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4 NEWS The main stories…
What happened
Preparing for no deal
Ministers have confirmed that the Government
is preparing for major disruptions at UK
borders, in the event that Britain leaves the
EU on 29 March 2019 without a deal. Prime
Minister Theresa May suggested last week that
people should take “reassurance and comfort”
from official plans to ensure that adequate
supplies of food and medicines are maintained.
The Government is also working on plans to
turn a 13-mile stretch of the M20 near Dover
into a giant lorry park to ease cross-Channel
jams. However, No. 10 denied reports that the
army might be used to deliver food, fuel and
medicines to the vulnerable.
Last week, the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel A vision of the future?
Barnier, stated that Brussels would never accept
the proposal for the bespoke customs deal in May’s Brexit
White Paper – allowing Britain to strike free-trade deals while
maintaining frictionless EU trade – effectively killing off a key
aspect of her Chequers plan. May cut short her holiday this
week to meet France’s President Emmanuel Macron at his
summer residence, Fort de Brégançon, as part of a drive to
convince EU leaders to soften Brussels’ negotiating position.
What happened
Pakistan’s new PM
The former cricket star Imran Khan secured a
dramatic election victory in Pakistan last week
– his PTI party won an impressive 115 seats,
breaking the long-standing hold of the two
main “dynastic” parties on national politics.
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz,
led by the brother of ousted prime minister
Nawaz Sharif, won just 64; and the Pakistan
People’s Party, led by Benazir Bhutto’s son
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, a mere 43. In his
victory speech, Khan pledged to tackle
corruption, improve ties with India and build
“an Islamic welfare state”. Being short of an
outright majority, his party will now need to Khan: in hock to the generals? He may not be part of a grand dynasty, but like
seek the support of smaller, fringe parties.
Khan’s victory was marred by widespread allegations of
vote rigging. Rival parties claimed their officials were often
barred by soldiers from observing the count; Pakistan’s
Human Rights Commission spoke of “blatant” manipu-
lation of the media and the intimidation of candidates.
It wasn’t all bad When police refused to allow
volunteer speed monitors to go
Shoppers have cut the number on patrol in a Wiltshire village
of disposable plastic bags they plagued by dangerous drivers,
use from 140 a year, on residents came up with their own
average, to just 19 since the solution: a pair of scarecrows.
introduction of the 5p levy in Kitted out in high-vis jackets and
2015. According to government holding a fake speed gun, the pair
estimates, the seven biggest have been on duty in Hindon for
supermarket chains issued just three weeks, and locals say they
over a billion single-use bags in are highly effective. Made by
the past year, down from 7.6 parish councillor Frank Freeman
billion in 2014. The extent to and his wife, they stand next to a
which shoppers have simply real digital monitor in the 30mph
swapped disposable bags for zone, where villagers say cars
sturdier “bags for life” – now often go at 60mph. “We don’t
the only type available in many know whether drivers slow down
supermarkets – is unclear. to look at them, or whether they are fooled,” Mr Freeman said.
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What the editorials said
“Any wise government has to plan for outcomes it would
not have chosen to happen,” said The Independent. Health
Minister Matt Hancock has revealed, for
instance, that the NHS is stockpiling medicines
and blood supplies. Many companies have
already started planning to protect their supply
lines. All this is prudent. “However, the scale
of the potential disruption should focus the
minds of the UK negotiating team.” A deal
with Europe is “vastly preferable to no deal”.
But it’s increasingly clear that a second
referendum, and a chance to reverse this whole
regrettable process, would be even better.
“Judging from the hysteria,” said the Daily
Mail, “anyone would think Britain was
planning for war, rather than merely leaving
the EU.” Soldiers drafted in to deliver essential
supplies, stockpiling of drugs and food, fuel
running dry – “it all sounds utterly preposterous”. Could it
be that Whitehall is “using Project Fear tactics to frighten the
public into backing May’s underwhelming Chequers plan”?
The PM is wasting her time, said The Daily Telegraph. Grass
roots Tory supporters across Britain are furious with her plan
for Brexit, and the EU will never accept it. “She would do
better to rethink her proposal completely.”
What the editorials said
Full marks to Khan for a “remarkable” victory, said The
Times. Long dismissed as a “political dilettante” because of
his sporting past and playboy reputation, he has
spent more than 20 years building up his own
party. Now he has shown the “mettle” needed
to overcome the Bhutto and Sharif dynasties,
who have come to see power in Pakistan as a
“clannish entitlement”. But Khan will need all
his “maturing political savvy” if he is to meet
his campaign pledges, said the FT. Dwindling
exports and rising oil prices mean he will soon
be forced to seek a fresh loan from the IMF –
“a sure way of dampening public euphoria”.
Khan is off to a bad start, said The Guardian.
his predecessors he’s in thrall to the army, which
has ruled directly for half Pakistan’s history, and wielded vast
power behind the scenes for the other half. It was apparently
happy to fix the election in Khan’s favour because (among
other things) Sharif’s Muslim League had challenged its
influence. As Khan is now in the generals’ debt, the “New
Pakistan” he promises threatens to look much like the old.
A 25-year-old British woman
has become the youngest
skipper ever to complete a
round-the-world yacht race.
Nikki Henderson returned to
Liverpool last weekend, 11
months after setting off on the
40,000-nautical-mile Clipper
Race, and just days after turning
25. She came second behind
Australian Wendy Tuck, 53,
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who herself made history by
becoming the first woman ever
to win a round-the-world race.
The skipper and a core team
remain on each 70ft boat
throughout the race, aided
by rotating support teams.
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…and how they were covered NEWS 5

What the commentators said What next?
The Government “doesn’t seem to have the first clue” about what to do if food supplies are European leaders plan to let
disrupted, said Jay Rayner in The Observer. Brexit minister Dominic Raab has confirmed that May sell her Brexit blueprint
officials won’t be stockpiling food: they have no way of doing so. Instead, it will be up to the directly to member states in
food industry to deal with the problem. These comments “have left the entire British food an effort to kickstart stalled
supply chain utterly baffled”. Half of the country’s food comes from abroad, and 30% from talks, says The Times. A
the EU. This is delivered just in time to be used; there simply isn’t the warehousing space to meeting in Salzburg in
store it. The industry would be reassured if civil servants had at least raised the issue. But as September is being lined up
Ian Wright of the Food and Drink Federation explains: “We haven’t yet had the conversation.” – thanks to the intervention
of the German chancellor
“Ever since the UK triggered its withdrawal from the EU, the Brexiteers have complained that Angela Merkel – as the venue
the Government is failing to prepare for no deal,” said George Eaton in the New Statesman. where the Prime Minister can
This, they say, has weakened Britain’s negotiating position. But now that No. 10 is making real hold direct talks to avert a
preparations, the Brexiteers are furious: they say it makes no deal look “like Armageddon”. no-deal Brexit.
Yet the reason no deal looks bad, “is because it is bad”. It would be a major act of self-harm.
It would damage Europe, but much less than it would damage the UK: the Government’s own No. 10 has ordered that
estimates suggest that Britain would lose 8% of GDP over the next 15 years, while the EU 70 “technical papers”
would lose just 1.5%. This is why threatening no deal is not “a viable negotiating tactic”. on preparing for a
“disorderly” Brexit be
Yet May has already gone “as far as any British leader could go to accommodate Brussels”, published in two batches
said Daniel Hannan in The Sunday Telegraph. And Barnier seems determined to impose in mid-August and early
“Carthaginian terms”. So the PM should call his bluff: offering a choice of the Chequers September. Brexiteers were
plan, or a basic free-trade agreement (leaving it to the EU to decide whether it wishes to create keen that they should not
disruption at the UK’s borders). The ball is in the EU’s court, said Timothy Garton Ash in The be published in a trickle,
Guardian. It is becoming clear that Brussels is “being too rigid, too exacting, too punitive in thereby causing intermittent
its approach”. Is there no room at all for compromise? Countries with close UK links, such as alarm and despondency
Ireland, Poland and the Netherlands, should weigh in soon – or the results could be disastrous. throughout the summer.

What the commentators said What next?

It’s easy to see why Khan’s “stunning” victory attracted global coverage, said Simon Tisdall Khan promised in his
in The Guardian. The story of a cricketing hero turned political superstar and “scourge of the victory speech to hold an
establishment” that produced him is too good to miss. But it’s also because “Pakistan matters”. inquiry into the allegations
Khan inherits an impoverished country of 200 million people located at a pivotal point in the of vote rigging. The pledge
Asian landmass. For China, it is a key link in its “grandiose” plans to build a global trading appears to have defused
empire; for India, it is a “nuclear-armed bogeyman”; for America, it’s both an “indispensable some opposition criticism:
ally and a duplicitous villain” in its Afghan adventures. That’s why Pakistan’s new leader is the Muslim League has
an object of such fascination to the world’s press, said Christina Lamb in The Sunday Times. dropped its threat to
“Who is the real Imran Khan?”, they want to know. To some, he’s the clean-living sportsman boycott parliament and
who led his country to victory in the 1992 World Cup, built a cancer hospital in memory of will not be staging the
his mother, and then dedicated his life to battling corruption. To others, he’s no more than an kind of rallies that marked
opportunist who sold out to the army in his desperation to win power. the aftermath of the last
elections in 2013.
What’s certain is that Khan is no West-leaning liberal, said Jeffrey Gettleman in The New York
Times. True, he won’t feel out of place among “Western power brokers”. He was educated at Given the failure of past
Oxford; his first wife was the socialite Jemima Khan. (He’s now married to Bushra Maneka, a governments to implement
faith healer.) But today he professes sympathy for the Taliban and for Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy promised economic reforms,
laws, and is a fierce critic of US drone attacks. The former playboy who counted Princess Diana the IMF may refuse
among his friends has undergone a metamorphosis, said Omar Waraich in The Independent: Pakistan the loans it needs.
hence his appeal to religious conservatives and nationalists. Yet his attraction extends to a wide Other potential lenders
variety of Pakistanis, from celebrities to rich businessmen to factory workers. The country’s include Saudi Arabia
endemic corruption – the last PM, Nawaz Sharif, is serving a ten-year term for graft – has left and China, which has
voters from all backgrounds yearning for that rare being in Pakistani politics: an honest leader. reportedly offered $2bn.

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6 NEWS Politics
Controversy of the week Retrial for Robinson
Trump’s two-step Tommy Robinson, the
co-founder of the English
Defence League, was
You have to hand it to Donald Trump, said Marc released from prison on
A. Thiessen in The Washington Post. His tough-guy bail this week, after a court
strategy pays dividends. His critics had a fit when he ordered a retrial on his
scolded Nato allies for scrimping on defence: he was contempt of court charges.
endangering the Atlantic alliance, they said. Yet by Robinson (real name Stephen
inducing the allies to spend more, he has actually Yaxley-Lennon) was convicted
of contempt in May, for
strengthened Nato. Now the same is proving true with
posting online footage from
his tough line on trade. Back in May he imposed tariffs outside a trial in Leeds that
on EU steel and aluminium exports; and when the EU was subject to strict reporting
responded with levies on Harley-Davidsons and orange Juncker with Trump: a big day for free trade? restrictions. This week, the
juice, he went a step further and threatened to impose Court of Appeal ruled that the
steep tariffs on European cars. “Tariffs are the greatest!” he tweeted shortly before the European process had been “flawed”:
Commission’s president, Jean-Claude Juncker, arrived in Washington last week, on a mission to there was a “muddle” over
defuse the looming trade war. And guess what? By the end of their talks, Juncker was planting a the nature of the contempt
kiss on Trump’s cheek and Trump was hailing “a very big day for free and fair trade”. in question, and the trial (just
five hours after his arrest)
It was Trump who triumphed, said Irwin Stelzer in The Sunday Times. Juncker essentially did what had been rushed. However,
his “paymaster”, German chancellor Angela Merkel, had told him to: he persuaded the president not a second conviction,
to fire the big gun – 25% tariffs on German cars – “aimed directly at her economy”. (A big chunk of relating to an earlier case in
Canterbury, was allowed to
German car industry profits come from sales to the US.) Trump, however, got all he wanted and more:
stand. Robinson has become
the EU has agreed to work with the US towards eliminating tariffs and barriers on all non-auto something of a “martyr” for
industrial goods; to import “massive” amounts of US Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), thus reducing the far right: some 630,000
Europe’s dependency on gas pumped in from Russia; and to buy lots more soybeans from American people (many abroad) had
farmers, who, as a result of the US trade war with Beijing, can no longer sell to China. Better yet, the signed a petition calling
EU will join the US in its efforts to put a stop to the illicit trade practices (industrial subsidies, theft of for his release.
intellectual property) China indulges in, not least by helping reform the World Trade Organisation.
Life-support ruling
The only problem, said John Cassidy in The New Yorker, is that all these wins are illusory. France The Supreme Court has ruled
will never open itself up to an invasion of US food. EU states won’t start buying “vast amounts” of that permission from judges
LNG from the US while gas from Russia and Norway is cheaper. And the same politically powerful will no longer be required to
groups – farmers, aircraft manufacturers, military contractors – that stymied President Obama’s end life support for patients
efforts to negotiate a transatlantic free-trade treaty will come out of the woodwork again. What we in a permanent vegetative
actually witnessed last week, said Fareed Zakaria in The Washington Post, was that familiar dance: state, when relatives and
doctors agree it should be
“the Trump two-step”. It kicks off with him hurling insults at the other side (Juncker claims that
turned off. Families have
Trump had described him as “a brutal killer” back in June) and threatening all manner of harm. until now had to apply to the
Then comes the backtrack: Trump hugs his adversary and triumphantly announces he has saved the Court of Protection, which
world from a crisis his own rhetoric and actions have brought about. It doesn’t cost him anything, makes decisions for people
“because his words are weightless”. But it does huge damage to the reputation of the US, which is who lack the mental capacity
now being seen as “erratic, unpredictable and fundamentally hostile to the global order”. to do so for themselves.

Good week for:

Spirit of the age
The Freemasons are to
allow women members for
the first time – but only if
they were men when they
joined. The secretive
society, which has been
male-only since it was
founded in 1717, issued
guidance to members last
month that “a Freemason
who after initiation ceases
to be a man does not cease
to be a Freemason”, though
the member would still be
addressed as “Brother”.
Not long ago, perfecting a
signature was a crucial rite
of passage; now one in five
adults do not even have
a consistent signature, and
just write out their name
when required. According
to a study by a cybersecurity
consultancy, 41% of
signatures written in the
UK are to sign for deliveries,
and are often just messy
scrawls on electronic pads.
Charlotte Caldwell, after Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, Poll watch
said that her campaign, on behalf of her epileptic son Billy, had British voters would rather
influenced his decision to allow medicinal cannabis to be made have David Cameron as
available on prescription. As Billy celebrated his 13th birthday, Prime Minister than Theresa
his mother said that for him, it was the “best present”. May. In a head-to-head, 28%
chose Cameron, 22% May,
EastEnders, with the return of Dr Harold Legg, one of the
and most of the rest neither.
soap’s original, and best-loved, characters. Leonard Fenton, who May is, however, preferred
plays Dr Legg, is now 92; he will be reunited with June Brown, over Tony Blair and Gordon
who is still playing Dot Cotton at 91. Brown. Cameron’s strongest
Gold prospectors, after a hobbyist revealed that he’d found support is among 18- to
an 85.7g nugget worth £50,000 in a river in Scotland. 24-year-olds: 38% of that
age group chose him and
only 13% opted for May.
Bad week for: YouGov
Jeremy Corbyn, who was forced to issue an apology after The
Times reported that he’d hosted – on Holocaust Memorial Day in Around a third of 18- to
2010 – an event at the House of Commons at which Israeli actions 34-year-olds would consider
in Gaza were likened to the Nazi Holocaust. The remarks were plastic surgery or cosmetic
procedures; among
made by Hajo Meyer, an Auschwitz survivor and anti-Zionist.
over-55s, only 9% would.
Corbyn praised him at the time, but this week said he’d some- ComRes/BBC Radio 5 Live
times shared platforms with people whose beliefs he rejects, and
apologised for any “anxiety” this might have caused (see page 20). More people now support
KitKat, after a European court ruled that there was nothing a second referendum on the
particularly distinctive about its design – “four trapezoidal bars final Brexit deal (42%) than
aligned on a rectangular base” – and that it therefore did not oppose it (40%) for the first
deserve protected status in the EU. The ruling will have come as time since YouGov started
asking the question in 2017.
a blow to Nestlé, as it paves the way for rival manufacturers to
YouGov/The Times
flood the market with copycat KitKats. The brand plans to appeal.

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Europe at a glance NEWS 7

Paris
Slap video
goes viral:
Footage of a
man walking
up to a
woman in
the street in
central Paris
and striking
her in the face has gone viral in France,
reigniting long-standing concerns about
the harassment faced by women in the
capital. According to Marie Laguerre, 22,
she was walking home when the man
started making “dirty noises” at her. She
told him to “shut up”. In response, he
threw an ashtray at her, then hit her, in
front of a busy café terrace. The government
is introducing a law that will see anyone
caught harassing women (or men) in the
street fined up to s750, but apprehending
them may be a challenge: police are still
trying to identify the man in this case.
Rome
Salvini branded a fascist: Italy’s far-right
interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has caused
further outrage by tweeting a variation of
one of Mussolini’s most famous slogans
– “Many enemies, much honour” – on the
135th anniversary of the fascist dictator’s
birth. Salvini posted the message, along
with a mocked-up image of himself in the
cross hairs of a gun, after a leading Roman
Catholic magazine attacked his anti-
immigrant rhetoric, and featured him on
its cover with the Satan-invoking headline:
“Get behind me, Salvini.” Separately, a
close adviser to Pope Francis had criticised
proposals by Salvini’s hard-line League
party to require ports and other public
places to display crucifixes. The Vatican
adviser said that the crucifix sends a
message of “love and unconditional
welcome”, and should not be used for
political ends. Opposition politicians
have accused Salvini of fostering a
climate of hate in Italy.
Svalbard, Norway
Polar bear shot: A polar bear was
shot dead last week, after attacking and
injuring a guard employed by a cruise
ship touring the Norwegian Arctic.
The killing, by one of the other guards
on the German ship, has appalled
conservationists, and highlighted
growing concerns about the boom in
Arctic tourism. Police said the guard
had been attacked while trying to shoo
the polar bear away, to make it safe for
tourists to land on a remote island in
the Svalbard archipelago. Wildlife
lovers pointed to the deep irony of
tourists intruding on a wilderness area,
only to cause the death of one of the
very animals they had gone there to see.

Madrid
Immigration row: The new leader of
Spain’s opposition People’s Party has
sparked a fierce debate about immigration
by saying that “a welfare state cannot
absorb millions of Africans who want to
come to Europe”. Pablo Casado said the
issue needed to be raised, “even if it is
politically incorrect”, and accused the
Socialist government of making Spain
a soft touch for migrants. According to
the UN, 24,000 migrants have arrived in
Spain this year, putting it ahead of Italy
and Greece for the first time; last week,
600 African migrants entered Europe by
storming the fence around the Spanish
enclave of Ceuta, in Morocco. Some were
using aerosols as flamethrowers; others
threw excrement at police. This week, the
foreign minister, Josep Borrell, called for
perspective on the issue, pointing out that
Middle Eastern countries have taken in
millions of refugees, and arguing that
Europe needs “new blood”.

Ankara
Mati, Greece Display of power: In a show of President
Wildfire recriminations: As the death toll from last Erdogan’s vastly expanded new powers
week’s wildfires around Athens rose to 93, with since retaking office last month, more than
25 people still missing, the Greek government was 3,000 judges have been reassigned and the
accused of institutional failings that had exacerbated chief prosecutors of several cities replaced.
the scale of the disaster. Last week, the defence The shake-up of the Turkish judiciary was
minister, Panos Kammenos, was heckled when he launched by the 13 members of the
became the first high-ranking official to visit the country’s board of judges and prosecutors,
village of Mati, which was destroyed by the inferno. six of whom are now effectively
“You left us to God’s mercy, there’s nothing left,” presidential appointees. The rest are
shouted one resident. Locals say no evacuation order was given, and that efforts to chosen by parliament, which is currently
tackle the blaze started too late (possibly as a result of cuts to the fire service). For his controlled by an Erdogan-led coalition.
part, Kammenos pointed the finger at Mati residents who’d built unlicensed houses The president also used one of his first
that blocked escape routes to the sea. His critics countered that if the state were more executive decrees – an instrument he can
efficient, or less corrupt, this illegal development would have been torn down. now use to rule virtually unchallenged – to
Last week, ministers said there were “serious indications” that the fire – now scrap the need for administrative judges to
believed to be the worst in Europe since the Second World War – was the result of have any legal training. Since a 2016 coup
arson. But the Federation of Firefighters rejected this, saying it was probably started attempt, an enormous purge has seen a
accidentally by someone burning wood. It added that its advice to issue an evacuation third of Turkey’s judges sacked and some
order had been ignored; it also criticised the meteorological service for failing to 70,000 people charged with coup-related
predict the high winds that grounded firefighting aircraft and fanned the flames. offences. Thousands of cases remain stuck
in the gutted legal system.

