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We’ll fight until end,

P
resident
Zelensky
evoked
Churchill and
Zelensky tells MPs Shakespeare in
an address to the House
of Commons yesterday,
in historic address urging MPs to do more
to help Ukraine defend
itself against the Russian
invasion (Oliver Wright
writes).
He likened the
struggle to Britain’s in
the Second World War,
saying that his country
did not want to “lose
what we have, just the
same way as you once
didn’t want to lose your
country when Nazis
started to fight”.
Speaking via video-
link from Kyiv, Zelensky
vowed to fight Russian
forces “in the forests, in
the fields, on the shores
and on the streets”. He
said: “We will fight till
the end. At sea. In the
air. We will continue
fighting for our land
whatever the cost.”
He also pressed home
Ukrainians’ wish for
independence, quoting
Hamlet: “The question
for us now is to be or not
to be. For 13 days this
question could have
Parliamentarians gathered
in the Commons to listen
to an address via video-link
from President Zelensky
been asked, but now I
can give you a definitive
answer. It is definitely
yes: to be.”
Zelensky’s plea, pages 6-7

Ukraine offered Nato jets

6 Aircraft deal risks new confrontation 6 Britain and US ban Russian oil 6 Xi peace plea hints at split with Putin
Larisa Brown Defence Editor
Oliver Moody Berlin
Poland is ready to hand over its fleet of
MiG-29 fighter jets to President Zelen-
sky’s government in a significant
escalation of the Ukraine crisis.
The 28 Soviet-era jets, which Ukrain-
ian pilots are already trained to fly, will
be delivered to Ramstein US airbase in
Germany and will be made available to
the US “immediately and free of
charge”, Warsaw said last night. It will
then be up to the Americans to give the
jets to the Ukrainian air force.
If approved, it would mean Nato air-
craft, flown by Ukrainian pilots, going
into combat with Russian forces,
potentially dragging the alliance into
confrontation with Moscow.
However, the US indicated last night
that it was not yet ready to take such a
drastic step. “We will continue to con-
sult with Poland and our other Nato
allies about this issue and the difficult
logistical challenges it presents, but we
do not believe Poland’s proposal is a
tenable one,” John Kirby, the Pentagon
spokesman, said.
In other developments:
6 President Xi of China told President
Macron of France and Olaf Scholz, the
German chancellor, that he supported
“peace efforts” in Ukraine, in an appar-
ent departure from his previous back-
ing for President Putin.
6 Britain and the United States an-
nounced a ban on imports of Russian
oil and oil products, which is likely to
increase petrol and diesel prices.
6 Military cargo planes took weapons
and ammunition to an undisclosed
airfield near the Ukrainian border.
6 The number of refugees fleeing the
invasion has now passed two million,
according to the UN refugee agency.
6 Priti Patel, the home secretary, faced
a backlash from Conservative MPs and
the cabinet over what one minister
called the Home Office’s “inept and
bureaucratic” response to the crisis.
6 McDonald’s said that it would tem-
porarily close its restaurants in Russia
in response to the “unspeakable suffer-
ing of innocent people” caused by the
invasion. Coca-Cola and Starbucks also
suspended their operations there.
The Polish foreign ministry said that
the jets would be placed “at the disposal
of the government of the United States
of America”, adding: “The Polish
government also requests other Nato
allies, owners of MiG-29 jets, to act in
the same vein.”
Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime
minister, said: “We have always stressed
that Poland is not part of this war, Nato
is not part of this war, and that’s why
any decisions on the supply of offensive
weapons should be taken unanimously
by the entire alliance.
“That’s why we are ready to hand
over our entire fleet of fighter jets to the
[US airbase] in Ramstein, but we are not
ready to make any moves on our own.”
Poland hopes to be given American
F-16 warplanes in return.
Arvydas Anusauskas, the Lithuanian
defence minister, tweeted: “Poland is
ready to hand over all of its MiG-29
aircraft to the United States govern-
ment disposal for a likely transfer to
Ukraine.”
Only a few Nato countries still oper-
ate MiG-29s, including Poland, Bulgar-
ia and Slovakia.
The Polish announcement was made
hours after Ben Wallace, the defence
secretary, warned that Russia could
attack Poland if it handed over its
aircraft directly to Ukraine.
The “blowback” would be against the
Polish people, he said, adding that it was
a “really big responsibility” on the
shoulders of the Polish president.
Wallace told Sky News: “Poland will
understand that the choices it makes
will not only directly help Ukraine,
which is a good thing, but also may
bring them into direct line of fire from
countries such as Russia or Belarus.”
He said there was a need for coun-
tries to increase lethal aid supplies to
Ukraine, whether anti-tank missiles,
anti-air systems or other weapons.
However, he said that Britain needed
to “tread a very fine line between how
we make sure we maximise the defence
of Ukraine without triggering a wider
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Elderly evacuated
as street fighting
consumes suburb

E
lderly
civilians in
wheelchairs
and others
with crutches
were among the
thousands who fled the
besieged Ukrainian
town of Irpin yesterday
after hand-to-hand
combat broke out on
the streets (Larisa
Brown writes).
Ukrainian officials
said a safe corridor
had been established
from the embattled
area, a Kyiv suburb,
but it was not clear for
how long it would
remain open.
An old woman was
wheeled through the
snow in a shopping
trolley as others
huddled under a
blown-up bridge while
they queued to cross
the Irpin River on a
makeshift passage of
wooden pallets and
scrap metal.
Irpin has been
without heat, water, or
electricity for several
days after heavy
fighting. A Ukrainian
paratrooper
lieutenant, identified
as Stas, said on
Monday: “There is real
street fighting now.”
Bursts of automatic
gunfire and blasts of
exploding shells rang
out as he spoke on
what was the 12th day
of the invasion. “In
some places, there is
hand-to-hand combat.”
Describing the
Russian threat, he
said: “There is a huge
column — 200 men,
50 light armoured
vehicles, several tanks.
We are trying to push
them out, but I don’t
know if we’ll be fully Russian held territory
able to do it. The B E LA RU
RUSS
Russian troop advance
situation is very Chernihiv Konotop Possible advance
unstable.” The Russian unit
Russians had declared Surrounded by Russian troops
a ceasefire for the Kyiv Ukrainian unit
area yesterday. Sumy Ukrainian defensive line
Larissa Prokopets, Zhytomyr
Kyiv
43, said she was Irpin
Kharkiv RU S S I A
reluctant to leave her Poltava
home in Irpin but was U K R A I NE
forced to because Luhansk
Dnipro
there’s “nobody left in Donetsk
the homes around us, Zaporizhzhya
no water, no gas and Mykolaiv
no electricity”. Rostov-on-Don
Oleksandr Odesa
Markushyn, the mayor Melitopol Mariupol 100 miles
Kherson
of Irpin, said he had
rejected a demand Sources: Institute for the
Study of War and Critical
from Russian forces to Threats Project; Ministry
CRIMEA
RIMEA
surrender the town. BLACK SEA of Defence. Updated Mar 8
In a post on the
messaging app Right, a woman was offer to the occupiers for them at home.”
Telegram yesterday, helped out of Irpin in a to leave [the] Irpin In its intelligence
Markushyn said he shopping trolley. Above, community within 24 update on Monday, the
had received Russian waiting to cross the river hours and save the British Ministry of
threats on his “life and under a blown-up bridge lives and health of Defence accused
health and demanding several thousand Russian forces of
for the complete understood — Irpin Russian conscripts, targeting evacuation
surrender of Irpin”. doesn’t give up, Irpin whose mothers, sisters, corridors and killing
He wrote: “I’m can’t be bought, Irpin daughters, “several civilians”
surprised that these fights. grandmothers and trying to evacuate the
monsters still haven’t “I have a counter- partners are waiting city.

A fateful vow in Kharkiv’s ruins TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JACK HILL

A woman has given up driven thousands westward and thou-

her own chance of
escape to care for
her bedridden
elderly neighbour,
Anthony Loyd
reports
The woman standing in the ruins has
no shortage of reasons to leave the city
of Kharkiv. Marina Shmakova, 58, was
already planning to escape and head
westwards with her daughter when two
missiles blasted her apartment in a five-
floor building in the west of the city.
The explosions devastated the build-
ing’s interior in an instant, smashing her
flat apart in a cyclone of glass, flying ma-
sonry, shredded furniture and buckled
doors. A man living on the floor above
was killed, and surviving residents stag-
gered over the rubble in the darkness
trying to aid the wounded as best they
could before rescue services arrived.
The city’s desolate streets had
already been emptied by the sounds of
shellfire and warplanes that have
sands more to eke out an existence in
the metro system. Yet Marina has re-
mained.
Among the injured in the building,
her face ripped apart by glass and shrap-
nel, was Marina’s neighbour Yelena Bol-
yachenko, whose photograph on the
front page of The Times yesterday epit-
omised the suffering of Ukrainian civil-
ians caught in the onslaught of the in-
vasion. The women, no more than ca-
sual friends, lived in apartments on
different floors. In the aftermath of the
blasts Marina saw Yelena, her face a
mask of blood, supported down the
torn stairwell and through the debris
and swirling dust to the yard outside,
and then watched Yelena’s 86-year-old
mother, Galina Rostanaie, bedridden
and blind, being carried out to await an
ambulance.
In the pandemonium, with shellfire
and rockets landing across the city, the
ambulance crew took Yelena but left
her mother behind in the yard. “It was
an extreme situation. The medics had
wounded to deal with across the city,”
Marina told me. “Maybe they noticed
that Galina was not actually wounded
and thought that the crowd of shocked
neighbours standing over her were her
family who would look after her, but the
only family she had was Yelena.”
The survivors carried the old woman
back into the ruins and laid her in a
blast-shattered ground-floor apartment.
The windows were gone, the floor a
carpet of broken glass. I found the two
women there yesterday.
Galina, who was born in Russia, came
to live in Kharkiv as a child during the
Second World War. After the bombard-
ment she lay huddled in a thick coat
beneath a pile of blankets, unable to
stand and her vision dim. Cardboard
had been fitted over the gaping
windows to keep out the winter wind.
“I couldn’t leave her here, so I stayed
that first night in the ruined room with
her,” explained Marina. The next day she
received a call from Yelena in hospital,
where surgeons had removed glass
from her face. The injured woman, who
was her mother’s only carer, has been
partially blinded by her injuries. “Yelena
asked me not to leave her mother,”
Marina said. “I promised I would stay.”
She ensured that her daughter, 32,
was put in a car to escape Kharkiv and
gave up the opportunity to go with her.
Snow lies on the rubble-strewn
ground outside. The wind is unremit-
ting; the sound of shelling echoes.
Marina Shmakova
stayed to care for
Galina Rostanaie,
86, whose daughter
Yelena Bolyachenko
was badly injured
Despite calls to local hospitals and Red
Cross officials no opportunity had
emerged to evacuate the bedridden
woman for whom Marina now cares.
“The best option we were given was
to carry her to an underground metro
station,” she explained, “but that is no
option at all. She needs specialist care in
a hospital far from the fighting.”
The situation was further complicated
by Galina’s refusal to leave. She has yet
to understand the extent of her daugh-
ter’s injuries, which have blinded her in
one eye and robbed her of most of the
vision in the other, nor the impact that
this will have on Yelena’s ability to care
for her once she can leave hospital.
“It’s so cold here,” Galina told me
from her pile of blankets, her voice thin
and fading, “but I don’t want to leave.
This building is my home. I worked all
my life to live here, and I am not ready
to leave now. I hope that my daughter
will recover so that she can return to me
from hospital, and we can have our
apartment repaired and live as before.”
Volunteers help to supply food and
blankets but as fighting intensifies
around Kharkiv the plight of the elderly
woman, her happenstance carer and
wounded daughter — replicated in vari-
ous forms among shell-torn buildings
and underground shelters across the
land — is precarious and worsening.
Yet Marina does not regret her choice
to give up the chance to escape. “I have
faith. I am an Orthodox Christian.
Maybe this contributes in part to my
wish to remain here in the city to be of
help at this time,” she said calmly
among the ruins. “But more simply
than that I cannot bring myself to leave
a wounded friend’s mother alone
without help. It is about humanity, and
it’s about a promise to a friend.”

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Ukraine to get Nato jets
war in Europe, and indeed without
putting at risk the United Kingdom
from an escalation”.
He said he wished the UK could do
more but that he was “acutely aware”
that Putin “seems to have no limit to the
humanitarian grief and murder he can
inflict on a country, and we have to cali-
brate our response correctly”.
He told Times Radio that it would
take “decades” and cost thousands of
Russian lives to occupy Ukraine. “It
could potentially break the Russian
army,” he said, adding that Putin was a
“spent force in the world and he’s done
— his army is done, he is done”.
Other countries could lend aircraft
to Ukraine but it would take at least two
months for its pilots to be trained to fly
them. Ukrainian military sources told
The Times this week that there were
“tens” of pilots without planes and the
Polish jets would be “very useful”.
Professor Michael Clarke, a former
director of the think tank Rusi, said the
jets would be well maintained and have
modern features. Justin Bronk, an air
Poland is offering its fleet of MiG-29
Fulcrum fighters for use in Ukraine
2GM
power analyst at Rusi, said the pro-
posed move would be “highly politic-
ally significant as a symbolic indicator
for both the Ukrainian and Russian
governments of how far the West is
prepared to go in supporting Ukraine”.
He added: “However, the cockpit
layout and weapons switchology in
Polish Mig-29s likely differs sufficiently
[and] Ukrainian pilots trained on
Ukrainian Mig-29s would need several
weeks of conversion training at least to
be combat-effective in the Polish jets.”
Justin Crump, of Sibylline, an intelli-
gence and geopolitical risk firm, said
there were questions about how and
where the aircraft would be delivered.
“The nation that is last in the chain,
even if using a front company or similar
legal guise, would clearly be at potential
risk of escalation from the Russians,” he
said.
US spy agencies said Putin might
“double down”, setting up “an ugly next
few weeks”. They estimated that 2,000
to 4,000 Russian troops had died and
said sanctions were hurting, but the sit-
uation could be far worse for Ukraini-
ans as food and water in Kyiv could run
out in two weeks. “Our analysts assess
that Putin is unlikely to be deterred by
such setbacks and instead may esca-
late,” Avril Haines, director of national
intelligence, told the House of Repre-
sentatives intelligence committee.
William Burns, director of the CIA,
said: “Putin is angry and frustrated. He’s
likely to try to grind down the Ukrain-
ian military . . . I fail to see how he can
produce that kind of an end game and
where that leads, I think, is for an ugly
next few weeks.”
We need to start talking about
nuclear war, Daniel Finkelstein, page 25
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Tory MP’s son
travels to join
the resistance
Charlie Moloney
The son of a Conservative MP is
believed to be in Ukraine as one of a
number of British volunteers who have
travelled to fight the Russian invasion.
Ben Grant, a former marine, has been
filmed in Lviv, and the Declassified web-
site said his mother was Helen Grant,
MP for Maidstone and The Weald.
Ben Grant told Reuters: “I was over in
Iraq for a few months and then flew
home, saw my missus and kids, hadn’t
seen them for a while, and basically said
yeah I’m going to Ukraine . . . They were
upset, but people need me here.”
He said that where he would go relied
on “how well the Ukrainians are doing in
different parts and where they need us”.
Helen Grant was the first black female
Conservative minister. At present she is
a special envoy for girls’ education. She
was contacted for comment.
The Sun reported last night that a
19-year-old Coldstream Guard had quit
his barracks in Windsor to head for
Ukraine. He left a note for his parents
before setting off for eastern Europe.
The Foreign Office advises: “If you
travel to eastern Ukraine to fight, or to
assist others engaged in the conflict,
your activities may amount to offences
against UK terrorism or other legis-
lation and you could be prosecuted.”
‘Invading Chechens
evict us at gunpoint’
Ukrainians asked to
record the invasion
have told their stories to
Ekaterina Sergatskova
and Maxim Tucker
A pensioner in Katyuzhanka, a
village north of Kyiv, whose name
has been withheld for her safety:
The Chechen fighters arrived in our
village, streaming in on armoured
vehicles. They started seizing our
houses, evicting families at gunpoint,
rounding them up and forcing them
into the local school, where they have
to sleep on the cold, concrete floor. In
exchange for each house, the fighters
hand out a loaf of bread.
Now the Chechens live in our
homes, with Russian soldiers. They
are from the battalion of Ramzan
Kadyrov, the president of the
Chechen Republic. They’re aggressive
and intimidating. They tied white
armbands, like the occupiers, on my
neighbours.
As soon as Russian forces entered
the village, the owner of the local
supermarket distributed to the
residents all the products in his
warehouse. Now supplies are slowly
running out. All grocery stores in the
village have been closed for a week.
We are lacking food, medicines and
drinking water. I’m worried my
neighbours’ children will have to
collect rainwater to drink. The school
isn’t working while the families are
there, so children here only have the
education their parents can provide.
I live 31 miles (50km) north of Kyiv.
The Russians have already
established a regime of occupation.
I’m a pensioner, so they mostly leave
me alone. Others are not so lucky.
They are gradually cutting off Kyiv
from the north. In my area, the
Chernihiv region, many villages are
already occupied by the Kremlin’s
soldiers. Other villages are being
shelled from here with Grad missiles.
Aliona Noha, 39, an export sales
manager in Kharkiv:
At 6pm the curfew begins, we turn off
the lights, and life freezes until the
morning. The Russians attack every
night with artillery, rockets and jets.
We hear them overhead. I will never
be able to forget the terrible sounds
those bombers and fighters make.
Syrians volunteering for
both sides in Ukraine war
Anchal Vohra Beirut
Syrians who survived President Putin’s
assault on civilian targets in their coun-
try are volunteering to join the fight
against Russian forces in Ukraine.
Osama Burhan, in his mid-thirties,
was among millions who fled the Syrian
civil war as the Assad regime bombard-
ed cities across the country, with Rus-
sian warplanes carrying out devastat-
ing strikes on residential areas.
Now living in Baalbek, Lebanon, he
said he wanted to travel to Ukraine to
fight, even as reports emerge that
Russia is recruiting Syrians loyal to
Assad to fight Kyiv’s armed forces. That
raises the prospect of Syrians fighting
against each other in eastern Europe.
According to the Syrian news website
DeirEzzor24, Russia has appealed for
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Last night was quieter, so we
decided we could at least sleep in our
house, not in the cellar as we have
done the past four. Explosions woke
us up only twice, far less than in the
past few days.
Today is the 13th day of the
Russian invasion. I live in Kharkiv,
the second-largest city in Ukraine,
and it seems now the whole world
knows about us. I live with my
mother and pets (three cats and a
dog) in a two-bedroom house in the
western part of the city.
My morning started as usual —
reading news and going through my
roll call with friends and relatives to
check they survived the night. This is
the hardest part of the day. Many of
my friends live in districts that have
been almost completely destroyed.
The kindergarten of my friend’s
daughter was hit, then a shell fell
outside my aunt’s house. Some days I
spend hours in agony waiting for a
delayed response. Only after I know
that they are all safe and alive can I
drink my morning coffee.
My next quest is to buy food. We
have a big problem with logistics now.
One of the most popular questions in
our local social media chats is:
“Where to buy what?”
Almost all small grocers are closed
and long queues form near the
supermarkets. The products in stores
are limited — rice, pasta, potatoes,
apples. It’s difficult to buy bread.
I spent two hours buying food for
my pets this morning. But there is a
bright side — many Ukrainians have
come together to try to solve this
problem. Entrepreneurs are giving
some products away. That’s a huge
help for the elderly, who find it
difficult to leave the house and stand
in lines. We help each other and share
food with neighbours.
Several friends have left the city.
They spent 14 hours waiting to get the
train to Vinnytsia, then another 12 to
get there, standing, with no place to
sit. Yesterday many volunteers helped
people to leave the city. But for now,
we don’t want to leave. This is my
home, my land. I don’t want to leave
everything I love.
So many people are already looking
for shelter in Europe. One friend went
to Germany with her 11-year-old
daughter. She had fled from Luhansk
to Kharkiv in 2014 because of the
Russian occupation of Donbas. Her
daughter was three then. So this child
has had to flee twice in her young life.
volunteers to act as “guards” on six-
month contracts in Ukraine for
$200-$300 a month, while Wagner
mercenaries, often described as Putin’s
private army, have been equipping
Syrian fighters to join the battle.
Burhan said he could “feel the pain”
of the Ukrainians. “We know Russia
and Putin more than anybody does,” he
said. “We have experienced his brutali-
ty and crimes. He is the teacher of the
Syrian regime. The Syrians can deeply
sympathise with the Ukrainians. Putin
is an occupier who does bad things to
fulfil his desires and serve his interests.”
If he dies, he hopes his family will be
given refugee status in Europe.
Abdulkafi Alhamdo, a Syrian activist
in Lebanon, said he celebrated when
Russian bombers were shot down. “Sav-
ing Ukraine is saving Syria,” he said.
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Planeloads of western weapons

Larisa Brown Defence Editor
At an airfield just over the border from
Ukraine, cavernous military cargo
planes arrive, on average, every 90
minutes throughout the day and night.
They are loaded with Javelin anti-tank
missiles, rocket launchers, drones, guns
and ammunition.
From the undisclosed airfield, used
by RAF and US planes alike, the
supplies are loaded on to trucks before
travelling over the border. The risk of
attack is high, and drivers are thought
to be paid about $1,500 a day.
In one of the biggest mass move-
ments of supplies in Europe since the
Berlin airlift of 1948-49, the West is
attempting to ensure Kyiv has weapons
to maintain its defence against Presi-
dent Putin’s onslaught. Every day that
the Ukrainians can hold out against
Russia, say defence sources, creates
new demands for supplies and difficul-
ties with logistics. Missiles
The British military refuses to talk
about the deliveries because of
concerns that the airfield could come
put a dent
under attack. One source said that in
times of war an enemy supply base
in Putin’s
could be considered a legitimate target.
A defence source said the UK was “des- armour
perately worried” about weapons going
in and out. The success of Ukrainian
In the past few days C-17 transport forces in destroying Russian
aircraft departing from RAF Brize helicopters, armoured
Norton in Oxfordshire have delivered vehicles and fuel trucks has
weapons, military medical supplies and rested in part on an arsenal
ration packs to the airfield. Turkey is of anti-tank and anti-aircraft
believed to have shipped in more of its missiles, many of which
Bayraktar TB2 drones. American have come from the West
weaponry has included Javelins as well
as small arms and munitions, part of a
$350 million package authorised by
President Biden.
An American official said the US and
other Nato members had sent Ukraine
17,000 anti-tank missiles and 2,000
Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. The site is
hosting as many as 17 flights a day, with
aircraft arriving from across Europe
and beyond. Tobias Ellwood, Conserv-
ative chairman of the Commons
defence select committee, compared
the operation to the Berlin airlift and
said western nations needed to go even
further.
In 1948 the Russians closed all
highways, railroads and canals from
western-occupied Germany into West
Berlin in an attempt to make it impossi-
ble for the people to get food or other
supplies. In response the US and its
allies supplied their sectors from the air.
The airlift lasted for almost a year and
more than 2.3 million tons of cargo
entered West Berlin.
Ellwood said: “Thanks to the incredi-
ble display of Ukrainian resilience this
is not the war Russia was anticipating to
fight. Putin has now resorted to a
scorched earth policy, surrounding and
bombing entire cities from afar as well
as cutting off power supplies to encour-
age entire populations to flee. The scale
of international assistance that’s now
required across Ukraine is greater than
the 1948 Berlin airlift operation.”
Ellwood said that tens of thousands
of Ukrainians could soon die of expo- carrying munitions between Estonia
sure, famine or from Russian bombard- What countries have sent and Poland. The Ukrainians have been
ment if more action were not taken. Ukraine has received 17,000 anti-tank and 2,000 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles so far Russian military losses using them to slow Russian advances.
General Mark Milley, America’s Troops (approx) 12,000
According to figures published by the
Germany Czech Republic
chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Ukrainian armed forces on Tuesday,
visited the undisclosed airfield last 1,400 anti-tank rockets, 500 ground-to-air 30,000 pistols, 7,000 assault rifles, 3,000 Armoured personnel carriers 1,036 Russia has lost 303 tanks, 1,036 armour-
week, meeting troops and personnel Stinger missiles machineguns Cars 474 ed personnel vehicles, 80 helicopters,
from 22 countries working at speed to Netherlands US Tanks 303 48 aircraft, 120 artillery systems, 60 fuel
ensure help gets to the Ukrainians 40 Panzerfaust-3 anti-tank weapons, 400 $350m of military aid has been authorised, Artillery pieces 120 tanks, three ships and boats and almost
before Russian forces reach a position missiles, 200 Stinger air-defence systems 300 Stinger missiles 12,000 personnel.
Anti-aircraft and multi-rocket systems 83
where they can intercept or destroy aid. Estonia
James Heappey, the armed forces
Belgium Helicopters 80
Flight tracking data also showed minister, has already described how the
American military cargo planes flying 2,000 machineguns, 3,000 additional Javelin anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft Fuel tanks 60 UK’s Nlaw anti-tank weapons have
between eastern Poland and the huge automatic rifles, 200 anti-tank weapons ammunition proven to be “invaluable”. Video shows
Planes 48
Ramstein airbase in Germany. A Britain Latvia and Lithuania Patrol boats 4
Ukrainian soldiers using the Nlaw to
Ukrainian air force Antonov An-124 2,000 anti-tank missile systems Stinger missiles hit targets from a building.
Source: Armed forces of Ukraine. Data is not verified
cargo plane was understood to be Germany is supplying Ukraine with
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Germany is supplying Ukraine with
1,400 anti-tank rockets and 500 Stinger
missiles, reversing Germany’s long-
standing policy of banning weapon ex-
ports to conflicts.
The Netherlands is sending 40 Pan-
zerfaust anti-tank weapons, 400 missil-
es and 200 Stingers. Belgium has sent
2,000 machineguns and 3,000 addi-
tional automatic rifles and 200 anti-
tank weapons. The Czech Republic is
dispatching 30,000 pistols, 7,000
assault rifles, 3,000 machineguns,
sniper rifles and a million cartridges.
Portugal has promised to send
grenades, ammunition and night-
vision goggles. Romania, France,
Greece, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and
Canada are all sending lethal aid, as
well as Britain and America.
Yet for all the co-operation to ensure
supplies are arriving, there are
concerns over the flow of information.
According to The New York Times, US
officials are convinced that Ukraine’s
military and intelligence agencies have
been infiltrated by Russian spies so they
are being careful not to distribute raw
intelligence that would reveal sources.
Western officials have previously de-
clined to answer questions on whether
other countries, including the UK, are
providing Ukraine with intelligence to
help them defeat Russian forces.
Arctic winds ‘will turn Russian
vehicles into 40-tonne freezers’
Larisa Brown
A severe cold snap could stall Russian
advances further, analysts believe, with
troops forced either to abandon their
vehicles or sit in “40-tonne iron freezers”.
Arctic air moving through Russia and
Ukraine will combine with an easterly
wind to make temperatures drop to as
low as minus 10C overnight around
Kyiv and the northern city of Kharkiv
in the coming days. When wind chill is
taken into account it could feel as cold
as minus 20C, according to forecasts.
Analysts said that this could make the
invasion harder for the Russians, espe-
cially those stuck in a 40-mile column of
stalled vehicles north of the Ukrainian
capital. A Ukrainian military source
said: “It will affect those in the long-
staying convoys; it means that Russian
troops staying alongside the roads will
be suffering.”
Major Kevin Price, who served in the
British army for 20 years, said: “Minus
20C will degrade the Russian force,
there is no question. It will improve
cross-country mobility because there
will be less mud but the Russians are
not ready for Arctic conditions.” An
urban assault without suitable clothing
would be “unbelievably tough”, he said.
Any fuel shortages would also mean
that soldiers would be unable to run
their engines to keep warm. “Imagine
being sat in a 40-tonne iron freezer all
night,” he said, adding that very low
temperatures would also probably affect
the vehicle performance if there were
no suitable oils and lubricants.
Price said he believed that bad
weather would further damage Russian
morale and inflict cold-weather casual-
ties. “It’s not a decisive factor but it is a
very unwelcome development for Rus-
sian commanders,” he said, noting that
the temperature was below average for
this time of year and so Russian forces
would probably be unprepared.
Brigadier Ben Barry, who is now a
senior fellow for land warfare at the
International Institute for Strategic
Studies in London, said the weather
Girl, 16, feared for her life as she fled
James Callery
A 16-year-old girl feared she could “die
at any moment” as her family fled their
town, which was being shelled by
Russian troops.
Sonya Kornuykh left her home on
the northern outskirts of Kyiv after
spending a week hiding in her neigh-
bour’s cellar.
The family grew increasingly fearful
of encroaching Russian soldiers as the
shellfire became “so loud and so power-
ful the ground started shaking”.
Discussing her journey on Times
Radio, Sonya said she was terrified to
walk on roads she described as “the
most dangerous in the country”, where
people had been killed the day before.
“It was just horrible,” she said.
Sonya had thought that the day of the
Russian invasion “was the worst day of
my life. But I had no idea that some-
thing even worse could happen.”
She said that she walked for miles to
cross a bridge out of the area, which had
been destroyed by Ukrainian troops to
keep Russian forces away from Kyiv.
The family left yesterday at 8am,
Civilians flee from Irpin, outside Kyiv. Temperatures of minus 20C are expected
would affect Ukrainians too. “It will
slow things down but it will slow things
down for both sides,” he said. “The
proportion of troops that start suffering
cold injuries like frostbite will go up.”
A Nato military official told CNN
that despite using all the forces it had
concentrated in and around Ukraine,
Russia was making very little progress.
Major General
Vitaly Gerasimov is
the second Russian
general to die
in the invasion
The official said: “We see very little
change. For the first time, we don’t
expect them to make any gains in the
next few days.”
British military chiefs believe that
Russian commanders are heading
farther forward than normal to restore
momentum. On Monday last week
Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky, 47,
deputy commander of the 41st Com-
bined Arms Army of the Central Mili-
tary District, was killed near Mariupol,
taking only necessities and making the
heartbreaking decision to leave behind
their pets. Sonya said: “I’m so sorry for
my dogs and my cats.” She added that
“they’re just dying there from fear and
hunger and my house will be destroyed
too”.
She told how her town was well pro-
tected “for the first ten days” and resi-
dents “got used to hearing regular
shots” from the Russians. “We knew
that they were outside the town. So we
just kept sitting in our neighbour’s
cellar and going up sometimes to eat
or go home for a while.
“Then we lost connection, elec-
tricity and water, and the most
terrible part has begun.”
She said Russian shells
started to hit neighbour-
ing houses. “It was so
loud and powerful that
the ground started shak-
ing and we realised that
the occupiers have sur-
rounded our town. Now
Sonya Kornuykh fears that
her home will be destroyed
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in the southeast. Two days ago a second
Russian general was reported to have
been killed. Major General Vitaly Ger-
asimov, 45, chief of staff of the 41st Army,
served in Syria and Chechnya and took
part in the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
The Ukrainian defence ministry said
that he had died near Kharkiv and
broadcast what it said was a conversation
between two Russian security service
officers discussing his death and saying
that their secure communications did not
work in Ukraine. Christo Grozev, execu-
tive director of the investigative journal-
ism group Bellingcat, said the 41st Army
had lost communications and used a
local sim card, enabling the interception.
After almost two weeks Russian
forces have captured large areas of
northeastern and coastal Ukraine and
laid siege to cities and cut off food, water,
heat and medicine. However, advances
have ceased in many areas. For days
efforts to create corridors to evacuate
civilians have faltered because of
continued shelling and objections to
the proposed routes. One evacuation
attempt did appear to have been at least
partially successful yesterday, when a
bus convoy left Sumy in the northeast.
we’re trapped because it’s impossible to
evacuate because they even shoot evac-
uation buses with people inside. Finally,
we decided to run away from the town,
leaving everything we had, and risk our
lives.”
They managed to cross the bridge
and boarded a bus to Kyiv, where they
met Sonya’s father, who had been wait-
ing for them. He took them to a safer
part of the country.
Sonya’s aunt, Marina Pesenti, told
Times Radio that the family “really
fear for their lives”. She said she
knew of “multiple instances of
shelling and killing, civilians
being shot at, while they crossed
or soon after the crossing” out
of their area.
Pesenti added: “The town is
descending into medieval
times, they experience such
horrors. There are now re-
ports of rapes, reports of
wounded children who
Russians do not allow to
be evacuated to hospitals,
there’s no electricity, no
l
telephone connection, no gas.”
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Zelensky
pleads with
MPs to take
more action
Oliver Wright Policy Editor
Volodymyr Zelensky called on MPs to
treat Russia as a “terrorist state” as he
urged Britain to step up sanctions and
impose a no-fly zone over his country.
In an emotional address to the
Commons yesterday, the Ukrainian
president called on the West to do
much more to help the Ukrainian effort
against what he described as one of the
biggest armies in the world.
“We are looking for your help, for the
help of civilised countries,” he said.
“Please increase the pressure of
sanctions against this country [Russia].
Please recognise this country as a
terrorist state. And please make sure
that our Ukrainian skies are safe.
“Please make sure that you do what
needs to be done and what is stipulated
by the greatness of your country.”
Zelensky was given a standing
ovation by MPs before and after his
speech, which was also attended by
peers who were packed into the public
galleries.
The president said that more than 50
children had been killed and there was
constant shelling, including of
hospitals. “I would like to tell you about
the 13 days of war, the war that we didn’t
start and we didn’t want,” he said.
“I think everybody can hear that
people do not have water over 13 days of
this situation, over 50 children have
been killed. These are the children that
could have lived but these people have
taken them away from us.
“Ukraine was not looking for this
war. Ukrainians have not been looking
to become big, but they have become
big over the 13 days of this war. We are
they are, by their actions, inspiring
millions by their courage and their de-
votion,” he said.
“This is a moment to put our political
differences aside, and I know I speak for
the whole house when I say that Britain
and our allies are determined to press
on with supplying our Ukrainian
friends with the weapons they need to
defend their homeland as they deserve,
to press on with tightening the
economic vice around Vladimir Putin.”
The Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer,
added: “Every one of us has been
moved by the bravery, the resolve and
the leadership of President Zelensky.
“He has reminded us that our free-
dom and our democracy are invaluable.
He has prompted a world into action,
where too often we have let Putin have
his way. He has inspired the Ukrainian
nation to resist and frustrated the A packed Commons gave President Zelensky standing ovations before and after his speech via video link, above left. He
Russian war machine.”
“He has shown his strength and we
must show him, and the Ukrainian
people, our commitment and support.”
Earlier the prime minister held talks
with leaders of the Visegrad countries,
Quentin Letts galleries were packed with
members of the House of Lords.
Hundreds of ’em!
Never before in our long
which include Slovakia, Hungary,
Poland and the Czech Republic.
Afterwards he said there was “a lot of
agreement on the ways to support the
Hon Member for Kyiv parliamentary history, noted Boris
Johnson, had there been a moment
like it. Foreign leaders sometimes
get to speak to assembled
Ukrainian people” and the need to keep
up economic sanctions. But he again
ruled out a no-fly zone, one of Ukraine’s
needs no translation parliamentarians in Westminster
Hall or in a gallery at the Lords.
Never do their words smack home
key demands of the Nato allies. like those of the Hon Member for
“When you talk about a no-fly zone, translation. “Bombe”. He kept Kyiv Central. He had been given a
I think it’s very important for every- Political Sketch saying it. “Bombe, bombe, bombe”, chance to enter the very cockpit of
body to understand that that involves metronomic and deadly. And we all our legislature. The fact that he was
the UK, British pilots and British surely now had enough Ukrainian to doing so live from a capital city
planes, being given the orders to shoot comprehend Zelensky’s husky, under mortal threat from Russian
down Russian fast jets, which brings us closing words, “glory to Ukraine, rockets lent the moment
into direct conflict with Russia in a way glory to Britain”. extraordinary force.

saving people despite having to fight
one of the biggest armies in the world,
with its helicopters and rockets.
He added: “However we have to
conduct this war, we do not want to lose
what we have, what is ours, our country
Ukraine.”
Responding to his speech, Boris
Johnson said he had “moved the hearts
of everybody in this House”.
“At this moment ordinary Ukraini-
ans are defending their homes and their
families against a brutal assault and
that I don’t think any Nato country has
on their agenda at present.”
He added: “And I know how difficult
it is for Volodymyr Zelensky. But at the
moment the best thing we can do is
continue on the track that we’re on:
diplomatic isolation for Putin, making
sure that we tighten the economic
squeeze, and offering ever more
defensive military support. That’s what
we’re doing. We’re going to keep going.”
Zelensky spoke for law and liberty,
leading article, page 29
N
ot all of us were given
earphones to listen to
the simultaneous
translation of President
Zelensky’s speech to
the Commons. Didn’t matter.
Instead of following what he said,
one could see how he said it and
the impact it had on a hushed
house. There would be time
afterwards to read the content.
Some words, anyway, need no
This dispatch from the jaws of
hell, in the gathering gloaming of a
March afternoon, knocked his
audience for six.
One Labour MP afterwards
reckoned Zelensky was the leader of
the western world. At what a cost.
The applause when his unshaven,
weary face first appeared on the two
overhead television screens (erected
for the occasion) was almost martial
in its ferocity. The chamber’s
“You have the floor, president,”
said Speaker Hoyle. Thus it began: a
worn, almost croaky delivery,
delivered from behind a desk with
his flag at his side, its silks a contrast
to the drabness of his khaki T-shirt.
In Ukraine, an exhausted but defiant
statesman was fighting for his
people. In Moscow his enemy was no
doubt cackling in scorn.
Johnson frowned sombrely on the
front bench as he listened through
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asked for more sanctions on Russia and “to make sure Ukrainian skies are safe”
his headset to the urgent words.
Occasionally the PM growled and
nodded in agreement with what
Zelensky was saying. There was a
ripple of approval when he invoked
Shakespeare. Ukrainians faced a
question: to be or not to be. They
were opting for the former. Then
some Churchill: “We will fight in the
forest field, shores. We will continue
fighting for our land, whatever the
cost.”
Some backbenchers shared
headsets, Nickie Aiken and Siobhan
Baillie leaning in towards each other
like two backing singers. Tracey
Crouch leant down to listen to
Sir Bob Neill’s earpiece. It looked as
if she was checking the old boy’s
pulse. Others did not care that they
could not follow every word. They
just wanted to be there on parade, to
show solidarity, to savour a historic
moment. One Labour MP, Emma
Hardy, was in tears. By the double
doors lurked a rare visitor, Sir Gavin
Williamson, who once told the
Russians to shut up.
The president illustrated his
speech with little touches of his
heart, narrowing his eyes, staring
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hard at the camera. When he
addressed our prime minister by
name — “Boris” — he lowered the
tempo and the insistence became
something more intimate and
beseeching. He varied his
emphasis but maintained a rhythm
that became semi-hypnotic. The
words kept pressing, drilling,
surging, their fervour almost
Homeric.
Words, words, words? Putin in
his bunker will claim so. But there
was something tremendously
affirming about this short
occasion. “I want to express the
solidarity of the House of
Commons with you,” said Hoyle
afterwards, and there was a unified
shout of agreement from the
chamber and its galleries.
In other news, an independent
expert panel delivered its report on
John Bercow. The former Speaker
was found to be a “serial liar” in
addition to having been an
atrocious bully. He should never
again be given a parliamentary
pass.
All in all, not a good day for
batey little martinets.
The president is a laughing stock
— and all the more brilliant for it
Television Carol Midgley
Servant of the People
All4
HHHHI
I
t obviously feels a tiny bit
gauche, not to mention surreal,
to review Volodymyr Zelensky’s
sitcom Servant of the People at
the very moment that he is
fighting valiantly for his stricken
country and fending off Vladimir
Putin’s assassination attempts (three
so far and counting). Some might say
it’s like critiquing Nelson Mandela for
his ability to sing in the bath. It
certainly makes it almost unbearable
to watch this personable, talented,
charismatic man whose very facial
expressions and posture are comedic,
knowing of the hell he and his people
are living. Just as it is heartbreakingly
surreal to see his character, Vasyl
Petrovych Holoborodko, a history
teacher, cycling around sunny,
bustling Kyiv, its people going freely
about their business, with Ukraine’s
buildings still intact.
But it does give us insight into the
huge popularity of the man, and it is
excellent that Channel 4 is offering us
Pull out of Moscow, judge Oligarch risk
urges British law firms to schools’
Catherine Baksi
Jonathan Ames Legal Editor
charity status
British law firms should quit Moscow
immediately, a member of Ukraine’s
supreme court has said as he announ-
ced that he had joined the civil military
defence corps in Kyiv.
Speaking to The Times via email, Ivan
Mishchenko called on the inter-
national City law firms in London to
send a message to the Kremlin by clos-
ing their offices in the Russian capital.
“They should never, ever have Rus-
sian clients again,” said Mishchenko,
40, who has been sitting on Ukraine’s
highest court since 2016. “This bloody
money will bring them neither joy, nor
happiness. Lawyers are all about
money but there is always something
more than that. Dignity, for example.”
Before Russia invaded Ukraine
nearly a fortnight ago, all ten of the
biggest-earning City law firms had out-
posts in Moscow.
In the past few days two of the top ten
— Norton Rose Fulbright, an Anglo-
US firm, and Linklaters — have said
that they will shut their Moscow offices.
Kennedys, another prominent City
firm, has also announced that it will
close its Russian operations.
It emerged over social media that
Mishchenko, who is married with two
sons aged 12 and three, and a daughter,
aged ten months, had swapped his
judge’s gown for makeshift battledress.
He has joined the large band of civilians
aiding Ukraine’s armed forces in pre-
paring for a Russian assault on Kyiv.
“Although we have seen a large
amount of Russian forces on our bor-
ders we didn’t believe to the last mo-
ment this madman will start a real war
in the middle of Europe,” the judge said.
“As we talked among colleagues,
almost everyone said, ‘Well, it’s impos-
sible that he will bomb Kyiv: we are in
the 21st century.’ We were wrong.”
The judge said that although many of
Ukraine’s court buildings had been de-
Volodymyr Zelensky plays an ordinary
man who becomes leader of Ukraine
the chance to watch episodes, with
subtitles — partly because it will
increase Zelensky’s popularity even
further, which will annoy Putin, and
partly because it is very good.
It is no less surreal to see how life
spectacularly imitates art. Servant of
the People is about an ordinary man
who accidentally becomes president
of Ukraine when one of his pupils
secretly videos his rant about corrupt
politicians, their pay, “their cortèges
stroyed in the bombings, some cases
were still being heard.
“I know that a lot of judges joined
both army and special units,” said Mish-
chenko.
He said that despite Kyiv being
shelled up to six times a day, the Rus-
sians “know that they cannot overcome
us in open combat so they use rockets
and war planes instead.
“ On the first day of war I was chang-
ing nappies for my youngest daughter
in the bomb shelter; [it was] unforgett-
able.”
Linklaters is one of four so-called
magic-circle international City law
firms. Its senior partners have announ-
ced that the firm will quit Moscow, but
the three others are staying put for the
time being.
A spokesman for Allen & Overy said:
“We are reviewing our Russia-related
portfolio and as a result we will refuse
new instructions and stop all Russia-
linked work that goes against our values.
We will, naturally, vigorously imple-
ment all political decisions and comply
with applicable sanctions and rules.”
In a statement, Clifford Chance said
the firm “will not accept new mandates
from any Russian state entity, Russian
state-owned enterprises or individuals
identified as having close connections
to President Putin. We will review all
existing and new mandates relating to
Russia, or where there is a connection
to Russia, to ensure that our work
remains consistent not only with the
letter and the spirit of the international
sanctions but also with our responsible
business principles and values.”
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, an
Anglo-German practice, said: “We took
immediate steps to terminate, suspend
or decline mandates, and we are clear
that we will not act for companies or
individuals with close ties to the Rus-
sian state, with connections to the
wider leadership regime, and/or who
play a role in supporting or facilitating
the Russian military action.”
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and their summer homes” (anyone in
particular this might relate to?) and it
goes viral. “We’re choosing between
two bastards!” he rails. The fact that a
few years after it was made, in 2015,
Zelensky, a lawyer turned actor, and
the voice of Paddington in Ukraine,
would actually become the president
is mind-blowing.
Zelensky has, as they say, funny
bones, and the premise is a droll way
to satirise the absurdity and
degeneracy of politics. It’s not as
sweary as The Thick of It but the
bleeps are occasionally in overdrive.
As a humble teacher still living with
his parents in a flat, wearing a white
vest and struggling to pay his loans,
Vasyl had little respect from anyone.
He faces the sack for his rant. The
second he becomes president,
however, the entire country fawns,
the bank mysteriously writes off his
debts and his adviser offers him a
watch “like Putin wears”. The second
episode also features a rather good
Putin look-alike, so those surreal
moments just keep rolling in.
You may not feel much in the
mood for comedy but it really is
worth watching. Not least because
it reminds us, both in fiction and
fact, that “non-politicians” can make
great leaders, and sometimes
“populism” works.
Nicola Woolcock Education Editor
Private schools that accept the children
of Russian oligarchs are putting their
charitable status at risk, an MP has
suggested.
Ian Mearns, who sits on the Com-
mons education select committee, crit-
icised independent schools that have
said they want more guidance from the
government.
The Labour MP for Gateshead said
schools should not wait for guidance
but “do what they consider to be the
right thing”.
Commenting in a personal capacity,
he added: “Many of these institutions, if
not all, have charitable status that
would be severely called into question
should it emerge that they are educat-
ing children funded by money that has
been gained by questionable means in
Russia. Do they really need to receive
government guidance or can they not
distinguish between right and wrong?”
An independent school source sug-
gested Russian children could end up in
British state schools. The source told
the PA news agency: “In the situation
that a child is not enrolled at an inde-
pendent school as a result of non-pay-
ment of fees, then the local authority
has a legal duty to educate them. Child-
ren of Russian citizens could end up at
taxpayer-subsidised state schools.”
There are about 2,300 Russian pupils
at private schools across the country,
according to the Independent Schools’
Council annual census.
Julie Robinson, of the Independent
Schools Council, said: “Sanctions im-
posed on individuals and Russian
banks mean schools must not accept
payments of fees from these sources.
They are encouraged to remain on high
alert and expected to raise suspicious
activity reports if they have concerns
over the provenance of the money.”
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Xi urges restraint
in first sign of
split with Putin
Q&A
Richard Spencer
and could soon cut off buyer of Russian oil and
President Xi intervened in the Ukraine roads to Kyiv, the gas. There is little sign
crisis for the first time yesterday, saying capital. For President that he is prepared to
in a rare hint of disagreement with Putin it is the other way use it, which is hardly
Russia that he supported French and round — he has surprising — it suits
German “peace efforts”. The Russian and certainly been Beijing very well to have
The Chinese leader said in a video Ukrainian foreign embarrassed at home America’s much-
call to President Macron of France and ministers will meet in and abroad and might vaunted “pivot to Asia”
Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, Turkey tomorrow. Does like a face-saving way stalled by conflict in
that he wanted “maximum restraint” in this mean there will be out, but certainly would Europe. There are,
the war in order to avert a “humanitar- a peace deal? not do so yet without however, two caveats.
ian crisis”. He promised to send human- This is the highest-level being able to claim China nowadays thinks
itarian supplies to Ukraine. meeting between the some sort of victory. it is the senior partner
“China commends the efforts France two sides since war in its historical love-hate
and Germany have made to mediate broke out, so the Can any outside relationship with Russia.
the Ukrainian situation,” Xi, 68, said, situation has certainly country intervene to It does not want Putin
according to Chinese state media. changed. But there have help? to be too emboldened
His support for the French and Ger- been three previous The EU says that it does by his disruption of the
man position contradicts his previous rounds of talks on the not expect to be able to international order, but
strong backing for President Putin, 69. Belarusian border with mediate, thanks to its neither does it want
Both countries have played a key role in no immediate sign of a strong pro-Ukraine Russia to collapse. That
the fierce response of the EU and Nato breakthrough. Russia stance. However, some would only make the
to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, sur- has so far only repeated countries, notably American-led western
prising some who expected them to its original demands: China, Israel and Turkey, alliance stronger. So Xi
adopt a more neutral stance. recognition of the have adequate relations might well feel the need
Macron has made repeated efforts to Crimea and the with both sides. Naftali to intervene if it looked
engage with Putin, while many diplo- breakaway regions of Bennett, Israel’s prime like Putin’s position was
mats expected Germany’s economic Donetsk and Luhansk as minister, is the only crumbling.
reliance on Russian gas to weaken its independent, and national leader to have
guarantees that Ukraine met Putin since the What might any
will not join even the start of the war. ceasefire deal look the items from sale.
Russians around the
European Union, let
alone Nato. Ukraine
continues to refuse.
However, Israel counts
on Russia to turn a blind
eye to its bombing
like?
There are several
precedents for ceasefire
Amazon selling world have been
daubing the white letter
What has changed?
Both sides say they are
campaign against
Iranian-backed targets
in Syria, so has little
deals involving Russia.
Possible Turkish
involvement will revive
clothes with Z on black backgrounds to
show they are behind
their country’s troops.
winning the war, but
both fear they are
losing it. Paradoxically,
leverage. Turkey has
taken Ukraine’s side,
and its Bayraktar drones
the idea of a “frozen
peace”, as has been the
case in Georgia since
pro-war symbol The adoption of the Z as
a symbolic expression of
support is particularly

President Xi fears the sanctions aimed
at Russia will hurt the global economy,
which “is in the interests of no one”
response. By contrast, the Chinese
statement made no mention of Putin by
name.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy
head, told El Mundo on Friday that
China was the only possible mediator in
the war. “We have not asked for it, nor
have they asked for it, but since it has to
be a power and neither the US nor
Europe can be, China could be,” he said.
Lord Hague of Richmond, the former
Conservative Party leader and foreign
secretary, said much the same thing in
The Times yesterday, adding it would be
in China’s interests to take action. “A
long war is going to rejuvenate the
West, strengthen Taiwan and cause
Russia to implode,” he wrote. “China’s
interests lie in shortening it dramatical-
ly. The entire world would thank Xi for
using the unique leverage he possesses
over Putin to call a peace conference
and require his presence.”
Up to now, the idea that China could
or would play a strong role had been
dismissed, thanks to the closeness of
relations between Moscow and Beijing.
Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister,
said on Monday that the friendship was
“rock solid”.
Beijing has refused to issue any
criticism of Putin, instead blaming
A
both may be right. have inflicted damage 2008 and is now the mazon has among the country’s controversial because it
Ukraine has put up on Russian forces, but case in Syria. Fighting been selling hard-right supporters was originally daubed on
stiffer resistance and President Erdogan has will simply stop on clothing and around the world. tanks attacking
inflicted many more negotiated over agreed lines, with long- other T-shirts, sweaters and Ukrainian cities.
casualties than Russia conflicts with Putin term solutions promised merchandise phone accessories As Russian tanks
expected. Having also before, so he knows in negotiations that marked with a “Z”, explicitly advertised as rumbled south from
suffered many how Putin thinks on never happen. It would indicating support for “Russian Z symbol Belarus into Ukraine,
casualties, including these matters. be understood that Russia’s war in Ukraine, military armed forces CCTV footage at border
civilians, Ukraine’s The most powerful Ukraine could not The Times has found tanks” were for sale on checkpoints captured
leaders say they cannot possible go-between possibly apply for Nato (Maxim Tucker and the tech giant’s site the markings daubed on
be expected to offer would be President Xi or EU membership, Tim Gosling write). yesterday. The their flanks: the Latin
concessions now that of China. He has meaning Putin would The symbol, which is description of items said letters Z and O. Russian
they were not prepared diplomatic leverage, have what he most used by the Russian they were sold and forces pushing north
to make before. They closely cooperating wanted. But Ukraine army in Ukraine to dispatched by Amazon. from Crimea were
see, however, that with Russia on the UN could claim it has avoid incidents of When contacted by The filmed too, with the
Russia continues to security council, and preserved its “friendly fire”, has gone Times, the company said letter V emblazoned on
advance in the south, economic leverage, as a independence. viral in Russia and it would be removing the sides of vehicles. The
Nato expansion for triggering the war.
Beijing and Moscow have grown closer
as successive US administrations have
identified China as the main long-term
any serious peace conference, a role
Beijing normally avoids.
The Russian and Ukrainian foreign
ministers are due to meet in Turkey to-
Police threaten family of
threat to American interests. morrow for the first time since the war Tom Ball he refused to open the door, they
William Burns, director of the CIA, began. President Erdogan has experi- turned off the electricity in the flat.
told a US congressional committee that ence in negotiating ceasefire deals with Police in Moscow have threatened to Police officers left a note warning his
China might be having second Putin over the Syria war. detain the mother of a 12-year-old boy mother that she could be forcibly taken
thoughts. “President Xi and the Chi- All such suggestions are met with who questioned Russia’s line on the war into custody if she did not report for
nese leadership are a little unsettled by scepticism in Ukraine itself, which sees in Ukraine as part of the Kremlin questioning.
what they’re seeing,” he said. “They did no prospect of Putin backing down and mission to stamp out all dissent. “They tell us that residents of
not anticipate the significant difficul- believes all Moscow’s offers of cease- The boy, who has Ukrainian roots, Ukraine have been brainwashed, but it
ties the Russians are running into.” fires are made cynically. spoke out after his teacher told the class seems to me that we are being brain-
Xi said he was worried the crisis could “Negotiations are meaningless,” one the conflict was necessary to halt Kyiv’s washed here,” the boy, identified only as
“get out of control” and that the sanc- senior official told The Times. “We have “aggression”. He also disputed her Kirill, told the Novaya Gazeta.
tions imposed on Russia could “affect different purposes. Their intention is to claim that Ukraine was a Nazi state that Despite the government’s intensify-
global finance, energy, transportation eliminate everything that is Ukrainian. had begun the hostilities. After the les- ing crackdown, thousands of protesters
and the stability of supply chains, and They have no other purpose, so son, he shouted “Glory to Ukraine!” in took to the streets across Russia at the
dampen the global economy. This is in everything depends on the Ukrainian the school corridor. weekend, during which more than
the interest of no one.” army.” Police officers later visited the 4,500 were arrested.
It remains unlikely that Chinese Hague overstates Xi’s influence with family’s flat while the mother was at In the Kostroma region, 200 miles
officials would be the main mediators at Putin, letters, page 28 work and the boy was alone at home. As from Moscow, police charged a priest
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All bets are off since

invasion but no one
should expect a coup
Analysis described as being divided into liberal
and hardliner “towers”, with the latter

A captured Russian vehicle
daubed with a “Z”, the pro-
invasion symbol used by
nationalist youth groups,
businesses and spy turned
politician Maria Butina.
Below, Amazon sells
T-shirts featuring the letter
mostly to involve
Z-marked units. Maria
Butina, a Russian spy
turned politician, posted
a short video tutorial
on how to emblazon
jackets with the letter,
and nationalist youth
groups have posed in
black sweatshirts with
the symbol. The Russian
gymnast Ivan Kuliak
was photographed
wearing a Z made with
tape on the podium after
taking third place at an
event in Doha, Qatar.
He was standing next to
Illia Kovtun of Ukraine,
who won the event.
Outside Russia,
governments have
begun to crack down on
the symbol, which has
been compared to the
swastika. Police in
Kyrgyzstan, a former
Soviet republic, have
letters, some encased in said they will fine
squares or circles, are a drivers who display it on
rudimentary IFF system their cars. Czech police
(identification, friend or have said they want the
foe), used by militaries same powers to punish
around the world to those who display the Z
determine if a distant symbol as they do those
vehicle is hostile or who display the
allied.
For Russian forces
swastika. Officials
warned on February 26
entering Ukraine, these against public support
markings are important
because the two
countries use the same
for the invasion of
Ukraine. Now the
country’s Ministry of
Soviet-designed vehicles, Interior is drawing up
making it hard to guidelines for police to
discern enemy from deal with those
friend. Squares and displaying the Z.
circles around the “Lawyers are now
symbols could denote working on this with
different organisational experts from
units, helping those in anti-extremism unions.
the same detachment to They tend to treat it the
locate one another and same as a swastika,” a
maintain formation. source from the Czech
The battles for Kyiv security community told
and Kharkiv appear the Neovlini outlet.
P
resident Putin has ruled
Russia since 2000 and under
the constitution can remain
in office until 2036, when he
would be 83. Until recently,
few would have seriously bet against
him staying in power for life. Yet his
decision to invade Ukraine could have
wildly unpredictable consequences
(Tom Ball writes).
A failure to capture Kyiv and rising
military losses could cause tensions in
the army, and economic hardships
over sanctions could erode Putin’s
popularity among Russians. There are
no indications of a significant rift in
the elite but there have been small
signs that not all officials accept the
human and economic cost of the war.
Military conflicts have often led to
political upheaval in Russia, from
defeat in the Russo-Japanese war of
1904-05 to the war in Afghanistan
that was a catalyst for the collapse of
the Soviet Union. Putin is said to have
told a European official in 2014 that
his army could “take Kyiv in two
weeks”. Although he insists the
“special operation” is going to plan,
analysts say he was probably
expecting to have won by now.
If Putin were deposed, Mikhail
Mishustin, 56, the prime minister,
would become acting leader. The
former tax chief was appointed by
Putin to succeed Dmitry Medvedev as
head of the government in 2020 and
plays in the president’s ice hockey
team. Described by one analyst as
“ideologically neutral”, Mishustin has
little popular support and would be
unlikely to take over permanently.
The Kremlin elite is commonly
BBC journalists resume
reporting from Russia
Kieran Gair
The BBC has resumed English-
language reporting in Russia after
pausing its coverage because of
concerns about a new law that allows
journalists to be jailed for up to 15 years.
The corporation has said that its
coverage of the invasion of Ukraine had
attracted record audiences in Russia.
The BBC said it had “considered the
implications” of the legislation that
would make it a criminal offence to
spread “fake news” about the war in
Ukraine.
increasingly dominant since Russia
annexed Crimea from Ukraine in
2014. The attempted coup in 1991
during the last days of the Soviet
Union was led by hardliners
disgruntled by President Gorbachev’s
reforms. Their modern-day
counterparts are military, security
and spy chiefs in Putin’s inner circle.
The only two even remotely powerful
enough to try to remove Putin are
Sergei Shoigu, the defence minister,
and Nikolai Patrushev, head of the
national security council. Both are
close to Putin and share his anti-
western views. Few analysts expect
them to move against him unless they
see him as a threat to their power.
Although there have been protests
across Russia since the war began, the
number of demonstrators is relatively
low and rallies have been crushed
mercilessly. About 13,500 people have
been arrested. The imprisoned
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said
yesterday that “anti-war momentum
will keep growing”. In a sign that the
Kremlin is wary that it will be unable
to disguise the growing military
losses, Putin said yesterday that
conscripts would not be sent to fight,
nor would army reserves be called up.
Yet even if the conflict does bring
Putin’s rule to an end sooner than he
expected, his political system may
survive. As Vyacheslav Volodin, the
parliamentary speaker, predicted two
years ago: “After Putin, there will be
Putin. Everything that happens after
President Putin will follow the
templates that he has established.”
Army blunders and sanctions can do for
Putin, Roger Boyes, page 26
authorities passed legislation cracking
down on foreign outlets. The Russian
Duma approved a law making it a
criminal offence, punishable by up to
15 years in prison, to publish “fake
news” concerning its armed forces.
Tim Davie, director-general of
the BBC, said the law appeared to
“criminalise the process of independent
journalist”.
He added: “We remain committed to
making accurate, independent infor-
mation available to audiences around
the world, including the millions of
Russians who use our news services.”

