'Foreign donations sting' and 'Argentina threat to Falklands'
The main story for the Times is the army halting some training exercises to save money. The paper quotes the director of the National Army Museum as saying that "it shows a national dereliction of duty." The Daily Mail suggests the army is "missing in action." The Daily Express carries a warning from the Tory leader Kemi Badenoch that "we must act now" on defence spending, before it's too late. Noting that Argentina is now claiming a "sacred right" to the Falklands Islands, the Sun asks "what chance would Britain have of defending them now?"
Environment Secretary Dame Angela Eagle tells the Guardian that British people should stockpile enough food and water to survive for a few days because of the threat of extreme weather. She says "we're about to experience probably the largest El Niño that has ever been seen", in reference to the climate pattern that results in drier summers, wetter winters and more violent storms. The Daily Telegraph carries a wider warning from the National Audit Office, saying Britain should prepare for food shortages caused by extreme weather events, cyber-attacks and disease outbreaks.
The Daily Mail leads with concerns raised by the head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, that violent criminals are being freed on bail to commit murder, because of the prison overcrowding crisis. The paper says Sir Mark told the London Policing Board that he was "flabbergasted" and expected to see a rise in violent crime as a result.
The Daily Mirror considers the case of the man, kept alive for nine months, by a pig's kidney. It says the procedure offers hope for thousands on the transplant list, but quotes the chief medical officer for NHS Blood and Transport as cautioning that "even if shown to be effective, there is still a very long way to go before these transplants could become an everyday reality." The transplant saved the patient's bacon, the Sun suggests.
A number of the papers let their art critics loose on the Bayeux Tapestry. Jonathan Jones, in the Guardian, gives it five stars and say's it's a stupefying, tragicomic epic, depicting the madness of war. Describing it as a "spine-shivering tapestry triumph," Laura Freeman also gives it five stars in the Times. She suggests that if the film director Sir Christopher Nolan is looking for a post-Odyssey project, he could try Hastings. It gets five stars from the Telegraph too, where Alistair Sooke says the sheer scale of the masterpiece is deeply moving.
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