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8 NEWS The world at a glance

Alexandria, Virginia
Aide on trial: Paul Manafort – Donald
Trump’s former campaign chief – has
gone on trial in Virginia on charges of
bank fraud, tax fraud and conspiracy. If
found guilty, he could spend the rest of
his life in jail. The charges were brought
by Robert Mueller, the special counsel
investigating alleged collusion between
the Trump campaign and Russia.
However, they don’t relate to Russia, but
to Manafort’s earlier financial dealings,
and are being seen as an effort to get
Manafort, 69, to agree to a plea deal in which he’d plead guilty to
lesser charges, in return for assisting with the Russia investigation.
New York
Cash-strapped UN: The UN’s Secretary General, António Guterres,
has warned that the organisation is facing an unprecedented cash
crunch and will need to make urgent cuts to its programmes,
unless member states pay their dues soon. In letters sent by
Guterres to member governments and UN staff – and promptly
leaked to the media – the UN chief warned that the organisation’s
core funding was in the red to the tune of $139m (£106m) at the
end of June, and said that it had never before faced “such a
difficult cash-flow situation this early in the calendar year”. An
organisation “such as ours should not have to suffer repeated
brushes with bankruptcy”, he said. “But surely the greater pain is
felt by those we serve when we cannot, for want of modest funds,
answer their call for help.” The countries that have so far failed
to pay include the US, Argentina, Syria, Venezuela and Belarus.

Shasta County, California

Wildfires: Some 12,000 firefighters were battling eight
major wildfires across California this week. The
Ferguson Fire was threatening the Yosemite National
Park, but worst affected was Shasta County, in the
north of the state, where at least six people have
died in the Carr Fire – an inferno that has sent “firenadoes”
stretching up to 18,000 feet in the air, engulfed 100,000 acres
and forced the evacuation of 38,000 people. Wildfires are
common during the state’s hot, dry summers, but this is the worst
start to the “fire season” for years. A Cal Fire department chief
said that a heatwave and high winds – which are set to continue
– had “exploded” the spread of the flames and caused “fire
behaviour we’ve not witnessed in a generation”.

Phoenix, Arizona
Still separated: Hundreds of children separated from their parents
at the US-Mexico border under Donald Trump’s now-abandoned
“zero tolerance” policy for illegal immigration had not been
reunited with their families by last week’s court-ordered deadline.
The Trump administration said that 1,442 children aged five or
above had been returned to their parents at immigration service
facilities in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico – and that another
378 had been released to relatives and other approved sponsors.
However, a further 700 remain in federal custody, having been
deemed, for a variety of reasons, “ineligible” for reunification.
Many parents claim they signed papers waiving their rights to
their children under duress, or in error.

Atlanta, Georgia
Duped politician quits: A Georgia state legislator who was
hoodwinked by Sacha Baron Cohen into exposing his buttocks
and repeatedly bellowing the N-word, has resigned. Jason
Spencer – who thought he was being taught how to intimidate
Islamist terrorists by an ex-Mossad agent called Col. Erran Morad
– had come under intense pressure to quit, including from fellow
Republicans. Best known for his allegedly Islamophobic views,
Spencer is one of several US politicians to have been interviewed
by the British satirist for his TV series Who is America?. Others
include Dick Cheney (who agreed to sign a “waterboarding kit”),
Roy Moore, who walked out after being tricked into taking a
“paedophile detector” test, and Sarah Palin.

Bogotá
Dog in danger: A sniffer dog in Colombia
has proved so adept at identifying illicit
drugs, one of the country’s most feared
cartels has put a $70,000 bounty on its
head. Police say that the six-year-old
Alsatian has sniffed out around 8,000kg
of cocaine, leading to 245 arrests. It seems
the notorious Gulf Clan gang put the
bounty up after Sombra (“Shadow” in
English) uncovered a huge shipment of
cocaine earlier this year. In response, the
dog has been moved from the port city of Turbo to Bogotá’s
El Dorado airport, and has been given extra police protection.
Caracas
Hyperinflation worsens:
Venezuela’s President Nicolás
Maduro has ordered the country’s
central bank to lop five zeroes off the near-worthless and
inflation-ravaged national currency from September, meaning
that Venezuelans will get one new “sovereign bolivar” for every
100,000 of their existing bolivars. Last week, the IMF estimated
that the country’s brutal hyperinflation will reach 1,000,000%
before the end of this year. Although economists say that the
cancelling of zeroes is a cosmetic change that will do nothing
to ease the crisis, Maduro insists that the new bolivar will be
“anchored” to the petro, Venezuela’s oil-backed cryptocurrency,
and that this will bolster its credibility.

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The world at a glance
West Bank
Activist freed:
A 17-year-old
Palestinian who was
jailed for slapping
and kicking an
Israeli soldier has
been released after
completing her eight-
month term. Ahed
Tamimi, then 16,
slapped the soldier
outside her home on the West Bank after
seeing Israeli troops shoot her 15-year-old
cousin in the head with a rubber bullet for
throwing stones. The case turned her into a
symbol of resistance, and focused attention
on the treatment of Palestinian children in
the occupied territories: rights groups say
hundreds of minors are prosecuted in
Israeli military courts each year.
Harare
Election violence:
Millions of
Zimbabweans
went to the polls
on Monday, in
the country’s first
national elections
since the ousting of
Robert Mugabe last November. Turnout
was high, at 75%. On Wednesday, early
results gave President Emmerson
Mnangagwa’s Zanu-PF party a majority
of the seats in parliament. This prompted
immediate claims of vote rigging from the
opposition Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC), and violent protests in
Harare. EU observers said the elections
had been freer and fairer than those in the
Mugabe era – but still noted a string of
problems, including voter intimidation
and media bias. Results in the simul-
taneous presidential race, which pitted
Mnangagwa against the MDC’s Nelson
Chamisa, were expected by Thursday.
Assam, India
Citizenship revoked: More than four
million mostly Muslim residents of Assam
state, in India’s northeast, have been left
off a new draft register of citizens, on the
grounds that they can’t prove they or their
families arrived there before 1971, when
neighbouring Bangladesh declared
independence. The move effectively strips
them of Indian citizenship and has raised
fears of mass deportations. The state’s
Hindu nationalist government says the
register will help tackle unchecked
migration from Bangladesh, and that
families can appeal. But rights campaigners
have drawn parallels with Burma, where
Rohingya Muslims were stripped of their
citizenship in 1982. Millions of people are
on track to become “stateless, and
vulnerable to indefinite detention, violence
or worse”, warned Ricken Patel of Avaaz.
Phnom Penh
Big win:
Hun Sen’s
Cambodian
People’s Party
claimed
77.5% of the
votes and all 125
parliamentary
seats in the
national election
on Sunday, giving
the autocratic PM
another five-year term. An ex-Khmer
Rouge commander first elected in 1985,
Hun had stacked the odds by dissolving
the main opposition party, jailing its
leader and silencing independent media.
Human Rights Watch noted that his
election “observers” included “Italian
neo-fascists, eastern European ultra-right
populists, [and] a failed UKIP candidate”.
NEWS 9
Wonsan, North Korea
Remains returned: North Korea has
returned what are believed to be the
remains of 55 US soldiers killed in the
Korean War of 1950-53, rekindling hopes
of progress in the talks between Pyongyang
and Washington following the Kim-Trump
summit in June. The bones were taken by
a US military aircraft from the city of
Wonsan to a US base in South Korea last
week – exactly 65 years after an armistice
(though no formal peace deal) ended the
fighting. More than two million people
died in the war, including about 36,500
US soldiers, of whom 7,700 are still
considered missing. Separately, unnamed
US intelligence sources briefed The
Washington Post that despite the apparent
thaw with the Trump administration, and
talk of denuclearisation, North Korea is
continuing to build ballistic missiles.
Lombok, Indonesia
Quake hits tourist island:
At least 16 people were
killed this week by an
earthquake on the popular
tourist island of Lombok,
in Indonesia; hundreds
more were displaced.
The 6.4 magnitude
quake struck on Sunday
morning, causing
landslides around Mount
Rinjani, a volcano popular
with visiting hikers. With
routes off the mountain
blocked by debris, 500
trekkers were stranded
(but have since been
rescued). Indonesia
is on the volatile
Ring of Fire,
and is prone
to quakes.
Wellington
Domestic violence law: New Zealand has
passed a law granting victims of domestic
violence the right to ten days paid leave –
time they can use to find new homes and
settle their children. Employers must also
provide flexible work schedules and other
support when the staff member returns;
victims won’t be required to provide proof
of their circumstances. New Zealand,
which has one of the highest rates of
domestic violence in the developed world
(with an estimated 525,000 incidents each
year), is the second country to introduce
such a law, after the Philippines.
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10 NEWS
Growing up a Witness
In his remarkable debut film,
Daniel Kokotajlo draws back
the curtain on a strange world,
says Rachel Cooke in The
Observer (see page 29). Most
of us know very little about
the Jehovah’s Witnesses –
but Kokotajlo, 37, was once
a Witness himself. When he
was eight, growing up in
Manchester, his mother was
converted by a “nice old
couple who talked about the
fact that the end of the world
was coming, and [how] all our
problems would be fixed. It
was very appealing, growing
up where we did.” They
stopped celebrating birthdays
and Christmas, and Daniel had
to dress in a suit and go around
knocking on doors. Doubt set
in only slowly. “When I first
read Darwin, I thought: ‘This
makes so much more sense
than the Bible.’ But then, when
we joined the Witnesses, I’d
felt the same way: there was
this key to the universe and
everything was clear. ‘All these
idiots around us,’ we thought:
‘They don’t know.’” Now an
agnostic, he hasn’t attended a
meeting since he was 22 or 23;
but his mother hasn’t given up
hope of him rejoining the sect.
“Witnesses just expect you to
come back,” he says, laughing.
“It’s like northerners thinking
you’re just going through a
silly phase living in the south.”
Louboutin on his shoes
Christian Louboutin discovered
his passion aged six, when he
used to push his 18-year-old
sister up the stairs to their
sixth-floor apartment in Paris.
People
“She had these cork wedges,”
he told Anna Murphy in The
Times, “and I loved looking at
her going up in them as I was
pushing her on the ass.” Fast
forward almost 50 years and
Louboutin is one of the world’s
most famous shoe designers.
His success, he says, rests on
understanding that he is not
selling women what they need.
Once, a customer came into his
boutique asking for coloured
shoes, because she had so many
black ones. “An hour later she
left with two black. I said,
‘But you said you didn’t want
black?’ She said, ‘Yes, but they
are just so beautiful, I can’t
resist. I’m privileged, I know
that. I don’t need things. I want
them.’” That, he says, “really
is the core of my work”.
Stanley Johnson’s travels
Stanley Johnson has travelled
the world – but not every
trip has gone to plan, says At 23, Gigi Hadid is one of the world’s highest-paid models – but
Michael Buerk in the Radio she has never had to worry about money, says Barbara McMahon
Times. In 1961, he and two in The Times. Her father, a Jordanian-American property developer,
friends decided to retrace is said to be worth $400m. Her Dutch-born mother is a former
Marco Polo’s route to China model and star of the reality TV show The Real Housewives
on motorbikes, but crashed of Beverly Hills. Growing up in Malibu, Hadid began modelling
so often that they never aged two, and is now also a reality TV star, designer (of clothes,
made it. Taking them across jewellery and make-up) and super-influencer, with 42 million
Afghanistan and India, it followers on Instagram and nine million on Twitter. Last month, she
was still quite an adventure, was reportedly paid $1.3m just to cut the ribbon on a new luxury
but looking back, the shopping centre on Mykonos, and when she and her sister attended
environmental campaigner and the Coachella music festival this year, they didn’t bring a tent: they
reality TV star, 77, wonders if rented a mansion in Palm Springs with a man-made beach and
it wasn’t also all a bit “brash”. ocean. The weekend reportedly cost $350,000. People sometimes
Once, they stopped for a picnic snigger about her flashy background, but Hadid is the first to admit
and sat on a giant statue of she has had it easy. “I’ve always had the guilt of privilege. It started
Buddha. “Spread out on its in high school, and I was determined not to be defined by it or by
head, 165 feet above the being pretty,” she says. “I was a great volleyball player and I had
ground, overlooking this great grades. That’s how I valued myself. It was always my parents’
amazing valley.” He pauses. money, and I was always going to get a job and live independently.
“Christ, did we really behave I’ve paid my own bills since I was 18. I think I can come from a
like that in the Sixties?” [wealthy] background and still be a hard worker and a nice person.”

Castaway of the week Viewpoint:

This week’s edition of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs featured
Farewell
Marianne Elliott, the Tony Award-winning theatre director
Shoes off, please Tony Bullimore,
“A friend visited a colleague’s house yachtsman and
1 Walking On Sunshine by Kimberley Rew, performed by
Katrina and the Waves
and in the hall saw a sign reading: community activist,
‘Leave your worries (and shoes) at the died 31 July, aged 79.
2 Leaving On A Jet Plane by John Denver, performed by
Peter, Paul and Mary door.’ Oooh, that’s passive aggressive, Christopher Gibbs,
isn’t it? That’s an order disguised as a bohemian socialite,
3 You’re The Best Thing by Paul Weller, performed by
The Style Council hug. I do understand that people want antiques dealer and style
to save their carpets, but I’m always guru in the Swinging
4 This Is The One by Ian Brown and John Squire, performed Sixties, died 28 July,
by The Stone Roses saying: being asked to remove my
aged 79.
5 Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want by Johnny Marr shoes in someone’s house feels
and Morrissey, performed by The Smiths infantilising. You’re suddenly shorter Bernard Hepton,
and disempowered. Your socks may actor best known for his
6 The Dark Eyed Sailor, traditional, performed by Olivia Chaney
be holey or mismatched, which is television roles in Colditz
7* Northern Sky, written and performed by Nick Drake and I, Claudius, died 27
8 It’s Oh So Quiet by Hans Lang and Bert Reisfeld, performed
humiliating. In this weather, feet July, aged 92.
by Björk stink. But as my friend pointed out,
there’s an entire industry in such Michael Howells,
production designer in
Book: Anthology of 20th and 21st century poetry written by women signage. ‘Little fingers touch the floor the film, fashion, theatre
Luxury: Bath with three taps: hot water, so please leave your shoes at the door’ and TV industries, died
cold water and wine * Choice if allowed only one record
– that sort of thing. Ugh.” 20 July, aged 61.
Carol Midgley in The Times

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Briefing NEWS 13

Insect Armageddon
It has become increasingly clear that in Britain and around the world, insect populations are suffering catastrophic decline

How did the problem come to light? world, where deforestation threatens
In recent years, many people have millions of species). Light pollution
noticed what is known as “the messes with their navigation systems and
windscreen phenomenon”. In the past, disrupts their mating, while cars don’t
a car journey in high summer would help: one study estimated that hundreds
have left the windscreen plastered with of billions of insects in North America
squashed flies, gnats, mosquitoes and were being killed by vehicles every year.
moths. Today, even after long journeys, But the German study ruled out some
windscreens are largely clean. Similarly, of the most obvious causes, such as
as the environmental journalist Michael changing weather conditions and habitat
McCarthy noted in his book The Moth loss (the nature reserves were managed,
Snowstorm, the blizzard-like clouds of and changed little over the decades).
moths that filled car headlights on
summer nights in the 1950s and 1960s So what was the likely cause?
are now hardly ever seen. Over the past It seems probable that they were affected
decade, entomologists have concluded by changing conditions in the farmland
that these are symptoms of a crisis in the surrounding the reserves – driven by the
natural world. Across Britain and Europe long-term intensification of farming.
– indeed, across much of the world – Moths in decline: six-spot burnets in Wiltshire Flower-rich habitats such as hay
insect numbers are in sharp decline. meadows, field borders and hedges
have been lost. The use of fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides
How bad is the situation? has increased. Intensively farmed wheat and cornfields support
Compared to mammals, birds and fish, insects aren’t well studied, virtually no insect life. And the ubiquitous use of pesticides seems
largely because we don’t much like them – except for butterflies, to be particularly damaging. Neonicotinoids – some of the world’s
moths and bees. And in their case, the statistics are grim. Bee most used pesticides – are a prime suspect: they have been linked
numbers in Europe and the US have declined by 30% to 40% in to bee colony collapse disorder, and have been found in high
recent decades. European butterfly populations have halved since concentrations in nectar and pollen near treated fields.
1990. In 2013, a 40-year study showed that two-thirds of the Neonicotinoid poisoning has been shown to affect insects’ ability
UK’s 337 common larger moth species had declined substantially. to navigate and communicate.
The V-moth, once widespread, had decreased by 99% since 1968.
It is hard, though, to get a sense of the overall picture: there are a Why does the loss of insects matter?
very large number of insects, and insect species (about 25,000 in About a third of the world’s crops – mostly in orchards and fruit
the UK alone). Of all known animal species, mammals make up fields – rely on bees, flies, and other insects for pollination. More
less than 0.5%; insects make up some 70%. Recently, though, a generally, insects play a crucial role in most ecosystems (see box).
series of studies have thrown light on the broader situation. Wild flowering plants rely on them for pollination. They provide
food for birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians. Insect
And what do those studies reveal? decline is the best explanation for the loss of more than half of
A major survey by the Zoological Society of London in 2012 Britain’s farmland birds since the 1970s: a recent study showed
concluded that many insect populations were in severe decline. that the plunge in cuckoo numbers is linked to declines in the tiger
A 2014 study in the journal Science, combining data from detailed moth caterpillars on which they feed. Insects also play a vital role
research conducted across the world, indicated a 45% overall in decomposing organic matter, which makes soil fertile. And
drop in insect abundance. But the most alarming findings came balanced insect populations ensure pests are kept under control:
last year, when entomologists in Germany published the results ladybirds and lacewing larvae prey on aphids, for instance.
of a long-term study. Over a period of
decades, they had set up special tents A world without insects So what can be done?
that act as traps for flying insects in Insects have been on the Earth 1,000 times longer than Setting up more buffer zones of
63 different nature reserves across the humans, and in many ways they created the world we wildflowers and native plants
state of North Rhine-Westphalia. And live in: flowering plants, for instance, wouldn’t exist around single-crop fields is one
they found that the average weight of without them. They are “the little things that run the solution backed by environmentalists.
insects trapped fell by 76% between world”, according to the Harvard biologist Edward O. Herbicide and pesticide use must
1989 and 2016. In summer, when Wilson. “If all humankind were to disappear, the world also be reduced: another study, into
insects are most numerous, the would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium the catastrophic decline of the grey
that existed 10,000 years ago,” he wrote. “If insects
decrease was 82%. The study shows were to vanish, the environment would collapse into
partridge, showed that lowering
that “there has been some kind of chaos.” Without them and other land arthropods – herbicide levels raises the number of
horrific decline”, warned Professor spiders, millipedes and the like – Wilson thinks that insects – and that this, in turn, raises
Dave Goulson of the University of humanity would last only a matter of months. the number of grey partridges, which
Sussex “We appear to be making vast “After that, most of the amphibians, reptiles, birds and feed on sawflies and other insects.
tracts of land inhospitable to most mammals would go, along with the flowering plants,” Some important steps have already
forms of life, and are currently on says the journalist Jacob Mikanowksi in The Guardian. been taken. An EU-wide ban on
course for ecological Armageddon.” “The planet would become an immense compost neonicotinoids is expected by the end
heap, covered in shoals of carcasses and dead trees of 2018. In England, farmland and
Why is this happening? that refused to rot. Briefly, fungi would bloom in untold woodland butterflies have slightly
The causes are not fully understood, numbers. Then they too would die off. The Earth recovered since 2012. In June, the EU
would revert to what it was like in the Silurian period,
and there is no single explanation. proposed its first initiative to address
440 million years ago, when life was just beginning to
Insects are endangered in a large colonise the soil – a spongy, silent place, filled with the decline of wild insects. Time will
number of ways, notably by climate mosses and liverworts, waiting for the first shrimp tell whether these are enough to
change, urbanisation and loss of brave enough to try its luck on land.” reverse the vast loss of insect life that
habitat (especially in the developing is occurring.

