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Monster of Avignon’s daughter-in-law ‘caught him masturbating’ and says he asked granddaughters to pose naked for him: New horrors in trial of husband who drugged his wife, after daughter dubbed him ‘one of world’s worst sex predators’

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A daughter-in-law of the depraved husband who drugged his wife and let men rape her has claimed she caught him masturbating and that he asked his granddaughter to pose naked for him.

Aurore Lemaire, 37, recalled in court a harrowing moment in 2020 her young daughters were in the supermarket with Dominique, 71, and Gisele Pelicot, 72, when they asked their grandfather if he would buy them a toy. 

‘He replied; ‘I’d be very happy to get it for you if you pose naked for me.,” she said.

‘Police also found pictures of me, naked in the shower. ‘It was a real shock.’

Earlier, Pelicot’s daughter Caroline Payronnet declared him one of the worst sexual predators of the last two decades as she revealed the abuse he inflicted upon her.

Monster of Avignon’s daughter-in-law ‘caught him masturbating’ and says he asked granddaughters to pose naked for him: New horrors in trial of husband who drugged his wife, after daughter dubbed him ‘one of world’s worst sex predators’

Daughter-in-law Aurore Lemaire, 37, today spoke out in court claiming her father-in-law Dominique Pelicot, 71, asked her daughters to pose naked for him in 2020

Pelicot's second daughter-in-law Celine Fontelle told the court: ‘There are photos of me naked in the bathroom. My father-in-law created a montage of photos of me’

Pelicot’s second daughter-in-law Celine Fontelle told the court: ‘There are photos of me naked in the bathroom. My father-in-law created a montage of photos of me’

Caroline Peyronnet, 45, told the Avignon court today how she believed her father had drugged her too, after police showed her photos of her lying unconscious on a bed in her mother’s underwear

Caroline Peyronnet, 45, told the Avignon court today how she believed her father had drugged her too, after police showed her photos of her lying unconscious on a bed in her mother’s underwear

Gisele Pelicot, 72, told the court in Avignon how she wanted to 'disappear' when police revealed the dark truth to her after arresting her husband in late 2020. Pictured: Gisele Pelicot (R), accompanied by her son David (C) and Florian (L) as they leave the criminal court in Avignon, France, September 5

Gisele Pelicot, 72, told the court in Avignon how she wanted to ‘disappear’ when police revealed the dark truth to her after arresting her husband in late 2020. Pictured: Gisele Pelicot (R), accompanied by her son David (C) and Florian (L) as they leave the criminal court in Avignon, France, September 5

Dominique Pelicot is accused of recruiting men online to assault his wife repeatedly over a decade until his arrest in 2020

Dominique Pelicot is accused of recruiting men online to assault his wife repeatedly over a decade until his arrest in 2020

Gisele Pelicot's daughter Caroline Peyronnet enters the court room to give evidence against her dad Dominque Pelicot. Pictured: Artist drawing from inside the court of Caroline in the dock

Gisele Pelicot’s daughter Caroline Peyronnet enters the court room to give evidence against her dad Dominque Pelicot. Pictured: Artist drawing from inside the court of Caroline in the dock

The twisted pervert bowed his head and cried in the dock in Avignon as his 45-year-old child told how she believed he had drugged her too, after police showed her photos of her lying unconscious on a bed in her mother’s underwear.

In between pauses to catch her breath, Peyronnet told the court: ‘I stand here as the child and daughter of the main accused and as a victim of an unbearable atrocity.

‘At 8.25pm on 2nd November 2020, my family changed. Before that we were a united family. I loved my father.

‘I knew him as a caring, considerate man who was affectionate father without any hint of an inappropriate look or unwelcomed touch. What hit as a like a cataclysm.

‘Then my mother called me to say that there was a problem with my father. I imagine that he is intensive care, that he is dying.

‘But she tells me that my father has been drugging her for years so that strangers can rape her in her won bed.

‘She says she has seen photos of what happened to her and that the police want to show her video’s of what happened.

‘I totally lost my foundations. Fortunately my husband [Pierre] was there and my six year old son too. We took him away so that he did not hear his mother’s screams.

