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Oxford college removes Queen’s portrait over colonial links
Nicola Woolcock Education Editor
Ali Mitib, Kaya Burgess
Students at an Oxford college have
voted to remove a portrait of the Queen
from their common room because she
is regarded as a representative of
colonial rule.
Magdalen, founded in 1458, is one of
the wealthiest and most traditional
Coast guard A Royal Navy vessel off St Ives, Cornwall, in readiness for the G7 summit. The security operation is one of the biggest undertaken in Britain Pages 12-13
Ministers under fire for
summer holiday muddle
Government accused of killing off overseas travel after latest call to stay in Britain
Graeme Paton Transport Correspondent
Matt Dathan Home Affairs Editor
Ben Clatworthy Assistant Travel Editor
The government was accused of a
U-turn on foreign holidays yesterday
after people were urged to remain in
Britain instead of travelling abroad.
George Eustice, the environment
secretary, said Britons should “holiday
at home” because of the threat posed by
coronavirus variants.
He said the government had
intended to add countries to its travel
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Oxford colleges. Its alumni include the
authors CS Lewis and Oscar Wilde, the
politicians Lord Hague of Richmond
and George Osborne and the comedian
Dudley Moore. The Queen visited the
college on its 550th anniversary in
2008.
A committee from its “middle com-
mon room” (MCR) — the haunt of
graduate students — agreed by a sub-
“green list”, allowing holidays abroad
without quarantine, but that this was
“not the situation” any more because of
the spread of the Indian variant.
“My advice to people would be: holi-
day at home,” he said. “We’ve got some
great places here.”
Matt Hancock, the health secretary,
said on Monday that reopening inter-
national travel would be “challenging”.
Grant Shapps, the transport secretary,
had said last month that people would
not have a “very long time to wait” for
a greater range of foreign holiday desti-
stantial majority to remove the colour-
ised print of a 1952 photograph. Com-
mittee meeting minutes showed that
despite some disagreement it was
decided that “for some students depic-
tions of the monarch and the British
monarchy represent recent colonial
history”.
Matthew Katzman, the MCR com-
mittee president, said the print was
nations. In a further sign of confusion
the Foreign Office was still advising
that Portugal was safe for overseas
travel even though the country had
been removed from the green list.
João Fernandes, president of the
Algarve tourism board, said yesterday
that of more than 100,000 coronavirus
tests carried out on British passengers
at Faro airport, six had been positive.
Last night Whitehall sources re-
jected claims of any change of policy
and said the green list would be ex-
panded when “local conditions allow”.
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being stored securely. He added: “The
action was taken after . . . it was decided
that the room should be a welcoming,
neutral place for all members, regard-
less of background, demographic or
views.” The graduates aim to replace
the portrait with “art by or of other
influential and inspirational people”.
Dinah Rose, president of Magdalen,
said: “The MCR is an organisation of
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JACK HILL
Some within the travel industry fear
that no new countries will be added to
the list until at least the middle of next
month, which could cause severe finan-
cial problems for airlines and tour oper-
ators. Paul Charles, chief executive of
the PC Agency, a travel consultancy,
said that the traffic light system for for-
eign travel was “dead”.
Malta, which is on the UK amber list
despite having the highest vaccination
rate in the European Union, accused
Britain of “ignoring scientific advice”
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graduate students. How they decorate
their room is a matter for them.”
Gavin Williamson, the education
secretary, said: “Oxford University stu-
dents removing a picture of the Queen
is simply absurd. During her long reign
she has worked tirelessly to promote
British values of tolerance.”
Oxford and Cambridge among world’s
top three universities, page 14
Judge rules
staff ‘off sick’
can visit pubs
Jonathan Ames Legal Editor
For some people on sick leave, the
temptation to sneak to the pub for a
crafty drink is too great to resist. Now,
a judge’s ruling suggests they needn’t
fear being spotted.
An employment tribunal in New-
castle has been told that staff on sick
leave are entitled to visit their local.
Judge Andrea Pitt ruled that an em-
ployee was unfairly dismissed after he
was seen drinking at a social club while
on sick leave. Colin Kane, a driver for a
company that lays tarmac, is now in
line to receive damages.
Kane, 66, called in sick one morning
in March last year and was sacked after
a colleague reported seeing him drink-
ing and smoking in the afternoon.
Shaun Johnson, his manager at Deb-
mat Surfacing, told him: “Surely if you
had been unfit for work and on
antibiotics, you shouldn’t be in the pub.”
Kane had suffered from chronic ob-
structive pulmonary disease, which
causes breathing difficulties and main-
ly affects smokers, for several years
when he told bosses he was spending
the day “in bed with his chest”.
The tribunal was told that the com-
pany had launched disciplinary pro-
ceedings against Kane for dishonesty
and breaching company rules. During
that process Kane had admitted going
to the social club for 15 minutes on one
occasion and for 30 minutes on
another. He was dismissed for gross
misconduct.
Pitt found that the company’s in-
vestigation of Kane’s behaviour was
flawed and upheld his claim of unfair
dismissal. She pointed out that the
company’s rules did not prohibit em-
ployees from socialising while taking
sick leave and concluded that the com-
pany had “made a gross assumption,
without evidence, [that] the claimant
should not be at the social club because
of the nature of his condition”.
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7.20am Housing secretary Robert Jenrick
12pm PMQs Unpacked with Sunday Times
political editor Tim Shipman
to give Tories majority of 100
2pm Record producer Fraser T Smith on
working with some of the country’s biggest Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor seats in the south of England but Plaid if they have done well, by definition
Cymru and the SNP would lose MPs. someone else has lost out.”
musical exports, including Adele The Conservative majority would rise “The Tory gains are in the south — the The last overhaul of seats was in 2010,
and Stormzy to 100 under proposed changes to con- dividing line is between the Severn and based on the 2001 census. Despite this
8.30pm Bestselling SAS veteran Chris Ryan, stituency boundaries, according to the the Humber,” he said. Hayward said: “I think they have made
right, talks about his new novel, Manhunter pollster managing the party’s response. At present Boris Johnson has a more changes than they need to. We
10pm MPs’ panel with Conservative James MPs were said yesterday to be “neu- majority of 82, although with the were surprised that in counties like
rotic” about planned changes that are Speaker and his deputies not voting and Leicestershire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex,
Daly and Labour’s Charlotte Nichols more wide-ranging than expected, Sinn Fein MPs not sitting, this trans- Hampshire there has been more
affecting at least 90 per cent of seats in lates to a working majority of 87. Hay- change than we were expecting.”
Listen on DAB | Smart speaker | Online at times.radio | Times Radio app England. ward said that initial ward-by-ward Parties have eight weeks to respond
Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, is analysis of the changes suggested a to the plans before hearings next year
the highest-profile MP whose seat Tory gain of “five to ten” seats if the lead to revised proposals.
could vanish, though allies insist that he 2019 election had been held under the “Parties do put a lot of effort into it
T O D AY ’ S E D I T I O N would win a rejigged seat in Lancashire. new boundaries. “That means an in- because getting a seat changed at a
The Boundary Commission for Eng- crease in majority of about 20,” he said. public hearing is a lot cheaper than con-
land published detailed proposals yes- After a day briefing MPs on the vincing the electorate,” Hayward said.
Officer admits Gangs arrested Brussels ‘must terday for the first reform of Westmin- changes yesterday, he said: “MPs fall “In previous rounds about 50 per cent
ster constituencies in a decade. The into one of three categories. There are of the proposals have changed during
Everard kidnap in global sting drop threats’ northeast, the northwest and the Black the neurotics who are worried about consultation.”
A Metropolitan Police British drug gangs and Brussels must drop its Country lose two seats each as London their reduced majorities. There are Wallace’s Wyre & Preston North seat
officer has admitted money launderers threats of legal action gains two, the southeast gains seven those surprised because there is consid- disappears under the changes but the
the rape and kidnap of have been arrested in a and trade tariffs and the southwest three. Overall Eng- erably more change than they had been proposed seat of Lancaster is similar to
Sarah Everard, the global sting. More than against Britain, the land gains ten seats, taking its total to expecting and . . . there are those who the Lancaster & Wyre seat that he held
marketing manager 300 gangs in 100 Brexit minister Lord 543; Wales loses eight, taking it to 32; have genuine concerns [because their up to 2010. Cat Smith holds Lancaster
who went missing in countries were duped Frost said. He will meet and Scotland drops two to 57. seat may disappear].” for Labour at present with a majority of
south London in into conducting their his EU counterpart Lord Hayward, the Tory peer and While some MPs will receive a boost 2,380 but this is likely to be overturned
March. Wayne illegal activities on an Maros Sefcovic today pollster who is involved in the party’s to their majorities as favourable wards with the inclusion of more Tory-voting
Couzens, a married encrypted app that was amid tensions between efforts to lobby for changes to the plans, are moved into their seats, Hayward wards in the proposed constituency.
father of two, also secretly monitored by the two sides over the said that the Conservatives would gain said: “They don’t want to say so because Letters, page 26
admitted responsibility police and intelligence Northern Ireland
for her killing. Page 5 services. Page 9 protocol. Page 12

COMMENT
Internet outage ‘shows risk NHS delays
Johnson, Biden and Macron chime with voters
unbothered by what is considered left or right
of relying on a few firms’ data-sharing
JAMES KANAGASOORIAM, PAGE 23 Tom Knowles are likely. Fastly provides servers
after outcry
Technology Correspondent around the world that can store
versions of a company’s website, Tom Knowles
Macron slapped Start-up agrees Jab ‘passports’ Cybersecurity analysts have questioned meaning it does not have to travel as far
the wisdom of having so much of the to reach a user — a person in Los Plans to start sharing the health records
on walkabout $300m US deal for Euro games internet’s infrastructure controlled by Angeles trying to access a website of 55 million people with commercial
President Macron was A US conglomerate is England’s Euro 2020 only a few companies after hundreds of such as the BBC’s can get it delivered third parties will be delayed after wide-
slapped in the face by investing $300 million group matches will be websites went down yesterday. from a nearby server rather than one in spread opposition.
a 28-year-old man as into a British start-up the first sporting A huge outage at one little-known Britain. NHS Digital, which runs the health
he greeted a crowd in that designs software events in Britain at US tech company caused sites includ- However, only a small number of service’s IT and data systems, said it
southeastern France. for the next generation which “vaccine ing those of the UK government, companies can offer CDN and do so on would postpone the collection of data
The incident was of supercomputers. passports” will be used Amazon, The Guardian and The New a scale capable of supporting the size of from July 1 to September 1, giving more
widely condemned but The founder of to gain access. There York Times to go down for more than an the modern internet. This means that if time for people to opt out.
highlighted public Cambridge Quantum will be 22,500 fans at hour. Customers were presented with there is a single issue anywhere in one Last month it was revealed that NHS
anger that is building Computing said the Wembley for the an error message from 11am onwards of these networks, it could cause wide- Digital would start collecting the
in the run-up to deal with Honeywell games against Croatia, saying: “503 Service Unavailable” or spread outages and bring much of the health records of every adult and child
presidential elections would create a “global Scotland and Czech “connection unavailable”. internet down. registered at a GP surgery in England in
next year. Pages 28-29 powerhouse”. Page 33 Republic. Page 66 The government website was una- Ben Wood, chief analyst at the a central database that researchers and
vailable as hundreds of thousands of research company CCS Insight, said: third parties could look at. The govern-
people aged between 25 and 29 became “In some respects it is astonishing that ment said the information would be
COMMENT 23 BUSINESS 33 SPORT 55 eligible for Covid-19 vaccines. one small piece can disrupt so many used to help with research as well as
LEADING ARTICLES 27 REGISTER 49 CROSSWORD 66 The problems were caused by a prob- mainstream websites.” shaping health and care policies.
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in San Francisco, which said there expert with the BCS, the Chartered British Medical Association and Royal
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which helps website pages to load services at the same time”. enough time to learn about the
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Car Charles
gave Diana is
yours for a
cool £40,000 Diana drove the car, which had a frog emblem on its bonnet, to official functions and to watch Charles play polo

Arthi Nachiappan McCorquodale, gave her a le

It is a 40-year-old Ford Escort with a
relatively low 83,000 miles on the clock
and it is in good condition. Neverthe-
less, a £40,000 price tag might seem a
little steep.
The reason? The car has a royal pedi-
gree. It was a gift from Prince Charles to
Lady Diana Spencer, his fiancée, in
1981. Diana was photographed at the
wheel, visiting Charles and driving to
and from polo matches and society
events.
Tina Kirkpatrick, who has owned the
Ford for 20 years, has until now kept the
royal heritage of her “great little run-
ner” under wraps.
“Of course I knew when I bought it
that it once belonged to Princess Diana,
that is why I wanted it,” she said. “I was
a big fan of hers. I have driven it around
as a second car ever since. A lot of
people ask me why I had it and I used to
tell them that it was the first car I passed
my test in and that I was attached to it.
“I felt that its history and provenance
were so unique and I didn’t want many
people knowing.”
Charles gave the silver Mk III Ghia to
Diana in May 1981, two months before
their wedding.
Diana’s elder sister, Lady Sarah
silver frog mascot for the
bonnet, representingg
the fairytale of a girl
whose kiss turns a
frog into a prince.
Diana drove it until
August 1982, two
months after Prince
William was born.
In 1995 the car wass
sold for £6,000 to an an-n-
hday
tiques dealer as a birthday
present for his daughteraughter
before it was sold to Kirkpatrick,
hi
who lives in Hertfordshire.
She said that it felt like the “right
time” to sell the vehicle.
“I have maintained it and had it regu-
larly serviced and kept it in my garage.
It is an excellent little runner and has
always been reliable. I have had it for 20
years and now feel the time is right to
sell it on,” she said.
The Escort, which is being sold by
Reeman Dansie, an Essex auctioneers,
has a 1.6-litre engine, and has travelled
83,000 miles. Its original numberplate
is intact.
Lewis Rabett, an auctioneer at Ree-
man Dansie, said: “Obviously it is a
humble Ford Escort but who its first
owner was takes this car to a whole
other level. The vendor has
been very coy about the
true history of the car.
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Dian decided to keep
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th original. “The
the “ car has spent
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lif in
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good condition for a car of that age and
is in full working order,” he said.
“Diana didn’t have it for very long
and when she got rid of it she kept the
frog mascot. The one on the bonnet of
the car now is a copy. As Ford Escorts go
this is a Ghia and was top spec for its
time with wooden trims on the doors
and velour seats.
“There are a lot of people who collect
Diana memorabilia, a name that has
endured. There are also people who
collect classic cars and this is the ulti-
mate conversation piece for any
garage.”
Diana’s first car was an Austin Mini
Metro L. The car was sold at auction in
Going, going, gone . . .
6 A sweatshirt that Diana
repeatedly wore to the gym to
infuriate the paparazzi sold for
£43,000 in 2019. The navy blue
Virgin Atlantic sweater was a gift
from Sir Richard Branson in the
early 1990s. She wore it numerous
times to the Harbour Club gym in
Chelsea to stop photographers
taking new pictures of her,
according to her personal trainer,
Jenni Rivett. Diana gave the
sweatshirt to Rivett in 1997.
6 Another of Diana’s cars, a 2.3-litre
1994 Audi 80 cabriolet, sold for
£58,000 last year. The car was given
to her by Dovercourt Audi. She used
it between March and July 1994
before returning the vehicle with
4,000 miles on the clock. Audi said
that sales of the car had doubled
after Diana was seen driving it.
6 Diana’s first car was an Austin
Mini Metro L. The car was sold at
auction in the 1990s for £6,000 with
30,000 miles on the clock and is at
the Coventry Transport Museum.
the 1990s for £6,000 with 30,000 miles
on the clock and is on display at the
Coventry Transport Museum.
Another of Diana’s cars, a 2.3-litre
1994 Audi 80 Cabriolet, sold for
£58,000 at auction last year after failing
to sell twice.
The car was given to Diana by Dover-
court Audi in St John’s Wood, north
London. She used it between March
and July 1994 before returning the
vehicle with 4,000 miles on the clock.
Audi later said that sales had doubled
after Diana was seen driving the car.
The Ford Escort was the greatest mo-
tor of the 1980s, according to experts at
Auto Express. A list of the top models of
the decade published in April included
the Ferrari F40 in second place and the
Porsche 959 in fourth, while the Austin
Metro was ranked third. Analysts at Au-
to Express said the Escort had outsold
all competition.
Auto Express said: “There was an Es-
cort for everyone, from a lowly base
model hatchback or estate, to a per-
formance gem fit for royalty.”
James Grinter, the managing
director of Reeman Dansie, said that
originality was important to car collec-
tors, and he expected some would value
highly something once owned by the
late princess.

Labour MP joins Farage and Cleese on celebrity fan app

Tom Knowles user who gave five stars and described other people’s faces” but Bercow, 58, the former Cameo, which was recently valued at
Technology Correspondent Butler’s service as “awesome”. does not state whether that Commons Speaker, $1 billion, is based in Chicago but was
The fee Butler, 51, charges to send a means the money would go who charges £119.99. launched by Martin Blencowe, a British
Dawn Butler has become the first sit- message is not listed at present but has to charity. Farage, 57, says that he tech entrepreneur from Brighton. The
ting MP to join the app Cameo, on previously been priced at £30, accord- Butler’s prices are can provide best company makes its money by taking a
which celebrities charge fans to record ing to The Spectator, which revealed the considerably lower wishes to fellow 25 per cent cut of the fees for the celeb-
short messages for their friends and MP’s presence on the app. than Nigel Farage’s, Brexiteers and rity messages.
family. Users also get to “say hi to Dawn But- with the former Ukip adds: “But also if The app has become a hit for strug-
The Labour MP for Brent Central has ler” for £2.99, in which they can send a leader charging you know some- gling celebrities during the pandemic
a short introductory video on the app 250-character message and “ask a £109.99 to send a body that is a as live events were cancelled, but has
saying that she can send a message to question, get advice or whatever”. Cam- message, or John Meghan Markle- also attracted bigger names, such the
“your friend, your family [or] to your eo warns, however, that there is no supporting woke former Monty Python star John Cleese,
foe”, for a fee. guarantee that the user will get a re- Nigel Farage and warrior remoaner, the comedians Jo Brand and Jason
Customers are promised a response sponse, despite the charge. Dawn Butler can well I could Manford, as well as the American box-
within 24 hours, from a “serious MP In her introductory video message, be paid to send really surprise them ing promoter Floyd Mayweather and
with a serious sense of humour”. Only Butler also says that if she makes any messages to with a message the television personality Caitlyn
one review has been left so far, from a money, she will “use it to put a smile on friends . . . or foes couldn’t I?” Jenner.
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Covid rife among Channel
migrants, say border staff
Matt Dathan Home Affairs Editor
Migrants crossing the Channel in small
boats have coronavirus rates 20 times
higher than those of the UK
population, according to Border Force
officers.
Lucy Moreton, of the Immigration
Services Union, which represents
frontline border staff, said her members
were reporting between five and ten
migrants a day testing positive. Even on
busier days for Channel crossings that
would mean about 3 per cent of arrivals
testing positive; the rate in the UK pop-
ulation is 0.16 per cent, equivalent to
one in 630 people.
The number of migrants crossing in
small boats has soared over the past
fortnight as people-smugglers take
advantage of the warm weather. More
than 800 have arrived this month,
bringing the total for the year to 4,500.
Border officers have warned the surge
has increased overcrowding, which has
Stampede to beat stamp duty deadline
Carol Lewis Deputy Property Editor
Hundreds of thousands of home buyers
are likely to miss the stamp duty holi-
day deadline on June 30 in the busiest
property market for a decade.
There are 704,000 sales going
through the conveyancing process in
Britain, nearly twice the previous high
of 428,633 in May 2017, according to
Rightmove. The surge is being attribut-
ed to demand for larger properties with
outside space away from city centres, as
people capitalise on their ability to
exacerbated the risk of the virus spread-
ing. Moreton said: “We have positive ar-
rivals all the time, putting staff and mi-
grants at risk of infection. We have a
handful, between five and ten a day, test-
ing positive, but anyone who has been in
close contact with them — and that
could be a lot, because of overcrowding
— risks catching the virus.”
Priti Patel, the home secretary, held
an emergency meeting with Border
Force chiefs on Monday night. Sources
said she had ordered them to develop
strategies “at pace” to stop crossings.
The government is bracing itself for
numbers to rise over the summer: they
are almost certain to exceed last year’s
record of 8,420.
A government source admitted: “It’s
going to be a difficult period ahead as
the weather gets better, so we need to
use all the resources at our disposal to
clamp down on crossings.”
Ministers have failed in attempts to
strike a deal with France to take back
work more frequently from home dur-
ing the pandemic.
However, there is a shortage of
homes on sale, leading to bidding wars,
gazumping and soaring prices as buyers
scramble to make what savings they
can from the temporary stamp duty cut.
Of the 704,000 sales in the system,
220,000 were agreed, subject to con-
tract, between July last year and the end
of February this year in England, and
are yet to complete — putting them
perilously close to missing the deadline.
Of the 220,000 properties, 131,000
migrants who arrive in the UK. The
focus has switched to helping French
police detect people-smuggling activi-
ties before migrants set sail.
Once migrants are at sea, the Border
Force’s priority is to preserve life, in
accordance with international laws.
That led to a row last month when
HMC Valiant, a Border Force cutter,
entered French waters to bring a small
boat of migrants into UK waters.
Patel told Border Force chiefs in
Monday’s meeting they were “abso-
lutely wrong” to go into French waters
and a repeat would not be tolerated.
Last night the Home Office rejected
Moreton’s coronavirus figures: “These
numbers are completely wrong. In May
and so far in June no migrants arriving
via small boat have received a positive
Covid test. Testing is in place to reduce
the risk of infection for staff, contrac-
tors and small-boat arrivals.”
No easy answers to migrant surge,
leading article, page 27
are worth more than £250,000. The
stamp duty threshold will drop from
£500,000 to £250,000 in England and
Northern Ireland at the end of June,
cutting the maximum saving from
£15,000 to £2,500.
6 The housing market is “on fire”
thanks to incentives for buyers, demand
from savings-rich households and a
lack of homes for sale, Andy Haldane,
the Bank of England’s chief economist,
said. He added that the 10 per cent in-
crease in prices in the year to March was
likely to worsen wealth inequalities.
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Patel wants
police to put
video online
Matt Dathan
Priti Patel will urge police forces to
share footage from officers’ body-worn
video cameras in an effort to stem mis-
information posted online.
In a speech to the annual Police Fed-
eration conference today, the home
secretary will hit out at “trial by social
media” by members of the public post-
ing “highly selective and misleading
video clips” online. She will pledge to
strengthen powers for forces to publi-
cise their own footage after some police
chiefs said they feared that doing so
could breach data protection or risk
prejudicing trials.
Patel will say: “I will not let the police
be subjected to trial by social media.
That’s why I backed the federation’s call
for forces to share body-worn video
footage to counter highly selective, and
misleading, video clips uploaded onto
social media.”
She will also praise police officers for
their work during the pandemic, telling
them they did not flinch. “On behalf of
the whole country, thank you for still
being there for us during one of the
toughest moments in our country’s his-
tory. You have done it superbly well and
courageously.
“It’s a cruel irony that while most
crimes naturally fell during lockdown,
violence and abuse directed at police
officers increased. You were spat and
coughed at by thugs claiming to have
the virus. This behaviour is grotesque.
And I will never accept that it’s simply
part of the job.”
Dame Cressida Dick, the Metro-
politan Police commissioner, and Kit
Malthouse, the policing minister, are
also due to speak at the two-day virtual
event.
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Homebound crash risk
Frustrated commuters are more
likely to crash on their way home
rather than on the way to work.
According to a study published in
the Journal of Management by
academics from Rotterdam and
London there was a higher risk of
speeding in the evening rush hour,
often as people took more risks
after a day of “controlling their
impulses”. In 2019 there were
25,581 road casualties between
4pm and 6pm and 16,755 between
8am and 10am, Department for
Transport figures show.
Halogen bulbs banned
The sale of halogen lightbulbs
will be banned from September 1.
The switch to LED bulbs is
expected to cut 1.26 million
tonnes of carbon dioxide
emissions a year. About two
thirds of lightbulbs sold in Britain
are LED. They last five times
longer than halogen equivalents
and produce as much light but
use up to 80 per cent less power.
Noise cameras for cars
Roadside cameras fitted with
microphones triggered by noisy
supercars could be installed
nationally after Kensington and
Chelsea council in west London
said that during a three-month
trial it issued 163 fines of £100
and 69 warning letters to
“antisocial” drivers whose engines
had been modified or were being
intentionally revved too hard.
Charity founder ousted
Robin Page, 78, the author and
former presenter of the BBC’s
One Man and His Dog, has been
ousted from the Countryside
Restoration Trust, the charity he
founded in 1993, by its trustees.
He claimed that David Mills, 77, a
trustee and the partner of the
actress Dame Judi Dench, had
led a plot against him over their
visions of the charity’s future.
‘No proof’ Hancock lied
Dominic Cummings has not
provided evidence to MPs to back
his claim that Matt Hancock lied
and should have been sacked for
mishandling the pandemic. The
former No 10 adviser accused the
health secretary at a committee,
co-chaired by Jeremy Hunt,
which hears from Hancock
tomorrow. Hunt said he had not
received any supporting evidence.
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Surgeon who branded livers can continue operating, tribunal rules
Katie Gibbons
A surgeon who branded his initials on
patients’ transplanted livers has been
found fit to continue practising
medicine.
Simon Bramhall admitted using a
cauterising tool to write his initials on
the organs of anaesthetised patients in
2013 while working at the Queen Eliza-
beth Hospital in Birmingham.
He was ordered to carry out 120
hours of unpaid work and fined £10,000
at Birmingham Crown Court. In
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Officer admits Everard rape and kidnap
Fiona Hamilton Crime Editor
A Metropolitan Police officer has
admitted the rape and kidnap of Sarah
Everard, the marketing manager who
went missing in south London in
March.
Wayne Couzens, 48, a diplomatic
protection officer, also admitted
responsibility for her killing, the Old
Bailey was told yesterday, but no plea
was entered to a charge of murder,
Sarah Everard was
walking home
when she vanished
pending medical reports. Couzens
appeared on videolink from Belmarsh
prison in southeast London. His head
was bowed and his shoulders were
shaking throughout the brief hearing.
He spoke only to confirm his name and
answer “guilty, sir” when the rape and
kidnapping charges were put to him.
He wore khaki trousers and a grey
sweatshirt for the short hearing.
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December last year his registration was
temporarily suspended by the medical
regulator but a review concluded that
his fitness to practise has not been
impaired.
The decision was handed down in
private at a medical tribunal hearing
and the Medical Practitioners Tribunal
Service has not revealed any more
details on the findings.
Bramhall, 53, of Tarrington in Here-
fordshire, used a medical instrument
called an argon beam coagulator —
which seals bleeding blood vessels by
The remains of Everard, 33, were
found in woodland in Ashford, Kent, on
March 10, a week after she vanished
while walking home from a friend’s
house near Clapham Common. The
Met revealed last week that the cause of
death was compression of the neck.
Members of Everard’s family were in
court.
She was reported missing by her boy-
friend on March 4 having disappeared
after setting off on the 50-minute walk
Police to bring in ‘buddy system’ for women
Fiona Hamilton
The head of the Metropolitan Police
admitted that there was the occasional
“bad’un” in its ranks as she announced
a female buddy system to improve
safety after Sarah Everard’s killing.
Dame Cressida Dick said the Met
was “intolerant” of violence against
women and that its workforce was
“angry and shocked” after Everard
went missing while walking home in
Clapham, south London, in March.
Wayne Couzens, a diplomatic pro-
directing a beam of electricity on to the
area — to inscribe two patients’ livers as
they were under general anaesthetic.
The tool is used to correct defects and
would not be harmful.
Bramhall, a liver, spleen and pancre-
atic consultant, had worked at the
Queen Elizabeth Hospital for nearly
ten years when his initials were discov-
ered on the liver of one of his patients by
another surgeon who had been carry-
ing out an operation to remove it
because of complications.
Bramhall resigned from his job at the
from her friend’s house to her home in
Brixton. Her body was discovered in-
side a large builder’s bag and she was
formally identified through her dental
records.
Couzens, a married father of two,
joined the Met in 2018, having trans-
ferred from the Civil Nuclear Constab-
ulary where he was deployed to one of
the country’s most sensitive nuclear
sites at Dungeness in Kent.
He served with the Met’s parliament-
tection officer, admitted yesterday the
kidnap and rape of Everard, 33. He was
not arraigned over her alleged murder.
Dick told the Women’s Institute that
Everard’s death had been the catalyst
for wider, societal concerns about
women’s safety to be raised. “I have
44,000 people working in the Met,” she
said, adding that “sadly, on occasion, I
have a bad’un. We are intolerant and we
set ourselves high standards on how we
work to identify, tackle and prevent any
such behaviours.”
She knew “full well” the Met had to
Simon Bramhall
wrote his initials
on patients with a
cauterising tool
Queen Elizabeth Hospital in 2014 when
the act came to light, Birmingham
Crown Court was told.
He admitted two counts of assault by
beating after denying the more serious
charge of assault occasioning actual
ary and diplomatic protection com-
mand, an armed unit based in West-
minster which is responsible for the
protection of sensitive sites such as par-
liament and Downing Street.
In March Everard’s family paid trib-
ute to their “bright and beautiful”
daughter and sister. They said in a state-
ment: “She was kind and thoughtful,
caring and dependable. She always put
others first and had the most amazing
sense of humour. She was strong and
improve trust and confidence in
policing for women and that more work
had to be done in hospitality and the
night-time sector.
Dick announced a pilot scheme in
Clapham South where female officers
from the neighbourhood policing unit
would “buddy up” with female members
of the public and carry out street
patrols. It provided an opportunity for
women to talk about their local
environment with police officers and
highlight what made them feel unsafe
and how it could be improved, she said.
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bodily harm. The identities of the two
patients are protected by court order.
At the time the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital said in a statement: “The trust
is clear that Mr Bramhall made a mis-
take in the context of a complex clinical
situation and this has been dealt with
via the appropriate authorities, includ-
ing the trust as his then employer.
“We can reassure his patients that
there was no impact whatsoever on the
quality of his clinical outcomes.”
The MPTS declined to comment on
the case.
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principled and a shining example to us
all. We are very proud of her and she
brought so much joy to our lives.”
Everard, a Durham University grad-
uate who was born in Surrey, moved to
London about 12 years ago.
Her death sparked a national debate
about violence against women and the
criminal justice system’s handling of it.
In an attempt to reassure women,
Boris Johnson announced that bars and
clubs would be patrolled by plain-
clothes police at night to protect
women from sexual harassment and
assault.
The Independent Office for Police
Conduct is carrying out two investiga-
tions related to the Everard case. The
first is into injuries sustained by Cou-
zens while in police custody after his
arrest.
The second inquiry is into a proba-
tionary police constable who allegedly
shared an inappropriate graphic joke
on social media while on duty in Kent
manning the cordon supporting the
search operation for Everard.
The Met is carrying out its own
internal investigation into its actions
after receiving the report that Everard
was missing.
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Stay close to home, millions are important to keep a sense of propor-

Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor
Charlotte Wace
Northern Correspondent
Millions of people in Greater Manches-
ter and Lancashire have been urged not
to travel far and testing has increased to
control the spread of the Indian variant.
The military will carry out door-to-
door testing for councils that want it, an
extension of a method that brought
cases under control in Bolton.
Andy Burnham, the mayor of Great-
er Manchester, has backed the plan but
demanded that ministers send more
vaccines to the region.
Officials said that the measures were
not a local lockdown and that people in
the region were free to get on with their
lives, but the government was advising
them to be more cautious about social
contact, given the high infection rate in
the area. .
The region’s 5.7 million people are
being asked to meet others outside if
possible, to keep two metres apart from
people with whom they do not live and
to minimise travel out of their area.
Yesterday 6,048 cases were reported
nationally, and the seven-day average
was up by 61 per cent in a week.
Ministers are trying to shift towards
encouraging people to take responsibil-
ity for Covid risk rather than relying on
public health law. The intervention in
Manchester could form a blueprint for
tackling surges elsewhere as formal re-
strictions are eased.
Matt Hancock, the health secretary,
said: “We are providing a strengthened
package of support based on what is
working in Bolton to help Greater
Manchester and Lancashire tackle the
rise in the Delta [Indian] variant. This
includes rapid response teams, putting
in extra testing, military support and
supervised in-school testing.”
He urged everyone in Greater Man-
chester and Lancashire to get a test.
“We know that this approach can work.
We have seen it work in south London
and in Bolton in stopping a rise in the
number of cases.”
Burnham said: “This is guidance, it is
advice to the public. It is not a lock-
down. It is not a ban.”
He said that the measures were “not
about telling people to cancel their
plans, it is about asking them to be care-
ful in setting any new ones, to minimise
non-essential travel and that is, in our
view, a sensible approach given the rise
in cases we have seen”.
People should be “more vigilant
given the rise in cases” but it was “very
The national picture
tion”, he added.
Unlike last year’s clashes between
How many people have Covid-19?
Burnham and Westminster over
There were 6,048 new cases reported support for local restrictions, the mayor
yesterday, bringing the total so far to praised Hancock for working with the
4,528,442 or 67.8 for every 1,000 people area. However, he urged ministers to
Daily cases accelerate immunisation. “Obviously
60.6% increase from seven days ago what we’re seeing here is a localised ap-
(based on seven-day proach to messaging, more localised
moving average) 60,000 support on testing and on tracing and
50,000 isolation. We are also saying that
Seven-day National 40,000
average R number should apply to vaccination,” he said.
30,000 Burnham said that giving the city its
1 to 1.2
20,000 share of vaccine doses more quickly
10,000 would “allow us to go further and faster
0 in those areas where those case rates
A S O N D J F M A M J
are highest”.
How many are in hospital? Given extra doses “we are very confi-
There are 957 patients in hospital dent that we will have the tools we need
being treated. 148 patients are on to turn the rising cases around”, he said.
ventilators. An additional 126 patients “And that’s not just about protecting
have been admitted, down 0.6 per Greater Manchester, it is of course
cent in the seven days to Jun 2 when about protecting the whole country
this data was last updated from the wider spread of the Delta
Hospital admissions variant.”
Seven-day average 5,000
Hospital admissions with Covid-19 in
Greater Manchester have more than
4,000
doubled in the past fortnight, with 78
3,000 admissions in the week up to June 6. Of
2,000 the 131 people admitted, 31 were in
1,000 intensive care.
0 Although the virus is predominantly
A S O N D J F M A MJ affecting younger people, there has
How many have died? been a steady rise in the number of
those aged over 60 being infected.
Yesterday, there were 13 deaths Sir Richard Leese, health lead for the
reported, bringing the total number Greater Manchester combined author-
of deaths in the past seven days to 72. ity, said that this, combined with the
The rolling average number of daily
overall rate, “does give us, of course,
deaths is 10.3, up from 6.1 a day a
cause for quite serious concern”.
week ago
In the week ending June 3 the overall
Deaths infection rate for Greater Manchester
Seven-day averagege 1,500 was 175 per 100,000 people, up from
1,000
110.8 per 100,000 people in the previous
week. Nationwide infection rates are at
500 46 per 100,000.
Jenny Harries, head of the UK
A S O N D J F M A M
0 Health Security Agency, said: “This
variant is now the dominant strain of
How does 2021 compare? this virus across the UK, with cases
There were 9,860 deaths from all continuing to rise in some areas. The
causes recorded in England and most important thing that people in
Wales in the week to May 21, of which these areas can do is remain cautious,
coronavirus accounted for 1.1 per work from home if possible and
cent. The number of weekly deaths remember to practise hands-face-
was 328 lower than the five-year space and fresh air.
average for the same time of year “Getting the vaccine gives a strong
20,000 level of protection against this variant
2020/21 and I strongly recommend that every-
15,000
one gets the jab when the NHS invites
10,000
you — it will protect you and your loved
Five-year average 5,000 ones.”
0 Seeing red over amber travel
Feb May Aug Nov Feb May
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Honour for Oxford vaccine scientist Weekly deaths fall below 100
Steven Swinford
The British scientist who designed the
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is to be
honoured this weekend, The Times has
been told.
Professor Sarah Gilbert, who led the
Oxford University team that developed
the vaccine, will be rewarded in the
Queen’s birthday honours. A source
said that she was likely to be appointed
a CBE or an OBE.
However, Professor Chris Whitty,
the chief medical officer for England,
and Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief
scientific adviser, will not be included in
the list. They are not expected to be
honoured until after the pandemic.
The Times has also been told that
Oliver Lewis, a former Downing Street
aide who helped the prime minister
secure his Brexit deal, will be appointed
CBE. Lewis, an ally of the prime minis-
ter’s former adviser Dominic Cum-
mings, left Downing Street in February
amid claims that he had been accused
by Boris Johnson and his fiancée of
briefing against Michael Gove. Lewis
strongly denied the claims.
Gilbert, a 59-year-old professor of
vaccinology at the University of Ox-
ford, began work on a coronavirus
vaccine shortly after it was detected in
China. The vaccine she developed is the
Sarah Gilbert
began work on the
vaccine soon after
coronavirus was
first detected
“workhorse” of Britain’s programme,
with 100 million doses being given to
people.
Gilbert, a mother of triplets, has
spent 25 years developing vaccines
against influenza and emerging viral
pathogens. Her laboratory developed
technology to create vaccines against
virulent viruses using a genetically
engineered chimpanzee adenovirus,
which causes common flu in apes, to
trigger an immune response.
At the weekend The Sunday Tele-
graph disclosed that Kate Bingham, the
former head of the UK vaccines task
force, would receive a damehood. She
will be rewarded with the honour for
her unpaid work in leading the task
force and obtaining access to millions
of doses of six different coronavirus
vaccines.
Bingham usually develops drugs to
help patients with autoimmune disease
and cancer, but had no previous experi-
ence with vaccines. Her marriage to
Jesse Norman, a Conservative minister,
led to accusations that her appoint-
ment was proof of “chumocracy”, and
there were calls for her to resign over a
decision to employ eight full-time PR
consultants. However, since the scale of
the taskforce’s success in securing
vaccines has become clear her role in
the programme has been praised by
Johnson and ministers.
for first time since September
Kat Lay Health Editor
The number of deaths involving
Covid-19 registered each week in
England and Wales has fallen below
100 for the first time since September.
In the week ending May 28, 95 deaths
mentioned Covid-19 on the death
certificate, the Office for National
Statistics (ONS) said. The figure —
1 per cent of all deaths that week — was
down from 107 the previous week and
was the lowest since the week to Sep-
tember 4, when figures were artificially
low after a bank holiday weekend.
At the peak of the second wave in
January coronavirus was mentioned on
nearly half of all death certificates.
Kevin McConway, emeritus profes-
sor of applied statistics at the Open
University, said that it was important to
remember that those who died that
week “would mostly have been infected
three weeks or more before that” and if
there was going to be a rise in deaths
due to those cases “it wouldn’t have
shown up yet in this week’s death regis-
tration data”.
However, he added: “It’s not yet clear
there will be much of an increase in
deaths, not yet anyway, because vacci-
nations have changed the firm link
between new cases and, later, deaths,
that was always clear-cut last year.”
Covid-19 was recorded as the under-
lying cause of death on 70 of the certifi-
cates and a contributory factor on the
remainder. Overall there were 9,628
deaths registered in England and Wales
in the latest week reported, a level 3.1
per cent below the five-year average.
Separately, the ONS reported the
deaths of 12 care home residents that
involved coronavirus in the week to
May 28, the lowest number since the
pandemic began.
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told in areas hit by Indian strain
New Forest, has been permitted in England since spring. There are fears a further easing of restrictions could be delayed
Doctors urged to see children in person ‘No evidence’ bats were sold
Kat Lay
GPs have been encouraged to see any
children under five with coughs or
breathing problems face to face.
The instruction, sent to family doc-
tors yesterday by NHS England, was
sent out of concern that respiratory vi-
ruses suppressed by lockdowns will rise
rapidly as restrictions are eased. In nor-
mal years they land thousands of child-
ren a year in hospital.
Nikita Kanani, medical director for
primary care, and Ed Waller, director
for primary care, wrote: “We are asking
that all children under five with respira-
tory symptoms are considered for face-
to-face consultations and referred to
secondary care as appropriate.”
Their email said that in the past year
there had been “a remarkable reduc-
tion in respiratory viral infections other
than Covid-19” leaving “an increasing
number of young children who have
never been exposed to these common
viruses”. It went on: “Around the world
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we have seen evidence of unseasonal
outbreaks of these infections as meas-
ures such as social distancing and mask
wearing are relaxed.”
With Covid-19 typically mild and
self-limiting in children, Kanani and
Waller reminded GPs that “prolonged
illness and/or severe symptoms should
not be attributed to Covid-19 and
should be evaluated as usual”. And al-
though children with respiratory
symptoms should follow government
advice on Covid-19 testing, “this should
not take precedence over clinical as-
sessment”.
Cases of respiratory syncytial virus
(RSV) usually peak in the winter
months, with about 30,000 under-fives
admitted to hospital each year. How-
ever, this year there were only a handful
of positive laboratory results recorded,
as measures to combat Covid-19 also
suppressed RSV transmission.
Public Health England’s modelling
has suggested that cases of RSV could
be between 20 and 50 per cent higher
PAUL PAXFORD
than normal this autumn and winter,
putting hospitals under pressure.
Weekly surveillance of RSV already
shows rising case numbers, at much
higher levels than usual. The A&E
monitoring system has also reported
that up to May 30 “respiratory infec-
tions continued to increase, above sea-
sonally expected levels, particularly in
children aged up to five years”.
6 A large trial has found that aspirin
does not help seriously ill Covid-19
patients with breathing problems. It
was hoped the drug might combat the
blood clotting that affects them, partic-
ularly in their lungs. However, a study
involving nearly 15,000 NHS patients
found no benefit. It was part of the
Recovery trial that earlier found a ster-
oid used for treating arthritis reduced
Covid-19 deaths. Patients in the study
were given either aspirin or the usual
care. Martin Landray, a professor at
Oxford University and joint chief
investigator, said the result showed
why big trials were important.
I would put money
on restrictions ending
this month, says Gove
Steven Swinford Political Editor
Chris Smyth
Michael Gove has said that he would
bet on a relaxation of coronavirus re-
strictions on June 21 despite a growing
conviction among his colleagues that it
will be delayed.
The Cabinet Office minister told a
meeting of ministers on Monday that if
he were a betting man, he would wager
that restrictions would be eased, accor-
ding to the Huffington Post website.
Other ministers believe that the gov-
ernment needs longer to assess the lat-
est data and ensure that more over-
fifties are given the vaccine.
Last night it was reported that Rishi
Sunak was open to a delay of up to a
month to ensure that the lifting of lock-
down was “irreversible”.
The chancellor had been perceived
as eager to drop restrictions to help
boost the economy but he is more con-
cerned that the changes are permanent
and is prepared to push back the June 21
date as a compromise, The Guardian re-
ported. “The Treasury’s main thing is
that freedoms are irreversible and busi-
nesses have clarity,” a Whitehall source
told the paper.
There is particular concern about the
strain that unvaccinated people in their
thirties could place on the health ser-
vice if there is a surge in cases. While
they are less likely to die than older
patients, a government source told The
Times that many of those admitted with
the Indian variant needed oxygen and
spent at least two days in hospital.
The government has said that there
is a “race” between vaccinating people
and the new variant, which is at least
40 per cent more infectious than the
one first identified in Kent.
Huge demand from under-thirties
for jabs led to long online queues for ap-
pointments yesterday. People in their
late twenties were told that up to 14,000
people were waiting ahead of them as
“lots of people are trying to book an ap-
pointment” on the NHS website. Wait-
in Wuhan before pandemic
Tom Whipple Science Editor
Siberian weasels, Amur hedgehogs,
flying squirrels and pit vipers were
among the live wild animals sold in
markets in Wuhan before the pan-
demic, according to a study.
Although the work did not find any
evidence of live bats or pangolins being
sold, its authors said that it showed the
plethora of animal hosts available to the
coronavirus, and through which the
pandemic may have begun.
The authors, whose work is pub-
lished in the journal Scientific Reports,
had coincidentally been researching
the animal markets of Wuhan between
2017 and 2019. They found 38 different
species being sold, 31 of them protected,
and “all kept in dreadful conditions
and teeming with all kinds of other
infectious diseases, ready to be
slaughtered on demand”, Professor
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How Britain compares
Percentage of population who have
received at least one vaccine dose
(total doses administered in brackets)
Malta 74.3% (554k)
Israel 63.1% (10.6m)
Canada 62.3% (26.5m) People
vaccinated
UK 59.7% (68.8m) in UK
First dose
Bahrain 59.2% (1.8m) 40.6m
Second
Hungary 54.5% (9.2m) dose
28.2m
UAE 51.4% (12.8m)
First dose
US 51.2% (302.8m) daily
June 7
Germany 45.7% (55.5m) 112,941
Second
Italy 43.9% (38.8m) dose daily
Spain June 7
42.3% (30m)
306,068
France 41.4% (40.2m)
Source: Our World in Data (latest figures
available) and gov.uk. Note: Selected countries
ing times varied from five to 20 minutes
before people could look for free slots.
Adam Briggs, a senior policy fellow at
the Health Foundation think tank, said
that “this kind of demand is really en-
couraging”. He spoke while in a queue
to book his own jab.
About 3.8 million people in England
aged 25 to 29 can book appointments
from this morning, while in Wales all
over-18s will be eligible by next week.
Six months to the day after the vacci-
nation programme began among the
most vulnerable, all adults except those
aged 18 to 24 are eligible.
6 Andrew Lloyd Webber has issued a
challenge to the prospect of a delay,
vowing to risk arrest by reopening his
theatres this month. The impresario
said that the restrictions have had a
crippling financial effect. Asked by The
Daily Telegraph what he would do if the
final stage of the road map was post-
poned, Lloyd Webber said: “We will say
‘come to the theatre and arrest us’.”
David Macdonald, from the University
of Oxford, said.
His research showed that animals
were sold for large sums. Marmot meat
went for five times the cost of pork.
“This is not subsistence bushmeat, but a
costly delicacy,” he said.
It is unclear where the first cases of
coronavirus originated. There was
clearly a large outbreak at the Wuhan
wet market, but it remains possible the
initial infection happened earlier and
elsewhere.
China has since cracked down on the
wild animal meat trade. The research
could not prove the source of corona-
virus, and could not adjudicate on the
lab-leak controversy, but Macdonald
said: “With these huge concentrations
of diverse species under one roof . . . it
would seem but a matter of time before
some other unwelcome disease might
skip into the human population.”
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Ugly café
areas upset
Parisians
Charles Bremner Paris
Thousands of makeshift terraces that
have sprawled outside cafés and restau-
rants in Paris during the pandemic are
to become permanent summer fixtures
to the anger of residents.
Anne Hidalgo, the mayor, has decided
that owners can keep the stretches of
pavement and parking places they were
allowed to occupy at the end of the first
lockdown last summer, when indoor
drinking and dining was still banned.
The terraces reopened last month and
indoor premises reopen today.
Residents complained on social
media about the noise and ugliness of
many of the hastily made enclosures
that snake along pavements and spill on
to streets, where they obstruct traffic
and block parking spaces. “This is just
more destruction for the beautiful city
at the hands of Hidalgo,” one post said.
Since June last year 9,800 establish-
ments have opened or extended out-
door premises into the public space.
Taxi drivers in Guangzhou, southern China, take university entrance exam candidates who have come into contact with Covid-19 patients to a special exam centre The mayor’s team said that strict
rules would limit the nuisance from the

World must punish China for

“ephemeral terraces”. Owners will be
charged for the installations, which can
open from April 1 to October 31.
“Roofs, tarpaulins, reception tents,
wooden pallets and advertising will be
prohibited,” said Olivia Polski, the

Covid damage, says Pompeo deputy mayor in charge of trading. The

terraces will have to close by 10pm, ex-
cept those attached to long-established
terraces, which will close at 2am.

David Charter Washington

Didi Tang Beijing
President Biden has been urged to form
a global coalition to punish China for its
handling of the pandemic.
Mike Pompeo, the former secretary
of state, said Biden should assemble a
coalition of democracies to “persuade
China to curb its dangerous viral re-
search activities, co-operate with the
investigation of the coronavirus’s ori-
gins and, over time, pay some measure
of the pandemic’s damages to other
nations”, Pompeo said in an opinion
piece for The Washington Post.
The call came on the eve of Biden’s
first overseas trip to Europe for discus-
sions with allies at the G7 in Cornwall,
then at Nato and the EU in Brussels.
At the end of last month Biden gave
the US intelligence agencies 90 days to
Public asked
for vaccine
intensify efforts to study the origins of
the coronavirus amid growing suspi-
cion that it could have come from a
Wuhan laboratory and called for China
to fully participate in an investigation.
Last week Anthony Fauci, the chief
White House adviser on the pandemic,
called on Beijing to release the medical
records of several people whose myste-
rious illness in autumn 2019 could pro-
vide vital clues as to whether the virus
emerged from a laboratory leak.
Pompeo, 57, who was secretary of
state under Trump, is thought to be pre-
paring to run for the presidency in
2024. He said that Biden, 78, had a “re-
sponsibility” to lead a “fair, effective
international response” against China
— the type of multilateral collabora-
tion that was eschewed by the Trump
administration — but added that he
“shows little sign of rising to this task”.
World update
Global cases
173,331,478
Global deaths
3,735,571
“China Communist Party (CCP)
malfeasance sped the coronavirus into
an unsuspecting world,” Pompeo said.
“An international coalition could im-
pose heavy costs on CCP leaders and
China’s economic activities.”
He said that if China escaped punish-
ment it would “grow ever bolder”.
Biden has not said whether the US
would impose penalties on China if it
found to have covered up the origins of
the virus. In ordering US intelligence
agencies to “redouble their efforts” to
find the truth Biden said that the US
would “keep working with like-minded
partners around the world to press
China to participate in a full, transpar-
ent, evidence-based international in-
vestigation”.
Pompeo’s article was co-authored by
Lewis “Scooter” Libby, 70, who served
as chief of staff to Dick Cheney as vice-
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ments over the leak of details that
identified a CIA agent. His prison sen-
tence was commuted by President Bush
to the rescue
and he was pardoned by President
Trump.
A Covid outbreak in southern China
in Germany
means that almost 40 million people
are subject to lockdown measures re- Oliver Moody Berlin
quiring them to produce a negative test
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followed other cities in imposing re- an unexpected trump card in their
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policy after a small but persistent out- vaccinated: David Hasselhoff.
break in the surrounding region. The American actor and singer,
Health authorities in Guangdong best-known for the TV series Baywatch
province are conducting mass testing and Knight Rider, is an enduringly
and vaccinations. The province of 120 popular figure in Germany. There is a
million people has administered ten museum of Hasselhoff paraphernalia
million shots in four days. in Berlin, which used to own a patch of
his chest hair until it was stolen by an
excitable fan. The affection largely
details were provided. The country
claims to have had zero cases of
Covid-19 but this is viewed with
stems from a concert he gave in front of
500,000 East and West Germans at the
Brandenburg Gate weeks after the fall
incredulity by experts, while
thousands of people have been
detained for “quarantine”.
of the Berlin Wall.
Hasselhoff, 68, has joined the ranks
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the times | Wednesday June 9 2021
We did not commit that big a crime, claim Rochdale abusers
Matt Dathan Home Affairs Editor
Two men who were part of the
notorious Rochdale grooming gang
have claimed that they should not be
deported because “we have not com-
mitted that big a crime”.
Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Abdul Rauf,
52, who were both part of a gang con-
victed of a catalogue of serious sex
offences against young girls, have been
told that they will be sent back to
Pakistan for the public good.
However, appealing against the deci-
British gangs
held in global
FBI sting using
phone spy app
Fiona Hamilton Crime & Security Editor
Roger Maynard Sydney
British drug gangs and money launder-
ers were among hundreds of criminals
caught up in a global FBI messaging
app sting, the National Crime Agency
revealed yesterday.
At least 300 criminal gangs operating
in more than 100 countries were duped
into conducting their illegal activities
on Anom, an encrypted app that was
secretly monitored by the police and in-
telligence services.
The FBI used Anom to fill a gap in the
market after European law enforce-
ment agencies hacked into Encrochat,
a phone network used by tens of thou-
sands of criminals worldwide.
The NCA said the sting had enabled
it to carry out “multiple operations”
against organised crime groups in-
Swimming teachers had naked fight after row in front of children
Jonathan Ames Legal Editor
Two swimming instructors had a naked
brawl in the showers of a hotel gym
after arguing in front of a group of
children and their parents.
Margarita Damova and Sarah Aiello
fought after disagreeing about how the
children’s lesson should be organised.
A tribunal has been told that Damova
dived into the pool to escape from her
colleague. The dispute escalated in the
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sion, Khan told an immigration tribu-
nal hearing yesterday that deporting
him to Pakistan would breach his
human rights.
He also claims to have renounced his
Pakistani citizenship, which would
make him “stateless” and be a bar to
deportation.
Khan was handed an eight-year pris-
on sentence in 2012 and released on
licence four years later after being con-
victed of conspiracy to engage in sexual
activity with a child and trafficking two
15-year-old girls for sexual exploitation.
volved in drug trafficking and
money laundering in the UK.
The operation, known as Tro-
jan Shield, allowed officials in
Britain, the US, Europe,
Australia and New Zea-
land to access millions of
messages exchanged by
criminals, including
about planned murders.
About 800 suspects
have been arrested in 16
countries, the law enforce-
ment agency Europol said,
and more than 100 lives had
been saved. In total law en-
forcement officials seized
more than 32 tonnes of drugs,
250 firearms, 55 luxury cars
and more than £104 million in
cash and cryptocurrencies.
Trojan Shield, the brain-
showers, where Damova accused her
supervisor of attacking her while she
was “naked and helpless”.
Both of the instructors were sus-
pended by Swimming Nature, the larg-
est independent tuition service in Brit-
ain, while the incident was investigated.
However, Damova resigned because
she felt “totally humiliated” that the
company had treated her as an offender
rather than the victim.
She brought a claim for unfair dis-
Khan impregnated a girl, 13, but denied
he was the father.
He then met another girl, 15, and
trafficked her to others, using violence
when she complained.
Rauf was sentenced to six years for
conspiracy to engage in sexual activity
and trafficking. They were both served
with deportation orders last July.
At a tribunal hearing to fight Home
Office attempts to remove them, Khan
blamed the media for exaggerating
their crimes. Speaking via videolink
and through a Mirpuri translator, he
Australian police seized criminals, cash,
illicit drugs and cars. Sopiea Kong, a
reality TV star, left, was also charged
child of the FBI and
Australian police, began
when US officials paid a
convicted drug trafficker to
give them access to a phone
with Anom.
The FBI set up its own
company to create suppos-
edly secret devices with
Anom installed. Over the
past 18 months it provided
phones via unsuspecting
middlemen to hundreds of
missal, which was rejected after the tri-
bunal concluded that her behaviour
had been unreasonable.
Damova, who is from Bulgaria,
started teaching for the company at the
London Marriott Hotel Regents Park
four years ago.
She has a degree as a swimming
coach and teacher and was working
with Aiello, who was supervising
several instructors. The pair had a
strained working relationship.
said: “The journalists have made our
lives a living hell. We are not that big a
criminal. We have not committed that
big a crime.
“I’m innocent. I’m not committing
any crime. The journalists made us out
to be big criminals.”
Taxpayer-funded legal aid has been
granted for both men to fight Home
Office attempts to strip them of UK
citizenship and deport them.
That came on top of more than
£1 million of legal aid spent on the
gang’s unsuccessful defence at the
criminal
gangs. The
app became
lar as users told one
increasingly popular
another it was a safe platform.
Ultimately 12,000 devices with the
messaging app were distributed in the
criminal underworld and tapped by
police in 12 countries, in an operation
involving more than 9,000 officers.
The NCA said that use of the plat-
form by UK criminals was limited com-
pared with other countries, but refused
On the day of the altercation, Damo-
va wanted to merge two classes in what
Aiello said was an excuse to give herself
another break. The two argued in front
of children and their parents and Dam-
ova dived into the pool to “get away”
from Aiello as she was being “abusive”.
Damova told the tribunal in Watford
that Aiello called her a “rubbish idiot”
and said “f*** you, die bitch, go away
and find another job because I don’t
want you here”.
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original trial, including £282,000 each
provided for Khan and Rauf to fight the
charges against them.
In 2015 the Home Office stripped
them of their citizenship, which the two
men appealed against on the grounds
that it breached their human rights.
However, two levels of immigration
tribunal rejected their arguments, with
the first-tier tribunal declaring that the
consequences for the men and their
families did not outweigh the public
interest in stripping them of their
British citizenship.
BEAU CAMPBELL/AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE/REUTERS
to detail the number of arrests or opera-
tions while their activity continued.
The previous Encrochat hack by offi-
cials had morphed into the UK’s biggest
organised crime investigation, and led
to the arrest of 1,500 alleged gangsters
and the seizure of hundreds of millions
of pounds in drugs and more than 100
guns.
Anom appears to have had a similar
impact elsewhere in Europe.
Swedish police prevented a dozen
planned killings. In Finland nearly 100
people were detained.
More than 250 suspects in Australia
and New Zealand were arrested and
officials there seized three tonnes of
illegal drugs and the equivalent of
nearly £25 million in cash. Twenty-one
murder plots were uncovered, includ-
ing the shooting of
a family of five and
a machine gun
a
attack on a café. A
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reality television
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star,
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success of the opera-
ti
tion had been an
f
Australian drug fugitive who had been
given the device and unwittingly dis-
tributed the app to criminal associates.
The gangs had believed that the
system was secure because the phones
had no voice or camera functions.
The federal police said that the
Australian underworld figure was now
a marked man.
The company told Damova that her
behaviour amounted to gross miscon-
duct and in response she resigned, say-
ing that she had not been supported as
the victim. The tribunal panel, led by
judge Stephen Bedeau, ruled that the
company had acted fairly.
As well as Damova’s claims of unfair
constructive dismissal, the tribunal dis-
missed a claim that she had been un-
fairly treated for blowing the whistle on
company working practices.
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Cabinet Office
loses battle to
sit on details
of ‘secret unit’
George Greenwood
A tribunal has criticised the Cabinet
Office for a “profound lack of transpar-
ency” as it overturned the department’s
attempt to withhold information about
a secretive unit that centrally screens
freedom of information (FoI) requests.
The “clearing house”, a unit within
the Cabinet Office that advises other
government departments on how to re-
spond to requests, has attracted wide-
spread criticism after it was revealed
that departments had been sending it
details of journalists with FoI requests.
Under FoI law almost all requests
should be “applicant-blind” — that is,
handled without knowledge of who
sent them — raising concerns that re-
quests from different journalists may
have been treated differently.
In February, 12 former and serving
Fleet Street editors, including the edi-
tor of The Times, signed an open letter
calling for an inquiry into its operation.
The Cabinet Office had attempted to
withhold the advice given by the unit to
other departments on the grounds that
it could prevent officials from being
candid. However, before the remote
hearing the department “changed its
position radically” and released infor-
mation about the clearing house.
This included advice on how to
refuse requests. It said a request from
The Times for details of databases held
by departments should be considered
for rejection because it “appears to have
no serious purpose”. That information
was later released after appeal.
The tribunal judge, Chris Hughes,
ruled that further information about
the unit’s advice on handling certain
complex requests should also be dis-
closed. Finding in favour of the media
organisation OpenDemocracy, the tri-
bunal criticised the Cabinet Office for a
“lacuna in public information” about
Quentin Letts
No moralising, please,
we’re only mandarins
Political Sketch
ather than report three
R hours of halo-polishing
in the Commons, where
they debated
international aid and
Theresa May gave Boris Johnson a
little homily on how to gain
international respect, let me
describe a hearing on the Greensill
scandal. That’s the one involving
David Cameron and the Aussie
how it worked to ensure transparency
in government.
“There has been no publicly available
information. Such information as was
on gov.uk was archived eight years ago;
the Wikipedia entry to which the tribu-
nal’s attention was drawn was also out
of date,” the tribunal said.
In ordering the release of further
records, the tribunal found that at the
time they had first been requested, in
2018, there was “a lack of accurate pub-
licly available information about the
constitutionally significant role in co-
ordinating FoI responses” and that
there was “real weight in the public in-
terest in disclosure”.
The Cabinet Office refused a request
by The Times for details of the clearing
house’s budget, staffing and staff gui-
dance. We have appealed against that
decision.
In another recent tribunal case the
Cabinet Office was criticised for losing
records relating to a putative Gordon
Brown premiership after the 2010
election that we first requested in 2018.
“It is almost beyond belief that a public
body such as the Cabinet Office can lo-
cate a document when a FoI request is
made, make decisions about disclosure,
respond to the requester with the deci-
sion but then simply lose the informa-
tion,” the tribunal found.
The Cabinet Office said: “A clearing-
house function has existed since 2004
to help ensure there is a consistent ap-
proach across government to requests
for information that go to a number of
different departments or where re-
quests are made for particularly sensi-
tive information.”
Labour called for Michael Gove, the
Cabinet Office minister, to “ set out how
he will be ensuring that this govern-
ment abides by the law”.
An important victory over the
government, leading article, page 27
financier with the desert boots and
spivvy overcoat.
Whitehall insiders were quizzed
by the public administration select
committee. Its MPs, chaired by the
magisterially mournful William
Wragg (C, Hazel Grove), adopted a
tone of acidic disappointment that
such a character as Greensill ever
wormed his way into our citadel.
Two ex-mandarins made spectacles
of themselves. The impression was
created of a clique of senior officials
who regarded ministers as blow-ins.
Sir John Manzoni even referred to
how he had been “elected” to the
position of permanent secretary at
the Cabinet Office. Elected!
Face to face The Weiss Gallery’s Flora Crichton-Stuart with a 1536 portrait of
Madeleine of France, Queen Consort of Scotland. It goes on show next month
Francis Maude was the first
witness. He was an MP and minister
in the Cameron government.
Maude’s job was to reduce the costs
of government, which he did rather
well, saving “£52 billion in folding
money”. Whitehall hated him for
this. Maude allegedly gave Lex
Greensill his break as a Downing
Street adviser, yet he had no
memory of doing so. Did Sir
Humphrey slip an unseen
authorisation letter into his red box?
Maude recalled that Sir Jeremy
Heywood, then cabinet secretary,
was a great fan of lizardy Lex.
“Jeremy was across most things,”
murmured Maude, who is not quite
the Rowley Birkin he sounds. It
would take ages for ministers to
secure approval for aides they
wished to hire but mandarins moved
faster when they wanted to employ
their own munchkins.
Heywood, who died in 2018,
bypassed Maude to lobby Cameron
on Greensill. He also encouraged
Whitehall’s head of procurement,
Bill Crothers, to join Greensill, even
while he was still in the civil service.
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TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE
We turned to Manzoni to find out
how this was ever approved. Well,
said Manzoni, that was because I
was sacking the poor old dobbin and
we wanted to ease him into a juicy
sinecure. Not that he used those
words. Instead: “I managed the exit
of Bill out of the civil service.”
When Crothers was working for
Greensill, Manzoni often found time
to have a coffee and a croissant with
him at a nearby Whitehall café.
Nothing to do with lobbying,
puh-lease. It was out of the kindness
of his heart. “It’s what I do in terms
of making sure people are good and
okay,” said Manzoni with an
aw-shucks gesture, eyes round with
his own kindness. My own eyes were
merely drawn to the flash
wristwatch on his right arm.
Manzoni took repeated swipes at
the current cabinet secretary, Simon
Case, who has expressed incredulity
at the Greensill goings-on. “It’s easy
to pile on the outrage and take a
moralistic perspective,” snapped
Manzoni. He also scorned a former
Treasury permanent secretary, Lord
Macpherson, for playing
Wednesday June 9 2021 | the times
Maude ‘can’t
remember’
appointment
of Greensill
Eleni Courea Political Reporter
Sir Jeremy Heywood introduced the
controversial financier Lex Greensill to
ministers as “a very clever guy who is
going to help you save a lot of money”,
MPs were told yesterday.
Lord Maude of Horsham, a former
Cabinet Office minister, said that
Greensill was temporarily made a gov-
ernment adviser at the behest of the
former cabinet secretary.
Maude approved Greensill’s tempo-
rary appointment to the Cabinet Office
in 2012 but said yesterday: “I have been
told that I authorised it, but I have abso-
lutely no recollection of it.”
He said he had not thought Green-
sill’s ideas “stacked up” or understood
how they might help his team. “No one
can provide finance more cheaply than
a triple-A-rated government,” he told
the Commons public administration
and constitutional affairs committee.
MPs were told that Sue Gray, the
former Whitehall ethics chief, raised
concerns about how Heywood had se-
cured the job for Greensill, the Austra-
lian financier who has been in the
public spotlight since the collapse in
March of his company Greensill Capi-
tal, which employed the former prime
minister David Cameron as an adviser.
Cameron lobbied ministers, includ-
ing by sending texts to Rishi Sunak, the
chancellor, in an attempt to gain access
for Greensill Capital to government
loan schemes.
Heywood and Greensill had worked
together at Morgan Stanley, a US in-
vestment bank.
Bill Crothers, a senior civil servant
who was allowed to continue advising
the government on key projects after
joining the board of Greensill, insisted
that the arrangement had not created a
conflict of interests.
Crothers, a former government chief
commercial officer, said his intention
when he was appointed was “to com-
pletely follow the rules, in spirit and in
form. I was transparent in all that I did
and no conflict happened.”
He added: “In the press the phrase
‘double-hatting’ has been used, and I
just feel that is not appropriate — this
was a transitional arrangement.”
departmental politics. And he
sniped about the former head of
ethics in Whitehall, Sue Gray —
“the person we all thought was in
control of this”. A husky,
dismissive snort for her.
“I don’t dispute this is murky, it’s
complicated, it’s difficult,”
jabbered Manzoni, by now
gesticulating. “I just don’t think it’s
quite so easy to take the so-called
moral high ground.” He kept
flashing a gap-toothed smile. It
looked angry.
And then to Crothers. Creaky
voice. Gluey speech. A lot of
head-holding. You could see why
Manzoni wanted to dump such a
loser. An MP asked Crothers why
he thought Greensill hired him.
Crothers said it was because he
had “deep skills in selling business
development” and “expertise in
interacting with senior executives”.
Nothing to do, then, with having
worked in No 10 and knowing all
the top officials? “There was no
sense of that,” said Crothers,
proving that if not untruthful he
was merely naive.
the times | Wednesday June 9 2021
Cricket stars face a few tricky deliveries as old tweets emerge
Elizabeth Ammon
England’s most decorated bowler,
Jimmy Anderson, yesterday deleted a
tweet mocking his strike partner Stuart
Broad as more cricketers were caught
up in the storm about offensive historic
social media posts.
Anderson, who will become En-
gland’s most capped Test player at Edg-
baston tomorrow if selected for his
162nd cap, tweeted in 2010: “I saw
Broady’s new haircut for the first time
today. Not sure about it. Thought he
Family in awe
of woman who
saved her twin
from crocodile
Lucy Bannerman, Lucinda Elliott
The elder sister of twins attacked by a
crocodile while swimming at night in
Mexico has said that she is “in awe” of
their courage.
Hana Laurie, 33, from Alton in
Hampshire, said that she initially
thought it was a joke when her mother
rang to tell her that Georgia had fought
off a crocodile to save her identical
twin, Melissa.
The women had been swimming
after dark in a lagoon known for its bio-
luminescent water as part of an orga-
nised tour when Georgia heard Melissa
cry out, and saw that she was being
thrown about like a “rag doll”. Hana told
MEXICO Cancun
Mexico City
Acapulco
200 miles
Manialtepec Lagoon
Pacific Crocodile attack near
Ocean Puerto Escondido
the BBC: “Luckily, her super-badass
twin sister was there to punch it repeat-
edly, as it came back about three times,
to try and save her.
“What we’re aware of at the moment
is that Melissa and Georgia were swim-
ming with a group and Melissa said, ‘My
goodness, there’s a crocodile’ . . . trans-
late that how you might. She was being
dragged about, thrashed about, pande-
1G M
Stuart Broad’s haircut made him “look
like a lesbian”, said Jimmy Anderson
monium ensued, I guess. What Georgia
had told us is that she didn’t know what
else to do other than just try and get to
Melissa and just to hit it,”Hana said,
adding that the attack might have had a
different outcome had Georgia not
been trained as a diver.
“It sounds to me like there was a great
big brawl. We know that this happened
three times before they were able to get
to a nearby boat. It must have been so
scary.”
Melissa, 28, is in hospital in Puerto
Escondido in a medicallyy in-
duced coma. Hana said aid that
she had managed d to
speak to Georgia, who ho
has been treated for or
injuries to her
hands. Melissa has
worked in zoos,
while both sisters
had been volun-
teering in animal
sanctuaries during
their travels.
“She’s got cuts and d
bruises and injuries ies
on her hands from
where she was punching unching
the crocodile . . . I’m so proud of
her, I’m in awe,” Hana ana said.
Hana, who is a wedding photo-
grapher, said that it took her a moment
to process the news. “My mum called
me really early in the morning,” she
said. “Had it not been so early I would
have thought that she was joking . . . I
managed to speak to Georgia on a video
call shortly after — that was very emo-
tional. I told her how proud I am, how
looked like a 15 yr old lesbian!” Asked Cricket’s governing body is already
about the comment yesterday, Ander- investigating another unnamed player
son said: “It’s 10-11 years ago, I’ve cer- who is accused of making disparaging
tainly changed as a person. And I think comments about Chinese people when
that’s the difficulty, things do change, he was under 16.
you do make mistakes.” When asked about the atmosphere in
Yesterday’s episode follows the sus- the England camp and whether the
pension of Ollie Robinson by the En- squad were anxious about past social
gland Cricket Board, pending an in- media activity, Anderson replied: “If
vestigation into racist and sexist posts there are any tweets from years ago, we
that were revealed last week after Rob- do have to look at that and again learn
inson, 27, made his Test debut. Robin- from this and be better in the future.”
son was 18 when he made some of the He also revealed that players had
comments. been undergoing training in areas such
Georg Laurie, right, saved her twin sister, Melissa, by punching
Georgia
cro
a crocodile repeatedly during an attack in a lagoon in Mexico
gr
grateful I am — and crocodile dirt doesn’t provide a
w
without her I nasty infection,” Hana said. “She was
w
wouldn’t have my struggling to breathe as she was taken
o
other sister, with- to the emergency department so
o them being so
out they’ve put her into a medically in-
fie
fierce we would duced coma so they can try and drain
hav been in a total-
have some of the water [and] keep the risk of
di
ly different situation. infection low.”
And we still don’t
And The twins’ family have launched a
know what’s going to
know crowdfunding operation to cover medi-
happen, sh
happen, she’s not out of the cal costs while they wait “to find out the
woods. I listen
listened to her tell me validity of the insurance”.
how frightened she wasw . . . We can’t be Hana said that the women had joined
there at the moment, we’re thousands a group led by a tour guide recommend-
of miles away, but I wanted her to know ed by their hostel. “It has since tran-
she’s amazing, totally amazing.” spired that this guide was known locally
She added that Melissa’s condition to be operating in an unlicensed and
remained serious after two operations illegal way, but since is nowhere to be
to stop internal bleeding and to repair found,” she said. In a Facebook post, she
an open wound fracture in her wrist. thanked people for their support, say-
“The main concern at the moment is ing: “Love to everyone unless they’re a
just making sure all the dirty sea water crocodile or a tour guide wannabe x”.
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as racism. Online comments by Jos
Buttler and Eoin Morgan were also
highlighted, with suggestions that they
were mocking Indian opponents’ ac-
cents and grammar. These tweets are
now believed to have been removed.
The ECB said: “The board will dis-
cuss how we deal with issues over his-
torical social media material in a timely
and appropriate manner. Each case will
be considered on an individual basis
looking at all the facts.”
Letters, page 26
ECB’s fear, Matthew Syed, page 59
Officer was
terrified of
ex-footballer,
court told
Fiona Hamilton Crime Editor
Ross Slater
A policewoman accused of the assault
of Dalian Atkinson has told a court that
she was “terrified” by the former
footballer and that he was the “angriest
person I had ever seen in my life”.
Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith, 31, said
that she hit Atkinson with a baton as he
lay on the ground because it was “abso-
lutely necessary” to protect herself and
Benjamin Monk, her colleague and
lover. Monk, 43, who tasered Atkinson
six times longer than standard and
kicked him in the head, denies murder
and manslaughter. Bettley-Smith de-
nies a charge of assault.
Atkinson, 48, went into cardiac arrest
en route to hospital after the incident
outside his father’s home in Telford,
Shropshire, on August 15, 2016.
Giving evidence Bettley-Smith said
that she felt terrified when Atkinson
came out of the front door, telling the
jury: “I recall that he opened the front
door and was there, this huge figure.
“He appeared very, very angry —
probably the angriest person I have
ever seen in my life. I remember his
eyes bulging out of his head. His chest
was puffed up . . . his stance made me
think he was ready to fight. When he
initially came out of the door I was very
taken aback at just how angry he was.
Immediately, my threat level went
through the roof . . . I felt terrified.”
In her police interviews, Bettley-
Smith had described Atkinson as being
“at least six foot four” and “massive”. In
cross-examination, Alexandra Healy
QC pointed out that he was in fact an
inch shorter and more than 10 kilo-
grams lighter than Monk.
Bettley-Smith said that she felt her
life was “flashing before my eyes” when
the Taser fired by Monk initially failed,
and that she hit Atkinson with her
baton after he fell to the ground to stop
him getting up. She had “no reluctance”
and continued to hit him because she
feared for her life.
Asked for her reaction when later
told of Atkinson’s death, she said that
she felt terrible but was also conscious it
could have been her or a colleague.
Bettley-Smith said that she still felt
overwhelming sadness about his death.
She denied exaggerating her account to
justify the use of excessive force by
Monk, and denied trying to “help”
Monk by changing her account, or by
agreeing to “fudge” what was said about
kicks to Atkinson’s head.
She described Monk, with whom she
was in a relationship until 2018 and
remains friends, as “very knowledgea-
ble and a good police officer”.
The trial at Birmingham crown court
continues.
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Abandon threat of
tariffs against UK,
Frost tells Brussels
Oliver Wright Policy Editor
Brussels must drop threats of legal
action and trade tariffs against Britain,
the Brexit minister Lord Frost said last
night as he prepared for a meeting to
discuss the impasse over Northern
Ireland.
He is due to meet his EU counterpart,
Maros Sefcovic, today as acrimony
grows over the implementation of the
Northern Ireland protocol.
Brussels says Frost has refused to en-
gage with proposals to ease restrictions
on food and medicine crossing the Irish
Sea. The UK government says it has
sent more than ten papers to the Euro-
pean Commission but not received a
substantive response.
Frost called on the EU to propose
“practical solutions” to make the proto-
col work. “Further threats of legal
action and trade retaliation from the
EU won’t make life any easier,” he said.
“What is needed is pragmatism and
common sense. And it is ever more
urgent.”
The UK is anxious that the fallout
from unsuccessful talks not spill over
into this weekend’s meeting of G7
leaders in Cornwall. Tomorrow Boris
Johnson is to hold talks with Joe Biden,
at which the US president will urge the
prime minister to find a way to break
the impasse. Johnson will argue that
the EU is misrepresenting the UK’s
position and underplaying the damage
that the rigid enforcement of checks on
goods entering Northern Ireland from
Britain is doing to the province.
The fear is that, with the European
Commission president, Ursula von der
Leyen, and the European Council pres-
ident, Charles Michel, in Cornwall as
well as Emmanuel Macron and Angela
Merkel, the EU side could gang up on
Sticking points
Medicines
Almost all medication in Northern
Ireland arrives through Great Britain,
but at the end of the year medicines
licensed for use in Britain can no
longer be sold in Northern Ireland.
The EU says it is “exploring
solutions” that would allow such
drugs to be automatically made
available in Northern Ireland.
Sausages and chicken nuggets
The EU has a ban on importing
processed raw meat unless it is
frozen. A six-month grace period is
due to expire at the end of this
month. The UK is threatening to
extend the period unless the EU
agrees a solution to allow access to
Northern Ireland for British bangers.
Plants and soil
It became illegal in January to send
plants to Northern Ireland because
of an EU ban on importing products
containing soil from outside the
bloc. In March the UK extended a
temporary exemption for six
months. The EU is working on a joint
IT system to enable swift handling
of the entry and exit data.
Supermarket supplies
All shipments for Northern Irish
supermarkets need a health export
certificate for each product. The UK
has increased the grace period until
October and wants a trusted trader
scheme to reduce declarations.
Pet passports
An EU animal health certificate costs
tary, George Eustice, highlighted the
June 30 deadline after which it will be
illegal to send processed meat, such as
sausages, to Northern Ireland unless it
is frozen. Eustice said he had “no idea”
why the EU imposed “idiosyncratic”
rules on the movement of chilled meat.
“I suspect it links to some kind of per-
ception that they can’t really trust any
country other than an EU country to
make sausages,” he said.
Eustice told the Today programme
on BBC Radio 4: “I suspect that any US
administration would be amazed if you
were to say, for instance, that a sausage
from Texas couldn’t be sold to
California.”
Senior government figures said
Frost, who was Britain’s chief Brexit ne-
gotiator, was aware of the barriers the
Northern Ireland protocol would im-
pose when he agreed the deal in 2019.
Whitehall officials involved in dis-
cussions at the time said he had had
“plenty of material in front of him” that
showed a reduction in trade between
Britain and Northern Ireland as a result
of the new arrangements.
Jonathan Jones, a former govern-
ment chief legal officer, told the think
tank UK in a Changing Europe: “I don’t
know whether ministers really under-
stood what they were signing up to, or
whether there was some wilful blind-
ness. But ever since, we’ve been bedev-
illed by a combination of overpromis-
ing, and blaming others for the terms of
the deal that we had agreed to.”
The CBI called on the two sides to
reach a bespoke agreement to reduce
the need for checks. “Getting back to
the business of trade by normalising
relations between the UK and EU is the
top priority for firms,” said John Foster, HMS Tyne is one of two offshore patrol vessels assigned to protect the approach
its director of policy.