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14 NEWS Best articles: Britain

Did you hear that they’re closing down two RAF bases (one being
IT MUST BE TRUE…
The day the home of the Red Arrows) and seven law courts? Did you see
that the number of Armed Forces personnel seeking mental health I read it in the tabloids
ministers take support has doubled in the past decade? You probably missed
these and many other grim bits of news, says Polly Toynbee. But A Japanese company has
found an unusual place to
out the trash you were meant to: that’s the whole point of “take out the trash
day”. It’s an annual Westminster tradition: ministers use the eve
sell advertising: in young
women’s armpits. The
of Parliament’s six-week summer recess to sneak out unpopular Wakino Ad Company (waki
Polly Toynbee
decisions and unflattering statistics. On “trash” day last month, is the Japanese for armpit)
The Guardian they quietly released no fewer than 21 official statements, adding charges 10,000 yen (£69) per
to the 18 slipped out a few days earlier. Despite their fusty titles hour to place a rectangular
(“home office update”, anyone?) they contained big announce- full-colour ad under the arm
ments on major issues: a “radical change” to affordable housing of a model, who shows it off
while grasping overhead
policy; the green lighting of a controversial fracking project in
handles on the Tokyo
Lancashire. Such decisions “mightily affect many people’s lives subway. Wakino also plans
and livelihoods”: they should receive the full scrutiny of to stage a beauty contest
Parliament, not be buried in some unseemly “end-of-term ritual”. to find the most attractive
armpits in Japan. So far, it
Why do so many members of the metropolitan bourgeoisie agonise has snagged only one client:

Hypocrisy that about plastic waste, asks Sherelle Jacobs, yet think nothing of
snorting “a rainforest-wrecking, violence-fuelling line of cocaine”.
Seishin Biyo Clinic, which
offers underarm hair removal.

gets up middle- Don’t they realise, as they take their reusable bags to Waitrose,
that the bumper coca harvest in Colombia has caused violent A silversmith who has been

class noses crime to rise in the home counties; that for every snorted gram
of cocaine, many metres of South American rainforest are
sculpting a privet hedge
outside his Sheffield home
destroyed? Apparently not. Home Office figures show Class A into the shape of a reclining
Sherelle Jacobs woman for nearly 20 years is
drug use among young people is at its highest in more than a
decade. But sneering at the bourgeois hypocrisy of it won’t change “disgusted” by drunk people
The Daily Telegraph pretending to have sex with
anything. Far better to make cocaine the new plastic – to start a
campaign in which pictures of turtles trapped in plastic bags are it. Keith Tyssen has been
replaced by images of “coca fields vomiting kerosene and sulphuric woken up dozens of times in
acid waste into Amazonian rivers”. When I recently teased a the night by rowdy passers-
friend about the contradiction in his vegan, coke-using ways, he by “interfering” with his
said: “Yeah, it’s quite bad when I think about it.” Precisely. What creation, which he has
we need now is a campaign to make people think about it. named Gloria. “It’s not
always a guy actually, some-
If you want an example of how damaging EU regulatory alignment times it’s women who climb
on her,” he said. “I don’t
Made to suffer can be to British interests look no further than last week’s decision
by the European Court of Justice, says Matt Ridley. In a “scienti- want them to behave like
that with my privet lady.”
by a bunch of fically absurd ruling”, it declared that crops developed using gene-
editing technology should be regulated under the same rules as
blinkered judges traditional GM foods, even though the process of gene editing is
quite different: it involves tweaking or removing a plant’s genes,
not introducing foreign DNA. And this can be used to confer the
Matt Ridley
huge environmental benefit of reducing the amount of pesticide a
The Times given crop requires. One gene-edited potato variety, for example,
needs “80% less spray” than other types. Yet against all scientific
evidence, a “handful of misguided extremists” continues to insist
that gene editing is unsafe, a view the ECJ has just endorsed. As
a result, British farmers won’t gain access to crops that provide
higher yields with less pesticide, and our “world-class” gene-
editing scientists will move to the US, where they won’t have to
spend many years and vast sums seeking regulatory approval for
the crop varieties they develop. “Thanks a bunch, your honours.”
Stuart Saunders, who is
It may sound crazy, says Simon Kuper, but “Brexit has saved the blind, was listening to music

We’re trapped, EU”. Think about it. After the 2016 referendum, many sensible at his home in Exeter when
people thought Britain’s departure would spark a “stampede” he heard crashing sounds in
the bathroom. He went in
and the rest of out of the bloc. “Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders schemed to
duplicate the result in France and the Netherlands.” Donald
and found toiletries scattered
on the floor – along with
Europe sees it Trump’s promises of a “glorious” UK-US trade deal convinced
many Europeans that the grass might really be greener. Yet now it
what seemed to be a roll of
insulation. He was trying to
Simon Kuper has become dispiritingly clear that “Brexit will be a failure”. Both pick it up when his support
sides are largely agreed that whatever path we take – soft Brexit, worker appeared and told
no-deal Brexit or no Brexit – will lead to national “humiliation” him it was in fact a giant
Financial Times
and “make Britons’ lives worse”. Across the Channel this has not snake. They rang the police;
gone unnoticed. “Support for the EU around the continent is at its staff from a nearby pet shop
removed the 8ft python,
highest since 1983”, and talk of the bloc falling apart has all but
which must have slithered in
vanished. Even the populists have been “quietly dropping” the through his toilet. “It left the
promise of an EU exit from their manifestos. Indeed, the chaos of bathroom in an awful mess,
Brexit has probably helped stem the populist tide by highlighting with gunge on the wall,”
that “the thing populists do best is sloganeering”. Whatever you said Saunders.
feel about the EU, “the Brits have shown that you can’t leave it”.

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Scandal takes the shine off France’s young president

A scandal is rocking France, said Clinton-Lewinsky, and any other
Manuela Honsig-Erlenburg in Der number of political scandals aren’t
Standard (Vienna), and it’s doing real sufficient warning of the perils of
damage to France’s young president, cover-ups. To the relief of supporters
who came to office vowing to restore unnerved by his long silence, Macron
ethical standards and transparency has now taken full responsibility for
to French politics. Three months ago, the scandal, said Alain Auffray in
officials at the Élysée Palace were Libération (Paris). “The buck stops
told that one of Emmanuel Macron’s with me,” he said in a speech to his
trusted aides, a bodyguard called party’s MPs. But his attempt to excuse
Alexandre Benalla, had been caught himself by saying that he’d been
on film beating up protesters at a May reluctant to sacrifice a colleague “on
Day rally while wearing a riot helmet. the altar of popular emotion”, and
But Macron’s office failed to inform his light-hearted attempt to downplay
prosecutors about the incident, Benalla’s importance – he has never
despite a law requiring public officials “held the nuclear codes”, joked
to alert authorities if laws are broken. The president with Benalla: a reluctant sacrifice Macron, and never “been my lover”
Instead, Benalla was given a two-week – further infuriated his critics.
suspension – a mere slap on the wrist. Prosecutors only learned
about it when images of the violence finally hit the front pages last Whatever the failing of the president, we can be thankful that the
week; they immediately charged Benalla with “gang violence” and constitutional checks of the French system worked as they should,
he’s been sacked, as he should have been at the outset. There have said Le Monde (Paris). The press, however belatedly, revealed the
long been complaints about Macron’s high-handed behaviour, cover-up at the Élysée; prosecutors initiated court proceedings;
but now he has well and truly “lost his shine”. In a poll last week, parliament is holding separate inquiries. This “summer scandal”
60% reported having an unfavourable opinion of him. will blow over, said Jean-Francis Pécresse in Les Echos (Paris).
Macron goofed – no question – but the incident doesn’t signify
There’s so much wrong here one hardly knows where to begin, the “bankruptcy of the system”, as far-left enemies like Jean-Luc
said Pascal Riché in L’Obs (Paris). The sight of a police officer Mélenchon would have us believe. All that the hysteria confirms is
roughing up a protester is bad enough. But then we learn this man the tendency of the French to “carp” endlessly about their leaders.
was merely impersonating one, apparently with the tacit consent The slightest misstep is always seen as a “symptom of deeper
of policemen standing by. Then we find he was a key member evil”. But rather than get distracted by this misstep, we should
of Macron’s security team. Why was Macron even employing be focusing on Macron’s project of modernising the economy.
someone so “unstable”, let alone protecting him? What tops Although disappointingly incomplete, it is going in the right
it all is the attempt to hide the wrongdoing – as if Watergate, direction. Let’s hope this business doesn’t blow him off course.

The hounding of a German football star

“I am German when we win, but I am Tagesspiegel (Berlin), but his motive
an immigrant when we lose.” That was for doing so was understandable. As he
the lament last week of the German explained, he wasn’t identifying with
football star Mesut Özil, as he tried to a politician but was, in line with his
make sense of the racist campaign being family’s values, paying respect to the
waged against him, said Christian Spiller head of state of his country of origin.
in Die Zeit (Hamburg). It all started in He has “two hearts”, he says, one
May, when the Arsenal player, a German German, one Turkish. And what’s
born of Turkish parents, posed smiling wrong with that? Americans of German
for a photograph with Turkey’s President descent in Wisconsin aren’t pilloried for
Erdogan, whom many Germans regard attending Tyrolean folk dancing clubs.
as a brutal despot. It got worse when the You’d think conservatives would
German team crashed out of the World approve of maintaining traditional
Cup in the group stage and Özil was links: instead they are heaping abuse.
singled out for blame. “Turkish pig”; Özil: two hearts beating in one breast
“goatf***er”; “go back to Anatolia”: Even so, Özil was incredibly naive, said
those were some of the comments made on social media. Now Asli Aydintasbas in The Washington Post. Like many “diaspora
Özil has resigned from the national team in disgust, and who kids” in Germany who cling to their roots, he’s myopic about
can blame him? “What’s wrong with Germany” that it behaves facing up to the divisive nature of Erdogan – a man whose
like this towards one of the most gifted footballers it’s ever had? purges have caused great suffering in Turkey, who has jailed
German citizens, who refers to German leaders as “Nazis”.
This will have a terrible impact on young Germans of Turkish Özil may have been mistreated, but his plight hardly compares
origin who see him as a role model, said Gökalp Babayigit in to that of another German-born footballer, Deniz Naki, who
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich). Özil never sought that accolade in 2016 was provisionally barred from playing in Turkey; and
– it was thrust on him by the footballing authorities. The more in 2017 was given a suspended jail sentence by the Turkish
praise and awards he won, the more the cry went up: “look how authorities for criticising the brutal behaviour of Turkish soldiers
our sport helps with integration”. But the authorities are now in Kurdish areas. Eventually he fled to Germany, where he
silent and he’s being dropped by sponsors, so the message now narrowly avoided assassination by suspected Turkish ultra-
seems to be: no matter how well you do, you’ll always be seen nationalists. Özil could do worse than respond to his overtures.
in terms of your origins. Posing with Erdogan has reinforced “A photo of the two, walking arm in arm, would send the
the impression of Özil’s otherness, said Malte Lehming in Der strongest message against Islamophobia and racism in sports.”

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16 NEWS Best articles: International

The farming town of Vryheid was once the capital of a Boer republic, says Paddy Harper, and
SOUTH AFRICA last month a parliamentary committee went there to hold hearings of vital importance. It was
Take the land getting feedback on the South African government’s plans to amend the constitution to enable it
to expropriate land from white farmers without compensation, and redistribute it to blacks. And
from these listening to the stories of the many black families whose ancestral lands had been taken by the
security forces of apartheid South Africa, it was hard to think of a good reason not to. Ironically
white farmers enough, vryheid means “freedom” in Afrikaans, but the ancestors of the black people attending the
hearing hadn’t seen much of that. They told harrowing stories of “forced removals; children being
Mail & Guardian kept out of school and used as cheap labour; livestock stolen; homes bulldozed”. One man’s father
(Johannesburg) had returned from fighting the Nazis in the Second World War only to be “forcibly removed from
the land where generations of his family had lived”. When a white man spoke to defend his right
to the land where he was born, the rest of the crowd got angry. “I can’t say I blame them.”

INDONESIA Something transformative is happening to

Indonesia’s celebrities, says Muhammad As’ad: they
I’m a celebrity can’t wait to show you what good Muslims they
are. The new trend among the young and famous
– get me is to ostentatiously repent of former hedonistic
ways and document it on Instagram. Their social
an imam media posts show them “hanging out with fellow
repentant artists and organising religious gatherings”.
The Jakarta Post Soap-opera star Peggy Melati Sukma now wears a
hijab in her roles; Derry Sulaiman, former guitarist
for the metal band Betrayer, now makes music on
Islamic themes. Some, like Noor Al-Kautsar of the Peggy Melati Sukma: before and after
band Rocket Rockers, have quit performing
altogether, inspired by the Salafi school of Islam that believes “performing arts such as singing and
dancing are haram (forbidden)”. Rediscovering religion is a lovely idea, but with little background in
Islamic teachings, some of these artists too easily fall for radical Islamist propaganda. Some support
the now-banned extremist group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia, which wants to establish a global caliphate.
Far better to “learn about Islam step by step”, rather than compete to see who can appear the holiest.

UNITED STATES Last week, America’s two leading democratic socialists, Senator Bernie Sanders and New York City
congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, parachuted into Kansas, the heart of red-state
The time is America, to lend their support to political rallies on behalf of progressive congressional candidates.
And many Republicans may be tempted to ridicule their efforts, says John Hart, and to dismiss
right for a “democratic socialism” as a fringe movement that will never make headway in America. But they’d
be rash to do so. Conservatives who laugh off Ocasio-Cortez and her friends should recall how a
socialist surge small band of activists calling themselves the Tea Party became a major factor in national politics,
pulling Republicans and the country to the Right. “We live in an age of movements, not parties”,
RealClearPolitics.com and disgust with incumbents of both the big parties is widespread, particularly among millennials.
(Chicago) Democratic socialists are actually asking vital questions about income inequality and poverty –
questions conservatives need to debate rather than scoff at. The US is entering into “a long-term
generational and worldview conflict” over the direction of the nation, and the Democrats’ “socialist
surge has the potential to reshape not just the party but American politics for generations to come”.

Trump at odds with his advisers over Russia

Donald Trump may be president, said Paul Waldman in The
Washington Post, but is he even in charge of this government?
Two weeks ago, he invited Vladimir Putin to visit the White
House. The visit has now been shelved. Last week, Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo was having to tell the Senate Foreign
Relations committee, that, no, it wasn’t the case – as Russian
officials are hinting it was – that in Trump’s Helsinki
meeting with Putin, the president had verbally agreed to
drop sanctions against Russia. Nor had he agreed that a
referendum to determine their political future should be held
in the breakaway republics in Ukraine held by Russian-backed
separatists. Almost every policy stance Trump takes seems to
be reversed by his own administration. Trump expresses doubt
about Russian election interference: the FBI director and the
director of national intelligence publicly contradict him.
What a way to run foreign policy, said USA Today. The worst
of it is the total lack of transparency. At Helsinki, during the
120 minutes Trump talked to Putin, the only people present
were the translators. Result? “Russians have been spinning the
dickens out of the event,” while Americans beg for answers from
their government. Helsinki was an embarrassment, said Leonid
Bershidsky on Bloomberg. Trump has such scant support in his
administration and Congress for his Russia détente, that any
oral agreements he may have made are meaningless. He’s now
having to admit that nothing happened at the summit while
simultaneously insisting it was a great success.
What we’re witnessing, said Susan B. Glasser in The New
Yorker, is nothing less “than the breakdown of American
foreign policy”. Trump’s foreign policy team is at odds with
him on everything from Syria to Russia to North Korea. He
rushes in with a wrecking ball (like his tweet threatening
Iran with consequences “WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT
HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE”) and his
officials have to clean up after him. It was his national security
adviser, John Bolton, who nixed the proposal of Putin visiting
the White House, blaming the “witch hunt” in Washington over
Trump’s alleged ties to Moscow. Actually, it was Putin who
resisted a second meeting after Helsinki, said Ed Kilgore on
NYMag.com. He knew it would inflame suspicions that he had
something on the US president and create a deeper anti-Russia
backlash. The truth is that the Russian understands American
politics better than Trump does. They “feel so fortunate about
their big propaganda win at the Helsinki summit, they don’t
want to jinx themselves by returning to that well so soon”.

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What the scientists are saying…

A dangerous appetite for meat
The global population’s appetite for meat
keeps growing – and is liable to have a
“devastating” impact on the environment,
a new report has warned. In the past
50 years, per capita meat consumption
across the world has nearly doubled,
from 23kg a year to 43kg, while total
consumption has risen fourfold. And
though there are signs that some higher-
income countries have reached “peak
meat”, the UN has estimated that global
consumption will rise a further 76% by
around 2050, owing to growing demand
from middle-income countries such as
China – with huge knock-on effects:
livestock farming is a significant
contributor to greenhouse gas emissions;
it leads to biodiversity loss, as wild land is
cultivated to grow animal feed – which in
turn puts a strain on water resources. The
report, published in the journal Science,
warns of severe consequences if action
isn’t taken to change people’s diets.
“What’s happening is a big concern and
if meat consumption goes up further it’s
going to be massively more so,” co-author
Professor Tim Key, an epidemiologist at the
University of Oxford, told The Guardian.
Underground lake found on Mars
Astronomers have discovered what
appears to be a large liquid water lake
beneath Mars’s south pole. Mars was once
a warm wet world, but millions of years
ago its climate cooled, causing its water
to become trapped in ice. Scientists have
spotted signs of what might be water
flowing intermittently on its surface before,
but this is the first clear evidence of what
appears to be a stable body of water. The
discovery was made by sending radar
waves from the European Space Agency’s
Mars Express orbiter at the planet’s
Ötzi: a Copper Age feast
surface: these penetrated the ice at the
Martian south pole and reflected off a
substance about a mile underground,
which astronomers believe can only be
water. The lake is quite big: it is around 12
miles across, and is estimated to be at least
one metre deep. However, for its water to
remain liquid at such low temperatures, it
would have to have a great many salts
dissolved in it, and it is not clear if such
a briny sludge could support life. “This is
certainly not a very pleasant environment,”
said Roberto Orosei, of the National
Institute for Astrophysics in Bologna.
Hot weather linked to suicide
We know that climate change could put
our physical health at risk – by, for
instance, causing the spread of infectious
diseases. Now scientists are warning that
it could jeopardise our mental health too.
A team at Stanford University looked at
suicide rates across the US and Mexico
over several decades, and tracked these
against temperature variations. They found
that when the temperature was 1°C above
average in a given month, the suicide rate
increased – by 0.7% in the US and 2.1%
in Mexico. The scientists then analysed
600 million tweets, and found that
depressive language – words such as
“alone,” “bleak” and “trapped” – also
increased during hot spells. “Surprisingly,
these effects differ very little based on how
rich populations are or if they are used to
warm weather,” said Marshall Burke, of
Stanford University. Nor did rising income
levels or the adoption of air conditioning
alter the pattern. “Hotter temperatures are
clearly not the only, nor the most
important, risk factor for suicide,” he
stressed. “But our findings suggest that
warming can have a surprisingly large
impact on suicide risk.”
The iceman’s hearty last meal
Twenty-six years after he was found
entombed in ice in the South Tyrol – and
5,300 after his brutal death – researchers
have discovered what Ötzi ate for his last
meal. Although the Copper Age man’s
shrivelled form had been examined in
minute detail, for years his stomach eluded
the researchers. Using new radiographic
scans, they finally found it in 2009, pushed
under his ribs – and it was full. Now, using
a range of tests, they have worked out
what is in it. It seems that on the day he
died, Ötzi ate a well-thought-out meal for
a hunter in a freezing climate, consisting
of ibex meat and adipose fat, red deer and
einkorn wheat, as well as traces of toxic
bracken. It’s possible Ötzi ate the fern to
treat stomach problems caused by
parasites found in his gut, but it’s thought
more likely he wrapped his meat in the
leaves, and ingested the spores by accident.

A parasite that’s good for business Ecological budget “in red”

Could being infected by a parasite found in Humanity has already busted its
cat poo be the key to a career in business? ecological budget for 2018, using up
Around two billion people are believed to a year’s worth of the Earth’s resources
be infected with Toxoplasma gondii. In most in just seven months, reports The
cases, they don’t have symptoms, but past Guardian. Earth Overshoot Day marks
studies have found that in rodents, the the point each year when our use of
natural resources (from fresh water and
infection can alter the metabolism of the
fish to timber) exceeds nature’s capacity
neurotransmitter dopamine – which may be to regenerate them. And according to
why infected rodents become bolder and less Global Footprint Network, the think tank
fearful. This makes them more likely to be which “hosts” the concept, this year’s
eaten by cats, helping the parasite spread overshoot occurred on 1 August – the
from host to host. earliest ever recorded. Consumption
In humans, T. gondii has been linked to higher rates of car accidents and suicide; first become unsustainable in the
now, a study has suggested those who carry the parasite are more likely to be 1970s; 30 years ago, the overshoot
entrepreneurial. Researchers in the US analysed 1,495 students and found that took place on 15 October; 20 years
ago, on 30 September; and 10 years
those who tested positive for T. gondii were 1.4 times more likely to be majoring
ago, on 15 August. We are “running
in business. At an entrepreneurship event, of the 197 delegates tested those with a Ponzi scheme with our planet”, said
T. gondii were 1.8 times more likely than the others to have started their own Mathis Wackernagel, the think tank’s
business. Finally, they found that countries with higher infection rates also had higher chief executive. “We are borrowing the
levels of entrepreneurial activity and lower proportions of people who said “fear of Earth’s future resources to operate our
failure” was preventing them starting a business. economies in the present.”

