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groundfor next election
Three cabinet ministers
sacked as Johnson puts
focus on levelling up and
pursuing culture wars
Heather Stewart
Political editor
Boris Johnson has laid the ground-
work for the next general election
with a ruthless cabinet reshuffle
designed to clear out failing ministers
and hand Michael Gove the key job
of making “levelling up”a reality for
sceptical voters.
On a day of dramatic developments
in Westminster, Johnson sacked
three cabinet ministers, including
the gaffe-prone education secretary,
Gavin Williamson, and shifted Dom-
inic Raab from the Foreign Office to
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the Ministry of Justice. Liz Truss, the
media-savvy darling of Conservative
grassroots members and champion
of free markets, will replace Raab as
foreign secretary.
Johnson kicked offthe reshuffle by
inviting ministers set to be sacked or
sidelined to his House of Commons
office, as MPs began a debate called
by Labour over the £20-a-week cut
to universal credit coming into effect
next month.
Williamson had been widely
expected to be offered an alternative
role – perhaps his old post as chief
whip – but was instead dispatched
straight to the backbenches.
Raab managed to wrest the con-
solation title of deputy prime
minister from Johnson after fraught
negotiations but the move to justice
secretary was seen as punishment
for his role in the chaotic evacuation
from Afghanistan last month.
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US, UK and
Australia
sign deal to
tackle China
Julian Borger
Washington
The US, UK and Australia are setting
up a trilateral security partnership
aimed at confronting China, which
will include helping Australia to build
nuclear-powered submarines.
The initiative, called Aukus, was
announced jointly by the US pres-
ident, Joe Biden, and the prime
ministers Boris Johnson and Scott
Morrison, followingUS briefings that
described the agreement as binding
the three English-speakingcountries
together.
Boris Johnson said they were “nat-
ural allies” even though “we may be
separated geographically” and said
the alliance would create “a new
defence partnership and drive jobs
and prosperity”.
A senior US official described the
agreement as “a fundamental deci-
sion that binds decisively Australia
to the United States and Great Brit-
ain for generations”.
Teams from the three countries
will work together over the next 18
months on a plan for the project,
which would make Australia only
the seventh country in the world
to field nuclear-propelled 13 
submarines. Any new
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shifted from the
▲ His
replacement
that the former I’m a Celebrity con-
testant had not been put in place to
Foreign Office as foreign pursue an anti-woke agenda, describ-
to the Ministry
of Justice and
secretary, Liz
Truss, popular
ing her as a “rising star” who could
communicate well with the public
made deputy PM with grassroots and had been consistently loyal to
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No 10 also appeared to sig-
nal its determination to continue
preneur who arrived in the UK as a
child speaking no English. Zahawi Simone Biles
Gymnast
prosecuting the culture wars, with is viewed as a safe pair of hands
the surprise appointment of Nadine in Downing Street after his man-
Dorries as culture secretary. agement of the Covid vaccination
Dorries is a longstanding and
vehement critic of the BBC, argu-
programme.
Gove emerged from the reshuffle gives searing
ing against the continuation of the
licence fee and labelling it institution-
as the secretary of state for housing,
communities and local government testimony in
ally skewed. In 2018 she called it “a
biased leftwing organisation which is
seriously failing in its political repre-
with responsibility for enacting John-
son’s levelling-up agenda across
government. In July, the prime
abuse hearing
sentation, from the top down”.
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on the scandal.
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More than 70 climate
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liament’s civil liberties, justice and
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spyware
within the EU.
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Football esty now,” she said. “The European

scandal
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contacts with the company, but I
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takes chargeof England tiative, [the committee] will start a
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ther protect the rights of activists, except in “very strictly limited” sce- launched an official investigation into
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Opinion
and ideas
Despite the tax
rises,this is still
an austerity
N aughty Boris! You know the line and
its intonation. There goes the prime
minister, tearing into the tenets of
Toryism with the same puppyish
ferocity as his Bullingdon pals used
to set about restaurant windows.
Ripping up his party’s rules for
keeping taxes low and the state
small. Pumping billions into health and social care, and
risking a mutiny by the very MPs who owe him their
seats in parliament.
 As Germans go to the journalists and politicians follow-
ing the Pegasus spyware scandal,
narios. But he added that a pending
EU privacy regulation would further
claims about the Hungarian govern-
ment’s use of the Pegasus software.
polls, the fate of the EU and the perpetrators of illegal tap- tighten the rules, and called for MEPs At least five Hungarian journalists
itself will be atstake ping must be prosecuted, the bloc’s and the member states to urgently appear on a leaked list reviewed by
Timothy Garton Ash justice commissioner has told the
European parliament.
agree on the details of that new law
in light of the spyware scandal.
the Pegasus papers consortium. Also
there was the number of the opposi-
Page 3 Didier Reynders told MEPs that He said: “Various reports have tion politician GyörgyGémesi, mayor
the European Commission “totally shown that certain national security of the town of Gödöllő and head of a
raiding the Treasury, rather than sharing out power and
reducing inequality. As if spaffing cash while bashing
migrants was a feat of multitasking never before
attempted at Westminster. As if Margaret Thatcher
hadn’t herself raised the general level of taxes over her
11 years in power, the Iron Lady always being far less of
a Thatcherite than her fanboys.
But the greatest problem of all is that this framing of
the prime minister as the “non-Tories’ Tory” ignores
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but the biggest problem with
condemned” alleged attempts by
national security services to illegally
access information on political oppo-
services used Pegasus spyware, to
have direct access to citizens, equip-
ment, including political opponents
nationwide association of mayors.
Hungarian law provides that in
cases where national security is at
Johnson’s cabinet is Johnson
just how rightwing he really is.
The single biggest reason why Johnson has shelled

government
Boris Johnson: the clothes-stealing, fox-shooting, out so much can be summed up easily: Covid, where he

tank-parking Conservative who can out-Labour
Labour, fling loyal allies out of his cabinet and
realign British politics.
For the past week, since his taxation and spending
Aditya announcement, big-money donors to the party have
nents through their phones. and journalists. Let me say right at stake, the intelligence services can
has had little choice and plenty of company. The UK is
a very rich country and, faced with a lethal pandemic,
it spent like one. According to International Monetary
Fund analysis, the UK’s budgetary response was in
line with that of Canada and Japan, while lagging way

Polly Toynbee
been whining that this isn’t the government they paid behind Donald Trump’s US.
Chakrabortty

He said: “Any indication that such the start that the commission totally order surveillance with no judicial
for. “Boris will win every election but it won’t be a Tory The immense surprise is that Johnson and the
party that he’s leading by the end,” sniffs fund manager chancellor, Rishi Sunak, are tightening belts well before
Crispin Odey. Meanwhile, rightwing newspapers the final act of this disease – a move both economically

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fulminate about the “death knell for Conservatism”. rash and electorally foolish. It will have much more of
It all makes for a lovely story. Tellers of this tale an impact on this government’s fortunes
claim Johnson “leans left on economics and right than what happens to no-marks such as

intrusion of privacy actually occurred condemns any illegal access to sys- oversight, only the signature of the
on culture”, as if leftwing politics was solely about Gavin Williamson and Robert Jenrick.

Page 4 needs to be thoroughly investigated tems or any kind of illegal trapping minister of justice. Hungary’s justice
and all responsible for a possible or interception of community users’ minister,Judit Varga,has declined to
G2 Centre pullout breach have to be brought to justice.
This is, of course, the responsibility
communications. It’s a crime in the
whole of the European Union.”
comment, but said “every country
needs such tools”.
Features and arts “He had
been looking
of each and every member state of
the EU,and I expect that in the case of
A consortium of 17 media outlets,
including the Guardian, revealed in
NSO has denied that inclusion of a
number on the leaked list was indic-
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Meet the romance refuseniks Pegasus, the competent authorities
will thoroughly examine the allega-
July that global clients of the Israeli
surveillance firm NSO Group used
ative of whether it was selected for
surveillance. “The list is not a list of
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tions and restore trust.” hacking software to target rights Pegasus targets or potential targets,”
a hero in the struggle for He said the EU’s executive branch activists, journalists and lawyers. it said. “The numbers in the list are
disability rights was closely following an investiga- The investigation was based on not related to NSO Group in any way.”
Page 4 tion by Hungary’s data protection forensic analysis of phones and anal- It also says it sells only to military,
authority into claims Viktor Orbán’s ysis of a leaked database of 50,000 law enforcement and intelligence
far-right government was among numbers, including that of the French agencies in 40 unnamed countries
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owners and opposition political fig-
president, Emmanuel Macron, and
European Council president Charles
for anti-terrorism and crime investi-
gations.It further claims to rigorously
Stuart Jeffries applauds
changed the lives of
disabled Americans
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Channel 4’s study of the ‘Honey,I’m
living for it!’
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After baking and
sewing, thenew
BBC reality star is
the humble bee
Tara Conlan
It has made The Great British Sewing
Bee and the spelling bee series Hard
Spell, but now the BBC is focusingon
actual bees – withthe UK’sfirst com-
petitive beekeeping TV show.
In the latest manifestation of
ordinary pastimes being turned
into reality television, Show Me the
Honey! features five children and
their families taking part in a series
of challenges to create the best hive
and tastiest honey, with the winner
taking home the beekeeper of the
year trophy.
During the seven-part series, the
novice beekeepers learn about their
charges in bee school and aim for a
weekly golden bee prize.
With the appetite for apiaries on
the rise as people try to tackle the
climate crisis by reversing thedecline
in bees, Show Me the Honey! taps into
the buzz around beekeeping and
gives viewers tips on how to help all
pollinating insects.
One of the judges is the chef Ains-
ley Harriott, who makes a dish from
the winning honey. “Weall love to eat
honey but Show Me the Honey! gives
us all an incredible insight into how
it’s produced, what it takes to look
after a hive, the amazing role bees
play in the food chain and just how
important they are for the environ-
ment,” said Harriott.
Presenter Maddie Moate, who
got into beekeeping by helping her
mother during university holidays,
said the show was a “wonderful …
way intothe subject [of the environ-
ment] that feels hopeful”.
She said that just as The Blue
Planet had focused attention on
plastic pollution in our oceans, Show
Me the Honey! couldin a similar way
Billionaire’s crew of ‘everyday
people’ set to blast off for space
Ian Sample
Science editor
The world’s first crew of “amateur
astronauts” was due to blast off last
night on a mission that will carry
them into orbit around Earth before
bringing them back home at the
weekend.
The four civilians, who have spent
the past few months on an astronaut
training crash course, were sched-
uled to launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9
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Handmade hits: the crafty reality shows broadcasters are banking on
From portraiture to pottery,
crafty reality shows have become
a staple of British television in
recent years. And following a
surge of interest in arts and crafts
prompted by the pandemic,
broadcasters are banking on the
genre with a raft of new seasons.
Portrait Artist of the Year, on
Sky Arts, returns with its eighth
series on 13 October. Presented
by Stephen Mangan and Joan
Bakewell, it searches for a new
star portrait artist by asking them
to paint different famous people.
rocket from Kennedy Space Center in
Florida at 8.02pm local time yester-
day (1.02am in the UK).
Barring glitches, the two men and
two women on the Inspiration4 mis-
sion are expected to orbit the planet
for three or four days, performing
experiments and admiring the view
through a glass dome fitted to their
Dragon capsule, before splashing
down in the Atlantic Ocean.
Touted as “the world’s first all-
civilian mission to orbit”, the launch
is the latest to promote the virtues of
Confirmed subjects in the new
series include the Mercury prize-
nominated musician Celeste,
naturalist Chris Packham and
Alistair Campbell. The winner gets
£10,000 and a commission to paint
the violinist Nicola Benedetti.
The Great British Bake Off
returns to Channel 4 for its 12th
series on 21 September. This
year’s contestants include a police
detective, retired midwife and a
miniature zoo owner.
Earlier this month, Channel
4 announced that it has
space tourism and follows sub-orbital
flights in July by Sir Richard Branson
on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo -
which has since been grounded for
going off course – and Jeff Bezos on
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
While the Inspiration4 crew has
had flying lessons, centrifuge ses-
sions to experience the g-forces
of launch, and hours of training in
SpaceX’s capsule simulator, the
mission will be almost entirely
automated.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced
in February that the billionaire busi-
nessman Jared Isaacman, who has
clocked up thousands of hours in var-
ious aircraft, had chartered the Falcon
9 rocket for himself and three mem-
bers of the public. He donated two
▼ Maddie Moate and Curtis
Thompson, presenter and expert on
Show Me the Honey! which will be
broadcast on CBBC and iPlayer
commissioned a new show, The
Great Big Tiny Design Challenge
presented by Sandi Toksvig, where
participants will compete to create
the best doll-sized home. And then
there’s pottery. The Great Pottery
Throw Down, where 12 amateur
potters compete to be named
champion of the wheel, was a hit
on Channel 4 earlier this year after
being cancelled by the BBC in 2018.
Other crafty reality shows
include the BBC’s Great British
Sewing Bee and HBO’s Full Bloom.
Miranda Bryant
seats to St Jude Children’s Research
Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee,
and selected Hayley Arceneaux, a
former cancer patient at the hospi-
tal who now works there, to join him.
At 29,Arceneaux is set to become the
youngest American in orbit.
▲ The ‘amateur astronauts’ were
given hypoxia training last year
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throw a spotlight on biodiversity and
the way we manage land.
She added: “In each episode we
include challenges such as creating
a pollen paradise to make your gar-
den bee-friendly or how to make a
bee hotel.
“Even putting a couple of flowers
on a windowsill helps bees to get
from one large wildflower meadow
to another because they need these
little stop-offs– like diners or service
stations – to get them from A to B.”
Despite the trend for bucolic
broadcasting, as seen by the success
of Amazon’s Clarkson’s Farm and
Channel 5’s Our Yorkshire Farm,
Moate thinks nobody has made a
programme like Show Methe Honey!
before due to the innate challenges of
beekeeping.
She has never been stung during
her 15 years of beekeeping but
acknowledged: “There are lots of
things that can go wrong and are out
of our control, which might explain
why this hasn’t been done before.”
Despite that, and thanks to safety
measures such as beekeeping suits,
only two contributors and a dog
were stung during the four months
of filming.
With the number of beehives in
London more than doubling over
a decade to an estimated 7,400
and membership of the British
Beekeepers Association at 25,000,
there is a thriving UK “beeconomy”
with ventures such as Beevive’s
bee-reviving keyring and Selfridges’
new honey-based restaurant Hive.
The BBC show’s contestants
are assisted by professional bee-
keeper Curtis Thompson, who left
his investment banking job to set up
his bee-based business Local Honey
Man. He became interested in the
environmentand insects through his
uncle and realised “there was space
for an innovative honey producer”.
Thompson said: “Everyone now
is a lot more conscious about the
environment and wants to help, so
what better way than starting with
the pollinators that are responsible
for so many of our food crops? It also
makes for a great hobby; it’s a real
de-stresser.”
Although Show Me the Honey!
has been made for CBBC it will air
on iPlayer and Thompson thinks a
grown-up or celebrity spin-offcould
work: “There’s a lot of demand and
interest in bees so whynot do an adult
version?” he said.
Show Me the Honey! will air on CBBC
on 30 September
Also on the mission are Dr Sian
Proctor,a geologist and science com-
municator who made it to the final
round of Nasa’s 2009 astronaut selec-
tion process, and Chris Semboski, a
US air force veteran and aerospace
engineer with Lockheed Martin, who
was offered the seat by a friend who
won it in a St Jude’s charity raffle.
While Inspiration4 is paid for by
a billionaire businessman, it marks
a milestone in space tourism: never
before has an all-amateur crew been
blasted into orbit. “It’ll be the first
time that a global superpower hasn’t
sent people up into orbital space,”
Isaacman has said. “When this mis-
sion is complete, people are going to
look at it and say,‘It was the first time
everyday people could go to space.’”
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Politics

‘In Liz we Truss’:

colleagues’ warm
welcome to UK’s
first female Tory
foreign secretary
Aubrey Allegretti
Liz Truss, the most popular cabinet
minister among Conservative voters,
has been handed a significant promo-
tion to become the first female Tory
foreign secretary.
Described by supporters as “one
of the only true capitalists left in
the cabinet”, Truss was said to have
raised private concerns about the
national insurance hike unveiled by
the prime minister last week, and
this week she spoke out in favour of
“enterprise” instead of “statism”.
In a speech to the Policy Exchange
thinktank, described by a source as an
appeal to “Lidl Tories”, she said the
Conservative party should embrace
free enterprise instead of “inexorably
growing the size of the state”.
After two years leadingthe Depart-
besides her predecessor Dominic
Raab, Truss is the only other cabinet
minister known to have taken a hol-
iday abroad this summer.
Back home, MPs said she “should
certainly get on much better with
Ben Wallace” in reference to the row
between the defence secretary and
Raab over the handling of the evac-
uation from Kabul.
Iain Duncan Smith, the former
Tory leader who previously served
in cabinet with Truss, said she had
been “one of the more robust peo-
ple on China, and I hope that now she
will take to the Foreign, Common-
wealth and DevelopmentOffice that
robust attitude and make it clear that
we can’t reward this Chinese regime
with more trade deals”. He hoped her
enthusiasm for entering the Pacific
trade partnership known as CPTPP
would continue, pushing for the UK
to “project ourselves post-Brexit to

‘The dispensables’ PM shuffles pack

ment for International Trade, Truss
has become well versed in articulat-
ing a post-Brexit vision of “global
Britain”.Announcing trade deal after
trade deal with her signature upbeat
patriotism, she is liked by colleagues
who view her as hard-working and
focused – so much so that some have
come up with the slogan: “In Liz we
stop China becoming completely
dominant” in the region.
Some were surprised that Johnson
appointed someone widely talked
about as a future leadership con-
tender to one of the four key offices
of state. While Raab tried to hold on
to his senior cabinet post yesterday,
he ended up being moved to the Min-
again -butkeeps potential rivals out