Moscow boy who questioned teacher
with discrediting the actions of the
Russian army after he called for peace
in his sermon and published a petition
advocating an end to the war.
“I told [parishioners] that the most
important thing now is not to let hatred
into their hearts,” Father Burdin said.
The security service said that people
could be jailed for 20 years for treason
if they provided “assistance to a foreign
state to the detriment of the security of
the Russian Federation”.
President Putin approved a law last
week that made it a criminal offence,
punishable by up to 15 years in prison, to
circulate “fake” news about the invasion.
Media outlets were barred from referring
to it as a war and must call it a “special
operation”. It was also made a crime to
call for anti-war protests.
The law has forced the closure of
virtually all of Russia’s independent
media outlets, including Ekho Moskvy,
a liberal radio station in Moscow. Its
place would be taken by Sputnik Radio,
a Kremlin-backed outlet, officials said.
Western sanctions have sent the
economy into a tailspin, with the rouble
falling to a post-Soviet low. Super-
markets have started to ration food
staples such as flour and cooking oil.
Many Russians have fled the country. At
least 25,000 travelled to neighbouring
Georgia last week, according to Levan
Davitashvili, a Georgian minister. How-
ever, Visa and MasterCard said that
bank cards issued by Russian banks
would no longer work outside Russia.
Opinion polls say more than 60 per
cent of Russians support the Kremlin’s
“special operation” in Ukraine.
However, an independent poll found
that about 75 per cent of those who
backed the Kremlin’s military cam-
paign received their news almost exclu-
sively from state media.
Alexey Minyaylo, an activist who
helped to organise the poll, wrote: “The
majority of those who approve of the
war are not beasts or fascists, but fellow
citizens who have been deceived by
propaganda.”
Would it help if Russians knew more?
Leading article, page 29
However, the corporation said that
after “careful deliberation” it would
resume its work from yesterday
evening.
The BBC said in a statement: “We
have considered the implications of the
new legislation alongside the urgent
need to report from inside Russia.
“After careful deliberation we have
decided to resume English language
reporting from Russia after it was
temporarily suspended at the end of
last week.
“We will tell this crucial part of the
story independently and impartially,
adhering to the BBC’s strict editorial
standards.
“The safety of our staff in Russia
remains our No 1 priority.”
On Friday the BBC temporarily
suspended the work of all its journalists
and support staff in Russia after the
The Kremlin had accused the BBC
of playing a “determined role in
undermining the Russian stability and
security”.
The New York Times, meanwhile,
announced that it would pull its staff
out of Russia in response to the crack-
down on journalists.
“For the safety and security of our
editorial staff working in the region, we
are moving them out of the country for
now,” Nicole Taylor, spokeswoman for
the newspaper, said.
“We look forward to them returning
as soon as possible while we monitor
the application of the new law.”
She added that the newspaper “will
continue our live, robust coverage of
the war, and our rigorous reporting
on Russia’s offensive in Ukraine and
these attempts to stifle independent
journalism”.
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Ban on imports of
Russian oil adds to
pressure at pumps
Oliver Wright, David Charter,
Emily Gosden
Britain and America are to ban all
imports of Russian oil in a move that is
expected to increase further the price
of petrol and diesel at the pumps.
In a co-ordinated announcement
with western allies, Boris Johnson said
that Britain would phase out all oil
imports from Russia, which supplies
about eight per cent of the UK’s
demand, by the end of the year.
President Biden said the US would
ban all Russian oil, gas and coal imports
to put pressure on Russia to halt the war
in Ukraine, calling the surging cost of
petrol “Putin’s price hike”. Companies
in the US have 45 days to adjust to the
ban.
The European Union said it was
seeking to reduce its dependency on
Russian gas by two thirds this year and
fully phase out its use of Russian oil and
gas “well before 2030”.
After the announcement, the price of
a barrel of oil rose by more than 7 per
cent to $132, with some analysts sug-
gesting it could reach as high as $200.
The RAC said that at $132 a barrel,
average fuel prices would be about £1.70
for petrol and £1.88 for diesel.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secre-
tary, said the government was giving
businesses enough time to adjust and
find new sources of supply, insisting
that the UK had “significant reserves”.
“Businesses should use this year to
ensure a smooth transition so consum-
ers will not be affected,” he said. “The
government will work with companies
courts comes from Russia and its price
has been rising faster than that of pet-
rol. The average diesel price is about
£1.61 per litre against £1.56 for unleaded
petrol, according to the RAC.
“Prices are soaring because the ban
makes it more of a challenge to trade in
Russian oil and more likely that other
countries may follow suit,” said Bjornar
Tonhaugen, head of oil markets at the
consultancy Rystad Energy.
The decision is likely to increase the
pressure on Rishi Sunak to use his
spring statement to reduce taxes on fuel
at the pumps, to lessen the impact of
global price rises. One senior Tory MP
said the chancellor was facing intense
pressure to “act swiftly”. Robert Halfon
said: “They know they have got to do
Joe Biden called
the surging cost
of petrol “Putin’s
price hike”
something. These kinds of prices are
simply unsustainable.”
Craig Mackinlay, chairman of the
Net Zero Scrutiny Group of MPs,
added: “The Treasury will receive
windfall taxes of at least £2 billion from
VAT on petrol and diesel. Sunak should
offer a minimum cut of 5p per litre off
fuel duty. A promise of tax cuts in the
future simply won’t cut it.”
The moves against Russia follow
talks yesterday between Johnson,
Biden and the leaders of France and
world could not simply stop using oil
and gas from Russia but that it could
accelerate the transition away from it.
“The UK will move away from
dependence on Russian oil throughout
this year, building on our severe pack-
age of international economic sanc-
tions,” the prime minister said.
“We are confident this can be
achieved over the course of the year,
providing enough time for companies
to adjust and ensuring consumers are
protected.”
In the US Biden said he believed that
there was strong support from Demo-
crats and Republicans for the ban,
which applies to Russian crude oil and
certain petroleum products, liquefied
natural gas and coal.
The US imported nearly 700,000
barrels a day of crude oil and refined
petroleum products from Russia last
year, eight per cent of oil imports. New
US investment in Russia’s energy sector
was also banned.
“We’re banning all imports of Rus-
sian oil and gas energy,” Biden said at
the White House. “Russian oil will no
longer be acceptable at US ports and
the American people will deal another
powerful blow to Putin’s war machine.
We’re taking [this step] to inflict further
pain on Putin, but there will be costs as
well in the United States. The band of seven heavily armed
“I said I would level with the Amer-
ican people from the beginning. I said
Women train fighters pledged to avenge every
“woman, old person, ruined house,
defending freedom is going to cost. It’s
going to cost us as well in the United fire on Putin’s street and even barn that had been
destroyed”. The Territorial Defence,
States.” a reservist force within the
Donald Trump, the former president,
criticised Biden for the highest fuel
‘rabid dogs’ Ukrainian army, has accepted
women into its ranks since its

to support them to make use of this
period in finding alternative supplies.”
The UK was also “exploring options”
to introduce a ban on Russian gas,
which accounts for about four per cent
of supplies, Kwarteng said.
Almost a fifth of diesel at UK fore-
Germany. President Zelensky of
Ukraine had pleaded with western
allies to cut off the imports. Energy
exports have kept a steady stream of
cash flowing to Russia despite severe
restrictions on its financial sector.
Johnson said yesterday that the
prices in years, saying: “Do you miss
me yet?”
A poll on Monday showed that 71 per
cent of Americans backed a Russian oil
ban even if it increased petrol prices.
Prices soar as US bans Russian oil,
Business, page 33
F
emale Ukrainian
reservists marked
International Women’s
Day by vowing to gun
down Russian invaders
“like rabid dogs” (Tom Ball writes).
creation in the early 2000s, but
since the invasion the number of
female fighters has swelled.
Statistics published by the
government yesterday showed that
15.6 per cent of the regular army is

Every step raises stress on the markets Relaxing rules on

Analysis Russia while America was TotalEnergies have all said likely to have a knock-on
importing about 626,000 that they have stopped impact on gas markets. Oliver Wright tioned that no decision had yet been

B
ritain and
America import a
relatively small
volume of oil
from Russia
(Emily Gosden writes).
However, the embargo is
likely to have knock-on
effects across oil and gas
markets, raising pressure
for wider sanctions and
raising prices.
Russia normally exports
about 5 million barrels per
day of crude oil and
equivalents, about 5 per
cent of global supplies. It
also exports about
2.8 million barrels per day
of products made from oil,
such as diesel and other
fuels: combined, it ranks as
the world’s biggest oil
exporter. As of November
Britain imported about
170,000 barrels per day of
oil and oil products from
barrels per day, according
to the International Energy
Agency. That is more than
a tenth of Russia’s total oil
exports. For both America
and Britain, it is a modest
share of their imports.
Analysts said that these
volumes could be covered
by redirecting supplies.
However, the embargo
adds to the momentum for
others to stop buying
Russian oil — for energy
companies to stop doing so
voluntarily, and for
European countries to
impose their own bans.
Analysts said that 70 per
cent of Russian oil was
struggling to find a buyer
already, even without
formal European sanctions,
as companies feared falling
foul of further sanctions or
incurring reputational
damage. Shell, BP and
buying Russian oil.
This trend and the risk
of European sanctions
threatens a much bigger
shock to oil markets
because experts do not
think there is enough
production capacity to
replace all the Russian
oil exports.
The most likely sources
of replacement are Saudi
Arabia, Iran and Venezuela,
subject to sanctions being
eased on the last two.
However, analysts said that
even if these countries
boosted output, when
combined with strategic
releases from Western oil
reserves and an uptick in
fracking in America, global
markets would still be
extremely tight. It could
mean prices hitting $180 a
barrel or more.
The oil embargo is also
Russia has threatened to
restrict gas supplies to
Europe in retaliation. The
continent relies on Russia
for about 40 per cent of its
gas needs and even the
threat of this being
disrupted has pushed prices
to all-time highs.
Analysts said that if
liquefied natural gas
shipments were diverted to
Europe there would not be
enough to replace Russian
supplies. Price rises could
force factories to halt work.
In the meantime, the
more that oil and gas
prices increase on fears of
further Western sanctions,
the more that the Putin
regime profits as the value
of the oil and gas that
Russia is still exporting
grows — thereby making
the case for further
sanctions even stronger.
Policy Editor
Ministers are examining plans to relax
restrictions on new onshore wind
farms as part of proposals to expand
renewable energy projects in the face of
spiralling gas prices.
The government imposed a de facto
moratorium on new onshore wind
farms in England in 2015, imposing
draconian planning restrictions and
cutting onshore off from government
investment in renewables.
However, ministers are looking at re-
laxing planning rules on developments
as part of plans to reduce Britain’s reli-
ance on Russian energy supplies and
the high price of wholesale gas.
An announcement could be included
in Boris Johnson’s statement on the
future of UK energy supplies, which is
expected next week. That will also in-
clude plans to increase the develop-
ment of the UK’s nuclear power capa-
city and issue new licences to exploit
North Sea oil and gas.
Senior government officials cau-
made but said that discussions were
continuing.
In 2020 wind energy accounted for
almost a quarter of total electricity gen-
eration in the UK, with offshore wind
making up 13 per cent and onshore
wind representing 11 per cent. But
whereas offshore wind capacity has
grown significantly over the past five
years, new onshore projects have large-
ly dried up in England where the
government’s planning rules have
taken effect.
David Cameron, who was prime min-
ister at the time, introduced the meas-
ure in 2015 to constrain the develop-
ment of new onshore farms, saying he
wanted to rid the countryside of the
“unsightly” structures after pressure
from many Conservative MPs.
He excluded onshore wind from the
government’s system of subsidies for
low-carbon electricity and the govern-
ment’s national planning framework
was changed to disincentivise councils
from granting planning licences by
giving small groups of residents an
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Ukraine’s volunteer ukraine in brief
battalion includes seven
heavily armed women
who have stayed in Kyiv
to avenge people killed
by the Russian invaders

Beauty queen
pleads for help
A former Miss Ukraine told
Americans of her heartbreak at
leaving her young son in Europe after
they fled the invasion. Veronika
Didusenko, 26, and Alex, seven,
escaped to Switzerland. She has a US
visa but could not get one for him, so
left him with friends while she went
to Los Angeles to raise awareness of
the crisis. She told a press conference:
“Ukrainian children and their
mothers are trembling at every sound
in the subway stations and bomb
shelters. Even more heartbreaking is
that women are giving birth in such
conditions.” Didusenko, who will
rejoin her son in Geneva at the
weekend, urged the West to impose a
no-fly zone. She won her title in 2018
but was stripped of it because she had
been married and had a son.

RT facing website ban

female. This compares with about 11
per cent in the UK. In a video
circulated on Ukrainian messaging
channels, a masked female fighter
stands in front of a Ukrainian flag,
flanked by six other female
reservists. She declares: “We are
women of Ukraine. We have blessed
our men to protect our land. We join
the men and the Ukrainian army.
We will destroy the enemy on every
centimetre of Ukrainian land.”
She adds: “In every city, every
village, forest and field. For every
child, woman, old person, ruined
house, street and even barn — we
will shoot you like rabid dogs. Glory
to Ukraine. Death to enemies.”
International Women’s Day is a
global holiday recognised by the UN,
but it holds a particular significance
in the countries of the former USSR.
After women gained suffrage in
Soviet Russia in 1917, the day was
made an official public holiday. To
this day, women in the former Soviet
Union are presented with flowers
and chocolates. Internet memes
shared on Ukrainian Telegram
pages yesterday showed the bloodied
corpses of Russian soldiers with a
bouquet of flowers superimposed
into their hands. A caption on one
reads: “I will certainly be returning.”
In Russia, pictures of women at
protests being arrested by Russian
police officers were also circulated
with the caption: “Happy holidays!”
Marharyta Rivchachenko, 25, a
journalist and PR manager, is
among those who have enlisted in
the local Territorial Defence in Kyiv.
“The army is not a very fun place
and war is very scary. But I have
not lost heart,” she said.
Alexandra Vinokur, 30, the
owner of a travel agency, has been
donating blood as part of her
duties for the reservist forces in
Kyiv. “There are a lot of injured
people,” she said. “I gave blood so
it could be given to another
person. They took more than they
needed so I passed out.”
Women redefine their role in Ukraine’s
war, Alice Thomson, page 27
Ministers are considering blocking
RT’s website in Britain amid a surge
in traffic. They are discussing adding
the website to the Foreign Office’s list
of sanctioned Russian entities to give
any ban legal clout. It would allow the
government to insist that internet
providers block the site, which is
hosted in Russia. Daily visits to
RT.com from Britain hit nearly
eight million in February, up 95 per
cent on last year.
Salvini ‘friend of Kremlin’
The mayor of the Polish town of
Przemysl, which borders Ukraine,
called Matteo Salvini, the leader of
Italy’s right-wing League party, a
“friend” of President Putin for his
pro-Kremlin views. Wojciech Bakun
confronted him at a news conference
at the town’s railway station, where
thousands of refugees have arrived

wind farms could ease gas crisis

since Russia’s invasion. Salvini said:
“We are helping refugees, children,
mums, dads, from Ukraine.” (AP)

Babies born underground

Q&A
but which it had been impossible to
ban was announced, the Rishi Sunak has no plans to a reduced VAT rate on fuel develop. “Under the current system, Thousands of Ukrainian families are
price of a barrel of oil rose reduce either fuel duty or or a cut in fuel duty. unlike other planning applications, sheltering from the threat of Russian
by more than 7 per cent, to the VAT. They point out that onshore wind projects in England can bombs in Kyiv metro stations. With
$132. Analysts have said it the price of oil has been Will Russian gas also be be rejected if one single person objects many men in the army or territorial
might reach $200 if Russia hugely volatile since the banned? to them going ahead,” he said. defence forces, women and children
Will the ban on Russian oil were to cut off supplies Russian invasion and say Not immediately. The UK “That needs to change if we’re sleep 70 metres underground in some
imports lead to shortages immediately. The RAC said the Treasury needs longer imports about 4 per cent of serious about securing Britain’s energy of the deepest stations in the world,
at fuel pumps? that at $132 a barrel, fuel to assess the long-term its supply from Russia. independence and reaching net zero as designed during the Cold War to
Although the UK imports prices would be about £1.70 impact before making any Ministers are acutely aware fast as possible.” double as bomb shelters. The UN
just under 20 per cent of its for petrol and £1.88 for decisions. that the price of wholesale Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin, head of Population Fund said that 81 babies
diesel from Russia, diesel. It is likely that rises in However, Tory MPs gas has risen by nearly analysis at the Energy and Climate were born in Kyiv at the weekend,
ministers are confident that the price of diesel will be have said that the recent 1,500 per cent since last Intelligence Unit, said: “Onshore wind including five in metro stations.
this can be made up from larger than those of petrol price rises will have year, and don’t want to do is popular, can be quick to build and
other sources. Petrol is not as suppliers seek alternative handed the chancellor a anything to exacerbate this connect to the power system, so with UN: don’t mention the war
expected to be affected as sources of fuel and refining. windfall of at least £2 billion situation. However, offshore wind, solar and boosting insu-
Russia is not a big provider. from increased VAT ministers have said they are lation in homes it’s the quickest and The UN has informed staff not to use
How will the government receipts. They are calling “exploring options” to cheapest way of squeezing gas off the the words “war” and “invasion” when
But will it affect prices? help? on Sunak to return this to reduce dependence on grid. referring to Ukraine. An email, seen
Almost certainly. After the Senior sources insist that consumers through either Russian gas still further. “Accelerating all these net-zero tech- by The Irish Times, from the
nologies is going to be critical to cutting communications department also told
Putin’s hold over us, and locking in less staff not to add Ukrainian flags to
effective veto on projects. This led to latest round of bids for energy con- boost the output from onshore wind gas demand is also the route to perma- personal social media accounts. It said
new onshore wind capacity falling to its tracts. farms further. nently bringing down bills.” this was because they had to be
lowest level in a decade in 2019. Scotland and Wales have separate Dan McGrail, the chief executive of The Department for Levelling Up, impartial. An official said that staff’s
However, in 2020 Johnson reversed planning laws. RenewableUK, which represents the Housing and Communities, which is language had to be consistent with
part of Cameron’s measures by allow- Ministers are now looking at the industry, said there were sites in Eng- responsible for planning policy, did not the position of the organisation, but
ing onshore wind to take part in the changes to the planning system to land that had excellent wind resources respond to a request for comment. there was not a list of banned words.
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News War in Ukraine

Patel told to get a grip as MPs
Matt Dathan Home Affairs Editor
Henry Zeffman
Associate Political Editor
Senior Tory MPs have called for Priti
Patel to quit over Britain’s chaotic
response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis
and even fellow cabinet ministers
rounded on her yesterday.
The home secretary was told to
“get a grip” as thousands of Ukrainian
refugees struggled to book visa
appointments across Europe because
of Home Office bureaucracy.
Refugees have warned that riots will
break out after being told they face
having to wait for at least a week in
freezing weather for an appointment at
an understaffed visa centre in Poland.
It also emerged that thousands of
Ukrainians who are living in Britain do
not qualify to bring in their family. The
Home Office said that those in Britain
on work and student visas who are not
permanent residents would have to wait
for the community sponsorship scheme.
Ministers said, however, that it would
take weeks to set up. It is believed to apply
to at least 7,000 Ukrainians in Britain.
Patel was also undermined as Boris
Johnson appointed a new minister for
refugees to take over responsibility for
the resettlement of Ukrainians fleeing
Russia’s invasion. Richard Harrington,
a former business minister who quit as
an MP at the last election, has been fast-
tracked for a peerage so he can join the
government.
Patel was grilled by fellow ministers at
yesterday’s cabinet meeting about her
department’s slow pace in processing
visas, with fewer than 1,000 of more
than 20,000 applications being granted
since the family scheme was opened
last Friday. “Priti talked about every-
thing the Home Office was doing but it
quickly became clear she was just going
round in circles,” a cabinet source said.
“Then a series of ministers really drilled
down into the detail about what we are
doing to get these refugees across —
Grant Shapps [the transport secretary]
especially. She squirmed and hated it.”
A cabinet minister said there was
some “consternation” in government at

Escaping
war proves
easier than
entering UK
Emma Yeomans Calais
Matt Dathan
It took Roksolana and her family a day
to cross the Polish border out of
Ukraine. To cross the UK border they
have been waiting two days in Calais,
with no end in sight.
Roksolana, who is travelling from
Kyiv with her husband, her mother and
her severely disabled brother, were
turned away from the UK border two
days ago. The couple, who are among
the 130 Ukrainians staying at a hostel
in Calais while they try to secure visas,
left on the first day of the Russian inva-
sion, travelling first to Lviv before cross-
ing into Poland and on to France.
The majority of those in the youth
hostel have been turned back from the
UK border, many after travelling for
over a week in an attempt to reach
family. Under Britain’s family reunion
scheme, Ukrainians must first apply
online, wait for an appointment to have
photographs and fingerprints taken,
and then go in person to a visa centre in
Paris, Brussels or another European
city. However, many discover this
requirement only when they arrive at
the border in Calais, where family from
the UK are often waiting to collect
them by car, and are turned away.
Several told The Times that they
thought paperwork proving their
family are resident in the UK would be
enough to pass border guards.
Unable to get to Britain, they have
been given accommodation by Calais
city officials while volunteers help
them apply. The work is hampered by a
lack of translators, leaving the refugees
who do speak English translating appli-
cations for those who don’t. Even when
the online application goes through,
there is no guarantee of an appoint-
ment to have fingerprints taken.
“There aren’t any appointments in
Paris or Brussels,” said Clare Moseley, to afford the trip. In a building on the family a week to cross the border in where Home Office support personnel the difficult decision to send her child-
from the charity Care For Calais, which edge of Calais port, a small number of their car, and from there they drove to were said to be working. Only a handful ren, Ahnesa, seven, and Oleksiy, 17, to
has been helping the refugees. “At least, Home Office staff help Ukrainians with Brussels, where they had a visa ap- of refugees had managed to find the stay with their aunts in Britain, splitting
that’s what they’re being told, and that, their applications. It cannot be easily pointment last Thursday. support workers. The BBC said their up the family. “Their family are staying:
I think, is why we can’t help people book reached on foot, though buses run Although staff in Brussels said their operation consisted of “three officials, a their father and older brothers because
appointments online.” between the town and the port. visa would be ready in 24 hours, they box of ready-salted crisps and some Kit of the ban on men leaving, their mother
The Home Office said on Monday They cannot issue visas here, nor do are still waiting. They thought the visa Kats”. Raminishvili said: “I’m living because she is running a halfway house
that it would make 100 more appoint- they have any computers or translators. might be electronic, so tried to cross to there [the UK] nearly 30 years now, I’ve for people fleeing, and caring for her
ments available in Paris. But there are The advisers help people to apply on- the UK, but were turned back. “At least never asked for any kind of help from parents,” Emily said.
about 130 people in one hostel in Calais, line using their phones. Vitaly Morgun, I have the money to help them and pay the government before . . . the one thing The children’s father, Yuriy, is collect-
while others are further back on their 37, a construction business owner from for a hotel room,” he said. “I’m a British I ask, I’ve been left out.” ing people from Kyiv and driving them
journey. Those with an appointment London, is attempting to secure visas citizen, I have paid taxes, and this is how Although only Ukrainians with to their town of Dubno, 60 miles from
are required to travel to visa centres 180 for his brother Yevgeniy, Yevgeniy’s the government treat us.” family are eligible for the longer re- the Polish border. Refugees stay with
miles away in Paris or 120 miles away in wife and their children, Yehun, five, and Misha Raminishvili, a British citizen union visa, lawyers have said the stan- the family before their oldest son, Vova,
Brussels. However, the Brussels visa Darya, nine. The family, from Kharkiv, with a Ukrainian wife and children, was dard visitor visa — which allows for 21, drives them to the border. They fear
centre is only open from Wednesday to lost their home and their business to turned back at the border five days ago. short stays of a few months — has not once the children are in Poland, their
Friday, and only for half of the day. shelling. “What they are saying on TV On Monday he told the BBC he feels he been suspended. Emily and her Ukrain- visa will be denied. “Now they are
And while travel to the UK on Euro- [about visas being available] isn’t hap- has been let down by the government. ian partner Mariya, who live in Shef- thinking it may be better not to put a lit-
star trains is free for Ukrainians, travel pening,” he said. “They say they are After visiting an administrative field, are attempting to get visas for tle girl into that unknown without a
in the opposite direction, from Calais to doing what they can, but they aren’t.” building where refugees were told they their two Ukrainian nephews and fear visa secured,” Emily said. “In the back
the visa centre in Paris, is not. Many re- Morgun went out to meet his family might get advice, Raminishvili was they may have to leave the UK to care of my mind is thinking about [moving
fugees are short on money and not able in Hungary. It took Yevgeniy and the directed to an empty port building for the children. Mariya’s sister made to] Ireland.”
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attack ‘inept’ handling of crisis
the “inept and bureaucratic” handling
of the refugee crisis. “Everyone is
working their knuckles to the bone and
yet we see a bureaucratic and inept
response from the Home Office,” the
minister said. “It is very frustrating.”
A Home Office source hit back, saying:
“The schemes we’re delivering have the
full support of the PM and our
approach to security checks are the
same as our five-eyes counterparts. It’s
A father waves to
his daughter as her
train leaves Odesa.
Top, refugees at a
former shopping
centre in Przemysl,
Poland, and above,
paperwork handed
out to those in
Calais seeking to
enter the UK.
Right, far fewer
people are taking
up the offer to
cross into Russia
Donations held up by Brexit red tape
Matt Dathan
The public have been urged to donate
money instead of physical supplies to
Ukraine after aid shipments suffered
delays caused by post-Brexit rules.
Aid workers have complained that
rules governing the movement of
donations into the European Union are
confusing and unclear.
The Lewisham Polish Centre in
southeast London said that three of its
vans loaded with sleeping bags, nappies
and sanitary items for refugees had
been stuck in Dover for two days
because of paperwork issues. Its drivers
were turned away on Friday by the port
authorities, who said that they did not
a shame a cabinet minister cares more
about sniping from the sidelines than
working together to help vulnerable
people at a time of international crisis.”
In public, Patel faced a barrage of
attacks by more than a dozen Conser-
vative MPs yesterday.
She refused to take questions in an
emergency debate on Britain’s refugee
response, instead sending Kevin Foster,
a junior immigration minister. The
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have the correct documentation, acc-
ording to the charity’s chairwoman.
Agnieszka Lokaj said: “The guys had
cover letters from us that this is
humanitarian aid, with all the informa-
tion that this is going to be distributed
for the refugees, it’s not for reselling —
we listed all the items.”
Every item being transported to the
EU from the UK has to be accounted for
under post-Brexit legislation.
Officials insisted that the vehicles
needed T1 documents, which Lokaj said
would have incurred costs too high for
her small organisation. “We are not
clear on the rules because everybody’s
saying something else,” she said.
The vans finally got on to a ferry on
veteran Conservative MP Sir Roger want dates, we want action and the
Gale said that Patel should quit over her Home Office must react far more quickly
handling of the refugee crisis, than it’s doing and get to the point of hubs
The fiercest attack came from the of people, get them processed and get
Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke, who told them in. This is a disgrace. When the
ministers: “Does the Home Office minister leaves the dispatch box I ask
recognise that this is a war of the likes of him to go back to the Home Office and
which have not been seen for 80 years tell them to get a grip.”
in Europe? Yesterday the government said that
“We don’t want to stand in this House hundreds of Ukrainian refugees who
and listen to plans and processes, we have made it to Calais must travel 70
‘Solidarity beyond
Europe’ needed to
cope with refugees
Bruno Waterfield Brussels
Paulina Olszanka Zielona Gora
A further wave of refugees will try to
leave Ukraine within days as desperate
families with no resources and no con-
nections attempt to join the two million
people who have already fled, the
United Nations said.
The number attempting to leave has
grown to more than a quarter of a mil-
lion a day as the fighting intensifies.
According to the United Nations the
number of refugees was 2,011,312 yes-
terday morning, with 276,244 people
having arrived in the previous 24 hours.
Filippo Grandi, the UN high
commissioner for refugees, said that
the number of people fleeing with noth-
ing other than what they could carry
was growing amid the bombardment
and destruction of their homes. That
would increase pressure on officials to
deal with the influx.
“If the war continues we will start
seeing people who have no resources
and no connections,” he said. “That will
be a more complex situation to manage
for European countries and there will
need to be even more solidarity by
everybody in Europe and beyond.”
Pawel Jablonski, deputy foreign
minister of Poland, accused other
European countries of letting his
country down, estimating the Polish
cost of the crisis at €3.6 billion whereas
the EU has given the country only
€101 million so far.
“It is imperative that the EU supports
the member states in a more decisive
way, “ he said. “The costs will be very
high, counted in billions if we take into
account the education system, health-
care and social security systems.”
Tens of thousands more people fled
fierce fighting yesterday after Russian
aircraft bombed cities in eastern and
central Ukraine and shelling pounded
suburbs of the capital, Kyiv.
“I didn’t want to leave, but there’s
nobody left in the homes around us, no
water, no gas and no electricity,” Larissa
Sunday with the help of Ciaran Prokopets, 43, told the AFP news
Donovan, a courier based in St Albans agency after spending several days in
who transports goods across Europe for the basement of her home, which was
a living. He said: “What they did in the shaken by artillery fire.
end, which is absolutely mental, is they In Mykolaiv, near the port city of
went on a tourist ticket, which you’re Odesa, people fled the shelling in their
not supposed to do, made them pay an cars. “We’re leaving as soon as possible.
extra £60 per van. It’s chaos, there’s no There are attacks every day, it’s
law to it, there’s no rule to it.” terrifying,” Sabrina, 19, said.
Donovan said that he knew of 13 The International Committee of the
other vans transporting medical equip- Red Cross (ICRC) said that in the city of
ment on behalf of charities that “still Mariupol residents faced atrocious
haven’t left the UK after four days of conditions and were running out of
trying to get customs paperwork”. food, water and medical supplies.
Last night HM Revenue & Customs “The bottom line is that this situation
urged charities, businesses and people is really apocalyptic for people,” Ewan
wanting to help Ukrainians to give Watson, an ICRC spokesman, said.
money instead of physical donations. At Zielona Gora station in the west of
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miles east to the city of Lille, where a pop-
up visa centre is being opened to process
biometric checks for Ukrainians.
Patel has refused to open a centre in
Calais owing to fears that it would
attract other asylum seekers and
people smugglers. A source close to her
said: “It’s crucial that we support the
Ukrainians and not allow malign actors
to misuse the visa and humanitarian
offers that are in place without checks.”
Poland about 150 refugees a day are
being processed after their trains arrive
from Przemysl, a border town 350 miles
away.
Many rely on informal and
community networks such as churches
for help. Przemyslaw Smorawinski, 45,
and his wife Paulina, 46, are sheltering
the Uruskyy family after telling friends
in Ukraine that they were ready to help.
“I think the government is doing a lot
of good. But there are so many people,
and help is desperately needed, so it’s
just as important for people to open
their homes,” Mrs Smorawinska said.
The family drove towards Poland but
Families face long waits in Przemysl
on the border before entering Poland
had to wait for days at the border
controls because of the queues.
Sviatoslav Uruskyy, 21, said his
family had fled the war from Lviv, in
western Ukraine, after bombing near
by.
“We were being bombed all around
— a major international airport was
bombed near by — and we don’t know
what Putin wants to do. Maybe once he
takes Kyiv he will come for Lviv. We just
had to leave,” he said.
His father, Wlodymyr, 49, said that
he wanted the Smorawinskis to be
recognised for their generosity in
taking in the family.
“They have seven children of their
own and took in six more people. We
don’t know anyone else in Poland; we
don’t know what we would do without
their help,” he said.
The family, who have few posses-
sions, are looking for work because
they fear that the Polish government
will be overwhelmed by the burden of
helping refugees.
Many of them will not return home.
“There is no way I am returning to a
Ukraine under Russian occupation,”
Wlodymyr’s wife, Nadia, 46, said. “I am
Ukrainian, not Russian. We have left
for good.”
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News
Banks return less than half funds
lost to fraud despite refund pledge
Andrew Ellson
Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Banks are returning less than half the
amount of cash stolen from victims of
transfer fraud, according to Britain’s
biggest consumer group.
More than 300,000 people lost
£854 million to scams in the two years
to the end of June 2021 but only 42 per
cent of the total was refunded to cus-
tomers, analysis by Which? has found.
This is despite most banks signing up to
a voluntary reimbursement code that
instructs them to pay back all victims of
“authorised push payment fraud” —
where they are tricked into transferring
money into a scammer’s account.
Which? is calling on the government
to speed up plans to force banks to
refund affected customers.
It said that many victims still faced an
“uphill struggle” to recover their cash
because the code, agreed in May 2019,
had been applied inconsistently and
often wrongly by banks.
Which? said figures from UK
Finance, the bank trading body, showed
that victims have lost an average of
£1,628, although many have lost much
more because they have not been
refunded at all while others have got all
of their money back.
Bank transfer frauds can involve the
scammer pretending to be organisa-
tions such as HM Revenue & Customs
2GM
or someone the victim knows. In one
case, a Santander customer in his 80s
lost more than £3,600. The scammer
posed as his son on WhatsApp before
tricking him into transferring money to
an account to supposedly help to pay
for a bill. The bank initially refused to
make any reimbursement. It was only
after Which? helped the victim to write
a letter of complaint that the bank
agreed to give a full refund.
The government has pledged to leg-
islate for mandatory reimbursement
but the consumer group said little
progress seems to have been made and
every hour of delay means consumers
lose a further £28,000. It wants minis-
ters to urgently impose a reimburse-
ment obligation on payment providers
with clear liability rules set out in law.
It is also calling on the Payment Sys-
tems Regulator to ensure it is ready to
act the moment that legislation is
passed and set out a clear direction for
how it will finally reduce the financial
harm suffered by victims.
Rocio Concha, director of policy and
advocacy at Which?, said: “Despite
huge sums being lost to bank transfer
scams on an hourly basis, low reim-
bursement rates demonstrate how the
voluntary code isn’t providing the safe-
guards promised. While commitments
to make reimbursement mandatory
were a huge win for consumers, it’s vital
that the government introduces the
right legislation that will ensure victims
get fair and consistent treatment.”
The consumer group warned people
of a rising number of WhatsApp scams,
known as the “mum and dad scam”,
where fraudsters pose as family
members to manipulate victims into
transferring money.
New law to
clamp down
on scam ads
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor
Facebook, Google and Twitter will be
forced to stop fraudsters advertising on
their sites or risk massive fines.
New powers to prevent websites try-
ing to steal people’s savings by carrying
phoney celebrity endorsements to lure
people into revealing bank account de-
tails will be introduced as part of the
government’s online safety plans.
A wider clampdown on dodgy
weight-loss and gambling advertise-
ments is also promised as minsters con-
sider bringing web regulation into line
with what is allowed on TV.
People have been conned out of
thousands by fraudsters placing scam
ads using trusted faces such as Martin
Lewis, the “money saving expert”, or
the Dragon’s Den star Deborah Meaden.
Tech companies have been accused
of doing too little to take them down,
while paid-for ads had been excluded
from the Online Safety Bill currently
going through parliament.
However, the government says it will
amend the bill to introduce a require-
ment for the biggest social media com-
panies and search engines to prevent
fraudsters paying to advertise.
The law is modelled on the “duty of
care” which will require companies to
have a system for removing harmful
content, with fines of up to £18 million
or 10 per cent of annual turnover if this
process is not judged to be robust.
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Pain of rapper’s victim
Wealth and status should not be
allowed to silence women, Dizzee
Rascal’s former fiancée said after
the grime artist was convicted of
assaulting her. Cassandra Jones,
33, said the proceedings had been
traumatic, adding: “I understand
why so many women drop out of
the criminal justice system.” The
rapper, 37, broke a photographer’s
camera outside Wimbledon
magistrates’ court after Monday’s
verdict. James Manning has filed
a report to the police and intends
to pursue a civil claim.
Space factory aim
Britain’s first space launch by
Virgin Orbit will carry a satellite
with the aim of setting up a space
factory. Space Forge hopes to use
the zero pressure, extreme heat
and lack of gravity to build items
that cannot be made on Earth,
such as exotic alloys for
semiconductors. The launch from
Cornwall will send a shoe box-
sized satellite to gather data.
Transplant advance
A baby boy was the first person to
have immune cell-creating tissue
included in his heart transplant,
in the hope of negating the need
for lifelong anti-rejection drugs.
Duke University Hospital in the
US said the operation on Easton
Sinnamon had the “potential to
change the face” of transplants.
Check-ups showed initial success,
but more monitoring was needed.
CO2 emissions soar
Global carbon dioxide emissions
from energy rose to the highest
level on record last year as
economies recovered from the
pandemic and China and India
burnt more coal. The increase of
6 per cent, or more than
two billion tonnes of CO2, in 2021
was the largest in history in
absolute terms, the International
Energy Agency said.
Swallows stay around
Milder winters are causing more
swallows to stay in Britain instead
of migrating to South Africa. The
British Trust for Ornithology had
reports of about 12 swallows
between January 1 and February
1, mostly in the south and
southwest. Juliet Vickery, of the
trust, said it was “one of the most
remarkable signs of the warming
world caused by climate change”.
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Rowling: Labour sees women as ‘they who must not be named’
James Beal Social Affairs Editor
JK Rowling has waded into another
trans row — joking that Labour would
call International Women’s Day “We
Who Must Not Be Named Day”.
Her comments came after Anneliese
Dodds, the shadow minister for women
and equalities, struggled to spell out
what the definition of a woman was
when asked on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
She said: “Well, I have to say that there
‘Serial bully’
Bercow given
life ban from
parliament
Henry Zeffman
Associate Political Editor
John Bercow has been banned from
parliament for life after an independent
panel said he was a “serial bully” and a
“serial liar”.
A two-year inquiry upheld 21 claims
of bullying against Bercow when he was
Speaker of the Commons, including
that he threw a mobile phone in a
temper and swore at officials.
A panel chaired by a former appeal
court judge said that he should never be
allowed a parliamentary pass and that
if he were still an MP it would have
recommended expelling him from the
Commons. The complaints against
Bercow were made by Lord Lisvane,
Bercow was said to have “brought the
high office of Speaker into disrepute”
formerly the most senior clerk in the
Commons, Angus Sinclair, Bercow’s
former private secretary, and Kate
Emms, another ex-private secretary.
Bercow, 59, who was Speaker for
more than a decade, denounced the
report as a “travesty of justice rooted in
prejudice, spite and hearsay”. He
claimed it was “establishment spin” to
say that he had been banned from
parliament because he can still attend
debates as a member of the public.
The allegations were initially investi-
gated by Kathryn Stone, the parlia-
mentary commissioner for standards.
Her findings were endorsed by the
independent expert panel to which
Bercow made an appeal.
Imposing the sanction, the panel con-
cluded that the Commons bullying and
harassment policy had been “breached
repeatedly and extensively by the most
senior member of the House of Com-
mons”. It said: “The House may feel that
his conduct brought the high office of
Speaker into disrepute. This was behav-
are different definitions legally around
what a woman actually is. I mean obvi-
ously, that’s when you’ve got the biolog-
ical definition, legal definition, all kinds
of things.”
Asked what Labour’s definition was,
Dodds replied: “I think it does depend
what the context is surely. You know,
there are people who have decided that
they have to make that transition . . .
because they live as a woman they want
to be defined as a woman.” After the ex-
The victims
Angus Sinclair
Sinclair was John Bercow’s secretary
from when he was elected Speaker
in June 2009 but was effectively
sacked in June 2010. He made seven
allegations of misconduct. Four
were upheld including:
6 After Sinclair responded to a press
inquiry on Bercow’s behalf, Bercow
called him “f***ing stupid”.
6 Sinclair said Bercow threw a
mobile phone on to his desk “and it
burst into hundreds of bits and I
could feel them hitting me”.
6 Bercow had a “physical reaction,
white spittle and waving arms” over
recruitment of a Commons chaplain.
Kate Emms
Emms succeeded Sinclair as
Bercow’s secretary, serving in the
role until March 2011. She made
seven complaints of bullying. The
commissioner upheld three
including that:
6 In an airport Emms warned
Bercow that an item in his hand
luggage would have to be checked
in. She said he was “irascible and
disproportionately rude and
threatening in his body language”.
6 At a meeting which did not
proceed as Emms had briefed it
would, Bercow looked at her “as if
he wanted to rip my guts out”
before issuing a “loud, insulting,
personally abusive” attack.
Lord Lisvane
Lisvane, known as Sir Robert Rogers
at the time, was clerk of the
Commons from October 2011 to
August 2014. He made 18 allegations
of misconduct, 14 of which were
upheld. They include:
6 Bercow accused Lisvane of
“disloyalty, deceit and a ‘wish to
control everything’ ”. When Lisvane
tried to leave the room Bercow
“blocked his way, stood very close
and continued to abuse him”.
6 Bercow said Lisvane’s work was
“pathetically inadequate”.
6 Lisvane missed a meeting as he
was off sick. Bercow told others “he
was malingering”. He called Lisvane
“hopeless” and “ incompetent”.
change, Rowling tweeted: “Someone
please send the shadow minister for
equalities a dictionary and a backbone.”
Rowling — in reference to her char-
acter Lord Voldemort — added: “Ap-
parently, under a Labour government,
today will become ‘We Who Must Not
Be Named Day.’”
Rowling posted a picture of Joanna
Cherry, the SNP MP, writing: “What a
woman who owns a dictionary and a
backbone looks like.” Cherry opposed
John Bercow, the former Speaker of the House of Commons, said that the case
against him was based on flimsy evidence and rooted in hearsay and rumour
iour which had no place in any work-
place.” The panel said that Bercow had
been “widely unreliable and repeatedly
dishonest” in his evidence.
Emms, towards whom Bercow was
found to have exhibited “intimidating,
insulting behaviour involving an abuse
of power”, said she was “supremely glad
to be vindicated”.
Bercow was the first Speaker in 230
years not to be raised to the peerage.
Jeremy Corbyn, when he was Labour
leader, nominated him instead of the
government but the peerage was
paused because of the bullying inquiry.
Bercow, a Conservative MP before he
became Speaker, joined Labour in June
but the party suspended him yesterday,
pending an investigation.
Bercow dismissed Stone’s investi-
gation as “amateurish”, adding: “Parlia-
ment is supposed to be the highest
court in the land. This inquiry, which
lasted a ghastly 22 months at great cost
to the taxpayer, has failed it dismally. At
the end of it, the panel has simply said
reforms of the Gender Recognition Act
in Scotland which will allow transgen-
der people to obtain a gender recogni-
tion certificate through a declaration.
Nicola Sturgeon has rejected Rowl-
ing’s claim that the bill is a threat to
women. Sturgeon, who previously said
that concerns regarding the reforms to
the gender recognition act were “not
valid”, said she “fundamentally dis-
agreed” with Rowling’s criticism.
Under the new rules, in order to
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that I should be denied a parliamentary
pass which I have never applied for and
do not want.”
He said that the case “would have
been thrown out by any court in the
land since it is based on the flimsiest
of evidence, rooted in hearsay and
baseless rumour, and advanced by
old-school dogmatists once intent on
resisting change at all costs and now
settling some ancient scores with me.
Add to that a dash of personal spite and
you have some idea of the vengeful ven-
detta mounted against me.”
He complained that Stone and her
investigators were not lawyers and the
panel was merely a “rubber stamp”. The
three panel members who heard
Bercow’s appeal were Sir Stephen Irwin
QC, a former appeal court judge, Sir Pe-
ter Thornton QC, a former chief coro-
ner of England and Wales, and Lisa Ball,
a former independent member of the
armed forces service complaints panel.
The former Commons Speaker stands
condemned, leading article, page 29
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obtain a gender recognition certificate,
people will need to live in their acquired
gender for a minimum of three months,
with a further three-month reflection
period before a certificate is granted.
The age limit will be lowered to 16 from
18 at present.
The bill requires people to make a
binding declaration that they intend to
live permanently in their new legal gen-
der, with a false declaration punishable
with up to two years’ imprisonment.
Two released
after husky
mauled baby
to death
Neil Johnston
Two people arrested after a three-
month-old girl was mauled to death by
a husky in woodland late at night have
been released under investigation.
Police were called to Ostler’s Planta-
tion in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, at
about 11.13pm on Sunday after the child
was attacked at the beauty spot.
A 40-year-old woman and a 54-year-
old man were arrested on suspicion of
being in charge of a dog that was out of
control. They were held overnight but
police said yesterday that they had been
released under investigation.
Police confirmed the girl died after
sustaining injuries from an attack by a
dog in the car park area of the planta-
tion. Despite the efforts of emergency
services, the child died at the scene.
Officers added that the dog was being
held in isolation in kennels while foren-
sic examinations were carried out.
Police said they would not be naming
the victim but a white Sprinter van and
a quad bike have been seized in connec-
tion to the incident. “Our inquiries into
the tragic case are continuing,” a
spokesman for Lincolnshire police said.
East Midlands Ambulance Service
said it sent a paramedic in an ambu-
lance car, a crewed ambulance and a
doctor from the Air Ambulance to the
scene after receiving a call about a
medical emergency.
Ostler’s Plantation is an area of
woodland close to the Kirkby Moor Na-
ture Reserve. The plantation is known
for walking trails and is a popular spot
for families at the weekend. It is run by
Forestry England, which said the plan-
tation featured hidden Second World
War bunkers and an array of wildlife.
Local residents including James
Carter and Alisha Grooby visited the
scene yesterday to pay their respects.
“We came back because we stood and
saw it yesterday with all the tape. I felt
bad,” Carter said, adding that officers
had taped off a Transit van.
“There was a big, big van, that’s all we
could see. You’re not really supposed to
camp here.” One local dog breeder, who
has shown spaniels at Crufts, said: “Ob-
viously we don’t know the full circum-
stances yet, but I am surprised this hap-
pened here so late at night. Once you
turn off the main road and come into
the car park it would be pitch black.”
She said huskies were “a very ener-
getic breed and take lots and lots of
exercising. I know some owners who
cycle for hours every day alongside
their huskies. But it can also be a popu-
lar and devoted family pet.” Residents
living in nearby Woodhall Spa said the
couple were local to the area. The land-
lord of the nearby Vale Guest House
added: “This is such a surprise. You
don’t expect a three-month-old baby to
be killed in these circumstances.”
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We can’t keep raising taxes to fund NHS, says Javid
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor
Taxes cannot rise again to fund the
NHS, the health secretary said as he
argued that preventing ill-health could
help to shrink the state.
Sajid Javid said that as the population
ages, the government cannot “keep
going back for more tax hikes on a
smaller workforce”. Public services
from education to infrastructure would
have to be cut if the NHS could not be
more efficient, he said, and raising
health spending faster than economic
growth was “just not sustainable”.
However, health chiefs warned that
his reform plans would fail without a
clear plan for more frontline staff,
which could take another year.
In a speech to the Royal College of
Physicians in London yesterday, Javid
delayed giving details of his plans for
“academy-style” hospitals with the
power to take over GP surgeries. No 10
is nervous about the plans, and Javid
said only that he would look at the “pros
and cons” of GPs being employed
directly by the state.
He sought to argue that small-state
Conservatism required controlling
costs by preventing problems such as
obesity, smoking and heart disease.
Javid reaffirmed his belief in keeping
the NHS free at the point of use, insist-
ing that US-style healthcare was “not
freedom for the millions of people who
can’t afford it”. However, he said it had
taken “the reforming zeal of Blair and
Thatcher to sustain the Bevanite
dream”, warning that ever-rising
spending could not continue.
Health is expected to account for
44 per cent of day-to-day government
spending by 2024, up from 27 per cent
two decades ago. The average age of the
population will increase faster during
the 2020s than it has for decades.
Citing his time as chancellor, Javid
said he had “seen first-hand that when
healthcare takes up an ever-greater
share of national income, you have to
make serious trade-offs on everything
from education to infrastructure”.
“We can’t continue to have a system
in which we need more and more
money each year — more than double,
on average, the rate of economic
growth. It’s just not sustainable,” he
said. Pointing to the “vast sums” spent
on treating preventable illnesses, he
argued: “We will end up with an ever-
expanding state and even worse health
outcomes. There is no small state that
isn’t a pre-emptive state.”
He promised to track how much of
the NHS budget was spent on preven-
tion, and to increase the share going to
heading off disease, including using the
Dawn of woman Swimmers take a sunrise dip yesterday at Edinburgh’s Portobello
Beach for International Women’s Day Swimrise, which raises money for charity
Dying boy, 17, Smokers given
wins right help to quit
to transplant after hospital
David Brown
A teenager who doctors said should be
allowed to die has been given a chance
to live after a court yesterday ordered
he should receive a kidney transplant.
William Verden, 17, asked a judge to
let him have surgery after doctors said
the risks outweighed possible benefits.
He has a rare condition affecting his
kidneys, which doctors say is almost
certain to return after any transplant.
The Royal Manchester Children’s Hos-
pital had expected him to die within a
year because he is running out of veins
that can be used for dialysis.
Doctors said his autism, learning dis-
ability and skin hypersensitivity would
leave him unable to cope with the after-
effects of transplant surgery.
Mrs Justice Arbuthnot, sitting in the
Court of Protection in Liverpool, said
William, who lives with his parents in
Lancaster, told her “he enjoys the life he
lives . . . going to school and being with
his family”. She praised the hospital but
said that a chance of survival was worth
short-term suffering.
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NHS app as a “digital health check”.
Health bosses welcomed the goals but
questioned whether Javid knew how to
achieve them. Matthew Taylor, head of
the NHS Confederation, said: “Let’s not
imagine you can just pour ideas into an
exhausted system with tens of
thousands of vacancies and assume
things will automatically improve.”
Javid pointed out that there are now
41,000 more NHS staff than at this time
last year but Chaand Nagpaul, head of
the British Medical Association, said
that the goals lacked detail and that
without a long-term plan for hiring and
retaining frontline workers, Javid’s
vision would “ultimately fail”.
JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES
Kat Lay Health Editor
Every smoker leaving hospital will be
offered a referral to their local pharma-
cist for support to kick the habit.
Every pharmacy in England will be
able to help from this week, the NHS
said. A pilot scheme in Oldham, Great-
er Manchester, helped three in five of
those using it to quit.
Dr Bola Owolabi, a GP who is in
charge of addressing health inequal-
ities for NHS England, said: “While
rates are falling, giving up smoking
remains one of the most important
steps to leading a longer and healthier
life, and the NHS is working hard to
make it as easy as possible for people
who decide to quit while in hospital to
receive support once they return home.”
More than half a million hospital
admissions a year can be attributed to
smoking and the NHS also has plans to
offer help to quit to all patients in hospi-
tal by 2023-24.
The pharmacy scheme will offer
appointments for up to 12 weeks as well
as free supplies of medicine.
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Army rugby coach seeks £500k for hamstring injury
Jonathan Ames Legal Editor
An army officer is claiming £500,000
from defence chiefs after he snapped his
hamstring while coaching a forces
rugby team.
Peter Batley, a major in the Royal
Engineers, said that he suffered a career-
ending injury while demonstrating a
rucking technique in 2015 to the army
rugby league team he coached.
Batley, 46, who was described as
“super fit” in a court submission, has
claimed that his leg “turned black” after
being injured in a training manoeuvre
to the point where it felt that it “did not
belong to him”.
He alleged that, owing to negligence
by army medics, there was an 18-month
delay in the correct diagnosis of the
injury and its subsequent treatment. He
has told the court that by the time he
received medical attention, the damage
to his leg was, in effect, impossible to
repair with surgery. As a result, the
formerly “robust and active” officer was
confined to desk work.
Batley, who has since retired from the
army, is suing the Ministry of Defence
TMS
diary@thetimes.co.uk | @timesdiary
Mind the
gender gap
For International Women’s Day,
the actress Emma Watson and the
authors Reni Eddo-Lodge and
Rebecca Solnit released a version
of the London Underground map
with every station replaced by the
name of a woman connected to
the area. Go from Doris Lessing to
Mishal Husain changing at Mary
Seacole. Nothing wrong with a
gimmick to make a point, though
I’d dispute their claim that only
three stops are currently named
for women: Victoria, Lancaster
Gate (after one of Victoria’s titles)
and Seven Sisters. What about
Queen’s Park or Marylebone? I
also wondered if the patriarchy is
as dominant on the Tube as they
suggest, but once you look closely
men are everywhere: Stan More,
Ken Nington, Rick Mansworth, Ed
Gware, Colin Dale, Lew Isham . . .
The Ed Sheeran plagiarism case at
the High Court reminded Gerald
Gouriet, a reader, of a parody of
Grove’s Dictionary of Music that
circulated when he was a student at
the Royal College of Music.
Translating “pizzicato” as “pinched”,
it added: “Here the composer is
admitting that the passage is not
entirely original.” The entry for
“rubato” took it on: “Robbed: see
‘pizzicato’, but much stronger.”
holy and lowly
An amusing aside in yesterday’s
damning report into John
Bercow’s Napoleon complex is
that while denying that he used
mimicry to bully a clerk, the
former Speaker “chose to imitate
the complainant . . . on at least
20 occasions” during his
interviews with the
investigator. Bercow just
can’t resist it. When he
pitched to be Speaker in
2009, he boldly gave MPs
his impression of Sir
Peter Tapsell, a Tory
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for more than £500,000 in a claim that was picked up during an MRI scan in condition is permanent. There is no have returned back to his army duties
alleges that army medics blundered and 2016 and surgeons operated on it in surgical solution,” Duffy said. and full health.”
failed properly to diagnose his injury. 2017. Batley claimed that by then his “Had a left hamstring avulsion Sophie Beesley, for the Ministry
The ministry has denied that it was at hamstring muscle had shrunk, making been diagnosed or considered as a of Defence, denied that army
fault and has insisted in court that it was effective repair hard. After surgery, the differential diagnosis [Batley] medics had been negligent in
not liable for financial compensation. hamstring ruptured again within would have been referred for treating the injury. She said that
The High Court was told that months and the major said that he had timeous further investigations given the symptoms Batley was
Batley had been primarily stationed at been left with a permanently weak leg. and surgical reattachment,” displaying at the time he was
Imjin Barracks, at RAF Innsworth, in Conor Duffy, representing Batley, Duffy said. “The claimant’s examined, it had been
Gloucestershire, where he coached and said in written submissions that the left hamstring tendon reasonable to make a
played regimental rugby. major’s responsibilities had been down- would have healed and diagnosis of a gluteal
According to court documents, his graded and, as he could no longer be with appropriate tear to prescribe
injury occurred when, while bent over a deployed, his prospects of promotion rehabilitation he would physiotherapy.
ball, his opponents pushed him back- had been severely restricted. A date for the
wards, causing his leg to straighten Duffy said that the injury had left Peter Batley, 46, High Court
suddenly and painfully. Batley unable to play contact sport. “He claims negligence hearing has yet to
His lawyers claim that army doctors finds running difficult. His current by army medics be set.
mistakenly said he had tweaked his
glute or hamstring and recommended
physiotherapy. Instead, Batley’s lawyers
say he had suffered a severe hamstring
rupture that required swift surgery.
Batley’s legal team said in the claim
that despite having been dangerously
injured he was deployed in Latvia and
Estonia for a Nato combat exercise. It is
claimed that at the time Batley reported
that his “leg felt like wood” and that it
kept collapsing under him. The injury
grandee, pompously rejecting his
request for support. Bercow added
that he was the same age as
Thomas More when he became
Speaker. “His sticky end does not
fill me with encouragement,” he
said. “But he is the only member of
this House to be canonised.” Alas
for Bercow’s heavenly ambitions,
he turned out to be less not More.
slips dream
Theresa May is a safe pair of
hands, at least at cricket. The
former prime minister told an
event at King’s College London
that she visited the Melbourne
Cricket Ground last month and
tried a game that tests reaction
speed. It went very well. “Next
series I’m fielding in the slips,”
May said. With England’s men
struggling again in Antigua, how
soon can we get her on a plane?
Continuing my Soviet-era jokes, the
former diplomat George Walden
offers one popular when he was in
Moscow. Question: “Will there be a
war?” Kremlin spokesman: “No, no
war. But such a fight for peace there
won’t be a stone left standing.”
odds job for 007
At 10.14am yesterday I received a
press release from a bookmaker.
“William Hill has shown their
support for a female James Bond in
celebration of International
Women’s Day,” it said, offering 7-1
against Lashana Lynch, below,
inheriting the Walther PPK. Lynch
was an MI6 officer in the latest
Bond film. “This is the year for
promoting real change and
advocating for diversity in
cinema,” it went on. At 10.19am,
another press release. “Robert
Pattinson backed for next
James Bond at William Hill,” it
said, offering 100-1 for the
Batman star. So not only
do women get just five
minutes in the spotlight
of the Bond market, but
backing the man will get
15 times more money.
patrick kidd
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VINCENT YU/AP
New ‘variant-proof’
vaccine created by
British scientists
Tom Whipple Science Editor
A British “variant-proof” vaccine has
received tens of millions of pounds of
funding in the hope it may provide
more durable protection against Sars-
Cov2 — and against coronaviruses that
Catching only rays A masked sunbather relaxes at a waterfront park in Hong Kong, which is battling its fifth wave of Covid don’t even exist yet.
Boris Johnson hailed the technology
as part of the “next generation of
vaccines” as he opened a conference in
London held by the Coalition for
Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.
Cepi will provide up to £32 million for
the vaccine, which is made by the Cam-
bridge University spin-out Diosynvax.
It is one of several in development that
seek to target parts of the virus that less
likely to mutate. “We are looking at the
broad family of coronaviruses to find
out what it is the virus can’t change,”
Professor Jonathan Heeney, from the
University of Cambridge, said.
His hope is that they have identified
immutable bits of the virus. “These are
invariable parts of the virus that it can’t
alter without killing itself — or at least
impairing its ability to replicate.”
If so, this means it is plausible that the
vaccine could protect not only against
variants but also against new and
emerging coronaviruses in the future.
The technology is different from
other Covid vaccines. Most of the lead-
ing vaccines use varying mechanisms
to achieve the same goal: to introduce
the coronavirus spike protein into our
bodies. Then the hope is that our bodies
learn to recognise the spike, which is
the part of the virus that unlocks cells,
and fight it off. The problem is that this
“incentivises” the virus to evolve to
evade protection, by changing its spike.
The scientistsl ooked through the
genomes of Covid-19 and related coro-
naviruses to find the parts that cannot
change. Then, instead of simply copy-
ing the spike protein, they designed
what they hope are better targets for
the immune system, containing pro-
teins akin to the Achilles’ heel of coro-
naviruses. If it works, the vaccine could
provide variant-proof protection but
also be kept ready to use in the event of
another coronavirus pandemic.
Covid levels in China at
highest since first wave
Didi Tang Beijing
China has recorded its highest number
of coronavirus cases since the first
wave two years ago.
More than 500 symptomatic infec-
tions were reported for two days in a
row as the government faced the great-
est challenge to its “zero Covid” policy
since February 2020. No deaths have
been reported and the case rates are far
shy of the thousands experienced after
the initial outbreak in the central city of
Wuhan.
The resurgence of cases in 24 of the
country’s 31 provinces has been caused
mainly by the more infectious Omi-
cron and Delta variants. Neighbouring
Hong Kong faces its worst wave yet,
with hospitals overwhelmed and
43,100 cases reported yesterday.
The rise in cases poses a challenge for
a country that has tended to attempt to
curb the spread of the coronavirus by
ordering strict, large-scale lockdowns
and rolling out mass testing. In a social
Wednesday March 9 2022 | the times
The national picture
How many people have Covid-19?
There were 61,900 new cases reported
yesterday, bringing the cumulative total to
19,307,014 or 289 for every 1,000 people
39.2% increase from seven days ago
(based on seven-day moving average)
Daily cases
National 200,000
R number 150,000
Seven-day 0.8 to 1.0 100,000
average
50,000
0
Oct Jan Apr Jul Oct Jan
2021 2022
How many are in hospital?
There are 11,318 patients in hospital being
treated. 268 patients are on ventilators. An
additional 1,253 patients have been
admitted, up 11.1 per cent in seven days to
Mar 04 when this data was last updated
Hospital admissions
5,000
Seven-
4,000
day
average 3,000
2,000
1,000
0
Oct Jan Apr Jul Oct Jan
2021 2022
How many have died?
Yesterday there were 212 deaths reported,
bringing the total number of deaths in the
past seven days to 729. The rolling average
number of daily deaths is 104.1, down from
105.9 a day a week ago
Deaths
1,500
Seven-
day
1,000
average
500
0
Oct Jan Apr Jul Oct Jan
2021 2022
How does 2021 compare?
There were 11,150 deaths from all causes
recorded in England and Wales in the week
to February 25, of which the coronavirus
accounted for 6.9 per cent. The number of
weekly deaths was 636 lower than the
five-year average for the same time of year
media post, Zhang Wenhong, a leading
epidemiologist, called for “precision” in
implementing the zero-Covid policy in
order to minimise impact on normal
life.
The hardest-hit city has been the
eastern port of Qingdao, which report-
ed 258 cases overnight, including 129
asymptomatic ones. Health officials
there said they had not found the origin
of the outbreak, which began at a local
school, but said the Omicron strain in
Qingdao had a different origin from
any other known source in the country.
Approaches across the country dif-
fer. In the northern city of Zhuozhou,
authorities ordered 667,000 residents
to stay at home for three days and to get
tested after health officials confirmed
three infections. Last week Zhang Yes-
ui, the spokesman for the National
People’s Congress, defended the zero-
infection policy. “The path is correct,
and the results have been good,” Zhang
said. “China is one of the most success-
ful countries in fighting the pandemic.”
the times | Wednesday March 9 2022
Celebrating
Coco’s
Scottish
love affairr
Anna
Murphy
fashion
director
J
ust in case
anyone
hadn’t
clocked
that
tweed is what
Chanel does,
yesterday’s
showspace —
on the final
day of Paris
Fashion Week —
was lined with
the stuff. Even the
catwalk was covered
with the woven wool
that takes its name
from the Scottish
river.
Coco Chanel
was the designer
who reinvented as chic
a cloth conceived for the
hunting, shooting and
fishing set. She did so as a
result of her relationship
with the Duke of
Westminster in the 1920s,
when she would spend
summers at his estate in
Scotland.
The new collection was
a love letter to that love
affair, complete with
thigh-high woolly socks,
rubber waders (Chanel
was an adroit angler) and
— bien sur — lots and
lots of tweed.
Initially the designer
would appropriate the
duke’s blazers as her own.
Vastly outsized as those
jackets were on her petite
form, she still managed to
make them look stylish,
as photographs from the
time attest. Eventually,
she had her own neatly
tailored; and thus one of
The hues of
the Scottish
landscape
run through
Chanel’s
latest
collection
of tweed
the codes of her house
was born. “It’s Chanel
that renders the tweed
feminine,” Virginie Viard,
the brand’s creative
director, said before the
show.
This was truer than
ever this season thanks to
the heather purples, soft gather ferns and flowers
pinks and greens at its on her walks to inspire
core. “I wanted to the local artisans to make
imagine tweeds in the the tones she wanted.”
colour of the Scottish
landscape,” Viard chain necklaces, some
explained. “Chanel would with a pendant that
Sheeran serenades
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High Court amid
mix-up over songs
Will Humphries
A clip of an unreleased Ed Sheeran
song was mistakenly played in the High
Court during a copyright trial over his
song Shape of You.
The singer looked confused when the
music was played as he was questioned
about how his 2017 hit had been
created. Glancing at his lawyers,
Sheeran said: “That’s a song I wrote last
January. How have you got that?”
Sheeran and two of his Shape of You
co-writers, Steven McCutcheon and
Johnny McDaid, are in dispute with
Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue,
who allege that the song copies parts of
their track Oh Why, released in 2015 by
Chokri under the name Sami Switch.
Ian Mill QC, Sheeran’s barrister, told
the court that Sheeran was “disconcert-
ed” by the music played as he had been
asked to listen to early recordings of
Shape of You. Mill said the incident had
happened “by mistake” through the use
of McCutcheon’s computer, which
“contains some unreleased material”.
Sheeran frequently burst into song
and hummed musical scales and me-
lodies as he was questioned yesterday
over how Shape of You was written.
Chokri, a grime artist, and O’Dono-
ghue, argue that a central “Oh I” hook
in Shape of You is “strikingly similar” to
an “Oh Why” refrain in their own
composition.
Asked whether they were similar,
Sheeran described the hooks as both
using the pentatonic scale with vowels.
looked suspiciously like a Several early iterations of parts of
miniature Swiss army Shape of You were played in court.
knife. Cosy chunky knits Andrew Sutcliffe QC, for Chokri and
appeared cheek by jowl O’Donoghue, asked Sheeran: “It was a
with chilly but cute tweed phrase you already had in your head
hot pants. after listening to the chorus of Sami’s
Viard has become song Oh Why, wasn’t it?”
increasingly adept at “No,” Sheeran replied. In his written
making the Chanel evidence Sheeran, who conceded that
aesthetic appear both he had not studied music theory, said
current and wearable that the “minor pentatonic pattern”
since she took over from was common, used by Nina Simone
Karl Lagerfeld after his and in his own song I See Fire and. He
The models wore multi- death three years ago. sang parts of I See Fire and Simone’s
This was one of her best Feeling Good to the court.
collections yet. “If you put them all in the same key
they sound the same,” he said.
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The court was told that Shape of You
was written at McCutcheon’s studios in
Parsons Green, west London, in
October 2016. The writers decided on a
vocal chant section using the minor
pentatonic scale after the chorus.
Sheeran decided that singing the
section using the word “heya” was too
“close to the bone” because it sounded
similar to the song No Diggity by
Blackstreet.
Sheeran and his co-writers opened
legal proceedings in May 2018, asking
the court to say that they had not in-
fringed Chokri and O’Donoghue’s
copyright. Chokri and O’Donoghue
mad a claim for copyright infringement
two months later. The trial continues.
Ed Sheeran denies that parts of a song
were copied from a Sami Switch track
6 The British indie band Glass Animals
have hit No 1 in the US charts with their
single Heat Waves — 59 weeks after it
was released, setting a record for the
longest time to reach the top. Singer
Dave Bayley, who wrote the song, told
fans it “came out at the beginning of the
pandemic and we didn’t think it would
really go anywhere because of that, and
it has because you guys have embraced
it so much.” The previous record for
longest time to reach No 1 was held by
Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas
Is You, which took 35 weeks to reach the
top after it was re-released in 2019.
Streaming helps to give songs a longer
life, and Heat Waves has been played
more than 1.3 billion times on Spotify.
The Glass Animals hit was also boosted
after being shared on social media: it
was used as the soundtrack for a viral
TikTok video lamenting the loss of
curly fries at McDonald’s.
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No accurate figure for the
number of schoolchildren
Nicola Woolcock Education Editor
Local authorities do not know how
many children are living in England or
how many are missing school, the
Children’s Commissioner will say in a
report due to be published today.
Rachel de Souza will say not enough
is being done to monitor where child-
ren are. She is publishing the initial
findings of an attendance audit of all
local authorities in England.
Of the 96 that responded, 39 per cent
could provide an estimate of the num-
ber of children who missed at least a
week of school while waiting for a
school placement. Only 18 per cent
could provide an estimate of the num-
ber in independent schools and only
8 per cent could give an estimate of the
number of unregistered children in
Climate protesters let down SUV tyres
Ben Webster Environment Editor
Climate activists have deflated the tyres
of sports utility vehicles in cities across
Britain to protest against their green-
house gas emissions and air pollutants.
A new group calling itself the Tyre
Extinguishers claimed to have “dis-
armed” 500 SUVs on Monday night in
Chelsea, Chiswick, Harley Street,
Wednesday March 9 2022 | the times
home education. Figures from the half safety net that schools and councils
of local authorities that were able to provide to ensure that children do not
suggested that 22 per cent of children miss out on their entitlement to educa-
were persistently absent last term and tion is stretched to capacity.
1.5 per cent were severely absent. “We would like the government to
De Souza said: “Even if local author- work to raise the profile of children
ities were able to provide an estimate of missing formal full-time education,
children missing from education, for and resource councils to fulfil their
example children who have dropped responsibilities in ensuring all children
out of school, there are hundreds of receive a suitable education.”
children that are so removed from edu-
cation we know nothing about them.
6 Covid-related pupil absence has
fallen but thousands of teachers are still
‘Injurious’ weeds are
“It is essential and urgent that we
change this worrying reality. There
off work. The proportion of pupils
absent in state schools was 0.7 per cent good news for bees
should be no ‘unknown’ children.” She on March 3, down from 2.2 per cent on
(Cirsium arvense and
A
said that unless identified, children February 10. Attendance in all state law that
may miss out on support they needed. schools was 92.2 per cent, up from condemns C. vulgare) — are very
The Local Government Association 90.3 per cent. However, 5.8 per cent of certain popular with bees and
said: “Good attendance at school plays teachers and heads were still absent, weeds as other insects. The
a vital role in children’s development although this had fallen from 7.5 per “injurious” abundance and
and for their well-being. However, the cent three weeks earlier. should be rethought diversity of pollinators
because they are far visiting them was
more attractive to about double that for
bees than wildflowers,
scientists have said
(Rhys Blakely and
Kaya Burgess write).
the wildflowers
recommended by the
Department for
Environment, Food
Hampstead Heath, Notting Hill, Bel- able. I could easily have had an accident Five species of native and Rural Affairs.
gravia and Clapham in London and in from a punctured tyre.” wildflower are classed Dr Nicholas Balfour, they are doing no real
Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Sheffield, The activists said they had left a note as injurious under the of the University of harm . . . urban areas,
Liverpool and Edinburgh. on the windscreen telling the driver that 1959 Weeds Act. Sussex, a co-author, rural uncultivated
Mandy Wintle, from Brighton, said: “I one or more tyres had been deflated. However, a study has said: “We are calling land, road and rail
went to take my daughter to school and A spokeswoman for the Tyre Extin- found that three of for a tolerance of verges, and well-
couldn’t. My husband took her to school guishers said: “Governments and politi- them — ragwort reasonable quantities managed pastures.”
while I went to pump my tyres up. cians have failed to protect us from (Jacobaea vulgaris) of the injurious weeds Injurious weeds can
“I totally understand that people these massive unnecessary vehicles. and two thistles in locations where rapidly colonise
have their opinions but this is unaccept- SUVs are a climate disaster.”
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News
ALAMY