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Pick of the week’s
Gossip
Madonna has confessed
that being a soccer mom is
more demanding than being
a pop star. “You have no life
in a way, because games
change from weekend to
weekend: sometimes they’re
in the city, sometimes
they’re not, and we never
know until Thursday night
whether they’re on Saturday
or Sunday, at 12pm or later.
It’s impossible to make
plans.” As well as ferrying
her 12-year-old son David to
and from games, the singer
has even moved home so
that he can attend one of
the world’s best football
academies. “It was between
Turin, Barcelona and Lisbon.
I went to all those places
and tried to imagine myself
living there.” She liked Turin
(“a city for intellectuals”)
and Barcelona (“super fun”)
but settled on Lisbon. “I
always say the three Fs rule
in Portugal: fado, football
and Fátima. It’s also a very
Catholic country, which
suits me fine.”
Jeremy Hunt reduced
Chinese officials to fits of
laughter by giving his wife
Lucia Guo – who comes
from Xian – the wrong
nationality. “My wife is
Japanese… my wife is
Chinese. Sorry!” the new
Foreign Secretary declared
on a visit to Beijing. His
mistake, he later explained,
arose from the fact that
he and his Chinese
counterpart had been
talking in Japanese, which
they both speak fluently.
Asked whether Hunt’s
apparent inability to tell
one country from another
was a cause for concern,
the Prime Minister’s official
spokesman said that Hunt
(pictured above with Guo)
was “very clear” on the
difference between the two.
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Talking points
The heatwave: a sign of what’s to come?
For people who like to discuss
the weather it has been quite a
summer. Last Friday, the UK’s
extraordinary five-week-long
heatwave came to a dramatic
(if temporary) halt when the
skies opened and temperatures
plunged by up to ten
degrees overnight, said The
Independent. In parts of
Northern Ireland, a month’s
worth of rain fell in hours,
causing serious flooding; in
Dorset, Camp Bestival was
so battered by winds, it had
to close; trains were cancelled
after lightning knocked out the
signals, as were several flights. The UK was the hottest place in Europe in particular are designed to
But if the rain brought misery
to some, to others it brought relief from the
relentless heat. Last week the UK was the hottest time to find a solution to climate change.
place in Europe. Fire services were called to
hundreds of grass fires; in London, commuters
endured furnace-like temperatures of up 42°C
on the Tube’s Central line; and on the railways,
trains on several busy lines were cancelled, or
slowed down to a crawl, because of fears that
the tracks might buckle in the heat.
In Japan, it has been so hot they’ve declared it
a natural disaster; there have been devastating
wildfires from the Arctic Circle to California;
and a new temperature record has been set for
Africa. Is climate change to blame? Scientists are
rightly cautious “about drawing a straight line”
between a period of hot weather and “global
Anti-Semitism: tearing Labour apart?
“How on earth has it come to this,” asked
Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian – a party
once revered for its tolerance, mired in an endless
dispute over anti-Semitism. Ever since Labour’s
National Executive Committee decided a “near
universally accepted” definition of anti-Semitism
wasn’t good enough for its new code of conduct,
Jewish groups, rabbis and MPs have been up in
arms. Last week, Ian Austin became the second
Labour MP to be placed under investigation for
angrily confronting party leaders over the issue,
and Britain’s three main Jewish newspapers
published a joint front page warning that a
Jeremy Corbyn-led government would pose an
“existential threat to Jewish life” in Britain. Yet
still the Labour leader and his acolytes remain
unmoved. An NEC member was recorded
saying “Jewish Trump fanatics” were behind
accusations of anti-Semitism in the party. (He
has apologised.) Corbyn backer Billy Bragg even
suggested that Britain’s Jews have “work to do”
if they are to regain Labour’s trust.
The anti-Semitism row “illustrates a wider
problem” with Corbyn, said Rachel Sylvester
in The Times: his complete “intolerance” for
dissent. He is “so sure of his moral superiority
that he believes any criticism of him must be
malicious”. His followers are no better. Witness
the vows by local party members to deselect
fluctuations of climate”,
said The Times. Within every
era “there is a great deal of
volatility”. But it’s quite clear
that something is “lurking in
the shadows” – and as a
committee of MPs warned
this week, we need to
adapt for a future in which
heatwaves are a lot more
common. We need employers
to relax their dress codes; we
need to stop surfacing major
roads in materials that melt in
the sun; and we need to ensure
our buildings are properly
ventilated (too many hospitals
keep heat in rather than let it
out.) If we can adapt to the heat, it will buy us
One thing we mustn’t do is “bury our heads in
our sweaty hands”, said Andrew Rawnsley in
The Observer. Real progress has been made in,
for instance, developing renewable energy; but
when governments are distracted by more
obviously pressing crises, they’ll only focus
on a problem as complex as climate change if
voters insist on it. According to the British Social
Attitudes Survey, over 90% of British people
accept that climate change is happening; trouble
is, only 25% are very worried about it. That may
change. We’re used to the weather coming after
the news. When it starts leading the news, voters
may start to demand action from our politicians.
veteran MPs Frank Field and Kate Hoey for
siding with the Government on a recent Brexit
vote. But you almost have to admire Corbyn’s
intransigence, said Robert Shrimsley in the FT.
Adopting the full definition of anti-Semitism
endorsed by the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance would have been
infinitely easier, and politically cannier, than
insisting on changes. “But oh no.” Convinced
that the IHRA’s definition could stymie criticism
of Israel, Corbyn stuck to his guns – knowing
full well that the inevitable stink it would cause
could split his party and imperil his election
chances. Unlike many politicians, he really is
“ready to risk it all for the purity of his ideals”.
This could be a turning point for many
Labour MPs, said Angela Epstein in The Daily
Telegraph: the moment when they finally
denounce their “pathetic” leader in unambiguous
terms. But they should avoid the temptation to
quit the party, as Corbyn’s Momentum cronies
would “fill the vacuum”. Better to “stay and
fight”. On the contrary, said Stephen Bush in
the New Statesman. No MP can win re-election
without the support of Labour activists, and
they remain largely supportive of Corbyn. As
long as that is the case, the only way MPs can
displace Corbynism as “the dominant force on
the British Left” is to split and form a new party.
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Talking points
Tini Owens: forced to remain married
“If we needed reminding of
just how archaic our marriage
laws are then we only have to
consider the lamentable case
of Tini Owens,” said Suzanne
Moore in The Guardian.
Owens, who is 68, wishes
to divorce her 80-year-old
husband, Hugh, a wealthy
Worcestershire mushroom
farmer, after 40 years of
marriage – but she can’t. When
Mrs Owens moved out of the
marital home in 2015 and filed
for divorce, Mr Owens refused
to consent to it. As a result, his
wife was forced to prove in
court that his behaviour had Owens: more sensitive than most?
been so unreasonable that the
marriage should be deemed to have broken
down irretrievably. The courts ruled that she
had failed: the judge found that Mr Owens,
though “somewhat old school”, was not
unreasonable, and that his wife was “more
sensitive than most”. That decision has now
been upheld by the Supreme Court, which last
week ruled – reluctantly – that Mrs Owens must
stay married to the man she wants to divorce.
This is a sad story, but not a common one, said
The Daily Telegraph. It is very rare for a divorce
to be defended: in 2016, only 17 petitions out of
a total of 114,000 in England and Wales went
to a final contested hearing. Mostly, divorcing
couples agree to apportion blame, citing (as
per the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973) either
Gwyneth Paltrow: turning rage into cash
For years, people have debated
whether Gwyneth Paltrow actually
believes the bullshit (or Goopshit)
she peddles on her aspirational
lifestyle website Goop, said Julia
Belluz on Vox. Can the actress-
turned-wellness guru really have
faith in the power of $66 jade
eggs to “clear” the vagina and
“cultivate sexual energy”, or in
the detoxing potential of a coffee
enema? But it turns out that what
Paltrow believes is beside the point,
because she doesn’t think the
objective “truth” of her site’s
“statements” really matters. In Not one for “prissy facts”
a “masterful profile” in The New
York Times, she explained why her magazine
collaboration with Condé Nast had ended
after two issues: she hadn’t liked the way the
publisher insisted the magazine be fact-checked.
It was, she said, “very old school”.
She had a point, said Jenny McCartney in The
Times. Condé Nast wanted to “bog Goop down
in a whole lot of prissy facts”, but Goop is not
about facts. It’s about hopes and dreams and
sprays to protect you from emotional harm.
Unfurling in that “space where anxiety meets
wishful thinking”, it cleverly combines free
adultery or unreasonable
behaviour. Alternatively,
they can get a divorce if both
agree to it and they’ve been
separated for two years. Even
if one party does not consent,
the other can get a divorce
after five years of separation
(so Mrs Owens will be free in
2020). The process is cumber-
some, but without it we’d have
“divorce on demand”. Are
we “ready for that”?
“Of course I feel sorry for Tini
Owens,” said Jan Moir in the
Daily Mail. But her evidence
of unreasonable behaviour
was pretty feeble: she said
her husband speaks too loudly in public; that he
once criticised her sloppy cardboard recycling;
and that, on another occasion, they had a row
in an airport over what gift to buy their
housekeeper. If one spouse could divorce the
other on the basis of such minor altercations,
“there wouldn’t be a marriage left between here
and the dark side of the Moon”. That’s not the
point, said The Times. The real issue is that our
current laws create unnecessary conflict, because
even couples who both wish to get divorced are
forced to apportion blame to one of the parties,
or to wait two years. “The pressure to find
and chronicle a partner’s faults makes divorce
needlessly toxic.” The family courts should try
to make splits as amicable as possible. “Instead,
the law, as it stands, piles on the misery.”
advice on how to be as healthy
and happy as Gwynnie (much of it
“gobbledygook”) with commercial
promotions. Thus, a recent feature
on “earthing therapy” explained
that walking barefoot, or
“grounding”, can help with
arthritis and depression owing to
the transfer of electrons into the
body – and invited readers who
want to “ground” while asleep
to spend $199 on an “earthing”
bedsheet. It’s quackery, yet this
stuff flies off the website: Goop’s
value is estimated at $250m.
Paltrow is no fool, said Gaby
Hinsliff in The Guardian. She knows she
infuriates people – but she’s learned to take that
rage and turn it into cold hard cash. Every time
one of her critics denounces her for promoting
“vaginal steaming”, or for flogging $1,220
toxin-free casserole dish, it just sends more traffic
to her website. “I can monetise those eyeballs”,
she told students at Harvard Business School.
She’s like the Donald Trump of wellness: truth
doesn’t matter, and anger gets you noticed. It’s
a “fake news strategy for face creams”. Plenty
of celebrities make money from being popular;
Paltrow is getting rich from being loathed.
NEWS 21
Wit &
Wisdom
“Death is a long journey
and you can’t take anything
to read on it.”
Philanthropist Drue Heinz,
quoted in The Spectator
“It is an iron law of British
weather that as soon as
you comment on it in
print, it changes.”
Charles Moore in
The Daily Telegraph
“People always ask how I
managed to buy a house
aged 25. I tell them I did it
the old-fashioned way:
worked hard, saved up all
my free time and invested it
into one elderly relative.”
Comedian Kiri Pritchard-
McLean, quoted in
The Observer
“Effective action is
always unjust.”
French playwright Jean
Anouilh, quoted in Forbes
“Marriage is the only
adventure open to
the cowardly.”
Voltaire, quoted in
The Daily Telegraph
“Mostly it’s fools who start
a war. Only the brave and
wise can end one.”
Anthony Loyd in The Times
“What is written without
effort is in general read
without pleasure.”
Dr Johnson, quoted in
The Sunday Telegraph
“Do you know what they
call alternative medicine
that’s been proven to
work? Medicine.”
Tim Minchin, quoted in
The Guardian
“A wise man once said
nothin’ at all.”
Rapper Drake, quoted
on Slate
Statistics of the week
The number of vehicles on
Britain’s roads has risen by
2,460,900 since 2013.
Local Government
Association/Daily Mail
There were 1,699 Russians at
UK public schools last year,
from a peak of 2,795 in 2015.
Independent Schools Council/
The Sunday Telegraph
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22 NEWS Sport
Cycling: Geraint Thomas conquers the Tour de France
“Brits used to flock to France to buy
holiday homes in the Dordogne,” said
Paul Hayward in The Daily Telegraph.
“Now they go over there to win the Tour
de France.” First it was Bradley Wiggins;
then Chris Froome. And this Sunday,
Geraint Thomas, like his predecessors
riding for Team Sky, became the latest
British cyclist to join the Tour’s winners’
club. He is the first Welshman ever to
win cycling’s biggest race. This was a
“meticulously planned” victory, said
Sean Ingle in The Guardian. But it was
also a “slightly accidental one”. When
the Tour began, Froome was still Sky’s
leading cyclist; Thomas was a mere
“underdog”. Yet over the following
three weeks the 32-year-old went from
strength to strength, and by the time he
reached the Champs-Élysées on Sunday,
he resembled “a conquering king”. Thomas: a godsend for Team Sky
Thomas hasn’t exactly come out of nowhere, said Tom Cary in
The Sunday Telegraph. At the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, he took
gold in the team pursuit; he has won a number of important road
races, among them Paris-Nice and the Critérium du Dauphiné.
But on the Tour, he had previously been “the embodiment of a
loyal domestique” – to Wiggins and then Froome – and “few
were able to see beyond that”. For years, Thomas was perfectly
happy to play second fiddle to Froome, his old friend, said David
Walsh in The Sunday Times. But last year, “something changed”.
He realised that his career so
far was “likely to leave him
unfulfilled”; at 31, he was “It’s hard to imagine a more
“running out of time”. down-to-earth champion”
He toyed with moving to
another team, but Sky gave him
“protected rider” status for the Tour, ensuring he didn’t have to
sacrifice his own ambitions for Froome unless it was absolutely
essential. He made the most of that when Froome crashed on the
first stage, losing 51 seconds. In previous years, Thomas would
have waited. “Not this time.” He seized the advantage, and was
“tactically astute” thereafter, riding “the most brilliant Tour”.
Yet at times he was still willing to play the lieutenant: on a later Fotheringham. He will only have a couple of chances to win a
stage, he “ushered Froome clear” and let him attack.
“Even Team Sky’s army of boffins underestimated Thomas,” said
Josh Burrows in The Times. Long after he took the yellow jersey
they still expected him to “crack”. But
he couldn’t have been better prepared
for the Tour. Earlier this year, he went
on three different high-altitude training
camps. Then, after the Dauphiné, he
went on a reconnaissance trip, which
allowed him to have a test run at riding
the key stages for the Tour. Thomas
benefitted from a dose of luck too, said
William Fotheringham in The Observer.
An unusually large number of star
cyclists were involved in accidents on
the Tour: Richie Porte, Vincenzo Nibali
and Nairo Quintana all saw their
chances evaporate – or had to pull out
altogether. For once, Thomas – a cyclist
“legendary” for his injuries over the
years, including a broken pelvis and
smashed collarbone – got off scot-free.
At a time when cycling, and Team Sky
in particular, have a credibility problem,
Thomas is a godsend, said Tom Fordyce on BBC Sport online. It’s
hard to imagine a more down-to-earth champion: he’s “amiable,
never cocky, consistently self-deprecating”. And he hasn’t been
caught up in any of Sky’s controversies, said Matt Lawton in the
Daily Mail. Bradley Wiggins was accused of abusing the medical
exemption system; Chris Froome of using the asthma drug
salbutamol unethically. But when Thomas fractured his pelvis
on the 2013 Tour, he just took painkillers – and stayed in the
race. Still, four months after a “damning” parliamentary report
that said Sky had “crossed an
ethical line” with its use of
medications, it will take more
than this victory to dispel the
“scepticism” surrounding
the team.
There must now be “legitimate questions” over Froome’s future,
said Oliver Brown in The Sunday Telegraph. Thomas’s victory
looked less like an “aberration” than the handing over of a baton.
At 33, Froome risks being written off as “yesterday’s man”. But
Thomas is just a year younger than his team-mate, said William
second Tour – and he has suggested that he might return to one-
day races instead. As a Tour de France specialist, and four-time
champion, Froome is exceptional: in the modern era, most cyclists
have won the Tour “only once”.

Victory on the 285th attempt Sporting headlines

Richard McEvoy is the ultimate
“journeyman” golfer, said
Matthew Lewis in Golf Digest.
For 17 years, the Essex native
struggled to “find his way in
professional golf”: he competed in
284 events on the European Tour
and failed to win a single one. On
Sunday, however, McEvoy finally
broke his hoodoo. At the age of
39, he saw off fierce competition
– from Masters champion Patrick
Reed and talented young American
Bryson DeChambeau – to win
Hamburg’s Porsche European McEvoy: a “fairytale” 200 places up the world rankings,
Open and claim his maiden title.
It was “one of the great underdog victories in pocketed £300,000 from his win in Hamburg –
European Tour history”, said Derek Lawrenson
in the Daily Mail. After McEvoy bogeyed the
17th hole, “the pressure went through the
roof”. But he held his nerve,
sealing this “fairytale triumph”
with a birdie at the 18th. It was
“the moment he had been waiting
for all his professional life”. And it
capped a remarkable month for
“one of the game’s nice guys”.
First he won a competition at
Queenwood in Surrey, beating
the likes of Rory McIlroy and
Justin Rose with his score of 64
– a course record. Then last week,
he triumphed in the Challenge
Tour. He has now moved roughly
to around No. 80. And he
“considerably more” than he has previously
made in an entire season. “Feelgood victories
simply do not come any better than this.”
Formula One Lewis Hamilton
won the Hungarian Grand
Prix; Sebastian Vettel came
second. Hamilton goes into
the summer break with a
24-point world championship
lead over Vettel.
Boxing British boxer Dillian
Whyte beat Joseph Parker
on points. Dereck Chisora
knocked out Carlos Takam.
Darts Gary Anderson beat
Mensur Suljovic in the World
Matchplay final, becoming
the third man to complete
the sport’s “triple crown”.
Football Liverpool beat
Manchester United 4-1 in the
International Champions Cup.