Truss.”
The new foreign secretary’s first
international trip is expected to be
as early as next week, when she will
accompany Boris Johnson to the UN
general assembly meeting in New
York. High on the agenda will be
“rekindling our relationship with
the US”, a senior Torysaid after Brit-
ain felt left in the dark by Joe Biden’s
administration during the chaotic
troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Despite the pandemic, it will not
be her first trip overseas this year:
▲ Liz Truss is well-versed in talking
up the post-Brexit ‘global Britain’
istry of Justice. Some government
insiders suggested it was a move to
stymie Truss’sopportunity for polit-
ical manoeuvring by giving her more
diplomatic responsibility that will
mean she can be less outspoken on
domestic policy.
However, a senior Whitehall offi-
cial who worked with Truss at the
trade department said “a lot of peo-
ple don’t take her as seriously as they
should”. “She’ll bang the drum for
global Britain even more vigorously
than she did at Trade – which isn’t
a bad thing at all,” they said, adding
she would likely be “more hawkish
on China” and pointing to recent out-
spoken comments on intellectual
property theft and forced labour in
China’s Xinjiang province.
MPs said Truss’s star was likely to
rise further in the new role. “She’s
just kept her head down, got on with
the job and delivered – and she’ll do
that again,” one said. Another added:
“She takes no shit.”
Truss will keep her existing role as
minister for women and equalities,
a blow for some Tories who viewed
her as too keen to appear “anti-woke”
at the expense of supporting greater
rights for transgender people. One
said it was a “missed opportunity”
and she would be unable to devote
the time the role deserved.
F
Jessica Elgot
or a man often said to
be a people-pleaser
and conflict avoider, in
his two years as prime
minister Boris Johnson
has sacked 27 cabinet
ministers. His three reshuffles so
far have been brutal, rejecting any
attempt at a broad church.
Whitehall sources said the
casualties are intended to put
his ministers on notice about the
strength of the prime minister’s
position. Robert Buckland, the
justice secretary, lost his job
despite no discernible wrongdoing.
Gavin Williamson, the education
secretary, was unceremoniously
fired despite fears be could be
a threat on the backbenches.
One government source said all
ministers “would know they are
dispensable”.
One Tory compared the
reshuffle to Margaret Thatcher’s
1981 “purge of the wets” – a brutal
show of authority after 18 months
of rebellions and U-turns. “Boris
has shown people he’s in charge,”
they said. “People won’t mess
around now though. Anyone can
get chopped.”
A senior aide said the motivator
for the changes was the qualities
Johnson prized most highly: loyalty
and delivery. “That’s what the
promotions are intended to show
– that’s encapsulated in [the new
culture secretary] Nadine Dorries,
incredibly loyal, and in [the new
education secretary] Nadhim
Zahawi, incredible delivery.”
But one former Conservative
cabinet minister called Johnson’s
new top team “a cabinet of short
poppies”, saying he does not like to red wallers, Simon Clarke, MP for
be surrounded by potential rivals.
“Who are the big beasts?” they
asked, claiming the prime minister
could have recalled heavy-hitters
such as Jeremy Hunt.
▲ Robert Buckland, left, and Robert prime minister – a job that did not
Jenrick, both sacked from their posts exist in Johnson’s cabinet, though
Tory MPs from former Labour
“red wall” seats are also wondering
what message the reshuffle sends
to their voters. Despite promises
from a No 10 source that there
would be a “focus on uniting and
levelling up the whole country”
there is little new geographic
diversity in the cabinet. “Tell
me one cabinet minister who
understands my voters,” a northern
Tory complained.
Late in the evening, Johnson
answered that question by
promoting one of his most loyal
Middlesbrough South and East
Cleveland, to chief secretary of the
Treasury – perhaps a signal to the
chancellor Rishi Sunak of his future
spending priorities.
There is always a cabinet
minister who can kick up a stink
and make the unexpected happen
and Dominic Raab point blank
refused a straight demotion from
the Foreign Office to the Ministry of
Justice despite coming under fire
for the chaotic withdrawal from
Afghanistan last month.
During a tense negotiation,
Raab extracted the title of deputy
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 The culture
brief goes to
Nadine Dorries
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Gove moves
to housing
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 Y
▼ Gavin
Williamson,
pictured on
Tuesday, has
been sacked
as education
secretary
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Raab had often been described as
de facto deputy, and one that will
arguably give him more right to
attend vital strategy meetings.
t is hard to argue, however,
that a move to become justice
secretary is not a demotion. Raab
left parliament yesterday afternoon
with his future still uncertain
before negotiations moved to
Downing Street where his new title
and department were confirmed.
Though his departure had been
widely briefed, sources close to
Raab believed he could survive the
damaging stories about his absence
on holiday during the Afghanistan
withdrawal.
“He’s been treated abysmally,”
one MP close to Raab fumed,
recalling how the de factor deputy
prime minister took charge when
Johnson was in intensive care with
Covid last year. “He’s been loyal to a
fault, it’s outrageous.”
Of the sacked ministers, it was
Buckland – Raab’s predecessor
as justice secretary – for whom
ministers voiced the greatest
sympathy. “What has he done
wrong in the last two years?
Nothing,” one said. Another said he
was “very competent and popular
and will be missed”.
ew MPs had any sympathy for
Gavin Williamson, who is said to
have given an early leaving speech
to his department yesterday, so
certain he was of his fate. Sources
said he had asked to be given the
job of chief whip or leader of the
House. Johnson did not seem to
think it necessary.
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 Continued from page 1 “Raab has been demoted for
Afghanistan. Williamson departs
PM’s ruthless because of exams and assessment.
Jenrick for planning reforms. Buck-
reshuffle lays
land for relative silence,” he said.
Robert Buckland, the former jus-
ground for election tice secretary who was moved aside
to make room for Raab, stressed in
his resignation letter that the justice
widely derided as lacking in concrete system was suffering from “years of
policies, and Tory MPs in so-called underfunding”, adding: “Justice is
“red wall” seats are anxious about beyond price, and as a government
whether they can make good on their we should always be prepared to
promises to former Labour voters. invest in it.”
Gove will also have the job of Oliver Dowden, who is trusted
dampening the controversy over by Downing Street, has been given
radical planningreforms, which have the job of overhauling the Tories’
provoked anger in traditional Tory election-fighting machine as party
seats like his own in Surrey Heath. He co-chair after recent byelection
will also remain in charge of protect- defeats in Chesham and Amersham
ing the union and fighting elections. and Batley and Spen.
Johnson’s official spokesman said Several high-profile ministers who
the reshuffle was the second part of had been tipped for a move, includ-
the plan to relaunch the government ing the home secretary, Priti Patel,
strategy after the winter plan for leader of the House of Commons,
Covid announced on Tuesday. Jacob Rees-Mogg and Welsh secre-
“The PM set out his plan for man- tary, Simon Hart, will remain in post.
aging Covid during the autumn and Patel’s allies had signalled in
winter,” he said. “But the govern- advance that she would resist any
ment must also redouble our efforts attempt to move her into a less prom-
to deliver on the people’s priorities. inent role. Johnson frequently touts
The PM will be appointing minis- her tough-on-crime stance.
ters [on Wednesday] afternoon with The shuffle barely improved the
a focus on uniting and levelling up gender balance in the cabinet, with
the whole country.” the number of women up one to
Gove will take on the role from seven. However, with more junior
Robert Jenrick, who was an unex- posts to be filled today, Downing
pected victim of Johnson’s cull of Street sources insisted the full pic-
unpopular ministers. ture would look more balanced.
Ryan Shorthouse, chief execu- Raab said on Twitter that he was
tive of the Conservative thinktank “delighted” to have been offered the
Bright Blue, said Johnson appeared post of justice secretary but allies said
to be “rewarding those who are good he was deeply frustrated to have
at publicity and removing those that missed the opportunity to announce
have had overwhelmingly negativeor a new security alliance between the
no media for their work”. UK, US and Australia he has been
involvedin developing.Truss is now
“Gav’s always seen as this big expected to join Johnson in travelling
Boris Johnson’s reshuffle – the organiser of MPs but  think his to the US for talks next week.
winners and losers star has diminished too much to be Sir Bob Neill, a Tory MP who chairs
Full Full any kind of real threat,” a former the Commons justice select com-
cabinet cabinet minister said. Another minister mittee, criticised Buckland’s firing,
Johnson PM said Williamson’s removal came sayinghe “deserved better” and was
Sunak Stayed in post Chancellor
“two years too late”. “shabbily treated”. He said Buckland
The appointment of Liz Truss to was “doing a good job as justice
Raab Foreign the oreign Office will delight many secretaryand, crucially, understood
Patel
New
Home of the party faithful – some MPs the constitutional importance of the
Gove in post Cabinet Office had wondered aloud if Johnson lord chancellor as a guardian of the
Buckland Left Justice would really promote a minister justice system – and he was entirely
post more popular than himself. But loyal to the prime minister”.
Wallace Defence it has dismayed many soft Tories With the next general election due
Javid Health who see it as another sign that the in 2024 or potentially sooner, John-
Kwarteng Business UK’s foreign policy ambitions are son must find a way of reassembling
Truss Trevelyan, diminishing. the coalition of traditional Tory
Coffey
int. trade
Work & pensions
“Surely there must be a limit voters and former Labour switchers
Zahawi, to how far Truss can be over- ▲ Yesterday’s reshuffle left Priti that coalesced behind his “get Brexit
Williamson education promoted?” one senior MP Patel still at her Home Office post done” message in 2019.
Eustice Environment grumbled. Another said: “Our wing
Jenrick Housing of the party has suffered quite a few
Shapps Transport indignities over the past two years
but every time you wonder how
Sharma Cop26 pres bad things can really get, you find
Lewis Northern
Ireland Liz Truss in the oreign Office and
Jack Scotland Nadine Dorries in the Cabinet too.”
Hart Wales As well as Priti Patel keeping her
Evans Leader of Lords
post as home secretary, there is
one great winner of the reshuffle –
Dowden Dorries, culture Sunak. Cabinet ministers have only
Milling Party chair just delivered their submissions
Frost Brexit minister arguing for funding the spending
Attends
review next month.
cabinet Attends Now new cabinet ministers
Simon Clarke, will be awkwardly bound by
Barclay treasury their predecessors, and unable to
Rees-Mogg Leader of
the Commons
marshal any significant change
Spencer Chief whip of direction. Many decisions will
Braverman Attorney
already be out of their hands.
general “t’s the first rule of government:
the Treasury always wins,” a senior ▲ Boris Johnson appeared to be ‘rewarding those who are good at publicity’,
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Zahawi’s fuss-free style
seen as antidoteto
failings of Williamson
as education secretary
Richard Adams
Sally Weale
Peter Walker
Nadhim Zahawi, whose star has risen
during the pandemic as vaccines
minister, is to become education
secretary after Gavin Williamson’s
gaffe-prone tenure came to an end.
Zahawi has been promoted by
Boris Johnson after winningplaudits
for the efficient and fuss-free vaccine
programme, a style that may serve
him well in an education sector
buffeted by Williamson’s more
confrontational style.
Theresa May appointed him as a
junior education minister and he was
moved to become industry minister
18 months later. In late 2020 John-
son picked Zahawi as the vaccines
deployment minister,a high-pressure
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‘There’s role given the enormous significance
a massive placed on the rapid distribution of
vaccines as the government’s main
in-trayin weapon against Covid-19.
education Zahawi was credited with the
and I think speed of the initial programme,
that Nadhim which for a period brought Johnson
will get to a notable boost in the polls.
grips with it’ Robert Halfon, the Conservative
MP who chairs the House of Com-
Robert Halfon mons education committee, was
Tory MP quick to praise Zahawi as some-
one who “could find mangoes in
the Antarctic” and re-energise the
government’s education policies.
“It may be that that’s the kind of
organisation that the Department
for Education [DfE] needs. Perhaps
it needs a big shake-up and a brilliant
organiser – which he’s shown as
vaccines minister he is very capable
of doing.
“There’s a massive in-tray and I
Gaffe-ing Williamson
Leaks, howlers and fiascos: the top five
A-levels fiasco
No one doubted that arranging
an alternative method to replace
exam marks with another means
of grading A-level students amid
the Covid crisis in 2020 would
be difficult. But Williamson was
vilified first for ignoring warnings
it would be a problem, and then,
once the obviously unfair marks
were in, standing by the mix of
computer algorithm and teacher
assessments. There was inevi
a U-turn 48 hours later.
Sacked for leaking
Williamson was sack
secretary in 2019 by Theresa May.
The then prime minister had seen
“compelling” evidence he leaked
information from a meeting of the
highly sensitive national security
council about the involvement of
the Chinese telecoms firm Huaw i
in the UK’s 5G network. W
conceded he had talked to the
media, but rejected discussing
anything about the meeting.
‘Frankly, Russia should go away
and should shut up’
Some had worried that Williamson
lacked the gravitas to be defence
secretary. This impression
crystallised in 2018 when asked
about the expulsion of Russian
▼ Gavin intelligence staff after the Salisbury
Williamson novichok attack. Williamson
returns to the condemned Russian actions and
backbenches then said: “Frankly, Russia should
after a cabinet go away and should shut up.”
career littered
with blunders Schools and Covid
There is an argument that many
of the main decisions of areas
such as school closures and
catch-up attempts were largely
made in Downing Street, but
teaching unions would say they
did not have much confidence in
Williamson and his department
over many associated issues, such
as providing laptops and other
technology for pupils and helping
schools become more Covid secure.
Not meeting Marcus Rashford
Williamson told the Evening
Standard last week he had held
a Zoom meeting with Marcus
n Rashford. His aides then
corrected this – he had in fact
met a completely different black
sportsman, the rugby player
Maro Itoje. The next day, the care
minister, Helen Whately, was
asked whether Williamson was
incompetent or racist, initially
answering: “I don’t know.” She
then added it sounded “highly
unlikely” that he was racist.
Peter Walker
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 Zahawi gives
a thumbs up
outside No 10
after being
named as the
new education
secretary
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think that Nadhim will get to grips
with it,” Halfon told the BBC.
The most pressing issue the new
education secretary faces is next
month’s comprehensive spending
review.
As Williamson’s star waned, he
struggled to sway the Treasury
over funding but Zahawi may do
better, especially over the issues of
crumblingschool buildings, teachers’
pay, higher education funding and
tuition fee loans.
Mary Bousted, joint general secre-
tary of the National Education Union,
said: “The comprehensive spending
review is in a matter of weeks. The
new secretary of state must be a
strong advocate for schools and
colleges to be given the resources
and funding they need to support
education recovery for all children
and young people. There can be no
more important priority for the future
of our nation.”
One big issue is making up for the
learning lost during the pandemic.
Sir Kevan Collins, the government’s
education recovery chief, resigned
in protest earlier this year, blaming
No 10 for the failure to fund his
proposals of a total £15bn.
Collins said children’s education
recovery must be the next educa-
tion secretary’s top priority as soon
as he steppped into office. “Deliver-
ing a broad recovery plan remains
an absolute priority. It’s not going to
happen naturally. We have to make
this happen. We have to support
schools. It has to be the number one
priority,” he said.
There are also an array of difficult
decisions to be made, including how
to grade and award the results of next
summer’s exams, which are a little
more than six months away for this
year’s year 11 and year 13 students.
Williamson’s two botched
exam seasons mean that the grade
acceleration of 2020 and 2021 will
need to be tamed eventually, poten-
tially creatingsome bad headlines for
the government.
Zahawi, born in Baghdad to
Kurdish parents who fled Iraq for
the UK when he was nine, is one of
the Commons’ richest MPs, as a co-
founder of the pollster YouGov and
with interests in areas such as petro-
leum before he became a minister.
His BSc degree in chemical
engineering from University College
London marks a break from the
Oxbridge and humanities graduates
who have more regularly populated
the DfE’s top post.
Unlike Williamson, who attended a
state comprehensive, Zahawiwent to
King’sCollege School in Wimbledon,
where fees are more than £20,000
a year.
Zahawi is the sixth education
secretary since 2014, following
Nicky Morgan, Justine Greening,
Damian Hinds and Williamson in
the role since Michael Gove’s reign
– suggesting the post is not a direct
route to higher political office.
•
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Culture Dorries has made no secret of her
views on some issues that will now Sketch
Dorries lands come under her brief.
In a 2017 tweet which was widely John Crace
job with key recirculated after her new job was
announced, Dorries said: “Leftwing
Johnson clings on to
BBC oversight
snowflakes are killing comedy, tear-
ing down historic statues, removing
his paddleboard as
books from universities, dumbing
down panto, removing Christ from
Christmas and suppressing free
speech. Sadly, it must be true, his-
Peter Walker
Jim Waterson
Aubrey Allegretti
tory does repeat itself. It will be music
next.”
Dorries’ role in overseeing the BBC
he leaves a few more
deadbeats in his wake
T
will also come under scrutiny given
Boris Johnson has appointed Nadine her regular criticism of the corpo-
Dorries as culture secretary, giving ration as institutionally skewed to
a first cabinet post to an outspoken the left. In 2018 she tweeted that the
MP who has previously accused the BBC was “a biased leftwing organ-
BBC of being biased and claimed isation which is seriously failing in hings were even worse than they seemed.
comedy is being killed by “leftwing its political representation, from the Liz Truss was looking positively chipper
snowflakes”. top down”. In 2014 she wrote a blog on the frontbench ahead of prime
An MP for 15 years before her first calling the licence fee “a tax on the minister’s questions. Someone in No 10
government role in 2020, as a junior ownership of a television is a com- had told her she was in line for promotion
health minister, Dorries was known pletely outdated concept”. in the imminent reshuffle. Uselessness
for her robust views on other areas Although key parts of media policy was clearly a highly prized commodity in a Boris
including abortion, and on equal mar- are run directly from Downing Street, Johnson government. No one could cut and paste an
riage, which she opposed, saying it Dorries will oversee key decisions existing trade deal and rebrand it as a new one quite
had lost the Conservatives’ millions such as the appointment of a new like Truss. Not least because she genuinely believed
of votes. Ofcom chair, the next licence fee she had achieved something remarkable.
A long-standingsupporter of Boris settlement with the BBC, and the Priti Patel initially wasn’t looking quite so relaxed.
Johnson, she was less forgiving of appointments ofindividuals to many But that was because she had taken Boris’ description
former leader David Cameron and senior roles. of the Home Office turning the UK into the “Saudi
chancellor George Osborne, once Arabia of penal policy” as a sign the prime minister
describing them as “arrogant posh thought she was going soft on crime. It had taken
boys who don’t know the price of some persuading from Rishi Sunak that Boris intended
milk”. the remarks as a compliment. “You’ll be fine,” the
News of the appointmentbrought chancellor said. “You can’t be any dimmer than the
surprise and even some concern from health secretary who thinks you can’t get Covid off
Tory MPs. One called the move a your friends, and the prime minister really values the
“colossal mistake”. However, some fact that you are as vicious as you are useless.”
officials who worked with her at the It was the absences that were most telling. No
health department said that while Gavin “Private Pike” Williamson. No Robert “Honest
they had misgivings when she was Bob” Jenrick. No Dominic “Psycho” Raab. Telling
given the job,Dorries had proved dil- ▲ Nadine Dorries has previously Gavin to “go away and shut up” had proved rather
igent and easy to work with. accused the BBC of being biased more difficult than Boris had expected. Principally
because Williamson had taken some convincing that
he had been education secretary
Housing concerned” about plans for a garden
village of 1,500 homes on the site of ‘The thing everyone at all. Johnson had had to run
through his achievement in making
Gove steps Fairoaks airport; and in October 2020
he spoke at a planning appeal against knows about me is
that I invariably let
everything he came in contact with
incomparably worse. “So, you’re
sideways to a scheme in Bagshot for 44 homes.
Gove reportedly wrote to the people down, so surely about
sacking me,” said Gav. “But what
all I did to help you become
pacify shires
department he now heads to say it leader of the Tory party? Doesn’t
would “alter the character of the vil- you must have been that count for anything?”
lage for the worse”. The planning
inspectorate backed the scheme. expecting to be fired’ “You’re even stupider than
I thought you were,” Johnson
Today, Gove will witness the replied. “The one thing everybody
impact of the post-Grenfell building knows about me is that I invariably
Rowena Mason safety crisis when hundreds of lease- let people down. So surely you
Robert Booth holders facingbills of up to £200,000 must have been expecting to get fired.”
each protest in Westminster. They are Robert Buckland, though, had just been collateral
Michael Gove has been put in charge hopeful of inspiring a Tory rebellion damage. Boris asked him to go to his parliamentary
of solving the UK’s housing crisis andagainst the building safety bill, which office, expecting Jenrick to turn up. But once Buckland
overseeing planning reforms after he Gove must steer through parliament, was through the door it was too good an opportunity
was moved by Boris Johnson from the to protect them from costs MPs have to miss. “No hard feelings, Robert,” Johnson said, “but
Cabinet Office in the reshuffle. estimated at £15bn, £10bn more than it would be quite useful to give your job to someone
As secretary of state for housing, earmarked by Rishi Sunak’s Treasury. else. So though you’re not any worse than some of the
communities and local government, Gove’s move away from the Cab- deadbeats I’m keeping on and promoting, I have to ask
his brief includes deciding where inet Office may reflect Johnson’s you to clear your desk.”
and how new housing should be continuing lack of trust in his former Minutes later the PM had tracked down the right
approved: an overhaul announced Vote Leave colleague. The two men Robert and was giving Jenrick his marching orders.
by his predecessor, Robert Jenrick, fell out after the Brexit referendum, The housing minister initially was curious to know
sparked anger in the Tory shires and when Gove sabotaged Johnson’s first why he was getting dumped for just being hopeless
on the backbenches. leadership bid. when he could have been fired months ago for illegally
Though Gove retains responsi- approving a planning application that would have
bility for the union and elections, as saved the ex-pornographer and Tory donor Dirty Des
well as taking on levelling up, it will £45m. Boris had shrugged. That’s the way he rolled.
be considered a sideways move from Getting Raab to move on from the Foreign Office
his role as chancellor of the Duchy of proved hardest of all. For some reason he wasn’t that
Lancaster at the Cabinet Office. keen on being left up shit creek without a paddleboard.
Gove will have toshape a strategy “I can’t put it any clearer than this,” Boris had
to meet the 300,000 a year housing explained. “Tory MPs are furious about the way we
target after the government’sretreat handled the Afghanistan shambles; they want a scalp.
from major planning liberalisation. So it’s either you or me … and after a nano-second of
He has objected to housing thought I’m here to tell you, you’ve drawn the short
developments in his Surrey Heath ▲ Michael Gove must try to meet the straw. But on the plus side you’ll get the entirely
constituency. In 2019, he was “deeply 300,000 a year house building target meaningless title of deputy prime minister.”

10
Universal
credit cut
is a breach
of human
rights, says
UN envoy
Patrick Butler
Social policy editor
Cutting universal credit by £20 a week
is an “unconscionable” move that
breaches international human rights
law and is likely to trigger an explo-
sion of poverty, the United Nations’
poverty envoy has warned.
In an excoriating intervention
alongside a letter to the government,
Olivier de Schutter,the UN-appointed
rapporteur on extreme poverty, told
the Guardian the withdrawal of the
£1,000-a-yearuplift from next month
was “deliberately retrogressive” and
incompatible with Britain’s obliga-
tion to protect its citizens’ rights to
an adequate standard of living.
“It’s unconscionable at this point
in time to remove this benefit,” he
said, adding the decision to cut uni-
versal credit – which was boosted
last year to help people get through
the pandemic – was based on a “very
ill-informed understanding” of its
impact on claimants.
“For these people £20 a week
makes a huge difference, and could
be the difference between falling into
extreme poverty or remaining just
above that poverty line.”
De Schutter urged the govern-
ment to drop its plans to withdraw
the £20 uplift from 6 October, saying
it was too soon. There was plentiful
evidence showing millions of peo-
ple would struggle to afford food and
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National
pay essential bills as a result. Hesaid:
“Weare not out of the crisis yet. I sus-
pect that when the expiry date of 6
October was set perhaps there was
an expectation the economy would
have significantly improved, or the
pandemic be behind us, but none of
these conditions are fulfilled.”
The intervention came as Labour
ramped up pressure over the cut,
which will be followed by a rise in
national insurance contributions
from April. Aworking universal credit
claimant paying tax would have to
work more than nine hours extra
every week to cover the loss from
the two changes, Keir Starmer said.
A non-binding Labour Commons
motion yesterday callingfor the uni-
versal credit cut to be withdrawn
was passed with the support of four
ToryMPs: Peter Aldous, Neil Hudson,
John Stevenson and William Wragg.
The Tory former welfare secretary
Stephen Crabb spoke in the debate to
argue the benefitshould be retained.
Crabb said: “Iam clear in my mind
that this sudden, abrupt withdrawal
of the £20 uplift that millions of fam-
ilies will experience in the coming
weeks is not the right way of doing
welfare policy.”
De Schutter, aBelgian-born profes-
sor of law and a human rights expert,
took up his role in May 2020, suc-
ceeding Philip Alston, who in 2018
produced a scathing report on the
impact of austerity in the UK, calling
rising child poverty levels “not just a
disgrace, but a social calamity and an
economic disaster”.
Ministers have argued that the
withdrawal of the temporary uni-
versal credit uplift, introduced as a
pandemic measure in April 2020 and
worth £1,050 a year to more than 6
million out-of-work or low-paid
working recipients, is necessary as
the government focuses on getting
people into work or working more
hours as the economy opens up.
De Schutter said this did not
justify the cut. “There are many
studies showing that the condi-
tion for a healthy and well-qualified
workforce to emerge is to provide
 Crates packed for distribution at a
food bank. The letter said millions of
people would strule to afford food
R:  -V//
adequate levels of social protection.
You will not improve the productiv-
ity of workers or the rate of people
in employment by pushing people
into poverty.”
As well as warnings from charities
and opposition parties that 500,000
people, including 200,000 children,
will fall into poverty, there is nerv-
ousness among Tory MPs that the
withdrawal will hit families strug-
gling with the cost of living, not least
in politically-sensitive former “red
wall” seats in the north of England
and the Midlands.
The cost-of-living crisis will have
been further fuelled by record infla-
tion figures spurred by a rise in food
and drink prices – rising to 3.2% in
August, up from 2% in July – putting
further pressure on household budg-
ets. The £20 cut will come as furlough
ends and energy prices increase.
In a letter sent to the UK govern-
ment, de Schutter said the uplift had
played an important role in keeping
Most of the 10 UK council low-income households out of pov-
erty during the pandemic. However,
areas worst affected by its withdrawal would leave millions
the cut have healthy life unable to cover daily expenses.
It said the UK was a signatory to
expectancy below 60 the international covenant of eco-
Healthy life expectancy nomic, social and cultural rights,
55-59 60-64 65+
under which the government must
adequately justify “retrogressive
measures” by carrying out a formal
£238 (average £238 impact assessment showing the deci-
yearly loss of Hartlepool sion to be compelling, reasonable and
benefits) proportionate. The letter said it was
Blackpool £251 “prima facie doubtful whether the
£235 Middlesbrough removal of the £20 uplift is a meas-
Blackburn £251 ure that conforms to international
with Darwen Oldham human rights law and standards”.
A government spokesperson said
£238 £241 the uplift “was always a temporary
Birmingham Enfield measure designed to help claimants
through the inancial disruption
£246 of the toughest stages of the pan-
Haringey demic – it has done so, and it’s right
£251 that the government should focus
£238 Barking and on its plan for jobs, supporting peo-
Newham Dagenham ple back into work and supporting
those already employed to progress
Source: The Health Foundation and earn more”.
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Biggest inflation jump onrecord adds
to tax rise and benefitcutpressures
Richard Partington
Economics correspondent
UK inflation made its biggest jump on
record in August, adding to pressure
on households as the government
ramps up taxes on workers and pre-
pares to cut universalcredit benefits
from next month.
The Ofice for National Statis-
tics (ONS) said the consumer prices
index (CPI) measure of annual infla-
tion rose to 3.2% in August, up from
2% in July,to hit the highest rate since
March 2012.
The increase surpassed City econ-
omists’ forecasts for a reading of 2.9%
and reflected a jump in food and drink
prices from August 2020 when the
“eatout to help out” discount scheme
introduced by the chancellor, Rishi
Sunak, slashed the cost of restau-
rant meals.
The 1.2 percentage point increase
between July and August was the
largest since records began in Jan-
uary 1997, the year Gordon Brown
handed the Bank of England inde-
pendence to manage inflation.
Labour and the trade unions
warned that households would face
a “double whammy” this winter as
living costs rose while the govern-
ment ramped up taxes and prepared
to make the biggest ever overnight
cut to social security benefits.
“The last thing working fam-
ilies need right now is another
living standards crisis,”said Frances
O’Grady, TUC general secretary.
Rehana Azam, a national secre-
tary at the GMB union, said: “Surging
inflation is part of a perfect storm that
includes the public-sector pay freeze,
imminent cut to universal credit, the
withdrawal of the furlough scheme,
and national insurance hike that will
cost care workers £150 a year.”
Winners and losers – the impact for savers, borrowers and pensioners
What is inflation?
It is the measure of how much
prices are rising and falling and
is tracked by several different
indices. The main one used by
economists is the consumer
prices index (CPI), which records
the cost of a basket of 700 items
including food, transport and
entertainment. The Bank of
England is tasked with keeping
CPI inflation at 2%, but it has been
above that already this year and is
now much higher.
Why is August’s figure so high?
The rate is a year-on-year
comparison, so a monthly jump
in inflation does not mean prices
have risen by that much since
July. The Office for National
Statistics, which publishes the
figures, said that higher prices in
transport, restaurants, hotels and
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The inflation rate being at the
highest level since 2012 means NHS
workers will already have seen their
3% pay deal from the government
erased; and other public sector staff
will suffer a sharper cut in their pur-
chasing power amid frozen wages.
The chancellor imposed a one-
year pay freeze last November on at
least 1.3 million public sector work-
ers, including teachers, firefighters,
police, council staff, civil servants
and the armed forces.
The jump will force Andrew Bailey,
governor of the Bank of England, to
write to the chancellor to explain
Shops’ food and drink
prices rose 1.1% in August
for food and drink had driven the
rate up in August.
It pointed out that in August
2020 the “eat out to help out”
scheme was running and
restaurant prices were artificially
low, so they will be much higher
now in comparison, even if not in
historical terms. However, staff and
supply problems in the hospitality
industry have also pushed up
prices, while the cost of petrol at
the pumps is higher than at any
time since 2013.
What does this mean for me?
Moderate inflation is not a bad
thing – people will be more likely
to spend their cash if they think
it will buy less in future. But high
inflation has consequences. Most
obviously, if you are on fixed pay
then your money will not go as far
each month.
why CPI has moved more than one
percentage pointaway from Thread-
needle Street’s 2% target and detail
what action the rate-setting mone-
tary policy committee plans to take.
Christina McAnea, general secre-
tary of Unison, said below-inflation
pay deals would prompt an exodus
across the public sector,affecting the
quality of services. “The pandemic
has shown that decent, well-staffed,
servicesare essential to weather any
crisis. The government seems to have
already forgotten this,” she said.
The latest snapshot from the ONS
revealed price increases across a
Secondhand vehicles
have a higher sale price
Wholesale electricity and
gas costs have soared
What if you are saving?
Rising inflation at a time when
interest rates are at record lows is
bad news – your money will not
have the same buying power when
you withdraw it as it did when you
put it away. Put simply, if you put
away £100 last year, it would need
to be worth £103.20 to have the
same value in real terms. The best
one-year account currently pays
1.5%, so your savings would be
worth £101.50. Moving into higher-
risk investments is a way to try to
beat inflation but you could lose
money. If high levels of inflation
stay for longer than anticipated,
the Bank may raise interest rates.
What if you are borrowing?
If you have a loan on a variable
rate of interest, then a rise in the
Bank base rate would push up your
repayments. Fortunately, many
UK inflation jumped to 3.2% in
August, from 2% in July, the
highest rate since March 202
5%
4
3 prices in August 2020 when “eat out
2 to help out” offered half-price food
1
0 annual change in price for a basket
-1
2012 2014 2016 2018 2020
Source: ONS
people have opted for fixed-rate
mortgages, and costs will remain
the same even if the Bank does act.
And inflation reduces the size of
your debt in real terms. If it leads to
a pay rise, then the sum you need
to repay each month will be less of
your income than when you first
took on the loan.
What about pay?
Most workplaces do not have to
raise pay in line with inflation, but
it is often used in negotiations.
Employers, who in some sectors
are already battling with staff
shortages, may have to increase
wages to attract and retain workers
who need to meet higher living
costs.
And pensions and other benefits?
A number of benefits are linked
to inflation, including the state
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broad range of products and services,
including food and drink in super-
markets, petrol prices, CDs and video
games and secondhand cars. Retail
price inflation, no longer tracked by
the Treasury, rose one point to 4.8%.
Shortages of workers and supplies
put pressure on Britain’s recovery
from lockdown and risk raising liv-
ing costs as businesses struggle to
digest higher costs. Many economists
believe the jump in inflation will be
temporary as distortions caused by
a slump in prices last year fade and
as pressure on supply chains abates.
The ONS said the biggest driver of
inflation was a sharp fall in restaurant
and drink from Mondays to Wednes-
days. Inflation is calculated from the
of goods and services. Stripping out
the impact of the scheme would have
reduced the headline rate by 0.4 per-
centage points, statisticians said.
However, many economists warn
that inflation could remain persis-
tently high with the coronavirus
Delta variant and pandemic restric-
tions, as well as Brexit, maintaining
pressure on supply networks.
Reflecting further pressure on the
cost of living, the ONS said the price of
food and drink bought in shops rose
by 1.1%on the month in August – the
highest rate of growth since 2008.
Household energybills are poised
for a sharp rise this winter as whole-
sale gas and electricity costs soar to
record levels, while a temporary cut
in VAT for the hospitality sector will
be unwound atthe end of this month.
A Treasury spokesperson said that
the Bank of England was responsible
for controlling inflation and that the
central bank expected the rise above
its 2% target rate would be temporary.
“The government is supporting
living standards – we have frozen
fuel duty for the past 11 years, have
capped energy prices, increased local
housing allowance last year by just
over £600 on average for 1.5 mil-
lion renters on universal credit and
housing benefit, and are committed
to continuing to raise the National
Living Wage so that it reaches two-
thirds of median earnings.”
pension. The government
suspended the pensions “triple
lock” last week, but committed to
raising pension payments in line
with CPI if September’s figure is
above 2.5%.
“With CPI rising steeply in
August and expected to continue
this path to the end of the year,
state pensioners could see a
substantive increase in payments
in April,” says Kate Smith, head of
pensions at Aegon.
September’s figure determines
how much elements of universal
credit and other benefits will go up
next April, so they should keep up
with rising costs. However, before
then the temporary £20-a-week
universal credit uplift will end.
Some private pensions offer
payments linked to inflation, so
payouts should increase.
Hilary Osborne