‘My mother was alone in the house where she had been defiled by so many strangers.

‘We know she is in danger that night and I did not close my eyes that night, neither could my brothers.

‘In the morning I took my son to school but I cannot tell him that he will never see the grandfather that he loves so much again.

‘When we get to my mother, we find her destroyed.

‘The police investigator tells us he doesn’t know how many men are involved – 30 or 50. My older brother David is stoic. My little brother Florian collapses.

‘Going back to that house after what we had heard was torture. The place where my son had loved to spend holidays with his grandpa. Impossible.

‘Then the police call me and tell me he has something to show me.

‘He tells me to sit down and he says he has two photos to show me.

Caroline continued: ‘The first photo is of a woman who is apparently sleeping lying on her side with the light on. We can see her backside.

‘The second photo, the same position, same panties, same staging.

‘I still don’t recognise myself and then the policeman says tome; “but it’s definitely you with that brown spot on your cheek”.

‘I discover that my father photographed me without my knowledge. I understood immediately that it was me in those photos. I do not sleep like that. So I strongly believe that he drugged me.’

Turning her head to ceiling in despair Mrs Peyronnet told the court: ‘I am not trying to undermine my father [but] justice must be done.

‘What do you do when your father is one of the worst sexual predators of the last 20 years but there is no evidence that he drugged me?

Judge Roger Arata replied: ‘Madame I cannot answer that question, but this trial must come to conclusion, and everyone must have answers.’

The sons of Gisele Pelicot, Florian, right, David, left, and her daughter Caroline, centre, arrive in the Avignon court house, southern France, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024

The sons of Gisele Pelicot, Florian, right, David, left, and her daughter Caroline, centre, arrive in the Avignon court house, southern France, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024

The son of Gisele Pelicot, Florian (L) and her daughter Caroline Darian (R) leave the criminal court in Avignon, France, 05 September 2024

The son of Gisele Pelicot, Florian (L) and her daughter Caroline Darian (R) leave the criminal court in Avignon, France, 05 September 2024

The rapist’s two daughter-in-laws Celine Fontelle and Aurore Lemaire also claim that Pelicot took photos of them without their knowledge. 

Celine Fontelle told the court: ‘There are photos of me naked in the bathroom.

‘My father-in-law created a montage of photos of me.’

Caroline’s book entitled ‘And I Stopped Calling You Papa’ – published in 2022 under the pen name Caroline Darian – provides skin-crawling details of her father’s depravity and has already been quoted by the judge during the trial. 

Mr Pelicot’s daughter explains across 176 pages the ways in which her father cruelly manipulated, abused and destroyed the physical and mental health of his wife Gisele before his dark deeds were eventually discovered in November 2020. 

She writes how her father ‘dressed Maman like a low-rent prostitute’ and forbade many of the men he invited to the family home from wearing a condom as they abused her unconscious mother – including one who even tested positive for HIV.

And she explained how she was confronted with the reality that she too had been drugged by her own dad, dressed in underwear and left in the foetal position as he snapped away with a camera. 

Caroline fled the courtroom in tears on Tuesday after those images were discussed amid the trial.

Though some of the names were changed when the book was published, Caroline gives a horrendous account of how her father drugged her mother with powerful tranquillisers. 

Darian's book, released in 2022 roughly a year and a half after her father's crimes were revealed, charts the destruction of the Pelicot family when Gisele's health was inexplicably falling apart

Darian’s book, released in 2022 roughly a year and a half after her father’s crimes were revealed, charts the destruction of the Pelicot family when Gisele’s health was inexplicably falling apart

Writing about one incident in the summer of 2018, Caroline recalls how her brother went to visit their parents for an evening meal, only to see his mother practically falling asleep at the dinner table.

‘Only a few minutes after sitting down Maman was swaying in her chair as though she was drunk,’ Caroline quotes him as saying.

‘Suddenly her whole body was drained of energy, like a rag doll.’

‘It happens. It’s better if I take her to bed,’ his father was reported as saying, feigning the role of a concerned husband acting in his wife’s best interests.

