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Matteo Vercher has crossed the line with a time of 30:01:67. He did a wheelie to the crowd’s delight.

Also, you might have spotted that the preamble had some strange time gaps and GC rankings mentioned. This has been fixed now! Apologies. All I can say is that it was written before I’d had a cup of tea and an almond croissant.

1.49pm CEST/12.49pm BST – Luke Plapp (Jayco-Alula)

2.18pm CEST/1.18pm BST – Ivan Romeo (Movistar)

2.28pm CEST/1.28pm BST – Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious)

3.22pm CEST/2.22pm BST – Wout Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike)

4.47pm CEST/3.47pm BST – Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike)

4.49pm CEST3.49pm BST – Felix Gall (Decathlon-Ag2R La Mondiale)

4.51pm CEST/3.51pm BST – Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility)

4.53pm CEST/3.53pm BST – Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)

4.55pm CEST/3.55pm BST – Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL)

4.57pm CEST/3.57pm BST – Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels)

4.59pm CEST/3.59pm BST – Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)

5.01pm CEST/4.01pm BST – Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick-Step)

5.03pm CEST/4.03pm BST – Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike)

5.05pm CEST/4.05pm BST – Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG)

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

Businesses are still in “tough” times, despite the drop in insolvencies in June, cautions David Hudson, restructuring advisory partner at FRP.

Hudson says:

“The slight fall in insolvencies this month offers a glimmer of relief – especially for hospitality and retail businesses, which are now reaping the benefits of record hot weather. However, we’re still in tough territory. Consumer confidence remains stubbornly low, growth is stuttering – with GDP dipping again in May. June’s unexpected jump in inflation will only serve to continue eroding profit margins and consumer demand.

“This environment is forcing businesses to fight on multiple fronts. Many will likely only be experiencing breathing space after dramatically paring back costs. Until demand shows a more sustained recovery and input costs ease further, there’s a risk that this reprieve is just a pause rather than a turning point.”

• Fee for forward could reach £71m with add-ons

• Mbeumo wanted United despite Spurs interest

Manchester United have agreed a deal worth more than £70m to sign Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford. A fee of £65m will be paid up front and a further £6m could follow in add-ons

The Cameroonian, who scored 20 Premier League goals last season, has been a key target for Ruben Amorim. Mbeumo made clear he wanted to move to Old Trafford despite interest from his former Brentford head coach Thomas Frank at Tottenham, and personal terms are not thought to be an issue.

Islamophobic attacks on Zohran Mamdani are a reminder of the difference between individual and structural prejudice

My only interaction with the FBI came soon after 11 September 2001. A man and woman visited my family’s home in Philadelphia – we had recently moved from Palestine – showed their credentials and asked to enter. My parents invited them in and a conversation about political views followed. They left soon afterwards but I knew we were suspect, and I understood why.

At the time, I was in high school. Two or three years later, one of my sisters, who wore the hijab then, was confronted by an elderly white man at a department store. “What’s the significance of the trash you’re wearing on your head?” he asked.

Ahmed Moor is a writer and fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace

A brilliantly distilled dirty martini with a salty edge for the discerning summer drinker

Nothing says summer more than an ice-cold martini.

Matt Maranzano, bar manager, Templar, London E20

Egyptian-born Ayman Soliman was detained while attending a regular check-in with immigration officers

A week after the detention of their imam, Egyptian-born Ayman Soliman, worshippers at the Clifton mosque in Cincinnati, Ohio, are still in shock.

Soliman was detained on 9 July while attending a regular check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers, weeks after being told that his asylum status had been terminated, a provision that he had held for more than seven years.

In 1989, the artist was living on the Kentish coast when he created a series of mysterious paintings with a bonfire and tar. A new exhibition brings these so-called Black Paintings to life – and shows why they still resonate today

In Modern Nature, his journals, published two years before his death in 1994, Derek Jarman described the time his friend David arrived for lunch at Prospect Cottage, Jarman’s home, some time in the summer of 1989. David was carrying an enormous block of pitch.

The cottage and its boundless garden sits on the shingle at Dungeness, a place of immeasurable strangeness and beauty on the Kentish coast. “After swimming,” Jarman wrote, “we built a brick hearth, lit a bonfire, and melted the pitch in an old tin can.” The two men then rushed back and forth between the studio and the pot, fetching brushes, gloves, pillows, barbed wire, crucifixes, prayer books, bullets, a model fighter plane and a telephone and set about tarring and feathering objects and affixing them on to canvases. “The hot tar splashed everywhere and set like shining jet,” he observed, with a childlike enthusiasm.

From Avon lady to TikTok superstar, Diane Morgan has become a global comic darling. As her raucous comedy Mandy returns, she talks about why she almost asked the BBC to pull it – and why she pretends to be a robot for an hour a day

Diane Morgan went vegan a few months ago, so naturally, we meet for lunch at a restaurant in central London that almost entirely serves cheese. It is a humid, muggy day. “You don’t often hear people use the word ‘muggy’ now,” Morgan says, when I mention it. “How many people do you hear saying that, on a daily basis?” A pause. “Under the age of 85, I mean.”