Troops join police and

more than £100. The EU says it is There’s nothing woolly about centrism,
Johnson. Frost is expected to travel to open to exempting guide dogs but James Kanagasooriam, page 23
Cornwall for the Biden meeting. not a broader relaxation. Think tank warns Big Tech will pay less
Yesterday the environment secre- tax under G7 deal, page 33

May: Aid cut is devastating for poor Catherine Philp

Henry Zeffman
Chief Political Correspondent
Boris Johnson’s decision to slash spend-
ing on foreign aid will be devastating for
the world’s poorest people and damage
Britain’s standing in the world, Theresa
May has said.
In a lacerating speech to the House of
Commons the former prime minister
urged her successor to stand by his
manifesto promise on the aid budget.
May, along with every other living
former prime minister, has been a sup-
porter of the target of spending 0.7 per
cent of national income on overseas
aid, made law under David Cameron.
But the government announced last
year that it would reduce its spending to
0.5 per cent, blaming the financial crisis
induced by coronavirus.
Conservative backbenchers had
hoped to inflict a defeat on the prime
minister on Monday by backing an
amendment to research legislation that
would have reversed the cuts. Sir Lind-
say Hoyle, the Speaker of the Com-
mons, blocked the amendment because
it was “out of scope”, instead granting an
emergency debate on the issue yester-
day.
“This cut will have a devastating
impact on the poorest in the world and
it will damage the UK,” May told the
Commons. “I urge the government to
reinstate the 0.7 per cent. It is what it
promised. It will show that we act
Theresa May said
Britain’s standing
in the world would
also be damaged
according to our values and it will save
lives.”
She said that one of the main reasons
for her opposition to the cut was the
effect it would have on the UK’s stand-
ing on the global stage. “People have
respected us for our commitment to
0.7 per cent,” May said. “Now we’re the
only country in the G7 that is cutting
aid at this time. People don’t listen to
the UK because we are the UK, they lis-
ten to us because of what we do. They
listen to us because of how we put our
values into practice . . . so cutting this
will have an impact on our standing.”
On Monday Hoyle urged the govern-
ment to give MPs a vote on the cut,
accusing ministers of failing to treat the
Commons “with the respect it de-
serves”. Downing Street indicated yes-
terday that no vote would take place.
The prime minister’s official spokes-
man said that the government was act-
ing in line with the International Dev-
elopment Act 2015, which allows for the
suspension of the 0.7 per cent in excep-
tional circumstances.
Steve Barclay, chief secretary to the
Treasury, questioned whether it was
moral to borrow in order to fund £4 bil-
lion of extra aid spending the rebels
want. “Leaving the next generation vul-
nerable to the degree of fiscal threat
that would be entailed with a high debt
level is not itself morally sound,” he
said. “At the same time, loading our-
selves with more debt might well dam-
age our ability to spend on aid later.’’
Diplomatic Correspondent
Larisa Brown Defence Editor
Fiona Hamilton Crime Editor
Hundreds of British troops, including
bomb disposal teams and a navy war-
ship, are joining more than 5,000 police
officers and a 400-strong US Secret
Service team at the G7 summit this
weekend in one of the biggest security
operations undertaken in Britain.
The armed forces are being drafted in
to help police as world leaders, their
entourages and thousands of protesters
descend for the three-day summit at
Carbis Bay.
In the most visible show of strength,
HMS Northumberland, a Type 23 frig-
ate, will be positioned off the coast and
use its radar system to help police ident-
ify potential threats from the air and
sea. Military sources said plans were
under discussion to deploy HMS Prince
of Wales, a Queen Elizabeth-class air-
craft carrier undergoing trials, in a
second show of muscle.
There will also be two offshore patrol
vessels, six Archer class P2000 patrol
vessels and a number of rigid inflatable
boats to help with surveillance.
The military has already deployed a
Giraffe agile multibeam radar system
that can identify and track aircraft, hel-
icopters and ballistic targets while pro-
viding coastal surveillance.
Several explosives ordnance disposal
teams and 15 explosives search dogs
and handlers from the army will also
operate under police command.
Armed police officers will patrol
nearby waters in case they need to stop
suspicious vessels as well as along the
routes that VIPs will take between the
airport, the summit venue at Carbis Bay
Hotel, and Tregenna Castle Resort, the
98-bedroom hotel where leaders are
staying.
Police will not say how many armed
officers are being deployed in total but
all will be armed with Heckler & Koch
carbines that can fire 750 rounds a min-
ute and are equipped with Kevlar body
armour.
The airspace above Cornwall is
largely shut but police are reserving the
option to deploy one of their 18 drones
if necessary. Last month the force said it
had planned for every eventuality on
land, sea and air.
MS Silja Europa, a cruise ship, has
docked at Falmouth where it is prepar-
ing to accommodate 1,000 of the police
officers deployed from elsewhere.
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Tax on carmakers
could ensure electric
vehicle target is hit
Steven Swinford Political Editor
Carmakers that fail to produce enough
electric vehicles should face carbon
taxes to ensure Britain reaches its net-
zero emissions target, two former cabi-
net ministers have said.
In a joint article for The Times Red
Box Andrea Leadsom, business secre-
tary from 2019 to 2020, and Amber
Rudd, a former home secretary and
energy secretary in 2015-16, call on the
government to force manufacturers to
meet binding targets for the production
of electric cars. Those that fail to do so
should be forced to buy carbon credits
from other manufacturers in a scheme
modelled on a “zero-emission man-
date” in California.
The two former ministers are making
the appeal before the G7 summit in
Cornwall, where climate change will be
one of the central issues discussed.
The government has committed to
banning the sale of petrol and diesel
cars from 2030 but Leadsom and Rudd
are concerned that manufacturers are
not making enough electric vehicles.
The proposal has been endorsed by
Policy Exchange, a think tank.
“We welcome the government’s
commitment to phase out the sale of
new petrol and diesel cars by 2030,
echoing the pledge we made in govern-
ment to phase out coal-fired power
stations by 2025,” Rudd and Leadsom
say in their article. “But we must ensure
we put UK jobs at the heart of the
mission for cleaner transport.
“The government should look to
international leaders like California,
where a ‘zero-emission vehicle man-
date’ has put the state at the heart of the
manufacturing revolution for electric
vehicles. As Policy Exchange has previ-
Five-star comforts after a
to Carbis Bay by sea. Three Osprey helicopters have been scouting the route that President Biden will take to the summit
draining day of diplomacy
Secret Service to guard leaders Nina Lloyd
If world leaders find themselves at a
loose end between G7 plenary sessions
on coronavirus and climate change this
President Biden, who arrives in week, there will be ample opportunity
How will they keep summit safe? Cornwall tonight, will be guarded by a to relax.
team housed in 50 luxury recreational The heads of government will be
More than 5,000 US security vehicles around the hotel grounds. bunking down at the five-star Tregenna
police officers plus Air Force One will land at RAF Mild- Castle Hotel in St Ives. An indoor
military personnel 400-strong Secret enhall and Biden will leave by helicop- swimming pool, an 18-hole golf course
from all three services Service team ter for the castle. and acres of subtropical gardens are
On Monday two Sea King and three among the amenities on hand for
Bomb 15 explosives Osprey helicopters could be seen scout- guests.
disposal search dogs ing the route he will take. They were While luxury trips abroad remain
teams and Three Osprey
flown from the US in a Boeing C-17 limited by the government’s traffic light
handlers helicopters
Globemaster III with two of the system for ordinary Britons, No 10
armoured Cadillacs used as the presi- hopes that hosting the summit will
dential limousine, nicknamed the Beast. provide a £50 million boost to the local
The 18ft “White House on wheels” economy.
HMS Northumberland, a Type 23 has ballistic armour and a sealed cabin The hotel, thought to have been
frigate, which will be positioned off Two armoured Cadillacs for ferrying with independent oxygen support cap- designed by the celebrated Georgian
the coast the president to and from a helipad able of withstanding a nuclear, biologi- architect John Wood the Younger, who
cal or chemical attack. Its doors are 8in designed Bath’s Royal Crescent, is
thick. The cabin carries at least two known for its idyllic views of Carbis Bay,
pints of the president’s blood for use in where the summit itself is being held.
2 offshore patrol vessels and 6 Archer an emergency transfusion. Officials who need their mood lighten-
class P2000 patrol vessels 50 luxury Six Chevrolet Chevrolet Suburbans with police ing as they try to thrash out global
A number of smaller recreational Suburbans to carry lights will carry the president’s Secret measures curbing Big Tech, can enjoy
rigid inflatable boats vehicles for staff the president’s Service detail. One, the Halfback, fol- the Tregenna Castle’s on-site leisure
accommodation Secret Service detail lows the Beast and its decoy and carries facilities including an outdoor play-
the president’s security detail, his first ground and two all-weather tennis
The "watchtower", a line of back-up. The convoy also trans- courts.
vehicle that can jam ports a counter-assault team of heavily The 72-acre estate tips itself as
HMS Prince of Wales, a Queen electronic
Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier, could armed commandos. perfect for weddings and other large
communications The cost to the UK of policing the ceremonies, but will be transformed
also be deployed off the coast
summit has been put at £70 million. this week into a fortress as hundreds of
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ously recommended, a California-style
‘ZEV mandate’, combined with appro-
priate industrial strategy, can help
attract the Teslas of the world to set up
shop in the UK and help to reinvigorate
our car manufacturing sector.
“A ZEV mandate is therefore a form
of carbon pricing, an approach that
worked so successfully in the electricity
sector to push coal off the system.”
They also call for a “carbon border
adjustment mechanism”, which could
involve a rise to the cost of imports from
polluting countries. They say that the
government must go further to develop
the manufacturing of wind turbines
within the UK and stop purchasing
parts from abroad manufactured using
coal-fired power stations.
While both Rudd and Leadsom were
on different sides of the Brexit debate,
with the former Remain and the latter
Leave, they say in the article that they
have put aside their previous differen-
ces. “We are firmly of the view that the
UK’s post-Brexit future lies in making
the most of our unique selling points —
our brilliance in science and techno-
logy, our pre-eminence in global
finance and our global soft-power
influence,” they write.
More than half a million plug-in
vehicles are on Britain’s roads, with
electric and hybrid cars accounting for
one in eight registrations, according to
figures published by the Society of
Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Under the government’s plans the
sale of new petrol and diesel cars will be
banned from 2030 but existing models
will remain on the roads for another
two decades beyond the 2030 deadline.
The government hopes that all vehicles
will be zero-emission by 2050.
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Falmouth
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Culdrose
St Ives
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Carbis
Bay hotel
G7
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Tregenna Carbis
Bay beach
Castle
Leaders
stay here
security personnel arrive to guard the
world leaders.
Angela Merkel, the German chancel-
lor, President Macron of France,
Yoshihide Suga, the Japanese prime
minister, and President Biden will be
among the guests.
The whole of Cornwall has been told
to expect disruption over the next two
weeks due to the increased security
presence. The cost of policing the sum-
mit has been put at £70 million, al-
though the use of mutual aid officers
means that Devon and Cornwall police
will not bear the cost alone.
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Quit LGBT
scheme, say
academics
Katie Gibbons
Oxford University is being urged by its
own academics to follow other estab-
lishments and leave Stonewall’s diver-
sity scheme.
University College London and
Winchester University have decided
not to continue their £2,500-a-year
membership of the LGBT charity’s
Diversity Champions programme.
Academics want the other 100 or
more universities signed up to the
scheme to leave. Michael Biggs, a pro-
fessor of sociology at Oxford, wrote to
Louise Richardson, the university’s
vice-chancellor, warning that member-
ship could put it in breach of the law.
Citing the Education Act, which pro-
tects free speech, and the Equality Act,
Biggs said: “Submission to Stonewall is
not compatible with the university’s
obligation to uphold the law.”
Advice from Stonewall seen by The
Daily Telegraph includes the stipulation
that staff and students should never
challenge a person’s choice of lavatory.
UCL and Winchester said the deci-
sion to leave was made to save money.
Stonewall said it was confident its
advice did not breach the Equality Act.
Last night Harry Miller, a former
police officer and head of the campaign
group Fair Cop, threatened police
forces with court proceedings if they
remained in Stonewall’s scheme.
Trans parents, letters, page 26 Sand man Antony Gormley checks the alignment of a statue while overseeing replacement foundations at his installation Another Place on Crosby beach, Liverpool

Oxford and Cambridge overtake US Former Ofsted

chief steps in
universities to rank among top three at crisis school
Nicola Woolcock Education Editor sities, QS uses measures including the cent of academic journals by impact, Nicola Woolcock, Kaya Burgess
Degrees ahead impact of their research, the esteem in four times the global average.
Oxford and Cambridge have secured Latest ranking (position last year) which they are held by academics Within the top 100, Warwick Uni- The former chief inspector of Ofsted
the second and third spots in a global 1 (1) Massachusetts Institute of around the world, the quality of their versity rose to 61st, Glasgow was up to has been brought in as interim head
ranking table for the first time in a Technology (MIT), US graduates judged by their reputation 73rd, Southampton increased to 77th, teacher to manage a crisis at the
decade, after years of domination by 2 (5) University of Oxford, UK among employers and the ratio of stu- Durham was up to 86th and St country’s most prominent Jewish
American universities. 3= (2) Stanford University, US dents to academic faculty. Andrews rose to 91st. school after its previous leader quit.
Massachusetts Institute of Techno- 3= (7) University of Cambridge, UK Both Oxford and Cambridge had However, King’s College London fell Sir Michael Wilshaw, who was
Source: topuniversities.com

logy remained in first place in the
annual QS World University Rankings
for the tenth year, but Harvard fell from
third to fifth, Stanford from second to
joint third and California Institute of
Technology from fourth to sixth.
There are two Chinese institutions in
the top 20 for the first time. They sit
alongside Edinburgh, up from 20th to
16th, UCL, up from tenth to eighth, and
Imperial, up from eighth to seventh.
Oxford climbed the table from fifth
due to the quality of its research, and
this was before developing a corona-
virus vaccine with AstraZeneca. Both it
and Cambridge, which was seventh last
time, were praised for research, global
5 (3) Harvard University, US perfect scores for the esteem in which from 31st to 35th, Bristol from 58th to Ofsted chief from 2012 until 2016, will
6 (4) California Institute of they are held, their graduate quality 62nd, Birmingham from 87th to 90th, become the fourth head at JFS — the
Technology (Caltech), US and their institutional teaching capa- Leeds from 91st to 92nd and Sheffield biggest Jewish school in Europe — in
7 (8) Imperial College London, UK city. Their gains were due to improved from 93rd to 95th. In total across the full the past five years, parents were told.
8= (6) ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal research impact scores: Oxford scored rankings of 1,300 institutions, there Three pupils at the school in Kenton,
Institute of Technology), 96 out of 100 and Cambridge 92.1. were 90 British universities, of which 22 northwest London, are thought to have
Switzerland The report’s authors praised UK uni- were stable, 28 improved and 36 fell. taken their own lives in the past four
8= (10) University College London (UCL) versities’ high levels of global collabora- American higher education showed years, prompting demands from pupils
tion, which were reflected in high publi- signs of decline: 91 of its 177 ranked uni- and families for better mental health
collaboration and “near-unparalleled cation rates in the journals with the big- versities moved down the table, with support. Ofsted inspected the school
levels of teaching capacity”. gest impact around the world. They only 29 improving their position. recently and its report is understood to
Oxford has never come higher than said that about 20 per cent of the Tsinghua University, China’s leading be due within weeks.
second and was last placed there in world’s research was done as a result of university, placed 17th, followed by Pe- One pupil Mia Janin, 14, died in
2006. Cambridge, which came first in global collaboration. For the UK, this king University in 18th. Asia’s top two March. Her relatives said she had been
2010 and 2011, was joint third alongside figure was 53 per cent. universities are in Singapore: the Nat- bullied. JFS, which has more than 2,000
Stanford, its best result since 2016. Forty per cent of the UK’s research ional University in 11th and Nanyang pupils, joined other Jewish schools after
To determine the world’s best univer- papers were published in the top 10 per Technological University in 12th. her death to warn parents about the
dangers of social media.

Studying classics gives teens the Homer advantage
Nicola Woolcock
A scientist and former government
adviser has said children should study
Latin and Greek until they are 16.
Baroness Greenfield, a neuro-
scientist at Oxford University, told the
first evidence session of the Times
Education Commission that studying
classics was hugely beneficial to the
development of young brains.
It was a “very economic way of learn-
ing, because if you’re studying Cicero,
that’s doing history and literature at the
same time”, she said, adding: “Working
away through a sentence that goes on
for half a page, and trying to understand
it — again it’s very good for your pre-
frontal cortex. An 11-year-old can read
Homer’s Odyssey and it teaches you
about bigger things, like gods and god-
desses, beyond yourself. And it’s much
better than a video game.”
She took Latin and Greek A-levels
and said the subjects were fun and un-
predictable, exercising the imagination
while giving a “rewarding insight into
the world now, wrestling with the same
ideas about ‘How are we best gov-
erned?’ and ‘What do people want out
of society?’ ”.
The commission, which is sitting
over the next year and will publish a full
report next summer, also took evidence
from Tony Blair and his education min-
ister, Lord Adonis. Blair said he would
have approved the £15 billion education
recovery package proposed by Sir
Kevan Collins: “We need a huge revival
of the concept of education, education,
education. If you ask any politician
whether they think education is impor-
tant, they will always say yes, but is
there a relentless focus on it as a key
driving component of the country’s
future? I would say not at present.
“We’re going to be left with a huge
problem for a large number of children;
we’ve got to put resources behind it.”
Justine Greening, a former education
secretary, also criticised the Treasury
for opposing Collins, who has resigned
as education recovery tsar. “I don’t
think the Treasury is fit for purpose in
understanding how to invest to level up
the UK,” she said.
More than 350 people have signed a
petition started by a girl in Mia’s year
calling on JFS to “prioritise mental
health”. The pupil wrote that Mia had
been “brutally bullied for such a long
time” and alleged: “All JFS did was
bring in counsellors for a week and then
leave us to our own devices.”
Richard Boulton, chief operating of-
ficer at JFS, said: “JFS is painfully and
sadly aware of the recent history relating
to the tragic deaths of three of its
students. However, there is nothing to
suggest they are linked in any way.” He
said inquests into the first two deaths
had found no fault with the school. Any
recommendations from Mia’s inquest
would be swiftly implemented, he added.
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Barrister suspended after saying Sussexes should call baby Doprah
Jonathan Ames Legal Editor
A barrister has been suspended by her
legal practice over a tweet suggesting
that the Sussexes’ new daughter should
be called Doprah.
In a statement on Twitter and Face-
book on Monday, the Family Law Café
in London said it had suspended Joan-
na Toch “with immediate effect pend-
ing an internal review into her recent
comments on Twitter”.
Toch, who founded the business four
years ago, engaged in a brief Twitter ex-
change with Julie Burchill, the journal-
ist, after the birth of the second child of
Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Burchill, 61, announced last night
that she had been sacked from her
column in The Sunday Telegraph over
the exchange.
Initially, Toch, 59, who is said to have
more than 25 years of family law expe-
rience, responded to a tweet from the
columnist that made a joke referring to
George Floyd, who was killed by a
policeman in Minneapolis just over a
year ago. Burchill tweeted: “What a
missed opportunity. They could have
called it Georgina Floydina.” The bar-
rister responded with a reference to
Meghan Markle’s mother, saying: “No
Doria? Don’t black names matter?”
Burchill responded saying she “was
hoping for Doria Oprah” in reference to
Oprah Winfrey, the television present-
er who conducted an interview with the
couple in March.
Toch then produced a one-word re-
sponse, saying: “Doprah?”.
In its statement the Family Law Café
said it considered its founder’s com-
ments “as offensive, unacceptable and
highly contradictory to the inclusive
manner in which FLC has always and
Joanna Toch got
involved in a
Twitter exchange
with the journalist
Julie Burchill
will continue to work with members of
all the communities in managing the
challenges of matrimonial and family
disputes”. The Family Law Bar Associa-
tion also condemned Toch. It said that
it had written to the barrister and had
referred the exchanges to the Bar Stan-
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dards Board and the Bar Council. The
association said that Toch’s comments
were “completely inappropriate and
have no place in our society. Racism of
any kind cannot be tolerated and
cannot be justified as a joke.”
Toch is listed at Companies House as
one of two directors at the Family Law
Cafe. The company’s website says that
Toch founded the business because
“she has long considered the estab-
lished divorce process as outdated and
protracted and . . . expensive”.
The duke and duchess have named
their daughter Lilibet Diana.

Review
Princely
sum for
Meghan’s
W riting good
picture books
for small
children is far harder
than it looks. A fact only
audiobook reinforced after reading
The Bench (Alex
o hear the

T
Duchess of
Sussex extol
the virtues of
love and
benches be prepared: it
will cost you 5.6p per
word (David Sanderson
writes).
Her 186-word
children’s book appears
— if judged by length
versus price — to have
become the priciest
audiobook sold by
Amazon. The 107-second
version of The Bench,
narrated by the duchess,
was on sale yesterday for
£10.49.
In comparison the
12-hour audiobook of
Richard Osman’s
bestselling novel The
Thursday Murder Club,
read by Osman, his
fellow author Marian
Keyes and the actress
Lesley Manville, is
£17.49.
Audible, the
audiobook arm of
Amazon, said that
Penguin Random
House, the publisher of
The Bench, was
responsible for setting
the price.
Christian Robinson,
The Bench, by the Duchess
of Sussex, features
pictures presumed to be
her husband and children
who has illustrated the
physical version — on
sale yesterday for £12.99
— said in an interview
that he and the duchess
had been “totally
vibing” with each other
during their first Zoom
meeting to discuss the
collaboration.
“It was really surreal
and exciting and we
were totally vibing on
that first Zoom,” the
American illustrator
told NBC yesterday.
“The origin is in a
specific bench that
Meghan watched Harry
and Archie bond on but
it was important for us
both that this story
connects with as many
people as possible.”
Although the duchess
had embraced many of
Robinson’s ideas for
illustrations, she was
O’Connell writes).
The story, so lacking in
action and jeopardy you
half wonder if the writing
job was delegated to a
piece of furniture, charts
the father and son
relationship. At the
centre is the bench, with
the daddies and boys
changing from page to
page, allowing for a
diverse cast: a Sikh dad
and his son play football,
a father and son with
plaited hair watch the
stars.
It has beautiful
illustrations by Christian
Robinson (they really got
the best) but lacks the
crucial ingredients for a
successful tale for this
age group: a good story
and basic rhythm.
Inevitably, spotting
references to real people
becomes the main point
stricter on certain of interest for adults.
elements, he added. “I From the ginger-haired,
did a little drawing of bearded father cradling a
a soldier in a son on the opening
uniform and she spread to a pop in army
said, ‘Let’s make fatigues throwing his son
sure we put the into the air, this is
patches where they unavoidably personal.
are supposed to be.’ The Bench, 1-7 years,
Really capturing that by the Duchess of
stuff authentically.” Sussex, Puffin, £12.99

Hotel tycoon washes dishes

Searching for workers
Lorry drivers Britain’s haulage and
logistics industry faces acute
migration. Crerar Hotels, a Scottish
hotels group, this week laid out plans to
spend £1 million to attract and retain
staff. The group, which is looking for 35
new employees across its six hotels, is

as he just can’t get the staff shortages after an exodus of

European lorry drivers, according to
Logistics UK, the lobbying group.
Almost a third of logistics firms
anticipate they will be unable to fill
expected to offer benefits including
driving lessons, paid leave on the day
that employees’ children start primary
school, a compulsory day off for birth-
days and pet bereavement leave, in an
Arthi Nachiappan £8.5 million in 2018, said bookings had at the hotel. “It’s not that we cannot run vacancies for HGV drivers this year. attempt to “set it apart from others in
been made until November but that a full service, it means the staff were Healthcare Staff shortages in health the industry”.
A millionaire hotelier is getting his many staff who were furloughed during working very long hours,” he said. “So I and social care left the NHS Kate Nicholls, the chief executive of
hands dirty washing dishes because of the pandemic had since found jobs drove down to do that job that no one vulnerable to the Covid pandemic, UK Hospitality, said: “With structured
staff shortages brought on by the elsewhere. wanted to do. I’m not fit enough, my the Health Foundation has said. training you can get from entry level to
pandemic. He is not alone: hotels and pubs back is murder.” More than 22,000 European Union restaurant management within about
Giles Fuchs, 56, stepped into the across the country have offered Jamie Rogers, head chef at Twenty nationals have left the NHS since the 18 months. If you’ve got the aptitude,
kitchen of the Burgh Island joining bo
bonuses of up to £1,000 Seven restaurant in Kingsbridge, EU referendum in 2016. there are jobs at management levels for
Hotel in Devon after fur- resp
in response to the short- Devon, still has two vacancies for a chef £59,000 to £60,000 for many of these
Nightclubs Clubs and bars could
bs
loughed staff found jobs ages
ages. UK Hospitality, the and a manager despite offering a £1,000 people.”
struggle to reopen after security
elsewhere. tra
trade organisation, said starting bonus three weeks ago. “You A spokesman for the government
staff left their jobs during lockdown.
Burgh Island is th
that there was a short- have got to love this work. The hours said that it was working with UK Hospi-
Industry leaders believe that more
known as the setting ag
age of 188,000 staff, are long and you are on your feet all tality “to better promote jobs” in the
than half of the vacancies in the
for screen adaptions re
representing a vacan- day,” he said. industry through job centres.
sector may be left unfilled, the UK
of crime novels by cy rate of 9 per cent. Le Gavroche, the two Michelin- The spokesman added that the
Door Security Association said.
Agatha Christie, in- Fuchs has spent two starred restaurant in central London, government was supporting workers
cluding And Then we
weekends helping out has temporarily stopped serving lunch. Agriculture About 75,000 picking through the Kickstart scheme, which
There Were None and d Managers at the venue said that they and packing roles are available in provides funding to employers to create
Evil Under the Sun. n. G iles Fuchs said many
Giles had struggled to find qualified mem- the horticulture sector, according to jobs for 16 to 24-year-olds on universal
Fuchs, a co-owner of the staff h
had found other bers of staff, in part because of the farming unions. credit, as well as “expanded apprentice-
hotel, which was boughtght for jobs afte
after being furloughed effects of post-Brexit restrictions on ship and traineeship offers”.
the times | Wednesday June 9 2021
Britain zooms to top of Europe’s web addicts league
Tom Knowles
Technology Correspondent
As a sign of cultural difference between
Britain and Europe, it does little to stir
the emotions. But news that the British
spend more than an hour longer online
each day than the French or Germans
may be as telling as any.
Ofcom says that adults in the UK
have been spending longer online than
any other large European country, al-
though not as long as Americans and
Canadians.
Last year British adults spent an aver-
age of 3 hours, 37 minutes a day on
smartphones, tablets and computers,
up nine minutes from 2019. The figure
did not include time watching streamed
online services such as Netflix and BBC
iPlayer on TV sets, where adults spent
an average 1 hour and 21 minutes a day
last year, up 24 minutes from 2019.
This was considerably longer than
the Germans, who spent 2 hours 6 min-
utes online, or the French who spent an
average 2 hours 20 minutes. The
Spanish spent an average 3 hours and
6 minutes online. Americans, however,
TMS
diary@thetimes.co.uk | @timesdiary
Wrong cider
the argument
As we near the fifth anniversary of
the EU referendum, The House
magazine looks back at how it
spoilt that year’s Glastonbury
festival for left-wing politicians. “I
missed Adele,” sighs Lucy Powell,
then shadow education secretary,
who decided on the morning after
that she ought to return to work.
Tom Watson, Labour’s deputy
leader, was less fussed and headed
for the beer tent and then the
silent disco before being ordered
back to London via a £200 taxi.
He spent the journey assailed by
furious phone calls from Len
McCluskey, the Unite general
secretary. Eventually, his headache
pounding, Watson had to plead for
mercy. “Len,” he begged. “Can you
shout at me a little quieter?” It
may not have helped with the
comrades that Watson had been
photographed in a muddy field
drinking a can of Thatcher’s Gold.
declaration inflation
One side-effect of the Boundary
Commission review and its desire
to create seats of equal population
is that Hansard will need more
pages as seat names get longer.
The analyst Philip Cowley says
that in 1955 almost half of
constituencies were one word.
Now it will be less than a third and
the average seat name will increase
to 15.7 characters. Forty years ago
there were seats called Ayr, Eye
and Rye. Now the only one of
even four letters will be Bath
and some will be an ugly
hotchpotch like Inverness,
Nairn, Badenoch and
Strathspey, which sounds
less like a constituency
and more like the
Scotland rugby team’s
three-quarter line.
The prime
minister’s Uxbridge
constituency is largely
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spent an hour more, at 4 hours 38 min- and the video-calling service Zoom en- sharing platform YouTube topping the
utes each day, while Canadians had an Life on screen joyed some of the biggest success in the list. About half of UK adults — 49 per
average time of 3 hours 46 minutes UK. TikTok had “huge” growth during cent or about 26 million — also visited
online. Time spent online per day in UK the pandemic, Ofcom found, from an adult website or app in September
An Ofcom spokesman said that the 2020...............................................3hr 37min 3.5 million adult visitors in September last year, Ofcom said.
figures also accounted for those in 2019...............................................3hr 28min 2019 to 14 million by March this year. The largest, Pornhub, was visited by
occupations such as nursing, teaching 2018................................................3hr 10min Zoom also had “extraordinary about a third of online adults (15 mil-
or construction where there was rela- 2017...............................................2hr 57 min growth”, from a few hundred thousand lion) in September last year, represent-
tively little time in the day to be online. users in the first two months of 2020 to ing half of all UK-based men online and
A large portion of time Britons spent Time spent online in rest of world more than 13 million in April and May, 16 per cent of women.
online last year was controlled by two US....................................................4hr 38min although this has since slipped to The figures also showed that 89 per
companies: Facebook and Google. A Canada.........................................3hr 46min 10.4 million users. cent of all adults who were online in
website or app owned by one of them UK....................................................3hr 37min Because many shops were closed Britain visited websites owned by News
amounted for 39 per cent of all time Spain................................................3hr 6min people spent nearly £2.45 billion on and UK — The Times and The Sun — at
spent online. France..........................................2hr 20min in mobile apps last year, with the dating least once over the past year, more than
In addition nine of the ten most-used Germany........................................2hr 6min app Tinder, the TV streaming services the BBC, at 82 per cent, and Sky, at
apps were owned by either Google or Disney+ and Netflix, and the video 81 per cent.
Facebook, with Amazon taking the
remaining spot.
YouTube, owned by Google, was the
most popular app on all mobile devices
in September 2020, followed by Face-
book.
Internet use overall spiked in April
last year during the first lockdown,
when adults were spending four hours
online on average, while those aged 18
to 24 were spending over five hours
online. The video sharing app TikTok
unchanged but he does pick up the
Ickenham ward, which will burnish
his Drones Club credentials. The
Earl of Ickenham is a roguish
character in the PG Wodehouse
novels, whose mission is “to spread
sweetness and light” but is also
rather good, in a borisy sort of way,
at sponging money off people.
eye to the future
Satire has its limits. Richard
Simmonds, a former Tory MEP
who has perhaps now given up on
a peerage, attempted to pay for the
following advert in Private Eye.
“Vacancy for Mistress,” it said.
“Unexpected, due to earlier-than-
anticipated marriage. Central
London (short-term tenancy flat).”
It was followed by the number for
the Downing Street switchboard.
The advert was rejected for some
reason. Perhaps Ian Hislop, the
Eye editor, expects the vacancy
will be filled by the next edition.
A final (?) entry for our series on
the different ages of man was left as
an online comment yesterday by
Martin738 who said that the human
experience can be divided three
ways, sexually speaking: “Tri-
weekly, try weekly and try weakly.”
jumpin’ quick flush
Dipping again into Berkmann’s Pop
Miscellany, my book of the week,
I’m reminded of Bill Wyman’s
complicated family tree. The
Rolling Stones bassist married the
18-year-old Mandy Smith when he
was 52. His son then married
Smith’s mother, making Wyman’s
mother-in-law his daughter-in-
law. The book also records that in
1982 the Stones were preparing
for a concert when there was a
knock on their dressing-room
door. “The police are here,”
their manager shouted.
Keith Richards, left,
quickly flushed all his
drugs down the lavatory
just as the door opened and
in walked Sting and Stewart
Copeland.
patrick kidd
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News

Soldiers face sack after positive cocaine tests

Larisa Brown Defence Editor
Six soldiers from an army regiment that
accidentally set fire to 12,000 acres of
Kenyan bush could be dismissed from
the service after testing positive for
cocaine.
Hundreds of soldiers were tested at
their barracks in Lancashire weeks
after they returned from east Africa in
April amid suspicion that some had
been taking drugs.
Six soldiers from C Company and D
company, 2nd Battalion, the Mercian
Regiment (2 Mercs) tested positive for
the class A drug at the end of last
month, sources said. Results from
another two soldiers came back “sub-
positive”, which meant that traces of
drugs were found but they did not auto-
matically fail the compulsory test.
C Company has been nicknamed
“cocaine company” by soldiers in light
of the findings, which were mocked on
private WhatsApp groups with accom-
panying memes.
An army source said that the soldiers
had not been on leave at the time of the
drugs tests, raising questions as to
whether they were taking cocaine
while on duty. “This was not the result
of an ‘on leave’ bender; the unit initiated
the process,” the source said.
An internal investigation is continu-
ing and the soldiers may be thrown out
of the regiment.
The 2nd Battalion is being axed as
part of a restructuring of the army out-
lined in the defence command paper in
March and its soldiers will have to join
other battalions.
The battalion was on exercise in
Kenya in March when a fire was said to
have started as troops cooked a meal on
a camping stove.
It set light to dry grass, setting off a
blaze that raged for days and destroyed
12,000 acres of land, forcing residents
to flee their homes and animals to be
moved to safety.
As a result, more than 1,000 people
living near the British military training
base are suing the army for damages,
along with a local environmental lobby
group.
The group wants the army and the
management of Lolldaiga Conservan-
cy, where the army was training, to
restore the burnt vegetation, arguing
that no measures had been taken to
prevent wildfires. Most of the troops on
the training exercise were from 2
Mercs.
Commenting on the failed drug test,
Robert Clark, a former soldier who is a
senior defence fellow at the Henry
Jackson Society think tank, said that
the army recruited from a society
“where recreational drug use does
occur” and that other disciplinary
action for those found guilty, such as
demotion, rather than being thrown
out of the army, could correct “un-
becoming behaviour” while still en-
abling years of experience not to be lost.
An army spokesman said: “A small
number of soldiers from 2 Mercian
recently failed a compulsory drugs test
called at the request of the unit.
“The army does not tolerate drug
abuse within its ranks as it is incompati-
ble with military service and operation-
al effectiveness. Army personnel
caught taking drugs can expect to be
discharged.”

CHRISTOPHER ISON/ENGLISH HERITAGE

History in art Mikela Henry-Lowe unveils her painting of Dido Belle, a Georgian
heiress who lived at Kenwood House in London. It is one of six portraits
commissioned by English Heritage that depict figures from the African diaspora