‘In reality the cocktail of drugs, poured into her glass of rosé, was beginning to take effect,’ Caroline said. 

It comes after the wife of the twisted pervert, Gisele Pelicot, 72, told a judge she was on the brink of taking her own life after learning she had been defiled by dozens of strangers when her husband drugged her and left her unconscious.

She told the court how she wanted to ‘disappear’ when police revealed the dark truth to her after arresting her husband in late 2020.

The depraved man was initially arrested for taking pictures up the skirts of female shoppers in a supermarket.

But when police confiscated his computer they uncovered more than 20,000 images and videos of strangers abusing his snoring wife in a campaign of twisted abuse that lasted almost a decade.

‘I only wanted one thing and that was to disappear. I told myself: ”I am going to get in my car with my dog and end it all”,’ Madame Pelicot told the court yesterday, going on to recount how her adult children were terrified she was going to kill herself before they could reach her.

Gisele Pelicot is pictured above as she left the court in Avignon, France, on September 5

Gisele Pelicot is pictured above as she left the court in Avignon, France, on September 5

Madame Pelicot is determined that the public knows that she played no part in her husband's warped sexual fantasies that he played out at their picturesque chalet home in the Provence village of Mazan (pictured)

Madame Pelicot is determined that the public knows that she played no part in her husband’s warped sexual fantasies that he played out at their picturesque chalet home in the Provence village of Mazan (pictured)

Mr Pelicot's daughter Caroline has already provided in skin-crawling detail an extensive account of her father's heinousness

Mr Pelicot’s daughter Caroline has already provided in skin-crawling detail an extensive account of her father’s heinousness

‘When I told my sons about this, I don’t think they really understood, they were withdrawn… I think they were in a state of shock. They said: ”Don’t say such silly things”.

‘[That] evening, the children rang all the time saying ”don’t disappear”… they were worried I might die.’

Mr Pelicot broke down in tears in the dock yesterday as he listened to his wife, wearing an orange dress, a white blouse and a gold necklace, detail how they fell in love and started their married life together before her world ‘collapsed’ when the extent of his depravity was discovered.

She went on to admit that she had a short affair 14 years after marrying Mr Pelicot in 1973 but insisted they patched things up and shared a strong union, until police informed her of her husband’s deeds in 2020.

‘We had everything, we had a great life. I don’t understand how this could have happened,’ the 72-year-old told Judge Roger Arata. 

‘We were not rich but we were happy.

Despite Madame Pelicot’s belief she was in a loving relationship, from 2011 until 2020 her husband orchestrated a campaign of abuse, drugging her and inviting dozens of men to rape her for his camera.  

Judge Arata later asked Madame Pelicot if she suffered any problems after the decade of abuse, to which she replied that she was tested for HIV, adding: ‘I was diagnosed with four sexually transmitted diseases at the Versailles medical forensic unit.’

She did not contract HIV, despite being raped several times by a man who tested positive for the virus without a condom.  

The judge also asked Madame Pelicot whether her husband had any ‘sexual desires’ that she didn’t want to participate in.

‘Once we went to a nightclub with another couple where there was a ‘swingers’ room’. But I didn’t want to get involved in that so we did not go into that room and we just stayed in the main nightclub,’ the mother-of-three replied.

Another judge asked Madame Pelicot whether she and her husband ever discussed filming their sexual intercourse. 

A court drawing shows Madame Pelicot taking the stand, facing her husband and the 50 others accused of raping her

A court drawing shows Madame Pelicot taking the stand, facing her husband and the 50 others accused of raping her

Gisele Pelicot, 72, arrives at court in Avignon, France, on the morning of September 4

Gisele Pelicot, 72, arrives at court in Avignon, France, on the morning of September 4

She said: ‘I never agreed to Monsieur Pelicot filming us having sex. No the only time we talked about something like this was at the swingers’ room at the nightclub. I understood that he would have wanted to do it. But for me it was impossible.’

The judge told Madame Pelicot that Mr Pelicot has acknowledged his crimes, and asked her; ‘What do you feel about this?’