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BBC appoints new head
of news channels and
defends its impartiality
Ben Quinn
The BBC’s director of news has
defended its impartiality and criti-
cised abuse directed at a journalist
whose appointmentto run the BBC’s
rolling news channels was confirmed
yesterday.
Jess Brammar, former editor of
HuffPost UK, was appointed exec-
utive editor, BBC news channels,
despite an attempt from aBBC board
member to block the move. Bram-
mar,who also worked as acting editor
of BBC Newsnight, faced attacks in
rightwing media outlets after she
emerged as the leading candidate
for the role.
In an email to BBC staff,Fran Uns-
worth, the BBC’s outgoingdirector of
news and current affairs, said: “It is
extremely disappointing that anyone
should receive public and personal
criticism – or online abuse – simply for ▲ Jess Brammar takes charge of the
applying for a job at the BBC.”
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Sir Robbie Gibb, a former director
of communications to Theresa May
who was appointed to the BBC board
by the government this year, texted
Unsworth in June to say the corpora-
tion “cannot make this appointment”
if it wanted to retain government sup-
port, the Financial Times reported.
Brammar had defended two Huff-
Post journalists against criticism
from ministers Kemi Badenoch and
Jacob Rees-Mogg. She had also criti-
cised the Societyof Editors for saying
there was no issue with racism in the
British media.
BBC’s rolling news channels
The intervention in Brammar’s
appointment has raised concerns that
ministers could attempt to influence
the process to replace Unsworth.
Unsworth, who steps down from
her role in January, told staff that
the appointment had been made
“through fair and open competi-
tion” and added that she wanted
to address some points “in view of
recent public speculation about BBC
News appointments”.
“BBC News has to be impartial
and independent. BBC journalists
are hired from a variety of differ-
ent backgrounds, but while working
at the BBC, they leave any personal
opinions at the door,” she said. “Any
individual should be judged on how
they do their job at the BBC, not on
what they have done in different
organisations with very different
objectives.”
Richard Sharp, the BBC chairman,
earlier confirmed in a speech to the
Royal Television Society convention
in Cambridge that Brammar had been
appointed to the job “on merit”.
The corporation also announced
that Paul Danahar, currently the BBC
Americas bureau chief in Washing-
ton, has been appointed executive
news editor, world story team.
Unsworth said in a BBC press
release that Danahar and Brammar
were “outstanding journalists” who
would “bringa wealth of knowledge
and experience to their new roles”.
Stop Dacre
reapplying for
top Ofcom job,
says Tory MP
Jim Waterson
Media editor
Paul Dacre, the former Daily Mail
editor, should be banned from
reapplying to be chair of the media
regulator Ofcom because he has
failed the interview process,accord- ously deemed to be unappointable
ing to the Conservative MP who runs
an influential select committee.
Downing Street has been try-
ing to appoint Dacre to run Ofcom’s
board since last summer, where
he would have ultimate oversight
of broadcast regulation and social
media rules. Earlier this year, he
unexpectedly failed the vetting pro-
cess for the £142,500 job at the final
interview stage, with those on the
panel considering him to be “unap-
pointable” asan impartial chairman.
Rather than accept the panel’s
verdict and choosing anothercan-
didate, ministers have restarted the
recruitment process to allow Dacre a ▲ Dacre is widely assumed to be
second attempt.
The Guardian revealed there have
been issues finding credible people to
sit on the new interview panel, given
that it is widely perceived to exist as a
way of stitching up the job for Dacre.
Julian Knight MP,the Conservative
chair of the culture select committee,
has now written to the government
to demand the new job advert for
Ofcom chair makes clear that pre-
viously unsuccessful candidates
should not reapply. This would rule
out Dacre and could open the door
to other appointments, such as the
former culture minister Ed Vaizey.
Knight said “the industry stand-
ard” for re-running a high-level
recruitmentcampaign would involve
making clear that candidates previ-
should not reapply. Although it is
possible for ministers to ignore the
select committee, it would be another
embarrassing incident in the gov-
ernment’s attempt to install allies in
positions in the arts and media.
the preferred candidate of No 10
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Critics warn treaty
will set damaging
precedentfor nuclear
non-proliferation
 Continued from page 1
nuclear-powered submarines, which
are powered with the help of enriched
uranium, will take years – possibly
over a decade – to develop. But once
at sea, they will put ustralia’s diesel-
powered navyon a technological par
with China’s navy, the world largest.
s well as cooperation on naval
technology, the partnership will
involve closer alignment of regional
policies and actions, and greater
integration of the militaries and
the defence industries of the three
allies. he three also intend to work
together on cyber warfare and on arti-
ficial intelligence capabilities.
“I think this is an historic
announcement,” a senior US offi-
cial said. “his is designed not only
to strengthen our capabilities in the
Indo-aciic, but to link urope,
and particularly reat Britain, more
closely with our strategic pursuits in
the region as a whole.”
British officials said they hoped the
UK defence companies would ben-
efit from supplying technology to
ustralia. Derby-based olls-oyce
supplies reactors for oyal avy
submarines, which are eventually
decommissioned in the UK when
spent. But it is not yet clear how the
ustralian reactors will be supplied
or decommissioned.
he formation of ukus comes at
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a time of rising tensions, especially
over the South China Sea and aiwan.
In July, the UK’s new aircraft car-
rier, the Queen lizabeth, arrived in
the South China Sea, the focal point
of USChinese tensions, triggering
denunciations from Beijing. he US
defence secretary, loyd ustin,wel-
comed the deployment at the time
but wondered “are there areas that
the UK can be more helpful in other
parts of the world”.
 senior US official suggested that
the UK government had pushed for a
heightened role in the region. “reat
Britain is veryfocused on the concept
of global Britain, and their tilt is about
engaging much moredeeply with the
Indo-acific and this is a down pay-
ment on that effort,” the official said.
Before now, the US has only shared
nuclear propulsion technology with
the UK, in an arrangement dating
back to the 1958, but a senior US
▲ Boris Johnson, Scott Morrison and
Joe Biden at the G7 summit in June
official said: “his is a unique set of
circumstances.”
uclear power will allow ustral-
ian attack submarines to remain at
sea for as long as five months and
operate more quietly,allowing them
to better evade enemy detection.
Senior US officials briefing report-
ers before the announcement did not
mention China, preferring to speak
generally about “sustaining and
improving deterrence”, but left lit-
tle doubt which power ukus was
supposed to deter.
Some critics of the agreement warn
that it sets a dangerous precedent
for countries to exploit a loophole
in the reaty on the on-rolifera-
tion of uclear Weapons (). he
treaty allows non-nuclear-weapon
countries to build nuclear-powered
submarines, and to removethe fissile
material they need for the submarine
reactors from the stockpile mon-
itored by the global watchdog, the
International tomic nergy gency,
opening up the possibility it could be
diverted to making weapons. us-
tralia would be the first country to
make use of the loophole.
“My concern is not that ustralia
would misuse the nuclear material
we give themand use the loophole to
build nuclear weapons,” said James
cton, co-chair of the nuclear policy
programme at the Carnegie ndow-
ment for International eace..
“My concern is it sets a terri-
ble precedent that other countries
could abuse. Iran is the obvious
example here. We would go batshit
if Iran removed nuclear material from
safeguards.”
David Cullen of the uclear
Information Service, said: “What’s
interesting is that the US appears to
have thrown the UK a bone by allow-
ing Britain to help design and build
the new ustralian submarines. he
question will be how will the ustral-
ians be supplied and whether they
want to develop their own nuclear
capability to enrich uranium fuel.”
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Analysis
Dan Sabbagh
Nuclear submarine deal
with US and Australia
is a ‘downpayment’ on
concept of globalBritain
B ritain’s post-Brexit foreign policy is clearly
taking shape, and the early moves are
hardly very surprising: a tripartite defence
alliance with the US and Australia –
handily compressed to AUKUS – designed
clearly to send a message to Beijing.
The three start work by sharing with Sydney what
is ultimately an American technology: supplying
nuclear reactors to power submarines with the likely
assistance of Britain’s Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems,
a relationship that may also allow the Australians to
ditch a troubled but lucrative A$90bn diesel engine
agreement with a French contractor.
Australia’s new nuclear-powered submarines will
not be nuclear armed, and the country has no desire to
be a nuclear power. But there are questions as to how
the enriched uranium required will be supplied, and
▲ Britain’s how the reactors will be decommissioned – or what
HMS Trenchant will be done in Australia, the UK or the US. The three
nuclear will spend the next 18 months trying to work it out.
submarine It would have been perfectly possible for the US
arriving off to work directly with Australian counterparts on the
Plymouth sensitive technology transfer (a development so rare
earlier this year. it has only happened once before, when the US helped
Its Rolls-Royce Britain start its own nuclear submarine programme
reactors, made in late 1958). But as a senior White House official
in Derby, will be revealed, it was the UK that wanted this the most.
decommissioned “Great Britain has been a very strong strategic leader
in the UK in this effort,” they said ahead of the announcement,
PHOTOGRAPH: ROYAL helping “mediate and engage on all the critical issues”
NAVY/APEX as the partnership was being thrashed out.
It is a vital endorsement after a tricky summer in
which Anglo-American relations have been far from
smooth. British generals and ministers made little
secret they disagreed with Joe Biden’s decision to
withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Ben Wallace,
the defence secretary, even appeared to question if the
US had the will to be a superpower any longer.
Now at least, Boris Johnson can head over to the US
for the UN general assembly and his first White House
meeting with Joe Biden, with something else to talk
about. But for the UK there will be a price. What the
US president wants is for the UK to be more present
in the Indo-Pacific, even though it is thousands of
miles away from home. The submarine deal is, the
White House official observed, “a
downpayment” on the “concept of
Now Boris Johnson global Britain”.
can head for his first Biden came to Europe in June for
his first overseas tour as president,
White House meeting wanting western allies to sign
with something totalk up to a stronger posture against
Beijing. Nato, traditionally focused
to Joe Biden about on Russia, obliged and agreed to
other than Afghanistan declare that China also poses a
security risk at its annual summit.
Yet the White House wants to go
further. The Pentagon has hardly
been shy in pointing out that China,
which has its own nuclear submarines, now possesses
the world’s largest navy. The US has repeatedly wanted
allies to help: over the summer Britain’s new Queen
Elizabeth aircraft carrier participated in muscle-flexing
military exercises in the Philippine Sea.
A serious confrontation with China remains
unlikely, but this is not the point. With access to
European markets less friction-free, the UK is choosing
to build a political and industrial strategy based in part
on defence, helping longstanding but far-flung allies,
starting with supplying nuclear-powered submarines.
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In home of
pork pies,
70 vegan
recipes rise
to occasion
Jessica Murray
The town of Melton Mowbray is
known by many for its pork pies, but
at the British Pie Awards taking place
there this week it was the vegan cate-
gory that attracted the most entries.
“It took people a while to accept
the vegetarian class but the vegan
class? In the home of the Mel-
ton Mowbray pork pie? That was
a bit of a challenge,” said Matthew
O’Callaghan, chairman of the town’s
pork pie association – despitebeing a
vegetarian himself.
“Wewanted to make the pie awards
inclusive. I know it’s a bandwagon,
but I think a lot of butchers and oth-
ers are entering the vegan class to
test new recipes and flavours,” said
O’Callaghan. “But I don’t think the
classics are going anywhere. Steak
and ale is always in the top three.”
Delayed from March by the pan-
demic, 150 judges travelled to the
Leicestershire town yesterday to
painstakingly sample and mark 800
pies across categories ranging from
beef and ale pies to dessert pies, and
from fish pies to the classic Melton
Mowbray pork pie.
The vegan category featured the
some of the most innovative entries
with pies including spicy jackfruit,
mushroom and ale, and bombay
potato. When a vegan pie won the
top prize in the 2019 competition it
ruffled a few feathers, but the organ-
isers think attitudes are changing.
“This year vegan is the most
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popular class with nearly 70 entries,
it’s bang on trend. I think once upon
a time it was all about meat and two
veg, but we’re more travelled and
better read than we’ve ever been.
We’re more adventurous with our
food,” said Stephen Hallam, the for-
mer managing director of Dickinson
& Morris, the oldest makers of Mel-
ton Mowbray pork pies.
After the pies were blessed by the
‘Once upon a time
it was all about
meat and two veg,
but … we’re more
adventurous
with our food’
Stephen Hallam
Ex-Dickinson & Morris
Rev Kevin Ashby – “we praythat none
of the pies here today will suffer a
soggy bottom” – judges split off into
pairs to mark the pies based on factors
such as appearance, pastry thickness
and filling taste. Each pairing con-
tained a expert judge such as a chef
or baker and an enthusiastic amateur,
who had to pace themselves as they
launched the mammoth task of sam-
pling dozens of pies across the day.
Each table was equipped with lime
juice to help judges cleanse their
palate between entries. “Everyone
thinks it’s the most excitingjob in the
world, but the pastry indigestion for
the rest of the day is a delight,”joked
former chef Malika Andress, one of
the judges in the vegan class.
The awards pack a punch in the
industry, and previous winners have
been greeted by queues of customers
snaking down the street. Amy and
Philip Smith, a piemaking couple
from Twyford near Reading, visited
the awards on their honeymoon.
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After winning seven awards last
year,this year they submitted 15 pies
– including a vegan and vegetarian
pie for the first time – and said they
had sleepless nights anticipatingthe
results.
“The buildup for this year has
been unreal. We entered for the first
time last year and didn’t think we’d
even get noticed, never mind win
anything,” said Amy. Their busi-
ness, Rural Pie Co, has gone from
strength to strength, and last year
they upgraded their market stall to
a shop and cafe. “It’s not necessar-
ily about winning somethingand the
publicity,it’sabout the appreciation
for what we do,” she added.
But what is it about the humble pie
that excites them so much?
“It sounds a little bit cliche, but it’s
traditional British food,” Amy said.
“You can playwith it and be creative
but it’s just proper comfort food. I
don’t think I’ve met anybody who
doesn’t love it.”
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BA flies first
passenger flight
using recycled
cooking oil
Gwyn Topham
British Airways has operated its first
passenger flight directly powered by
sustainable aviation fuel – a London
to lasgow flight which the airline
said produced 62% less CO than a
similar journey a decade ago.
The airline said the combination
of the fuel – partly made from recy-
cled cooking oil – with optimal flight
paths, electrified airport vehicles and
its newest plane, had slashed emis-
sions. BA said it had offset the CO
produced, making the flight carbon
neutral. Flight BA1476 on Tuesday
was intended to demonstrate the pro-
gress made by the aviation industry
in its attempts to decarbonise ahead
of the Cop26 summit, the airline said.
The service was operated by BA’s
special “sustainability”plane, an Air-
bus A320neo, its quietest and most
fuel-eficient short-haul model.
The fuel was a 35% mix of sustain-
able fuels (SAFs) from BP – close to
the maximum proportion currently
permitted. The air traffic control ser-
vice ATSensured a direct ascent and
descent with no holding time, and
Heathrow used vehicles powered by
green electricity to move the plane.
BA said itwas a glimpse of the future.
Sean Doyle, BA’s chief executive,
said: “This marks real progress in our
efforts to decarbonise and shows our
determination to continue innovat-
ing, working with governments and
industry and accelerating the adop-
tion of new low-carbon solutions.”
However, Cait Hewitt, of the Avi-
ation Environment Federation, said:
“It’s important to realise with SAFs
that these are net emissions. You still
get as much CO2 coming out of the
back of the aircraft as you do with
conventional fuels.”
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Archived Tennessee
Williams short story
published for first time
Alison Flood
s soon as he crossed the border
into taly ennessee Williams found
his health “magically restored”.
he author wrote in his memoirs:
“here was the sun and there were
the smiling talians.”
Now a previously unpublished
short story by Williams is found to
describe a character experiencing
similar feelings – although the tal-
ians do not feel quite so warmly
towards him.
ublished for the first time this
week in the trand agazine, the
story, written in 1952, was found in
archives atale University’sBeinecke
are Book & anuscript Library.
he tale is about an merican
academic who visits ome each
summer to continue his relationship
with a woman he first met when she
was working the streets. s the years
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pass after the end of the second world
war he finds hostility towards mer-
icans growing.
“t had seemed to him each sum-
mer that the hard gentle faces of
workmen along the tracks were
each time just a little bit harder than
the time before and a little less gen-
tle,” he thinks as he goes to ome by
train. “But this time was the first time
that, now and then, from an occa-
sional group, a voice was lifted at the
passing coaches in a tone that could
not be mistaken as friendly.”
Williams’ protagonist hearscalls of
“coco”, which “stood for the so-called
coccobacillus that his countrymen
were charged with having used as a
weapon of war in Korea”, and sees the
words “o home, anks!” graffitied
on walls.
“t would be better, yes, perhaps
it would be more sensible not even
to leave the station but turn on his
frightened heels and take the next
train north, go back to aris, away
▼ Tennessee Williams, whose
17
previously unpublished 1952 work
was found in Yale University’s
archives PHOTOGRAPH: GETTY IMAGES
from this white sky quivering with
heat and these lost people who had
hoped for something and been dis-
appointed again as always before.”
ndrew ulli, managing editor
of the trand, said he had “no idea
why Williams didn’t publish such a
fine piece”.
While Williams as a playwright
conjured up “a bygone meri-
can south, replete with grizzled
patriarchs, well-worn suspenders,
faded belles, decaying mansions,
cynicism for southern grandeur and
lots of empty glasses of bourbon”,
said ulli, he ummer Woman rep-
resented “his versatility and courage
to step out of his comfort zone”.
ulli added: “Williams evokes
the beauty of the country and the
genuine friendliness of its people,
while masterfully drawing clear
parallels between the merican
protagonist’s seasonal relation-
ship with an talian prostitute and
U entanglements overseas – both
rife with conflict, resentment and
disillusionment.”
Williams explored taly in the play
he ose attoo,and in the novel he
oman pring of rs tone.
obert Bray, founding director
of the ennessee Williams nnual
eview,told the ssociated ress that
Williams was “enamoured of the sex-
uality exuded by young talian men
and easier relationship between men
than … in the more constrained U”.
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Coronavirus
World
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my clothes’
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‘Toxic’ politicians
under fire as 4.5m
peopleabandon
mask wearing
Robert Booth
Hannah Devlin
Gwyn Topham
More than 4 million people stopped
wearing face coverings in public
this summer, official figures have
revealed as a senior governmentsci-
entificadviser warned that Tuesday’s
maskless cabinet meeting would
be “toxic” to already falling public
adherence to guidance.
Use of face coverings has been
dropping since its peak at the begin-
ning of May, when 98% of people
said they had worn one when leav-
ing the house in the previous week.
This month the figure is 89%, imply-
ing that 4.5m people in Great Britain
have stopped wearing masks at all,
according to data from the Office for
National Statistics.
ONS does not gather data on reg-
ular mask wearers, whose numbers
will be lower. YouGov asked if people
had “worn a face mask when in pub-
lic places” in the last fortnight and
found only 61% said yes, a fall of 10
percentage points from mid July to
9 September.
In London, where masks remain
mandatory on Transport for London
services, compliance was at around
82% in August, implying hundreds
of thousands of people are not wear-
ing masks. However officers only
excluded 221 people from using ser-
vices and directed 53 to leave in the
seven weeks since 19 July, when
wider UK law on masks changed and
passengers no longer faced the threat
of prosecution.
Finn Brennan, an organiser for
the trade union Aslef, said there
were “fewer and fewer people wear-
ing masks and … no obvious sign of
enforcement … Staffare feeling much
more at risk.” Train passengers have
also complained of patchy usage.
The figures came as behavioural
scientists and people bereaved by
Thursday 16 September 2021 The Guardian
Covid voiced anger at the message
sent by images of Boris Johnson and
his cabinet gathering closely around
the cabinet table without masks this
week as average weekly fatalities
from Covid rose to the highest level
since March.
Rules requiring masks in shops,
restaurants, on public transport and
other confined public spaces in Eng-
land were dropped on 19 July, but the
government’snew Covid winter plan
suggests people “wear a face covering
in crowded and enclosed settings”.
Many MPs have also been seen
without masks in the Commons.
Prof Stephen Reicher,a member of
the Sage subcommittee advising on
behavioural science and a psycholo-
gist at the University of St Andrews,
said images of a meeting of maskless
cabinet ministers appearing to disre-
gard their own advice could be “truly
toxic” for public trust and adherence.
“Messaging is not only what you
say, it’s what you do and what your
policies convey. If those images cre-
ate that sense of them and us, which
I think they pretty clearly do, it is a
very caustic thing,” he said.
98%
Percentage of people in May who
said they had worn a face mask the
previous week when they left home
61%
Percentage who told a YouGov
survey they had worn a mask in
public places in the last fortnight
•
▲ A platform at Oxford Circus,
London, during rush hour on 19 July
as England lifted many restrictions
OO:  O/Y
“Many of us that have lost loved
ones are extremely distressed to see
packed train carriages, parliamen-
tary chambers and indoor spaces
with very few masks in sight,” said
Lobby Akinnola, who lost his father
to Covid in the first wave and helps
organise the Covid-19 Bereaved Fam-
ilies for Justice group which is calling
for an urgent public inquiry. “The
government has always claimed to
be following the science, so why is
it now ignoring the advice of Sage?”
Prof David Heymann, professor
of infectious disease epidemiology
at the London School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine and head of the
Centre on Global Health Security at
Chatham House, said: “Masks are
a precautionary measure and we
should be willing to use precaution-
ary measures if there’s any evidence
that it’s useful. The rule is: if you can’t
physically distance, you shouldwear
a mask.”
Lyn Jones, 69, whose husband
Gareth died of Covid in March, has
been confined to bed with Covid in
recent days and said mask wearing
must become mandatory again.
“My husband would be here if
we had proper lockdowns before
Christmas and again they are trying
to appeal to people by saying you
don’t have to wear a mask when it is
the simplest thing to do,”she said. “I
am angry.Icaughtthis since ‘freedom
day’ and it doesn’t feel like freedom
when you can’t get out of bed.”
19
Under-16s’ vaccinations leaders wanted to avoid being caught
up in any conflicts between children
Headteachersget clarification and their family over the issue.
White said: “The guidance seems
of consent amid fears of protest to make it possible for a child con-
sidered Gillick competent to have a
vaccination administered on a school
site without permission from a par-
ent or carer. In a situation where an
be Gillick competent or does not want issue like this arises I would prefer the
Richard Adams to be vaccinated, the guidelines from matter to be dealt with away from the
Education editor the UK health security agency say a school site – at, for example, a GP’s
vaccination will not be given. surgery or local medical centre.”
Healthcare staffcan decide whether Accordingto the NHS, Gillick com- The guidance also warns schools
children get a Covid vaccine against petence is when children under the to prepare for protests or other
the wishes of their parents, accordingage of 16 “can consent to their own disruption.
to government guidelines published treatment if they’re believed to have It says: “In the event of a pro-
yesterday that left some headteach- enough intelligence, competence and test or disruptive activity outside a
ers fearing protests at school gates. understanding to fully appreciate school, or if schools know a protest
what’s involved in their treatment”.
The guidelines say vaccinations for is planned, they should alert the Sais
children aged 12 to 15 will be admin- S ome headteachers remain provider, local authority and police
istered by School AgeImmunisation worried that parents who oppose vac- contacts to discuss the best way to
Service (Sais) teams that already cination mayattempt to contact their manage the situation.”
carry out flu and human papilloma- child’s school directly, despite the The UK’s chief medical officers
virus (HPV)vaccinations in England. school playing no part in the decision. this week extended voluntary single
The role of schools will be limited Jules White, the headteacher of doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vac-
to providing a site and distributing Tanbridge House secondary school in cine to children aged 12 to 15, after
information and consent forms to Sussex, said many of his fellow school the Joint Committee on Vaccination
pupils and parents. and Immunisation had said the bene-
In cases where parents withhold fits of immunising the age group were
consent but the child wants to go less certain than in older teenagers.
ahead, the guidelines say the vaccina- NHS foundation trusts havebegun
tion teams will determine if the child contactingschools to arrange on-site
is able to make an informed decision vaccination days, with some expect-
– known as Gillick competence – and ing to start seeking consent from
“make every effort to contact a par- parents shortly. Schools will be able
ent to check before they proceed”. to combine the Covid and flu vacci-
“If a parent objects to their child nations in a single visit.
being vaccinated but the child wants Geoff Barton, the general secre-
to be vaccinated and is judged to be tary of the Association of School and
Gillick competent, the healthcare College Leaders, said he welcomed
professional will try to reach agree- the guidance clarifying that legal
ment between the parent and child. accountability was with Sais, after
However, the parent cannot overrule headteachers reported receiving let-
the decision of a Gillick competent ters from pressure groups.
child,” the guidelines state. In that “We are very concerned about
scenario the child will be vaccinated. the possibility of protests, and we
In cases where parents refuse con- ▲ The School Age Immunisation are pleased to see the guidance ref-
sent and the child is not deemed to Service will arbitrate in final consent erences this.”
Plan B ‘Curbs will return that – there might be a vaccine escape
variant that doesn’t work with the
if cases riseout of control’ current suite of vaccines. So I think
we always have to be vigilant.”
Javid later told BBC Radio 4’s
Today programme: “If the situation
made mandatory again on public – and it’s an if – if it gets out of con-
Aubrey Allegretti transport and in shops, vaccine pass- trol … we will, of course, have to act
Political correspondent ports may be introduced and people and take potentially new measures.
might be asked to work from home I think it’s right that we set out what
Covid restrictions will return if the again where possible. those are and plan for them now just
virus gets “out of control” again this Javid said there was not one single so we’ve got them up our sleeve.”
year,the UK health secretary has said,trigger point that would lead to plan B He said the dual pressures of a
with a dangerous new variant or the being introduced, but he suggested it difficult flu season and Covid meant
NHS at risk of being overwhelmed was likely to come into force if a dan- NHS capacity wouldbe watched very
identified as the moment “plan B” gerous new variant emerged against closely. “A dangerous new variant
could be triggered. which vaccines were less effective. would of course be of huge, signifi-
Sajid Javid said he thought another “I don’t think we’re going to have cant concern,” he told Sky News.
lockdown was unlikely, but he admit- another lockdown,” he told BBC “But there could be other issues –
ted it would be “irresponsible” to rule
Breakfast. “The vaccines are work- so for example, what happens in the
out ordering people to stay at home ing and other measures, but I think it NHS is going to be hugely important
in England for a fourth time since thewould be irresponsible for any health to me, to the whole country – mak-
pandemic began. minister in the world to say that or ing sure that we don’t get to the
He urged the public to remain vig- that is 100% ruled out. point again where the NHS becomes
ilant after ministers published their “Not least because I just don’t unsustainable.”
“winter plan”,which will rely on vac- know if sometime in the future – He cited levels of hospitalisation
cines to help life remain as normal next year, the year after, the year after and pressures on health workers.
as possible in the run-up to Christ- He defended Conservative MPs
mas, despite Covid cases and deaths appearing without masks in the
already being at a much higher point ‘A dangerous new Commons or around the cabinet
than they were at this time last year. variant would, of table, saying this was “consistent”
Under plan A, the focus will remain with government advice because it
on ensuring the 10% who have not course,be of huge,
only applied to people meetinginside
had a jab yet get their first shot, roll- significant concern’ “when they are with strangers”.
ing out boosters to the over-50s and “They’re not strangers,” Javid said
clinically vulnerable, and offering of his colleagues.
vaccination for children aged 12 to 15. He also criticised the rapper Nicki
However, if the Covid situation Sajid Javid Minaj for her tweets promoting
deteriorates, face masks could be Health secretary myths about vaccine side-effects.
 • The Guardian Thursday 16 September 2021
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Climate protesters’ return Four held in

investigation
for secondblockade of into murder of
M25 leadsto70 arrests Lyra McKee
country’s social housing by 2025, Rory Carroll
Josh Halliday said 89 of its members had blocked Ireland correspondent
trafficfor the second time this week.
Motorists could be seen pleading Police in Northern Ireland have
More than 70 environmental pro- with the activists to clear the road arrested four men as part of the
testers have been arrested afternear the junction 23-A1 intersection. investigation into the murder of the
In a statement, Insulate Britain
they blocked traffic on Britain’s bus- journalist Lyra McKee in 2019.
iest motorway for the second time
said drivers were right to be angry but The four men, aged 19, 20, 21 and
in three days. they would continue the direct action 33, were arrested under the Terrorism
until the governmentpledgedgreater
Activists from Insulate Britain ▲ Motorists try to remove protesters during the yesterday’s protest. Some Act 2006 yesterday morning. They
staged the demonstration at several
action on the climate emergency. demonstrators glued themselves to the M25 GR: GY /GY were in the Derry area, and are now
sections of the M25 in London dur- It said: “We will keep going until being questioned at Musgrave police
ing the morningrush-hour yesterday,
the government responds. Until it “All we ask is that it makes a pub- Some of the activists involved in station in Belfast.
causing long delays. overcomes its complacency and cow- lic statement that we can trust – that yesterday’s protest were the same DSI Jason Murphy said: “These
ardice and fulfils its first and most
A 50-year-old woman was airlifted commits to the first step, to start the people arrested after Monday’s arrests are the culmination of a
to hospital with serious injuries after
sacred duty: to protect the people of insulation of our homes. As soon as action, LBC reported. detailed two-year investigation into
a multi-vehicle collision near one of
this country from harm. this happens we will leave the roads.” Footage showed protesters in hi- Lyra’s murder and the events which
the protests. It is not known what The group previously said its vis jackets sitting on the motorway preceded it. The local community
caused the crash. demands were delivered by hand to with signs saying “sorry for the dis- have supported the Police Service
Police said 71 people had been ‘We will keep going 10 Downing Street on 21 August 2021 ruption” and “please turn off your of Northern Ireland throughout the
arrested over the action. It came until thegovernment but so far the government had not engines”, while some motorists course of this protracted investiga-
two days after 92 protesters were responded. shouted abuse at them. tion and I wish to thank them for their
arrested for obstructing vehicles on fulfils its sacred duty’ Surrey police said they had made One driver told reporters she was continued support.”
some of the busiest routes in south- 32 arrests; 21 people were arrested on the way to collect her grandchild One man, Paul McIntyre, 53, from
east England. by Kentpolice; and a further 18 were because her daughter was in labour, the Creggan area of Derry,has already
Insulate Britain, which is calling Insulate Britain held by Hertfordshire police by about while another shouted that the pro- been charged with McKee’s murder.
on the government to insulate the Yesterday’s statement 1pm yesterday. testers “should be shot”. He denies the charge.
Thursday 16 September 2021 The Guardian
Met says no further action over
Bashir’s interview with Diana
Caroline Davies
The Metropolitan police will not
launch a criminal investigation into
the 1995 interview with Diana, Prin-
cess of Wales, by Martin Bashir,
then a BBC journalist, the force has
announced.
The decision was made after exam-
ining Lord Dyson’s report into the
documentary, which found Bashir
acted in a “deceitful” manner by com-
missioning fake bank statements to
get the interview, and criticised the
BBC’s investigation into the matter.
High court
agrees to
servepapers
on Andrew
Caroline Davies
The high court has agreed to inter-
vene if necessary to serve papers on
the Duke of York in the sexual assault
civil case filed against him in the US.
The development follows a
pre-trial hearing in New York on
Monday in which lawyers for Prince
Andrew argued he had not yet been
properly served with documents
relating to the lawsuit filed by Virginia
Roberts iuffre.
iuffre alleges she was forced to
have sex with Andrew when she was
17 years old, which Andrew denies.
US lawyers representing iuffre
have now requested service of
proceedings by the high court under
the Hague service convention.
Initially, the high court rejected the
request, but after further information
was provided, agreed to it.
“The lawyers acting for Ms iuffre
have now provided further informa-
tion to the high court, and the high
court has accepted the request for
service under the Hague service
convention,” a high court spokes-
person said.
“The legal process has not yet been
served but the high court will now
take steps to serve under the con-
vention unless service is arranged
by agreement between the parties.”
The question of whether Andrew
had been properly officially noti-
fied of the proceedings was a main
point of discssion at Monday’s New
York hearing, held via a telephone
conference.
The Manhattan judge Lewis
Kaplan listed the case for a further
hearing on 17 ctober. He recom-
mended both  sides discuss the
service of the case before the next
hearing in order to get to the “sub- ▲ The Duke and Duchess of Sussex feature on the the cover of Time magazine as it names them among its list of the
stance” of the claim.
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Royal family
Scotland Yard said in March it
would not investigate, but has since
assessed the 127-page independent
report by the former supreme court
judge, published two months later.
In a statement, the force said:
“In March 2021, the Metropolitan
Police Service determined it was not
appropriate to begin a criminal inves-
tigation into allegations of unlawful
activity in connection with a docu-
mentary broadcast in 1995.
“Following the publication of
Lord Dyson’s report in May, special-
ist detectives assessed its contents
and looked carefully at the law, once
again obtaining independent legal
most influential people in the world. The accolade was revealed on the duke’s 37th birthday yesterday OOG: 
advice from TreasuryCounsel as well
as consulting with the Crown Prose-
cution Service.
“As a result, the MPS has not
identified evidence of activity that
constituted a criminal offence and
will therefore be taking no further
action.”
The Dyson report found Bashir
engaged in “deceitful behaviour”by
commissioning the fake bank state-
ments, a “serious breach” of BBC
editorial guidelines. He showed the
fakesto Earl Spencer,to gain his trust
so he would introduce Bashir to his
sister, the report found. Bashir then
persuaded her to give the interview.
The report accused Tony Hall, the
corporation’s former director general,
of overseeing a “woefully ineffective”
internal investigation into the issue.
As the then head of BBC News, Hall
was aware Bashir had told “serious
and unexplained lies” about what he
had done to land the interview.
A 1995 letter from Diana, published
as evidence, said she had “no regrets”
concerning the matter.
The interview with Bashir for Pan-
orama was a scoop for the BBC. In it,
the princess famously said: “There
were three of us in this marriage.”
After the Dyson report, the Duke
of Cambridge and the Duke of Sus-
sex both condemned the BBC for its
treatment of their mother.
Hall later said he was “deeply
sorry” for the “hurt” caused, but
denied there had been a “BBC cover-
up”. In a statement after the Dyson
report, Bashir said the fakes had “no
bearing whatsoever” on Diana’s deci-
sion to give the interview.”
21
Charles loses
foundation
chair amid
donor claims
Caroline Davies
The chairman of Prince Charles’s
charitable foundation has resigned
following claims that a six-figure sum
from a wealthy Russian donor was
accepted before being rejected by its
ethics committee.
Douglas Connell, the chairman
of the Prince’s Foundation, stepped
down days after the Scottish charity
regulator launched an investigation
over reports that the heir to the throne
wrote a letter thanking the business-
man Dmitry Leus for his offer last year
and suggesting they could meet after
the Covid crisis.
A £100,000 donation to the foun-
dation, which is based in Scotland,
was turned down after concerns
about its provenance, it was reported
by the Mail on Sundayand the Sunday
Times.
Earlier this month, Michael Faw-
cett temporarily stepped down as
the foundation’s chief executive,
while an investigation is conducted
by trustees into the separate “cash
for honours’ allegations regard-
ing a Saudi billionaire’s donation
to Dumfries House, the Palladian
house in Ayrshire “saved for the
nation” by Charles. Trustees of the
Prince’s Foundation are conducting
an inquiry into the claims.
Connell, who has been in the role
since March, said in a statement: “I
am both shocked and dismayed by
newspaper reports that rogue activ-
ity of various kinds may have taken
place within and outside the Prince’s
Foundation.
“I and other members of the
board of trustees had no knowledge
of any such activity and we have
launched a rigorous and independ-
ent investigation.
“My view is that the person chair-
ing any organisation should take
responsibility if it appears that seri-
ous misconduct may have taken place
within it.
“I believe that the correct course
of action is for the chair to accept
that responsibility and to stand
down from the role. That is why I
am today resigning as chair of the
Prince’s Foundation.”
The foundation’s ethics committee
declined the donation after discov-
ering Leus had been found guilty of
money laundering in Russia in 2004
before having the conviction over-
turned. Leus has said he was the
victim of a politically motivated pros-
ecution, it was reported.
‘I am both shocked
and dismayed by
newspaper reports’
Douglas Connell
Former foundation chair