Morgan is famous for her deadpan style, which she has honed to perfection as the mockumentary host Philomena Cunk, and has put to use all over British TV, from the dour Liz in Motherland to Kath in Ricky Gervais’s sitcom After Life, with a recent stint as the reporter Onya Doorstep in Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Over a lovely looking cheese-free salad, she admits that she is becoming more of a hippy as she gets older. “As I’m cascading towards the grave,” she laughs.

Light-heavyweight is a trusted member of Oleksandr Usyk’s camp and hopes to star on Saturday’s Wembley undercard

Daniel Lapin pulls up a video on his phone and, having chatted away for 40 minutes, lets the images do the talking. Or, more accurately, the sounds. It is a scene he captured in the early hours of a Kyiv morning during the spring and what stands out above everything is the awful, incessant, gathering buzz of the Russian-controlled drones that plague Ukraine’s capital almost every night. Sleep is rendered impossible for residents during those attacks, partly due to the sheer noise and in huge degree to the fear that you, or your loved ones, will be struck next. “After a night like that you don’t want to train,” he says. “It can go on five nights in a row. You don’t want anything, you’re just walking around like a zombie.”

On Saturday, though, Lapin will be fully alert to the task at hand. The light-heavyweight is Ukraine’s next boxing hope, his promise and pedigree immense, and his fight against Lewis Edmondson will be a highlight of the undercard before Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois contest their undisputed world heavyweight title bout at Wembley. Lapin has seen Russia’s aggression stall his career on two distinct occasions but is closer than ever to carving out a legend of his own.

Even after Tony Blair’s bungled war, UK leaders still yearned to dominate the world stage. With the lifting of the superinjunction, we can all see where that has led

What odds on a public inquiry into the Afghan superinjunction? Gold-plated, judge-led, three years of fun and games, that is how British politics normally kicks an embarrassment into the long grass. And what odds on who will get off scot free – Tony Blair?

The more we pick away at the stages of this fiasco, the more from the start one blunder seemed to follow inevitably from another. There was no reason for the British invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. If the US wanted revenge on the Kabul regime for harbouring al-Qaida after 9/11, it could have done what Donald Trump did last month to Iran. A savage retaliatory blow against the country’s rulers would have made the point.

Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist

• Assistant coach says No 10 has matured as a player

• ‘He’s won a few trophies and carried that form here’

The British & Irish Lions assistant coach Johnny Sexton has insisted that Finn Russell is still “flash” but believes the Scotland playmaker has the temperament to shine on his first Test start for the tourists against Australia on Saturday.

Sexton described Russell as a “media darling” and as “flashy” before he was named as one of Andy Farrell’s assistant coaches, making for a potentially awkward reunion with Russell upon his appointment.

Company to sell business for undisclosed sum to LS Power as part of plan to offload $20bn in assets

BP has agreed a deal to sell off its onshore wind business in the US as the oil multinational turns its back on renewable energy after a failed attempt to go green.

The company said it would sell its share of 10 windfarms, which generate enough clean energy to power more than 500,000 US homes, to the New York-headquartered LS Power.

Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson; Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson; The Good Liar by Denise Mina; The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun; Gunner by Alan Parks

Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson (Michael Joseph, £20)
The bestselling YA author’s first novel for adults has an intriguing premise: thanks to the combination of a blow to the head by an unseen assailant and a pre-existing medical condition, Jet Mason has a week to solve her own murder before a fatal aneurysm rupture. Jet, who comes across as rather younger than her 27 years, has retreated back to the dysfunctional bosom of her wealthy Vermont family after dropping out of law school; she disagrees with the police department’s choice of culprit and conducts her own investigation with the aid of childhood friend Billy. As Jet’s neighbours, family and the construction business from which the Masons derive their money come under the microscope, secrets and cover-ups are revealed, and it starts to look as if the killer may be very close to home … A propulsive plot, where the pathos is fuel for real suspense, makes this perfect holiday fare – a genuine page-turner for YA and adult readers alike.

With a wide-eyed awe at the natural beauty of her Mongolian heritage, the warmth of Dessberg’s voice is irresistible

From France
Recommended if you like Eddie Chacon, the Sweet Enoughs, Chet Baker
Up next Full-length album due later this year

Perhaps you are listening to a lot of Mongolian-French harp music featuring hauntingly beautiful Mongolian-language vocals about the natural treasures of the Earth, in which case Céline Dessberg will be old news to you and you can move along. For the rest of us though, she’s a revelation. Taking inspiration from all aspects of her heritage, you’ll find traces of Buddhism, the Mongolian countryside, Chet Baker and David Byrne woven through her songs in a sound that’s classic, old as the hills and refreshingly new all at once.

World’s fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases pays lip service to tackling climate crisis and, with fossil fuels central to regime’s legitimacy, it seems happier with status quo

Source of figures at top: World Economic Outlook

It’s the bonfire of the Maga hats. The real mystery is where their wearers got the idea of a paedophile conspiracy from in the first place

You have to feel for Donald Trump’s Maga base. The one huge secret they didn’t want disclosed was that he actually really hates them. All populists despise their people, obviously – but please, Mr President, respect the playbook! You’re supposed to do it quietly. Regrettably, no one could accuse Trump of hiding his spite under a bushel after a week in which he described those of his supporters who want him to simply do what he repeatedly promised, and release the so-called Epstein files, as “weaklings” and “stupid people”. This is quite the (public) volte face from the guy who originally swept to office declaring “I love the poorly educated”.