Say it with flowers Murder police arrest

woman after 14 years
Of the five weeds
classed as “injurious”,
three are loved by bees
and other pollinators:
common ragwort,
creeping thistle and Ben Ellery optimistic that one day we’ll be in a
spear thistle. They are position to extradite Farouk Abdulhak.
not the only species that The father of a student who was raped We have never been closer.”
benefit bees, though. and murdered 14 years ago has said the The woman was being held in
The Wildlife Trust arrest of a woman in connection with custody at a central London police
recommends that her death brings him a “step closer to station yesterday. Detective Chief
gardeners establish justice”. Inspector Jim Eastwood, leading the
“nectar cafés” of flowers Martine Vik Magnussen was investigation, said: “Martine’s family
with simple structures, celebrating coming top of her class at has never given up their fight for justice
such as old cottage Regent’s Business School London in and . . . have campaigned tirelessly to
varieties, as they are the 2008 when she vanished. keep her in the public consciousness.
easiest for insects to Her body was discovered partially “Though [the arrest] represents a
feed from. buried underneath rubble two days positive step, there is still much more
Options for the spring later in a basement in Great Portland work for us to do.”
include English bluebell, Street in central London. Footage showed Magnussen, from
grape hyacinth, Farouk Abdulhak, the son of Shaher
lungwort and wood Abdulhak, a billionaire sheikh, is the Martine Vik
anemone. For police’s only suspect but he fled to Magnussen
mid-season, consider Yemen on his father’s private jet and has vanished after
buddleia, heather, refused to return to Britain. a night out
lavender, purple The Metropolitan Police confirmed
toadflax, verbena and yesterday that a woman in her 60s had
wallflower, and for later been arrested on suspicion of assisting
in the year grow an offender.
coneflower, French Odd Petter Magnussen, the victim’s Norway, walking with Abdulhak
marigold, honeysuckle, father, has spent the past 14 years after leaving Maddox nightclub in
ivy, common sunflower searching for justice. He said: “I am Mayfair. The pair had studied
and red valerian. extremely grateful to the British police international business relations
for keeping up the pressure and making together.
Ragwort, left, disturbed habitats. Sussex, where the weeds ranked 4th (C. said: “It is alarming this arrest. I am confident one day there She was raped and then strangled to
and species Ragwort is injurious researchers counted arvense), 6th (J. that public bodies are will be justice and we are a step closer to death. Her Christian Dior earrings,
of thistle are partly because it can insects visiting vulgaris) and 13th (C. using taxpayers’ it. I have had to deal with so many ups snakeskin shoes, jeans and Guess
preferred by kill horses, but the wildflowers at six sites. vulgare) in popularity money to remove and downs . . . so I have become a little watch were missing.
insects to researchers said They also consulted for pollinators. ragwort . . . The [2003] hard-skinned but this represents hope An inquest at Westminster coroner’s
Defra’s incidents were rare. a database of insect About £10 million a Ragwort Control Bill after such a long time. court in 2010 recorded a verdict of
suggested The study was sightings. Of 387 plant year is spent to control probably deserves “I’ve also been working behind the unlawful killing. Eastwood has asked
wildflowers carried out in East species it held, the such weeds. Balfour greater scrutiny.” scenes, talking to the regime in Yemen Abdulhak to come back to Britain to
for the past six months, and am really “face justice” over the killing.
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I made a mistake, says Maxwell juror who failed to disclose abuse
Will Pavia New York
A juror from the Ghislaine Maxwell
case apologised to a judge yesterday for
“the biggest mistake I have ever made”,
saying that he had inadvertently given
false answers on a questionnaire before
the trial, an error which threatens to
undermine her conviction.
“It was an honest mistake,” the juror
said yesterday, sitting in a witness box
two floors below the courtroom where
the trial took place in December. He
said he had been distracted when he
filled out the form, by the noise around
him and by thoughts of a relationship
that had just ended. “Again, I apologise
for wasting a lot of people’s time and
money,” he said. “This was never any-
thing I intended or did on purpose.”
Maxwell, 60, was found guilty in late
December of aiding Jeffrey Epstein in
his abuse of minors. Days later the
juror, identifying himself by his first and
middle names as Scotty David, 35, gave
interviews in which he said that he had
been sexually abused.
He said he had drawn on that experi-
ence to explain to wavering jurors why
Maxwell’s accusers might not have im-
mediately reported their abuse.
He had not told the court of this ex-
perience when filling out a question-
naire that asked specifically whether he
or a friend or family member had ever
been a victim of sexual abuse.
Maxwell, whose lawyers argue that
his false answers deprived her of the
right to an impartial jury and have
demanded a new trial, attended court.
Looking at the questionnaire, “I
didn’t see the part where it says ‘self’ ”,
the juror said. “I completely skimmed,
way too fast.”
Judge Alison Nathan granted him
immunity from prosecution if he an-
swered truthfully. He said he had been
sexually abused when he was nine and
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ten years old by a step-brother. Asked
why he had also answered no to
another question, about whether “you
or any of your relatives or close friends”
had “ever been a victim of a crime”, he
said the answer should have been “yes”.
He said he had thought the question
related to being robbed.
Judge Nathan asked prosecutors and
Maxwell’s lawyers to file briefs by next
Wednesday, after which she will make a
ruling on her findings.

‘Family money’ The Duchess of Cornwall

met Emerald Fennell, who
played a young Camilla
Parker Bowles in The
Crown, at Clarence House

helps Andrew ambassador, whom the

duchess embraced last
week during a visit to the
Ukrainian Catholic

settle sex case cathedral in London.

Charlotte Wace
The Duke of York has paid the money,
estimated to be about £10 million, to
complete his out-of-court settlement
with Virginia Giuffre and end a civil
case that threatened to overshadow the
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
It is believed that Prince Andrew, 62,
used money borrowed from family
members to pay his accuser, Giuffre, 39.
Sources say it may be months before he
receives the funds he had planned to
use, from the sale of his ski chalet.
Court documents were filed on
Monday calling for the civil sexual-
assault action to be dismissed, with
Prince Andrew is waiting for money
from the sale of his Swiss ski chalet
both sides paying their own legal costs.
Judge Lewis Kaplan signed the order
last night, bringing about the end of a
turbulent and embarrassing seven
months for the Queen’s second son.
Giuffre was suing Andrew for sexual
Camilla used her
address to call on the
“ladies and one or two
brave gentlemen” to
“share their stories” to
could amount to £10 million, although empower each other and
estimated and reported costs have bring about positive
differed. The Times has been told that change in the world.
family money was lent to the duke so Addressing Fennell
he could meet the deadline and put the directly, Camilla said: “It
case behind him. There was not is reassuring to know
thought to have been any involvement that, if I should fall off my
from banks or wealthy friends. perch at any moment, my
It was reported by The Sun this week fictional alter ego is here
that both Prince Charles and the to take over. So, Emerald,
Queen were helping to lend the funds. be prepared!”
The Treasury has separately now The duchess hailed
confirmed that no taxpayer funds were personal heroes including
used for the payment or legal costs. “Holocaust survivor and
Andrew is still in the final stages of fearless anti-prejudice
selling his ski chalet in Verbier, Switzer- campaigner Eva Schloss,
land, the proceeds of which he intends taboo-breaking Irish
to use to fund the case. “It could take author Edna O’Brien, and
weeks or it could take months,” one the brilliant Erica
source said, pointing to the “usual” pro- Osakwe”, who had helped
cesses involved in all property sales, to bring about a change
along with the added complication of in the law on the time
the chalet, the vendor and the buyer limits on reporting
being in three separate places. domestic abuse incidents.
It means that Andrew may not be Fennell said later: “It
able to sort out his financial situation was absolutely delightful,
until well into this year. she
There also remains uncertainty over suc an
is such
what the duke will do next, with much imp
impressive
of his energy having been spent on pe
person. It was
matters surrounding the civil case. Duchess of Cornwall gave Bowles. The fi
fittingly nice
He lost his royal patronages and mili-
tary affiliations in January, having
It’s double the impression that she
had been thrilled with
duchess held
a reception
to meet her
to
today on
already stood down from public duties
in November 2019. One friend implied
duchess for her portrayal in the show.
Camilla seemed
at Clarence
House, with W
In
International
Women’s Day
that Andrew still felt he had something
to offer, saying: “He has shown in the
Camilla and delighted to meet her
television double as she
guests
including Jude
beca
because
does so
does
she
s much for
past that he has a lot to contribute. He
has done many, many things that
Crown star celebrated International
Women’s Day with a
men of
Kelly, the Women
nder
the World founder,
f
so many female-
charit
centred charities.

abuse, claiming that he had sex with her
when she was 17 after she had been
trafficked by the paedophile financier
Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew, who had previously claimed
never to have met his accuser, had
agreed to make a “substantial donation”
to her charity as part of the undisclosed
multimillion-pound settlement, which
S
people seem to have forgotten about.” peculation about handpicked group of Angela Rayner, the “I was nervous I might
The duke had previously pledged to the royal family’s 90 outstanding women. deputy Labour leader, be thrown in the tower
help victims of sex trafficking in order views on The She even joked that if she and Mel B, the Spice Girl but so far so good. She’s
to show his “regret” over his association Crown has were not up to the job of turned domestic violence been in the spotlight for
with Epstein, but experts had warned flourished since making a speech, she campaigner. A personal a long time and has
that no “reputable” charity would work the Netflix drama series could rely on Emerald invitation was made to always weathered it with
with him. He is said to have agreed to started (Charlotte Wace Fennell, who had played a Inna Prystaiko, wife of a lot of humour and
settle the case after coming under in- writes). Yesterday the young Camilla Parker the Ukrainian grace and good humour.”
creasing pressure from the royal family.

Disciplinary hearings too soft on rogue police, review finds

Fiona Hamilton Crime Editor
Rogue police officers are able to keep
their jobs because those chairing inde-
pendent misconduct hearings are too
“soft”, a report suggests.
An independent review of policing
found that “nothing is more corrosive”
of public trust in police than officers
behaving illegally, unethically or im-
morally.
However, it warns that the lay chair-
men and women, often lawyers, who
oversee disciplinary proceedings are
less likely than chief constables to dis-
miss officers found guilty of serious
wrongdoing.
The Strategic Review of Policing,
carried out by the Police Foundation
think tank, followed racism and miso-
gyny scandals involving the police. It
makes recommendations to improve
crime-solving and standards, increase
public confidence in policing and equip
forces to tackle complex 21st-century
crimes including online fraud.
Among them is a call for a review of
the introduction of independent “legal-
ly qualified persons” to chair police mis-
conduct hearings, a reform introduced
by Theresa May when she was home
secretary.
The report says: “While this change
seems well motivated there is a wide-
spread view among chief officers that,
for whatever reason, these chairs seem
less likely than chief constables to dis-
miss officers found guilty of serious
misconduct. This has led to the bizarre
situation of police forces taking their
own misconduct panels to court to try
to secure an officer’s dismissal.”
Rick Muir, director of the Police
Foundation, said: “The views that we
were getting are clear that people feel
these independent chairs are essential-
ly softer on people than senior police
officers would be.”
He added that there were some cases
where police officers were guilty of mis-
conduct but “proper sanctions” were
not handed down.
The review concludes that police
performance is going backwards. Its
recommendations include a “licence to
practise” test every five years, a new
crime prevention agency and beefing
up the National Crime Agency. It also
calls on the government to allow police
forces to introduce time-limited posi-
tive discrimination so that the work-
force can reflect the community they
serve. The review, chaired by Sir
Michael Barber, founder of Downing
Street delivery units for Tony Blair and
Boris Johnson, said that police should
reduce their reliance on stop and search
to improve the relationship with the
black community.
6 Policing has become “more politi-
cised” at a time when trust in the force
has fallen, Dame Cressida Dick said in
one of her first public speeches since
stepping down as commissioner of the
Metropolitan Police.
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Patter of tiny claws
brings virgin births in
humans a step closer
Rhys Blakely Science Correspondent
The prospect of women conceiving
without men has moved a step closer after
Chinese researchers produced a baby
mouse from an unfertilised egg for the first
time.
Hats off British Museum staff get an early 1900s Mami Wata (Mother Water) headpiece from Nigeria ready for a new Parthenogenesis, the Ancient Greek
exhibition exploring the female spiritual being, Feminine Power: the Divine to the Demonic, which opens on May 19 term for a virgin birth, is used by scientists
to describe a process where eggs sponta-
neously divide, without fertilisation by
sperm, to form an embryo.
Some lizards and honey bees can pro-
create like this and it was recorded last
year for the first time in a bird. However, in
humans and other mammals, such embry-
os invariably die. An important reason for
this is that a mammal needs to inherit two
sets of genetic information, one from the
father and one from the mother. An em-
bryo that comes only from an unfertilised
egg and contains only genetic information
from the mother is doomed to be unviable.
In a new study published in the journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, a group of researchers describe
achieving parthenogenesis in a mammal
— a laboratory mouse — for the first time.
A mouse egg was first stimulated to be-
come a “one-cell embryo” that contained
two identical sets of genetic information,
or genomes, inherited from the mother.
This has been possible for decades.
However, the researchers then modified
one of the genomes, editing it so that it
looked like the genetic code that would
normally have come from the father.
The DNA itself was not altered. Instead,
the researchers edited what are known as
epigenetic methyl markers — groups of
chemicals that attach to DNA and act a
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little like volume switches, controlling the
activity of individual genes.
This approach allowed them to solve the
problem of “genomic imprinting” —
which causes genes to be active or silent,
depending on whether they are inherited
from the mother or the father.
Dr Harry Leitch, of the MRC London
Institute of Medical Sciences and Imperial
College, who was not involved in the study,
said that the research marked a break-
through, in part because previous efforts
had involved introducing outside genetic
material. “This is the first time you could
actually say that something close to par-
thenogenesis has happened,” he said.
“This is the first time that somebody has
started with just an egg and shown you can
activate the egg and get it to progress
straight through development just by al-
tering its epigenome. That is significant.”
However, he pointed out that the pro-
cess had been extremely inefficient, with
only one mouse reaching adulthood from
more than 220 embryos when the experi-
ment was first run. “Could this be moved
straight to humans? The answer is no,
because you’re talking about having hun-
dreds of miscarriages to get one baby,”
Leitch said. “But it does make it more real-
istic that a similar approach could event-
ually be done in humans.”
Dr Azim Surani, director of germline
and epigenetics research at the Gurdon
Institute at the University of Cambridge,
also not involved in the study, said: “This
study shows that limited development is
possible if one of the female genomes is
modified to resemble a male gamete.”
The study was carried out at Shanghai
Jiao Tong University.
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My scheme to scupper
airport’s £5 drop-off fee
Matthew Parris
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We need to start talking about nuclear war
Putin’s aggression has revealed Cold War assumptions of deterrence to be compromised and in urgent need of a revamp
Daniel
Finkelstein
@dannythefink
I’
ll tell you what has been
keeping me awake at night. It’s
this: what if Sting is wrong? In
1985, Sting had a hit with a song
called Russians. A reflection on
the Cold War and nuclear weapons,
Russians argued against the
“hysteria” of President Reagan and
the former Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev. And it finished with
these words: “We share the same
biology, regardless of ideology/ But
what might save us, me and you/ Is if
the Russians love their children too.”
Sting had captured brilliantly —
perhaps accidentally — the logic of
Cold War deterrence. If we have
enough weapons to wipe each other
out, we won’t end up firing them.
Because if we did, their children
would die and ours would too, and
we all love our children.
But what if he, and by extension
the entire Cold War theory of
deterrence, is wrong?
It’s a possibility we need to keep in
mind as we contemplate the terrible
war in Ukraine. It’s obviously right
that the Russians love their children,
too. But what if they have a different
idea of what loving them might
mean? What if they think loving them
might involve some distorted ideas of
honour or pride being more important
than their lives? Or what if they love
their children, but wrongly think their
children are under attack? Or what if
they love their children but don’t have
any control over their government —
which doesn’t love their children?
If Sting is wrong, it means the risk
of a confrontation with Russia, and
indeed other rogue states, involving
nuclear weapons and other weapons
of mass destruction is much higher
than we consider it to be.
The history of warfare strongly
suggests that leaders often take their
countries into wars that appear
unwinnable. Wars their opponents
didn’t predict because it seemed so
obvious that an attack would end in
disaster. Roosevelt, for instance, was
assured Japan would not start a war
with the United States because it
would have calamitous consequences
for the Japanese. Truman was
wrongly told the Chinese wouldn’t
enter the Korean War for fear of a
global conflict. Bush’s advisers were
confident Saddam Hussein wouldn’t
invade Kuwait.
Loving children can also be
overshadowed by other priorities.
Hitler’s Nero orders, when he
unsuccessfully instructed his military
to destroy Germany’s infrastructure
It’s brave to assume
Putin and his regime
think as we do
no matter what happened to its
population, were based on his idea
that the Germans no longer
deserved to live, having let the Third
Reich down. Fidel Castro and Che
Guevara urged the Soviets to launch
a first nuclear strike against the US
because such a conflict was “the final
aim of communism”.
Many strategists have commented
that President Putin’s invasion of
Ukraine seems, to put it politely,
unreasonable. Yet many of the same
people seem to believe he might be
completely reasonable with his
weapons of mass destruction.
On Monday General Sir Chris
Deverell, former commander of the
joint forces command, spoke in
favour of a no-fly zone over Ukraine,
and ground troops if necessary. He
accepts that Putin will respond with
nuclear threats. “But there is no
fundamental reason why these are
more useful to Putin than they are to
Nato. Our logic has to be that his
threats are meaningless. Whatever
he can do to us, we can do to him.”
He acknowledges the risk that Putin
is “mad” before dismissing it.
I think this places much more
confidence in Cold War deterrence
policy — in the efficacy of mutually
assured destruction — than is
merited. It assumes that Putin and
his regime view things as we do. It
assumes they think success in Ukraine
isn’t worth sacrificing millions of
people in a nuclear war. And I think
that is a very brave assumption.
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine should
force us to return with a seriousness
which we haven’t shown for at least
20 years to the subject of nuclear
deterrence. During discussion about
Ukraine it has become perfectly
obvious that we have effectively
extended a nuclear security
guarantee to lots of countries —
Latvia, for instance — with little
political discussion. It was based on a
relaxed view that such promises
would never be called upon. We were
making a consequential promise, one
I support, but a more rigorous debate
was called for.
When the SNP’s Ian Blackford
proposed we abandon our
independent nuclear deterrent, I
thought him completely wrong and
even eccentric. But at least he was
talking about the right topic. If we
are going to be involved in wars with
nuclear armed countries, we might at
least discuss the whole subject of
weapons, don’t you think?
First, we might consider this. If
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Fidel Castro and Che Guevara urged the
Soviets to launch a first nuclear strike
mutually assured destruction may
not deter Putin, what might? In his
book The Fallacies of Cold War
Deterrence and a New Direction, the
nuclear strategist Keith Payne argues
that if we were able to defend
ourselves against missile attack more
effectively, we could better deter other
nuclear powers from aggression. They
would realise they couldn’t rely on us
to stay out of any conflict.
Other strategists believe enhanced
missile defence systems to be too
expensive and unreliable to be a
priority. But they agree that our
protections against biological warfare
are insufficient and that improving
them would send the message that
we would be hard to defeat. And even
if such preparations do not send a
message, they have another purpose,
unfortunately. They might be needed.
Given the number of aggressive
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leaders who may not fear the death
of their children, the horrific truth is
that one day we may be subject to an
attack with weapons of mass
destruction. This is unthinkable, and
yet we have to think about it.
Millions of people might die in such
an attack, but millions wouldn’t.
What would they do? Where would
they live? How would they eat?
These are things we must plan for.
And not only that. These are things
We have fought three
elections with no
debate on nuclear policy
we must discuss publicly. In the 1970s
the government prepared an
information campaign, Protect and
Survive, to be launched in the case of
a nuclear emergency. It became
public and helped fuel a serious
debate about nuclear weapons. I
strongly opposed the politics of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
and unilateralism. And I still do. But
I did think the intensity of the
political argument we then had was
appropriate to the subject. Of course
we should discuss our approach to
weaponry that might kill millions,
that could even make the Earth
uninhabitable. We have recently
fought three elections while hardly
discussing nuclear policy.
Perhaps the violent challenge from
Putin will wake us from our slumbers.
daniel.finkelstein@thetimes.co.uk
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Army blunders and sanctions can do for Putin
A coup is unlikely but squeezing Russia’s business elite will force a reassessment of the regime
Roger
Boyes
@rogerboyes
P T
resident Putin has worked a
geopolitical miracle.
Unwittingly, he has turned
the huge land mass and
putative great power of
Russia into a friendless island.
To the west he now faces a united
adversary that is willing to swallow
discomfort in return for bringing him
to his knees. So, no more divide and
rule. To the east he has China which
will exploit his self-inflicted problems
in Ukraine. President Xi admired
Putin’s land grab of Crimea. In
retrospect that operation seems more
like a fluke than a brilliant exposition
of Blitzkrieg that could one day be
applied against Taiwan.
It’s the little things that
demonstrate how far Russia has fallen
in the past fortnight. The dumbstruck,
tooth-grinding look of Moscow
traders as Bloomberg technicians
carried out their terminals. The
cancelled summer breaks in the Côte
d’Azur. Foreign holidays are off for
some time to come. The rouble? In a
very deep hole. Euroclear,
Clearstream, Master and Visa cards?
All no good at all for Russians.
The question, then: is Putin also
finished? The humiliation of the lost
Russo-Japanese war in 1904-05
prompted a (failed) revolution.
Russia’s thrashing in the First World
War nudged the country towards the
Matthew Parris Notebook
My scheme
to scupper
airport’s £5
drop-off fee
S
coundrels! Bloodsuckers!
There’s a special corner of hell
for East Midlands Airport
bosses, a corner where those
pitiless racketeers are forced
to drive round and round in ever-
diminishing circles as devils with
toasting forks corner their cars into
ruinously expensive parking zones.
We had a drop-off to make on Sunday
at that glorified perfume-peddling tin
shed calling itself an airport. But I was
wise to the rascality of these corporate
vultures. I knew that arriving
motorists are funnelled without
warning into a lane at whose end a big
notice informs you that you may not
stop, pause, let anyone out of your car,
until you’ve paid: £5 — yes, £5 — for
up to 15 minutes’ parking “and £1 a
minute for every minute thereafter”.
Hah! We foiled them. Midlands
Times readers, here’s how. Turning
right into the passenger terminal
approach road, look out for a BP
garage on your right. The terminal is
Bolshevik revolution. The retreat
from Afghanistan created such a loss
of face that the mighty Soviet Union
had to abandon its imperial
ambitions and give up the ghost.
An apparently failing war, Putin’s
lack of elan, an economic blockade,
unhappy elites (army and FSB), low
morale in the military: these are the
ingredients of a military or a palace
coup, as are his insistence on an all-
out, even exterminationist, reckoning
with Ukraine and his sticky embrace
with China. All of these are steps that
anger those who feel they have been
cut out of the president’s bubble.
There are two obvious reasons to
exclude the possibility of Putin falling
victim to a coup. The first is that the
There are whispers
generals are fed up and
troops are unhappy
Soviet Union tried hard to build
institutional barriers to a military
takeover. All officers were members of
the Communist Party, all units had a
political commissar to make sure the
rank and file stayed on message. And
there was a “special department” that
snitched on those who entertained
subversive thoughts. Under Putin, the
commissars are gone but the snitch
unit has been expanded. He has also
built up a national guard, the
Rosgvardia, which gives him another
layer of personal protection.
The defence minister is one tipped
to lead a coup. But for it to work, it
would have to be a velvet putsch.
Until now Sergei Shoigu has been a
popular enough figure, leading
just 400 yards ahead. There’s ample
space in the garage forecourt to stop
and let your passenger off. If
challenged you can say you’re
considering buying a chocolate bar.
Savour the frustration of those
gimlet-eyed weasels in “Parking
Patrol” vehicles, cruising around on
the prowl for any motorist attempting
to halt at a kerb! One drove slowly
past us, grinding his teeth at his
impotence to interrogate our real
motives for visiting a petrol station.
Hold me to this: on my grandfather’s
grave I swear I will never, ever, pay
for a drop-off at EMA. I will drive
across fields, over pavements,
through rose-bushes or the
wrong way round roundabouts
to avoid the extortion. And to
think this hive of shysters once
tried to call itself “Robin Hood”
Airport. Sheriff of
Nottingham, more like it.
Making a point
L
ast Wednesday found
me on one of the
most bizarre
journalistic outings I
can remember. For
The Spectator I’d
written about London’s
Victoria Embankment
gardens, and a
wonderfully sexy
Edwardian bronze sculpture
there: a memorial to Sir
attempts to extinguish Siberian
forest fires. Importantly, he goes
hunting with Putin. It seems clear
though that if the Ukraine war is
bungled Putin will pin the blame on
Shoigu. The generals may have
calculated that he would shoulder
the blame since the chances of him
being acceptable to Slav nationalists
seem remote. Shoigu’s father came
from Tuva in Siberia and some of his
colleagues call him chinczyk, the
“chinaman”. It’s not meant nicely.
Everything hinges on whether the
war, and Putin’s leadership, can in the
end be branded a victory. If the
blunders are too obvious, if
Ukrainian resistance persists for
months, then Putin may look for
scapegoats and demand a purge of
the military. Either the generals will
go quietly to their dachas or they will
gather support from other unhappy
members of the security apparat and,
just possibly, give Putin an
ultimatum: boost investment on
modern arms and tactical training,
bring generals early into decision-
making before starting combat
missions or lose their confidence.
There are whispers that the
generals are fed up and not just
because two of them have died in
Ukraine or because their troops are
unhappy. Times have changed since
the reformist Czechoslovak leader
Alexander Dubcek could be bustled
out of the country in 1968 by Russian
agents. “How can you do this to
Volodymyr Zelensky, who would you
have to talk to when the war’s over?”
asked an anonymous FSB analyst in
a report posted on Twitter. His post
could be disinformation, a Ukrainian
attempt perhaps to create the
Arthur Sullivan, the S of G&S. But
that bust is forgettable: it’s another
bust that arrests attention. Also in
bronze, a weeping maiden whose
clothes have fallen off is throwing
herself in grief upon the stone
pedestal. With a clear image in my
recollection, I’d described her right
breast on Tuesday. “Nipple erect,” I’d
written. But that night I awoke,
gripped by anxiety lest I’d
misremembered, and made it up.
I must check (I thought), googled
images proving too indistinct. There
was a Tube strike but, having walked
into town, I made my way
nervously through the park.
Phew! It absolutely was
“puckered” (as a young friend
assures me one should say, “erect”
being not really applicable to
ladies). I walked home to
east London in triumph
and relief, a triumph only
slightly dented when a
friend knowledgeable
about sculpting told me
the engorgement may
just have been laziness
on the sculptor’s part.
“A flaccid nipple,” he
said, “would actually be
h
harder to sculpt.”
Price of realism
M
y mission to confirm
verisimilitude
reminds me of a
impression of fierce debate within
the Putin clique. But at least one of
his messages rings true to British
army and intelligence figures. It asks
the question: why, and how, should
Russia occupy Ukraine? “Where
would we find that number of
people? Commandant’s office,
military police, counter-intelligence,
security — even with a minimal
resistance from the Ukrainians we’d
need over 500,000 people, not
including supply and logistics.”
There are plenty of Russian sceptics
about Putin’s war but if the tide turns
decisively in favour of Russia they
may zip up. The most likely outcome
may come not as the result of the
ebb and flow of battle but rather at
the devastating cost of sanctions.
Sanctions will never shift Putin’s
short-term plans but they can have a
long-term impact on the business
elite, forcing them to consider
whether Putin is leading them off a
cliff. Polish newspapers speculate that
Putin could, if the pain of sanctions
becomes unbearable, impose a state of
emergency or even martial law. The
point would be to crack down on any
underground resistance but also to
nationalise some strategic industries.
That would infuriate the oligarchs.
But it could lay the foundation stone
for a mixed market economy (albeit
one skewed in favour of oligarchic
interests), more tech-orientated,
indeed a governing coalition of
technocrats and securocrats.
Would there be a place for Putin in
such a constellation? Probably not:
he is rapidly being seen as a loser
who tries to win his points by
deploying the heavy bone-crunching
metal of his tanks.
story related by our outgoing
ambassador to the Federal Republic
of Germany in his 1970s valedictory
dispatch. Illustrating a strand in the
German character he recounted the
apparently true tale of a German
artist who painted the view from his
bedroom window. The artist omitted
the cherry tree in his garden because
it spoiled the composition. Then,
racked by professional guilt about a
false representation, he awoke in the
small hours, grabbed an axe — and
chopped down the cherry tree.
East is east
A
friend working in Pakistan
emails me with curious news.
The Russian attack on Ukraine,
says my friend, is enormously popular
with ordinary Pakistani people.
Sounds nonsensical to you? To me
too, but apparently “the operation in
Ukraine is seen — instinctively — as
a continuation of the Taliban victory
in Afghanistan, again driving back
the influence of the West”. Loopy,
yes, but worrying too.
In our own backyard
I
n reporting of backdoor routes that
Russian oligarchs are devising to
avoid western sanctions, have you
noticed how the names of two places
keep recurring? British Virgin Islands;
and Cyprus. One of these is a British
overseas territory; the other a member
of the EU. Needs scrutiny, perhaps?
Wednesday March 9 2022 | the times
Grammar fetish
drains English
of all its beauty
Libby Purves
here is nothing in the
driving test about crank
webs or gudgeon pins but
we allow people ignorant of
such things to propel a
tonne of metal at 70mph on a public
highway, provided they recognise a
few simple road signs and the basics
about coolant and brake fluid.
Yet prescriptive educational rules
decree that 11-year-olds cannot be
trusted to use a language they have
been hearing all their lives until they
can identify the minutiae of its
hydraulics and countershafts. They
must spot a “fronted adverbial” and
know whether a verb is “modal or
phrasal” before using it in action. The
Michael Gove changes of 2012 mean
that Year 6 children, unlike their
parents or grandparents, are required
to be familiar with elements of
technical linguistics which (as the
recent homeschooling period proved)
frankly horrify and baffle any of their
elders who are not teachers.
Under this grim regime the
English language has little time to be
perceived as a musical, poetic,
expressive, mischievously adaptable
thing. It must be parsed into
outdated, rigid, joyless, prescriptive
and often quite misleading terms.
Hence the study of fronted adverbials
(“Miserably, the child worked on”),
relative clauses (“I prefer classes that
are not so dull”) and inappropriately
Latinate definitions of the
subjunctive (“I only ask that you give
the poor kids a break”).
Most professional writers don’t use,
or even know, most of these technical
definitions. They know basic facts, the
road signs as it were: the difference
between singular and plural, the need
for a conventional sentence to have a
verb, why tenses matter. They try to
communicate clearly, with meaning
and mood and musicality, and to
eschew clunking awkwardness,
pretension or pomposity. That is all
children need to learn. But a study
by University College London has
shown that ten years of this
nitpicking study of grammatical
mechanics has not actually improved
children’s ability to write or tell a
story. Rather, it paralyses it.
If you learn a foreign language with
an alien grammatical system (for
instance one with gendered words)
you do need some infrastructure; but
even then, as every Linguaphone
veteran or anxious traveller knows,
you get on faster by listening and
speaking and sometimes being
corrected, kindly. Children hear,
imitate and echo. From babyhood
they love rhymes. They adore long
words: you can make a barely
speaking baby laugh in delight by
saying “Don’t be so pre-pos-ter-ous!”
rather than “uh-uh, naughty”.
So why send them to school in
order to be taught ungraceful
pseudo-scientific linguistic labels,
and rebuked for not painfully
dissecting every sentence they write?
Enough!
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Women redefine their role in Ukraine’s war
Mothers who leave children at the border to return and fight are burying the image of females as passive victims of conflict
Alice
Thomson
@alicettimes
‘W
e have already
taken our children
to safety. The
genetic fund of our
nation is reliably
protected.” So says the warrior,
dressed in a balaclava and staring at
the camera while holding a
Kalashnikov. “We join the men and
the Ukrainian army. We will destroy
the enemy on every inch of
Ukrainian land and in every city,
village, forest and field. For every
child, woman, old man, ruined
house, street, even barn, we will
shoot you like rabid dogs.”
These are the women of the
Ukrainian resistance. Two weeks
ago, they were a teacher, a waitress,
an economist and a graphic designer.
Now, after dropping off their
children and elderly relatives at the
border, they have returned in army
fatigues to redefine what women can
achieve in war.
It is easy to see women as passive
victims and casualties of conflict.
Witness the harrowing photographs
of fathers hugging distraught wives
and babies at railway stations before
going off to fight. There are reports
of pregnant women giving birth in
flooded, freezing underground Kyiv
car parks to the sound of artillery
fire. But there is also the midwife
who turned back from the Polish
border having handed over her
three-year-old to a distant cousin,
telling German TV: “I am needed
back home.”
Every day produces yet more
astonishing accounts of female
defiance and bravery. There’s the old
lady who hit a drone, not as was first
assumed with a pickle jar but with a
can of tomatoes, according to the MP
Lesia Vasylenko, who is chronicling
the war. There’s the cookery writer
Olia Hercules’s elderly mother who
‘We will destroy the
enemy, we will shoot
them like rabid dogs’
has taken up her frying pan to help
her husband defend their farm. And
there is Valentyna Kostyantynovska
who has learnt to fire a Kalashnikov
at 79, saying: “It’s my dream to fight
for my country.”
Kristina, a former wedding singer,
is the only woman in her mountain
combat unit. “We are not afraid of
death, we are afraid to be slaves,” she
says on Instagram. Yevheniia Chekh,
a beautician, a “weekend warrior” in
the territorial army, posted that she
is now fighting full time as a mother
for the motherland. Meanwhile,
civilian women have stood in front of
tanks, confronting Russian soldiers.
Their figurehead is Olena
Zelenska, an acclaimed screenwriter
who never wanted her comedian
husband to become president, saying
she was “aggressively opposed”. Now
she has refused to leave the capital
with her two children. In a fortnight,
her Instagram account, which has a
following of 2.3 million, has gone
from Duchess of Cambridge-style
images of her doing potato prints
and campaigning for healthier school
food to a plea to Nato states: “Save
our children so that yours won’t die
tomorrow.”
She is documenting the
devastation and death toll and has
launched a Telegram channel with
advice to women on how to evacuate
or stay and help the war effort. “My
children are looking at me,” she says.
“I will not have panic or tears.”
Recently she was on the cover of
Ukrainian Vogue discussing equal
pay. Now women’s magazines
provide online tips on how to chop
off acrylic nails and load a weapon.
There are nearly two million more
women than men in Ukraine. Even
before the war they were showing
their mettle. They already made up
23 per cent of Ukraine’s armed forces
with 57,000 female recruits. Since
Russia’s annexation of Crimea, they
have had equal rights to serve in
combat roles. In Russia, the figure is
4 per cent and President Putin has
been busy crushing women’s rights,
preventing them from entering many
careers. In Kyiv, there are 87 female
MPs, just over 20 per cent, and the
vast majority have stayed to join the
resistance.
According to the global gap index,
Ukraine has closed 72 per cent of the
Many young couples
have stayed to defend
the country together
gender gap in the last few years,
increasing women’s opportunities in
education, the workplace, and
politics. Now, it’s happening in war.
Some have volunteered to organise
logistics, armed with coloured pens
and lists. Kira Rudyk, an MP, is
leading the terrifying exile from
Irpin to Kyiv.
Many young couples have decided
to stay and defend their country
together. “I believe in equal rights
but also responsibilities,” one young
female fighter said. Anastasiia
Yalanskaya was killed this week
delivering supplies to a dog shelter
outside Kyiv that had been without
food for three days. The 26-year-old
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volunteer had spent the day before
helping a nursery where 40 children
were stranded without food. “We are
not scared. We are united like never
before,” she wrote in a final post.
Ukraine is one of the few countries
that now has a day’s holiday for
International Women’s Day. Usually,
they celebrate by giving each other
flowers and the men spoil them.
Yesterday they posted pictures of
themselves carrying weapons.
There were female fighters in the
last century. Svetlana Alexievich’s
book The Unwomanly Face of War
recounts how the Soviet women who
became pilots, snipers and gunners
in the Second World War would curl
their hair with pine cones, and of
their ruthlessness but also
compassion in a “sickening, insane
war”. The difference now is in the
numbers and the fact that these
women can also get their message of
defiance across on social media.
Women in war can be more
vulnerable. The former foreign
secretary William Hague has fought
hard with the actress Angelina Jolie
to ensure that rape is treated as a
war crime. But these women have
weighed up the risks, they know
their skills could tip the balance in
this war. As Rudyk said: “Ukrainian
women are incredible. Because of
them we will win. Putin only counted
the Ukrainian men, we’ve ruined
his maths.”
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Letters to the Editor
Weaning the West
off Russian oil
Sir, Your excellent leading article
(“Oil Shock”, Mar 8) advocating a ban
on Russian oil exports overlooks the
possibility that the ban does not need
to be 100 per cent. It could be a
compromise: enough to severely hurt
Russian coffers but still allowing
Europe to function, albeit with some
short-term rationing. This is a price
that we should be willing to pay. In
the meantime, all companies that still
operate in Russia should be
sanctioned too.
Andrew Gilg
Exeter
Sir, The go-ahead to explore new
areas of the North Sea for oil and gas
reserves is a backwards step. The use
of oil and gas in the UK needs to halve
by 2035 if we are to achieve our legally
binding target of cutting harmful
carbon emissions by 78 per cent. Yet
the prime minister looks set to expand
oil and gas drilling (“Green light for
North Sea projects”, news, Mar 8).
This will not secure our supply of
affordable energy but will instead
delay the transition to cleaner, cheaper
energy and tie us to prices set by the
international market. UK energy bills
are nearly £2.5 billion higher than they
would have been had green policies
not been scrapped over the past
decade. We must invest in renewables
and improve the energy efficiency of
our homes, not entrench our reliance
on expensive and polluting fossil fuel.
Stew Horne
Head of policy, Energy Saving Trust
Sir, Organisations such as the Energy
and Climate Intelligence Unit (letter,
Mar 8) should stop confusing fact
with policy. It is a fact that the
government has signed off last week’s
report from the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change. It is not a
fact that “the quickest way to cut the
use of Russian gas . . . is to accelerate
the provision of energy efficiency
measures”. To quickly reduce
consumption of Russian gas we
should use our own supplies or
import our fuel from somewhere else.
Colin Mitchell
Pershore, Worcestershire
Sir, We have to dramatically cut our
gas and electricity use to increase the
pressure on Russia. If we can, we
should put on more coats, sweaters
and blankets, and turn the heat down
in our shops and offices. We can and
should make small sacrifices this way
to help to save lives.
Johnnie Morris
Richmond, Surrey
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China and putting real pressure on Putin
Sir, There is much sense in William
Hague’s piece on Xi Jinping stopping
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (“Xi is
the only leader who can stop this
war”, comment, Mar 8). But I wonder
about his conclusion that Xi has
“unique leverage” over Putin. If, when
they met on February 4, Putin did not
tell President Xi of his plans, it shows
how shallow is their marriage. If he
did reveal all, either Xi was unable to
dissuade him or was unwilling to try.
Both show that Russia and China are
not, to use an expression of Mao, “as
close as lips and teeth”.
The only leverage that Xi might
have in this loveless marriage might
be through joining western sanctions.
Not only does China hate the concept
of sanctions but the fragility of the
Chinese Communist Party’s own hold
on power might be threatened by the
resulting energy and economic crisis
within China.
Sadly, I fear that China will
continue its pose of neutrality and its
meaningless offers of mediation
unless it fears that Putin might fall,
Russia democratise and a successor
regime look west. This Orwellian
realignment of Eurasia with Oceania
against Eastasia would worry Xi. But
by then the damage to Ukraine and to
Shelter in a storm
Sir, Your leading article (“Give Them
Shelter”, Mar 8) is spot on: in the chaos
of conflict, people don’t always have
their passports or paperwork and can’t
always access “safe and legal” routes.
Right now, as countries across Europe
have done, the British government
must waive visa requirements for those
fleeing Ukraine. Security checks can
still be carried out when people travel
or arrive in the UK. Similarly, the
government must speed up the family
reunion process so that those who are
desperately waiting to join loved ones
already in Britain can do so without
delay. This situation also highlights
why proposals in the Nationality and
Borders Bill need urgent rethinking.
Refugees should not be judged by
how they travel: they should be
welcomed and supported no matter
how they arrive.
Mike Adamson
CEO, British Red Cross
Sir, Surely Priti Patel must recognise
the difference between illegal
immigrants and refugees fleeing a
war-torn country. Why has an agency
not been set up in Calais, rather than
HIGHEST-PAID
ATHLETE IN
THE WORLD
from the times march 9, 1922
A young man about 30 years of age,
who 15 years ago was an inmate of a
Catholic orphanage near New York,
has signed a three years’ contract at
a salary of between $75,000 and
$100,000 (£16,000 and £20,000) a
year, a salary larger than that of the
President of the United States. He is
George H (“Babe”) Ruth, the most
famous of present-day baseball
professionals in the United States,
and he thus becomes the highest
paid athlete in the world. Some years
ago Ruth entered the ranks of first
class baseball as a pitcher for the
“Red Sox” of Boston. He was later
the world will have been horrific.
Charles Parton
Associate fellow, Royal United
Services Institute, and the Mercator
Institute for China Studies
Sir, I agree with General Sir Chris
Deverell (“Nato must choose: fight
now or later, warns former top
general”, Mar 8). At no time since
Putin came to power has he shown
any hint of being open to negotiation
once he has decided on military
action. We cannot stand on the
sidelines any longer, hoping for an
end to Putin’s war. Nor can we just
hope, rather desperately, that he will
stop at Ukraine’s border. Sanctions do
not bother him, and by the time they
really start to hurt, Putin will have
crushed Ukraine and be within yards
of Nato’s front line. It is pointless to
try to second-guess him. Instead,
Nato must immediately institute a
no-fly zone over Ukraine. That will
involve being prepared to shoot down
Russian aircraft. If that happens, the
West may indeed find itself at war
with Russia. However, there is just as
much chance of being at war with
Russia when Putin’s troops cross the
border into Nato countries — or
when Putin shoots down one of his
Lille, to process visa applications?
Given decent internet connections
this should be perfectly manageable.
Nina Mair
Edinburgh
Sir, The Home Office has been rightly
castigated for its slow and confused
response to the Ukrainian refugees
crisis. May I suggest that the Ministry
of Defence is involved in setting up a
logistic operation to bus genuine
refugees from the Polish border
directly to London? This would avoid
the situation apparently occurring
now at Calais, of impostor Ukrainian
refugees, or of Ukrainians being sent
to Brussels or Paris to get their visas.
Most importantly this would be a
quick, direct and humane initiative.
Martyn Thomas
Raglan, Monmouthshire
Sir, It was a pleasure to read the story
of the boy who walked alone for
700 miles from Ukraine to Slovakia
(Mar 8) and was helped on his way by
police, soldiers, customs officers and
numerous other people. One can only
feel relief that he didn’t meet anyone
from the Home Office.
Eric Johns
Swanage, Dorset
transferred to the “Yankees” of New
York, and it was discovered that he
was a wonderful adept at hitting
home runs; in the 1920 season he hit
54, and last season 59. By his new
contract he will receive, in addition
to his huge salary, £100 for each
home run that he hits during the
season. He has also the option of
extending his contract for two years.
Ruth has refrained from signing his
contract till this week, though the
training camps are now in full swing
in the Southern State, and it is said
that the owners of the “Yankees”
finally gave in and accepted his
terms. Both sides had held out so
long that it was agreed to decide by a
toss of the coin and Ruth won.
6 women jurors’ night out.
In St Paul, Minnesota, seven women
who were serving on a jury which
failed to agree were locked up for
two nights in the same room with
five men jurors. This morning the
Assize Court was stormed by
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own aircraft and blames Nato. Either
way, we have very little to lose.
Hannah Walker
Thornford, Dorset
Sir, Lord Grabiner QC (letter, Mar 7)
is right that Nato’s failure to believe in
its own nuclear deterrent has led to a
reluctance to impose a no-fly zone for
fear of escalation. But if we do not
believe that our nuclear weapons are
an effective deterrent, why have them?
Nato is open to the criticism that by
failing to follow John Kennedy’s
example in the Cuban missile crisis it
has unwittingly encouraged Putin to
gamble on an illegal invasion of
Ukraine. If he had been informed
unambiguously that such an invasion
would be treated as an act of war, he
would probably have found an excuse
to cancel it. But it is not too late: Nato
should demand that safe corridors for
civilians fleeing to the West are in
place within 72 hours. If not, Nato will
engage directly in the fight against the
invaders. This would be an escalation,
but a failure to act decisively is more
likely to lead to months of worse
suffering. Excessive caution is often
the most dangerous course.
Philip Hamilton-Grierson
Marlborough, Wilts
Orthodox view
Sir, I was heartened by the letter
(Mar 8) from the Right Rev Lord
Williams of Oystermouth. He is right
that it is not too late for the leadership
of the Russian Orthodox Church to
use their influence with President
Putin to urge a return to peace.
Ukrainians, like Russians, are mostly
Orthodox Christians. In Ukraine the
autocephalous (independent)
Orthodox Church of Ukraine has
about twice the adherents of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow
Patriarchate). The latter had basically
remained loyal to Moscow, despite
Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea
and fomenting of war in the Donbas
since 2014. But eight hours after the
start of the invasion on February 24
its head, Metropolitan Onufriy
Berezovsky, urged Putin to stop the
“fratricidal war” and described Russia’s
aggression as “Cain’s crime”. Putin’s
war is alienating from Russia even its
few remaining loyalists in Ukraine.
Robert Brinkley
British ambassador to Ukraine
2002-06; chairman of the Ukrainian
Institute London and of the Chatham
House Ukraine Forum
scandalized citizens, headed by the
womens’ husbands. One expressed
his sentiments to the Judges in such
terms that he was promptly
committed for contempt of Court.
One jurywoman, Mrs Josephine
Brown, said, “The first night we just
sat around on the edges of our beds
and talked about the case until we
were nearly dead. Then someone
mentioned going to bed. I’m sure it
was a man. The men retired to a
corner, where they sat facing the
wall. We took the sheets off our beds
and tried to make screens. Then we
crawled in and pretended to sleep.
We didn’t sleep much, I assure you.
In the morning, long before daylight,
to the accompaniment of loud
snores by the men, we got up and
dressed.” The Governor has declared
that he will not now allow a wife to
obey a summons to serve on a jury.
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Funding dentistry
Sir, Libby Purves is right: “Failing
dentistry will come back to bite us”
(Mar 7). The government must address
dental issues urgently and provide
treatment and preventive strategies to
reduce a largely preventable disease.
The Health and Care Bill advocates a
wider implementation of water
fluoridation to improve oral health. At
present only 10 per cent of the
population receive water topped up to
one part of fluoride in 1,000,000 parts
of water, a level found naturally
elsewhere. A reduction in tooth decay
would be found in children within five
years. The most common reason
young children are admitted to
hospital is for the extraction of
decayed teeth. Public Health England
reported that fluoridation narrows
differences in dental health between
socio-economic groups, and that if
five-year-olds in the most deprived
areas drank fluoridated water they
would be 45-68 per cent less likely to
need teeth removed in hospital.
Dr John F Beal
Dentist and ret’d NHS consultant in
dental public health; Leeds
Hive of industry
Sir, I’ve scratted about in Joseph
Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary,
still our greatest authority on non-
standard words after 120 years, and so
can assure Nigel Saul (letter, Mar 8)
that his father had widespread
company in using “scrat” as he did in
Warwickshire. Wright found speakers
from Aberdeen to Devon using the
word meaning “to toil hard; to gain
one’s livelihood laboriously”. As a
variant of “scratch”, of course, “scrat”
might be used interchangeably with it
in any context, literal or figurative.
Professor Clive Upton
Alveston, Warwickshire
Sir, Any West Country cider maker will
tell you that “scratting” is the process
used to pulp the apples before they are
put in the apple press for juicing.
Christopher Murray
Barford St Michael, Oxon
Sports coaching
Sir, Regarding your report “Head who
says all teachers should coach a sports
team” (Mar 5; letter, Mar 7), in New
Zealand all my staff were involved in
sports coaching, either directly or as
“managers” who dealt with all the off-
pitch aspects. There is more to sport
than mud and whistles, and a school’s
commitment to sport can embrace all.
Simon Leese
Former headmaster, Christ’s College,
New Zealand; Woodhouse, Leics
Shining star
Sir, My solution to the problem of
shiny trousers (“Organ minders”,
letter, Mar 7) was to order an extra
pair when buying a new suit.
Martin Neary
Organist and Master of the Choristers,
Westminster Abbey, 1988-98
Cut to the quick
Sir, It works both ways (“Men-only
medicine”, letter, Mar 5, and “Carry
on doctor”, Mar 7). At my all-male
dissection table in 1966 we got to the
bit where the instructions said “Cut a
transverse section through the penis”.
To a man we refused, and had to rely
on one of our female colleagues from
the next table.
Dr Iain McCoubrey
Letcombe Regis, Oxon
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Daily Universal Register
US: Antony Blinken, the secretary of state,
hosts a meeting and joint press conference
with Liz Truss, the foreign secretary.
South Korea: Presidential election is held.
Nature notes
Spring is waking the
birch trees. After
their winter sleep,
their sap is rising
and their buds
plumping. Birch
trees have an
alluring elegance. Their black and white
bark shimmers like human skin tones; their
small leaves cast a dappled, emerald light.
The spring awakening of these trees is so
treasured by Ukrainians that they name the
month of March in its honour — Berezen, or
the time of the birches. All over the country,
from the parks of Kyiv to the Pripet
Marshes, instead of facing the horrors of
war, people should be free to enjoy the
tender sight of green leaves slowly unfurling,
and to tap the bark for the delicacy of birch
juice. jonathan tulloch
Birthdays today
John Cale, pictured,
musician, co-founder,
Velvet Underground, 80;
Margaret Aderin-
Pocock, space scientist,
co-presenter, The Sky at
Night, 54; Sir Bill
Beaumont, rugby union
player, England (1975-82), chairman, World
Rugby, Rugby Football Union (2012-16), 70;
Juliette Binoche, actress, The English Patient
(1996), Chocolat (2000), 58; Prof Andrea
Brand, molecular biologist, expert on the
nervous system, 63; Trevor Burton, guitarist,
co-founder, the Move, Night of Fear (1966),
73; Dame Melanie Dawes, chief executive,
Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator,
56; Baroness (Kishwer) Falkner of
Margravine, chairwoman, Equality and
Human Rights Commission, 67; Martin Fry,
singer, ABC, The Look of Love (1982), 64;
Carlos Ghosn, former chairman and chief
executive, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi
Alliance, 68; Stuart Gulliver, group chief
executive, HSBC Holdings (2011-18), 63; Neil
Hamilton, UK Independence Party leader,
Conservative MP (1983-97), 73; Charles O
Holliday, chairman, Royal Dutch Shell
(2015-21; now Shell plc), 74; Oscar Isaac,
actor, Ex Machina (2015), Dune (2021), 43;
Martin Johnson, rugby union player,
captained England to victory in the 2003
Rugby World Cup, England rugby coach
(2008-11), 52; Rev Ronald Lancaster,
founder (1964) of Kimbolton Fireworks (now
part of Phoenix Fireworks), 91; Lord
(Simon) McDonald of Salford, head of the
diplomatic service (2015-20), 61; David
Matthews, composer, A Vision of the Sea
(2013), 79; Victoria Newton, editor-in-chief,
The Sun, 50; Howard Shelley, concert pianist
and conductor, 72; Very Rev Andrew
Tremlett, dean of Durham, 58; Robin
Trower, rock guitarist, Procol Harum, 77;
Baroness (Charlotte) Vere of Norbiton,
transport minister, 53; Lord (David)
Willetts, chairman, British Science
Association (2015-19), Conservative MP
(1992-2015), 66; Pete Wishart, SNP MP for
Perth & Perthshire North, shadow SNP
leader of the House of Commons, 60.
On this day
In 1995 the Queen made a symbolic visit to
Northern Ireland, signalling growing
confidence in the Ulster peace process.
The last word
“Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher
for consensus, but a moulder of consensus.”
Martin Luther King in an address at the
Washington National Cathedral (1968)
Addressing MPs yesterday from Ukraine’s besieged capital, President Zelensky spoke
heroically not only for his country but for the principles of law and liberty
Politics in a democracy rarely involves clear-cut
issues of good versus evil. Yet MPs yesterday heard
the testimony of a leader whose moral limpidity
and personal heroism exemplify that distinction.
Addressing the House of Commons by video-link
from his office in Kyiv, President Zelensky of
Ukraine evoked Winston Churchill in declaring:
“We will not give up, and we will not lose.” And he
expressed gratitude for the help extended by
Britain and other democracies to support a nation
under unprovoked assault. Mr Zelensky amply
deserves support. And Britain is obliged, by its
values and history, to provide it unstintingly.
Since Russia’s invasion began a fortnight ago
Mr Zelensky has addressed legislators across the
globe while resolutely refusing to leave Ukraine’s
capital. He took pains to explain to MPs how the
war was unfolding. He described harrowing
scenes of the citizens of Mariupol being deprived
of food and water, and disclosed that more than
50 children had been killed in the conflict.
Addressing the prime minister familiarly, he asked
that further sanctions be applied to Russia, and
that it be designated a terrorist state.
The speech was powerful in itself. Delivered by
a president who might have chosen to flee for his
personal safety, yet has decided to face down
How much do Russians know, and how much would it help if they knew more?
On their televisions, Russians see a different war.
Not that their televisions even call it a war. From
their living rooms, they see heroic Russian troops
arriving in Ukraine to a liberator’s welcome. They
are there, viewers learn, on a “special operation”
designed to keep the peace and defend ethnic Rus-
sians from Nato-backed aggression by a neo-Nazi
Ukrainian government.
Numerous western media outlets are now
blocked in Russia, from broadcasters such as the
BBC to social media such as Facebook. Following
a new law that renders what Moscow deems “fake
news” about the war punishable with jail terms of
up to 15 years, others have fallen silent. Novaya
Gazeta, Russia’s leading independent newspaper,
has paused all reporting about military actions. It
is as if glasnost never happened.
For the intrepid and determined, however, the
truth can still be found. In recent weeks the use of
virtual private networks (VPNs), which allow
computers or smartphones to circumvent local
controls, often in privacy, is known to have soared.
Other people share news on encrypted apps such
as Telegram, or have turned to the Tor browser,
The former Commons Speaker stands condemned
“My entire approach over a decade in the chair,”
wrote John Bercow in his autobiography, “was to
seek to increase the relative authority and
influence of the legislature.” This makes it rank
hypocrisy that the former Speaker of the House of
Commons has rejected the findings of a two-year
inquiry, carried out by due parliamentary process,
into bullying allegations against him.
Mr Bercow was condemned in January in a
report by Kathryn Stone, the parliamentary
commissioner on standards, who upheld 21 out of
35 complaints against him by three staff members.
He rejected the findings, which led to an inquiry
Kyiv’s Call
assassination attempts and risk his life in the cause
of liberty, it was an address for the ages. He
requested support for a nation whose sovereignty
has been violated, territory illegally annexed and
civilian population shelled. In reply, Boris Johnson
justly said that never before had the House heard
such an address, and pledged that Britain would
employ every method it could until Ukraine was
free once more.
The heroism of Ukraine’s president and sacrifi-
ces of its people rightly united MPs. The defence of
a member state of the United Nations against
imperialist aggression is a cause beyond partisan
politics. It goes to the heart of western ideals of
constitutionalism, whereby peoples are free to
choose their government rather than be made
subject to capricious violence by bigger powers. It
does not obviate Mr Zelensky’s message to say
that Nato member states are constrained in the aid
they are able to give. They must do what they can,
consistent with containing the conflict rather than
intensifying it. It would be a historic disgrace to
hold back from aiding Ukraine in the forlorn hope
that Mr Putin might be pacified.
Mr Putin’s aggression is not a recent course.
Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and has since
fought a vicious war by proxy in eastern Ukraine.
New Samizdat
which allows users to access what is known
colloquially as the dark web and operate in greater
secrecy. Yet the proportion of Russians able or
willing to use such services remains small,
concentrated among the young in cities.
Their feelings are clear. About 5,000 anti-war
protesters were arrested in Russia last weekend,
and the Kremlin clearly fears losing control of the
narrative. On Monday a Russian journalist shared
a video on Telegram of police demanding to
scrutinise the smartphones of pedestrians in a
square in Moscow. As western sanctions continue
to bite, and as Russian losses mount, the numbers
seeking objective, independent information will
surely grow.
Being told the truth, alas, does not always entail
accepting it. Reports abound of Ukrainians
contacting relatives in Russia, even while they are
fleeing, or sheltering from artillery, only to be flatly
disbelieved. Propaganda can be as much about
psychology as disinformation, and older Russians
particularly retain a patriotic nostalgia for Soviet
Russia’s past as a great power. Yet, while Russian
polling is often dubious, even the Kremlin’s own
Bercow the Bully
by an independent panel. This body has now
upheld the commissioner’s conclusions. The
standard of Mr Bercow’s behaviour, it said, “fell
very far below that which the public has the right
to expect from any member of parliament”. And
he was a serial bully. Nor was it just towards staff
that Mr Bercow behaved disgracefully: it was also
to the investigators. The panel found he had “lied
extensively to try and avoid the damning reality of
the truth”. The panel recommended that he not be
given a parliamentary pass again.
The decent response to being condemned by
two separate inquiries would be contrition and
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Its latest outrage, aimed at further altering the
boundaries of Europe by force, was well signalled.
Ukrainians may have justified cause for anger
that their plight was overlooked by western gov-
ernments. Yet Mr Zelensky was generous in his
praise of the military and humanitarian aid that
Britain has extended, and urged that his country’s
skies be made safe. To implement a no-fly zone, as
Ukrainians understandably yearn for, is not a
good move for Nato. It would likely require firing
on Russian aircraft and risks direct conflict
between the superpowers. What Nato can do is
increase the tempo of its military aid, notably in
the form of anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons,
embrace the flow of refugees from Ukraine
seeking sanctuary, and continue to break Russia’s
commercial links with the West.
That support will be costly. It will cause
economic disruption and require a constant
calculation by Nato of the risk of provoking
military escalation. But for Ukrainians the price of
allowing aggression to go unchecked is far greater.
The peace of a continent and liberty of a proud
nation have been assaulted by an autocracy
heedless of elementary principles of law and
liberty. In his address, Mr Zelensky spoke not just
for Ukraine but for civilisation itself.
data shows that younger Russians, with their
greater exposure to news online, are considerably
less supportive of the war than their older peers
who rely only on state-approved sources. Snap
polling by the Anti-Corruption Foundation
(founded by the jailed dissident Alexei Navalny)
has shown that web-savvy Russians in Moscow
are increasingly sceptical of the government line.
All this represents a front in Russia’s war that the
West cannot afford to ignore. In a move reminis-
cent of the Cold War, the BBC has reactivated its
short-wave radio service, which now stretches
some way into western Russia. It is via the internet,
however, that the horrific reality of Russia’s
invasion has the best chance of penetrating the
Kremlin’s perverted information bubble. In recent
years, many western lawmakers have come to
understand the frequently ungovernable nature of
digital spaces as being an inherently negative
phenomenon, benefiting only fraudsters and the
peddlers of fake news. These concerns remain
valid. Yet if the West stands for anything, then it is
the recognition that freedom starts with the truth.
Russia deserves it, too.
apology. Instead Mr Bercow has vented more
vitriol. He said that the inquiry was a “travesty of
justice” and the result of a “vengeful vendetta”. He
obtusely concluded: “Don’t fall for the establish-
ment spin that I have been banned for life. I can
still attend debates with the help of a friendly pass-
holder.”
The job of Speaker, upholding the rules of the
House, is essential to good governance. Given that
Mr Bercow held the post for ten years, his disre-
spect for parliamentary rules is shameful. If any
“friendly passholder” lets him in again, the proper
response from others will be stony silence.
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World
Macron promises to
scrap TV licences in
handout to voters
France
Charles Bremner Paris
President Macron has pledged to scrap
the TV licence fee and provide funding
for state broadcasters if he wins a
second term in the Élysée.
Launching his re-election campaign
with barely a month to go before the
first-round vote, he said that phasing
out the annual €138 licence fee would
help poorer people. It is used to finance
television and radio channels such as
France Télévisions and Radio France,
as well as France Médias Monde, which
includes channels such as France 24.
Macron’s promise was in response to
pledges by three of the candidates on
his right, who have said they will end
the licence fee but will not use the state
budget to maintain the broadcasters.
Left-wing politicians are opposed to the
idea, arguing that abolishing the fee
would give the government control
over public broadcasting.
The promise follows similar moves
elsewhere. Norway scrapped its fee two
years ago, with state broadcasters
funded instead through income taxes.
Finland, Malta and Israel have all
stopped issuing licences and rely in-
stead on general taxation and onscreen
advertising.
Some countries such as Estonia
and Iran have never had a televi-
sion licence regime, while in
Britain the debate has raged for
decades. Nadine Dorries, the
culture secretary, said in Februa-
ry that the government would
drop the £159 BBC licence fee
from 2027. She later sof-
tened her stance but
said there were “really
serious questions about
the long-term funding
model of the BBC”.
Macron warned
against complacency
as he leads the polls
Out in front
Polling for first round of French
presidential election, April 10
Macron 30%
Le Pen 18%
Pécresse 13%
Zemmour 11.75%
Mélenchon 10.75%
Source: Politico
With Macron’s poll ratings soaring
and those of his rivals plummeting, he
took the opportunity to warn against
complacency when he took up the can-
didate’s mantle for the first time on
Monday evening, at an invitation-only
town hall meeting in the middle-class
Paris suburb of Poissy. “It’s hard to be
president and candidate at the same
time,” he told the friendly crowd of 300.
“I will be president for the coming days
and weeks when I must but I will be
candidate whenever I can.”
The biggest risk, his aides say, is that
his supporters might take his victory for
granted and fail to turn out on the day.
Others could be spurred to vote against
him by an appearance of arrogance, a
trait that many already see in their
president.
“Nothing is written in ad-
vance,” Macron said. “There
have been many candidates who
have been announced prem-
aturely as winners before the
election.”
Some have claimed
he is evading elec-
toral combat by cast-
ing himself as busy
wartime leader. He
does not plan to
stage big public ral-
lies, unlike his oppo-
nents, and he is re-
fusing to take part in
debates before the April 10 first round
with the other 11 official candidates;
four of them on his left and five on his
right, with two Trotskyites completing
the field.
He had delayed his entry into the
race while attempting to broker peace
in Ukraine with President Putin. Since
the invasion, support for Macron in the
first-round vote has jumped by about 5
points to 30 per cent, with a corre-
sponding slump for three of his four
main opponents: Valérie Pécresse, 54,
of the conservative Republicans; Éric
Zemmour, 63, the anti-Islam contend-
er; and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, 70, of the
hard left France Unbowed party.
Zemmour and Mélenchon have suf-
fered from their long-standing admira-
tion for President Putin while Pécresse,
already running out of steam, has been
deserted by supporters who see Ma-
cron as a safer bet in a time of crisis.
The exception is Marine Le Pen, 53,
the nationalist figurehead, who has
held steady at about 18 per cent despite
also having shown strong support for
Moscow in the past.
All surveys show Macron walking
away with the second-round duel, on
April 24: he would beat Le Pen by 59 per
cent to 41 per cent, according to an
Opinionway poll.
Macron’s rivals are frustrated by the
way that their manifestos have been
eclipsed by the Ukraine emergency and
made it hard to hold the president ac-
countable for his record.
Le Pen has condemned the Russia in-
vasion and is eager to cast herself as the
protector of lower-income France in
the face of rising energy and food
prices. “The talk around the office cof-
fee machine is not going to be about
bombs falling on Odesa, but on the cost
of energy,” one of her aides said. Poll-
sters say Le Pen has managed to wea-
ther the damage from her past associa-
tion with Putin, who helped to finance
her 2017 campaign, because her supp-
orters are focused on domestic matters. Winter’s tail A hidden camera captured images of an undocumented male Amur