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Vieux Château Saint André, Greenhough Pinot Noir, Nelson Domaine Pique Roque Rosé,
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(13%) There are any number of
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LETTERS
Pick of the week’s correspondence
The ascent of English
To The Guardian
Jacob Mikanowski writes with
unconscious irony: “Behemoth,
bully, loudmouth, thief:
English is everywhere, and
everywhere, English dominates.
From inauspicious beginnings
on the edge of a minor
European archipelago…”
I can’t wait to read more
of what he says about English
syntax affecting German and
changing the grammar of
Scandinavian languages, but
he seems to ignore the English
language’s penchant for
borrowing from other
languages. Behemoth (actually
plural) is from Hebrew and
archipelago is Greek.
The point is made
graphically by a famous
description attributed to James
Nicoll: “We don’t just borrow
words; on occasion, English
has pursued other languages
down alleyways to beat them
unconscious and rifle their
pockets for new vocabulary.”
Native English speakers
are fortunate that theirs has
become the universal language,
and it is even more fortunate
that there is one. All the other
colourful and beautiful
languages that seem to be in
its shade are still available for
private conversation among
native speakers.
Caroline Fletcher, Israel
Laissez-faire divorce
To The Times
Further to your leader
advocating no-fault divorce,
Mrs Owens is an odd choice
of heroine: an unfaithful wife
whose instances of unreason-
able behaviour by her husband
are entirely trivial: a misunder-
standing over a choice of gift
for her housekeeper; and
Mr Owens being unusually
taciturn over a meal in a pub.
The real effect of no-fault
divorce would be felt by
spouses far more vulnerable.
Changing the law to allow a
wife of 40 years to walk out
of her marriage without cause
and with the full support of
the state would incentivise
personal irresponsibility.
It would also mean the
law supporting a husband
who divorces his wife because
he finds the rigours of caring
for a new baby too exacting, or
a wife who divorces a husband
because he has been diagnosed
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Exchange of the week across the world? Our waste
is being dumped in countries
An open door to university from Turkey to Malaysia, and
poor oversight allows people
To The Guardian to claim that action is being
That the number of students receiving unconditional offers taken while not actually
for university places has leapt again this year is only to be making any changes.
expected, given that higher education is the one area of public “The system has evolved
spending untainted by any form of austerity. into a comfortable way for
While every other public service has a finite budget limited government to meet targets
by the Treasury, university education is funded by a never- without facing up to the
ending supply of student loans, most of which are likely never underlying recycling issues,”
to be repaid and are given without any of the restrictions and according to the National
questioning associated with loans from banks, finance Audit Office. A couple of pages
companies or mortgage providers. In these circumstances, it later we read that: “Healthier
is unsurprising that the supply of provision (university places) hospital vending machines cut
increases in line with the endless supply of funding available. sugar intake for staff and
The question is: how has this situation been allowed to arise patients”. Sounds like good
and how much longer can it continue? news, but patients are now
Michael Woodgate, Bristol buying bottled water instead –
sales rose by 54% in the Leeds
To The Guardian trial, so even more plastic goes
The number of students receiving unconditional offers for into landfill as this is rolled out
university places has, we are told, rocketed this year. The across the country.
decline in the quality of British universities in the ratings tables Why not stop it at source
can be traced back to Tony Blair’s totally irrational ideological and provide water fountains
decision to get 50% of our young people into university. or easy access to tap water –
This was but the first step. In order to achieve this target, and not just in hospitals?
it became necessary to reduce the entry qualifications. Step Jean Glasberg, Cambridge
three then was inevitable – the level of the courses on offer
had to be reduced to accommodate the lower level of student Khan’s sincere beliefs
ability. Step four came with the introduction of fees in excess To The Times
of £9,000. Students became customers with customer power Your profile of Imran Khan
– meaning the power to purchase the best quality of degrees. notes that “along the way
Step five, “good” degrees became ubiquitous and so further he has undergone a transform-
devalued, hence the need to entice sparse customers with ation” and “embraced Islam”.
promotional goodies like unconditional offers and freebies. I represented Mr Khan in his
Doug Clark, Currie, Midlothian successful defence of the libel
action brought against him by
with a serious illness. No entirely a matter for the Irish Ian Botham and Allan Lamb.
reasonable person would wish and their masters in Brussels. I clearly recall that in breaks
to live in a society where the Philip Roe, St Albans, in the proceedings during
most important promise of Hertfordshire the 13-day trial in July
one’s life counted for so little. 1996, he would return to
Thomas Pascoe, Coalition French victory assured the chambers of his counsel,
for Marriage To The Times George Carman, QC, where,
Your report (“We want boules if the time was appropriate,
The price of butter to be an Olympic sport, say he would seek out a quiet
To The Daily Telegraph French”) recalls a precedent. corner to recite his daily
Mike Hodge in his letter tells The English game of croquet prayers. Forensic business
us from his experience with was newly popularised in was put on hold until he
HM Customs that we could France in the 1860s, had finished. Haughty and
easily go back to charging consecrated in the founding of charismatic, certainly, but
import duty after Brexit. the Société française du croquet sincere in his religious beliefs.
But would we? in 1893 and included in the Howard Cohen, Leeds
I do not think we have plans Paris Olympics of 1900.
to charge duty on EU goods. France was the only team
We plan to end the discrim- to enter: it duly won all
inatory practice of charging the medals.
duty on goods from elsewhere. Professor Robert
Thus, after Brexit, butter from Lethbridge, St Andrews,
New Zealand will be cheaper Fife
in London than in Paris.
Someone will think of A fount of sense
moving it from London to To The Guardian
Paris via Belfast and Dublin. Was anyone really
To protect French farmers surprised to learn that
from competition, Brussels will millions of tonnes of “The pinging noise is a broken
have to charge duty at the Irish plastic from the UK sent valve, and the knocking noise
border. This is a problem, but off to be recycled instead is some dude in the trunk.”
it is not our problem. It is goes into landfill sites © TOM CHENEY/NEW YORKER/CARTOON BANK
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Review of reviews: Books
The best newly published holiday reads, based on summer round-ups in the press

Hardbacks
Lullaby Fall Out The Female
by Leïla Slimani by Tim Shipman Persuasion
Faber William Collins by Meg Wolitzer
£12.99 (£11.99) £25 (£23) Chatto & Windus
A stressed-out Parisian This “immensely £14.99 (£12.99)
couple hire a seemingly lively” book – a In this “hugely
perfect nanny – who follow-up to All Out enjoyable” novel,
then murders their War, Tim Shipman’s “wide-eyed student”
two children. This account of the Brexit Greer forms an intense
“shocking” novel, a referendum – describes friendship with Faith,
sensation in France, “illuminates the the “drama of the 2017 election and a “hardened veteran of postwar
darkest fears of many parents”, said The Theresa May’s battle for a Brexit deal” radicalism”, said The Daily Telegraph.
Sunday Times. Having opened with this said The Sunday Times. It’s a work that Through this pair, Meg Wolitzer “maps
crime, the novel “rewinds” to examine anyone remotely interested in politics has out a potted history” of feminism, as well
what drove the nanny to it, said The Daily to read, said The Observer. “Holidays may as asking how to live a meaningful life.
Telegraph. Leïla Slimani writes “compel- be about escapism, but this fly-on-the-wall A “page-turner that succeeds both at
lingly” about “the tedious, interminable unravelling of the 2017 election is car- characters and ideas”, this book is
anxiety dream that is normal parenthood”. crash exhilarating.” “wonderfully wise” said The Guardian.

The Incurable London Rules Arnhem

Romantic by Mick Herron by Antony Beevor
by Frank Tallis John Murray Viking
Little, Brown £12.99 (£9.99) £25 (£22)
£18.99 (£16.99) “Mick Herron is the With this account
In his “riveting” new funniest spy writer at of the doomed 1944
book, the therapist work today,” said The Arnhem offensive,
Frank Tallis “opens Times. His new novel Antony Beevor has
his casebook” to – which is the fifth “treated us to another
describe the plight of outing for the great brick of a book
clients made unhappy by love, said The “belching, farting” MI5 operative Jackson on the Second World War”, said The
Observer. The resulting stories, written Lamb – deals with the aftermath of a Times. Beevor’s retelling of the ill-judged
with “clarity and wit”, present romantic terrorist attack on a small English village. campaign (which was depicted in the
love “as a kind of mental disorder”. In his earlier novels, Herron proved classic film A Bridge Too Far) is
Among the subjects Tallis explores are himself to be a master at depicting “spies “gripping”, said The Daily Telegraph.
“erotic obsession, deluded desire and behaving badly”, said The Guardian. As The story is “played out day by day,
sexual jealousy”, said The Sunday Times. with its predecessors, London Rules sometimes hour by hour, but always
It’s an “astonishing collection” which “combines broad jokes, high drama and with one eye on the commanders’
makes for “gripping reading”. razor-sharp plotting”. strategic thinking (or lack of it)”.

Paperbacks
Ma’am Darling Eleanor Munich
by Craig Brown Oliphant is by Robert Harris
4th Estate £9.99 Completely Arrow
(£7.99) Fine £8.99 (£6.99)
A biography of by Gail Honeyman Robert Harris’s latest,
Princess Margaret an “agile” thriller set
told through “99 HarperCollins during the Munich
glimpses” of the £8.99 (£7.99) peace talks of 1938,
Queen’s younger sister, This bestselling debut imagines a different
this is a “brilliant and centres on a young outcome to the
original” book, said the Financial Times. woman whose life is infamous meeting between Chamberlain
A story of “unhappy” royalty, it’s also a “uber orderly”, but terribly lonely, said and Hitler, said The Mail on Sunday. The
“chronicle of an era”. Craig Brown pulls The Mail on Sunday. When she story follows two young diplomats, one
off the feat of “finding a tone in which experiences a “chance act of kindness”, British, one German, who knew each
to write about monarchy”, said The she re-evaluates her priorities. A winner of other at Oxford; the latter is part of a
Guardian. “Not bitchy, not snide, not the Costa First Novel Award, this “warm, plot against Hitler. Harris has written a
angry... but not deferential either. humorous” novel explores the nature of “superbly researched” work that “brings
Just funny.” modern loneliness, said The Times. history alive”, said The Times.

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28 ARTS Drama
In the 1950s and 1960s, the
Theatre of the Absurd “delighted
some audiences and baffled
many more”, said David Lister
Theatre in The Independent. It was a
dramatic format that explored
life’s deepest questions through
“surreal plots and settings and
crazed, sometimes nonsensical
Exit the King dialogue”. It is thus pretty
“astonishing” that the National
Theatre has never before
Playwright: performed a work by one of the
Eugène Ionesco movement’s chief architects, the
Translated and directed by: French-Romanian playwright,
Patrick Marber Eugène Ionesco. But now, for
his first outing, they’ve gone all-
out by putting on Exit the King,
a mostly plotless meditation on Rhys Ifans: a brilliant performance the play, said Ann Treneman in
Olivier, National Theatre, the inevitability of death, and
South Bank, London SE1 staging it in the National’s largest space, the
(020-7452 3000). hard-to-fill Olivier. Does the risk come off?
On balance – yes, said Susannah Clapp in
Until 6 October
The Observer. The play concerns a 483-year-old
king, Bérenger, who is refusing to die. But he’s
Running time: not the only one on his last legs: everything in
1hr 40mins the cosmos is failing. The Milky Way has curled
up “like a dead dog”; 10,000 of the kingdom’s
bistros have been abandoned; and the king is
★★ told at the start that he will pop his clogs “at the
end of the play”. So far, so niche. “I went in
sceptical about Ionesco’s ability to deliver more
than a quizzical eyebrow over the proscenium
arch” – but, astonishingly, the drama, in Patrick
Marber’s supple English version, turns out to
Gerard Alessandrini is the serial
spoofer who has been sending
up big musicals “something
Musical rotten” since the brilliant long-
runner Forbidden Broadway
first appeared in 1982, said
Dominic Cavendish in The Daily
Telegraph. Spamilton represents
Spamilton: An the “apotheosis” of his singular
craft – a take-down of
American Parody Lin-Manuel Miranda’s box-
office phenomenon Hamilton
Written and directed by: so accomplished and hilarious
that it ended up transferring to a
Gerard Alessandrini Broadway venue “within spitting
distance of the real McCoy”.
Spamilton both celebrates and
Menier Chocolate Factory, mocks Miranda’s Tony-laden
Southwark Street, rap-driven smash – from its well- Fearless and splendidly funny
nigh-incomprehensible lyrics
London SE1 down to its breeches, riding boots and
(020-7378 1713). extravagantly energetic choreography. Yet you
Until 8 September don’t need to have seen Hamilton to enjoy it:
I took along a “Hamilton ignoramus” and he
laughed as much as I did.
Even those unfamiliar with the original will
Running time:
enjoy this “fearless” and splendidly “silly”
1hr 25mins
show, agreed Ann Treneman in The Times.
It contains numerous brilliant pastiches of such
★★★ musical theatre stalwarts as Barbra Streisand
and Liza Minnelli; and it draws on a whole
range of familiar shows including Les Mis, Cats,
Mamma Mia!, The King and I, Guys and Dolls
and Sweeney Todd. The bit sending up The Book
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be “humane as well as brainy”,
and ultimately moving.
In my view, the play “promises
more than it delivers”, said
Michael Billington in The
Guardian. However, there is no
gainsaying the brilliance of Rhys
Ifans’ turn as Bérenger. With his
“lanky frame, his incisive tenor
bark and his Plantagenet wig”,
Ifans has “exactly the right air
of tyrannical authority tinged
with terror”. It’s a treat of a
performance, and it made me
long to see this outstanding
actor in the big Shakespeare
roles. Even so, I fear that Ifans is
not enough on his own to rescue
The Times. As the evening
progressed, several spectators were “developing
their own exit plan, heads bobbing in a way that
signalled sleep was nigh”. Exit the king? “Or,
frankly, vamoose the theatre? By the end, I
know which I would choose.”
The week’s other opening
King Lear Duke of York’s Theatre, London
WC2 (0844-871 7623). Until 3 November
In a production for which the theatre has been
specially reconfigured, to retain the intimacy of
the original, acclaimed Chichester version, Ian
McKellen seems to be “putting the finest last
touches to his majestic legacy” (Guardian).
of Mormon (“last year’s hit”) is
“particularly funny”. Yes, it’s all
a bit rough and ready, but that
adds to the laughter. “My entire
row was rocking with giggles for
much of the night.” My only
quibble, said Fiona Mountford
in the London Evening Standard,
is that it all becomes a little too
unrelenting and frantic. “Far
greater differentiation in the
pacing would help.”
The trouble with the show for
me was that it’s too “precariously
poised between sceptical send-up
and incestuous celebration”, said
Paul Taylor in The Independent,
It’s as if Alessandrini is hedging
his bets over “how affectionate
a fang to dig into the hand that
feeds him”. And there is such “a suffocation” of
relentlessly in-jokey references that it all becomes
claustrophobic. “I enjoyed a lot of the show, but
it left me gasping for air.”
CD of the week
© SIMON ANNAND; JOHAN PERSSON
James: Living in Extraordinary Times
Infectious Records £9.99
This is a “percussive tour de force”: drummer
David Baynton-Power and bassist Jim Glennie
create a “cathartic racket” for Tim Booth’s
songs. “Well into their fourth decade, they are
determined not to stand still” (Sunday Times).
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Tom Cruise is 56. By rights, his sixth outing as super-
agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible action
franchise should be embarrassing, said Dan Jolin in
Mission: Time Out. Yet amazingly, Fallout is the “slickest”
instalment yet. The plot sees Hunt, along with team
Impossible – regulars Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg, tasked with
Fallout saving the world from a shadowy terrorist group
named The Apostles, who are intent on acquiring
Dir: some high-grade plutonium. Along the way, he must
Christopher McQuarrie decide if he can trust lissom rival agent Ilsa Faust
2hrs 27mins (12A) (Rebecca Ferguson), or the CIA agent who has been
assigned to keep an eye on him (Henry Cavill) – or
anyone at all. The storyline is even flimsier than in the last MI film, said Brian Viner in the Daily
Full-throttle action Mail. Yet on the action front, Fallout really delivers, said Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. There are
with Tom Cruise “colossal” chase sequences: in Paris, on a motorbike; in London, on foot; and over the mountains of
Kashmir, hanging off a helicopter. Throughout, the single-shot filming makes it clear Cruise is doing
★★★ these stunts for real, said Kevin Maher in The Times. In an era when most blockbusters rely on CGI,
the actor has turned the MI franchise into a “showcase” for his perilous stunts – and in the process
become his “own beguiling special effect”. This instalment is the most satisfying yet.

Apostasy was made for about one three-hundredth of

the cost of the latest Mission: Impossible film, said
Deborah Ross in The Spectator. Yet it has an impact
Apostasy out of all proportion to its budget. This finely
scripted, superbly acted British drama stars Siobhan
Dir: Daniel Kokotajlo Finneran as Ivanna, a single mother in present-day
1hr 35mins (PG) Lancashire, who is raising her daughters in the faith
of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The older daughter
(Sacha Parkinson) questions the faith she has been
Scalpel-sharp drama about brought up in and falls pregnant to a non-believer.
Jehovah’s Witnesses The younger (Molly Wright) is haemophiliac, but
following orthodox practice, abjures medical help.
★★★★ (As her mother puts it, to “mess with the Lord’s design is a sin”.) The drama plays out on the faces
of the actresses, which director Daniel Kokotajlo captures in intimate close-up, said Peter Bradshaw
in The Guardian. In their different ways, Wright’s gentleness and Parkinson’s growing anger are
equally painful to watch. Kokotajlo, who was himself raised by Jehovah’s Witnesses, shoots his
film in a stark, apparently non-partisan, almost documentary style, said Geoffrey Macnab in
The Independent. Yet his portrait of “an inflexible and intolerant organisation” is “devastating”.

It looks as if, like Count Dracula himself, animated

monster capers are “destined to torment us” for
eternity, said Brian Viner in the Daily Mail. There
Hotel surely can’t be many who are thrilled at the arrival
of this film, the third in the lacklustre Hotel
Transylvania 3 Transylvania series. Once again, Adam Sandler
provides the voice of Dracula, who here embarks on
Dir: Genndy Tartakovsky
a cruise with his daughter (Selena Gomez) and friends
1hr 37mins (U) Frankenstein (Kevin James) and Wayne the werewolf
(Steve Buscemi). He soon falls for the ship’s comely
Fangs, but no fangs captain, Ericka (Kathryn Hahn), unaware that she is
the descendant of his old adversary, Abraham Van
Helsing, and has sworn to destroy him. The jokes in this silly film are very feeble, said Geoffrey
★ Macnab in The Independent. Why, for example, should garlic on his salad cause Dracula to fart
uncontrollably? I don’t remember Christopher Lee or Bela Lugosi being so indisposed. Let’s not pull
punches, said Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. “There isn’t a single moment of genuine wit or real
fun in the whole thing.” To call Hotel Transylvania 3 “undead” would be “flattering it”.

Edith Tudor-Hart, née Suschitzky, was a talented

Austrian-born documentary photographer who lived
in Britain during and after the Second World War.
Tracking Edith She was also the spy who introduced Kim Philby to
his Soviet handler, and so could lay claim to have
Dir: Peter Stephan Jungk altered the course of Cold War history, said Peter
1hr 32mins (PG) Bradshaw in The Guardian. This gripping docu-
mentary about her life has been made by her great-
Downbeat documentary nephew, Peter Stephan Jungk, and its “sprawling”
structure matches its subject’s “chaotic” life, said
about a Cold War spy Geoffrey Macnab in The Independent. It takes us
from Vienna to Britain to Russia, throwing in some
★★ heavy-handed allusions to The Third Man, and even a few animated sequences to illustrate Edith’s
eventful private life. Alas, Jungk’s film takes a “maddeningly low-key” approach, said Nigel Andrews
in the FT. His voice-over is as ponderous as that of “a teacher who’s taken Mogadon”. The downbeat
tone leaves us wondering why we should be enthralled, when even the film-maker doesn’t seem to be.

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30 ARTS
Exhibition of the week Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing
Barbican Art Gallery, London EC2 (020-7638 4141, www.barbican.org.uk). Until 2 September
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
was a pioneering documentary
photographer who captured the
hardship of the Great Depression
like no other, said Lucy Scovell on
The Culture Whisper. Indeed, her
1936 photograph Migrant Mother
is probably the most famous image
of the era: taken on a pea pickers’
farm in California, it pictured a
destitute but “defiant” woman
sitting in a makeshift shelter,
gazing into the distance as her
“cowering” children huddled
around her. As soon as it was
published, this “harrowing yet
poignant portrait” alerted America
to “the devastating plight” of the
Dust Bowl refugees, and became
a timeless symbol of dignity “in
the face of adversity”. However,
the rest of Lange’s “formidable”
output has been too often forgotten
– a state of affairs that this much
“much-anticipated” exhibition sets
out to correct. The show is the first
UK retrospective of Lange’s work,
bringing together hundreds of
photographs to demonstrate how
she documented life on the
margins of mid-20th century
America. This “long-overdue” Migrant Mother (1936): “harrowing yet poignant”
show is a “triumphant success”.
Lange “was happiest as an artist when tragedy was close at
hand”, said Mark Hudson in The Daily Telegraph. She began her
career taking society portraits in wealthy San Francisco, but the
Art
1929 stock market crash compelled
her to address the mass poverty she
saw all around her: as she later put
it, she “woke up”. Her pictures of
the mid-1930s have a quality that
can only be achieved by getting
extremely close to one’s subject:
we see a “scarily intense” street
urchin, or a “wild-eyed man”
astride his broken-down car, or
a Dust Bowl refugee returning
home, lamenting his futile mission
to find work. These are “truly
electrifying” photographs in
which “you can positively smell
the catastrophe”. Lange continued
to document hardship and
injustice, yet while her later work
is undoubtedly impressive, it
lacks the same sense of “complete
engagement” with its subject.
Received wisdom has it that Lange
“lost her way” with the coming of
the Second World War, said Laura
Cumming in The Observer. Yet
if this show proves anything, it
is that she was consistent right
up until old age. Her pictures of
wartime internment camps for
Japanese-Americans, for example,
are “riveting”, as is a 1956 series
on a small town condemned for demolition to make way for a
hydroelectric dam. Elsewhere, there are images of impoverished
black sharecroppers and Mexican labourers, and an entire
gallery devoted to Migrant Mother and its creation. What
a “tremendous” exhibition this is.

Where to buy… Art goes back to its roots

The Week reviews an The National Portrait
exhibition in a private Gallery is sending
gallery some of its famous
faces home, says
Mark Brown in The
Shades of Guardian. As part © THE DOROTHEA LANGE COLLECTION/THE OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA; NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY LONDON

Summer of a project called

at Beaux Arts London
Most of Britain’s private
Patrick Heron’s October 21 1988, 69cm x 54.5cm
galleries are packing up for the
holidays, either closing entirely
for the month of August or fielding the
kind of stopgap summer exhibitions
that rarely present much in the way of
surprises. On paper, this show at Beaux sculpture of the architect Richard
Arts probably doesn’t sound the most
exciting of art events, essentially
consisting of a pot-luck of modern
British painting and sculpture paired
with two dozen or so contemporary
pieces. However, the works here have
been selected with an uncommon
degree of care – and what works
they are. Among the highlights are
a beautiful 1980s gouache by Patrick
Heron; a formidable selection of
the great sculptor Elisabeth Frink’s
unsettling bronzes; and a truly bizarre
Rogers by Eduardo Paolozzi. The
contemporary contributions aren’t bad
either – indeed, Anne Rothenstein’s
painting of a smartly dressed model
half-slouched over a camp bed mattress
is one of the best things here. Prices
range from £2,000 to £140,000.
48 Maddox Street, London W1
(020-7493 1155). Until 1 September
Coming Home,
50 portraits from the
national collection
will be sent to towns
and cities closely
associated with their
subjects. Next year,
Sir Thomas
Lawrence’s portrait of William Wilberforce will
travel to Hull, where he was born, to be shown
in the Ferens Art Gallery. David Hockney’s Self-
Portrait with Charlie will go to his hometown,
Bradford; and Tracey Emin’s bronze Death
Mask to hers, Margate. Kate Peters’ photograph
of the athlete Jessica Ennis-Hill will go to
Sheffield, Emma Wesley’s portrait of the
Victoria Cross recipient Johnson Beharry will go
to his regiment’s museum in Dover – and a 16th
century painting of Richard III (above) will be
shown in Leicester, where he was buried. “We
are determined to ensure that more of the UK
can see some of our world-class art collections,”
said Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright.