She replied: ‘Feelings of disgust. We had everything, we had a great life. I don’t understand how this could have happened.’

Madame Pelicot, who has three children and seven grandchildren, bravely waived her right to anonymity to make public details of the horrific betrayal her partner of 50 years had forced her to endure over ten years. 

Mr Pelicot and 14 of his co-accused have admitted their part in France’s worst rape case. 

But another 35 men – from all walks of life – deny that they forced themselves on Madame Pelicot while she was unconscious, claiming that she in some way consented.

Madame Pelicot’s lawyer asked her in court: ‘Some of the defendants admit the facts, others contest all the facts, and others confirm they were present but deny it was rape.

‘You caught four sexually transmitted diseases and were exposed to HIV six times. What have you got to say to people who claim you consented to all this?’

The brave mother-of-three replied: ‘All I have to say is, it’s an insult to my intelligence. These individuals were totally aware of what state I was in. I never knowingly took part in any of these things.

‘How can you even try and make people think that a woman would knowingly take part in all this?’

The shocking case is set to continue until December 20. 

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Staines: Police treating deaths of children as murder

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The deaths of three children found at a house in Surrey with their father are being treated as murder, police have said.

Dominik Swiderski, aged three, and his brothers Nikodem and Kacper, both aged two, were found dead in Staines on Saturday.

Their father had been identified by police as Polish national Piotr Swiderski, aged 31.

Surrey Police said inquests into all four deaths would take place in due course.

“We are not looking for anyone else in connection with our investigation. Their mother is being supported by specially trained officers,” the force said.

Police previously said it had referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), due to previous contact with the family.

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Live Commentary – Arsenal Women vs Rosenborg Women | 07.09.2024

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Live Commentary – Arsenal Women vs Rosenborg Women | 07.09.2024

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Saweetie’s ‘Nani’ Lands #1 Spot On Rhythmic Radio

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Saweetie has a hit on her hands.

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Taking to press, on the latest update of the Mediabase radio airplay charts, her song ‘Nani’ has officially risen to the #1 spot on Rhythmic Radio.

The song has risen on radio since its please.

Across the song, Saweetie flaunts her confidence.

Ooh, got that nani, nani, nani/ How she walk through, swingin’ that body/ Yellin’, ’Who gon’ stop me?’/ You ain’t got the time to clock me,” she says

The song came as a release as the fans continue to wait for her new album ‘Pretty B**ch Music.’ 

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Jolyon's Good Law Project Closes Legal Practice

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Jolyon’s Good Law Project Closes Legal Practice





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The Good Law Project’s soul-searching post-election period looks like it’s coming along. It now says it “has decided to revert to the model operated by other legal non-profits of procuring legal services through an in-house legal team and is closing its wholly owned law firm Good Law Practice. Curious that the practice designed to litigate against the government has closed swiftly after… the change of government…

So long to likely the worst-performing judicial review practice the UK legal system has ever seen. Last week Jolyon’s outfit sent a survey to its supporters asking whether they should attack the government any more now that the election is finished. Looks like they’ve settled on an answer…

Guido has long documented the travails of notorious legal loser Maugham. Jolyon declared seven weeks ago that he was leaving for “the mountains” and would be back in two weeks. Jolyon’s project will continue, though now with less enthusiasm and capacity to challenge the government. Surprise, surprise…

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Christopher Howarth: What is the point of the Conservative Party? | Conservative Home

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Christopher Howarth works for the European Research Group is former Parliamentary candidate, special adviser and author of a forthcoming political thriller The Durian Pact, based on his time in politics.

What is the point in the Conservative Party? That may seem an odd question. But given half the potential Conservative vote has decided to pursue its political interests elsewhere it seem unavoidable. Many conservatives appear to think the party has no point.

So, starting from the beginning. What is the purpose of the political party?

To win elections, I hear you (and many of the leadership candidates) say. Well, no. Not really. That comes later. Still less is it’s purpose to provide seats and ministerial posts for politicians.