Feminists decry ‘sexist’ baby box for new mothers Thousands

Charles Bremner
A “baby box” of helpful items for new
French mothers has attracted the ire of
feminists who say it reinforces sexist
stereotypes and fails to include fathers.
Critics from both the left and right
criticised La bébé box, officially known
as the “welcome to parenthood” bag, on
its launch yesterday in 353 maternity
centres as part of a government cam-
paign to improve mothers’ and babies’
health and development.
New mothers in poor urban areas
and rural zones are the first recipients
of the largely symbolic kit, with distri-
bution expected to reach the whole
country by August.
Modelled on a successful baby box
campaign in Finland in 1938, it consists
of a baby sleeping bag, to help to reduce
cot deaths, a bib, a picture story album,
a natural soap and a moisturiser.
The cream is “specifically for the
mother to help her understand that she
should take care of herself”, according
to the health ministry. “These few ob-
jects for the daily life of the young
parent are invitations to adopt prac-
tices that are beneficial for the child’s
safety, health and development.”
Feminists are not happy with the hy-
drating cream, in particular. “It can be
understood as an order to regain one’s
body of before, which is very clumsy,”
Amandine Hancewicz, president of the
Parents and Feminists association, told
Le Parisien. “What is aimed at men in
this bag? Once again, the message they
are sending is that parenthood is above
all the business of women.”
Fabienne Lacoudre, an expert in
gender equality in parenthood, said
that the objects had been badly chosen.
“There is a gap between the govern-
ment marketing campaign and the cry-
ing need for human care that women
feel in the very delicate postpartum
period,” she said.
There was also criticism from con-
servatives. Blanche Streb, research di-
rector at Alliance VITA, an anti-abort-
ion group, accused the government of
trying to shame new mothers with its
exhortations to “get outside the house,
to take care of yourself as a parent, to
practise a sport and outdoor activities”.
She added: “Women should not be
made to feel guilty for buying cheap
soap.”
Adrien Taquet, junior minister for
the family, said the kit was aimed at
raising awareness after a 2020 report
commissioned by the government from
Professor Boris Cyrulnik, France’s best-
known child psychiatrist, underlined
how much “the first 1,000 days condi-
tion the health and wellbeing of the in-
dividual throughout their lifetime”.
A new “first 1,000 days” smartphone
app and website had been launched to
help new parents, Taquet announced.
In addition, all mothers are to be of-
fered interviews with health profes-
sionals five weeks after giving birth to
identify signs of postnatal depression.
Australia
Bernard Lagan Sydney
Sydney was crippled by flash floods
yesterday and the death toll from week-
long rains deluging Australia’s east
coast rose to 20 after the bodies of a
mother and son were found in a canal.
The pair were in a car that was swept
off a road in the west of the city.
About 60,000 Sydney residents were
ordered to flee their homes yesterday as
early autumn storms flooded roads,
tunnels and bridges, sealing off some
major routes. The national weather
bureau warned of “a tough 48 hours
ahead” for the city, with warnings that
the Manly Dam had begun to spill over.
Much of Sydney and the eastern
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Game show crosses a line
tiger on the prowl in a Siberian forest; welcome news for the campaigners working to save the endangered species
ordered to flee deadly Sydney floods with cocaine-price question
states of New South Wales and
Queensland have suffered severe
floods that destroyed thousands of
homes and businesses last week. Hun-
dreds of soldiers who had been en route
to the city of Lismore, which was devas-
tated by last week’s storms, were divert-
ed to Sydney to help people to evacuate
their homes in the city’s north and west.
At Manly, in the north of the city,
children had to be rescued by boat from
a flooded day-care centre. Video posted
to social media also showed distressed
schoolchildren in Sydney’s northern
beaches area watching cars float past in
floodwaters that were lapping at their
classroom windows.
On Sydney’s upmarket North Shore
the six-lane Roseville Bridge flooded.
Newcastle
Sydney
Canberra
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Severe weather
Melbourne warning for damaging
winds and heavy rainfall
Footage showed water cascading off
the 60ft-high structure and floating
cars threatening to spill over the edge.
Emergency services have been
stretched as the torrential rain and in-
tense storms continued into a second
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week, with flood warnings in place yes-
terday for the entire 1,250-mile coast-
line of New South Wales.
“It’s very much the watery equivalent
of the ‘Black Summer’ bushfires,” Phil
Campbell, the State Emergency Ser-
vice (SES) spokesman, said in a refer-
ence to the devastating bushfires that
ravaged the east of Australia in late
2019 and early 2020.
Carlene York, the New South Wales
emergency services commissioner,
said that 800 people were in emergency
accommodation.
Meanwhile, a surfer survived a shark
attack in southern Sydney yesterday as
officials warned that nutrients swept
into sea by floodwaters were attracting
more of the predators to shore.
Boy diagnosed with
uncombable hair has
a brush with fame
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Work restarts at
nuclear test site
Kim ‘destroyed’
North Korea
Richard Lloyd Parry Asia Editor
North Korea has resumed work at its
nuclear test site and main factory for
nuclear weapons material, suggesting
that it is preparing to abandon a self-
imposed freeze and return to a policy of
nuclear confrontation.
In South Korea, voters appear poised
to elect a conservative leader in today’s
election, bringing an end to five years of
engagement by the liberal President
Moon.
New satellite photographs show signs
of construction at Pyongyang’s Pung-
gye-ri test site. Experts say that it is still
months from being able to carry out
further tests but the activity seems to
confirm that North Korea has not
abandoned the underground facility
that it claimed to have destroyed four
years ago. On Monday the head of the
International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) also reported building work at
the Yongbyon nuclear power plant,
which has produced the ingredients for
the country’s arsenal of nuclear
warheads.
“We continue to observe construc-
tion activities at the Yongbyon site, in-
cluding construction of an annex to the
reported centrifuge enrichment facili-
ty, the purpose of which has yet to be
determined,” Rafael Grossi said in a
statement to the agency’s board of gov-
ernors. He also reported “ongoing indi-
cations of activities” at the Kangson
uranium enrichment complex and the
Pyongsan uranium mine and concen-
tration plant.
“The continuation of [North Korea’s]
nuclear programme is a clear violation
of relevant UN security council resolu-
tions and is deeply regrettable,” he said.
Experts at a US think tank published
satellite images showing “preliminary”
construction activity at Punggye-ri,
including lumber and sawdust that may
be part of an effort to shore up test tun-
nels. “It is difficult to conclude what pre-
cisely is being built or why,” said Jeffrey
Lewis of the Middlebury Institute for
Spain
Charlie Devereux Madrid
A Spanish television station has been
forced to apologise after a quiz show
asked contestants to guess the street
price of a gram of cocaine.
Atrapame Se Podes, or Catch Me if
You Can, one of the most popular quiz
shows in the northwestern region of
Galicia, features several rounds of topi-
cal questions in which participants can
win up to €25,000.
On Monday it asked two contestants
how much they thought a gram of
cocaine cost, €6 or €60. They both hesi-
tated before correctly guessing that it
was €60. As they debated, Paco
Lodeiro, the host, joked that the script-
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International Studies in California.
“However, this is the first activity we
have seen at the site since North Korea
dismantled it in May 2018.”
In 2018 North Korea invited foreign
camera crews to film the destruction of
tunnel entrances and buildings at the
Punggye-ri site, where six nuclear tests
were carried out between 2006 and
2017. It was a symbolic moment in the
pivot to diplomacy made that year by
Kim Jong-un. In the same year the
North announced a freeze on the test-
ing of nuclear weapons and the long-
range intercontinental ballistic missiles
that could deliver them to the US.
For three years there has been a
diplomatic stalemate in which North
Korean demands for an easing of eco-
nomic sanctions have been ignored by
the US. In January Kim ordered his
politburo to review the moratorium on
long-range missile and nuclear testing
Kim Jong-un has
ordered a review
of a moratorium
on nuclear testing
and embarked on an intense round of
launching short and medium-range
missiles.
Already North Korea has fired off
more missiles in 2022 than in all of last
year. The nine rounds of tests have in-
cluded medium and short-range ballis-
tic missiles, cruise missiles, and hyper-
sonic ballistic missiles whose high
speed and manoeuvrability makes it
difficult to intercept them with conven-
tional defence shields.
Tomorrow voters choose a new pres-
ident to replace Moon, whose single
five-year term is coming to an end. In
recent days the close race appears to
have edged in favour of Yoon Suk-yeol,
a conservative who has promised to
take a tough line towards North Korea
and even threatened pre-emptive
strikes against its missiles.
writers said they had a “policeman
friend” who knows.
The state-run TVG channel said: “It
wasn’t the intention of the programme
to disparage the serious problem of
drug addiction.”
The producers, Voz Audiovisual,
accepted they should not have asked
the question but added that they had
used information from a report on
drugs produced by the health ministry.
Galicia has a reputation as the one of
the main gateways into Europe for
cocaine from South America. The cap-
ture in 2019 of a homemade submarine
carrying three tonnes of cocaine from
the Amazon to Galicia and the Netflix
series “Cocaine Coast” have helped
burnish that image.
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World
Proud Boys leader charged
with Capitol riot conspiracy
Hugh Tomlinson
The leader of the Trump-supporting
extremist group the Proud Boys has
been charged with conspiracy in
relation to the attack on the US Capi-
tol on January 6 last year.
Henry Tarrio, 38, known as En-
rique, was arrested in Miami on
Monday and was due to appear in
court yesterday charged with con-
spiracy and obstruction, as well as
assault and destruction of govern-
ment property.
Tarrio joins Stewart Rhodes, leader
of the Oath Keepers, among the
high-profile figures to face criminal
charges over the riot, when support-
ers of Donald Trump stormed the
Capitol in an effort to prevent Con-
gress from confirming Joe Bid-
en’s election victory.
Two days before the attack
Tarrio had been banned from
entering Washington under
bail conditions after he was
arrested for burning a Black
Lives Matter banner at a
Henry Tarrio was due
in court yesterday
pro-Trump rally and taking rifle
ammunition into the city.
Although he did not take part on
January 6, the Justice Department
said Tarrio led the group’s planning of
the assault and was in close contact
with the Proud Boys as they breached
the Capitol. The violence culminated
in an armed siege at the doors of the
House of Representatives. A protest-
er was shot dead by police, and hun-
dreds of police officers were injured.
The Proud Boys, formed in 2016,
have openly endorsed violence and
have been linked to incidents across
the US. They backed Trump, fuelling
claims that he encouraged white
nationalists. When asked to con-
demn white supremacists in his first
presidential debate with Biden in
2020, Trump said: “Proud Boys,
stand back and stand by.”
Almost 800 people have
been arrested over the January
6 riot. Eleven members of the
Oath Keepers, including
Rhodes, are charged with
seditious conspiracy.
One, Joshua James,
pleaded guilty last
week.
To cap it all off. . . A lenticular cloud above Mount Taranaki in New Zealand was visible from homes in the small town of Stratford
Lynching is finally to be
made a federal hate crime
United States
Hugh Tomlinson Washington
After more than a century and 200
failed attempts, Congress has passed
legislation that will make lynching a
federal hate crime, sending the bill to
President Biden to sign into law.
After sailing through the House of
Representatives last month, the Sen-
ate unanimously passed the Emmett
Till Antilynching Act on Monday
night. It is named after the 14-year-
old black boy who was murdered
after being accused of insulting a
white woman in Mississippi in 1955,
one of the most notorious race crimes
in America’s modern history. The law
will designate lynching as a hate
crime, punishable by 30 years in jail.
“Lynching is a longstanding and
uniquely American weapon of racial
terror that has for decades been used
to maintain the white hierarchy,”
Bobby Rush, a Democratic repre-
sentative for Illinois who pushed the
bill, said in a statement.
“Unanimous Senate passage of the
Emmett Till Antilynching Act sends
a clear and emphatic message that
Boy diagnosed with uncombable hair
Will Pavia New York
In Georgia lives a little boy whose
hair cannot be tamed. Locklan is
17 months old with blue eyes and a
spray of blond hair that defies combs,
brushes and admonishments from
authority figures.
After his mother, Katelyn Samples,
33, shared a photo online, a stranger
told her of a possible cause of his
glorious mop. It was not just unruly: it
was a medical condition. Locklan had
uncombable hair syndrome.
UHS is an extremely rare genetic
disorder of the scalp. It is caused by a
mutation in genes involved in the
Wednesday March 9 2022 | the times
our nation will no longer ignore this
shameful chapter of our history and
that the full force of the US federal
government will always be brought to
bear against those who commit this
heinous act.”
The law is largely symbolic, as a
fatal lynching would still carry a
murder charge, punishable by life
imprisonment or the death penalty.
The new legislation will allow prose-
Emmett Till was
tortured and
murdered after
whistling at a
white woman
cution for conspiracy to commit a
hate crime in such cases, however,
and acknowledges that lynching
carries a deeper social and political
context.
Lynchings became rampant across
southern states in the decades after
the American Civil War. The Equal
Justice Initiative has documented
4,081 lynchings in 12 southern states
formation of hair shafts, and there
are only about 100 cases in the US.
“I’d never heard of it,” Samples told
The Washington Post. The chief
symptom is “disorderlyy hair”
hair
that “stands out from the
scalp and cannot bee
combed flat”. This was
certainly the case for
Locklan, his mother
said. “It can’t be
tamed,” she said.
“Nothing can fix it.”
UHS typically
A genetic disorder meansans
Locklan’s hair won’t lie flat
SUZY BEVINS/CATERS NEWS
between 1877 and 1950. Most went
unpunished, with white detectives
declining to investigate or suspects
cleared by all-white juries.
Among them were the men who
killed Till, a teenager from Chicago
who was visiting relatives in Missis-
sippi when he was accused of
whistling at a white woman, Carolyn
Bryant, in a grocery shop. The
woman’s husband, Roy, and his half-
brother, JW Milam, kidnapped Till,
then tortured the boy before shooting
him in the head and sinking his body
in the Tallahatchie River.
Bryant and Milam were cleared of
murder by an all-white jury, later
admitting the lynching when they
were protected by double-jeopardy
laws. The killing provoked nation-
wide revulsion and became a spring-
board for a new phase in the civil
rights movement.
American politicians have tried
and failed to pass laws against lynch-
ing for more than 120 years.
Scores of bills were tabled from the
1920s, passing the House several
times, but were blocked each time by
senators from southern states.
becomes evident between the ages of
three months and 12 years old. As
children get older, their hair tends to
become silvery or strawberry blond.
Anothe effect, in Locklan’s
Another
h been a wide circle
case, has
of ad
admirers. His parents
use Instagram, under
th account “uncomb-
the
ab
able_locks”, to publi-
c UHS with photo-
cise
g
graphs of Locklan, his
pa hair glowing like
pale
a hhalo. A post at the
wee
weekend was captioned:
“We hope
“We h this hair gives
rea
y’all a reason to smile today.”
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London Metal Exchange stops nickel trading after short squeeze

Ben Martin
The London Metal Exchange has sus-
pended nickel trading as it scrambles to
restore order to the market after it was
gripped by a short squeeze that caused
the price of the metal to spiral.
The 145-year-old exchange said last
night that dealings would not resume
until Friday at the earliest after it took
the unusual step of halting trading of its
benchmark three-month nickel futures
contract following “unprecedented
overnight increases” that saw its price
briefly double to above $100,000 a
tonne, by far its highest-ever level and
its biggest-ever jump.
It also cancelled all nickel trades that
took place between midnight and
8:15am yesterday, which was when
dealings were brought to a stop.
When the market does eventually re-
open, the LME is planning to introduce
circuit breakers that limit movements
in the nickel price in either direction to
10 per cent in an attempt to smooth out
the volatility that has roiled the market
in recent days.
The turmoil is a blow to the ex-
change, which sits at the heart of the
world’s trading of industrial metals
from aluminium to zinc and operates
Europe’s last open outcry trading floor.
Nickel prices have soared amid fears
that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will
disrupt supplies of the metal, which is
used to make stainless steel and electric
car batteries. Russia is a leading export-
er but its decision to attack Ukraine, has
resulted in far-reaching economic
sanctions on Moscow by the West, are
putting those supplies in doubt.
The situation has been compounded
by big short positions — a bet on falling
prices — in nickel futures that have
been placed in recent months by Chi-
nese players, most notably by billion-
aire Xiang Guangda through his Tsing-
shan Holding Group, the world’s big-
gest stainless steel and nickel supplier.
Tsingshan and other short-sellers
will have been required to post increas-
ing amounts of cash to meet margin
calls as losses on their positions grew.
Had the LME not suspended the
market, it is thought that there was a
risk that the escalating margin calls
threatened to bankrupt some of the
exchange’s members.
Worst crisis in decades, pages 34-35

American giants call a Prices soar as

halt to trading in Russia
Coca-Cola and Starbucks join McDonald’s in making a stand against the war
Callum Jones
US Business Correspondent
McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and Starbucks
have bowed to pressure and suspended
their businesses in Russia as western
multinationals sever ties with the coun-
try following its invasion of Ukraine.
The world’s largest fast-food chain
broke its silence to confirm that McDo-
nald’s would “temporarily” pull down
the shutters on its 847 Russian restau-
rants, declaring that it “cannot ignore
the needless human suffering unfold-
ing in Ukraine”.
Its decision, almost a fortnight after
Russia invaded Ukraine, preceded sim-
ilar announcements by other heavy-
weights of corporate America. In the
hours that followed, Starbucks and Co-
ca-Cola said they too would suspend
activity in the country. Prominent com-
panies had faced mounting criticism in
recent days for still operating in Russia.
McDonald’s, which has some 62,000
employees in the country, said it was
“impossible to predict’’ when it would
reopen there. Its first Russian restau-
rant, which opened in Moscow three
decades ago, had been deemed a bea-
con of capitalism as the Soviet Union
fell. The outlet claimed to have served
some 30,000 customers on its first day.
“The situation is extraordinarily
challenging for a global brand like ours
— there are many considerations,” said
Chris Kempczinski, chief executive of
McDonald’s. But he recalled in an email
to staff how Fred Turner, the late exec-
utive who transformed McDonald’s in-
to a global giant, had espoused the im-
portance of doing the right thing. “To-
day is also one of those days.”
McDonald’s, which is based in Chi-
cago, Illinois, has about 38,000 restau-
rants around the world. Most are fran-
chised, although it directly owns the
majority of its Russian outlets. The
Boris Yeltsin at a Moscow McDonald’s in 1990. The chain has joined other multinationals in pausing business over Ukraine
chain’s business across Russia and
Ukraine — where it has also shut about
100 outlets — typically generates about
9 per cent of its annual revenue
Kempczinski, 53, condemned the
“unspeakable suffering” caused by the
war. “McDonald’s will continue to as-
sess the situation and determine if addi-
tional measures are required,” he said.
It will still pay its staff in Russia.
Soon after, Starbucks announced it
was ceasing all activity in Russia. Its 130
licensed stores in the country would
shut immediately, the company said.
Kevin Johnson, chief executive, criti-
cised “horrific attacks on Ukraine by
Russia” and stressed it would not ship
any Starbucks products to the country.
Coca-Cola, the world’s biggest drinks
firm, then said it was also “suspending
its business” in Russia.
“Our hearts are with the people who
are enduring unconscionable effects
from these tragic events in Ukraine,”
the group said.
Ramon Laguarta, chief executive of
PepsiCo, cited the “horrific events” in
Ukraine as he told staff the company
was halting the sales of its drinks, in-
cluding Pepsi and 7Up, in Russia. “As it
so often does, war is falling hardest on
the innocent,” Laguarta, 59, said.
GENNADY GALPERIN/REUTERS
Earlier in the day, Unilever, the FTSE
100 owner of brands ranging from Vas-
eline to Ben & Jerry’s, outlined a similar
stance. However, it will still sell “daily
essentials,” such as milk, baby formula
and baby food, said Alan Jope, its chief
executive.
Yum! Brands, the operator behind
KFC and Pizza Hut, announced it
would not invest or open new restau-
rants in Russia. In contrast to Starbucks
and McDonald’s, however, it stopped
short of shutting outlets.
Almost all 1,000 KFC and 50 Pizza
Hut restaurants in Russia are operated
under license or franchise agreements.
Britain set to
follow US ban
on Putin’s oil
Emily Gosden, Callum Jones
Oil prices jumped yesterday after
America banned Russian oil and gas
and Britain said that it would phase out
Russian oil by the end of the year.
Brent crude, the global benchmark oil
price, surged by more than 6 per cent to
pass $130 a barrel after plans for the US
embargo emerged.
The bans are likely to deter more
companies from buying Russian oil and
increase the likelihood both of other
countries imposing sanctions and of
Russia retaliating, analysts warned.
Russia has already threatened to re-
strict gas supplies to Europe. Russian
news agencies reported last night that
President Putin had signed a decree re-
stricting the import and export of speci-
fied goods and raw materials “to ensure
the security of the Russian Federation”.
Such high oil prices have not been
seen since 2008. Brent crude averaged
about $71 a barrel last year.
The intensifying crisis over Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine continued to cause
turmoil on markets yesterday. Global
stock markets wobbled as investors fled
to perceived safe havens, propelling
gold to highs of more than $2,069 an
ounce — within a whisker of records set
in 2020. Other metal prices continued
to rally amid supply concerns, with
platinum and silver both rising.
The FTSE 100 spent the day in and
out of the red but closed broadly flat.
Trading remained volatile on Wall
Street. The S&P 500, which suffered its
worst day of trading since October
2020 on Monday, fell initially before
staging a brief rally. It ended the session
back in the red, down 30.39 points, or
0.7 per cent, at 4,170.70.
Russia is the world’s biggest exporter
of oil and oil products combined, at
7.8 million barrels a day. America im-
ports less than a tenth of Russia’s oil and
products exports, at about 626,000 bar-
rels per day; Britain imports about
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Business

Need to know
1
Britain is to ban all imports of
Russian oil by the end of the
year in a move that is expected
to further raise the price of petrol
Worst crisis in decades
and diesel at the pumps. In a co-
ordinated announcement with
Western allies, Boris Johnson said
that the UK will phase out imports
of oil from Russia, which currently
supplies about 8 per cent of the
UK’s demand. Oil prices jumped
after America banned Russian oil
and gas. Pages 10, 33, 36

2
Ministers are examining plans
to relax restrictions on new
onshore wind farms as part of
proposals to ramp up renewable
energy projects in the face of
spiralling gas prices. The
government imposed an effective
moratorium on new onshore wind
farms in England in 2015 with
draconian planning restrictions on
further developments and ceasing
government support. Pages 10-11

3
Banks are returning less than
half the amount of cash stolen
from victims of transfer fraud,
according to Which?, Britain’s
biggest consumer group. More
than 300,000 people lost a total of
£854 million to scams in the two
years to the end of June 2021, but
only 42 per cent of the total was
refunded to customers. Page 14
commodities markets and the emer-
Exchange halt
halts nickel
ikl gency measures that financial institu-
trading and cancels tions are taking to contain the fallout.
It also leaves the LME wrestling to
deals after price doubles find a way out of its worst crisis since the
Sumitomo scandal of the 1990s, when a
to $100,000 a tonne, rogue Japanese trader amassed $2.6 bil-
lion of losses trying to corner the entire
reports Ben Martin world’s copper market.
Russia is one of the world’s biggest
Metal traders say they have never seen suppliers of commodities ranging from

4
McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and
Starbucks have bowed to
pressure and suspended their
businesses in Russia as western
multinationals sever ties with the
country following its invasion of
Ukraine. Page 33
anything like the chaos that has
gripped the nickel market.
“‘Unprecedented’ is an overused
word, but this actually is,” said Guy
Wolf, the global head of market analyt-
ics at Marex, the broking group. “This
has never happened before in the his-
tory of the nickel market.”
oil and gas to wheat and nickel, giving it
an integral role in supply chains
stretching around the world. Yet those
supplies are severely disrupted follow-
ing Moscow’s decision to attack
Ukraine.
The market for nickel, which is used
in the making of stainless steel, was

5
The London Metal Exchange
has suspended nickel trading
as it scrambles to restore
order to the market after it was
gripped by a short squeeze that
caused the price of the metal to
spiral. Page 33
A surge in the price of the metal —
which doubled to a record level of more
than $100,000 a tonne — forced the
145-year-old London Metal Exchange
(LME) to suspend trading in nickel and
cancel all transactions that took place
yesterday.
The exchange said the move was nec-
tight even before the war erupted. De-
mand for the metal has been growing in
recent years because it is a key input in
the batteries that power electric cars,
which are becoming ever more popular
as countries seek to decarbonise their
economies.
The coronavirus pandemic put fur-

6
Wheat prices hit a fresh
record high yesterday fuelling
concerns about the impact of
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on
food supplies with one of Britain’s
biggest food producers warning
inflation could reach 15 per cent.
The world faces a grain shortage as
the war disrupts the supply of
wheat from Russia and Ukraine.
essary to “ensure the continued orderly
functioning of the market”. Late yester-
day, in an announcement on its website,
it said: “The LME does not consider it
appropriate to announce a trading re-
sumption date for nickel.” But it added
that it did not not anticipate resuming
trading earlier than March 11.
This is the most vivid example yet of
the turmoil that Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine is causing across the world’s
ther pressure on the market. As eco-
nomies have reopened following Covid
lockdowns, demand for nickel and
other metals has rebounded more
quickly than supply.
“It was already looking like nickel
was going to go up a lot this year even
before Russia invaded Ukraine,” Wolf
said.
The war in Ukraine has now cast
huge uncertainty over Russia’s role as a
The turmoil unleashed in commodity markets by Russia's invasion of Ukraine has
nickel supplier, causing the price to commodities such as nickel will follow.
rocket. While the West’s sanctions on Even without restrictions, western
Moscow had previously targeted Rus- buyers are, in any case, shunning Rus-
sian financial institutions and oli- sian raw materials on the markets for
garchs, the focus is shifting. America fear of the reputational damage of
yesterday announced a ban on imports being seen to prop up the Russian eco-
of crude oil from Russia, spurring spec- nomy. The decision of the world’s big-
ulation that sanctions targeting other gest shipping companies to suspend

7
Google, the technology giant,
has announced plans to buy
Mandiant, a US cybersecurity
group, for $5.4 billion (£4.1 billion),
its second-largest acquisition ever,
in an attempt to bolster its cloud-
Wheat price fuels food inflation fear continued from page 33
Prices soar as US bans Russian oil
computing business. Page 38 Louisa Clarence-Smith “volatility is unprecedented and every
Ashley Armstrong, Dominic Walsh supply chain is under pressure”.

8
Greggs has warned that
inflationary pressures will
make its sausage rolls more
expensive and curtail profits this
year, despite record results. Page 39
Domino’s Pizza Group, which
Wheat prices hit a fresh record high sources its wheat from the UK and Ger-
yesterday fuelling concerns about the many, said that it had hedged against
impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine wheat price inflation for most of 2022.
on food supplies with one of Britain’s George Eustice, the environment
biggest food producers warning that in- secretary, is due to attend a meeting of
170,000 barrels a day from Russia.
Bjørnar Tonhaugen, head of oil
markets at Rystad Energy, said:
“Although the impact on US supply
may be limited, prices are soaring
because the ban makes it more of a

9
KPMG, the accountancy
giant, has been hit with
another fine from the
Financial Reporting Council, the
accountancy regulator — this one
£875,000 — for failings in its audits
of Revolution Bars, the cocktail bar
and restaurant group. Page 40
flation could reach 15 per cent.
The world is facing a grain shortage
as the war disrupts the supply of wheat
from Russia and Ukraine, which to-
gether produce more than a quarter of
the world’s wheat and a fifth of corn
exports.
Ukrainian farmers typically sow
wheat in March and April and concerns
Domino’s said it has hedged against
wheat price inflation to ease its impact
ary. Kers, 52, said that as wheat and soy
G7 agricultural ministers on Friday to
discuss the impact on food security of
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A government spokeswoman said:
“Food prices are influenced by a range
of factors, from currency fluctuations
to commodity prices. While recent
pressures have been sustained, we have
a highly resilient food supply chain. We
challenge to trade in Russian oil and
more likely that other countries may
follow suit.”
Shell said yesterday that it would
immediately stop buying Russian crude
oil on spot markets, following a
backlash after a purchase on Friday. BP
confirmed that it had also stopped such
purchases.

10 A slowing economic
recovery could spell the
end of the “great
resignation”, according to James
Gorman, chairman and chief
executive of Morgan Stanley, the
Wall Street bank. He predicted
that the high rate of job-switching
in the wake of the Covid-19
pandemic could soon slow. Page 41
that the war will disrupt the harvest
pushed wheat futures in Chicago to
above $13 a bushel in early trading yes-
terday, taking its rise this year to about
70 per cent. Prices fell back below $13
later but stayed close to historic highs.
Ronald Kers, 52, group chief execu-
tive of 2Sisters Food Group, the UK’s
biggest chicken producer, said that the
cost of producing chickens had in-
creased by 50 per cent since last Janu-
feed makes up the majority of the cost
of growing a bird and energy prices are
soaring we “expect inflation to far
exceed earlier estimates and to be
above 10 to 15 per cent.”
Hovis, the bread maker, said that the
inflation in costs will “inevitably have
an effect on the wider bread market.”
It said that while it sources “the vast
majority of its wheat and other raw
materials from the UK, global market
will continue to speak with the industry
to understand any potential pressures.”
Farmers are also expected to suffer
from the rising fertiliser costs because
Russia and Belarus are leading fertiliser
producers. Kers added that fertiliser
was “the key ingredient in agriculture,
and without that we won’t be able to
have a business, it’s a real concern”.
Greggs to put up price of sausage rolls
despite record sales of £1.23bn, page 39
Michael Tran, an analyst at RBC
Capital Markets, said in a note before
the US embargo was confirmed: “Pick a
number. This is a market in disarray ...
prices could rocket to $200 a barrel by
summer, spur a recession and end the
year closer to $50 a barrel. Nothing
sounds crazy any more.”
Troy Rohrbaugh, head of global
markets at JP Morgan, described
markets as “extremely treacherous”.
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for metal traders
worsened with the London Metal Exchange suspending trading in nickel
shipments to and from Russia has
added to the commodity market chaos.
The situation in the nickel market
has been exacerbated by big short posi-
tions — bets that prices will fall —
taken by a number of Chinese players,
including Tsingshan Holding Group,
which is the world’s biggest producer of
Russia ‘to take over’ shuttered factories
Times Business Reporter
A senior member of Russia’s ruling
party has proposed nationalising
foreign-owned factories that shut
down after the country’s invasion of
Ukraine.
Several foreign companies, including
Toyota, Nike and Ikea, have announced
temporary shutdowns of stores and
factories in Russia.
In a statement published this week
on the United Russia party website,
Andrei Turchak, the secretary of the
ruling party’s general council, said that
shutting operations was a “war” against
the citizens of Russia.
The statement mentioned Fazer,
Valio and Paulig, the Finnish privately
owned food companies, as the latest to
announce closures in Russia.
“United Russia proposes nationalis-
ing production plants of the companies
that announce their exit and the clo-
sure of production in Russia during the
special operation in Ukraine,” Turchak
said.
“This is an extreme measure, but we
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the metal. Tsingshan is controlled by
Xiang Guangda, a billionaire business-
man known as “Big Shot”. Other Chi-
nese companies that have taken
notable short positions on nickel are ru-
moured to include Huayou and Jintian.
Shorting is a technique used by spec-
ulators to profit from falling prices and
6 The new chief executive of
Danone argued that the French food
company had “a responsibility to the
people we feed” as he defended its
decision to continue operating in
Russia (Dominic Walsh writes).
Antoine de Saint-Affrique, who
took the helm in September, said
the maker of Activia yoghurts and
Evian mineral water would not be
committing new investment in
Russia, but he confirmed it would
continue to sell dairy and baby food
in the country. “It is very easy to get
drawn into black-and-white thinking
and demagogic positions,” he told
the Financial Times. “[But] we have
a responsibility to the people we
feed, the farmers who provide us
with milk, and the tens of thousands
of people who depend on us.”
Saint-Affrique, 57, is also a non-
executive director of Burberry, the
luxury goods retailer, which
announced last week that it was
temporarily closing its three stores
in Russia – all in Moscow.
also by nickel producers to hedge their
exposure to price risks, by selling fu-
tures. As nickel prices have surged, bro-
kers and traders have been forced to
provide more cash to cover their losses
on futures contracts.
Those that cannot post the cash and
pay these margin calls have had to close
out their trades by buying back their
positions, which has pushed up nickel
prices even further in what is known as
a short squeeze.
“You effectively end up in this vicious
circle of margin calls triggering buying
of short hedges, triggering more mar-
gin calls,” Wolf said.
The LME sits at the centre of the
world’s metals markets and is famous
for being the home of the Ring,
Europe’s only remaining open-outcry
trading floor.
Its benchmark three-month nickel
futures contract spiked as much as
90 per cent to $55,000 a tonne on
Monday, to what was then a record
level, before closing at about $48,000
and piling pressure on short positions.
The price then rocketed again yester-
day to as high as $101,365 and was at
$80,000 when the LME suspended
trading — a jump of 177 per cent since
the start of the week.
Xiang, with his huge short position
through Tsingshan, is at the centre of
the squeeze. It is understood that a sub-
sidiary of the state-owned China Con-
struction Bank is a broker to Tsingshan
and had been due to meet a margin call
on Monday morning.
The exchange gave the broker an
extra day to come up with the money,
which amounted to hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars and was paid yesterday.
Xiang is likely to be facing huge losses
that could run into the billions.
“It’s insane,” a broking source said of
the moves in the nickel price. They
argued that the LME had left it “far too
late” to shut the market.
While trading of tin on the exchange
was suspended between 1985 and 1989
following the collapse of a cartel, the
LME said today that “the current
events are unprecedented”.
It is thought the exchange decided
against suspending trading on Monday
as the nickel contract had not been far
from its previous record high of
$52,000 a tonne set in 2007. Once it
spiked in the early hours of yesterday,
the price was “clearly out of line with
physical reality”, an LME source said.
will not tolerate being stabbed in the
back, and we will protect our people.
This is a real war — not against Russia
as a whole, but against our citizens,”
Turchak added.
“We will take tough retaliatory meas-
ures, acting in accordance with the laws
of war.”
Paulig, which has a coffee roastery
and employs 200 people in the country,
told Reuters in an email that the move
would not change its plans to withdraw
from Russia.
Last week, Finland, a non-Nato
member that shares a border with
Russia, agreed to strengthen security
ties with the US.
Other companies, such as cigarette
giant British American Tobacco and
Danone, the multinational foods
group, have resisted winding down op-
erations in Russia.
Fazer, which makes chocolate, bread
and pastries, has three bakeries in St Pe-
tersburg and one in Moscow, employ-
ing about 2,300 people.
Valio has one cheese factory and em-
ploys 400 people in Russia.
Energy agenda has
changed for ever
business commentary Robert Lea
A
l Gore’s “Inconvenient
Truth” — that the
human race has mucked
up the world’s climate —
has shaped western
sensibilities and energy policy for
much of the past decade and a half.
That is particularly inconvenient if
you don’t agree with the former US
vice-president’s assertions.
The current energy crisis,
exacerbated by Russian aggression
in Ukraine, now gives us the days of
Unpalatable Reality and
Uncomfortable Choices.
The unpalatable reality is that
soaring oil and gas prices are
fuelling the Russian military
machine. As the world’s third-
largest producer of oil and second-
largest producer of gas, energy
revenues traditionally make up
more than a third of the Kremlin’s
income. They account for even
more now that energy prices have
doubled or trebled, depending on
your starting point, and are on the
way to quadrupling and way more.
The West has executed financial
sanctions against the Russian
banking system. Supplies of Russian
oil and gas have yet to be affected.
Yet simply talk of secondary
sanctions on oil and gas has
unleashed the fear premium
responsible for the historically high
prices that will be with us for some
time. What is pretty much agreed is
that actual sanctions will cause
prices to climb even higher.
So we know sanctions on Russia
will hurt western economies. Now
politicians have decided that is the
right reaction, they will need policy
responses. Six million UK homes,
one-fifth of its households, will
teeter into heat-or-eat fuel poverty
— and if domestic energy bills head
towards £3,000 a year, it will be a
case of neither heating nor eating.
Energy-intensive industries —
cement works, steel mills, chemical
plants — will either pass on the
increased costs, further fuelling
cost-of-living inflation, or face
financial ruin. It has the look of tens
of billions of pounds of Covid-style
Treasury support all over again.
Those are the uncomfortable
choices. Because there is no
alternative. We have no strategic gas
storage, and turning on other
energy sources is not an option in
the short term either because more
nuclear plants, wind farms, solar
arrays and UK gas facilities, along
with rebuilt coal-fired generation,
are long-term projects.
As one of a panel of scientists and
economists told the House of
Commons business, energy and
industrial strategy select committee
yesterday, the energy agenda has
changed for ever. The question now
is not how we get to net zero while
keeping energy prices low, but how
we lower costs to get to net zero
faster.
The long-term energy policy
response to the craziness in the
Kremlin has to be to stabilise the
reliability and cost of our supply —
in short, (re)create energy
sovereignty. We — the UK and the
European energy system that,
despite Brexit, we remain part of —
have to wean ourselves off Russian
supply. That means, in this breezy
corner of northwest Europe,
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Business
doubling down on investment in
renewables and shoring up our
nuclear capabilities.
We don’t know whether we are at
the beginning of an elongated
European military struggle, but we
do know we are already in a full-
blown energy crisis.
While the biggest or canniest
energy companies got us through
last winter buying on the market at
the low prices of spring 2021, next
winter’s bills are determined by
what prices are being paid now.
That will cause huge stresses on
consumer bills and domestic
suppliers’ trading positions alike.
Inconvenient, unpalatable,
uncomfortable. All of the above.
Fracking finished
I
t would be trite — though wholly
accurate — to at least partly
blame the UK energy crisis on
decades of our own policy mis-steps.
But at least it puts the fracking
debate to bed once and for all.
Even if we wanted to grant
permits to start drilling for these
inaccessible deposits tomorrow —
which we can’t — it would take
years to get into production, long
after the current crisis has passed. It
is not the solution for a number of
other reasons. The complexity of
the geology means neither fast nor
cheap supply is an option. The scale
and quality of the gas is, too, highly
questionable — 50 years, say some,
or none if you use any acceptable
definition of proven reserves.
Ownership and planning
implications have thus far proved
insurmountable. And we are a small
island with a proudly stroppy
populace. Call it nimbyism if you
will, but no one wants a fracking
entrepreneur on their bit of green
and pleasant land.
Oh, and if we did start fracking,
any notion that Britain could show
its face in the climate change
debate, let alone lead it, would be
gone for ever.
Keller keeps it up
B
ack in the real world of doing
business on a daily basis, one
of our mostly unremarkable
mid-caps has navigated all known
crises to post its 27th consecutive
year of increased, or at least
maintained, dividends. Developers
and big construction companies
may get all the kudos on serious
infrastructure jobs, but someone has
to lay the groundwork. That’s what
Keller does, though it prefers to call
itself a geo-technical contractor. Its
current big jobs include making sure
the HS2 high-speed rail line runs
true, and that the Britishvolt
gigafactory doesn’t slide into the
nearby North Sea. It has rebuilt its
Covid-depleted order book and the
City reckons it will raise profits by
20 per cent this year.
Investors may be wary of the geo-
physics of the construction industry;
Keller’s commitment to the dividend
means the stock is now yielding
more than 5 per cent.
robert.lea@thetimes.co.uk
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Business
Berlin faces tough call on Russian gas
Germany’s dependence
on energy supplies from
Moscow has become
critical in wartime,
Oliver Moody writes
In a network of caverns more than a
mile beneath the northwest German
village of Rehden, the last dregs are
now being sucked out of Europe’s larg-
est natural gas storage facility.
It is an ominous time to run out of gas
reserves. Overnight, Russia threatened
to shut down the Nord Stream 1 pipe-
lines, of Germany’s most important
sources of the fuel, and warned that oil
prices could rise to $300 a barrel, more
than double their current level.
At the same time, Germany is under
pressure from the US, Ukraine and
some of its European allies to sign up to
an energy embargo on Russia that
would, at the very least, cut off the flow
of oil, if not gas and coal as well.
This is precisely the scenario the
German government had hoped to
avoid. Only a few months ago it was
considered downright rude in Berlin
even to suggest that Germany was pre-
cariously hooked on Russian hydrocar-
bons, let alone that this dependence
was a strategic problem.
Yet it is now patently clear that this
vulnerability is one of Europe’s Achilles
heels. Germany gets about a quarter of
all its energy from Russia: 55 per cent of
its gas, 45 per cent of its coal and a little
more than 35 per cent of its oil.
It is often suggested that this is sim-
ply a question of ripping off the plaster
and putting up with a bit of economic
pain for the greater good of the West.
“Better a cold shower than Putin’s
gas,” as one placard held up at a
recent protest in Berlin put it.
It could be considerably rough-
er than that, though. Germans
already have to cope with the
highest electricity bills in
Europe: last year a kilo-
watt-hour typically
cost three times as
much in Germany as
in Hungary. The
German govern-
ment does not
measure fuel
poverty but it
is likely that
hundreds of
Shell cuts energy links with Moscow Commodities boom to hit
Emily Gosden Energy Editor
Shell has apologised for buying Russian
oil last week and said it intends to end
all involvement with oil and gas in the
country, including shutting its 500 pet-
rol stations there.
The London-listed energy giant
sparked a backlash when it bought a
heavily discounted cargo of Russian oil
on Friday, days after it condemned the
invasion of Ukraine and vowed to exit
joint ventures with Gazprom, the
Kremlin-backed gas company.
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign
minister, tweeted on Saturday:
“Doesn’t Russian oil smell [like]
Ukrainian blood for you?”
Ben van Beurden, Shell’s chief execu-
tive, said: “We are acutely aware that
our decision last week to purchase a
cargo of Russian crude oil — despite
being made with security of supplies at
the forefront of our thinking — was not
the right one and we are sorry.”
Shell said it now intended to “with-
draw from its involvement in all Rus-
Germany gets about 55 per cent of its gas from Russia but protesters do not want the sale of gas to fund the war in Ukraine
thousands more households could be
driven into serious financial difficulties.
Some analysts believe that a sus-
tained shock to the Russian gas supply
would not only send heating and power
costs even higher but also
tip the grid into
rolling blackouts
over the next winter
as the country’s last
three nuclear reactors,
which still supply about
10 per cent of its electri-
city, are taken offline.
The German energy reg-
ulator itself has estimated that the
country could be up to 6.4 GW –
roughly equivalent to the output of
six atomic power stations – short of
a secure electricity supply by the
end of the year.
It does not help that the Rehden
sian hydrocarbons, including crude oil,
petroleum products, gas and liquefied
natural gas (LNG) in a phased manner”.
Kuleba welcomed Shell’s “moral and
responsible step” and encouraged
“other world businesses to follow suit”.
Shell operates about 500 service sta-
tions in Russia, and also has an aviation
fuels and lubricants business there. The
500
Number of Shell petrol station in Russia
Source: Shell
process of shutting these would begin
immediately, Van Beurden, 63, said.
Unless instructed otherwise by gov-
ernments, Shell would immediately
stop buying Russian crude oil on the
spot market and would not renew con-
tracts, it said.
It would change its “crude oil supply
chain to remove Russian volumes” as
quickly as possible but said that “the
Existing Russian
gas pipelines
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300 miles
physical location and availability of al-
ternatives mean this could take weeks
to complete and will lead to reduced
throughput at some of our refineries”.
Last week, Shell said that it would ex-
it its joint ventures with Gazprom and
deplored Russia’s “senseless act of mili-
tary aggression” in Ukraine.
However, it initially defended Fri-
day’s decision to keep buying crude oil
from Russia, saying that there was a
lack of alternatives to supply its refiner-
ies and chemicals plants. It has vowed
that any profits it makes from the coun-
try’s oil will go into a fund to help the
people of Ukraine.
BP last week committed to exit its
20 per cent stake in Rosneft, the Krem-
lin oil group, but still has substantial
trading arrangements with the com-
pany, which supplies it with fuel.
A BP spokesman said it had stopped
spot trading or new contracts for Rus-
sian oil and gas, and was reviewing its
“contractual commitments” and “seek-
ing guidance from governments to help
ensure ongoing security of supply”.
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global growth, says miner
Tom Howard
The boss of the world’s biggest mining
company has warned that the boom in
commodity prices following Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine will put a dent in
global growth for the next year or so.
Mike Henry, the chief executive of
BHP, the Australian giant, told a con-
ference in Sydney that his company
had seen prices of its iron ore, uranium,
copper and nickel soar in recent weeks.
The surge in selling prices has helped
BHP to avoid the wider stock market
malaise, with its shares up nearly 17 per
cent since the start of this year.
However, Henry, 56, said that higher
prices, although a boon for now, would
come to weigh on global economic
growth, offsetting some of the pricing
boost BHP has enjoyed of late.
“We have seen hundreds of percent-
age increases of prices on a range of
commodities,” Henry said. “That is
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storage facility has been owned by a
subsidiary of Gazprom, the Russian
state-owned energy conglomerate,
since 2015.
Germany is also short on alterna-
tives. Giving the nuclear reactors a stay
of execution at such short notice would
be expensive and technically fraught,
not least because each would require a
fresh supply of customised fuel rods,
which take months to manufacture.
Replacing Russian pipeline gas with
liquefied natural gas is also tricky
because Germany has no LNG termi-
nals and even a temporary floating
facility could take 18 months to set up.
In the long run, the government is
counting on a vast and ambitious shift
to renewables but this too will happen
over years rather than months, particu-
larly as the German wind and solar
industries have contracted massively
over the past half-decade.
Then there are petrol prices, an awk-
ward political issue in most countries
but especially so in Germany.
Nine months ago a proposal to levy a
mere extra €0.02 of tax per litre played
a significant role in derailing the Green
party’s Bundestag election campaign.
Since then the cost of a litre of un-
leaded has leapt by €0.50 and is pushing
a record €2. Some politicians have be-
gun urging the government to impose a
price cap before things get out of hand.
This is why Olaf Scholz, the chancel-
lor, says that energy imports from
Russia are of “essential importance” to
his country, which he argued could not
realistically get by without them.
Even Robert Habeck, the Green
economics and energy minister, who
would dearly like to get shot of Russian
oil and gas as soon as prudently
possible, has bowed to necessity: “We
need these energy imports to maintain
price stability and energy security in
Germany.”
Yet there are many of their compatri-
ots who feel that this is, nevertheless, a
price worth paying for the sake of
Ukraine and Europe. “Just you tell the
Kharkiv families hiding in their base-
ments how furious a petrol price of
more than €2 makes you,” Jan Böhmer-
mann, one of Germany’s most promi-
nent satirists, said.
Russia’s latest threats also suggest
that Berlin could end up getting pushed
down this path whether it likes it or not,
should Moscow start turning the taps
off or should the diplomatic pressure
for an energy embargo become too
overwhelming for Germany to resist.
going to have spill-over economic im-
pacts on inflation, so we are forecasting
about 0.5 per cent lower global growth
over the course of the next year than we
were previously anticipating.”
BHP traces its roots back to 1851. It
was a FTSE 100 member until January,
when its main listing moved to Sydney.
Worries over supply have stoked the
price of nearly every major commodity
since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia,
which is one of the world’s biggest pro-
ducers of raw materials.
Economists see little sign of inflation
slowing any time soon. Forecourt pet-
rol prices are at record highs, electricity
bills are set to increase sharply and
corn, wheat and soybean — key ingre-
dients in many foods — are on the rise.
Inflation has seen analysts cutting
their forecasts for retailers in recent
days, with Richard Chamberlain, a
retail specialist at RBC, singling out Pri-
mark, Marks & Spencer and B&Q.
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David Smith
We’ll reduce our demand for energy,
‘‘
but it may have to be the hard way
Driving back home
along a motorway at
the weekend, I was
conscious of going a
little slower than
usual. No, I was not the person
pootling along at 40mph in the
outside lane of the M20 but I
definitely eased off, having been
shocked into a bit of energy
conservation by the eyewatering
petrol prices I had driven past. Not
the ones on the motorway — they are
always eyewatering — but those on
the way to it.
This set me thinking. There is more
of this to come, the oil price having
nudged $140 a barrel this week before
falling back. I cannot even look at the
wholesale price of gas except from
behind the sofa, so precipitous has
been its rise.
For most things, higher prices mean
lower demand, one of the basic laws
of economics. For economists,
however, the lower demand that
results from higher energy prices can
be expected to arise mainly, not from
decisions by individuals and
companies to use less, but because of
lower economic growth. I am not
ready to call a recession, which in the
past has been a standard response to
a sharp rise in energy prices, though
some economists are starting to flirt
with the R-word.
A rise in energy prices is the
equivalent of a tax, and that tax looks
rather large, and it slows economic
growth. It is paid by us, not to the
Exchequer, but as a transfer from
oil-consuming countries such as the
UK to the producers, including
Vladimir Putin’s Russia, at least until
the West has learnt to do without its
oil and gas.
What about those individual
decisions? Do we not respond to
higher prices by cutting
consumption? After all,l, these
are massive increases. The
low point for petrol
prices was in May
2020, the first
coronavirus
lockdown, when the
average price for a
litre of unleaded
dropped below £1.05,
and in some places
below £1. A typical
Petrol prices have hit as
much as £1.61 a litre, a
rise close to 50 per cent
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price now of £1.55 a litre, higher in
many places, represents a rise of close
to 50 per cent. Should not that make
us use the car less, or ease off on the
accelerator when we do so?
In the home, the widely touted one
degree centigrade lowering of the
thermostat looks like the minimum
response to the 54 per cent increase
in the energy price cap which is due
to take effect next month. Some
people, of course, do not have the
luxury of such fine-tuning. For them,
with food prices soaring — and
probably set to soar some more with
the loss of Russian and Ukrainian
supplies — the choice is between
heating and eating. The Office for
National Statistics noted in a report
last month that rising energy prices
hit poorer households hardest
because they spent a higher
proportion of their income on fuel.
The most famous example of a
forced consumption response to an
energy price shock was in America
after the first Opec (Organisation of
the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
oil crisis in 1973-4. A nationwide
55mph speed limit was imposed by
the federal government. Its effect on
fuel consumption was tiny, however,
less than 1 per cent, not least because
the law was both unpopular and
widely flouted. It may also have had
something to do with the fact that,
because US petrol (gasoline) prices
were so low, even after Opec, the
price signals were weak. It also took a
while for Americans to wean
themselves off gas-guzzling cars. Even
today, US gasoline prices, at $1.04 a
litre, the equivalent of 79p, are well
below those in Europe.
Has there been a demand response
to high prices in the UK? If we look at
official transport statistics, car use in
the second half of last month
averaged 90 per cent of
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103 per cent.
As for the UK’s overall energy
consumption, the latest figures,
covering the final three months of last
year, show that on a seasonally and
temperature-adjusted basis, energy
consumption was running at about
7.5 per cent below pre-coronavirus
2019 levels. Though energy use rose
last year, it has yet to get back to
where it was. A big reason for this was
the drop in petroleum use, not so
much for domestic use, but for air
travel, because of coronavirus
restrictions.
It takes time, except in special
circumstances like these to reduce
energy use, even in response to a big
rise in prices. For some in energy-
intensive industries it is an all-or-
nothing choice. If the cost burden is
too onerous they may have no choice
but to shut down production, if only
temporarily.
For homeowners, the game changer
would be to properly insulate our
draughty housing stock, which is
among the least energy-efficient in
Europe. There was once a lot of talk
about a co-ordinated campaign to do
this but, like many other things, it has
gone quiet.
When it comes to transport, the
pandemic has seen a relative shift
away from public transport — trains,
the Tube and buses — to private
transport. All forms of public
transport are further below pre-
pandemic levels than cars and
commercial vehicles. Thus, the way
we get around has become less
energy efficient. Many of the
potential gains from more efficient
engines have been lost because of
people’s preferences for large SUVs.
They are not quite the American gas
guzzlers of the 1970s, but they are not
so different either.
What this adds up to is that, while
there will be a demand response to
’’
higher energy prices from individuals
and firms, the bigger effect will be a
nastier one. The energy price shock
will reduce use in a more painful way,
through slower economic growth. We
had taken the Covid
recovery for granted
but it is now
running up against
the energy buffers.
David Smith is Economics Editor
of The Sunday Times
david.smith@sunday-times.co.uk
Comment Business
Ian King
Tech giants could go
further against Putin
and turn off software
W
hile the world’s
multinationals have
largely done well in
exiting their
investments in
Russia, or closing their operations
there, there have been exceptions.
PepsiCo has been publicly urged
by the head of New York’s state
pension fund to cease trading in
Russia. TotalEnergies, the French oil
and gas giant, has to date declined
to exit its Russian investments in the
way its fellow supermajors, BP, Shell
and ExxonMobil, have.
McDonald’s and Pepsico halted
their operations in Russia last night,
but only after they had been publicly
urged to do so by the head of New
York’s state pension fund to cease
trading with the country. They join
other western consumer goods
companies such as Nike and Ikea.
The tech giants have won praise
for their speed in leaving Russia.
Apple, Microsoft and Samsung have
all stopped selling products and
services in the country; Google has
suspended its advertising, including
on YouTube, in Russia; while
Facebook and TikTok both blocked
access in the EU to the country’s
media outlets such as Russia Today
and Sputnik, both of which have
also been removed from Apple’s App
Store. On Monday, Netflix joined
the boycott as it suspended its
Russian service.
Yet there is a case for saying the
tech giants could go even further.
Take Google. Both its search facility
and Google Maps remain available
in Russia, as does its app store,
Google Play. It could still be doing
much more in terms of intensifying
sanctions. At a time when Russian
soldiers are firing on Ukrainian
civilians, it seems perverse that
Russian gamers are still being
enabled by western tech companies
to fire virtual weapons in the
metaverse.
Another company that could do
more is Amazon, which has no
direct operations in Ukraine but has
been using its logistical muscle to
support humanitarian groups
helping Ukrainian refugees.
However, it is yet to stop Russian
customers from using AWS, its
formidable cloud computing service,
despite being urged to do so on
Twitter by Mykhailo Fedorov,
Ukraine’s vice-prime minister and
minister of digital transformation.
37
Microsoft has been praised for
helping to bolster Ukraine’s
cybersecurity against Russian
attacks — but it could be doing
more. It may no longer be selling
new products and services in Russia,
but those services still remain very
much available to existing
customers there. If software vendors
such as Microsoft cancelled their
licences in Russia, it would have a
huge impact.
As one London-based investor
who follows the sector closely puts
it: “Just imagine Microsoft turning
off all corporate licences. Or all SAP
and Adobe installations not loading.
Or no Apple or Android phones
working. Software runs the world.”
The move would not be without
unwanted side-effects. There would
be a danger that some hospitals, for
example, might be hit. The West
would also not want to risk its news
channels failing to reach those
Russians anxious to receive bulletins
offering an alternative view of the
world from the ones controlled by
Vladimir Putin.
But there can be no real
justification, in the current
circumstances, for platforms such as
the App Store or Google Play to
continue selling entertainment
services in Russia.
Moreover, in a world in which
sanctions against Russia can be
applied with precision and on a
sector-by-sector basis, it ought
surely be possible for software
vendors to hurt Putin’s ability to
wage war without harming Russian
hospital patients.
Such measures would go only so
far. Russia’s huge military
expenditure in recent years has
included replacing old Soviet-era
systems, and this will have been
done using the country’s own
renowned programmers rather than
software devised elsewhere.
Acting now, though, would also
give tech companies the ability to
get ahead of events before being
obliged to act by their governments.
As the investor notes: “These
companies should think very
carefully, before prohibitions are
put in place, about what they are
allowing their software to be
used for.”
Ian King is business presenter for Sky
News. Ian King Live is broadcast at
6.30pm from Monday to Thursday
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Google has announced plans to buy a
US cybersecurity group for $5.4 billion
(£4.1 billion), its second-largest acquisi-
tion ever, in an attempt to bolster its
cloud-computing business amid rapid-
ly growing demand.
The technology giant agreed terms
with Mandiant, which helps companies
both preparing for and responding to
cyberattacks, for an all-cash takeover.
The move comes as Google’s cloud
arm vies with its bigger rivals, owned by
Amazon and Microsoft, to dominate
the market for online services. Execu-
tives at Google hope that Mandiant will
boost its cybersecurity offering amid
rising corporate concern over attacks.
Mandiant, founded in 2004, is based
in Virginia. It has 2,300 employees and
became a standalone company again
last year when FireEye, which bought it
in 2013, sold its security products busi-
ness for $1.2 billion to a consortium.
Google is paying $23 a share for the
Nasdaq-listed business, higher than the
$22.49 at which the shares closed on
Monday, having jumped 16 per cent
after technology news site The Infor-
mation first reported the talks.
Based in California, the Alphabet-
owned Google has a market value of al-
most $1.7 trillion. Its cloud division has
capitalised on the sharp rise in demand
for online services, with the pandemic
prompting many companies to
strengthen their digital infrastructure.
Google Cloud’s revenue rose by about
45 per cent to $5.5 billion last year.
Google’s purchase, which is subject
to approval from regulators and share-
holders in Mandiant, would be its larg-
est since its $12.5 billion acquisition of
Motorola, the phone handset maker, a
decade ago. It sold the business to Len-
ovo for $2.9 billion two years later.
Lego builds sales 27% on
back of new stores in China
Ashley Armstrong
Lego sales jumped by more than a quar-
ter last year as the toymaker was
buoyed by new store openings in China
and the introduction of an adult-target-
ed range of intricate brick models.
The Danish family-owned business
confirmed yesterday that it had sus-
pended all supplies to Russia “given the
extensive disruption to the operating
environment” and would not ship any
more toys to the 81 independently-
owned stores that stock its products.
It has also donated 110 million Dan-
ish kroner (£12.2 million) to emergency
relief efforts with a focus on providing
support to children and families.
The company reported that sales last
year grew by 27 per cent to 55.3 billion
Danish kroner, outpacing the rest of the
toy industry, while net profits also rose
by 34 per cent from 9.9 billion Danish
kroner to 12.9 billion.
Wednesday March 9 2022 | the times
Shares in Mandiant fell 2.5 per cent to
$21.90 during early trading in New York
yesterday. Shares in Alphabet rose
1.75 per cent to $2,572.
Mandiant said the $23 offer amount-
ed to a 57 per cent premium to an “un-
disturbed” ten-day average share price,
before “market speculation” over a
potential sale was published last month.
Microsoft, which has forecast that it
will spend about $20 billion on cyber-
security over the next five years, was re-
portedly considering a bid, too.
Thomas Kurian, chief executive of
Google Cloud, said Mandiant would
“further enhance our security opera-
tions suite and advisory services” and
help customers “address their most im-
portant security challenges”.
“Organisations around the world are
facing unprecedented cybersecurity
challenges,” Kurian added, “as the so-
phistication and severity of attacks that
were previously used to target major
governments are now being used to tar-
get companies in every industry.”
Kevin Mandia, chief executive of
Mandiant, said there had “never been a
more critical time” in cybersecurity.
“We are thrilled to be joining forces
with Google Cloud . . . we will deliver
expertise and intelligence at scale.”
Analysts believe Google’s purchase
will prompt other leading players in
cloud computing to respond in kind.
Daniel Ives, at Wedbush Securities,
said: “With cyberattacks increasing by
the day and cyberwarfare under way
from Russia/state-sponsored cyber-
terrorism organisations, Google is dou-
bling down on its cybersecurity foot-
print at the right time with Mandiant
and looking to differentiate itself . . . in
the cloud arms race.” The deal would
have a “ ripple impact”, Ives predicted,
as Amazon and Microsoft will be “pres-
sured” into mergers or acquisitions to
bulk up their platforms.
The business said its best-selling
products included the Harry Potter and
Star Wars ranges as well as its new Cre-
ator Expert kits, whose challenging de-
signs such as flower bouquets and a rep-
lica of the Old Trafford football sta-
dium are aimed at adults.
During the year Lego opened 165
shops, more than 90 of them in China,
for a total of 832 stores worldwide.
The company’s Lego Foundation,
which owns 25 per cent of the Lego
Group, has pledged 2.8 billion danish
kroner in donations to children and
families in crisis.
Niels B Christiansen, chief execu-
tive, said: “2022 marks the 90th anni-
versary of the Lego Group. We are
pleased that in this milestone year our
strong financial foundations allow us
to make such significant investments
in building a business that will inspire
and develop future builders for many
generations to come.”
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Business
NATIONWIDE