Minister backs noisy tank

that can’t fire on the move
Larisa Brown
A defence minister has admitted that
there are “serious issues” with noise
and vibration inside the army’s new
light tank but insisted that the “game-
changing” vehicle would not be axed.
Jeremy Quin, minister for defence
procurement, said that “a lot can go
wrong” in a £5.5 billion contract as he
avoided committing to a date for the
“first-class” vehicles to enter service.
The Ajax was chosen by the army in
2010. A contract with General Dynam-
ics signed four years later required the
first vehicles to be delivered in 2017 but
the project has been beset by delays.
The vehicles have cost £3.2 billion so
far despite only 14 of them — all with no
turret and of odd sizes — being deliv-
ered. A leaked government report cir-
culated last week said that the crew
carrying out trials could spend only 90
minutes in the tank because of the loud
noise and could not go faster than
20mph.
In the Commons, Quin said he was
“very concerned” by reports of noise
issues and “all personnel who may have
been exposed to excessive noise have
been tested and training was paused. It
now continues with mitigations in
place as we pursue resolution.”
Soldiers were testing headsets that
may be able to reduce the noise to an
acceptable level. Design flaws mean
that excessive vibration has prevented
cannon being fired while the tank is on
the move. Quin said the government
had commissioned independent trials
from world-class specialists that should
end next month.
The government was “absolutely
committed” to Ajax, which was going to
be a “real game-changer on the battle-
field”, he said. “It’s been a long time
coming but we are on the cusp of get-
ting it right.”
John Healey, the shadow defence
secretary, said: “£3.5 billion paid out,
four years late and just 14 vehicles deliv-
ered, light tanks that can't fire while
moving and vehicle crews made so sick
that the testing has been paused. Minis-
ters are failing British forces and failing
British taxpayers.”
Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the de-
fence select committee, said he had
argued for an increase of 3 per cent in
the defence budget, adding: “But it does
make the job harder of convincing the
Treasury, parliament and indeed the
taxpayer when we see so many errors,
delays, cost overruns and redesigns.”
At 43 tonnes the vehicle was too
heavy to fit in RAF aircraft without
being dismantled, Elwood added.
The Labour MP Matt Western
added: “The idea that we have a vehicle
that can go almost as fast as a bicycle
but can’t actually fire its weapon on the
move, but also posing such a risk to our
troops, is very worrying.”
Tremulous tanks, letters, page 26
the times | Wednesday June 9 2021
Melting pot
spots inspire
elegant vision
Architecture
Jonathan Morrison
Serpentine Pavilion
Kensington Gardens, W2
HHHHI
Some things move seamlessly
between the sunlit veld of South
Africa and the damp streets of
London — wine, diamonds and
Kolpak cricketers spring to mind. But
“history”? Well, why not?
It may seem presumptuous for a
trio of Johannesburg-based architects
to offer us a lesson in the recent
history of London, but then the
themes of transience and migration
are so universal, and the radical
agenda so delicately wrapped within
an engaging form, that somehow the
serene setting of Kensington Gardens
feels entirely appropriate. And what
Sumayya Vally, Sarah de Villiers and
Amina Kaskar — all born in 1990 and
collectively known as Counterspace
— have done with the 2021
Serpentine Pavilion is rather clever.
Initiated by the Anglo-Iraqi
architecture superstar Zaha Hadid in
2000, the (almost) annual commission
Danes’ £46m bill over accused Briton
David Brown
The Danish tax authority has been or-
dered to pay a £46 million legal bill re-
lating to a failed attempt to sue a British
tycoon accused of a £1.5 billion fraud.
Sanjay Shah, 51, insists that he is the
victim of politically motivated allega-
tions by the Danish government that
his London-based trading firm fraudu-
lently claimed tax rebates in a scheme
called “Cum-Ex”.
Shah is a virtual prisoner in his Dubai
mansion after the Danish authorities
obtained a worldwide freezing order
against more than £500 million of his
assets, including homes in London and
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Sumayya Vally, the lead architect, at the pavilion which was designed by the Johannesburg-based practice Counterspace
has often proved thought-provoking,
conjuring spectacular whimsies on to
the lawn beside the Serpentine
Gallery. Pop-up structures have been
used to delight, amaze, amuse, and as
a sort of international calling card for
up-and-coming architects. But using
the temporary pavilion to express an
€250 million of cash in German bank
accounts.
His company, Solo Capital Partners
LLP, used an obscure tax loophole that
allowed trading in shares with dividend
payments “cum-ex”, the Latin term for
“with-without”. The trades exploited
an interpretation of Danish tax laws
which appeared to allow numerous
claims of ownership for the same stock
and the right to a refund of taxes with-
held from dividends. This allowed more
than one investor to claim a refund on
a tax that had been paid only once.
The Danish tax agency claims there
is no evidence that real shares were in-
volved in the divided refunds claimed
inherent, soul-deep ephemerality
seems the most apt application yet.
Probably the largest work in the series
to date, and resembling an art deco
riff on a Doric temple, the
Counterspace pavilion does this by
drawing on shapes found among
migrant communities in places such
by Solo Capital and its clients. Shah in-
sists the trades were legitimate.
The Danish Customs and Tax
Authority case against 100 defendants
including Shah was dismissed by Mr
Justice Andrew Baker at the High
Court in London in April. He found that
the authority was not entitled to en-
force its own tax laws in an English
court and ordered the Danish author-
ities to foot all defendants’ legal bills.
He said that the case was “aggressive-
ly pursued, by a sovereign state with a
willingness to expend effectively un-
limited resources” and was “politically
as well as financially motivated”.
The judge described the litigation as
VICTORIA JONES/PA
as Brixton, Hackney, Whitechapel,
Peckham and Ealing. A scalloped
column might reflect the arch of a
mosque in east London, a dais a black
bookshop in Dalston. It references hair
salons, grocery stores, porch steps. But
it is a subtle, elegant agglomeration.
For the first time the pavilion will be
Sanjay Shah has
had more than
£500 million of
global assets
frozen
“the subject of ill-judged public state-
ments by senior Danish politicians ap-
pearing to pre-judge the factual issues
that would have fallen to be determined
by the court”.
Documents obtained by the Danish
media show the tax authority has been
ordered to pay by this week £46 million
of the £72 million owed to lawyers, in-
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1,000ft
Kensington
Hyde
Marble
Arch
Park
Gardens
Serpentine
Gallery
The
Serpentine
Kensington
Palace
Serpentine
Pavilion
added to throughout its brief summer
life. Four elements, installations in
their own right, will be attached: the
fragments are in Finsbury Park,
Notting Hill, Deptford and Barking,
accumulating unique lives of their own.
Is it in danger of becoming a temple
of woke? I don’t think so — it seems
too elegant, too accomplished for that.
Yes, it may be built of black cork and
white concrete, but it blurs its own
colours: it’s an easy melting pot, a
broad church, perhaps reflecting the
perspective that growing up in the
rainbow nation confers. It’s enveloping,
not didactic. It seems to say you can
enjoy it for what it is, and take what
lessons you want. Certainly that’s the
hope of Vally, the lead on the project,
who grew up in a Muslim household
in Durban. “I hope that everyone can
feel welcome,” she says. “We were
trying to create an architecture of
generosity, to create different scales
of intimacy, where people can gather
and meet. It’s about spaces that hold
culture and trades, where boundaries
are lost in diversity, and where
communities are fostered.”
It’s a utopian vision, but after the
past year, isn’t it nice to have such a
special place to dream?
From Friday to Oct 17.
serpentinegalleries.org
cluding more than £8 million to Shah’s
legal team. Nigel Jones QC will receive
£2.24 million, Lisa Freeman £2.29 mil-
lion and Laurence Page £2.11 million.
Shah says he is a “scapegoat” for a
failure of Denmark to close a loophole
that he legitimately exploited. The
Danes are also pursuing him in Dubai,
and in January filed criminal charges
against him in Copenhagen.
A representative of Shah said that he
was “totally innocent of all charges”,
adding: “We remain appalled at the in-
justice of an innocent man having all of
his assets frozen, which means he has
not been able to conduct his business
for five years.”
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Helping llamas is
misguided animal welfare
Alice Thomson
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There’s nothing woolly minded about centrism
Voters who flit between right and left are hard to pin down but they’re often the ones who regard the PM as authentic
James
Kanagasooriam
L
ike many, I have friends who
love to describe themselves
as “true centrists”. By that,
they mean they are
undecided on many of the
key issues of the day despite mostly
being “Centrist Dads” who lean to
the Liberal Democrats.
Politicians are obsessed with the
centre ground, occupied, they
believe, by average voters in swing
seats. Actually, Centrist Dad barely
exists. The average, or median, voter
in England is anything but middle of
the road. They tend to hold what
most pundits think are conflicting
left and right views, unlike my
hesitant friends.
When I think about the archetypal
swing voter, it’s someone who wants
to revoke the citizenship of the Isis
recruit Shamima Begum (which 78
per cent of the public did), but is also
deeply concerned by climate change
(a top three issue for the British
public). On a pollster’s spreadsheet
those two views don’t chime. But for
many voters they do.
Social scientists often refer to these
voters, who are a heady cocktail of
left and right, as being “cross
pressured”. Their left-wing views on
the economy, for example, may
prevail over their social
conservatism. Or their bank balance
may determine their vote more than
their views on the culture war. They
may think prison sentences are too
lenient but empathise with the plight
of the incarcerated. Where does that
leave their vote? Not only are these
voters complicated but they very
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often don’t have that much in
common with each other.
It’s why I think experts place too
much emphasis on intellectual
consistency and not enough on
authenticity or “political cakeism” —
having your cake and eating it: a
political identity with no regard for
prior political frameworks.
The main difference between a
normal person and someone
obsessed with politics (studies
suggest 30 per cent of people pay no
attention to it) is that normal people
don’t hold cascading views, where
one view perfectly predicts another
30, like some kind of reverse
manifesto. That’s why heterodox
politicians can often communicate
more successfully. Their perceived
inconsistency is a mirror for the
many with similarly discordant views.
The median voter is tuned out
from everyday politics. They are
complex and hold a constellation of
views. Yes, there are patterns visible
Many swing voters are
unbothered by what is
considered left or right
from polling which suggest some
relationship between views on
climate change, crime, tax, Brexit and
the NHS. But those who hold purely
left or right views in a “straight
ticket” manner is vanishingly small.
Most voters don’t give a fig for the
political divides constructed and
discussed by pundits.
Popular leaders understand this.
Nothing demonstrates this better
than the current crop of G7 leaders
gathering in Cornwall this week.
Biden, Macron and our own PM are
all expert purveyors of political
cakeism who infuriate opponents.
Unconcerned with the old ways of
doing things, their remoulding of the
political landscape chimes with
swing voters who are similarly
unbothered by what is considered
left or right.
Macron campaigned as a liberal
but wades deep into nationalistic
territory on French identity. Biden is
the progressive who resists the
defund the police brigade and tells
America to buy American. Johnson’s
green agenda and embrace of a
muscular state is similarly hard to
place in the Tory canon but is
reaping electoral dividends.
Such leaders defy easy definition.
A loose thread of patriotism,
multilateralism, climate concern and
economic interventionism binds
them. This unusual mix has been
assailed as ideologically inconsistent
by the old left and right, but in
many ways they reflect the minds
and lives of the voters they are
courting.
This “hard to pin down” politics is
imbibed as authentic and
transformative by voters, particularly
swing ones. The trio’s approval
ratings range from good in the case
of Macron, to strong for Biden and
Johnson. Some of this is down to
incumbency and Covid leadership
but there are more structural lessons
to learn here.
This complex “cross-pressured”
median voter is what’s behind the
rise in popularity of certain mayors
in England. Teesside’s Ben Houchen,
West Midlands’ Andy Street and
Greater Manchester’s Andy
Burnham are in many ways post-
ideological and don’t fit any
particular mould. Authenticity and
cakeism appear to be the order of the
day here, too. Who could have
predicted that the Tories would
triumph in Brexit-backing Teesside
with a campaign for renewable and
tech jobs coupled with full-scale
Comment
Like Emmanuel Macron, Boris Johnson
does not fit into a neat ideological box
nationalisation of the local airport?
How else to explain the surge of
green votes in other Brexit-leaning
northern areas and leafy Tunbridge
Wells?
These kinds of voter trends are
only possible in a world where the
median voter is not simply politically
hesitant and “centrist”. Caricatures of
southern and red wall voters abound
and can be useful, but the creation of
political labels can rob voters of their
agency because more and more
people are categorised with less and
less information. These binaries also
wrongly imply that the political
middle is a place where caution and
watery compromise will win the day.
There are a great number of swing
voters out there, but what moves
them from election to election may
change. Issue by issue, they can
prove frustratingly hard to pin down.
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There were almost no pundits who
called all of the 2015, 2017 and 2019
general elections correctly. Many
were misled by their over-
concentration on the ideological
coherence of what was on offer.
When it comes to elections the
best rule of thumb we have for
working out what’s really happening
is to look at approval ratings of
individual leaders across time. The
relationship between leader ratings
It is bold strokes and
wide, overarching
visions that cut through
and election outcome has remained
predictive of the election winner
since 1979.
So the question to ask is what
drives how we perceive our leaders?
Is it their ideological coherence? The
neatness of their minds and
manifestos?
Hardly. As the G7 leaders
converge, we see leadership is more
successfully communicated in bold
strokes, wide overarching visions and
narratives that cut through to
median voters whose own beliefs
give them multiple reasons to vote
for multiple parties. Cakeism and
authenticity, it seems, is the order of
the day.
James Kanagasooriam is the CEO of
polling company Stack Data Strategy
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Biden looks to harness Nato’s rogue sultan
President Erdogan flouts the alliance’s norms but can still prove a useful ally against Russia
Roger
Boyes
@rogerboyes
T E
urkey’s restless sultan,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has
everybody guessing. Is he
conspiring with Russia to
split Nato? Is he America’s
indispensable Eurasian ally? He can’t
be both. Or can he?
For Joe Biden, next week’s meeting
with the Turkish president on the
fringes of the Nato summit will be a
crucial one. Biden has promised to
roll back the authoritarian tide, to
renew the moral core of US foreign
policy. An oped written by the
American president ahead of his trip
to Europe casts both the G7 and
Nato summits in that light; the
relatively short piece mentions
democratic values 14 times. Biden’s
first task, then, is how to deal with a
fellow Nato leader whose democratic
instincts atrophied long ago.
Turkey joined Nato in 1952 and
with its proximity and hostility to the
sprawling Soviet empire became a
real prize in the Cold War. Western
policy was tailored accordingly.
Turkey sent a contingent of troops to
the Korean war; in return American
aid flowed into what seemed to be a
liberalising Turkey.
Now, however, Erdogan demands a
degree of strategic autonomy
alongside Nato membership. It is
Turkey that waters down western
calls to punish the Belarusian
Matthew Parris Notebook
Unbearable
lightness of
being Boris
Johnson
I I
n this columnist’s butterfly mind,
the words “long read” have the
same heartsinking effect as “rail
replacement bus service in
operation”; but I felt I ought to
glance at the journalist Tom
McTague’s long read (in The Atlantic
magazine this week) on Boris
Johnson. So I glanced. And was
hooked. And went outside to sit in
the sun and read the whole essay.
Any future biography of the present
prime minister will surely reference
this always lively but (in the best
sense) intense study.
McTague is (in my view) a little
over-generous not in what he says
but in how swiftly he moves through
Johnson’s immense temperamental
disqualifications for office; but his
word-picture of the unbearable
lightness of being Boris is just
brilliant, inviting comparisons more
with Disraeli or Melbourne than
with Trump.
And there’s one direct quote from
president, Alexander Lukashenko,
for diverting and forcing down a
Ryanair jet, that tempers criticism of
Vladimir Putin. And it was Turkey
that took the jaw-dropping step of
negotiating the delivery of S-400 air
defence systems from Moscow.
The Trump era reaction was to
withhold the new American F-35
fighter jets from Erdogan. The think-
tank chatter was that Erdogan had
become too much of a maverick, that
his Nato membership should be
suspended. After all, Turkish officers
would have to be trained by Russian
experts in the S-400. That ran against
the whole purpose of the alliance.
And his response to a botched army
coup in 2016 saw Erdogan purging
Countries nervous
about Moscow have
bought Turkish drones
wide swathes of the Nato-friendly
officer class. Choices had to be made.
Biden will probably use the F-35
ban as a bargaining chip. His team
understands that if Turkey is to
change course, rediscover the merits
of being inside a quintessentially
western defence organisation, both
sides will have to be engaged in a
constant negotiation. Turkey has
changed since the 1950s but so has
Nato; managing the alliance will
have to be more than an appeal to
build a defensive line of democracies
against an aggressive Russia. It will
be a transactional alliance.
That has left Erdogan free to roam.
He is at loggerheads with (Nato
member) Greece in the eastern
our PM which, if original, deserves a
place in future editions of the Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations. Challenged
on whether, though cynical, he is
really a romantic at heart, Johnson
replies, “All romantics need the
mortar of cynicism to hold
themselves up.” I confess that on
reading this, the hair on the back of
my neck tingled at its brilliance.
Immense fun
used the word “immense” in the
above item about the PM: a word
rather on my mind at present. At a
cottage I’m renovating we’ve dug
up a bottle, a second and perfect
example of some Derbyshire
branding I mentioned many
years ago in this notebook. It’s a
small clear bottle with a neck
designed for a cork: very thick
glass, with the branding
rather crudely embossed —
“M Whittaker” and
“Matlock Bath and
Ashford” around a
cartoon in bas relief.
The cartoon depicts a
man sitting at a bar,
next to a creature who
appears to be a
skeleton or perhaps an
extraterrestrial. The man
has a glass on the table
beside him, while his
weird friend is holding his
glass aloft. “Hows that for
Mediterranean, he suggests that
Israel’s leaders will “only be satisfied
when sucking blood”, he launches air
raids on Iraqi Kurds, he is at odds
with the US on Syrian Kurds, he is
trying to lever himself into (Nato
member) Bulgaria’s domestic politics
by openly supporting the Turkish
minority there. The Caucasus, the
Levant, Syria, Libya (where he
successfully backed the government
against the forces of a rebel general
backed by Nato member France) —
there is scarcely an area of tension in
the former Ottoman territories
where Erdogan doesn’t have skin in
the game.
But Erdogan is biddable on Russia.
His current hyperactivity is down to
advances by the Turkish arms
industry, which has developed new
generations of bomb-laden drones.
These proved successful in Libya and,
most significantly, to Azerbaijan’s
short war against Russian-backed
Armenia. The Bayraktar drones
wiped out large chunks of Armenia’s
tank-led army. Now other countries
nervous about Russia are interested
in, or have already bought, Turkish
drones — a cheap, effective way of
slowing down Russian armour.
Poland, Kazakhstan and Latvia have
the drones on their shopping list.
So, crucially, does Ukraine.
Erdogan met his Ukrainian
counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, in
April when Kiev was rattled by the
sudden appearance of 100,000
Russian troops on its borders. For
Biden that is an interesting
development. It gives the US an
additional way of credibly defending
Ukraine without having to ship over
US weapons. And in this case at least
a drink” asks the man (the embossed
word-bubble is hard to read and
there’s no punctuation).
“Immense”, replies his friend.
Can “Ashford” refer to Ashford-in-
the-Water, a small and charming
village near Bakewell? Was there
really a bottling factory there? Why
the skeletal figure? And how odd
that “immense” should indicate
approval. My research uncovers no
clue as to when this company
existed, but unearthing two bottles in
different places suggests the drink
was popular. And maybe at the time
“immense” was fashionable slang
for approbation, like “cool” or
“awesome” today.
Outdoor bath
M
y latest mad venture is
complete. At remote
lodges in Africa the
tourist can sometimes
rinse away travel-
fatigue in a tin bath
under the stars,
unobserved. Buried for
years in our garden (a
failed attempt to contain
invasive horseradish) is
an immensely heavy
cast-iron bath, so we dug it
up, moved it, and sank it
into the ground at a discreet
spot by the coal-shed,
invisible from the house
and lane, though not from
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Erdogan won’t be a fickle ally. Since
the days of Catherine the Great,
Russia has been a competitor to
Turkey in the Black Sea.
Biden may speak up for political
prisoners when he sees Erdogan but
he has already taken the measure of
the Turkish leader as a useful player.
If the US is going to largely withdraw
from the Middle East it will need
Turkey to stabilise the region, even if
it does so in its own interests. And
the alternative to Erdogan — the
next election is 2023 — might not be
able to hold the country together in
quite the same way.
Erdogan’s military adventurism is
partly diversionary, to deflect
attention from a collapsing currency
and multiple discontents. But the
Realpolitiker in Biden, rather than
the human rights evangelist, is
almost certainly nervous that
political instability in Turkey could
turn into a cascadingly chaotic
version of Lebanon. And suck in the
US willy-nilly.
Better then to accept the status
quo, even if Erdogan’s ambitions to
be a regional hegemon end up
unsettling Nato. After all, even
Angela Merkel swallowed the toad
and sealed a halfway successful deal
with Erdogan to hold up Syrian
migrants from overwhelming the
European Union.
The US, Britain and Turkey are
the big defence spenders in Nato.
Lose Turkey and you don’t just open
up a dangerous front in the Middle
East, you lose the cash. The Nato
summit confronts Britain as well as
Biden with a sadly familiar dilemma:
we know Erdogan is a rogue, but can
we turn him into our rogue?
passing helicopters or the llamas’
field. Beneath the soil I’ve laid pipes
for hot and cold water, and a drain
down into the yew and holly. There’s
a rock to put a soap bar on, plus
Badedas because a layer of bubbles
keeps the water warm. Honestly it’s
bliss! Already I’ve watched the sun
set; and, looking up into the beech
above, listened to the thrushes’
evening chorus. Bathing in the rain is
also . . . immense. So if you’re driving
through the Peak District and notice
four llamas exhibiting signs of shock,
you’ll know why.
Delivery unit
A
s I’ve been writing this, and
around midday, the delivery
man arrived (on time) with
some steel brushes we need. I knew
he was coming because with this
company you can access a timeline
indicating when the van set out, how
many calls it has made so far and
how many more until it reaches you.
From this we know the driver set out
at 0630 and that this was his 75th —
yes, 75th — drop-off of the day. Such
information helps answer a question
posed in this notebook months ago:
is online shopping “greener” than
driving to the shops?
“You seem to have got rather stuck
on your 71st call,” I remarked
amiably. “Lunch,” he said bleakly in
an eastern European accent. “I must
eat.” What a job. Immense, not.
Wednesday June 9 2021 | the times
Graft not grievances
is secret of ethnic
minority success
Nirpal Dhaliwal
arlier this year, the 32-year-
old blockchain entrepreneur
Vignesh Sundaresan paid
$69 million for Beeple’s
Everydays: The First 5000
Days, making it the world’s most
expensive work of digital art.
Raised in smalltown India and
claiming a net worth of at least $600
million, Sundaresan has faced plenty
of obstacles in his career, particularly
when seeking funds from western
institutions. “It’s historic . . . we
cannot change that,” he said in a
recent interview. “We just have to
figure out ways to bypass that.”
He didn’t wait for statues to be
toppled, nor for white people to
“check their privilege”, before making
a success of himself. And because of
his story, venture capitalists now
listen closely to heavily accented
pitches from big-dreaming youngsters
from the developing world.
Sundaresan reminds me very
much of the first-generation
immigrants I grew up with in the
1970s and 1980s. Confronted with
language barriers and racism — the
unionised floors of most factories
were as unwelcoming then as any
golf club — they circumvented such
problems by staking their own space,
building businesses and acquiring
skills the wider public would pay for,
even if begrudgingly.
“Without them having to anoint
me as a rich person,” said Sundaresan
of western financiers, “I’ve become
rich.” And like him, that generation
neither sought nor expected the
acceptance of white people, having
the dignity and self-belief not to care
what others thought of them.
They look like titans beside the
woke midgets of today who, despite
being wholly Anglicised and wielding
university degrees, are crippled by
perceived “micro-aggressions” into
permanent abject whining. Any
misspelt garbage tweeted by the
most illiterate yokel sends them into
a spiral of victimhood.
The term “coconuts” is used
dismissively of conservative Indians,
implying that they’re brown on the
outside but white inside. I call this
new breed of whingers “wokonuts”.
Pleading for acceptance is both
useless and undignified, yet ethnic
minority lefties do it all the time. But
while they bemoan white privilege,
others are smart enough to profit
from the laziness and mediocrity
that systemic advantage breeds in
white people themselves.
It’s no surprise that ethnic kids
increasingly outperform white ones
at school and that the elite spheres of
British life — from its pop stars and
Olympic teams to academia and big
business — grow darker-skinned by
the day. To the generation I grew up
with, the whining of the wokonuts
looks very much like the privilege and
sense of entitlement they so deeply
resent white people for having.
Nirpal Dhaliwal is a journalist and writer
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Helping llamas is misguided animal welfare
Downing Street is feeding the public’s appetite for pets but real concern for fellow creatures starts on the plate
Alice
Thomson
@alicettimes
M
onkey sales and puppy
dogs’ tails could soon be
subjected to a legal
clampdown under the
terms of a bill which
came before the House of Commons
yesterday. The Animal Welfare (Kept
Animals) Bill promises greater
protection for an exotic mix of fauna.
There is to be a clampdown on
ferret smuggling. Pet monkeys will
be banned. Ostriches and llamas will
enjoy new rights not to be hassled in
their fields. No one will be allowed to
import dogs with clipped ears or
docked tails. And puppies will have
to be six months old to enter the
country.
This use of legislative time won’t
affect many animals. The footballer
Marcus Rashford, in a rare false
move, once posed with a dog which
looked as though it had cosmetically
clipped ears but there are thought to
be fewer than 2,000 in the country,
mainly celebrity pooches. There are
an estimated 5,000 pet monkeys.
The deer in Richmond Park have
recently been chased by Pebble, a
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Tory MP’s dog, but I can’t find any
reports of ostriches worried to death
by an out-of-control animal.
But the bill is incredibly popular.
In fact, animal welfare legislation is
so revered by both this government
and the public that this is the second
such bill going through the
Commons this summer. It follows
the Animal Sentience Bill,
introduced last month. Later in the
year there will be new measures on
dognapping, microchipping of cats
and crime against wildlife.
It’s easy to say these are all just a
wedding present for Carrie Johnson
who cares passionately about her
own dog Dilyn, as well as animal
welfare, but Britain has fallen even
more in love with its pets during the
As one aide said, ‘Who
would fight for the
right to cut puppy ears’
pandemic. Dog ownership has gone
up 20 per cent during lockdowns.
Overall, we bought 3.2 million extra
pets. My family has joined in. We
have a new puppy.
The government may have ditched
measures to tackle social care, help
the needy abroad and give school
children £15 billion to catch up with
their studies. But dogs, cats and
goldfish have been the winners.
Owners spend £6.9 billion a year on
them in food, treats and vets’ bills,
according to the Office for National
Statistics. That is more than half as
much as the government will spend
on foreign aid.
At the same time, in the
countryside rewilding has seen the
return of turtle doves, nightingales
and beavers, while rich Tory
supporters are encouraging more
wild breeds on to their estates.
No 10 focus groups show near
universal approval for these animal
welfare measures. No one wants to
be Cruella de Vil. As one aide said:
“It’s controversy free. Who would
fight for the right to cut puppy ears?”
A new book out this month,
Sentient, by Jackie Higgins, shows we
are right to treat all other species
with more respect. Animals are far
more complex and intertwined with
humans than we realised.
Every creature in our evolutionary
family tree can help us to understand
how we sense and make sense of the
world. The great grey owl reveals how
we hear the space about us. The nose
of the star-nosed mole, one of the
most touch-sensitive organs known,
is similar to human skin. Catfish taste
with their entire body, with taste buds
like ours. Octopuses and otters both
show intelligent behaviour.
But the British have a bizarrely
illogical attitude to ranking animals.
As I watch our puppy playing in the
long grass in Devon, I couldn’t
imagine her being killed, yet I
happily look at the lambs frolicking
on the other side of the fence,
knowing their lives will soon be
curtailed.
Our tortoise is treated like a family
member, hand-fed strawberries, yet
the milking cows in the field next
door must waddle inside each night
to be squeezed dry. Our chickens,
hatched in the kitchen, roam around
the garden and house, but obviously
Britain is encouraging
meat imports from the
other side of the world
can’t be in the room when we eat a
roast one.
The most obvious way to improve
the largest number of animals’ lives
is to consume less meat, and with the
money saved, ensure that what we
do eat is locally produced to high
welfare standards on our 140,000
farms. Yet Britain is doing the
opposite. The government is actively
encouraging imports of meat from
vast establishments on the other side
of the world, often with lower
standards of animal welfare. The
tariff-free new trade deal that is
about to be agreed with Australia
post-Brexit will allow the
Antipodeans to export more of their
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beef and lamb and could be followed
by a similar one with the US and
Brazil.
The UK, which has among the
highest welfare and environmental
rules in the world, could ban
hormone-treated or chlorinated
chicken products from abroad but it
won’t be able to outlaw the intensive
farming practised on vast agri-farms
with the use of insecticides and
growth promoters. Minette Batters,
the National Farmers’ Union
president, has begged Downing
Street to raise the issue of global
farming standards at the G7 this
week in Cornwall but it hasn’t made
it on to the agenda.
If we really care about animals and
the environment we need to
reinforce the trend that occurred
naturally during lockdowns of eating
more locally sourced produce, as well
as eating less of it. We should make
sure that rewilding the countryside is
not the preserve of the rich, and that
there is help for small-scale farmers,
like the Cumbrian shepherd James
Rebanks, to keep their sheep, cattle
and chickens in sustainable, free-
range, humane conditions.
Otherwise the big winners will be
rich donors with expensive
consultants reintroducing lynx and
wolves on large estates and
importing fillet steaks for their
London clubs from thousands of
miles away.
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Letters to the Editor
Wellbeing crusade
Sir, Further to your report “NHS and
social care worker burnout reaches
emergency levels, say MPs” (Jun 8),
this week’s health and social care
committee report rightly highlights the
toll the pandemic has taken on health
and care staff. The safe, effective,
efficient and compassionate care we all
expect health and care services to
provide is possible only if staff are
physically and emotionally healthy.
Yet health and care organisations
continue to lag behind other sectors
on staff wellbeing. This must change.
We are organisations focused on
supporting staff across health and
social care who have come together to
call for the physical and emotional
wellbeing of staff to be made a priority
for the NHS and social care. Achieving
this will require a systemic approach to
identifying and addressing the causes
of poor staff wellbeing instead of
simply treating burnout as a symptom
of personal stress. Health and care
staff deserve the civility, respect,
kindness, compassion and support that
they endeavour to offer their patients.
Hannah Abbott, College of
Operating Department Practitioners;
Professor Claire Anderson, Royal
Pharmaceutical Society; Steve Ford,
Royal College of Occupational
Therapists; Katherine Henderson,
Royal College of Emergency
Medicine; Adrian James, Royal
College of Psychiatrists; Stephen
Jones, Royal College of Nursing;
Janet Monkman, Academy for
Healthcare Science; Richard Murray,
King’s Fund; Dr Chaand Nagpaul,
BMA; Daryl O’Connor, British
Psychological Society; Dr Minesh
Patel, National Association of
Primary Care; Jonathan Stewart,
Health Estates and Facilities
Management; Victoria Tzortziou
Brown, Royal College of GPs; Martin
Woodrow, British Dental Association
Faith in revenue
Sir, Robert Crampton (Comment, Jun
5; letter, Jun 7) urges the Church of
England to solve its Covid-induced
financial problems by selling
productive assets and using the
proceeds as income. The earliest
community of Jewish Christians in
Jerusalem employed this unwise
short-term financial strategy because
they believed in the imminent end of
the world. One wonders if Crampton
knows something we don’t.
The Rev David Head
Kettlestone, Norfolk
Corrections and
clarifications
6An Irish subsidiary of Microsoft did
not make a profit of $315 billion in
2020, as we mistakenly suggested
(leading article, Jun 8). The increase
in its balance sheet was due to an
inter-company reorganisation.
We are
committed to
abiding by the
Independent
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regulations and the Editors’ Code of
Practice that IPSO enforces. Requests
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Seeing red over amber travel destinations
Sir, Yesterday we flew to Malaga and
hence to our rural finca in the hills. It
has no mains drainage, is on a dirt
road and we get water every few
weeks into our tank. We have waited
15 months to do essential
maintenance but this is not allowed
under the present guidance as we do
not rent it out: we let friends and
family who need a break use it free.
And yes, we have experienced
suffering during the pandemic: we
were prevented from seeing my
mother in a care home for ten
months by government advice and
were not able to see her in hospital
before she died of Covid-19.
Masked, visored and double-jabbed
we set off wondering what we would
find: our sewage recycling system is
broken, the boiler won’t work, the
garden is completely overgrown,
guttering has fallen off and roof tiles
are missing. We are now repairing the
damage. Yes the views are amazing, as
is the wildlife around here. We will go
back to Malaga for pre-flight
coronavirus tests, but nowhere else.
Not everyone leaving the country for
the Med is going on a sun, sand and
drinks in the bar holiday.
I don’t expect sympathy but a little
understanding of why some of us
Boundary reform
Sir, Stephen Bush notes the anxiety
provoked among MPs by the
Boundary Commission (“Boundary
changes scare both Tories and
Labour”, Jun 7; letter, Jun 8). But
changes there must be. The 2019
election was contested using a map of
constituencies drawn up nearly two
decades ago. If we agree that MPs
should represent communities of
equal size, then population shifts
mean that the map has to be
periodically redrawn, whatever the
political consequences. In fact, those
consequences may not be quite so
momentous as some (particularly in
the Labour Party) once feared.
Traditionally, there has been greater
population growth outside cities and
in southeast England — places where,
traditionally, the Conservatives have
fared best. But that growth has
slowed slightly. Moreover, in 2019 the
Tories did well in constituencies that
voted Leave, and these are typically
smaller than Remain-voting
constituencies, many of them won by
other parties. As Chris Smyth
concludes in his analysis (“Shake-up a
decade in the making”, Jun 8): one
‘SHELL-SHOCK’
A of a wound. Those may, in a sense,
MISNOMER
from the times june 9, 1921
Last August a committee of the War
Office was appointed to inquire into
the nature and treatment of shell-
shock. It expects to report in the
autumn. Generally its results so far
justify the view that the term shell-
shock is unfortunate. In many
instances the bursting of a shell has
nothing to do with the shock the
man receives. Shell-shock is a
nervous disease similar to those
known in civil life. There are,
however, two classes of cases. There
is the case where a man is knocked
down, perhaps buried, by a bursting
shell. Men have been killed outright
have gone against government advice.
Catherine Spencer
Almogia, Malaga
Sir, The travel industry cannot be
expected to continue to function
while government policy is more
concerned with the direction of the
prevailing political wind than the
sound and principled resolution of a
complex but entirely workable
situation. Transparency with clarity of
science and data would be a good
start. Were the government to honour
its promise of a “watch-list” for
countries that might need to move
from green to amber, it would at least
display some genuine interest in
preserving the livelihoods of those
who work in travel. For an industry
that has been all but brought to its
knees over the past 15 months, the
decision to shift Portugal to amber
status with less than a week’s notice is
the latest devastating blow. We have a
right to expect more from our
government and must challenge it to
qualify the decisions being made. Our
clients also deserve better. Those
wishing to travel are already prepared
to jump through the considerable
hoops that have been put in their way:
proof of vaccination or a negative test
more reason, perhaps, for Johnson to
be eyeing up an early poll in 2023.
Tim Bale
Professor of politics, Queen Mary
University of London
No-fault divorce
Sir, No-fault divorce has been a long
time coming and although it is
disappointing that implementation of
the Divorce, Dissolution and
Separation Act 2020 has been further
delayed to next April (report, Jun 8),
the courts have been developing a new
IT system to facilitate divorce
procedures online, to make the process
quicker and more user-friendly. The
system is up and running but is not yet
ready for the government’s divorce
changes and has teething problems.
But at least we can now advise clients
with certainty that no-fault divorce is
coming. Divorce inquiries have
increased over the pandemic and this
new legislation will help married
couples to separate legally in the most
amicable way without having to wait
two years or blame the other party.
Helen Clarkson
Associate, Trethowans law firm;
chairwoman, Hampshire YResolution
by the bursting of a shell close by,
although they show no outward sign
be described as shell-shock cases,
but the majority are of people who
suffer either from neurosis or
hysteria without the intervention of
any explosion. These are either men
of character who went on until the
nervous system collapsed, or men
who, from the beginning, had no
heart for war, were bound to break
down, and should never have been
recruited for service at the front.
The inquiry naturally involves
examining methods of treatment.
The French kept men suffering from
shell-shock in rest hospitals behind
the front instead of sending them
home. They found that a nervous
disease was better treated in the
hard-medical environment of the
camp than by letting the patients
return to their families, where they
were sympathized with and “molly-
coddled”. The question has been
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to leave the UK, and proof of multiple
negative tests on their return. This
belt and braces approach ought to be
enough; no such testing requirements
are imposed for domestic travel.
Graham Simpson
Chairman/founder, Simpson Travel
Sir, George Eustice, the environment
secretary, says that people should
holiday at home this year and not
travel abroad unless absolutely
necessary. Why so, when by August
nearly all adults in the UK will have
been double-jabbed? Even now, in
early June, case rates on the
Continent are falling to levels similar
to those of the UK, Spain is open and
France is willing to allow entry to
double-dosed Brits. Matt Hancock,
the health secretary, has claimed that
the link between cases and deaths has
been broken by vaccinations.
Meanwhile ONS weekly data shows
that only 1 per cent of deaths are now
related to Covid-19. It is time to throw
off the shackles of caution or, as Giles
Coren (Notebook, Jun 8) warns,
Britain will be one vast traffic jam in
August, with packed beaches and
overpriced accommodation.
Andrew Gilg
Exeter
British slavery and
trafficking today
Sir, We were surprised by Paul
Harkness’s accusation (letter, Jun 8)
that “woke” people questioning
Britain’s ignorance of its history of
transatlantic slavery have
“knowingly” ignored victims of
modern-day slavery. We disagree.
Many people, including us, have
campaigned and spoken on both the
continuing legacies of British chattel
slavery and on the evils of
exploitation of vulnerable people
today. But Harkness, the chairman of
Survivors of Human Trafficking in
Scotland, should be wary of confusing
the two issues. British slavery in the
Caribbean was legal, taxed and was
encouraged by the British
government. Trafficking and
exploitation today are none of those:
however terrible the plight of the
victims today, Britain and the law are
on their side.
Sir Geoff Palmer
Chancellor, Heriot-Watt University
Alex Renton
Author, Blood Legacy: Reckoning With
a Family’s Story of Slavery
raised whether men of nervous and
sensitive disposition should be
trained to face the ordeals to which
men are subjected in these days of
great shells and high explosives. The
recruiting officer of the future will
have not only to ascertain that a
man has good muscles, but also good
nerves and no hereditary taint. The
two most important factors, indeed,
in the prevention of what is
miscalled shell-shock are careful
investigation into the mental family
history when the man is recruited,
and education during his training.
The conclusion to which the inquiry
seems to point is that, given a good
system of recruiting, care as to the
mentality of the men, fine moral in
the regiment, and good officers,
especially medical officers, there
would be next to no shell-shock.
Shell-shock comes from soft men.
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Cricketer’s tweets
Sir, I read with dismay that the
culture secretary and prime minister
have waded into the debate over the
ECB’s treatment of Ollie Robinson
(report and letter, Jun 8). I will not
speculate on the levels of sexism and
racism that either of them has faced
over the years, or why they feel the
need to comment on the internal
decision-making of the ECB on such
a complex issue, at a time when all
sport is rightly unified in trying to
tackle discrimination of all kinds. But
I can discuss the effect that their
interference might have on children.
For years schools have been working
with children on the responsible use
of social media and on the idea that
“what goes online stays online”.
Dismissing Robinson’s offensive and
discriminatory tweets as “a decade
old” (factually incorrect) and “written
by a teenager” (he was an adult when
these comments were posted) sends a
wrong and damaging message to
children: that they can act without
thought and without consequence.
Jaideep Barot
Headmaster, Bristol Grammar School
Tremulous tanks
Sir, You reveal (Jun 3) that new light
tanks for the army have so far cost
£3.2 billion but cannot be driven over
20mph because of the effects on the
crew, and that the Ajax’s gun cannot
be fired on the move. In the 1960s I
commanded Centurion tanks that
could be driven at over 40mph and
with efficient gyroscopic stabilisation
could fire their 105mm gun accurately
over rough terrain while moving. It
seems we have made reverse progress
in 60 years, though in fairness our
radios then were not reliable.
Peter Bellan
Ifold, W Sussex
Scanning the past
Sir, It is clear from your report (Jun 7;
letters, Jun 8) that nationally many
statues are to be removed or will have
an information board attached. I
suggest that such information boards
could be replaced by a simple QR
code. This would then allow future
changes with minimum expense.
Richard Jarvis
Bicknacre, Essex
Doubleplusgood
Sir, Libby Purves’s thoughtful article
(“Stonewall’s word-policing only
breeds more hate”, Jun 7) left me
wondering what we are supposed to
call our parents, and what indeed
transgender rights activists call their
own parents — “person who has given
birth” and “person who has not given
birth”? “Parent 1” and “Parent 2”? And
what about me, an adoptive parent
whose children call me by a derivation
of that tricky “M” word?
Francesca Naylor
Barnet, Herts
Friendly cake
Sir, The craze for making ginger beer
(Jun 8) stopped abruptly at my school
when one of the glass containers
exploded spectacularly under a desk
mid-lesson. A fad then followed for
Herman friendship cake, a yeast-
based cake mix that was fed with
flour and sugar, doubled in size each
week; it was divided and half passed
on. This eventually died a natural
death, a victim of its own success.
Dr Anne Hagyard
Beaconsfield, Bucks
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Daily Universal Register
UK: President Biden of the US and the first
lady, Jill Biden, travel to Britain on the first
overseas trip of the presidency; UK-EU talks
take place on the Northern Ireland protocol.
Nature notes
The yellow wagtail
seems an unlikely
candidate for
long-distance travel.
Like the rest of the
wagtail family, it
spends much of its
time walking or trotting on the ground, its
longish tail wagging. Often it can be spotted
darting between the hoofs of cattle, to
snatch insects, or perched on dung,
searching for beetles. Yet this seemingly
earthbound little bird bestrides continents:
wintering in sub-Saharan Africa, it breeds in
Britain. During migration, the pedestrian life
is eschewed and the yellow wagtail becomes
like a lemon-coloured shuttlecock, bounding
over vast distances on high, long, undulating
flights. Without landing, it can hop over the
blazing sands of the Sahara in 72 hours.
jonathan tulloch
Birthdays today
Michael J Fox, pictured,
actor, the Back to the
Future film series, 60;
Rajesh Agrawal, deputy
mayor of London for
business, chairman and
chief executive,
RationalFX currency
exchange service (2005-16), 44; Paul Beatty,
author, The Sellout (the first American to
win the Man Booker prize, 2016), 59; Matt
Bellamy, musician, Muse, Supermassive
Black Hole (2006), 43; Patricia Cornwell,
novelist, the Scarpetta book series, 65; Hugh
Dancy, actor, Hannibal (2013-15), 46; Johnny
Depp, actor, the Pirates of the Caribbean
film series, Murder on the Orient Express
(2017), 58; Nell Dunn, novelist, playwright
and screenwriter, Poor Cow (1967), Up the
Junction (1968), 85; Sir Andrew Edis, lord
justice of appeal, 64; Colin Grassie,
chairman, Scottish Rugby Union (2017-20),
chief executive, Deutsche Bank UK (2009-
15), 60; Giles Havergal, theatre director,
Citizens’ Theatre Glasgow (1969-2003), 83;
Richard Hudson, stage designer, The Lion
King (1998 Tony award), 67; James Kelman,
novelist, A Disaffection (1989), 75; Sir
Nicholas Lloyd, chairman, BLJ strategic
consultancy, editor, the Daily Express
(1986-95), 79; Jackie Mason, comedian, 90;
Michael Mates, Conservative MP (1974-
2010), 87; Natalie Portman, actress, Black
Swan (2010), Jackie (2016), 40; Prof Sir
George Radda, biochemist, chief executive,
Medical Research Council (1996-2003),
pioneered the use of nuclear magnetic
resonance in biological imaging, 85; Sir
David Richards, lord justice of appeal, who
retires today, 70; Charles Saatchi,
advertising executive and art collector, 78;
Will Satch, oarsman, Olympic gold medallist
(2016), 32; Anoushka Shankar, sitarist, 40;
Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter, The Social
Network (2010, Oscar), and playwright, A
Few Good Men (1989), 60; David Troughton,
actor, A Very Peculiar Practice (1986-88),
Tony Archer in The Archers, 71.
On this day
In 1975 the House of Commons was
broadcast live by radio for the first time.
Tony Benn (obituary, March 14, 2014), then
industry secretary, was the first minister to
be questioned in parliament live on air.
The last word
“Old age is the most unexpected of all things
that happen to a man.” Leon Trotsky, Russian
revolutionary, diary entry on May 8, 1935, in
Diary in Exile (1959)
Holidays on Hold
The traffic light system of travel rankings is confusing and costly.
It appears as if the government wishes people to holiday only in Britain
From the onset of the pandemic, the public has
understood the need for restrictions on liberty to
stop the spread of infection. Polling evidence
shows, perhaps surprisingly, overwhelming
support for lockdowns to protect lives and prevent
the health service from being overwhelmed. The
success of the national vaccination campaign,
now extended to people under 30, shows that
science can triumph over disinformation.
What people can reasonably expect in return is
clarity about the rules. Yet on the matter of over-
seas travel, the government has conveyed muddle.
Boris Johnson needs to get control of the messag-
ing. In easing restrictions on May 17, the govern-
ment introduced a traffic light system for travel,
ranking countries by the severity of their Covid
situation. These designations are reviewed every
three weeks. Travellers returning from a green-list
country need not quarantine and are required to
take a test two days after arriving.
The number of these countries is small, and
most are remote, but they initially included Portu-
gal. It was the only principal European holiday
destination to make the cut. Many people from
Britain hence booked travel there, only to find the
country downgraded to the amber list in the first
review on June 3. This change prompted a dash of
There are no easy answers to the surge in migrant Channel crossings
Few issues over the past decade have had a more
profound impact on politics across the West than
that of illegal immigration. During the migration
crisis of 2015-17, the European Union came closer
than perhaps at any time to breaking apart as
member states argued about how to stem the flow
of arrivals and who should take responsibility for
them. The centrepiece of Donald Trump’s 2016
insurgency was his promise to build a wall to pre-
vent illegal crossing of the United States’s south-
ern border. The sense that governments are pow-
erless to control their borders has been exploited
by right-wing nationalist parties everywhere, fuel-
ling tensions that make all forms of international
co-operation harder.
Britain has hardly been immune to such ten-
sions and the prospect of thousands of migrants
illegally crossing the Channel this summer can
only deepen them. Already this year, nearly 4,500
people have taken to small boats to make the peril-
ous crossing under the noses of Britain’s Border
Force and been aided by them to safety as required
under international law. The local authorities in
Kent are bearing the brunt of this influx, not least
Department of Secrets
Transparency campaigners have won an important victory over the government
It is something that Franz Kafka might have
dreamt up. A government department trying to
keep secret a shadowy unit, which in itself is
engaged in the purpose of keeping government
secrets. Yet it exists here in Britain. Now thanks to
a recent tribunal ruling, some much-needed sun-
light can be shone on the murky workings of the
Cabinet Office’s “clearing house”, a government
team accused of blacklisting freedom of informa-
tion requests. As we report today, Judge Christo-
pher Hughes has ruled that the department must
disclose information related to the handling of
complex requests. In his judgment he described
thousands of British holidaymakers to return
home before the deadline yesterday, after which
they would have had to take two PCR tests and
quarantine for ten days.
The costs of the reversal lie not only in the direct
expense for holidaymakers. It aggravates the un-
certainty for consumers and for the travel industry
when the crisis recedes and something approach-
ing normality returns. More than 40 million
people in the UK have now received at least one
dose of a Covid vaccine, and they might reasona-
bly feel aggrieved that the practical effects have
not so far been felt in any significant expansion of
the ability to travel abroad.
Almost as soon as the traffic light system was
announced, ministers contradicted each other on
what it meant. Matt Hancock, the health secre-
tary, said people should not travel to amber-list
countries on holiday. George Eustice, the environ-
ment secretary, said they could if they “feel the
need” to visit family and friends. Mr Johnson then
reiterated they should not. Yesterday Mr Eustice
appeared to rule out the possibility of overseas
holidays altogether by suggesting that people
should confine their leisure to the UK.
The public understands that government advice
must be driven by data. What they will find harder
Kent Strain
of unaccompanied and often traumatised child-
ren. Between January 1 and June 1, 242 children
were passed to Kent’s children’s services, an in-
crease of 60 compared with the same period last
year. By the end of this week, Kent officials say, the
county will no longer be able to cope.
The government’s response has been to talk
tough, to little obvious avail. Priti Patel, the home
secretary, authorised her department to buy new
kit to block small migrant boats, including jet skis
of dubious utility. Some £28 million was handed to
France on the understanding that it would in-
crease its coastal patrols. A law was passed man-
dating the return of anyone whose claim is re-
jected to any “safe” country they passed through.
A new law is promised to create an even more hos-
tile environment to deter would-be migrants. Kent
was promised a beefed-up national transfer
scheme to ensure the burden of caring for child
migrants was shared across the country.
Yet the facts tell a different story. Of the 1,503
migrants this year whose asylum claims have been
rejected, not one has been deported. The problem
is that, outside the EU, Britain is no longer a
the Cabinet Office as having a “profound lack of
transparency”.
This ruling is a victory not only for openDem-
ocracy, which was taken to court by the Cabinet
Office, but for all those who recognise the need for
the government to be subjected to rigorous scruti-
ny. There are increasing concerns about the de-
partment’s policy of stonewalling requests from
journalists and the public until being ordered to
respond by the regulator. In doing so it has been
accused of failing to meet its obligation in either
the letter or the principle of the Freedom of Infor-
mation Act. The result has been that successful re-
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to fathom is the lack of clarity in statements by
ministers, and they may also suspect there is an
economic rationale behind urging domestic holi-
days. If so, that too would suggest a lack of fore-
thought by ministers. There are indeed many
attractive destinations for holidays in Britain but
also a lack of capacity. The reality is likely to be
high prices, long delays and too many crowds. It is
a miserable prospect when the nation has pulled
together in a crisis. Compounding this is uncer-
tainty about whether a holiday booked today,
whether in Britain or overseas, will need to be
abridged by a further unanticipated lockdown if
some new Covid strain emerges.
The system of travel rankings must have ap-
peared fluid and flexible when it was devised but
has proved baffling. Everyone can understand
that travel to a red-list country is potentially
dangerous, but the practical implications of the
gap between green and amber are far from
obvious. The government needs to be clearer on
this. If it genuinely wants people to stay in Britain
for the duration of the crisis, it should say so plain-
ly and acknowledge the costs of this course for
national morale and the travel industry. Procrasti-
nation and ambiguity are merely spreading
bewilderment.
signatory to the Dublin convention which re-
quires asylum seekers to make their claim in the
first EU country they entered. There is no such
obligation under international law. That means
that France does not have to take back those who
depart from its shores, despite Boris Johnson’s plea
to President Macron to “redouble efforts” to deter
crossings.
The truth is there are no easy answers to the
challenge of illegal migration, as so many other
countries can attest. Ms Patel may well be right
when she said the public were “fed up”. But since
she cannot halt the flow, her priority must be to
establish a mandatory transfer scheme to ease the
pressure on Kent. That will not prove any more
politically palatable here than it did when pro-
posed in the EU. Meanwhile the government
should recognise there is no solution that does not
rely on intense co-operation with France and the
EU to disrupt smuggling gangs and ultimately
negotiate a new legal basis for returns. At a time
when relations between London and Brussels are
strained, this too may be unpalatable. Nonetheless
realism rather than rhetoric is needed now.
quests have fallen to the lowest level since the law
was introduced 20 years ago.
This is not the way that an accountable govern-
ment should operate and the judgment is particu-
larly shaming for Michael Gove, the relevant min-
ister, who had sought to brush off investigations
into the workings of the clearing house as “ridicu-
lous and tendentious”. Mr Gove must now ensure
that details about the clearing house’s methods are
published. Moreover he must state what changes
his department will implement to guarantee that
the law is properly upheld. An effective govern-
ment should have no fear of transparency.
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World
Macron is slapped as election
France
Charles Bremner Paris
President Macron was slapped in the
President no stranger
face by a 28-year-old man in southeast
France yesterday in an incident
to public confrontation
condemned by all political camps as an Analysis and it colours political
affront to democracy. life more than ever.
resident Macron Macron made that

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The bystander, identified only as
Damien T, a fan of medieval combat relishes getting
games, reached out and struck the up close to his
president as he greeted a crowd at Tain critics (Charles
l’Hermitage. He was visiting the Bremner writes). He
small town on the Rhône to mark the has faced down
reopening today of restaurants and strikers outside
cafés after the lockdown. factories and stood
The slap, which caught security his ground against
guards by surprise, was a stark illustra- demonstrators
tion of a rise in anger in French society hurling abuse at him
and public life that is colouring the in the yellow vest
campaign under way for next spring’s protests of 2018.
presidential elections. His outing in the
Macron continued to greet the crowd rural south yesterday
was part of his “tour
de France” to renew
physical contact with
ITALY
point after a hostile
reception from union
demonstrators in
northern France a
couple of years ago.
“The country is like
that today,” he said.
“If you listen to the
security people, you
never go out . . . you’ll
become like Hollande.
You’re [politically]
dead.”
The opinion polls
show that Macron
earns credit for his
efforts to mix it up

Grenoble
Tain the people after with the public, even
l’Hermitage Valence months of lockdown. at a cost to
Much of the country presidential dignity.
FRANCE is in a grim mood. He The assault on the
is aiming to repeat his president certainly
tactics of robust plays into the
Montpellier Marseilles confrontation in town narrative of Marine
halls and villages that Le Pen, his far-right
25 miles
worked three years challenger, and of the
ago. mainstream
Macron received his conservatives that the
and later played down the incident, first taste of the rough country is
calling it an “isolated event”, although side of politics in 2016 “disintegrating”
he warned that violence in politics was when he was a under the impact of
a threat to democracy. minister under violent crime.
From behind a barrier, the man François Hollande As Macron starts
gripped Macron’s arm and struck him and a protester hurled running for re-
on the side of the face with his free an egg at him. election next May,
hand. As security officers grabbed the The violence that is however, that may
attacker, bystanders’ video showed that never far below the well be eclipsed by
he shouted “Montjoie Saint Denis!”, a surface of French sympathy for the
medieval knights’ battle-cry, followed society erupted in the president and anger at
by “Down with Macron”. The president, yellow vest protests the crude behaviour
who was not injured, was moved back over the cost of living of his detractors. The attacker grabs President Macron’s right arm before using his free hand to slap him. Security staff quickly
but urged officers not to be rough as
they pinned the assailant to the ground.
Xavier Angeli, the town’s mayor, said provincial insurrection that staged biography. The attacker faces up to ers since Macron won office in 2017. ble physical aggression targeting the
that Macron had ordered his security violent protests against the Macron three years in prison for assaulting the “Democracy can never be about president of the republic”.
officers to “leave him, leave him” as the administration in the winter of 2018-19. head of state. violence, verbal aggression, and even Visibly angry, she said on television
offender was being held down. He displayed support for far-right and The first physical assault on a less about physical aggression,” Jean that the assault was “deeply, deeply
A friend, Arthur C, also 28, was also white supremacist groups as well as a president since a protester grabbed Castex, the prime minister, told parlia- reprehensible”. She wrote on Twitter: “I
arrested as he filmed the incident. Both union close to Le Pen’s party on his President Sarkozy by his suit jacket in ment. “I call for a republican awakening am Emmanuel Macron’s No 1 oppo-
he and Damien T live in the nearby social media. 2011 shocked a political world that has — we are all concerned, the founda- nent, but he is the president. We can
village of Saint Vallier. According to the His alleged accomplice displays a been troubled by a surge of violent tions of our democracy are at stake.” fight him politically but we cannot al-
newspaper Le Figaro, the attacker is fleur de lys, the symbol of the former incidents during the lockdown and Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right low the slightest violence towards him.”
known as a supporter of the yellow vest French monarchy, on his Facebook increasingly aggressive acts by protest- National Rally, deplored “the intolera- Le Pen, who is polling closely behind

‘Butcher of Bosnia’ will die in prison as final appeal is denied

Bosnia
Bruno Waterfield The Hague
In a ruling that is final, UN judges have
upheld the life sentence handed to
Ratko Mladic, the “butcher of Bosnia”,
for genocide and other war crimes.
The 78-year-old former Bosnian
Serb commander, maskless in the
war crime tribunal’s dock behind a
sheet of glass, was expressionless as
his appeal against sentence and
conviction was dismissed.
In 2017 Mladic, who com-
manded the Bosnian Serb
VRS army, was convict-
ed of genocide and ten
charges of extermina-
tion, murder, depor-
tation, forcible trans-
fers, terror, persecution, hostage-taking
and unlawful attacks on civilians. The
crimes were conducted by troops under
his command who waged a campaign of
murder and persecution to
drive Muslims and Croats
out of territory they con-
sidered part of Serbia.
His forces rained
down shells and snipers’
bullets on civilians in the
44-month siege of the
Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.
His most heinous crime,
however, was the murder on
his orders of 8,000 Bosnian
Muslim men and boys at Sre-
A maskless Ratko Mladic
displayed no emotion
brenica in 1995, the first act of genocide
on European soil since the Holocaust.
Widows and mothers of Srebrenica
victims attended the hearing. “Today is
a historic day for us mothers. Today, fi-
nally, the judgment for the greatest
butcher of the Balkans,” said Munira
Subasic, leader of the Mothers of Sre-
brenica group.
The judgment was hailed by Presi-
dent Biden as showing “our shared
resolve to prevent future atrocities
from occurring anywhere in the world”.
He added: “This historic judgment
shows that those who commit horrific
crimes will be held accountable.”
The only shadow over the verdict
was the dissent of the presiding UN
judge, Prisca Matimba Nyambe, a Zam-
bian lawyer, who registered her person-
al opposition to the life sentence and
genocide conviction. However, the
judge said that the court dismissed
Mladic’s appeal “in its entirety” and
confirmed his life sentence. The ruling
means that he will die in prison. Five
judges presided over the case. In previ-
ous hearings she had described evidence
against Bosnian Serb commanders at
Srebrenica as “circumstantial” and said
Mladic’s behaviour towards Muslims at
the time that an “evacuation” was being
planned was “welcoming”.
Mladic was first indicted and had
international warrants issued for his
arrest in 1997 but remained in hiding in
Serbia until he was handed over by a
pro-western government in 2011. Many
Serbs regard him as a war hero. Serbia
refuses to recognise Srebrenica as gen-
ocide and the mass murder is regularly
denied, including by Ana Brnabic, the
prime minister.
Last week Milorad Dodik, the leader
of Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb
enclave, said that the Srebrenica geno-
cide “did not happen”. He played down
the mass murder in comparison to
Croatia’s extermination of Serbs during
the Second World War.
The convictions of Mladic and Rado-
van Karadzic, the main two figures who
commanded and carried out ethnic
cleansing and mass murder in Bosnia,
close the bloodiest chapter in European
history since 1945. In 2019 Karadzic, the
former Bosnian Serb leader, was con-
victed of genocide and war crimes and
is serving a life sentence in Wakefield
prison, West Yorkshire.
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tour turns ugly
moved Macron away. The suspect shouted “Montjoie Saint Denis!”, a medieval battle-cry, as he was detained by police
Macron, blames the president for turn-
ing a blind eye to what she calls a raging
crime wave that is engulfing France.
Assaults on and threats against village
mayors and other elected officials have
been reported in the run-up to nation-
wide regional council elections that
start on June 20.
Minutes after the slap, Macron, in
shirt-sleeves, continued greeting crowds
Teenager critical after whale lands on boat
Australia
Roger Maynard Sydney
A teenager is fighting for his life after a
whale crashed into his boat off the coast
of New South Wales. The 18-year-old
was fishing with another man when the
humpback breached and landed on the
front of their small motorboat.
The teenager, who suffered a sus-
pected fractured skull and spinal inju-
ries, was flown to a hospital in Canberra
in a critical but stable condition. The
skipper escaped with cuts to his face
and concussion. The boat was a man-
gled wreck, but the skipper, having
raised the alarm, managed to steer it to
land, where paramedics were waiting.
The collision happened off a beach
popular with surfers at North Naroo-
2GM
in the wine country around Valence.
The trip, on which he is accompanied by
his wife, Brigitte, is part of a “tour de
France” that he is staging to take the
national pulse as the last lockdown is
lifted. Aides said: “We’re not going to
react every time the president is
accosted,” one of his team said.
After the incident, Macron likened it
to attacks on mayors in the Valence
Extensive damage was left by the
humpback. They can weigh 40 tonnes
ma, about 200 miles south of Sydney.
Humpbacks can weigh 40 tonnes and
grow up to 50ft long, and are regular
visitors to the New South Wales coast in
June as they make their way north to
warmer waters in Queensland. An esti-
mated 40,000 live in Australian waters,
area in recent months. “The posts of the
republic must be respected and I will
never give ground in this combat,” he
told Le Dauphiné Libéré, the regional
newspaper. “There is freedom of
expression . . . freedom to vote and
democratic pluralism,” he said. “In
return, there can never be violence,
hatred, neither in speech nor acts. If
not, democracy itself is threatened.”
a remarkable recovery by a species that
had been hunted to fewer than 500
animals worldwide by the 1950s.
John Moore, a former charter boat
operator, told the Australian Broad-
casting Corporation: “Situations like
this are very, very rare. Whales are in-
credibly intelligent and very aware of
the areas around them.”
Others cautioned against sailing too
close to humpbacks during the migra-
tion season. Wayne Stubbs, a charter
boat skipper, said his company did not
run whale-watching trips at this time of
year because it was too dangerous.
The authorities fear that the whale
may have been hurt. The New South
Wales National Parks and Wildlife Ser-
vice said it would be looking out for re-
ports of an injured whale.
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US ‘strike force’
to break China’s
grip on trade
United States
David Charter Washington
Didi Tang Beijing
The US will target China with a “strike
force” to counter unfair trade practices
after a review concluded that America
had become too reliant on its rival for
key technologies.
A “supply chain disruptions task
force” is being set up to reverse the
“hollowing out” of American produc-
tion of batteries, raw materials, semi-
conductors and pharmaceuticals, offi-
cials in Washington said. Last night the
Senate approved the spending of
$250 billion to compete with Chinese
technology. It is expected to lead to up
to ten semiconductor plants being built.
President Biden has set out to reduce
America’s dangerous dependence on
imports, highlighted by shortages of
medical resources such as protective
equipment during the coronavirus pan-
demic.
Biden was criticised by Republicans
during the election campaign for sup-
posedly being soft on China but has
found that taking action to assert US
manufacturing and technological inde-
pendence from Beijing is almost the
only policy area where the two main
parties are united. He ordered a review
of critical supply chains in February,
and although it was not explicitly dir-
ected at China, it was part of a strategy
to shore up American competitiveness.
“Semiconductors are the building
blocks that underpin so much of our
economy and are essential to our
national security, our economic com-
petitiveness and daily lives,” Gina Rai-
mondo, the commerce secretary, said.
“The United States is facing two related
crises in supply chains for these critical
goods — a short-term shortage and a
long-term challenge to US leadership.”
A senior official said that unfair trade
practices used by “a number of foreign
governments” included government
subsidies and forced intellectual prop-
erty transfers. “Obviously, a number of
Chinese industrial policies have con-
tributed to vulnerable US supply
chains,” the official said. “I think you
are going to see this strike force feeding
into our China policy developments.”
When he announced the review Bid-
en said: “We shouldn’t have to rely on a
foreign country — especially one that
doesn’t share our interests or our values
— in order to protect and provide for
our people during a national emer-
gency. This is about making sure the
United States can meet every challenge
we face in this new era — pandemics,
but also in defence, cybersecurity,
climate change and so much more.”
The administration plans to use the
Defense Production Act to accelerate
efforts to manufacture 50 to 100 vital
drugs domestically rather than relying
on imports.
It also plans to start trade and invest-
ment talks with Taiwan, which is likely
to infuriate Beijing. The talks may fall
short of a full trade pact but they are a
sign that Washington is forging closer
ties with Taiwan despite Beijing’s re-
29
Police suppress
student protest
Didi Tang
Police suppressed rare protests in
China yesterday by students
worried that degrees would be
devalued by a merger of university
colleges with vocational schools.
Police in Danyang, a city in the
east, said that students “illegally
detained” the dean of Zhongbei
College, which is affiliated with
Nanjing Normal University, for
more than 30 hours. The merger
plans were suspended in an
attempt to end the protests.
It was a rare public admission of
mass protests in China. An online
video showed a standoff between
students and police in Danyang,
and similar protests were reported
in the nearby province of Zhejiang.
Chinese families place a high
premium on university education.
Entrance exams are competitive,
and about 40 per cent of those
who sit them go on to higher
education, being admitted to one
of three tiers of establishment in
accordance with their score.
Students in Zhejiang told
Zhengguan News, a state-run news
site, that they feared their college
degrees would be “downgraded to
a vocational degree”.
peated protests about any official con-
tact between Washington and Taipei.
“I know we are engaged in conversa-
tions with Taiwan, or soon will be,”
Antony Blinken, the secretary of state,
told a congressional committee.
China regards the self-governed
island as part of its territory and has
vowed to reclaim it, by force if needed.
This week an American strategic
transport aircraft carried three US sen-
ators for a three-hour visit to Taiwan.
They announced a plan for the US to
donate 750,000 vaccines and pledged
Washington’s support for the island.
There was speculation that Beijing
would react angrily, but so far it has
made only its usual protests.
In Washington the US trade repre-
sentative’s office said it had no meetings
with Taiwan to announce.
The standing committee of China’s
parliament is to approve an anti-
foreign sanctions law tomorrow.
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World
Elephants
nap on trek
across China
hey have beguiled
T
many people
during their
15-month journey
across China, and
now the migrating Asian
elephants have stopped to
rest (Didi Tang writes).
The herd, including
calves, have been
photographed by the public
and by drones while they
are marshalled by a team of
eight people 24 hours a day
in an attempt to keep them
away from residential areas.
Drone images show them
sleeping in a forest in the
southwest province of
Yunnan after their 300-mile
journey. They set off from
the rainforests of
Xishuangbanna in April last
year. Elephants can sleep It is unknown why the elephant herd embarked on such a long journey but the Chinese public are following them with fascination
either lying down or
standing but research shows Monday afternoon. A male
it is more unusual for them had wandered off and was
to sleep prone in the wild. spotted two miles away.
The 14 elephants were Experts are uncertain
seen idling outside the about what triggered their
village of Xiyang on long trek. Some speculate
Underwater avalanche severs
internet cables two miles deep
Atlantic Ocean
Jane Flanagan Cape Town
Like a scene from a disaster movie, the
longest and mightiest underwater
avalanche in recorded history sent
two billion tonnes of mud and sand
more than 700 miles out into the ocean
in just 48 hours, data has revealed.
The colossal “turbidity current”
might have gone unnoticed had it not
ruptured submarine cables and crip-
pled internet traffic across swathes of
the continent, from Nigeria to South
Africa. The event in January last year,
triggered by low tides and abnormally
high outflow from the Congo River,
shifted about a third of the entire vol-
ume of sediment dumped into the
oceans by all the world’s river systems
in a year.
“These are the first detailed meas-
urements for submarine sediment ava-
lanches that break seabed cables and
the first from the really deep ocean,”
Professor Peter Talling, research team
leader from Durham University, said.
“They include the furthest travelled
sediment flow yet measured.”
What makes the finding all the more
US navy uses drone to refuel fighter jet in mid-air
United States
Michael Evans
The US navy has carried out its first
air-refuelling of a fighter jet using an
unmanned tanker controlled from a
ground station.
The concept will have significant
implications for the US’s ten Nimitz-
class aircraft carriers, which until now
have had to rely on jet fighters on board
to take on the secondary role of supply-
ing mid-air fuel. More than a third of a
carrier’s cycle of flying hours can be
that it may be habitat loss
or magnetic storms;
another theory is that the
lead elephant lost its way.
“While it’s common for
Asian elephants to migrate,
Flow chart
1 Spring tide causes deposit of river
silt to collapse into seabed canyon
stretching into the Atlantic Ocean
African continental shelf Loose
sediment
2 Initial landslide and slope
gathers speed instability
inside canyon
dragging 2 billion
tonnes of rocks,
sand, mud from 3 Avalanche ruptures
canyon floor two submarine internet
cables at a depth of
around 2.5 miles
extraordinary is that the activity was
recorded by devices put into position
only a few weeks before the avalanche
unfolded. A steeply sloping, narrow
seabed canyon that reaches far into the
Atlantic from the mouth of the Congo
acted like an accelerator on river slurry
that had reached a tipping point on the
lip of the canyon. River flows on the
Congo that peaked at 70,000 cubic me-
tres a second on December 27 had laid
down layers and layers of fresh silt. But
taken up by refuelling requirements
during maritime operations.
Having a drone tanker on board each
carrier will free up the full complement
of fighter jets for missions and the plan
is to use the drones to extend the jet’s
combat range to 810 miles from 520
miles currently.
The successful refuelling with a
drone took place over Illinois on Friday
and involved an MQ-25 Stingray
unmanned tanker built by Boeing and a
F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The F-35C
joint strike fighters on carriers will also
it’s very rare for them to
have travelled this far
northwards,” Chen
Mingyong, a professor of
ecology, told Xinhua, the
official news agency.
Congo River
D.R.
CONGO
Congo
Atlantic Canyon
Ocean 200 miles
Sediment and water flow Sediment
deposit
4 Avalanche disperses after 2 days,
dumping material 700 miles offshore
research indicated that it took a deep
spring tide around January 12 to launch
the cascade. Once tipped into the
canyon, gravity gave the debris more
speed while the more material it dis-
lodged the more powerful it became
and the faster it moved, climbing stead-
ily to nearly 18 mph. Like a submarine
version of an Alpine avalanche, the
advancing plume scoured the canyon
floor, picking up rocks and silt deposit-
ed decades or centuries earlier.
The drone tankers will free up more
US fighter jets for combat missions
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CCTV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The long march June 2
Kunming
May 25 Yuxi
Eshan county
CHINA
May 16, 2021
Shiping
Mekong
County
River April 2020 Elephants
leave nature reserve
MYANMAR
They stayed in Xiyang
yesterday, where more than
400 personnel, about 120
vehicles and 14 drones were
deployed to monitor them
and evacuate the village.
Two hundred miles off the coast two
of the most important underwater in-
ternet cables for Africa, the SAT-3
(South Atlantic 3) and WACs (West
Africa Cable System) were broken,
slowing data flows to southern Africa
for weeks. They had been transmitting
data undamaged for almost two
decades. Their designers had felt that at
a depth of two and a half miles the
cables were relatively secure.
While turbidity currents have been
observed and researched in the past,
few have lasted more than a few min-
utes. Recordings show the Congo Cas-
cade lasted for more than two days and
travelled 702 miles down the slope of
the underwater canyon. The longest
travelling turbidity current previously
recorded went 500 miles.
“This new work suggests that river
floods and spring tides may provide
some advanced warning of these flows,”
Talling said. Just weeks earlier, his team
had placed 11 bulky sensors on the
ocean floor along the canyon that
reaches out from the Congo’s mouth.
They recovered nine of the units, which
are designed to bob to the surface after
intense submarine activity.
benefit from the new method.
The Super Hornet flew to within 6m
(20ft) of the Stingray tanker before
linking up to the refuelling pod and
extracting 136kg (300lb) of fuel while
flying at an altitude of 10,000ft.
The operation was repeated at
16,000ft, although only about 10kg of
fuel was transferred. The two pilots in
the Super Hornet kept in constant radio
contact with the Stingray controller on
the ground. The Stingray will also pro-
vide intelligence and reconnaissance. It
is expected to be in service in 2025.
Wednesday June 9 2021 | the times
Belarus protesters face
tougher sentences
Belarus Anyone charged with
taking part in two unauthorised
protests faces a three-year jail
term for a repeat offence under a
law signed by President
Lukashenko. It also includes a
six-year sentence for taking part
in or promoting “extremist
activity”. Financing such activity
is punishable by a five-year term.
The government has been taking
tough action since protests
against the re-election of
Lukashenko last August in a poll
widely regarded as rigged. A
delegation that included Britain
and the US met Vladimir Makei,
the foreign minister, and urged an
end to the “inhumane treatment”
of activists and journalists. (AFP)
.
Thirty-year jail term for
abortion ends early
El Salvador A woman sentenced
to 30 years in jail for having an
abortion was released on parole
after almost nine years. Her
lawyers helped to get a reduced
sentence. Sara Rogel, 28, tearfully
reunited with her family after
leaving the jail near the southern
city of Zacatecoluca. The Catholic
country bans all abortion, with
sentences of up to 50 years for
“aggravated homicide”. (AFP)
Talks to quell surge
in migration to US
Mexico Kamala Harris, America’s
vice-president, held talks with
President López Obrador during
a visit to the region that aims to
tackle the causes of a surge in
migration to the US. A
memorandum of understanding
was signed on co-operation in aid
and development in Central
America. Nearly 180,000 people
were detained at the US border in
April, a 15-year high. (AP)
MPs’ vote on coalition
could oust Netanyahu
Israel A new coalition including
an Arab-Israeli party will face a
vote of confidence by MPs on
Sunday, which could make Naftali
Bennett, the leader of a small
right-wing party, Israel’s twelfth
prime minister. The delay before
the vote has been seen as an
attempt by Yariv Levin, the acting
Speaker of the Knesset, to buy
time for Binyamin Netanyahu to
break up the coalition.
‘Mona Lisa of stamps’
falls short of estimate
United States
The world’s
most valuable
stamp sold for
$8.3 million at
auction in New
York, short of
its $15 million upper estimate. The
1856 British Guiana One-Cent
Black on Magenta is unique. The
vendor paid $9.5 million for the
“Mona Lisa of philately” in 2014.
Governor in wildfire
zone lit illegal barbecue
Russia The governor of the
Siberian province of Buryatia has
been fined 3,000 roubles (£30) for
having a barbecue, breaking laws
aimed at preventing forest fires.
“The emergencies ministry fined
me for lighting a fire. And there’s
nothing I can say, they are right,”
Alexei Tsydenov, 45, wrote on
Instagram. Massive blazes are an
increasing problem in Siberia, the
Arctic and Far East. (AFP)
the times | Wednesday June 9 2021
Darling of Italian right wins over
voters with attack on woke culture
Italy
Tom Kington Rome
In her fast-selling autobiography
Giorgia Meloni recalls how the Soviet
Union deported groups of people from
one end of the continent to the other to
sever ties with their land and dissolve
any sense of cultural identity, making
them easier to rule over.
Meloni, 44, the rising star of Italy’s
hard right who is being tipped for the
role of prime minister, argues that char-
ity boats saving migrants in the Medi-
terranean today are aiming for the
same thing. Her logic is this: backed by
mysterious benefactors and preachers
of globalism, the charities are swamp-
ing Italy with migrants to sap its ident-
ity and make it easier to dominate.
“Identity itself is the principal enemy
that the globalist ideology sets out to
defeat,” she writes in her book I am
Voting intentions in Italy
Five Star The League Forza Italia
Democratic Party Brothers of Italy
March 2020
First lockdown
Source: Ipsos
Jul Jan Jul Jan Jul Jan
2018 2019 2020 2021
Giorgia. An extra benefit for the
unnamed “financial speculators” who
bankroll the charity boats is that wages
in Italy will drop as migrants arrive,
giving them a cheaper workforce.
Echoing the white nationalist “Great
Replacement” theory that has been
thriving on the fringes of politics in
Europe and the US, Meloni has put her
ideas directly at the centre of Italian
politics as her party, Brothers of Italy,
soars in the polls. Its support has risen
from 4 per cent in 2018 to about 20 per
cent, overtaking Italy’s biggest centre-
left party, the Democrats.
That puts her one percentage point
behind Matteo Salvini’s anti-migrant
League, Italy’s most popular party.
With their electoral partner Silvio Ber-
lusconi, the former prime minister, the
trio have the backing of about 50 per
cent of the country at the ballot box.
The next time Italy votes, and it must
do so by 2023, it will in all likelihood get
Alcatraz of the Med in €70m facelift Raise state pension age for
Philip Willan Rome
Criminals and dissidents have
languished on the tiny island of Santo
Stefano since Roman times, more re-
cently plotting against fascism and lay-
ing the groundwork for the European
Union. Now Italy wants to turn its
crumbling Alcatraz into a cultural hub
and museum.
The prison, standing on a rocky out-
crop near Naples, dates to 1797, its
horseshoe design inspired by the Brit-
ish social reformer Jeremy Bentham.
Divided into three floors with 33 cells
each, it could be watched over by a
single warden in a central tower until it
was abandoned in 1965.
About 4,000 people land in the
harbour every year before taking a
steep, 40-minute hike to the prison.
Signs along the way remind them that it
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0 him as “an attack on the Czech Repub-
Giorgia Meloni, tipped as the next prime minister, has tapped into fears that Italian identity is at threat from mass migration
a right-wing government. The only
question is whether Salvini or Meloni
will become prime minister, since they
have agreed that whoever gets more
votes lands the job.
In her book, Meloni rails against
pensiero unico, the hard-right term for
political correctness, which Meloni be-
lieves is censoring people such as her-
self who want to oppose gay adoption
or surrogate pregnancy and defend the
Christian, heterosexual family.
Her rivalry with Salvini, 48, extends
to local politics, where League council-
lors have been jumping ship to join the
20 miles
Rome
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Tyrrhenian
Sea
Santo Naples
Stefano
is a place of “suffering, expiation and
redemption”.
The government plans to spend
€70 million on restoring it as a memori-
al to the past and a place to plan the
future. The original rainwater cisterns
will be supplemented by a desalination
plant, and energy will come from
renewable sources.
“We want to turn a place of dramatic
suffering into somewhere where people
Brothers of Italy. At the European level
the two leaders are in rival conservative
groupings of MEPs. However, the stan-
ces they take are nearly identical and
their tweets, written in capital letters,
are often interchangeable; for example,
when they urge a halt to migrant boats
or push for the ending of Covid restric-
tions on movement.
Both flaunt their Catholic beliefs,
both oppose a new bill cracking down
on homophobic abuse. Salvini shares
Meloni’s hatred of the pensiero unico
and claims that migration means “eth-
nic replacement is under way” in Italy.
can carry out research, training and ar-
tistic activity,” said Silvia Costa, the
former MEP in charge of the project.
Cells will be preserved as exhibition
spaces. Other buildings will be convert-
ed into guest accommodation.
Among Santo Stefano’s most notori-
ous inmates were Carmine Crocco,
who led a band of brigands operating in
southern Italy in the 19th century, and
the anarchist Gaetano Bresci, who as-
sassinated King Umberto in 1900 and
hanged himself from the bars of his cell.
Under Mussolini the prison held
some of Italy’s anti-fascist leaders, in-
cluding the socialist Sandro Pertini,
who went on to become president.
Altiero Spinelli, who is considered a
founding father of the EU, composed
his Manifesto for a Free and United
Europe while confined on Ventotene
island nearby.
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One big difference is the background of
their parties. Meloni’s Brothers of Italy
evolved from the National Alliance
party, which in turn evolved from the
MSI, which was formed after the
Second World War by former fascists.
Today, more than a few backers of the
party are unashamed fans of Benito
Mussolini, even if Meloni barely men-
tions Italy’s fascist past in her book.
Senior League officials, on the other
hand, tend to be more moderate than
Salvini, and more concerned with effi-
ciently running cities and regions in the
party’s northern heartland.
baby boomers, Merkel told
Germany
Oliver Moody Berlin
Germany must raise its state pension
age to 68 and contemplate limiting pay-
ments or it will face severe financial
problems as the baby boomer genera-
tion goes into retirement, the govern-
ment’s economic advisers have said.
The proposal has caused ructions in
Angela Merkel’s cabinet and is threat-
ening to become a toxic issue before the
general election in September. Olaf
Scholz, 62, the centre-left finance min-
ister, said it was “antisocial” and based
on faulty calculations.
The report, written by 39 of Ger-
many’s most distinguished economists,
argues that the state has failed to face
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Brussels set
to freeze
funding for
PM’s firms
Czech Republic
Tim Gosling Prague
Bruno Waterfield Brussels
Farm companies controlled by the
billionaire prime minister of the Czech
Republic could have EU funding worth
hundreds of millions of euros frozen by
the European parliament today.
EU auditors have identified a conflict
of interest between Andrej Babis, 66,
and his Agrofert business empire,
which receives substantial EU funding.
MEPs will vote on a resolution to cut all
funds to companies controlled by Babis
until he satisfies the auditors that he
has no conflicting interests.
Babis put the company he founded in
1993 into trust shortly before he took
office four years ago but an audit,
finalised in April, found that he still
controls funds. He was ordered to pay
back €11 million but has refused,
dismissing the ruling as “politically mo-
tivated”. He told the Czech parliament
last week: “Nobody from abroad will
stick their nose in here.”
dence in parliament last week over the
EU funding scandal. Agrofert, an agri-
cultural chemicals maker, insists it has
not benefitted from Babis’s role in the
disbursement of EU funds.
Babis has described the criticism of
lic”. Czech MEPs taking part in a Euro-
pean parliament mission to investigate
the funding last year were branded trai-
tors, resulting in death threats.
With elections due in October and
Babis’s ANO party struggling in the
polls, he has gone back on the attack.
Both Agrofert and the Czech govern-
ment are preparing legal action against
the European Commission for having
halted subsidies to the company.
Critics say that such government
action is evidence of “state capture” and
proof that Babis and the administration
— many members of which are former
Agrofert managers — are putting the
billionaire’s business interests ahead of
those of the country.
It is estimated that Babis’s Czech
companies received £320 million in EU
funding between 2007 and 2020.
Czech police recommended to state
prosecutors last week that he should
face fraud charges over a £1.6 million
EU subsidy granted in 2007 to the
Stork’s Nest, a leisure resort outside
Prague owned by Agrofert.
up to an impending demographic
crunch. At present there are about
three people of working age in Ger-
many for every person over 65. Over
the next decade that ratio is projected
to shrink to 2:1, the report says.
Germany’s birth rate spiked over the
two decades after the war before almost
halving in the following decades, leav-
ing a population bulge of baby boomers
on the brink of retirement. The paper,
written for the economics ministry,
criticises Merkel’s government for its
“short-term” approach to pensions re-
form which it says risks putting a heavy
burden on the young. It suggests that
pensions could increase in line with in-
flation rather than wages, or that
higher earners could contribute more.
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Zoe Kazan and Carey

Pitt backs MeToo tale Mulligan, far left, are in line
to play the journalists who

of Weinstein scandal exposed Harvey Weinstein.

