco provável que Washington se comprometa com qualquer acordo que limite a sua flexibilidade antes de ter assegurado o que considera uma vantagem suficiente.
Isto não é necessariamente um produto de malícia ou arrogância. É, à sua maneira, uma resposta racional a um período de extrema incerteza. Os Estados Unidos procuram preservar os fundamentos do seu domínio futuro, agindo de forma decisiva no presente.
Mas a racionalidade, por um lado, força a adaptação, por outro.
Se os principais intervenientes concluírem que acordos estáveis com Washington são inatingíveis, o seu comportamento muda. A capacidade militar torna-se mais importante como salvaguarda contra a pressão. Ao mesmo tempo, cresce o interesse por formas alternativas de cooperação. Isto é, estruturas que operam independentemente dos Estados Unidos e estão isoladas da sua influência.
Essa lógica não é nova, mas está ganhando urgência. A Rússia tem defendido tais acordos há vários anos. A China, pelo contrário, abordou a ideia com cautela, esperando, em vez disso, preservar alguma forma de relacionamento mutuamente benéfico com os Estados Unidos. Essa esperança agora parece estar desaparecendo.
As próximas visitas a Pequim fornecerão uma indicação útil do progresso desta mudança.
O encontro entre Trump e Xi irá provavelmente definir os limites de uma acomodação temporária entre duas potências que permanecem economicamente interligadas, mas cada vez mais desconfiadas uma da outra. A questão já não é se um acordo abrangente é possível, mas sim que acordos restritos e de curto prazo podem ser alcançados e quanto tempo durarão.
As conversações subsequentes de Putin com Xi abordarão uma questão diferente: até que ponto a Rússia e a China estão preparadas para desenvolver mecanismos de cooperação que contornem completamente os Estados Unidos. Moscou já caminha nessa direção há algum tempo. Pequim parece agora estar a considerar se deve seguir o exemplo.
Maio não produzirá uma grande barganha. Mas poderá mostrar, mais claramente do que antes, como o mundo está a adaptar-se à ausência de um.
Public tirades often signal the beginning of the end for football managers, the parting shot of a civil war only going one way. That is not the case for Richie Wellens at Leyton Orient.
The 46-year-old unleashed a remarkable seven-minute scolding of his players on Saturday for two reasons. He has enough credit for another season in charge, and because he knows he won’t be coaching a good number of this squad when he does.
Wellens was in no mood to celebrate despite Orient escaping relegation. He berated his players for passing it around the back towards the end of the 2-2 draw with Burton, which secured their League One status by three points after Exeter City lost to Bradford City.
And that was just the start. Wellens said “one year of my management career has been wasted by the players”, called the squad “really, really weak” and claimed they “served up rubbish”. He then apologised to the supporters. “They deserve to be clapped,” he said. “But then don’t be celebrating with your family. Get off the pitch, it’s been an embarrassing season.”
“Get off the pitch, it’s been an embarrassing season” 😡
Leyton Orient boss Richie Wellens was angry at his players for celebrating avoiding relegation on the final day. pic.twitter.com/ecUXXx7V5D
The most salient point of his outburst was around recruitment. Last year, after Orient lost the play-off final to Charlton Athletic, Wellens called that group of players “special”, “one of the best I have ever worked with as a player of manager”.
Orient’s poor recruitment
Former director of football Martin Ling also hailed the impact of their loan players in 2024-25, including Jamie Donley and Josh Keeley from Tottenham Hotspur. Charlie Kelman scored 21 league goals on loan from Queens Park Rangers.
In 2025-26, the opposite effect. No loanees shone, further proving the EFL is a roll-of-the-dice game of loans where there is rarely a middle ground. In 12 months, Orient went from free-scoring and winning regularly to leaky and shot-shy, with fans falling out of love with who they were watching.
“Our supporters last year had songs for about 10 players, we have songs for two players this year,” Wellens pointed out.