22
Father who sought truth over
Barrymore pool tragedy dies
Ben Quinn
A father who waged a 20-year cam-
paign for the truth after his son’s body
was found in the swimming pool of
the entertainer Michael Barrymore
has died. Terry Lubbock, 76, who was
• The Guardian Thursday 16 September 2021
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diagnosed earlier this year with can-
cer, made what he described as his
“final appeal” in April for witnesses as
he fought for a fresh inquest into the
death of his son, Stuart. The 31-year-
old was found dead on 31 March 2001
at Barrymore’s then home, in Roy-
don, Essex, after a party.
Barrymore said that he was
saddened to hear of Terry Lub-
bock’s death, adding: “Essex police
must carry on to seek justice for the
Lubbock family.”
A friend of Terry Lubbock’s, Harry
Cichy, said: “He’s died sad, because
he’sdied knowing people never knew
the truth about what happened. But
no one could have fought harder for
their son. A new inquest was what
really mattered to him. He had lost
faith in the police..”
Lubboock, a retired toolmaker
and driver from Harlow, Essex, had
urged people with information about
his son’s death to come forward, and
had said in April: “For me the clock
is ticking, and time is running out.”
During his campaign he produced
a DVD and co-wrote a book,called Not
Awight: Getting Away with Murder.
In 2009, a report by the
Independent PoliceComplaints Com-
mission upheld six of Lubbock’s 36
complaints about the Essex police
investigation.
It found that two implements
photographed by police at the scene
– a 12in pool thermometer and a door
handle – were never subsequently
I want to fight terrorist
claims in UKcourt, says
Shamima Begum
Dan Sabbagh
Defence and security editor
Shamima Begum wants to face the
British courts to refute claims that she
was engaged in terrorist acts while
she was living under Islamic State in
Syria, she has said in an extraordinary
TV interview.
Appearing live on Good Morning
Britain yesterday from a detention
camp in Syria, the 22-year-old said
she would “ratherdie than go back to
IS” – and that she wanted to prove her
innocence in the country of her birth.
“I am willing to goto court and face
the people who made these claims
and refute these claims, because
I know I did nothing in IS but be a
mother and a wife. These claims are
being made to make me look worse
because the government do not have
anything on me,” she said.
Begum, who left east London as a
15-year-old schoolgirl to join the ter-
rorist group, remains embroiled in a
complex legal battle after her Brit-
ish citizenship was revoked in 2019
by then home secretary, Sajid Javid.
This year, the supreme court ruled
she could not return to the UK to con-
test her case in person – but held out
the possibility that she could chal-
lenge the ruling if she could properly
instruct lawyers. During hearings, it
emerged that she was still consid-
ered by MI5 as a national security risk
because although she had travelled
out as a minor,she had “aligned” with
IS by remaining in Syria. Begum did
not give evidence during the trial and
has not publicly spoken since the
supreme court ruling in February. But
she was interviewed on ITV’s show
found or accounted for. Two senior
officers offered an apology on behalf
of the force.
No one has has been charged in
relation to Stuart’s death. A man
was arrested in March on suspicion
of indecent assault and murder, but
released without charge in August.
A postmortem showed Stuart
Lubbock had suffered severe
internal injuries, suggesting he had
been sexually assaulted. A coroner
recorded an open verdict. Barry-
more, now 69, was arrested in 2007
but never charged with any offence.
from Syria, wearing a Nike baseball
cap, where she also asked for poli-
ticians and the public to forgive her.
“But for those who have even a
drop of mercy and compassion and
empathy in their hearts, I tell you
from the bottom of my heart that I
regret every, every decision I’vemade
since I stepped into Syria and I will
live with it for the rest of my life.”
Begum married a Dutch Isis
fighter, Yago Riedijk, shortly after
she arrived. She had three children,
all of whom died in infancy, and has
been held by the Syrian Kurds since
Islamic State’s military defeat in 2019.
Speaking on the same programme,
Javid, now health secretary, said
any decision to remove a person’s
British citizenship was not taken
lightly. “It was based on the advice
of my department but also our intel-
ligence agencies, and I’m clear thatit
was absolutely the right decision to
protect the British people,” he said.
Despite her appeal, there is no
prospect of Begum being able to come
to the UK in person,leaving her under
Kurdish detention until the British
legal process is finally exhausted.
Leaks from Whitehallsources have
suggested she was involved in sewing
suicide vests for Isis – but this claim
has never been aired in court.
Speaking on TV, Begum offered
her experience to help Boris John-
son tackle terrorism, explaininghow
extremists “persuade” people. “I
think I could very much help you in
your fight against terrorism, because
you clearly don’t know what you’re
doing.”A Home Office spokesperson
said: “The government’s top prior-
ity remains maintaining our national
security and keeping the public safe.”
 Shamima
Begum, now 22,
pictured as she
was interviewed
live on TV from
a detention
camp in Syria
sporting western
clothing
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/
Thursday 16 September 2021 The Guardian
Stirling prize shortlist
From a glorious wooden
mosque to a gossamer
footbridge in Cornwall
A
Oliver Wainwright
mesmerising
wooden mosque in
Cambridge will go
head to head with a
Cornish footbridge
and a cluster of black
boatsheds in the Lake District, in
this year’s battle for the UK’s best
building. Joining them in the race
for the 2021 RIBA Stirling prize are
a new student centre for Kingston
University, a key-worker housing
development in Cambridge, and
a controversial stone apartment
block in London which was almost
demolished by the local council.
The mosque is the list’s
photogenic stunner, and the most
likely to snatch the gong. Designed
by Marks Barfield, architects of
the London Eye, it applies hi-
tech rigour to the creation of a
beguiling glade of worship. A grid
of tall tree-like columns branches
outwards, weaving into a filigree
structural canopy above the
prayer hall, echoing gothic stone
vaults. Patterned with Arabic Kufic
inscriptions, and with ablution
facilities worthy of a luxury spa,
the £23m building is a compelling
fusion of local and Islamic
traditions, creating a powerful
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National
Architecture
prototype for a modern British
mosque.
An equally startling reinvention
is the Tintagel Castle footbridge.
Spanning the gulch from the
Cornish mainland, the £5m
gossamer bridge shimmers like a
spider’s web – impossibly slender,
tapering to nothing at the centre,
where the two cantilevered halves
meet. Designed by Belgian bridge
specialists Ney & Partners, with
William Matthews (who led the
design of the Shard skyscraper for
Renzo Piano), it has an unusually
handcrafted, tactile quality. The
handrails are made of raw oak, the
deck is surfaced with local slate
tiles on their edges, giving the
pleasing sense of walking across a
box of After Eight mints.
A similar mix of raw and refined
is found at the Windermere Jetty
Museum in the Lake District.
Designed by Carmody Groarke this
£20m cluster of black metal sheds
is a refreshing departure from the
national park’s usual insistence
on drystone walls and slate roofs.
The sheds’ black-oxidised copper
walls glimmer with a faint verdigris
patina, while chunks have been
carved out of their sides, leaving
rooftops floating with surreally
deep overhangs. They frame views
of the lake, allowing water to lap
inside the building.
 Cambridge Central Mosque is
among top contenders for this year’s
Stirling prize for UK’s best building
: Y V 
▲ 15 Clerkenwell Close , London –
Flintstones meets Mies van der Rohe
23
▼ Other shortlisted projects include
the ‘impossibly slender’ footbridge
over the ravine at Tintagel Castle,
Cornwall : V V
 Kingston University London’s
£50m Town House student centre –
combining library, dance centre and
views :  Y
up to a rooftop cafe with panoramic
vistas across to Hampton Court
Palace and the Thames. Cascading
balconies add to the sense of an
open “learning landscape”.
After a bold council housing
scheme in Norwich won the last
Stirling prize in 2019, this year a
rather dull Cambridge University-
funded housing project is
shortlisted. The key-worker flats
by Stanton Williams are inspired by
the city’s college courts, forming
a series of loose, interconnected
courtyards, tied together with
varied landscaping designed by
J&L Gibbons. It is well made, with
neat bikesheds and innovative
underground bin storage, but it is a
relentlessly beige, lifeless place.
Finally, to spice things up,
comes a wildly original building
 Black that Islington council wanted
‘boatsheds’ at to bulldoze. 15 Clerkenwell
the Windermere Close looks like something Fred
Jetty Museum in Flintstone might have erected after
the Lake District glimpsing the work of Mies van der
frame views of Rohe. Its facade is a grid of columns
the lake and let and beams, but the pieces are
the water lap monolithic chunks of limestone,
inside still showing their masons’ marks.
: These days stone is mostly a thin
 +  decorative cladding, but here it is
holding the building up – which,
says its architect and developer
Amin Taha, is cheaper, faster and
embodies far less CO than an
equivalent in steel or concrete.
It is a wonderfully poetic sight,
a modern ruin with creepers.
However, the council declared it
“rough, ugly and detrimental to the
conservation area,” and claimed
it was in breach of its planning
permission. After lengthy legal
wrangling (which delayed its
Stirling shortlisting since 2018), an
inspector found in favour of Taha.
▲ Key-worker flats in Cambridge, It would be sweet revenge for
inspired by its colleges’ courtyards this neo-neolithic masterpiece to
win the prize. But it is hard to see
Kingston’s £50m Town House the judges opting for luxury flats
is a palatial new student centre in over a project that makes a wider
London. Designed by Irish Pritzker public contribution. My money is
prize winners Grafton, it combines on the mosque, which contains
a library and dance studios. Quiet one of the most entrancing interior
study areas enjoy vertiginous views spaces built this century, a King’s
into the central performance space, College Chapel ceiling for our new
while a broad staircase meanders timber age.
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•
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The RA’s 253rd summer exhibition
opens in London on 22 September,
coordinated by Yinka Shonibare
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Glamour bug
Fly named in honour
of drag queen RuPaul
Page 28
Learn from Afghanistan fiasco and
boost EU military,says Von der Leyen
Daniel Boffey
Strasbourg
The EU must learn the lessons of the
abrupt end of the US-led mission in
Afghanistan and acquire the “politi-
cal will” to build up its own military
force to deploy to crises, the Euro-
pean Commission’s president, Ursula
von der Leyen, said.
In her annual state of the union
speech in the European parliament
in Strasbourg, Von der Leyen, a for-
mer German defence minister, said
the withdrawal of the US-led mis-
sion in Afghanistan, and subsequent
collapse of Ashraf Ghani’s adminis-
tration, raised troubling questions.
“In the last weeks there have been
many discussions on expeditionary
forces … on what type and how many
we need,” Von der Leyen said. “This
is no doubt part of the debate and I
believe it will be part of the solution.”
‘Do not touch
my clothes’:
women tweet
against the
Taliban
Stefanie Glinski
Kabul
After street demonstrations across
major cities in Afghanistan, women
have now taken to social media to
protest against the Taliban’s hard-
line policies towards them.
In an online campaign Afghan
women around the world have shared
photos of themselves wearing tradi-
tional colourful clothes, using the
hashtag #DoNotTouchMyClothes.
The protest is a response to a sit-
down demonstration orchestrated
by the Taliban at Kabul University,
where about 300 women appeared
in all-black garments covering their
faces, hands and feet – the sort of
dress never previously seen across
the country.
Waving Taliban flags, the women
said they supported the militants
who have announced that women
would not be allowed to hold high-
ranking government positions and
that schools and universities needed
to be gender-segregated.
Since the Taliban took the capital,
Kabul, the Islamists have set up an
•
Not down and out
Paris and London
buck Covid blues
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But she said there was a more “fun-
damental” problem in the capitals
of the EU. “You can have the most
advanced forces in the world but if
you are never prepared to use them
of what use are they? What has held
us back until now isnot just a shortfall
of capacity, it is the lack of political
will. And if we develop this political
will there is a lot that we can do at
EU level.”
A lack of investment in defence by
EU governments and concerns about
the risk of undermining Nato, held in
particular by the EU’s eastern mem-
ber states, havebeen among the main
obstacles to establishing a united
European military wing.
General government expendi-
ture in the EU’s 27 member states on
defence stood at 1.2% of GDP in 2019
compared with the 3.4% in the US.
Von der Leyen said she was work-
ing with the Nato general secretary,
Jens Stoltenberg, on issuing a new
Mobile app entrepreneur
Sara Wahedi
all-male interim government with
just a handful of Tajik and Uzbek rep-
resentatives and no member of the
ethnic Hazara minority.
The ministry of women’s affairs
is not part of the new regime, which
has brought back the ministry for
the propagation of virtue and the
prevention of vice, ensuring thatsha-
ria law is implemented throughout
the country.
Many Afghan women, especially
in urban centres, fear that their hard-
gained freedoms may be limited,
declaration on EUNato relations by
the end of the year. The EU member
states Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Ire-
land, Malta and Sweden are not in the
military alliance.
Vonder Leyen said there would be
crises where the EU’s own military
force should operate independently
of the UN and Nato. “On the ground,
our soldiers work side-by-side with
police officers, lawyers and doctors,
with humanitarian workers and
human rights defenders, with teach-
ers and engineers,” she said.
The idea of common defence, one
attacked by some critics of the EU as
evidence of nation building, has a
long and tortured history. Two EU
battle groups of 1,500 troops were
established in 2007 but they have
never been deployed.
Von der Leyen said also the EU’s
intelligence services and other agen-
cies needed to share information. To
build up the EU’s defence sector,and
Peymana Assad tweeted:
‘This is Afghan culture’
remembering the 1996 to 2001 Tal-
iban regime that saw women largely
confined to their homes.
Dr Bahar Jalali, an Afghan historian
and gender studies expert, posted
the first photo using the #DoNot-
TouchMyClothes hashtag, which has
since inspired Afghan women across
the globe.
Peymana Assad, the first person
of Afghan origin to be elected to pub-
lic office in the UK, posted a photo
of herself in colourful garments and
tweeted:“This is Afghan culture. My
‘You can havethe
most advanced forces
in the world but if you
are never prepared
to use them of what
use are they?’
Ursula von der Leyen
Commission pre ent
ensure equipment used by European
armies was “interoperable”, VAT
could be waived on purchases from
local arms dealers, she said.
A leaders’ European defence
summit will be convened by Von
der Leyen and Emmanuel Macron,
BBC’s Sana Safi: ‘This is
as traditional as I get’
traditional dress.” The BBC’s Sana
Safi, posting a similar photo, wrote:
“So how do Afghan women dress
then? This is how. If I was in Afghan-
istan then I would have the scarf on
my head. This is as ‘conservative’ and
‘traditional’ as I/you can get.”
The musician Ariana Delawari
shared a photo of her mother “with
me in her belly”, she wrote, wearing
traditional dresses and no head-
scarves decades ago in Afghanistan.
Despite the Taliban’s announce-
ment that further protests would
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the French president, in 2022 when
France holds the EU presidency.
While the comments were gen-
erally well received in the chamber,
Martin Schwirdeman, president of
the Left group in the parliament, cas-
tigated the commission for “calling
for more armament and military solu-
tions” rather than directing funding
to alleviate suffering of the poorest.
Some EU governments expressed
doubts too. “Europe is going to
address its defence weaknesses by a
declaration, a summit, an agency and
waiving VAT. The vision – technoc-
racy embodied,” said one diplomat.
The speech was otherwise scarce
on eye-catching initiatives. Brexit
and the EU’s relationship with the
UK, a stock part of such speeches
since 2016, were not raised.
The commission president also
brushed off critics of the EU’s vac-
cines programme which had initially
appeared slow in comparison to what
happened in the US, UK and Israel.
“More than 70% of adults in the EU
are fully vaccinated,” she said. “We
were the only ones to share half of
our vaccine production with the rest
of the world. We delivered more than
700m doses to the European people,
and we delivered more than 700m
doses to the rest of the world, to more
than 130 countries.”
only be allowed if approved by the
ministry of justice, women in Kabul
have pledged to continue their
demonstrations.
Samira, a Kabul University stu-
dent, said that this was her only way
forward. “The Taliban are already
starting to limit women’s freedoms,”
she said. “I have nothing to lose. I will
either be locked inside my house,
unable to continue my education,
or I can fight. Even if I risk my life,
even if they kill me, it’s better than
being silenced.”

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Protest as ‘tone-deaf’
TV show pickscauses
to fight forG20 prize
Lizzy Davies
Producers have billed it as an excit-
ing new twist on reality television: an
XFactor style competition between
campaigners that will give them the
chance to lobby world leaders at the
G20 summit.
But The Activist, announced last
week by the US network CBS, has
already learned to its cost that people
power can be unpredictable,ruthless
and highly effective.
Amid a storm of protest that the
show’s concept is a “dystopian” cel-
ebration of “Insta-activism”, one of
the celebrities lined up to judge the
contest has admitted it “missed the
mark” and she is not qualified for her
role on it – not least because she once
wore blackface for Halloween.
Julianne Hough,a dancer and actor
known for judging Dancing with the
Stars and America’s Got Talent, said
the explosion of criticism had been
“a powerful demonstration of real-
time activism”.
She wrote on Instagram yes-
terday: “I heard you say that the
show was performative, promoted
pseudo-activism over real activism,
felt tone-deaf … and that the hosts
weren’t qualified to assess activism,
because we are celebrities and not
activists.I also heard you say thattry-
ing to value one cause over another,
felt like the Oppression Olympics,
▲ US dancer Julianne Hough accepts
she is not qualified to judge activists
• The Guardian Thursday 16 September 2021
World ▼ RuPaul, whose colourful outfits
inspired the naming of a soldier fly
newly discovered in Australia
:  L  
and totally missed and disrespected
the many activists who have been
killed, assaulted and faced various
abuses fighting for their causes.
“I do not claim to be an activist
and wholeheartedly agree that the
judging aspect of the show missed
the mark, and furthermore, that I am
not qualified to act as a judge.”
Co-produced by Global Citizen,an
international advocacy organisation
dedicated to endingextreme poverty,
the show will feature six activists
teaming up with mentors and vying
to champion a cause for “meaning-
ful change”.
The participants, who will be
judged not only on their ideas but
their online engagement, will go to
the G20 summit in Italy in October
to try to secure “funding and inval-
uable awareness for their causes”.
“The Activist is a first-of-its-kind A fierce look: iridescent gem-like attention and they’re the essential
workers of our ecosystem … it’sreally
competition series that will inspire
real change, as the series progresses
from the United States to Rome for
fly named after drag star RuPaul important we study them.”
essard said naming one soldier
fly Opaluma rupaul was an “obvious
the activists’ final challenge at the decision”, adding: “I was watching
G20,” said Hugh Evans, CEO and co- a lot of RuPaul’s Drag Race while
founder of Global Citizen.” Caitlin Cassidy examining the species and I know it
Global Citizen insists the show will would challenge RuPaul on the run-
not “trivialise”activism. “On the con- way serving fierce looks. [The fly]
trary, our aim is to support activists A fabulous soldier fly, shimmering in has a costume of shiny metallic rain-
everywhere, show the ingenuity and metallic rainbow colours on the Aus- bow colours, and it has legs for days.
dedication they put into their work, tralian forest floor, has been named I think once [Ru] sees the fly she’ll
and amplify their causes to an even after the drag queen RuPaul. realise it’s quite fierce and hopefully
wider audience,” a spokesperson told Bryan essard, an entomologist, appreciate the name.”
the US magazine Deadline. who also named a flyafter the singer Nine of the 13 soldier fly species
The celebrity judges include the Beyoncé, said: “It’s a great way of ▲ Entomologists hope the naming of newly named, by essard, are from
singer Usher and the actor Priyanka generating attention about why flies the RuPaul fly will aid its protection areas badly burned by the 2019-20
Chopra Jonas, the former Miss World. are important, to get as many people bushfires. Two species were sighted
“Couldn’t they just give the as possible talking about these spe- essard said, had helped threatened only in Queensland’s amington
money …directly to activist causes?” cies that need help, so they can be species gain attention in response to national park, which lost 80% of its
tweeted the actor Jameela Jamil. protected.” environmental threats such as cli- cover during the fires.
“Rather than turning activism into The RuPaul fly is in the new genus mate change. “Naming a species is the irst
a game and then giving a fraction of Opaluma (from the atin words for “There’s a new wave of entomol- step to understanding and protect-
the much needed money away in a opal and thorn) of soldier flies from ogists using pop culture to generate ing them because otherwise they’re
‘prize…?’ People are dying.” Australia named because they look interest in our science and what we invisible to science. We’ve probably
Hough wore blackface in 2013 for a like “little gems buzzing around the do, which is really exciting. With lost thousands of species we don’t
costume depicting a character from forest floor” and have a thorn tucked bushfire recovery efforts, normally even know about in the bushfires
the drama Orange Is the New Black. under their abdomen. the interest goes to the cute and because they haven’t been docu-
She apologised. Global Citizen was The growing practice of nam- cuddly species like koalas, but a lot mented, when it’s so important our
approached for comment. ing insects after pop culture icons, of the invertebrates don’t have any native species get that attention.”
Thursday 16 September 2021 The Guardian
Biden rallies behind generalatcentre
of claims he had undermined Trump
Joan E Greve
Washington
Joe Biden threw his weight behind
America’s top military officer yes-
terday, saying he had “complete
confidence” in the general who,
according to a new book, took steps
to prevent Donald Trump rom “going
rogue” and launching a nuclear war
or an attack on China.
Mark Milley,chairman o the joint
chies o staff, also deended calls he
made to his Chinese military counter-
part in the tumultuous final months
o Trump’s presidency, signalling
that the hitherto secret conversa-
tions were in keeping with his duties.
Biden, the Democratic president
who beat Trump last November,
backed Milley’s “leadership, his
patriotism, and his fidelity to our
constitution”, the White House press
secretary, Jen Psaki, said yesterday.
Then, in a written statement,
Milley’s spokesman, Colonel Dave
‘Heartbreak’ as
sale of Native
American cave
painting site
goes ahead
Associated Press
Leaders o the Osage Nation have
expressed “heartbreak” ater a
Missouri cave containing Native
American artwork rom more than
1,000 years ago was sold at auction.
The Osage Nation had hoped to buy
the land to protect and preservetheir
“most sacred site”. Instead a bidder
paid $2.2m (£1.6m) to private owners
or what is known as Picture Cave,
along with 43 acres surrounding it,
near the town o Warrenton, about
60 miles west o St Louis, Missouri.
Bryan Laughlin, director o Sel-
kirk Auctioneers & Appraisers, the
St Louis-based firm handling the auc-
tion, said the winning bidder had
declined to be named. A St Louis am-
ily that has owned the land since 1953
has mainly used the area or hunting.
The cavewas the site o sacred rit-
uals and burying o the dead. It has
more than 290 prehistoric glyphs, or
hieroglyphic symbols used to repre-
sent sounds or meanings, “making it
the largest collection o Indigenous
people’s polychrome paintings in
Missouri”, the auction website said.
Carol Diaz-Granados opposed the
sale. She and her husband, James
Duncan, spent 20 years research-
ing the cave. Duncan is a scholar in
Osage oral history, and Diaz-Gra- ▲ The prehistoric artwork at Picture
nados a research associate in the Cave is noted for its intricate detail
•
World
Butler, said the top general acted
within his authority as the most
senior uniormed adviser to the pres-
ident and to the secretary o deense.
“His calls with the Chinese and
others in October and Januarywere in
keeping with these duties and respon-
sibilities conveying reassurance in
order to maintain strategic stability,”
Butler said, adding that “all calls rom
the chairman to his counterparts,
including those reported, are staffed,
coordinated and communicated with
the Department o Deense and the
interagency.”
The Milley calls weredescribed in
excerpts that emerged on Tuesday
rom the orthcoming book “Peril”
by the Washington Post journalists
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. It
says Milley told General Li Zuocheng
o the People’s Liberation Army that
he would warn his counterpart in the
event o a US attack.
“General Li, I want to assure you
that the American governmentis sta-
ble and everything is going to be OK
… we are not going to attack,” Milley
told Li our days beore the November
2020 election, accordingto the book.
The idea that a general would uni-
laterally intervene to secretly prevent
or halt the actions o the president
o the United States, who is com-
mander in chie o the US military, is
extraordinary. Milley served Trump
as chairman o the joint chies and
then continued under Biden.
Yesterday, Psaki urged Americans
to consider the “key context” in
which Milley allegedly took these
steps, reerring to Trump’s efforts
to overturn Biden’s victory in an
election called the most secure in
US history by officials at local and
national level. “The president has
worked side by side with Chairman
Milley or almost eight months,“
Psaki said. “His experience with him
has been that he is a patriot.”
The revelations have led some
Republicans to call or Milley’s
resignation, accusing him o under-
mining the constitution by trying to
anthropology department at Wash-
ington University, St Louis.
“Auctioning off a sacred [Native
American] site truly sends the wrong
message,” Diaz-Granados said. “It’s
like auctioning offthe Sistine Chapel.”
The Osage Nation, in a statement,
called the sale “truly heartbreaking”.
The statement read: “Our ances-
tors lived in this area or 1,300 years.
This was our land. We have hundreds
o thousands o our ancestors bur-
ied throughout Missouri and Illinois,
including Picture Cave.”
The cave eatures drawings o
people, other animals, and mythical
creatures. Diaz-Granados said vari-
ous methods were used to create the
▲ General Mark Milley acted to stop
Trump ‘going rogue’, a book claims
‘President Biden
has worked side by
side withMilleyfor
eight months. His
experiencewith him
is that he is a patriot’
Jen Psaki
White House press chief
▲ Wall paintings at the site sacred to
the Ossage Nation in Missouri which
was sold for $2.2m to private buyers
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art. For one depiction o a mythical
being the artist created a white figure
by scraping offthe brown sandstone.
Diaz-Granados said the intricate
details set the Missouri cave apart
rom other sites with ancient draw-
ings. “In Picture Cave you get actual
clothing details, headdress details,
eathers, weapons. It’s amazing.”
Years ago analytical chemists rom
TexasA&M University,using pigment
samples, determined that the draw-
ings were at least 1,000 years old.
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put guardrails on Trump’s behaviour
during his final days in office.
Woodward, who broke the Water-
gate stories that led to Republican
Richard Nixon’sresignation as presi-
dent in 1974, and Costa portray Milley
as “certain that Trump had gone into
a serious mental decline in the ater-
math o the election”.
Milley reportedly thought the
president had become “all but
manic, screaming at officials and
constructing his own alternate reality
about endless election conspiracies”.
According to the authors, Milley
worried that Trump could“go rogue”
and told senior staff:“Younever know
what a president’s trigger point is.”
Yesterday, Psaki drew a distinction
between the general’s relationship
with Trump, who incited a deadly
insurrection at the US Capitol on
6 January in hopes o overturning
Biden’s victory, and was impeached
or it, and his relationship with Biden.
“This current president, who
ollows the constitution, who’s not
omenting an insurrection, who ol-
lows the rule o law, has complete
confidence in Chairman Milley and
him continuing to serve in his role.”
Trump has said that Milley should
be tried or treason i the report was
true, calling the general “Dumbass”.
Associated Press contributed to this
report
Two US climbers
founddead after
fall in Mallorca
Sam Jones
Madrid
Two American men have died while
scaling cliffs at a popular climbing
spot in Mallorca, Spain.
The pair, who were 25 and 35 and
have not been named, had gone there
rom Barcelona on Tuesday or a day’s
climbing in caves near the port o
Portocolom on its south-east coast.
The area is avoured by climbers
who practise deep water soloing, or
psicobloc, a style o solo climbing that
takes place over water in the hope o
minimising injuries.
A spokesman or the Guardia Civil
in Mallorca said the alarm had been
raised shortly ater noon on Tues-
day when nearby swimmers who
had seen the pair climbing with a
chalk bag spotted a body floating in
the water by the Cueva de es Cossi.
“Alocal lieguard and some nearby
swimmers provided him with first aid
but were unable to revive him,” he
said. “Then another body was spot-
ted closer to the cave. The maritime
rescue service arrived but there was
nothing more to be done.”
The maritime rescue service said
it had worked with firefighters and
police to recover the bodies, which
were taken to Portocolom. The Guar-
dia Civil spokesman said the keys
to their hire car and other personal
effects had been ound on the rocks.
Their passports were ound in the car
and the US consulate was inormed.
An investigation has been opened
and postmortem examinations were
due to take place yesterday.
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30 World
Brazil

