Portrait of the week | 30 July 2015

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A man died when 1,500 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel terminal in Calais in one night. The night before, 2,000 had tried. Theresa May, the Home Secretary, spoke of spending money on fences. The Foreign Office warned travellers to the Continent via Calais that they should be prepared to return by a different route, what with migrants and French strikers. George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, visited Paris for talks with French ministers about Britain’s place in the European Union. Chris Froome won the Tour de France for the second time in three years, although some spectators threw urine at him and some even suggested that he had a little motor hidden in his bicycle. A woman from Leicester who claimed that a security guard assaulted her while she was breastfeeding in Primark was charged with intent to pervert the course of public justice. This year was beginning to look like the windiest since 1995, said the Met Office.