Wellens has credit in the bank with the Orient board (Photo: Getty)
Had it not been for striker Dom Ballard, everyone at the club knows what would have happened. Rarely does a club who finishes 20th also boast the league’s player of the season, but the 21-year-old collected the EFL award, Young Player of the Season, and the Golden Boot with 23 goals.
A player on the up, Ballard’s standout campaign amid Orient’s regression – or as one supporter called him on social media, their diamond in a pile of manure – means the club’s fans are already mentally preparing for life after the forward, who reportedly has Wrexham among his suitors.
Ballard’s future
Wellens insisted Orient want to keep Ballard but admitted it is possible chairman Nigel Travis will allow him to leave for the right fee.
Regardless, a summer of upheaval looks inevitable. With defender Dan Happe and midfielder Theo Archibald among the players out of contract, and others set to be sold, a refresh could give the Orient boss the two things he craves: more athleticism and more character.
That is not easily bought. The fear will be that the scars of this season, coupled with Ballard’s potential departure, undo the hard work that saw Wellens take the club from mid-table in League Two to a game away from the Championship.
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The rant has also split supporters. “Many are saying, ‘good on him’ for his honesty on a squad which has clearly underperformed, but at the same time much of the fanbase saying Richie must assume some responsibility for this season’s form,” Steve Nussbaum, host of Orient Outlook podcast with Paul Levy, tells The i Paper.
Heading into a fifth full season in charge, it will be on Wellens – and whoever he may have at his disposal – to prove one step back hasn’t obliterated those three taken forward. Or else this tirade would have been the early death knell after all.
Com Cain Dingle oferecendo a Charity seu colar de São Cristóvão, o ator espera poder estar ao lado dela
Charity e Cain tiveram um episódio de duas mãos enquanto o último lutava com seu diagnóstico(Imagem: ITV)
O ator de Emmerdale, Jeff Hordley, espera que Cain Dingle ‘apresente-se’ para Charity enquanto o segredo de seu bebê Leyla ameaça explodir.
Como os telespectadores saberão, Charity recentemente deu as boas-vindas à bebê Leyla ao mundo, já que ela period substituta de Sarah e Jacob Sugden. Mal sabem eles, porém, que seu bebê é na verdade Charity e Ross Barton, do caso de uma noite bêbada.
Charity jurou segredo a Ross e, a princípio, parecia que seu segredo permaneceria seguro. No entanto, depois que Chas confrontou Ross por rondar o hospital, o Dr. Todd percebeu a conversa intensa e imediatamente ficou intrigado.
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Mais tarde, ela percebeu que o tipo sanguíneo de Leyla não correspondia ao de Jacob nos arquivos médicos e, munida de novas informações, ela foi até Charity.
Nos próximos spoilers, Todd avisa Charity que ela tem provas definitivas de que Charity e Ross são os pais genéticos de Leyla e exige que ela pague para manter o segredo. Charity entra em pânico e fica ainda mais horrorizada ao testemunhar um beijo entre Todd e Vanessa.
Emblem Todd aumenta a aposta exigindo £ 10.000 da Charity, chamando isso de compensação pela pensão que Jacob lhe custou. Charity conseguirá encontrar o dinheiro para fazer com que Todd mantenha seu segredo?
Falando com o Notícias da noite de Manchester e outra imprensa, Jeff Hordley brincou dizendo que espera que Cain seja capaz de “apoiar” a Charity depois de dar a ela seu colar de São Cristóvão.
Nas cenas recentes, a dupla acabou refletindo sobre seu relacionamento, com Cain dizendo que ele é o melhor com quem ela já esteve. Charity então riu, antes de admitir que na verdade period Vanessa Woodfield. No entanto, isso não impediu Cain de tentar abordá-la em uma tentativa de se distrair de todo o resto.
Charity garantiu a ele que ela estaria lá para ajudá-lo e ele prometeu o mesmo em troca, oferecendo-lhe um colar de São Cristóvão para devolver sempre que ela precisasse de sua ajuda.