▲ Túlio Pinheiro, 33, a prospector who is now out of work and in poverty, and

Amazon
the pool table that has served as his bed owing to his lack of money

Scepticism over
crackdown on
illegal miners
Brazil’s ultraconservative

I
Tom Phillips
Jardim do Ouro
n the four decades since
he helped found Jardim do
Ouro, the Garden of Gold,
Fernando Viana has had a
front-row seat to the chaotic
scramble for precious
metals happening deep in the
Brazilian Amazon.
There have been cutthroat
squabbles over the jungle mines
sprinkled around this riverside
outpost; bullet-riddled corpses
dumped outside the rowdy wooden
bordellos he once ran.
“Stabbings. Bullets. Shooting
everywhere. So much shooting.
It was wonderful, mate. A blast!”
chuckled the former police chief,
who for years laid down the law
in this corner of Brazil’s wild west visit to the region.
with his .38 revolver.
In recent months, however, an
unusual calm has descended on
Jardim do Ouro after troops rolled the environmental enforcement
into town, as part of a crackdown
designed to convince the world that
Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil is cleaning the clampdown, which comes
up its environmental act.
“Everyone’s fleeing the forest
… because the mines have been
shut down,” said Jardim do Ouro’s impact while Bolsonaro remains
former sheriff, now 75, as he
surveyed his strangely subdued
community through cataract-
clouded eyes.
Amid rising global alarm at
the climate emergency and the
Amazon’s decimation under
president, the army has sprung
into action with a two-month
offensive against illegal gold miners
and loggers. The mission, which
began in July and ends this week,
has been accompanied by a public
relations blitz in which Bolsonaro’s
administration claims: “It’s in our
nature to preserve”.
Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas,
the infrastructure minister and
a close Bolsonaro ally, said their
government was determined to
show the world a new, greener
face after three years in which
deforestation rates and global
outrage exploded.
“I recognise there has been a
deterioration of [Brazil’s] image as
a result of the deforestation figures
and what the government is now
doing is increasing its monitoring
capabilities so these statistics can
be reversed,” he said on a recent
“The fight against deforestation
will be intensified,” Freitas insisted,
trumpeting the recent doubling of
budget.
Activists are sceptical that
on the eve of November’s Cop26
climate summit in Glasgow, will
have any meaningful long-term
in power. Deforestation has soared
to a 12-year high under a leader
critics claim has emboldened
Amazon outlaws with his anti-
environmental words and deeds.
“This softening of the rhetoric
doesn’t convince me … [and] I
really don’t think the world will
buy this so easily,” said Suely
Araújo, the former head of Brazil’s
environmental agency Ibama.
Araújo, now a public policy
specialist for the environmental
group Observatório do Clima, said
Brazil’s government had clearly
grasped Cop26’s importance
“and decided to see if this [green
makeover] will stick”.
Bolsonaro’s controversial
environment minister, Ricardo
Salles, was recently forced from
government in what some saw as an
effort to placate the international
community after he was linked to
an illegal logging racket.
“But the boss is still there. It’s the
president who’s in charge and he
has a crude, 50-years-out-of-date
vision of environmental policy as
if development meant knocking
down the forest and replacing it
with gold mines,” Araújo said.
Whatever the abiding impact of
Brazil’s pre-Cop26 crackdown, it
has had a real and immediate effect
in Jardim do Ouro, where many
illegal miners have been left jobless
 Daily life in
the district of
Jardim do Ouro
could be hit
by the halt to
illegal mining
– assuming it
lasts
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after their bosses halted operations
for fear of their equipment being
destroyed.
“I’m in a situation of decadence,”
complained Túlio Pinheiro, an
unemployed and inebriated
miner, as he stumbled down the
settlement’s dusty main drag one
recent lunchtime having spent the
previous night snoozing on a pool
table because he lacked the funds
for a room in a local flophouse.
As a green army truck clattered
into town carrying sweaty, rifle-
toting troops, Pinheiro approached
the commander to complain.
“Everything’s stopped. When’s
the operation going to end?” the
miner inquired. The officer laughed
evasively.
Pinheiro, 33, said he knew
exactly who to blame for his
plight: not Bolsonaro but the US
president, “Joe Bye”, who last year
warned of “significant economic
consequences” if Brazil continued
to wreck the Amazon.
“He’s an environmentalist,
he is,” the miner said, claiming
Brazil’s president had been strong-
armed into taking action by his US
counterpart. “Bolsonaro doesn’t
Thursday 16 September 2021 The Guardian
 In the
ex-sheriff
Fernando
Viana’s 40
years in Jardim
do Ouro the
forest has been
torn up by
mining with its
accompanying
violence
support this … If it was up to him,
none of this would be happening,”
Pinheiro argued.
Custódio da Silva, who runs
a shop near the river ferry that
takes miners into the forest
and brings gold and timber out,
shared that view, despite being a
leftist supporter of the Brazilian
Workers’ party. “Heck, Trump was
much better! This crazy operation
happened after Joe Biden came
along,” said Silva, whose sales
plummeted when impoverished
miners skipped town.
•
▼ Brazil’s curbs on illegal mining
since July have affected businesses in
Jardim do Ouro as trade has slowed
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In Moraes Almeida, a nearby
town, one influential rancher
and businessman also claimed
Bolsonaro was being coerced. “He’s
got no choice. He’s got a knife to
his throat,” Ubiratan Filadelpho
said of the international pressure.
“It’s the whole world against
Bolsonaro when it comes to this
environmental question.”
Signs of the devastation wrought
by decades of exploitation are
everywhere in Jardim do Ouro and
the surrounding state of Pará, one
of nine that form Brazil’s Amazon.
‘Everything has
stopped.Bolsonaro
doesn’t support this
... if it was up to him
none of this would be
happening’
Túlio Pinheiro
Out-of-work miner
The Jamanxim River, which
meanders past Viana’s waterside
bungalow, runs a disturbing milky
brown: the result, locals say, of
mining pollution.
When Viana arrived in 1981, the
region’s rainforests were largely
untouched. Forty years later, like
much of the Amazon, they have
been replaced by a sprawling
patchwork of dirt tracks and cattle
ranches – and the destruction
continues.
Twenty miles upriver, in a
supposedly protected area near
the Jamanxim national forest,
the hum of a chainsaw could be
heard despite the army’s presence.
The machine fell silent as the
Guardian’s reporters approached,
but huge damage had already been
done. Satellite imagery showed
a 541-hectare strip of jungle was
felled here in recent months – the
equivalent of some 650 football
pitches. At least 1,601 sq miles of
forest were destroyed in Pará state
between August 2020 and this July
– an area more than 2.5 times larger
than Greater London.
Araújo said army operations
might temporarily slow such
destruction but would never
solve the problem on their own,
especially given Bolsonaro’s
“programme of destruction”.
“As soon as they leave,
everything goes back to how it
was,” she said.
A return to business as usual is
exactly what many in Jardim do
Ouro would like. Claudionor Silva, a
kindly north-easterner who looked
a decade older than his 56 years,
said he had taken a job in one of the
region’s illegal gold pits in April,
after Covid-19 torpedoed his work
as a street hawker. Five months
later he had been laid off again.
“How am I going to support my
family now?” the father of four
wondered as he sat beside an idled
excavator that until recently had
been tearing chunks out of the
Amazon soil.
Benedito Ademar Leitão, a
local preacher, said he feared his
already tiny flock would shrink
further if the crackdown forced
redundant locals to migrate. Deep
down, however, the churchman
sympathised.
“God didn’t create the universe
for it to be destroyed like this,” said
Leitão, 63, a former miner who
swapped gold for God after a booze-
fuelled bar brawl in which he was
shot in the hip and nearly died.
“When he created Adam, where
did he put him? In the Garden of
Eden,” the honeymouthed pastor
sermonised as another army truck
raced towards town.
“And what did he tell Adam? To
take care of it.”
Paris terrorsuspect says attack
was ‘revenge for Syria airstrike’
Angelique Chrisafis Paris
Agencies
The sole survivor of the jihadist cell
alleged to have killed 130 people in
Paris six years ago has told his trial
the attacks were revenge for French
airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, and that
France had known “the risks” of
attacking Islamic State.
“We fought France, we attacked
France, we targeted the civilian
population – but it was nothing per-
sonal against them,” Salah Abdeslam
said of the coordinated gun and sui-
cide bomb attacks across Paris on
13 November 2015, which began at
the national football stadium, con-
tinued at bars and restaurants and
ended with a massacre inside a rock
gig at the Bataclan concert hall.
“I know my statement may be
shocking, but it is not to dig the knife of planning and logistical support. Six
deeper in the wound but to be sin-
cere towards those who are suffering
immeasurable grief,” he told court.
Abdeslam was one of 10 people
who allegedly attacked the French
capital with machine guns and sui-
cide bombs. The other attackers blew
themselves up or were shot by police.
In court, he spoke of the former
president who had authorised strikes
against IS targets in Syria. “François
Hollande knew the risks he was tak-
ing in attacking the Islamic State
in Syria,” he said, adding that the
president knew that “in taking that
decision, French people would die”.
Relatives of the dead and the
roughly 350 people injured cried or
hugged one another as Abdeslam
spoke yesterday, on his 32nd birth-
day. The trial is the biggest criminal
trial in modern French legal history
and is expected to last nine months.
He identified himself in court last ▲ Salah Abdeslam – sole survivor of
week as a “fighter for the Islamic the jihadist cell that killed 130 people
Hole in ozone
layer is ‘larger
than usual’
Helena Horton
The hole in the ozone layer that devel-
ops annually is “rather larger than
usual” and is currently bigger than
Antartica, say the scientists respon-
sible for monitoring it.
Researchers from the Coperni-
cus Atmosphere Monitoring Service
say that this year’s hole is growing
quickly and is larger than 75% of
ozone holes at this stage in the sea-
son since 1979.
Ozone exists about seven to 25
miles above the Earth’s surface,
in the stratosphere, and acts like a
sunscreen for the planet, shielding
it from ultraviolet radiation. Every
year, a hole forms during the late
winter of the southern hemisphere
as the sun causes ozone-depleting
reactions, which involve chemically
31
State”, and insisted that he and his
co-accused were not “terrorists,
jihadists, extremists” but “Muslims”.
“It’sabout authentic Islam,”he said.
“They say often that I’m being pro-
vocative, but it’s not true, I want to
be sincere,” he said. “My goal is not
to hurt anyone.”
Forsix years Abdeslam, a Brussels-
born French citizen, who is accused
of being central to the international
logistics operation that saw the jihad-
ists return to Europe from Syria,
had maintained a stubborn silence
towards investigators. But in the first
days of court proceedings in Paris last
week, he twice interrupted. He said
of several of his co-accused: “They
helped me, but they knew nothing,”
and that he and his co-accused were
being treated “like dogs” in prison.
Twenty suspects are on trial
accused of providing various levels
will be tried in their absence – five are
presumed dead in Iraq or Syria and
one is in prison in Turkey.
Abdeslam is accused of having
escorted the three bombers who blew
themselves up at the Stade de France
national stadium. He is suspected of
planning to carry out his own suicide
attack but backing out. Abdeslam was
arrested in Brussels four months
later,just before suicide attacks there
killed 32 and injured 270.
active forms of chlorine and bromine
derived from human-made com-
pounds. In a statement Copernicus
said that “this year’shole has evolved
into a rather larger than usual one”.
Vincent-Henri Peuch, the service’s
director, said: “We cannot really say
at this stage how the ozone hole will
evolve. However, the hole of this year
is remarkably similar to the one of
2020, which was among the deepest
and the longest lasting – it closed
around Christmas – in our records
since 1979.
“Wewill keep monitoring its devel-
opment in the next weeks. A large or
small ozone hole in one year does
not necessarily mean that the overall
recoveryprocess is not going ahead as
expected, but it can signal that spe-
cial attention needs to be paid.”
Scientists accept the depletion in
the ozone layer is caused by man-
made gases called CFCs that were
first developed in the 1930s for use
in refrigeration systems, and were
then deployed as propellants in aer-
osol spray cans.
CFCs have been banned in 197
countries around the world. Since
the ban, the ozone layer has shown
signs of recovery.
 • The Guardian Thursday 16 September 2021
32 World ▼ Perales, left, and García. Perales
realised many unemployed people
were not skilled at using social media

Spain Londoners and

HOOH: N SO EQO
off from the employment market
because they did not know how to
look for jobs online.
Parisians still
‘Human “Today, you need a computer
and computer skills to get a job,
because that’s where 95% of jobs satisfied with
LinkedIn’
are advertised,” said Perales. “In
the beginning, I used to go out on to
the streets of Madrid on my scooter city lifedespite
in my spare time looking for people
Covid – study
helps the
who’d not been on the streets for
too long. I talked to them and asked
if they were looking for work. I

new jobless
interviewed them and then tried to
write it up nicely to put online.” Jon Henley
e has now recruited two Europe correspondent
colleagues, Pablo García and Miguel
Jiménez, to help develop the Reports of a “death of the city” due
project, and is spending 10 hours a to the Covid crisis have been greatly

T
day fielding inquiries as word of Un exaggerated, according to a survey of
By spring last year, Alejandro Mismo quipo spreads. Parisians and Londoners that found
Sam Jones was begging outside a Madrid “It’s like a more human kind of little change in people’s satisfaction
Madrid supermarket just to survive. e LinkedIn,” Perales said. “We tell with urban life or plans to move out
would probably still be there if it people’s stories in a nice way so that in the near future.
he Covid crisis came had not been for a family he had got others can empathise with them. A The report by King’s College Lon-
scything through to know at the supermarket – and lot of the people have been working don and the Université de Paris,based
Alejandro’s* life with an unusually altruistic harnessing in their trades for 30 years, so they on polling carried out in April and
a speed, ferocity of social media. have a lot of experience.” May, found that cafe, club and restau-
and vindictive The family’s daughter told him Thanks to their mobile phones rant closures, lockdowns and home
thoroughness about Un Mismo quipo (ne and free wifi in cafes and other working had not dented inhabitants’
that stuns him to this day. Team), an Instagram account and public places, dozens of people a enthusiasm for the two capitals.
Almost overnight, the widowed website that allows unemployed day are now getting in touch to look Compared with a pre-pandemic
craftsman’s business supplying and often homeless people to for work, and the Instagram page survey in 2019, the study found little
leather pieces to shops, markets advertise their skills to potential has more than 30,000 followers. change in the shares of Londoners and
and the military folded, his meagre employers. A company that makes Although pain’s economy Parisians planning to leave, greater
savings gave out, his father died luxury motorbike seats came across is recovering from Covid and satisfaction with local services, and
from coronavirus, the electricity Alejandro’s profile and offered him the numbers out of work are majorities believingtheir capital will
was cut off and he found himself a job at its factory. ▲ The initiative began with a photo decreasing, unemployment is still bounce back, albeit slowly.
relying on food banks to feed The initiative began in June of an electrician appealing for work 14.3% (the U average is 6.9%). “The pandemic has forced a
himself and his teenage daughter. when a friend of the film-maker As demand for Un Mismo quipo change in the way we live our lives,
“Things were hard before the Gonzalo Perales sent him a photo of day, Perales met a man on the grows, Perales and his colleagues and that has had a particular impact
pandemic,” he said. “But if you’d a man on a street in central Madrid – streets of Madrid who was looking are hoping to transform the project on cities, with offices left vacant or
told me one day that everything an electrician by training – holding for work as a waiter. e uploaded into a social startup. “We’re not only minimally used for long periods
that’s happened to me would a cardboard sign to appeal for work. his story and, within 48 hours, 15 looking to become another ave the of time,” said Kelly Beaver of pollsters
happen to me, I’d never have Perales, who “went a bit viral” job interviews had rolled in. Children or Unicef,” he said. “But Ipsos Mori.
believed you. I started skipping on social media four years ago Perales realised many of those if we got enough people involved “The ‘decline of the city’ doesn’t
meals so that I could feed my when he made a video about who lost their jobs in the pandemic and enough partnerships and seem to take enough account of the
daughter properly. I lost 12 kilos. being diagnosed with leukaemia, were in their 40s and 50s and had marketing, we could help 1,000 views and beliefs of the people who
I used to lie and tell her I wasn’t posted the picture on his Instagram worked for decades as waiters, people a year instead of 100.” live in [cities] – who are mostly happy
hungry because I’d been picking at account. Within an hour, the man tradespeople or craftworkers. with where they live. The future of
stuff all day.” had been offered a job. The next When Covid struck, they were cut *Alejandro is not his real name London and Paris as powerhouse cap-
ital cities seems secure.”
The survey showed 56% of Lon-
doners were satisfied with their local
services such as schools, transport
and police, a large increase from the
Witness to 37% recorded in 2019, while satisfac-
tion levels with services in the greater
a changing Paris area rose from 41% to 51%.
world People’s satisfaction with their
Sebastião local area asa place to live was almost
Salgado, the unchanged in Greater London at 63%
from 64%two years ago, and higher in
Brazilian Paris (59%, from 53%). While slightly
photographer more Londoners said they planned
whose work to leave in the next five years (43%,
from 37%), the proportion of Paris-
encompasses ians planning to leave was almost
the South unchanged (45%, from 44%).
Atlantic, right, Most Londoners (66%) and Paris-
ians (57%) said they thought it likely
has received their city would bounce back from
the Japan Art the Covid crisis, although most also
Association’s expected the recovery to be slow
rather than fast (57% in London and
£400,000 58% in Paris).
award. An “Ata time when the pandemic has
exhibition brought the future of urban life into
of his prints question, it’s reassuring to see that
the ‘death of the city’ feared by some
goes on show has not manifested,” said Dr Jack
at Cromwell Brown, a lecturer in London studies
Place arts at King’s College.
centre in
London from
20 October.
HOOH:
56%
Proportion of Londoners polled
who were satisified with their local
SESO SO services – a big rise from 37% in 2019
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leasehold homes from the developer
Countryside Properties will be freed
from costly contract terms, following
an investigation by the Competition
and Markets Authority.
The CMA, which has been looking
into the practice by property develop-
ers of doubling ground rent every 10
to 15 years, said it would take further
action – including court proceedings
– against any developers that did not
“do the right thingby their leasehold-
ers” and remove problematic clauses
from their contracts.
The contractual cost increases can
leave some house owners struggling
to sell or mortgage their homes while
their rights to their property can also
be at risk if they fall behind on ground
rent payments.
Following the CMA investigation,
Unionsprotest
over Co-op deal
to sell groceries
via Amazon
Sarah Butler
The Co-op has faced criticism as it
begins selling groceries through
Amazon and plans 300 more delivery
robots with the aim of almost tripling
online sales to £200m.
The mutual said shoppers would
be able to order from its full range
of 3,000 grocery items through
Amazon, if they were signed up to
Amazon’s Prime subscription service.
The tie-up will launch in Glas-
gow and surrounding areas. There
are plans to expand later this year
and eventually to go nationwide.
Orders of more than £40 will be deliv-
ered free by Amazon’s Flex service,
whose couriers are self-employed,
and assembled by Co-op staff.
The Co-op sells £70m a year of
groceries online, directly or through
the food courier group Deliveroo and
the robot deliveryspecialist Starship
Technologies.
About 200 of Starship’s auton-
omous robots, which resemble
wheeled cool boxes and have been
compared to squat versions of the
Starwars character R2D2, deliver
Co-op groceries in Milton Keynes
and Northampton. That will increase
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terms from updated contracts that
meant the ground rent increased
in line with the higher retail prices
index measure of inflation. Affected
leaseholders’ ground rent will now
remain at the amount charged when
they bought their home and will not
increase over time.
The announcement comes a year
after the CMA launched enforcement
action against four housing develop-
ers – Countryside, Taylor Wimpey,
Barratt Developments and Persim-
mon Homes – which it believed may
have broken consumer protection
law in relation to leasehold homes.
The insurance group Aviva, which
bought freeholds from developers,
agreed in June to remove ground rent
terms that were considered unfair and
to 500 by the end of the year as the
robots are introduced to five new
towns and cities, including in Cam-
bridgeshire and the north of England.
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-0.0017 -0.0023
repay homeowners whose rents dou-
bled, after the CMA’s investigation.
The housebuilder Persimmon also
agreed at the time to offer leasehold
homeowners the opportunity to
buy the freehold of their property
at a discounted price, and to make
repayments to some homeowners
who bought their freeholds.
Andrea Coscelli, the CMA’s chief
executive, said: “No one should feel
like a prisoner in their home, trapped
by terms that mean they can struggle
to sell or mortgage their property.”
He called on Taylor Wimpey and
other developers to “do the right
thing by their leaseholders and
remove these problematic clauses
from their contracts”. He added: “If
£15m
Total provision by the developer
Countryside Properties for its
ground rent assistance scheme
marks a significant milestone in our
online strategy.”
The Co-op first teamed up with
Amazon in 2012, providing Amazon
collection lockers in its stores.
The GMB union, which is cam-
paigning to improve workers’ rights
at Amazon, has criticised the plans.
Andy Prendergast, national officer,
said: “It’s disappointing to see a com-
pany with a proud ethical heritage
like Co-op teamingup with Amazon:
a tax evading multinational with a
horrifying health and safety record.
“Amazon has made billions
they refuse, we stand ready to step in
and take further action –through the
courts if necessary.”
Countryside said it had not sold
any properties with doubling ground
rent clauses since 2017.It added that
it expected to put aside a further £5m
to cover the ground rent assistance
scheme, taking its total provision for
the scheme to £15m.
Iain McPherson, the chief execu-
tive, said: “Countryside has engaged
extensively and constructively with
the CMA throughout the course of its
review to reach this positive outcome
for affected leaseholders.”
The CMA said it was continuing
its investigation into Barratt Devel-
opments and Taylor Wimpey. In
addition, the watchdog is looking into
investment groups Brigante Proper-
ties, Abacus Land and Adriatic Land.
Mike Amesbury, the shadow
housing minister, called on the gov-
ernment to tackle what he called
the “leasehold scandal”, in which
“ever more innocent homeowners
are being trapped in feudal leasehold
homes, facing extortionate fees, poor
service and restrictive contract terms
without recourse”.
“We cannot wait for the CMA to
investigate everyabuse of leasehold.
The government must finally bring
forward leasehold reform, which has
been promised for years,” he said.
▲ A Co-op employee loads a Starship
delivery robot with groceries for
home delivery in Milton Keynes
:  /Y 
throughout the pandemic and pays
virtually no tax. Bosses won’t even
recognise a union to improve the
health and safety of their beleaguered
workforce.”
The Co-op said: “We aren’t com-
promising our ethics and principles
and the partnership is about getting
our ethically sourced products into
the hands of more people.”
33
Analysis
Richard Partington
Inflation is back
– so is this really
the timeto
cut incomes?
P
rices are climbing in the
shops and consumers
face an autumn crunch.
Figures show inflation
rose at the fastest rate
in a decade in August,
as the impacts of Covid and Brexit
drive up the cost of living.
Surpassing forecasts, the 1.2
percentage point jump was the
largest on record back to January
1997. At 3.2%, the consumer prices
index is now the highest since
March 2012. Is this really the right
time to take more money out of
people’s pockets?
That looks like the plan, with the
biggest ever overnight cut in social
security for universal credit, a
public sector pay freeze and rise in
national insurance contributions.
NHS workers’ pay cheques arrive
as they see their 3% wage increase
erased by the rising cost of living.
Combined with the end of
furlough, this will take demand
out of an already slowing economy,
in a reboot of the 2010s when
recovery from the financial crisis
was choked off by austerity hitting
households’ spending power.
With the Delta Covid variant
threatening a difficult winter
ahead, alarm bells ought to be
ringing in the Treasury, but there
are reasons why Rishi Sunak can
take some comfort.
The Bank of England expects
inflation to fall back from a peak
close to 4% this year. Much of the
recent CPI increase reflects a snap
back from a record slump. The
biggest factor this August was
Sunak’s eat out to help out scheme
a year earlier: the ONS said inflation
should have been at least 0.4
percentage points lower as a result.
Yet business leaders are warning
that supply disruption could last
at least two years, particularly
from Brexit erecting tougher trade
barriers and reducing the supply
of EU workers in Britain. Shipping
costs have quadrupled, the cost of
raw materials for manufacturers
has surged, and global energy
prices have hit record highs.
With growth hitting a soft patch
this autumn, economists warn
there is a whiff of stagflation in
the air. It will be an uncomfortable
period for the Treasury and the
Bank of England; tougher still for
hard-pressed British households.
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34 Financial

Business view the current buy-out frenzy raises

questions Sunak side-stepped.
Nils Pratley Is it really a good thing that UK
companies are seen as sitting ducks
by US private equity firms? And
Canny investors did well from UK boards being supine? Does the
Treasury see no revenue dangers
in UK corporates being loaded
the Darktrace float, but the City with cheap debt that can be off-set
against corporation tax? Would

T
advisers look sillier than usual
he prize for most
undervalued
flotation of the year
goes to Darktrace.
The Cambridge-
based cyber security
firm floated in April at 250p. Price
now: an astonishing 731p. How
does that happen? How does a
£1.7bn valuation become £5bn in
five months?
Well, the company has done
its bit in by delivering the trading
numbers it said it would, plus
a bit more, which clearly helps
The net result is a big win for
those investors who bought at float
and the theoretical losers – the old
cast of shareholders – probably
don’t feel too sore because they
sold only small proportions of their
holdings. But the traditional IPO
process, overseen by superbly paid
City advisers supposedly practised
in the fine art of judging investor
demand, looks sillier than usual.
Sunak hedges confidence
Still Rishi Sunak will be delighted
if Darktrace also shows that the
Sunak really be relaxed if, say, BT, a
company we’re relying on to build
our fast-fibre broadband network,
was the next target?
It was the same perverse
political determination to see every
takeover as “a vote of confidence
in the UK” that led Theresa May’s
government, in its post-Brexit
confusion in 2016, to bless the
purchase of UK tech pioneer Arm
Holdings by SoftBank of Japan.
Now Softbank hopes to sell to a
US buyer, causing angst in the
UK and a wish that Arm was still
independent and quoted here.
None of which is to say that
all buy-outs should be opposed.
But, the takeover game currently
seems hopelessly skewed in

the mood. The fresh news in
yesterday’s first set of full-year
figures wasn’t the thumping
headline loss of $149m (£108m).
It was the second post-float
UK market is not populated by
Luddite investors. Promoting
the UK as a tech hub is one of the
chancellor’s obsessions, even to
the point of agreeing (foolishly) to
End of furlough
private equity’s favour, which was
never a policy ambition. You’d
hope that point might get a nod of
recognition. Come on, chancellor,
you’re not working for a hedge

upgrade in revenue forecasts for
the year ahead.
But the upwards tickle in
revenue forecasts is only a part of
the answer to the undervaluation.
offer a few ra-ra words to promote
Deliveroo’s float.
But Sunak was addressing a
different question earlier this week
when he was asked about private
Tale of twin-speed
fund these days.
Drinking more for less
“Since re-opening, our trading
performance has been very strong,”

recovery for jobs

The heart of it seems to have been
Darktrace’s desperation to get a
listing as a way to demonstrate
independence from Mike Lynch,
the Autonomy founder (and still
16% shareholder in Darktrace
equity’s buying spree for UK listed
companies. “I would view it as a
sign of confidence in the UK. It’s
good news for our economy,” he
replied.
That answer is depressingly
says The Restaurant Group, owner
of Wagamama and Frankie &
Benny’s. Well, yes, it’s hard to
argue with a 21% increase in like-
for-like sales versus pre-pandemic
levels in 2019.