Brad Pitt is producing

lmost four The producers include with Harvey Weinstein

A years after
two female
reporters
exposed
Hollywood’s dirtiest
secret, the film industry
is preparing to put the
Brad Pitt who, early in
his career, once
threatened to kill
Weinstein after learning
he had sexually harassed
Gwyneth Paltrow, the
actor’s girlfriend at the
in my youth, and as a
result, chose never to
work with him again
and warn others when
they did”.
She Said will be
directed by the German
downfall of Harvey time. filmmaker Maria
Weinstein on the big In the spirit of the Schrader, who won an
screen (Ben Hoyle MeToo movement that Emmy for her work on
writes). emerged from Megan the Netflix series
Carey Mulligan Twohey and Jodi Unorthodox. The
and Zoe Kazan Kantor’s Pulitzer screenplay has been
have been lined Prize winning adapted from the book
up to play the reporting, She Said by Rebecca Lenkiewicz,
journalists whose will be written and a British playwright and
investigation of directed by screenwriter who co-
long-rumoured women and has wrote Ida, a Polish film
claims against been that won the 2015 Oscar
the mogul commissioned Weinstein, 69, who was journalists who Kantor revealed that big Hollywood stars to for Best Foreign Film.
convulsed the by a female accused of crimes by convinced multiple Paltrow “became an go public against him, Universal Pictures is
industry and studio boss who more than 90 women women to go public early, crucial source, days after the first story run by Dame Donna
led to a has been at the and is serving 23 years against Weinstein in the sharing her account of in the investigation was Langley, a Briton who is
reckoning on vanguard of in prison for rape and face of intimidation, sexual harassment [by published in The New arguably the most
sexual efforts to boost sexual abuse. legal obstruction and a Weinstein when she was York Times in October powerful woman in the
misconduct gender equality Instead, the Universal culture of impunity for 22 years old] and trying 2017. Another was Pitt’s industry. Production is
at workplaces in Hollywood. film will emphasise the powerful men in to recruit other former wife Angelina expected to start this
around the The focus tenacious work of the Hollywood. actresses to speak”. She Jolie who said she had summer. No release date
world. will not be all-female team of In 2019 Twohey and was also one of the first had “a bad experience has been announced.

Richest Americans avoided

billions in tax, leak reveals
United States
David Charter Washington
Jeff Bezos paid no income tax in 2007
and 2011, and George Soros went
three years in a row without paying
the Internal Revenue Service,
according to a leak of tax records
from the wealthiest 25 Americans.
Bezos, 57, the Amazon founder who
is the world’s richest man, was able to
offset his earnings using legitimate
tax methods in a year when his for-
tune leapt by $3.8 billion, according to
ProPublica, the investigative journal-
ism group that received the leak.
A spokesman for Soros, 90, a hedge
fund financier and philanthropist,
said he suffered losses in investments
from 2016 to 2018 that meant he did
not owe personal federal taxes. He
added: “Mr Soros has long supported
higher taxes for wealthy Americans.”
The Tesla founder, Elon Musk, 49,
paid no personal tax in 2018. He
responded to a query about this with
a single punctuation mark: “?”
The investor and philanthropist
Warren Buffett, 90, topped the tax
avoidance list, according to ProPubli-
ca. His wealth rose by $24.3 billion
from 2014 to 2018 but he paid only
$23.7 million, a rate of 0.1 per cent.
Taxes paid by companies were not
included in the ProPublica analysis. It
said that the richest 25 Americans
paid an average of 15.8 per cent of
adjusted gross income, less than
many ordinary workers.
The leaked data “demolishes the
cornerstone myth of the American
tax system: that everyone pays their
fair share and the richest Americans
pay the most”, it added. “The IRS
Elon Musk
responded to
queries about his
taxes with a “?”
records show that the wealthiest can,
perfectly legally, pay income taxes
that are only a tiny fraction of the
hundreds of millions, if not billions,
their fortunes grow each year.”
In 2007 Bezos, who filed his taxes
jointly with MacKenzie Scott, his wife
at the time, “reported a paltry (for
him) $46 million in income, largely
from interest and dividend payments
on outside investments.
He was able to offset every penny he
earned with losses from side invest-
ments and various deductions, like in-
terest expenses on debts and the
vague catch-all category of ‘other ex-
penses’.”
In 2011, when his fortune was esti-
mated at $18 billion, Bezos filed a tax
return reporting that he lost money,
ProPublica said. “He even claimed
and received a $4,000 tax credit for
his children,” it added.
From 2006 to 2018 his wealth
increased by $127 billion, according to
Forbes, but he reported a total of
$6.5 billion in income and paid
$1.4 billion in personal federal taxes, a
rate of 1.1 per cent tax on the increase.
Representatives of Bezos “declined
to receive detailed questions about
the matter”, ProPublica said.
Buffett defended his tax practice in
a statement, saying: “I continue to
believe that the tax code should be
changed substantially.”
ProPublica released only selective
details of a handful of top earners. It
said that the media mogul Michael
Bloomberg, 79, paid no tax “in recent
years” and Carl Icahn, 85, a billionaire
investor, “did it twice”. Both said they
paid what they owed.
The Treasury said that the FBI and
federal prosecutors had been asked to
investigate the source of the leak.

Pipeline hackers had to find one password

Ben Hoyle Los Angeles
Extortionists who hacked the
Colonial Pipeline system last month
had to steal only a single password to
break in, the company’s chief execu-
tive admitted yesterday.
It led to one of the most disruptive
cyberattacks in US history. The com-
pany that controls the pipeline, which
supplies about 45 per cent of the fuel
used on the East Coast — shut it
down for days, leading to a rise in pet-
rol prices, panic buying and fuel
shortages. Colonial paid a bitcoin
ransom equivalent to $4.4 million to
the hackers, suspected of belonging
to a Russian cybercriminal gang.
Joseph Blount, the chief executive
of Colonial, told a Senate homeland
security committee that the attack
had breached an old virtual private
network (VPN) system that did not
have multifactor authentication,
meaning that there was no need for
the hackers to meet a second security
standard such as receipt of a text mes-
sage. “In the case of this particular
legacy VPN, it only had single-factor
authentication,” Blount said. “It was a
complicated password, I want to be
clear on that. It was not a Coloni-
al123-type password.”
Blount did not apologise for his de-
cisions to inflict chaos on millions by
switching off the fuel distribution and
to pay the ransom. He said that as the
attack unfolded and Colonial raced to
establish the extent of the damage to
its operational systems and to the
physical security of the 5,500-mile
pipeline he felt that he had no choice.
On Monday the Justice Depart-
ment said it had recovered about $2.3
million of the ransom.
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Sunak pushes for City opt-out under G7 deal for global tax system
Gurpreet Narwan
Economics Correspondent
The chancellor is pushing to win a
carve-out for the City of London in the
G7’s push for a new global tax system to
cover the world’s “largest and most
profitable multinational enterprises”.
Rishi Sunak said that the weekend’s
“historic agreement” by G7 finance
ministers would force “the largest
multinational tech giants to pay their
Quantum’s
leap creates
powerhouse
UK computing start-up to merge with Honeywell
Simon Duke
A British start-up working on quantum
computing technology is to merge with
part of an American industrial con-
glomerate in a deal that the companies
say will create a “global powerhouse” in
the promising field.
Cambridge Quantum Computing,
which was founded seven years ago by
a former banker who once served as
chairman of Accrington Stanley Foot-
ball Club, will merge with the quantum
computing business of Honeywell, a
$160 billion company.
Honeywell will inject between
$275 million and $300 million into the
new venture, giving it a 55 per cent
stake. Cambridge’s backers, including
Ilyas Khan, its founder, will own the
remaining 45 per cent.
Quantum computers promise to
enable scientists to easily model the
microscopic and atomic world. They
could revolutionise drug development,
chemical engineering and materials
science and create an array of commer-
cial applications. Khan, 58, said that the
joint venture could “address some of
humanity’s greatest challenges, while
driving the development of what will
become a $1 trillion industry”.
Researchers believe that quantum
computers could operate millions of
times faster than today’s advanced
supercomputers and speed up the
development of artificial intelligence.
Cambridge develops software for the
advanced machines, while Honeywell’s
expertise lies in developing quantum
computers. The tie-up will give the
UK-based company access to hardware
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fair share of tax in the UK”. However,
one official close to the talks said that
Britain was among countries pushing
“for an exemption on financial ser-
vices”, reflecting Sunak’s fears that
global banks with head offices in
London, such as HSBC and Standard
Chartered, could be affected, according
to the Financial Times.
The chancellor’s efforts come as a
think tank warned that America’s giant
technology groups will pay less UK tax
that it might not otherwise be able to
afford.
Khan, who worked as a merchant
banker in Hong Kong for two decades
and is fellow of St Edmund’s College,
Cambridge, founded the company in
2014. The Lancastrian saved Accring-
ton from bankruptcy in 2009 and stood
down as chairman three years later.
The company employs more than 60
scientists, including 35 staff with doc-
torates in quantum computing, chemis-
try, molecular electronics, physics,
maths and nanoscience. It designs tools
to commercialise quantum technolo-
gies and hopes to sell its services to com-
panies and governments. Khan will be
chief executive of the new venture and
Darius Adamczyk, the Honeywell boss,
will be the chairman of the board.
Honeywell unveiled its quantum
computer in late 2019. It has a partner-
ship with Cambridge and invested in
the British company in a $45 million
funding round in December that
valued it at a reported $450 million.
Since its foundation, Cambridge has
raised $73 million in funding from a
variety of backers including IBM’s
venture capital unit.
Adamczyk, 55, said the merger would
allow Honeywell’s investors to have a
direct exposure to cloud computing
business, suggesting that the enlarged
company could float on the stock
market. “Since first announcing
Honeywell’s quantum business in 2018,
investors have been clamouring for an
opportunity to invest directly in Honey-
well’s quantum business. The new
company will provide them with an
ideal avenue to do so,” he said.
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under the G7 deal than they do under
the existing digital services levy. Tax
Watch said that the final figure could be
half as much and that Amazon, eBay,
Google and Facebook could pay about
£232.5 million a year less, based on 2019
figures. Although companies should
end up paying more tax in total, the US
Treasury will be the main beneficiary.
In a deal agreed by G7 finance minis-
ters, countries will impose a minimum
tax rate of 15 per cent to discourage
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Activist turns up heat on Aviva chief
Ben Martin Senior City Correspondent
Cevian Capital could push for a seat on
Aviva’s board after the activist revealed
it had built a stake worth about
£820 million in the FTSE 100 insurer.
Shares in Aviva climbed 11p, or 2.7 per
cent, to 421¾p after Europe’s biggest
activist fund disclosed that it had be-
come the British group’s second largest
investor with a 4.95 per cent holding.
The move by Cevian increases the
pressure on Amanda Blanc, who be-
came Aviva’s chief executive last sum-
mer. Investors have been unhappy with
Aviva’s stock market returns for years
and Blanc has sought to rectify this by
selling a string of non-core businesses
overseas to raise about £7.5 billion.
Aviva has already said that it plans to
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companies moving profits offshore.
Tax Watch said this part of the deal
would do the heavy lifting in raising tax
revenue for the UK government.
The other part, known as Pillar One,
aims to tackle large companies that fail
to pay tax in the countries where they
make their sales. Britain introduced a
digital services tax last year that impos-
es a 2 per cent levy on revenues gener-
ated by UK users of social networks,
search engines and online marketpla-
hand back cash to investors after those
deals, but has not said how much.
Anglo-Swedish Cevian has called on
the insurer to return £5 billion of excess
capital next year. It urged Blanc, 53, to
implement more aggressive cost-cuts,
estimating savings of at least £500 mil-
lion by 2023, more than her present
target of £300 million, by next year.
The activist claimed that “a focused
and high-performing” Aviva could
have a share price higher than £8 a
share in three years’ time and could
double its dividend to 45p.
It is understood that Cevian has not
ruled out trying to nominate a director
to Aviva’s board, which would require
the backing of other shareholders.
Pushing for boardroom representation
would be in keeping with the activist’s
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ces. Under the new deal, G7 leaders
have agreed to US demands to scrap
this tax. Digital services taxes will be re-
placed with a tax on businesses with
profit margins of at least 10 per cent.
Tax Watch is a UK charity that says
it is “dedicated to compliance and
sound administration of the law in the
field of taxation”. Its backers include
Julian Richer, of Richer Sounds, and
James Timpson, of the shoe repairer.
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track record. It has previously nomin-
ated directors at other European com-
panies where it holds big stakes, includ-
ing Nordea, the bank.
Christer Gardell, managing partner
at Cevian, said: “Aviva has been poorly
managed for many years and its high-
quality core businesses have been held
back by high costs and a series of bad
strategic decisions.” Yet he indicated his
support for Aviva’s bosses, saying that
they were committed to “delivering
substantial shareholder value”.
An Aviva spokesman said: “We regu-
larly engage with investors and wel-
come any thoughts which move us
towards our goal of delivering long-
term shareholder value.”
Alistair Osborne, page 35
It’s game on, page 36
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Business

Need to know Strange Brew

1
Hundreds of thousands of Percentage of businesses who reported high,
homebuyers are set to miss the medium and low confidence of survival over
stamp duty holiday deadline on the next three months, UK, 2 November 2020
June 30 in the busiest property to 16 May 2021
market for a decade. There are
704,000 sales going through the Low confidence Moderate confidence
conveyancing process in Britain,
the highest for ten years, High confidence
according to Rightmove, the
property website. This is nearly Pubs and bars
twice the previous high of 428,633
in May 2017. Page 4 A B C

2
Honeywell, an American
100%
industrial conglomerate, is
investing $300 million in a
British start-up that designs
software for the next generation of
supercomputers. It plans to merge 50
its advanced computing division
with Cambridge Quantum
Computing, the seven-year-old
firm. Page 33
Dec 2020 Feb 2021 Apr 2021 0

3
Cevian Capital could push for
a seat on Aviva’s board after
the activist investor revealed it
P owners aren’t ready to roll out
Pub All other businesses

had built a stake worth about

£820 million in the FTSE 100
insurer. Pages 33, 36
the barrel over survival prospects A B C
100%

he pubs sector may premises surviving the next maintaining “high

4
A deal agreed by the G7
means that bit American
technology groups will pay
less tax in the UK than they do
under the existing digital services
tax, Tax Watch, a think tank, has
warned. Although Facebook,
Google and Amazon should end
up paying more tax in total, the
US Treasury will be the main
beneficiary. Page 33
T
have opened up as three months passed 20 per confidence” over their
restrictions have cent last month for the first short-term survival chances,
eased, but time since November. probably thanks to the 50
publicans have yet Its survey shows that in unveiling of the
to celebrate (Dominic Walsh October only 6 per cent of government’s “road map”
writes). Although landlords had “high out of the pandemic and the
confidence has improved, confidence” of surviving the reopening of the hospitality Dec 2020 Feb 2021 Apr 2021 0
many retain a glass-half- following three months, sector.
empty outlook on their although by February this However, that percentage
prospects. had fallen to barely 1 per is still far below the wider A National lockdown ends
According to a new report cent, a record low. economy, with 43.8 per cent
on the state of the industry The ONS figures suggest of all other businesses

5
Airbus has become embroiled
in a row with Qatar Airways,
one of its key customers, over
the paintwork on its A350 long-
haul aircraft, just as the aerospace
industry looks to emerge from the
chaos caused by the Covid-19
by the Office for National
Statistics, the percentage of
pub and bar owners with
“high confidence” in their
that in the past month
confidence has bounced
back, with 24 per cent of
pub and bar owners
B National lockdown begins
declaring that their
confidence is high. C Outside hospitality opens
Those pub and bar owners
suffering “low confidence”

Paint row clouds the picture

pandemic. The Gulf state airline
has grounded some aircraft and
halted new deliveries in the
disagreement with the Toulouse-
based aircraft builder.

6 for Airbus at Qatar Airways

The Bank of England has
been accused of falling short
of maintaining financial
stability by refusing to disclose
individual results or inflict
penalties in its inaugural climate
change stress tests. Page 36 A. TCHAIKOVSKI/MASTER FILMS/AIRBUS

Robert Lea Industrial Editor pliers, publicly to account. According to

7
Individual fund managers
should be obliged to disclose
how much of their own money
they invest in the funds they run
and market to retail investors,
Interactive Investor, the
investment platform, has told the
Financial Conduct Authority.
Page 38
analysis of the quarrel by Reuters, one
The planemaker Airbus has become side of the argument is that as a
embroiled in an extraordinary row with premium airline with expensive fares,
Qatar Airways, one of its key custom- Al Baker hammers home his exacting
ers, over the state of paintwork on its standards. Others believe that he picks
A350 long-haul aircraft, just as the aer- fights to gain better terms for his
ospace industry looks to emerged from delivery schedules from the aircraft
the chaos caused by the Covid-19 crisis. manufacturers. The aircraft have a list
The Gulf state airline has grounded price of about $320 million each,
some aircraft and halted new deliveries although big customers such as Qatar

8
British American Tobacco, the
owner of Lucky Strike and
Camel, has raised its annual
growth forecasts after more
smokers turned to vapes and
electronic cigarettes. Page 39
in the disagreement with the Toulouse- are known to be able to achieve large
based company. discounts.
The row is a blow for Airbus’s supply The disagreement also can be seen in
chain in Britain, where it employs the context of next year’s football
6,000 people making wings for the World Cup in the Gulf state, in which
aircraft and where Rolls-Royce Derby Qatar Airways will be the main carrier
is the supplier of Trent XWB engines. of teams and their supporters.

9
The pandemic may have
enforced permanent changes
on the world of work, but the
promise of greater flexibility is
ringing hollow for millions of part-
timers who are struggling to find
jobs. Page 40
Qatar is the second largest operator
of the A350, behind Singapore Airlines,
accounting for 53, or 12 per cent, of the
jets in service. It has 23 on order. Qatar’s
A350s account for nearly a quarter of its
235-strong fleet.
After warning of “industrial reper-
cussions” last week concerning a dis-
Qatar is the second largest of the
three big Persian Gulf carriers whose
home airports act — in normal times —
as hubs for air traffic flows between east
Qatar Airways claims to have found problems in paintwork on the Airbus A350 and west. It is smaller than Emirates, of
Dubai, but carries more passengers
condition and its underlying root cause update on how quickly its production than Etihad, of Abu Dhabi. It is also a
to be fully understood and corrected would recover over the next couple of 25 per cent shareholder in Inter-

10 Tony Danker, director-

general of the CBI, has
told members of the
bosses’ organisation in his first
address to its annual meeting that
it must do more to prevent
companies finding it “hard to see
blue sky from the bottom of a
well”. Page 40
pute with Airbus, Qatar yesterday said
that it “continues to experience and has
witnessed a condition in which the
surface below the paint on some of its
Airbus A350 aircraft has been degrad-
ing at an accelerated rate”.
It said that it had grounded some its
fleet “until the condition and root cause
can be understood and corrected”, and
added: “Qatar Airways will require this
before the delivery of any further Air-
bus A350 aircraft.”
Airbus declined to comment, citing
customer confidentiality.
The wide-body, twin-aisled A350 is a
direct competitor to the Boeing 787
Dreamliner, which has had issues of its
own with electronics and the Trent
1000 engines supplied by Rolls-Royce.
Airbus recently published a bullish
years. Although that mainly concerned
its A320 short-haul model, Airbus said
that it expected production of the A350
to increase to six a month over the next
eighteen months, having been halved
from a rate of ten a month before the
pandemic.
Qatar Airways’ chief executive is
Akbar Al Baker, who in the past has
held Airbus and Boeing, his main sup-
national Consolidated Airlines Group,
the owner of British Airways.
The news is a setback for Airbus,
which has delivered 425 A350s since
the airliner first went into service —
late — in 2015. It has orders for a further
490 to fulfil. Other significant cus-
tomers for the aircraft include Cathay
Pacific, of Hong Kong, and Lufthansa,
of Germany.
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Wetherspoons
Share price
2019 2020
Jul Oct Jan Apr
Percentage of workforce reportedly on furlough, UK, 19 October 2020 to 2 May 2021
National Tier system National
lockdown introduced lockdown
begins begins
All other businesses
Nov 20 Dec 20 Jan 21
24%
of restaurants,
pubs and bars
yet to open
Sources: Office for National Statistics, Refinitiv, Altus Groups and CGA
No closure as Ring comes full circle
Ben Martin Senior City Correspondent
The London Metal Exchange has
bowed to pressure from dealers and
scrapped a proposal to close its historic
Ring trading floor permanently.
The 144-year-old Ring is Europe’s
only remaining open outcry market
and is used to set prices for industrial
metals. Its future came under threat in
January when the exchange set out a
plan to modernise the market by
abandoning the Ring and switching to
fully electronic trading.
The exchange immediately faced a
backlash from some traders on the
proposal, which it put to a consultation
of its members.
It announced yesterday that it would
move instead to a hybrid model that
would preserve the open outcry
process for part of the market, in a com-
Security fears weigh heavily on bitcoin
Callum Jones
US Business Correspondent
Bitcoin came within a whisker of its
lowest level since January amid intense
speculation about how American
investigators recovered much of the
ransom paid to the Colonial Pipeline
hackers.
The world’s largest cryptocurrency
stumbled after the incident raised
questions about its security.
The justice department said on
Monday that investigators had seized
63.7 bitcoins, worth about $2.3 million,
which Colonial had paid after its sys-
tems were hacked last month, causing
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promise aimed at placating opponents
of its original plan.
The Ring has been temporarily shut
since March last year because of Covid-
19, forcing the exchange to move to
electronic trading. It is the first time
since the Second World War that the
trading floor, which is encircled by dis-
tinctive red sofas, has fallen silent.
About 150 people packed into the Ring
each day before the closure to set prices
through open outcry, a mixture of
shouting and hand signals considered
by some to be a relic of the past.
The exchange now aims to reopen
the Ring on September 6. Official
prices, which are relied upon by many
physical metals traders and are fixed
each day at lunchtime, will be set
through open outcry. Closing prices,
used by commodities traders at banks
and other financial firms, will continue
petrol shortages on America’s east
coast. The majority of the payment is
said to have been recovered after the
FBI somehow gained possession of a
private key to unlock a bitcoin wallet
that had received most of the funds.
Bitcoin, which has been under pres-
sure in recent weeks, was down a fur-
ther 7.8 per cent at $32,824.21 last night.
Since riding a wave of optimism
about its potential to top $60,000 for
the first time in April, the digital asset
has slumped in value by almost half.
Bitcoin’s most ardent believers argue
that it is a secure, decentralised curren-
cy that will change the world. Tentative
signs of acceptance by Wall Street firms
have proved even more
volatile. Having dropped
from 63 per cent in
November to only 3 per cent
in April, the proportion has
gone up again, to 19 per
cent, well ahead of the
5.5 per cent of all other
businesses.
Profitability has also been
a problem. In December,
100 per cent of pubs and
bars surveyed had suffered a
slump in profits of at least
50 per cent, but with
outdoor trading restarting
on April 12, that figure had
fallen to a third by the
beginning of May.
Lockdowns also resulted
in a wide variation in the
number of employees on
furlough. At its peak during
the November shutdown,
91 per cent of pub and bar
staff were on the scheme.
to 55 per cent, although it
remains significantly ahead
of other types of business,
where the furlough rate is
between 8 per cent and
15 per cent.
According to the ONS,
although the lifting of
restrictions on beer gardens
is reducing the numbers of
pub and bar staff on
furlough, they remain high.
“This suggests that where
pubs and bars have been
open, they have been
operating with minimal
staff.”
As June 21 approaches, a
delay of at least two weeks
to “Freedom Day”, when all
remaining restrictions are
due to be removed in the
last stage of the road map to
recovery, looks increasingly
likely.
to be fixed at the end of the day using
electronic trading.
Matthew Chamberlain, the
exchange’s chief executive since 2017,
said that it “remains very comfortable”
that the original proposal to close the
trading pit “was a very appropriate way
of taking the market forward”. How-
ever, he conceded that the exchange
had to listen to other views and said:
“We can’t be the sole arbiters of the best
interests of the market.”
Asked whether he believed that he
still had the support of the exchange’s
members, Chamberlain, 39, said: “You
would have to ask the LME member-
ship about that.”
The exchange sits at the centre of the
world’s industrial metals market and
has been owned since 2012 by Hong
Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which
acquired it for £1.4 billion.
and some large companies hinted at a
shift from the fringes of global finance
to the mainstream.
Its latest rapid rally ended abruptly
when Elon Musk — previously a sup-
porter — stepped back. Concerns over
the environmental impact of mining for
bitcoin prompted Musk to say that
Tesla, the electric carmaker he heads,
would stop accepting it as payment for
vehicles, shortly after starting to do so.
The currency, created by a secretive
software developer using the name
Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008, has no
physical form. Intended as a currency
to pay for goods and services, bitcoin’s
main use been speculative trading.
Cevian is a bit late
to Aviva’s party
business commentary Alistair Osborne
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all this shareholder
activism? Think of all the
times over the past 15
years that Cevian Capital
could have taken a
4.95 per stake in Aviva (report, page
33) and caused some proper trouble.
There was the golden age of
Andrew Moss, the ex-boss but three,
big on the mantra “One Aviva,
Twice the Value”: a concept he put
into practice by running off with a
colleague’s wife. Who can remember
if he ever got round to growing the
insurer from 20 countries to his
near-40 target?
After he got the heave-ho, in
came Mark Wilson in 2013. He
brought investors the disguised
rights issue otherwise known as a
£5.6 billion all-share takeover of
Friends Life. Plus, a delightful
attempt to do over a bunch of OAPs
who’d bought preference shares sold
as “irredeemable” that Wilson had
an abortive go at redeeming. Once
he was turfed out in 2018, the
insurer spent five months
appointing an internal candidate,
Maurice Tulloch. He left after 15
months for family reasons after
riling investors with his status quo
strategy.
Aviva’s share price during all that?
Down from £8 to 280p: the price at
which Amanda Blanc took charge in
July 2020. And it’s here that Cevian’s
timing is a bit of a puzzler. It’s under
Blanc and newbie chairman George
Culmer that Aviva finally looks to be
making progress. Blanc, an ex-Axa
and Zurich executive, had already
spent six months as an Aviva non-
exec, so hit the ground running. She
spotted a “jack of all trades and
master of none”, chocka with red
tape, and opted to slim it down to
the UK, Ireland and Canada.
She’s got on with it, too, agreeing
the sales of eight businesses in eight
months: France, Poland, Italy,
Turkey, Singapore, Indonesia,
Vietnam and Hong Kong. The
upshot? Looming proceeds of
£7.5 billion and a share price up to
421¾p, including the extra 3 per cent
triggered by the Anglo-Swedish
Cevian’s latest bit of activism.
Isn’t Blanc already doing her bit to
revamp what Cevian boss Christer
Gardell sees as a business “poorly
managed for many years”? Short
answer: up to a point. He fears too
much of the disposal proceeds could
vanish in Aviva’s usual money pit, so
is upping the pressure for a £5 billion
return: the top of the analysts’
range, given regulatory demands to
hold capital. He also wants “at least”
£500 million of cost-cuts by 2023,
not the target £300 million. Plus, a
doubling of the dividend to 45p
within three years. That, he says,
will restore the shares to £8.
It’s punchy stuff. Yet he’d say he’s
broadly supportive of the Culmer/
Blanc efforts so far, having first had
talks with them in September before
building a stake in the new year.
Cevian is no plate-throwing activist,
either. And it didn’t get involved
with Aviva earlier because it was
seven years invested in rival RSA,
using its peak 15 per cent stake to
encourage a £7.2 billion break-up
bid. It also helped to dismember
Old Mutual.
Is it set on something similar at
Aviva? Cevian says not, but it’s too
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early to tell. And it hasn’t ruled out
agitating for a board seat, though
probably not for its UK chairman
Lord Myners, who never quite got
one at Greensill Capital. Wouldn’t
Aviva demand more than a 5 per
cent stake for that? Still, it all helps
focus minds on what comes after
Blanc’s shrink-to-fit routine. At least
Cevian will help her go faster.
Heavy metal
M
ore proof all this new-
fangled tech has its limits.
People like to go to work for
a good face-to-face yell at each
other. And not least at the London
Metal Exchange.
Thanks to Covid, last year saw
the first closure since the Second
World War of the Ring: the arena
dating back to 1877, when metals
merchants drew a circle on the
sawdust floor of a City coffee house
to signal the start of trading. The
virus forced a switch to electronic
trading that LME chief Matthew
Chamberlain was minded to make
permanent. He reckoned it
produced “more reliable pricing” at
an exchange that saw trades worth
$11.6 trillion last year.
So in January it issued a
consultation on closing the Ring.
The result? Open outcry, with a
“record 192 responses”. They
underlined a split. Financial players
backed going electronic. But others,
not least smaller traders of physical
metals, argued that scrapping the pit
would make it far tougher to do
complex trades, such as contracts
protecting miners from price swings.
Indeed, one unique trait of the
exchange is the ability to price
metals contracts to any future date
a client wants.
The upshot? A compromise that’s
reprieved the Ring, where 150
dealers are encircled by red leather
couches. From its September 6
reopening, they’ll still set the
official prices, fixed at lunchtime, on
which physical traders rely. But the
closing prices, used by the likes of
banks to mark their books to
market, will be set electronically. It
may not last forever. But some City
traditions are still worth shouting
about.
It’s a woman’s game
F
ootballers’ Wags have long
been a pre-tournament feature
of the national game. But not
the woman from Wagamama:
Debbie Hewitt, chairwoman of The
Restaurant Group, who’s stepping
down next year to become the first
female chairman of the Football
Association. True, her five-year
tenure, including the pricey noodle
shop buy, hasn’t exactly been
trophy-winning. But what do you
expect from a squad that includes
Frankie, Benny and Chiquito? And
there’s still something to like about
her no-nonsense playing style.
When she arrived, she kicked out
the old guard, noting they’d “not
faced up to reality” and “lost their
way”. The FA blazers are in for a
welcome shock.
alistair.osborne@thetimes.co.uk
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Business

It’s game on as activist breaks cover

Cevian Capital hopes lion in proceeds and have left the
All to play for group focused on Britain, Ireland and
to persuade Aviva to 600p
Canada.
Aviva’s share price has risen by more
cut costs and return than 50 per cent since Blanc took
charge, buoyed by her disposal pro-
cash to its investors, gramme as well as a wider stock market
rally as fears about the impact of the
writes Ben Martin Mar 4, 2019 Covid-19 pandemic have faded. Cevian
Maurice Tulloch 500 will have missed out on some of those
Amanda Blanc was only weeks into her appointed to gains.
new job as chief executive of Aviva Feb 23, 2021 The activist is understood to have
succeed Wilson Aviva unveils sale of
when Europe’s biggest activist investor had its eye on Aviva for about a decade
came calling. French business and had met Blanc’s predecessors, but
Blanc, 53, below right, took charge of its long-term involvement in another
the FTSE 100 insurer last July. It is British insurer, RSA, in which Cevian
understood that she met Cevian 400 first bought shares in 2013, meant that
Capital in September in what would be it had to hold off on building a stake in
the first in a series of cordial behind- Jul 6, 2020 Aviva to avoid doubling up in rival
the-scenes conversations between Amanda Blanc firms.
Aviva’s bosses and the Anglo-Swedish Oct 9, 2018 replaces Tulloch That obstacle has been removed
activist as the investment firm began to Veteran Aviva boss Mark with immediate recently, however, after RSA agreed to
build its interest in the insurer. Then it Wilson ousted amid effect sell itself to two overseas insurers last
secretly began to build a stake in the 300 November.
shareholder frustration Nov 20, 2019
British group this year. with the progress of his Cevian’s decision to reveal its stake in
Tulloch disappoints
Yet what started as a private engage- turnaround plan
Aviva has been driven partly by dis-
ment between the two sides exploded investors with strategy closure rules, which would have forced
into the open yesterday when Cevian outlined at a capital the activist to announce its investment
revealed to other investors that it had markets day once it surpassed 5 per cent.
amassed a stake of almost 5 per cent in Making the investment public also
Aviva. In a statement, it urged the 200 frees up Cevian to discuss the Aviva
Sep 11, 2020
insurer to return £5 billion of surplus shareholding with its own investors,
Aviva announces deal to
capital that it has accumulated through Mar 23, 2020 which include pension funds and sover-
disposals orchestrated by Blanc and Aviva shares tumble amid offload Singaporean arm eign wealth funds.
called on her to take a more aggressive the Covid-19 pandemic Its approach contrasts with that
stance on cost-cutting. taken by Elliott Management, the
Cevian’s decision to go public 100 American activist hedge fund, which
increases the pressure on Blanc to recently acquired a multibillion-pound
revive Aviva’s fortunes. Shareholders 2018 2019 2020 2021 stake in GlaxoSmithKline but has so far
have long been frustrated with the Source: Refinitiv refused to comment publicly on the
insurer’s returns, which have left it ripe reasons for its investment in the
for an activist campaign. Some in the FTSE 100 drugs maker.
stock market are wondering why it took firm often describes itself time. It is the biggest itself in two and became Activists typically try to force
Cevian so long to get involved.
“I would have expected them to be in
Taking the as a “constructivist” and
typically it likes to work
activist firm in Europe
and is a long-term
Vesuvius and Alent. In
addition, it was a big
companies to sell themselves or parts of
their business. Yet although Cevian’s
the game a little bit earlier, to be
honest,” Ming Zhu, an insurance
industry analyst at Panmure Gordon,
friendly with company
management teams and
other shareholders to
investor in companies.
It has an established
track record in Britain,
shareholder in the
plumbing supplies
group now known as
investment in RSA ended when that
insurer was bought by rivals, it is
thought that it is not aiming to put
the stockbroker, said.
Shareholder unrest had dogged
approach bring about change.
Founded almost two
having backed a
turnaround of the once-
Ferguson.
In Europe, it has a
Aviva in play for a takeover.
Cevian said yesterday that it
Blanc’s two predecessors. Mark Wilson, decades ago, the firm troubled RSA Insurance, stake in ABB, the believed that Blanc and George
who was in charge of Aviva for almost Behind the story manages more than which was sold recently Swiss engineering Culmer, the former Lloyds Bank-
six years, was ousted in October 2018 $16 billion in assets and is to Intact, of Canada, and company, and ing Group finance chief who be-
evian Capital widely known in the City Tryg, of Denmark, for Nordea, which is

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when investors lost patience with the came Aviva’s chairman last
group’s stagnant share price. His suc- doesn’t fit the of London, thanks in part £7.2 billion. the biggest year, were committed to “de-
cessor, Maurice Tulloch, also struggled mould of the to its choice of Lord It also invested in Old bank in the livering substantial share-
to live up to expectations. A highly typical activist Myners as the chairman Mutual and urged the Nordic holder value”. This signals
anticipated strategy revamp by Tul- investor (Ben of its UK business. giant Anglo-South countries. It is that the activist firm is
loch, unveiled in November 2019, Martin writes). Many — Myners was a City African financial services similarly supportive of Aviva’s
proved a damp squib. He eventually left including most famously minister in Gordon group to simplify its among the bosses, for now.
last year after 16 months because of a Elliott, the American Brown’s Labour corporate structure. leading It also has not ruled
family illness. hedge fund — are known government and he Old Mutual later broke investors in out pushing for a board
Blanc, however, has wasted little time for aggressive campaigns remains a high-profile itself up. Ericsson, the seat at the insurer, which
in overhauling Aviva. She has struck a to shake up companies. figure in the Square Mile. Other past British Swedish would allow it to support
series of deals to offload eight non-core Cevian prides itself on Cevian owns stakes in investments include telecoms Blanc’s revamp from the
businesses in countries including taking a softer approach. between ten and fifteen Cookson, the industrial equipment inside and keep a close
France, Poland, Italy and Singapore. The Anglo-Swedish companies at any one metals group that split powerhouse. eye on the progress of
These have raised a combined £7.5 bil- Aviva’s overhaul.

Bank’s climate stress tests ‘fall short’ Google improves choice on

Philip Aldrick Economics Editor
The Bank of England has been accused
of falling short of maintaining financial
stability by refusing to disclose indivi-
dual results or inflict penalties in its
inaugural climate change stress tests.
Unlike normal stress tests, the
analysis “will not be used to set capital
requirements” and results for the seven
banks and twelve insurers involved will
be released only in aggregate.
Unveiling the plan, the Bank said that
the work was an “exploratory exercise”
of the risks posed both by the govern-
ment’s 2050 net-zero target and global
warming, not a full stress test, despite
the pledge made by Mark Carney, the
former governor, in 2019.
Bank officials have been driving
global efforts to embed climate change
into financial stability to ensure that
risks are priced properly. Clearer pricing
will give businesses an incentive to de-
carbonise, the Bank hopes. The Trea-
sury added tackling climate change to
the Bank’s core remit in March.
Financial risks will emerge from the
transition to net zero and the impact of
extreme weather, such as fires, flood-
ing and heavy rain.
The Bank set out three scenarios
spanning thirty years: early action by
governments to deal with climate
change; action that is late; and taking
no additional action. All options pose
significant costs, either from a higher
effective carbon price or from the con-
sequences of extreme weather.
Andrew Bailey, the governor, said:
“The end result will be more robust
management of climate-related finan-
cial risks across the sector.”
The results will be published next
May. The Bank did not commit to
repeating the tests, which it called “a
learning exercise” that it hoped would
“improve firms’ risk management”.
Climate campaigners called it a
missed opportunity. David Barmes,
senior economist at Positive Money, a
green banking think tank, said: “By
delaying the implementation of climate
capital rules, the Bank is undermining
its duty to protect financial stability and
support net-zero.”
The Bank could make lenders
increase loss-absorbing capital and
may ban dividends if balance sheets are
considered vulnerable.
6 The Treasury will announce today
that it is setting up a greenwashing
watchdog to clamp down on unethical
funds that damage trust in sustainable
investing. The Green Technical Advi-
sory Group will oversee the govern-
ment’s delivery of a “Green Taxonomy”
— a common framework for environ-
mentally sustainable investments.
Android devices in Europe
Charlie Parker
Google has bowed to pressure from reg-
ulators to allow its rivals to compete to
be the default search engine on Android
devices in Europe for free.
The move, which was announced
yesterday, expands on a previous pledge
to European Union authorities that
competitors could pay to appear on the
“choice screen” of devices, where users
select their preferred search engine.
Google’s Android mobile operating
system dominates the mobile device
market and is used on about 80 per cent
of the world’s smartphones.
The American technology company
said that the five most popular eligible
search engines in each EU country
would be displayed in random order at
the top of the screen, while up to seven
would be shown at the bottom. Previ-
ously it had allowed only four competi-
tors to be displayed.
Regulators are considering rules that
could come in next year for the likes of
Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook
to level the playing field for rivals.
The European Commission fined
Google €4.3 billion in 2018 for using
Android to lock in the dominance of its
search engine over others. Smartphone
makers that use Android had been
forced to place Google search at the
centre of the home screen and tp display
the Google Play app store and Chrome
browser prominently. The fine came
with requirements allowing phone
makers and telecoms providers to in-
stall non-Google apps on their devices.
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David Smith
The G7’s Big Tech tax agreement
‘‘
won’t rescue the public finances
It was hard to miss
it, but the weekend’s
G7 breakthrough
on taxing
multinationals,
notably the big technology groups,
was significant. Rishi Sunak, who
chaired the G7 finance ministers’
discussion in London and pushed
through the agreement, was in no
doubt. “These seismic tax reforms are
something the UK has been pushing
for and a huge prize for the British
taxpayer — creating a fairer tax
system fit for the 21st century,” he
said.
The Treasury was keen to
emphasise the benefits for taxpayers.
“The fairer system will mean the UK
will raise more tax revenue from large
multinationals and help pay for public
services here in the UK,” it said.
All of which makes it a little curious
that, so far at least, what normally
follows a significant tax
announcement — detailed analysis
on the impact from the Institute for
Fiscal Studies and the big
accountancy firms — hasn’t
happened.
The breakthrough has generated
reaction from the left, which thinks
the proposed global minimum
corporation tax of 15 per cent is far
too low, and from the right, which
thinks even a low minimum tax rate
will stifle global tax competition.
Most of the experts, however,
are biding their time, and for
good reason.
One is that an agreement
among the West’s biggest
economies — America,
Japan, Germany, Britain,
France, Italy and Canada
— is not the same as an
agreement for the
world. The next
hurdle is when the
G20 gathers in
Venice next month,
but it will be far from
the last. Last weekend
represented progress,
but this is still a work
in progress.
Apart from timing,
which means this
could take many years,
there is another factor.
Labour politicians such
as shadow chancellor
Rachel Reeves have
attacked the deal
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The bit of the deal that Britain was
keenest on was that tax on a fifth of
the profits of multinationals above a
10 per cent threshold should go to the
country in which the firm is
generating sales. That, though, looks
like an open invitation to tax advisers
to find new and imaginative ways for
multinationals to avoid paying it.
“The deal may encourage more of
the techniques perfected by the
Amazons of this world, using
sophisticated accounting to grow in
size under the guise of losing money,”
Ronen Palan, a professor at City
University and an expert on tax
havens, wrote on The Conversation
UK website yesterday. “It may be
transformational, but whether or not
it will affect the amount of taxation
paid by the corporate sector is a
different matter altogether.”
What that means is that, to the
extent that paying for the pandemic
and reducing the budget deficit will be
done through taxation, it will be
through the taxes that we know
about.
One feature of the pandemic was
that most people were shielded from
its economic effects by furlough and
other government schemes. Hence
the modest rise in measured
unemployment, the huge increase in
savings and the fact that consumers
have been racing out of the traps as
the economy has reopened. In the
main, however, individuals are not
scheduled to suffer much of a
direct payback for the
government’s largesse. The
message to business in the
chancellor’s budget three months
ago was that it had to stump up
in return for the support it had
received during the
pandemic.
Hence the focus on the
UK’s fourth biggest tax, in
terms of revenue —
corporation tax.
The increase from 19 per
cent to 25 per cent in April
2023 is intended to be
raising an extra £17.2 billion
a year by 2025-26.
Individuals did not
escape scot-free. Freezing
the personal allowance
and higher-rate threshold
from next year will raise
just over £8 billion a year
by 2025-26. But this stealth
tax increase is quite
modest, given the scale of
the hit to the public finances and,
unless inflation really takes off, most
people will not notice it very much.
Two things are happening here.
One is that, while the Treasury is yet
to publish a new set of fiscal rules, the
government appears to have accepted
that there is no chance of reducing
debt to pre-pandemic levels. We will
have to live with it. Official
projections are for public sector debt
to be above 100 per cent of gross
domestic product in the mid-2020s,
and probably well beyond that,
compared with 80 per cent before the
pandemic. Many economists would
say that is the right thing to do, but
the Treasury should be upfront
about it.
The other factor is timidity about
raising taxes on individuals. Even with
an 80-seat majority and the
government seeking to embellish its
green credentials, Sunak could not
risk the backlash from increasing the
duty on petrol and diesel. For years,
chancellors have performed
contortions to avoid raising the basic
rate of income tax and other headline
taxes. It is more than ten years since a
big, bold tax increase aimed at the
majority; George Osborne’s increase
in VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per
cent, announced in 2010. As it is,
taxes are set to reach their highest
level as a proportion of GDP since
1969-70. In the end, all taxes
ultimately are paid by individuals,
though maybe not all individuals,
even if they are initially levied on
businesses.
Maybe there is method in avoiding
tax increases aimed directly at
individuals. It is smart politically and
taxes on business may be the ultimate
stealth tax, because consumers do not
notice when they pay for them in
higher prices or lower returns for
their pension funds. But the timidity is
troubling. At some stage in the years
to come, unpopular tax increases will
’’
have to be levied, if not to fix the
public finances, then to change
behaviour if the government is serious
about its green agenda. Timidity may
mean it never happens. And then, as
now, we should not
expect taxes on Big
Tech to be the
cavalry that rides to
the rescue.
David Smith is Economics Editor of
The Sunday Times
david.smith@sunday-times.co.uk
Comment Business
Ian King
It might not feel ethical,
but China’s bond market
is far too big to ignore
veryone knows the US
E
Treasury market is the
biggest and most liquid of
its kind. It is also the most
influential, by far, with
events in the US government bond
market regularly having an impact
on numerous other securities.
For years, rather less attention has
been paid to Chinese government
bonds, even though China is now the
world’s second largest sovereign
debt market and is bigger than the
German, French and Spanish
government bond markets
combined.
Now that looks to be changing.
Data released late last Friday
suggests that, as of the end of May,
foreign investors held a record
2.12 trillion yuan (£234 billion) of
Chinese government bonds. That
was up 1.2 per cent on the end of
April and means that overseas
‘Investors are buying
Chinese government
bonds due to the relative
lack of volatility with
which they trade’
investors now own just over one in
ten of all outstanding Chinese
government bonds.
There are a number of reasons for
this. The most obvious explanation
is that the rise in value of these
holdings reflects the rise in the
yuan, which, in May, gained 1.6 per
cent against the US dollar amid
growing evidence of the strength of
China’s economic recovery.
Yet there are also other factors at
play. This particular asset class is
also attracting investors seeking
income. The yield on ten-year
Chinese government bonds
yesterday touched 3.17 per cent,
compared with 1.57 per cent for ten-
year US Treasuries, 0.81 per cent for
ten-year UK government gilts and
0.08 per cent on ten-year Japanese
government bonds. German
government bunds of the same
duration continue to trade with a
negative yield.
That yield difference is not as
striking as it was: the spread
between ten-year Chinese
government bonds and their US
equivalent has narrowed from
210 basis points (2.1 per cent) in mid-
37
February to 160 yesterday. And the
real spread for most funds will be
lower because the majority report
their returns in US dollars and so
face a currency risk in holding
Chinese government bonds.
However, even after hedging out
currency risk, there is still a
meaningful difference in yields from
other government bonds.
This has attracted interest from,
among others, institutional investors
in Australia, who, apart from the
yield, have also been buying Chinese
government bonds due to the
relative lack of volatility with which
they trade. That may grow as an
attraction as central banks around
the world taper, halt or unwind their
asset-purchase schemes, potentially
leading to increased volatility.
China itself also has been seeking
to open up its bond market to
outside investment. This has been
blunted, up to a point, by the
country’s human rights record,
which has deterred some investors
on environmental, social and
governance grounds. But China’s
best bond salespeople have been the
global index providers. FTSE
Russell, owned by London Stock
Exchange Group, announced in
April that, as of October this year,
China would be included in its
FTSE World Government Bond
Index. With Chinese government
bonds already included in two other
leading bond indices — the
Bloomberg Barclays Global
Aggregate Bond Index and the
JP Morgan GBI-EM Index — it
created impetus for further buying.
Goldman Sachs Asset
Management predicted as long ago
as October 2019 that inclusion in all
three indices could lead to
$250 billion to $300 billion of
investment from overseas. That
process may still have some way to
run because foreign investors still
own a comparatively low proportion
— 10.4 per cent — of Chinese
government bonds. That compares
with just under 30 per cent for
US Treasuries and 28 per cent for
UK gilts.
It won’t be many people’s idea of
an ethical investment, but the
Chinese government bond market is
now too big to ignore.
Ian King is business presenter for
Sky News
6 Katherine Griffiths is away
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Business

Fund managers ‘must say if

they have skin in the game’
Patrick Hosking Financial Editor
Individual fund managers should be
obliged to disclose how much of their
own money they invest in the funds
they run and market to retail investors,
the Financial Conduct Authority has
been told.
Interactive Investor, the investment
platform, has launched a campaign for
more transparency after nine out of ten
of its own users said that they would like
to see evidence that fund managers had
“skin in the game”.
Unlike their peers in the United
States, British fund managers do not
have to disclose whether they invest in
the funds they manage, let alone how
much they have tied up in them. The
same applies to UK investment trusts,
but board members do have to disclose
holdings. The managers of trusts have
to disclose only in the rare event that
their stake is above 3 per cent.
Richard Wilson, chief executive of
Interactive, which has 350,000 private
investor clients with £21.5 billion invest-
ed in open-ended funds and invest-
ment trusts, has written to the regula-
tor, calling for more disclosure. “Retail
investors deserve better disclosure and
treatment — it is just good govern-
ance,” he said. “They should be given
the critical information required to
decide if those who eat their own cook-
ing are indeed better cooks.”
While some portfolio managers are
encouraged by their employers to place
some of their savings in the funds they
manage, few disclose whether they do
so or how much. In the past some
closely followed star managers, includ-
ing Terry Smith and Nick Train, have
disclosed whether they are invested in
their funds or investment trusts. Smith
has said previously that he has
£250 million of his personal wealth
invested in his funds.
Smith said: “It is important fund
managers have skin in the game to truly
deliver alignment of interest with
investors and disclosure of their stake
should be mandatory. Who would trust
a chef who wouldn’t eat his or her own
cooking?”
Personal exposure to a fund is no
guarantee of success: Neil Woodford,
whose investment empire collapsed in
2019, was personally invested in his
Patient Capital investment trust.
Schroders, one of the City’s largest
investment houses, encourages its lead
portfolio managers to invest in the
funds they manage and all its senior
managers do so, it says. However, their
holdings are not disclosed.
Eighty-eight per cent of respondents Forsey joins
to a poll on the Interactive website said
that it should be mandatory for fund
managers to say whether they person-
the cosmetic
ally invest in the fund they manage.
Eighty-five per cent thought it aligned
their own interests more closely with
revolution to
the fund manager, while 77 per cent
said that they would be more likely to rival Ashley
invest in a fund in which the manager
he former boss of Sports

was personally invested.
The US Securities & Exchange Com-
mission requires mutual fund manag-
ers to disclose their personal holdings
“to help investors assess the extent to
which the portfolio manager’s interests
are aligned with theirs”. Managers have
to disclose the value only in bands.
T
Direct has resurfaced at
Revolution Beauty, a
fast-growing cosmetics
company that puts him in
direct competition with Mike
Ashley’s daughter (Ashley

Profits leap as new clients

join Intermediate Capital
Patrick Hosking
The dramatic recovery in financial
markets since the March 2020 sell-off
and a surge in new client wins helped
Intermediate Capital to increase its
annual profit to more than half a billion
pounds.
The FTSE 100 alternative fund
manager’s own investments swung
from losses last time of £72.3 million to
a profit of £305.4 million, while its
division managing money for third
parties pulled in $10.6 billion of new
business.
Shares in the company closed up
127p, or 5.8 per cent, at £22.83 after it
reported group profit before tax of
£507.7 million for the year to March 31,
up from £110.8 million in the previous
year.
ICG upgraded its guidance for future
client wins, saying that it expected to
garner $40 billion in aggregate in the
four years to the end of 2025 and at least
$7 billion every year.
The company, once a byword for
mezzanine finance, has diversified into
asset categories from infrastructure and
private debt to private equity and prop-
erty. Clients include sovereign wealth
funds, insurers and pension funds. It
operates a hybrid model, managing
$56 billion of client assets in its own
specially created closed-end funds, but
also investing its own money as princi-
pal in the same funds.
It struggled in the aftermath of the
banking crisis, its shares diving to as low
as 108p in 2009. It rejoined the
FTSE 100 last March and is now valued
at £6.7 billion.
Benoît Durteste, 52, chief executive,
said that the exceptional net investment
returns of the past year were “not ex-
pected to be recurring”.
A final dividend of 39p makes a 56p
total, up 10 per cent on last year.
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Armstrong writes). Dave Forsey, 55,
had been Ashley’s right-hand man
for 33 years after starting as a
Saturday shop worker when he was
18 until he resigned abruptly in 2016
after a breakdown in the
relationship between himself and
the trainers tycoon.
Ashley, who said that he had “lost
my right arm” when Forsey
resigned, is understood to have
blamed the former boss for failing to
get on top of staffing issues at the
Shirebrook warehouse, which led to
the business being dragged into a
minimum wage scandal and Ashley
being hauled before MPs.
Ashley was also thought to have
been irritated by Forsey and his
wife, Stacey, agreeing to a second
series of The Real Housewives of
Cheshire, the reality TV show that
depicted their glamorous lifestyle
and opened the doors to their
£6 million house. Ashley viewed the
move as ill-judged when the
business was facing scrutiny.
Joining Revolution Beauty has
raised eyebrows in the sector as it
will mean Forsey, who has only ever
worked in sportswear, is competing
with SportFX, the fitness-focused
make-up brand set up by Matilda
Ashley, which has been funded by
her billionaire father.
Since his departure from Sports
Direct, now called Frasers Group,
Forsey has been a self-employed
Smokers turn to
e-cigarettes and
vapes to heat up
prospects at BAT
Simon Duke
The owner of Lucky Strike and Camel
has raised its annual growth forecasts
after more smokers turned to vapes and
electronic cigarettes.
British American Tobacco said yes-
terday that it had attracted about
1.4 million new customers to its suppos-
edly less harmful products, with about
14.9 million consumers using “new
category” nicotine devices.
The world’s second largest tobacco
maker said that its lower-risk products
were sold in 53 countries.
Growth in the segment
continued to accelerate, it
said, adding that it had won
market share from rivals.
The FTSE 100 group
expects its revenues to in-
crease by more than 5 per
Dave Forsey and wife, cent this year after stripping
Stacey, who starred out the effects of currency
in the reality TV show swings. Previously it had
The Real Housewives forecast growth of between
of Cheshire, far left 3 per cent and 5 per cent.
Shares in BAT rose by
11p, or 0.4 per cent to £27.85
business consultant. He joined on the back of the profit
Revolution Beauty last March, but upgrade.
has only recently announced his The company is one of the largest in
appointment on social media. the FTSE 100, with a valuation of about
Forsey and Revolution Beauty did £64 billion. Its brands include Lucky
not return a request for comment. Strike, Camel, Kent and Dunhill ciga-
Revolution Beauty was founded rettes and the Vuse and Vype e-ciga-
by Adam Minto and Tom Allsworth rettes. It employs about 55,000 people
in 2013 and makes most of its sales worldwide. While largely focused on
through Instagram and concessions cigarettes, BAT has diversified into
in Superdrug. Revolution recorded vaping, tobacco heating products and
£120 million of sales and a modern “oral” products — small nico-
£8.3 million pre-tax loss for the year tine-emitting pouches that are tucked
to the end of 2019 after expanding next to the gum.
into Australia. Last year its turnover fell by 0.4 per
The business suffered during the cent to £26 billion, but operating profits
pandemic as cosmetics sales were up 10.5 per cent to £10 billion. Its
plummeted, prompting it to raise non-combustible products account for
£15 million from its lenders. about a tenth of overall turnover. The
company has felt the effects of the
pandemic, with travel restrictions
hitting sales at duty-free shops. Yester-
day it warned that the global travel
retail segment would not recover until
2022.
Tobacco stocks have come under
pressure in recent years as public health
campaigns have convinced smokers in
many countries to kick the habit. BAT’s
share price has halved since hitting a
record high four years ago.
Amid stiffer regulation, all tobacco
companies are building up their vaping
and non-combustible businesses.
However, some countries
including Pakistan, Bang-
ladesh and Vietnam, have
less stringent anti-
smoking rules — territo-
ries that BAT has targeted
as growth markets.
The group reported a
recovery in volumes and
share growth in its key
emerging markets, and it
expects strong revenue
growth in the United States,
driven by sales of cheaper
cigarettes and the Natural
American Spirit and New-
port brands. However, BAT
said that the outlook for its American
division remained unclear because
of wider economic and fiscal
uncertainties.
The company expects earnings per
share to rise in the “mid-single-digit”
range after currency movements. It
aims to reduce its net debt to about
three times its adjusted earnings by the
end of the year.
Currency movements could knock
eight percentage points off its adjusted
diluted earnings per share growth, it
cautioned.
Analysts at Jefferies, the broker, said
that the growth upgrade and the boost
to BAT’s reduced risk products were
seen as encouraging.