Jeff compartilhou: “Bem, espero que… você sabe, porque Emma [Atkins who plays Charity] e eu tenho uma grande história na série e não vi esse episódio, mas ouvi dizer que é realmente adorável, aquele com Cain e Charity.
“Mas eu gosto do fato de ele ter dito isso, e eu sei a que eles estão se referindo, porque é como se, quando essa coisa de bebê fosse lançada, ela viesse e… espero, porque isso seria um desperdício, não é?
“Isso vai cair de volta nas mãos dele. Acho que seria ótimo se ele se aproximasse dela. Eu gostaria de ver isso. Eu pessoalmente gostaria de ver isso.”
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Britons would be willing to accept the UK following EU customs union rules if it brought down their living costs, a new poll suggests.
Polling for the Good Growth Foundation think-tank, shared with The i Paper, found that nearly two-thirds of the public would be more willing to support the UK following EU rules if it helped cut prices of food and everyday goods in shops.
The findings come at a time when Sir Keir Starmer is pushing to get closer to Europe, but facing pressure from some in his party – including potential Labour leadership rivals – to go further.
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Careless Whisper voted nation’s favourite
George Michael’s beloved 1984 hit has been ranked the number one track for the eighth year running.
His 1986 hit A Different Corner came in at number two.
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Careless Whisper came top of Smooth Radio’s All Time Top 500 list.
Michael’s first breakaway single from Wham!, he penned the lyrics when he was just 17-years-old.
Smooth Radio presenter Kate Garraway said: “It’s a fitting tribute to one of the greatest artists of all time.”
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2A Different Corner – George Michael
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4Man In The Mirror – Michael Jackson
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19-year-old suspect appears in court over alleged bomb hoax
The Birmingham man was accused of false communications which led a Peter Kay arena show to be evacuated.
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Omar Majed, 19, appeared at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court today.
He had been arrested over an alleged bomb hoax at the Utilita Arena.
He did not give a plea to his only charge of communicating false information to police.
The case was sent to crown court, where Majed will appear on 1 June.
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Comedian Peter Kay was ushered off stage mid-performance at the arena on Friday after a “suspicious bag” was reported. The show was cancelled and police later said “nothing suspicious was found” during searches.
The show was part of Kay’s ‘Better Late Than Never’ national tour, which will see all proceeds donated to 12 cancer charities.
Majed was disruptive throughout the hearing, eventually taken down to the cells after he shouted that proposed bail conditions were “not acceptable”.
Peter Kay on stage at The Brit Awards in 2010 (Photo: Getty Images)
Ditch Strictly and slash licence fee – radical plan for BBC cuts
The plans would see the BBC forced to ditch popular shows like The Traitors and Strictly Come Dancing.
Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly’s farewell on the BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special gave the BBC a festive viewing boost (BBC Studios)
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GB News has submitted a plan for overhauling the national broadcaster.
The proposal would force the BBC to limit itself to areas commercial competitors are struggling to fund such as educational programming.
The £180-a-year TV licence would be drastically cut and only paid by households which use the BBC.
Criminal sanctions for non-payment would be abolished.
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This comes as the Government consults on a new BBC Charter, which will set out the funding and governance of the corporation for the next decade.
Some of the proposals are markedly similar to those advocated by its star presenter, Nigel Farage. Any similarities between the GB News plan and Reform’s policies are entirely coincidental, the channel said.
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A ‘blueprint’ for Reform
It’s a 30-page blueprint for a reduced BBC. Reform could use it as an off-the-shelf prescription if it won power. But the Tories could too if they were really being radical.”
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GB News is launching a national talk radio station (Photo: GB News)
Under a “reset” deal which Starmer agreed in principle with the EU last year, the UK will follow the bloc’s agri-food rules in exchange for the majority of border checks on animal and plant shipments being dropped. The Government said this would help to keep costs down at the supermarket.