with his wife) fighting extradition
to the US on fraud charges. For
public company status, it was
prepared for a steep discount.
And the other contributing
factor was Deliveroo’s float flop
the previous month. It seems
bizarre that investors would
associate a tech company that
uses artificial intelligence to spot
cyber abnormalities (Darktrace)
with one that runs software to
organise couriers on bicycles
(Deliveroo), but sometimes the
City is gloriously unsophisticated.
Everything gets lumped in one
big “tech” bucket.
banal. Yes, the UK must obviously
welcome foreign investment, but
In desperation to get a
listing todemonstrate
independence from
shareholder Mike
Lynch, it was prepared
for a steep discount
But the detail behind the sales
boost is the interesting bit. This is
not a case of more diners. Rather,
it’s fewer people spending more –
adding more booze, for example. It
seems to be related to the working-
from-home trend: early evening
eating has become more popular.
From the point of view of The
Restaurant Group, all extra income
is obviously welcome. It was on
that basis that the group said
trading “supports” an increase in
likely profits this year. But you can
also see why the shares fell 10%: if
fewer people are coming through
the doors, recovery feels fragile.
T
Richard Partington
Economics correspondent
here are signs outside
almost every pub,
restaurant and hotel
that dot Torquay’s
famous harbour: Staff
wanted.
“It’s been packed solid busy,
you can’t get a table anywhere,”
said Brett Powis, owner of three
hotels in the area including the
Riviera and Lincombe Hall. For the
hotelier, staff shortages made it
harder to take full advantage of the
busiest summertime boom in the
Devon resort for decades.
“We struggled, but got through
by paying higher wages, bonuses,
and said ‘Can you do as many hours
as you can?’ We had just about
enough, but there are other hotels
who weren’t able to open because
they couldn’t get the staff,” he said.
In Torbay, the local authority
that includes Torquay, the number
of workers on furlough has dropped
to one of the lowest rates in Britain,
at just 5%. Yet there are areas such
as Hillingdon, which neighbours
Thursday 16 September 2021 The Guardian
Heathrow airport in west London,
where the job retention scheme
remains a lifeline, with one in
ten workers still on furlough and
receiving up to 80% of their wages
from the government.
That twin-speed recovery leaves
chancellor Rishi Sunak facing a
dilemma when the scheme – on
which about £68.5bn has been
spent so far to protect almost 12m
jobs – finally ends this month.
Severe shortages of workers and
materials have dragged Britain’s
economic recovery from lockdown
close to stall speed. Yet faced
with the worst supply chain crisis
since the 1970s, ministers are
reluctant to act, betting the end of
furlough may help plug the gaps.
As firms struggle to hire chefs,
baristas, butchers, lorry drivers
and builders, about 1.6m jobs were
still furloughed at the end of July,
according to the latest available
figures from HMRC.
However, business leaders warn
removing the scheme will have
little impact on job vacancies, due
to mismatches in the workforce.
Turning an airline pilot into a
Fire shuts major power cable
amid energysupply crunch
Jillian Ambrose
Energy correspondent
A fire has forced the shutdown of
one of Britain’s most important
power cables importing electricity
from France, as the UK faces asupply
crunch and record high market prices.
National Grid was forced to evac-
uate staff from the site of the IFA
high-voltage power cable, which
brings electricity from France to a
converter station in Kent, where 12
fire engines attended the blaze in the
early hours of yesterday morning.
The ire has halted electricity
imports via the 2,000MW power
•
butcher or trucker is unlikely
overnight, as is the movement of
thousands of workers from job-
bereft cities to towns like Torquay.
Tony Danker, the director
general of the CBI lobby group,
said: “The thing that I’m concerned
about with the end of furlough, is
that government believe the labour
shortage problem will be corrected.
And I think they are completely
wrong about that.”
The CBI is calling for a relaxation
of post-Brexit migration rules
to help firms hire EU workers,
after a sharp fall in their numbers
during the pandemic. Longer term,
More than half of jobs in passenger
air transport were on furlough
0% 10 20 30 40 50
Passenger air transport 1%
Travel agency and tour operators 46
Photographic activities 
Creative, arts and entertainment 28
Manufacturing of wearing apparel 26
cable and could not have come at a
worse time for the UK’s squeezed
markets, experts say.
Britain faces record energy prices
after a global gas market increase
raised the cost of running gas power
plants, which has been compounded
by a string of power plant outages and
low wind speeds.
The all-time energy price highs
are expected to send bills soaring for
the next year and cause many small
energy companies to go bankrupt.It
has already forced some steelmakers
to shut their factories during hours of
peak electricity demand.
The market price at one of the UK’s
main electricity auctions cleared at a
investment in training schemes and
higher wages is required. “The idea
that you slam the brakes on now,
and that the market corrects itself
in the short-run, that is completely
unfounded,” Danker said.
In Torbay, numbers on furlough
have halved in the space of two
months from 5,200 to 2,700 at the
end of July, dropping from 10%
of the local workforce – above the
national average – to 5%.
In the London boroughs
surrounding Heathrow – Hillingdon
and Hounslow – the rate is twice
the national average. The story is
similar in Gatwick’s hinterland,
Crawley and Hounslow were the
local authorities with the highest
proportion of furloughed jobs
0% 2 4 6 8 10
Crawley 10%
Hounslow 10
Hillingdon 9
Torbay 
Cornwall 4
record price of £2,500/MWh for the
hours of peak demand on Wednesday,
compared with a typical baseload
price of about £40/MWh through-
out 2019 and 2020.
Phil Hewitt, a director of the
market consultancy EnAppSys, said
the fire was “a major event”, because
it could lead to an extended outage at
the IFA cable. “It puts the GB market
in a risky position for the winter and
especially if we suffer from periods
of low wind and cold temperatures,”
Hewitt said.
The electricity system operator,
which is owned by National Grid, was
confident there would be enough
electricity to meet the UK’s peak
demand last night but market experts
fear the latest blow to the power sys-
tem could cause prices to rise further
and will increase reliance on running
the country’s remaining coal plants.
Gareth Stace, director general of
▲ Airport workers are furloughed,
while Devon, left, has staff shortages
:  / ;
 /
where Crawley has among the
highest rates in the country.
More than half (51%) of all air
passenger transport workers in
Britain were still on furlough at
the end of July, the highest of any
industry. More than a quarter of
travel agents and tour operators are
in the same position, in contrast to
the 5% average for all sectors.
Mark Legg, who works at
Gatwick for a contractor, is among
employees who will cut their
hours by 25% to save jobs when
the scheme ends, as flights and
passengers have not returned
sufficiently to cover wages.
“I don’t think the reality has set
in yet for some staff who’ve been
at home,” he said. “It’s just been
devastated. Eighteen months ago
we knew it would be the workers
paying for Covid.”
John McDonnell, the Labour
MP whose Hayes and Harlington
constituency includes Heathrow,
the trade group UK Steel, said the
“extortionate prices” were forcing
some UK steelmakers to suspend
work during periods when electric-
ity prices were at their highest. He
called on the government and the
industry regulator to act.
“Last year, prices were roughly
£50/MWh. Even with the global
steel market as buoyant as it is, these
eye-watering prices are making it
impossible to profitably make steel
at certain times of the dayand night,”
he said. “Electricity prices increase in
‘It is a major event …
It puts the GB market
in a risky position’
Phil Hewitt
Director EnAppSys
35
About 1.6 million jobs remained on
furlough at the end of July
• Employments on furlough • Provisional figures
10m
8m
6m
4m
2m
0
Apr Aug Dec Apr Jul
2020 2020 2020 2021 2021
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said targeted economic support
for aviation was required beyond
the end of furlough to support
whole communities. Cuts to
universal credit, just as thousands
face unemployment, could make
matters worse.
“We’re facing a tough time
and government has to step up
to the plate. What they are doing
effectively is pushing people off
the edge of that cliff [the end of
furlough], and below them what
faces it? Real hardship,” he said.
The former shadow chancellor
said he had warned Sunak of the
unique risks facing aviation.
“I can have whole families
dependent on airport work in my
constituency, it’s like a mining
town with dependency on one
sector. Of course there are longer
term climate concerns, and we
need a programme to rebalance
the economy; investing in training,
redeployment, technology,”
McDonnell said. “But we’ve had
a policy of crossing fingers and
hoping for the best, turning a blind
eye and looking away.”
In the shadow of the UK’s busiest
airport, Hounslow council has
sent £20 vouchers direct to every
household to spend in local shops,
theatres, and restaurants, aiming
to boost high street activity as
thousands of workers lose out from
the end of furlough and cuts to
universal credit.
“People are naturally having to
watch their pockets,” said Shantanu
Rajawat, cabinet member for
finance on the Labour-run council.
“If those [aviation industry] jobs
are no longer deemed to be viable
then local economic activity is
going to be depressed. You worry
what will happen.”
the winter months, therefore the sit-
uation gets more urgent each day.”
National Grid confirmed that the
West Burton coal plant in Notting-
hamshire and a coal unit at the Drax
site in North Yorkshire were warming
up in anticipation of generating
electricity last night in exchange for
high payments.
Last week the electricity system
operator paid about £4,000/MWh
to power plants that could gener-
ate electricity at short notice, and a
total of more than £86m to keep the
lights on. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal
plant near Nottingham is also in line
to benefit from record power prices
this week.
Kent fire and rescue service said
yesterday that four fire engines, two
height vehicles and its technical
rescue unit were still at the IFA site.
National Grid said it would provide
an update in due course.
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County Championship
Fourcounties set Big questions for
to battle for title Wiegman as she
in final round takes charge
Page 41 
Goodbyeto all that
Clarke padsup for
the last time at the
end of a long innings
in the county game
Andy Bull
•
England Women
Page 42 
▲ Rikki Clarke is calling it a day
at the end of the season. At the
S
age of 20 he was one of the rising
stars of England but won only
two Test caps
 / 
omewhere among Rikki Clarke’s old kit
and other bits he has a fat scrapbook, full
of dog-eared clippings from the summer
of 2002. He was 20 and on a run of form
that took him from Surrey’s second XI into own way.
the England squad in the space of three
months.
“Clarke in Like Flynn” was the
Guardian headline when he hit 153 against Somerset,
“Clarke’s Flash of Lightning” when he smacked three
sixes in an innings against Yorkshire and “Rikki’s
a Rare Talent” was above a full-page profile in the
Observer when he won his first England call-up for the This is the need to fail, you can’t fear failure, but
Champions Trophy that September. “England have
found ‘the one’,” ran the report. “A swashbuckling bat meant to be’ you become a better player and a
who bowls too, and throws and catches with the energy
and sweat of the modern game.” He was, his captain,
Adam Hollioake, said: “The best young player around.”
Clarke was one of a group of young players England thing – I wish I had done it my own way. When I went
brought into their one-day team as they started to plan into that England side, I had all these different coaches
for the 2007 World Cup. The rest – Kabir Ali, Chris Read, telling me different things and I changed my bowling
Will Jefferson, Jim Troughton, Vikram Solanki – quit
years ago. Only Clarke is still at it. He took two for 62 working to make it better. If I’d trusted what got me
against Essex last Sunday, went in No 6 and made 12 on there in the first place, you never know, maybe it would
Monday.
These are his last days on the circuit. He hopes he
will get one more game (“if I’m fit and get selected”)
against Glamorgan next Tuesday. Next there is his
testimonial match, for an all-star Surrey team at the
Tidworth ground in Shrewton on 26 September.
Then Clarke will start as director of cricket at King been better? Of course it could. But sometimes that’s
Edward’s, Witley, where he is also running a cricket
academy. Right now he is working with his “elite
39
group”, a lot of them kids knocking around the fringes
of the game, county triallists looking for an edge.
Clarke has a lot to pass on.
When Clarke was about that age, he went from
playing second XI cricket at Banstead in May, to
warm-up games for England in Colombo in September.
He made his international debut against Pakistan at
Old Trafford in 2003 and took a wicket (Imran Nazir c
Solanki b Clarke 33) with his first ball. It was a long hop.
He was picked for the tour of Bangladesh that winter,
H
played two Tests, scored a fifty and took four wickets
for 60. And that was it. There were a handful more
one-day games, some he batted No 8 and did not bowl,
others No 4 and got through a full 10 overs. By the time
of the 2007 World Cup Clarke had been dropped.
e still says those first caps are his
proudest achievement. “I always
said I was going to play for England.
I used to get in trouble at school
because I would practise my
signature in the back of my books
and the teacher would tell me:
‘Look, you’re never going to do it’.
Then the next thing I knew I was on an England tour,
thinking: ‘What am I doing here?’”
Watching him from a distance all these years, I guess
Clarke made his peace with this a long time ago but
there is clearly still something there, niggling at him.
He chews it over. “I wouldn’t say the selection stopped
my development but it was a setback.”
Clarke has won a lot: three Championships, two
one-day titles, two T20 finals. He has taken 800
wickets and scored the best part of 18,000 runs. But
he will never quite know what he could have done in
international cricket. “The only thing is, I wish I was
given more of a chance to cement my place. I played
two Tests and I look at them and I did well, averaged 15
with the ball, 32 with the bat, and I never got another
opportunity.”
In the one-day team the way he was shuffled around
meant he never understood his role in the side.
“Some people say that you have to take your chance
wherever you bat and I didn’t. I understand that.” He
never stopped waiting for that second chance, through
his years at Warwickshire and Surrey, when he was
averaging in the 40s with the bat, and
‘Regrets? I the 20s with the ball. “There’s always
that hope. Michael Hussey, Chris
wish I had Rogers both won call-ups at late ages,
done
it my Joe Denly did it recently.”
England called him up to a
30-man squad in 2013 but that was
But I could it. Then, somewhere along the
only have way,
“I accepted that I was chasing
something that actually might be out
dreamed of my control.” He has played some of
of it all. his best cricket since, as a senior pro,
passing on what he has learned. “You
way it was you have to learn from it. That’s how
better person. Believe me, I’ve failed
plenty.”
Regrets? He doesn’t like the word. “But there’s one
action too much instead of sticking to what I had and
have been different.”
At 39, he says, Clarke has gone full circle and his
action is pretty much the same as it was when he was
19. “But the wickets I’ve taken, the runs I’ve scored, the
people I’ve played with and against, the trophies I’ve
won, I could only have dreamed of it all. Could it have
how it goes with careers and that’s how mine panned
out. This is the way it was meant to be.”

40
 /Z
LTA plays a long
game to discover
more champions
Emma Raducanu’s success
did not happen by chance
and a strategy is in place
to find the next generation
Simon Cambers
At some stage in the coming days
Emma Raducanu will return home Raducanu, the LTA deserves some
with the US Open trophy safely
packed away, a grand slam title
winner at the age of 18. Together
with a whistle-stop round of
media commitments, which
included a visit to the New York
Stock Exchange, she has been
congratulated by the Queen and
in parliament and her stunning
triumph in New York has captured in singles within five years”. It
the imagination of a nation,
dominated the news on TV and
radio. It is a life-changing moment science and medical services and
for Raducanu; and for British tennis wildcards to tournaments.
it is a huge opportunity.
In the wake of her incredible
success Raducanu was quick
to thank many of the people
involved in her development,
from Matt James, the coach who
helped her most in recent years
in Bromley, to the support of her
family, who moved to Britain
when she was aged two and who
instilled the work ethic, drive and
determination to accompany her
innate talent.
She also thanked the work of
the Lawn Tennis Association, the
• The Guardian Thursday 16 September 2021
Sport
Tennis
UK’s governing body of tennis,
an organisation much maligned,
especially in recent years. While
the question of whether systems
can create champions will always
be debated, as the recipients of an
annual surplus from Wimbledon
that last year yielded £45.7m the
LTA is scrutinised for the way it
spends its money.
However, in the case of
credit. Having moved away from
a one-size-fits-all programme in
the past few years, it has become
more flexible to players’ needs.
In 2018 Raducanu joined the Pro
Scholarship Programme (PSP),
“offered to players between 16
and 24 who have the best chance
of reaching the ATP/WTA top 100
gives them the support they need,
including coaching, access to
“We invest in players for a five-
year period,” Iain Bates, the LTA’s
head of women’s tennis, said. “The
purpose is trying to give people
the security of that time period
but also making it finite, where
players don’t become dependent
on the LTA for their entire career.
It’s clear where that support begins
and ends. I think it’s an important
message for us in how we do
support those players. For Emma
we were able to leverage a guy
called Matt James. He did a lot of
the really hard work at 16 and 17,
Whirlwind schedule
Since Saturday’svictory…
… US breakfast show interviews
… Spotting herself on a billboard
… Red carpet at the Met Gala
… Guest at New York Stock Exchange
that real kind of formation stage,
supporting Emma through school
years. He was so flexible around
being at Bromley [where Raducanu
trained], being at the National
Training Centre, travelling with
her, doing all the kind of hard yards
that’s really required for a player of
that age.
“With the scholarship
programme, what we try to do is
say you’ve got choices and we try
to be flexible around what you
believe is the right set-up for you
as a person. Because tennis is so
highly individual, it’s quite difficult
to come up with a one size fits all
approach, which is why we’ve got
the opportunity where you can
work at your own place with your
own coach. We will use investment
funding to help support that. You
can access science and medicine
services.
“What’s exceptional about it
is how she’s broken through so
quickly. Especially after not huge
amounts of tennis during the
lockdown periods due to challenges
with the schedule for a player
ranked 350. Combining education
with an aspiring professional
career, some concerns over travel
during a pandemic, how quickly
she was able to adapt and improve
is quite remarkable.”
Having moved from
a one-size-fits-all
programme, the LTA
has become flexible
to players’ needs
Before Andy Murray, who won
his first major title at the US Open
in 2012 but who trained outside
the LTA for much of his junior
career, Britain had endured 77
years without a men’s grand slam
champion. Raducanu is the first
British woman to win a grand
slam title since Virginia Wade
won Wimbledon in 1977. When
Murray won Wimbledon in 2013,
the hope was that it would lead to
a boon for tennis in Britain; instead
participation figures fell between
2016 and 2020, according to Sport
England.
Though it has risen since the
Covid-19 pandemic, Judy Murray,
who has been critical of the failure
to take advantage of both her sons’
success, this week again lamented
the lack of investment in public
tennis courts in Scotland.
Scott Lloyd, the LTA’s chief
executive, this week outlined
plans to revamp local park courts.
Lloyd wants an investment from
the government of between £15m
and £20m, which would bring
back into use 40%, a total of 1,800
of the UK’s park courts. Going
straight to central government,
he said, would help to get it done
and make the courts available at
a nominal charge. “Opening up
public facilities to our population
is central to growing tennis, to
growing our sport,” he said.
Bates said he would have
signed off on having six players in
qualifying and three making it to
the main draw. Raducanu’s success
was a fantastic surprise; the hope
now is that she inspires both her
peers and the next generation.
Raducanu says
break gave
her hunger
to succeed
George Sessions
Emma Raducanu has said her US
Open triumph at Flushing Meadows
had yet to sink in and that the 18
months she took off from the sport
provided her with the “hunger” to
prevail in New York.
“I feel great. Everything that’s
happened in the last 72 hours has
been so much fun. It still hasn’t really
sunk in, but occasionally I’ll remem-
ber that I won the US Open. So yeah,
a really funny feeling,” she told the
WTA website.
Raducanu took a break from tennis
last year due to the pandemic and
also because her parents insisted
she should complete her A levels.
“Having 18 months away ... coming
out you play every match like you
don’t know when your last match
will be,” she said. “That was how I
was approaching the whole summer.
But the biggest thing is that I never
once got ahead of myself.”
“For three weeks I just played the
opponent in front of me, I took care
of what I wanted to try and achieve
on that day against that opponent,
and just repeated it for three weeks.”
Raducanu said she planned to
switch off from the game after an
intense few weeks and was not
entirely sure when her next tourna-
ment would be.
“I cherish the most the moments
with the team after the win ... that
was probably the most special night
ever,when we were reflecting. I know
I’ll get back to work probably Monday
or early next week ... schedule-wise,
I’m not sure.”
Before her US Open triumph, the
18-year-old impressed at Wimbledon,
making the fourth round before she
was forced to retire owing to breath-
ing dificulties. John McEnroe, a
three-time winner at the All Eng-
land Club, said at the time he felt the
occasion “got a little bit too much” for
the wildcard and linked it to Naomi
Osaka’s mental health difficulties.
Asked in an interview with CNN
about his comments in July, McEnroe
said: “I meant exactly what I said.
I tried to relate it in a small way to
my experience when I first went to
Wimbledon, also at 18, and managed
to qualify, like Emma did, get through
to the semis. ”
McEnroe said his comment
“compared to a lot of other things
I have said in the past, that was as
vanilla as it comes”. PA Media
▲ John McEnroe said his views on
Emma Raducanu were ‘vanilla’
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Cricket Racing
Woakes haulsWarwickshire Holding retiringas cricket commentator
Disgraced Elliott
into championship reckoning Michael Holding is retiring
after 31 years as a TV
or 56.” In this week’s episode
of BBC Radio 4’s Desert
saddles a winner
commentator. The Island Discs the presenter
legendary West Indies Lauren Laverne referred
supposedly looking forward to fast bowler played 60 to this as his “last year Greg Wood
Tanya Aldred putting his feet up and encasing Tests and 102 one-day in the commentary box”,
himself in a cocoon of billowing internationals, claiming telling him “so many people will
cotton wool. But the lure of the 391 wickets, before moving miss your beautiful voice”. The For the first time since early March
Warwickshire kept their County Championship is a powerful thing, behind the microphone after former England captain Michael a Gordon Elliott runner walked into
Championship hopes alive as 10 years after Lancashire last his retirement from playing in Vaughan, himself a pundit, a winner’s enclosure yesterday as
Yorkshire folded like an origami lifted the trophy. The issue will be 1987. His first TV broadcast came tweeted: “Michael Holding is a the Grand National-winning trainer
rabbit on a sunny morning at thrashed out between the England during England’s 1990 tour of legendary bowler .. Commentator.. recorded his first success after being
Headingley. The win makes and Wales Cricket Board and the West Indies. Holding, now 67, Campaigner.. but even more so banned from the sport for six months
Warwickshire one of four teams players over the next few days, had indicated last year that he a GREAT guy who will be sorely when a photograph emerged show-
in with a shot of the title, with one with the Warwickshire coach, Mark was “not too sure how much missed around the Comm boxes.” ing him posing astride a dead horse
game left. Only six and a half points Robinson, saying: “Chris Woakes further than 2020 I will be going In the aftermath of George Floyd’s on his gallops.
separate Hampshire in top spot wants to play.” with commentary. I cannot murder Holding made waves Elliott saddled two favourites on
from Nottinghamshire in fourth, Superbly though Woakes see myself going much further during England’s first home Test of the Sligo card and, after The Slid-
with Warwickshire and Lancashire bowled, he had his equal in down the road at my age. I am 2020 with a passionate call to arms ing Rock, at 8-13, finished third of
squeezed between. the slip cordon. There Tim 66 years old now, I am not 36, 46 against racism. Staff and agencies four earlier in the afternoon, Fancy
Next Tuesday Hampshire will Bresnan devoured six catches, a Foundations, at even money, was a
take on Lancashire at Aigburth, Warwickshire mark beaten only for 28 to beat Worcestershire draw against Durham. The master comfortable four-length winner of
Yorkshire hot-step it over to Trent by Rikki Clarke. Liam Norwell and and notch up four consecutive of the rearguard, Hashim Amla, the Templehouse Lake Chase and
Bridge while Somerset – bottom Craig Miles, who pulled out an Championship wins for the bolted together yet another to resist returned to warm applause.
of Division One – trudge up to astonishing belly-flop of a caught first time in 26 years. Better late Essex on the charge. He batted The image of a smiling Elliott sit-
Edgbaston, givingWarwickshire, and bowled, also snaffled three than never. Another Derbyshire through nearly 40 overs at the start ting on Morgan, a seven-year-old who
on paper, the easiest game. wickets. crumble gave a rejuvenated Kent of the day for 84 before, as Surrey died of an aneurysm in 2019, made
Much will hinge on the Gloucestershire hoovered their third win of the summer. followed on, finishing 34 not out headlines around the world when
availability of England players. In up Glamorgan’s remaining four Only a plucky eighth-wicket stand off 72 balls. Alastair Cook bowled published online in late February.
particular Warwickshire’s Chris wickets in just over an hour, between Ben Aitchison and Anuj the last over of the game. Sussex He was banned by the Irish Horse-
Woakes, who took six wickets leaving Glamorgan propping up Dal delayed proceedings. James lost six wickets for 11 runs to lose racing Regulatory Board’s Referrals
against Yorkshire, and Lancashire’s Division Two; Middlesex were Sales made a maiden first-class against Leicestershire with 16 balls [disciplinary] committee on 5 March,
Jimmy Anderson, who was inspired by Ethan Bamber’s four fifty to help Northamptonshire remaining. and also fined €15,000 [£12,800].