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Best books… Mark O’Connell Television
Mark O’Connell, a journalist and author based in Dublin, chooses five of
Programmes
his favourite books. He won the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize for his debut,
Blitz: The Bombs That
To Be a Machine, published by Granta at £9.99 Changed Britain This series
focuses on just four of the
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann and his relationship with its with everything she’s got. It’s bombs dropped on Britain
O’Brien, 1939 (Penguin £9.99). subject. Malcolm is, I think, a work of ecstatic beauty and during WWII. The first episode
This is both one of the funniest one of the greatest prose palpable pain, an unthinkable is about one that fell on the
books of all time, and one of stylists working in any form, hybrid of prose poetry, East End. Sat 4 Aug, BBC2
the most ingenious fictional and she is at her best here. theology, and nature writing. 20:00 (60mins).
experiments ever conducted. It’s Dillard’s genius in full,
It’s futile to attempt an account Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, dark flow. The Foreign Doctors are
1944 (Penguin £8.99). This Coming A documentary
of its plot, but it involves a following doctors from around
university student whose effort collection of short stories is Moby-Dick by Herman the world as they try to get
to write three separate stories one of the most head-spinning Melville, 1851 (Penguin jobs in the UK. Tue 7 Aug, C4
gets wildly and hilariously out works of fiction I’ve ever £5.99). If I had to pick a 22:00 (65mins).
of hand. encountered. Borges is the kind favourite novel, it would have
of writer who changes the way to be Moby-Dick. It is, of Mechanical Marvels
The Journalist and the you think about reality, and course, about a madman who Historian Simon Schaffer looks
Murderer by Janet Malcolm, Fictions is his masterpiece. diverts a commercial whaling at some of the engineering
1989 (Granta £9.99). This is voyage to hunt down a gigantic marvels of the 19th century
– from giant telescopes to
not just a great work of literary For the Time Being by whale he has a justifiable
computers made of cogs. Wed
journalism, it’s also one whose Annie Dillard, 1999 (Vintage grudge against (missing leg, 8 Aug, BBC4 21:00 (60mins).
greatness resides in it being £11.25). Here Dillard, a deeply etc.); but it’s also about
about journalism; it’s about religious writer, confronts masculinity, madness, capital- Hang Ups In this new
the writer Joe McGinniss, the head-on the depth of depravity ism, religion, colonialism, race, comedy series, Stephen
ethical questions around his and suffering in the world, sex, and the unthinkable void Mangan plays a therapist
true-crime book Fatal Vision, while holding fast to her faith at the heart of creation. whose life is unravelling. The
starry cast includes Richard E.
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The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing and reading The Prosecutors: Modern
Day Slavery A film tracking
Showing now a prosecutor who is trying to
Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe, London SE1 build a case against a gang
(020-7401 9919). This new production of trading in children. Thur
Shakespeare’s tragedy stars André Holland, 9 Aug, BBC2 21:00 (60mins).
who is best known for the Oscar-winning film
Moonlight, in the title role and Mark Rylance Films
The Beatles: Eight Days a
as Iago. Ends 13 October. Week – The Touring Years
(2016) Covering the period
Blue Electric at Rada Studios, London WC1 until the Fab Four’s final live
(020-7908 4800). A one-off performance, this show in 1966, Ron Howard’s
new opera is a collaboration between the award-winning documentary
composer Tom Smail and the author Alba features footage from the
Arikha. Based on Arikha’s acclaimed memoir, it shows and interviews with
follows a teenage girl in 1980s Paris. 7 August. the band members. Sat 4 Aug,
RAF Museum, London NW9: “captivating”
More4 21:00 (130mins).
Following a £26m overhaul, the excellent will get its world premiere in Northampton
before going on tour. 1-22 September, Royal & My Brother the Devil (2012)
RAF Museum, London NW9 (020-8205 2266), In this gripping film, a Hackney
has reopened its galleries to mark the force’s Derngate, Northampton (01604-624811), then gang member tries to leave his
100th anniversary. Exhibits in its “captivating” Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham and Ipswich. old life behind – but that sets
free centenary exhibition range from a nuclear up a confrontation with his
missile to a Second World War pilot’s lucky Just out in paperback younger brother. Fri 10 Aug,
teddy bear (Sunday Telegraph). One Hot Summer by Rosemary Ashton (Yale BBC2 23:35 (105mins).
£10.99). Ashton’s “compelling” micro-history
Book now of the sweltering summer of 1858 uses Dickens,
The Lovely Bones, Bryony Lavery’s stage Darwin and Disraeli to create a snapshot of New to subscription TV
adaptation of Alice Sebold’s bestselling novel London at the time (Daily Telegraph).
Orange is the New Black
The US prison drama returns.
The Archers: what happened last week Following the riot at the end
of the last season, many of
Pip leaves the fete alone, and by the time she gets to Brookfield she has gone into labour. She
can’t get hold of Ruth or Toby, but Rex happens to be passing by and rushes her to hospital, the main characters are now in
picking up Ruth on the way. Toby finally arrives, and Pip has to have a caesarean. She gives birth maximum security. Streaming
to a baby girl. Rex tells Anisha he won’t be joining her in Newmarket – he belongs in Ambridge. now on Netflix.
She’s upset but understands why he has to stay. Before Debbie leaves, Brian thanks her; she
expresses her concern about how the sale of the house will affect Jennifer. Pip and Toby return to The Americans Set in the
Brookfield, where they announce the baby’s name: Rosie Ruth Archer. Toby tells Pip how glad he 1980s, this tense show tells the
is that she went through with the pregnancy. Jennifer is disappointed by a valuation of the house, story of two KGB spies who
and Adam has more bad news: Lexi isn’t pregnant. Lily comes clean to Phoebe about dating Russ, pose as an American couple.
and dismisses her concerns. Anisha leaves without saying goodbye to Alistair. He gives Shula a The first five seasons are
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34 Best properties
Properties with church connections
Stirling: The

▲
Arch, Kippen.
An impressive
apartment with
a private balcony
situated on the
first and second
floors of a
converted kirk.
The property also
offers spectacular
views over the
countryside and is
kept bright with
roof windows.
Master suite,
built-in wardrobe,
1 further bed,
family bath,
kitchen, sitting
area, ladder-
accessed office
area, balcony,
entrance hall,
parking space.
OIEO £170,000;
Strutt & Parker
(0131-226 2500).

▲ West Sussex: Chapel Cottage, Park Place, Arundel. A charming period

cottage with lovely views across woodland and stables. It was built c.1845,
and was formerly the “Providence Chapel”. Bedroom with built-in wardrobes,
bathroom, kitchen, living room with wood burner, private decked garden.
£338,000; Sims Williams (01903-885678).

Cambridgeshire:
▲

The Old Deanery &

Little Prior’s Gate,
Minster Precincts,
Peterborough.
These two impressive
Grade II properties
are within the
grounds of
Peterborough
Cathedral, and sits
in around 2.4 acres.
The Deanery: 7 beds,
4 baths/shower
rooms, 3 receps,
kitchen, study,
utility, galleried hall,
private driveway,
detached double
garage, landscaped
gardens. Little Prior’s
Gate: offices, WCs.
£1.15m; Savills
(01780-484696).

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North Yorkshire: The Chapel,

▲
Harrogate. A unique Grade II
former Wesleyan Methodist chapel
that offers more than 7,000 square
feet of space. Master suite with
balcony, 4 further suites, 1 further
bed, 1 further bath, dining room,
orangery, kitchen/breakfast room,
cellar, study/library, ladies’ boudoir,
gentlemen’s club room, entrance hall,
utility, plant room, garden, off-street
parking. £1.5m; Strutt & Parker
(01423-561274).

Berkshire: Cornwall:

▲
▲

The Old Parsonage, The Old Rectory,

Curridge. A Mawgan-in-
substantial family Meneage, near
house with annex Helford River.
in a private but An elegant Grade II
accessible location, Georgian former
with grounds rectory, standing
extending to around within about
2.5 acres, including 2.75 acres of lovely
paddocks. Master grounds. Master
suite, guest bed, 2 suites,
suite, 4 further 4 further beds,
beds, family bath, 3 further baths,
kitchen, 3 receps, 1 shower room,
orangery, office/ 3 receps, kitchen,
library, cellar, 1-bed orangery, 2-bed
annex, garage, apartment, garage,
gardens, swimming gardens,
pool, outbuildings. outbuildings.
£1.65m; Knight £1.85m; Lillicrap
Frank (01488- Chilcott (01872-
682726). 273473).

Lincolnshire:
▲

The Old Rectory,

Howell, Sleaford.
This lovely Grade II
family house is set
in picturesque
grounds of more
than an acre, which
are adjacent to
the Saxon church.
Master suite,
1 further suite,
4 further beds,
2 family baths,
kitchen/breakfast
room, dining
room, family room,
drawing room,
cellar, parking,
driveway, ▲ Essex: Barnston Old Rectory, Barnston, Great Dunmow. An attractive
outbuildings, Grade II former rectory in a delightful setting of about 4.25 acres. Master
gardens. £699,950; suite with dressing room, 1 further bed with en suite WCs, 5 further beds,
Savills (01522- family bath, 3 receps, hall, kitchen/breakfast room, cellar, utility, gardens,
508908). garaging, pool, tennis court. £2.15m; Savills (01245-293220).

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What the experts recommend
The Parsons Table 2 & 8 Castle Mews,
Tarrant Street, Arundel, West Sussex
(01903-883477)
This friendly restaurant in ancient
Arundel has the benefit of being set in
a little tucked-away courtyard. When we
visit, it is “aglow with greenery”, and the
effect is heavenly, says Michael Deacon
in The Daily Telegraph. “Sunbeams
bathing on the leaves. Music cooing
softly in the background. So quiet and
secluded and restful.” The food, too, lifts
the spirits and calms the soul. Pork pies
can so often disappoint, but the large
slice of Orchard Farm pork pie I kick off
with here is a gem: “meat, meat, meat,
and complemented nicely by a sweet-
onion chutney”. To follow, a “pressing”
of rabbit is “cool, slim and lissom”,
and comes with a fennel remoulade, and
my pudding is a “gorgeously jammy”
West Sussex strawberry sablé, with basil
and mint for “added zing”. A charming
restaurant; a lovely lunch. 3 courses for
two: about £70, plus drinks.
Pasture 2 Portwall Lane, Bristol
(07741-193445)
Pasture is that rarest of beasts, says
Grace Dent in The Guardian – a first-rate
steakhouse that will make non-carnivores
swoon. This is all the more surprising
when you consider that Pasture is
not just any old steakhouse. It’s an
“unabashed, balls-out”, honking great
LEISURE
Food & Drink
The Duke of Richmond: “luscious” fare
slabs of raw, 35-day-aged tomahawk or
chateaubriand kind of steakhouse, with
a horned Highland cow’s head on the
wall. My dining companion entered
into “at-table negotiations” for 1.2kg
of local-breed, wild cherry wood-smoked
tomahawk – and declared it some of the
finest steak he’d ever tasted. Meanwhile,
I devoured a plate of ash-baked beetroot
with goat’s curd, elderberry vinegar
and pecans that was a “sharp, crunchy
pleasure”. Whatever he’s cooking, chef
Sam Elliott combines “brilliant” local
produce in a way that recklessly pushes
the culinary boundaries. Duck liver
mousse with chai pickles? Cured trout
37
with vermouth and horseradish? This
could be car-crash cookery, but Elliott
is someone who “can make a raw kale
Caesar salad feel naughty”. About £35
a head, plus drinks and service.
The Duke of Richmond
316 Queensbridge Road, London E8
(020-7923 3990)
Truly great dishes are “mindfulness
incarnate”, says Jay Rayner in The
Observer. They instantly stop you
dwelling gloomily on what you
haven’t done today or what you
should be doing tomorrow, and make
you focus intensely on whatever it is
you are eating. The crab chip butty at
chef Tom Oldroyd’s recently restored
Duke of Richmond in Hackney – a
“neighbourhood pub and dining room”
according to its own billing – is one of
those dishes. It’s a palm-sized, golden-
glazed bun, filled with mayonnaise-
bound white crabmeat, the crunch of
lightly pickled samphire and a “fistful
of still hot, still crisp chips”. It’s not
the only magnificent dish here, of course:
this place is “just a neighbourhood pub
in the way Buckingham Palace is just a
house and Piers Morgan is just a little
bit irritating”. But it is typical of the
kitchen’s “luscious, greedy, thigh-
rubbing” instincts. Trust me: you want
to eat here. Meal for two: from £70,
including drinks.

Recipe of the week Summer drinks

If alcoholic drinks make your head too
This super-refreshing drink brings back memories of happy, sunny days on fuzzy in hot weather, or you’re just
the beach in Mexico, where nutritious chia seeds, much beloved by the not a fan, there are plenty of “tasty
Mayans, are liberally added to most things, say David and Charlotte Bailey. alternatives” around, says Jane
This is an all-round winner for summer barbecues or picnics MacQuitty in The Times.

Homemade lemonade with chia seeds Good substitutes for cocktails are
a challenge, but Seedlip’s two
Makes 1 litre 5 unwaxed lemons, peeled and roughly chopped (reserving the copper pot still-distilled, non-
zest of 1) 150ml agave syrup 1 litre cold water 8 sprigs of fresh mint, alcoholic spirits work well, topped
plus extra to garnish ice 2 tbsps chia seeds up with your favourite mixer and a citrus slice.
The Seedlip Garden 108 Herbal, Distilled
Non-Alcoholic Spirit (£26, 70cl; Tesco) is
• Put the lemons, lemon • As well as being jam- a “striking, fresh, grassy, mint and peapod-
zest, agave and water in packed with good laced”, non-alcoholic spirit that is splendidly
a blender and combine nutrition, chia seeds also summer. Its richly spiced sister, Spice 94,
on high speed for about absorb ten times their fragrant with cinnamon, clove and cardamom,
1 minute. Add the mint weight in water, so they and orange (£26; Tesco) is even better.
and blend for a further form a kind of bulky gel
10 seconds. when added to liquids, Alcohol-free spritzers are far easier to pull off.
• Put a few ice cubes in which really helps Monte Rosso Naturally Non-Alcoholic
each glass, top with the hydration on long, sticky Apéritif (£2.55, 27.5cl; Waitrose) is a great
lemonade and stir in 1-2 days (and the gel helps raspberry, tomato and cranberry-stashed
teaspoons of the chia make you feel full). alternative to Aperol. T&E No 1 is a pleasing
seeds. Leave for a few • As a source of omega-3 oils we green apple and fresh lime-styled fizzy hit
minutes to allow the chia to soak, find them much more user-friendly (£2.55, 27.5cl; Waitrose). Last, for something
then garnish each glass with the than flaxseed, as they’re far easier to more “complex and winey” try a shrub
mint. Serve. digest and don’t need to be ground. vinegar. My favourite version is
© HAARALA HAMILTON

Walthamstow’s Shrb Lime Juniper (£3.20,

Taken from Fresh Vegan Kitchen by David and Charlotte Bailey, published by 33cl; Harrods).
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38 LEISURE Consumer
New cars: what the critics say
The Daily Telegraph
The X4 is a car that many
keen motorists overlook
on principle: it’s “an SUV
that thinks it’s a coupe”.
But it’s more than just
a traditional “upright”
X3 SUV with limited rear
headroom. It’s sportier,
and though it can’t deliver
BMW X4 “sports car sharpness”, it
from £42,900 drives “wonderfully well”
for an SUV. In its first
iteration, the X4 wasn’t
a commercial hit, but now
“the coupe-SUV might
finally have arrived”.
Auto Express
There’s no denying it’s an
“odd-looking thing”. The
combination of a bluff
front end and huge grilles
with a sleek, sloping roof
gives the impression that
“its face is too big for its
body”. But inside, it’s put
together “beautifully”,
and if you get the larger
10.25in touchscreen, it’s
got “arguably the best
infotainment system in the
business”. That said, the
roofline does compromise
interior and boot space.
What Car?
The all-wheel-drive X4’s
looks polarise opinion,
but the drive won’t. The
diesel 322bhp 3-litre and
187bhp 2-litre engines
are smooth and quiet. It
has firmed-up suspension
and the rear wheels are
further apart, meaning it
handles “remarkably” well
and turns corners swiftly.
Having said that, it’s hard
to imagine why you’d
spend a few grand more
than you would on an X3
to get a less practical car.

The best… smartwatches

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water resistance (from £146; www.apple.co
www.apple.com). four days (£299;
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www.samsung.com).

Tips of the week… h

how to
give your home an MOT
● Hire a drone with a high-definition
camera to inspect your roof, but do ask
your neighbours for permission, and hire
a CAA-certified drone and pilot.
● Remove old bathroom sealant with a
Stanley knife, clean the area and apply new
sealant between two lines of masking tape.
● To reduce the risk of burst pipes, close
and open your stopcock every six months
to stop it seizing up, but don’t keep it fully
open; give it a turn-and-a-half to the right.
● Get your boiler serviced in the summer,
when engineers are less busy. Also check
water pressure; if it’s below one bar, there
could be a leak, which is better to fix when
the central heating is off.
● Hunt for damp, checking for blocked
airbricks or gutters and condensation.
● Rub a candle along the base of wooden
drawers that have warped and now jam.
● For loose towel or toilet roll fittings, pack
the gap with broken cocktail sticks.
SOURCE: THE SUNDAY TIMES
A d for
And f those
h who
ho
have everything…
With its Bluetooth-connected Barista milk
frother, Nespresso reckons customers will
never need to visit a coffee shop again. You
pick a recipe on your smartphone – iced
coffee, cappuccino, macchiato – and add the
ingredients and a pre-made espresso.
£179; www.nespresso.com
SOURCE: STUFF
Where to find… fun and
educational days out
Voted Heritage UK’s Best Family Day Out
2018, Alnwick Castle in Northumberland is
now hosting themed activity weeks, from
Medieval Life Week to Wizarding Week (£16
adult/£8.50 child; www.alnwickcastle.com).
Andante Travels offers a chance to see
Roman London above and below ground on
What Lies Beneath study days (from £115
per person; www.andantetravels.co.uk).
In Hampshire, Winchester Science
Centre’s new Explorer: Space zone lets
kids get hands-on with meteorites and try
programming a Mars rover (£10, book;
www.winchestersciencecentre.org).
A replica of Captain Cook’s Endeavour
opens this month in Whitby, North
Yorkshire, to mark the 250th anniversary
of his Pacific expedition (£7.50 adult/£4.50
child; www.endeavourwhitby.com).
At their free, countrywide Let’s Fish! events,
the Canal & River Trust’s instructors teach
the basics of fishing and provide equipment
(canalrivertrust.org.uk).
SOURCE: THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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Three islands that mass tourism has (so far) overlooked

Lazy days in the Cyclades
There’s a reliable formula when
it comes to Greek islands, says
Martin Hemming in The Sunday
Times: “the bigger the faff it is to
get there”, the lovelier it will turn
out to be. And so it is with tiny
Kimolos, in the western Cyclades.
With no airport, you have either
to get the ferry from Piraeus (which
takes about five hours) or an internal
flight from Athens to nearby Milos,
a taxi across that island, and then a
local ferry from there – all of which
is quite enough to “keep the riff-raff
away”. In the main town, Chorio,
there are whitewashed, blue-roofed Providencia: somewhere to “empty your head”
buildings, and a church on every
corner (apparently, the island has more than 80 churches for its
population of 910). Days slip by in a pleasingly “Groundhoggish
routine” of feasting on ice creams and “the best Greek salad in
Orthodox Christendom”, before deciding which lovely beach to
visit. There are only two roads you need to know about – heading
east takes you to Prassa beach, where “lunar sands” meet a
startlingly blue sea. It’s “civilised enough to have a beach bar and
sunbeds, but rustic enough not to have toilets”. Elsewhere, there
are plenty of places to eat, but each taverna offers a similar menu
of freshly home-cooked fare: it’s nothing “fancy”, and “this is no
bad thing”. Sunvil (020-8758 4758, www.sunvil.co.uk) has seven
nights from £824pp b&b, including all flights and transfers.
A taste of the old-fashioned Caribbean
A tiny speck of land off the coast of Colombia, Providencia is
“the Caribbean as it used to be, before tourism swept across the
region like a tropical storm”, says Paul Richardson in the FT.
The airport terminal is “a beam-roofed barn”, to which luggage
is delivered by tractor. Beyond, acacia and mango trees shade the
tin-roofed clapboard houses, and there are more chickens on the
road than cars. There are only
a handful of b&bs and hotels,
which run from basic to “rustic
luxury”: large-scale development
has not “taken root”, and locals are
fiercely opposed to it. This is a place
to lay low, and “empty your head”.
There are trails through lush
vegetation to wander, peaks to climb
and hammocks to laze in. If you feel
like being a bit more adventurous,
take a boat trip to the nearby reef
to see the island’s “astounding”
beauty from afar, before stopping
at the soft, “icing-sugar” sands of
Manzanillo Beach to enjoy a cold
beer and listen to the “gentle thump
of reggae drifting on the breeze”.
Miraviva (020-7186 1111, www.miravivatravel.com) offers a
nine-night trip, including flights, from £3,295pp.
The Croatian island you need to visit fast
Vis, off the Dalmatian coast, is where the new Mamma Mia!
film was shot, says Sarah Turner in The Guardian. In the film,
it’s supposed to be Greek, but if anything, it feels more “Dutch:
mellow, but practical and efficient”. Sleepier than its near
neighbours, Vis was a Yugoslav military base, which ensured
it remained off-limits to tourists. There are still military tunnels
to explore and wrecks to dive to, including that of a Second
World War B-17 bomber, as well as the usual vineyards
and olive groves. The food is Italian in influence, the beaches
pebbly and the waters “achingly clear”. Mercifully, cruise
ships cannot get here, although the “harbours are lined with
every type of boat” – and “the superyacht set are beginning
to circle”. Go now, before thousands of Mamma Mia! fans
start to arrive too. Croatia Airlines (www.croatiaairlines.com)
flies to Split. For ferries to Vis, visit www.jadrolinija.hr. For
more information, visit www.croatia.hr.