A UK-EU summit later this summer will set out the next steps for the post-Brexit relationship.
While Labour’s election manifesto ruled out rejoining the EU’s single market or customs union, some of Starmer’s leadership rivals – such as the Health Secretary Wes Streeting – have signalled that these red lines should be reconsidered.
The Good Growth Foundation polled 2,006 British adults between 27 March and 6 April on what would affect their support for an arrangement in which the UK followed some EU rules on goods to reduce cross-border paperwork and taxes but had less ability to strike its own trade deals – in effect, a partial customs union.
64 per cent of the public said they would be more likely to support such an arrangement if it cut the cost of food and everyday goods in UK shops.
Such an arrangement would represent a closer relationship with the EU than the one Starmer has currently negotiated, in which the UK will align with Brussels on food standards but retain the ability to strike trade deals with other countries.
Joining the customs union would remove the need for checks on all goods crossing between the UK and EU, but also cancel out all the trade deals signed with other countries since Brexit. A partial customs union would come with vast political complexities, as the EU has always indicated it is unlikely to give the UK special treatment because of the risks that it would encourage other member states to consider leaving.
The Good Growth Foundation – which is a member of the UK Polling Council and abides by its rules – found that nearly half of people (48 per cent) said having to make financial contributions to the EU would not weaken their support for a closer deal.
European sources have said that further access to the EU’s single market would be on a “pay-to-play” basis in which the UK would have to make cash contributions.
The EU relations minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said on Monday that he would judge on a “case-by-case” basis whether participation in EU schemes represented “value for money”.
However, he said he did not “recognise” a figure in The Times suggesting that further access to the single market would come with a £1bn price tag.
Last November, negotiations about Britain joining the EU’s £130bn Security Action for Europe (Safe) defence loans scheme broke down over a dispute over money.
Despite this, at a meeting of the European Political Community in Armenia on Monday, Starmer announced that he had opened talks on the UK joining a £78bn EU loan scheme to support Ukraine.
After a meeting with the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen at the summit, the two leaders released a joint statement in which they said British participation in the Ukraine scheme would be a “major step forward in the UK-EU defence industrial relationship”.
In Armenia, Starmer referenced the UK and Europe’s recent disagreement with Donald Trump over America’s war with Iran, when he spoke of “tension” in Western alliances.
The unreliability of the US under Trump is seen as one of the major factors driving closer security co-operation between the UK and Europe, along with the growing threat posed by Russia to the Continent.
Starmer said: “It’s very important that we’re clear that we work very closely with the US on all issues to do with defence and security and intelligence… but clearly we also have to make sure that the European countries do more on defence and security.”
The Good Growth Foundation survey asked whether voters would be willing to pay towards various EU schemes, if it meant the UK could have access to them.
It found that 57 per cent would support paying into joint defence and security projects.
While the polling suggests the public are open to the idea of closer co-operation with the EU, any move in that direction would be seized on by the Conservatives and Reform UK as evidence that the Government is backsliding on Brexit.
Some Labour MPs – particularly those in Reform-facing seats – are also sceptical about a closer relationship with the EU.
Praful Nargund, director of the Good Growth Foundation, said: “With crisis in the Middle East, an unreliable ally across the Atlantic and a cost of living crisis at home, the public want Britain to stand strong with its closest neighbours in Europe – and they’re willing to make real trade-offs to get there.
“But they don’t want the old arguments back. Last year’s summit proved that bespoke, targeted deals are possible. Voters will accept compromises on EU rules and immigration when the prize is lower bills, stronger businesses and a more secure Britain.”
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor became the face of a charity campaign to protect children from abuse, around the same time it is thought he began a friendship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“As a father of two young children, I simply could not sit back and do nothing, he told Hello! magazine in 1999 during an interview to launch the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)’s campaign cracking down on abuse of children.
“We have to make sure that our children don’t accept abuse… They should not have to take responsibility for their own protection,” he said, adding, “It’s the sinister stuff that goes on behind closed doors that we need to worry about.”