Nationwide celebrated
its employee of the
year, Lydia Parmenter,
for International
Women’s Day
Bot calls out firms
over gender pay gap
Other British
organisations mentioned
are travel group Tui UK,
with a gap of 41.7 per
cent; the government
agency Innovate UK,
with a pay gap of 36 per
cent; Barclays Bank with
34.5 per cent; and Capita
at 33.2 per cent.
Some companies
outed by the bot use
female empowerment in
their marketing, such as
the fashion retailer
Missguided, which pays
women 40 per cent less
than men. HM Revenue
& Customs, the
Department for
Environment and the
House of Lords – with
pay gaps of 8.8, 6.8 and
5.1 per cent – were also
exposed by the bot,
whose data caused many
organisations, such as

B
ritish
companies
posting
messages for
International
Women’s Day are having
their gender pay gaps
exposed by a Twitter
bot, leading some to
delete their posts (Poppy
Koronka writes).
Firms, universities and
government
departments have been
called out by the Gender Innovate UK, HMRC
Pay Gap Bot, which and Exeter University, to
states in its Twitter delete their initial posts
biography: “Employers, — with many reposting
if you tweet about later in the day.
International Women’s The account was
Day, I’ll retweet your International Women’s offenders include c
created last year by
gender pay gap.” Day hashtags, the bot Young’s pubs and s
social media
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manager Francesca
on the account reads: with its median gender women are paid a L
Lawson and software
“Deeds not words. Stop pay gap, which is median of 73.2 and d
developer Ali
posting platitudes.” calculated using openly 68.6 per cent less F
Fensome. The Times
When a firm posts a available data from the than men, h contacted the
has
tweet that contains any government. The worst respectively. a
account for comment.

Greggs to increase price of sausage Apple unveils

rolls despite record sales of £1.23bn
Ashley Armstrong Retail Editor
Greggs has warned that inflationary
pressures will make its sausage rolls
more expensive and curtail profits this
year, even as the bakery chain toasted
record results.
Roger Whiteside, 63, the bakery
chain’s retiring chief executive, said it
would be “irresponsible to provide a
guarantee that there won’t be further
price increases”, because the industry is
facing “inflation across the board”. He
added that as a result of the pressures,
“we do not currently expect material
profit progression in the year ahead.”
Shares in Greggs initially dropped by
10 per cent yesterday on the back of the
warning, but picked up to be down just
77p, or 3.4 per cent, at £22.06, as ana-
lysts highlighted the strength of the
company and its growth expectations.
The company, based in Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, had said before the
Ukraine crisis that it expected price in-
flation to be about 5 per cent due to
higher labour, energy and ingredient
costs. But the impact of soaring soft-
commodity costs means it now sees in-
flation running at 6 to 7 per cent.
Greggs said cost pressures had
already “necessitated some price in-
creases” at the start of the year, “and
further increases are expected to be
necessary”. The price of a Greggs sau-
sage roll climbed by 5p last year to £1.05,
while other items rose by 10p, prompt-
ing outrage from
some customers.
Whiteside
said that Greggs
wouldn’t jeopar-
dise its position as a
low-priced food retailer, so
its price increases would
depend on the competitive
landscape.
Despite the inflationary
pressures, Greggs has confirmed its
plan to grow its shop estate from 2,181 to
at least 3,000 shops by opening 150
shops a year. It recently opened sites in
Canary Wharf and King’s Cross in
London and several “drive thru” sites as
it focuses on city locations where rents
have fallen during the pandemic.
The update came as Greggs reported
the biggest sales and profits in its 71-
year-history. Sales rose to £1.23 billion
in the year to January, 51 per cent higher
than last year when it was disrupted by
lockdowns and lower footfall, and a
5.3 per cent increase
compared to pre-
pandemic levels
in 2019.
Whiteside said
the sales perform-
ance had been achieved
despite “unpredictable sup-
ply shortages [becoming] a daily
feature of our operations”.
Annual pre-tax profits increased to
£145.6 million, compared to the
£13.7 million loss incurred last year, and
were still higher than the £108.3 million
recorded in 2019 before the coronavirus
crisis. As a result of the profit recovery,
Greggs is handing a £16.6 million award
to its employees and a 40p-a-share spe-
cial dividend to investors on top of a
42p-a-share final dividend.
“In my long retail career, I have never
experienced such high levels of pro-
longed disruption to operations, and we
owe our success last year to the com-
mitment and willingness of our teams
to work around these problems,”
Whiteside said. The chief executive,
who has overseen a sevenfold increase
in Greggs’ share price during his nine-
year tenure, will step down in May and
hand over to Roisin Currie, 50, it retail
and property director. The company
has identified international expansion
as its next area of growth.
new budget
5G iPhone
Callum Jones
Apple has unveiled a lower-cost iPhone
with 5G mobile connectivity and an-
nounced plans to start broadcasting
live sport as it focuses ever more on
selling services as well as products.
The world’s largest public company,
which typically relies on its smart-
phone for half of its revenue, outlined a
new version of its cheaper iPhone SE at
a virtual event yesterday.
The device, targeted at consumers on
a budget, comes with 5G connectivity,
as well as a faster processor and better
camera than its predecessor. Priced at
£419 and hitting shelves next week,
bullish analysts believe the new SE will
boost Apple’s iPhone sales.
The company also announced a new
version of its iPad tablet and the Mac
Studio, a high-performance computer
for musicians and filmmakers.
Apple, based in Cupertino, Califor-
nia, has a market value of about
$2.6 trillion. It makes phones, tablets

Supply issues and listing push Made.com to a loss
Ashley Armstrong
Losses at Made.com have doubled in
the past year as the business counted
costs associated with its recent London
listing and global supply chain issues.
Made.com reported a £31.4 million
loss before tax for the year to end of De-
cember compared with a £14.6 million
loss the year before. It also made a big-
ger £14.3 million loss at an adjusted
earnings level compared with £5.1 mil-
lion a year earlier. Revenues, however,
had grown by 51 per cent to £371.9 mil-
lion during the period.
Its losses were impacted by £5.3 mil-
lion of costs associated to its £775 mil-
lion initial public offering last June.
Since floating, its shares have lost two-
thirds of their value, although they
gained 5½p, or 7.8 per cent. to close at
77p yesterday as analysts believed the
business was turning a corner and had
gained market share in the past year.
Made.com issued a profit warning in
December after logjams at ports de-
layed £45 million of orders. Shipping
costs have risen tenfold since the start
of the pandemic but are beginning to
ease as flow of goods normalises.
The business said that it has since
worked with its suppliers and invested
in expanding its logistics and ware-
housing so it had more stock available
and could address customer com-
plaints about a lengthy wait for goods
by shortening lead times to three to
four weeks.
The company also confirmed that
Nicola Thompson, who had been chief
operating officer, had been named chief
executive after Philippe Chainieux
abruptly resigned for family reasons.
Made.com was founded in Shore-
ditch, east London, in 2010 by Ning Li
and Chloe Macintosh and was backed
by Brent Hoberman, the founder of
Lastminute.com. It works directly with
designers to keep the price of velvet
sofas and trendy millennial furniture
lower than high street rivals.
Made.com has been buoyed at the
topline by a homewares spending boom
during the pandemic as people used the
cash they have saved from not com-
muting or going on holiday on improv-
ing their living areas. However, the
company said that “following the soft-
ness of consumer demand so far in
2022, we are no longer anticipating any
tailwind from the market”.
As a result it reckoned growth would
halve to between 25 and 35 per cent
with revenues of about £465 million
and £500 million, but its bottom line
will improve and it is targeting positive
earnings of between £5 million and
£15 million. The company said that its
ambition to grow to £1.25 billion of sales
by 2025 remained unchanged as it be-
lieved more of the market would
continue to shift online.
and computers, and provides services,
such as its television and music stream-
ing platforms.
Apple TV+ will start showing Amer-
ican baseball fixtures as part of a deal
with Major League Baseball. Its foray
into sport broadcasting comes as Apple
mulls how to attract subscribers to its
television service. Viewers in countries
including America, Britain and Japan
will be able to watch Friday night MLB
games when the new season starts.
Peter Stern, Apple’s vice-president of
services, said: “Just like all baseball fans,
we can’t wait for the season to open.
Baseball has a special place in the heart
of so many Apple customers — not just
in the United States, but in many coun-
tries around the world.”
Shares in Apple were broadly flat last
night — down 0.1 per cent at $159.13 —
after its event.
40
Business
M&G success triggers share buyback
Alex Ralph
A £500 million share buyback is to be
launched by M&G after the investment
group hit several targets set as part of its
separation from Prudential in 2019.
John Foley, chief executive, said it
had achieved its target of total capital
generation of £2.8 billion over two
years, ahead of a commitment of
£2.2 billion by the end of this year.
“Together with dividends paid, we
will have returned £1.8 billion of capital
to shareholders, equivalent to 32 per
cent of M&G’s market value at demer-
ger,” Foley, 65, said.
He added that M&G had also
achieved its annual shareholder cost
savings target of £145 million one year
ahead of schedule. It declared a second
interim dividend of 12.2p a share, mean-
ing it will have returned 52p a share in
dividends since 2019.
M&G’s full-year results showed that
assets under management and admin-
istration had increased 0.8 per cent
year-on-year to £370 billion, slightly
above the forecast £363 billion. Net in-
flows of £2 billion compared with net
outflows of £6.8 billion a year earlier.
The news lifted its shares 24½p, or
14 per cent, to 202¾p, making M&G one
of the largest risers on the FTSE 100
yesterday.
Foley said M&G had 0.1 per cent of its
assets under management exposed to
Russia. These have been marked al-
most to zero, will be divested and there
are no plans to buy more. “Russia is an
uninvestable market,” he said.
M&G joins a number of asset manag-
ers who plan to sell what Russian assets
they hold. However, efforts by investors
to cut positions have been complicated
by a Russian ban on local brokers from
selling securities held by foreigners.
Ministers have urged asset managers
to pressure London-listed companies
to sever ties with Russia. Rishi Sunak,
the chancellor, and John Glen, the City
minister, met executives on Friday to
demand a more robust approach to-
wards their own remaining holdings in
Russia, Sky News reported yesterday.
AustralianSuper
dips its toe into
Canada Water
O
ne of Australia’s biggest
pension funds is to pay
£290 million for 50 per
cent of a key London
regeneration project
(Tom Howard writes).
AustralianSuper, which looks
after more than £140 billion of its
KPMG fined £875,000 for
Revolution audit failings
Louisa Clarence-Smith
KPMG has been hit with another fine
from the accountancy regulator for fail-
ings in its audit division.
The accountancy giant has been se-
verely reprimanded by the Financial
Reporting Council and levied with a
£875,000 fine for breaching standards
in its audits of Revolution Bars, the
cocktail bar and restaurant group.
Mistakes by KPMG auditors working
on Revolution’s accounts for the 2015
and 2016 financial years meant the au-
dits “failed to achieve their principle ob-
jective of providing reasonable assur-
ance that the financial statements were
free from material misstatement,” the
watchdog said. Multiple misstatements
later had to be corrected.
Some of the errors made by KPMG
related to their treatment of supplier
rebates and listing fees, share-based
payments and deferred taxation.
The errors relating to supplier re-
bates and listing fees were made despite
the regulator warning in 2014 and 2015
that such complex arrangements were
particularly risky and would be a focus
of its annual spot check of audit quality.
Mick Frankish, 47, a former senior
auditor at KPMG who led the firm’s au-
dit work for Revolution during the
Wednesday March 9 2022 | the times
members’ money, has bought half
of the 53-acre Canada Water
Masterplan project between
London Bridge and Canary Wharf
from British Land, the FTSE 100
property company.
The deal values British Land’s
stake prior to the sale at
£580 million, whereas the company
had it down as being worth only
£474 million in its latest accounts.
British Land and AustralianSuper
have already committed to
spending £201 million to build out
the first phase of the scheme, which
period, has been fined £35,000 and also
received a severe reprimand. Frankish
now works at Grant Thornton.
The FRC told KPMG and Frankish to
analyse the “underlying causes” of their
role in breaching standards, identify
and implement any necessary remedial
measures and report back.
This year, KPMG was fined £4.3 mil-
lion and given a “severe reprimand” for
audit work on Conviviality, the drinks
group that collapsed in 2018. Last year,
it was fined £13 million for its work on
the 2011 sale of Silentnight, the mat-
tress maker. It is also being investigated
over its work on Carillion, the collapsed
outsourcer, Rolls-Royce and Eddie Sto-
bart Logistics.
Revolution, which has 67 venues, list-
ed in March 2015 at 200p a share. The
stock has since fallen by nearly 90 per
cent to a little over 18p.
Jamie Symington, deputy executive
counsel to the FRC, said: “The audit
client was a newly listed and relatively
small company, but the breaches were
nevertheless serious, including lack of
professional scepticism.”
In a statement, KPMG said it regrets
that aspects of its Revolution audits
“fell short of required standards”.
Frankish and Grant Thornton de-
clined to comment.
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Business

End of ‘great resignation’ in sight

as recovery slows, says bank boss
JJames Hurley, Callum Jones
A slowing economic recovery could
spell the end of the “great resignation”,
according to one of Wall Street’s top
bankers.
James Gorman, chairman and chief
executive of Morgan Stanley, predicted
that the high rate of job-switching seen
in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic
could soon slow.
“At the end of the day, people have to
work somewhere,” Gorman told a busi-
ness conference in Australia. “I think if
the economy turns down a little bit,
you’ll see much less job mobility than
we’ve seen in the last 12 months.”
The “great resignation” is the term
that describes the trend for people to
reassess their working lives following
the Covid crisis. About one in five
Americans is believed to have either
changed jobs recently or dropped out of
the market entirely. More than 24 mil-
lion US workers quit their jobs between
April and September last year.
There is a similar trend in Britain,
with economic inactivity — people
ooking for
who are not in work and not looking
it — up by more than 400,000,0, while
in the third quarter of 2021 21 a
record 400,000 ons
Britons
switched jobs.
A survey of mid-sized UK K
businesses by Grant Thorn-
ton published this month
found that two-thirds of
them were experiencing
more people leaving than
normal. Half those surveyed
were struggling to recruit
people to replace the talentt
being lost or for new roles to
support their growth.
clud-
Other wealthy nations includ-
ing Japan and Germany have report-
ed similar trends.
However, Gorman, 63, said d Morgan
ew depar-
Stanley had seen relatively few
tures — but it did receive about
500,000 job applications in 2021.
Morgan Stanley is a US multination-
al investment bank with offices in more
than 42 countries and 60,000-plus em-
ployees, some 5,500 of them in the UK,
mainly in London but also in Glasgow.
Gorman, who helped lead the
charge on Wall Street for bankers
to return
retur to their desks, yester-
s
day said that people should
work in offices rather than at
hom
home to be around “other
hu
human beings” and learn
fr
from “how they deal with
se
sensitivities that you can’t
ge
get from a screen”.
Gorman told the Aus-
tra
tralian Financial Review
Bu
Business Summit in Syd-
ney that anyone going to
resta
restaurants should also be
showi
showing up at the office. “I’ve
told our
ou employees . . . if you
think you’
you’re going to come in zero,
one or two days
day a week, we are not that
place. It’s three or four days.
More than 24 million “That enables
enabl you to develop and
Americans left their grow and all the [emotional intelli-
jobs over a gence] and the body language that you
six-month period get from being around others that you
last year can’t get from Zoom. But we will never
go back to what we were pre-Covid. It
will never be the standard five, some-
times six days a week. That’s gone.”

The 53-acre is due to complete in the autumn of

project near 2024. Set over 53 acres south of the
Canary Thames, the project will eventually
Wharf, being see up to 4,000 homes, offices,
run by British shops and London’s first new high
Land, will see street in a century being built.
up to 4,000 Sam King at Stifel said the tie-up
homes built “ought to reduce investor anxiety
over delivery given previous
difficulties realising large London
schemes”, pointing to Capital &
Counties’ woes at Earls Court and
St Modwen at Nine Elms.
British Land’s shares rose 4¼p, or
1 per cent, to 467½p.

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Business Markets
Emma Powell Tempus news in brief
Buy, sell or hold: today’s best share tips
Rich seam for Fresnillo
Fresnillo, the Mexican precious-

Race to overtake insurance rivals

metals miner, reported a rise in
both revenues and profits for
2021 that it put down to stronger
silver prices. Revenues climbed
11 per cent to $2.7 billion, from
$2.4 billion in 2020. Pre-tax
A bloated operating structure profits were $611.5 million, 11 per
direct line At a premium hasn’t helped the top line either. By cent higher than the $551 million
Market cap Dividend yield cutting costs, primarily in its it made in the previous year.
£3.51 billion 8.9 per cent Share price Gross written premiums (£ billion)
330p property footprint and digitising its While the gold price remained
2019 3.20 back office functions, James, 52, steady throughout the year, silver

W
inning new business 2020
hopes to cut expenses to 20 per cent rose to $24.90 an ounce, 17 per
320 3.18
has never been of its net earned premiums by next cent higher than Fresnillo
Direct Line’s strong 2021 3.17 year, from 23.9 per cent last year. received in 2020. Shares in the
suit, and managing 310 That could give the insurer the room company rose 69p, or 9.25 per
alluring pricing with 2022* 3.37 to be more competitive on pricing. cent, to 808½p.
profitable underwriting has become 2023* 3.90 Claims inflation, due to higher
an even finer balancing act. Policy 300 repair costs, should lead to higher Musk’s Twitter battle
numbers fell back again last year, as Pre-tax profits (£ million) premiums. But that depends on
did gross written premiums. The 290 claims frequency post-pandemic. Elon Musk, the chief executive of
main culprit? A hyper-competitive 2019 510 Peel Hunt, the broker, has forecast a Tesla, has asked a judge to throw
motor insurance market. 280 2020 454 higher rate of growth over the next out a 2018 agreement with the
That’s been the case for a while, two years, of 27 per cent. There’s a US Securities and Exchange
Source: Refinitiv

but a lower level of claims amid the
pandemic and efforts to lure
customers ahead of the Financial
Conduct Authority’s market reforms
meant pricing deflation last year.
Its answer? Launching an online
platform for its Direct Line,
Churchill and Privilege motor
customers, which Penny James, chief
executive, reckons will get more
products to market faster and
improve its policy pricing by giving it
greater access to customer data and
the ability to tweak those rates more
quickly, depending on movements
across the wider market.
The insurer has long argued that it
prioritises value over volume. When
average motor premiums across the
market fell by 7 per cent over the
second half of last year, Direct Line
cut by only 2.5 per cent. Investors
can give some credence to that
approach. A return on tangible
equity that has surpassed 19 per cent
bakkavor
Operating profit Market cap
£102 million £660 million
2021
Q2 Q3
ADVICE Hold
WHY The shares are worth
holding for the dividend
but deserve their lower
valuation versus peers
over the past five years is not too
shabby and it has prompted generous
cash returns for investors.
Last year was no exception, a
dividend of 22.7p a share equates to a
yield of 8.9 per cent at the current
share price, or above 7 per cent prior
to the market sell-off last month.
There are also plans for
£100 million in share buybacks this
ballpark as prior to the pandemic.
Why are investors not more nervous?
Progress in fending off the impact of
higher costs on the bottom line has
been considerable. Automating more
2021
270
2022*
2022
260 2023*
Q4 Q1
year. Even after that the solvency
capital position will be above its 140-
160 per cent target range.
But Direct Line isn’t alone in
doling out cash to shareholders, and
investors place a lower value on
companies that don’t show the
promise of growth. That explains
why Direct Line’s shares have lagged
Admiral, Aviva and Legal & General
in the past three years as pricing
competition has ratcheted-up.
Direct Line is an incumbent that
has been playing catch-up against
motor insurance rivals. Gross written
premiums are 3 per cent lower than
they were five years ago, versus a
compound annual growth rate of
2.8 per cent for Admiral.
energy. It is also spending on
enhancing its manufacturing
processes in the UK and US; this will
weigh on the margin, which
management reckons will reduce to
446 chance insurers such as Direct Line, Commission requiring his tweets
that cut prices to a lesser extent, to be vetted by a lawyer. Musk,
467 might gain favour with customers by 50, also asked for a block on an
522 not having to increase premiums to SEC subpoena requesting records
*estimate account for claims inflation, analyst of a Twitter poll in November,
Andreas van Embden says. when he said that he would sell
But reforms to the insurance 10 per cent of his Tesla stake if his
market introduced this year, which followers agreed. “The SEC’s
mean companies will be barred from pursuit of Mr Musk has crossed
charging renewing customers a the line into harassment,” his
higher price than new customers, lawyers told a New York court.
have made it harder for insurers to
judge how far they can push pricing Pay secrecy barrier
to potentially win market share,
while remaining profitable. Four in five jobseekers are less
Prices for new customers are rising likely to apply for a vacancy that
and dropping for those renewing. does not display a salary, research
Direct Line is, unsurprisingly, tight- commissioned by Reed reveals,
lipped on the impact of the latter. A The jobs website said that “a
greater exposure to home insurance, culture of salary secrecy is
where so-called price walking was limiting hiring managers’ ability
more prevalent, could mean the to secure the best talent”. The
reforms pinch harder. research also found that 22 per
Convincing investors it can break cent of jobseekers apply for jobs
its stagnant spell won’t be easy. only with a listed salary.
Recruiters have said they still
either do not include the pay, or
Investors can take succour in a only sometimes include it, on
leap forward in free cashflow and the about half of all job adverts.
reduction in leverage to back within
its medium-term target range six Menzies extension
months ahead of schedule. The

R
apidly rising inflation is an
unavoidable foe for food
producers such as Bakkavor,
and one that is set to gain in strength
this year. The London-based group,
which specialises in freshly prepared
food, reckons cost inflation will hit
between 10 and 12 per cent this year
as heightened labour, distribution,
packaging and ingredient costs bite.
You would think investors would
balk at the spectre of worsening cost
inflation, but a forward earnings
multiple of nine is in the same
of its production and passing some of 4.8 per cent this year, albeit roughly result? A 10 per cent increase in the John Menzies has returned to the
the inflationary pressures through to in line with the 2019 level. dividend against 2019 to 6.6p a share, black, posting a $30 million pre-
customers via price rises meant the As a manufacturer of fresh foods, equivalent to a dividend yield of tax profit, and extended the
adjusted operating margin increased less frequent grocery shopping hurt 5.8 per cent at the current share deadline to agree terms on a
to 5.4 per cent last year, against sales during the pandemic as price. That makes the shadow of £559 million takeover offer. It
4.7 per cent in 2020. consumers stocked up on products further inflationary pressures worth remains in talks with National
However, it is unlikely that the with a longer shelf life. But like-for- putting up with. Aviation Services (NAS), which
food manufacturer will be able to like revenue edged ahead of 2019 last made a 608p-a-share proposal
maintain that performance this year. year, thanks to a recovery in the UK last month. NAS, a subsidiary of
War in Ukraine is expected to add to and a leap forward in the US, which ADVICE Hold the Kuwait-based Agility Public
rising ingredient prices, which for it sees as its big growth market. WHY Has shown a good ability Warehousing, originally had until
Bakkavor will be felt to varying There is a risk that higher prices and 5pm today to make a firm offer or
degrees via rises in flour and the squeeze on the consumer purse to mitigate rising costs walk away. Now it will have until
sunflower oil, as well as costlier holds back growth in sales volumes. March 30. Shares in Menzies fell
20p, or 4 per cent, to 488p.

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Markets Business
LILIUM

Landlord bets that future

of work is office-shaped
Jessica Newman Market report

I
f there is one sector that has
cheered the end of working from banking & finance
home, it’s the office landlords.
IWG, the owner of Regus, is a
case in point and is making a big
bet on the future of hybrid working.
Aviva’s boss shows the faith
It has decided to merge its digital

T
assets with The Instant Group, a he chief out a plan to hand
flexible workspace platform. IWG executive of back £4.75 billion to
offers services such as booking office Aviva has shareholders,
spaces, while Instant, which operates snapped up just over surpassing the target
in 18 countries, caters to the flexible half a million pounds it set itself last year of
workspace market. worth of shares less at least £4 billion.
“Scale is essential for us to offer the than a week after the However, the
Lilium, a German convenience that employers and insurer came under company has faced
start-up, moved early employees everywhere are looking renewed pressure calls from Cevian
into the development for,” Mark Dixon, IWG’s chief from an activist Capital, Aviva’s
of flying taxis executive, said. investor to boost second-biggest
IWG plans to invest £270 million to returns to Amanda Blanc buying shareholder, to “go
buy the stakes of selling shareholders, shareholders. £500,000 of Aviva further with
International, a said: “This partnership while Instant Group’s management Amanda Blanc, 54, shares boosted morale delivering substantial
NetJets deal training specialist. is a major step in our who became chief shareholder value”.
Shares in Lilium, a mission to build executive at the FTSE be seen as Blanc’s Cevian, which built a
has Lilium leading player in the radically better ways of Wall Street report 100 insurer in July latest attempt to 5.3 per cent stake in
race to develop electric moving and to electrify 2020, bought 131,938 revive confidence in the insurer last year,
shares flying vertical takeoff and regional air travel. We A volatile session saw US stocks shares at £3.80 a the business. The called on it to return
landing (eVTOL) believe that the private close lower having yo-yoed all day. piece on Monday, the group has long £5 billion by 2022.

N
etJets, which aircraft and dominate and business The Dow Jones industrial average lowest price at which underwhelmed Blanc’s vote of
operates the the ensuing market, professional segments dropped 184.74 points, or 0.6 per the shares have investors with its confidence lifted
world’s largest have struggled since its will be highly cent, to 32,632.64 and the broader traded since the end lacklustre stock investors as the shares
fleet of private jets, has stock market debut via attractive markets in S&P 500 index fell 30.39 points, or of November. market performance. closed 12p, or 3.2 per
signed a deal with the a blank-cheque merger the future and, 0.7 per cent, to 4,170.70. The purchase will The group has set cent, higher to 386½p.
German flying taxi last autumn. They have likewise, early adopters
start-up Lilium for the halved this year. of the eVTOL
right to purchase up to Adam Johnson, chief revolution.” will invest £60 million in the in hot demand. Fresnillo, which One of the leading Travis Perkins
150 aircraft (Callum executive of NetJets, The proposed combined business, with a view to a posted a strong set of full-year bulls turned bearish yesterday.
Jones writes). said that working with arrangement, under listing in London or the United States numbers, added 69p, or 9.3 per cent, Downgrading the builders merchant
Lilium rallied by Lilium would allow the which NetJets would by the end of next year. to 808½p, while Hochschild Mining from “buy” to “hold,” Priyal Woolf, an
18.7 per cent, or 59c, to company to offer support Lilium’s IWG had a “strong end to 2021 with lifted 23p, or 18.5 per cent, to 146½p. equity analyst at Jefferies argued that
$3.75 in New York after “sustainable flight campaign to sell excellent momentum into 2022,” RBC ITV was another top riser after there are fewer catalysts for growth
it announced a services” to customers aircraft to individuals, said, as the group, which had a painful Bernstein upgraded its “market now. Its demerger from Wickes and
memorandum of and expand its fleet is subject to each party pandemic, said it had narrowed its perform” recommendation on the the sale of its plumbing and heating
understanding with options “with a new “finalising commercial losses before tax last year to broadcaster’s shares to “outperform,” business have been factored in,
NetJets, which is and flexible means of terms and entering £259.4 million from £613.3 million the arguing that new streaming service, suggesting the equity story will “shift
owned by Warren private air travel”. into definitive year before. The shares closed up ITVX, looks “like a serious effort to to being more just about steady
Buffett’s Berkshire Daniel Wiegand, co- agreements,” 22¾p, or 9.7 per cent, at 255p. tackle the company’s classic case of delivery.”The shares closed down 70p,
Hathaway, and founder and chief according to a The FTSE 100 yo-yoed throughout innovator’s dilemma”. The shares rose or 5.4 per cent, to £12.22.
FlightSafety executive of Lilium, statement. trading, eventually nudging up 4.63 by 5¾p, or 7.8 per cent, to 79¼p. Keller Group, the engineering
points, or 0.1 per cent, to 6,964.11, Fears that consumers will reign in group that built the foundations for
The day’s biggest movers despite the US confirming a ban on their spending as energy and food the Olympic Stadium, put on 17p, or
Russian oil and gas imports. The costs rise led investors to shelve retail 2.4 per cent, to 723p as it said it had
Company Change FTSE 250 fared slightly better, as it stocks. B&M European Value Retail overcome “many challenges posed by
Petropavlovsk Recovers some losses after recent sharp falls 20.0% improved 47.84 points, or 0.25 per slipped 13p, or 2.2 per cent, to 558p Covid-19” and posted a rise in pre-tax
Hochschild Mining Gold prices surpass $2,000 an ounce 18.5% cent, to 19,217.62. Helping buoy the and Currys, the electrical retailer, profit of £71.6 million. Midwich had a
M&G Launches £500 million buyback 15.0% FTSE was the insurance giant M&G, gave up 6p, or 6.4 per cent, to 84½p. stellar turnaround last year, with
Tui Rebounds after recent sell-off 10.3% which climbed 26¾p, or 15 per cent, to Ocado also fell, with some in the City profits almost back to pre-pandemic
IWG Narrows annual losses 9.7% 205p after it said that it would give speculating that recent weaker levels. The group, which installs big
Relx Shares hit lowest price in six months as it extends losses -6.4%
back £500 million to shareholders. trading could be reflected in next TV screens at events, said adjusted
Currys Fears that consumers will rein in their spending -6.4%
Capricorn Energy Investors disappointed with annual results -6.5% A flight into safe haven assets week’s update. Ocado extended its profit before tax more than doubled
TI FLuid Systems Shares retreat ahead of next week’s full-year results -7.4% meant the price of gold rose to losses to a six-session straight, down last year to £31.9 million leading the
Polymetal Continues to plunge as US bans Russian imports -46.7% $2,064.75 an ounce. Gold miners were 75½p, or 6.4 per cent, to £11.05. shares up 6p, or 1.3 per cent, to 500p.