The purpose of a political party comes from its foundation: a group of individuals and interests coming together to pursue their shared political interests. In the Conservative Party’s case it is Conservative Party members, members who come together collectively to pursue conservative policies and causes.

Of course, winning elections is a good way to do that – but winning elections is not the end in itself. Having won seats there are responsibilities: providing an effective opposition or government. But the Cabinet manual does not dictate the purpose of political parties.

The Labour Party has always had a clear view of its ‘stakeholders’ interests and delivers on them. Be it wage rises for their public sector worker voter base, employment and trades union rights for their paymasters. It’s a clearly a joint endeavour. They expect their party to deliver or the Unions will withhold their support.

The Conservative Party, by contrast, has never been very clear about its purpose or the interests it represents. How else could we explain being in power for fourteen years and leaving power a country far less conservative than before? What conservative causes and policies have been delivered for those that invest their time and money in getting Conservative MPs elected? Few, if any.

Often, Conservative politicians seem to have grasped the wrong end of the telescope. Even now we see leadership contenders pondering how better members could be better utilised to win elections. That is fundamentally the wrong question.

The real question is: why should members be members at all, if the representatives they work so hard to support do nothing in return? The Party is not owned by the leader an MPs. When it acts as if it is, disaster is not far away.

Conservative members have been promised many things over the last 14 years. Cuts to inheritance tax in 2007, 2010, and most elections ever since; cuts to migration at every election; strong defence; a cull of quangos; defence of the Union.

The list goes on. None were ever delivered. Instead, we got steadily higher taxes, record immigration, more quangos, cuts to historic regiments, a miniscule navy, more diversity laws, and a border down the middle of the Irish Sea.

That is what the collective endeavour of our members to pursue conservatism got them. We had MPs who prioritised coalition with Liberals Democrats over Conservatism; others who, devoid of their own conservative ideology, saw the world through the lens of their opponents and adopted much of their programme.

As a result, the party spent more time explaining to members why they were wrong than delivering for them.

So, I ask again, what is the point of the Conservative Party? If you were of a conservative inclination would your time and money be better spent on helping a centre-right think tank? Would you be better off championing single-issue causes? Joining NGOs and institutions and making your voice heard there? Perhaps even try to break into journalism…

Perhaps, even, back another party, despite knowing they will never gain power you may influence policy. Sadly, the Conservative Party does not seem to provide a good return on investment.

So, what can be done? Is it worth saving? The survival of the Conservative Party is by no means guaranteed, nor should it be. To survive it needs to go back to its roots.

Forget the view from on high – it’s the members and their political interests that are the purpose and foundation of the party. The members should be front and centre of what the Party does, and it should be delivering the conservatism they wish to see.

Until we realise that, we can and should forget about winning elections as we have no clear reason as to what to do once we have won.

That is the challenge for this leadership contest. Putting members and their interests front and centre of what we do. We need MPs who want to deliver conservatism – not delivering nominal conservatives into office. We don’t merely want to ‘keep promises’ and ‘be united’; we want the right promises, and unity around the members interests.

So, let’s have a real contest. Real ideas put forward. No more triangulation and vibes, no more empty pleas to members to help win elections before the leadership is clear what conservative policies they will deliver for members.

This is an urgent task. The Labour Party can and is doing untold damage in the pursuit of its ‘stakeholders’ interests. Public sector wage rises paid for by punitive taxes? We know how that story ends.

There remains a huge swath of the country that wish to see conservative values delivered: a dynamic economy, conservation of our cultural values and history, a strong UK in the world, and individual responsibility under the law.

If the Conservative Party does not wish to deliver on these interests someone else will try, be it campaign groups, think tanks, journalists… or even another political party.

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EXCLUSIVE: Green Party spokesperson brands Labour government ‘even less principled than Margaret Thatcher’ on arms sales to Israel

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Green Party migration spokesperson Benali Hamdache speaking at a Palestine Solidarity Campaign fringe at Green Party Conference

Green Party of England and Wales migration spokesperson Benali Hamdache branded Keir Starmer’s Labour government ‘even less principled than Margaret Thatcher’ over its position on arms sales to Israel. Hamdache made the comments at a fringe meeting at the Green Party’s autumn conference taking place in Manchester this weekend.