Retail investors are revelling in Clover Cash shortage threatens to

Callum Jones
US Business Correspondent
Shares in Clover Health doubled in
New York yesterday as the attention of
day traders on popular social media
platforms shifted.
The healthcare company’s stock
became the focal point of the latest on-
line market frenzy for “meme stocks”
and at the close on Wall Street it was up
by 85.8 per cent, or $10.23, at $22.15.
Shares in Wendy’s, the American
fast-food franchise that dates back to
1969, also jumped, in its case by 25.9 per
cent, or $5.93, to finish at $28.87.
Clover, which went public by merg-
ing with a special purpose acquisition
company, or Spac, in January, is a health
insurance provider. Its strong debut
ended when Hindenburg Research, an
American short-seller, alleged that the
business had misled investors. Clover
strongly denied the claims.
Retail investors have been buying the
stock in recent days amid chatter on
forums including Reddit’s WallStreet-
Wendy’s, an American fast-food chain,
has been targeted by retail investors
Bets. “I see no reason why CLOV
couldn’t reach the same price point as
AMC [the cinema chain] did last week
(>$70),” one user wrote. “It might even
go higher than that.”
Clover confirmed in February that,
after the Hindenburg report, American
regulators had launched an investi-
gation into “certain matters that are
referenced in the article” and that it was
co-operating.
Its shares have been targeted
increasingly by hedge funds. Short-
selling funds make their money by bor-
rowing assets and selling them in the
market, before buying them back for
less and pocketing the difference.
However, this year day traders
sought to challenge them. They mobil-
ised to drive up the highly shorted
stocks of companies such as GameStop,
the struggling video games chain, and
AMC Entertainment, the world’s
largest cinema operator.
In recent days many WallStreetBets
users have turned their attentions to
Clover. One suggested that its shares
were “primed for take-off” yesterday.
Clover’s rapid rally raises questions
about the Spac craze, which brought
hundreds of shell vehicles on to the
stock market in only a few months
before running out of steam. Investor
demand for entities within the wider
blank-cheque space had appeared to
have faded somewhat during the spring.
Yesterday GameStop climbed 7.2 per
cent, or $20.19, to $300.20, its highest
level since the peak of its surge in
January. AMC inched up by 0.1 per cent,
or four cents, to close at $55.04.
pull the plug on start-up
Callum Jones
US Business Correspondent
An electric vehicle start-up has
reported doubt over its ability to
continue as a going concern only nine
months after going public via a $1.6 bil-
lion blank-cheque merger.
Lordstown Motors, which promised
to transform the pick-up truck market,
said last night that it did not have
enough cash to launch commercial
production of its vehicles.
Shares in the Nasdaq-listed company
slumped by 16 per cent, or $2.18, to
$11.22 after the disclosure. Executives
were “evaluating various funding alter-
natives”, it said, including whether to
raise money by issuing more equity.
Lordstown, based in Ohio, is trying
to transform an old General Motors
plant in the state. It combined with
DiamondPeak Holdings Corp, a special
purpose acquisition company, or Spac,
in October. Production of its Endur-
ance truck had been due to begin this
year. The company first reported “some
challenges” with funding last month,
when it cut its production target for this
year from 2,200 vehicles to 1,000.
In a filing last night, Lordstown said
that its ability to continue as a going
concern was reliant on the develop-
ment of vehicles, regulatory approval
and commercial production. It said that
it was short of funds, and added: “These
conditions raise substantial doubt
regarding our ability to continue as a
going concern.”
Lordstown is one of several electric
vehicle start-ups to have gone public
via blank-cheque mergers in the past
year. When announcing the merger
with DiamondPeak, it touted $1.4 bil-
lion of pre-orders for the Endurance
and said that it had facilities to pro-
duce “in excess of 600,000 electric
vehicles annually”.
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Business

Part-time workers
Gurpreet Narwan on
why many employers are
not interested in taking
on part-time workers as
the recovery gathers pace
The pandemic may have enforced
permanent changes on the world of
work, but the promise of greater flexi-
bility is ringing hollow for millions of
part-timers who are struggling to find
jobs.
Although employers are resuming
recruitment now that lockdown
restrictions are being lifted, few are
interested in taking on part-time staff,
who make up a quarter of the workforce
and are disproportionately employed
in low-paid jobs.
Flows out of part-time work are
particularly damaging for women and
carers, who are often employed in this
way. In addition, many of those in part-
time work are unable to increase their
hours so have been shut out of other job
opportunities, as part-time jobs in the
hospitality and retail sector dried up
during the pandemic.
Part-time employment has fallen to
its lowest level since 2010 and for
women since 2009. As a share of all
employment, part-time work is now at
its lowest since 1993, having declined
from 26 per cent to 24 per cent.
About half of all workers on fewer
than 35 hours a week were furloughed
during the first lockdown or had their
hours cut, compared with only one in
three full-time workers. More impor-
tantly, they have not been returning to
their “normal hours” as quickly as full-
time workers.
An analysis by Timewise, a flexible
working social enterprise, and the Part-time jobs in the hospitality disability —– often, full-time work is
Institute for Employment Studies and retail sector dried up during not an option,” the report said.
found that although vacancies were the pandemic as shops, pubs It went on: “Since early on in the
rising, only 8 per cent of vacancies were and restaurants were closed pandemic, it has been clear that
offering part-time work. “For many of people working in part-time roles have
these people, part-time work is a borne the brunt of UK job losses,
necessity to being able to work at all. furlough and further reduction in
Whether fitting work with raising working hours. Yet even post the so-
children, elder care or a sickness or called global flexible working experi-

Bosses’ group must ‘seize the moment’

Robert Lea Industrial Editor
The leader of the CBI has told
members of the bosses’ organisa-
tion that it must do more to pre-
vent companies finding it “hard to
see blue sky from the bottom of a
well”.
In his first address to the annual
meeting of the CBI since becoming
director-general, Tony Danker
said that the country, British busi-
ness and the CBI in particular were
at a “turning point”.
He told the annual meeting: “We
will never have an opportunity like
this to transform our economy and
society for the better than right
now.”
As the government begins to
legislate for its policies of decarbo-
nising and “levelling-up” of the
economy, he told members that
they and the CBI leadership must
“seize the moment”.
In response to a new dawn for the
economy, post-Brexit and post-pan-
demic, he said: “We need to evolve.
We need a response, as an organisa-
tion, commensurate with the size of
this watershed moment, to shift from
being advocates of change to agents of
it, too.”
In an attempt to shift the CBI from
Tony Danker said: “We will never
have an opportunity like this to
transform our economy and
society for the better than now.”
being a critic of government policy in
recent years, he said that the organi-
s
sation needed to refocus itself to
h its members during the coming
help
e
economic transformation.
“What is the way the CBI can help
yyou do this?” he told the annual
m
meeting. “Are you on track for your
o
own journey to net zero? Are you
eengaged in new clusters of eco-
n
nomic development across the
ccountry? Are you equipped to
ttackle diversity and mental health
aat work?”
He said that the CBI needed also
tto shed its existing reputation. “I
w
want us to speak for all businesses.
S
Sometimes I hear people say that
tthe CBI only speaks for big compa-
n
nies. Or just the FTSE, or just
L
London.”
In reference to its original full
ti
title, the Confederation of British
IIndustry, Danker said: “We want
tto truly live up to our name as a
‘c
‘confederation’.”
He admitted that engagement
n
needed also to be more 21st
ccentury, “increasingly digital . . .
andd more dynamic”, adding: “Dyna-
mism now needs to become our norm.
I hope you will begin to see a CBI that
is faster, more engaging and innova-
tive.”
the times | Wednesday June 9 2021
run the risk of being left behind
ment, they still have no viable market in
which to find a new job.”
Economists pointed out that people
were being propelled into full-time
work because they could no longer
afford to work part-time or because of
staff shortages at their workplace.
Tony Wilson, director of the Institute
of Employment Studies, said: “People,
Nvidia chances its arm on
Chinese for takeover deal
Simon Duke
Nvidia has formally applied to the
Chinese competition watchdog to
approve its $40 billion takeover of Arm,
the British microprocessor designer.
The Chinese authorities could take a
year to 18 months to scrutinise the deal,
which has encountered stiff opposition
from local chip producers.
The delay puts the American semi-
conductor group in danger of missing
its deadline to complete the acquisition
of Arm, considered the most successful
technology company to have emerged
in the UK in recent decades.
When Nvidia agreed to buy Arm
from Softbank in September, it hoped
to clear all hurdles in the first quarter of
next year. However, the proposed
takeover is bitterly opposed by many in
the industry and is being investigated
by antitrust watchdogs worldwide.
In Britain, the Competition and
Markets Authority is reviewing the deal
on antitrust and national security
grounds and will issue a preliminary
report by the end of next month. Oliver
Dowden, the culture secretary, will
then decide whether to clear the trans-
action, impose conditions on Nvidia or
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lower job satisfaction for those at the While white-collar workers are bene- further and the clock rolling back on
bottom of the labour market. Although lity in
fiting from greater flexibility gender eequality.
more people are moving into full-time the form of more remote ote “Wo
“Women, who have
work, this does not mean that living working, those on lowerr alre
already been badly dis-
standards are rising if longer hours are wages and in part-time ad
advantaged in this pan-
needed to shore up family finances. roles are not sharing in de
demic, make up the
At the same time, rates of involuntary the spoils. m
majority of people who
part-time work and of under-em- “We need a jobs n
need part-time work.
ployment, which covers people who recovery that is inclusive W
With the furlough
cannot get enough hours, are well of people who need to sc
scheme set to end in
above pre-pandemic levels, providing work less, not just Sep
September, part-time em-
further evidence that the world of work remotely,” Emma Stewart, rt, ploy
ployees feel they are cling-
is not as flexible to the needs of workers director of developmentt at iing
ng on to jobs that will soon
as some would like to suggest. Timewise, said. “This is vital to d isappear and cannot find new
disappear
It also points to yet more inequality. prevent inequalities from m widening part-time jobs to t apply for.”
particularly women, are having to work
longer hours either because their
partner has lost income or because they
have had to increase their hours to cope
with higher demand, for example in
health services and frontline roles
exacerbated by recruitment problems.”
The rise in such “involuntary full-
time work” is likely to translate into
mandate a more in-depth phase two
investigation.
Arm, founded in 1990 as a joint ven-
ture between Acorn and Apple, licenses
its lower-energy chip designs to manu-
facturers. Its processor designs power
almost every smartphone. Many Arm
customers compete with Nvidia and
they fear that they will have to pay
higher prices or will find access to its de-
signs curtailed under the new owner.
The inquiry, first reported by the
Financial Times, will be complicated by
a row at Arm’s joint venture in China.
The board of Arm tried to dismiss Allen
Wu, head of Arm China, last year, but
he has refused to leave. Wu, a Chinese
American, has the company seals,
which prevents him being forced out.
Wu is now suing Arm China in
Shenzhen, an industrial city in the
south of China, where he is reported to
enlisted the support of local politicians.
The Nvidia takeover has been criti-
cised in China’s state-owned press and
by its semiconductor trade body.
“The regulatory process is confiden-
tial and we aren’t able to comment on
its progress. We remain confident we
will receive approval from regulators
and close in early 2022,” Nvidia said.
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OnTheMarket in profit
OnTheMarket reported its first

Making the case for climate mitigation

annual profit of £2.7 million after a
loss of £11.5 million a year ago and
has pledged to return its furlough
money. The property website was
launched by a group of estate
agents six years ago. The profit

A
s Britain adjusted to comes amid a housing market
lockdown in March last Driving change ADVICE Buy boom fuelled by relocations and
year, many were still WHY Growth driven by ever- the stamp duty holiday. The
dealing with the impact Share price The impact of natural disasters company, which is 60 per cent-
of devastating floods — tighter green regulations owned by agents, said that its
700p 1980-1999 2000-2019
made vivid with a photograph of a IMPACT Helps to cut revenues had risen by 22 per cent
house in Ironbridge, Shropshire, Reported disasters building emissions to £23 million. Website visits rose
600
under several metres of water, a 4,212 13 per cent to 267 million and at
ladder leading up to the skylight as a 7,348 the end of January it had 12,687
makeshift means of escape. 500 property advertisers.
advanced drainage systems
The floods were the result of the Total deaths
quick succession of storms Ciara and 400 Revenues Pre-tax profits American jobs boost
1.19m $1.98 billion $312 million
Dennis, after an exceptionally wet
autumn. Elsewhere in 2020 there 1.23m American job openings surged by
300

were apocalyptic wildfires in
America, deadly monsoon flooding
in China and what could be the
hottest temperature ever reliably
recorded — of 54.4C in Death Valley,
California.
Climate change has caused close
to a doubling of natural disasters in
the past 20 years, according to a
United Nations report, which
berated world leaders for failing to
do what was necessary to stop the
world becoming “an uninhabitable
hell” for millions.
While environmental investment
often targets companies that are
reducing our impact on the
environment, there is also much to
be done to adapt to this changing
climate.
Jon Forster, senior portfolio
manager at Impax Asset
Management, said: “Everyone is very
focused on mitigation — avoiding
climate change by better energy
efficiency and moving away from
fossil fuels.” He said that the
frequency and severity of extreme
climate events was accelerating and
had got much worse in recent years.
“We’re going to have a massive effort
to catch up on our mitigation, but
we’re also going to invest very
heavily to actually adapt to the
consequences of climate change.”
genuit
Revenues Pre-tax profits
£399 million £24 million
2017 18 19 20
Source: Refinitiv
business that supplies a much
broader range of sustainable
construction products.
On the adaptation side, it makes
flood risk management systems,
which look like giant crates that can
be built underneath housing estates
and football pitches and elsewhere in
cities to tackle the problem of urban
flooding. This division has delivered
strong growth, which will only
accelerate as regulation catches up
with the growing reality of extreme
weather events.
In terms of mitigation, it has made
a slew of acquisitions focused on
cutting carbon emissions from
buildings. In February it spent
£27 million on Nu-Heat, which
specialises in underfloor heating,
heat pumps and solar heating. Then,
for £210 million, it bought the
Gloucester-based Adey, which makes
products to improve the energy
efficiency of heating systems.
These look like smart acquisitions
as governments take drastic action to
phase out gas boilers. The
International Energy Agency has
suggested that no new fossil fuel
Total affected
200 3.25bn
4.03bn
100
Economic losses
0 $1.63tn
21
Source: UN report 'Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019'
important. Genuit jumped on this
opportunity back in 2015 with the
acquisition of Nuaire for £145 million.
This is likely to benefit from demand
for ventilation in a post-Covid world
and last November Nuaire launched
a ventilation system that included
ultraviolet filters to kill airborne
viruses.
Analysts like the fact that the
company sells to the residential
repair and maintenance and
commercial building sectors in
Britain and Europe, saying that this
diversity gives it the resilience to
withstand market ebbs and flows.
The pandemic was still brutal for
Genuit and sales volumes dropped
by two thirds at the end of March
2020. Business picked up in the
second half and like-for-like sales
were down by 11 per cent over the
year. The first quarter of 2021 looks
better again, with like-for-like sales
up more than 13 per cent on that
period in (the more normal) 2019.
The shares are changing hands for
654p, about 24 times forecast
earnings for this year. Graeme Kyle,
an analyst at Shore Capital, points
A
nother company helping the nearly a million to a new record
world to adapt to more high in April, while more people
extreme weather is Advanced voluntarily left their employment,
Drainage Systems. Listed on the New strengthening the view that a
York Stock Exchange, ADS makes recent moderation in job growth
pipes and systems to collect excess was due to supply constraints.
water after storms, shift it and treat The monthly government report
$2.97tn it. It does this with mainly plastic also showed that layoffs hit a
piping, unlike its closest competitors, record low in April. Millions of
which use concrete. unemployed Americans remain
The majority of that plastic is at home because of trouble
recycled by ADS, which as a result is securing childcare, generous
North America’s second largest unemployment benefits and
plastics recycler. The company buys lingering fears over Covid-19.
bales of used shampoo bottles and
other single-use plastics, as well as Made.com float price
industrial plastic waste such as out-
of-spec auto parts; then it washes, Bookrunners working on the
grinds and makes all this into pellets flotation of Made.com, which is
before turning it into pipes. expected to value the sofa retailer
In 2019 ADS paid $1.1 billion to buy at between £826 million and
one of its long-established customers £1.06 billion, issued a pathfinder
and suppliers called Infiltrator, which to prospective shareholders that
makes systems to manage priced the shares between 200p
wastewater for buildings not and 265p. The float was said to
connected to the sewers. About a have had attracted two
third of all newbuilds in the United cornerstone investors, Majedie
States use such septic tanks and ADS Investments and Capital World,
says that number may be who had already subscribed for
accelerating as people move out of £70 million. The online retailer is
densely populated cities to more trying to raise £100 million to fuel
remote locations. plans to quadruple its sales.
A recovery in construction and
demand for products to prevent Abellio contract deal
flooding will drive growth, as will
customers shifting from concrete to Abellio is to pay what is believed
recycled plastic products. That to be the single largest hit from
means the shares are worth a look at the government’s nationalisation
$111, about 25 times forecast earnings of the railways. The Dutch state
for the year ending next March. transport company has come to a
£90 million settlement in which it

G
enuit is fully entrenched in
adapting to life in a changing
climate and mitigating our
environmental impact. Founded in
the 1980s as a pipe manufacturer, the
company formerly known as
Polypipe has bought six companies
over the past two years to build a
boilers should be sold globally from out that Genuit is likely to revise will pay the Treasury to keep
2025 onwards and while Britain has earnings up once or possibly twice as ADVICE Buy hold of the contract to run West
yet to firm up its legislation, the the market recovers, so that ratio will WHY A growing demand for Midlands Trains. The level of
writing is on the wall for gas heating. start to look more attractive. He says compensation is thought to relate
Improving the energy efficiency of that investors like stocks with such storm water management to timetable problems and poor
buildings means sealing up cracks strong, long-term trends driving IMPACT Prevents flooding and performance of the London
and holes, which has made growth, which should drive the share extends the life of plastics Euston to and around
ventilation systems increasingly price much higher over time. Birmingham commuter network
in the winter before Covid-19.

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Thungela bounces back

from rock bottom debut
Tom Howard Market report

I
f Monday’s blow-up had been
predicted by some in the City, technology
nobody was brave enough to call
the remarkable rebound in
Thungela Resources’ share price
yesterday.
King jumps on board in float
Shares in the South African
tim will float on which will value the

I
coalminer, which has been spun out
of Anglo American, cratered on their Aim at the end of company at about
debut, losing more than a quarter of this month with £50 million.
their value. Boatman Capital, the Justin King, the As part of the initial
research house, had warned of such a former chief executive public offering
fall, claiming that few of Anglo’s of Sainsbury’s, joining process, King, 60, will
existing investors would want to hold the retail software take a seat on the
on to the Thungela shares that they provider’s board. board as a non-
London-listed drugs business of had been given. The company has executive director.
Cannabis is company said Reckitt Benckiser that Boatman’s main grievance was the been around for Also joining him as a
yesterday that it had was spun off in 2014 — clean-up costs involved once nearly 30 years and non-executive is Lee
the latest hit agreed to pay said: “Increasing coalmines are shut down, which it counts John Lewis, Justin King, the former Williams, 52, French
$30 million upfront to prevalence of cannabis said Thungela had “significantly WH Smith and boss of Sainsbury’s, is Connection’s finance
for Indivior Aelis Farma, a use is leading to underestimated”. It also accused JD Sports among its to join Itim’s board chief.
privately held French greater concern for the customers. Its Itim was founded by
fforts to diversify business, under an potential of adverse technology helps calculates the best Ali Athar, 66, its chief

E beyond its opioid-

addiction
treatments are set to
agreement to work
exclusively on its lead
experimental drug,
outcomes, including
elevated addiction
risk.”
Wall Street report
Attention may have been on the
retailers to integrate
their online divisions
into their existing
way for a retailer to
fulfil an online order,
whether that be from
executive and biggest
shareholder, with
46 per cent of the
take Indivior into which blocks a type of Analysts at Jeffries meme stocks, but most investors bricks-and-mortar a regional warehouse shares. It is
medicines for cannabinoid receptor. called it a positive took to the sidelines ahead of key businesses, keeping or from a local store. understood he will
cannabis-related Mark Crossley, chief move. Indivior shares inflation data. The Dow Jones fell track of stock, Itim aims to raise sell some of his stake,
disorders (Robert executive of Indivior — fell by ¼p, or 0.1 per 30.42 points, or 0.1 per cent, to managing returns and between £10 million although will remain
Miller writes). The the former prescription cent to 156¾p. 34,599.82, while the S&P 500 was sorting out click-and- and £12 million from the company’s biggest
almost flat on the day at 4,227.26. collect orders. It also institutional investors, investor.
Results in brief
Name Pre-tax figure Dividend Anglo of “greenwashing” and valued biggest listed companies, was in fine the stockpiles that they built up ahead
Profit (+) loss (-) Thungela at “zero”. fettle as it rose for the third session in of the Brexit deadline. The shares
BP Marsh & Partners (finance FY) £13.7m (£12.5m) 2.44p p Jul 30 Despite the scepticism, it seems a row, tacking on 17.87 points, or rose 96p, or 2.3 per cent, to £42.52.
Intercede (technology FY) £1.1m (£0.6m) nil that there are investors wanting a bit 0.3 per cent, to hit 7,095.09, not far off The market raised a glass to
Intermediate Capital (finance FY) £509.5m (£114.5m) 56p f 39p p Aug 5 of Thungela. With the forced sellers, of the record high it set last month. Nightcap, the bar owner, as it became
OnTheMarket (media FY) £1.1m (-£11.7m) nil including funds that can invest only The more domestically focused the latest hospitality group to boast
Oxford Instruments (engineering FY) £52.2m (£38.8m) 17p f 12.9p p Oct 15 in FTSE 100 stocks, cleared, Thungela FTSE 250 was more subdued, held about strong trading post-lockdown.
Palace Capital (property FY) -£5.5m (-£9.1m) 10.5p f 3p p Aug 5 jumped 33p, or 29.7 per cent, back up back by speculation that the Since the reopening of indoor pubs
Paragon Banking (banking HY) £96.4m (£57.1m) 7.2p p Jul 23 to 144p — 6p shy of where it started. government will delay the June 21 and restaurants last month, its sales
RWS Holdings (services HY) £24m (£25.8m) 2p Jul 16
The sharpness of the recovery took easing of restrictions. The mid-cap are nearly double what they were in
tinyBuild (media FY) $7.7m (-$2.6m) nil
Trans-Siberian Gold (resources FY) $28m ($12.6m) nil many in the City by surprise, with one index edged 12.56 points, or 0.1 per the same period of 2019. The
Vp (services FY) -£2.3m (£28.4m) 25p p Aug 5 trader describing it as “mental”. cent, down to 22,895.50. company, which owns the London
Water Intelligence (utilities FY) $4.2m ($2.4m) nil Some other stocks that have Speaking of record highs, Cocktail Club chain, said that its
6 Results in brief are given for all companies valued at more than £30 million. f = final p = payable tumbled of late lacked the same sort Watches of Switzerland, Britain’s performance had been “significantly
of bouncebackability. IWG, the offices biggest Rolex seller, struck a fresh ahead of the board’s expectations”.
The day’s biggest movers landlord, was whacked on Monday peak as it improved 36p, or 4.5 per The stock climbed 1½p, or 6.5 per
after a hefty profit warning and it fell cent, to 844p. The retailer, which also cent, up to 24½p.
Company Change another 10½p, or 3.2 per cent, to owns the chain of Goldsmiths For a second day in a row,
Paragon Banking Record half-year profits 11.2% 318¼p. Similarly, Trainline is jewellers, is due to give an update Superdry, the fashion retailer, leapt
Intermediate Capital Second-half performance much better than expected 5.9% struggling to get itself back on track early next month about its trading for higher on little news, zipping 44p, or
Watches of Switzerland Shares hit their highest on record 4.5% after the government revealed plans the past year, during which sales have 11 per cent, up to 444p. Over the past
Flutter “Stay-at-home” stocks fare well amid talk of lockdown easing delay 4.0% to launch its own ticketing app last jumped. two sessions, the shares have gained
InterContinental Hotels Biggest daily rise since February 3.9% month. Its shares dropped 6p, or Dechra Pharmaceuticals, the more than a fifth.
Network International Shares have been volatile in recent weeks -2.8%
2.2 per cent, to 266¾p, almost 40 per animal drugs maker, also hit its B&M, the discount chain, also
Helios Towers Eases from seven-month highs -2.9%
IWG Follow-through selling after Monday’s profit warning -3.2% cent below where they were before dearest price ever after bragging that pushed higher, gaining 9½p, or 1.8 per
CMC Markets Market nervous ahead of Thursday’s results -3.5% the Grant Shapps stuck his oar in. its profits would be bigger than cent, to 535p after analysts at
Hochschild Mining Peruvian elections create uncertainty -4.8% The Footsie, home to London’s previously thought as vets replenish Berenberg tipped the shares to clients.

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UK Corp Bond C ‡@ 104.79 … -0.78 3.87 The Morgan Stanley Funds (UK) Managed Funds
Special Sits ‡@ 4363.00 … -4.00 … Global Bond A Inc ‡@ 109.33 … +3.00 0.82 UK Str Eq Inc A Inc ‡@ 104.40 … -0.30 …
UK Eqty C ‡@ 6317.26 … -14.91 3.28 Class A Shares
Wealthbuilder 69.75 72.18 +0.53 0.44 Global Bond I Gross Inc ‡@1167.00 … +29.78 1.25 US A Acc ‡@ 1036.00 … +25.00 … Def Eqty & Bd Acc @ 128.00 128.00 +0.10 …
UK Eqty Inc A ‡@ 320.21 … +0.35 … Equity
US Sm Cos A Acc ‡@ 1100.00 … +13.00 … Eqty & Bd Acc @ 179.90 179.90 +0.50 0.73
UK Gwth A ‡@ 7496.30 … +0.27 … Global Dynamic A Acc ‡@ 206.35 … -0.76 …
Eur (Ex UK) Eq A Acc ‡@1310.92 … +4.24 1.25 Mgd Income @ 77.80 77.80 +0.13 …
UK Index A Inc ‡@ 1423.81 … -5.83 3.01 Global Energy A Acc ‡@ 170.97 … -1.14 …
HALIFAX INVESTMENT FUND MGRS LTD Glob Brands A Acc ‡@ 11977.28 … +19.14 0.86
UK Mid Cap A ‡@ 6083.23 … +16.14 … Global Equity A Acc ‡@ 218.05 … -0.42 …
01296 386 386 UK Eq A Acc ‡@ 1184.53 … -0.02 1.66
Global Franchise A Acc ‡@293.29 … +0.15 …
Authorised Inv Funds Global Free Enterprise A Acc ‡@1251.85 … -3.76 …
Share Class `C JUPITER UT MGRS LTD
Global Gold A Acc ‡@ 204.90 … -0.41 … Fixed Income
020 7581 3020
Corporate Bond ‡@ 40.08 … +0.01 1.74 Global Special Situations A Acc ‡@306.55 … -0.58 … Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@ 2618.35 … -3.81 …
ARTEMIS FUND MGRS LTD Absolute Return ‡@ 41.68 … -0.06 0.47 Retail Shares (Class 1)
Ethical ‡@ 110.20 … -0.20 … Global Special Situations A Inc ‡@237.11 … -0.45 … UK Ind Lnkd A Acc ‡@ 1350.60 … -3.80 …
0800 092 2051 Distribution and Growth ‡@104.66 … +0.23 2.56
European ‡@ 109.80 … +0.30 0.62 Managed Growth A Acc ‡@288.10 … +0.02 0.30 UK Long Bd A Acc ‡@ 1288.90 … … … Stg Bd Ret Inc ‡@ 59.55 … +0.10 0.56
Authorised Inv Funds Emg Euro Opps ‡@ 241.02 … +0.06 3.03
Far Eastern ‡ 126.20 … -0.10 1.17 Monthly High Income A Acc ‡@245.22 … +0.11 … Strat Bd Ret ‡@ 48.09 … -0.06 2.38
Capital R Acc ‡@ 1935.10 … -6.95 … Fund of Inv Tst ‡@ 148.00 … -0.60 0.62 Monthly High Income A Inc ‡@65.37 … +0.03 … Euro Special Sits ‡@ 492.78 … +5.26 … UK Corp Bond ‡@ 65.66 … -0.23 1.95
Euro Opps R Acc ‡@ 91.26 … -0.48 … Intl Gwth ‡ 115.50 … -0.10 … Multi-Asset Protector A Acc ‡@175.16 … -0.06 … European ‡@ 2904.16 … +23.04 … SANTANDER UNIT TST MGRS UK Corp Ret ‡@ 65.57 … -0.18 1.60
Euro Opps R Inc ‡@ 85.36 … -0.46 … Japanese ‡ 68.80 … +0.01 … Financial Opps ‡@ 872.45 … -2.59 … 08457 413002 UK Eqty Inc Ret ‡@ 97.17 … -1.13 2.57
Strategic Bond A Acc ‡@ 244.54 … +0.19 …
European Growth R Acc ‡@378.40 … -1.80 … North Amer ‡ 130.80 … -0.20 … Income Trust ‡@ 504.48 … -0.11 … Bal Pfolio Inc ‡@ 110.50 … +0.40 … UK Gwth & Inc Ret ‡@ 94.25 … +0.05 …
Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 119.47 … +0.09 …
Global Energy R Acc ‡@ 27.15 … -0.08 2.49 Smaller Cos ‡@ 132.20 … -0.20 0.10 Merlin Bal (Acc) ‡@ 223.07 … +1.16 1.75 Bal Port Gwth Acc ‡@ 239.00 … +0.40 1.30 UK Hi Yld Bd 1 ‡@ 42.72 … -0.10 3.68
Target Return A Acc ‡@ 102.03 … +0.44 0.82
Global Growth R Acc ‡@ 335.00 … -1.07 … Special Sits ‡@ 51.70 … -0.35 … Merlin Gwth (Acc) ‡@ 515.10 … +3.28 … Equity Inc Inc ‡@ 233.80 … +0.20 … UK Inst Acc ‡@ 174.98 … -0.24 …
Target Return A Inc ‡@ 87.63 … +0.01 0.87
Global Income R Acc ‡@ 150.84 … -0.20 … UK Equity Inc ‡@ 86.27 … -0.04 3.11 Merlin Inc (Acc) ‡@ 346.90 … +1.57 … N&P UK Gwth Inc ‡@ 182.80 … +0.10 … UK Mnthly Extra Inc ‡@ 82.60 … -0.26 2.72
UK Alpha A Acc ‡@ 2762.21 … +1.25 0.93
Global Income R Inc ‡@ 101.67 … -0.14 … UK FTSE 100 IT ‡@ 62.56 … +0.40 … Merlin Wwide (Inc) ‡@ 378.24 … +2.20 … Stkmkt 100 Tkr @ 230.90 230.90 +1.40 … UK Mnthly Inc Ret ‡@ 70.19 … -0.27 …
UK Blue Chip A Acc ‡@ 770.11 … +3.15 …
Global Select R Acc ‡@ 150.13 … -0.03 … UK FTSE All-S IT ‡@ 73.62 … +0.06 … UK Growth ‡@ 246.90 … +0.74 … UK Growth Acc ‡@ 502.90 … -0.30 … UK Retail ‡@ 141.22 … +0.30 1.06
UK Smaller Companies A Acc ‡@7091.87 … -5.91 … UK Special Sits (Inc) ‡@ 196.23 … -0.29 …
High Income R Inc ‡@ 74.40 … -0.01 … UK Growth ‡@ 80.59 … -0.06 … UK Growth Inc ‡@ 282.30 … -0.20 … UK Sel Retail ‡@ 129.32 … +0.55 …
UK Smaller Companies A Inc ‡@6361.04 … -5.30 …
Income R Acc ‡@ 481.79 … +0.23 3.38 UK Smaller Cos ‡@ 486.64 … -0.15 …
Income R Inc ‡@ 224.21 … +0.11 3.48 UK Special Situations A Acc ‡@1362.19 … -2.46 …
Monthly Dist R Inc ‡@ 70.26 … +0.05 … UK Special Situations A Inc ‡@499.99 … -0.90 … SCOTTISH MUTUAL INV MNGRS LTD
HSBC GLOBAL ASSET MGMT (UK) LTD
Strategic Assets R Acc ‡ 83.36 … +0.16 … 0141 248 6100
Enq: 0845 745 6123 Dlg: 0845 745 6126 Mon-Fri 8-6
Strategic Bond R M Acc ‡@105.99 … +0.05 1.79 HSBC Index Tracker Investment Funds (OEIC) LEGAL & GENERAL (UT MGRS) LTD European Inc 1731.54 1825.86 +6.79 0.82
Strategic Bond R M Inc ‡@ 58.47 … +0.02 1.81 Enquiries: 0870 050 0955 Dealing: 0870 050 0956 Far Eastern Inc 584.69 617.09 -0.73 1.42
Strategic Bond R Q Acc ‡@105.80 … +0.05 1.83 Amer Ind Acc ‡@ 809.40 … -0.24 …
Equity Acc @ 2616.00 2639.00 -8.00 2.12 Intl Growth Inc 380.56 400.59 +0.02 0.75 For Resolution see Ignis
Strategic Bond R Q Inc ‡@ 58.35 … +0.02 1.85 Amer Ind Inc ‡@ 656.81 … -0.20 …
Equity Dist @ 893.80 902.00 -2.70 2.15 Japanese Inc 41.85 41.85 +0.43 0.56 TU FUND MANAGERS LIMITED
UK Growth R Acc ‡@ 731.45 … -1.24 … Euro Ind Acc ‡@ 1148.29 … +5.76 1.83
For ISIS Asset Mgmt see F&C Fd Mgmt Ltd (OEICS) Euro Ind Acc ‡@ 508.10 … +2.40 1.16 Mutual European 2774.56 2924.97 +10.87 0.81
UK Smaller Cos R Acc ‡@1991.28 … -0.63 … Euro Ind Inc ‡@ 751.64 … +3.79 1.73 British 923.40 923.40 +9.00 …
Euro Ind Inc ‡@ 345.70 … +1.70 1.18 Mutual Far Eastern 1094.71 1155.37 -3.25 0.64
UK Special Sits R Acc ‡@ 741.44 … +0.53 … FTSE 100 Ind Acc ‡@ 243.03 … +0.19 2.61 JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS European 210.70 219.40 +1.00 …
Fixed Int Acc ‡@ 158.70 … +0.10 1.71 Mutual North Am 1983.00 2092.88 +6.23 0.24
FTSE 100 Ind Inc ‡@ 116.02 … +0.09 2.16
Investors Serv: 0800 832 832 Dlng: 0845 946 4646 Fixed Int Dist ‡@ 76.58 … +0.04 1.72 Mutual UK Eq 1303.40 1375.62 -0.31 1.91
FTSE 250 Ind Acc ‡@ 327.43 … -2.04 …
Glob Gwth Acc @ 243.90 243.90 -1.30 1.15 Nth American Inc 1227.65 1295.67 -7.28 … * Yield expressed as CAR (Compound Annual Return);
FTSE 250 Ind Inc ‡@ 207.07 … -1.28 …
FTSE All-S Acc ‡@ 647.54 … +0.38 2.51 All Stks Credit A Inc ‡@ 141.80 … … 1.51 Glob Health Acc ‡@ 91.95 … +0.36 0.76 UK Equity Inc 563.72 594.96 -0.13 1.94 † Ex dividend; ‡Middle price; . . . No significant data. #
AXA FRAMLINGTON UNIT MGMT LTD Asian Div Inc U Trst Inc ‡@95.29 … +0.12 8.51 Glob Tech Acc ‡@ 86.21 … +0.51 0.22 Periodic charge deducted from capital; @ Exit charge
FTSE All-S Inc ‡@ 343.71 … +0.20 2.51
Dling: 0845 602 1952 Priv Clients: 0845 777 5511 Jap Ind Acc ‡@ 143.59 … +0.11 … SCOTTISH WIDOWS UNIT TRUST MGRS
Equity Inc ‡@ 572.40 … -2.70 4.43 Jap Ind Inc ‡@ 114.52 … +0.09 … 0845 300 2244
Gilt Acc @
Gilt Inc @
201.30
74.35
211.80
78.24
+0.10
-0.39
…
1.09
Pac Ind Acc ‡@
Pac Ind Inc ‡@
520.95
336.57
…
…
-0.51
-0.33
2.06
0.44
Authorised Inv Funds (OEICs)
OEIC A Class
British funds
Health Acc ‡@ 2588.00 … +25.00 … Managed Investment Funds 12 month Price Int Yld Grs rd
Jap Smlr Co Ac @ 62.56 66.09 -0.19 … Bal Port A Acc ‡@ 236.60 … +0.60 0.01 High Low Stock (£) +/– % yld
Managed Inc ‡@ 138.30 … … 4.20 HSBC Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Share Class Caut Port A Acc ‡@ 206.10 … +0.50 …
Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 253.50 … +0.10 4.14
Balanced Acc ‡@ 241.99 … +0.28 … Caut Port A Inc ‡@ 151.20 … +0.40 … Index-linked
UK Growth Inc ‡@ 251.90 … +0.30 0.44 Opps Port A Acc ‡@ 279.70 … +0.80 … 111.74 108.50 Tr IL 1Y% 22 109.32 – .05 1.77 –4.28
Balanced Inc ‡@ 151.95 … -0.14 …
UK Select Opps Inc ‡@ 2128.00 … -3.00 0.30 Prog Port A Acc ‡@ 265.90 … +0.70 … 364.38 354.43 Tr IL 2K% 24 * 359.32 – .12 1.51 –3.09
Corp Bd Acc ‡@ 317.73 … +0.20 2.26 112.37 109.56 Tr IL 0V% 24 110.65 – .05 … –3.48
UK Sml Cos Inc ‡@ 422.10 … +2.50 …
Corp Bd Inc ‡@ 129.71 … +0.08 2.29 120.25 115.74 Tr IL 0V% 26 117.38 – .07 … –3.21
Gilt & Fd Int Acc ‡@ 491.87 … +0.09 1.19 136.38 129.05 Tr IL 1N% 27 131.00 – .11 1.04 –3.06
Overseas Growth Investment Funds 129.83 122.69 Tr IL 0V% 28 124.67 – .08 … –2.94
Gilt & Fd Int Inc ‡@ 73.29 … +0.01 1.58
Eur Sel Gth A Acc ‡@ 3521.00 … +12.00 0.34 131.98 124.01 Tr IL 0V% 29 125.87 – .08 … –2.82
Income Acc ‡@ 642.69 … -0.29 2.78 136.78 130.97 Tr IL 0V% 31 133.03 – .07 … –2.68
AXA FUND MANAGERS LTD Income Inc ‡@ 285.83 … -0.12 2.85 393.65 366.57 Tr IL 4V% 30 * 372.41 – .08 1.73 –2.60
Admin & Enq 0117 989 0808 Monthly Inc Acc ‡@ 307.06 … -0.05 … 163.88 149.94 Tr IL 1N% 32 152.46 + .03 0.82 –2.64
Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds
AXA Trusts Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 134.28 … -0.02 … 161.19 146.68 Tr IL 0O% 34 149.62 + .15 … –2.52
UK Trkr A Acc ‡@ 337.60 … -1.40 2.06 310.44 284.82 Tr IL 2% 35 * 292.62 + .33 0.83 –2.40
Gen Acc ‡@ 2101.00 … +6.00 … UK Grth & Inc Ret B Acc ‡@133.95 … -0.09 … 159.59 143.91 Tr IL 0V% 36 148.69 + .34 … –2.45
UK Grth & Inc Ret B Inc ‡@63.91 … -0.04 … UK Trkr A Inc ‡@ 178.00 … -0.80 2.10
Gen Inc ‡@ 1079.00 … -2.00 2.70 187.20 167.60 Tr IL 1V% 37 172.55 + .39 0.69 –2.43
UK Gth & Inc Acc ‡@ 133.95 … -0.09 … 183.12 162.72 Tr IL 0X% 40 169.97 + .48 … –2.32
UK Gth & Inc Inc ‡@ 63.91 … -0.04 … 175.05 153.83 Tr IL 0V% 41 162.30 + .52 … –2.29
UK and Income Investment Funds 195.05 170.46 Tr IL 0X% 42 180.32 + .62 0.35 –2.26
Corp Bond A Acc ‡@ 349.10 … -0.50 1.15 183.33 158.61 Tr IL 0V% 44 169.61 + .69 … –2.21
UK/Global Investment Companies Corp Bond A Inc ‡@ 133.60 … -0.10 1.16 190.64 163.05 Tr IL 0V% 46 175.84 + .76 … –2.17
HSBC Specialist Investment Funds (OEIC) 222.83 190.09 Tr IL 0O% 47 205.60 + .90 0.37 –2.18
Euro Acc A ‡@ 234.70 … … 1.18 Envir Invtr A Acc ‡@ 380.80 … -0.90 0.53 200.53 169.38 Tr IL 0V% 48 185.36 + .92 … –2.17
American Index Retail Acc ‡@809.40 … -0.24 … Hi Inc Bond A Ac ‡@ 256.60 … +1.10 3.75 223.34 187.79 Tr IL 0K% 50 205.97 +1.07 … –2.14
Extra Inc Inc B ‡@ 86.74 … +0.24 1.16
American Index Retail Inc ‡@656.81 … -0.20 … Hi Inc Bond A Inc ‡@ 82.63 … +0.34 3.84 221.88 183.97 Tr IL 0N% 52 203.91 +1.21 … –2.12
Global Gwth Acc R ‡@ 278.70 … -0.10 … 296.98 243.63 Tr IL 1N% 55 271.99 +1.80 0.51 –2.12
Asian Gth Acc ‡@ 147.77 … -0.07 … Hi Res A Acc ‡@ 379.80 … +0.10 2.72
Japan Acc A ‡@ 173.90 … +0.10 … 239.65 192.25 Tr IL 0V% 56 218.95 +2.00 … –2.11
Asian Gth Inc ‡@ 130.99 … -0.06 … Hi Res A Inc ‡@ 125.60 … +0.10 2.77 245.15 196.27 Tr IL 0V% 58 226.31 +2.65 … –2.12
Pac Gwth Acc A ‡@ 569.30 … -2.80 …
Chinese Eq Acc ‡@ 513.81 … +0.27 0.40 Safety Plus A Acc ‡@ 40.49 … … … 282.43 223.37 Tr IL 0W% 62 261.52 +3.62 … –2.11
Chinese Eq Inc ‡@ 434.76 … +0.22 … Strat Inc A Acc ‡@ 225.10 … -1.60 1.80 291.55 224.55 Tr IL 0V% 65 268.98 +4.58 … –2.13
Euro Gth Acc ‡@ 981.58 … +0.20 … Strat Inc A Inc ‡@ 103.80 … -0.70 … 313.02 240.40 Tr IL 0V% 68 291.12 +5.42 … –2.19
Euro Gth Inc ‡@ 823.39 … +0.17 … UK Gwth A Acc ‡@ 190.60 … … 1.52
CIS UNIT MANAGERS LTD UK Sel Gwth A Acc ‡@ 2386.00 … +9.00 0.89 Longs (Over 15 years)
08457 46 46 46 158.28 140.76 Tr 4N% 36 142.91 + .61 2.97 1.09
European Gwth ‡@ 202.90 … +1.40 0.20 120.88 106.39 Tr 1O% 37 108.35 + .57 … 1.18
IGNIS ASSET MGMT 175.49 154.30 Tr 4O% 38 156.62 + .75 3.03 1.16
OEIC B Class
Sus Leaders ‡@ 758.30 … +1.10 0.46 Dlg: 0141 222 8282 168.47 147.55 Tr 4N% 39 149.95 + .72 2.83 1.19
Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds
UK Growth ‡@ 642.00 … +1.10 … American Gth Inc @ 322.55 340.42 -3.34 … 171.83 149.58 Tr 4N% 40 152.36 + .77 … 1.22
UK Income ‡@ 216.00 … +0.10 3.65 UK Trkr B Acc ‡@ 372.00 … -1.60 2.48 113.86 97.05 Tr 1N% 41 99.48 + .63 … 1.28
Balanced Growth @ 262.17 276.69 -0.93 1.52 183.17 157.72 Tr 4K% 42 160.92 + .87 2.80 1.26
UK Trkr B Inc ‡@ 177.10 … -0.80 2.54
Balanced Growth Acc @ 393.13 414.92 -1.40 1.49 158.62 135.48 Tr 3N% 44 138.42 + .83 … 1.29
Corporate Bond ‡@ 99.69 … -0.89 4.77 166.68 141.72 Tr 3K% 45 144.91 + .88 … 1.29
European Growth @ 403.88 426.26 -3.57 2.18 UK and Income Investment Funds 189.87 160.09 Tr 4N% 46 163.79 +1.02 2.59 1.30
101.07 87.91 Tr 0Y% 46 90.58 + .70 … 1.32
CLOSE FUND MANAGEMENT LTD European Growth Acc @ 475.71 502.07 -4.21 2.24 Corp Bond B Acc ‡@ 362.50 … -0.50 1.38 123.14 101.25 Tr 1K% 47 104.15 + .74 … 1.31
0870 606 6402 Glob Gwth @ 331.53 349.90 -3.09 0.12 Corp Bond B Inc ‡@ 133.50 … -0.10 1.39 130.95 107.13 Tr 1O% 49 110.25 + .80 … 1.31
Beacon Inv ‡ 84.88 … +0.35 0.01 Higher Yield @ 83.98 88.64 -0.29 4.43 199.64 166.14 Tr 4N% 49 170.32 +1.12 2.50 1.29
UK Gwth B Acc ‡@ 206.70 … +0.10 1.81 101.54 80.47 Tr 0X% 50 83.35 + .74 … 1.31
Higher Yield Acc @ 275.04 290.28 -0.92 … UK Sel Gwth B Acc ‡@ 2505.00 … +10.00 1.09 194.06 175.21 Tr 0V% 51 193.76 +1.10 … –2.12
Japan @ 49.06 51.78 -0.03 0.94 Cautious Man Fd A Acc ‡@296.40 … +0.10 … Gwth Tst Acc @ 106.00 106.50 -1.00 0.17 194.87 158.62 Tr 3O% 52 162.82 +1.10 … 1.29
Managed @ 130.89 138.15 -0.06 0.66 Cautious Man Fd A Inc ‡@153.40 … … … High Inc Acc ‡@ 144.60 … +0.10 4.44 134.30 105.36 Tr 1X% 54 108.78 + .90 … 1.30
Managed Trust @ 71.96 76.96 +0.17 … OEIC C Class 221.30 178.26 Tr 4N% 55 182.98 +1.17 2.32 1.27
Dealing: 020 7426 6232 China Opp Fund A Acc ‡@1761.00 … -8.00 … Japan Ind Acc ‡@ 70.58 … +0.06 … 142.64 110.32 Tr 1O% 57 114.01 + .91 … 1.27
Mngd Pfolio Inc @ 95.54 100.84 -0.11 0.58 Emg Mkts Opps Fd A Acc ‡@247.30 … -0.20 … Pacific Ind Acc ‡@ 209.90 … … 1.86 UK and Income Investment Funds
227.33 179.62 Tr 4% 60 184.74 +1.30 … 1.23
Winchester ‡ 3643.04 … +6.03 0.70 Pacific Grth @ 498.71 526.34 -2.81 1.34 Erpn Grth Fund A Acc ‡@ 283.20 … +0.80 0.41 UK 100 Ind Acc @ 180.90 180.90 +0.90 3.19 UK Gth C Inc ‡@ 131.00 … +0.10 2.28 101.78 73.87 Tr 0K% 61 77.06 + .78 … 1.22
Smaller Comp @ 756.24 798.14 +1.64 0.15 Erpn Sel Opps Fd A Acc ‡@2205.00 … +7.00 0.15 UK Active Opps Acc @ 249.90 252.90 -0.10 … UK Sel Gwth C Acc ‡@ 2622.00 … +10.00 1.29 182.62 139.05 Tr 2K% 65 143.80 +1.23 … 1.21
Smaller Cos @ 628.94 663.79 +1.36 0.21 231.23 177.31 Tr 3K% 68 183.02 +1.47 … 1.19
Fix Int Mnthly Inc Fd Acc ‡@34.13 … +0.02 4.14 UK Index Acc ‡@ 319.00 … +0.10 2.26 156.74 114.27 Tr 1X% 71 118.37 +1.10 … 1.14
Global Equity Fund Acc ‡@4385.00 … +14.00 … UK Index Dist ‡@ 161.60 … +0.10 2.30
STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS
EDENTREE INV MGMT LTD Global Equity Income A Inc ‡@63.41 … -0.05 … US Ind Acc ‡@ 726.20 … +2.60 …
0800 358 3010 INSIGHT INVESTMENT FDS MANAGEMENT LTD Global Tech A Acc ‡@ 3122.00 … +3.00 … Worldwide Acc ‡@ 363.30 … +0.80 0.40
0845 279 3003 Mediums (5-15 years)
Client Servs: 0207 163 4000 Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Shares 102.69 101.42 Tr 0O% 23 101.46 + .03 … 0.06
Amity European A ‡ 316.00 … -0.10 … Instl UK Idx Opps A Acc ‡@106.66 … +0.03 1.86 107.43 104.85 Tr 2N% 23 104.88 + .03 … 0.07
Insight Investment Multi-Manager Funds M-Asset Abs Ret A Acc ‡@153.70 … +0.30 1.72 M & G SECURITIES AAA Inc CAT Acc ‡@ 100.80 … … 1.02 100.64 99.72 Tr 0V% 24 99.93 + .05 … 0.15
Amity International A ‡ 347.60 … +0.30 …
Well Bldr Bal Acc ‡@ 96.05 … -0.32 … M-Man Active Fd A Acc ‡@263.60 … +0.20 … Enq: 0800 390 390 Dealing Line: 0800 328 3196 AAA Inc CAT Inc ‡@ 57.68 … +0.01 1.02 104.35 102.40 Tr 1% 24 102.49 + .05 … 0.13
Amity Sterling Bond A ‡ 105.70 … +0.10 3.56
Well Bldr Gwth Acc ‡@ 93.79 … -0.36 … M-Man Inc Grth A Inc ‡@ 160.50 … +0.20 2.04 Authorised Inv Funds AAA Income Acc ‡@ 109.00 … … 1.42 111.97 108.32 Tr 2O% 24 108.37 + .05 … 0.16
Amity UK A Inc ‡ 263.40 … -0.30 0.35 123.76 117.87 Tr 5% 25 117.94 + .07 4.24 0.19
M-Man Inc Grth Fd A Acc ‡@197.80 … +0.20 2.01 Amer Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 202.10 … -0.30 …
Higher Income A ‡ 135.60 … … … Charifund Inc ‡ 1548.43 … +1.41 … 103.71 101.37 Tr 0X% 25 101.63 + .09 … 0.22
Sterling Bond U Trst Acc ‡@248.10 … +0.10 1.20 Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 187.50 … +0.10 2.55 111.08 107.29 Tr 2% 25 107.44 + .09 … 0.24
UK Equity Growth A ‡ 345.50 … -0.20 …
Sterling Bond U Trst Inc ‡@69.43 … +0.02 1.20 Corp Bond Inc ‡@ 65.47 … +0.04 2.59 101.14 98.61 Tr 0V% 26 99.06 + .11 … 0.33
INVESCO FUND MGRS LTD Sterling Class A Investment Funds 1
Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 129.80 … +0.10 3.58 Euro Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 260.90 … +1.60 0.34 109.72 105.42 Tr 1K% 26 105.75 + .11 … 0.37
Dling: 0800 085 8571 Inv Serv: 0800 085 8677 109.23 104.13 Tr 1N% 27 104.68 + .12 … 0.47
UK Abs Ret Fd A Acc ‡@ 167.80 … … … Euro Smlr Cos Acc ‡ 524.24 … +2.53 … Glb Advtg CAT Acc ‡@ 158.50 … +0.10 0.59
Brkr Serv: 0800 028 2121 131.78 123.55 Tr 4N% 27 123.94 + .15 3.43 0.50
UK Alpha Fund A Acc ‡@ 172.10 … +0.40 0.26 Euro Smlr Cos Inc ‡ 464.50 … +2.25 … Glob Advtg Acc ‡@ 209.40 … +0.10 0.57
INVESCO Funds 100.95 96.45 Tr 0V% 28 97.14 + .15 … 0.56
F & C FUND MANAGEMENT LTD (OEICS) UK Irsh Sm Co Fd A Acc ‡@742.50 … -1.70 … Glob Eq Uncstrd Acc ‡@ 166.60 … +0.30 … 113.61 106.76 Tr 1X% 28 107.46 + .18 … 0.59
Enqs: 0870 601 6183 Dealing: 0870 601 6083 UK Str Inc N/Trl ‡@ 323.57 … -0.12 7.05 UK Property A Acc @ 236.09 247.66 +0.02 2.68 Higher Inc Acc ‡@ 152.70 … +0.10 3.66 149.84 138.76 Tr 6% 28 139.32 + .19 4.31 0.62
Sterling Class A Investment Funds 2 107.70 100.42 Tr 0Y% 29 101.32 + .23 … 0.71
Share Class 1 - Retail UK Property A Inc @ 96.43 101.15 +0.01 2.72 Higher Inc Inc ‡@ 50.70 … +0.02 3.74
Extra Income Inc ‡ 731.39 … +1.20 … Japan Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 119.70 … -0.20 … 102.60 94.93 Tr 0W% 30 96.06 + .28 … 0.81
Corporate Bd ‡@ 60.17 … +0.03 1.71 US Growth Fund A Acc ‡@1762.00 … +4.00 … 148.13 135.20 Tr 4O% 30 136.35 + .35 3.48 0.77
INVESCO PERPETUAL Funds Gilt & Fxd Int Inc ‡ 99.47 … +0.05 0.90 Managed Acc ‡@ 330.40 … +0.50 0.48
Emerging Mkts ‡@ 136.50 … -0.50 … 99.94 92.54 Tr 0N% 31 93.74 + .30 … 0.90
Gl Hi Yd Bd Inc ‡ 48.05 … +0.04 … Select Inc Acc ‡@ 97.22 … +0.07 2.39 147.41 133.57 Tr 4N% 32 134.95 + .40 3.15 0.90
Euro Gwth & Inc 1 ‡@ 1277.00 … +11.00 … Childrens Acc ‡@ 464.86 … -0.85 1.33
Index Linked Bd Inc ‡ 159.80 … +0.61 … Select Inc Inc ‡@ 55.94 … +0.04 2.43 157.76 141.18 Tr 4K% 34 142.95 + .58 3.15 1.02
Extra Inc Bond ‡@ 50.03 … +0.01 1.66 Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 225.76 … +0.01 …
Index Trckr Inc ‡ 74.00 … +0.06 2.62 UK Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 362.80 … +0.60 1.40 101.77 91.57 Tr 0X% 35 93.34 + .47 … 1.14
FTSE All-Shr Track ‡@ 412.70 … -0.10 2.13 High Income Inc ‡@ 320.74 … -0.15 … JP MORGAN ASSET MGMT Short Dated Corp Bd Inc ‡ 25.98 … … 1.48 UK Eq Hi Alpha ‡@ 224.70 … +0.30 …
Global Gwth SC1 ‡@ 316.80 … -0.50 …
High Inc Trst @ 12.89 13.58 +0.03 …
Income & Grth Inc ‡@ 412.73 … +0.08 … OEIC UK Select A Inc ‡ 3269.01 … +3.51 2.07 UK Eq Hi Inc Acc ‡@ 250.30 … … … Shorts (under 5 years)
Income Inc ‡@ 1273.55 … -1.14 2.39
Max Inc Bond ‡@ 49.95 … +0.03 … Asia A Acc ‡@ 320.90 … -1.10 … UK Eq Hi Inc Inc ‡@ 73.86 … +0.01 … 104.62 100.91 Tr 3O% 21 100.91 – .01 … 0.03
Money Acc ‡@ 91.05 … … … 107.97 100.00 Tr 8% 21 100.00 – .06 8.00 8.03
Multi Man Caut ‡@ 70.41 … … 3.18 Emerging Mkts ‡@ 327.10 … -1.80 … Sterling Class A Investment Funds 3 UK Ethical Acc ‡@ 239.60 … -1.00 …
Monthly Inc Plus Inc ‡@ 107.55 … +0.07 … 101.25 100.52 Tr 0K% 22 100.53 + .01 … 0.03
Multi Man Distr ‡@ 60.44 … … 3.37 Eur Dyn (ex-UK) A Acc ‡@283.90 … +0.80 … UK Opps Acc ‡@ 323.90 … -0.60 … 104.03 102.13 Tr 1O% 22 102.13 + .01 … 0.04
UK Aggressive Inc ‡@ 154.28 … -0.24 … Corp Bd A Inc ‡ 41.09 … +0.03 …
North Amer ‡@ 730.30 … -0.80 … Euro Smllr Cos ‡@ 1054.00 … +3.00 … UK Opps Inc ‡@ 294.50 … -0.50 … 107.04 102.98 Tr 4% 22 102.98 – .01 3.88 …
UK Growth Acc ‡@ 729.71 … -1.88 … Dividend Inc ‡ 56.27 … +0.16 3.93
Pacific Gwth ‡@ 541.70 … -1.50 … Europe A Acc ‡@ 1833.00 … +5.00 … UK Smlr Cos Acc ‡@ 1066.00 … -4.00 … 100.60 100.00 Tr 0V% 23 100.10 + .03 … 0.06
UK Sml Cos Eqty Acc ‡@ 1760.17 … -7.84 … Recovery A Inc ‡ 125.98 … +0.24 … 99.91 99.18 Tr 0W% 26 99.67 + .15 … 0.44
Strategic Bd ‡@ 211.30 … … 0.71 Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Acc ‡@ 128.10 … -0.40 4.40
UK Sml Cos Gwth ‡@ 82.54 … +0.04 … Sml Cos Inc ‡ 452.89 … -9.03 0.87
UK Equity ‡@ 3353.00 … -4.00 0.32 Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Inc ‡@ 35.85 … -0.12 4.51
Gl ex-UK Bd A Acc ‡@ 287.30 … … … SVS BROWN SHIPLEY FUNDS * maturities as having a 3-month indexation lag.
UK Gwth & Inc Acc 1 ‡@ 658.50 … … … Sterling Class A Investment Funds 4 Enquiries: 0141 222 1151
UK Gwth & Inc Dist ‡@ 234.70 … … … Gl ex-UK Bd A Inc ‡@ 220.10 … … …
INVESTEC FUND MGRS Glb Fins A Acc ‡@ 1077.00 … +1.00 … Episode Allocation A Inc ‡@144.38 … +0.19 … Balanced A Acc ‡@ 151.17 … +0.45 0.94 This is a paid for information service. For
UK Smaller Cos ‡@ 1222.00 … -5.00 … Broker Support and Dealing: 020 7597 1900 Global A Acc ‡@ 2157.00 … +1.00 … Balanced A Inc ‡@ 136.83 … +0.41 0.95 further details on a particular fund, readers
OEIC Series i,ii,iii, & iv Japan A Acc ‡@ 632.70 … +2.60 … Cautious A Acc ‡@ 123.81 … +0.22 …
MANEK INVESTMENT MGMT LTD should contact their fund manager.
American A Acc ‡@ 613.92 … -0.47 … Multi-Man Tst A Acc ‡@ 1427.00 … +1.00 … 0844 800 9401 Cautious A Inc ‡@ 109.50 … +0.20 …
Asia ex Japan A Acc ‡@ 916.97 … -2.61 … Multi-Man Tst A Inc ‡@ 1274.00 … +1.00 … Dynamic A Acc ‡@ 357.89 … +1.34 …
FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL Growth Fd Acc @ 41.47 43.54 -0.01 …
Capital Accumulator A Acc ‡@231.48 … -3.81 … Nat Resources ‡@ 737.70 … -3.50 1.86 Dynamic A Inc ‡@ 326.14 … +1.22 …
Private Clnts 0800 414161 Broker Dlgs 0800 414181 Data as shown is
Cautious Managed A Acc ‡@422.29 … -0.59 … New Europe A ‡@ 246.80 … -0.30 2.05 Growth A Acc ‡@ 372.82 … +1.27 0.82
Amer Spec Sits ‡@ 1976.00 … -2.00 … Cautious Managed A Inc ‡@274.51 … -0.38 … Portfolio ‡@ 318.40 … +0.10 … MARKS & SPENCER UNIT TRUST LTD Income A Acc ‡@ 270.34 … +0.66 1.39 for information
American ‡@ 5362.00 … +8.00 … Diversified Growth A Acc ‡@140.18 … -0.05 … Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@ 104.10 … +0.10 1.09 0808 005 5555 Sterling Bond Acc ‡@ 242.37 … -0.28 … purposes only. No offer is made by
Euro Opps ‡@ 586.50 … +6.30 … Diversified Growth A Inc ‡@149.06 … -0.05 … Stg Corp Bd A Inc ‡@ 59.48 … +0.02 1.09 High Income 109.70 109.70 … 3.78 Sterling Bond Inc ‡@ 97.00 … -0.11 … Morningstar or this publication
46 1GM Wednesday June 9 2021 | the times

Business Equity prices

Dividend yields Please note dividend yields are 12 month Price 12 month Price 12 month Price 12 month Price
supplied by Morningstar. The yield is the sum of a High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E

company’s trailing 12-month dividend payments 181 107K Man 181 + 2N 4.0 26.6 111W 68K Breedon Groupv 110K + V … 55.5 63K 22 SIG 61 + N … -2.5 340 238 Dialight 272 – 10 … …
divided by the last month’s ending share price 9N 6N Manx Finv 8 … … 6.4 544O 322 Br Land 525O + 6O 1.5 -3.6 88K 37K SigmaRocv 88K – K … 37.6 2222N 1282Y Electrolux 'B' 2052Y – 3W 4.4 12.6

6V Y Marechale Capv 1X … … … 152K 110 Caledonian Tstv 140 … … … 102W 71W Sirius Real Estate 100V – 2 3.2 13.7 1K Y Feedbackv 1 … … -6.4
12 month Price 12 month Price 9873V 7295V Marsh McLn 9720O – 29X 1.3 30.6 191X 99 Cap & Count Prop 178O + 1N 0.5 -2.1 125K 111 Smart (J) 125K … 2.5 12.8 1500 972 Gooch Hsegov 1500 + 100 0.4 …
High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E
777K 625 Mattioli Woodsv 730 … 2.7 19.8 118 34Y Cap & Regnl 76O – 2O 14.3 -0.4 53K 22K Steppe Cementv 48 + 1 … 12.1 3580 2265 Goodwin 3030 – 90 2.7 34.0
191X 99V Taylor Wimpey 170 – 3N … 27.4 2677 2158 Halma 2677 + 6 0.6 57.4
141X 95X EFG-Hermes Hldg 123X … … 6.8 32 19 Metal Tigerv 30 – 2 … -0.5 1850 1720 Cardiff Prop‡ 1850 … 0.9 12.4
Automobiles & parts 374 165 EPE Special Oppsv 374 … … 3.2 149Y 58 Metro Bank 110X + X … -0.6 47K 24K Carecapitalv 37K – K … -4.5
144 81K Town Centre‡ 129O … 3.8 -2.5 1578 1170 Hill & Smith‡ 1478 – 18 0.6 49.2
792N 502N FBD 792N … … 73.7 1690 989 Travis Perkins 1687 – 6 … …
1487Y 904X Nat Aust Bk 1465O + 7 2.2 17.4 154K 79W Clarke T 137 + 2K 3.2 20.7 55 36K Holders Techv 55 + 11 0.9 -8.8
2273 919K Aston Martin Lag 2162 – 39 … -3.9
70 64 Fiskev 70 … … … 201W 134K Tritax Big Box REIT 201W + 1Y 3.1 7.6
209K 93N NWG 208V – 1X 1.4 … 259 185 CLS Hldgs 259 … 2.8 13.6 4N 1X Image Scanv 4N + X … …
53 40 Frenkel Toppingv 51K … 3.8 50.4 507 171 Tyman 486 – 8 … 25.5
Banking & finance 636 345 Georgia Capital 623 – 7 … 3.4
398 280 Numisv‡ 371 – 4 3.2 13.9 544K 283W Countryside Prop 496 – 6 2.0 …
98W 51K U + I 97O + 2O 2.4 -1.4
1726 886 IMI 1726 – 7 1.9 27.5