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London Grain Futures metals (US dollars per ounce) Base Rates Clearing Banks 0.50 ECB Refi -0.50 US Fed Fd 0.00-0.25 Australia
Canada
1.3735-1.3736
1.2865-1.2866
Bid Change
LIFFE Wheat (close £/t) Because of a technical issue, the gold fix Halifax Mortgage Rate 3.59 Denmark 6.8094-6.8105 Australia $ 1.805 +0.01
prices are from Monday. Euro 0.9147-0.9148 Canada $ 1.687 +0.01
Mar 215.00 May 293.00 Jul unq Denmark Kr 8.973 -0.02
Treasury Bills (Dis) Buy: 1 mth 0.280; 3 mth 0.640. Sell: 1 mth 0.190; 3 mth 0.550 Hong Kong 7.8186-7.8192
Nov 243.00 Jan unq Volume: 2306 Bullion: Open $1998.48
Japan 115.66-115.66 Euro ¤ 1.205
Close $2031.35-2032.30 High $2069.35 Malaysia 4.1750-4.1790 Hong Kong $ 10.252 -0.02
London Metal Exchange 1 mth 2 mth 3 mth 6 mth 12 mth
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(Official) Interbank Rates 0.6768 0.0000 0.9617 1.4140 0.0000 Singapore 1.3633-1.3635 Indonesia 18875.778 -49.09
AM $1999.25 PM $1980.95
Sweden 9.8764-9.8958 Israel Shk 4.330 +0.01
Cash 3mth Dec 22 Krugerrand $2010.00-2119.00 (£1532.15-1615.24) Eurodollar Deps 0.35-0.75 0.61-0.81 0.72-0.92 1.04-1.24 1.58-1.65 Switzerland 0.9290-0.9291 Japan Yen 151.557 -0.01
Copper Gde A ($/tonne) Platinum $1144.00 (£872.03) New Zealand $ 1.923
10170.0-10171.0 10250.0-10250.5 10200.0-10210.0 Silver $26.14 (£19.93) Sterling spot and forward rates Other Sterling Norway Kr 11.760 -0.12
Palladium $2974.00 (£2266.98) Poland 5.951 -0.08
Mkt Rates for Range Close 1 month 3 month Argentina peso 142.41-142.42
Lead ($/tonne) Russia 171.747 -27.25
Australia dollar 1.8018-1.8020
2489.0-2491.0 2533.0-2535.0 2417.0-2422.0 European money Copenhagen 8.9276-8.9885 8.9328-8.9346 112ds 362ds Bahrain dinar 0.4911-0.4983
S Africa Rd
Sweden Kr
20.066
13.062
-0.03
-0.03
Euro 1.2080-1.1993 1.2001-1.1999 10pr 34pr Brazil real 6.6325-6.6365
Zinc Spec Hi Gde ($/tonne)
4089.0-4091.0 4098.0-4100.0 3393.0-3398.0
deposits % Montreal 1.6778-1.6902 1.6877-1.6879 4ds 13ds
Euro 1.1999-1.2001
Switzerland Fr
Turkey Lira
1.218
19.115 +0.21
Hong Kong dollar 10.257-10.258
Currency New York 1.3083-1.3141 1.3118-1.3119 2ds 7ds USA $ 1.311
Alum Hi Gde ($/tonne) India rupee 100.76-100.78
1mth 3mth 6mth 12mth Rates supplied by Morningstar
3500.0-3500.5 3514.0-3516.0 3245.0-3250.0 Oslo 11.736-11.882 11.751-11.757 25pr 57pr Indonesia rupiah 18831-18834
Dollar Kuwait dinar KD 0.3977-0.4001
Nickel ($/tonne) 0.13 0.20 0.29 0.55 Stockholm 12.953-13.131 12.961-12.971 109ds 366ds Malaysia ringgit 5.4790-5.4842
48201.0-48201.0 48063.0-48063.0 46528.0-46528.0 Sterling Tokyo 151.00-151.86 151.71-151.74 13ds 44ds New Zealand dollar 1.9224-1.9228 Data as shown is
0.68 0.96 1.41 0.81 Singapore dollar 1.7884-1.7887 for information
Tin ($/tonne) 15mth
Zurich 1.2115-1.2200 1.2186-1.2188 18ds 58ds
Euro S Africa rand 19.995-20.012 purposes only. No offer is made by
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UK Eqty C ‡@ 6317.26 … -14.91 3.28 Ethical ‡@ 108.40 … -2.20 … Strategic Bond A Acc ‡@ 244.54 … +0.19 1.96 Euro Special Sits ‡@ 406.07 … +0.27 … Glob Bal Sust F I Inc ‡ 951.69 … -3.86 … Sterling Bond Acc ‡@ 242.37 … -0.28 3.52
UK Eqty Inc A ‡@ 310.61 … +5.39 … European ‡@ 95.42 … +1.55 … Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 119.47 … +0.09 3.32 European ‡@ 2569.29 … +3.37 … Glob Br Eq Inc Fund F Inc ‡@1267.40 … -16.34 … Sterling Bond Inc ‡@ 97.00 … -0.11 3.61
UK Gwth A ‡@ 7648.62 … +138.48 … Far Eastern ‡ 115.30 … -1.60 … Target Return A Acc ‡@ 102.03 … +0.44 0.82 Financial Opps ‡@ 715.04 … -4.67 … Glob Br Eq Inc Fund I Acc ‡@1684.00 … -21.72 …
UK Index A Inc ‡@ 1423.81 … -5.83 … Fund of Inv Tst ‡@ 129.40 … +1.40 … Target Return A Inc ‡@ 87.63 … +0.01 0.87 Income Trust ‡@ 460.80 … +6.53 … Glob Br Eq Inc Fund I Inc ‡@1361.03 … -17.56 …
UK Mid Cap A ‡@ 4506.25 … +86.16 0.06 Intl Gwth ‡ 119.40 … -2.40 … UK Alpha A Acc ‡@ 2380.32 … +18.03 … Merlin Bal (Acc) ‡@ 219.17 … -0.48 … Glob Br Fund I Acc (PH) ‡@1581.39 … -24.10 0.86 THREADNEEDLE INVESTMENTS
Japanese ‡ 64.48 … -1.57 … UK Blue Chip A Acc ‡@ 770.11 … +3.15 … Merlin Gwth (Acc) ‡ 510.64 … -2.51 … Glob Br Fund I Acc (PH) ‡@12640.68 … -170.34 … Client Serv: 0800 0683000
North Amer ‡ 142.30 … -3.90 … UK Smaller Companies A Acc ‡@5582.81 … +77.26 … Merlin Inc (Acc) ‡ 337.47 … -2.90 … Glob Br Fund I Inc (PH) ‡@1520.91 … -23.17 0.87 Intermediary Serv: 0800 0684000
Smaller Cos ‡@ 107.90 … +2.00 … UK Smaller Companies A Inc ‡@5007.45 … +69.30 … Merlin Wwide (Inc) ‡ 364.69 … -1.83 … Glob Br Fund I Inc (PH) ‡@3485.99 … -46.97 … Institutional Shares (Class 2) (163500,000 min)
ARTEMIS FUND MGRS LTD Special Sits ‡@ 43.03 … +0.48 … UK Growth ‡@ 232.99 … -0.27 … Glob Ins Fund F Acc ‡ 602.11 … -19.48 …
UK Special Situations A Acc ‡@1169.44 … +33.59 … UK Oseas Earns ‡@ 109.90 … +1.71 …
0800 092 2051 UK Equity Inc ‡@ 82.80 … +0.79 … UK Special Sits (Inc) ‡@ 183.95 … +2.98 … Glob Ins Fund F Inc ‡ 602.11 … -19.48 …
UK Special Situations A Inc ‡@427.83 … +12.28 …
Authorised Inv Funds UK FTSE 100 IT ‡@ 62.38 … +0.83 … Glob Ins Fund I Acc ‡ 600.84 … -19.44 …
Capital R Acc ‡@ 1823.98 … +50.01 … UK FTSE All-S IT ‡@ 71.26 … +0.79 … Glob Ins Fund I Inc ‡ 600.84 … -19.44 …
LEGAL & GENERAL (UT MGRS) LTD Glob Sust Fund F Acc (PH) ‡1189.52 … -15.08 0.57 Managed Funds
Euro Opps R Acc ‡@ 91.26 … -0.48 1.29 UK Growth ‡@ 75.99 … +0.79 …
Euro Opps R Inc ‡@ 85.36 … -0.46 1.30 Enquiries: 0870 050 0955 Dealing: 0870 050 0956 Glob Sust Fund F Inc ‡@ 1215.34 … -8.27 … Def Eqty & Bd Acc @ 128.00 128.00 +0.10 0.74
European Growth R Acc ‡@319.58 … +8.28 1.97 Glob Sust Fund I Acc ‡@ 1226.34 … -8.36 … Eqty & Bd Acc @ 179.90 179.90 +0.50 0.73
Equity Acc @ 2616.00 2639.00 -8.00 …
HSBC GLOBAL ASSET MGMT (UK) LTD Glob Sust Fund I Acc (PH) ‡@1205.77 … -16.70 0.39 Mgd Income @ 77.80 77.80 +0.13 3.19
Global Energy R Acc ‡@ 36.37 … +0.39 1.63 Equity Dist @ 893.80 902.00 -2.70 …
Enq: 0845 745 6123 Dlg: 0845 745 6126 Mon-Fri 8-6 For ISIS Asset Mgmt see F&C Fd Mgmt Ltd (OEICS) Glob Sustain Fund F Acc ‡@1220.01 … -11.07 …
Global Growth R Acc ‡@ 334.17 … -2.63 … Euro Ind Acc ‡@ 442.90 … +8.50 1.41
HSBC Index Tracker Investment Funds (OEIC) Stg Corp Bond F F Acc ‡@ 133.13 … -0.88 …
Global Income R Acc ‡@ 151.31 … +0.31 … JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS Euro Ind Inc ‡@ 297.30 … +5.70 1.43
Global Income R Inc ‡@ 99.35 … +0.21 … Amer Ind Acc ‡@ 871.82 … -12.73 … Stg Corp Bond F F Inc ‡@ 108.25 … -0.72 … Retail Shares (Class 1)
Fixed Int Acc ‡@ 149.30 … -1.10 …
Global Select R Acc ‡@ 150.72 … -2.28 … Amer Ind Inc ‡@ 707.47 … -10.33 … Investors Serv: 0800 832 832 Dlng: 0845 946 4646 Stg Corp Bond F I Acc ‡@2835.27 … -18.89 …
Fixed Int Dist ‡@ 71.28 … -0.53 … Stg Bd Ret Inc ‡@ 57.16 … -0.93 0.54
High Income R Inc ‡@ 67.95 … +0.12 … Euro Ind Acc ‡@ 1001.29 … +19.29 1.85 Stg Corp Bond F I Inc ‡@1524.90 … -10.16 …
Glob Gwth Acc @ 243.90 243.90 -1.30 1.15 Strat Bd Ret ‡@ 45.04 … -0.16 2.22
Income R Acc ‡@ 460.55 … +5.88 … Euro Ind Inc ‡@ 655.97 … +12.63 1.80 All Stks Credit A Inc ‡@ 132.60 … -1.00 … Sust Fixed Inc Opps F F Acc ‡961.96 … -3.43 1.67
Glob Health Acc ‡@ 99.63 … +0.07 0.77 UK Corp Bond ‡@ 61.29 … -0.70 …
Income R Inc ‡@ 210.33 … +2.69 … FTSE 100 Ind Acc ‡@ 245.12 … +3.52 … Asian Div Inc U Trst Inc ‡@86.66 … -1.71 … Sust Fixed Inc Opps F F Inc ‡946.23 … -3.37 1.69
Glob Tech Acc ‡@ 90.84 … -2.00 … UK Corp Ret ‡@ 61.21 … -0.65 …
Monthly Dist R Inc ‡@ 69.36 … -0.20 … FTSE 100 Ind Inc ‡@ 115.07 … +1.65 … Cautious Man Fd A Acc ‡@281.90 … +1.40 … Sust Fixed Inc Opps F I Acc ‡959.58 … -3.42 1.47
Gwth Tst Acc @ 106.00 106.50 -1.00 0.17 UK Eqty Inc Ret ‡@ 87.94 … +1.18 …
Strategic Assets R Acc ‡ 68.34 … +1.40 … FTSE 250 Ind Acc ‡@ 279.04 … +5.31 1.56 Cautious Man Fd A Inc ‡@143.10 … +0.70 … Sust Fixed Inc Opps F I Inc ‡945.83 … -3.38 1.49
High Inc Acc ‡@ 132.70 … -0.60 … UK Gwth & Inc Ret ‡@ 83.02 … +0.49 …
Strategic Bond R M Acc ‡@101.31 … -0.24 2.03 FTSE 250 Ind Inc ‡@ 176.38 … +3.36 0.45 China Opp Fund A Acc ‡@1312.00 … -22.00 … US Adv F F Acc ‡@ 1659.01 … -46.26 …
Japan Ind Acc ‡@ 64.67 … -1.31 … UK Hi Yld Bd 1 ‡@ 39.37 … -0.21 …
Strategic Bond R M Inc ‡@ 55.06 … -0.13 2.05 FTSE All-S Acc ‡@ 630.98 … +7.60 … Emg Mkts Opps Fd A Acc ‡@206.30 … -2.70 … US Adv F F Acc (PH) ‡@ 1061.09 … -55.45 …
Pacific Ind Acc ‡@ 198.90 … -3.00 … UK Inst Acc ‡@ 162.64 … +2.80 …
Strategic Bond R Q Acc ‡@101.13 … -0.24 2.05 FTSE All-S Inc ‡@ 329.63 … +3.97 … Erpn Grth Fund A Acc ‡@ 248.60 … +4.50 0.42 US Adv F I Acc ‡@ 1770.16 … -49.36 …
UK 100 Ind Acc @ 180.90 180.90 +0.90 … UK Mnthly Extra Inc ‡@ 75.93 … +0.73 …
Strategic Bond R Q Inc ‡@ 54.92 … -0.13 2.07 Jap Ind Acc ‡@ 132.27 … -2.32 … Erpn Sel Opps Fd A Acc ‡@1880.00 … +36.00 … US Adv F I Acc (PH) ‡@ 1114.78 … -58.29 …
UK Active Opps Acc @ 249.90 252.90 -0.10 … UK Mnthly Inc Ret ‡@ 63.76 … +0.63 …
UK Growth R Acc ‡@ 635.59 … +20.25 … Jap Ind Inc ‡@ 105.48 … -1.86 … Fix Int Mnthly Inc Fd Acc ‡@32.78 … -0.17 4.11 UK Index Acc ‡@ 310.40 … +3.60 … UK Retail ‡@ 121.35 … +1.37 …
UK Smaller Cos R Acc ‡@1751.10 … +28.74 … Pac Ind Acc ‡@ 495.29 … -6.78 … Global Equity Fund Acc ‡@4219.00 … -111.00 … UK Index Dist ‡@ 154.50 … +1.80 … SANTANDER UNIT TST MGRS
UK Sel Retail ‡@ 123.55 … -1.42 …
UK Special Sits R Acc ‡@ 620.61 … +11.76 … Pac Ind Inc ‡@ 320.00 … -4.39 … Global Equity Income A Inc ‡@60.53 … … … US Ind Acc ‡@ 785.00 … -4.70 … 08457 413002
UK Smaller Cos ‡@ 379.92 … +7.20 …
Global Tech A Acc ‡@ 2890.00 … -100.00 … Worldwide Acc ‡@ 331.20 … +0.60 … Bal Pfolio Inc ‡@ 110.50 … +0.40 2.41
Instl UK Idx Opps A Acc ‡@102.58 … +1.31 2.42 Bal Port Gwth Acc ‡@ 231.10 … -2.20 …
HSBC Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Share Class
M-Asset Abs Ret A Acc ‡@157.60 … +0.80 … Equity Inc Inc ‡@ 201.70 … -4.30 …
AXA FRAMLINGTON UNIT MGMT LTD Balanced Acc ‡@ 239.83 … -0.66 … M & G SECURITIES For Resolution see Ignis
M-Man Active Fd A Acc ‡@251.70 … -1.40 … N&P UK Gwth Inc ‡@ 182.80 … +0.10 3.09
Dling: 0845 602 1952 Priv Clients: 0845 777 5511 Balanced Inc ‡@ 151.95 … -0.14 … Enq: 0800 390 390 Dealing Line: 0800 328 3196 TU FUND MANAGERS LIMITED
M-Man Inc Grth A Inc ‡@ 150.60 … -1.30 … Stkmkt 100 Tkr @ 231.80 231.80 +2.80 …
Equity Inc ‡@ 572.40 … -2.70 4.43 Corp Bd Acc ‡@ 298.72 … -2.34 2.65 M-Man Inc Grth Fd A Acc ‡@188.40 … -1.70 … Authorised Inv Funds UK Growth Acc ‡@ 442.30 … -10.00 … British 793.60 793.60 +3.50 …
Gilt Acc @ 201.30 211.80 +0.10 1.08 Corp Bd Inc ‡@ 119.59 … -0.94 2.70 Sterling Bond U Trst Acc ‡@233.70 … -1.70 … Charifund Inc ‡ 1449.56 … +37.35 … UK Growth Inc ‡@ 244.10 … -5.60 … European 210.70 219.40 +1.00 …
Gilt Inc @ 74.35 78.24 -0.39 1.09 Gilt & Fd Int Acc ‡@ 497.78 … +1.62 1.19 Sterling Bond U Trst Inc ‡@64.85 … -0.48 …
Health Acc ‡ 2670.00 … -2.00 … Gilt & Fd Int Inc ‡@ 74.17 … +0.24 1.58
Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 123.20 … -0.60 … SCOTTISH MUTUAL INV MNGRS LTD * Yield expressed as CAR (Compound Annual Return);
Jap Smlr Co Ac @ 62.56 66.09 -0.19 0.30 Income Acc ‡@ 636.39 … +5.16 … Sterling Class A Investment Funds 1 † Ex dividend; ‡Middle price; . . . No significant data. #
UK Abs Ret Fd A Acc ‡@ 160.60 … +0.50 … 0141 248 6100
Managed Inc ‡@ 138.30 … … … Income Inc ‡@ 272.91 … +2.21 … Periodic charge deducted from capital; @ Exit charge
UK Alpha Fund A Acc ‡@ 139.30 … +2.30 … Euro Smlr Cos Acc ‡ 525.29 … -3.39 … European Inc 1777.00 1873.48 +4.40 0.78
Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 232.10 … +3.40 … Monthly Inc Acc ‡@ 313.41 … +0.77 3.21
UK Growth Inc ‡@ 213.60 … +4.40 … Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 128.09 … +0.49 … Far Eastern Inc 584.69 617.09 -0.73 1.42
UK Select Opps Inc ‡@ 1902.00 … +31.00 … UK Grth & Inc Ret B Acc ‡@130.73 … +0.98 … Intl Growth Inc 380.56 400.59 +0.02 0.75
UK Sml Cos Inc ‡@ 318.10 … +3.10 … UK Grth & Inc Ret B Inc ‡@60.25
UK Gth & Inc Acc ‡@ 130.73
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UK Gth & Inc Inc ‡@ 60.25 … +0.45 … Mutual Far Eastern 931.19 982.79 -11.30 … 12 month Price Int Yld Grs rd
Mutual North Am 1983.00 2092.88 +6.23 0.24 High Low Stock (£) +/– % yld
AXA FUND MANAGERS LTD Mutual UK Eq 1268.53 1338.82 +16.94 …
HSBC Specialist Investment Funds (OEIC) Index-linked
Admin & Enq 0117 989 0808 Nth American Inc 1227.65 1295.67 -7.28 …
UK Equity Inc 540.26 570.20 +7.22 … 109.44 106.12 Tr IL 1Y% 22 107.75 + .09 1.79 –8.55
AXA Trusts American Index Retail Acc ‡@871.82 … -12.73 … 378.51 354.43 Tr IL 2K% 24 * 378.42 – .10 1.43 –4.69
Gen Acc ‡@ 2101.00 … +6.00 2.64 American Index Retail Inc ‡@707.47 … -10.33 … 111.98 107.52 Tr IL 0V% 24 111.28 – .04 … –5.07
Asian Gth Acc ‡@ 147.77 … -0.07 … SCOTTISH WIDOWS UNIT TRUST MGRS 120.56 112.54 Tr IL 0V% 26 118.09 – .10 … –3.96
Gen Inc ‡@ 1079.00 … -2.00 … 135.63 124.91 Tr IL 1N% 27 132.26 – .17 1.03 –3.77
Asian Gth Inc ‡@ 130.99 … -0.06 … 0845 300 2244 130.64 119.90 Tr IL 0V% 28 127.09 – .17 … –3.59
Chinese Eq Acc ‡@ 513.81 … +0.27 … Authorised Inv Funds (OEICs) 132.52 121.22 Tr IL 0V% 29 128.80 – .13 … –3.46
Chinese Eq Inc ‡@ 434.76 … +0.22 … OEIC A Class 141.65 128.44 Tr IL 0V% 31 137.44 – .12 … –3.24
UK/Global Investment Companies Euro Gth Acc ‡@ 973.97 … +4.05 0.41 402.06 366.57 Tr IL 4V% 30 * 400.69 – .37 1.61 –3.36
Managed Investment Funds 306.14 253.28 Tr IL 1N% 55 264.50 –2.56 0.52 –2.09
Euro Acc A ‡@ 234.70 … … 1.18 Euro Gth Inc ‡@ 817.05 … +3.39 0.44 248.27 201.52 Tr IL 0V% 56 211.70 –2.13 … –2.06
Bal Port A Acc ‡@ 237.60 … +0.80 0.01
Extra Inc Inc B ‡@ 86.74 … +0.24 1.16 256.47 206.37 Tr IL 0V% 58 216.80 –2.07 … –2.05
Caut Port A Acc ‡@ 207.10 … +0.30 … 297.03 235.99 Tr IL 0W% 62 248.75 –2.66 … –2.02
Global Gwth Acc R ‡ 278.10 … -3.60 … IGNIS ASSET MGMT Caut Port A Inc ‡@ 152.00 … +0.30 … 309.47 240.09 Tr IL 0V% 65 254.06 –2.90 … –2.04
Japan Acc A ‡@ 155.10 … -2.80 … Dlg: 0141 222 8282 Opps Port A Acc ‡@ 280.20 … +1.30 … 161.90 145.79 Tr IL 1N% 32 156.06 – .22 0.80 –3.12
Pac Gwth Acc A ‡@ 508.30 … -7.60 … Prog Port A Acc ‡@ 266.60 … +1.10 … 160.29 143.77 Tr IL 0O% 34 153.34 – .22 … –2.92
American Gth Inc @ 322.55 340.42 -3.34 … 324.74 285.49 Tr IL 2% 35 * 316.76 – .34 0.77 –2.84
Balanced Growth @ 262.17 276.69 -0.93 1.52 161.43 143.40 Tr IL 0V% 36 152.51 – .23 … –2.75
Overseas Growth Investment Funds 186.89 165.74 Tr IL 1V% 37 175.72 – .42 0.67 –2.71
Balanced Growth Acc @ 393.13 414.92 -1.40 … 169.23 149.28 Tr IL 0V% 39 157.13 – .40 … –2.54
CIS UNIT MANAGERS LTD Corporate Bond ‡@ 99.69 … -0.89 … Eur Sel Gth A Acc ‡@ 2963.00 … +71.00 … 186.19 163.90 Tr IL 0X% 40 172.24 – .32 … –2.52
European Growth @ 403.88 426.26 -3.57 … 180.53 156.53 Tr IL 0V% 41 165.58 – .37 … –2.48
08457 46 46 46 199.86 173.40 Tr IL 0X% 42 182.36 – .45 0.34 –2.42
European Growth Acc @ 475.71 502.07 -4.21 2.24 Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds 188.86 162.47 Tr IL 0V% 44 170.48 – .70 … –2.31
European Gwth ‡@ 179.10 … +2.40 …
Glob Gwth @ 331.53 349.90 -3.09 0.12 196.96 168.15 Tr IL 0V% 46 175.93 – .98 … –2.24
Sus Leaders ‡@ 726.60 … +7.60 … UK Trkr A Acc ‡@ 338.20 … -2.90 … 229.64 195.41 Tr IL 0O% 47 203.84 –1.48 0.38 –2.22
Higher Yield @ 83.98 88.64 -0.29 4.43
UK Growth ‡@ 591.90 … +6.70 … UK Trkr A Inc ‡ 175.40 … -1.50 … 209.00 176.12 Tr IL 0V% 48 183.84 –1.46 … –2.20
Higher Yield Acc @ 275.04 290.28 -0.92 4.32 232.71 195.63 Tr IL 0K% 50 204.16 –1.70 … –2.18
UK Income ‡@ 210.20 … +1.30 …
Japan @ 49.06 51.78 -0.03 … 231.36 192.08 Tr IL 0N% 52 201.03 –1.83 … –2.13
Managed @ 130.89 138.15 -0.06 0.66 UK and Income Investment Funds 335.00 258.49 Tr IL 0V% 68 272.40 –3.35 … –2.09
Managed Trust @ 71.96 76.96 +0.17 … 395.45 297.39 Tr IL 0V% 73 312.96 –4.08 … –2.15
Corp Bond A Acc ‡@ 330.60 … -2.80 …
CLOSE FUND MANAGEMENT LTD Mngd Pfolio Inc @ 95.54 100.84 -0.11 0.58 Corp Bond A Inc ‡@ 125.20 … -1.10 … Longs (Over 15 years)
0870 606 6402 Pacific Grth @ 498.71 526.34 -2.81 1.34 Envir Invtr A Acc ‡ 345.80 … +5.90 … 147.98 132.25 Tr 4N% 36 133.56 –1.69 3.18 1.57
Smaller Comp @ 756.24 798.14 +1.64 0.15 Hi Inc Bond A Ac ‡@ 246.70 … -1.40 … 113.52 100.52 Tr 1O% 37 101.89 –1.57 … 1.61
Beacon Inv ‡ 84.88 … +0.35 0.01 163.31 144.98 Tr 4O% 38 146.47 –2.06 3.24 1.58
Smaller Cos @ 628.94 663.79 +1.36 0.21 Hi Inc Bond A Inc ‡@ 76.98 … -0.46 …
103.54 91.21 Tr 1V% 39 92.54 –1.52 … 1.63
Hi Res A Acc ‡@ 365.00 … +4.40 … 156.78 138.96 Tr 4N% 39 140.24 –2.02 3.03 1.60
Hi Res A Inc ‡@ 117.60 … +1.40 … 159.73 140.93 Tr 4N% 40 142.38 –2.13 … 1.62
INSIGHT INVESTMENT FDS MANAGEMENT LTD 106.42 92.01 Tr 1N% 41 93.40 –1.69 … 1.64
Dealing: 020 7426 6232 Safety Plus A Acc ‡@ 40.49 … … …
Client Servs: 0207 163 4000 147.71 128.09 Tr 3N% 44 129.73 –2.24 … 1.63
Strat Inc A Acc ‡@ 212.40 … -2.00 … 124.61 100.15 Tr 1X% 54 101.49 –2.62 … 1.57
Winchester ‡ 3634.51 … +106.19 0.30 Insight Investment Multi-Manager Funds
Strat Inc A Inc ‡@ 96.34 … -0.88 2.15 205.69 168.63 Tr 4N% 55 170.59 –3.98 2.49 1.55
Well Bldr Bal Acc ‡@ 96.05 … -0.32 … UK Gwth A Acc ‡@ 180.10 … +3.50 … 132.79 104.61 Tr 1O% 57 105.30 –3.25 … 1.55
Well Bldr Gwth Acc ‡@ 93.79 … -0.36 … 213.01 170.76 Tr 4% 60 171.47 –4.81 … 1.51
UK Sel Gwth A Acc ‡@ 2005.00 … +17.00 … 96.16 70.35 Tr 0K% 61 70.54 –2.94 … 1.49
EDENTREE INV MGMT LTD 173.16 132.55 Tr 2K% 65 132.69 –4.57 … 1.48
0800 358 3010 OEIC B Class 219.03 167.57 Tr 3K% 68 167.57 –5.72 … 1.48
INVESCO FUND MGRS LTD 149.85 107.09 Tr 1X% 71 107.09 –4.60 … 1.43
Amity European A ‡ 273.80 … +9.50 … Dling: 0800 085 8571 Inv Serv: 0800 085 8677 Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds 95.59 76.98 Tr 0X% 50 78.35 –2.08 … 1.57
Amity International A ‡ 314.20 … -2.50 … Brkr Serv: 0800 028 2121 UK Trkr B Acc ‡@ 373.00 … -3.20 … 220.50 183.23 Tr 0V% 51 191.76 –1.76 … –2.14
UK Irsh Sm Co Fd A Acc ‡@742.50 … -1.70 … Euro Smlr Cos Inc ‡ 462.50 … -3.00 … 111.21 90.43 Tr 1N% 51 91.92 –2.24 … 1.60
Amity Sterling Bond A ‡ 97.88 … -0.43 3.38 INVESCO Funds UK Trkr B Inc ‡@ 174.40 … -1.50 … 180.27 150.30 Tr 3O% 52 152.14 –3.14 … 1.58
UK Property A Acc @ 259.35 272.32 -0.02 …
Amity UK A Inc ‡ 220.10 … +3.20 … UK Str Inc N/Trl ‡@ 323.57 … -0.12 7.05 120.44 97.42 Tr 1K% 53 98.54 –2.50 … 1.56
UK Property A Inc @ 103.56 108.74 -0.01 … 175.82 151.34 Tr 4N% 46 153.15 –2.74 2.78 1.63
Higher Income A ‡ 124.30 … +2.00 … UK and Income Investment Funds
US Growth Fund A Acc ‡@1682.00 … -75.00 … Sterling Class A Investment Funds 2 99.79 83.61 Tr 0Y% 46 84.96 –1.86 … 1.64
UK Equity Growth A ‡ 280.40 … +3.90 … 114.76 96.19 Tr 1K% 47 97.50 –2.08 … 1.62
INVESCO PERPETUAL Funds Corp Bond B Acc ‡@ 370.70 … +0.90 …
Extra Income Inc ‡ 690.71 … +7.59 … 122.26 101.86 Tr 1O% 49 103.19 –2.27 … 1.60
Corp Bond B Inc ‡@ 136.30 … +0.30 … 185.65 157.38 Tr 4N% 49 159.00 –3.05 2.67 1.61
Childrens Acc ‡@ 434.83 … -12.93 … Gilt & Fxd Int Inc ‡ 95.85 … -0.96 0.76
UK Gwth B Acc ‡@ 205.60 … -0.30 … 169.96 148.84 Tr 4K% 42 150.62 –2.39 2.99 1.62
Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 216.61 … -0.76 2.20 Gl Hi Yd Bd Inc ‡ 43.59 … -0.21 … 154.93 133.90 Tr 3K% 45 135.61 –2.38 … 1.63
F & C FUND MANAGEMENT LTD (OEICS) UK Sel Gwth B Acc ‡@ 2481.00 … … 1.09
High Income Inc ‡@ 302.23 … -5.30 … Index Linked Bd Inc ‡ 172.73 … -0.19 …
Enqs: 0870 601 6183 Dealing: 0870 601 6083 Index Trckr Inc ‡ 70.73 … +0.78 … Mediums (5-15 years)
Income & Grth Inc ‡@ 391.79 … -10.00 …
Share Class 1 - Retail Short Dated Corp Bd Inc ‡ 25.40 … -0.05 … OEIC C Class 101.64 99.08 Tr 0O% 23 99.32 – .17 … 1.25
Income Inc ‡@ 1183.90 … -20.91 … JP MORGAN ASSET MGMT UK and Income Investment Funds 105.43 101.18 Tr 2N% 23 101.35 – .19 … 1.34
Corporate Bd ‡@ 55.94 … -0.33 1.75 Money Acc ‡@ 90.80 … … … UK Select A Inc ‡ 2760.72 … +38.76 … 100.03 97.31 Tr 0V% 24 97.73 – .27 … 1.34
Emerging Mkts ‡@ 121.20 … -0.60 … Monthly Inc Plus Inc ‡@ 100.80 … -0.89 … OEIC UK Gth C Inc ‡@ 119.50 … +2.20 … 102.79 98.96 Tr 1% 24 99.38 – .29 … 1.30
Euro Gwth & Inc 1 ‡@ 1041.00 … +1.00 … UK Aggressive Inc ‡@ 154.28 … -0.24 … UK Sel Gwth C Acc ‡@ 2598.00 … … 1.29 109.12 103.06 Tr 2O% 24 103.45 – .36 … 1.34
Extra Inc Bond ‡@ 46.92 … -0.20 … UK Growth Acc ‡@ 787.69 … -5.78 … Asia A Acc ‡@ 255.20 … -1.60 … 119.10 110.37 Tr 5% 25 110.89 – .45 4.51 1.28
Emerging Mkts ‡@ 245.70 … -4.40 … Sterling Class A Investment Funds 3 101.82 97.26 Tr 0X% 25 98.06 – .45 … 1.24
FTSE All-Shr Track ‡@ 395.50 … +4.20 … UK Sml Cos Eqty Acc ‡@ 1486.78 … -67.52 … STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS 107.95 101.74 Tr 2% 25 102.55 – .49 … 1.25
Global Gwth SC1 ‡@ 291.50 … -4.30 … UK Sml Cos Gwth ‡@ 82.54 … +0.04 … Eur Dyn (ex-UK) A Acc ‡@246.30 … +4.60 0.46 Corp Bd A Inc ‡ 38.42 … -0.29 2.61 0845 279 3003 99.56 94.88 Tr 0V% 26 95.89 – .52 … 1.21
High Inc Trst @ 11.62 12.24 -0.09 … Euro Smllr Cos ‡@ 843.50 … +26.90 … Dividend Inc ‡ 51.67 … +1.04 … 106.30 100.20 Tr 1K% 26 101.24 – .60 … 1.21
Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Shares 105.60 98.96 Tr 1N% 27 100.19 – .73 … 1.21
Max Inc Bond ‡@ 46.40 … -0.16 … Europe A Acc ‡@ 1586.00 … +34.00 1.35 Recovery A Inc ‡ 108.01 … +2.46 …
AAA Inc CAT Acc ‡@ 97.48 … +0.05 … 125.15 115.39 Tr 4N% 27 116.44 – .88 3.65 1.27
Multi Man Caut ‡@ 70.41 … … 3.18 INVESTEC FUND MGRS Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Acc ‡@ 125.50 … -0.70 4.49 Sml Cos Inc ‡ 358.27 … +7.06 … 98.46 92.43 Tr 0V% 28 93.69 – .75 … 1.24
Broker Support and Dealing: 020 7597 1900 AAA Inc CAT Inc ‡@ 55.41 … +0.03 … 108.94 101.09 Tr 1X% 28 102.54 – .88 … 1.22
Multi Man Distr ‡@ 60.44 … … 3.37 Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Inc ‡@ 33.96 … -0.18 4.62
OEIC Series i,ii,iii, & iv AAA Income Acc ‡@ 105.70 … … … 140.91 129.24 Tr 6% 28 130.59 –1.05 4.59 1.26
North Amer ‡@ 794.80 … -20.40 … Gl ex-UK Bd A Acc ‡@ 279.90 … -0.90 … 99.77 93.30 Tr 0K% 29 94.74 – .88 … 1.30
Amer Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 211.80 … -0.60 …
Pacific Gwth ‡@ 485.70 … -4.10 … American A Acc ‡@ 611.63 … -6.85 … Gl ex-UK Bd A Inc ‡@ 214.30 … -0.80 … Sterling Class A Investment Funds 4 103.32 95.65 Tr 0Y% 29 97.11 – .96 … 1.27
Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 178.30 … -0.80 2.65 98.50 90.74 Tr 0W% 30 92.34 –1.08 … 1.32
Strategic Bd ‡@ 202.00 … -0.30 … Asia ex Japan A Acc ‡@ 722.46 … -0.57 … Glb Fins A Acc ‡@ 1077.00 … +1.00 1.03 Episode Allocation A Inc ‡@133.67 … -0.15 … Corp Bond Inc ‡@ 61.12 … -0.25 2.67 138.58 126.68 Tr 4O% 30 128.42 –1.32 3.70 1.30
UK Equity ‡@ 3000.00 … +37.00 … Capital Accumulator A Acc ‡@231.48 … -3.81 … Global A Acc ‡@ 1919.00 … -69.00 … Euro Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 211.20 … -8.10 0.37 96.58 88.37 Tr 0N% 31 89.92 –1.10 … 1.40
UK Gwth & Inc Acc 1 ‡@ 658.50 … … … Cautious Managed A Acc ‡@391.41 … -0.97 … 102.46 94.26 Tr 1% 32 95.84 –1.18 … 1.45
Japan A Acc ‡@ 534.30 … +0.50 … Glb Advtg CAT Acc ‡@ 147.90 … -2.10 … 138.01 125.04 Tr 4N% 32 –1.41 3.35 1.43
UK Gwth & Inc Dist ‡@ 234.70 … … … Cautious Managed A Inc ‡@251.46 … -0.62 … 126.84
Multi-Man Tst A Acc ‡@ 1235.00 … +23.00 … Glob Advtg Acc ‡@ 195.40 … -2.70 … 101.40 92.17 Tr 0Y% 33 93.73 –1.31 … 1.47
UK Smaller Cos ‡@ 1008.00 … +13.30 … Diversified Growth A Acc ‡@129.46 … +0.36 … MARKS & SPENCER UNIT TRUST LTD
Multi-Man Tst A Inc ‡@ 1097.00 … +20.00 … Glob Eq Uncstrd Acc ‡@ 146.60 … -2.20 … 147.21 131.96 Tr 4K% 34 133.35 –1.64 3.37 1.55
Diversified Growth A Inc ‡@137.92 … +0.38 … 0808 005 5555 97.55 87.02 Tr 0X% 35 88.21 –1.32 … 1.61
Nat Resources ‡@ 927.70 … -10.70 … Higher Inc Acc ‡@ 147.30 … -1.40 …
Diversified Income A Acc ‡@322.81 … -0.57 … High Income 99.90 99.90 -0.80 4.24
New Europe A ‡@ 155.70 … +12.00 2.11 Higher Inc Inc ‡@ 47.53 … -0.44 … Shorts (under 5 years)
Diversified Income A Inc ‡@71.53 … -0.13 … High Income Acc 268.00 268.00 -2.10 …
FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL Portfolio ‡@ 314.00 … -1.60 … Japan Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 127.40 … … … 117.13 108.58 Tr 3O% 21 115.83 – .08 … 1.24
Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Acc ‡@112.38 … -0.14 … UK 100 Comp Acc @ 403.50 403.50 +0.30 …
Private Clnts 0800 414161 Broker Dlgs 0800 414181 Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@ 97.35 … -0.65 … Managed Acc ‡@ 336.50 … -3.70 … 142.92 135.65 Tr 8% 21 141.44 – .10 5.66 1.19
Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Acc Gross ‡@125.82 … +0.20 4.21 UK 100 Cos @ 204.40 204.40 +0.10 … 100.71 99.88 Tr 0K% 22 99.99 + … … 0.54
Select Inc Acc ‡@ 95.24 … -0.69 …
Amer Spec Sits ‡@ 2204.00 … -7.00 … Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Inc ‡@68.58 … -0.08 … Stg Corp Bd A Inc ‡@ 55.20 … -0.37 … UK Select Pflo @ 311.60 311.60 -0.40 … 102.62 100.51 Tr 1O% 22 100.54 + … … 0.64
Select Inc Inc ‡@ 53.91 … -0.39 … 104.04 100.00 Tr 4% 22 100.00 + … 4.00 4.03
American ‡@ 5078.00 … -98.00 … Emerging Mkts Equity A Acc ‡@157.76 … -0.69 … UK Act 350 A Acc ‡@ 199.00 … -2.20 … UK Selection Port Acc @ 623.80 623.80 -0.80 … UK Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 325.80 … -5.40 … 100.19 98.87 Tr 0V% 23 99.08 – .10 … 1.16
Euro Opps ‡@ 501.60 … +7.60 … Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Acc ‡@169.42 … +0.27 … UK Dynamic Acc ‡@ 196.20 … +3.80 … Worldwide Mgd Acc @ 933.30 933.30 -5.40 … 100.26 96.30 Tr 0N% 25 96.93 – .40 … 1.33
UK Eq Hi Alpha ‡@ 201.20 … -3.30 …
European ‡@ 2831.00 … +39.00 0.30 Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Inc ‡@70.12 … +0.11 … UK Dynamic Inc ‡@ 142.30 … +2.80 … Wwide Mgd @ 553.30 553.30 -3.20 … 100.41 94.84 Tr 0W% 26 96.00 – .61 … 1.27
UK Eq Hi Inc Acc ‡@ 242.30 … -2.70 …
Extra Income ‡@ 26.21 … -0.15 4.19 Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt Gross I Acc ‡@220.49 … -0.05 5.42 UK Equity A Acc ‡@ 401.90 … +0.60 3.45 UK Eq Hi Inc Inc ‡@ 68.65 … -0.76 … * maturities having an eight-month indexation lag.
Glob Spec Sits ‡@ 5325.00 … -20.00 … Enhanced Natural Resources A Acc ‡@134.24 … -1.25 … UK Equity A Inc ‡@ 46.44 … +0.07 … UK Ethical Acc ‡@ 186.50 … -8.20 …
Global Focus ‡@ 2740.00 … -6.00 … Global Bond A Acc ‡@ 139.30 … +4.03 0.82
International ‡@ 149.50 … +0.20 0.08 Global Bond A Inc ‡@ 109.33 … +3.00 0.82
UK Eqy & Bd Inc Acc ‡@ 167.10 … -0.20 3.41 MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT MGMT LTD UK Opps Acc ‡@ 245.40 … -12.60 0.03 This is a paid for information service. For
Japan ‡@ 495.40 … -7.10 … Global Bond I Gross Inc ‡@1167.00 … +29.78 1.25
UK Eqy & Bd Inc Inc ‡@ 90.29 … -0.48 3.50 Enquires: 0800 0961 962 UK Opps Inc ‡@ 223.00 … -11.50 0.03 further details on a particular fund, readers
UK Higher Inc A Acc ‡@ 1132.00 … +7.00 … UK Smlr Cos Acc ‡@ 871.00 … -43.50 …
Moneybldr Bal ‡@ 44.96 … +0.12 … Global Dynamic A Acc ‡@ 192.34 … +0.03 … The Morgan Stanley Funds (UK) should contact their fund manager.
Moneybldr Glob 327.60 327.60 -0.10 0.21 Global Energy A Acc ‡@ 170.97 … -1.14 … UK Higher Inc A Inc ‡ 531.30 … +2.00 … Class A Shares
Moneybldr Gwth ‡@ 76.12 … -0.95 … Global Equity A Acc ‡@ 215.38 … -1.40 … UK Sm Cos A Acc ‡@ 584.20 … +16.50 0.29 Equity SVS BROWN SHIPLEY FUNDS
UK Str Eq Inc A Acc ‡@ 186.90 … +3.80 … Enquiries: 0141 222 1151 Data as shown is
Moneybldr Inc ‡@ 34.97 … -0.24 3.60 Global Franchise A Acc ‡@286.38 … -3.71 … Dev Opp Fund F Acc ‡ 743.25 … -16.55 …
Moneybldr UK Ind ‡@ 115.53 … +1.38 … Global Free Enterprise A Acc ‡@1185.72 … -10.66 … UK Str Eq Inc A Inc ‡@ 96.69 … +1.98 … Dev Opp Fund I Acc ‡ 740.86 … -16.50 … Balanced A Acc ‡@ 138.50 … -1.41 … for information
Special Sits ‡@ 3964.00 … +105.00 … Global Gold A Acc ‡@ 221.56 … +1.19 … US A Acc ‡@ 1036.00 … +25.00 … Glob Bal Inc F F Acc ‡@ 957.78 … -2.02 … Balanced A Inc ‡@ 124.80 … -1.28 … purposes only. No offer is made by Morningstar
Wealthbuilder 69.75 72.18 +0.53 0.44 Global Special Situations A Acc ‡@265.14 … +2.08 … US Sm Cos A Acc ‡@ 889.00 … -32.30 … Glob Bal Inc F F Inc ‡@ 936.56 … -1.98 … Cautious A Acc ‡@ 116.73 … -0.79 … or this publication
46 Wednesday March 9 2022 | the times

Business Equity prices

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

company’s trailing 12-month dividend payments 248K 186Y M&G 205 + 26O 8.8 85.4 556W 468K Br Land 468K + 5W 3.2 64.1 63K 34 SIG 34 + K … -9.4 380 243 Dialight 317 – 10 … …
divided by the last month’s ending share price 242K 151K Man 185N – 1N 4.1 11.3 152K 110 Caledonian Tstv 132K … … 33.9 113 67N SigmaRocv 73 + K … 23.4 2005X 1177Y Electrolux 'B' 1177Y + 4Y 10.8 6.7
12 month high and low Please note the 12 month high 8K 7N Manx Finv 7K … … 5.9 186N 151K Cap & Count Prop 151K + 1X … -3.5 144 88O Sirius Real Estate 113O + O 2.8 8.8 1W K Feedbackv X … … -3.9
and low figures for shares supplied by Morningstar are 4K 1V Marechale Capv 2Y + V … 1.4 91N 54 Cap & Regnl 56O + W … -0.5 161K 122K Smart (J) 161K … 1.9 6.1 1550 996 Gooch Hsegov 1045 … 0.4 77.4
based on intra-day figures, not closing prices. 13034O 8486V Marsh McLn 11329V – 250V 1.6 28.8 2100 1800 Cardiff Prop 2100 … 0.8 22.8 61 26 Steppe Cementv 26 … 14.5 5.9 3935 2845 Goodwin 2920 + 120 3.5 16.1
191X 127Y Taylor Wimpey 127Y – 2X 3.2 9.3 3216 2217 Halma 2217 – 90 0.8 32.1
892K 680 Mattioli Woodsv‡ 732K – 27K 2.7 … 42 25 Carecapitalv 26K – K … -3.1

12 month Price 12 month Price 164 120 Town Centre 137 + N 2.5 …
32K 18 Metal Tigerv 20K + 2O … 4.8 183 98K Clarke T 121 + 2K 3.6 13.5 1902 1220 Hill & Smith 1220 + 6 2.1 48.2
High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E
1900N 1222 Travis Perkins 1222 – 70 … 17.5
133 79Y Metro Bank 79Y + O … -0.6 262 188 CLS Hldgs 188 + 2W 4.0 11.8 121K 41K Holders Techv 85K – 9K 0.5 …
249 175Y Tritax Big Box REIT Plc223O – 1V 2.8 5.3
O W Drumzv W … … -5.9 1692X 1397W Nat Aust Bk 1578X + 2O 3.0 15.6 571K 258W Countryside Prop 258W – 7O … 18.8 4N 1O Image Scanv 2N … … 13.2
Automobiles & parts 167W 96O EFG-Hermes Hldg 167W + 3 … 9.4 253K 185X NWG 197W + 4K 3.0 9.6 74Y 16W Craven Housev 18N … … -0.4
124 95Y TRITAX EUROBOX PLC‡ 95Y – Y … …
1838 1260 IMI 1296 + 9 3.7 19.4
435 255 EPE Special Oppsv 255 … … 1.0 507 309K Tyman 309K + 3 1.2 11.9
2201 758V Aston Martin Lag 758V – 5V … -2.5 398 238 Numisv 238 – 10 5.0 4.8 4002 2936 CRH 2936 – 53 2.8 21.3 … … Inspirit Energyv … … … -3.4
891W 555K FBD 820V – 41 … 10.7 1346K 928 Vistry Group 946 + 7V 2.1 10.0
90 67K Fiskev 72K … … 15.0 576 418O Onesavings Bank 418O – 12 3.4 6.7 3802 2936 Derwent London 2936 + 29 2.5 63.7 8640 5740 Judges Scientificv 6090 – 280 0.9 38.2

Banking & finance 83K 44K Frenkel Toppingv 66 … 2.0 38.3 N … Origo Partnersv V … … -0.5 4K 3K Dolphin Capitalv 3K … … -2.4
176O 122K Warehouse REITv‡ 153O + 2 4.0 3.6
85K 57K LPAv 71 + 2 … 16.6
725 478K Georgia Capital 478K + 20 … 0.7 971 610K Workspace Grp 610K – 11 2.9 -9.0
741 522 PayPoint 522 – 7 6.1 16.3 35K 28K First Propv 33 … 1.3 … 839V 397 Meggitt 745W – O … 99.3
319 179Y abrdn 179Y + O 8.1 2.7 955 770 Gresham Housev 770 – 47 0.7 30.9 750 575 Wynnstay Propsv 680 … 3.0 4.9
3688 2464 Admiral 2464 + 21 4.8 11.0 325 244 H&T Groupv 290 + 12K 2.9 9.3 25 8N PCF Groupv 8N … … -3.9 50 32K Fletcher Kingv 43K … … … 206K 109N Melrose 109N – 3O 0.7 …
88K 26K ADVFNv 60K – 3 … 10.1 65 45K Hansard Global 47N + K 9.4 13.1 412K 288 Morgan Advanced 295K – 5 1.8 19.5
470
24068V
285W AJ Bell
16708K Aon Corpn
285W
21344O
– 4W 2.4 26.7
– 651W 0.6 72.1
1772 997O Hargreaves L‡ 997O – V 3.8 15.9
759O 589 Phoenix Gp 603 + 21V 7.8 … 68 32X Foxtons Group 32X + 1N … …
Consumer goods 647 416 Mpacv 416 – 4 … 20.0
381K 184 Provident 254O + 10V … -5.8 206V 120K Galliford Try 175 + K 0.6 19.2
43V 22N Appreciate Groupv‡ 23 – V 4.3 10.0 193V 142K Helios Underv 155 … 1.9 …
567V 359O HSBC 470N + 4N 3.4 11.3 1579N 1027K Prudential 1027K + 8K 1.1 14.2 801 473K Genuit Group 473K + 21K 1.0 30.5 240 145 MS Intlv 225 … 1.5 32.1
1175 820 Arbuthnot Bkgv 885 + 10 … 50.8 6 4N Agriterrav 5X … … -0.6
26K 11K Arden Partnersv 17K … … 4.3 952K 717 IG Group 717 – 7 6.0 7.3 179 96 Northbrdg Indv 165 … … …
3O Y Quantum Blockchain techv1X … … -9.0 900 640 Gleeson (MJ)‡ 640 – 24 0.7 11.0 36 25 Aireav 30 … … 13.3
21 17 Argo Groupv 17 – 2 … 7.8 1482 684 Impaxv‡ 745 – 67 1.4 24.5
424V 221V Ashmore Gp‡ 221V – 5V 7.6 6.4 168Y 117K Quilter PLC 117K + 3 3.9 32.6 1412 975 Grafton Gp Uts 975 – 21K 2.7 11.6 772 562 Anglo-Eastern 737 + 7 0.1 6.7 2680 1730 Oxford Inst 1770 + 10 0.9 24.1
2379 1425K Intermed Cap 1425K + 40K 3.9 8.1
1620V 1375N Aus New Z 1375N – 9Y 4.0 12.5
155W 90V IPF 90V + V 2.4 6.3 188 145 Randall & Quilterv 145 + 1K 2.6 … 335 265K Grainger 277V + 4 1.9 17.2 420 228 Animalcarev 319 … 1.2 … 4215 2245K Philips El nv 2245K – 28V 3.2 22.5
445K 370Y Aviva 386W + 11Y 6.9 12.8
300K 222Y Banco Santander 222Y + 8W 1.0 8.0 174O 157 Intl Public Pntshp 163V + 4 4.5 50.5 2494 1626K AB Foods 1626K – 47 0.3 26.8 32 5X PipeHawkv 23K + K … 29.3
2065 1524 Rathbone Grp 1524 + 6 4.7 19.0 741 633K Gr Portland 633K + 4K 1.9 -7.9
1670 1010 Bank of Georgia 1072 + 86 … 3.3 457K 209X Investec 376 – 3W 3.4 9.4
217 152N Barclays‡ 152N + X 1.9 4.1 2N 1 RiverFort Global Oppsv 1 … 1.8 3.1 44N 29K Hammerson 29K – 1Y 1.3 -1.6 140V 87 Bakkavor Group 114 + 5V 3.5 12.5 100 63K Pressure Techv 63K – 2 … -0.6
316 281 Investment Co 303 + 1 0.9 10.4
K … Blue Star Capitalv N … … 5.3 6565 3768 Renishaw 3768 – 78 1.7 21.4
155V 80K IP Group 80K + 1K 1.2 3.0 … … Rockwood Realisation … … … … 191 118K Harworth Gp 161K + 9 1.1 5.9 582 466 Barr (AG) 493K + 3K … 17.5
359 267 BP Marsh&Ptnrsv 299 – 1 0.8 8.2
116 12K Braveheart Invv 12K + O … 0.3 365 227K Jarvis Securitiesv‡ 240 + 11K 5.4 16.5 6W 1X Bidstack Groupv 2O … … -2.3 34 19K Renoldv 20 … … 7.1
2950 2140 S & U‡ 2200 … 4.0 10.3 600 350 Heath (Samuel)v‡ 600 … 1.1 12.4
406 275 Brewin Dolphin 275 + 9 5.2 15.0 299K 178V Jupiter Fund Mgmt 178V … 9.6 7.7
200 107K Brand Architektsv 107K … … -4.5 147W 87 Rolls-Royce 91W + 3V … 2.0
569 274K Bridgepoint 274K + K … … 111W 75Y Just Group 78 + 2K … -5.4 3N 1X Sancus Lending Grpv 1X … … -0.4 497 384 Helical PLC 387K + 13K 2.6 9.3
94 53 Cenkos Secsv 53 … 6.6 10.8 3439 2512K Brit Amer Tob 2979 … 7.1 11.0 3O 1X Ross Gp 1X … … -4.1
725 346K Lancashire Hdgs 346K – 7O 3.1 14.0 56K 39X Schroder REIT 55Y + 2Y 4.5 5.9 1000 715 Highcroft Invs 940 – 30 5.4 6.3
314 256K Chesnara 256K – 3 8.5 8.4
307O 245 Legal & Gen 245 + 6V 7.1 7.2 1006 741 Britvic 741 – 3K 3.7 19.2 376K 295K Rotork 298W + 9K 3.4 27.1
76 46K City of Lon Gpv 59K … … -4.0 3871 2853 Schroders 2853 + 36 4.0 14.4 242W 154 Ibstock 154 – 1W 1.0 19.2
560 424 City Lon Inv Gp‡ 424 + 24 7.3 10.9 53043 502X Liberty Group 502X – 2X … 26.7 2264 1551K Burberry Grp 1551K – 29 2.7 13.3 217 137K SDI Groupv 137K … … 22.6
1685 1074 Close Bros 1074 + 2 5.4 8.0 2485 1090 Liontrust 1090 – 56 4.3 13.6 2735 1742 Schroders N/V 1742 + 10 6.5 8.8 314 245 James Halsteadv 246 – 7 3.3 25.7
538 219K CMC Markets 225 – 1K 13.6 6.8 298 181N C&C Grp 181N + 3 … … 181 101Y Senior 123X + 2X … …
62 42 Livermore Invsv 48K + 1 7.2 3.1 1731K 1180 St James Place 1180 – 20 4.2 31.2 1028 723 Keller 723 + 17 7.8 9.9
763X 399 Commerzbk 486K + 18N … -2.6 18K 7V Capital Metalsv 7V … … -1.9
55V 40 Lloyds Bkg Gp 41Y + X 1.3 6.4 82K 64 Severfield 64 + W 4.5 11.4
1199N 756K Deutsche Bk 756K + 18K … 10.3 580O 410 Stand Chart‡ 463X + 13N 1.9 11.2 8872Y 5369W Kingspan Group 6547O – 200O 0.2 29.7
326K 250Y Direct Line Ins 250Y – 10V 8.8 9.5 37O 30Y LMS Capital 33 … 2.7 14.3 167K 124K Carr's Grp 152 … 3.1 18.7
16K 8O Six Hundredv 13N … … 77.4
59K 53 Downing ONE VCT 58K … 4.2 7.9 9488 6370 Lond Stk Ex Gp 6982 – 390 1.0 64.4 21 12 Starvestv 13K + K … 0.7 813V 653V Land Sec 701W + 4V 4.8 …
705 450 Character Grpv 585 – 15 1.5 10.4
1973W 1198K SKF B 1198K + 29W 4.6 9.0
2025 1345 Churchill Chinav 1500 – 85 … …
270 175 Slingsby (HC)v 175 – 55 … 2.9
Investment companies 2784 1460K Coca Cola HBC 1460K – 19K … 11.8
1661 1355K Smiths 1365K – 12 3.4 34.9
705 420 Colefaxv 700 … … 12.3
12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 1405 830 Solid Statev 1000 + 40 1.6 24.1
High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm 4148 3182 Cranswick 3182 – 66 2.2 16.8
598 350 Somero Enterv 450 + 35 4.8 11.3
228K 183V Devro 189K + 10V 8.0 11.6
1477 1069 3I Group 1143K + 5 3.2 -7.8 200 157 Invesco BondInc 169K + 5 5.8 -9.7 4083 2590 Spectris 2590 + 33 4.3 13.0
357 287 3i Infrastructure 333K + 11K 3.5 12.6 176 154K IPST Bal 162 … … -7.2 4103K 2933K Diageo‡ 3343 – 5K 2.1 25.7
17135 10780 Spirax-Sarco 10985 – 375 1.0 39.4
104K 91 Abrdn Div I&G 98W – 1 4.5 -15.0 250 206 IPST Gbl Eq 221 – 1 2.9 -3.2 3 1V Distilv 1V – V … 30.0
1622O 1134 Aberforth Smlr 1206 + 26 2.3 -13.1 104Y 101 IPST Managed 100K – 1K 0.9 -5.8 78 39 Surface Trsfmsv 39 … … …
908 577K Evans (M.P.)v 892 + 16 2.4 14.8
1084Y 867O Alliance 901 – 6 1.6 -6.9 199Y 162 IPST UK Eq 176 + 2 3.3 -5.9
2Y 1O Tanfieldv 1O … … -4.8
543O 424 Asia Dragon Tr 430 … 1.2 -11.9 664 453 IP UKSmallerCos 470K + 7K … -18.6 102 77 Finsbury Foodv 84 … … 9.0
260 185 Athelney Trust 225 – 10 3.6 -9.3 770 579X JPM American 675 – 18 0.9 -3.8 520 323 Thorpe FWv 410 – 18 1.3 30.3
12220 6365 Games Workshop 6365 – 305 4.0 17.5
1118 169 AVI Global Trust 172 – W 1.5 -11.6 514 357O JPM Asia 364 – 11K 4.4 -7.8
6N 2X TP Groupv 2X … … -4.1
522 275 Baillie Gifford Ch Gr 280K – 2K 2.0 -11.1 731 344K JPM Chinese 357 – 12 5.2 -6.2 1264K 867 Glanbia 867 – 29 2.6 17.5
171 90 Baillie Gifford Eu Gr 93 – 2 0.3 -7.4 952 610N JPM Claverhs 662 + 22 4.2 -2.7 122K 67 Transense Techv 70 … … 72.9
170O 116V Greencore 116V + 1W … 23.2
1120 757 Baillie Gifford Jpn Tr 764 – 5 0.7 -6.4 105 99K JPM Elect Mg C 101O … 0.2 -0.9
269V 154K Baillie Gifford SN 156W – 3K … -4.4 1115N 911K JPM Elect Mg G 935 – 5 1.6 -1.2 3370 1940 Ultra Electrncs 3110 – 28 3.0 22.8
536 345 Headlam 345 + 15 0.5 20.2
257 161Y Baillie Gifford UK Gr 168 + 1K 1.1 -10.8 111 92 JPM Elect Mg I 93K – N 4.4 -2.8 590 365K Vesuvius 365K + 18K 4.7 16.1
1240 1004 Hilton Food 1026 + 2 2.1 21.4
150K 96 Bankers 98K – 1Y 1.9 -5.9 140N 99K JPM Em Mkts 100K – 2W 1.1 -11.7
3970 3200 BH Macro 3770 + 90 … 4.4 168 128N JPM Eur IT Inc 154N – 1O 3.7 5.6 59 36 Hornbyv 36 – K … … 1615 1005 Vitec 1060 – 45 0.4 31.9
1556Y 852 Biotech Growth 890 + 10 … -3.9 588 369 JPM Euro disc 374K – 2K 1.3 -16.7 493K 237 Volexv 237 – 7K 1.4 12.9
1818K 1369 Imperial Brands‡ 1492 + 6 9.2 4.9
140N 85 BlckRck Com Inc 133O – 1K 3.4 9.2 155 118K JPM GEMI 121 … 3.3 -17.9
140 112O BlckRck Fro Inv 118O + 4O 3.8 -13.5 475 390 JPM GG&I 411 – 2 2.6 0.9 1Y X J Lewis Hfordv 1X … … 16.7 2005 1520K Weir 1599 + 74 … 27.2
732 436N BlckRck Grt Euro 456 – 8 1.1 -3.6 865 670 JPM Indian 710 + 5 … -19.4
10730W 7860W Kerry Gp 7860W – 440K 0.9 28.6 5690 3470 XP Power 3470 – 130 2.6 18.5
200 158 BlckRck Inc & Gwth 172 + 3K 3.5 -9.6 568W 338 JPM Jap Sml Co 345K – 6K 5.3 -8.3
410 310 BlckRck Latin Am 371 + 7 4.9 -10.4 732 458K JPM Japan# 468 + 2K 0.9 -9.4 94K 43K McBride 43K + K 2.5 5.5 195 138 Zytronicv‡ 150 … … 50.0
209 161 BlckRck Sustain Amer 191K + 3K 3.8 -8.8 1585V 885 JPM Mid Cap 960 + 6 2.3 -11.2
407 200 Mulberry Groupv 200 – 20 … 8.2
2230N 1412N BlckRck Smlr 1458 – 22 1.8 -11.8 110N 87N JPM Multi-asset G&I 101K – K 3.8 -2.3
1046 621O BlckRck Throgmorton 638 – 11 1.3 -0.9 894 83 JPM Russian 89 – W 25.0 113.3 1640 1105 Nicholsv 1320 – 45 2.7 48.0 Health
782 492 BlckRck Wld Min 768 + 4 3.4 0.3 478W 267 JPM Smllr Co 276 + 1 1.5 -14.9
341 242 Norcros 242 – 5 3.3 7.6
31O 12N Blue Plan Int Fn# 15K … 2.6 -6.9 375 195K Keystone IT 215 + 4 3.4 -12.4
341 269K BMO Cap&Inc 282 + 1 3.6 -2.3 829 696 Law Debenture 743 + 1 3.5 1.7 329X 271Y Origin Entsv 290W … 0.9 11.4 1750 1171 Abcamv 1171 – 44 … …
118K 1V BMO Comm Prop 109 + 1W 3.3 -14.6 1450 110 Lowland 116O + 2N 4.3 -9.2 341 222K AdvancedMedicalv 267 – 3 0.6 41.9
72 46 Pittardsv 65K – 2K … 69.6
175V 138W BMO Glbl Smaller 142K – 1 1.0 -11.2 253V 180 Majedie 180 – 1 4.5 -22.8
500 280 BMO Priv Eq Ord 453 + 14 3.1 -24.9 437 303 M Currie Port 306 – 4 1.2 -1.7 710 532 Portmeirionv 570 + 18 … 24.3 38K 20W Allergy Therapv 22 + O … 51.1
96V 68V BMO Real Estate 88 + 3 3.0 -30.1 130 99 Marwyn Val In 114 … 5.0 -36.6 139 75 Anglev 75N … … …
1 X Provexisv O … … 0.4
101 77 BMO UK HIT 79K – K 5.7 -5.8 294K 185V Mercantile IT 195W – O 2.5 -10.5
108 79 BMO UK HIT B 82 … … -3.5 591 469K Merchants 521 + 8 4.8 0.7 37 28 STM Groupv 28 – K 5.0 10.7 105 98N LIFE SCIENCE REITv 98N … … … 274K 182O PZ Cussons 182O – W 3.1 21.8 715 480 Anpariov 480 + 15 1.7 25.2
408 310N BMO UK HIT UNIT 312 + 2 4.2 -8.8 870 679W Mid Wynd 726 – 22 0.8 2.1 4367Y 3683V Sun Life Can 3972V + 86K 3.2 11.0 187K 50 REA 187K + 9K … …
18K 10K Lon & Assoc 14K – K … -1.9 … … Aqua Bounty … … … …
1535 1090 Brown Advsr US Smlr1140 … … -13.9 1482 969 Monks Inv Tst 980 – 9 0.1 -7.3
1135 854 Brunner 952 + 10 1.7 -11.1 2170 129 Montanaro Eur Sml 134V – 1K 0.5 -8.5 6K 1O Tavistock Invv 5X … 0.8 0.9 4N 1K Real Gd Fdv 2K … … 0.2 9444 6857 AstraZeneca‡ 8747 + 96 2.3 …
285V 206V London Metric Prop 254V + 2V 3.4 5.4
4085 2620 Caledonia Inv 3230 – 20 1.3 -30.7 959K 738 Murray Income Trust 780 + 10 3.8 -8.1 1656 937 TBC Bank Group 937 + 36 3.7 3.0 705 445 Tandemv 445 + 10 1.9 6.1 46 25W Circassia Groupv 34O – 2N … -7.2
200 157 Invesco BondInc 169K + 5 5.8 -9.7 1240 1038 Murray Int 1134 – 4 4.4 -8.1 70K 41V Macau Prop Op 41V + 1 … …
30N 7X Ternv 10 … … …
417 363N City of Lon IT 379 + 2 4.8 1.6 98X 81X Nb Global Floating 87 + V 4.9 -6.5 1315 918 Treatt‡ 918 + 2 0.6 36.8 134 56 Creighton 56 + 2 2.0 10.7
31O 20K Time Financev 21 + 1 … 12.8 845 590 Marshalls 590 + 12K 0.7 24.9
122 97 Crystal Amber Fd 117K + 5 8.1 -23.7 376 286N Pacific Assets 294 + 3 0.6 -15.1 5O 2K Ukrproduct Gpv 2K … … -1.7 5405 3272 Dechra Pharma‡ 3856 – 80 0.9 75.5
523O 324V Dunedin Entp 464 – 4 5.4 -14.4 3713 254O Pantheon Int 280 + 3 … -32.8 1500 1135 Volverev 1165 – 15 … … 288 197K McKay Secs 270 – 1 3.0 17.8
653K 547 Edinburgh IT 585 + 5 4.2 -8.2 3125 2365 Pershing Sq 2465 – 5 0.7 -28.6 670 36 Unbound Group plcv 36 – 1 … 0.2 2 1V Deltex Medicalv 1V … … -9.2
58K 45K WH Irelandv 45K … … 25.5 162K 108 Michelmershv 108 – 1 2.3 15.1
369 187X Edin Wwide 195 – 5 … -13.0 51166 44250 Personal Assets 49000 … 1.1 0.8 5097 4025 Unilever (NV) 4025 – 2K 2.7 22.7
36K 25K Walker Crips Grp 30K … 2.4 87.1 48W 19X e-Therapeuticsv 23 + O … …
313N 270 EP Global Opp 279 – 1 1.8 -13.4 2760Y 1970N Polar Cap Tech 2010 – 10 … -12.2 2685 1670 Morgan Sindall 2200 + 155 2.7 13.7
152 94V European Assets 100K + K 6.6 -6.5 203 150 Prem Glb & Inf 166 … 4.0 -13.7 4360 3336K Unilever‡ 3336K + 8K 4.3 18.8
4427V 2785K Wells Fargo 3600V + 106 1.0 11.5 395 152 Eco Animal Hlthv 160K – 7 0.6 19.4
891 594 European Opp Tr 650 – 17 0.2 -13.6 137O 118O Renewables Inf 136 + 2W 5.7 12.4 14750 10900 Mountview‡ 13450 … 3.1 16.7
1478 1106 Westpac 1200X – 5K 3.9 16.2 1210 680 Victoriav 680 – 50 … …
945K 549 F&C Investment Tr 779 – 15 1.3 -9.6 3635N 2136 RIT Cap Ptnr 2345 … … -13.0 85 45 EKF Diagnosticsv 45 + 1V 2.2 12.7
106O 71O NewRiver REIT 79K + O 3.7 -2.7
510 411 Fidlty Asian Val 417 + 1 1.8 -14.4 654 253 Riverstone 614 – 2 … -32.9 31X 25 Worsley Investors Ltd 28N … … 88.4
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Engineering 6070 2882 Genus‡ 2882 – 178 1.0 40.0
315 205 Panther Securitiesv 275 … 4.3 2.4
343 256K Fidlty Euro Val 269 + 1K 2.0 -9.5 323 271O Schrod Inc Gwth 287 + 6 4.1 -1.2 1707O 1224V GlaxoSmKline‡ 1508K + 24K 5.3 17.7
268W 154K Fidlty Jap Tru 161O – N … -9.5 231 185Y Schrod Jap Gwth 188 – 2 1.9 -12.9 Construction & 3238 2274 Persimmon 2278 – 32 10.3 9.2 … … Ass Br Eng# 15 … … -3.5
2V X Gunsyndv X … … 1.5
312 247 Fidlty Spec Val 260 + 2 2.3 -0.6 809 489 Schrod UKMid 524 + 10 2.1 -16.2
928 746 Fins Gwth & Inc 756 – 8 1.9 -6.4 39Y 23K Schroder UK PP Tr 24O – K … -34.4 property 17K 4X Pires Investmentsv 5N … … … 3582 916 Avon Rubber‡ 1202 + 11 2.4 …
2690 1825 Hikma Pharms 1825 … 1.9 12.5
140N 94K GCP Infrastructure 106V – 1V 6.6 0.6 546 435 Scot American 446K – 9K 2.5 -2.4 380V 228W Babcock 329Y + 15W … -2.0
425 20 Plaza Cent 112K – 37K … -0.2
62K 37K Gldn Prosp Prc Mtl 52X + 2N … -14.5 927 680 Scot IT 834 – 1 2.6 -3.9 624 275 Hutchmed Chinav 275 – 17 … …
277K 162K Alumascv‡ 182K – 1 2.8 8.7 754W 483K BAE Sys 754W + 13K 4.9 13.7
155 124K Greencoat UK Wind 152 + 1W 5.4 13.1 1568K 816V Scot Mtge 834K – 21W 0.3 -6.1 169K 131 Primary Hlth 137N + 1V 3.3 12.9
23V 14K Aseana Props 14O – O … -7.4 380 182 Immunodiag Sysv 378 … 0.5 …
248 184 Hansa Investment 190 – 4 1.0 -35.5 235 187K Secs Tst Scot 212 … 2.5 -2.7 2400 1950 Braime A N/Vv 2010 – 140 0.5 22.6
36K 8V Raven Property 8V – 2K … 0.7
238 187O Hansa Inv Co 'A' 191K – 4K 0.7 -34.9 114K 95Y Sequoia Eco 99 + 2V 6.2 -4.6 79O 59K Assura Grp 65 + 2 4.4 13.0 10 5 ImmuPharmav 5W … … -1.7
2600 1780 Braime Groupv 1780 – 20 0.6 20.0
2870 1932 Hbrvest Glbl Pt Eq 2295 + 95 … -35.5 1279N 992 Temple Bar 1060 + 22 3.0 -7.0 126 20 Raven Property Gr‡ 20 + 1 … 22.4
2N 1W Aukett Swankev 2N … … -5.4 286K 118O Indivior 260 – 3O … 17.5
1687X 120O Hend Euro Foc 130 + 3 2.0 -12.2 208O 140V Tplton Emg Mkt 141 – 1O 2.1 -15.7 600 345 Caffyns 550 … … 7.9
322O 220O Balfour Beatty 220O + 5V 0.6 24.2 42O 32K Real Estate Invsv 36O – N 8.8 -7.9
189K 149K Hend High Inc 157O + 4N 5.6 -3.7 Y N Tiger Royal and Invv N … … 52.7 10 4N Cap XX Ldv 4N … … -9.7 150 96K Inspiration Healthv 102 … 0.5 15.7
1378 868 Hend Smlr 889 + 1 2.0 -12.1 526 339Y TR Property 416K + 2 3.0 -5.1 794O 531O Barratt Devs 531O – 9V 1.4 8.3 718O 525V Redrow‡ 525V + 1W 1.1 7.1
420 308 Castings 308 + 1 4.9 14.8 111 43 IXICOv 43K + K … 13.9
2670 1634 Herald 1634 – 26 … -23.9 83 67O Troy Inc&Gth 70N … 1.9 -1.6
3712 2654 Bellway 2654 – 17 3.2 8.4 1418 735K Safestore‡ 1204 + 39 1.5 10.3
445 308 HgCapital Trust 400 + 16 1.1 -13.0 286O 215 Utilico Ord 224 – 4 2.3 -34.4 13O 4W Chamberlinv 4W … … -0.3 346W 275O Mediclinic Int 324 + 4V … 20.2
178K 158X HICL Infra 168W + 3W 5.3 6.6 229 190 Utilico Emerging Mkt 204 – 1 3.4 -11.4 5352W 3718 Berkeley 3718 – 32 0.2 9.6
1450 1051 Savills 1051 – 18 1.6 13.5 10N 2N N4 Pharmav 2W … … -2.3
286 240 Highbridge Tactical 249 – 7 … 1.4 144N 134 UtilFin RdZDP 2022 143K … … 1.5 66 38K Checkitv 38K … … -4.7
1724 1053 Big Yellow Group 1363 + 15 2.4 8.9
1300 976 ICG Ent Tr 1136 + 30 1.2 -32.2 783 574 Vietnam Ent Inv 719 – 11 … -22.2 7K 5 Secure Propertyv 6K … … 17.2 678 449K Cohortv 524 – 3 2.1 46.5 86.92 72.84 Novartis CHF74.37 –20.48 4.0 7.7
342 196 Billington Hldgsv 237 … 1.7 19.2
584K 370Y Impax Env Mkts 408K – 6K 0.6 -1.4 324O 203 Witan 209K + 1 2.2 -8.2
310 258 Boot (Henry) 298 + 15 1.8 15.9 1436K 875O Segro 1231 – 2K 1.8 5.7 2710 1350 Dewhurstv 1415 – 60 0.9 16.2 93Y 4N Omega Diagsv 4N – 1V … -1.6
412 310X Invesco Asia Tr 313 + 1 4.2 -14.9 3925 2915 Ww Health 2960 – 30 0.6 -9.0
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22K 9W Ovoca Biov 12K … … -3.5 61 26N Ebiquityv 51 … … … 27N 15V EnQuest 27V + 1W … -2.9 4346 2819 Total Eng SE 3771K + 84X 6.1 12.5 696K 395O RWS Hldgsv 395O – 13W 2.3 36.3 O V Location Sciencesv V … … -1.3

1634 624 Oxford Biomedica 624 + 22 … 28.0 1108 829 Euromoney In Inv 829 – 37 1.3 … 36K 7V Eurasia Miningv 9K + O … … K V Tower Resourcesv N … … -4.9 490 310 Science Groupv 365 + 12 1.6 15.7 587K 333 Micro Focus Intl 348N + 9K 3.2 -0.7
7V 4N Physiomicsv 4N + V … … 3910 1694 Future 2268 – 2 … 39.0 64Y 40N Tullow Oil 62V + 5W … 6.2 145O 121Y Serco Gp 122O + 1K 1.1 5.1 90K 46K MTI Wirelessv 55 + 6K 3.3 17.9
3K 1 Europa Oil&Gasv 2O + N … …
9Y 3O Proteome Sciesv 3O … … 29.6 N … UK Oil & Gasv V … … -0.6 45W 29 Smiths News 33W – V 1.5 3.2 29O 16K Nanoco Gp 17X + V … …
1660 1225 GlobalDatav 1270 – 40 1.3 2.8 698V 60 Evraz 77Y + Y 65.0 1.0
6801 5391 Reckitt Benck 5561 + 1 3.1 … 4305 2920 Smurfit Kappa 2920 – 33 5.7 14.8 88 60 Netcallv 60 – K 0.4 93.7
152 49 Hyve Group 49 + 2N … -8.7 501 125W Ferrexpo 125W + 9W 11.4 0.9 535 135 URU Metalsv 275 + 80 … 8.8
164K 52K RUA Life Sciencesv 52K … … -5.0 92O 41K Staffline Gpv 41K … … …
622 73K IG Design Grpv 73K – 2K 11.8 10.7 12 1 Vast Resv 1 … … -0.1 75K 57K Northamberv 62K … 0.9 50.4
986O 622W Fresnillo 808W + 69 2.2 13.4
457K 76N Sareum Hldgsv 127K – 10 … …
6V 2O Victoria Oil&Gasv 3Y … … -1.8 602 335 SThree 347 + 1 1.4 15.9 75K 26K Online Blockchainv 26K … … …
39K 11Y Immedia Grpv 16N … … -4.2 … … G3 Exploration# 28 … … -2.6
1592K 1179 Smith & Neph 1197K – 2K 2.2 26.2
18 2V W Resourcesv 2W … … -0.2 150 90 Synecticsv 112K – 2K … -5.6 126K 91K Oxford Metricsv 103K … 1.7 45.0
624 464W Informa 495 – 23X … …
254K 151K Spire Hcare 222 – 2 … … 43 16K Galantas Goldv 30K + K … -5.2
15N 5N Westmount Engyv 6N … … -8.6 29 17N Thruvision Groupv 24K … … -8.9 13K 6N Parityv 7K … … …
132K 79V ITV 79V + 5X … 8.8
212K 18W Synairgenv 23V – 2O … -1.0 11 4 GCM Resourcesv 5Y … … -3.9
330K 168Y Wood Grp (J) 174N + 5K … -7.1 110 85K Tribalv 85K – 3 1.2 25.9 50 26 Pennant Intlv 31 – K … …
16K 8 Jaywingv 10K … … …
X N Tissue Regenixv N … … -4.2 78W 44V Gem Diamonds 44W – 3N 4.0 3.1
7X 3X Woodboisv 3X … … 14.1 117K 73K Vianetv 86K … … … 770 351 Playtech 593 + 29K … 6.2
43N 30 Totallyv 34K + 2 1.4 54.7 8N 3 Live Company Gpv 4K … … -0.9
37 18K Getechv 28 – K … -6.6
1060 810 Vp 890 … 2.8 21.9 356 243 QinetiQ 303K – 8 3.7 23.7
V … Mediazestv … … … -2.0 7Y 3V Xtract Resourcesv 5V … … -9.3
680 320 Tristelv 332K – 2K 1.9 52.6 476V 268O Glencore 476V + 1N 0.9 41.1
6V 2V Westminsterv 2V … … -2.6 255 156 RM 158K + 6K 1.8 11.4
75 41 Merit Grpv 45K … … … 7O 2 Zephyr Energyv 5K + V … -7.0
55N 17O ValiRxv 21N – O … …
Y W Global Petrolv K … … -0.7
853O 579K Sage Gp 637K – 23 2.7 24.4
82K 60 Miradav 60 – 8 … -2.6

Industrials 89K 46K Mission Groupv 46K + K 3.2 50.0

110009K 1259X Gold Fields 1259X + 60V 1.7 16.4
Professional & Retailing 12 7 Seeing Machinesv 7 + V … …
8 6X Goldplatv 8 + V … 6.1
305W 187 Moneysupermarket 187Y – 3 6.2 17.9
14K 7O Goldstone Resv 9 + O … …
support services 332W 85Y AO World 86V + N … …
215 74 Shearwater Grpv 74 … … 45.8

