By Chris Evans,
EDITOR

Dear Reader,

Parliament is in recess until Monday, but the withdrawal from Afghanistan has made for an unusually heavy summer in politics for Boris Johnson and his Cabinet. Already this week, the foreign affairs select committee has given Dominic Raab a tough grilling, and today the Foreign Secretary is in Qatar trying to secure safe passage for those still hoping to leave Afghanistan.

As MPs head back from their holidays, the PM's thoughts will turn to how to set out the Government's plan for managing endemic Covid. In his column today Allister Heath argues that, for a man whose political hero is Winston Churchill, there might be a more unlikely figure that Johnson is emulating instead...

A “game-changing” drug to lower cholesterol is undoubtedly welcome news. Britain has a problem with high levels and our more sedentary lifestyles in lockdown will not have helped. Miranda Levy explains in this piece how a new gene-silencing jab could transform the health prospects of hundreds of thousands of people.

It was once cruelly labelled ‘God’s waiting room’, but it seems that Bournemouth is showing signs of becoming a sophisticated, youthful metropolis by the sea. Some are even calling it Silicon Beach. Jonathan Margolis speaks to the people at the heart of the transformation.

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Finally, the easing of lockdown restrictions allowed numerous festivals to go ahead this summer. While revellers were busy remembering what it is like to have fun, many forgot how to clear up after themselves with sites in Reading and Leeds left looking like warzones. These are the confessions of festival litter-pickers who endured “the most disgusting week” of their lives.

Chris

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