494V 236 Onesavings Bank 481K + 13V … 11.3 74W 29 Craven Housev 60 … … -0.3 V … Inspirit Energyv … … … -4.5
955 580 Gresham Housev 905 … 0.5 …
1178 809K Unite Group 1174 + 13K … …
3208 2240 Admiral 3084 – 32 3.6 18.1 1545 955 Gresh Hse Stratv 1490 + 20 1.5 … N … Origo Partnersv V … 51.3 … 3752 2636 CRH 3752 + 4 1.7 36.1 6680 4690 Judges Scientificv 6400 + 220 0.8 49.7
83 11 ADVFNv 59K – 2K … 35.6 1346K 529 Vistry Group 1294K – 23K … 37.3
340 198 H&T Groupv‡ 273 – 2 1.7 6.9 762 497 PayPoint 601 – 9 6.5 9.8 3565 2360 Derwent London 3565 + 19 2.0 … 96K 59 LPAv 70K … … 15.1
475 375K AJ Bell 435W – 6V 1.1 52.2 152 105 Warehouse REITv‡ 152 – W 4.1 7.3
65 29K Hansard Global 60K … 7.3 18.3 30K 17X PCF Groupv# 24 … 1.6 10.4 4K 2K Dolphin Capitalv 4 … … 4.8 509W 252 Meggitt 509W – 5O … …
223 142K Amryt Pharmav 167K – 3K … -4.0
916 482W Workspace Grp 916 + 6K 3.9 …
18319V 12752N Aon Corpn 17268W – 224 0.7 27.9 1865 1348K Hargreaves L 1659K – 7 2.2 24.1
786V 625V Phoenix Gp 733 – W 6.3 8.0 41 32 First Propv 34K … 4.8 12.8 186O 85N Melrose 164 – 2O … …
46 24 Appreciate Groupv 40K – K … 50.0 213Y 95 Helios Underv 162K … 0.9 8.1 660 565 Wynnstay Propsv 660 + 35 2.2 …
… … Plutus PowerGenv … … … 7.6 37K 31K Fletcher Kingv 34K … 4.3 -6.9 358 210 Morgan Advanced 358 + K 0.5 …
1175 607K Arbuthnot Bkgv 952K – 47K … … 1108K 710 Hiscox 800 – 13W … …
15 6K Arden Partnersv 14 … … -2.8 324 164 Provident 242K – 4 3.7 16.9 74V 32V Foxtons Group 58K – … … 592 209 Mpacv 535 … … 33.0
23K 18K Argo Groupv 19K … … 6.6
455K
952K
283N HSBC
732K IG Group
444N –
875 +
1V 2.4 21.1
3 4.9 9.4 1585K 934W Prudential 1470 – 5 1.5 24.6 147W 70 Galliford Try 126 –
W

V … -3.3
Consumer goods 173 107K MS Intlv 162K … 2.1 -8.4
479K 342K Ashmore Gp 392V + 3V 4.3 13.9
1582 894O Aus New Z 1574O – 3N 2.1 17.2 1130 340 Impaxv 1076 – 28 0.5 … 3O V Quantum Blockchain techv1V … … -4.4 659 396 Genuit Group 652 – 2 … 77.6 121 66K Northbrdg Indv 118K … … -4.2
6V 3O Agriterrav 4O … … -0.4
421O 256K Aviva 421O + 11 3.0 8.8 2283 1141 Intermed Cap 2283 + 127 2.2 42.1 2205 1240 Oxford Inst 2095 – 50 … 36.8
167O 120O Quilter PLC 158 + O 2.8 31.6 888 518 Gleeson (MJ) 870 – 6 … 50.4 36 26 Aireav 34K … … 34.5
300 133 Banco Santander 292 – 3 … -7.3 141O 44 IPF 130 – 2V … -4.5
191 147N Randall & Quilterv‡ 170 – 3 2.1 68.3 1250 617K Grafton Gp Uts 1185 – 8 … 26.2 4371X 3303W Philips El nv 3964N – 1X … 33.8
1310 735 Bank of Georgia 1304 + 24 … 9.5 724 466 Anglo-Eastern 640 – 20 … 11.1
176K 154V Intl Public Pntshp 170K … 4.2 45.3
189V 91K Barclays 185V – 1O … 13.7 1916 1386 Rathbone Brs 1916 + 34 3.6 40.2 321W 259K Grainger‡ 293V + V 1.8 20.6 9W 4 PipeHawkv 7O … … …
310N 127 Investec 305K – 3X 3.6 33.7 322 152K Animalcarev‡ 318 – 1 0.6 …
456W 293W Beazley 304Y – 4O 2.5 … 113K 58 Pressure Techv 97K – K … -0.9
313 265 Investment Co 313 + 8 2.1 -6.8 2N O RiverFort Global Oppsv 1O … … 62.9 755 543 Gr Portland‡ 755 + 4 1.6 … 2494 1639K AB Foods‡ 2334 + 2 … 46.1
N … Blue Star Capitalv V … … 3.5
134W 60 IP Group‡ 119K + K … … 2800 1475 S & U 2620 + 10 4.1 21.7 63 15 Hammerson 42N + O 0.4 -0.5 140 48K Bakkavor Group 140 + 2V … 24.1 6900 3780 Renishaw 5550 + 15 … 89.0
306 184 BP Marsh&Ptnrsv 306 + 4 0.7 8.1
128K 12N Braveheart Invv 42 … … … 305 137K Jarvis Securitiesv‡ 262K – 9 4.2 20.6 3O 1O Sancus Lending Grpv 3V … … -0.7 147K 86O Harworth Gp 142 – 549 372K Barr (AG) 540 + 8 … 31.4 28K 7 Renoldv 25W – N … 18.1
K 0.2 17.7
369 225K Brewin Dolphin‡ 369 + 7 4.4 23.2 306K 201V Jupiter Fund Mgmt 280 + 2K 6.1 13.4
47K 28X Schroder REIT 46X + V 3.8 -5.2 385 200 Heath (Samuel)v 350 … 1.5 14.8 13 3Y Bidstack Groupv 4 … … -2.4 136X 38Y Rolls-Royce 111W + 1N … -2.1
94 45 Cenkos Secsv‡ 82 … 2.4 24.8 111W 41X Just Group 100K – 2W … 6.3
370 220 Charles Stanley 364 + 6 2.4 17.0 3665 2603 Schroders 3653 + 81 3.1 21.5 451K 246 Helical Bar 451K + 5K 1.9 40.3 187K 107K Brand Architektsv 173 … … -7.2 4 1 Ross Gp 2N … … 3.3
850 612K Lancashire Hdgs 627 – 4 1.7 …
319 258K Chesnara 274K + K 7.7 22.9 3200 2448 Brit Amer Tob 2785 + 11 7.5 9.9 376K 263K Rotork 339V – 9 1.1 31.7
296W 178 Legal & Gen 281K – 1N 6.2 13.4 2680 1770 Schroders N/V 2680 + 10 4.2 15.8 852K 610 Highcroft Invs 830 + 5 5.7 …
114 64 City of Lon Gpv 77K … … -3.4
960 728 Britvic‡ 944K + 8 2.3 26.6 205 49K SDI Groupv 205 + 3 … 64.2
556 307 City Lon Inv Gp 546 + 6 5.4 19.8 38185K 337N Liberty Group 337N + K 6.4 … 157K 87 Sigma Capv 149 … 1.3 18.1 372X 255O HK Land 347X – 2 4.6 -4.1
1685 946K Close Bros 1640 + 9 2.4 22.5 1618 1175 Liontrust 1598 – 12 2.0 87.0 2222 1252K Burberry Grp 2222 + 16 0.5 … 159 42O Senior 152K – 3O … -3.9
1455K 885K St James Place 1455K + 11K 1.3 29.9 242W 143 Ibstock 234 + 1W … …
538 196V CMC Markets 487K – 17K 3.0 8.3 47O 34 Livermore Invsv 44K … 6.2 -3.1 298 135X C&C Grp 245K – 1 2.0 … 80V 51O Severfield 78V – 1W 3.7 12.8
521K 336O Stand Chart 503V + 3X 1.3 25.1 536 438 James Halsteadv 506 + 2 2.8 30.1
586 322Y Commerzbk 578O – 7O … -2.7
50 23Y Lloyds Bkg Gp 48Y – X … 19.5 24 5K Capital Metalsv 13N … … … 16K 7O Six Hundredv 15K … 1.6 …
1071 582K Deutsche Bk 1057O – 7O … 19.7 331 208Y Strd Life Aber 279K + 4 7.7 7.3 404W 273K John Laing Group 402W + 1 1.3 …
37O 27X LMS Capital‡ 33K – K 0.9 -6.2 158 94O Carr's Grp‡ 151K – 2K 3.1 16.8
342 263K Direct Line Ins 298V – 3 2.4 11.6 2186K 1373 SKF B 1934 – 10N 2.7 21.9
9910 6914 Lond Stk Ex Gp 7546 + 8 0.9 63.4 32K 11K Starvestv 18K … … 0.7 856 506 Keller‡ 805 – 4 4.1 13.7
55 52 Downing ONE VCT 53 … 7.5 -3.3 660 245 Character Grpv 635 … 0.7 17.0 300 67K Slingsby (HC)v 270 … … 0.9
O W Drumzv K … … -1.4 248K 144O M&G 245W – 3V 7.3 5.5 41 26 STM Groupv‡ 33 … 4.5 20.3 7121V 4498 Kingspan Group 6867W – 5V … 37.5
1750 960 Churchill Chinav 1640 – 35 0.6 34.2 1661 1245K Smiths 1584 + 20 2.2 84.2
2630 1755 Coca Cola HBC 2630 + 12 2.1 25.7 905 520 Solid Statev 865 … 1.4 22.2
Investment companies 540 355 Colefaxv 520 – 15 … 20.2
470 205 Somero Enterv 460 … 2.7 19.0
4082 3200 Cranswick 4082 – 8 1.4 24.4
12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 3416 2380 Spectris‡ 3274 + 5 1.9 …
High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm 215K 132 Devro 211K + K 4.2 15.4
13030 9570 Spirax-Sarco 13030 + 165 0.8 55.4
3419K 2440 Diageo 3415K … 2.0 70.4
79 16V Surface Trsfmsv 64K + K … …
1292N 773K 3I Group 1246 – 6 3.7 32.2 425 256 Invesco Asia Tr 374K – 7K 3.7 -6.7 3 1 Distilv 2N … … 25.0
320 269 3i Infrastructure 307K + 1K 3.6 14.1 203 156 Invesco BondInc 188 + 2K 5.1 -5.5 3K 1Y Tanfieldv 2N … … -6.5
103 85K Abrdn Div I&G 99O – V 4.6 -15.4 170 124 IPST Bal 165 … … -3.5 754 520 Evans (M.P.)v‡ 740 … 2.2 27.1
421 286 Thorpe FWv 418 + 2 1.3 36.6
1592 796 Aberforth Smlr 1578 + 6 1.9 -9.0 234 174 IPST Gbl Eq 228 … 3.0 -3.3 96 51V Finsbury Foodv 90 – K … …
997 732 Alliance 977 + 1 1.3 -5.8 103 101 IPST Managed 102 … … -5.5 8X 4Y TP Groupv 5O … … …
12100 7100 Games Workshop‡ 11790 + 70 1.0 39.6
604 371N Asia Dragon Tr 529 – 1 0.8 -8.5 182 136 IPST UK Eq 179K – 2K 3.5 -4.1
96K 47K Transense Techv 80K + 2 … …
250 141 Athelney Trust 240 … 3.4 -15.8 640X 363 IP UKSmallerCos 636 – 2 0.4 -6.2 1233X 669Y Glanbia 1233X + 20V 1.9 28.3
1026O 651W AVI Global Trust 991 + 8 1.5 -7.0 657 451X JPM American 640 – 1 1.0 -4.1 8K 5N Tricornv 8K + N 2.2 -5.3
170O 89V Greencore 138N + 2X 2.7 …
658 387Y Baillie Gifford Ch Gr 469O – 10O 1.5 4.1 550 368K JPM Asia 501 – 2 3.6 2.1 2490 1856 Ultra Electrncs 2100 – 10 2.6 17.8
155Y 95W Baillie Gifford Eu Gr 153V + W 0.2 2.2 875Y 378W JPM Chinese 670 – 4 3.1 2.9 476 237 Headlam 469 + 4 … …
1136 747 Baillie Gifford Jpn Tr 1046 + 2 0.4 3.1 755O 515 JPM Claverhs 751 – 1 3.9 0.8 590 374 Vesuvius 575 – 5 0.5 37.8
50 10 Hidong Estate 50 … … 9.3
274K 171Y Baillie Gifford SN 231 + K … 3.2 105 100 JPM Elect Mg C 102K … 0.7 -0.7 1550 618 Vitec 1370 + 20 … …
249 165 Baillie Gifford UK Gr 243 … 1.3 3.1 1045O 752 JPM Elect Mg G 1035 + 5 1.5 -3.5 1294 996 Hilton Food‡ 1160 – 16 1.9 24.2
116W 89O Bankers 115 … 1.9 0.9 108 76K JPM Elect Mg I 105K … 4.3 -2.9 371 129K Volexv 360K + 2K 0.8 33.5
71K 31K Hornbyv 57K … … …
2040 1724V BH Global 1965 – 5 … -1.7 152Y 91Y JPM Em Mkts 133W … 1.0 -3.8 2107 983O Weir 1895K + 6K … 35.8
3730 3139V BH Macro 3365 – 35 … -0.9 359W 250Y JPM Eur IT Gth 355 – 2 1.1 -10.5 1674 1219 Imperial Brands‡ 1615 + 2 11.5 10.2
1750 1008 Biotech Growth 1374 – 4 … … 158 107W JPM Eur IT Inc 157K – K 3.8 -8.2 1 W J Lewis Hfordv Y … … -3.0 5700 3450 XP Power 5200 + 30 0.7 32.4
110 54N BlckRck Com Inc 102O + 1 4.0 -1.1 510 321 JPM Euro Smlr 508 … 1.1 -12.9 180 95 Zytronicv 175 – 5 8.6 …
10509O 8626N Kerry Gp 9421Y – 137O 0.7 33.6
130 89W BlckRck Fro Inv 122 … 4.2 -5.4 162 105 JPM GEMI 147K – 1K 3.2 -6.3
622 390 BlckRck Grt Euro 622 + 6 1.0 2.0 435 310 JPM GG&I 428 … 3.1 2.9 94K 56Y McBride 89W – K 1.2 12.5
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204 142K BlckRck N Amer Inc 187 – K 4.0 -4.8 744 499Y JPM Japan# 618 + 1 0.7 -4.5 1600 982 Nicholsv 1600 … 1.7 …
1996 1141V BlckRck Smlr 1976 – 10 2.5 -4.4 1585V 824 JPM Mid Cap 1490 – 20 2.0 1.3 309 136 Norcros 306 – 1 1.0 76.5 1719 1149 Abcamv 1354 – 14 0.2 …
909 507 BlckRck Throgmorton 908 + 6 1.1 0.7 105 80K JPM Multi-Ass G&I 104 + N 3.7 -4.9
341O 219N Origin Entsv 318X … 0.8 19.5 292 192 AdvancedMedicalv‡ 290 + 1 0.5 45.7
699V 335 BlckRck Wld Min 642 – 6 3.2 0.7 728 535 JPM Russian 726 + 10 4.4 -13.2
33 19 Blue Plan Int Fn# 26K … 6.7 -21.5 411 204K JPM Smllr Co 396 – 1K 1.3 -7.2 58 37 Pittardsv 53 … … -3.0 25K 10O Allergy Therapv 25K + K … 26.2
335 235X BMO Cap&Inc 327 … 3.5 -1.2 350 225 Keystone IT 292 – 1 3.7 -4.4
700 359 Portmeirionv 700 + 10 … … 100 69 Allnce Pharmav 99K – 1V 0.5 65.5
91Y 53K BMO Comm Prop 91X + X 2.6 -23.9 785 478 Law Debenture 782 + 3 3.5 2.1
168K 109Y BMO Glbl Smaller 167 + O 0.9 -6.5 1425 763 Lowland 1380 – 15 4.1 -4.4 1 K Provexisv O … … … 139 39O Anglev 128 – 2 … …
425 250K BMO Priv Eq Ord 410 + 4 3.3 -15.3 253V 175 Majedie 243K – 3K 4.0 -11.2
274K 177V PZ Cussons 249K + 4K 2.3 51.4 655 345 Anpariov 645 + 25 1.1 36.2
81K 50 BMO Real Estate 74V – V 3.0 -25.3 397 292 M Currie Port 380 – 4 1.1 1.1
97 72K BMO UK HIT 95 … 5.1 -9.1 124 87 Marwyn Val In 121 … 2.5 -32.3 68K 45W REA 51K … … -4.6 … … Aqua Bounty … … … …
98 74V BMO UK HIT B 95 … … -9.1 281O 168K Mercantile IT 277K … 2.2 -5.1 3928N 2831 Sun Life Can 3796X – 1O 3.3 16.0 750K 489 Land Sec 735 + 6V 1.5 -3.5 5K 2K Real Gd Fdv 3W … … -0.1 9320 6794 AstraZeneca 7935 – 70 2.5 44.4
390 285 BMO UK HIT UNIT 378 … 3.7 -9.6 537 325 Merchants 532 + 5 5.1 0.5 2O 1N Tavistock Invv 2X … … -2.6
15 7K Lon & Assoc 11N … 1.6 -1.5 291 195W Stock Spirits‡ 283K + 2K 2.9 32.1
1425N 790 Brown Advsr US Smlr1335 – 10 … -6.8 766 586 Mid Wynd 753 – 1 0.8 2.5 36Y 21K Circassia Groupv 34K – V … -4.9
1338 747 TBC Bank Group 1104 + 4 … 5.4
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Billionaire director of the
McLaren racing team
Mansour Ojjeh
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Obituaries
Bob Swash
West End producer who took on the lord chamberlain over Hair and staged the first productions of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita
One day in 1966 Bob Swash was
summoned to St James’s Palace to be
grilled by Lord Cobbold, the lord
chamberlain. For more than 200 years
the lord chamberlain had been the
official theatrical censor. His office had
the power to veto the performance of
new plays and to prosecute any work
that was staged without his approval.
Swash was a rising young theatre
producer who had brought to the West
End stage the work of such “angry
young men” as Arnold Wesker and Joe
Orton. The name of the play, which on
this occasion had excited the prurient
interest of the lord chamberlain, is now
forgotten but the producer was forced
to go through it line by line with the
censor.
In the end he got away with most of
his text extant by pleading ignorance of
the double entendres: “Really? You
must excuse me, I didn’t go to public
school, are you absolutely sure that’s a
reference to masturbation?”
The experience convinced him that it
was time that censorship by the nanny
state was abolished and Swash became
a leading light in the campaign to repeal
the lord chamberlain’s powers.
Victory was achieved in 1968 and the
critic Michael Billington summed up
the sense of relief: “No longer would
writers and directors have to go cap in
hand to argue the toss over deleted
expletives, intimations of sexual
intercourse, references to the deity or
the representation of living persons on
stage.”
London’s theatreland celebrated a
day later, raising two fingers to the Lord
Chamberlain’s Office with the opening
of the musical Hair, on which Swash
was an executive producer.
If Swash had achieved nothing else,
British theatre would be in his debt for
his role in removing the shackles that
had for so long constricted it. But he
also went on to produce some of the
biggest box-office musicals to hit
the West End stage, including
Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita.
For many years his indispen-
sable right-hand woman was
Irene Hancock. They were
devoted to each other, and thea-
trical colleagues wondered
about the nature of
their relationship. It
was only after her
death in 1988 that
they discovered she
was his sister.
Although he was
close friends for
many years with the
actress Shani Wallis,
he remained a con-
firmed bachelor. A
surprisingly shy man,
he did not seek out com-
pany and had little time
for luvviedom, although
he would relax and grow
more gregarious over a
glass of wine.
Robert Arthur Swash
was born in 1929 in Mar-
gate, Kent. His mother,
Irene (née Chandler), was a
professional pianist under
the name Elisse Relnah and
had a booking in the seaside
town when she went into la-
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The production was a Wagneresque
four and a half hours long. When it
opened in Bristol before transferring to
the West End, Swash watched from the
stalls with mounting unease and con-
cluded that surgery was required. He
knocked on the dressing room of Betty
Marsden, who was playing Bertie
Wooster’s Aunt Dahlia, and invited her
out to dinner. “Are you going to fire
me?” she asked. “Yes,” he answered.
Despite telling her that her part was
being cut, they enjoyed a convivial meal
and ultimately Marsden had a lucky
escape. When the show opened in
London at Her Majesty’s Theatre there
were boos on the first night and it
closed after 38 performances, one of the
biggest flops in the history of West End
musicals.
Whatever the reasons for the failure
of Jeeves, the judgment of Lloyd
Webber, who wrote that the producer
“was great on nuts and bolts but no
creative lead”, was considered by
Swash’s friends to be unfairly harsh.
When Stigwood shuttered his thea-
trical division at the end of the 1970s to
concentrate on films,
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Swash went inde-
p
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and enjoyed two
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“been badgering me
bour. His father, Walter Swash, was the discharge he rejoined Hylton and by you are the only fo a long time to write
for
diminutive half of a variety act known the end of the 1950s was ready to launch one who has the a new musical”.
as Neville and Nash and who were himself as an independent producer. courage and the Instead Russell had
billed as “the long and the short of it”. One of his first discoveries was Wesker. vision”. w
written Educating Rita
His aunt Mary was married to Arthur Both shared the same fashionable Their first big fo the Royal Shake-
for
Askey and growing up in Raynes Park, left-wing politics and in 1962 Swash success came s
speare Company before
southwest London, he barely saw his co-produced Wesker’s Chips With with Andrew h was commissioned
he
parents in his early years for they Everything at the Royal Court. Lloyd in 1981 to write a short
were forever on the road. The playwright remained eternally Webber’s and p
piece for a youth theatre
When Swash left Raynes grateful, recalling in his book Wesker Tim Rice’s tr
troupe to take around
Park Grammar School, his On Theatre that the Court had turned Jesus Christ s
schools with a company
parents discouraged him from down his first five plays and agreed to Superstar. The same writing tteam of five actors an
and minimal props.
following them into showbusi- take a risk on Chips only “after a com- delivered Swash another box-office It had only one song but as soon as
ness and he became a librarian. mercial director, Bob Swash, offered to blockbuster with Evita. Swash threw Swash heard about it he went to see a
Yet the lure of the grease- co-produce it”. It was such a success himself body and soul into the project, school performance in Liverpool and
paint was too strong. that Swash transferred the production which opened in the West End in 1978 commissioned Russell to turn it into a
Although he had no to the Vaudeville Theatre in the Strand, and ran for eight years at the Prince full-length musical. It opened in the
desire to go on Edward Theatre. Rice later noted in his West End as Blood Brothers in 1983 and
stage, it was inevi- When all else failed he autobiography that the producer’s won a Society of West End Theatre
table that a career “own personal political leanings were award as best new musical. The
in the theatre relied on flattery to get somewhat to the left of Tony Benn, so it following year, on Swash’s suggestion,
beckoned and by was ironic that he should work so hard the awards were renamed the Olivier
the time he was 20 backing for his projects and so well for a show with a right-wing awards and Swash presented Laurence
he had become an heroine”. Olivier with an honorary version of the
assistant to Jack produced it on Broadway and sold the By the early 1980s, an aspiring young award that bore his name.
Hylton, at the time filming rights to BBC television. actor and part-time wine enthusiast His final large-scale production
the biggest impre- In 1968 Swash received a call from named Oz Clarke was playing the part came in 1988 when he staged Russell’s
sario in the West End Robert Stigwood (obituary Jan 6, 2016), of General Peron. One night backstage Shirley Valentine in the West End and
and whose productions a music manager whose acts included Clarke told Swash that the 1982 red on Broadway. In retirement he spent
included Kiss Me, Kate Eric Clapton and the Bee Gees, and Bordeaux was shaping up to be one of his time shuttling between four homes
and Kismet. who wanted to set up a theatrical the great vintages of the century. They in London, Kilkenny, Venice and the
When National division. By then Swash had 30 West formed a consortium and invested. Mediterranean island of Gozo.
Service intervened, he End productions behind him and was Clarke’s intelligence was correct and He did not appear to miss the hubbub
spent an uneventful two an obvious choice to head the new shortly after he gave up acting to be- and stress of a West End first night and
years stationed in operation. come a professional wine connoisseur. once the curtain had come down on his
Colchester. He claimed For the next decade Swash was able Alongside the successes there was last production he preferred the quieter
the only useful thing the to talk Stigwood into backing his every the occasional flop, including Jeeves in satisfaction of his library and his art
army taught him was how project. When all else failed, he relied 1975, initially conceived as another collection.
to drink, owing to the on flattery. On at least one occasion Lloyd Webber-Rice collaboration.
bountiful quantities of when Stigwood asked why he should Swash brought in Alan Ayckbourn to Bob Swash, theatrical producer, was born
duty-free available in the fund a production, Swash won him assist with the lyrics, whereupon Rice on September 14, 1929. He died of frailty
officers’ mess. On his round by telling him “because Robert, dropped out and the problems began. of old age on March 2, 2021, aged 91
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Mansour Ojjeh
Elusive, Paris-born billionaire who, as the director of the McLaren racing team, was considered a visionary force in Formula One
On the mantelpiece of his high-
ceilinged drawing room in Geneva,
Mansour Ojjeh kept a model racing car
and a miniature jet plane.
As a determinedly private man, Ojjeh
went to inordinate lengths to fly beneath
the radar and the models were the only
visible clues to the web of financial
interests that elevated him to The
Sunday Times Rich List in 2012, with an
estimated worth of £3.2 billion.
The miniature plane represented his
ownership of an aviation company that
supplied charter jets to his fellow
members of the world’s plutocracy. The
model car represented a riskier and
more visceral thrill in his role as the
director of the McLaren racing team.
In the early 1980s Ojjeh became the
main shareholder in McLaren’s Formula
One operation and under his steward-
ship five of his drivers — Niki Lauda,
Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Mika Hak-
kinen and Lewis Hamilton — won ten
world championships between them.
Although racing insiders recognised
Ojjeh as a visionary force in the team’s
success, he preferred to play down the
importance of his role. “I am not a good
manager,” he told The Sunday Times in
1998 in one of the few interviews he
gave. “Ron [Dennis, the McLaren chair-
man] gives amazing attention to detail
and has a very good entrepreneurial
mind. We make deals and do the
strategic thinking together. Then I
leave him to take care of the business.”
However, in a feud that was never
fully explained, the pair fell out ruinously
after 30 years of working together. “For
some reason, their friendship has
turned to deep animosity,” Kevin Eason,
motoring correspondent for The Times,
reported in 2016 when Ojjeh and the
Bahraini royal family, which also owned
shares, united to stage a boardroom coup.
In truth, the key to the source of
Ojjeh’s family fortune lay not so much
in the toy models on his mantelpiece
but in the chunky TAG Heuer watch he
wore on his wrist. His father, the Syrian-
born businessman Akram Ojjeh, had
founded TAG (Techniques d’Avant
Garde) as a holding company for his
many businesses and Heuer was an
early acquisition. Mansour worked in
Hamilton McMillan
MI6 officer who was based in Vienna during the Cold War and later ‘outed’ in Rome by Howard Marks, aka Mr Nice
Hamilton McMillan, admired by
many of his colleagues as one of the
most innovative and effective British
intelligence officers of his generation,
was particularly at home during his two
postings to Vienna. It helped that he
was bilingual in German, having spent
much of his childhood in Hamburg,
where his father had been posted as a
banker. He also, with his passion for
wearing hats, rather looked the part.
Some thought he resembled Orson
Welles, the trilby-wearing star of the
1949 film The Third Man, which created
a powerful image of postwar Vienna as
a place of great international intrigue.
Jointly occupied by victorious
Second World War allies, but then
swiftly a centre of Cold War tension and
negotiation, Vienna was a place
through which all kinds of international
actors passed. Hamilton described the
city as an “intelligence bazaar”. When
he was first based there in the 1970s it
was still dark and seedy and damaged
from the war years, but had also taken
on broader significance. It was the head-
quarters of Opec during global oil price
crises, and important UN agencies were
based there, including the International
Atomic Energy Agency.
From his vantage point, sometimes
tandem with his father before taking
sole control of the privately owned busi-
ness empire on Akram’s death in 1991.
He subsequently sold the watch-making
business in 1999 for $740 million.
Based in Luxembourg, much of
TAG’s wealth initially came from arms
deals. Carefully cultivating connections
with governments across the Middle
East, the Ojjehs were reported to have
played a key role in selling the French
Mirage 2000 fighter jet to Saudi Arabia
against competition from the British
Tornado, and were associates of the
arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi (obituary
June 7, 2017).
The arms trade lent itself to secrecy
and instilled a desire to shun the
limelight that Ojjeh maintained all his
life. His interest in motor-racing was
sparked by a visit to the Monaco Grand
Prix in 1978. The following year the
TAG Group became the main sponsor
He came up with the
idea of a supercar when
his plane was delayed
of the Williams team, and Mansour and
his younger brother Aziz became the
company’s representatives in the
paddock at F1 races around the world.
Under the TAG logo, Williams won its
first world championship in 1980 with
Alan Jones at the wheel and its second
two years later with Keke Rosberg.
Ojjeh also invested in the develop-
ment of a new turbo engine and the
TAG engine was first used in a Grand
Prix by a McLaren car in 1983. Within a
year the engine had helped Lauda to win
the world championship and Ojjeh was
on hand to host the driver’s victory party.
By 1985 he had become a majority
shareholder in McLaren and the TAG
engine earned two more world
championships for Prost in 1985 and
1986. After the TAG engine had been
retired, Ojjeh recruited a new engine
partner in Honda, and Prost and
Senna secured four more world
championships with McLaren between
1988 and 1991.
In 1995 Ojjeh changed engines yet
McMillan playing croquet in Dhaka
while enjoying favourite restaurants
including the Black Camel, McMillan
could observe the human traffic. He
also appreciated the great tradition of
chess-playing in some of the city’s
venues. Chess, played by correspondence
from whichever part of the world he
found himself in, was a lifelong hobby
that he pursued at a high level. The
habits of mind developed in this field,
along with his study of chemistry at
Ojjeh celebrating with Lewis Hamiton, left, after the Brazilian Grand Prix in 2008
again and McLaren joined forces with
Mercedes. The new partnership resulted
in Hakkinen wining the world
championship in 1998 and 1999. A
decade later McLaren’s newest recruit,
Hamilton, became the first British
driver to win the World Championship
since Damon Hill a dozen years
university, informed his approach to
the procuring of intelligence. Thinking
outside the box hardly described
McMillan’s style as he would not even
have recognised the existence of a box
when presented with a new problem.
His approach to his work went well
beyond pure analytics or what he
criticised as mere “spying by numbers”.
He was always mindful of the need to
stand outside the game to understand
individuals, “getting into the fabric” of a
country or culture and its players.
Norman Hamilton McMillan was
born in 1946. His analytical skills had
been honed when he read chemistry at
Balliol College, Oxford, in the mid-
1960s. His powerful intellect might
have led to a scientific research career
but he became frustrated with the
limitations of the particular line he was
studying. Instead he responded to the
traditional tap on the shoulder by
Balliol’s resident talent-spotter for MI6.
While at Oxford he met his future
wife, who survives him along with their
two children. Their names have not
been included here for security reasons.
Balliol had given McMillan the
opportunity to meet and observe a wide
range of colourful characters. The
college had at that time a reputation as
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earlier. He has not stopped winning
since.
Ojjeh is survived by his wife, Kathy,
who was often seen with him at F1 races,
and by their four children, Lana, Lia,
Sara and Sultan. Sara featured in the
gossip columns in 2007 when she was
reported to be having an affair with
a hotbed of left-wing politics amid the
ferment of 1960s student and social
radicalism. Among his college friends
was Howard Marks, later a notorious
drug smuggler and subject of the film
Mr. Nice. McMillan recruited Marks as
an informant, which caused him much
embarrassment when Marks, under
increasing pressure from law enforce-
ment agencies, blew McMillan’s cover
by revealing that he was an MI6 officer.
That happened when McMillan was
based in Rome (he was also fluent in
Italian). He was later posted to Dhaka
in Bangladesh. Among his experiences
there was being refused entry to the
Dhaka Club, despite being a member.
One morning he arrived dressed in the
local Bengali garb of kurta pyjama only
to be told by the secretary that the rules
required a jacket and tie. “But Mr
Secretary this is your national dress,”
he protested. “But Mr McMillan these
are your rules,” replied the secretary.
McMillan was also based in Cairo for
a time, where challenges included
being summoned to meetings by an
insomniac Egyptian government
minister at one o’ clock in the morning.
His most influential appointment
was as head of MI6’s newly established
counterterrorism section, where he
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Hamilton after the couple were spotted
partying in St Tropez and on Ojjeh’s
235ft superyacht Kogo.
While keeping his main home in
Geneva, his property portfolio included
further homes in London, Paris and
Bahrain and a 3,500-acre ranch on the
California coast, which went on the
market in 2019 for $110 million.
Mansour Akram Ojjeh was born in
Paris in 1952, the son of Irene and
Akram Ojjeh. He was educated at the
American School in Paris, and then
earned a business degree at Menlo
College, California, and a master’s at
Santa Clara University.
Although he was determined to keep
his name out of the popular press, he
made the front pages in 1998 after he
had paid £500,000 for a collection of 17
car mascots, alleged to have been
sculpted in purple glass by René
Lalique in the 1920s. The colouring
made them uniquely valuable but when
it emerged that the purple had been
added by a radiation process at a
much later date, Ojjeh sued in the High
Court for breach of contract and was
awarded more than £800,000 in
damages.
He was also the visionary behind the
McLaren F1 road car, an idea he dreamt
up in the VIP lounge of Milan Bergamo
airport when his flight back from
the 1988 Italian Grand Prix was
delayed. To fill in the time, he engaged
his colleagues in a game of blue-sky
thinking and came up with the
idea of a “supercar” that would go
head-to-head with Ferrari, Porsche
and Lamborghini.
By 1992 the McLaren F1 was in
production. Capable of speeds of up to
230mph, only 106 were manufactured
and among the purchasers were
George Harrison, the Pink Floyd
drummer Nick Mason, Ralph Lauren
and Elon Musk. It was one of his
proudest moments when on its launch
the trade magazine Autocar declared it
to be “the finest driving machine yet
built”.
Mansour Ojjeh, businessman, was born
on September 25, 1952. He died on
June 6, 2021, aged 68
formed a close bond with Duane Clar-
ridge, the flamboyant head of the CIA’s
counterterrorism centre. McMillan’s
imaginative strategy, supported by the
CIA’s resources, led to the neutralisation
of the main international terrorist
threat of the day, just as that threat was
becoming focused on Britain. He built
on that success by adapting techniques
invented for counterterrorism to tackle
weapons of mass destruction prolifera-
tion and organised crime.
McMillan’s last appointment before
his retirement in 1997 put him in charge
of European operations. During that
time he advanced MI6’s integration in
the Whitehall community by instituting
a lunch club of under-secretaries from
the main civil service departments. In
the last phase of his career his robust
style of management attracted criticism.
Some referred to him as a “Marmite”
figure, but even those who did not like
his management style still called him
“Mac”, with some affection.
Hamilton McMillan OBE, CMG,
intelligence officer, was born October 28,
1946. He died of heart disease on April
20, 2021, aged 74
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the times | Wednesday June 9 2021
Law Report
Renewed call for a comprehensive review of
the drafting of the Immigration Rules
Court of Appeal
Published on June 9, 2021
Regina (Wang) v Secretary of
State for the Home Department
Before Lord Justice Underhill, Lord Justice
Popplewell and Lord Justice Nugee
[2021] EWCA Civ 679
Judgment May 11, 2021
An investor migrant who for a
fee entered a scheme to borrow
money to invest in a company in
order to fulfil immigration
requirements under the points-
based system had control over
the loan since it was personally
available to her. The company in
which she invested was not ex-
cluded as a qualifying company
under the Immigration Rules
simply because it shared the
activities of those in a closed list
of excluded entities.
The Court of Appeal so stated
when allowing the appeal of Jie
Wang and her dependant son
against a decision of the Upper
Tribunal (Immigration and
Asylum Chamber) ([2020] Imm
AR 305) by which her claim for
judicial review of a decision of
the Secretary of State for the
Home Department was refused.
The claimant was already in
the United Kingdom as an
investor migrant when she ap-
plied under paragraph 245E and
Appendix A to the Immigration
Rules for further leave to remain
under the points system relying
on financial investment.
She had to fulfil the condi-
tions in Table 8B of Appendix A
by showing that she had bor-
rowed £1 million from a UK fi-
nancially regulated institution
so as to have that sum “under
her control”; and to have invest-
ed at least £750,000 of such sum
in UK Government bonds or in
share capital or loan capital in a
qualifying active and trading
UK registered company.
The claimant was in a scheme
sold to her and others by a Cyp-
riot parent company, Maxwell
Holding Ltd, whereby £1 million
was borrowed from its UK sub-
sidiary, Maxwell Asset Manage-
ment Ltd, and invested in
another linked company, Eclec-
tic Capital Ltd, by way of a con-
Court Circular
Windsor Castle
8th June, 2021
Her Excellency Ms Agnes
Oswaha was received in
audience by The Queen today
via video link and presented
the Letters of Recall of her
predecessor and her own
Letters of Credence as
Ambassador from the Republic
of South Sudan to the Court of
St James’s.
Her Excellency Ms
Albertina MacDonald was
received in audience by Her
Majesty via video link and
presented the Letters of Recall
of her predecessor and her
own Letters of Commission as
High Commissioner for the
1GM
vertible loan. The home secre-
tary refused the application
because (a) the claimant did not
have complete control of the
loan at the point of investment
and (b) the investment did not
qualify under paragraph 65(b) of
Appendix A.
Rupert D’Cruz QC and
Ramby de Mello for the
claimant; Zane Malik QC and
Julie Anderson for the home
secretary.
Lord Justice Popplewell said
that the purpose of the control
requirement in Table 8B was
that it was intended by the home
secretary to ensure the personal
availability to the applicant of
the UK assets or loan entitle-
ment respectively. It was not
required that the proceeds pass
through the hands of the
applicant.
They might be, as they were
under the present loan agree-
ment, transferrable directly by
the financial institution at the
applicant’s direction to a third
party, and it was not suggested
that that prevented their qualifi-
cation under Table 8B.
The “money” which had to be
under control of the applicant
could be the chose in action rep-
resented by the loan agreement,
just as what was colloquially
called money in the bank was in
law a chose of action as a credit-
or against the bank. The words
“has been loaned” meant that
the money had been the subject
of an enforceable loan agree-
ment, rather than drawn down.
Control, therefore, in its natu-
ral meaning denoted something
in the relationship between the
applicant and the money in
question, not something about
the destination of the money.
Some restriction on use could
not be fatal to whether the
money was under the control of
the applicant within the mean-
ing of Table 8B. Loan agree-
ments often contained terms
limiting and defining the use to
which the proceeds were to be
put, and one would expect any
such loan provided for the
purposes of investor migrant
Republic of Mozambique in
London.
Sir Philip Barton
(Permanent Under-Secretary
of State for Foreign,
Commonwealth and
Development Affairs) was
present.
Clarence House
8th June, 2021
The Prince of Wales this
morning visited Somerville
College, University of Oxford,
Woodstock Road, Oxford, and
was received by Her Majesty’s
Lord-Lieutenant of
Oxfordshire (Mr Timothy
Stevenson).
His Royal Highness, Patron,
later visited Oxford Botanic
Garden to mark its Four
Hundredth Anniversary,
Oxford Botanic Garden and
Arboretum, Rose Lane,
Oxford, and was received by
Mr Brian Buchan (Vice Lord-
Lieutenant of Oxfordshire).
The Prince of Wales this
status to do so.
If the applicant had sole and
unrestricted power to direct
that the proceeds of the loan
were used for a qualifying in-
vestment, the personal availa-
bility purpose was fulfilled. It did
not matter whether there was a
choice within that category
amongst various alternatives or
Hobson’s choice of only one: the
result would be investment in a
qualifying vehicle thereby ful-
filling the purpose of the inves-
tor migrant scheme in the Rules.
The home secretary and
Upper Tribunal had erred in the
construction of “control” as a
matter of law as directed to
restrictions on use, rather than
personal availability, and
therefore erred in treating the
(correct and lawful) conclusion
that the Maxwell loan had to be
used for investment in Eclectic
Capital as fatal to the claimant’s
application.
Sub-paragraph 65(b) of Ap-
pendix A excluded “investment
by the applicant by way of” four
entities: (i) open-ended invest-
ment companies; (ii) investment
trust companies; (iii) invest-
ment syndicate companies; and
(iv) pooled investment vehicles,
and some, but not all, were
terms which had a definition to
be found in statute or regulatory
provisions.
The home secretary had con-
ceded that Eclectic Capital was
not an entity listed there, but
had erroneously decided that it
was excluded because it shared
the objectionable characteris-
tics which were exemplified by
each of the four entities. That
construction went beyond the
ordinary language of “by way
of” which attached to a list con-
fined to the four entities, and
was not consistent with the
proper approach to the interpre-
tation of rules in a points-based
system.
The points-based system re-
quired predictability, based on
clear objective criteria, and what
might be described as its tick box
approach, so that an applicant
was entitled to proceed on the
afternoon visited Mini Plant
Oxford, Cowley, Oxford.
St James’s Palace
8th June, 2021
The Countess of Wessex this
morning gave a keynote
speech at the National
Federation of Women’s
Institutes Annual Meeting,
Royal Society for Arts,
Manufactures and Commerce,
RSA House, 8 John Adam
Street, London WC2.
Her Royal Highness,
Chairman, Women in Business
Committee, The Duke of
Edinburgh’s Award, this
afternoon chaired a Meeting
via video link.
St James’s Palace
8th June, 2021
The Princess Royal this
morning visited Evanton
Wood Community Company,
Evanton, Dingwall, and was
received by Her Majesty’s
Lord-Lieutenant of Ross and
basis that if the investment was
not one of the entities listed in
sub-paragraph 65(b) it was not
excluded by that sub-paragraph.
It was understandable that
the present scheme could be re-
garded as objectionable since it
allowed the directors of Max-
well to circulate funds, which
they originally controlled and
which they received back
through Eclectic Capital, nomi-
nally through the migrants but
without losing control in prac-
tice at any stage, without invest-
ment in what might naturally be
regarded as a UK trading com-
pany, namely one providing
goods and services, but rather
for the purposes of investments
outside the UK.
Such a scheme did not fulfil
the purpose expressed in para-
graph 245E of applicants mak-
ing a substantial financial in-
vestment in the UK as high net
worth individuals. That result,
however, was a product of the
drafting of the Rules, which
meant that the scheme fulfilled
the Rules as drafted.
Consequently, investor
migrants such as the claimant
could not be criticised if they
took advantage of a scheme
which was permitted by the
terms of the Rules as drafted
simply on the grounds that the
home secretary’s intended ob-
jective was that it should not be
permitted. The home secre-
tary’s intention was to be found
in the terms of the Rules.
Lord Justice Underhill
agreeing, said that the Court of
Appeal had repeatedly drawn
attention to problems with the
quality of the drafting of the
Immigration Rules generally
and of those parts which
governed the points-based
system in particular. It was to be
hoped that active consideration
was being given by the home
secretary to a comprehensive
review of the drafting of the
Immigration Rules.
Lord Justice Nugee agreed.
Solicitors: Jackson & Lyon LLP;
Treasury Solicitor.
Cromarty (Mrs Joanie
Whiteford).
Her Royal Highness later
opened the new building at
Alness Academy, Dalmore
Road, Alness.
The Princess Royal this
afternoon named the new
Quay at Port of Cromarty
Firth, Shore Road,
Invergordon.
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8th June, 2021
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Today Dry and sunny in the southeast, but humid elsewhere with cloudy skies and rain. Max 26C (79F), min 7C (45F) Weather Eye
Paul Simons
Around Britain Five days ahead Wind speed Sea state Orkney
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Key: b=bright, c=cloud, d=drizzle, pc=partly cloudy Mostly dry, sunny and 34 Calm
du=dull, f=fair, fg=fog, h=hail, m=mist, r=rain, (mph) 23 15
sh=showers, sl=sleet, sn=snow, s=sun, t=thunder warm over southern Slight 9
*=previous day **=data not available Britain, but cloudier with Temperature Moderate
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Tomorrow Flood alerts and warnings
Aberdeen
Dry with plenty of sunshine over
Aberporth 17 PC 0.0 0.0
eastern England, but thicker cloud will At 17:00 on Tuesday there were no 21
Anglesey 15 B 0.0 0.0 bring the risk of showers elsewhere flood alerts or warnings in England, 14
Aviemore 16 PC 0.0 0.0 with some sunny spells. Wales or Scotland.
laming June is ablaze with

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Birmingham 19 S 0.0 **
naturalresources.wales/flooding and 25 77 warm sunshine and gentle
Bournemouth 20 S 0.0 0.0 21 NORTH breezes over much of
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Bridlington SEA 15 59 Britain. Temperatures are
Bristol 17 S 0.0 0.0
Camborne 16 PC 0.0 0.0
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Edinburgh
10 50
edging higher as moist, warm,
Cardiff 17 S 0.0 0.0
22
17 Glasgow 5 41
tropical air is drawn up from the
Edinburgh 18 PC 0.0 0.0 0 32
Eskdalemuir 13 D 0.0 0.0
14 13 -5 23 southwest thanks to the Azores
Glasgow 17 PC 0.0 0.0
22
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Hereford
Herstmonceux
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Londonderry -15 5 shores in the summer.
Ipswich 22 PC 0.0 0.0 OCEAN
Newcastle The tiny Azores islands sit mid-
Carlisle
Isle of Man 15 B 0.0 0.0
Friday Belfast Atlantic in the subtropics, roughly
Isle of Wight 16 S 0.0 ** 21
Jersey 19 S 0.0 0.0 Mostly dry in England and Wales with 21 13 1,300km west of Portugal. These
Keswick 15 B 0.0 **
sunny spells, but the small risk of an
afternoon shower. Rather cloudy over
15
Yorkk volcanic islands are actually the tops
Kinloss
Leeds
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20
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S
0.0
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0.0
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Scotland and Ireland with showers and
a few sunny intervals.
20 of some of the tallest mountains on
Lerwick 12 FG 0.0 0.0 Max 25C, min 5C Manchester Hull
Earth, as measured from their bases
Leuchars 18 C 0.0 0.0 ooo
Liverpool 24 at the bottom of the ocean. Even
Galway IRISH 8
Lincoln 19 PC 0.0 0.0
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measured above sea level, the tallest
Liverpool 18 S 0.0 ** SEA Sheffield
London 21 S 0.0 0.0 Dublin
LLlandudno
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Lyneham 19 PC 0.0 0.0 so high that snow often falls at the
Manchester
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Norwich
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Newcastle 18 PC 0.0 ** 18 17 important in the climate is how they
19 S 0.0 0.0
Nottingham
Orkney 20 PC 0.0 0.0 24
Cork
Birmingham Cambridge are regularly home to a vast high-
Oxford 20 S 0.0 ** 15
Swansea Oxford 25 pressure system in the summer
Plymouth
Portland
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Scilly, St Mary’s 16 PC 0.0 **
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Shoreham 18 PC 0.0 0.0 A dry and warm day with sunny
SEA Bristol London a belt of high-pressure systems that
spells and areas of patchy
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Shrewsbury
Snowdonia
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Southampton
straddle the world, and so dry they
Max 25C, min 7C 8
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Southend 22 PC 0.0 0.0 Exeterr
South Uist 13 PC 1.0 ** 13 Plymouth Brighton the Sahara as well as the hot, dry
Stornoway
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Whitehaven 14 DU 0.0 0.0 19
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Wick 19 PC 0.0 ** 10 the atmosphere, and as it dries out it
Yeovilton 18 PC 0.0 0.0
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The world sunshine in eastern England, but a few showers. Light to moderate Some drier and sunny periods over gets rid of clouds and brings plenty
All readings local midday yesterday
cloudier elsewhere with showery rain. southwesterly wind. Maximum southern and eastern areas in of sunshine and calm conditions.
Alicante
Amsterdam
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Madeira
Madrid
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E Anglia, London: A dry and warm NE Eng, E Eng, Cen N Eng, NW Eng, southwesterly wind. Maximum
Athens 27 PC Malaga 27 S
day with plenty of sunshine. Light W Mids: Dry with sunny spells at first, 21C (70F), minimum 11C (52F). nudges towards Britain in the
Auckland 15 B Mallorca 26 PC
to moderate southwesterly wind. then cloud increasing to bring the risk SW Eng, Lake District, SW Scotland, summer, typically bringing hot,
Sunday
Bahrain
Bangkok
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32
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Malta
Melbourne
26
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SH Dry and feeling hot with long spells
Maximum 26C (79F), minimum of a shower during the afternoon. IoM, Cen Highland, NW Scotland, sunny weather. It was the Azores
Barbados 31 PC Mexico City 27 B of sunshine over England, Wales and 12C (54F). Light to moderate southwesterly wind. Argyll, Glasgow, Wales: Cloudy High that brought the long, hot
Edinburgh and Dundee, Moray Firth, Maximum 24C (75F), minimum with patchy rain and areas of fog.
Barcelona 23 PC Miami 31 PC southern Ireland. Mainly dry elsewhere
with sunny spells, but the risk of an Borders, NE Scotland, Aberdeen, 11C (52F). Moderate south or southwesterly
summer of 1976, when a blistering
27 S 25 B
Beijing
Beirut 26 S
Milan
Mombasa 29 B
isolated heavy afternoon shower.
N Isles: Most of the time it will be Republic of Ireland, N Ireland: Mainly wind. Maximum 22C (72F), heatwave set a record 15 days
Belgrade 27 S Montreal 31 PC
Max 27C, min 6C
dry with sunny spells, but some areas cloudy with showery rain spreading minimum 7C (45F). running of 32C or more between
Berlin 26 S Moscow 22 S June 23 and July 7. We haven’t seen
27 PC 26 T
Bermuda
Bordeaux 27 S
Mumbai
Munich 23 PC
22 Tides Noon today
HIGH
temperatures reach that high so far,
Brussels 23 PC Nairobi 20 B Tidal predictions. but the Azores High is now taking a
HIGH
Bucharest 27 S Naples 25 PC
22
Heights in metres
LOW grip over much of the UK, wafting
26 S New Orleans 32 PC Today Ht Ht
Budapest
Buenos Aires 14 S New York 26 PC 24 Aberdeen 01:37 3.9 13:50 3.8
1008
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up warm, humid air on balmy
Cairo 30 S Nice 23 PC Avonmouth 07:22 12.0 19:40 12.2 southwesterly breezes and possibly
Calcutta 35 S Nicosia 28
21
S
PC 25
Belfast 11:35 3.2 23:51 3.3 1008
reaching 30C somewhere in the
Canberra 13 PC Oslo
Cape Town 22 S Paris 24 PC
Cardiff 07:11 11.2
05:53 5.0
19:28 11.5
18:11 5.1
992 southeast at the weekend.
Devonport
Chicago 26 B Perth 15 B
Dover 11:37 6.1 23:51 6.2 LOW 984 1016
It is now difficult to believe that
Copenhagen 18
28
S
PC
Prague 23
10
PC
C Monday Dublin 12:03 3.7 --:-- -- 1000 only two weeks ago temperatures
Corfu Reykjavik
Delhi 39 S Riga 21 S Rather cloudy with showery rain over Falmouth 05:27 4.7 17:47 4.8 1016 were struggling to reach 20C in
1008
Dubai 38 S Rio de Janeiro 26 PC Scotland, northern England and the
north of Ireland. Dry elsewhere with
Greenock 00:30 3.2 12:54 3.1
Cold front what was a largely dreadful May of
Harwich 12:12 3.8 --:-- -- HIGH
Dublin
Faro
19
25
B
S
Riyadh
Rome
40
24
S
PC
sunny spells and patchy cloud.
Holyhead 10:41 5.1 23:01 5.2 Warm front cool, wet, overcast and windy
Florence 19 R San Francisco 18 PC
Max 26C, min 4C
Hull 06:31 6.7 18:46 6.7 1024 LOW Occluded front weather.
Frankfurt 23 PC Santiago 19 S Leith 02:54 5.0 15:09 5.0 HIGH 1016 Trough
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Smith’s apprenticeship now complete
Having lit up domestic
rugby, the fly half is set
to challenge England’s
Ford-Farrell duopoly,
writes John Westerby
E
ven though he is still only
22, for quite some time
Marcus Smith has been one
of the most eye-catching
players in English rugby.
The inclination for adventure through
sleight of hand and boot, the razor-
sharp sidestep as players seemingly
twice his size advance on him, the
surge of acceleration that takes him
away and into clear pastures: all of
these qualities have made him the
most exciting fly half to watch in the
Gallagher Premiership.
The reason he may now be ready to
make the step up to international
level, though, and to launch a serious
challenge to the duopoly on England’s
playmaking long held by Owen
Farrell and George Ford, is a growing
proficiency Smith has developed in
the less eye-catching aspects of the
fly half’s art.
‘The whole thing exploded’
continued from back
caused the canister it was in to explode.
“We were just sitting around the fire
and one of the boys threw a bit of petrol
over the fire and then it caught his hand
and he just tried to put it down on the
floor and then the whole thing caught
alight and exploded,” De Allende said.
The players were taken to a local hos-
pital but a second visit to a burns spe-
cialist on Sunday brought some relief as
the damage wasn’t as bad as expected.
De Allende admitted that it could
have been a lot worse. “They thought it
was a lot worse when we went into hos-
pital on Saturday night but when we
1G M
As Harlequins have soared up the
table, securing their qualification for
the end-of-season play-offs, Smith
has been appearing in the highlights
reels with his usual frequency. But he
has also been honing those
managerial aspects of a No 10’s craft
that are so prized in the international
game, where the stakes are so much
greater and the time available for
decision-making much scarcer.
“The area where I think he’s
improved immensely is probably the
stuff that’s more tactical than
technical, the areas you don’t see as
much from a fan’s point of view,” Nick
Evans, the Harlequins attack coach
and former New Zealand fly half, said.
“I’m talking game management, play
calling, energy conservation.
Manipulating defences when you
don’t have lightning quick ball, that’s
an area we spend a lot of time on.
He’s not the finished article yet, but
the way he’s improved in those areas
of the game has definitely coincided
with the success we’ve had.”
There is often a divide in the
modern game between the spectator
seeking entertainment from
playmakers and the coach, who, given
his responsibility for results, prefers a
consistency of decision-making from
saw the specialist on Sunday he said it
wasn’t as bad as they got told,” he added.
“We should be OK in a few weeks.”
De Allende, the centre, and Snyman,
the lock, are due to join up with South
Africa after Munster complete their
Rainbow Cup fixtures, with Snyman
already in a race to be fit after tearing
knee ligaments last August in his first
game for Munster. Both are expected to
face the Lions if declared fit and were
part of the Springboks’ World Cup-win-
ning team that beat England in 2019.
The Munster head coach Johann van
Graan, who is also a former Springboks
assistant coach, said: “We are hugely re-
lieved that the lads are all OK.”
his on-field lieutenant. England’s
attack disappeared almost without
trace during the Six Nations, with a
dismal fifth-placed finish. Eddie
Jones, the head coach, has since
dispensed with his attack coach,
Simon Amor, and when he names a
squad tomorrow for the summer
internationals against United States
and Canada, Smith is expected to be
given a first chance to
reintroduce some spark into
England’s attacking game.
The holy grail for a fly half is
to marry the more utilitarian
leadership qualities the
modern coach demands
without losing the game-
changing qualities that
brought him to prominence
in the first place. In Smith’s
case, his luminous skills were
spotted by Jones when the fly
half was at Brighton College,
joining in when England held a
training session there in May
2017. He was included as an
apprentice to the squad that year,
shortly after making his debut
for Harlequins, but Jones has
since entrusted Ford and Farrell
implicitly, leaving Smith to
mature at club level.
Stander wore a dressing on the burns
to his hands at training yesterday
DAVID ROGERS/GETTY IMAGES
Smith, above with Jonah Lomu, and below, with
parents Jeremy and Suzanne. Below, learning the
game aged seven, and playing for Harlequins, left
Last week, Jones spoke approvingly
of his development — “He’s now
getting a nice balance in his game,
understanding the responsibilities of
getting the team organised, but also
playing what’s in front of him,” Jones
said — so with Farrell on Lions duty
and Ford expected to be rested,
Smith’s time could be nigh.
“The next step for Marcus is the big
step,” Evans said. “Time and space is
limited at the elite level. Decisions
have to be made correctly, because
the implications can be costly.
That’s the kind of pressure he
needs. He watches a lot of
England, he’s in constant
communication with
the people there.”
While Harlequins
have been playing some
thrilling rugby on their way to
the top four — they are the
league’s leading points-scorers
and Smith is by a distance the
top individual scorer — they have
not simply been running the ball
from everywhere.
They have learnt to vary their
game, with Smith becoming
increasingly skilled at using slower
ball, not simply coming to the fore
when his side are on the front
Vermeulen doubt for Lions
Brenden Nel
South Africa’s talismanic No 8, Duane
Vermeulen, is in danger of missing the
series against the British & Irish Lions
due to an ankle injury needing surgery.
The 34-year-old is expected to be
sidelined for about six weeks, with the
first of three Tests taking place in Cape
Town on July 24. Vermeulen limped off
with the injury during Friday night’s
Rainbow Cup game between the Bulls
and the Stormers.
“It’s not great news, they’re going to
have to operate,” Vermeulen said. “I’m
not sure how long it means I’m out but
I’m going to do everything in my power
55
foot. “We’re among the top three
teams who kick the most in the
competition, but we have very clear
plans about how we kick,” Evans said.
“We use the kicking game to create
attacking opportunities. Marcus has
worked extremely hard on that.”
When Evans started working with
Smith, he was reminded of another
former All Blacks No 10, Carlos
Spencer, who was outrageously gifted
and imaginative, but not always
trusted by coaches. Now that he has
matured, Evans thinks his charge
bears comparison with Richie
Mo’unga, 27, the incumbent All Blacks
fly half. “Mo’unga talks a lot about
how, within the shape and systems
with the All Blacks and Crusaders, he
still plays what he sees, still having
that instinctive licence,” Evans says.
“That’s what we give Marcus here.”
If Smith can take his chance this
summer and challenge Ford and
Farrell to raise their game, he could
find himself coming face to face with
Mo’unga on the road to the next
World Cup in France in 2023.
“Sometimes you forget the kid’s only
22,” Evans said. “He is well beyond his
years, which is exciting. He’s very self-
aware, and wants to get better. The
ceiling for him is so high.”
to play against the Lions.” While his op-
timism is understandable, a tear in the
syndesmosis — a fibrous joint between
the shin bone and outside leg bone —
would take at least six weeks to heal.
Losing Vermeulen is the last thing
the Springboks coaching duo of Rassie
Erasmus and Jacques Nienaber would
want, with much of their physical
gameplan built around the big No 8.
6 Australian Nic Berry will take charge
of the first Test in Cape Town on July
24, New Zealand’s Ben O’Keefe the
second game in Johannesburg a week
later and Frenchman Mathieu Raynal
will referee the final Test, also at FNB
Stadium, on August 7.
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RICHARD ELLIS/UPI/ALAMY

Breakaway tour
The clout seems clear. The World
Golf Group is funding the PGL with
an assortment of corporates and
individuals worth more than
£20 billion. The Raine Group owns 24
per cent. The venture capitalists came

chief insists: It’s close to doing a deal with the

European Tour last year, only for the
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Premier League CEO Plans for a non-related Saudi-
backed Super Golf League (SGL)
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former commercial director
of Manchester United.
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and Rory McIlroy’s dismissive “money
So why does anyone need
the PGL?
the PG Gardiner, a former
Rick Broadbent any bid grab” barb. The PGL plans involve 18 lawyer from
lawyer f Nottingham, says it is
three-day tournaments featuring 12 simply to ra raise excitement by getting
by authorities to ban teams of four, £14 million weekly the best 48 players competing in a
purses, £2.8 million individual first team format. Which tournaments will
stars could end in court prizes, no cuts, a 13th team picked by Gardiner, inset, says his model differs from the Saudi one dismissed by McIlroy feature? “We’re talking about a
fans and women’s and junior events. combination of new and old,” he said.

T
he numbers may be dizzying The UK-based PGL is adopting a direct threat. Gardiner is open to a able to give players the peace of mind “We’ve been approached by existing
but the man behind the more collaborative stance than the joint venture — “The door’s not open, they have asked for, but it [legal tournaments interested to know what
proposed £275 million Saudi venture, highlighting its plan to we’ve taken it off its hinges” — but action] is the last thing we want and we are planning. I wouldn’t rule out
Premier Golf League insists “gift” ownership of 50 per cent of the knows that players who sign up need wouldn’t be in anyone’s interests.” any well-known tournaments.”
his breakaway tour is not “a league to the golf community, to be convinced that they will not be The plan is to sign 48 players, with What we do know is the plans are
money grab”. including fans, players, charities and blacklisted. an extra three wild cards, for an for 12 in the US, three in Europe and
Andy Gardiner, the PGL’s CEO, existing tournaments. “It’s not a When the SGL dangled £35 million eight-month season. Gardiner says three in Asia, with shotgun starts
said that he wanted to sign contracts money grab because we are looking contracts in front of players it there are about ten players who are (players starting at the same time but
with the world’s top players by to share half our value,” Gardiner provoked a defiant response from most coveted by broadcasters and on different holes) and no cuts so fans
September before a January 2023 said. “We didn’t set out to make the tour chiefs, but Gardiner said the PGL sponsors, but he insists failing to are guaranteed to see their favourites.
start. He would also like to world’s best golfers wealthier. I’d be had gained legal assurances that any recruit half of them would not derail Gardiner said that when he drew
collaborate with the existing PGA and surprised if people look at what we bans would be against the law. the PGL, merely alter the economics. up the blueprint years ago, people
European Tours, but warned that any are proposing and say, ‘Under no “If there is absolute resistance [from “I don’t think we need all ten. Where told him he was mad and he felt the
threat to ban players, or bar them circumstances.’ ” the tours] we have other routes to the ten are important is their chances were slim. Now? “I’d say they
from the world rankings and a place For all the conciliatory noises, the take,” he said. “We are confident that understanding that their future is in are high.” Player power will ultimately
in the majors, would fall in court. existing tours will regard this as a even without collaboration we will be their own hands,” he said. decide where golf goes next.