188 139N Accsys Techv 141K + 1K … … 6K 3N SimiGonv 3N – K … -1.5

2071Y 1551W News Corp A 1551W + 4K 0.9 25.3
644 520 B&M European 558 – 12O 3.1 12.9
6021V 4130V BASF 4130V + 83O 6.8 8.2 23X 12K Greatld Gldv 16Y + 2W … … 3170 2250 4imprint Grp 2560 + 35 … … 182K 65V Smartspace S'warev 75 … … -7.8
1945V 1575O News Corp B 1575O + 10X 0.9 25.7
77O 30K Brown (N)v 30K + O … 8.9
4751K 3669O Bayer DM50 4190X – 14 4.1 … 149 80O Griffin Miningv 100N + 11 … 11.0 610 467 Andrews Sykesv 477 … 4.9 15.2 2240 1427 Softcat 1451 – 5 1.5 30.1
1340 628 Next 15 Commsv 1120 + 20 0.6 … 95K 43N Card Factory 43N + N … …
505 190 Biome Techv 215 – 5 … -5.2 242K 143 Gulf Keystone 233 + 15 3.6 14.5 6450 3884 Ashtead 4567 – 77 0.9 24.3 300V 215K Spirent Comms 215K – V 2.0 22.4
869W 571O Pearson 614K – 2O 3.1 16.6 2770 1580 CVS Groupv 1630 – 26 … 60.1
7K 2O Byotrolv 3V … … … 647V 310 Harbour Energy 400V – 5V … … 74 26O Asimilar Groupv 28K – K … 1.7 48K 30 SRT Marinev 38 … … …
78O 50K Photo-Me 68V + 3V 12.3 7.6 300 182 DFS Furn 182 + 2O … 5.3
7N 5K Camb Gbl Timberv 6K … … -8.6 48 12O Harland & Wolff Group Holdingsv14N + N … 1.1 2300 775 AssetCov 1490 – 5 … 4.6 925X 590W Tele. Ericsson 603V + 7N 2.8 11.7
5 3N Primorus Invv 3Y … … 7.0 1551 1054 Dunelm‡ 1054 + 16 1.1 16.7
79O 56 Coats Grp 64 – Y 1.4 15.3 92K 60 Touchstarv 75 … … …
212O 100 Hochschild 146K + 22Y 3.1 16.8 53K 35 Avisenv 37K – 1 … …
136 67K Quarto 109 … … 6.0 813K 452V Frasers Group 584K + 22 … 25.9
10410 6082 Croda 6736 – 312 1.3 37.3 1100 648 Tracsisv 850 + 25 … …
11V 5O Horizonte Minrlsv 7V + V … … 148K 103 Begbies Traynorv 103 + 3 2.9 …
1575 1090 Cropper (James)v 1200 … … 36.5 420 161K Reach 161K + 10K 2.6 -8.5 3416 2060 Greggs 2206 – 77 … 26.3
27 14K Trakm8v 19K … … …
23Y 10Y Hummingbird Resv 14K + K … … 292 197K Blancco Techv 197K + 1 … …
161X 104 Elementis 104 + 5V … 71.8 3X 1N REACT Grpv 1X … … 40.6 435 229W Halfords 229W + 2W 2.1 7.6
165 95 Triad Grp 135 – 2K 1.4 14.8
28O 12O IGas Energyv 26O + 7V … -1.3 2969 2150 Bunzl 2746 – 84 3.2 20.2
42K 26 Hardidev 30K – K … -6.9 2424 1698K Relx 2071 – 142 2.2 29.9 975K 688W Howden Join 736K – 23K 1.2 17.1
502 255 Wandiscov 255 + 3 … -4.7
1W W Independ Resv W … … -0.4 52O 20O Capita 20O … … 1.3
3300 1721 Johnson Math 1767K + 7K 3.9 22.2 800W 555O Rightmove 612O – 39V 0.7 34.6 933 652K Inchcape 652K – 2K 1.0 35.0
1340 595 Water Intelv 790 – 25 … 43.4
51K 29 CEPSv 42K … … -9.6
2068 1318 Mondi 1318 + 9 5.9 12.8 16K 8K SpaceandPeoplev 13K … … -2.4 237 214 Indus Gasv 228 – 4 … 23.6 9W 4N IQ-AI 4N + V … …
258K 139 Xaar 192 + 4 … …
136 89 Christie Groupv 95 – 2K … 40.4
159K 77K Robinsonv 77K – 2K 10.9 … 377K 315 STV Group 315 + 7 1.9 7.5 1N K Ironveldv Y … … … 234 131O JD Sports 131O … 0.2 15.9
17N 8N Yourgenev 8N … … -5.7
1820K 1407K Compass 1548K + 2K … 77.4
462N 295X Smith (DS) 295X – 3Y 4.0 16.8 467 185 System1 Groupv 280 … … 13.4 536 228 ITM Powerv 406V + 54O … … 376W 266 Kingfisher 266 + 4W 3.1 6.8
151 97 Zoo Digitalv 102 + 5K … …
567K 281 CPPGroupv 281 + 6 8.9 -9.8
614Y 396K Swire Pacific 396K – 15 4.0 … 21Y 13X Jubilee Metalsv 16 … … 8.9 101 41Y Lookers 82K + Y … 4.5
3311X 2581K 21st Cent Fox Inc A 3208V + 35 1.0 14.4
28 14N Symph Environv 18 – N … … 93K 66 Croma Securityv 83K – 1K 2.3 12.6
256Y 131K Marks Spencer 151V + 1N … …
564 260K Synthomer 260K + 8 4.4 5.1
3106N 2415V 21st Cent Fox Inc B 2928Y + 28V 1.1 13.2 6K 2 Karel Diamd Resv 2 … … -2.9
6614 5506 DCC 5568 + 68 2.8 18.4
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6V … Vela Techv … … … 11.0 2W X KEFI Gold and Copperv X … … -2.8
2791N 1953V Takeda Pharm 2195Y – 60 5.2 12.3 207 101K De La Rue 101K – 1W … 13.3 19X 12K Mothercarev 13K … … -8.4
254 190 Wilmington‡ 239 + 2 0.8 … 488 390 Kenmare Res 440 + 17 1.6 12.9 315 162K AdEPT Technologyv 162K – 3K … …
13K 4 Velocysv 4O … … -6.0 3460 2340 Diploma 2420 – 52 1.7 43.2 888 358 Naked Winesv 358 – 5K … …
1224 888V WPP 947O + 28O 2.5 24.0 78W 30 Lamprell 32X – 1W … -2.8 205K 134O BT Group 163N – K … 15.8
2706 1777 Victrex 1777 – 17 3.3 21.1 1262 640 Discoverie PLC 704 – 33 1.4 57.7 8426 5842 Next 5842 + 72 … 12.8
86 55 Zinc Mediav 80 … … -1.2 159V 84W Currys plc 84W – 5O … 3.9
600 432K Wynnstay Groupv 500 – 10 2.9 15.9 37W 20N Landore Resv 22N + N … -5.0
68K 39K Driver Groupv‡ 40K … 3.7 19.2 2236 1105 Ocado Gp 1105 – 75K … …
2335 1322 Gamma Commsv 1322 – 28 0.8 18.4
494 313 Zotefoams 313 – 2 2.0 18.8 1 W Lansdowne O&Gv W … … …
1255 868 Electrocompnts 868 … 2.9 22.0 23X 14W Pendragon 19X – N … 6.1
Natural resources 29K 18 Leeds Groupv 18K … … -3.0 357 251 Essentra 272K + 15 1.2 46.1 519 354 Pets at Home 359O + 7W 2.2 14.6
189 126O Helios Towers 126O – 1V … …

7975 2234K Just Eat T'away 2234K – 111K … -6.9

Leisure 4W X ADM Energyv X … … …
5Y 2X Lexington Goldv 3 + V … -7.2 3667 2352 Experian 2706 – 122 1.2 34.7 456 238K Saga 238K + 15 … …
X V Mobile Streamsv W … … -5.5
7K 4X MC Miningv 4X … … -0.8 13305 8374 Ferguson 10515 – 325 3.1 17.2 340 222Y Sainsbury J 249N – 1V 4.2 20.9
478 193 888 Hldgs 193 – 1X 5.0 62.0 5N V Advance Energyv N … … -0.2 4Y 1N Mobile Tornadov 1N … … -7.6
2K 1V Metals Explornv 1W … … 2.3 265 200 FIH Groupv 235 … … … 2016 1311 Smith WH 1372 + 34 … …
992 500 Accesso Techv 668 – 18 … … 72W 30X AFC Energyv 37 + 2N … … 1612 1010 Telecom Plus 1372 + 50 4.1 35.1
X N Nostra Terrav X … … -3.9 272 80 Gattacav 80 + 1K … 14.5 36 16Y Sosandarv 22O – K … …
3440 370 Best of the Bestv 397K – 10 1.2 4.4 … … Afentra PLC … … … … 142W 106Y Vodafone Gp 116W – 4W 6.6 …
15 4K Nostrum O&G 6V … … … 6O 4V Grafeniav 5N … … -3.8 3N 2V Stanley Gbbnsv 2N … … -2.2
1865W 1092V Carnival 1092V – 30 … -1.8 N V Alba Mineral Resv V … … -4.2
315 103 Studio Retail Group# 115 – 2K … 2.4
127K 95 Celticv 103 … … -7.7 1V K Alien Metalsv O + V … …
252W 199V Oil Search 218Y – 5W 0.1 60.3 568 310 Hargeaves Servv‡ 458 + 22K 1.5 4.7

212W 80N Ted Baker 94N + 2K … …

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Obituaries
Sir Martin Berthoud
Plain-speaking diplomat who skied with the Shah, took a sauna with Prince Philip and rescued Geoffrey Boycott from passport control
A naked Martin Berthoud took his
place in the Finnish sauna and averted
his eyes. Next to him sat the Duke of
Edinburgh, his crown jewels clearly on
display. “The duke was as slim and
youthful as one would expect,” record-
ed the counsellor from the British em-
bassy in Helsinki as diplomatically as
possible, adding: “The sauna has always
been a place for frankly exchanged
views, which suited the duke perfectly.”
Berthoud’s long career as a diplomat
— his final posting was as high commis-
sioner in Trinidad and Tobago —
brought many entertaining episodes,
some of which made their way into
Undiplomatic Episodes (2017), an auto-
biography that is as much travel writing
as memoir. A great curator of his own
mythology, he related in the book how
he found himself skiing with the Shah
of Iran outside Tehran, subverting
apartheid by hosting mixed-race
dinner parties in South Africa and
rescuing Sir Geoffrey Boycott when the
former Test cricketer arrived in Port of
While in Sydney the
local press noticed his
fondness for champagne
Spain to cover an England cricket tour
without the correct visa.
On other occasions he was charged
by a rhino in South Africa, escaped
from snakes in Australia and dodged
tarantulas in Trinidad. He also became
an enthusiastic bird watcher, a passion
that led to a particularly nasty tumble
down a waterfall in Venezuela, though
nothing was more seriously damaged
than his glasses and his pride.
Although Berthoud’s job title was
diplomat, his family recalled that he
was often less than tactful. His honesty
could seem especially refreshing on the
subject of hair: he would ask women
when they were going to dye a grey lock
and men when they were going to
remove their beards.
Yet in his telling, diplomacy was the
perfect job for him: he was being paid by
Her Majesty’s government to host par-
ties. Not only did he immerse himself in
the culture of his postings, he also
familiarised himself with their drinking
traditions, recalling vodka in Finland,
“tinnies” by the pool in Sydney and rum
punch-fuelled “jump ups” — that is,
dances — in the Trinidad carnival.
Martin Seymour Berthoud was born
of French-Swiss descent in 1931, the son
of Sir Eric Berthoud, a formidable
figure in the postwar Foreign Office,,
and his wife Ruth (née Tilston).
He had an older sister, Elisabeth,
a speech and drama teacher,
who survives him, and a younger
brother, Roger (obituary, No-
vember 5, 2013), who was a fea-
ture writer on The Times. Much
later they were joined by a
younger sister, Belinda, who be-
came a textile wholesaler and re-
tailer and who also survives him.
His mother recalled that his
precocious “revolutionary
phase” was cured just before he
went to Maidwell prep school,
Northampton, with the promise
of a wristwatch. He in turn de-
scribed his mother’s eccentrici-
Singer who ‘outed’ her
husband Kenny Everett
Lee Everett Alkin
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ties, such as sending him eggs by post
when he was a boarder at Rugby
School. They always arrived broken.
He described in his memoir how he
rejected the predatory advances of old-
er boys at the school, but when it was his
turn to be the older boy his affections
settled on a younger student who “was
clever as well as beautiful and went on
to become a judge”.
He became an avid reader, recording
that in 1950 he devoured 40 books and
consolidated his love of PG Wode-
house, while a lifelong competitive side
began to manifest itself, especially in
racquet sports. Musically, his trumpet
playing, under the tutelage of a teacher
named Goebbels, did not outlast his
school days, though he had fond
memories of marching through Rugby
playing Colonel Bogey with the school
cadet corps band. During National
Service with the Bedfordshire and
Hertfordshire Regiment his chief ac-
complishments, he said, were learning
to drink draught beer and to polish his
boots.
Berthoud followed his father to Mag-
dalen College, Oxford, where he read
Mods and Greats. Anxious to witness
the Coronation in 1953, he rode his mo-
torcycle across the city until he spotted
a house with a television aerial. He then
knocked on the door, asked if he could
watch and was not only welcomed in
but supplied with cakes and tea.
More concerned with atmosphere
than precision, his stories tended to be
self-deprecating. He liked to describe
his failure to secure election as presi-
dent of the Junior Common Room, for
example, and the time he declined an
invitation to visit the Iffley Road race-
track with a friend, only to discover that
he had missed Roger Bannister’s four-
minute mile. What the more pressing
engagement was that day, he did not
relate. His own sporting achievements
were more modest, such as seconds
squash, but “these games engendered
much camaraderie”, he said, recalling
that they involved glasses of wine and
cigarettes — “good preparation for life
as a diplomat”.
By this time his father was ambassa-
dor to Copenhagen and, although their
relationship was often fraught, he re-
turned from one visit convinced that
the Foreign Office was for him. He
spent a year learning Persian at the
School of Oriental and African Studies
before setting out by car for his first
posting at the British embassy in
Tehran, camping en route and sharing
the 4,500-mile drive with his brother. In
Berthoud in Tehran in the early 1970s and, right, at a 1987 carnival in Trinidad and
Tobago, where he met a toad in a bat cave in one of many brushes with animals
1957 he rode at the head of a mule train
to distribute aid to remote victims of an
Iranian earthquake, one of four such
expeditions.
Before long he had met Marguerite
Phayre, the “almost 17-year-old”
daughter of the British military attaché.
She was working in the embassy empo-
rium, dishing out duty-free supplies to
diplomatic staff. They were married at
S James’s, Piccadilly, in Decem-
St
b 1960. Marguerite died in
ber
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2009 and he is survived by their
c
children: Colin, a tech entrepre-
n
neur; Charlton, a finance direct-
o
or; Chris, a communications
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officer in the Foreign Office; and
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Ella, an artist and bibliothera-
p
pist.
Subsequent postings includ-
eed Manila and Pretoria, where
M
Marguerite was stopped by the
p
police for driving with her black
m
maid in the front of the car.
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Arriving in Helsinki in 1974,
B
Berthoud dived into Finnish
cculture, sometimes quite liter-
aally by plunging into holes in
tthe ice and emerging for a
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friendly whipping with silver birch
branches. He recalled the tough nature
of his hosts, noting that “you only had
to play squash with one of them to
realise what the Russians were up
against in the Winter War”.
A spell as a Foreign Office inspector,
visiting embassies around the world,
checking on their efficiency and
recommending spending cuts, was
In his retirement he
helped refugees to flee
war-torn Dubrovnik
followed by his appointment as consul-
general in Sydney. Convivial to a fault,
he said that “it took a serious effort not
to eat out every day of the week”. The
local press noticed his fondness for
champagne.
Berthoud’s next posting was as high
commissioner in Trinidad and Tobago,
where on several occasions he attended
carnival in costume, one of which con-
sisted of golden boots, green stockings
and “a straw hat of the same virulent
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green, adorned
d d with
ith plastic fruit and
vegetables”. When William Whitelaw,
Thatcher’s longtime de facto deputy
prime minister, later visited the island
and learnt of his attire, he remarked
simply: “How frightfully brave of you.”
Having just retired in 1991, Berthoud
was asked to join a European Commu-
nity monitoring team in war-torn Croa-
tia, where the closest he came to danger
was when “the Italian driver of our
truck misread the traffic lights and
went through on red”. He also helped
refugees to flee Dubrovnik, prompting
the tabloid newspaper headline: “Dar-
ing knight saves 300 from Yugo hell.”
Berthoud and his wife settled in
Stoke-by-Nayland, in Suffolk, where
they planted trees on an almost indus-
trial scale, “turning what was effective-
ly a swamp into a Suffolk Garden of
Eden”, according to one friend. His
enthusiasm for parties continued, in-
cluding an annual wisteria celebration
to mark the flowering of his favourite
plant.
At first his desire to remain active was
difficult to achieve. He applied for two
dozen senior posts, none of which led to
so much as an interview. Conversations
with headhunter friends, cold calls to
big charities and countless lunches
with acquaintances proved fruitless.
Eventually an arm of the Foreign
Office that keeps in touch with retired
diplomats drew his attention to a post at
the Wates Foundation, the charitable
arm of the property group. Later he was
a patron of Prisoners Abroad, where his
responsibilities included writing
Christmas cards to Britons incarcerat-
ed overseas.
In his memoir Berthoud, who learnt
to kayak at the age of 86, recalled that in
Trinidad he was involved in organising
another royal visit. While on the Royal
Yacht Britannia he slept in the “Charles
and Di honeymoon suite” and was
knighted by the Queen on the portable
“dubbing” stool carried on board for
such purposes. In the Caribbean heat,
however, the duke had no need for a
sauna.
Sir Martin Berthoud KCVO, CMG,
diplomat, was born on August 20, 1931.
He died on January 20, 2022, aged 90
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Lee Everett Alkin
Idiosyncratic singer who ‘outed’ her second husband Kenny Everett, but not before he was best man at her next wedding
When Audrey Bradshaw fell in love
with Alex Wharton, an aspiring rock
star, she had a steady job at the Sheffield
Empire. She was also married to a local
footballer, Alan Bradshaw. This being
the impulsive Sixties, she gave up job
and husband to follow Wharton to
London, where he formed the band the
Most Brothers and produced the
Moody Blues’ second single. He also
promptly abandoned her.
Bradshaw, a petite, charismatic
blonde with a zest for life, was unde-
terred. She found a job singing in the 2i’s
Coffee Bar in Soho, where Cliff Richard
had been discovered. There she was
spotted and signed up by Larry Parnes.
One of the original pop music impresa-
rios, Parnes liked to give stage names to
all his acts, including Tommy Steele,
Vince Eager and Marty Wilde. He
named his new signing Lady Lee. Only
Joe Brown stood his ground, after
Parnes attempted to change his name
to Elmer Twitch.
With her new name came a record-
ing contract and in 1964 Lady Lee re-
leased three singles, including I’m Into
Something Good, later made famous by
Herman’s Hermits. None was a hit but
she nevertheless got a taste of fame as
the girlfriend of another of the acts in
Parnes’ stable: Billy Fury.
They moved into a big house in
Surrey together, with a menagerie of
animals including a Great Dane and
several cockatoos. But by 1967 Fury was
no longer troubling the charts and Lee,
deciding it was time to move on, headed
back to Soho.
“In the country she’d been in jeans,
sweaters and wellies,” the music execu-
tive Tony King recalled. “Now she was
in a miniskirt and white boots.” She was
still hoping for a career in showbusiness
but few auditions came her way. At one
she was shocked to be asked to take her
bra off. The venue where she was audi-
tioning turned out to be Raymond
Revuebar, a strip club. She kept her
clothes on and was shown the door.
Soon afterwards she met Kenny
Everett, who after a spell on pirate radio
had become one of the first DJs em-
ployed by the BBC on the newly created
George Crumb
Avant-garde composer considered one of the most celebrated, distinctive and ‘scary’ voices in modern American music
George Crumb had a disarming strate-
gy for dealing with hostility. After one
performance of his music at the
Marlboro Music Festival a rowdy
audience made clear its disapproval.
Rudolf Serkin, the festival director, was
disconcerted to see the composer join-
ing in the booing. “I was just getting into
the spirit of things,” Crumb explained.
His work was full of strange new
sounds and spectacles, from the clicks,
whirrs and shouts of his string quartet
Black Angels to the theatre of Vox Bale-
nae in which the performers play
wearing masks and under blue lighting.
In the late Sixties he enjoyed a
considerable international vogue, pro-
ducing works whose acute feeling for
contemporary events ensured their
popularity beyond new-music audien-
ces. Night of the Four Moons, a song
cycle composed during the moon land-
ing in 1969, is a fine monument to that
event; Black Angels (1970), written
during the darkest days of the Vietnam
war, became an instant classic, with
David Bowie saying it “scared the
bejabbers out of me”. The work found
its way briefly into the soundtrack of
the film The Exorcist and prompted the
foundation of the Kronos Quartet.
Crumb expanded the range of effects
available to a composer, incorporating
Lee Everett married the actor John Alkin, left, in 1985. They had something of a ménage à trois with Kenny Everett, right
Radio 1. The two hit it off immediately.
“They were heady, wild, euphoric days,”
she recalled. “Drug-taking was routine.
We tripped a lot on LSD. John Lennon
used to get it for us.”
They married in 1969 at Chelsea reg-
ister office, with King as best man. Lee,
an accomplished needlewoman, made
her own wedding dress out of a table-
cloth from Harrods. “I organised an
open carriage pulled by two grey horses
but unfortunately we had the reception
before the wedding,” King recalled, “so
everybody was completely legless. Lee’s
mum had to be held up.”
As well as being fearless, irreverent
and unpredictable, Everett also had a
discerning ear. He championed records
he liked and, when he moved to Capital,
Crumb making music on glasses, 1974
instruments such as Tibetan prayer
stones and African thumb pianos into
his ensembles, and directing perform-
ers to use unusual techniques. Pianists
drum on the piano’s soundboard, pluck
the strings with their fingers, rub them
with a chisel or drop marbles on them;
instruments are amplified; and singers
hiss, whistle and whisper.
Despite these innovations his music
is seldom, if ever, harsh, tending instead
towards a quiet and haunting beauty.
was largely responsible for the early
success of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody,
which had been deemed too long, at six
minutes, for the radio. Freddie Mercury
became a close friend of both Everett
and Lee. “Kenny would not have been
Kenny without her,” according to the
music manager Vicki Wickham. “She
was a one-woman extravaganza. They
were a formidable duo.”
Yet the Everetts were to separate in
1979, when Kenny finally came to terms
with his sexuality. The breakup was
amicable and Lee even introduced her
ex to his first boyfriend, a waiter called
Dave.
Lee’s next relationship was with the
American tennis player Shari Barman,
but she soon met the man who was to be
Equally novel was his music’s appear-
ance on the page: Crumb’s scores are
objects of splendour, the notation
arranged in the shape of spiral galaxies,
sunrises, even the peace symbol.
George Crumb was born in 1929 in
Charleston, West Virginia. His parents,
George and Vivian, were orchestral
musicians and he grew up playing
chamber music with them and his sib-
lings. A prodigious composer at school,
he had two orchestral works performed
by the Charleston Symphony Orches-
tra while he was in his teens.
In 1948 he went to Mason College,
where he studied piano and composi-
tion and supported himself by playing
in dance bands. He continued his stud-
ies at the universities of Illinois and
Michigan; at the latter, his composition
tutor Ross Lee Finney became a lasting
influence. Another important encoun-
ter at Michigan was with the poetry of
Federico García Lorca, which prompt-
ed several works. In 1949 he married
Elizabeth Brown, a pianist, who surviv-
es him with their two sons, Peter and
David. Their daughter, Anne, who was
an actress, died in 2019.
In 1955 Crumb won a Fulbright
fellowship that enabled him to study for
a year in Berlin, and the following year
won the Broadcast Music, Inc (BMI)
MONTY FRESCO/ANL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
her next husband, the actor John Alkin
(DS Tom Daniels in The Sweeney). “We
bumped into each other at a party
thrown by Richard Branson at his
Manor studios,” Alkin recalled. “My
marriage was breaking down, her rela-
tionship with Shari wasn’t going well
and we just gave each other this great
bear hug. She flew back to America but
returned and started looking for me.”
When the couple married in 1985
Kenny Everett was their best man,
Elton John was among the guests and
instead of a bouquet of flowers Lee
clung to her pet chihuahua throughout.
Alkin, Everett and Lee then em-
barked on something of a ménage à
trois. The newlyweds moved to London
and Everett moved into a flat across the
prize in composition. He completed his
PhD in 1959 and joined the University
of Colorado. There he met the pianist
David Burge, who asked Crumb to
compose a piece for him. Crumb later
said of this commission: “I can remem-
ber quite literally waking up one night
in a cold sweat with the realisation that
I had thus far simply been rewriting the
music of other composers.”
The work he produced, Five Pieces for
Piano (1962), used an array of new tech-
niques, requiring the pianist to spend
much of the performance on his feet
plucking and striking the innards of the
instrument and placing objects on the
strings. The German composer Karl-
heinz Stockhausen, who heard it on a
visit to Colorado, expressed his envy
and admiration at Crumb’s innova-
tions. Crumb continued his exploration
of the sonic possibilities of the piano in
his series Makrokosmos, begun in 1972.
In 1965 Crumb joined the University
of Pennsylvania, where he remained
until his retirement in 1998. He won a
Pulitzer prize for Echoes of Time and the
River (1967), commissioned for the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The
piece, which includes parts for a choir of
whistlers, contains four “processionals”
during which members of the orchestra
move around the stage while playing.
Wednesday March 9 2022 | the times
road from them. Everett would pop in
and ask what was for dinner and Lee
would have to remind him that they
were divorced.
Audrey Valentine Middleton was
born in 1937 in Sheffield, where her
mother was a cutler and her father was
a fireman. Possibly because her father
was trained to give first aid, the young
Audrey became convinced that she too
had an ability to “heal”, calling on an
array of powers, including psychic.
Elton John’s manager, John Reid,
became one who shared her belief in
her own powers, after she helped to
nurse his broken feet after a fall. “It was
remarkable,” he said. “And I’m not into
all that.”
Encouraged by Alkin, Lee developed
an interest in past life regression
therapy and mindfulness. They opened
a spiritual healing centre, the House of
Spirit, in Bayswater and her clients
there included Billie Jean King and
Dusty Springfield, who would later
bequeath her cat to Lee in her will,
along with a lengthy list of instructions
on how to feed and care for it.
Lee’s healing powers were to prove
unequal to the task of mending
relations with Kenny Everett after she
published her 1987 autobiography,
Kinds of Loving. He accused her of pub-
licly outing him as gay in the book and
the two became estranged. He died of
HIV/Aids in 1995 and his life story was
made into a film in 2012, with the
actress Katherine Kelly playing Lee.
Alkin and Lee, meanwhile, moved to
Berkshire, where they ran a boatyard,
and Lee continued her therapies, open-
ing Obsidian College, another healing
centre, in 2000.
A keen cook, Lee replicated a chilli
jelly she had tasted in Florida. It became
so popular with her friends that she
launched it under the brand name
Chilliqueen and it grew from a cottage
industry to a mass-produced product.
Poignantly, “Chilliqueen” was Everett’s
nickname for her.
Lee Everett Alkin was born on February
14, 1937. She died of cancer on February
24, 2022, aged 85
The Chicago players refused to do so,
considering it beneath their dignity,
and remained stubbornly stationary
during the premiere.
Further evidence of Crumb’s bur-
geoning popularity came with the first
recording of Ancient Voices of Children
(1970), another of his Lorca settings.
Some of the critics, however, were
beginning to turn against him. Paul
Griffiths, reviewing a 1981 concert for
The Times, referred to the “vastly pre-
tentious emptiness” of his recent works.
Always a perfectionist, Crumb began
to find composition increasingly
difficult and in the 1980s his output
dwindled. He dealt with his chronic
writer’s block by building stone walls
and going for long walks. The first work
he completed after retirement, Mundus
Canis (1998), revealed a hitherto unex-
pected humour in his music: this suite
for guitar and percussion is a portrait of
the five dogs Crumb owned during his
lifetime. At one point the percussionist
is required to shout: “Down boy!”
George Crumb, composer, was born on
October 24, 1929. He died on February 6,
2022, aged 92
Email: obituaries@thetimes.co.uk
the times | Wednesday March 9 2022
Law Report
Continuing proprietary interest required in
claim for knowing receipt of trust property
Court of Appeal
Published March 9, 2022
Byers v Saudi National Bank
Before Lord Justice Newey, Lady Justice
Asplin and Lord Justice Popplewell
[2022] EWCA Civ 43
Judgment January 27, 2022
A claim for knowing receipt of trust
property required a claimant to have
a continuing proprietary interest in
the relevant property. A defendant
could not be liable for knowing
receipt if he took the property free of
any interest of the claimant.
The Court of Appeal so stated
when dismissing the appeal of the
claimant company, Saad Investments
Co Ltd, and its joint liquidators, Mark
Byers and Hugh Dickson, against a
decision of Mr Justice Fancourt
([2021] EWHC 60 (Ch)) in favour of
the defendant, Saudi National Bank.
Shares in five Saudi Arabian banks
were transferred to another Saudi
bank, Samba Financial Group, by the
registered owner. The claimants
alleged that the registered owner had
held the shares on trust for the claim-
ant company as a result of various
earlier transactions. Samba’s assets
and liabilities were later transferred
to the defendant. The claim alleged
that Samba had known at the time of
the transfer that the shares were held
on trust for the claimant company
and that Samba had incurred person-
al liability as a knowing recipient.
Jeff Chapman QC, David Murray
and Adam Cloherty for the claim-
ants; Andrew Onslow QC, Brian
Green QC, Alan Roxburgh, Edward
Harrison and Sarah Tulip for the
defendant.
Lord Justice Newey, giving the
judgment of the court, said that while
it might be legitimate to refer to
knowing receipt as a species of equi-
table wrongdoing, it was not based
exclusively on fault. For liability to
Court Circular
Windsor Castle
8th March, 2022
Her Excellency Ms Gaitri Issar
Kumar was received in audience by
The Queen today via video link and
presented the Letters of Recall of
her predecessor and her own
Letters of Commission as High
Commissioner for the Republic of
India in London.
His Excellency Mr Varuzhan
Nersesyan was received in audience
by The Queen via video link and
presented his Letters of Credence as
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arise, the defendant had also to have
received trust property. Receipt of
trust property could not be required
just to establish that the defendant
had been enriched. Were that the sole
concern, someone who had benefited
from trust property in some other
way (say, because the defendant’s
spouse had wrongfully spent trust
money on a holiday for them both)
could be expected to be vulnerable to
a knowing receipt claim, but that was
not the case.
In fact, even a person who had
received trust property and himself
used it to fund a holiday would not be
liable for knowing receipt if he had no
knowledge of any breach of duty
until after the money had been
expended. Unconscionability had to
coincide with possession of trust
property for liability to arise.
Of course, there might be said to be
an ambiguity in the proposition that,
for a knowing receipt claim to
succeed, the defendant had to have
received trust property. It might
mean either that the property in
question had to have been subject to
a trust when in the defendant’s hands
or that it sufficed that the property
was so subject up to the point it was
transferred to the defendant.
However, it was hard to see why
such significance should be attached
to the requirement for receipt of trust
property if it were enough that the
property should have been subject to
a trust before it reached the defen-
dant. If all that mattered was that the
claimant should once have had an
interest in the property, why should a
defendant be liable for knowing
receipt if he still had it when he
learned that it had been transferred
to him in breach of trust but escape
liability entirely, regardless of any
issue as to unconscionability, if he
had already exhausted it through
personal expenditure?
Armenia to the Court of St James’s.
Mrs Narine Malkhasyan was also
received by Her Majesty.
Ms Juliet Chua (Director General
for Finance and Corporate, Foreign,
Commonwealth and Development
Office) was present.
Clarence House
8th March, 2022
The Prince of Wales, Colonel,
Welsh Guards, this afternoon
presented Operational Service
Medals at Combermere Barracks,
Windsor, Berkshire.
His Royal Highness, Patron, this
evening held a Dinner at St James’s
Palace to mark the Thirtieth
Anniversary of The Queen
Elizabeth Scholarship Trust.
The Duchess of Cornwall,
President, WOW — Women of the
World Festival, this afternoon held
a Reception at Clarence House to
mark International Women’s Day.
Her Royal Highness later
received the ExtraOardinary
Rowers team.
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Why should it be crucial that the
defendant had possession of property
that had been subject to the relevant
trust if it never had to be so subject
when held by the defendant?
A transferee would also take free of
equitable interests if he was a bona
fide purchaser for value without
notice. The claimants accepted that a
knowing receipt claim was not
available against such a person, but
attributed that to the transferee not
being “knowing” rather than to the
absence of a proprietary basis for
such a claim. The cases, however,
showed otherwise.
The cases in which the courts had
accepted that knowing recipients had
“custodial” obligations, including in
particular an obligation to restore the
property, also tended to suggest that,
to succeed in a knowing receipt claim,
a claimant had to have had a proprie-
tary interest in the property when it
was in the hands of the defendant.
It made sense to think of a know-
ing recipient owing such duties in cir-
cumstances where the property was
subject to an interest having priority
to the recipient’s. It was much more
difficult to see why a recipient should
be bound to “restore” property or
otherwise to have “custodial” respon-
sibilities in respect of it if he had an
unimpeachable title to it.
That accorded with the mental
element required to establish liability
in knowing receipt, which was that
the state of knowledge of the recipi-
ent made it unconscionable for him
to retain the property. If the law treat-
ed the receipt of the property as
conferring unencumbered title on
the recipient, it was difficult to see
why retention should be regarded as
unconscionable.
It was not the receipt which had to
be unconscionable; indeed the
constructive trust duty might arise
where the recipient had done nothing
Kensington Palace
8th March, 2022
The Duke of Cambridge this
morning received Mr Alastair
Martin (Secretary of the Duchy of
Cornwall).
The Duchess of Cambridge, Joint
Patron, the Royal Foundation of
The Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, this afternoon held a
Centre for Early Childhood
Meeting.
St James’s Palace
8th March, 2022
The Princess Royal, Royal
Honorary Colonel, University of
London Officers’ Training Corps,
this morning received Lieutenant
Colonel Iain Wallace (Commanding
Officer).
Her Royal Highness, Colonel-in-
Chief, The Royal Logistic Corps,
received Colonel Jonathan West
upon relinquishing his appointment
as Corps Colonel and Colonel
Patrick Allen upon assuming the
appointment.
which could be described as un-
conscionable, as for example where
he received property in ignorance of
any trust and was only later informed
of it whilst still in possession: at that
very moment of after-acquired
knowledge, when possession and
knowledge coincided, the duty as a
constructive trustee immediately
arose notwithstanding that the recip-
ient had at that stage done nothing
unconscionable.
That was so if and because subse-
quent retention by him (or disposal)
would be unconscionable. That illus-
trated the fallacy in the claimants’
submission that the equitable wrong
which gave rise to liability for know-
ing receipt was made out merely by
receipt of property in breach of trust
coupled with the requisite knowledge
that the transfer was such a breach:
the submission wrongly treated the
knowledge element as unconsciona-
bility of receipt, whereas it was un-
conscionability of retention.
In all the circumstances, a know-
ing recipient had to have held trust
property, not property to which from
the moment of receipt he had good
title. A claim in knowing receipt,
where dishonest assistance was not
alleged, would fail if, at the moment
of receipt, the beneficiary’s equitable
proprietary interest was destroyed or
overridden so that the recipient held
the property as beneficial owner of it.
That conclusion was borne out by
a consistent line of case law in which
it had either been decided that a claim
in knowing receipt could not succeed
unless the claimant had a continuing
proprietary interest following the
impugned transfer, or that had been
assumed to be correct. It followed
that the claim in knowing receipt as
pleaded would fail.
Solicitors: Quinn Emanuel Urqu-
hart & Sullivan UK LLP; Latham &
Watkins (London) LLP.
The Princess Royal this
afternoon attended the Grand
Military Meeting at Sandown
Racecourse, Portsmouth Road,
Esher, and was received by
Brigadier Roger Hood (Deputy
Lieutenant of Surrey).
Kensington Palace
8th March, 2022
The Duchess of Gloucester,
Honorary Liveryman, the
Worshipful Company of
Basketmakers, this morning visited
a Basketry Showcase at the Dutch
Church, 7 Austin Friars, London
EC2.
St James’s Palace
8th March, 2022
The Duke of Kent, Grand Master,
United Grand Lodge of England,
this morning held a Reception for
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award at
Freemasons’ Hall, 60, Great Queen
Street, London WC2, at which The
Earl of Wessex, Trustee, The Duke
of Edinburgh’s Award, was present.
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Weather
Today Dry and bright across much of eastern Britain. Cloudy, wet and windy in the west. Max 13C (55F), min -5C (23F) Weather Eye
Paul Simons
Around Britain Five days ahead Wind speed Sea state Orkney
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Key: b=bright, c=cloud, d=drizzle, pc=partly cloudy A changeable spell of 34 Calm
du=dull, f=fair, fg=fog, h=hail, m=mist, r=rain, (mph) 25 7
sh=showers, sl=sleet, sn=snow, s=sun, t=thunder weather with a mixture Slight 44
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midday yesterday 24 hrs to 5pm yesterday
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6 S 0.0 10.4
Tomorrow Flood alerts and warnings
Aberdeen
A few light showers are possible but
Aberporth 9 S 1.4 6.0
for many places it will be a dry and At 17:00 on Tuesday there were 11
Anglesey 10 PC 0.0 9.7 bright day with sunny spells. three flood alerts in England but no 5
Aviemore 6 S 0.0 ** Max 15C, min -3C flood alerts or warnings in Wales or
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C F t was 200 years ago, in March
Bedford 35 95
Belfast 7 S 0.2 3.1
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warning-information.service.gov.uk,
Birmingham 9 PC 0.0 **
for Wales naturalresources.wales/ 25 77 whaling captain William
Bournemouth 9 S 0.0 6.7 9 NORTH Scoresby was surveying the
6 S 0.0 **
flooding and for Scotland SEPA.org.uk 20 68
Bridlington SEA 15 59 coastline of eastern Greenland
Bristol 9 S 0.0 5.4
Camborne 10 R 3.2 5.4 6 10 50
on his ship, the Baffin. Scanning the
9 Edinburgh
Cardiff 9 S 0.0 3.8
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23 Glasgow 5 41
horizon, Scoresby witnessed
Edinburgh 7 S 0.0 ** 0 32
Eskdalemuir 6 S 0.0 8.5
7 29 -5 23 something utterly bizarre: floating
Glasgow 8 S 0.0 7.1
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-10 14 in the sky was an upside-down ship.
Hereford 7 C 0.0 **
Herstmonceux 8 S 0.0 3.3 ATLANTIC
Londonderry -15 5 “It was so well defined that I could
Ipswich 6 S 0.0 6.8
Newcastle distinguish by a telescope every sail,
OCEAN Carlisle
Isle of Man 8 PC 0.2 3.2
Friday Belfast the general rig of the ship, and its
Isle of Wight 8 S 0.0 ** 10
Jersey 9 S 0.0 6.2 Showery outbreaks of rain will move 8 9 particular character; insomuch that
across Britain from the west, turning 6
Keswick 7 S 0.0 ** heavy in places with the risk of Yorkk I confidently pronounced it to be my
Kinloss 8 S 0.0 9.2 isolated thunderstorms. father’s ship, the Fame,” he wrote.
28
Leeds 6 S 0.0 ** Max 13C, min 0C
Lerwick 6 PC 0.0 1.2 Manchester Hull
Even though his father’s ship was
Leuchars 6 S 0.0 9.5 ooo
Liverpool 11 following behind, it could not be
Lincoln 8 S 0.0 3.1 Galway IRISH 21
8 S 0.0 **
seen actually sailing on the water.
Liverpool SEA 10 Sheffield
London 10 S 0.0 6.8 Dublin
LLlandudno
“I was so struck with the
Lyneham 8 C 0.0 1.0 peculiarity,” Scoresby noted, “that I
Manchester 8 S 0.0 2.8
Margate 6 S 0.0 0.0
10 8
Shrewsbury
Nottingham mentioned it to the officer of the
12 watch, stating my full conviction
Milford Haven 9 S 0.0 **
i h
Norwich
Newcastle 6 S 0.0 ** 38 8 that the Fame was then cruising in
Nottingham 9 S 0.0 0.2 Birmingham
Orkney 7 S 0.0 4.1 10
Cork
Cambridge the neighbouring inlet.” Scoresby
Oxford 9 PC 0.0 ** 8 was correct, even though his father’s
Swansea Oxford 11
Plymouth 9 C 0.4 ** ship was 30 miles away and hidden
Portland 9 M 0.0 ** Cardiff
Scilly, St Mary’s 11 M 0.2 **
Saturday Channel Islands CELTIC 2
12 well below the horizon. Eventually
Shoreham 10 S 0.0 4.7 A changeable day as one area of rain
SEA Bristol London the Fame appeared over the horizon,
over Scotland clears to the north and
Shrewsbury 7 PC 0.0 4.2 12
Snowdonia 8 PC 0.0 **
another spell of wet weather moves
into the southwest. Southampton
sailing on the sea the right way up.
9 In those days the Arctic had a
Southend 7 S 0.0 4.7 Max 13C, min 0C Exeterr
South Uist 6 S 0.0 ** 24 Plymouth Brighton reputation as a region of mystery
Stornoway 6 S 0.0 0.2
Tiree 6 M 0.0 1.4
and magic, but Scoresby was far too
Whitehaven 7 S 0.0 5.5 9
11 experienced to be fooled by
CHANNEL 16
Wick 7 M 0.0 ** 30 anything supernatural. He realised
Yeovilton 10 B 0.0 5.9
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the afternoon. with some sunshine for a time before tricks of the eye created by the
The world many places but cloud and rain over winds strengthening. Maximum cloud and rain moves in from the west. refraction of light caused by
All readings local midday yesterday
Ireland and Scotland will edge east. 12C (54F), minimum 0C (32F). Moderate to gale force southerly winds contrasting layers of cold and
Alicante 16 PC Madeira 17 PC 10 Channel Is, Cen S and SE Eng, London, Republic of Ireland, N Ireland: A wet easing later. Maximum 11C (52F),
Amsterdam 9 S Madrid 9 B
warmer air. “There are several
Midlands, E Anglia, Cen N, E and NE and windy start with outbreaks of minimum -2C (28F).
Athens 12 PC Malaga 16 PC
Eng: Any early mist and spots of rain, falling as sleet or snow in the IoM, SW and NW Scotland, Glasgow, phenomena of the atmosphere
Auckland 25 B Mallorca 14 PC
drizzle will clear to leave much of the east. Becoming brighter in the west Argyll, Cen Highland: Cloudy and wet caused by refraction,” Scoresby said.
Bahrain 26 S Malta 14 PC Sunday
Bangkok 29 PC Melbourne 18 B Rather blustery with a mixture of
day dry and sunny. Light to moderate with some sunshine. Fresh to strong with outbreaks of rain for much of “Objects seen on the horizon seem
Barbados 28 PC Mexico City 25 PC showers or perhaps some longer spells southerly winds freshening. Maximum southerly winds easing. Maximum the day, heavy in places with snow to be lifted above it a distance of two
of rain and some sunny intervals. 13C (55F), minimum 6C (43F). 8C (46F), minimum -5C (23F). over the high ground. Strong to severe
Barcelona 11 B Miami 28 B
Max 11C, min -1C SW Eng, Wales, NW Eng, Lake District: Borders, Edinburgh and Dundee, gale force southerly winds turning
to four or more minutes of altitude,
Beijing 12 S Milan 6 B
Beirut 18 S Mombasa 34 PC A dry and bright start but increasing Aberdeen, Moray Firth, NE Scotland, southwesterly and easing. Maximum or so far extended in height above
Belgrade 3 B Montreal 0 SN cloud will bring rain from the west in N Isles: Mainly dry in the morning 9C (48F), minimum -4C (25F). their natural dimensions. Ice, land,
Berlin 8 PC Moscow -4 SN ships, boats and other objects, when
Bermuda 21 PC Mumbai 34 S 11
Bordeaux 11 R Munich 5 S Tides Noon today thus enlarged and elevated, are said
Brussels 9 S Nairobi 28 PC Tidal predictions. HIGH to loom.”
Heights in metres
Bucharest 3 S Naples 9 B
9 LOW One of the weirdest of all these
Budapest 7 S New Orleans 23 C Today Ht Ht 1032
Buenos Aires 24 PC New York 14 C 9 Aberdeen 05:29 3.5 17:47 3.5 1000 illusions was the Fata Morgana, or
Cairo 21 B Nice 11 B Avonmouth 10:57 11.2 23:08 10.9 LOW castles in the air named after King
30 S 20 PC 968 LOW
Calcutta Nicosia
1 S 10
Belfast 03:23 3.1 15:43 3.1
1024
Arthur’s half-sister Morgana, who
Canberra 20 C Oslo Cardiff 10:43 10.3 22:52 9.9 968
Cape Town 29 S Paris 10 S 09:30 4.7 21:45 4.6 1008
according to legend lived in a crystal
Devonport
Chicago 2 C Perth 30 S
Dover 02:52 6.1 15:18 5.7 LOW castle under the sea. The Fata
Copenhagen 3 PC Prague 5 PC Morgana images were “frequently
Monday Dublin --:-- -- --:-- -- 960
Corfu 9 B Reykjavik 5 R
A few showers are possible over Falmouth 09:03 4.4 21:25 4.3 968 LOW that of an extensive ancient city,
Delhi 28 S Riga 1 C 1016
Dubai 33 S Rio de Janeiro 34 S England and Wales. Scotland and Greenock 04:23 3.2 16:45 3.1 976 HIGH abounding with the ruins of castles,
Ireland will be drier and brighter. Harwich 03:33 3.7 15:56 3.5 984 Cold front
Dublin 7 R Riyadh 26 S obelisks, churches and monuments”,
19 PC 10 S
Max 13C, min -1C Holyhead 02:09 4.7 14:32 4.7 992 Warm front
Faro Rome 1024
Florence 10 PC San Francisco 18 B Hull 10:08 6.3 22:29 6.4
1008
1000 Occluded front Scoresby wrote.
Frankfurt 8 S Santiago 26 S Leith 06:51 4.6 19:11 4.6 1016 Trough
Geneva 6 S São Paulo 29 S Liverpool 02:53 8.0 15:16 7.9
Gibraltar 16 C Seoul 8 B London Bridge 05:45 6.5 18:03 6.1
Synoptic situation Highs and lows Hours of darkness
Helsinki -3 SN Seychelles 31 PC Lowestoft 01:17 2.3 13:45 2.1 24hrs to 5pm yesterday Aberdeen 18:27-06:07
Hong Kong 21 S Singapore 30 B Milford Haven 10:12 5.8 22:25 5.5 Low pressure over the Atlantic Belfast 18:45-06:20
Honolulu 27 PC St Petersburg -8 S will push fronts into Britain Warmest: Heathrow, 12.2C
11 Morecambe 03:05 8.0 15:28 7.9 Coldest: Aonach Mor, Birmingham 18:30-06:03
Istanbul 5 B Stockholm 6 S from the west but these are Highlands, -7.0C
11 Newhaven 02:50 5.9 15:10 5.5 Cardiff 18:36-06:07
Jerusalem 19 PC Sydney 21 R expected to weaken as they Wettest: Culdrose,
Newquay 09:07 5.8 21:20 5.6 Exeter 18:38-06:08
Johannesburg 24 PC Tel Aviv 19 PC move east and run up against Cornwall, 5.4mm
Oban 09:29 3.2 21:31 3.2 Sunniest: Aberdeen, 10.4hrs* Glasgow 18:37-06:15
Kuala Lumpur 31 PC Tenerife 21 PC high pressure centred over
11 Penzance 08:36 4.7 20:55 4.5 Liverpool 18:34-06:08
Kyiv ** ** Tokyo 6 SH Finland. Much of the continent
19 PC 7 C Portsmouth 03:29 4.2 15:44 4.0 Sun and moon London 18:24-05:55
Lanzarote Vancouver will have a dry day with long For Greenwich Manchester 18:31-06:05
Las Palmas 21 PC Venice 8 S Shoreham 02:57 5.5 15:17 5.2 Sun rises: 06.27
The Times weather Southampton 02:25 3.9 05:05 4.0
spells of sunshine but low Newcastle 18:27-06:03
Lima 23 S Vienna 6 PC Sun sets: 17.53
10:15 8.0 22:24 7.7
pressure centred close to Turkey Moon rises: 09.08 Norwich 18:17-05:50
Lisbon 13 R Warsaw 1 B page is provided Swansea
will keep it more unsettled and Moon sets: 02.03 Thu Penzance 18:46-06:16
Los Angeles 17 S Washington 24 B Tees 07:51 4.6 20:08 4.7
28 S 3 S
by Weatherquest colder over eastern Europe. First Quarter: March 10 Sheffield 18:28-06:02
Luxor Zurich Weymouth 10:23 1.6 22:31 1.5
556
Sport
Only a total ban
can stop Putin
the brainwasher
Matthew Syed
yed
S
till now, almost 40 years later,
I think of the final of the
European Cadet
Championships in the Hague
as one of the most important
contests of my sporting life. I was up
against Dmitry Mazunov of the
Soviet Union, a cultured player with
the most exquisite backhand. We
were both 14, both ambitious and
both respectful of each other’s
capabilities.
It was a tight match but he was
superior on the big points and came
through with a fine forehand to close
it out. I remember the audience rising
to their feet as Mazunov sank to his
knees in triumph. But it wasn’t the
contest that stayed with me so much
as the response of this proud Russian
as the national anthem played out
during the podium ceremony. To my
astonishment, tears started rolling
down those snow-white cheeks.
My surprise was based upon an
intimate knowledge of his nation. I
travelled often to Russia during those
times, playing competitions in
Moscow and Leningrad, put up in
grimy hotels with listening devices
installed and seeing the icy streets
where ordinary Russians stood for
hours to purchase bread. The England
team would have a translator and we
always noted the fear in their eyes.
The political purges were fresh in the
mind but never mentioned.
How, I wondered, could young
Dmitry love such an evil nation? How
could he feel loyalty to a system that
murdered his forebears and was, even
now, repressing his freedoms? The
answer is one that comes back to me
in the context of Ukraine. The
Russian sense of patriotism is deep
and based on a willingness to perish
for the motherland. These people will
die for the cause, enduring hardships
we struggle to comprehend. But this
is why this conflict is so horrendous:
through his control of information,
Vladimir Putin has twisted the
patriotism of his people in pursuit of
his own psychopathic objectives, just
as the Bolsheviks once did.
Look at the pitiful images coming
out of Russia: the elderly woman who
talked of her fears of Ukraine nuking
her city, the farmer who spoke of his
worry that Ukrainian “Nazis” may
cross the border. These people are not
“supporters” of Putin’s war in any
meaningful sense — they are victims
of it. They have been so brainwashed
by disinformation that they are unable
to see what is happening. Journalists
face 15-year prison sentences for
violating the party line and news
outlets are being shut down. The
Putin line is that the invasion is a
“special operation”, a euphemism that
George Orwell would have recognised.
I feel the same way about Ivan
Kuliak, the Russian gymnast barely
out of his teens who wore the “Z” logo
on his kit while picking up a medal in
Doha this week and yesterday said:
“If there were a second chance, I
would do it again.” Many were
horrified at his actions — the logo
expresses support for the invasion —
but I couldn’t help feeling sympathy.
This is a kid who is patriotic. Isn’t it
tragic that these feelings have been so
warped by Putin’s propaganda
The 20-year-old Kuliak should be seen as a victim, not a supporter, of Putin’s war
machine that he is willing to endorse
the invasion of a sovereign nation and
the massacre of fellow Slavs?
A lot of ink has been spilled on the
subject of a Russian sporting boycott.
Many whom I admire argue that we
shouldn’t shut out individual athletes
such as Daniil Medvedev and Andrey
Rublev because we would effectively
be punishing them for the crimes of
their leaders. This, I wish to suggest, is
profoundly wrongheaded. These
athletes, along with their fellow
citizens, are already being punished
by a kleptocracy that has looted the
riches of the nation, built Black Sea
palaces on the backs of the people
and seeks to menace its neighbours.
Banning all Russian athletes is an
important way to signal to the entire
Russian people that the world is
horrified, to show that we are united
not against them but their leader. To
allow Russian athletes to participate
in some vague display of solidarity
would be to fatally dilute the power of
this message and, by implication, help
to perpetuate Putin in power. This
isn’t good for Ukraine, it isn’t good for
the world, and it certainly isn’t good
for the Russian people. It is in their
interests, as much as it is in ours, for
this megalomaniac to be dispatched
into the trash can of history.
And let us not forget the symbolic
power of sport. Few will forget the
psychological attrition felt by white
South Africans after the signing of the
Gleneagles agreement, unanimously
approved by the Commonwealth of
Nations at a meeting in Perthshire in
1977. It wasn’t just that the agreement
prohibited South Africa from
competing; it was an articulation of
global contempt. “There will be a
black Springbok over my dead body,”
Wednesday March 9 2022 | the times
‘I would wear
‘Z’ sign again’
Gymnastics
The Russian Ivan Kuliak says he has no
regrets about wearing a symbol in
support of the invasion of Ukraine on
the podium at a World Cup event in
Doha on Saturday.
Kuliak, 20, attached a letter “Z” to his
chest before receiving his bronze medal
in the parallel bars, an event won by
Ukraine’s Illia Kovtun. The letter has
been seen daubed on the sides of Rus-
sian tanks and has come to be regarded
as a sign of support for the invasion.
The International Gymnastics Fed-
eration (FIG), which called the action
“shocking behaviour”, has asked its
gymnastics ethics foundation to launch
an investigation. However, Kuliak, who
faces the prospect of a lengthy ban, is
unrepentant, saying: “If there were a
second chance, I would do the same.
“I saw it on our military and looked at
what this symbol means. It turned out
to be ‘for victory’ and ‘for peace’. As an
athlete, I will always fight for victory
and play for peace.”
Before the event, the FIG had said
that Russian gymnasts would be
banned from international events from
March 7 until further notice.
Amazon selling Z symbol clothes, page 6
Dr Danie Craven, the president of the
South African Rugby Board,
proclaimed in 1969. By 1990, the
apartheid regime was toppling with
sporting isolation playing a key role,
a point made by Peter Hain in his
excellent book Pitch Battles.
And this is why we need to change
the language. We are not fighting the
Russian nation — a proud, cultured,
literate and civilised people — and we
are not fighting its sportspeople. We
are fighting the clique at the apex of a
rotten government. This is the truth
that should be proclaimed in every
statement from the prime minister,
US president, EU leaders and news
outlets. “Russia” is not dangerous.
“Russia” is not aggressive. “Russia” is
not ripping up the rule of law. These
soubriquets apply to Putin and his
criminal gang — and sport must do
everything it can to bring them down.
the times | Wednesday March 9 2022 57

Racing Sport

Upheaval at BHA as chairwoman Phelps steps down organisation, while tackling important present, the levy is a tax paid by book- 10 per cent of their gross profits from Phelps oversaw a difficult period for
Matt Lawton
Chief Sports Correspondent unresolved issues such as lobbying the makers on the profits that they make racing bets back to the sport, with many the sport with the Bryony Frost-Robbie
government for a second levy reform. from racing, yielding close to £100 mil- feeling it did not go far enough. The Dunne bullying and sexism case,
Annamarie Phelps is stepping down as The news represents a huge upheaval lion a year, the bulk of which goes 2017 levy change also included a share although this is not regarded as a
the chairwoman of the British Horse- at the BHA, given how late the decision towards prize money. of profits on British racing placed reason for her departure. In some quar-
racing Authority (BHA) and will be is being made. Normally, such plans are But the BHA and other racing bodies through overseas bookmakers. ters she is also being praised for laying
replaced by Joe Saumarez Smith, who is in place six months in advance. want to extend it to include bets placed Smith is an independent non- the foundation upon which the BHA
taking temporary charge. It has been a tough period for racing, in the UK on overseas racing, in parti- executive director whose term on the can be “future-proofed”.
The former Olympic rower, 55, who not least because of the impact of the cular online. They also want a percent- BHA board concludes in September Phelps, who will continue as vice-
has held the post since June 2019, had pandemic. In December 2020, senior age of total turnover — between 1 and 2023. He will occupy the position of chairwoman of the British Olympic
indicated in October that she wanted to racing figures said that to arrest the 1.5 per cent — rather than simply profit. chairman for the rest of his term. His Association, confirmed the decision
remain at the helm, with sources claim- decline, the prize money pot needed to That is approximate to the system that focus is sure to be levy reform but also yesterday. “This is a very important
ing that she was hoping to stand for a more than double from £100 million a exists in Ireland, while in France racing on the modernisation of the BHA. He is time for racing,” she said. “A significant
second term as recently as December. year to £200 million. benefits from a Tote monopoly. also the chief executive of Sports review of the BHA is under way, which
However, BHA board members For many, a second levy reform was The most recent levy reform was in Gaming Limited, a management con- will ensure the BHA is future-proofed,
think that a new chairman is required seen as one solution; something that April 2017, when bookmakers were sultancy company that serves the efficient and has sufficient resource to
to oversee a restructuring of the could generate £80 million a year. At required by government to return gaming industry. serve racing’s needs.”