The i Paper has located an original copy of the magazine buried in archives stored in a warehouse near Lincolnshire.
The Royal is pictured beaming in a black suit and bowtie along Hollywood legend Nicole Kidman on the cover that hit shops on 12 October 1999, with the pair drumming up interest in the child abuse campaign.
Prince Andrew beams on the front of Hello! Magazine in 1999 as he warns about the dangers of child abusers. (Photo: Crazyaboutmagazines.com)
The glamorous cover was followed inside by a nine-page glossy spread of Mountbatten-Windsor photographed in his office in Buckingham Palace. He is also pictured with his ex-wife and children, as well as celebrities, philanthropists and politicians.
One photo includes Peter Mandelson, who was also involved in the NSPCC campaign and was fired as the UK Ambassador to the US last year after concerns were raised over his own links with Epstein.
Mountbatten-Windsor told the magazine: “Eventually we will be able to identify those people who are abusing children more easily because they will be a very small minority and people will be alert and educated into recognising the signs.
“There are many cases where once the abuse has become known the neighbour or relative for example says ‘I thought there was something wrong if only I’d known what to look for’.”
Prince Andrew invited Hello! Magazine into his office in Buckingham Palace for the sit-down interview (Photo: Crazyaboutmagazines.com)
Andrew described the cause in the magazine as of “immense urgency and importance and I think it is entirely right that a member of the royal family should take up this particular post.” The magazine noted there were at least 110,000 convicted child sex offenders in Britain at the time.
Mountbatten-Windsor said he only “conflict” about him taking on the role was whether “there was going to be enough time in terms of what I am doing with the Navy.”
The former royal has come under intense scrutiny over his relationship with Epstein, with photos emerging showing Mountbatten-Windsor with young women. The images came after the late Virginia Giuffre, a victim of Epstein, previously said she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three occasions, including when she was aged 17. The royal reached an undisclosed financial settlement with her in 2022 and has always denied the allegations.
Emails unearthed by this paper reveal how lawyers for Andrew frustrated US attempts to investigate Epstein for sex crimes.
Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested by Thames Valley Police earlier this year over allegations that he passed sensitive information to Epstein while serving as UK trade envoy. Mountbatten-Windsor has been released under investigation and denies any wrongdoing.
Prince Andrew with Tony Blair and pop star Emma Bunton, who was part of the Spice Girls, as the three of them joined other celebrities and leading figures to launch the NSPCC campaign ‘Full Stop’, an appeal to end cruelty to children. (Photo by Tim Graham/ Getty Images)
Speaking in 1999, Andrew said: “I don’t profess to know everything there is to know about child abuse… The important thing is that support has been forthcoming from every section of society from the sports world celebrities companies and unions so that together we will make child abuse the social cause of the millennium.
“Hopefully, in 20 years time everyone will be able to pat themselves on the back and say ‘we have been able to achieve something in 1999 people said was impossible’.”
The royal, who has refused to be interviewed by US investigators looking into Epstein’s crimes, also told the magazine: “Nobody should be fearful of interference if it is necessary – and it would be quite obvious if somebody were abusing a child in public.
“Most children, however, are not abused in public. It’s the sinister stuff that goes on behind closed doors that we need to worry about.”
The former prince was approached in 1998 to become the Chairman of the NSPCC’s Full Stop campaign, a role Hello! Magazine described it as “the most high-profile that the Duke has undertaken for some years.” Mandelson came on board as vice-chair in early 1999, a few months before the MP was made Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
The Duke of York (left) at an NSPCC meeting at Buckingham Palace, with Peter Mandelson pictured second from the right. (Photo: Sean Dempsey/ PA archive)
Giles Pegram, the former director of fundraising at the NSPCC responsible for the Full Stop campaign, told The Sunday Times: “It’s horrible. Can anyone blame me for having brought Andrew and Mandelson together given the circumstances at the time?