4 (2) 312-0 ORGETORIX 33 (BF) R Beckett 9-2 H Crouch 6 (8) 6200- CREATIVE MOJO 233 (H) M Hammond 3-9-2 J Garritty 7 605-0 GLORIOUS BORU 17 (P) A Irvine 10-10-0 J M Davies
Haydock Park 5 (3) 641- KING OF TSAVO 175 R Charlton 8-12 J Watson 7 (4) 00-04 RETIREMENT BECKONS 14 (H,CD) Miss L Perratt 6-8-12 Fontwell Park 8 026-5 MONTY MASSINI 17 (P) J Flint 10-10-0 Charlie Price (5)
G Lee
Rob Wright 6 (8) -5101 AGGAGIO 31 Mrs S Leech 8-12 S De Sousa
8 (6) 240-3 VALLEY OF FLOWERS 12 D O'Meara 3-8-11 C Hardie
Rob Wright 9 66-03 STEEL THE CHINA 10 (B,T) L Jewell 9-10-0 L Stones (7)
7 (1) 0-120 COMMONSENSICAL 23 (P) T Dascombe 8-8 R Kingscote 13-8 Joey Steel, 11-4 Krujers Girl, 7-1 Magic River, 8-1 Mister Tickle, 10-1 Ballintara,
1.25 Mandoob 3.45 Dubawi Sands 8 (7) 313-5 INNSE GALL 15 I Jardine 8-2 A Mullen 9 (9) 0-00 OH SO HOT 28 Adrian Nicholls 3-8-5 Laura Coughlan (5) 1.00 Kimmins 3.20 Top Man 12-1 Hardtorock, 14-1 Glorious Boru, 16-1 Monty Massini, 66-1 Steel The China.
2.00 Sadmah 4.20 Prison Break 3-1 Sir Rumi, 7-2 King Of Tsavo, 9-2 Orgetorix, 5-1 Dubawi Sands, 8-1 10 (7) 000 SEVEREEN 11 R Menzies 3-8-2 JP Sullivan 1.35 Bright Eyed Eagle 3.55 Magic River
2.35 Albahr 4.55 Toora Loora Skycutter, 10-1 Commonsensical, 12-1 Aggagio, 14-1 Innse Gall. 11 (1) 000-0 LILY'S GIFT 33 A Brown 3-8-1 Paula Muir (3) 2.10 Episode 4.30 Authorised Speed 4.30 Open NH Flat Race
3.10 Satono Japan 11-4 Twin Appeal, 7-2 Corndavon Lad, 5-1 Paddyplex, 13-2 Coviglia, 10-1 Valley 2.45 Mr Yeats
Wright choice: Dubawi Sands failed to handle softer (£1,906: 2m 2f) (7)
Going: good to firm Racing TV ground at Newbury Dangers King Of Tsavo, Innse Gall Of Flowers, 12-1 Retirement Beckons, Creative Mojo, Clay Regazzoni. Going: good Sky Sports Racing
1 5 REGAL PRETENDER 24 M Young 6-11-0 J Dixon (7)
Draw: 7f-1m, low numbers best 1.00 Novices' Hurdle (£3,159: 2m 3f) (3) 2 SHINING BLOOD (W) J Snowden 5-11-0 G Sheehan
4.20 Handicap (3-Y-O: £4,347: 1m 6f) (3) 7.15 Handicap (£2,322: 1m 3f) (9)
1.25 Novice Stakes 3 2 AUTHORISED SPEED 20 (BF) G L Moore 4-10-9 Jamie Moore
1 (2) 2-650 FLOOD DEFENCE 23 (D) I Jardine 7-9-11 J Gormley 1 341-3 WILDERNESS 14 Seamus Mullins 6-11-5 M G Nolan
1 (1) 0-241 SOAPY STEVENS 11 M Johnston 9-7 F Norton 4 3 DON'T STOP NOW 31 F O'Brien 4-10-9 P Brennan
(3-Y-O: £4,347: 1m 4f) (6 runners) 2 (4) 00-06 VENUSTA 14 W G Harrison 5-9-11 Paula Muir (3) 2 103-2 BLUE SANS 29 (T) F O'Brien 6-10-12 P Brennan
2 (2) -5341 OCEANLINE 7 (D) A King 9-7(6ex) H Doyle 5 MIDNIGHT SOLDIER Christian Williams 4-10-9 J Tudor (3)
1 (6) 1 MANDOOB 41 (D) B Meehan 9-8 W Buick 3 (8) 50-61 EURO IMPLOSION 15 K Dalgleish 5-9-7 C Rodriguez 3 43-2 KIMMINS 26 (BF) N Henderson 6-10-12 A Coleman
3 (3) 3-051 PRISON BREAK 8 (D) R Fahey 8-8(6ex) T Hamilton 6 STAR PATH G L Moore 4-10-9 N F Houlihan (5)
2 (4) 61- TWILIGHT TWIST 207 A King 9-5 M Harley 4 (5) 0-003 JUPITER ROAD 9 (P) N Tinkler 5-9-5 R Scott 4-5 Kimmins, 5-2 Blue Sans, 7-2 Wilderness.
11-8 Oceanline, 13-8 Soapy Stevens, 11-4 Prison Break. 7 0 SAPPHIRE BOMBAY 35 D Steele 4-10-2 J J Burke
3 (3) 0- MANASSAS 226 (W) K Ryan 9-2 A Atzeni 5 (1) 20-64 FOUR KINGDOMS 15 (D) R M Smith 7-9-5 P Mathers
Wright choice: Prison Break was a five-length winner at 11-10 Authorised Speed, 2-1 Don't Stop Now, 7-1 Shining Blood, 12-1 Midnight
4 (1) 42 MOLIWOOD 41 (BF) M Botti 9-2 B Curtis Redcar on his first try at this trip Danger Soapy Stevens 6 (6) 44541 HOT TEAM 14 (V,C) R Fahey 5-9-5 P Hanagan 1.35 Handicap Hurdle (£3,159: 2m 2f) (6) Soldier, 14-1 Star Path, 20-1 Regal Pretender, 50-1 Sapphire Bombay.
5 (2) 322 MELLOW MAGIC 25 (BF) A Balding 8-11 R L Moore 7 (9) 30360 TANQEEB 14 (P) I Williams 5-8-11 S Gray 1 653-6 FRASER ISLAND 28 (P) R Bandey 5-11-13 B J Powell
6 (5) 3 PRINCESS NADIA 27 J & T Gosden 8-11 H Doyle 4.55 Handicap (£2,862: 1m) (3) 8 (7) 46-00 RAIL DANCER 40 (T,D) W Storey 9-8-5 JP Sullivan 2 5/2-6 CLEMENTO 11 (P) F O'Brien 7-11-8 P Brennan
9-4 Mellow Magic, 5-2 Mandoob, 4-1 Princess Nadia, 11-2 Moliwood, 15-2
Twilight Twist, 16-1 Manassas.
1 (3) 10-01 MADAME PELTIER 26 (D) C Fellowes 4-9-11 S Osborne
9 (3) 00100 THE BRORA POBBLES 67 A Whillans 6-8-5 C Hardie
6-4 Hot Team, 9-4 Euro Implosion, 6-1 Jupiter Road, 8-1 Tanqeeb, 16-1 Flood
3 00F/0 PERUVIEN BLEU 21 (B,T) Ryan Chapman 9-11-7 Doubtful Kempton Park
4 4400- DANTE'S VIEW F124 (W,P,T) G Baker 5-11-3 T Cannon
Rob Wright
2 (1) 22-42 TOORA LOORA 106 (P) D M Simcock 4-9-10 Defence, The Brora Pobbles, 20-1 Four Kingdoms, 25-1 Rail Dancer, 33-1 Venusta.
Rob Wright’s choice: Mandoob looked a useful prospect O McSweeney (3) 5 430-2 LIGHT IN THE SKY 27 P Nicholls 5-11-2 Bryony Frost
when winning at Lingfield Park Danger Mellow Magic 3 (2) 60304 EPONINA 23 (D) M Appleby 7-8-10 Erika Parkinson (3) 6 4-2 BRIGHT EYED EAGLE 27 (H,T,BF) O Murphy 4-11-0 A Coleman 5.30 Pitchcombe 7.30 Global Esteem
11-10 Madame Peltier, 7-4 Toora Loora, 100-30 Eponina.
7.45 Handicap (3-Y-O: £4,347: 6f) (6) 13-8 Bright Eyed Eagle, 9-4 Light In The Sky, 9-2 Clemento, 7-1 Fraser Island, 6.00 Moshaawer 8.00 Thermal
2.00 Novice Stakes (2-Y-O: £3,402: 6f) (10) Wright choice: Toora Loora, beaten a short head at 1 (5) 23-00 OUT THE HAT 53 (CD) J O'Keeffe 9-7 J Garritty 8-1 Dante's View. 6.30 Night Narcissus 8.30 Scudamore
Newcastle, can cope with this drop in trip Danger Eponina 2 (3) 3-055 SELECTED 22 R Fahey 9-7 P Hanagan 7.00 Arabic Charm
1 (3) ATTAGIRL K Burke 9-0 D Tudhope
3 (2) 1-443 THE THIN BLUE LINE 7 (D) K Dalgleish 9-6 S Gray 2.10 Handicap Chase Going: standard to slow Racing TV
2 (2) FOUR NOTES A King 9-0 M Harley
GRAND CRU GAGA P & O Cole 9-0 P J McDonald 4 (4) 14110 ROYAL ADVICE 14 (D) K Dalgleish 9-5 C Rodriguez
(£2,505: 2m 3f 104yd) (9) Draw: 5f-1m, low numbers best
3 (5)
4 (1) 5 MADAME BONBON 19 M Johnston 9-0 F Norton Hamilton Park 5 (1) 04-61 THE GLOAMING 15 I Jardine 8-8
6 (6) -0513 IRIS DANCER 12 (D) R M Smith 8-3
G Lee
P Mathers
1 005-1 ST LAWRENCE GAP 27 (B,T) O Murphy 9-11-12 D England
5.30 Handicap (£2,862: 1m) (14)
5 (9) MOON ISLAND R Charlton 9-0 Doubtful Rob Wright 2 F3PP- RINTULLA 84 (B,BF) B Pauling 7-11-12 Luca Morgan (5)
SADMAH K Ryan 9-0 K Stott 5-2 The Gloaming, 3-1 The Thin Blue Line, 7-2 Iris Dancer, 6-1 Selected, 13-2 1 (14) 0-660 CONSCIOUS 8 (CD) Joseph Parr 4-9-12 H Burns (3)
6 (6) 3 141-0 EN COEUR 27 (T) Seamus Mullins 7-11-6 M G Nolan
Royal Advice, 10-1 Out The Hat.
7 (8) SPARKA R Fahey 9-0 T Hamilton 5.45 Niagara 7.45 The Gloaming 4 13-35 EPISODE 9 (T,CD) G L Moore 7-11-6 Jamie Moore 2 (10) 13340 ROGUE TIDE 25 (P,D) M Loughnane 4-9-11
6.15 Perfect Power 8.15 Equidae Elisha Whittington
8 (10) 03 TAA LAA 44 T Dascombe 9-0 R Kingscote 5 2P0-0 GOLDENCARD 34 (B) Christian Williams 8-11-3 J Tudor (3)
9 (4) 0 TRUGANINI 8 R Hannon 9-0 R L Moore 6.45 Valley Of Flowers 8.45 Thrilla In Manila 8.15 Handicap (£4,347: 6f) (6) 3 (8) -2550 FAMILY FORTUNES 30 (CD) M Madgwick 7-9-11 S Cherchi
6 5P00- DIDO 62 Alexandra Dunn 11-10-12 C Gethings
(nap) (nb) 1 (6) -5020 CALL ME GINGER 6 (D) J Goldie 5-9-7 P Mulrennan 4 (1) 0-054 FORTUNE AND GLORY 12 (CD) J Tuite 8-9-10
10 (7) 2 WHITE JASMINE 16 G Boughey 9-0 B Curtis 7 333-4 HOLD ME TIGHT 27 (T) P Gundry 7-10-5 N Scholfield R Clutterbuck
7.15 Hot Team 2 (2) -5000 ABEL HANDY 19 (P,D) Liam Bailey 6-9-5 D Nolan
5-2 Sadmah, 100-30 White Jasmine, 6-1 Attagirl, 15-2 Taa Laa, 10-1 Madame 8 634P- INDIAN HARBOUR 174 (T,BF) Mrs S Gardner 8-10-5 5 (7) 55102 COVERHAM 12 (C,D) Harry Eustace 7-9-10 P-L Jamin
Bonbon, Truganini, Sparka, 12-1 Grand Cru Gaga. Going: good to firm Racing TV 3 (3) 65344 GEORGE BOWEN 14 (V,CD) R Fahey 9-9-5 P Hanagan Lucy Gardner
6 (6) 430 CANZONE 23 K Frost 4-9-9 W Carver
Draw: no advantage 4 (5) 4-155 FENDALE 49 (D) B Smart 9-9-1 G Lee 9 PP-PP JO MAHLER 22 (P,T) Cynthia Woods 7-10-0 J Best
Wright choice: Sadmah, by Frankel out of a group one 7 (4) 5022/ GRACEFUL JAMES J488 (BF,CD) J Fox 8-9-9
winner, appeals Dangers White Jasmine, Attagirl 5 (4) 004-0 BREAKING RECORDS 14 (D) M & D Easterby 6-8-10 6-4 St Lawrence Gap, 4-1 Hold Me Tight, 6-1 Episode, 7-1 Rintulla, 8-1 Indian Edward Rees (7)
5.45 Handicap (£2,207: 6f) (14) C Hardie Harbour, 12-1 En Coeur, 14-1 Goldencard, 25-1 Dido, 50-1 Jo Mahler. 8 (3) -0600 PITCHCOMBE 12 (C,D) P Chamings 4-9-9 G Bass
6 (1) 23445 EQUIDAE 12 (P,T) I Jardine 6-8-8 J Gormley
2.35 Novice Stakes (2-Y-O: £4,347: 7f) (12) 1 (9) 64R43 KILCONQUHAR 6 (H,D) A Whillans 4-11-2
Connor Wood (5) 13-8 George Bowen, 3-1 Fendale, 5-1 Call Me Ginger, 6-1 Equidae, 8-1 Breaking
9 (9) 36400 ASDAA 12 M Johnston 5-9-9 A Breslin

1 (6) 3 ALBAHR 27 (BF) C Appleby 9-5 W Buick Records, 12-1 Abel Handy.
2.45 Handicap Hurdle (£2,342: 2m 6f) (11) 10 (5) 2340- PROCLAIMER 240 (BF) J Camacho 4-9-4 Josh Quinn (3)
2 (4) 00-00 EPEIUS 53 (V,CD) B Haslam 8-11-2 Miss S Brotherton 11(13) 65060 BORN TO FINISH 21 (B,T,C) C Poulton 8-9-3
2 (1) BOX TO BOX T Dascombe 9-5 R Kingscote 1 511-3 MYSTIC COURT 35 (BF,D) N Mitchell 8-12-1 F Gillard (3)
3 (5) 02605 ALSVINDER 22 (V,C,D) P Kirby 8-11-0 N Barratt-Atkin (7) Laura Pearson
3 (9) 4 JUST ANOTHER 51 J L Eyre 9-5 L Edmunds 4 (3) -0306 WAR OF CLANS 8 (B,D) K Tutty 4-10-13 Miss A Collier (5) 8.45 Handicap (£2,322: 5f) (9) 2 456-0 TOUCH TIGHT 34 P York 9-11-12 Mr P York (5)
12(11) -3142 ALEZAN 12 (BF,D) E J-Houghton 4-9-2 Georgia Dobie
4 (7) KING OF YORK K Ryan 9-5 A Atzeni 5 (11) 0-046 FIRMDECISIONS 15 (CD) N Tinkler 11-10-13 1 (5) 60432 THRILLA IN MANILA 7 (P) P Midgley 5-9-7 B Robinson 3 020-3 CORRIE LAKE 31 (V) Suzi Best 8-11-6 D Jacob
13(12) 40000 BUSBY 20 (C) I Furtado 6-9-0 Elle-may Croot (7)
5 (4) PROPHESISE T Easterby 9-5 D Allan Danielle Mooney 2 (2) /00-0 SIGNORE PICCOLO 120 (H,P,D) R Menzies 10-9-6 4 4324- BOLT N BROWN 54 (B) G Kelleway 5-11-6 Jamie Moore
14 (2) -5040 OLIVERS PURSUIT 67 S Dow 4-8-13 T Heard
6 (8) SAN FRANCISCO BAY C Fellowes 9-5 L Steward 6 (8) 000/6 BOB'S OSS 9 A Berry 4-10-13 Miss Alex Garven (7) P Mulrennan 5 0P-56 KING COOL 10 (B,CD) G L Moore 10-11-2 N F Houlihan (5)
9-2 Coverham, 5-1 Alezan, 6-1 Fortune And Glory, 7-1 Proclaimer, Asdaa, 12-1
7 (10) TARTAN CHIEF P & O Cole 9-5 D Tudhope 7 (13) 00641 HARD SOLUTION 8 (V,CD) D O'Meara 5-10-12(5ex) 3 (6) 60-00 CHARLEMAINE 114 (D) B Haslam 4-8-13 H Shaw 6 004-1 JOSIE ABBING 35 (H,CD) G McPherson 7-11-0 T Bellamy
M Ennis (3) Rogue Tide, Canzone, 14-1 Family Fortunes, Graceful James, Conscious.
8 (5) TROPEZ POWER R Hannon 9-5 S De Sousa 4 (8) -0561 LORD OF THE GLEN 15 (B,D) J Goldie 6-8-10 Ella McCain 7 FP0P- LEMON SHOULDER 65 Cynthia Woods 6-10-5 J Best
8 (7) 55426 STRONSAY 5 (P) Liam Bailey 5-10-9
9 (11) TUDDENHAM GREEN A King 9-5 M Harley 5 (4) -0050 ROSE BANDIT 7 (P,CD) I Jardine 4-8-7 J Gormley 8 /306- FLASHDANZA 220 R Rowe 6-10-0 Tabitha Worsley (5)
Miss Megan Brookes (7)
6 (7) 00-63 GUARDIA SVIZZERA 26 (CD) A Brown 7-8-7 Paula Muir (3)
6.00 Novice Stakes
10 (3) 4 VAYNOR 18 C Hills 9-5 K Shoemark 9 (6) 61060 GULLAND ROCK 46 (D) A Carson 10-10-5 9 053-0 MR YEATS 36 M Harris 4-10-0 M Bastyan (3)
Miss Kerryanne Alexander (7) 7 (9) 64000 ISABELLA RUBY 51 (H) L Williamson 6-8-7 K Baker (7)
(3-Y-O: £3,402: 1m 3f) (8)
11 (2) VINCE LOMBARDI Mrs S Leech 9-5 J Watson 10 /00P- PETE'S CHOICE 188 A Irvine 8-10-0 Page Fuller
10(14) 002-0 BUILDING YEAR 26 (H,T) W G Harrison 7-10-5 E Cagney (5) 8 (1) -6304 CORTON LASS 15 K Dalgleish 6-8-7 S Gray 1 (7) 61 ZURAIG 30 A Balding 9-7 R Hornby
12(12) 4 WHITEFEATHERSFALL 12 M Johnston 9-5 F Norton 11 /60-0 OUTLAW JACK 18 (T) J Farrelly 9-10-0 B J Powell
11 (1) 436-0 I'LL BE GOOD 8 (CD) A Berry 12-10-5 N Seery (5) 9 (3) 0-000 LAOISE 15 Miss L Perratt 5-8-7 G Lee 2 (3) 4 DIAMOND CUTTER 12 D Menuisier 9-2 T Greatrex (3)
13-8 Albahr, 5-1 King Of York, 7-1 Whitefeathersfall, 15-2 Vaynor, 8-1 Tropez 2-1 Mystic Court, 11-4 Josie Abbing, 7-1 Corrie Lake, 10-1 King Cool, Mr Yeats,
Power, 10-1 Box To Box, 14-1 Tartan Chief, 16-1 Prophesise. 12 (2) 5000- JESSIE ALLAN 160 (D) J Goldie 10-10-5 Miss Becky Smith 15-8 Lord Of The Glen, 2-1 Thrilla In Manila, 6-1 Guardia Svizzera, 7-1 Corton Lass, 12-1 Bolt N Brown, 14-1 Flashdanza, 16-1 Outlaw Jack. 3 (4) 3-0 EAST COAST ROAD 27 D M Simcock 9-2 S M Levey
13(10) 00-55 NIAGARA 8 E Alston 4-10-5 Miss Sophie Smith (3) 12-1 Rose Bandit, 20-1 Isabella Ruby, 25-1 Laoise, Charlemaine, Signore Piccolo. 4 (8) JUDGMENT CALL D M Simcock 9-2 O Murphy
Wright choice: Albahr ran well when third at York and this
longer trip will suit Dangers Whitefeathersfall, King Of York 14(12) 0-500 ALESSANDRO ALLORI 14 W Storey 6-10-5 Miss A Waugh 3.20 Handicap Hurdle (£3,159: 3m 2f) (7) 5 (1) 6 MASTERMAN 21 M Bell 9-2 C Shepherd
9-4 Hard Solution, 4-1 Stronsay, 11-2 Kilconquhar, 15-2 Alsvinder, 10-1 6 (5) 3- MOSHAAWER 229 R Varian 9-2 J Crowley
3.10 Handicap (£6,210: 1m 2f) (6)
Epeius, War of Clans, 14-1 Niagara, 16-1 Firmdecisions. Course specialists 1 1453- HUNTING PERCIVAL 83 T Lacey 6-11-12
2 4U5-6 TOP MAN 37 C Gordon 7-11-12
J J Burke
T Cannon
7 (6) 0 TIPSY LAIRD 19 E J-Houghton 9-2 C Bishop
8 (2) 4-4 TWO TWO TIME 58 J Fanshawe 8-11 James Doyle
1 (5) 34-56 SATONO JAPAN 26 (V) Sir M Stoute 4-9-7 R L Moore 6.15 Maiden Stakes (2-Y-O: £3,132: 5f) (5) Fontwell Park: Trainers T Lacey, 5 winners from 3 /02-2 DRUMLEE WATAR 35 (W,P,T) W Greatrex 8-11-10 G Sheehan
5-4 Moshaawer, 3-1 Zuraig, 7-1 Two Two Time, 10-1 Diamond Cutter,
2 (1) 45-40 MORISCO 38 (V,D) T Dascombe 4-9-6 R Kingscote 12 runners, 41.7%; P Nicholls, 26 from 72, 36.1%. 4 3P-64 JAMESSAINTPATRICK 9 (P) A Murphy 8-11-5 J Quinlan
1 (4) 2 COME QUICK 51 K Burke 9-5 C Lee Jockey A Coleman, 20 winners from 69 rides, 29%. Judgment Call, 12-1 Masterman, 20-1 East Coast Road, 25-1 Tipsy Laird.
3 (4) 00-04 PIVOINE 26 (V,D) A Balding 7-9-5 S De Sousa 2 (1) COTAI GREY J O'Keeffe 9-5 J Garritty 5 330-0 HERE'S HERBIE 34 (T) Mrs S Gardner 13-11-4 Lucy Gardner
4 (3) 2-414 HIGHWAYGREY 9 (CD) T Easterby 5-9-3 D Allan Hamilton: Trainers Jedd O’Keeffe, 9 from 45, 20%; 6 PU0-0 KHAN 27 (T) M Harris 7-11-0 H Reed
3 (3) 0 FIREBOMB 13 B Smart 9-5 G Lee D O’Meara, 24 from 123, 19.5%. Jockey C 6.30 Handicap (3-Y-O: £4,347: 6f) (9)
5 (2) 3-626 WAIT FOREVER 9 (B) M Botti 6-9-3 D Costello 4 (5) 3 PERFECT POWER 15 R Fahey 9-5 P Hanagan 7 306-0 UNO MAS 11 (D) Christian Williams 7-10-10 J Tudor (3)
Rodriguez, 15 from 85, 17.6%. 1 (7) 0-300 ARMY OF INDIA 23 (CD) M Johnston 9-7 J Fanning
6 (6) -1453 CHICHESTER 9 (T) K Dalgleish 4-8-13 F Norton 5 (2) ETERNAL HALO K Dalgleish 9-0 C Rodriguez 2-1 Drumlee Watar, 9-4 Hunting Percival, 9-2 Top Man, 7-1 Jamessaintpatrick,
Haydock Park: Trainers R Beckett, 15 from 68, 12-1 Uno Mas, 14-1 Here's Herbie, 16-1 Khan. 2 (3) 3-321 DREAM COMPOSER 12 H Evans 9-4 Laura Pearson (5)
3-1 Pivoine, 10-3 Chichester, Satono Japan, 7-2 Highwaygrey, 7-1 Wait 13-8 Perfect Power, 2-1 Come Quick, 4-1 Eternal Halo, 13-2 Cotai Grey, 16-1 22.1%; C Appleby, 9 from 42, 21.4%. Jockey W 3 (4) 2-040 RAZOR GLASS 26 (CD) R Cowell 9-3 J Crowley
Forever, 12-1 Morisco. Firebomb. Buick, 14 from 66, 21.2%. 4 (1) 10 GREAT NEWS 26 S bin Suroor 9-3 O Murphy
Wright choice: Satono Japan was not disgraced when
Kempton Park: Trainers K P De Foy, 4 from 12,
3.55 Handicap Chase (£2,505: 3m 2f) (9)
5 (2) -1202 NIGHT NARCISSUS 11 (D) C Cox 9-2 A Kirby
sixth in a better race at York Danger Chichester 6.45 Handicap (£2,322: 1m) (11) 33.3%; K Bailey, 5 from 21, 23.8%. Jockey James 1 /P6-0 MISTER TICKLE 20 (T) G L Moore 7-12-4 N F Houlihan (5) 6 (6) -1360 IBN ARABI 25 (P,D) G Scott 9-2 C Shepherd
1 (5) -5364 COVIGLIA 29 (D) M Dods 7-9-12 P Mulrennan Doyle, 62 from 272, 22.8%. 2 BP1-0 MAGIC RIVER 36 (T,V) M Harris 10-11-12 M Bastyan (3) 7 (9) 0103- ENDURING 169 (CD) E J-Houghton 9-1 C Bishop
3.45 Handicap (3-Y-O: £6,210: 1m 2f) (8) 2 (10) 00042 TWIN APPEAL 6 K Tutty 10-9-12 Gemma Tutty (3) Yarmouth: Trainers Sir M Prescott, 13 from 42 , 3 03-13 KRUJERS GIRL 19 (BF) J Farrelly 9-11-11 K Brogan (5) 8 (5) 021-6 AHLAWI 50 (T,BF,D) H Palmer 9-0 James Doyle
1 (6) 412 SIR RUMI 15 R Hannon 9-7 R L Moore 3 (2) -6033 PADDYPLEX 6 K Dalgleish 8-9-12 C Rodriguez 31%; W Haggas, 31 from 129, 24%. Jockey J P 4 2P-21 JOEY STEEL 17 (P) Christian Williams 8-11-0 N Scholfield 9 (8) -1222 EHRMANN 19 (T,BF) A Murphy 8-12 S Cherchi (5)
2 (4) 21-25 SKYCUTTER 36 (D) P Kirby 9-6 B Curtis 4 (3) 46123 CORNDAVON LAD 7 (D) R Fahey 4-9-11 P Hanagan Spencer, 39 from 158, 24.7%. 5 5P3-6 BALLINTARA 31 (P) Mrs D Grissell 9-10-10 M Goldstein 3-1 Dream Composer, 7-2 Ehrmann, 5-1 Ahlawi, 6-1 Great News, 7-1 Night
3 (5) 5-210 DUBAWI SANDS 25 (D) R Varian 9-4 A Atzeni 5 (11) -6065 CLAY REGAZZONI 15 K Dalgleish 4-9-9 S Gray 6 3554/ HARDTOROCK 657 (P,C) Mrs S Gardner 12-10-2 Page Fuller Narcissus, 12-1 Razor Glass, Enduring, Army Of India, 20-1 Ibn Arabi.
the times | Wednesday June 9 2021
Fears for ‘stressed’ Olympic staff
Olympic Games
Richard Lloyd Parry Tsukuba, Japan
A senior figure in the Japanese Olym-
pic Committee has warned that holding
the Tokyo Games during the pandemic
is putting officials under intense
pressure after one employee reportedly
took his own life.
Kaori Yamaguchi, a former Olympic
medallist and an executive member of
the JOC, has called for an inquiry if the
committee is implicated in the death of
Yasushi Moriya, its head of accounting,
who died after falling in front of a
subway train in Tokyo on Monday.
Japanese media reported that police
are treating the death of the 52-year-
old as suicide.
Yamaguchi also condemned plans to
carry out daily PCR virus tests on com-
petitors at the Olympics, which is due to
start on July 23, saying they were unre-
alistic and would impose an unaccept-
able mental burden on athletes. She
admitted the Games could become a
Covid-19 “super-spreader” event, say-
ing in relation to the virus: “Now, all that
people can do is hope for good luck.”
The 56-year-old, a professor of physi-
cal education at Tsukuba University,
north of Tokyo, said she had no further
information about Moriya’s death, but
admitted that she was concerned about
the possibility of a link between the
tragedy and the stress being experi-
7.00 Handicap (£4,347: 6f) (5)
1 (2) 3-511 ARABIC CHARM 8 (H,T) S bin Suroor 4-9-12(5ex)
S Cherchi (5)
2 (4) 5121- ICE STATION ZEBRA 206 (D) R Beckett 4-9-11 R Hornby
3 (1) 525-5 THE BLUE BOWER 84 (CD) J Portman 4-9-4 O Murphy
4 (3) 03-06 SWEET PURSUIT 19 (V,D) B Millman 7-8-3 N Currie
5 (5) 60552 SILENT WITNESS 20 (P,T,CD) Alice Haynes 5-8-3
K O'Neill
13-8 Arabic Charm, 9-4 Ice Station Zebra, 3-1 Silent Witness, 10-1 The Blue
Bower, 12-1 Sweet Pursuit.
7.30 Handicap (£4,347: 7f) (9)
1 (7) 0-000 EXTRODINAIR 18 (P,D) J Chapple-Hyam 6-9-9
2 (9) 5-004 FLAMING SPEAR 21 (P,C,D) D Ivory 9-9-8
Sophie Ralston (5)
3 (4) 50420 GLOBAL ESTEEM 23 (P) C Dwyer 4-9-6
4 (1) 35130 GAVI DI GAVI 21 (P,CD) A King 6-9-5 Georgina King (7)
5 (6) 36000 MASKED IDENTITY 12 (P,D) S L Keightley 6-9-5
Josephine Gordon
6 (8) 0-312 LOVE DREAMS 32 (D) M Blake 7-9-5
7 (5) 05-40 QUICK BREATH 32 (CD) J Portman 6-9-4 T Saunders (5)
8 (2) 00330 SPRING ROMANCE 68 (CD) M Appleby 6-9-4
M Crehan (3)
9 (3) 21/5- HIGHFALUTING 371 (BF,CD) Harry Eustace 7-9-2 G Wood
3-1 Highfaluting, 4-1 Love Dreams, 11-2 Global Esteem, 7-1 Flaming Spear, 8-1 Gavi
Di Gavi, 10-1 Spring Romance, Quick Breath, Extrodinair, 12-1 Masked Identity.
8.00 Handicap (£2,322: 1m 3f) (14)
1 (13) 044-1 SUMMER VALLEY 8 G L Moore 4-9-12(5ex) T P Queally
2 (6) 04004 MINSTER 21 (P) K P De Foy 4-9-8 A Kirby
3 (8) 10-01 THERMAL 20 G L Moore 5-9-7 R Clutterbuck (5)
4 (4) 00-33 SIGNAL TWENTY NINE 20 (BF) W Knight 4-9-7 C Shepherd
5 (7) 3012- ON THE RIGHT TRACK 183 M Usher 4-9-5 C Bennett
6 (10) 00350 KUMASI 67 (H) R Stephens 4-9-5 R Hornby
7 (11) 40-25 SAVITAR 61 L Carter 6-9-3 W Carson
8 (5) 1D001 MR ZEE 46 (C) M Blake 4-9-3 O Murphy
9 (1) 6/00- TAZAMAN 282 K Frost 4-9-2 T Whelan
Yesterday’s racing results
Salisbury
Going: good to firm (good in places)
1.00 (6f) 1, Groom (P J Dobbs, 16-1); 2, Cashew
(6-4 fav); 3, Wrought Iron (11-2). 10 ran.
NR: Piffle. 3Ol, 1l. R Hannon.
1.35 (6f) 1, Anjella (Cieren Fallon, 9-2); 2, Hot
Scoop (7-2 fav); 3, Emjaytwentythree (7-1).
9 ran. NR: Papas Girl. 1Kl, Kl. Muir Grassick.
2.10 (6f 213yd) 1, Papacito (Andrea Atzeni, 2-1
fav); 2, West Side Glory (14-1); 3, Exceedingly
Regal (9-2). 14 ran. 1l, Ol. R Varian.
2.45 (1m) 1, Ascraeus (David Probert, 12-1);
2, Morrooj (7-4 fav); 3, Elegant Erin (7-1). 7 ran.
NR: Moonlighting. Sh hd, 2Kl. Mrs L J Mongan.
3.20 (1m 1f 201yd) 1, Talbeyah (Jim Crowley,
5-2); 2, Anghaam (13-8 fav); 3, Dromquinna
(6-1). 5 ran. Kl, 3N. Owen Burrows.
3.55 (1m 4f 5yd) 1, Franklet (R Havlin, 11-8 fav);
2, Auriferous (5-2); 3, Vin Rouge (50-1). 7 ran.
Nk, 4l. J T Gosden.
4.30 (1m 4f 5yd) 1, Decora (T E Whelan, 16-1);
2, King’s Castle (11-2); 3, King’s Proctor (50-1).
11 ran. 3Kl, Ol. Miss S West.
Placepot: £22.40. Quadpot: £7.60.
Southwell
Going: good
1.25 (3m 60yd ch) 1, Brotherly Company
(Ryan Mania, 3-1 fav); 2, Lord Getaway (16-5);
3, Steel Wave (14-1). 8 ran. 9l, nk. A M Thomson.
2.00 (1m 7f 182yd ch) 1, Siannes Star (B S
Hughes, 14-1); 2, Atlantic Storm (8-1); 3,
Tardree (11-10 fav). 7 ran. 8l, 1Nl. C A Pogson.
1G M
enced by many people in Olympic
organisations because of public opposi-
tion to the Games.
“If his death is anything to do with
the Olympics, or any problem inside
the organisation, then there’s an obliga-
tion to investigate,” Yamaguchi said.
“Many people are working towards the
climax of preparations and facing seri-
ous difficulties every day. When such
work is appreciated by the population,
people can work hard. But some people
feel now that the work they’re doing is
not welcomed. Knowing there are so
many people who may be feeling
mental stress, this case yesterday
worries me.”
Most public opinion polls show that a
majority of people in Japan are opposed
to the holding of the Games this sum-
mer. Yamaguchi, who won judo bronze
in Seoul 33 years ago, is alone among
senior Olympic leaders in openly dis-
missing the claim that a “safe Games”
can be held in the middle of a pandemic.
“We need to go into these Games
with the recognition it’s risky — that
should be the starting point,” she said.
“This will be an event where approxi-
mately 100,000 people will gather. An
event of this size has never been held
under the circumstances of a pandemic.
It could be a super-spreader event, such
a terrible situation could happen. We
should have discussed six months ago
what size of Games could be achieved.”
10(14) 54600 DOUBLE LEGEND 36 (B,C) R Ingram 6-8-13
11 (3) 50061 GENUINE APPROVAL 14 (P,T) J Butler 8-8-12
12 (9) 0350- SCARBOROUGH CASTLE 246 D M Simcock 4-8-7 J Fanning
13(12) 530-0 PERCY'S PRINCE 12 (B,C) A Perrett 5-8-7
14 (2) P-500 SPRINGVALE LAD 11 (P) M Loughnane 4-8-7
Elisha Whittington (5)
3-1 Summer Valley, 9-2 Signal Twenty Nine, 6-1 Genuine Approval, 7-1 Thermal,
8-1 Mr Zee, 10-1 On The Right Track, 14-1 Minster, Savitar, Scarborough Castle.
8.30 Handicap (£2,322: 2m) (14)
R Tart
1 (7) 66204 PLEDGE OF PEACE 15 (P) Mrs L Mongan 4-9-8 A Kirby
2 (5) 50-01 BLAZON 35 (P,CD) K Bailey 8-9-8
A Kirby 3 (8) 3-055 LICIT 25 (T,BF) M Moubarak 4-9-7
4 (6) 0-131 SCUDAMORE 6 I Furtado 4-9-7(5ex)
5 (1) 00324 IVAQUESTION 12 (C) S Dow 4-9-6
6 (11) 11-10 EVAPORUST 20 (P,BF,D) M Usher 4-9-4
O Murphy
7 (10) 61-14 HIGHWAY ONE 20 (D) G Baker 7-9-2
8 (12) 21/0- LAKE SHORE DRIVE J97 (D) J Farrelly 9-9-2 T Whelan
9 (2) -0600 NEVER SURRENDER 21 J Butler 7-8-13
10 (9) 34641 LIVA 21 (T,C) S Lycett 6-8-13
11 (3) 230-0 SEE THE EAGLE FLY 11 (B,BF) H Whittington 4-8-9
12(14) 23332 BRUTE FORCE 20 (V) R Teal 5-8-8
13(13) 0/0-0 WINANDER 28 (B) W Kittow 4-8-6
14 (4) 30/06 SEASEARCH 22 (B,T) C J Gray 6-8-3
2-1 Scudamore, 11-2 Blazon, 7-1 Liva, 10-1 Evaporust, Licit, 12-1 Ivaquestion,
See The Eagle Fly, Brute Force.
Blinkered first time: Fontwell Park 1.35 Peruvien
Bleu. Hamilton 5.45 War of Clans. Haydock Park 3.10
Wait Forever. Kempton Park 8.30 Winander. 8.30
See The Eagle Fly.
2.35 (1m 7f 182yd hdle) 1, Peaked Too Soon
(C Gethings, 7-2); 2, Awesomedude (11-4);
3, Trouble Shooter (10-1). 10 ran. NR:
Boltissime. 3l, 2Ol. K C Bailey.
3.10 (3m 60yd hdle) 1, Exitas (Tabitha
Worsley, 17-2); 2, Hattaab (14-1); 3, Eden
Collonges (10-1). 10 ran. 8l, 2Ol. P W Middleton.
3.45 (2m 4f 88yd hdle) 1, Kentford Mallard (M
G Nolan, 9-1); 2, Isthebaropen (5-1); 3, Flintara
(15-2). 13 ran. NR: Mrs Doubtfire. 4l, 5Kl.
J W Mullins.
4.20 (1m 7f 182yd hdle) 1, Ballinsker (Adam
Wedge, 16-5); 2, Kentucky Hardboot (6-1); 3,
Princess T (8-1). 7 ran. 4Nl, 3l. Evan Williams.
4.50 (1m 7f 182yd hdle) 1, Phoebus Lescribaa
(Lorcan Murtagh, 11-1); 2, Begin The Luck
(13-2); 3, G’day Aussie (40-1). 15 ran. Nk, 10l.
R Dickin.
Placepot: £1,539.70. Quadpot: £53.40.
Wolverhampton
Going: standard
1.45 (7f 36yd) 1, Hachert (R Kingscote, 9-4 fav);
2, Must Be An Angel (16-5); 3, Rock Warbler
(16-1). 11 ran. NR: Falcao. Ol, 7l. J Candlish.
2.20 (7f 36yd) 1, Inexplicable (Cam Hardie,
11-2); 2, Fact Or Fable (3-1); 3, Pedro De Styles
(22-1). 11 ran. NR: Outtake. ns, 2Kl. A Brittain.
2.55 (7f 36yd) 1, Sharp Combo (B A Curtis, 4-1);
2, Manhattanville (13-8 fav); 3, Foden (12-1).
11 ran. NR: Synonymous. 2Nl, 1l. M Johnston.
3.30 (5f 21yd) 1, Pretty Shiftwell (K Shoemark,
13-2); 2, Inclement Weather (16-1); 3, Tantastic
(10-11 fav). 8 ran. Kl, Ol. S C Williams.
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over their foreign rivals, who will be
restricted in the amount of time they
can spend training and acclimatising in
the country in advance of their compe-
titions. Scores of Japanese communi-
ties who had been planning to host
Olympic teams have withdrawn the
invitations for fear of infection.
“Athletes need time in advance of
competing,” she said. “Japanese
athletes have an advantage — they will
be well conditioned. If I was an athlete
coming from overseas, I would feel
that’s unfair.”
Tokyo and other big cities remain in
a state of emergency, although the
number of daily cases is down to a
count of between 400 and 500 a day
from about 1,000 a month ago. Less
than 4 per cent of Japanese have
received two vaccinations, but after a
The majority of people in Japan are opposed to holding the Games, polls suggest board meeting of the Tokyo 2020 orga-
nising committee, the organisation’s
Yamaguchi said that the Olympic “Athletes know that if one person is leaders said the option of cancellation
authorities did not have the capacity to infected it will stop the whole team had not been discussed.
carry out the daily PCR tests promised from taking part in the Games. Imagine “Today, we are only 45 days away
for athletes in the biosecure bubble of they get through the heats, the semi- from the opening ceremony, although
the Olympic village to which they will final, and just before the final the whole the state of emergency is in effect and
be confined — but also that they risked team has to cancel. What will that do to the situation remains severe nation-
causing heartbreaking anguish. the mental health of that athlete? wide,” the organisation’s president,
“It’s not just me, other people believe “I feel sorry for the athletes because Seiko Hashimoto, said.
that they can’t conduct the tests every they have to go into the Olympics Yamaguchi added: “This Olympics is
day,” she said. “Think of the stress that feeling that the Games are not wel- not leading to peace. It’s dividing
athletes will feel having daily PCR tests. comed by most of the people.” people. It will not be a situation where
They may feel, ‘Today I’m OK, but will Yamaguchi also warned that Japa- people can enjoy the Games from the
I be OK tomorrow?’ nese athletes would be at an advantage bottom of their heart.”
3.00 Handicap (£2,322: 1m 3f 104yd) (11) 9 (14) MAGNA OF ILLUSION C Dunnett 3-9-0 E J Walsh
Rhiain Ingram (3) Yarmouth 1 (8) -6054 MAHANAKHON POWER 4 (V) M Appleby 4-9-9 L Morris 10 (2) 4 MIKASA 45 R Guest 3-9-0 S W Kelly
P Cosgrave Rob Wright 2 (7) 16-00 FLYING STANDARD 21 C Wall 4-9-7 J Mitchell 11(15) 4-202 QURTAJANA 33 J & T Gosden 3-9-0 R Havlin
3 (3) 3-503 CRITIQUE 14 (B) E Walker 4-9-7 T Marquand 12(12) 3 RABAT 41 Mrs I G-Leveque 3-9-0 L Morris
1.50 Tilsworth Taibo 4.05 Qurtajana
4 (6) 6405 CLOSING SHOW 20 (P) D M Simcock 4-9-5 J P Spencer 13 (6) ROMAN POWER (H) Tom Clover 3-9-0 R Dawson (3)
2.25 Cotai Hero 4.40 Qasbaz
Georgia Dobie (5) 5 (11) /2551 GO ON GAL 11 S Humphrey 8-9-2 W Humphrey (7) 14(10) 50- SHAMFIZZ 237 C Fellowes 3-9-0 H Turner
3.00 Critique 5.10 Thomas Lanfiere 15(13) 0 SIENNA BREEZE 11 L Wadham 3-9-0 D Muscutt
3.35 Mustazeed 6 (5) 030-6 HIDDEN PEARL 21 J Berry 5-9-0 D E Hogan (3)
16 (7) 0 SWEET EXPECTATION 27 C Wall 3-9-0 J Mitchell
7 (4) 0600- WINDRUSH SONG 232 J Butler 4-8-12 D Muscutt
Going: good, good to firm in places 9-4 Qurtajana, 5-2 Danni California, 11-2 Loving Nights, 6-1 Rabat, 8-1 Mikasa,
8 (2) 0-060 BUMMBLE BERRY 21 Jessica Macey 4-8-12 O Stammers (5)
Draw: no advantage Sky Sports Racing 9 (9) 00066 PERCY TOPLIS 50 (H,V,C) C Dunnett 7-8-12 C Howarth (7)
16-1 Roman Power, 20-1 Empress Makeda, 25-1 others.
1.50 Handicap (£2,322: 6f) (13) 10 (1) 00045 GLENCOE BOY 9 (B) D Flood 4-8-12 A Brookes (7)
4.40 Handicap (£4,347: 1m) (9)
11(10) 005/6 POUR JOIE 21 (H) I Williams 6-8-12 David Egan
1 (2) 02205 ROCKESBURY 9 (V,D) P McEntee 6-9-7 Grace McEntee (5) 1 (9) 04532 FOX POWER 11 (B,D) R Hannon 5-9-10 T Hammer Hansen (3)
11-4 Critique, 9-2 Go On Gal, 6-1 Glencoe Boy, Mahanakhon Power, 7-1 Hidden
2 (12) 11246 TWICE AS LIKELY 9 (BF,D) R Hughes 4-9-7 David Egan Pearl, 8-1 Flying Standard, 12-1 Pour Joie, Closing Show. 2 (5) 105-0 CRACK REGIMENT 36 H Spiller 4-9-7 H Turner
J Crowley
3 (3) 004-4 NIBRAS SHADOW 9 I Mohammed 4-9-7 R Dawson (3) 3 (7) 41001 ENOUGH ALREADY 12 (D) L Carter 5-9-6 L Jones
O Murphy
4 (11) 45430 BLUE CABLE 19 (D) M Attwater 4-9-4 T Marquand 3.35 Handicap (3-Y-O: £2,322: 1m 2f) (8) 4 (8) 16-46 MADAME TANTZY 43 (P,D) E J-Houghton 5-9-5 T Marquand
S M Levey
5 (1) 46-00 SPARKLING DIAMOND 16 (B,D) Frank Bishop 4-9-3 D Brock 5 (1) 43-4 SECRET MOMENT 16 (P) S bin Suroor 4-9-4 M Ghiani (3)
J F Egan 1 (5) 06-03 MUSTAZEED 22 C Wall 9-11 J Mitchell
6 (7) 00-60 ENGLISHMAN 36 (B,D) C Wallis 11-9-2 L Morris 6 (3) 05306 PAPA STOUR 12 (T,D) S C Williams 6-9-1 L Atzori (7)
2 (4) 640-0 TRUE COURAGE 28 (V) M Bell 9-11 D E Hogan (3)
Isobel Francis (7) 7 (6) 61-06 LINCOLN RED 37 (CD) Olly Williams 5-9-2 J Mitchell 7 (6) 150-5 QASBAZ 43 (P) M Loughnane 4-8-13 L Morris
3 (3) 0-60 KNIGHT OF KINGS 102 J Butler 9-7 D Muscutt
P Cosgrave 8 (13) -4465 THAKI 9 (T) L McJannet 4-9-1 D Muscutt 8 (4) 62234 GODDESS OF FIRE 12 (P,D) J Ryan 4-8-10 D Keenan
4 (2) 40-06 STIGWOOD 16 E J-Houghton 9-7 David Egan
9 (9) 000-4 TILSWORTH TAIBO 32 J R Jenkins 4-9-0 M Ghiani (3) 9 (2) 42432 FORESEEABLE FUTURE 8 (P,C) R Carr 6-8-8 J P Spencer
5 (8) 040-6 ALASKAN LADY 28 D & C Kubler 9-6 L Keniry
10 (4) 0-000 KELINDA DICE 98 (P) M Quinn 4-8-12 S W Kelly 100-30 Fox Power, 9-2 Secret Moment, 5-1 Foreseeable Future, 6-1 Madame
T P Queally 6 (1) 060 DUBAI EMPEROR 73 D M Simcock 9-6 J P Spencer
11 (8) 05445 PEDESTAL 33 D Flood 7-8-12 A Brookes (7) Tantzy, 7-1 Enough Already, 10-1 Goddess Of Fire, Qasbaz, 12-1 others.
Josephine Gordon 7 (6) 004-4 TINCHOO 19 A King 9-0 T Marquand
12 (5) 540-0 SHERELLA 137 J R Jenkins 5-8-12 C Howarth (7)
8 (7) 000-6 DUKE OF PRUSSIA 13 (V) Sir M Prescott 8-8 L Morris
E Greatrex 13(10) 50-00 FAREGAAN 9 (V) C Dunnett 4-8-12 E J Walsh 5.10 Handicap (£2,322: 1m) (9)
9-4 Mustazeed, 9-2 Alaskan Lady, 6-1 Tinchoo, Dubai Emperor, 7-1 Duke Of
O Lewis (7) 4-1 Twice As Likely, 9-2 Nibras Shadow, 5-1 Pedestal, 6-1 Thaki, Rockesbury, 1 (1) -5530 OUD METHA BRIDGE 12 (P,CD) J Feilden 7-9-13 S B Kirrane (3)
Prussia, 8-1 Knight Of Kings, 10-1 Stigwood, 14-1 True Courage.
8-1 Lincoln Red, 10-1 Blue Cable, 20-1 Kelinda Dice, Sherella, Englishman.
N Currie 2 (4) 001-0 AL TARMAAH 45 (P,BF) W Haggas 4-9-12 A Farragher (5)
T Heard (5) 2.25 Maiden Stakes (2-Y-O: £4,266: 5f) (6) 4.05 Fillies' Stakes (£3,024: 7f) (16) 3 (6) 46530 IN THE COVE 38 (B,BF,D) R Hannon 5-9-11 L Catton (5)
4 (3) 2-650 DRAMATICA 20 (P,T) S C Williams 4-9-10 M Ghiani
1 (4) COTAI HERO E Walker 9-5 T Marquand 1 (3) 06- MARIONETTE 352 C Banham 4-9-10 J Haynes
5 (9) 24350 DR JEKYLL 12 (T) Alice Haynes 5-9-10 D E Hogan
2 (5) MANETTINO S C Williams 9-5 David Egan 2 (16) 00 CABRINI 26 J Feilden 3-9-0 D E Hogan (3)
6 (7) 3355- GLEN ESK 232 C Wall 4-9-10 S Woods (3)
3 (6) MUSIC BANNER J Ferguson 9-5 D Muscutt 3 (5) 32 DANNI CALIFORNIA 27 R Spencer 3-9-0 David Egan
7 (8) 03420 FASHION FREE 75 (H,D) M Appleby 4-9-9 F Larson (7)
4 (2) 6 TOP EXHIBIT 22 A Watson 9-5 Adam J McNamara 4 (8) EMPRESS MAKEDA R Guest 3-9-0 S Woods (5)
8 (5) 45211 THOMAS LANFIERE 12 (H,CD) D M Simcock 4-8-13
5 (3) NEVER M Bell 9-0 D E Hogan (3) 5 (11) HOT ROMANCE J Feilden 3-9-0 R Tate Grace McEntee (3)
0 ROMANTIC TIME 36 W Stone 9-0 M Ghiani (3) 6 (9) 20- INCORRIGIBLE 245 R Hannon 3-9-0 J P Spencer 9 (2) -0262 DON'T JOKE 7 R Carr 4-8-7 A Brookes (7)
6 (1)
7 (4) LOVING NIGHTS W Haggas 3-9-0 T Marquand
5-2 Never, 11-4 Cotai Hero, 4-1 Manettino, 5-1 Music Banner, 6-1 Top Exhibit, 3-1 Thomas Lanfiere, 7-2 Al Tarmaah, 4-1 Don't Joke, 8-1 Fashion Free, Glen
14-1 Romantic Time. 8 (1) 0- LUCAYAN 273 C Dunnett 3-9-0 D Keenan Esk, 12-1 In The Cove, Oud Metha Bridge, 14-1 Dramatica, Dr Jekyll.
Results
4.05 (6f 20yd) 1, The Waterman (Hector
Crouch, 12-1); 2, Readman (14-1); 3, Signora
8.15 (1m 7f) 1, Let Me Be (Kevin Stott, 15-8 fav);
2, Socially Shady (10-1); 3, Three Castles (5-2). Football Krejcikova (Cz) and K Siniakova (Cz) bt
Karolina Pliskova (Cz) and Kristyna Pliskova
Princess (10-1). 9 ran. NR: Good Listener. 5 ran. NR: Pammi. Nk, 1l. K Dalgleish. International matches (Cz) 6-4, 6-4; (14) B Mattek-Sands (US) and I
Nk, ns. T Ward. Swiatek (Pol) bt (11) D Jurak (Cro) and A Klepac
Placepot: £11.70. Quadpot: £5.90. Czech Rep (1) 3 Albania (1) 1 (Slovenia) 6-3, 6-2. Mixed doubles: Semi-finals
4.40 (1m 4f 51yd) 1, Kalma (James Doyle, D Krawczyk (US) and J Salisbury (GB) wo G
Schick 18, Masopust 68 Cikalleshi 42
15-8); 2, Ladywood (3-1); 3, Envega (7-4 fav).
6 ran. 2Kl, 9Kl. A King.
Wetherby Celustka 89 Olmos (Mex) and J S Cabal (Col); E Vesnina
(Russ) and A Karatsev (Russ) bt (3) D Schuurs
Hungary (0) 0 Ireland (0) 0
5.10 (2m 120yd) 1, Live Your Dream (P Going: good to firm (Neth) and W Koolhof (Neth) 6-4, 6-1.
Cosgrave, 6-5 fav); 2, Margaret Dumont (7-2); 3, 4.55 (5f 110yd) 1, Fearby (P J McDonald, 15-8 Poland (1) 2 Iceland (1) 2 Viking Nottingham Open
Cloud Thunder (7-2). 6 ran. 6Kl, 10l. S bin Suroor. fav); 2, Lethal Levi (13-2); 3, Haymaker (5-2). Zielinski 34 Gudmundsson 26 Women: Second round V Golubic (Switz) bt K
5.40 (1m 1f 104yd) 1, Forus (B A Curtis, 3-1 fav); 10 ran. 1Nl, Ol. E Bethell. Swiderski 88 Bjarnason 47 Ahn (US) 6-1, ret; N Stojanovic (Serbia) bt O
2, Beyond Infinity (16-5); 3, Clipsham Tiger 5.30 (7f) 1, Homer Stokes (Jason Hart, 8-1); Dodin (Fr) 7-6 (7-4), 7-5; J Konta (GB) bt L
Spain (2) 4 Lithuania (0) 0 Kerkhove (Neth) 6-1, 6-3; Z Diyas (Kaz) bt L
(25-1). 11 ran. Nk, 3Kl. Grant Tuer. 2, El Picaro (5-2); 3, Tommaso (100-30). 13 ran.
Guillamon 3, Diaz 24 Cabrera (Aus) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; G García Pérez (Sp)
Placepot: £67.60. Quadpot: £15.60. NR: Lobo Del Mar, Mccann The Man. 1Nl, 1l. Miranda 54, Puado 73 bt C McHale (US) 6-7 (7-9), 6-4, 7-5; D Vekic (Cro)
T D Barron. bt L Kung (Switz) 7-5, 6-1; T Martincova (Cz) bt
Ayr 6.00 (1m) 1, Cliffcake (Lewis Edmunds, 13-2);
2, Iron Sheriff (6-1); 3, Storm Dreamer (5-1 fav).
Cycling C Dolehide (US) 6-2, 6-3; K Kozlova (Ukr) bt M
Brengle (US) 6-3, 5-7, 6-3.
Going: good to firm (good in places) Tour de Suisse
14 ran. NR: Maximum Risk, Third stage (Lachen to Pfaffnau, 182.1km): 1, M
5.15 (1m) 1, Tribal Art (J Fanning, 6-4 fav); 2, Life Sugarpiehoneybunch. 2l, 1Nl. S R Bowring. van der Poel (Neth, Alpecin-Fenix) 4hr 24min
On The Rocks (7-1); 3, Water Iris (9-4). 11 ran. NR:
Bobby Shaftoe, Scota Bess. Ol, hd. M Johnston. 6.30 (1m) 1, Six Strings (S H James, 100-30);
2, Arranmore (8-1); 3, John Clare (10-1). 13 ran.
26sec; 2, C Laporte (Fr, Cofidis); 3, J Alaphilippe
(Fr, Deceuninck-QuickStep) both same time.
Fixtures
5.45 (6f) 1, Pearl Of Qatar (Phil Dennis, 4-5
fav); 2, Amazing Alba (18-1); 3, Avebury (17-2).
NR: Hot Summer. 2Kl, 3Nl. Grant Tuer. Leading overall position 1, Van der Poel
8:49:14; 2, Alaphilippe at 1sec behind; 3, S Kung
6 ran. 1l, Kl. T Davidson. 7.00 (1m 2f) 1, Bollin Margaret (D Allan, 9-2); (Switz, Groupama-FDJ) 4. Cricket
2, Real Terms (13-2); 3, Betty Grable (6-1).
6.15 (1m 2f) 1, Tricorn (A Mullen, 7-4 fav);
2, Breguet Boy (8-1); 3, Ayr Poet (9-2). 7 ran.
8 ran. Ol, 3l. T D Easterby. Tennis T20 Blast: North group: Emirates Old Trafford
Lancashire v Derbyshire (2.30). Worcester
French Open
3l, 3Kl. I Jardine. 7.35 (1m 6f) 1, September Power (S De Sousa, Worcestershire v Notts Outlaws (5.30). South
5-6 fav); 2, Pepper Street (10-1); 3, Lady Roland Garros, Paris (quarter-finals unless group: Canterbury Kent v Hampshire (7.0).
6.45 (5f) 1, Modular Magic (Connor Beasley,
7-2); 2, Tanasoq (11-4); 3, Major Pusey (11-2).
Shanawell (4-1). 6 ran. NR: Inside Intel. Kl, 1Kl. stated): Men: Singles (6) A Zverev (Ger) bt A
Davidovich Fokina (Sp) 6-4, 6-1, 6-1. Doubles (2)
Taunton Somerset v Essex (6.30).
R Varian.
5 ran. 2Kl, nk. T D Barron.
8.05 (2m) 1, Yagood (Rhys Clutterbuck,
J S Cabal (Col) and R Farah (Col) bt (9) K
Krawietz (Ger) and H Tecau (Rom) 6-2, 6-7 (3-7),
Golf
7.15 (1m) 1, Tommy G (Harry Russell, 100-30
fav); 2, Midnite Bride (4-1); 3, Xcelente (22-1). 2-1 fav); 2, Pound Off You (22-1); 3, Low Profile 7-5; (6) P-H Herbert (Fr) and N Mahut (Fr) bt T Kilmarnock Barassie GC: British Women’s
7 ran. 1l, hd. J S Goldie. (6-1). 15 ran. Kl, 1Kl. Joseph Parr. Brkic (Bos) and N Cacic (Serbia) 7-6 (7-5), 6-1. Amateur Champion-ship.
Jackpot: Not won. Pool of £1,552.37 carried Women: Singles T Zidansek (Slovenia) bt P
7.45 (7f 50yd) 1, Mi Capricho (J Fanning, 14-1);
forward to Kempton today.
Badosa Gibert (Sp) 7-5, 4-6, 8-6; (31) A Tennis
2, Motawaazy (4-7 fav); 3, Tukhoom (7-2). Pavlyuchenkova (Russ) bt (21) E Rybakina
13 ran. NR: Lofty. Kl, 2l. K Dalgleish. Placepot: £22.90. Quadpot: £18.70. (Kaz) 6-7 (2-7), 6-2, 9-7. Doubles (2) B Viking Nottingham Open.
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Anderson thrives on his insecurities
Mike Atherton
Chief Cricket
Correspondent
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hortly after scoring a hat-trick
in the World Cup final of 1966
Geoff Hurst bade farewell to
his manager Alf Ramsey with
a cheery “See you next time,
Alf.” The hero of the hour got a
reminder of the potentially transitory
nature of sport. “If selected, Geoffrey,
if selected,” came Ramsey’s withering
reply. On the verge of his record-
breaking appearance at Edgbaston,
James Anderson surely did not have
the heroes of ’66 in mind but he was
reluctant to make too many
assumptions.
Should he play in Birmingham —
and given there is no Test cricket for
England thereafter until early August,
there is no reason why he shouldn’t
— Anderson will become England’s
most-capped Test cricketer,
overtaking Alastair Cook, who
finished with 161 caps. Anderson, who
turns 39 next month, was asked how
he would feel when he passed his old
mate, to which he replied he would be
delighted, “if selected”.
It is a common theme to most great
players: they are permanently on
edge, rarely satisfied, often insecure
and always slightly neurotic about
getting dropped. It is sometimes said
that inconsistent selection hurts
players who don’t succeed, but my
experience is that the best players
thrive on a certain level of insecurity
and anxiety as it fuels a constant
desire to improve, to keep the ticking
clock at bay as well as to stave off the
cool touch of the selectors’ axe.
That a fast bowler is about to
become England’s most-capped
cricketer is a remarkable
development. Of the 70 international
cricketers to have played 100 Tests or
more for their country, only ten are
fast or fast-medium bowlers. Most are
batsmen, of course, no mean
achievement in itself given the mental
strain that batting in international
cricket demands. Above all, bowling is
a physical challenge and most fall by
the wayside before that particular
milestone can be reached. No bowler,
fast or slow, in the history of the game
has played more Tests than Anderson.
He has been fortunate on one
count. His first-class career for
Lancashire began in 2002, which was
17,000 return to Edgbaston
Elizabeth Ammon
The Edgbaston Test starting
tomorrow is one of the government’s
“return to crowds” test events,
meaning 17,000 people will be allowed
into the stadium — 70 per cent of the
capacity of the Birmingham ground.
Who got the tickets?
Tickets went on general sale earlier in
the year based on 100 per cent
capacity. The government regulations
for this pilot event are that no under-
16s will be allowed in the stadium.
Refunds were given to those who
could not, or did not want to, attend
under the new rules.
The whole ground will be open and,
unlike at Lord’s where the ground was
only a quarter full, there will be no
social distancing in the stands.
Anderson, seen preparing for the Edgbaston Test with Haseeb Hameed, is set to become England’s most capped player
only two years after central contracts
had been introduced for England
cricketers. Until that point,
international players were contracted
by their counties, rather than their
country, and they were hired guns,
paid to play by both county and
country with no thought to the
stresses and strains a full calendar
would create.
Now, Anderson is fundamentally an
international cricketer only, which
has allowed him to stretch his career
way beyond the bounds of what was
once considered the norm. More than
that, he last played a one-day
international six years ago. He is, to
all intents and purposes, a Test
cricketer only now.
That Anderson will break this
record at Edgbaston is fitting in some
Are there any special regulations?
Everyone attending must produce
evidence of a negative lateral flow test
taken on the day of arrival.
Food and drink outlets will be open
around the ground but fans will be
encouraged to use an app on their
phone to order from their seats. They
will also be able to view “heat maps” on
the app, so they can avoid congested
areas of the ground. Wearing masks will
be encouraged when walking around
but are not required when seated.
How is risk being minimised?
Warwickshire officials have used
postcode analysis of spectators’ home
addresses to lay on extra buses to and
from the stadium to avoid
overcrowding. There will be more than
300 hand-sanitisation points around
the ground.
respects. The ground was home to a
great fast bowler of a previous
generation, Bob Willis, who died of
prostate cancer 18 months ago. Until
Anderson and Stuart Broad came
along, Willis was England’s most-
capped fast bowler — his 90 caps
were a long way clear of Brian
Statham’s 70 — but he had to police
his workload.
When he played county cricket,
Willis would often get stick for not
bowling as quickly for Warwickshire
as he did for England, a limiting but
necessary solution.
In Outliers, the writer Malcolm
Gladwell charts the success of the
leaders of the computer revolution,
such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Eric
Schmidt, through the accident of their
birth. These men were all born a few
Williamson may miss Test
Elizabeth Ammon
New Zealand’s captain and batting
talisman Kane Williamson could miss
the second Test against England
because of a persistent elbow injury.
The world No 1-ranked Test batsman
had treatment on his left elbow at
Edgbaston yesterday and a final
decision on his availability for the
match will be made after training today,
Gary Stead, New Zealand’s head coach,
said.
The touring side are also set to rest
some of their seam bowlers, with one
eye on the World Test Championship
final against India, which starts in
Southampton next Friday. However
Trent Boult is set to play in the second
Test, which starts at Edgbaston
tomorrow, despite originally being ruled
out of this series after New Zealand
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months apart in the mid-1950s, the
perfect age to benefit from the arrival
of the first microprocessors in the
mid-1970s. Likewise, it is no
coincidence that England’s two most-
capped fast bowlers, Anderson and
Broad, began their careers post-2000,
when central contracts arrived.
Anderson has been blessed with the
almost perfect build for a fast-medium
bowler. Wiry, supple and strong, he
has avoided significant injury, apart
from the short period early in his
international career when coaches
tinkered with his action, ironically, to
prevent a breakdown. In the past few
years, he has taken nutrition and
training more seriously, as he
attempts to stretch his career into his
forties, but he has been blessed by
nature with the tools for the job.
Cricket agreed he could have some time
at home after the Indian Premier
League was suspended last month.
“All the bowlers from the first Test
have scrubbed up pretty well,” Stead
said. “But it doesn’t mean they will
necessarily play in the next match.
Something we are looking to do with an
eye towards the final is keep bowlers
who we think will take part in that final
fresh and raring to go ready for that first
ball in the match against India.
“Trent is available and it is likely we
will play him in this match. It is great
news for us. Things changed from the
information we had initially — it is the
best thing for Trent to get out there and
get the Dukes ball in his hand.”
Mitchell Santer, the spin bowler who
played in the first Test at Lord’s, is ruled
out of this match with a hand injury. Ish
Sodhi is his likely replacement.
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Most Test matches
Just two of the 18 players with the
most Test appearances were
primarily seam bowlers — and James
Anderson is well out in front
SR Tendulkar (Ind) 200
RT Ponting (Aus) 168
SR Waugh (Aus) 168
JH Kallis (SA) 166
S Chanderpaul (WI) 164
R Dravid (Ind) 164
JM Anderson (Eng) 161
AN Cook (Eng) 161
AR Border (Aus) 156
DPMD Jayawardene (SL) 149
MV Boucher (SA) 147
SCJ Broad (Eng) 147
SK Warne (Aus) 145
VVS Laxman (Ind) 134
KC Sangakkara (SL) 134
M Muralitharan (SL) 133
AJ Stewart (Eng) 133
A Kumble (Ind) 132
But these bits of good fortune only
helped to provide the opportunity.
Anderson’s greatness is in the way he
has exploited it, constantly improving
and evolving, adding extra arrows to
his quiver over the years, until no
target sits beyond his precision and
range. Home or away, fast pitches or
slow, using swing, seam or cutters,
Anderson has changed perceptions of
a bowler who thrived at home mainly,
to one who has succeeded in all
conditions and in all situations.
His record, latterly, is incredible.
After his first decade in Test cricket,
at the point when most fast bowlers
are on their last legs and
contemplating retirement, Anderson
had taken 340 wickets in 91 Tests at
an average of 30.61. That would have
been a fine record, had his career
ended then. Since the start of 2014, he
has taken 276 wickets in 70 Tests at
21.62, an astonishing improvement.
After the age of 30, he has taken
almost 350 Test wickets, the bowling
equivalent of Jack Hobbs’s 98 first-
class hundreds after the age of 40.
Remarkable.
Yesterday, he recalled his first Test,
against Zimbabwe, 18 years ago. He
remembered starting nervously with
a no-ball and leaking too many runs
through the leg side, and recalled
feeling inadequate, even though he
took five wickets. It took him another
five years before he felt he belonged.
Now he stands supreme: England’s
finest ever fast-medium bowler,
surely, and soon to be most-capped. If
selected, of course.
Notts kick off T20 Blast
defence at Worcestershire
This year’s Vitality Blast gets under way
tonight, with the matches spread out
over a three-month period to
accommodate the Hundred, the ECB’s
new city-based, 100-ball tournament,
which starts next month.
Last year’s winners, Notts Outlaws,
travel to Worcestershire Rapids to
begin their defence, while Lancashire
Lightning take on Derbyshire Falcons.
In the South Group, Somerset host
Essex Eagles and Kent Spitfires take on
Hampshire Hawks at Canterbury.
The format is the same as ever, with
eight teams progressing from two
regional groups into the quarter-finals,
before the semi-finals and finals take
place on the same day, Saturday,
September 18, at Edgbaston.
Some England players, including the
likes of Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler, are
likely to feature in the early stages of
the Blast.
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Matthew Syed
Hypocritical ECB
in a diverse team of modern Britons. A post
from almost a decade ago, when he was in a
difficult phase of his formative years, and for
which he has offered an apology — well, isn’t
this one for education rather than suspension?
Some have commended Joe Root, the

acting out of fear

England captain, who said about the furore: “It’s
a great lesson for everyone within our game
that we can all do more”. Chris Silverwood, the
head coach, said: “We can make sure the world
is a better place.” Many detected humanity in
these statements, but I whiffed something

– not humanity
different. Fear. A worry about falling foul of the
self-appointed moral guardians. A growing
paranoia among public figures about being
caught in the crosshairs of what we call the
culture wars.
But this can’t work, not in the long term. For
if the past decade is anything to go by, the mob

M
ichael Vaughan said on the radio
at the weekend that the ECB
should have conducted “due
diligence” on Ollie Robinson
before selecting him for the
England team. At first, I assumed that Vaughan
was talking about due diligence on Robinson’s
qualities as a bowler. Did the Sussex player have
sufficient stamina? Could he cut it over a Test
series?
In fact, Vaughan was talking about something
else. He thought that the governing body should
have delved into Robinson’s past, stretching back
who knows how long, to discover whether he
had ever said anything that might violate a
future inquisition. Had they done so, they would
have seen that he is a wrong ’un (Robinson
posted controversial tweets as a teenager) and
would have been spared the spectacle of
dropping him. Instead, he would not have been
eligible for selection in the first place.
The fact that Vaughan, at times a voice of
reason in cricket, has landed upon such a hare-
brained stance shows just how far the new
puritanism has reached. It is like a virus that
people catch, finding hitherto undiscovered
wells of pleasure in the bringing down of people
for past sins, stretching back into youthful
adolescence. The idea of rehabilitation, still less
forgiveness, is ruled out of court.
The novelist LP Hartley said that the past is a
foreign country, but in Vaughan’s world — and
that of the ECB, which has suspended Robinson
from international cricket — the idea is that we
will all live under a regime of permanent
retroactive adjudication. As moral norms
change, comments made in the distant past will
be like nooses hanging over us. I once laughed
at a joke in Fawlty Towers, a programme which,
I am now given to understand, is considered
xenophobic. Am I still eligible to play for the
England over-50s at ping pong?
The ECB — an organisation whose judgment
has fallen off the edge of a cliff — is happy to
take cash by playing in nations where misogyny
is codified under the law, where homosexuality
is punishable by death, where religious
discrimination is rife. But it does not see the will deploy ever-more minute tweezers to the
hypocrisy in suspending someone for a tweet things people say and do, desperate to find the
sent during their late adolescence. They next sacrificial victim. The ritualistic
say the ban is temporary, but so too is evisceration has a certain element of fun.
life. A sporting career is short at the You warm your hands on the flames of
best of times and Robinson will digital indignation, add a little fuel to
never get these matches back. the fire by retweeting the latest slur,
So let me humbly say to Tom and then wait for the suits to
Harrison: beware. I once sat acquiesce. It is rare these days for
next to the ECB chief institutions to stand up for
executive at a dinner and common sense, let alone due
rather enjoyed his company, process.
but when you perpetrate On the wider
injustice, you should expect point, though, I
payback. Certainly, I can’t help am not sure I
wondering if he has ever want sporting
uttered a word that he might governing
now regret, or sent an email with bodies seeking
a questionable phrase, or anything to “make the
else that could be dragged up by world a better
diligent trawling. If so, he can expect place”. I know that iconic
to be guillotined via the same process sports figures have made wonderfully
that he has perpetrated on others. progressive contributions to society, but these
The same goes for whatever had meaning because they were a choice, not an
committee is now sitting in judgment on obligation. I watch sport, in many ways, to get
Robinson, doubtless going over his away from political contention; to wind down, to
charge sheet with pious expressions, switch off, to take the edge of a stressful day.
horrified that anyone might have strayed This doesn’t mean that I don’t care about
from the straight and narrow as defined politics; it means that a balanced life needs its
by — well, defined by whom? If this is up safety valves, its moments of release and
to the prudes who wanted David Moyes escapism.
to be banned from football for life for a But let us return to due diligence. For now,
single utterance spoken in anger to a Wisden.com has published a tweet by an
female reporter after a lifetime of decent England player whose identity it has withheld as
behaviour (he was accused of sexism), he was under 16 at the time of posting the
Robinson is toast. message. Will the ECB suspend him for this
Proportionality is what I am urging, crime? Will it dig back further to see whether
here. Perhaps even common sense, a he once wrote a school essay that falls foul of
concept that has disappeared up the rear the censors? And, if so, at what point will
end of our tortured era. Had Robinson every person hoping for a future England career
posted support for Nazism and turned up stop saying anything publicly at all, thus
at training with a swastika on his sleeve, depriving them of the precious feedback
most right-minded people would through which human beings mature and
understand a reluctance to include him grow?
This is the direction in which society, and not
Robinson has been suspended by the just cricket, is heading. And it is not, may I
ECB over tweets he posted as a teenager suggest, making the world a better place.

