Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has won his legal challenge against Thames Valley Police over the search warrants that led to his arrest.

The High Court said “a significant error was made in the application for and grant of” warrants obtained by Thames Valley Police ahead of his arrest on his 66th birthday this year on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

Who said what?
Justice Nicholas Hilliard said in his ruling the police and Mountbatten-Windsor had agreed that the search warrants were unlawful. But “it remains unclear how significantly the ruling will change the former prince’s legal position”, said the Financial Times. The court heard that a criminal investigation into Mountbatten-Windsor was ongoing.

Thames Valley Police “are in a dangerous interim period”, said Alexander Larman in The Spectator. “Whatever material they have gathered during their hunt could be challenged as a result of today’s judgment.” Although it is largely a technical victory for Mountbatten-Windsor – and “one that could well be undone” – regardless, “it is still a victory”.

What next?
Mountbatten-Windsor denies any wrongdoing. Thames Valley Police said yesterday it was continuing with its inquiries.

What happened
Rwanda looks likely to beat out South Africa in the race to be the venue for Formula One’s first African Grand Prix in more than three decades. 

South African Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie, posting on X, offered his congratulations to Rwanda on securing a 2030 F1 race – even though the deal has still not been officially confirmed. An F1 race has not been run on the continent since the South African Grand Prix in 1993 (pictured above).

Who said what
“Given the number of countries looking to hold an F1 race,” said The Times,  interested promoters “must show they can provide a circuit that offers longevity, strong infrastructure and commercial value.” Rwanda’s race track, to be built near Kigali, is expected to be permanent.

Lewis Hamilton, whose father Anthony is of Afro-Grenadian descent, has continuously voiced his backing for an F1 race in Africa. “For the past six years, maybe seven, I’ve been fighting in the background to get a grand prix” in Africa, he said at the Australian Grand Prix in March.

What next?
According to The Independent, conversations between Rwanda and F1 stakeholders are ongoing and an announcement is expected soon.

Emails that end with a disclaimer that neurodiversity may make the sender sound too direct or see them leave their messages strewn with typos are on the rise in workplaces as the number of diagnoses of ADHD and autism increase.

Supporters say such sign-offs can reduce stigma and provide useful context, but critics see them as performative, shifting responsibility for communication on to colleagues.

If your emails “end with a note about your neurodiversity”, then “congratulations, you’re ahead of the curve”, wrote Helen Down in The Times. One email signature reads: “My email style can feel a bit direct for some. We’re all good, it’s just AuDHD (autism and ADHD).” Another signature featured a request that senders distil information into bullet points to help comprehension for the easily overwhelmed and distractable.

Alongside a “diagnosis creep” of ADHD and autism “comes the desire to reduce workplace stigma around neurodiversity”. And so some people say that there are “legitimate reasons to flag a diagnosis”, such as “explaining typos and potentially brusque communication”, particularly because emails “strip away audiovisual clues such as tone and body language”. But to others the practice can “look performative or like an excuse for slack standards”.

“Nobody who is sincerely perturbed by your ‘direct tone’ or the lateness of your reply is going to be reassured by an explanatory coda about your ADHD,” wrote Sarah Carson, who has ADHD, in the iPaper. “They’re going to be more annoyed by your avoidance of accountability.” When people “exploit their diagnosis by brandishing it as an identity upon which they can blame anything that goes wrong”, the result is “the opposite of reducing stigma – it makes ADHD the butt of the joke”.