“Do I regret it? Yes, obviously I do. If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have done it. If there was a scandal that was related to children, we wouldn’t have come within a mile of it.”
Pegram told the paper he believes an informal lunch meeting with Andrew, another colleague and Mandelson at the prince’s private apartments at Buckingham Palace may have been the first meeting of the prince and Mandelson. Pegram commented: “On the basis of body language and everything they were not two people who knew each other coming together. They certainly didn’t greet each other as old friends, it was the same handshake that he gave me and my colleague.”
While not holding an official role in campaign, the Duke’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson appeared in some of the campaign photographs along with their then young daughters. Andrew said when he discussed taking on the role with the former Duchess before he accepted, he was “extremely supportive.”
Then-Prince Andrew, poses with his ex-wife and their children Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie as they sign the pledge at the launch of the NSPCC fund raising campaign in 1999 in Windsor, England. A similar photo appears in the Hello! Magazine spread. (Photo by pool/ Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)
Ferguson has also become embroiled in her own scandal after emails linking her financially to Epstein emerged. Emails also show she wrote to Epstein saying: “You are a legend. I really don’t have the words to describe, my love, gratitude for your generosity and kindness… I am at your service. Just marry me.” Another email exchange appears to show Ferguson telling Epstein she was waiting for one of her daughters “to come back from a shagging weekend!!”.
Andrew was asked how they navigated parenthood. He replied: “There are many ways of bringing up children. The Duchess and I have found a way that best suits us. It wouldn’t suit everyone and I would never presume to judge other people on choosing it to do another way.”
Mountbatten-Windsor and Ferguson were approached for comment.
When exactly did Andrew meet Epstein?
The exact circumstances of how the disgraced royal met Epstein remains clouded.
It is thought the former Duke of York met Epstein in 1999 after being introduced by the disgraced financier’s close friend Ghislane Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence in US prison for child sex trafficking.
However, friends of Maxwell claim the men met at a birthday party hosted by Lady de Rothschild for her husband, Sir Evelyn, on his Martha’s Vineyard estate in August, 1999.
Then-Prince Andrew (L) and Sir Evelyn Rothschild play golf on 27 August 1999 in Martha’s Vineyard. (Photo: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images)Then-Prince Andrew was also joined by then-President Clinton during the same round of golf. (Photo by Bill Greene/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Photos of the prince playing golf with Sir Evelyn, as well as then-US President Bill Clinton near the estate on 27 August that year – two days before Sir Evelyn’s birthday.
It appears to correspond with images that emerged from the Epstein files which show Andrew in bathrobes with Mandelson, accompanied by a fully dressed Epstein. They are sat on the deck outside a property clad with the distinctive cedar shingles that are synonymous with homes in Martha’s Vineyard.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (left) and Lord Peter Mandelson pictured in bathrobes alongside paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein (centre). The undated photograph has been unearthed as part of the US department of justice’s Epstein-related document dump earlier this year (Photo: US Department of Justice/PA Wire)Caption: A photo included in the released Epstein ‘birthday book’ shows Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein. Provider: US House Oversight Committee
This is further disputed by a 2011 letter to The Times from Alastair Watson, Private Secretary to Andrew, suggesting the relationship began years before. Mr Watson wrote: “The Duke has known Mr Epstein since being introduced to him in the early 1990s.”
4 de maio de 2026; Denver, Colorado, EUA; O arremessador titular do New York Mets, Huascar Brazoban (43), faz um arremesso contra o Colorado Rockies no Coors Subject. Crédito obrigatório: Ron Chenoy-Imagn Photos
Carson Benge marcou no sexto inning para quebrar o lance sem sucesso de Tomoyuki Sugano, cinco arremessadores de Nova York combinaram para torcedor 11, e o Mets venceu o Colorado Rockies por 4 a 2 em Denver na segunda-feira.
David Peterson (1-4), o terceiro arremessador de Nova York, acertou seis em quatro entradas de trabalho e Devin Williams fez sua quarta defesa.