England players to have their past social media posts reviewed

Elizabeth Ammon
The ECB has begun a review of past
social media posts by its contracted
players in the wake of Ollie Robinson’s
suspension for offensive tweets he
posted as a teenager.
The governing body also looks set to
extend its investigation to those on the
periphery of the squad and youngsters
coming through the ECB’s pathway
schemes.
“Since we were alerted to offensive
tweets last week, a number of historical
social media posts by other individuals
have been questioned publicly as well,”
an ECB statement said. “Given the
concerns which have been raised are
clearly now broader than a single case,
the ECB board will discuss how we deal
with issues over historical social media
material in a timely and appropriate
manner.”
James Anderson, who expects to
become England’s most-capped Test
player with his 162nd appearance in the
second Test against New Zealand start-
ing tomorrow, said that players had
already begun attending workshops
run by the ECB and Professional Crick-
eters’ Association (PCA).
The 38-year-old fast bowler, who
made his England debut in 2003,
admitted that it had been a “difficult
time” for the squad. However, last night
Anderson was dragged into a fresh
Twitter storm, over a post from 2010 in
which he said the new haircut of his
team-mate, Stuart Broad, made him
look like a “15 year old lesbian”.
“As players we are trying to learn
from this and realise it’s important to
try and get educated around these
issues,” Anderson said. “We continue to
do that with the ECB and PCA. We’ve
been doing workshops before the series
to improve ourselves as people, basical-
ly. The first one was on racism. It doesn’t
matter how old you are, you can never
know too much. It’s really important we
keep doing this, keep buying into it.”
Robinson, the 27-year-old bowler
who made his England debut in last
week’s first Test at Lord’s, has been
suspended from international cricket
by the ECB after the emergence of
racist and sexist tweets that he posted in
2012 and 2013.
A further investigation is under way
after a racist tweet by a second England
player came to light yesterday. The
player is not being named because he
was under 16 at the time it was sent, but
the controversy continues to overshad-
ow England’s preparations for the
Edgbaston Test.
Anderson said that the team had
accepted Robinson’s apology, which he
gave in the Lord’s dressing room before
saying sorry publicly live on Sky Sports,
by reading a prepared statement. “I
think it’s been accepted,” Anderson said
of the apology. “He stood up in front of
the group. You could see how sincere
and upset he was. As a group we appre-
ciate he’s a different person now. He’s
done a lot of maturing since then and
he’s got the full support of the team.”
Anderson admitted that the lines
were blurry when it came to judging
players for comments made long before
they were part of the England set-up
but reiterated his belief that there was
no place for the kind of remarks made
by Robinson. It is understood that most
players have now begun looking at past
social media posts and Anderson said
that they would need to be much more
careful in the future.
“If there are any tweets from years
ago, we do have to look at that and learn
from this and be better in the future,” he
said. “Try and make sure we know it’s
unacceptable to use those sorts of
phrases and language.
“The historical stuff, for me ten or 11
years ago, I’ve certainly changed as a
person. That’s the difficulty — things
do change, and you do make mistakes.”
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Sport Tennis
Coming in
from the cold
has paid off
for Zidansek
Stuart Fraser
Tennis
Correspondent
Tamara Zidansek’s decision to swap the
chill of Slovenia’s mountains for the
relative warmth of the tennis tour has
most certainly paid off. The former
national junior snowboarding cham-
pion can now call herself a grand-slam
semi-finalist after continuing her
stunning run as an unseeded entrant at
the French Open.
Zidansek, 23, arrived in Paris
completely under the radar as the
world No 85, but has gradually risen to
prominence over the past week and a
half through a series of performances
that have belied her ranking and inex-
perience. Yesterday she held her nerve
in the biggest match of her career,
narrowly edging out Paula Badosa, the
No 33 seed from Spain, 7-5, 4-6, 8-6
over two hours and 26 minutes.
Her efforts at Roland Garros have
come out of nowhere — this is the first
time she has gone beyond the second
round of a grand-slam tournament.
She is the first singles player repre-
senting Slovenia to reach the last four
in a major tournament, although due
recognition must be given to her com-
patriot Mima Jausovec for winning the
French Open in 1977 under the flag of
the former Yugoslavia.
“It feels overwhelming,” Zidansek
said. “I’m just trying to focus on my
game, on myself. I guess I managed to
keep my composure a little bit better
than her. It was a tough battle.”
Playing on the clay courts of Roland
Garros in 25C heat makes for very
different surroundings to where Zidan-
sek spent most of her childhood. She
grew up in Slovenske Konjice, a small
town with a population of 5,000, and
was inevitably drawn to the nearby ski
Konta finds form on home turf after alarming slump
Stuart Fraser
Johanna Konta started her grass-court
season yesterday at the Viking Notting-
ham Open with a much-needed vic-
tory, her first since April 29. The British
No 1 looked more at ease on home soil
as she dispatched Dutch qualifier
Lesley Kerkhove in straight sets.
Konta, 30, has endured a miserable
year on tour, winning only three of ten
matches before this week. Last week
she lost in the first round of the French
Open and then parted ways with her
coach, Dimitri Zavialoff, her fifth men-
tor in five years. Anything less than an
appearance in the final this week will
risk her dropping out of the world’s top
30; her present ranking is No 20.
The draw in Nottingham had given
her a potential banana skin against
Day 11 order of play
(All times BST)
10am Coco Gauff (24, US) vs
Barbora Krejcikova (Cz)
12pm Iga Swiatek (8, Pol) vs Maria
Sakkari (17, Gr)
2pm Rafael Nadal (3, Sp) vs Diego
Schwartzman (10, Arg)
7pm Novak Djokovic (1, Serbia) vs
Matteo Berrettini (9, It)
slopes. She won the national junior
snowboarding title three times before
the age of 12, when she decided to focus
solely on tennis after taking up lessons
at a summer camp.
“First I skied,” Zidansek said. “But we
lived 20 minutes away from a ski resort.
It was normal for us to go there every
weekend. I chose tennis because I was
really cold snowboarding. Oh my god, I
don’t like the cold weather at all. It was
fun to do it at first, and then I saw an op-
portunity to make something out of
this. So I just went for it, I guess.”
Snowboarding undoubtedly helped
Zidansek’s balance on the court — she
is one of the smaller players on tour at
5ft 5in — and she has developed a solid
all-round game with a spin-heavy fore-
hand that can earn her easy winners.
Her composure has grown with every
match this fortnight, as was evident
when she saved three break points at
6-6 in the deciding set yesterday.
Entry to the world’s top 50 is now
guaranteed on Monday, which would
be enough to secure her a spot at next
month’s Olympics. However, in yet
another sign of the growing reluctance
among tennis players to travel to
Tokyo, Zidansek has already decided
that she will not be taking up her place.
“I have officially said that I will not be
going to the Olympics this year,” Zidan-
sek said. “That was before I even made
the cut. With this whole Covid situa-
tion, it’s going to be a different Olym-
pics. Not everyone gets to go to the
Kerkhove, the world No 177, who was
already accustomed to the surface after
winning her two qualifying matches in
straight sets. But Konta proved too
powerful, dropping only three of 35
points on serve as she cruised to
a 6-1, 6-3 win in 65 minutes.
“I thought it was a really
great match to play,” Konta
said. “The first match on
grass is always quite
tricky — just to find
your bearings on a new
surface. She was also
hitting quite flat and
very low to the
ground, so I was
definitely getting
the best of what
grass can offer in
terms of getting low
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Spurs stadium to host
Joshua and Usyk bout
Boxing Anthony Joshua is set to
defend his WBO heavyweight
belt against Oleksandr Usyk at
the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
in September (Rick Broadbent
writes). After the long-winded
demise of his showdown with
Tyson Fury, the WBO, WBA and
IBF champion has now turned
his attention to taking on the
Ukrainian. Joshua had been
scheduled to fight at the 62,000-
seater venue in London in
December but the pandemic
forced his bout with Kubrat Pulev
to be held indoors at the SSE
Arena at Wembley.
Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s
promoter, told DAZN, the video
streaming service: “This is a more
confident footing than the
Joshua-Fury negotiations. I know
Alex Krassyuk [Usyk’s promoter]
very well and Usyk very well.”
Gidey breaks 10k record
Athletics Ethiopia’s Letesenbet
Gidey broke the women’s 10,000m
world record by more than five
seconds at the national trials in
Hengelo, the Netherlands.
Two days after Sifan Hassan
set a new 10,000m mark in the
same stadium, Gidey, 23, clocked
29min 1.03sec. “I expected to run
a world record,” she said. “I’d like
to try to break it again and break
29 minutes.”
Gidey, the 5,000m world record-
holder, is the first athlete to hold
both long-distance world records
since Ingrid Kristiansen in 1993.
there is a new Borg in singles. Ranked No 23 Gloucester match off
Like father, town (Stuart Fraser in the junior world
writes). Leo, the rankings, he Rugby union Gloucester’s season is
like son – 18-year-old son of the resembles his father, over after a second successive
Swedish tennis great, inset, with a two- match was cancelled because of
including has enjoyed a taste of handed backhand, an outbreak of coronavirus at
the clothes success on the big long blonde hair and Kingsholm. Saturday’s bottom-of-
stage this week by Fila clothing. Today the-table clash with Worcester at
orty years after claiming his first wins he plays the top seed,
F
Sixways on the final day of the
Bjorn won the at a junior grand slam Shang Juncheng, of regular season has been called off
last of his six to reach the third China, for a quarter- a week after their match against
French Open titles, round of the boys’ final place. Bath fell foul of Covid.
Gloucester, who will finish 11th,
had a number of positive tests
Olympics, but there will be another next plays Alexander Zverev, the No 6 returned last week but an
chance in Paris in three years.” seed from Germany, who defeated additional confirmed case on
Zidansek has made the most of her Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina Monday has forced several more
opportunities so far in this wide-open 6-4, 6-1, 6-1. players to self-isolate.
women’s draw and the next hurdle is 6 Great Britain’s Joe Salisbury has
certainly not insurmountable. In reached the final of the mixed doubles Lancs boss steps down
tomorrow’s semi-finals she plays Ana- with his American partner Desirae
stasia Pavlyuchenkova, the No 31 seed Krawczyk after their semi-final Cricket Lancashire’s director of
from Russia, who defeated Kazakh- opponents, Juan Sebastián Cabal and cricket, Paul Allott, will step
stan’s Elena Rybakina 6-7 (2-7), 6-2, 9-7 Giuliana Olmos, withdrew because of down at the end of the 2021
in a gruelling battle. injury. Victory for Salisbury, 29, would season. The 64-year-old, who has
In the men’s draw, Stefanos Tsitsipas make him the first British champion in held the position since 2017, will
booked his place in Friday’s semi-finals one of the five main events at Roland remain involved with the county
with a comfortable 6-3, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5 Garros since John Lloyd won the mixed in a consultancy role, mainly
win against his Russian rival Daniil doubles with Australia’s Wendy focusing on recruitment and
Medvedev. The No 5 seed from Greece Turnbull in 1982. overseas placements.
“I feel the time is now right to
step back from my full-time
duties and I am looking forward
to continuing to serve the club in
my future role,” Allott, who
bounces. Overall I was pleased I was protocols this week. “It was so nice,” played 472 times for the county
able to win that match, stay here and Konta said. “Playing in front of a home between 1978 and 1992, said.
get an opportunity to play another.” crowd makes me very happy and is very
This was Konta’s first enjoyable. I feel very grateful.” Willett has surgery
singles match in Britain In the concurrent second-tier ATP
since she reached the Challenger event at the same site this Golf Danny Willett has revealed
quarter-finals of Wim- week, Jay Clarke produced a respecta- that he has undergone surgery
bledon in 2019, a pro- ble first-round performance against 35- after suffering appendicitis.
spect she had relished year-old Kevin Anderson. The 22-year- The 33-year-old Englishman
beforehand after all old British No 6, in contention for a said on Twitter that the operation
the challenges of liv- Wimbledon wildcard, lost 6-3, 7-6, (7-0) also removed a hernia. Willett
ing through a pan- to the South African, who was the run- finished tied for 26th at the
demic for 15 months. A ner-up at the All England Club in 2018. Memorial Tournament in Ohio
sell-out crowd of 750 Meanwhile, Simona Halep appears last weekend.
spectators watched her on the on track to defend her Wimbledon title. The 2016 Masters champion
main court at the Nottingham Ten- The Romanian world No 3 withdrew said: “So the pain that kept me
nis Centre, which has a capacity of from the French Open after tearing her awake most of Saturday night
about 25 per cent under Covid-19 left calf muscle in Rome last month but turned out to be appendicitis.
is confident she will be fit in time for a Add it to having Covid in March,
Konta has won just three of ten grass-court warm-up at the Bad Hom- wisdom tooth out in April. . . all in
WTA matches so far this year burg Open in Germany on June 20. all, been a great year.”
the times | Wednesday June 9 2021
Hewitt breaks 157-year glass ceiling
Matt Lawton, Martyn Ziegler
The FA is to appoint a chairwoman for
the first time in its 157-year history.
The Times revealed in March that
Debbie Hewitt, the former chief execu-
tive of the RAC who was appointed
MBE for services to business and the
public sector in 2011, had been identi-
fied as the successor to Greg Clarke,
who was forced to resign over com-
ments he made during a calamitous
appearance before MPs.
The episode proved hugely damag-
ing to the organisation. Clarke, 63,
referred to black footballers as
“coloured”, said Asians were predis-
posed to work in IT and suggested that
female players did not like the ball
being kicked hard at them.
Hewitt will be charged with leading
the FA’s bid for the 2030 World Cup but
her appointment should also help to
enhance the organisation’s reputation.
A statement issued yesterday said the
FA board had nominated the 57-year-
old to become chairwoman with effect
from January 2022.
While about 100 applications were
received, the statement said that
Hewitt, a lifelong Liverpool fan who
lives in Cheshire, was the unanimous
choice of the seven-member selection
panel led by Kate Tinsley, an independ-
ent non-executive FA director.
“The panel were in full agreement
that she has the outstanding chair and
governance expertise, across an exten-
sive range of business sectors, as well as
the proven leadership qualities and
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Hewitt’s experience at a
range of large organisations
is likely to be an asset
clear in their own mind
but will listen and learn”.
He added; “She’s not one
of those ‘permanently on
transmit’ types.”
Hewitt is also far more
How The Times revealed that Hewitt representative of the
would become chairwoman in March organisation the FA
wants to be. She grew up
character required for the role,” the FA in a council house in
statement said. “Debbie has an exten- Nottinghamshire. Her
sive non-executive career spanning father worked in a
over 15 years in listed, private-equity factory while her mother
backed and privately-owned compa- worked for the Inland
nies. She’s the non-executive chair of Revenue. Her mother
Visa Europe, The Restaurant Group died when she was 14. She
plc, BGL Group and White Stuff.” chose not to go to
Hewitt said: “I’m delighted to be university, instead taking
nominated for the role of non-execu- a job as a trainee on the
tive chair of the FA. As the events in retail floor of her local
recent months have shown, this is a sig- Marks & Spencer.
nificant moment in time for English She completed a
football, with a clear purpose for all master’s in business at
stakeholders to secure the long-term Bath University and rose
health of the game at all levels. to the board of the RAC
ebbie Hewitt game’s global political at 32, before going on to
D
“I’ve been passionate about football
from a very young age and I’m excited
by the opportunity to play my part in
Former RAC comes with a
mightily
landscape (Matt Lawton
writes). One senior figure
become its chief
executive. Hewitt has also
shaping the future of something that
means so much to so many.”
chief has impressive CV
that indicates
with experience of both
sports administration and
been the non-executive
chairwoman of Visa
The FA Council will be asked to ratify
Hewitt’s appointment at its next meet-
skills to take she will be more than
capable of handling the
big business said the 57-
year-old from Cheshire
Europe — potentially
useful given Visa’s
ing, on July 22. Clarke was paid about
£190,000 a year for what is officially a
FA forward FA board, its executives,
the Council and the
was “very personable,
someone who will be
relationships with Fifa
and Uefa.
three-days-a-week position.
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Sport Football
‘I get called McAdams … I’m buzzing’
Southampton’s in-form
striker Ché Adams tells
Michael Grant about his
rise from England’s ninth
tier to Scotland talisman
C
hé Adams’s eyes light up,
the way any Scotsman’s
would. He has just been
told that Sir Kenny Dalglish
described it as a “brilliant
bonus” for the country that Adams
committed to the cause in time for
Euro 2020. Adams beams. “That’s the
first time I’ve heard that,” he says. “It’s
unbelievable that someone of that
calibre is talking about me in that
way. I am just buzzing to be here.”
There is a hierarchy of importance
within Steve Clarke’s team — Andy
Robertson, Kieran Tierney, John
McGinn and Scott McTominay are at
the top of it — but no one has made
himself quite so significant, quite so
quickly, as Adams.
Only four months ago he barely
registered on the Scotland support’s
consciousness. The options back then
appeared to be Lyndon Dykes,
Lawrence Shankland, Oli McBurnie
or perhaps Leigh Griffiths.
Suddenly Adams shot on to the
scene and, with Dykes, transformed
how Scotland felt about their strikers.
Already he has four caps — playing
the full 90 minutes in only one of
them — and goals against the Faroe
Islands and Luxembourg. His
movement, awareness, instincts and
finishing give Clarke a hugely
valuable option. At 24 he should be in
the team for years.
Talent and goals shape perceptions.
Fans know Adams’s backstory, that he
was born in Leicester, played twice for
England under-20s and in 2017
turned down an approach from
Scotland — for whom he is eligible
through a grandparent — to keep his
options open. Take that as code for
waiting to see if he would ever have
the chance to play for England. When
another SFA advance was made this
year it was a different story and
Adams was receptive, perhaps having
recognised that England’s formidable
attacking options meant there was
little prospect of a call-up.
Scotland recruited a grafter. His
background was not one of pampered
hothousing via academies or
performance schools. At 16 he was
playing for the semi-professional
Leicestershire club Oadby Town in
Hudson-Odoi could leave
Tom Roddy, Constantin Eckner
Chelsea will consider an offer for
Callum Hudson-Odoi after Bayern
Munich renewed their interest in the
England winger.
The 20-year-old was targeted by the
German club two years ago when
Chelsea rejected four bids of up to
£35 million. He signed a five-year deal
in 2019, but it is understood Bayern are
considering entering into new negotia-
tions with Chelsea this summer.
The Chelsea head coach, Thomas
Tuchel, is an admirer of Hudson-Odoi
and has helped him improve as a player
since being appointed in January. But
the 47-year-old German has many
alternative options in the wide attack-
ing positions with Christian Pulisic,
Hakim Ziyech, Mason Mount, Timo
Werner and Kai Havertz often rotated.
In his four appearances for Scotland this year Adams has scored twice — against the Faroe Islands and Luxembourg
Scotland’s group D fixtures
Monday
Czech Republic Hampden, 2pm
TV: BBC
Friday, June 18
England Wembley, 8pm
TV: ITV
Tuesday, June 22
Croatia Hampden, 8pm
TV: ITV
the ninth tier of English football.
There was no prospect, then, of one
day heading to Euro 2020 or playing
Hudson-Odoi started Tuchel’s first
game in charge of Chelsea, as a wing
back against Wolverhampton Wander-
ers in January, but began only one game
in the final ten league matches, with
Reece James usually preferred.
Chelsea, the newly crowned Euro-
pean champions are also aiming to
strengthen their squad, with the
addition of a top striker and probably a
central midfielder and centre back. The
club are pursuing Borussia Dortmund’s
Erling Haaland but understand that a
deal for the 20-year-old would be
complicated and hugely expensive.
Tammy Abraham could also leave
Chelsea this summer, with the England
striker having struggled to make an
impression on Tuchel. West Ham
United are believed to have shown
interest but a valuation of about
£40 million could prove too much.
international football at all.
“Not in a million years,” Adams
says. “It was always a dream of mine
but now I’m living it and it’s amazing. players coming up now,
I came through the hard way, [playing everything is all nice. It’s
alongside] an everyday bunch of lads
just making a little bit of money on
the side. I think it toughens you up.
The way I was brought up is
something I’m proud of and it makes
you stronger as a person.”
Small crowds would shout abuse
and opponents would try to foul him
out of games. “There were only about
40 or 50 people there,” Adams recalls. League. He scored against
“People try to kick you if you’re too
fast for them. They just want to injure season, among his nine goals in
Roma close on £17 million
deal for Arsenal’s Xhaka
Granit Xhaka is close to a £17 million
move to Roma, who are keen to
complete a deal before the midfielder
plays for Switzerland in their opening
match of the European
Championship on Saturday (Gary
Jacob writes).
Xhaka, 28, has two years left on his
current contract. He joined Arsenal
for about £30 million from Borussia
Mönchengladbach in 2016 and has
played 161 Premier League matches.
José Mourinho, the new Roma
manager, thinks highly of the
midfielder, who has endured a
turbulent relationship with the
Arsenal fans. He was stripped of the
captaincy after a clash with
supporters during a 2-2 draw with
Crystal Palace in October 2019, when
he reacted to being booed as he was
taken off by the head coach, Unai
Emery, by cupping his ear.
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Other English-born Scots
First one Arthur Kinnaird, born
London. The future FA president
faced England in 1873.
Most-capped James Morrison, born
Darlington. Played 46 times.
First captain Bruce Rioch, born
Aldershot. Skipper for 1978 World
Cup defeat by Peru.
Notable goalkeepers
Bob Wilson, born Chesterfield. Two
caps in 1971, the year he won the
Double with Arsenal.
David Harvey, born Leeds. Played at
1974 World Cup having just helped
Leeds become champions.
Andy Goram, born Bury. Appeared
at Euros of 1992 and 1996.
Neil Sullivan, born Sutton. Won 28
caps from 1997 to 2003.
Selected others
Don Hutchison, born Gateshead.
Hit Scotland’s last winner against
England in 1999.
Stuart McCall, born Leeds.
Scored against Sweden at
1990 World Cup.
you, just normal lower league stuff.
Football has changed so much
in terms of the younger
different to how I was
brought up but it Premier League goals
makes you appreciate scored by Che Adams last
things much more.” season, the most by a
His journey took him Scotland player since
from Oadby to Ilkeston Steven Fletcher with
Town, Sheffield United, 11 for Sunderland in
Birmingham City and 2012-2013
Southampton in the Premier
Manchester City and Chelsea this
Palace offer Nuno the top
job amid Everton interest
Crystal Palace have offered Nuno
Espírito Santo the chance to be their
next manager despite him being on
the shortlist for the vacancy at
Everton (Gary Jacob writes).
Palace had advanced talks with the
former Wolverhampton Wanderers
manager last week, although there
was an issue about the number of
coaching staff he wanted to bring
should he take the job. The London
club are still waiting for his decision
about succeeding Roy Hodgson, who
left Selhurst Park three weeks ago,
and are aware that Everton can offer
Nuno a higher wage and transfer
budget. Everton need a replacement
for Carlo Ancelotti, who joined Real
Madrid last week.
Nuno, 47, is Palace’s first choice
ahead of Steve Cooper, of Swansea
City, and Sean Dyche, who has a year
left on his deal at Burnley.
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England’s top flight. There has been a
crash course of assimilation that
involved watching footage of iconic
Scottish football moments and being
teased by his Southampton team-
mates.
“I have had a look on YouTube and
the lads speak so much about it,” he
says. “The Scotland-England game
[the 2-2 Hampden draw in 2017 with
Griffiths’s two late free kicks] was on
the other day and everyone sat
around the table and just wanted to
enjoy the moment and make it
happen again.
“There’s been plenty of banter
going around. Everyone at
Southampton calls me ‘McAdams’. I
get it every day.
“When I came to my first camp the
boys told me to do my first interview
in a Scottish accent, which was quite
funny. I’ve had loads of messages on
social media. The Scotland fans seem
to have taken a liking to me and I just
want to be able to play in front of a
full Hampden. It would be great to
have that proper connection with
them.”
He got “a fright” when a groin
injury led to him being substituted in
Southampton’s penultimate game and
missing their final one, but a scan
showed no real damage. A second
scare followed when he was one of six
players the SFA decided should not
travel from the Spanish training base
to the friendly in Portugal, because
they had been a little too close for
comfort to John Fleck, who had
tested positive for Covid-19.
Adams tested negative and did not
have to isolate, but he accepted the
SFA’s cautious stance. “Covid
protocols are something every team
at the Euros has to factor in before
and throughout the tournament.
We’re all used to it by now,” he says.
“Obviously, when we discovered
John tested positive the medical team
carried out a risk assessment. They
explained the situation and even
though there’s a disappointment
in not playing a part in a
match that everyone
9 wants to impress in, the
overriding concern was
not taking any
unnecessary risks in
travelling.
“I understood the
decision and the
manager reminded us of
the bigger picture.
Thankfully those who didn’t
travel got an opportunity against
Luxembourg. Getting a goal was a
great bonus.”
Coaching role for Defoe
Jermain Defoe has accepted a new
player-coach role at Rangers. There
had been speculation that the former
England striker, 38, would retire as his
previous deal at Ibrox expired. But
Defoe feels he can offer at least one
more year on the pitch — and even
more off it. “It is an unbelievable
opportunity,” Defoe, who will work
with manager Steven Gerrard, said.
Montemurro’s Italian job
Joe Montemurro, the former Arsenal
Women manager, has joined Juventus
Women as their new head coach.
The Australian left Arsenal last
year after more than three years in
charge, during which he guided the
club to the Women’s Super League in
2018-19 and the Continental League
Cup in 2018. The 51-year-old will take
charge of Juventus Women on July 1.
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Card tricks
and caution:
inside Wales’s
Baku bubble
Bale and Co have taken
own entertainment to
their Azerbaijan base
amid tight Covid rules,
as Gary Jacob observes
T
hrough the gaps between
the concrete pillars and iron
gates, a glimpse can be
stolen into Wales’s home
from home for the next ten
days here in Baku. It is pretty bare, in
truth. A stadium dating back 80 years
and built in Stalin’s honour,
featureless but for a few Wales flags
pinned to one stand and a giant
marquee set behind a goal. Crowded
House’s Weather With You blasts from
inside, perhaps appropriately in the
searing heat of early afternoon, and
the likes of Gareth Bale are stretching
before their first training session, a
day after travelling 3,000 miles from
south Wales.
Security is tight. Army officers with
guns and German Shepherd dogs
patrol the main complex entrances
and police swarm the perimeter of the
ground. The Azerbaijanis are taking
no chances, although on the streets of
the city the locals would barely know
that the Wales squad is the only one
of the four in group A of Euro 2020 to
be based here. Wales are playing their
first two games in Baku — against
Switzerland on Saturday and Turkey
next Wednesday. But, for now, the
only evidence of a big sporting event
comes from the concrete barricades,
iron gates and perimeter advertising
that lined the streets for the Formula
One race on Sunday.
Everything happens at a leisurely
pace, it seems. Less than 40 minutes
before training, a man with a
lawnmower is in no hurry walking up
Botched breakaway costs clubs millions
Martyn Ziegler, Matt Lawton
The Premier League is close to agreeing
a settlement with the European Super
League rebels that would mean the “big
six” clubs paying out millions of pounds
for their part in the failed breakaway.
The six — the two Manchester clubs,
Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and
Tottenham Hotspur — have not faced
formal disciplinary charges from the
Premier League, as efforts have focused
instead on striking a similar peace deal
to Uefa’s settlement with the English
clubs, Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan and
AC Milan.
Although some of the other 14 Pre-
mier League clubs had wanted harsher
sanctions for the breakaway attempt,
including points deductions, league
chiefs are understood to have proposed
a financial settlement.
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and down the pitch, cutting the grass.
There have already been a few
logistical and language issues and
everyone in the Wales camp
recognises that it will not be as easy
as for England and Scotland, who are
based at home in the group stage.
Inside a marquee, there is the
warm-up equipment, including foam
rollers, mats, box jumps and a
television. It will double as a
relaxation area if the players want to
escape the four floors they have of a
hotel overlooking the Caspian Sea. In
the world of Covid bubbles they are
banned from straying any further.
Adam Davies, the third-choice
goalkeeper, is also the team’s resident
DJ, setting the tone for training and
matches. Davies has decks at home
and plays house and upbeat music
here.
Training takes place at about 2pm
local time, to mirror the demands
they will face when they play
Switzerland and Turkey. It is forecast
to be 29C tomorrow, dropping to 26C
on Saturday.
Little wonder that after the squad
arrives — in several coaches because
of social distancing — and change on
site, Bale is among the players
wearing white tank tops. He at least is
used to the conditions from playing
for Real Madrid, but ensuring the
squad is rehydrated is the
responsibility of Tony Strudwick, the
newly appointed Arsenal head of
academy performance and a former
key lieutenant of Sir Alex Ferguson at
Manchester United.
The three goalkeepers are put
through their paces on one side of the
pitch with Tony Roberts, their coach,
while the outfield players are larking
around, sprinting and jumping into a
huddle for the cameras. They follow
with a light jog and stretch, before the
tactical and playing session begins
without prying eyes. They may do
A bone of contention has been over
whether all of the money should go to
good causes or some should be distrib-
uted among the other 14 clubs. Follow-
ing heated talks, it appears an agree-
ment is close and may even be finalised
before tomorrow’s annual meeting.
The Premier League is believed to
have taken the view that a settlement
agreement would be much quicker
than opening a formal disciplinary pro-
cess, and less divisive in the long term.
The league is also planning changes to
its constitution to block any similar
breakaway attempt.
The Uefa sanctions led to the Amer-
ican owners of Liverpool, United and
Arsenal paying up to £7 million from
their own pockets. Fenway Sports
Group, the Glazers and Kroenke Sports
and Entertainment said they would
cover the financial hit arising from the
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Bale and his Wales team-mates prepare in searing heat at the Tofiq Bahramov
Stadium, where they play Switzerland in their opening match on Saturday
Wales’ group A games
Saturday
Switzerland Baku, 2pm
TV: BBC
Wednesday, June 16
Turkey Baku, 5pm
TV: BBC
Sunday, June 20
Italy Rome, 5pm
TV: ITV
two sessions a day later in the week,
heat permitting.
Construction of this stadium began
in 1939 and finished in 1951 with the
failed coup rather than using club reve-
nues. Nine of the 12 sides who sought to
start the breakaway league accepted
measures which included the with-
holding of 5 per cent of the revenues
they would receive from Uefa club
competitions for one season — worth
between £3.5 million and £5.5 million.
In addition, the nine clubs agreed to
donate a combined £13 million to Uefa
which will be used for the benefit of
children, youth and grassroots football
in local communities across Europe,
including the UK, and to have fines of
€ 100 million (about £86m) imposed if
they seek to play in such an unauthor-
ised competition again.
Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juven-
tus, who have refused to pull out of the
ESL scheme, are facing possible bans
from European competition after being
charged by Uefa.
help of German prisoners of war. Its
C-shape is in recognition of Joseph
Stalin, C being S in the Cyrillic
alphabet. It was renamed the
Vladimir Lenin Stadium in 1956 and
Tofiq Bahramov in 1993 — Bahramov
is the linesman who awarded Geoff
Hurst’s second goal in the 1966 World
Cup final.
Wales revelled in the tranquillity of
their base in France when they
surpassed expectations to reach the
Euro 2016 semi-finals. This will be
very different. There are no outside
grounds in which to wander for fresh
air, no golf course as at their home
base in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Wales’s motto is “Together
Van de Beek misses Euros
to cap his dismal season
Donny van de Beek’s miserable
season reached a new low when he
was ruled out of Euro 2020 because
of a persistent groin problem.
The Dutch FA said that the
Manchester United midfielder,
trusted only as a bit-part player by
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his move
to Old Trafford last summer, had
sustained an injury that would rule
him out of the tournament.
It has been reported in Holland
that Van de Beek had been on
painkillers in the closing stages of the
season to deal with the injury.
It completes a dreadful year for the
24-year-old, who arrived at United
with a glowing reputation from Ajax
but started only four league matches.
Marcus Rashford, Van de Beek’s
United team-mate, wrote to him on
Twitter, saying: “Take some time for
yourself and keep your head high”.
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Wales have a marquee beside the
stadium pitch to help preparations
Stronger” and it is among the slogans
plastered over the walls of their hotel
floors.
No sooner had they arrived on
Monday night than Tom Lockyer was
going through his card tricks. The
Luton Town centre back won his
place in the 26-man squad after
injury, less than 24 hours after he was
omitted from the wider party. “I can’t
even explain the tricks, but they were
wicked,” Ben Cabango, the Swansea
City centre back, said. Connor
Roberts, his team-mate, interrupted:
“He showed me about ten times and I
still don’t know what he does.”
Wales transported dartboards, pool
cues and table tennis bats, ready for
competition, while there is also access
to a swimming pool. Younger players
have brought a computer console,
competing with each other online
from their rooms — again, because of
the need for social distancing. They
played an F1 game, choosing the Baku
track — aptly — with the
Bournemouth midfielder, David
Brooks, winning the race. This might
seem overly cautious but Scotland ran
into trouble when Stuart Armstrong
tested positive while on international
duty in October, forcing Ryan
Christie and Kieran Tierney to isolate
as the trio were playing computer
games in the same room.
Despite travel restrictions, some
think several hundred Wales fans will
make the trip for only their second
tournament since 1958. “It is different
not having the fans here, not having
that buzz outside the hotel,” Roberts
says. He was not part of the 2016
squad but tips are readily available
from Bale and Co.
“They have said there isn’t that
expectation as there will not be the
‘Red Wall’ here,” he says. “They said
that summer was the best summer of
their lives.
“If we can emulate anything near
that it will be unbelievable. We want
to make our own memories.”
Sweden pair test positive
Two players in Sweden’s squad for the
European Championship have tested
positive for coronavirus.
Juventus winger Dejan Kulusevski
returned a positive test after having
the symptoms of a cold. Kulusevski
remained in Stockholm before the rest
of the squad travelled to Gothenburg,
where Bologna midfielder Mattias
Svanberg also returned a positive test.
Injury worry for Benzema
The France striker Karim Benzema
came off with a knee injury as the
world champions beat Bulgaria 3-0 in
their final Euro 2020 warm-up match.
Benzema, in his second game for
France after a five-year hiatus, came
off in the 41st minute as the head
coach Didier Deschamps decided not
to take any risks. Antoine Griezmann
and Oliver Giroud (two) scored.
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Sport Football

I’m no passenger, Henderson

Midfielder hits back at detail and so does the manager, which
Roy may not. Everybody’s going to
claim he’s only in squad think they know better than everybody
else. All my focus has been on the last
to do “card couple of months is working as hard as
I possibly can to be in a position where
tricks”, writes I can contribute in the tournament and
I’m very thankful I’m in that position
Henry Winter now.”
Keane’s comments did sting, though.
Henderson returned to them un-
It was all balmy calm before the prompted. Talking about what he
tournament storm at St George’s Park brings to the team on and off the field,
yesterday. A herd of English Longhorn Henderson remarked: “The card tricks
cattle dozed in the shade of some he was on about — I’ve got a few of
gnarled oaks on the old estate once them up my sleeve! Listen, as a player
owned by the Bass brewing family. A you want to play and I’m not coming
buzzing biplane did slow loop-the- here just to be around the camp, like
loops in cloudless skies before landing Roy was saying. I want to come here
at Tatenhill airfield a mile away. The and contribute in the games. How
challenge of skilled Croatian craftsmen much of that is not really down to me,
looming at Wembley on Sunday it’s up to the manager to make a
seemed a world away. decision. Whenever I’m called upon, I’ll
England players strolled past with be ready and hopefully I can be a big
room keys shoved down their socks, contribution to this tournament and
heading to the tented media village, our success.”
more garden gazebo than glamping, The 30-year-old then spoke of his
some such as Marcus Rashford wan- respect for Southgate, whose astute
dering languidly into the Uefa marquee handling of players’ concerns, whether
wearing sliders. Phil Foden glided to- selection or the “taking a knee” debate,
wards the main canvas pavilion sport- has been exemplary. “The gaffer’s been
ing a blond rinse, which stirred plenty fantastic again with the lads,”
of headlines when actually the real rev- Henderson said. “He’s very good at
elation about the Manchester City man-managing players, speaking to
prodigy was the sight of legs clearly them one on one.’’
confirming extensive time in the gym. Southgate still signalled his frustra-
In keeping with the deliberately tion at Henderson taking the penalty
relaxed mood, Gareth Southgate chal- off Dominic Calvert-Lewin against
lenged a member of the media to darts Romania, and then missing. Southgate
and, in keeping with a painful tradition subsequently said he would have a
established at the World Cup base in word with Henderson. “Not yet,” the
Russia, he won. Inside, a con- midfield player smiled. “I don’t
versation was going on know if he’s going to!”

2
among FA staff about He would be practising
soaring temperatures for penalties. “It looks like I
the 2pm kick-off against have to or maybe just
Croatia, and which leave it to people that
Days until the start of the
players would need can actually score
European Championship —
sun-block. Historically, them,” Henderson said.
Turkey play Italy in the
England rarely rise to “It’s probably the best
opening game in Rome
the occasion when tem- option. I felt a bit sorry for
on Friday at 8pm
peratures rise, especially Dom, because he probably
against opponents like could have had another goal.
Croatia who keep the ball and
make the opposition sweat.
The two penalty-takers [Harry
Kane and Marcus Rashford] weren’t on
Outside, Jordan Henderson settled the pitch so I asked the question but
at a picnic table, socially distanced from unfortunately it didn’t turn out too
Statement that shows Foden can
a small audience who all required PCR well.”
tests (in the “Chris Powell Changing He missed in the shoot-out against Paul Joyce
Room”) let alone accreditation to get Colombia at the 2018 World Cup and How I created the look by Sheldon Edwards, barber to the stars
even within shouting distance. wants to make sure he is better pre- There are no more obvious signs of how
Before Henderson sat down, the pared this time. “I need to make sure Phil Foden is embracing the pressure of I’ve been doing Phil with an ash-grey blond
table was sanitised. This was the acid I’m ready,” he added. inspiring England at the European Foden’s hair since he and we worked on it for
test before the acid test of Luka Modric Henderson is one of those players Championship than his new trim. was in the Manchester just over two hours to
jus
and company. Even with all the strict who thinks a lot about his profession, Echoes of Gazza (rather than the City academy. He is a get the tone right. He
ge
protocol observed, England have tried but rarely wants to look like he’s com- rapper Eminem) and Euro ’96 abound- shy kid who would was juggling a
w
to keep things stress-free but the usual plaining over frustrations such as the ed as the Manchester City forward see the older players, football with his little
fo
narrative of the England soap opera modest pause between the end of the emerged for media duties at St George’s like Raheem Sterling, son while the colour
so
continued. season and the start of the Euros. “We Park with a fresh grey-blond hairstyle. getting a haircut from was drying. It really
w
Henderson’s return to the field of play could sit here all day and talk about Encouraging comparisons with one me but he would stay suits him. Phil looks up
sui
he usually graces with such energy and dates and times and players not having of England’s mercurial talents in Paul in another room until the greats like Gazza
to th
noise against Romania on Sunday was enough rest,” Henderson observed. “I Gascoigne reveals much about Foden’s they were gone and and Wayne Rooney. You
greeted caustically by his old Sunder- don’t think it’ll ever change. It seems state of mind on the eve of his first then ask if I was free. can describe Phil as a
land manager, Roy Keane, delivering the players have no involvement, you major tournament as a senior England I’ve seen him go from kid who doesn’t
typically pithy punditry on ITV at the do whatever the organisations say and player. Expectation will follow, but he is no game time to one of H called
He ll d me this
thi week k understand
d his potential
Riverside. Keane argued that a player if they think it’s the best way to do it happy to absorb every last bit. the top players. and said, “I want to try a and when he’s being
who had not kicked a ball in anger since then we just have to get on with it.” “First of all, I have had the same hair- We have done new hairstyle” and Paul compared to a person
February 20 should not be involved. He did speak powerfully about the cut for what seems ages now, so I just different things with his Gascoigne was rocking like Gazza it’s like giving
“Does he do card tricks?” Keane asked. reason why England players will keep thought I would try something new,” he hair. He’s a kid who’s this look at Euro ’96. a kid a sweet. He’s so
“Quizzes in the evening?” taking a knee in their desire for social said with a smile. willing to try new ideas. Phil sent me a picture happy and humble.
Over the past three years, Henderson justice. “If there’s still people booing “I woke up this morning with a lot of
has helped Liverpool to Champions because we’re standing together comparisons to Gazza and Eminem. I
League and Premier League glory and against racism, then there really still is remember watching highlights on the Foden said. “The one where he flicked it While the conversation was largely
this year toiled overtime to regain fit- a problem and we’ve still got to fight it TV of Gazza — an unbelievable player. over his head and scored. I remember playful, Foden’s ambition and belief still
ness after groin surgery so he is hardly and stand together on that,” Henderson I know what it meant to the nation what watching so many highlights from the shone through. He is part of the new
in the England camp as social secretary. said. “It shows even more that we have he did, so it wouldn’t be too bad if I try past and dreaming about wearing an breed of players at Southgate’s disposal:
Henderson was clearly torn in how to to keep going, keep fighting it.” and bring a bit of Gazza on the pitch.” England shirt. I feel really lucky to be young, devoid of the baggage of past
respond to Keane, clearly annoyed but The players are keen also to discuss The fact that England will be playing here now and put the shirt on.” failures and, above all, blessed with
wanting to give peace a chance and not the football, even such a daunting at Wembley and Scotland await in the Still, the 21-year-old is intent on talent.
whip up unnecessary headlines. challenge as Croatia, who vanquished group stage, a repeat of the game in conjuring a different ending from the “I don’t feel pressure,” he said. “I feel
“To be fair to Roy, he can say what he them in the semi-finals in Russia. “We which Gascoigne bamboozled the heartache that engulfed the nation and excited. It is my first time at a major
wants about me,” Henderson said. “He maybe owe them off last time,” floundering Colin Hendry before scor- the now-England manager Gareth tournament with England and I am
gave me my debut and I wouldn’t be Henderson reflected, “but we don’t ing with a brilliant volley, strengthens Southgate, whose penalty miss in excited to see what happens. The quali-
here without him giving us that. I found need any extra motivation. We’re going the parallels with 25 years ago. the semi-final defeat by Germany ty is very high. We have a lot of young
it quite funny, actually. I know more into a European Championship.” “I know which one you are on about,” proved crucial. players but they can play at the highest
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tells Keane
Fun in the sun:
Dominic Calvert-
Lewin spends a
relaxed time at St
George’s Park,
chatting and
honing his
basketball skills
with social-media
channel
presenter and
former Love
Island star, Josh
Denzel, as
England prepare
for Sunday’s
Wembley
meeting with
Croatia while Ben
White, right, the
defender who
earned a late
call-up to the
Euros squad,
addresses
reporters
be cream of the crop
level. We have seen that this year. Of
course, we still have the experience of
Harry Kane and Jordan Henderson
around the team, which is important.
So I think we have a great balance and
we look really strong at this tourna-
ment. So why not? We could win it.”
Foden reported with England last
Friday having first suffered the dis-
appointment of defeat by Chelsea in the
Champions League final.
That 1-0 loss represented a rare
setback in a career that had already
yielded Premier League and Carabao
Cup success this term, but another of
his qualities appears his resilience
despite the presence of the Chelsea trio
Mason Mount, Ben Chilwell and Reece
James in the squad.
“I feel like the best way is to forget
about what happened and just play
football,” said Foden, who will ease any
boredom in camp by trying to complete
his Panini Euro 2020 sticker book.
“Obviously it hurts losing such an
important game, but I am here training
with the team and you have to forget
about it.
“You are now team-mates and we are
all working together and working really
hard to try and do the best we can.
“I think that [being] a group who have
won things [at our clubs] can definitely
help us. We have had a lot of players
playing in important games, so they
know what it will feel like if we get to the
later stages. It can only help us.”
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There can be no doubt that Foden
will be integral to England’s hopes,
starting against Croatia on Sunday,
having grasped a second chance after
being sent home from Iceland last
September when he and Mason
Greenwood made the “massive
mistake” of inviting two women back to
the team hotel.
Southgate possesses a plethora of
other options in the attacking areas —
Jadon Sancho, Marcus Rashford,
Raheem Sterling, Jack Grealish — but
he has already remarked on Foden’s
ability as not only creator but also goal
threat. A place on one of the flanks
surely awaits.
“There is no guaranteed starter in
this team,” Foden said. “Anyone could
start and be amazing. That’s the
strength we have in the squad.
“I feel sorry for Gareth trying to pick
11. Whoever he leaves out there are
going to be top-quality players who are
going to be on the bench so whatever he
does, the lads have got to be behind him
and just believe in him.”
One question remained. Has he
started a trend within the camp à la
Romania in 1998 and their collective
bleached look?
“Er, no,” he added. “Not too many are
as brave as me.”
He was talking about the haircut, of
course, but the subject matter could
easily have stretched to when he is
on the ball.
Dear England ... Southgate’s
powerful address to nation
Paul Joyce
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Gareth Southgate has told bigots that
t
they are on the “losing side”, in a
powerful address before the European
Championship.
Southgate said that his team were
playing a meaningful role in
challenging inequality and insisted
children growing up would, in the
future, be “baffled by old attitudes
and ways of thinking.”
Writing for the Players’ Tribune
website, the England manager — who
said he had a responsibility in his to
role to not just “stick to football” —
took to task the racists who have been
targeting footballers with online
abuse and insisted awareness around
the issue meant that change was
coming.
Southgate did not directly discuss
the debate which erupted over the
decision of his players to take a knee
in support of racial equality before
their friendly matches against Austria
and Romania.
Some fans at Middlesbrough’s
Riverside Stadium booed the national
team, but England have insisted that
they will continue with the gesture
during the Euros, starting with
Croatia in their opening group game
on Sunday at Wembley.
“The last 18 months have put added
pressure on everyone, I know,”
Southgate wrote. “Venting that might
have taken place while walking out of
the stadium, or in the pub, has been
transferred online. I get that.
However, there are things I will never
understand. Why would you tag
someone in on a conversation that is
abusive? Why would you choose to
insult somebody for something as
ridiculous as the colour of their skin?
“Unfortunately for those people
that engage in that kind of behaviour,
I have some bad news. You’re on the
losing side. It’s clear to me that we are
heading for a much more tolerant and
understanding society, and I know
our lads will be a big part of that.
“It might not feel like it at times,
but it’s true. The awareness around
inequality and the discussions on race
have gone to a different level in the
last 12 months alone.
“I am confident that young kids of
today will grow up baffled by old
attitudes and ways of thinking.”
Southgate, 50, has confronted
numerous issues during his time with
England, earning praise for his
willingness to speak out on difficult
‘Boos prove we still have to fight racism’
Henry Winter
Jordan Henderson says that England
fans booing players for taking a knee
shows how far the fight against racism
has to go.
A sizeable minority of fans jeered as
players took part in the anti-racism
gesture before the friendlies against
Austria and Romania at Middles-
brough’s Riverside Stadium last week,
and similar scenes are feared before
England’s Euro 2020 group D opener
with Croatia at Wembley on Sunday.
“If there’s still people booing because
we’re standing together against racism,
then there really still is a problem and
we’ve still got to fight it and stand
together on that,” Henderson, 30, said.
“It shows even more that we have to
keep going, keep fighting it. It’s about
being together and doing what we think
About the Players’ Tribune
Gareth Southgate’s letter first
appeared on the Players’ Tribune, a
website created by the former Major
League Baseball player Derek Jeter
in 2014 that publishes first-person
pieces written by professional
athletes. Raheem Sterling, Ian
Wright and Harry Kane are among
the footballers who have written
articles. Southgate’s letter can be
read in full at theplayerstribune.com
Squad’s legacy caps
England’s 26 players were presented
with red commemorative caps after
arriving at St George’s Park
yesterday. Since 2019, the FA has
issued a legacy number to each
player which corresponds to the
order in which they first appeared
for the national team. Manager
Gareth Southgate, below, and coach
Chris Powell, who played for
England, were also presented with
caps. Luke Shaw, the England left
back, said that the squad were
shown a video celebrating the
players who went before the current
intake. “It was obviously about the
legacy,” the Manchester United
player said. “I think it’s been
mentioned earlier on — about the
past players and how important
they were to this nation.”
subjects, and he insisted that
avoiding hard conversations
would be a dereliction of duty.
“Our players are role models,”
Southgate said. “And, beyond
the confines of the pitch,
we must recognise the
impact they can have on
society. We must give
them the confidence to
stand up for their team-
mates and the things
that matter to them.
“I have never
believed that we should
just stick to football. I
know my voice carries
weight, not because of who
I am but because of the
position that I hold. At
home, I’m below the kids
and the dogs in the
pecking order but publicly
I am the England men’s
is right. As players, we’ve made it very
clear that we all stand together against
racism. That’s the reason that we
continue to take the knee.”
Southgate held a squad meeting to
discuss the situation and whether they
still wanted to keep taking a knee —
there was an overwhelming response in
the affirmative. Tyrone Mings, Marcus
Rashford, Raheem Sterling, Reece
James and Kyle Walker are among the
black players in Southgate’s squad to
have been racially abused on social me-
dia in recent months. The abuse they
received has made them even more
determined to make a stand.
The FA will release a video this week-
end in which it will outline why the
players take a knee, emphasising that it
is nothing to do with support for any
political movement but simply support
for the fight against social injustice.
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responsibility to the wider community
to use my voice, and so do the players.
“It’s their duty to continue to
interact with the public on matters
such as equality, inclusivity and racial
injustice, while using the power of
their voices to help put debates on the
table, raise awareness and educate.
“Social media has been a key
resource in giving our players a
platform and has been a positive tool
in so many ways. In fact, I feel like
this generation of England players is
closer to the supporters than they
have been for decades. Despite the
polarisation we see in society, these
lads are on the same wavelength as
you on many issues.
“That said, there are times when
my parental instincts kick in. I can’t
help it. After all, I’m old enough to be
a father to most of my players!
“I see players scrolling on their
phones straight after the final whistle
and I think. . . Hmmm, is that a good
idea? Reading abusive comments on
Twitter or Instagram is never going to
help performance.
“There are genuine risks for our
players online and I will always want
to protect them, but I would never
put rules on how or when they use
their accounts while on England duty.
I trust them and know they are
mature enough to make their own
decisions, to do what’s right for their
mental health and to keep being a
force for good as we strive for a
better society.”
Southgate also reflected on his
early memories of supporting
England as an 11-year-old watching
the 1982 World Cup.
He said: “It was the first
World Cup England had
qualified for in my
lifetime and I was
obsessed. I had the
wall chart, ready to
fill in with every
result, every
goalscorer, every
detail.
“I rushed home
from school for
England’s opener against
France to see Bryan
Robson score after just 27
seconds. To witness that as
a young Manchester
United-supporting
midfielder whose hero
was Robson … well, it’s
safe to say I was hooked.”
There was also discussion within the
camp over whether they should keep
talking about the issue in public, fearing
it makes the abusers feel important.
“The lads are starting to feel like they
don’t really want to talk about it any-
more,” Henderson said. “Of course,
everyone knows we stand together and
you’ll see that in taking the knee, but we
want to get on with the football and
concentrate on that.”
Southgate, the FA and the England
players are in a difficult position — they
want to address the boos but also want
to focus on the tournament. “You’d
hope by educating these people, some
day they’ll understand why we are
taking a knee,” Mings said. “I’ll speak
about it until the day I pass, but four or
five days before a major tournament,
while I don’t feel it is less important, I
don’t want it to become a distraction.”
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Trial of Covid
passports at
Euro matches
Health checks for England’s Wembley games
Martyn Ziegler Chief Sports Reporter
England’s Euro 2020 group games will
be the first sporting events in the UK to
use vaccine “passports” for supporters
to gain access.
Fans attending the matches at
Wembley will be required to show
either the NHS app confirming that
they have received both Covid jabs at
least 14 days beforehand or a negative
lateral flow test taken within the
previous 48 hours.
There will be 22,500 fans — 25 per
cent of Wembley’s capacity — permit-
ted for each of England’s group match-
es: against Croatia on Sunday, Scotland
on June 18 and the Czech Republic on
June 22. If the proof-of-vaccine system
runs smoothly, it could pave the way for
larger crowds at the semi-finals and
final, also at Wembley.
The Premier League is also consider-
ing a similar system for next season to
ensure that stadiums are as full as
possible, if the government gives the
go-ahead.
By contrast, the 12,000 fans attend-
ing Euro 2020 matches at Hampden
Park will not have to show proof of
vaccination or a negative test, but they
will be asked to maintain 1.5 metres
social distancing rather than one metre.
Those attending the Wembley group
matches have been told: “All ticket
holders aged 11 and older must present
evidence that they are at a low risk of
transmitting Covid-19 to enter Wem-
bley Stadium. Failure to do so will mean
you’re unable to attend the match.”
The stated requirements are: “Proof
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of full vaccination — both doses
received at least 14 days before the
match (demonstrated via the NHS App
or via the Scottish or Welsh vaccination
record services). Or proof of a negative
lateral flow test, reported and demon-
strated via a text message or email from
NHS Test and Trace. The test needs to
be taken within 48 hours of the time
stadium gates open (meaning three
hours before kick-off).”
A similar app was tested at the EFL’s
Championship play-off final at
Wembley last month, where supporters
were asked to show it to ground staff on
entry to test how it would affect entry
time and crowd flow, but proof of
vaccination was not required.
Ticket holders for Wembley and
Hampden will have to wear masks, and
will be allocated a 30-minute slot in the
three hours before kick-off to enter the
stadiums to reduce bottlenecks. Fans
have been asked to remain in their seats
at half-time, avoid hugs and maintain
distance when celebrating.
Meanwhile, Uefa has told the 24
teams at Euro 2020 that there will be an
11 per cent cut in prize money owing to
the financial effect of the pandemic.
The total prize fund will drop from
£319 million to £285 million — the same
as Euro 2016 — meaning the maximum
a team can earn from winning the
tournament will be £24.3 million.
The 24 nations will each receive a
minimum payment of £8 million but the
prize money for reaching various stages
has been reduced. The winners and
runners-up will receive £6.9 million and
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Smith ready to step up
Fly half now has all-round
game to shine for England
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Acting out of fear
Why ECB’s reaction to
Robinson case is flawed
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Southgate calls
out racist trolls
Paul Joyce
Gareth Southgate has warned the
bigots who have been racially abusing
his England players on social media
that they are on the “losing side” in a
powerful letter to supporters.
On the day his squad met at their St
George’s Park base for the European
Championship, the England manager
wrote an article for the Players’ Tribune
website in which he defended the men
in his squad for continuing to challenge
inequality.
Southgate wrote: “Why would you
choose to insult somebody for some-
thing as ridiculous as the colour of their
skin? Why? Unfortunately for those
people that engage in that kind of
behaviour, I have some bad news.
You’re on the losing side. It’s clear to me
that we are heading for a much more
tolerant and understanding society.”
Full story, page 65
Boks burnt in
petrol blunder
Brenden Nel
The South Africa World Cup winner
Damian de Allende has revealed that
an exploding petrol canister was the
cause of injuries to himself, fellow
Springbok RG Snyman and two other
Munster players during a bizarre fire pit
accident last weekend.
De Allende, 29, and Snyman, 26, are
doubts for the series against the British
& Irish Lions starting next month after
the incident left them with burns on
their hands, legs and face while the
former Ireland international CJ
Stander, 31, and fellow Munster player
Mike Haley, 26, suffered burns to their
hands as a result of the incident.
Foden goes blond like Gascoigne De Allende said a decision by one of
the players — whom he did not name
England’s Phil Foden, 21, has had a haircut that encourages comparisons with — to “throw petrol on the fire” during
Paul Gascoigne and has vowed to “bring a bit of Gazza” to the pitch, page 64 their outing on Saturday backfired and
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