The rebranded wilds of Kerry Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire

This Grade I
When visitors first land at Kerry 18th century
Airport, they’re “bombarded with mansion set
posters” advertising the delights of in “luscious”
the Ring of Kerry and the Wild Capability
Atlantic Way, says Will Humphries Brown
in The Times. Yet there’s no mention parklands
of the fact that just 30 minutes’ drive has a distinctly
away, there’s an area that could “National Trust
vibe”. The
“rival the Lake District or the west
difference is,
coast of Scotland” for its panorama in this hotel,
of peaks, mountain lakes and golden complete with spa and golf course, “you’re
beaches. It’s called the Reeks District, very much encouraged to sit on the seats”,
and if you’ve never heard of it, that’s because it was only christened this year. says Zak Thomas in The Independent. The
The name is taken from the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks mountain range, and this service is “discreet and friendly” and the
“rebranding” is the brainchild of local business owners who want to lure visitors atmosphere welcoming, from the log fire in
away from Kerry’s more showy locations. the entrance hall to the disability access and
The Coumloughra Horseshoe is a “fairly strenuous” seven-mile hike across pet policy (£30 per night). Most of the rooms
have views; even some of the cheapest have
Ireland’s three highest mountains, Beenkeragh, Carrauntoohil and Caher (all
balconies; and heavy curtains, floral prints and
just above 1,000 metres). With “few discernible route signs or tracks”, it feels patchy Wi-Fi are standard across the board.
properly wild and offers up “ravishing scenery” as its reward. Afterwards, head The Wernher restaurant lays on a “variety
into the “lively” town of Killorglin, sporting your new “Irish tan” (sunburn of rich seasonal courses”, while the lounge
combined with wind lash), for dinner at Sol y Sombra, an “Irish fusion tapas” is straight out of Casino Royale with its
joint in a former church where the food is “superb”. In this part of the world, “chandeliers, wooden panelling” and jazz
the locals still “come together for a drink and traditional music” and there are standards played on the piano. The 1,000-acre
plenty of “spit-and-sawdust” bars to choose from. The obligatory “heavy night” grounds stretch so far you could easily lose
can always be “blown away” the next day by a “morning dunk” in the chilly yourself, and Luton Airport is close by for
a quick getaway. Doubles from £320 b&b.
Atlantic. Ryanair (www.ryanair.com) flies from Luton and Stansted to Kerry.
01582-734437, www.lutonhoo.co.uk.
Visit reeksdistrict.com for more information.

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Obituaries
Skilled aviator who flew Spitfires as a wartime “Atagirl”
Mary Ellis, who has died
Mary Ellis aged 101, was one of the
1917-2018 last surviving women to
have served in the Air
Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during the
Second World War. The “Atagirls”
(motto: Anything to Anywhere) didn’t
take part in combat duties: their task was
to deliver new aircraft to the front line,
and fly damaged ones in for repair. This
work required considerable skill and
courage: flying without radio (to keep
the airwaves free) ATA pilots had to find
their way using only a map, compass and
stopwatch, often in perilous conditions.
Around 15 female ATA pilots were Ellis celebrating her 100th birthday
killed in the line of duty (including the
pioneering aviator Amy Johnson). Ellis flew 76 different types
of plane, from Spitfires and Hurricanes to Wellington bombers,
usually solo. She endured two crash landings; narrowly avoided
being shot down by “friendly fire” over Bournemouth; and over
Birmingham, had a close encounter with a Luftwaffe pilot. He
flew alongside her for some time, then waved, and peeled away.
Born Mary Wilkins in 1917, she grew up on a farm in
Oxfordshire, and discovered her love of flying aged eight, when
she was taken to Sir Alan Cobham’s airshow. Her father let her
go up in an Avro 504, a First World War biplane, sitting on
cushions in the rear cockpit. “From that moment I was hooked,”
she said. She took flying lessons while still at school, and by the
late 1930s was flying BA Swallows for fun. When war broke out,
civilian flying was banned. She assumed her airborne days were
over – until she heard a radio ad, calling for anyone with flying
experience to join the ATA, to free up combat pilots for combat
duty. (The men who flew with the ATA were pilots who’d been
debarred from RAF service by reason of age or disability: they
named themselves the Ancient and Tattered Airmen.)
Doctor who helped expose the thalidomide scandal
In June 1961, Dr William
Dr William McBride, an obstetrician
McBride working in Sydney, took a call
1927-2018 from his hospital’s medical
superintendent after yet another deformed baby
had been born. “What the hell’s going on, Bill?”
the superintendent demanded. “I think it’s
thalidomide,” McBride replied. He had recently
delivered three babies born with unusual
deformities, including malformed limbs, said
The Times. Their mothers came from a range
of backgrounds, and from different parts of the
state. There was one common denominator: he’d
prescribed them all thalidomide, or Distaval, to
treat morning sickness.
McBride: struck off for scientific fraud won him acclaim, and also a cash prize which he
McBride stopped prescribing the drug – which
was by then being used by millions of women – and wrote an
article warning of its dangers for The Lancet. It was rejected, but
when two more deformed babies were born, he tried again. This
time, he sent a letter, outlining symptoms and calling for more
information. And this time, his letter was published, sparking the
Sunday Times investigation that exposed the scandal. Feted as
one of the key players in having the drug withdrawn, he became
something of a celebrity, profiled in magazines and flown to
conferences all over the world – only for his later research on
birth deformities to be discredited and his name struck off the
register. According to his critics, he was brought down by
hubris – an arrogant determination to find a second thalidomide;
41
Admitted in October 1941, Ellis trained in
Tiger Moths before being sent to an all-
female base at Hamble, near the
Supermarine factory in Southampton,
to learn to fly fighter planes and bombers.
It was there that she flew a Spitfire for the
first time: “As I taxied to the runway, it
took only a few seconds for me to feel
completely at home in this beautiful
aircraft,” she recalled years later. “I was
already in heaven before I’d taken off.”
From that day, “I felt my life was one
driven by adrenaline and purpose”. In
1943, said The Daily Telegraph, Sir
Stafford Cripps agreed that the female
pilots were doing the same job, and taking
the same risks, as the men in the ATA,
and should receive equal pay. Even so, people were sometimes
surprised to see women in the cockpit. Once, as Ellis clambered
out of a new Wellington bomber that she had just delivered to
an RAF airfield in East Anglia, the controller came over and
demanded to know where the pilot was. “I am the pilot,” she told
him – but he refused to believe her until he’d searched the plane.
By the time the ATA was disbanded in 1945, Ellis had clocked up
over 1,100 hours of flying time. She was then briefly seconded to
the RAF, to fly Meteor jets. After the War, she moved to the Isle
of Wight, where she ran Sandown Airport and married a fellow
pilot, Donald Ellis. Small (five foot two) and lean, she stood
ramrod straight, even when she was 100. By then, she and other
surviving Atagirls had begun to be celebrated for their war-work.
To mark her centenary, she was taken up in a two-seater Spitfire
that, some 70 years earlier, she had delivered to Brize Norton, and
briefly took the controls. “Wizard! This is wizard,” she cried, as
the plane soared over West Sussex. Last month, she was invited to
attend the premiere in London of a new documentary film, Spitfire,
in which she appears. At the end, she was given a standing ovation.
however, his supporters insisted he was the victim
of a witch hunt orchestrated by jealous rivals and
the powerful industry he’d dared to challenge.
Born in Sydney in 1927, McBride, who has died
aged 91, studied medicine at the University of
Sydney, and worked in London before joining the
Crown Street Hospital. In 1960, a representative
of the Distillers Company, which marketed
Distaval, persuaded him to try the new drug on
his patients. That he was the only doctor in the
hospital prescribing it made the link with birth
defects easier to establish (although it has been
suggested that it was a nurse who first drew his
attention to it). His role in exposing the scandal
used to start his own foundation to research the
causes of birth defects. It was here, in the 1980s, that he met his
undoing, when he became convinced that the drug Debendox was
causing deformities – and in trying prove his case (which had led
to the drug being withdrawn from the market), he falsified aspects
of his research, based on rabbits. After a lengthy battle, he was
struck off in 1993. He admitted wrongdoing, but insisted that
he’d been convinced the drug was dangerous, and had been trying
to save lives. In one of his appeals, the dissenting judge noted: “It
must be said bluntly that Dr McBride’s contribution to humanity
stands higher than that of any other person involved in these
proceedings.” McBride finally won back his right to practise
in 1998, but on the condition that he did no more research.
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CITY CITY 43
Companies in the news
...and how they were assessed
Deutsche Bank: clearing off
News that Deutsche Bank has moved “almost half” its euro clearing business to
Frankfurt will come as a blow to the City, said Caitlin Morrison in The Independent. It
may be unglamorous, but “clearing” – the process through which financial transactions
are settled – is a vital part of the financial system’s plumbing. And since the Brexit vote,
it has become a key battleground between London and rival European centres. The City
has long “dominated” the sector, with LCH – the clearing house owned by the London Seven days in the
Stock Exchange – processing almost £900bn daily. Deutsche’s decision to jump ship to Square Mile
Eurex (owned by the LSE’s rival exchange Deutsche Börse) won’t have an immediate
impact on jobs – “effectively, the move means the bank will push a different button to New data showed that the US economy
route the clearing to Eurex”. But it is a threat to London’s status as a derivatives hub, grew at 4.1% in the last quarter – its
fastest rate since 2014. President Trump
said Philip Stafford in the FT. So far, the amount of business that has shifted is “very
claimed the figure was proof that “we’ve
limited”, but momentum is growing. “From virtually nothing before Christmas”, Eurex accomplished an economic turnaround
has cleared derivatives with a notional value of s8trn for banks including JP Morgan, of historic proportion”. Markets were
HSBC, BNP Paribas and BoA Merrill Lynch, and now commands some 8% of the heartened by the declaration of a truce
market. What’s the German for thin end of the wedge? in the US-EU trade war, banishing – for
the moment – the threat of a tit-for-tat
Ryanair: drop the pilots? tariff battle. The Bank of England’s
Ryanair was “once an icon of Europe’s budget travel boom”, but falling profits and Monetary Policy Committee met to
growing competition have been hurting its bottom line, said The New York Times. But decide interest rates: the betting in
the City was on a quarter-point rise
right now the biggest headache for the airline – and its long-suffering passengers – is a
to 0.75%.
rash of strikes that have forced it “to cancel hundreds of flights”. Action taken by Irish
pilots and cabin crew in Portugal, Spain, Belgium and Italy over pay and conditions Sanofi, the French drug-maker, became
the latest company to announce its
saw some 600 cancelled last week. And the conflict appears to be worsening, said
preparations for a no-deal Brexit: it plans
Ellen Proper and Benjamin D. Katz on Bloomberg. Ryanair pilots in Germany and the to stockpile drugs in UK warehouses and
Netherlands have now also joined the action, claiming that “Ryanair needs a wake-up move some of its operations to Europe.
call”. The airline’s boss, Michael O’Leary, “made an about-turn in December” by Theresa May appointed William Vereker,
agreeing to recognise unions, and he “had warned investors to expect industrial action a former UBS investment banker, as her
during the critical summer travel season”. But he might not have reckoned on its scale. “business envoy”: he’s charged with
The airline has “hit back” by publishing details of its pilots’ salaries, which range from improving strained relations with
s150,000 to s200,000, said Jennifer Newton in the Daily Mail. If the industrial action corporate Britain. CBI chief Carolyn
continues, it warns, there could be job losses. Fairbairn urged businesses on either
side of the Brexit debate to speak up.
HS2 Ltd: spiralling bill, mass defections Amazon delivered record quarterly
When Robert Nisbet, a regional director of the Rail Delivery Group, suggested this week profits of $2.53bn, thanks to a rise in
that other EU countries could “only dream” of having Britain’s levels of punctuality and online sales and demand for its cloud
efficiency, he was accused of “living on another planet”, said The Daily Telegraph. Sadly, services. Macquarie Group, the
said Gill Plimmer in the FT, there was no such incredulity when HS2 Ltd – the company Australian investment bank, named
Shemara Wikramanayake as its new
charged with building the high-speed line from London to the North – “slipped out” its CEO, the first woman in the role. Sales
annual report this week. It showed that the project, currently estimated to cost some of shorts have enjoyed a treble-digit rise
£56bn, has cost taxpayers £4.1bn “before construction has even started”. Unsurprisingly, year-on-year because of the hot weather:
experts now predict the final cost to be “rather higher than expected”. The spiralling many City companies have relaxed their
costs come amid “a wave of departures” at the company. A third of HS2’s board dress codes.
members, and nearly a fifth of its staff, have hopped off the train in the past year.

Countrywide/Foxtons: not the best time to be an estate agent

After four profit warnings in the past eight
months, Britain’s biggest chain of estate
agents, Countrywide, “is putting the
finishing touches to a call for up to £125m
of emergency finance”, said Larry Elliott in
The Guardian. Revenues have been hit by
“a sharp downturn in house sales” and
“competition from online rivals is intense”.
Shares in the group, which has debts of
£200m, have plunged 70% in the past year.
The situation at its London-based rival
Foxtons is marginally better, said The
Times. At least the outfit, renowned for its
shiny offices and trademark Mini fleet, is Foxtons: a tough market
debt free and the City is confident it can pay
its dividends. “And while Foxtons’ image may be a bit 1980s, it
has not actually been pushed aside by the online newcomers.”
Still, the share price has dropped from a peak of 386p in March
2014 to as low as 46p last month. And this week’s half-year
figures were hardly aspirational: Foxtons
filed a £2.5m loss, compared with a £3.8m
profit for the same period last year.
“One would think a cursory glance at the
market dynamics would counsel against
investing in an estate agent right now,”
said Matthew Vincent in the Financial
Times. “Last year, house prices in London
began falling for the first time since 2009”,
according to Nationwide. Meanwhile, the
latest data from property adviser LCP show
prime Central London prices down 8%
year-on-year. Yet that hasn’t deterred
several intrepid fund managers from
upping their holdings in Foxtons, possibly
encouraged by signs of a recovery in letting revenues. These
aren’t the best of times for the housing market. But the thinking
seems to be that Foxtons “is in a better location than its
estate agent neighbours”.

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Talking points CITY 45

Issue of the week: Facebook’s bloodbath
Slowing growth and further evidence of political meddling have whacked Facebook. Can it bounce back?
Facebook suffered the “largest one-day
wipeout in American corporate history”
last week, said James Dean in The Times.
A “shock” quarterly earnings report saw
shares plunge by 19% – knocking a
whopping $119bn off its market value
and some $17bn off the personal fortune
of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. The
company warned that “profit margins
would narrow in the coming years as it
spent more on improving privacy and
security”, following this year’s Cambridge
Analytica scandal. But what really freaked
investors was the slowing rate of daily user
growth: it was just 1.5% higher than in the
previous quarter – “the slowest on record
for Facebook”. According to eMarketer, Zuckerberg: facing a “teen problem”
the company has a “teen problem”, with
Zuckerberg “lampooned as awkward, weird and even lizard-like
in online memes”. Although some defecting youngsters have
moved to Facebook’s photo-sharing app Instagram, others
have deserted it entirely.
Facebook is suffering “a slew of problems”, said Robert Cryan on the ad market. But the new digital markets have plenty of high-
Reuters Breakingviews. “Constant stories about the mishandling
of data, toxic content and state-sponsored misinformation raise
questions about the attractiveness of the platform for advertisers
and users alike.” This week, the firm identified further meddling
in the form of a campaign to disrupt the US midterm elections.
Even so, investors appear to be “replacing
excessive optimism with undue glumness”.
Facebook isn’t the only tech stock to suffer
a backlash, said James Titcomb in The
Daily Telegraph. Twitter and Netflix have
also suffered “heavy declines” in “a stock-
market bloodbath” that has “threatened to
put an end to the astonishing tech boom of
the last few years”. Yet some members of
the old “Faangs” group continue to race
ahead. Amazon is still riding high and
“Apple is on the cusp of becoming the
world’s first trillion-dollar company, after
smashing Wall Street forecasts with a leap
in profits.”
Move over “Faangs” and make way for
“Maga”, said Richard Waters in the FT.
The new acronym describes the “narrower group of Big Tech
companies” – Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon) now
leading the market higher. It is “tempting to see Facebook’s slip
as a sign that Big Tech’s days of go-go growth are coming to an
end”: some analysts point to a levelling off of digital’s share of
growth opportunities – not least cloud computing, which is
quickly becoming “a rocket propellant” for Amazon, Microsoft
and Google. “It takes constant reinvention to keep a seat at tech’s
top table.” For now Facebook has slipped, but it has reinvented
itself before. Don’t rule it out in the future.

Rising interest rates: what the experts think August auguries

● Here in Blighty…
The Bank of England
was expected by most
economists to raise
interest rates this week
“for only the second
time since the 2008
crash” – from 0.5%
to 0.75%, said Phillip
Inman in The Observer.
As ever, commentators
were divided ahead
of Thursday’s Mark Carney: expected to raise rates
announcement. Bring it
on, said Alex Brummer in the Daily Mail.
True, having “dropped to the bottom of
the G7 growth league”, the UK is hardly
“going like a bomb”. But the economy is
“far from moribund” – as evidenced by an
unemployment rate of just 4.2% and other which, according to Citi’s Mark Schofield,
encouraging data. “There comes a moment has a “considerable track record in
when the Bank must return to targeting
inflation” (currently above 2.4%) and
recognise that “keeping rates too low
for too long” has a distorting effect. I’m
not convinced, said Larry Elliott in The
Guardian. A rate rise now is “risky”, and
there is “no real reason for it” – bar the
fact that “the next eight months will see
Brexit talks reach a climax, and the
inevitable uncertainty makes this the last
opportunity to raise rates for some time”.
● … And more broadly
Yet, significant as it may be, a hike in
Britain is the last thing troubling markets
more broadly, as
central banks globally
begin to tighten, said
Tom Knowles in
The Times. In a week
packed with central-
bank policy decisions
– three central banks
looked set to raise rates
– Citigroup analysts
warned that “storm
clouds are gathering”
over the world
economy, and
that markets may be “too complacent”.
● A tweak in Japan
Attention has focused particularly on
“turbulence” in the Japanese bond market
triggering broader reactions”. The
excitement was sparked by a small
“tweak” in monetary policy (the Bank
of Japan has raised its cap on bond yields
from 0.1% to 0.2%) – “a tiny move”
that, in effect, represents “a very, very
small hike in rates”, said John Stepek on
Moneyweek.com. Yet, clearly, it is not that
easily dismissed. “As with every other
central bank these days, the focus is now
on how monetary policy can get tighter
without blowing things up.” Rising
interest rates are already having an effect
on global housing markets. “It’ll be inter-
esting to see what starts to struggle next.”
August is historically a tricky month for
markets, says Matthew Lynn in The
Daily Telegraph. So what could get
investors “desperately searching for
the hotel‘s Wi-Fi code” this year?
Trump resigns The US president’s
position is already precarious. And with
the economy growing at 4% and major
tax reforms in place, it might occur to
the Donald, who is “predictable only in
his unpredictability”, that leaving now
“would be a lot more satisfying” than
“years of legal arguments leading up
to a drawn-out impeachment”.
A German bank collapses The massive
imbalances between the eurozone’s
core and its periphery have to show
up somewhere – and one place is the
German banking system. If so, cue a
fresh eurozone crisis.
Italy quits the euro True, the country’s
new leaders appear to have “backed
away from their hostility”, but were
they to stage a coup against the euro,
“a quiet weekend in the middle of
August would be the perfect time”.
Bitcoin rises to $30,000 per unit – and
then collapses Always a possibility in
an “otherwise thin month for trading”.
Britain concedes a second referendum,
triggering “a bitter civil war” between
Leavers and Remainers, and knocking
the stuffing out of both the FTSE 100
and the pound.