Gloucestershire Second innings Worcestershire 4 1.5 0.5 2 4.5 12 44.5 Bowling Sakande 8-0-48-0; Mike 14-4-34-4; (7-4); M Minella (Lux) bt V Gracheva (Rus) 6-3 6-4;
Results and cricket MAH Hammond not out .................................................4
*CDJ Dent not out ........................................................11
Derbyshire
Sussex
4 0 1.5 2.5 6 9.5 27.5
4 0 1 3 10 7 25
Barnes 9-3-18-1; Parkinson 14.2-6-18-4.
Toss Sussex elected to bat.
G Minnen (Bel) bt N ParrizasDiaz (Sp) 7-6 (7-4) 6-7 (1-7)
7-6 (7-2); M Vondrousova (Cz) bt A Van Uytvanck (Bel) 6-2
scoreboard Extras ............................................................................0
Total (or 0, 1.3 overs)...................................................15
Did not bat B Charlesworth, TC Lace, GL van Buuren,
Derbyshire v Kent
Derby Kent (21pts) beat Derbyshire (3) by 130 runs.
Umpires M Newell and RT Robinson.
Middlesex v Worcestershire
6-3; A Sasnovich (Blr) bt L Tsurenko (Ukr) 7-5 7-6 (8-6)
Cycling
†BJJ Wells, RF Higgins, JD Warner, TJ Price, Zaar Gohar, Kent First innings 285 (JA Leaning 82 no, Lord’s Middlesex (19pts) beat Worcestershire (3) by 101 runs. TOUR DE LUXEMBOURG
DA Payne. DJ BellDrummond 69, Z Crawley 53; B Aitchison 4-83). Middlesex First innings 144 (MDE Holden 52; E Barnard Stage 2 (Steinort  Eschdor, 186.1km): 1 M Hirschi (Swi)
Bowling Salter 1-0-9-0; Carlson 0.3-0-6-0. Derbyshire First innings 156 (G Stewart 5-23). 4-43). UAE Team Emirates 4hr 45min 12sec; 2 J Almeida (Por)
Cricket Toss Gloucestershire elected to field. Kent Second innings (overnight 147-1) Worcestershire First innings 171 (J Baker 61 no; DeceuninckQuickStep at 8sec; 3 D Gaudu (Fr) Groupama
LV= INSURANCE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP Umpires ID Blackwell and N Pratt. JM Cox c Critchley b Guest .............................................81 TJ Murtagh 5-64). FDJ; 4 D Formolo (It) UAE Team Emirates; 5 D De la Cruz
DJ Bell-Drummond not out ..........................................51 Middlesex Second innings (overnight 233-6) Melgarejo (Sp) UAE Team Emirates.
Division One (final day o our) Northamptonshire v Durham JA Leaning not out .........................................................4 Overall standings: 1 M Hirschi (Swi) UAE Team Emirates 8hr
P W D L Bat Bowl Pts †JA Simpson c Haynes b Leach.......................................59
Northampton Northamptonshire (10pts) drew with Extras (b4, w3) ...............................................................7 LBK Hollman c Cox b Morris...........................................46 01min 06sec; 2 J Almeida (Por) DeceuninckQuickStep at
Hampshire 4 2 1.5 0.5 2.5 12 58.5 Durham (13). Total (or 2 dec, 50 overs)............................................211 TS Roland-Jones lbw b Morris .........................................1 4sec; 3 D Gaudu (Fr) GroupamaFDJ at 19sec; 4 T Pinot (Fr)
Warwickshire 4 2 1 1 4 11 55 Northamptonshire First innings 183 (L Procter 76; Fall cont 200. E Bamber not out ...........................................................7 GroupamaFDJ at 23sec; 5 D De la Cruz Melgarejo (Sp) UAE
Lancashire 4 1.5 1.5 1 10 8.5 54.5 MJ Potts 4-42). Did not bat *SW Billings, †OG Robinson, G Stewart, *TJ Murtagh c D’Oliveira b Morris....................................0 Team Emirates.
Nottinghamshire 4 2 0 2 8 12 52 Durham First innings 400 (MJ Potts 81, L Trevaskis 77 no, HW Podmore, NN Gilchrist, JEG Logan, J Singh. Extras (b5, lb4)...............................................................9 GRAND PRIX DE WALLONIE (Belgium)
Yorkshire 4 1 1.5 1.5 4 9.5 41.5 SG Borthwick 73; BW Sanderson 4-41). Bowling Aitchison 13-0-45-0; Dal 13-1-48-1; Total (93.4 overs) .......................................................247 Leading positions (AywailleCitadelle de Namur,
Somerset 4 0.5 0.5 3 3.5 11 26.5 Northamptonshire Second innings (overnight 10-0) Melton 14-1-64-0; Critchley 9-0-48-1; Du Plooy 1-0-2-0. Fall cont 239, 240, 241. Bowling Leach 24-12-35-2; 208.1km): 1 C Laporte (Fr) Cofidis 4hr 59min 57sec;
R Vasconcelos c Eckersley b Rushworth .........................24 Derbyshire Second innings Pennington 16-5-54-1; Barnard 14-2-45-1; Morris 22.4-8 2 W Barguil (Fr) Team ArkeaSamsic; 3 T Van Der Sande (Bel)
Yorkshire v Warwickshire EN Gay c Borthwick b Potts ............................................26
L Procter lbw b Raine ....................................................44
HRC Came c Robinson b Stewart ....................................11 52-6; Baker 12-1-44-0; D’Oliveira 5-1-8-0.
Worcestershire Second innings
Lotto Soudal; 4 D Godon (Fr) AG2R Citroen Team;
5 G Vermeersch (Bel) AlpecinFenix . Selected others:
Headingley Warwickshire (19pts) beat Yorkshire (3) by 106 *BA Godleman c Singh b Gilchrist..................................27 75 J Laverick (GB) Hagens Berman Axeon at 9min 35sec;
runs. RI Keogh lbw b Raine.....................................................16 JL du Plooy lbw b Stewart ...............................................0 DKH Mitchell c Robson b Murtagh....................................7
Warwickshire First innings 155 (MGK Burgess 66; Saif Zaib c Eckersley b Potts.............................................6 WL Madsen lbw b Podmore............................................13 JD Libby c Simpson b Bamber...........................................6 77 M Holmes (GB) Lotto Soudal at 10min 05sec
SA Patterson 4-34, BO Coad 4-48). *†AM Rossington c Bedingham b Potts ............................4 MJJ Critchley c Crawley b Gilchrist ................................13 GH Roderick not out .................................................... 42 Baseball
Yorkshire First innings 108 (GS Ballance 58). HOM Gouldstone b Rushworth ........................................2 TA Wood b Singh ...........................................................14 JA Haynes b RolandJones ...............................................9
JJG Sales c Trevaskis b Potts ..........................................53 †BD Guest c Robinson b Gilchrist....................................12 BL D’Oliveira b RolandJones ..........................................2 MLB
Warwickshire Second innings 176 (JA Thompson 5-52). SC Kerrigan lbw b Borthwick .........................................28 Anuj Dal not out ...........................................................58 E Barnard c Simpson b Andersson ..................................28 Minnesota 1 Cleveland 3 (7 Innings); Pittsburgh 6 Cincinnati
Yorkshire Second innings (overnight 50-3) BW Sanderson not out ..................................................17 B Aitchison c Gilchrist b Singh .......................................36 †OB Cox lbw b Andersson ................................................4 5; Detroit 1 Milwaukee 0 (10 Innings); Baltimore 2 New York
GS Ballance c Hain b Woakes..........................................21 CJ White not out .............................................................3 DR Melton lbw b Podmore ...............................................1 *J Leach b Bamber ........................................................11 Yankees 7; Philadelphia 3 Chicago Cubs 6; Washington 8
HC Brook c Bresnan b Woakes ..........................................9 Extras (b5, lb3)...............................................................8 S Conners b Gilchrist .......................................................7 J Baker b Bamber ............................................................2 Miami 2; Toronto 0 Tampa Bay 2; New York Mets 6 St Louis
JA Thompson c Bresnan b Norwell .................................18 Total (or 9, 97 overs)..................................................231 Extras (lb1, w1, nb16) ..................................................18 CAJ Morris b Andersson...................................................1 7; Atlanta 4 Colorado 5; Minnesota 6 Cleveland 3 (7
DM Bess lbw b Bresnan ....................................................4 Fall 46, 62, 86, 102, 108, 111, 129, 197, 221. Total (58.5 overs) .......................................................210 D Pennington c Simpson b Bamber ..................................1 Innings); Texas 8 Houston 1; Chicago White Sox 9 LA Angels
†HG Duke c & b Miles.......................................................8 Bowling Rushworth 20-6-41-2; Potts 20-4-68-4; Fall 27, 27, 55, 55, 85, 89, 102, 172, 175. Extras (b1, lb5) ..............................................................6 3; Kansas City 10 Oakland 7; San Francisco 6 San Diego 1;
MD Fisher not out .........................................................13 Trevaskis 23-10-30-0; Raine 15-5-32-2; Bowling Podmore 14-0-48-2; Stewart 9-1-45-2; Total (35.3 overs) .......................................................119 LA Dodgers 8 Arizona 4; Seattle 4 Boston 8
*SA Patterson c Bresnan b Miles......................................5 Borthwick 11-4-26-1; Coughlin 8-2-26-0. Fall 12, 20, 39, 51, 94, 98, 113, 115, 118.
BO Coad c Rhodes b Norwell ............................................2
Extras (lb8, nb2) ...........................................................10 Toss Northamptonshire elected to bat.
Gilchrist 10.5-1-30-4; Singh 10-1-42-2; Logan 9-1-26-0;
Leaning 5-1-16-0; BellDrummond 1-0-2-0. Bowling Murtagh 11-1-40-1; Bamber 11.3-3-28-4; Fixtures
Umpires BJ Debenham and PJ Hartley. Toss Derbyshire elected to field. Andersson 7-2-22-3; RolandJones 6-1-23-2. Football (8pm unless stated)
Total (49.3 overs) .......................................................117 Toss Worcestershire elected to field. Uefa Europa League
Umpires NGB Cook and T Lungley.
Fall cont 50, 69, 82, 95, 105, 114. Surrey v Essex Umpires NL Bainton and RA White. Group A Brøndby v Sparta Prague; Rangers v Lyon.
Group B Monaco v SK Sturm Graz; PSV Eindhoven v Real
Bowling Woakes 14-6-26-3; Norwell 15.3-4-38-3;
Miles 11-2-34-3; Bresnan 9-5-11-1. The Oval Surrey (9pts) drew with Essex (15). Leicestershire v Sussex FIRST TWENTY20 INTERNATIONAL Sociedad. Group C Leicester City v Napoli. Group D
Toss Yorkshire elected to field. Essex First innings 439 (AN Cook 165, DW Lawrence 78). Grace Road Leicestershire (24pts) beat Sussex (5) by an Edinburgh Scotland 141-6 (RD Berrington 82 no). Eintracht Frankurt v Fenerbahce; Olympiakos v Royal
Umpires NA Mallender and NJ Llong. Surrey First innings (overnight 107-7) innings and five runs. Zimbabwe 134-9 (SM Shari 4-24). Scotland beat Antwerp. Group E Galatasaray v Lazio (5.45pm); Lokomotiv
*HM Amla lbw b Harmer ...............................................84 Sussex First innings 359 (BC Brown 133 no, TJ Haines 71; Zimbabwe by seven runs. Moscow v Marseille (5.45pm). Group F Red Star Belgrade
Division Two (final day o our) JPA Taylor c Walter b Snater ..........................................19 C J C Wright 6-94). v Sporting Braga (5.45pm); FC Midtjylland v Ludogorets
P W D L Bat Bowl Pts D Moriarty c Wheater b Porter .........................................8
RJW Topley not out ........................................................0
Leicestershire First innings (overnight 291-2) Tennis Razgrad (5.45pm). Group G Bayer Leverkusen
v Ferencvárosi (5.45pm); Real Betis v Celtic (5.45pm).
Essex 4 3 1 0 9 12 77 Hassan Azad c sub b Crocombe ....................................152 WTA BGL BNP PARIBAS LUXEMBOURG OPEN Group H Dinamo Zagreb v West Ham (5.45pm); Rapid
Extras (b5, lb6, nb2) .....................................................13 LJ Hill c sub b Crocombe ..............................................145
Gloucestershire 4 2.5 0 1.5 4.5 11.5 56 Total (86.3 overs) .......................................................161 L Kimber not out ..........................................................59 First round: Z Diyas (Kaz) bt AK Schmiedlova (Svk) 6-0 1-6 Vienna v KRC Genk
Durham 3 1 1 1 8 9 41 Fall cont 142, 161. †H Swindells not out ....................................................69 6-4; J Ostapenko (Lat) bt J Niemeier (Ger) 6-2 6-2; Uefa Europa Conference League
Northamptonshire 4 1.5 1.5 1 5.5 9.5 51 Bowling Porter 18.3-9-27-3; SJ Cook 16-5-31-2; Extras (b9, lb1, nb20) ...................................................30 A Hartono (Neth) bt A-L Friedsam (Ger) 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 7-6 Group A HJK Helsinki v LASK (5.45pm). Group B Flora
Surrey 3 0.5 1 1.5 4 7 27 Harmer 31-14-49-3; Nijjar 13-5-21-0; Snater 8-1-22-2. Total (or 4 dec, 102 overs)..........................................492 v KAA Gent (5.45pm); Anorthosis Famagusta v Partizan
Surrey Second innings Fall cont 356, 362. Belgrade. Group C Bodø/Glimt v Zorya Luhansk; Roma
Glamorgan 4 0 0.5 3.5 7.5 10 21.5 v CSKA Sofia. Group D FK Jablonec v CFR Cluj; Randers
CT Steel b Snater...........................................................28 Did not bat BWM Mike, E Barnes, *CF Parkinson,
Glamorgan v Gloucestershire
Sophia Gardens Gloucestershire (22pts) beat Glamorgan
R Patel c Lawrence b Harmer..........................................17
*HM Amla not out ........................................................34
CJC Wright, A Sakande.
Bowling Hunt 21-0-127-1; Crocombe 21-3-70-2;
Greg Wood’sracing tips v AZ Alkmaar. Group E Slavia Prague v Union Berlin
(5.45pm). Group F Lincoln Red Imps v PAOK Salonika
(5.45pm); Slovan Bratislava v Copenhagen (5.45pm).
(5) by 10 wickets. OJD Pope not out .........................................................27 Carson 23-0-90-0; Sarro 9-0-64-0; Haines 9-2-21-1; Group G NS Mura v Vitesse (5.45pm); Rennes v Tottenham
Glamorgan First innings 309 (EJ Byrom 78, DL Lloyd 73, Extras (b2, lb3, nb2) .......................................................7 Rawlins 13-0-75-0; Hinley 6-0-35-0. (5.45pm). Group H Kairat v Omonia Nicosia (3.30pm);
HD Rutherord 62). Total (or 2, 36 overs)..................................................113 Sussex Second innings Yarmouth 1.30 Buoyant 2.05Wajd 2.40Turner Girl Qarabag v Basel (5.45pm)
Women’s World Cup Qualifying
Gloucestershire First innings 419 (CDJ Dent 75, TJ Price Fall 28, 66. AGH Orr c Swindells b Parkinson ....................................34 3.15Marshall Plan 3.50Crystal Starlet 4.25Mango
Did not bat WG Jacks, R Clarke, J Clark, †JA Tattersall, †TJ Haines lbw b Barnes ................................................31 Albania v Kosovo (6pm); Denmark v Malta (5pm);
71, GL van Buuren 65). JPA Taylor, D Moriarty, RJW Topley. BC Brown c Sakande b Mike ...........................................12 Boy 5.00Yimou Ayr1.50Outbreak 2.25Star Shield Faroe Islands v Spain (6pm); Norway v Armenia (5pm);
Glamorgan Second innings (overnight 57-6) Bowling Porter 6-1-29-0; SJ Cook 5-0-18-0; *OJ Carter c Evans b Mike................................................9 (nap) 3.00Empirestateomind 3.35Daniel Deronda Turkey v Portugal (5pm)
DA Douthwaite b Higgins ..............................................14 Harmer 15-5-37-1; Snater 9-2-19-1; AN Cook 1-0-5-0. DMW Rawlins c Swindells b Mike ...................................21 4.10My Little Queens 4.45Man O The Night 5.18 Rugby league
AG Salter lbw b sub .......................................................19 Toss Essex elected to bat first. TI Hinley b Parkinson ......................................................1 Rose Bandit 5.50Graces Quest Pontefract2.15 Betfred Super League
RAJ Smith b sub..............................................................4 J Carson lbw b Parkinson ................................................2 Castleord Tigers v Warrington Wolves (7.45pm)
T van der Gugten c Van Buuren b sub .............................14 Umpires BV Taylor and PK Baldwin. HT Crocombe lbw b Mike ................................................0 Purple Bling 2.50 Liberation Point 3.25Gale Force Cricket
MG Hogan not out ..........................................................9 Division Three (final day o our) SF Hunt not out ..............................................................1 Maya (nb) 4.00Victoriano 4.35Abbey Heights 5.10 First Women’s One-Day International
Extras (b4, lb6, nb6) .....................................................16 JP Sarro c Swindells b Parkinson ......................................1 Perect Swiss 5.40Rebel Redemption Chelmsford Bristol England v New Zealand (1pm)
Total (42 overs) ..........................................................124 P W D L Bat Bowl Pts FJ Hudson-Prentice retd out ..........................................0
Fall cont 84, 102, 9424. Middlesex 4 3.5 0 0.5 9.5 12 77 Extras (b5, lb5, nb6) .....................................................16 4.50Lucky Man 5.30The Tide Turns 6.00La Roca Fourth Women’s One-Day International
Bowling Payne 9-2-37-1; Higgins 11-1-29-2; Kent 4 3 1 0 7 12 75 Total (45.2 overs) .......................................................128 Del Fuego 6.30Chocoya 7.00Sunray Major 7.30 North Sound West Indies v South Arica (3pm)
ICC Men’s World Cup League 2
Gohar 18-7-43-6; Van Buuren 4-2-5-1. Leicestershire 4 1.5 1 1.5 8.5 11 51.5 Fall 57, 77, 83, 117, 120, 122, 122, 122, 128. Boy George 8.00Vino Santo 8.30Artisan Bleu Al Amarat Oman v United States (11.30am)

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Biles says abuse
history upset
Tokyo buildup
 Continued from page 48
the hearing. Biles, widely acknowl-
edged as the greatest gymnast of all
time, withdrew from several events
at the Olympics this summer to main-
tain her mental health. She acknowl-
edged that the legacy of Nassar’s
abuse had affected her. “The scars
of this horrificabuse continue to live
with all of us,” she said.
“I worked incredibly hard to make
sure that my presence could help
maintain a connection between the
failures [around the Nassar case] and
the competition at Tokyo 2020.
“That has proven to be an excep-
tionally difficult burden for me to
carry, particularly when required to
travel to Tokyo without the support
of any of my family. I am a strong
individual and I will persevere but
I never should have been left alone
to suffer the abuse of Larry Nassar.
And the only reason I did was because
of the failures that lie at the heart of
the abuse that you are now asked
to investigate. Nassar is where he
belongs. Those who enabled him
deserve to be held accountable. If
they are not, I am convinced that
this will continue to happen to others
across Olympic sports.”
Maroney and Raisman described
how the FBI had failed to investigate
their complaints against Nassar prop-
erly. Maroney testified: “After telling
my entire story of abuse to the FBI in
the summer of 2015, not only did the
FBI not report my abuse but, when
they eventually documented my
report, 17 months later, they made
entirely false claims about what I
said. They chose to fabricate. They
chose to lie about what I said and
protect a serial child molester rather
than protect not only me but count-
less others.”
The FBI director,Christopher Wray,
appeared at the hearing and admitted
his agency had failed the survivors of
Nassar’s abuse. “I want to be crystal
clear: the actions and inaction of the
FBI employees detailed in this report
are totally unacceptable,” he said.
Golf
Stenson named fifth
Europe vice-captain
Padraig Harrington, Europe’s Ryder
Cup captain, has named Henrik Sten-
son as his fifth vice-captain for the
event at Whistling Straits, starting
on Friday week. Stenson played five
times in the contest and was on the
winning side three times. The for-
mer Open champion joins his fellow
Swede Robert Karlsson, Luke Donald,
Martin Kaymer and Graeme McDow-
ell in Harrington’s backroom staff.
Harrington said: “Everyone is
aware the Ryder Cup can be a tense
week at times,so Henrik’s renowned
wit and sense of fun will benefit our
team room immensely. It will also be
helpful to have the cool head of the
“Ice Man”around should any stress-
ful situation emerge.” PA Media
• The Guardian Thursday 16 September 2021
Sport
Football
Shaky defence
and older
players will
tax Wiegman
England Women’s new
manager admits she does not
have much time to turn team
intotournament contenders
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Suzanne Wrack
hen England
kick off
against North
Macedonia
tomorrow in
their opening
2023 World Cup qualifier it will be
the team’s first competitive game
in 802 days. A lot has changed
since that defeat by Sweden in the
bronze-medal match at the 2019
World Cup.
England have played only nine
times since. Although a hefty
chunk of players travelled with
Team GB to Tokyo for the Olympics,
there was an interim manager, Hege
Riise, in charge with England’s
manager-in-waiting, Sarina
Wiegman, leading the Netherlands
to the quarter-finals. Now, with
Wiegman settling in at St George’s
Park, it is time for a fresh start. But
what needs addressing and what
will her team look like?
Short time frame
The Lionesses kick off a home Euros national team you have to win. You
at Old Trafford on 6 July 2022 and
there are only seven international
windows to work with. Wiegman
said in her first press conference
there will be no room to rest players good and they were very open.”
on international duty: “If they’re
fit and ready to play, I bring them in No room for sentimentality
because we have a short time, we
have to play qualification games
Dozens more female footballers
and family escape Afghanistan
Suzanne Wrack
More than 96 female footballers
and their family members have fled
across the border of Afghanistan to
Pakistan with the help of the Pakistan
football federation. The evacuation
comes just over two weeks after the
final US flights left Kabul airport, end-
ing 20 years of military involvement
in the country.
The group includes a number
of national team players unable to
escape in the first round of evacu-
ations, members of the youth team
and members of the Herat team that
and we have to win.” That makes
building a solid relationship with
managers in the Women’s Super
League critical.
This season many of the top
teams will be playing in five
tournaments, with last season’s FA
Cup still to be completed. Chelsea’s
manager, Emma Hayes, has
criticised the international set-up
for not taking enough care of Fran
Kirby and failing to get the best out
of her. Already there are a number
of injuries across the core of the
England squad. Wiegman said
managing player loads would be
“a challenge” but added that early
conversations with coaches had
been good. “As a club coach you
have to win and as a manager of the
can’t always come together but at
least you can communicate and we
can be aware that we need to take
care of players. [Talks] were really
There can be no room for
sentimentality with a home
won the Afghan Women’s Premier
League in October 2020.
The team from the Herat province getting stuck in no man’s land was
in north-west Afghanistan had been
displaced after some had houses
burned down and family members
were caught by the Taliban. They
hid in Kabul while awaiting help in
getting out.
According to the former national
team captain Khalida Popal, part of
the team that helped get between
100  and 200 athletes out of the
country on planes last month, three
days ago a small group of the players’
fathers and brothers in hiding were
caught bythe Taliban as they waited Siu-Anne Marie Gill
to escape.
▼ Sarina Wiegman has
stressed the need for
cooperation with clubs
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Euros so soon and the trophy
targeted. The goalkeeper Mary
Earps described Wiegman, from
the team’s first interactions, as
“switched on” and “direct” and
she will need to be just that. The
quality of competition in Europe
has risen massively. The reigning
champions, the Netherlands, the
Olympic runners-up and World
Cup bronze medallists, Sweden,
plus France and Germany will be
huge barriers to England winning
next summer. In selecting her
squad Wiegman will have to be
ruthless and she must decide
whether senior members still bring
enough on the pitch. There is no
time to allow for one last hurrah for
players who have given so much
to the development of women’s
In selecting her
squad Wiegman will
have to be ruthless
and decide if senior
members do enough
“It was the toughest thing to tell
the players to not look back,” she said.
“They were crying, they are still cry-
ing. It was very difficult to get them
to the border.”
The CEO of the RokiT Foundation,
Siu-Anne Marie Gill, who helped the
efforts, said: “Waiting for the news
that they had crossed the border after
one of the hardest emotional hours
of my life.
“The entire team went silent while
‘I’m humbled by
these young girls’
show of strength
and courage’
CEO of RokiT Foundation
football in England. That Wiegman
is yet to confirm her long-term
captain, with the current captain,
Steph Houghton, told she will lead
the team for the next couple of
games, is a sign that the manager
is not afraid of potentially ruffling
feathers.
Dynamic play
The Netherlands under Wiegman
have been one of the most exciting
international teams to watch in
recent years and they traditionally
set up in a 4-3-3. Wiegman has
made clear it is important to “look
at what is best for the players”
and, although she is pleased that
England players have grown up
playing 4-3-3, she also wants
fluidity. “Formations, these days,
the football game has become so
dynamic,” she said. “You’re talking
more about principle. Sometimes if
you take a picture it just looks like
a 4-4-2. When you take a picture
at another moment it looks like
3-5-2 or 3-4-3. In another moment
it’s 4-3-3. It just depends on what
happens in the game. You’re not
going to just stay in your position
all the time.” England have a host
of players well suited to a dynamic
style because many do so at club
level. There are also players who
can play in multiple positions.
Placing an emphasis on the best
group of players over the best
individual performers will be key.
Fixing the defence
The Lionesses have struggled to
look comfortable at the back. Even
at the 2019 World Cup there were
moments of madness in defence
and the manager, Phil Neville, did
not seem to have the answer. Balls
into the box have caused chaos
and, with a fully English defence
in the Team GB squad, those holes
were evident in Tokyo, too. With
just a few months in the build-up
to the Olympics there was little
Riise could do. Wiegman has more
time but she also needs a plan.
Confidence has seemingly been
sapped bit by bit and a revamp of
personnel could inject energy and
belief. The defence needs a fresh
strategy and to be able to handle
set pieces, and maybe that requires
minds less weighed down by the
results of the previous regime.
we waited to see any calls coming
in to say they were safe. I’m truly
humbled by these young girls’ and
their families’ show of strength and
courage to fight for life. It gave us
all strength.”
The group was able to get out with
the support of the former Pakistan
football federation vice-president
Sardar Naveed and the Pakistan
embassy, which granted temporary
visas.
Last week the Taliban announced
that women would be banned
from participating in all sports. In
an interview with the Australian
broadcaster SBS, the deputy head of
the Taliban’s cultural commission,
Ahmadullah Wasiq, said it was “not
necessary” forwomen to be involved
in sport and that “Islam and the
Islamic Emirate [Afghanistan] do
not allow women to play cricket or
play the kind of sports where they
get exposed”.
Thursday 16 September 2021 The Guardian
▼ David Moyes has brought
clarity to West Ham
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Moyes’ vision puts
Europa League
Hammers on trail
of European glory
Manager has transformed
the club in 12months and the to see Gold, Sullivan and Brady
constant noise of fan protests leave is not about results.
has given wayto cheers
Jacob Steinberg
Something strange is happening
at West Ham. After years of
dysfunction, they have started
making so many sensible decisions when West Ham are about to begin transfers, focusing instead on
you want to check if they are the
same club who once thought
trusting Avram Grant to save
them from relegation was a smart
move.
The change in the atmosphere
around the London Stadium is
remarkable. This time last year
West Ham’s fans were up in arms
after Grady Diangana’s move to
West Brom. Even the club captain, is right to acknowledge evidence
Mark Noble, voiced his displeasure they are learning.
and, coming off the back of a
troubled campaign, it seemed the
relationship between West Ham’s
board and the fanbase was broken spell in May 2018. Hiring Manuel
beyond repair.
Admittedly, the resentment
that has simmered since the
move to Stratford in 2016 has
not completely gone away. Last
season’s sixth-placed finish has not
killed the dissatisfaction with West
Ham’s owners, David Gold and
David Sullivan, and the vice-chair,
Karren Brady, which is clear from
plans for a “GSB Out” protest before
the home game against Brentford
on 3 October.
Hammers United, the fan group
organising the march, talks of
•
trust, loyalty and heritage being
destroyed. It is adamant its desire
Nonetheless, the timing feels
odd. The outlook has changed in
the 19 months since Hammers
United last protested. West Ham
were fighting relegation back then, who shone on loan for West Ham
but they are flying now. David
Moyes has fashioned a committed,
talented side and accusations over the board’s most powerful figure,
a lack of ambition are hard to justify has become less involved in
their Europa League campaign
against Dinamo Zagreb at Stadion
Maksimir tonight.
The retort is that qualification
for the main draw of a European
competition for the first time since arrival of Marc Rochon as an analyst
2006 has come in spite of the board. are positive steps.
If it is fair to criticise much of what
Sullivan and Gold have done since remain a long way from breaking
buying the club in January 2010, it into the elite. They are low on
Much of that comes down to
admitting it was a mistake not to
appoint Moyes at the end of his first 16 last season. Mislav Orsic and
Pellegrini instead was an expensive hosts and there is no guarantee
waste of time. West Ham were
crying out for stability and Moyes
has done an outstanding job since
his return in December 2019.
The Scot offers a clear vision. In when West Ham moved into
West Ham were
crying out for
stability and
Moyes has done
an outstanding job
his first transfer window, he made
West Ham more robust in midfield
by signing Tomas Soucek and he
increased their intensity in attack
by dipping into the Championship
for Jarrod Bowen. They were smart
buys, strengthening obvious areas
of weakness, and they underlined
Moyes’s determination to target
young, hungry players who are
never going to view West Ham as an
easy retirement home.
Once so scattergun, West Ham’s
recruitment has become shrewder
under Moyes. He does not want to
buy for the sake of it. Unable to find
value in the market, he has refused
to sign a striker in the past two
windows, leaving West Ham with
the injury-prone Michail Antonio as
their only senior forward.
That such compromises are still
required are a reminder of past
errors. West Ham rue their excesses
under Pellegrini. The squad is
light because Moyes has had to
trim the fat and has been unable to
raise much money through sales.
The two most expensive signings
in West Ham’s history, Felipe
Anderson and Sébastien Haller, left
at huge losses this year.
YetWest Ham have moved on,
learning to be patient. There was
no panic during the summer. West
Ham waited until the window was
almost shut and then made their
move, signing Kurt Zouma for
£29.8m, Nikola Vlasic for £25m and
Alex Kral on loan.
There was a plan. Alphonse
Areola, signed on loan from Paris
Saint-Germain, could usurp the
36-year-old Lukasz Fabianski as
West Ham’s No 1 goalkeeper. Zouma
will make the back four tougher to
breach after joining from Chelsea.
Kral, a 23-year-old Czech Republic
midfielder, offers cover for Soucek
and Declan Rice. Vlasic, an exciting
attacking midfielder, lessens the
disappointment of missing out on
Manchester United’s Jesse Lingard,
last season.
Trust in Moyes was key. Sullivan,
providing his manager with a better
infrastructure. The appointment
of Rob Newman, formerly of
Manchester City, as head of
recruitment this month and the
For all their progress, West Ham
European know-how and will have
to deal with a hostile atmosphere
when they face Dinamo, who
stunned Tottenham in the last
Bruno Petkovic are threats for the
West Ham will make it through a
group that also contains Genk and
Austria Vienna.
This is what fans were promised
the London Stadium. This is the
moment they have been waiting for
since leaving their spiritual home
and everything that has come
before this point – the relegation
battles, the pitch invasion against
Burnley, the running track – will not
matter a jot when the side steps out
into the Zagreb air tonight.
Nuno warns
Spurs they
must embrace
‘truth’ and
forget the past
Jonathan Veal
The Tottenham manager, Nuno
Espírito Santo, has toldhis players to ing. Day by day they are better but
forget their past Champions League
exploits as they enter the unknown
this week.
Spurs begin the group stage of the us, he trained yesterday and today.
inaugural Europa Conference League
with a trip to Rennes tonight, a little
over two years after competing in the League season came to an abrupt
biggest game in club football.
That Champions League defeat
by Liverpool in 2019 signalled the
beginning of a slide that now has
them competing in Europe’s third-
tier competition, with some real min-
nows of the game. Rennes are not one
of them – with the French club having and are able to identify the things you
played in the Champions League –
and this match represents the tough-
est of the group stage.
“We looked at Rennes and ana-
lysed them as a team from the previ-
ous game and the game before,” Nuno
said. “We know we are going to find a
tough match, a tough team, one that
is very aggressive on the pressing,
playing at home, we know it is going
to be harder.
“We also have a lot of experience
in Europe. The past doesn’t mean big
things now.This is the present and we
have to deal with the situation now
and Rennes represent a tough, tough
challenge for us and we have to raise
up our standards.
“It is a realisation that this is the ▲ Tottenham will once again be
truth. The past doesn’t mean any- without Son Heung-min tonight
Football
In brief
Rangers
Gerrard ready to tame Postecoglou
Celtic
Lyon in landmark game a Spanish inquisition
Steven Gerrard will go into his
50th European tie as the Rangers
manager believing Lyon are
“arguably the best” team his side
will have faced so far. Gerrard’s
men host the Ligue 1 outfit in their
Europa League Group A opener at
Ibrox tonight. Since Gerrard took
over as the manager in 2018 he
has claimed a record of 25 wins,
16 draws and eight defeats against
European opposition and rates
the French side Lyon, managed
by Peter Bosz, who guided Bayer
Leverkusen to victory over the
Scottish Champions in the last-16
of the Europa League in 2020, as
top class. “They are arguably the
best,” said Gerrard, who confirmed
that his defender Filip Helander
has had surgery on a knee problem
which will keep him out for “the
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thing for us. What you did in football
doesn’t mean anything. You have to
challenge yourself every day. This is
a message for life.”
Nuno confirmed Son Heung-min
and Eric Dier have not travelled to
France. Son has a calf injury that he
sustained on international duty and
Dier suffered a dead leg in the 3-0 Pre-
mier League defeat at Crystal Palace
on Saturday.
Neither travelled ahead of the
opening Group G game, along with
Ryan Sessegnon, but Steven Bergwijn
did, following a recent ankle injury.
Nuno was unsure whether Son and
Dier would be fit for Sunday’s game
against Chelsea.
“I cannot say. They are improv-
alongside the South American play-
ers, we still have to assess,” he said.
“Bergwijn is better, he travelled with
He is much better.”
A promising start to the Premier
end on Saturday in a woeful defeat
at Selhurst Park. “Everybody realises
we didn’t perform as we wanted and
the first ones who realise this are our-
selves,” he said.
“I think the best way to improve is
when you arrive, analyse personally
need to do well. This is the first step to
improvement. Training, spending as
much time as we can on the training
ground. Preparing the players, try-
ing to find solutions and then give
them the support and the confidence
to compete and try to improve their
performances.” PA Media
foreseeable future” and that the
centre-back Connor Goldson is
available again after Covid-19
isolation. “At full strength Lyon are
very much a Champions League
team,” said Gerrard. PA Media
expects
Ange Postecoglou has challenged
his Celtic team to show their
resilience in Seville tonight as they
prepare to face Real Betis without
their captain, Callum McGregor.
The Scotland midfielder will miss
the Europa League opener in Spain
after sustaining a knock while the
forward Liel Abada will be absent
as he is observing the Jewish
holy day of Yom Kippur. With the
striker Kyogo Furuhashi also out,
Postecoglou knows his team face
a stern test. He said: “It’s not great
for us because Cal’s obviously a
very influential player for us. We’re
going through a period like that
at the moment. We’ve been in a
constant state of flux. I see that
as an opportunity for us to build
resilience.” PA Media