Hamdache told the meeting: “In 1982, Margaret Thatcher stopped the sale of weapons to Israel. In the wake of Israel’s invasion of South Lebanon, arms licenses were withdrawn and an invitation to the British Army Equipment Exhibition rescinded. In that war, 19,000 people died”.

Hamdache went on to contrast this to the approach taken by Starmer’s government. He said: “Today, after 11 months of brutal killing, the death toll stands at 42,000, with over 100,000 wounded. And yet David Lammy will only back a partial ban on weapons sales to Israel. F-35s with British parts rain death down upon the Gazan people. How – over the last 40 years – have international standards become so degraded? How can this Labour government be even less principled than Margaret Thatcher’s government in the 1980s.”

Hamdache went on to say: “The consensus of cruelty in this country’s biggest parties has driven more death and more suffering – not does in Gaza, but in conflicts as diverse as Sudan, Yemen and the Congo.”

The fringe event was organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and was addressed by – among others – the director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Ben Jamal.

Chris Jarvis is head of strategy and development at Left Foot Forward

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Keyshawn Davis faces Gustavo Lemos in November homecoming | Boxing News

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KEYSHAWN Davis’ next step towards the top has been officially confirmed for November 8 as the 2020 Olympian and current 11-0 (7 KOs) pro “comes home”. Boxing in Norfolk, Virginia, ‘The Businessman’ has a tough test in front of him against Argentina’s Gustavo Lemos, who will be having his first bout under the Top Rank banner.

The homecoming is a true family affair, as Keyshawn’s brothers Kelvin and Keon join the party. Meanwhile, after failing to nail down a unification with IBF champion Jaron Ennis, Brian Norman Jr defends his WBO 147-pound title against Derrieck Cuevas. Big punching prospect Abdullah Mason is also on the card, along with Troy Isley and Efe Ajagba.

10-round headliner Keyshawn named Pernell Whitaker as one of his boxing idols before acknowledging that Lemos is a tough task. He’s correct on the latter. Lemos was deemed unlucky in many quarters to have lost a decision to Richardson Hitchins in their title eliminator.

“Lemos is full of confidence, and Keyshawn will have to be in top form,” stated promoter Bob Arum, who is overseeing a new breed of young contenders.

Aside from a no-contest blip after his fight with Nahir Albright, Davis has no stains on his 11-fight record. Beating Lemos, in a convincing fashion, would represent a serious statement victory on the road to world-class.

“I hand-picked this opponent because I know he can fight. He’s a good fighter. But I’m a dangerous fighter. Just know that if you come with that, I’m going to come with that, too,” said Keyshawn.

“Gustavo Lemos is going to try all that extra stuff, but ya’ll know how we rock out here. Norfolk is not going for any of that. I’m going to tone him right on down, and we are going to have a fun night on Friday, November 8.”

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Swingalong can lift Sprint Cup and grab Group One glory at last

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Heavy rain in the south of England over the last two days did not reach Newton-le-Willows and the Betfair Sprint Cup at Haydock on Saturday is expected to be run on good-to-soft ground at worst.

That should suit all the leading contenders in the betting market, including Inisherin, the impressive winner of the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot in June, who let down his backers when up against older horses for the first time in the July Cup two months ago.

Kevin Ryan’s colt was coming off a busy run of races there and may have been freshened up by a two-month break. He does not have much in hand of his field on ratings, however, and this could be the day when Swingalong (3.35) finally gets her head in front at Group One level.

Karl Burke’s filly was touched off in both the Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot and the July Cup and looks overpriced at around 7-1 to go one place better on Saturday.

Haydock 1.15 Cicero’s Gift looked ill at ease on fast ground at ­Goodwood last month but he was seen as a realistic contender for the St James’s Palace Stakes last season – he was beaten eight lengths at 12-1 on just the third start of his career – and has an obvious chance to notch a first Group-race success on easier going here.

