All British light houses are now unmanned. If you open the doors of a lighthouse today, you are just greeted by silence and the smell of engine oil alone. Intravos, the great beam, will still search over the sea for a few months more. By November it will have gone. The sweep and with it an era will have ended.
Mark Rutte is
stepping down after leading the Netherlands for 13 years. Despite his renowned political survival skills, our correspondent explains why it was migration policy that brought about his downfall. As the
NATO summit kicks off, what are the alliance’s plans for defending Europe (9:30)? And a look at the changing face of Britain’s
lighthouses (19:00).