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Outplayed
and dominated:
why does this
happen toUnited
in Europe?
Defeat by Young Boys is just
another example of Solskjær’s
failure on continent despite
expensiveattackin
Jonathan Liew
Berne
With about 10 minutes to go at
the Wankdorf Stadion on Tuesday
there was sudden uproar on the
Manchester United bench. The
referee, François Letexier, had
failed to spot a foul on Paul Pogba
and on the touchline Ole Gunnar
Solskjær was joined by Bruno
Fernandes and Cristiano Ronaldo,
wildly gesticulating with all the
righteous indignation of men who
had put their 50p on the edge of the
pool table and were now watching
somebody else rack up the balls.
If ever there were a fitting motif
for United’s surprise 2-1 defeat by
Young Boys, perhaps this was it:
United’s manager and perhaps
their two most celebrated players
fuming on the sidelines, unable
to influence a thing. Instead it
was Jesse Lingard and Jordan
Siebatcheu who would make the
decisive contributions, the former
with his shocking backpass, the
latter with his grateful finish in the
fifth minute of injury time.
Solskjær sought to turn the
spotlight on the 32-year-old referee
for failing to award a penalty to
Ronaldo early in the second half.
“Sometimes you get it with young
refs,” he said, nonchalantly.
While there are certain areas in
which Solskjær can legitimately
be challenged, when it comes
to people being promoted into
important footballing roles
with only the most negligible
experience, it is probably best to
defer to his judgment.
As is customary in these
scenarios, the captain, Harry
Elliott sorry for Struijk and says
three-match ban is wrong
Leeds’s appeal against the red card
shown to Pascal Struijk in Sunday’s
3-0 defeat by Liverpool has been
unsuccessful, prompting Harvey
Elliott to describe the Football Asso-
ciation’s decision as wrong.
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Football
Maguire, courageously took on the
post-match duties, looking grave
and repentant. “No footballer
likes making mistakes but we’re
humans,” he said of Lingard’s error
and, to be fair, there was little
to dispute in either part of that
statement.
But the most interesting part
of Maguire’s analysis was when
he assessed the tactical changes
that took place either side of half-
time. In the immediate aftermath
of Aaron Wan-Bissaka’s dismissal
United were in a messy makeshift
4-4-1. After half-time Solskjær
switched to 5-3-1 and for 20
minutes after the break United
were relatively secure at the back.
“The majority of their chances
came late in the first half when
we were playing a back four and
we couldn’t get out to stop their
crosses with the number of bodies
they were throwing into the box,”
Maguire said. “In the second half
we were pretty comfortable.
“We could have done more on
the ball but in terms of the shape
without the ball I felt it was a lot
better when we went to a back three.
They didn’t create many chances.”
The problem was, nor did
United. From the 25th minute
onwards Young Boys had 15 shots
on goal to United’s none. Even for a
Struijk, who came on as a first-half
substitute, was sent offfor a challenge
on Liverpool’s Elliott in the second
half of the Premier League match at
Elland Road and will be suspended
for three games.
10-man United this was desperately
thin stuff against the weakest team
in their group and, for all their
domestic progress under Solskjær,
a pattern is beginning to emerge.
His record in the Champions
League is won four, lost seven, and
in most of those defeats United
have not simply been suckered
but outplayed, outmanoeuvred,
dominated.
Ole’s European record
United’s ups and downs since
Solskjær took over in Dec 2018:
2018-19 Defeat in the Champions
League quarter-final: 4-0 on
aggregate by Barcelona.
2019-20 United make steady
Europa League progress and take
the lead in their semi-final but
Sevilla recover to win 2-1.
2020-21 Having failed to make
it out of their Champions League
group, United go all the way to
the Europa League final but lose to
Villarreal on penalties.
2021-22 Defeat in their Champions
League group stage opener.
Struijk’schallenge left Elliott with
a fracture dislocation of his left ankle.
The 18-year-old Liverpool midfielder
underwent surgery on Tuesday.
After the news that Struijk’s sus-
pension would stand, Elliott replied
to a post on Sky Sports’ Instagram
account by writing: “Sorryabout this
Pascal. I think it’s wrong. But it’ll soon
blow overbrother and you’ll be back
in no time smashing it again. Keep
positive.”
Struijk will miss Leeds’s games against Pascal Struijk’s red card
Had Lingard booted the ball
into touch rather than unwisely
passing it back to David de Gea,
the questions may have felt less
pressing, but they would need
to be asked all the same. How
does one of the most impressive
attacking assemblages in world
football manage to show this
little ambition against limited
opponents? Why does this keep
happening to Solskjær in Europe?
Is this really the best a club like
United can do?
Certainly Solskjær tried to stamp
his mark on proceedings but pretty
much every decision he took
seemed to make United less of a
threat. Taking off Jadon Sancho for
Diogo Dalot was a forced change
but replacing Donny van de Beek
with Raphaël Varane deprived
United of outlets in midfield and set
them up for a defensive rearguard.
Ronaldo and Fernandes had faded
from the game by the time they
were removed but replacing them
with Lingard and Nemanja Matic
was an absurdly retrograde move.
By the denouement United were
essentially unrecognisable from
the team that had started with such
promise: four of their five attackers
taken off, the shape changed at
least three times, players buzzing
around with only the faintest idea
▲ Leeds have lost their appeal
 Ole Gunnar
Solskjær and
his two most
celebrated
players – Bruno
Fernandes
and Cristiano
Ronaldo –
complain to
the referee
against
Young Boys
 Z/
Pretty much every
decision Solskjær
took seemed to
make United less
of a threat
of what they were supposed to
be doing.
It is all very well blaming
individual errors but at some
point you also need to scrutinise
the broader picture and against
mid-range opposition United have
produced maybe 100 minutes
of decent football in their first
five matches.
All of which brings us back to
Solskjær. Beating up teams such
as Leeds and Newcastle is nice but
this is not why Ronaldo and Varane
have signed up. A club of United’s
ambition should probably be
aiming to win about 70-75% of their
games, which these days usually
means having a sound formula that
works against most opposition in
most conditions, at home and in
Europe. Almost three years into the
Solskjær era, it is still not entirely
clear what that formula is.
Maybe these are simply early
teething problems. Maybe Solskjær
is still at the lever-pulling stage
of the season, working out how
to get the best out of Ronaldo and
Fernandes and Pogba and Sancho
(and Greenwood and Marcus
Rashford). Or maybe this is all there
is and what looks like a master
strategist striving for elite solutions
is simply a man, standing in a
painted box, waving his arms.
at Newcastle tomorrow, at Fulham
in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday and
at home to West Ham the following
Saturday.
Liverpool’s doctor, Jim Moxon,
told the club’s website on Tuesday
regarding Elliott’s recovery: “We
won’t put pressure on him by set-
ting a  specific timeframe beyond
being able to say with confidence
we expect him to feature again later
in the season following our rehab
programme.”
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Sport Results 45
Football Champions League Group A

Grealish’s stunner helps settle Calamity and farce nearly befell

Gulacsi when careering along the
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Group A

City nerves in nine-goal thriller

Table on page 45
turf as Torres bore down on his goal, Club Bruges (1) 1 Paris Saint-Germain (1) 1
the keeper finally managing to regain Vanaken 27 Herrera 15
balance and save the striker’s weak
shot. Torres would soon rue this Manchester City (3) 6 RB Leipzig
Aké 16, Mukiele 28og Nkunku 42 51 73
(1) 3
because by 50 minutes Nkunku had Mahrez 45pen
a second: in trying to make a tackle Grealish 56, Cancelo 75
Jesus 85
De Bruyne tripped over Gozubuyuk Group B
Manchester City 6 There seemed scant chance of and thus Olmo could receive, then Table on page 46
Aké 16, Mukiele 28og, Mahrez 45pen,
City being troubled by RB Leipzig
whose desultory start to the season
Group A chip between Dias and Aké too easily
for Nkunku to score again.
Atlético Madrid (0) L Porto (0) L
Grealish 56, Cancelo 75, Jesus 85 Liverpool (1) 3 Milan (2) 2
featured a solitary victory from four This was alarming defending and Tomori 9og Rebic 42
RB Leipzig 3 Bundesliga matches. From a match-
day squad missing John Stones and Man City
P W D L F A GD Pts
1 1 0 0 6 3 +3 3
had Jesse Marsch believing his team
might actually prosper. Who could
Salah 48
Henderson 69
Díaz 44
Nkunku 42 51 73 PSG 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 Group C
Aymeric Laporte, Guardiola’s centre- blame him? City had conceded two P W D L F A GD Pts
Possession back pairing was Nathan Aké and Bruges 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 loose goals and there was a sniff of Ajax 1 1 0 0 5 1 +4 3
Man City RB Leipzig Rúben Dias, captain on the night, RB Leipzig 1 0 0 1 3 6 -3 0 an upset. Borussia Dortmund 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1 3
Besiktas 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
50% 50% with Ferran Torres again the striker, Remaining ixtures Grealish, though, had another Lisbon 1 0 0 1 1 5 -4 0
Shots on target Riyad Mahrez and Jack Grealish in 28 Sep RB Leipzig v Brugge; PSG v Man City idea and this was to illustrate why Besiktas (0) 1Borussia Dortmund (2) 2
7 3 support, with Kevin De Bruyne, back 19 Oct Brugge v Man City; PSG v RB Leipzig he cost £100m. Collecting on the Montero 90 Bellingham 20
Haaland 45
from injury, the chief orchestrator. 3 Nov RB Leipzig v PSG; Man City v Brugge left, a shoulder dip left Tyler Adams Sporting Lisbon (1) 1 Ajax (3) 5
Corners After Guardiola urged his team to 24 Nov Man City v PSG; Brugge v RB Leipzig a statue, before the wide man accel- Paulinho 33 Haller 2 9 51 63
6 3 go “one step further” than last sea- 7 Dec RB Leipzig v Man City; PSG v Brugge erated on and curled sweetly in to Berghuis 39
son’s losing final, an initial forayhad make it 4-2. Group D
P W D L F A GD Pts
Jamie Jackson De Bruyne and Torres interlinking Still, Guardiola remained con- Sheriff 1 1 0 0 2 0 +2 3
Etihad Stadium before the former’s cross was gath- went wide. Grealish’s next contribu- cerned in his usual technical area Real Madrid 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 3
ered by Peter Gulacsi. Here the Span- tions were a hail mary of a corner and position, meting out an unadulter- Internazionale
Shakhtar Donetsk
1 0
1 0
0 1 0 1
0 1 0 2
-1
-2
0
0
All that matters is the win, of course, iard matched the Belgian’s quickness the drawing of a foul by an already ated rollicking toMahrez the Algerian Sheriff Tiraspol (1) 2 Shakhtar Donetsk (0) 0
but this was a curious Manchester of thought in an instant return pass frustrated Christopher Nkunku. The had no choice but to accept. Traore 16
City display studded with lax mark- that took De Bruyne by surprise and emotion was about to permeate all City also had to swallow Nkunku Yansane 62
ing and concentration. Pep Guardio- was a bright augury for City. So too of Leipzig when a hapless Mukiele clinching a hat-trick, hammering Internazionale (0) 0 Real Madrid
Rodrygo 89
(0) 1
la’s side ended by returning an 18th was Grealish’s opening contribution headed De Bruyne’s skidding delivery in Yussuf Poulsen’s pass, to leave
unbeaten group game – 14 victories as a Champions League debutant, past Gulacsi for City’s second. Guardiola despairing. Yet this ding- UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE
in the run – but he willsurely upbraid the reverse flip into Torres oozing To characterise mildly:at this junc- dong affair had an eighth strike two Group C
P W D L F A GD Pts
his charges for the slipshod fare they schemer’sguile and had the No 21 rac- ture a serious trouncing seemed pos- minutes later when a João Cancelo Legia Warsaw 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 3
produced. ing clear before beingflagged offside. sible. Only an element usually scarce piledriver made it 5-3 to City. Leicester 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
With Paris Saint-German up next, Leipzig were already in a wrestle under Guardiola might allow them An incident-rich evening next had Napoli 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
City cannot afford a repeat against for decent ball and territory. A Dani back into the contest – complacency Angeliño,once of this parish, receiv- Spartak Moscow 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé, Ney- Olmo shot he ballooned over was from their hosts. ing a second yellow so Leipzig navi- Spartak Moscow (0) 0 Legia Warsaw
Kastrati 90
(0) 1
mar and company, who will surely about the “best” they could conjure, Surprisingly, there was precisely gated the closing 10 minutes a player
watch the ilm of this and smell as City next took the lead. This was this. As the break neared Olmo was light. And, by the end, the substitute, SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP
P W D L F A GD Pts
blood. Guardiola’s men were able to presaged by a Mahrez ball floated allowed to play a pass left, Emile Gabriel Jesus had made the margin Fulham 7 5 1 1 17 5 +12 16
react each time they conceded here to the far post from the right. It was Forsberg lifted the cross in, Mukiele emphatic. West Brom 7 4 3 0 13 6 +7 15
but are bound to find it trickier to cleared for a corner – by Nordi Mukiele headed back to Nkunku and he beat Bournemouth 7 4 3 0 13 6 +7 15
do so against Mauricio Pochettino’s – Grealish pinged the delivery in and Ederson. Manchester City
41131
RB Leipzig
4231
Coventry
Stoke
7 5
7 4
0 2 8 5
2 1 10 8
+3
+2
15
14
aristocrats. Aké rose to beat two defenders and City, though, ended the half in close Ederson; Cancelo, Dias, Gulacsi; Klostermann•, Huddersield 7 4 1 2 13 9 +4 13
City’sopening group game results Gulacsi with a powerhouse header. to total control. A Torres header hit Ake, Zinchenko; Rodri
(Fernandinho, 59); De
Orban, Mukiele,
Angeliño••; Laimer, QPR 7 3 3 1 15 10 +5 12
read five wins, four losses and a draw The limit of Guardiola’s celebra- Lukas Klostermann’s upper arm and Bruyne (Foden 70); Adams•; Nkunku Blackburn
Cardiff
7 3
7 3
3 1 11 8
2 2 11 8
+3
+3
12
11
with only one of the reverses under tion was a soft fist pump but a lead after VARordered Serdar Gozubuyuk Mahrez, Silva
(Gundogan 59),
(Gvardiol 81), Olmo
(Brobbey 71), Forsberg Birmingham 7 3 2 2 10 7 +3 11
Guardiola – a 1-0 defeat to Lyon, in inside 20 minutes will havedelighted to consult the pitch-side monitor the Grealish (Jesus 80); (Szoboszlai, 60); Andre Middlesbrough 7 2 3 2 8 8 0 9
2018, though the manager served him. So, too, the hunger to drive for- referee awarded the penalty. Mahrez Torres (Sterling 70) Silva Bristol City 7 2 3 2 8 8 0 9
a touchline ban so his assistant, ward again instantly, Mahrez again smashed this in for a 3-1lead and the Luton
Preston
7 2
7 2
3 2 9 11
2 3 8 10
-2
-2
9
8
Mikel Arteta, was in charge for the ghosting into position to pull the trig- visitors were again remote contend- Millwall 7 1 4 2 7 9 -2 7
90 minutes. ger,this time on a curving effort that ers to take anything from the contest. Referee Serdar Gözübüyük (Neth) Derby 7 1 4 2 4 6 -2 7
Barnsley 7 1 4 2 6 9 -3 7
Reading 7 2 1 4 13 17 -4 7
In a Shefield Utd
Swansea
7 1
7 1
3 3 9 11
3 3 4 8
-2
-4
6
6
sky Hull 7 1 2 4 4 9 -5 5
blue Blackpool
Peterborough
7 1
7 1
2 4 5 11
1 5 7 17
-6
-10
5
4
heaven Nottm Forest
Birmingham
7 0
(0) 1
1 6 5 12
Fulham
-7 1
(2) 4
Deeney 87pen Odoi 10
Jack Mitrovic 44pen 83
Wilson 54
Grealish, Bristol City (0) 1 Luton (0) 1
on his Baker 57 Hylton 90
Champions
League Coventry
Gyokeres 15
(1) 1 Cardiff (0) 0
debut, scores
a stunning Nottingham Forest (0) 0 Middlesbrough (1) 2
goal for City Sporar 24
Hernández 72
 / Stoke (1) 1 Barnsley (1) 1
 / Surridge 17 Woodrow 38

Swansea (0) 0 Millwall (0) 0

Jude Bellingham
scored the first goal in
Borussia Dortmund’s
2-1 win at Besiktas
 • The Guardian Thursday 16 September 2021
46 Sport
Football Champions League Group B

Henderson claims the points but little resistance from the visitors’
compact defence. Another factor in

Liverpool are pushed all the way

Liverpool 3 The Kop issued a reminder of Istan-
Tomori 9og, Salah 48, Henderson 69
bul before kick offwith a banner that
read: “25/05/05 - There are places I
Milan 2 remember”. And, if Milan had not
Rebic 42, Díaz 44
been traumatised enough by the
events of 16 years ago, Liverpool
delivered another on the pitch with
Possession three goals, another comeback and a
Liverpool
60%
AC Milan
40%
valuable Champions League victory.
There are high expectations for Group
Shots on target B and the opener exceeded them.
7 3 Jürgen Klopp’s side recovered
Total attempts
from the shock of trailing at half-time
22 7 to take maximum points courtesy of
Jordan Henderson’s immaculate half
volley. Milan impressed once they
recovered from an early siege but
Andy Hunter ultimately greater European experi-
ence in the Liverpool ranks told as
Anfield they regained control of the tie.
Milan had waited seven long years
for a taste of Champions League foot-
ball and initially received a brutal les-
son in how Europe’s elite competition
has developed in their absence. They
ended the first half delivering one of
their own, turning the game on its
head in the space of three dramatic
minutes having spent the opening 42
firmly on the back foot.
“We better not waste time,”
said Klopp when assessing how to
approach a demanding group packed
with European pedigree. Liverpool,
as usual, followed their manager’s
advice and but for a rare penalty miss
from Mohamed Salah would have
established a comfortable lead before
the Italians had managed to exchange
passes inside their opponent’s half.
Liverpool flew into Milan straight
from Salah’s kick off, as though
feeding off the Anfield atmosphere
that was sorely missed during last
Group B
P W D L F A GD Pts
Liverpool 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 3
Atlético Madrid 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Porto 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Milan 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
Remaining fixtures
28 Sep Milan v Atlético; Porto v Liverpool
19 Oct Atlético v Liverpool; Porto v Milan
3 Nov Milan v Porto; Liverpool v Atlético
24 Nov Liverpool v Porto; Atlético v Milan
7 Dec Porto v Atlético; Milan v Liverpool
season’s forgettable Champions
League campaign behind closed
doors. Trent Alexander-Arnold and
Andy Robertson caused all manner of
problems with their trademark runs
from full-back and met surprisingly
Liverpool’s commanding start was
less predictable, however. It was the
lesser-spotted Divock Origi.
Klopp had to rotate at some point
and having helped keep three clean
sheets in four matches on his return
from injuryVirgil van Dijk was rested
along with Sadio Mané. Even so,there
were eyebrows raised at the inclu-
sion of Origi, who may have etched
his name into Liverpool folklore in
the Champions League but had been
nowhere near featuring for Klopp’s
team in the early weeks of the sea-
son. The Belgium striker made an
encouraging start, linking well with
Diogo Jota and bringing midfielders
into play, but showed his rustiness in
front of goal when steering Robert-
son’s telling cross wide from the first
real chance of the game. Jota and Joël
Matip also went close before Liver-
pool deservedly edged ahead.
Alexander-Arnold instigated the
breakthrough with a routine pass
out to Salah and then a surging run
towards the Milan defence. Salah’s
return was inch-perfect, taking sev-
eral Milan players out of the equation,
and the Liverpool defender raced into
the area before attempting to square

Henderson
hits sweet
spot for
winner
Jordan
Henderson,
who started,
timed his
strike to
perfection for
the winner
midway
through the
second half
U /P

110
The number
of seconds
between
Milan’s
equaliser
and Brahim
Diáz’s goal
to make it 1-2

13
The number
of times
Liverpool
and Milan
have lifted the
European Cup
or Champions
League trophy
Thursday 16 September 2021 The Guardian
across the face of Mike Maignan’s
goal. The former Chelsea defender
Fikayo Tomori flew in to intercept
only to deflect Alexander-Arnold’s
cross over his goalkeeper.
Liverpool were presented with a
glorious opportunity to double their
advantage when Robertson’s volley
struck the raised arm of Ismaël Ben-
nacer inside the penalty area. The
Polish referee immediately pointed
to the spot. Salah drove his penalty
down the centre of the goal, too close
to Maignan who pushed the effort
away and also foiled Jota from the
follow-up.
Liverpool were so dominant and
•
dangerous - racking up 13 shots in
the opening half hour alone - that
the miss felt almost inconsequential.
A second would surely come. Yet it
assumed an unlikely significance
when Milan struck twice in the clos-
ing minutes of a half in which they
had barely constructed an attack
of note. The equaliser arrived from
a flowing move out of defence that
Rare miss ended with Rafael Leão’s first time
from ball finding Ante Rebic unmarked
inside the Liverpool penalty area.
the The Milan striker instantly tucked
spot his shot beyond the exposed Alisson.
Within three minutes the visitors
Mohamed were ahead. Leão weaved his way
Salah sees down the Milan left before finding
his penalty Rebic in a similar position to his
saved by goal. This time Rebic drew Alisson
Milan’s Mike and squared to Theo Hernández,
Maignan, who had joined the attack from left
which gave back and saw his anticipated tap-in
the visitors stopped on the line by Robertson.
hope of at Brahim Díaz, however, followed up
least a point for a simple finish. The look of incre-
U V/ dulity across the Liverpool bench was
understandable, and shared by eve-
ryone else inside the stadium bar the
joyous corner from Milan.
Simon Kjær thought he had added
a third shortly after the restart when
Henderson missed an attempted
47
clearance at the near post and the
Denmark captain converted at the Rodgers calm
back. A correct offside flag curtailed
the celebrations. over future
Liverpool levelled thanks to a
delightful exchange between Salah
and Origi. The Egypt international, of Tielemans
receiving Fabinho’s ball and hold-
ing off his marker, found his strike
partner and immediately darted into
at Leicester
the area. Origi scooped the return
over the Milan defence for Salah to
convert with an improvised finish. Nick Mashiter
The third was even better and fol-
lowed a period of sustained home
pressure that resulted in a corner for Brendan Rodgers says he is relaxed
Alexander-Arnold. Bennacer headed about Youri Tielemans’s future
clear at the near post but only as far as despite contract talks dragging on.
Henderson who,catchingthe ball on The midfielder said this week he
the half volley, swept a superb shot was keeping his options open while
inside Maignan’s bottom corner from negotiations over a new Leicester
the edge of the area. deal continue. Tielemans is tied to
the club until 2023 and Rodgers said
Liverpool
4-3-3
Milan
4-2-3-1 in February he wanted to keep the
Alisson; Alexander- Maignan; Calabria, Kjær, Belgium international at the club
Arnold, Matip, Gomez,
Robertson; Henderson
Tomori, Hernández;
Bennacer• (Tonali 71), long term.
(Milner• 84), Fabinho, Kessié; Saelemaekers The Premier League club host
Keïta (Thiago 71);
Salah (Oxlade-
(Florenzi 62), Diaz•,
Leão (Giroud 62); Rebic Napoli in their Europa League opener
Chamberlain 84), Origi (Maldini 83) tonight and Rodgers remains calm
(Mané 63), Jota (Jones
71) about the ongoing talks with Leices-
ter’s £35million record signing.
He said: “There’s no drama with
Referee S Marciniak (Pol) it. It’s just the reality of the situa-
tion. It only becomes a problem to
me if there’s a lack of commitment
Salah or there’s not the same intensity but
makes up that’snever been the case with Youri.
for earlier “It’s natural. He is a very talented
playerwho is in discussions with the
error club and we’ll see where that takes us.
Mohammed “I have no idea [why it is dragging
Salah on], I concentrate on the football and
celebrates making sure he is the best player he
scoring can be. He is a top-class professional
to make it and a joy to work with and, while he
2-2, having is here –for however long that is – he
earlier will always give and I will always give
missed the best to his development.”
a penalty Rodgers has no fresh injurydoubts
V / for the Group C opener but James Jus-
U tin (knee) and Wesley Fofana (broken
leg) remain long-term absentees.
Leicester reached the last 16 of
the competition last season before
losing to Slavia Prague and Kasper
Schmeichel believes they cannot
afford to be afraid in their quest
for success. Two consecutive fifth-
placed finishes in the Premier League
and a first FA Cup triumph in May have
raised expectations with Schmeichel
looking for more progress.
He said: “We are in a very good
place. We have had a lot of recent
success but that means you have a
choice to make. Are you content with
that or do you want to progress and
move on?
“That’s what this club wants to do.
The club continues to show it in the
backing of the training ground, the
expansion of the stadium and the
transfer market.
“The club is always looking to
improve. That’s the most impor-
tant thing to me: when you are in an
organisation which has had success,
the hunger is still there.” PA Media
▲ Leicester’s Youri Tielemans is
contracted at the club until 2023
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Biles: Trauma
of abuse was
a burden right
up to Tokyo
Tom Lutz
New York
imone Biles offered powerful testi-
mony yesterday over her abuse by
the former gymnastics coach arry
assar, telling how she had carried
the burden into the okyo lympics
this summer. peaking about the
scandal that rocked the gymnastics
world,the celebrated lympian told a
U enate hearing that more athletes
would suffer unless the authorities
brought to account those who had
allowed assar’s abuse.
assar, a former U ymnastics
team doctor, is serving, in effect, a
life sentence after abusing dozens
of athletes under his care. Biles and
other lympic gold medallists such
as ly aisman and cKayla aroney
are among the survivors of the abuse.
esterday they appeared in front of
a senate committee to give testi-
mony at the hearing examining the
B’s failed 2015 investigation in the
assar case.
Biles began her testimony with a
quote from elson andela: “here
can be no keener revelation of a
society’s soul than the way in which
it treats its children.” he briefly had
to stop her statement after becom-
ing overcome with emotion before
she continued. “o be clear,  blame
arry assar and  also blame an
entire system that enabled and per-
petrated his abuse. U ymnastics
and the United tates, lympic and
aralympic ommittee knew that 
was abused by their official team doc-
tor long before  was ever made aware
of their knowledge.”
he B is accused of failing prop-
erly to investigate allegations that
assar was abusing athletes in his
care. “hildren suffered needlessly
Match report because multiple agents in multiple
Andy Hunter offices at the B neglected to share
the assar allegations with their law
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enforcement counterparts at state
and local agencies,” the epublican
▲ Liverpool’s senator huck rassley said 42 
captain Jordan in prepared remarks before

Liverpool beat Milan

Henderson
Liverpool Milan celebrates his
winner with

3 2 Joe Gomez

in another Euro classic

and Andy
Robertson
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▲ The gymnasts were scathing
in front of a US senate committee