Most of you are unlikely to need a recap at this stage, but Jeffrey Epstein is the sex-trafficking financier and socialite, who conveniently died in jail while awaiting trial, apparently by suicide. A woman, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted of conspiring with him to sexually abuse minors, and is currently serving 20 years in a low-security Florida prison. But no big-hitting or even small-hitting male associate in the US has so much as been arrested for participating in what I believe the dead paedophile would have encouraged us to call his “lifestyle”. This second Trump administration didn’t just sweep to power while repeatedly screaming about the “cover-up” of this story, but it spent a good portion of its early months assuring its ravenous base that Epstein’s supposed “client list” was on a desk waiting for release approval. Yet now, Trump and his associates say there is no list. Nope. Never even was a list. Where did these weakling idiots get that idea? To summarise his administration’s position: “We took a look at the deep state and it turns out to be very shallow. Seriously, I’m standing in it right now and it doesn’t even come up to my knees.”

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

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Original writer Joe Eszterhas is signed on for the new films, with the 80-year-old intending to unleash the ‘twisted little man’ inside him on the script

Joe Eszterhas, the screenwriter of 1992 smash Basic Instinct, is to write a reboot sources close to the project are calling “anti-woke”.

As first reported by the Wrap, Eszterhas, 80, has signed a deal with Amazon MGM for the script; the streamer guarantees a $2m fee, which will be upped to $4m should the film be made, making it the most lucrative spec sale of the year.

Internet transfixed by canoodling couple who, instead of waving, look horrified and quickly break apart

It is a moment of shock and mortification in Massachusetts that has transfixed the internet.

A camera at a Coldplay concert near Boston sweeps the audience and picks out a canoodling couple.

The Orlando Pride forward is thriving while playing for her country after a sex eligibility row

Having missed the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations as a result of a controversy over the DSD (difference in sex development) test guidelines set by the Confederation of African Football, Barbra Banda was tight-lipped about her feelings as the Copper Queens won bronze without her.

Now she is back. She has scored three goals in Zambia’s Wafcon campaign, with the first coming 58 seconds into the tournament’s opening game, against hosts Morocco. Banda, who doubles as the Copper Queens captain and attacking pivot, alongside the equally lethal Racheal Kundananji, can finally breathe a huge sigh of relief.

• Pressure put on 18-year-old Smilla Holmberg criticised

• England squeak through after youngster’s miss

Swedish media reacted with incredulity and indignation after the country’s women’s team lost the Euro 2025 quarter-final to England on penalties.

The Swedes raced into a 2-0 lead in the first half before the Lionesses responded with two quickfire goals to take the game into extra time. After a goalless 30 minutes Sarina Wiegman’s team, the reigning champions, won a fraught shootout 3-2.

Every American presidential campaign is many years in the making. So, what’s the state of the 2028 primary race now?

Every American presidential campaign is many years in the making. So, what’s the state of the 2028 Democratic primary race now? The Democratic party’s most eligible candidates for the next election have been scheming, climbing, wheeling and dealing for their shot at the ticket for years. Plans were being hatched for the cycles ahead well before Biden garnered the nomination for himself in 2020.

Like that race, 2028 promises another crowded and wide-open field of contenders ⁠– polls have taken the Democratic electorate’s temperature on as many as 20 potential candidates, from Kamala Harris, who is reportedly considering a run for California’s governor instead, to the sports pundit Stephen A Smith.

Osita Nwanevu is a Guardian US columnist. He is the author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding

Music fans snap up wellies, scarves and light jackets, with shares rising more than 4% on back of better-than-expected performance

Shoppers snapping up Burberry wellies, scarves and light jackets to wear at music festivals have helped the fashion brand to its best sales performance in 18 months despite lacklustre spending by tourists around the world.

Sales of the luxury British brand fell by 2% to £433m in the three months to the end of June, with a 1% decline at established stores, an improvement from the 6% fall in the previous quarter and the best performance since Christmas 2023.

Deal is 18th such package since Ukraine invasion as Ursula von der Leyen says EU is ‘striking the heart of Russia’s war machine’

One other thing to watch at this morning meeting of EU ministers in Brussels is the national reactions to the European Commission’s draft budget for 2028-2034.

German chancellor Friedrich Merz made it very clear last night that he was not happy with parts of it, particularly with the proposal to tax EU businesses as he regularly criticises burdens already placed on companies.

Treasury minister James Murray said Abbott’s claim that ‘this Labour leadership wants me out’ was ‘absolutely not the case’

John Healey has been accused by the Liberal Democrats of misleading parliament over the Afghan data leak.

Ed Davey said that the defence secretary must “urgently come before parliament to answer the question of whether he knowingly misled MPs and the public”.