Mickey Moniak dobrou e triplicou para estender sua seqüência de rebatidas para 17 jogos e Jordan Beck triplicou para o Colorado, que perdeu os quatro primeiros de sua terra natal de seis jogos.
O jogo foi remarcado para as 15h40, horário native, devido à previsão do tempo inclemente para a noite de segunda-feira.
A mudança beneficiou Sugano desde o início, que precisou de apenas 48 arremessos para enfrentar o mínimo em cinco entradas. Sugano retirou os primeiros seis rebatedores antes de levar Benge na frente do terceiro, mas foi eliminado em uma jogada dupla.
Mark Vientos quase acertou a primeira rebatida do New York no jogo quando abriu o quinto com um remate na parede no campo esquerdo.
O Mets chegou ao Sugano (3-2) com uma grande sexta entrada. Benge acertou o 50º arremesso de Sugano no bullpen do Colorado para estragar a tentativa de não acertar, e Francisco Alvarez e Luis Torrens seguiram com duplas consecutivas para fazer 2 a 0.
Sugano saiu após uma caminhada e um groundout e Vientos acertou uma única corrida em Jaden Hill para fazer o 4-0. Sugano permitiu quatro corridas em três rebatidas em 5 1/3 entradas.
O Colorado abriu o placar no sétimo, quando Willi Castro marcou com duas eliminações e a bola de Beck para o centro caiu para um triplo quando Benge tropeçou ao voltar para pegar a bola. Kyle Karros seguiu com um single antes de Peterson sair da confusão.
As Montanhas Rochosas ameaçaram marcar no terceiro turno de Austin Warren, que substituiu Huascar Brazoban após um turno. Moniak acertou uma dobradinha de duas saídas na linha do campo esquerdo e Tyler Freeman seguiu com uma linha afundando para o campo centro-direito que Benge avançou para encerrar o inning.
What does Putin do next? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take a deeper look at the future for the Russian leader.
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Russia’s mercenaries were supposed to save Mali. The military regime of Assimi Goïta granted itself five more years in power last December, but is totally reliant on Russia’s “Africa Corps” to survive the Islamist militias who have besieged the country’s capital.
But Putin’s troops are currently surrounded there, as fighters from Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) torch fuel trucks and drag women off public transport. Large swathes of the country are under terrorist control and the Russian mercenaries have all but given up trying to retake them.
The upside for Vladimir Putin is that he has plunged yet another part of the West’s periphery into permanent instability.
Spin the globe to Iran and the pattern of Russian involvement tells the same basic story. The Russian- made air defences were largely destroyed last year and are finished now. But Moscow has supplied Tehran with real-time targeting intelligence, allowing precision strikes on US radars and airfields in the Gulf. And when Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz, Russia combined with China to prevent the UN Security Council backing moves to reopen it.
Spin again to the Southern Caucasus and Russian hard power is in retreat. Its traditional ally and client, Armenia, has moved decisively to strengthen links with the US and Europe.
Spin to Ukraine and Russia remains bogged down in its four-year war. Ukrainian long-range drones are meanwhile striking deep into Russian territory, degrading the oil terminals as far away as Samara, on the Volga, and Usk-Luga on the Baltic Sea. These strikes have taken more than 300,000 barrels a day out of production.
And the economic stress is beginning to show at home. Promsvyazbank (PSB) – the state-owned bank that channels lending to Russian defence firms – posted a massive loss in March. Although the entity is state-owned, it is largely funded by deposits from the Russian defence firms it lends to. Last year, many struggled to service their debts, signalling rising stress among Russian defence firms.
Basically, Putin’s war economy is faced with a slow-motion debt crisis, leaving Russia more dependent than ever on China for supplies, goodwill and oil revenues.
And it is fuelling mounting disquiet. Though open opposition is a suicidal pastime, complaints from otherwise loyal figures are rising. The boss of the Russian Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, has warned that “the economy is about to collapse”.