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46 CITY Commentators
Say what you like about Donald Trump, “but he’s certainly caught
City profile
Britain’s lurch the zeitgeist”, says Jeremy Warner. Even the Labour Party has
incorporated some of his thinking. In a Trump-like “Britain First”
Sergio Marchionne
to economic speech last week, Jeremy Corbyn espoused “a positively protect-
ionist agenda” on everything from foreign takeovers to govern-
Everyone has their favourite
CEOs: Sergio Marchionne,
nationalism ment contracts. “Buy British, reject the foreigner was his overtly
nationalistic message.” This, of course, “runs completely counter”
the Fiat Chrysler boss who
died last week aged 66,
to the open, liberal market regime first championed by Margaret “was one of mine”, said
Jeremy Warner
Thatcher nearly four decades ago – when foreign takeovers were not Alisa Priddle on MotorTrend.
just allowed, but encouraged, and “value for money took priority com. A consummate rescuer
The Sunday Telegraph of companies, Marchionne –
over all other considerations” in procurement. Transformational
change in business “has a habit of creeping up on you unawares”, “to the amazement of many”
– saved first Fiat and later
and we’ve belatedly woken up to the worrying fact that virtually
Chrysler, eventually merging
all our telecoms infrastructure and equipment is now supplied by them. The combined outfit’s
Chinese producers. “Britain has gone too far opening itself up to market value rose tenfold
foreign involvement”, runs the new narrative. “The worm has over his tenure. However, it
turned.” For better – “or more likely worse” – Britain is lurching is for his other qualities that
“towards a world of economic nationalism and self-sufficiency”. he will be remembered.
An accountant and lawyer
The Financial Conduct Authority has decided to take no action by training, Marchionne
was often sniped at for
A scandalous against Royal Bank of Scotland and its former executives over the
activities of its Global Restructuring Group (GRG), which stood not being a “car guy”.
Yet he was “a master at
let-off for accused of pushing troubled business borrowers into bankruptcy
and stripping them of their assets, says James Moore. “So the
proving his critics wrong”.
Eschewing the usual jargon
RBS bankers bankers have got away with it. Again.” Although the watchdog’s
conclusions on some of GRG’s activities were “damning”, it main-
of industry executives, he
was “outspoken and
James Moore tains it “doesn’t have the grounds to act” against the bank, which relished debate” – filling his
it cleared of acting dishonestly from a legal standpoint. That’s like speeches with “references
saying “they were complete and utter bastards”, but “complete to poets and philosophers”,
The Independent punctuated by the occasional
and utter bastards” who didn’t act dishonestly. Motivated by the
colourful expletive.
awful PR this has generated, MPs have called for the FCA to be
given greater powers to regulate commercial lending. That looks
like “shutting the stable door after the horses have bolted” – with
their bonuses. There is now surely a case for a judge-led public
inquiry into the sector, of the sort currently under way in Australia.
“Scandals like the one at GRG have created a boil that festers on
the back of British public life.” It urgently needs lancing.

Hedge funds go to the Cayman Islands to incorporate; online

The race is on poker companies often set up bases in Gibraltar and Malta. “Now
the race is on,” says Nathaniel Popper, “to become the go-to
to become a destination for cryptocurrency companies looking for shelter
from regulatory uncertainty.” Several small nations and territories,
crypto-haven including Bermuda, Malta, Gibraltar and Liechtenstein, have
legislated to extend a friendly welcome. The market is certainly
fertile. “Volatility and uncertainty” have deterred many countries
Nathaniel Popper Marchionne was a maverick
from embracing crypto-companies: China has banned crypto-
currency exchanges and initial coin offerings “after many of its with a razor-sharp brain who
The New York Times honed his “bravura” deal-
citizens were swept up in the frenzy”; Japan has halted operations
making skills playing poker
of several exchanges; in the US, there’s no “clear guidance on the with his entourage on
line demarcating legal and illegal projects”. The financial prizes sleepless transatlantic flights,
for territories prepared to take the leap could be considerable. But fuelled by strong espresso
the currencies themselves are notoriously unstable, “and hackings coffee and endless packs of
and scams have followed the industry everywhere it has gone”. Muratti cigarettes, said the
The drive to become “a crypto-nexus” comes with significant risk. FT. He famously only ever
appeared in the same black
It’s easy to see why Volkswagen – which has just paid $25bn in sweater (he kept piles of
them in each of his houses
A tricky damages for cheating on its emissions tests and seen its former
CEO charged with a criminal cover-up – would decide to major
in Michigan, Turin and
Switzerland) to save time
question on “integrity”, says Brooke Masters. But does it really need a
formal “head of integrity” on its board to lead the charge? Does
and allow him to travel
with minimal baggage.
of integrity the existence of Hiltrud Werner, who has taken up the challenge,
mean the rest of the leadership is absolved from having to think
“Marchionne also loved cars
– fast ones in particular.”
about ethics? It turns out the carmaker isn’t alone. The corporate But, perhaps because he was
Brooke Masters “an outsider to the industry”,
world is “dotted with arcane titles”, but integrity and ethics
“are especially hot these days”: the recruiting site Glassdoor lists and “never internalised its
Financial Times culture”, he recognised what
426 possible posts. Indeed, local governments, charities and
needed to be done to return
multinationals now boast that they’ve made such appointments. a company to health, and
Still, there are hazards. After becoming embroiled in a fake accounts “worked relentlessly to
scandal in 2016, the US bank Wells Fargo set up an “ethics achieve it”. His death “leaves
office”. Since then, it has uncovered additional misconduct in car a void” – both at Fiat Chrysler
insurance, mortgages and credit cards. “Perhaps having a weak and in the auto industry.
or ineffectual moral leader is worse than having none at all.”

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Shares CITY 47

Who’s tipping what

The week’s best shares Directors’ dealings
Alphabet Halma Tax Systems Pets at Home
The Times The Times The Mail on Sunday
As well as owning Google, Since joining the FTSE 100 last This software provider helps 180
Director’s wife
Gmail and YouTube, year, the health and safety some of the UK’s biggest buys 200,000
170
Alphabet is a “Pandora’s specialist’s revenues are up firms and accountants collect shares
box of potential value and 10% and profits 9%. Seem- relevant data and manage 160
possibilities for future ingly “immune” to politics, the increasingly demanding 150
growth” in areas as diverse as shares have risen. “There may taxation process. Profits are
140
broadband provision, AI and be dips ahead”, but it should expected to jump by 18%.
life sciences. Buy. $1,258. deliver. Buy. £14.07. Buy. 85.5p. 130

120
Diageo Hotel Chocolat Group Zytronic
The Mail on Sunday Investors Chronicle The Daily Telegraph Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul
Demand for gin and craft beer, Timely product launches, Zytronic’s expertise in

SOURCE: INVESTORS CHRONICLE

this summer’s “must-have
tipples”, has boosted profits
for the drinks giant, whose
brands include Gordon’s,
Guinness and Hop House
13 Lager. A buy-back should
boost dividends. Buy. £28.36.
15 new store openings and
200,000 new digital customers
annually are driving sales for
the chocolate producer. Strong
cashflow could accelerate this
compelling brand’s growth
plans. Buy. 340p.
touchscreens is a “key Shares in the pet-supplies firm
have significantly de-rated, and
competitive edge” conferring the group needs to maintain
pricing power and deterring its competitive edge amid
would-be rivals. The upshot is price cuts and margin erosion.
high margins and strong cash In a show of confidence, chair
generation. Yields 4.9%. Tony De Nunzio’s wife has
spent £246,700 buying in.
Buy. 467.5p.

…and some to hold, avoid or sell Form guide

Indivior PZ Cussons Travis Perkins Shares tipped 12 weeks ago

Investors Chronicle
The opioid-addiction specialist
faces the launch of a cheaper
copy of its drug Suboxone
and stagnant sales of its new
drug Sublocade. Serious legal
challenges are becoming
“part and parcel”, restricting
recovery. Sell. 307.7p.
McColl’s Retail
Investors Chronicle
The convenience chain has
been hit by the collapse of
wholesaler Palmer & Harvey.
Ongoing cost-cutting
combined with rising costs
will keep margins under
pressure. The departure of the
CFO doesn’t help. Sell. 184p.
Investors Chronicle
Despite tough trading in
Nigeria, the consumer goods
firm is optimistic and aims
to be as “lean and efficient as
possible”. Still, commodity
costs and exchange rates
remain volatile. Sell. 213.6p.
Relx
The Times
Relx publishes data and
analytics for scientific, legal
and financial markets, and
operates an exhibition arm.
Shares are likely to be
unpredictable while it rejigs
its dual Anglo-Dutch listing
and joins the FTSE 100.
Avoid. £17.13.
The Daily Telegraph Best tip
The builder’s merchant is dotDigital Group
heavily reliant on the housing Investors Chronicle
market, consumer spending up 8.75% to 95.7p
and the weather. It has axed
a third of head-office jobs and Worst tip
needs to cut costs further. It Centamin
The Times
may be “some time” before
down 25.87% to 116.2p
shares recover. Avoid. £13.38.
WPP
The Times Market view
Although in recovery mode,
“These companies have
the advertising group is still
defied gravity for multiple
“not in a good place”. years and they are starting
Berenberg fears it could lose to come back to earth.”
“a string of accounts” because Michael Underhill of Capital
of the uncertainty, and as it Innovations on the tech
adjusts to changes in the sell-off. Quoted in the FT
industry. Sell. £11.91.

Market summary
Key numbers
Key numbers for investors
investors Best
Best and
and worst performing shares
shares Following the Footsie
31 July 2018 Week before Change (%) WEEK’S CHANGE, FTSE 100 STOCKS
7,900
FTSE 100 7748.76 7709.05 0.52% RISES Price % change
FTSE All-share UK 4253.31 4235.80 0.41% Brit. American Tobacco 4201.00 +6.37 7,800

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48 The last word

The woman who wants to

“tidy the world”
Marie Kondo has made a fortune teaching people around the world how to declutter their homes. But for some of her most
devoted followers, a well-organised sock drawer is just the beginning. Karen Yossman reports

In the sumptuous, in New York in 2016.

oak-panelled ballroom One of Kondo’s first
of a central London recruits was Nozomi
hotel, a woman on a Takeda. As Kondo tells
dais is folding a T-shirt. it, six months after their
First, she smooths the final decluttering session
garment, gently running Takeda approached her
her hands over the black to ask, “Can I be your
and white fabric with disciple?”, and Kondo
the dexterity of a agreed to take her on
masseuse, before as an assistant. Now,
folding over one side, according to Kondo,
then the other. She Takeda is one of
tucks in each sleeve, Japan’s top tidying
so that the T-shirt consultants and, as
resembles a rectangle head of the KonMari
(the key, she emphasises training scheme, she
through a translator, travels the world
is to make a rectangle teaching fellow disciples.
shape), before
deftly flipping it into It is Takeda who
a series of smaller demonstrates the finicky
rectangles until it is the T-shirt-folding technique
size and thickness of Marie Kondo: “You should be looking for the things you want to keep” prescribed in Kondo’s
a hardback book, then bestselling book, The
she places it on a table in front of her, spine-side up. With a final, Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, in front of the mesmerised
theatrical flourish, the woman removes her hands; the T-shirt audience. After carefully setting aside the T-shirt she moves on to
remains upright. An enraptured crowd, many of whom have risen an assortment of trickier garments supplied by attendees. Takeda
from their seats and moved to the front of the stage to get a better selects a bunny-eared onesie and a fitted bed sheet. “Someone
look, bursts into applause. always brings a fitted sheet,” she laughs, adroitly flipping it into
a neat rectangle, prompting another round of applause.
Welcome to Europe’s first KonMari Consultant Seminar, which
more than 100 superfans of Marie Kondo, the Japanese tidying Kondo was first thrust into public consciousness in 2014 with
guru, have each paid around £1,670 (excluding travel, the release of that debut book which, together with her follow-up,
accommodation and a further Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide
annual membership fee of £380) to the Japanese Art of Tidying,
to attend. Some have travelled “As well as a tidy home, many devotees claim has sold 8.5 million copies.
from as far afield as Australia, to experience unexpected episodes of good A third, Joy at Work: The
China and South America, and Career-Changing Magic of
many intend to quit their jobs fortune, which they ascribe to her” Tidying Up, is due to be released
and become professional in 2020 following a bidding war,
declutterers or, in Kondo-speak, KonMari consultants and Kondo recently signed a deal with Netflix for a reality show
(“KonMari” is both Kondo’s nickname and the name of her in which she will administer her brand of orderliness to a series of
tidying technique). Ninety-eight per cent of attendees are women. slatterns – and a global audience. She has trademarked the phrase
“Organise the world”. Note the imperative.
The course takes place over a particularly hot weekend, a fact
Kondo’s assistant only half-jokingly credits to her 33-year-old It is no coincidence that her rise coincided with deepening
boss, who, she says, is regularly followed by “crazy-amazing concerns over consumerism, sustainability and affordable
weather”. As well as a tidy home, many devotees claim housing, coupled with the fact that even as our homes are
to experience unexpected episodes of good fortune, which shrinking, they are more stuffed than ever. Even Ikea sparked
they ascribe to Kondo. In publicity materials, she is often consternation in 2016 when its chief sustainability officer, Steve
photographed dressed in white, with a beatific smile. In person, Howard, said, “In the West, we have probably hit peak stuff.”
however, Kondo has the stiff posture of a self-conscious teenager
coupled with the quiet earnestness of Louise Hay, the doyenne Katherine Blackler, president of the UK Association of
of 1980s self-help publishing. Professional Declutterers & Organisers (APDO), has reached the
same conclusion. “The majority of houses are starting to burst at
Kondo only makes two brief appearances (on the first and last the seams,” she says. She attributes this 21st century problem to
days of the three-day seminar) and speaks in an almost-whisper, the convergence of a “waste-not-want-not” postwar mentality
© KEITH NG / TELEGRAPH

repeatedly saying, through a translator, that her goal is to “tidy with the advent of online shopping. She describes one client who,
the world”. To this end, she is assembling an army to help her, in the course of a three-hour decluttering session, took delivery of
and has so far certified more than 142 KonMari consultants from six packages while desperately trying to jettison the junk already
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But Kondo’s crusade against clutter
doesn’t adequately explain why she
stands out in the saturated (and
ruthless) world of home organisation.
Earlier this year, Margareta
Magnusson, author of The Gentle
Art of Swedish Death Cleaning,
was touted as the new Scandi Kondo;
Marla Cilley, known as FlyLady, is
a Mumsnet favourite; and the
Nashville duo The Home Edit has
been endorsed by Gwyneth Paltrow.
But none has captured the public
imagination like Kondo.
The “life-changing magic” of tidying up
This is partly because she has deviated
from the traditional approach to decluttering, which focuses
on what to get rid of, rather than what to keep. As she explains
during her introductory speech, that was her approach, too,
until one day, as a tidying-obsessed teenager, she experienced
something akin to a religious epiphany. “I would come home
from school every day and without changing out of my uniform,
wander round the house with a rubbish bag looking for things
to throw away,” she recounts. “One day, when I opened the
door of my room, everything in it looked dark and murky and
I thought, ‘I hate everything in this room, I’m going to throw it
all away, I never want to tidy again.’ And I fell to the ground.”
When she awoke two hours later, Kondo says, “Everything in
the room was shining and I realised that you shouldn’t be looking
for things to throw away, you should be looking for the things
you want to keep.”
The resulting KonMari method works like this: first, you divide
your belongings into five categories: clothing, books, papers,
komono (Japanese for knick-knacks) and sentimental items.
Then, in that order, you must
assemble every item in each
category in one place (a “Once they have finished decluttering their
psychological tactic known drawers, some turn their attention to jobs,
as the “power of the pile”).
Finally, you cradle each item in friendships and even spouses”
your hands and decide whether
or not it “sparks joy”. If the item sparks joy, keep it: if it doesn’t, gives advice on using Instagram; then Christina Cheadle, project
you thank it for its service and send it on its way. “When you
touch a piece of clothing,” writes Kondo, “your body reacts.”
While the first two days of the seminar are mostly spent covering
these exact principles, combined with lots of talk about energy, a
few tears and some practical activities, such as clothes-folding and their stuff. Not that this appears to bother many of the Konverts,
kneeling (the first thing Kondo does when entering a client’s home who eagerly line up at the end of the seminar to pose for a snap
is kneel on the floor with her eyes closed), the third focuses on
turning a passion for KonMari into a business. However, what
the most devoted Konverts claim – and what many of those at the
seminar divulge – is that the “spark joy” test doesn’t just work on
objects. Once they have finished decluttering their drawers, many
turn their attention to jobs, friendships and, in the most extreme
cases, their spouses.
When occupational therapist Clara Moore read Kondo’s first
book four years ago, she experienced a Damascene conversion
similar to Kondo’s own. “For me, it was a very quick
transformation, in a weekend,” Moore says. “I decluttered my
life – and my marriage, because my marriage did not spark joy
for me.” She left with her two children, then aged five and one,
and soon decided her job wasn’t sparking joy either, so in 2016
she flew to New York to attend Kondo’s first training session.
Based in Scotland, Moore now works as a professional organiser,
offering the KonMari method, as well as a more straightforward
decluttering service. Her most unusual client has been her
ex-husband – their sessions took place in their former marital
home. “He says it transformed his life. It was really quite
transformative to our relationship as parents [and] as divorced
spouses too.” Even the couple’s
children, now nine and five, have
embraced KonMari; Moore shows me
photographs of their Pinterest-perfect
drawers, covered in joy-sparking
stickers and stacked with neatly folded
school uniforms.
Impending motherhood is a common
catalyst among female Konverts.
I first came across Kondo while I
was heavily pregnant, overwhelmed
and anxious about how my life was
about to change. Although I didn’t
experience the kind of seismic shift
many of the other attendees describe,
I felt it gave me permission to discard items I was clinging on to
out of a misplaced sense of duty or sentimentality (unwanted gifts,
tchotchkes from holidays) and ended up disposing of five or six
bin bags full of stuff. Next I spent a week diligently origami-ing
my pants, jumpers and T-shirts, carefully arranging them in a
series of bamboo baskets I’d bought from John Lewis – before
losing interest and reinstating everything to the “floordrobe”.
But by the time I had signed up to the seminar, I was eager to
try again. My commitment, though, pales in comparison with
another convert I get speaking to during the seminar, 30-year-old
Wojciech Felczak, who is one of only three men present and has
travelled to London from Poland to attend. He first came across
Kondo in a newspaper three years ago and has since implemented
her method in the home he shares with his “hoardish” fiancée
– losing 22lb in the process. (Weight loss is reportedly another
common side-effect of KonMari.) “A tidy home is very nice,” he
says. “But I really realised that this is only the beginning for me.”
Recently he launched a Kondo-inspired blog and now plans to
leave his job in e-commerce and
become a full-time professional
declutterer, which is the focus of
the seminar on the third day.
First Kondo’s social media
manager, Moeko Noda,
manager at the KonMari headquarters in San Francisco, explains
how to avoid infringing Kondo’s trademarks. But there is little
discussion of more mundane considerations such as tax,
insurance, data protection, or even the health and safety
implications of entering strangers’ homes and combing through
with Kondo.
In the last two years, APDO membership has more than doubled
to 283, of which a handful are certified KonMari Consultants.
Blackler says members charge between £30 and £70 per hour.
A single session can often last up to five hours and is far from
easy – not least because there’s also the psychological toll of
helping people discard their possessions, a role which, in practice,
is not entirely dissimilar to that of a therapist.
At the start of the seminar, Kondo was keen to point out the
emotional impact of decluttering. “Tidying is a way of looking
into yourself,” she explained, recalling one client who confessed
during her first session that she planned to divorce her husband
as soon as she finished decluttering. However, as this client
navigated the process of examining every one of her possessions,
she also found herself catechising the sum total of her life.
Eventually, during their final session, the client turned to Kondo.
“Last night, I touched my husband,” she told her. “And it
sparked joy.”
A longer version of this article appeared in The Daily Telegraph
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