Ascot 1.35 The last two winners of the Victoria Cup over track and trip are in the lineup and Rebel ­Territory, who has had just one run since finishing four lengths clear of an ultra-competitive field in May 2023, makes plenty of appeal at around 6-1, not least as he at his best on soft ground.

Haydock 1.50 Lightly raced Master Builder post a new career-best when third in the Melrose at York last month and will be very hard to beat if his progress continues.

Ascot 2.10 The Reverend posted a useful time under a penalty in a novice event last time and starts his handicapping career on a very fair mark.

Haydock 2.25Epic Poet (fourth) and Oneforthegutter (third) represent the Ebor form and should be in the mix, but it may pay to side instead with the progressive filly Waxing Gibbous, who has an obvious chance at the weight on her form at 12 furlongs and could well improve further for this step up in trip.

Kempton 2.35 Kalpana is making her debut on Polytrack but made a winning debut on Tapeta in January and looked highly progressive when finishing nearly five lengths clear in a Listed race at Hamilton in July.

Quick Guide

Greg Wood’s Saturday tips

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Haydock 1.15 Cicero’s Gift 1.50 Master Builder (nb) 2.25 Waxing Gibbous (nap) 3.00 American Affair 3.35 Swingalong 4.07 Age Of Gold 4.40 Arkhalia Flynn 5.15 Al Rufaa

 

Ascot 1.35 Rebel Territory 2.10 2.45 Law Of Design 3.20 Hosaamm 3.55 Tacarib Bay 4.30 Surveyor 5.05 Faustus

 

Kempton 2.00 Symbol Of Strength 2.35 Kalpana 3.15 Kilt 3.45 Chesneys Charm 4.20 Ferrous 4.55 Assail 5.30 Duke Of Verona

 

Thirsk 2.05 Bella Love 2.40 Mayor Of Maghera 3.10 Novamay 3.50 Hiya Maite 4.25 Rajindri 5.00 Haptics 5.35 Finbar’s Lad 6.10 Racingbreaks Ryder

 

Stratford-On-Avon 4.12 Evenwood Sonofagun 4.45 Cavern Club 5.20 Nickelforce 5.50 Pak Army 6.20 Forget The Way 6.50 All Well And Good

 

Wolverhampton 4.50 Supaspecialawesome 5.25 Prophet’s Path 6.00 Amestris 6.30 Dawn Awakening 7.00 Three Platoon 7.30 Liosa 8.00 Match Play 8.30 La Sonnambula

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Haydock 3.00 In a tightly knit sprint, Amie Waugh’s 5lb claim might tip the scales in favourite of the ultra-consistent American Affair.

Kempton 3.15 With just four races in the book, Kilt is the least-exposed runner in this field by some way and he arrives on the back of a career-best on his handicap debut at Haydock last month.

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More Starmer Sin Taxes on the Way

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The British Heart Foundation is crowing today over “a lost decade of progress” when it comes to heart conditions. They decry “inequalities” and claim it is “unacceptable that too many people see worse outcomes from heart disease linked to their economic status, gender or ethnicity.And right on cue they suggest the usual socialist solutions:

  1. A new tax on salt and sugar. Thanks to the Tories’ soft drink sugar tax the BHF now says making food more expensive is required…
  2. Immediate implementation on TV and online advertising ban for “less healthy products.
  3. The expansion of the proposed advertising ban to “outdoor and radio advertising, sports sponsorship.
  4. Cigarette-style packaging on less healthy food. Cheery…
  5. An extra tax on tobacco producers the BHF calls a “Smokefree Fund.”
  6. Making air targets set by the 2022 Environment Act even stricter.

The DHSC isn’t commenting on the BHF’s proposals but rest assured the government is interested. Campaigners have met with Treasury officials to directly discuss a salt and sugar tax. Wes Streeting is a big fan:

“From my point of view, I think we can see the soft drinks industry levy as a successful intervention and a model to follow. And if industry doesn’t like that, well, they’d better pull their finger out and come forward with a very persuasive argument about what they will do without the heavy hand of state regulation.”

More on Starmer’s “politics that treads lightly on people’s lives” as Guido gets it…

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