An even more influential figure – Monaco-based Russian TV star Victoria Bonya – unleashed an 18-minute tirade that garnered 30 million views. “Vladimir Vladimirovich,” she tells Putin, “you are dead. Bloggers fear you. Artists fear you…” She tells him that no regional governor will tell the truth about the state of the economy – that the people are “coiled like a spring” and about to snap.
This is the context for Putin’s attempt to strangle the messaging app Telegram – once the vehicle of choice for Russian propaganda – and force people to use state-run channels instead. That’s been accompanied by a weird media campaign against the “open” internet, telling citizens that it is awash with scams and disinformation – and a crackdown on the virtual private networks Russians use to circumvent internet censorship.
Given Telegram was the main vector of regime propaganda, and its amplification by “milbloggers” who often demanded escalation of the war against Ukraine, the move signals how beleaguered and in need for top-down hierarchy the regime must feel.
It has lost Syria. Its Iranian ally is weakened. Its grip over Armenia is slipping. It has caused nothing but chaos in Africa. And the Ukraine war is a stalemate.
For any rational imperialist strongman this catalogue of failure, and the prospect of financial peril and dissent might signal it was time to call it quits. But Putin is not rational. I don’t mean that he is crazy – but that his fundamental strategic aim, for Russia to become a “great power” capable of dividing Europe, conquering Ukraine and permanently destabilising the West, is a tall order for a country whose GDP is the size of Italy’s.
One of Putin’s most chilling remarks was uttered in 2018 when, asked whether he would ever use nuclear weapons, he asked: “Why do we need a world if Russia is not in it?” During the Ukraine war, this has become the mantra of ultra-nationalist TV hosts, who delight in showing animations of Russian nuclear missiles and torpedoes laying waste to Western capitals.
It is an explicit threat to destroy human life on the planet if the regime somehow faces failure, and though that moment is a long way off, the remark is the best guide to what Putin is most likely to do next: foment chaos.
Though the impoverished and terrorised people of Mali seem a long way from the centres of power in Europe, their condition – helplessness amid chaos – is what Putin intends for all of us. And though his armies are failing, his proxy regimes tottering, it does not matter so long as he can project disinformation, hatred and division into Western society.
Right now, his target is Poland. In February, Russian-trained saboteurs blew up a railway line. But the country’s security services report “dozens” of probing attacks – including cyber-warfare, drone intrusions or just outright sabotage attempts. The physical and digital intrusions are accompanied by relentless disinformation designed to sow fear and set parts of the population against each other.
During last year’s election in Poland, Russia activated dozens of bots on X.com, which had been tweeting about cryptocurrencies and now, suddenly, began to claim that pensioners would lose out because of money channelled to Ukraine.
Putin, in short, is engaged in a relentless battle to shape the way we think about the problem. His top generals advocate a theory called “reflexive control”, in which cognitive and behavioural science is mobilised to force what they call the “victim state” – ie Britain and its allies – to frame problems in ways that will make us behave how Russia wants.
One of my biggest frustrations with extreme political activists – both on the right and left – is their refusal to see this happening, even as they become unconscious vectors of Kremlin cognitive warfare. When you see masked pro-Palestinian protesters harassing Jews, or fascist thugs attacking asylum hotels, you are not just seeing dark domestic political impulses played out. You are seeing the Kremlin playbook in action – and I do not mean that metaphorically. There is an actual set of instructions, and these effects are in it.
To keep Ukraine in the fight, to support the Westward turn of countries like Armenia, and to keep places like Mali from failing completely, requires the populations of Western countries to maintain the will to do so. It requires us to hate each other, to turn such hatred into low-level intimidation and harassment, and to disintegrate our democratic resilience.
Despite his failing economy, a slow-mo debt crisis and massive casualties among his troops, Putin knows that – should European voters lose the will to maintain our own democratic resilience, he can pull victory from the ashes of the defeats he’s experienced over the past four years.