4.25 Handicap Hurdle 3 -PP20 MR PEPPERPOT 31 (V) R Tate 13-11-12 Mr J Dawson 4.10 Handicap (3-Y-O: £6,480: 6f) (7) 6.30 Auction Stakes
Fontwell Park (£4,139: 2m 3f) (12) 4 F2-P3 ABSAINTE 297 (W) R Tate 10-11-5 Mr W Easterby 1 (7) 011-1 KABOO 44 (D) K Burke 9-7 C Lee (3-Y-O: £4,320: 7f) (9)
Rob Wright 1 /5232 RIVER TYNE 28 (BF) N Gifford 7-11-12 J M Davies 5 6-064 CLANCYPANTZ 10 (P,T) R L Llewellyn 8-11-5 2 (5) 012-1 GOLDEN WARRIOR 14 (D) M Botti 9-3 D Muscutt 1 (3) 1- RIBBON ROSE 152 (D) M Botti 9-5 N Callan
Mr D Andrews (7)
2 0001/ MOROMAC 786 C Poulton 8-11-12 Charlie Price (3) 3 (1) 012-5 NAVELLO 34 G Boughey 9-2 James Doyle 2 (9) 44- NAFEE 81 J Chapple-Hyam 9-4 R Tart
1.00 Black Gerry 3.15 Jaramillo 6 50-40 LUCKY LARA 18 (T) Syd Hosie 7-11-5 Mr T Durrell (5)
3 0-06P CHANTECLER F42 K Davis 11-11-12 J A Anderson (7) 4 (4) 11-4 HARRY THREE 57 (H,BF,D) C Cox 9-1 J Fahy 3 (1) 00 THE EVAPORUST KID 26 M Usher 9-2 C Bennett
1.30 Whydah Gally 3.50 Legends Ryde 5-6 Jeremy Central, 3-1 Lucky Lara, 11-2 Absainte, 10-1 Mr Pepperpot, 14-1
2.05 Marettimo 4.25 River Tyne 4 62520 ANTONY 30 (CD) G L Moore 12-11-11 Jamie Moore Clancypantz. 5 (6) 110- SECOND WIND 265 W Haggas 8-13 A Farragher (5) 4 (5) COTAI STAR A Watson 9-1 H Doyle
2.40 Royaume Uni (nap) 5 -60P4 DELL ORO 9 (P) D Steele 9-11-8 D Sansom (3) 6 (2) 1304- LIVE IN THE DREAM 158 A West 8-12 Rossa Ryan 5 (4) 0 MY OPINION 34 J G O'Shea 9-1 Adam J McNamara
6 -6350 SAN PEDRO DE SENAM 27 (B,T) G L Moore 9-11-7 5.40 Open NH Flat Race 7 (3) 3-231 LUCKY MAN 34 (D) R Spencer 8-9 H Turner 6 (6) SONAIRT H Spiller 9-1 S Donohoe
Going: good to soft, good in places on hurdle course Joshua Moore
(£2,451: 2m) (8) 9-4 Kaboo, 4-1 Harry Three, 9-2 Lucky Man, 5-1 Golden Warrior, 7-1 Second 7 (8) 3 KICKBOX 9 J Chapple-Hyam 9-0 L Williams (7)
Sky Sports Racing 7 106-5 FANFARON DINO 91 (T) A Honeyball 7-11-6 R McLernon
1 2 UPAGAINSTIT 115 D McCain 5-11-2 B Hughes Wind, 8-1 Navello, 16-1 Live In The Dream. 8 (2) 3- TICKETS 119 I Furtado 9-0 S M Levey
1.00 Handicap Chase 8 6-665 ULTRA VIERS 22 (H,T) P Taylor 6-11-5 J Stevenson (7)
2 0-0 BIG EARS 53 P Kirby 6-10-9 J Williamson (5) 9 (7) KHARSHUF (T) J-R Auvray 8-9 Laura Pearson (3)
9 066PP CONSTANT FRIDAY 13 R Rowe 7-11-4 N F Houlihan (3)
(£6,416: 2m 3f 104yd) (4 runners)
10 560/0 ZILLION 30 Mrs S Gardner 8-10-11 Lucy Gardner 3 BROOMHILL DAISY R Menzies 6-10-9 P Coleman (10) 4.45 Handicap (£2,970: 2m) (11) 5-4 Ribbon Rose, 4-1 Cotai Star, 5-1 Tickets, 7-1 Nafee, 8-1 Kickbox, 20-1
1 3/624 FOR LANGY 20 P Hobbs 7-11-12 Mr D Maxwell 4 0 OUR STAR IN HEAVEN 144 (W) A Crook 4-10-6 S Mulqueen 1 (7)3313- LOVE POEMS 103 Dr J Scargill 5-9-9 D Keenan Sonairt, 25-1 The Evaporust Kid, 33-1 My Opinion, 50-1 Kharshuf.
11 0/5P WEARDIDITALLGORONG 30 P Phelan 10-10-8
2 12/53 BLACK GERRY 11 G L Moore 7-11-11 Mr F Mitchell Sean Houlihan 5 SPLIT THE BILL M Hammond 4-10-6 Sean Quinlan 2 (8)60-24 REECELTIC 40 (V,C) P Phelan 7-9-7 R Clutterbuck (3)
3 F0563 BEAUFORT WEST 20 (P) A Irvine 8-10-12 Toby Wynne (5) 12 00120 MICKYH 25 (P,T) A West 6-10-6 Page Fuller 6 02 TOUCAN SAM 25 (T) T Lacey 4-10-6 S Sheppard 3 (9)55-60 AYDA 15 (D) C Hobson 5-9-1 D Muscutt 7.00 Handicap (£5,616: 1m 4f) (10)
4 32313 EN COEUR 38 (T) Seamus Mullins 8-10-2 Paddy Barlow (7) 7-4 River Tyne, 5-1 Fanfaron Dino, 6-1 Mickyh, 8-1 Antony, 10-1 Dell Oro, San 7 CAROLE'S PASS A Murphy 4-10-0 J Quinlan 4 (6)5505- UNCLE BERNIE 324 (P,CD) Sarah Hollinshead 12-9-0 1 (4) -1122 TREVOLLI 20 (P,BF,D) I Furtado 4-9-11 K O'Neill
13-8 Black Gerry, 3-1 En Coeur, Beaufort West, 4-1 For Langy. Pedro De Senam, 12-1 Moromac, 16-1 Zillion, Weardiditallgorong. 8 SPICY DUBAI B Ellison 4-10-0 B Robinson T Greatrex (3) 2 (2) 33-16 PRINCE OF HARTS 31 (P,C) B Millman 6-9-10 H Doyle
Rob Wright’s choice: Black Gerry improved when third at Wright choice: River Tyne was beaten just a neck at 8-11 Toucan Sam, 5-1 Upagainstit, 8-1 Broomhill Daisy, 10-1 Carole's Pass, 5 (10) 0/60- YAAZAAIN J46 (P,T) N Hawke 6-9-0 Rossa Ryan 3 (8) -1111 ALMUFEED 14 (C) S Curran 5-9-8 Grace McEntee (3)
Chepstow on his second try over fences Danger For Langy Fakenham; still unexposed Dangers Antony, Fanfaron Dino Spicy Dubai, 16-1 Big Ears, Split The Bill, 66-1 Our Star In Heaven. 6 (11) 330-0 BLUE BERET 53 S Dow 4-8-13 L Morris 4 (10) 2/4-2 WISE GLORY 14 (D) G Harris 5-9-7 T Whelan
7 (3) 30-00 SEVERUS ALEXANDER 28 (B,E,T) C Hobson 6-8-10 5 (9) 1112- DIAMOND BAY 141 (CD) T Ward 4-9-7 R Kingscote
1.30 Novices' Hurdle (£5,827: 2m 6f) (3) C Shepherd
6 (5) 21-43 WINKLEVI 37 (D) P Evans 7-9-5 G Downing
1 -321F WHYDAH GALLY 32 C Tizzard 6-11-12 B J Powell Catterick Lingfield Park 8 (5) 05-00 HENRY THE FIFTH 15 (P) A Carson 4-8-9
9 (1) 0000- SCHWARTZ 100 (P) R Hughes 4-8-9
W Carson
D Probert
7 (3) 05/1- MANOR PARK J133 (D) B Barr 7-9-1 Josephine Gordon
2 4252 ONE FOR THE WALL 30 C Gordon 6-11-5 Jamie Moore Rob Wright Rob Wright 10 (4) 140-0 DANCING MASTER 9 (P) R Teal 4-8-5 G Rooke (3)
8 (6) 43-11 ALLOWED 21 (CD) R Beckett 4-9-0 R Hornby
3 55350 BABY SHAM 23 Seamus Mullins 4-10-0 Sean Houlihan 9 (7) 5/656 ALL YOURS 14 (CD) S Curran 11-9-0 C Bishop
2.15 Coole Well 4.35 Champagne- 1.50 Lethal Touch 3.35 Eloso 11 (2) 00-40 BLUE GALAXY 32 (P) M Usher 4-8-4 Laura Coughlan (5)
8-13 Whydah Gally, 13-8 One For The Wall, 14-1 Baby Sham. 10 (1) 302-4 GREYSTOKE 26 A King 4-8-13 M Harley
2.50 Bonne Vitesse superover 2.25 After Eight 4.10 Kaboo 5-2 Reeceltic, 4-1 Love Poems, 5-1 Ayda, 8-1 Schwartz, 10-1 Uncle Bernie,
Wright choice: Whydah Gally would have been second at 3.25 Da Vinci Hand 5.10 Lucky Lara 3.00 Hellavapace 4.45 Love Poems Dancing Master, 12-1 Blue Beret, 16-1 Yaazaain, Henry The Fifth. 5-2 Almufeed, 4-1 Allowed, 6-1 Trevolli, 7-1 Diamond Bay, 8-1 Wise Glory,
Sandown but for a last-flight fall Danger One For The Wall 4.00 Spike Jones 5.40 Split The Bill 10-1 Winklevi, Prince Of Harts, 12-1 Manor Park.
Going: standard Sky Sports Racing
2.05 Handicap Chase (£4,575: 2m 2f) (6) Going: soft, good to soft in places Racing TV Draw: no advantage
1 /0013 MARETTIMO 20 (D) W G M Turner 8-11-12 T Doggrell (7) 2.15 Claiming Hurdle (£3,976: 2m) (5) 1.50 Handicap
Kempton Park 7.30 Handicap (3-Y-O: £2,916: 1m) (11)
Rob Wright 1 (11) 50-6 NIGHT TRAVELLER 39 C Banham 9-7 J Haynes
2 -30PP MOUSEINTHEHOUSE 33 E Williams 8-11-9 A Wedge 1 -23P4 FEARLESS 11 (P) O Murphy 7-12-0 Gearoid Harney (10) (3-Y-O: £2,970: 1m 2f) (10) 2 (7) 0-301 SHORTS ON 15 P McEntee 9-6 H Doyle
3 13P-U CALL OFF THE DOGS 20 G L Moore 7-11-7 Jamie Moore 2 2-523 ESKENDASH 188 (T,D) J E Foster 9-11-9 B Hughes 5.30 Arousing 7.30 Bulleit (nb) 3 (1) 400 BY YOUR SIDE 31 E Dunlop 9-6 M Ghiani
1 (6) 4-606 EL FELICIA 15 (P,T) M Botti 9-9 D Muscutt
4 P64P1 MASTER MALCOLM 38 (P,T,CD) Mrs E Bishop 5-11-1 3 33445 DIS DONC 23 (P,D) M Hammond 9-11-5 J Hamilton 6.00 True Icon 8.00 Power On 4 (5) -2230 BEARING BOB 12 (T) M Loughnane 9-6 S Cherchi (3)
H Beswick (5) 2 (9) 31125 MIDGETONAMISSION 12 (CD) P Evans 9-9
4 /0011 WEEBILL 35 (P,T,D) O Murphy 10-11-5 Katie O'Farrell (5) Gina Mangan (5) 6.30 Tickets 8.30 Rainbow Sign 5 (9) 56-6 BOLD AND LOYAL 21 M Murphy 9-6 S M Levey
5 00235 AULD SOD 115 (P,CD) Cynthia Woods 9-10-6 Tabitha Worsley 7.00 Allowed
5 46113 COOLE WELL 35 (P,D) J Coulson 9-11-4 P Brennan 3 (7) 0-552 SALONICA 4 G Boughey 9-7 James Doyle 6 (10) 006- ASENSE 179 G L Moore 9-3 S W Kelly
6 -05PF WHO IS THAT 38 (P) C Gordon 6-10-0 G Sheehan
15-8 Weebill, 9-4 Coole Well, 3-1 Fearless, 6-1 Eskendash, 16-1 Dis Donc. 4 (2) 6-523 AURELIA GOLD 12 B Johnson 9-7 Rossa Ryan Going: standard to slow Racing TV 7 (6) 00-15 BULLEIT 12 (BF,CD) W Jarvis 9-2 R Havlin
9-4 Master Malcolm, 7-2 Marettimo, 4-1 Mouseinthehouse, 5-1 Call Off The
Dogs, 6-1 Who Is That, 10-1 Auld Sod. 5 (4) 060-2 BEERENBERG 25 B Barr 9-6 T Greatrex (3) Draw: 5f-1m, low numbers best 8 (3) 0-504 AMJAD 12 P Evans 9-1 G Downing
Wright choice: Marettimo was a fair third at Leicester; he 2.50 Novices' Hurdle 6 (10) -0141 CICELY 12 S Kirk 9-4 O Stammers (3)
5.30 Handicap (£5,616: 6f) (7) 9 (2) 06-6 TIARE 31 (H) K P De Foy 9-0 J Mitchell
can defy top weight in a weak race Danger Auld Sod (£4,738: 2m) (7) 7 (3) 5-00 LETHAL TOUCH 43 Joseph Parr 8-11 D Probert 10 (4) 051-1 MCQUEEN 60 (W,T,CD) H Spiller 9-0 S Donohoe
8 (1) -3333 AWAY WIT DA FAIRYS 4 (P,BF) Alice Haynes 8-11 1 (7) 25-61 NIGHT NARCISSUS 11 (D) C Cox 4-10-0 O Lewis (5)
1 0 AU JUS 27 M & D Easterby 6-10-12 H Bannister 11 (8) 00-5 SWEET SUMMER 31 H & R Charlton 8-11 T Whelan
T Hammer Hansen 2 (4) 213-2 AROUSING 20 (D) W Haggas 4-9-12 Harry Davies (5)
2.40 Handicap Hurdle (£9,149: 2m 3f) (7) 2 2/ BEAUTIFUL MIX 2125 N Mechie 10-10-12 S Coltherd
9 (8) 000- THE WRITER 84 J Ferguson 8-8 L Morris
4-1 Shorts On, 5-1 Mcqueen, 11-2 Amjad, 6-1 Bulleit, 8-1 Tiare, 10-1 By Your
3 (3) 441-1 MELLYS FLYER 31 (H,CD) G Scott 4-9-7 C Howarth
1 12200 BREAKING WAVES 117 (B) H Whittington 8-11-1 3 24223 BETTY BALOO 38 (BF,D) T Easterby 6-10-12 J Hamilton Side, 12-1 Bold And Loyal, Bearing Bob, Night Traveller.
10 (5) 34534 BIRKIE GIRL 12 (P) J S Moore 8-7 F Larson (5) 4 (1) 0030- MANY A STAR 216 (D) P & O Cole 5-9-7 M Tabti (3)
2 Jonjo O'Neill Jr 4 0-435 BILLAMS LEGACY 25 (D) F O'Brien 7-10-12 P Brennan
4-1 Cicely, 9-2 Midgetonamission, 5-1 Away Wit Da Fairys, 6-1 Aurelia Gold, 5 (2) -2154 OOH IS IT 32 P Evans 4-9-7 A Keeley (3)
2 -1330 ROYAUME UNI 25 G L Moore 5-11-12 Joshua Moore 5 00 HEAVENTREE 65 Ewan Whillans 5-10-12 Craig Nichol
8-1 The Writer, Salonica, 10-1 Lethal Touch, 12-1 Beerenberg. 6 (6) 2-353 ENDURING 14 (CD) E J-Houghton 4-9-1
8.00 Handicap
3 1-5P0 HELL RED 69 (T) P Nicholls 5-11-12 H Cobden 6 F1133 SWEET AUBURN 17 D McCain 6-10-12 B Hughes Georgina King (5) (Div I: £2,916: 7f) (14)
4 0-13 DREAMING BLUE 20 (P,T,CD) A Honeyball 5-11-9 R Dingle 7 15 BONNE VITESSE 30 (D) M Hammond 4-10-9
2.25 Maiden Stakes 7 (5) 231-4 NUBOUGH 29 (T,D) M Pattinson 6-8-8 L Williams (3) 1 (11)3-020 MAGICINTHEMAKING 7 (CD) J Long 8-9-7 H Doyle
5 25336 GRANGECLARE GLORY 20 (B,T) D Pipe 7-11-6 T Scudamore Emma Smith-Chaston (5)
9-4 Night Narcissus, 11-4 Mellys Flyer, 7-2 Arousing, 8-1 Many A Star, 10-1 2 (9)501-0 TENTH CENTURY 56 (P,C) M Blake 4-9-7 M Ghiani
6 -PP53 MANVERS HOUSE 30 (P,T) R Walford 9-11-1 J Best 9-4 Sweet Auburn, 5-2 Betty Baloo, 3-1 Billams Legacy, 7-2 Bonne Vitesse, (£2,754: 1m 2f) (7) Ooh Is It, Enduring, 16-1 Nubough. 3 (4)066-0 ELLIE PIPER 60 R Brisland 4-9-6 L Keniry
7 0501 ISLAND RUN 60 P Hobbs 5-10-11 T J O'Brien 25-1 Beautiful Mix, 33-1 Au Jus, 66-1 Heaventree. 1 (6) 50 SILVER BYRNE 11 A Carroll 4-10-0 Emma Taff (7)
4 (1)04-01 POWER ON 7 (D) J Butler 4-9-4 H Burns (5)
5-2 Island Run, 4-1 Royaume Uni, Dreaming Blue, 6-1 Manvers House, 7-1 Hell 2 (5) 06 FAITHHOPEANDGLORY 12 M Loughnane 4-9-9 6.00 Handicap -6215 TWENTYSHARESOFGREY 12 (BF,D) K P De Foy 4-9-4
Red, 8-1 Grangeclare Glory, 10-1 Breaking Waves. 3.25 Handicap Chase Elisha Whittington (5)
(3-Y-O: £3,996: 6f) (10)
5 (2)
Laura Pearson (3)
(£3,594: 2m 3f) (6) 3 (2) 04- LAW BROOK BELLE 86 J Bridger 4-9-9 W Carson
Wright choice: Royaume Uni drops in class after finishing 1 (6) 6260- BAILEYS LIBERTY 219 C & M Johnston 9-9 J Fanning 6 (7) 4-254 DORS TOYBOY 20 (P,D) D Ivory 5-9-3 C Bennett
4 (4) 24 MISS MESSENGER 12 Brian O'Rourke 4-9-9 D Probert
eighth in the Betfair Hurdle Danger Dreaming Blue 1 31521 DA VINCI HAND 8 (T,C) J E Foster 7-12-11(7ex) 7 (5) 0-200 LETHAL ANGEL 23 (P) A Carson 7-9-0 N Callan
T Willmott (5) 5 (1) 22 AFTER EIGHT 12 A Balding 3-8-7 C Hutchinson (5) 2 (3) 6056- SIENNA BONNIE 127 (B) J Portman 9-7 R Kingscote
6 (3) STORMBREAKER (H) J Fanshawe 3-8-7 D Keenan 3 (10) 020-1 TRUE ICON 25 (D) W Haggas 9-7 D Tudhope 8 (3) 00-05 ALALA 26 J S Moore 4-8-13 Josephine Gordon
3.15 Maiden Hurdle (£5,827: 2m 2f) (11) 2 635P3 WHO'S THE GUV'NOR 33 (T) M Hammond 8-11-12 A Cawley
3 54060 THE SUMBA ISLAND 28 (P,T) L Morgan 5-11-5 D Noonan 7 (7) TARTARUS P & O Cole 3-8-7 L Morris 4 (5) 120-0 MY BONNIE LASSIE 65 (D) S Woodman 9-6 Doubtful 9 (14) 0600- EXECUTIVE 260 L Dace 4-8-13 J Haynes
1 623 BOBALOT 22 (T) Ben Clarke 5-11-6 B R Jones 11-10 After Eight, 5-2 Miss Messenger, 5-1 Stormbreaker, 8-1 Tartarus, 12-1 5 (9) 20-12 NIKKI'S GIRL 7 (H,P,D) E Dunlop 9-5 H Doyle 10(12) -6026 EDESSANN 5 (H,T) M Herrington 6-8-13 C Beasley
4 0/6-5 HIGHATE HILL 39 (T) O Murphy 8-11-2 A P Heskin
2 52566 FORWARD PLAN 17 (H) A Honeyball 6-11-6 R Dingle Faithhopeandglory, 50-1 Law Brook Belle, 100-1 Silver Byrne. 6 (8) 2-022 UMMSUQUAIM 28 J-R Auvray 9-3 Laura Pearson (3) 11 (8) 0-100 BROUGHTONS COMPASS 7 (V,C) G L Moore 5-8-13
5 -F124 SPOT ON SOPH 41 (T,BF,CD) S England 6-11-1 J England
3 004 GABRIEL'S GETAWAY 48 (T) A Honeyball 5-11-6 R McLernon S W Kelly
6 PP443 COOL COUNTRY 13 (P) M Todhunter 7-10-10 C O'Farrell 7 (1) 13-00 BOADICEA BELLE 26 (P,D) H Spiller 9-1 C Howarth (7)
4 22- GIN COCO 507 H Fry 6-11-6 S Bowen 12(13) 0-000 ERMYNS DOTTIE 21 P Phelan 4-8-12 Doubtful
11-10 Da Vinci Hand, 5-2 Spot On Soph, 8-1 Who's The Guv'nor, 10-1 Highate 3.00 Handicap (£2,970: 1m) (10) 8 (4) -6520 ACCELERANDO 11 S C Williams 9-1 M Ghiani
13(10) -5550 PURPLE POPPY 7 J Fox 4-8-12 K O'Neill
5 60 HELIOS DE GRUGY 51 E Williams 5-11-6 A Wedge
Hill, The Sumba Island, 14-1 Cool Country. 1 (7) 1132- CELESTIAL POINT 253 (BF,D) G L Moore 4-9-10 9 (7) 04-16 SALTA RESTA 34 (H,BF,D) V Dartnall 8-12 R Hornby
6 0 MAJOR REWARD 9 Suzi Best 6-11-6 N Scholfield 14 (6) 0-000 VICE ROYAL 12 J Bridger 5-8-12 C Hardie
R Clutterbuck (3) 10 (2) 304-3 MADAME FENELLA 56 D Shaw 8-9 C Hardie
7 02 MAKE MY DAY 10 G L Moore 6-11-6 Joshua Moore 7-2 Twentysharesofgrey, 4-1 Power On, 7-1 Dors Toyboy, 8-1 Edessann, 10-1
8 33/00 STAAR 15 Mrs E Bishop 8-11-6 H Beswick (5)
4.00 Handicap Hurdle 2 (1) 40-00 GOLD COAST 14 J Butler 5-9-7 K Shoemark 15-8 True Icon, 9-2 Nikki's Girl, 7-1 Madame Fenella, 8-1 Accelerando,
Purple Poppy, Alala, Tenth Century, 12-1 Lethal Angel, Magicinthemaking.
(£4,030: 3m 1f) (5) 3 (6) 02-40 CATCH MY BREATH 4 (P,CD) J Ryan 6-9-7 D Probert Ummsuquaim, 10-1 Baileys Liberty, 12-1 Sienna Bonnie, Salta Resta.
9 0-6PF SUBLIME HEIGHTS 9 T Lawes 6-11-6 T Cannon 4 (9) 00-40 WINNETKA 12 A Carroll 5-9-7 L Morris
10 36P3- TELLEROFTALES 425 K Davis 7-11-6 Paul O'Brien 1 232P4 MOON KING 27 (T,V) C Longsdon 6-11-11 Lilly Pinchin (5)
5 (4) 0043- MR FUSTIC 128 Andi Brown 4-9-6 D Muscutt 8.30 Handicap
2 2PP21 LALOCHEZIA 34 Justin Landy 7-11-9 A Cawley
11 F2 JARAMILLO 25 W Greatrex 4-10-10 T Bellamy
5-2 Gin Coco, 3-1 Jaramillo, 9-2 Make My Day, 7-1 Bobalot, 8-1 Sublime 3 04022 FIRTH OF FORTH 34 (BF) R Dobbin 6-11-8 Craig Nichol
6 (10) 60-00 FLY THE NEST 14 (CD) A Carroll 6-9-6 C Lee Course specialists (Div II: £2,916: 7f) (14)
1 (1) 25-40 LUSCIFER 21 (B,D) R Harris 5-9-7 J Watson
7 (3) 0-623 MABRE 16 (D) P Evans 5-9-5 D Keenan
Heights, 12-1 Forward Plan, 16-1 Gabriel's Getaway, Telleroftales. 4 32231 FLEXI FURLOUGH 40 (P) G Boanas 6-11-7 T Midgley (5) Catterick: Trainers R Menzies, 10 winners from
8 (2) 430-6 HELLAVAPACE 12 (P,CD) J Portman 4-9-3 Rossa Ryan 40 runners, 25%; O Murphy, 4 from 17, 23.5%; 2 (14) 46-33 EASTERN STAR 12 A Carroll 6-9-6 Mollie Phillips (5)
5 15333 SPIKE JONES 20 (H,T) S Drinkwater 5-11-0 D Burton (5)
Wright choice: Jaramillo was second to the promising 9 (5) 44000 AGENT OF FORTUNE 7 (P,CD) A Carson 7-8-12 L Morgan, 5 from 26, 19.2%. Jockeys C O'Farrell, 3 (8) 24410 FACT OR FABLE 21 (P,C,D) J S Moore 5-9-4 L Keniry
Surtitle at Newbury Dangers Gin Coco, Make My Day 15-8 Flexi Furlough, 3-1 Lalochezia, 7-2 Firth Of Forth, 5-1 Spike Jones, 7-1 W Carson
Moon King. 12 winners from 58 rides, 20.7%; T Willmott, 4 (11) 22105 NO DIGGITY 20 (B,C,D) J Butler 6-9-4 H Burns (5)
10 (8) 36564 MR MAC 12 (V,CD) S Hodgson 8-8-11 W Carver (3) 4 from 22, 18.2%. 5 (3) 31544 ROYAL HEART 7 (H,P,CD) E Dunlop 4-9-3 H Doyle
3.50 Handicap Chase (£6,808: 3m 2f) (4) 7-2 Mabre, 4-1 Celestial Point, 6-1 Mr Fustic, 7-1 Catch My Breath, Mr Mac,
Fontwell Park: Trainers Miss V Williams, 8 from 6 (4) -0650 JULIE JOHNSTON 18 (P) J Bridger 4-9-0 K O'Neill
4.35 Novices' Chase (£7,733: 3m 1f) (3) 8-1 Hellavapace, 10-1 Winnetka, 12-1 Agent Of Fortune.
1 34611 ELEANOR BOB 27 V Williams 7-11-12 C Deutsch 18, 44.4%; P Nicholls, 19 from 53, 35.8%; A 7 (10) 060-0 GHEPARDO 44 (P,C) P Chamings 7-9-0 A Villiers (3)
-1254 LEGENDS RYDE 12 (P,T,BF) J Snowden 7-11-12 G Sheehan 1 -221P ASK A HONEY BEE 33 (B) F O'Brien 8-11-4 P Brennan Honeyball, 21 from 59, 35.6%. Jockeys C Deutsch,
2 8 (12) 10005 DUBAI ELEGANCE 9 (P,D) D Shaw 8-8-13 C Hardie
3 -2452 MISS JEANNE MOON 27 (P) N Mulholland 8-10-13 2 -6343 CHAMPAGNESUPEROVER 21 (T) O Murphy 7-10-12 3.35 Handicap (£4,995: 1m) (6) 6 from 18, 33.3%; Mr D Maxwell, 4 from 13, 30.8%. 9 (13) 00-50 HUNTERS STEP 49 (D) H Spiller 6-8-13 S Donohoe
T Scudamore A P Heskin
1 (2) 5-511 DEMBE 23 B Johnson 4-9-7 Rossa Ryan Kempton Park: Trainers K P De Foy, 10 from 45, 10 (5) 055-2 RAINBOW SIGN 21 (T) M Pattinson 4-8-13 J Bryan
4 UU24P THE TOOJUMPA 25 F O'Brien 9-10-2 L Harrison (3) 3 1F/4 UPTON ROAD 24 M Scudamore 8-10-12 R Patrick
22.2%; S Curran, 8 from 38, 21.1%; A Watson,
2 (1) 054-1 POETIC FORCE 33 (C,D) A Carroll 8-9-7 D Probert 11 (9) 3-230 SWISS ROWE 26 (P) J Butler 4-8-12 S Cherchi (3)
11-10 Eleanor Bob, 3-1 Miss Jeanne Moon, Legends Ryde, 8-1 The Toojumpa. 6-5 Champagnesuperover, 5-4 Ask A Honey Bee, 5-1 Upton Road. 47 from 248, 19%. Jockeys D Tudhope, 6 from
3 (4) 1-326 UNFORGIVING MINUTE 21 (CD) S Curran 11-9-6 12 (7) 00/34 REFORMED CHARACTER 26 (T) P Leech 6-8-12
Wright choice: Legends Ryde was below par at Warwick; drops James Doyle 20, 30%; N Callan, 4 from 18, 22.2%. T Heard (5)
in class and now tried in cheekpieces Danger Eleanor Bob 5.10 Maiden Hunters' Chase 4 (3) 16-60 RHUBARB BIKINI 40 (V,CD) M Attwater 5-9-5 C Shepherd Lingfield Park: Trainers S Curran, 5 from 17, 13 (2) -0342 CHLOELLIE 6 (V,CD) J R Jenkins 7-8-12 S M Levey
(£2,053: 3m 1f) (6) 5 (6) 0551- ELOSO 126 R Brisland 4-9-1 K Shoemark 29.4%; W Haggas, 40 from 169, 23.7%; A Balding, 14 (6) 20564 THE GAME OF LIFE 6 (P,T,D) M Herrington 7-8-12
Blinkered first time: Catterick 4.35 Ask A 1 053PP FAMOSO 2 (T) Syd Hosie 6-11-12 Doubtful 6 (5) 0-152 PRINCE ROCK 39 (CD) S Dow 7-8-9 L Morris 43 from 231, 18.6%. Jockeys James Doyle, 26 C Beasley
13-8 Dembe, 4-1 Poetic Force, 9-2 Eloso, 6-1 Unforgiving Minute, Prince Rock, from 125, 20.8%; O Stammers, 5 from 29, 17.2%. 5-1 Royal Heart, 6-1 Eastern Star, 7-1 Rainbow Sign, No Diggity, 8-1 Luscifer,
Honey Bee. Kempton Park 6.00 Sienna Bonnie. 2 52211 JEREMY CENTRAL 10 (P) T Malone 8-11-12
Miss G Andrews 12-1 Rhubarb Bikini. 10-1 Chloellie, Fact Or Fable, 12-1 Dubai Elegance, Reformed Character.

Yesterday’s racing results

Newcastle
Going: good to soft (good in places)
1.00 (2m 4f 62yd hdle) 1, Hidden Heroics
(Harry Skelton, 7-4 fav); 2, Donna’s Double
(11-2); 3, Tough Out (9-2). 10 ran. NR: Hasty
Brook. 2Ol, 8l. D Skelton.
1.30 (2m 7f 91yd ch) 1, Ladronne (Sean
Quinlan, 7-2); 2, Just Don’t Know (3-1 fav);
3, Aire Valley Lad (7-2). 7 ran. 1l, 29l.
T Collier.
2.05 (2m 4f 62yd hdle) 1, Court At Slip (Mr W
Easterby, 25-1); 2, Smokey The Bandit (13-2);
3, Barrakhov (11-2 fav). 15 ran. NR: Post Chaise.
5l, 1Ol. T D Easterby.
2.40 (2m 4f 62yd hdle) 1, The Jad Factor
(Ryan Mania, 9-1); 2, Get With It (11-1);
3, Everyday Champagne (7-2 fav). 15 ran.
NR: Goast Dancer. 2Kl, 1l. R M Smith.
3.15 (2m 7f 91yd ch) 1, Geryville (A P Cawley,
5-2); 2, The Ferry Master (10-11 fav); 3, Mac
Tottie (3-1). NR: Bavington Bob. Nk, 19l. Micky
Hammond.
3.50 (2m 46yd hdle) 1, Homme Public (Mr
Toby Wynne, 7-2); 2, Enlighten (9-2); 3, Saint
Arvans (12-1). 11 ran. 2Ol, 16l. O Greenall.
4.20 (2m 4f 19yd ch) 1, Another Theatre
(Thomas Dowson, 100-30 jt-fav); 2, Dolly
Dancer (16-1); 3, Full Of Surprises (7-2). 7 ran.
2l, 11l. P A Kirby.
4.50 (2m 46yd Flat) 1, I Am Gonna Be (Richard
Patrick, 10-1); 2, Kilbarry Leader (12-1); 3, Ruby
Island (16-1). 12 ran. NR: Broomhill Daisy,
Fancy Stuff, Tangiers. 5l, Ol. M Scudamore.
Placepot: £232.10. Quadpot: £60.00.
Sandown Park
Going: soft
1.50 (1m 7f 216yd hdle) 1, Privatory (Joshua
Moore, 4-9 fav); 2, Corrigeen Rock (11-4); 3,
Happy Du Mesnil (15-2). 5 ran. 1Ol, 1l. G L Moore.
2.20 (1m 7f 216yd hdle) 1, Purple King (LBdr
Jody Sole, 18-1); 2, Be My Sea (40-1);
3, Alrightjack (17-2). 6 ran. 10l, 6Kl. Dr R D P
Newland.
2.55 (1m 7f 119yd ch) 1, Doukarov
(J R Wildman, 11-4 Co fav); 2, Galop De Chasse
(11-4 Co fav); 3, Another Crick (11-4 Co fav).
6 ran. NR: Douglas Talking. 6Kl, Kl. S Curran.
3.30 (3m 37yd ch) 1, Rolling Dylan (Maj
Charlie O’Shea, Evens fav); 2, Ballycross (15-2);
3, Roc D’Apsis (100-1). 5 ran. 1Kl, 30l. P J Hobbs.
4.05 (2m 3f 173yd hdle) 1, West To The Bridge
(Mr T Durrell, 11-1); 2, Fifty Ball (9-2);
3, Terresita (16-1). 7 ran. 2Kl, ns. D Skelton.
4.40 (2m 3f 173yd hdle) 1, Bourbali (Brendan
Powell, 9-2); 2, Dom Of Mary (9-4 fav);
3, Dalamoi (7-2). 8 ran. NR: Jen’s Georgie. 4l,
10l. C L Tizzard.
Placepot: £929.40. Quadpot: £12.50.
Wolverhampton
Going: standard
5.00 (7f 36yd) 1, Major Gatsby (Liam Browne,
5-2); 2, Safety First (18-1); 3, Twilight Tone
(2-1 fav). 12 ran. 3l, 2Nl. W G M Turner.
5.30 (7f 36yd) 1, Forbearing (Tom Marquand,
11-1); 2, Divine Connection (6-4 fav);
3, Independence Day (7-1). 10 ran.
NR: Hachert, Marchetti. Hd, 1l. A W Carroll.
6.00 (7f 36yd) 1, Dubai Elegance (Cam
Hardie, 11-1); 2, Maahi Ve (9-2); 3, Gonzaga
(11-2). 11 ran. Hd, Ol. D Shaw.
6.30 (6f 21yd) 1, Majeski Man (Frederick
Larson, 16-1); 2, Khurumbi (11-8 fav); 3, On
Reflection (7-2). 12 ran. 3Ol, 4Ol. J G M O’Shea.
7.00 (1m 142yd) 1, Queen Of Burgundy
(David Probert, 11-2); 2, Across The Nile (13-8);
3, Crown Power (6-5 fav). 5 ran. NR: Dubai
Lady. Nk, sh hd. M Appleby.
7.30 (1m 142yd) 1, Civil Law (Jack Mitchell, 9-5
fav); 2, Lequinto (13-2); 3, Visibility (100-30).
5 ran. NR: Fox Power. Nk, 3Nl. R A Teal.
8.00 (1m 1f 104yd) 1, Spiritofthenorth (S H
James, 10-1); 2, Carey Street (11-1); 3, Lord
Torranaga (25-1). 10 ran. NR: Pledge Of
Honour, Kentucky Kingdom. Kl, Ol. K A Ryan.
Placepot: £22.70. Quadpot: £14.40.
558 Wednesdayy March 9 2022 | the times

Sport Guinness Six Nations Championship

p

I want to put
right World Jonaathan
Sexton
Age: 36 Ireland caps: 103
Lions caps: 5

Cup failures,
Debut: v Fiji, Nov
2009

says Sexton
Ireland captain has set
his sights on leading his
country to success in
2023 at the age of 38,
John Westerby writes
The benefits of the integrated Irish
system, with provinces and national
team aligned and the players operating
on central contracts, have already been
lauded by Eddie Jones this week and, in
his view, will enable England’s oppo-
nents on Saturday to become the most
“cohesive” team in the world.
Another reminder of the system’s
advantages came yesterday with the
news that Jonathan Sexton, the Ireland
captain, had signed a new deal that
takes him through to the World Cup in
France next year, after which he will re-
tire. He will be 38 by then, an age at
which few players expect still to be
competing at the top level, but the way
in which Sexton has been managed by
Leinster and Ireland, used sparingly by
his province to keep him fresh for the
international stage, has enabled the fly
half to keep alive the possibility of
playing at a fourth World Cup.
In the week that they travel to
Twickenham, Ireland’s enduring
reliance on Sexton differs from the
direction that England have taken this
season, as Jones has placed his faith in
the playmaking qualities of Marcus
Smith, 13 years his junior. The grey
flecks in Sexton’s closely cropped hair
very grateful for the career I’ve had,d, but
you do look back and we gave up some
chances at World Cups, we didn’t
perform at other World Cups, and d you
want to put that right.”
Hopes of a fourth Six Nationss title
would be maintained with a victory ory at
Twickenham on Saturday. After ter a
victory over the All Blacks in Novem-ovem-
ber and a crushing 29-7 win against gainst
Wales in the opening round of the he Six
Nations, Ireland suffered a sobering ng 30-
24 defeat to France in Paris.
Significantly, Sexton missed that
game with a hamstring injury, with h Joey
Carbery starting at No 10. He came me off
the bench for Carbery against Italyy two
weeks later, but will return to the start-
ing line-up this weekend for a game
that will test the progress Ireland d feel
they have made since Andy Farrell, ll, the
head coach, sought to introduce a more
fluid style after the 2019 World Cup.
exton
“It’s a step we need to take,” Sexton
rance
said. “We had big hopes going to France
and we came unstuck; we felt we’ve
learnt some harsh lessons from m that
game. They’re a really well-coached ached
team and Eddie Jones always gets g
his teams ready to go [too]; they’ll y’ll be
fired up and we need to be able to match
it.”
What does he make of the England gland
head coach stressing Ireland’s status tus as
out fa-
favourites? “I don’t really care about
vourites, it’s irrelevant,” he said. “We
haven’t won that many times there, e, but
that’s not to say we can’t do it this time.”
Sexton first encountered Farrell ll as a
defence coach on the 2013 British ish &
Irish Lions tour to Australia. Wh When

will contrast sharply with Smith’s
bouncing black locks, but the éminence
grise has been impressed by what he
has seen from Smith this season.
“Marcus has come in and he’s had a
big impact on international rugby
already,” Sexton said yesterday. “He’s
done so much at such a young age — to
win the [Gallagher] Premiership, to go
on the Lions tour, he’s ticking a lot of
boxes already. He’s shown all the tricks,
a sure kicking game, good passing
game, good running game — he’s got it
all. He’s going to be a big player over the
next ten to 12 years for England.”
Keeping pace with the next genera-
tion is the challenge that Sexton, 36, has
set himself for the coming season and a
half. While he remains Ireland’s first
choice No 10, his injuries in recent years
have meant that reaching the 2023
World Cup has felt far from a formality.
“You just don’t know,” he said. “If you
pick up a [serious] injury, it puts the
majority of next season in doubt.”
Over the course of his career, Sexton
has won three Six Nations titles and
four Heineken Champions Cups with
Leinster. He has also helped Ireland to
three victories over New Zealand, but
the itch that remains to be scratched,
for Sexton and the whole of Irish rugby,
is their failure to progress beyond a
World Cup quarter-final.
“It’s a huge factor,” he said. “I’ve been
England dispensed with Farrell’s ser-
vices after the 2015 World Cup, Sexton
knew that Ireland had to act quickly.
“When the opportunity came up, a
lot of the senior Irish players rang Joe
Schmidt [the former head coach] and
said, ‘You need to get this guy, he’s top
quality,’ ” Sexton said. “As head coach,
he’s put his own stamp on things, which
is a brave thing to do, to totally change
the way we were playing, the way we
Curry in race to be fully fit
Tom Curry has one more training
session to prove his fitness for
England’s match against Ireland this
Saturday. Curry is still working his
way through the return-to-play
head-injury protocols having
suffered a concussion against Wales.
England are happy with his
progress, but the Sale Sharks flanker
has not yet been passed fully fit.
His most like-for-like replacement,
Sam Underhill, was dropped from a
slimmed down England squad last
night. Joe Launchbury, who has not
played a Test for 15 months, should
play, having been retained in the 26-
man group. The Wasps lock, 30, is
preferred to Nick Isiekwe and is
likely to at least make the bench.
approached games. He’s been brilliant
since he came in.”
For all his achievements, the duel
with Smith will also provide a test of
Sexton’s ability to last the course to the
World Cup. In the quest to prolong his
career, he has taken inspiration from a
number of the game’s greats.
“I played with a lot of guys and you
look at people who have won a World
Cup, like Richie McCaw and Brad
Thorn [of New Zealand],” Sexton said.
“Closer to home, Rory Best, Paul
O’Connell — these guys played to a
similar age. It’s not like I’m the first
person ever to do it.”
Maybe not, but McCaw was 34 when
New Zealand won the 2015 World Cup,
Thorn 36 four years earlier. Sexton will
be two years older than that at the
World Cup next year, but he believes
the way he has been managed in
Ireland’s joined-up system should
ensure he lasts the distance.
“I didn’t have that many games under
my belt when I was 23, 24, so maybe it’s
not the number of years but the number
of games that’s the deciding factor,” he
said.
“I’ve always invested in myself,
researching things, reading books. I
think the way science is going, the way
the game is going, you can have a long
career if you sacrifice things and be as
good a pro as you can.”
‘Underdogs? Eddie’s
Will Kelleher
Deputy Rugby Correspondent
Joe Marler has said that England will
not feel like underdogs against Ireland
at Twickenham on Saturday, regardless
of what Eddie Jones and the book-
makers say.
Ireland are one of only three
countries — alongside New Zealand
and Scotland — to have beaten
England at Twickenham under Jones,
having defeated them 24-15 to win the
grand slam in 2018.
Jones has insisted that Andy Farrell’s
side are the favourites, as they are with
the bookmakers, but Marler’s perspec-
tive differs.
“Has Eddie got a deal with Bet365?”
the Harlequins loose-head prop joked.
“I don’t know why Eddie says half the
stuff he says. It’s Eddie.
“I don’t think I’ve ever felt like an
underdog at Twickenham. Maybe
against New Zealand once. There
haven’t been many times at Twicken-
ham. I’ve never thought, ‘I feel like an
underdog this week.’ I look at it and
think, ‘I know how good Ireland are. I
know how good their tight-heads are. I
know how good their pack is. I know
how good their attacking system is.’
“We have to be right on the money —
it helps that we are at home, with the
Twickenham crowd. Eddie can
obviously say whatever he wants, in
whatever way he wants to.”
The 31-year-old, who was speaking
after a “tasty” training session, said that
he had noticed a distinct increase in the
squad’s intensity this week compared
with their build-up for the Wales game.
“There’s a bigger sense of, ‘OK,
Ireland are very good,’ ” he said.
“England v Wales games are always big
and you know come kick-off it’s going
to be tasty, but with the greatest respect,
Wales were missing a fair few names
and there was more expectation on us
to win, whereas Ireland are full bore
and have been together for some time.
“It was noticeable in training. [The]
boys were like, ‘OK, serious game this
Saturday.’
“They are very, very aggressive at the
breakdown. They love chucking num-
bers in there. Off the top of my head you
get 40-plus attempts at attacking our
breakdown from Ireland. It is going to
be a ding-dong.”
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Results, fixtures and table
Results: Round one Ireland 29 Wales 7;
Scotland 20 England 17; France 37 Italy
7 police to look
10. Round two Wales 20 Scotland 17;
France 30 Ireland 24; Italy 0 England
33. Round three Scotland 17 France 3636;
England 23 Wales 19; Ireland 57 Italy 6.
Fixtures: Round four: Friday Wales v
France 8pm, BBC. Saturday Italy v
Scotland 2.15pm, ITV; England v Ireland
4.45pm, ITV. Round five: March 19
Wales v Italy 2.15pm, BBC; Ireland v
Scotland 4.45pm, ITV; France v
England 8pm, ITV.
P W D L PF PA Pts
France 3 3 0 0 103 51 14
Ireland 3 2 0 1 110 43 11
1 Dame Cressida Dick, the departing
England 3 2 0 1 73 39 10
Scotland 3 1 0 2 54 73 5
Wales 3 1 0 2 46 69 5
Italy 3 0 0 3 16 127 0
Marcus
Smith
Age: 23
England caps: 8
England debut: v USA,
July 2021
got a bookies deal!’
Marler has immense respect for the men now [and are] stepping up to the
Ireland forwards, whom he has seen plate more, as opposed to just heavily
develop considerably over the past relying on the backs to do some moves
18 months under Farrell, particularly or wraparounds. They’ve now got these
Tadhg Furlong, his team-mate from the boys who are legitimate ball-players.”
2017 British & Irish Lions tour. Marler paid tribute to Johnny Sex-
“He is world-class,” Marler said. “He ton, the Ireland captain who has
has stepped up his game around the announced that he will retire after the
field, particularly in an attack, 2023 World Cup. “He is in the top
even more so this season. You three most competitive blokes
have seen in this tourna- I have come across in
ment that he is standing
more at second and third
England v rugby,” Marler said before
telling a story from a mid-
receiver off the No 10, so Ireland week training session
they are doing a lot of Twickenham between the Test side
playmaking through Saturday, 4.45pm and mid-weekers on the
him and he is just so TV: ITV 2017 Lions tour in
comfortable on the ball. Radio: BBC 5 Live Queenstown.
“I try to think of it “A bit worse for wear, we
sometimes as a fan. You go, had to front up and do a team
look at that massive lump on run with them. [Dan] Cole
the field, that you just think is going dropped his shoulder into Sexton
to bend over and push. But then he is al- off the ball. Oh my God, the uproar
so so comfortable on the ball, and it’s from him screaming in Cole’s face, I was
good to see, as a fan, that the likes of him like, ‘Oh my God, no other No 10 would
and Kyle Sinckler are just taking front- bother with the miserable, giant Colar
row play to another level. Bear and he is going for it.’
“They’ve got more guys particularly “The standards he demands are
in that pack — [Tadhg] Beirne, Furlong astronomical and you can see why they
and [Caelan] Doris — who are their key wanted him to sign on for longer.”
The graphics showing speed that have been used in World Rugby Sevens
View hookers’ heart
rates and NFL-style
maps in TV revolution
Alex Lowe Rugby Correspondent
Inside the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indian-
apolis on Saturday, a giant of a man
crouched on the start line of the 40-
yard dash. Jordan Davis, 22, was well
known to coaches and scouts at the
NFL Combine, the annual showcase for
college athletes, after his performances
for the University of Georgia Bulldogs.
He was considered a potential first-
round Draft pick for an NFL franchise.
Nevertheless, what happened next
stunned everyone. The 6ft 6in, 24-
stone defensive tackle completed the
sprint in 4.78sec and then jumped 10ft
3in from a standing start.
To put that into context, Davis was
faster than anyone of his size since 2003
and quicker than two established NFL
quarterbacks in Baker Mayfield and
Jameis Winston. No one of his frame
has jumped further. Imagine a tight-
head prop thundering over 40 yards at
that speed.
It is hard, though, to draw any kind of
statistical comparison with rugby
players. The sport is ahead of many in
how it collects and uses data for high
performance but lags in employing that
information to help supporters to really
get under the skin of the sport.
Tom Ilube, the RFU chairman,
believes rugby has the potential to be-
come three times the size that it is now.
There is a huge disconnect between the
ten million people in England who re-
gard themselves as rugby fans, the eight
million who will tune in to a Guinness
Six Nations game and the two million
who go to Gallagher Premiership
games over the course of a season.
There are millions of floating fans
waiting to be engaged and the RFU is
facing an existential crisis over this. It
has always believed the best way to
attract more players and more fans is to
build a winning England team; there-
fore everything must be sacrificed on
the altar of high performance, includ-
ing any morsel of information that may
give even a hint of competitive
advantage to the opposition.
But viewing habits are changing.
Rugby fans are sophisticated; they
crave more detail and greater insight
into their sport. New fans, all research
tells us, are attracted by the players.
Rugby needs to create new heroes, its
own versions of Davis.
The RFU is working to strike a
balance. It will never sacrifice high
performance, nor will it hand over
control of the narrative, hence its refus-
al to allow changing-room cameras.
However, over the past two years it
has been working with long-time part-
ner STATSports to produce seven or
eight dummy broadcasts in which live
statistics from the game are overlaid on
to the footage, such as a player’s maxi-
mum running speed, their acceleration
and the team’s movement off the ball.
Some of these broadcasts have been
shown on internal Twickenham feeds
in corporate boxes. The data is drawn
from the GPS units that players wear in
matches, which measure more than
200 data points in real time, including
the force of collisions.
“If you can imagine that there’s a
wing breaking [up the flank], we’re
overlaying what is the acceleration and
the maximum speed or [the forces] if
there’s a collision,” Barry Watters, the
STATSports chief executive, said.
“Things like acceleration, line breaks
and stuff like that, it’d be really, really
cool [to see]. And that’s certainly some-
thing we’re working on with the RFU.”
World Rugby has used maximum
speed trackers in its sevens coverage for
years but the idea of using data to give
a new insight into unheralded areas of
the game is a huge opportunity.
Charlie Ewels, the lock, was widely
considered to have had his best game
for England against Wales because he
made more carries than usual. How-
ever, that is not how Ewels judges his
own performance, for his role is to hit
rucks, make tackles and lay the plat-
form for others. The smart use of data
would shine a new light on his role.
Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City
Chiefs quarterback, wears a Whoop
device on his wrist and it revealed last
season how his heart rate was at its low-
est at times of most pressure. Rugby
players wear these devices too but the
sport — not the athletes — does not
want this information shared.
Broadcasters would relish the oppor-
tunity to show the heart rate of a hooker
before a pressure throw or a kicker as
they line up a penalty to win the game.
Progress is being made. BT Sport will
broadcast data during Premiership Cup
matches that has been generated from
a new smart ball, which measures the
velocity, distance travelled, hang time
and its spin rate. It would be possible,
with pressure sensors in the kit, to dem-
onstrate the direction of forces at play
in the scrum, which would improve
understanding of one of the sport’s
most impenetrable contests.
“On TV we see where the ball is, but
there’s a hell of a lot of work that goes
on away from the ball,” Watters said. “In
future broadcasts you will be able to
show all the players on a 2D map [which
already exists in the NFL]. It’s certainly
an exciting time for all sports.”
59
Sport
Speaker asks
at verdict row
Boxing
Ellie McDonald
Jack Catterall’s disputed defeat by Josh
Taylor has been referred to the police
by the Speaker of the House of
Commons, who said the verdict
“brought the sport into disrepute”.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to
commissioner of the Metropolitan
Police, and the British Boxing Board of
Control (BBBoC) after the controver-
sial ruling and has revealed that gov-
ernment ministers are also looking into
the matter.
Hoyle wants the fight to be reviewed
by independent judges, to allow the
decision to be changed retrospectively.
Taylor, 31, retained his unbeaten record
and remained the undisputed super-
lightweight world champion after
defeating Catterall, 28, on a split deci-
sion in Glasgow last month. However,
many pundits and fans felt that the
challenger had done enough to win the
fight and deemed the judges’ scoring of
Catterall unfair.
Howard Foster scored the bout 113-
112 in favour of Catterall, but Victor
Loughlin gave the fight to Taylor by the
same score, and Ian John-Lewis award-
ed Taylor a 114-111 victory.
Hoyle, who is Catterall’s local MP in
Chorley, Lancashire, told The Daily
Mail: “Everyone is disgusted by what’s
happened — it brings the sport into
disrepute. I have to question why the
judges got it so wrong? I have already
sent a letter to the police.”
The Speaker said he had also raised
the matter with Nadine Dorries, the
culture secretary, and Nigel Huddle-
ston, the sports minister.
“I also believe that something seri-
ously went on here — whether it was
undue influence — [and] one must
question why,” Hoyle added.
“Unless something is done about this,
why would young people enter the
sport? What is the point of training hard
and playing by the rules when some-
thing like this can happen? Obviously
I’ll deal with it as I would do for any
member of the public who wrote in.”
The BBBoC had previously con-
firmed that it had started an investi-
gation into the scoring. Boxing Scene
has also reported that the World Box-
ing Organisation (WBO), had objected
to the BBBoC’s decision to appoint
Loughlin and Lewis, as neither of the
judges are WBO-certified.
After his defeat on February 26, Cat-
terall wrote on Instagram: “I should
have been waking up with all of the
belts. Sacrificed everything to fight one
of the top [pound-for-pound] ranked
fighters, gave him a lesson. For what?
Boxing, shame on you. Dreams stolen.”
Catterall, left, lost the bout on points
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MARCOS DOMINGUEZ/MEXTENIS VIA AP

Outcry over ‘pathetic’ Murray gives

probation for Zverev
A
lexander
Zverev has
escaped a
suspension
after an
ATP review
determined that he
should be put on
probation for
repeatedly striking an
umpire’s chair with his
racket during a
tournament in
Acapulco last month
(Stuart Fraser writes).
Two weeks after he
was disqualified from
the Mexican Open and
fined £31,000, the
world No 3 from
Germany was
informed by the ATP
that he would be
banned for eight
weeks should there be
a repeat of his
behaviour in the next
12 months.
The leniency of the
sanction was described
as “pathetic” by
Richard Ings, the
Australian former
official, who described
the attack on
Alessandro Germani’s
chair as “the most
egregious piece of
misconduct from a
player towards an
umpire that I have
witnessed in decades”.
After a contentious
line call during a
defeat in the second
round of the doubles,
Zverev, 24, confronted
Germani by hitting the
chair with his racket
three times, almost
catching the official’s
leg. As the umpire
earnings to
stood to climb down,
Zverev walked back,
swore at him and took
war victims
another swing.
Miro Bratoev, the continued from back
ATP’s senior vice-
president of rules and displaced children, as well as support-
competition, who ing the rehabilitation of damaged
conducted his review schools, together with replacement
independently of the equipment and furniture. I’m going to
ATP’s management be donating my earnings from my prize
and board, determined money for the rest of the year. Children
that Zverev was guilty in Ukraine need peace — now.”
of “aggravated Murray’s record earnings over the
behaviour” under the course of a single season was
major offence section £10 million in 2016, when he won a
of the tour’s rulebook. second Wimbledon crown, the season-
But the penalties ending ATP Finals title and reached
will only be invoked if world No 1 for the first time. This year
Zverev receives a code he has earned £200,000 for eight match
violation for wins, including a second-place finish at
unsportsmanlike the Sydney Classic in January.
conduct or verbal The 34-year-old, who is ranked
abuse before February No 88 in the world, will play in the BNP
22, 2023. The choice Paribas Open in Indian Wells, which
of disciplinary action starts today. He is then due to appear at
here is part of a the Miami Open before taking a break
trend by officials to during the European clay-court swing
give badly behaved to prepare for the grass-court season.
players another Murray has made several generous
chance. gestures during his career. In 2017 he
Ings, who as an donated his prize money from the
umpire was often the Queen’s Club Championships to those
focus of John affected by the Grenfell Tower fire, and
McEnroe’s ire, said the Zverev was in 2020 he pledged his cheque for
incident was “akin to thrown out of winning the Virtual Madrid Open to
physical abuse”. the Mexican Covid-19 relief efforts.
“I’ve seen players Open after In contrast to other sports, tennis
get frustrated, smack the incident chiefs will allow players from Russia
balls away angrily, but and Belarus to continue competing on
I’ve not seen anyone the tour, without the names and flags of
smash the umpire’s leg? Draw blood? That protect its officials domestic abuse. His admitting a fortnight their countries beside their names. The
chair, not once, not was as bad as it gets who have been former girlfriend, Olga ago that he was men’s world No 1, Daniil Medvedev, is
twice but four times,” without physically physically attacked Sharypova, alleges unlikely to play among those who will participate in
Ings, who led the putting the umpire in and intimidated by a that he attacked her in because of protocols Indian Wells this week, after Ukrainian
ATP’s officiating hospital.” competitor, by serving 2019, which Zverev that do not allow players such as Elina Svitolina ex-
department from 2001 Pam Shriver, the a probation versus a denies. unvaccinated travellers pressed no wish for any further action.
to 2005, said. prominent television suspension.” Meanwhile, Novak to enter the United The sport’s seven governing bodies
“You’ve got to ask, pundit and former Separately, Zverev Djokovic surprisingly States. A spokesman — the ATP, WTA, ITF and four grand-
what did he need to do doubles world No 1, remains under remains on the entry for the event did not slam tournaments — have made a joint
to be suspended? said: “Name another investigation by the list for Indian Wells respond to a request donation of £530,000 for humanitarian
Break the umpire’s sport that would not ATP for allegations of this week, despite for comment. efforts and to support the Ukraine
Tennis Federation.

The ball is in Mickelson’s Fresh blow for Saudi league

court, says PGA chief
Golf
John Hopkins
Here in this Florida coastal resort town
of Ponte Vedra Beach, a little more than
a short putt from the Atlantic, a lot is
going on in golf though there may not
be a lot of golf when the Players
Championship starts tomorrow, if the
weather forecast is anything to go by. It
was overcast yesterday, with rain
threatening, and doomsayers are
suggesting that prolonged bad weather
may mean the tournament will not end
until Monday.
This does distract from the fact that
the 40th staging of the Players Champi-
onship is an unusually interesting one.
For the first time a quintet of players
under the age of 30 occupy the top five
places in the world rankings, which is a
significant sign of the changing nature
of this old game. Any one of them could
become the world No 1 on Monday.
Jon Rahm, 27, the quietly spoken
Spaniard, the Americans Collin
Morikawa, 25, Scottie Scheffler, 25, and
Patrick Cantlay, 29, and Norway’s
Viktor Hovland, 24, are described by
many as young, fearless and talented.
“It’s all about self-belief,” Morikawa, the
Open champion, said. “It’s the belief of
knowing that we’d get here. Even if you
had asked us when we were 13 or 14 it
would have been the same answer.”
This year two of the game’s most
dominant figures in recent times are
absent from an event that is sometimes
described as the fifth most important
strokeplay tournament in the
US. One is Tiger Woods,
who does not consider his
golf to be fit for
public scrutiny
yet, certainly not
on a course as difficult as this
one. The other is Phil Mick-
elson, the reigning US PGA
champion, who has taken
himself off into exile after his
inflammatory comments about
the breakaway golf tour, its Saudi
Arabian backers and the PGA Tour.
Never one to rein himself in, whether
on the golf course or off it, Mickelson
accused the PGA Tour of “obnoxious
greed” and “acting like a dictatorship”.
Jay Monahan, the commissioner of
the PGA Tour, was asked yesterday if
Mickelson had been suspended,
hardly an outrageous suggestion bear-
ing in mind the strength of Mickelson’s
remarks. “He stepped away on his own
accord and he’s asked for time,” Mona-
han replied. “He’s been given that time.”
Then an edge entered Monahan’s voice
as he said: “But every player is
accountable for their actions out here.”
He added: “The ball is in his court. I
would welcome a phone call from him.”
However, there is already a feeling
that what we shall call the Mickelson
Affair could be consigned to history
sooner rather than later. Numerous
golfers, from Justin Thomas to
Bubba Watson and Fuzzy
Zoeller, have made ill timed
comments at one point or
another. All were forgiven,
even if what they said was not
forgotten.
Rory McIlroy, who is a
player representative on
the PGA Tour board and
therefore a person whose
views carry a lot of
weight, said yesterday: “I
am over the whole thing
and ready to move on.”
Morikawa is battling
for the world No 1
spot at Sawgrass
as top FA lawyer rejects role
Matt Lawton Chief Sports Correspondent
Saudi Arabia’s Super Golf League has
suffered a further setback after the
lawyer it wanted to handle potential
legal wrangles opted to stay at the FA.
The appointment of Polly Handford,
the FA’s highly regarded director of
legal and governance, would have
represented a coup for the Saudis,
given the likely legal battles involved
in recruiting the world’s leading
golfers.
But having told LIV Golf Invest-
ments — the company behind the new
league, which is funded by the Saudi
Arabian government’s public invest-
ment fund — that she had accepted
their extremely lucrative financial
offer, Handford has now chosen to
remain at Wembley.
Her decision follows the news that
many of the world’s top players have
rejected the Saudi advances and
instead pledged their allegiance to the
PGA Tour.
Greg Norman, the chief executive of
LIV Golf and the man fronting the
project, insisted last month that “it
certainly is not the end” despite the
response of players.
The Saudis have approached most of
the world’s top 100 golfers to take part
in their proposed league, with about
£220 million already invested in the
Asian Tour, of which the Saudi league
would form a part.
However Tiger Woods, Rory
McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Bryson De-
Chambeau, Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm,
Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth and
Dustin Johnson are among those who
have stood by the PGA, while Phil
Mickelson has taken a break from golf
after admitting that he had used the
Saudi breakaway league to gain lever-
age with the PGA Tour.
In an open letter, Norman accused
the PGA Tour of “threatening” its
members with expulsion from their
competitions if they signed with the
Saudis.
“When you try to bluff and intimi-
date players by bullying and threaten-
ing them, you are guilty of going too far
and you likely are in violation of the
law,” Norman, 67, the two-times major
winner, said. “Simply put, you can’t ban
players from playing golf. Players have
the right to play where we like.
“What is wrong with allowing players
to make their own decisions about
where to play and how often to play?
What is so wrong with player choice?
Why do you feel so threatened that you
would resort to such a desperate,
unwise, and unenforceable threat?”
Even so, any future legal battles will
be conducted without Handford, who
previously worked at the RFU.
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No hero’s return, Russian deal

with Premier
only cold, hard League frozen
truths for Wilder
Martyn Ziegler Chief Sports Reporter
No English football matches will be
shown in Russia for the foreseeable
future after combined action by the

4
He added: “I didn’t see that perform- Premier League, EFL and FA to freeze
Sheffield United ance coming from us. They were far their deals.
Berge 23, Sharp 25, Robinson 59,
Gibbs-White 79 better than us in every department and However Uefa, which has suspended

1
it’s disappointing that we made it so Russian teams from European compe-
Middlesbrough easy for them. We were just miles off it tition and stripped St Petersburg of the
Balogun 62
and it’s nowhere near what I expect. We Champions League final, will continue
needed to be better than that because to broadcast matches to Russia,
Sky Bet Championship when the Lane is rocking like this it’s a including messages calling for peace in
Jason Mellor
tough place to come.” Ukraine.
Chris Wilder went from returning to Two goals in the space of as many Premier League matches were
Bramall Lane as a hero to being re- minutes for the hosts before half-time shown in Russia at the weekend but
minded of the score by the Kop. Life proved decisive. Sharp’s 23rd-minute there has been growing political
comes at you fast in the Sky Bet cross from the left was parried weakly pressure to pull the plug. The sports
Championship. by the goalkeeper Joe Lumley straight minister Nigel Huddleston welcomed
It was the kind of Sheffield United to wing back Marc Bola to give Sander the decision, saying it was right to “en-
performance which would normally Berge a routine close-range finish into sure Putin remains a pariah on the
have had Wilder purring,ring, had an empty nenet from the rebound. international stage”.
eceiv-
he not been on the receiv- Then Jonny Howson was The Premier League will also donate
ong
ing end of it. The lifelong dispos
dispossessed by Oliver £1 million to support the people of
fan couldn’t help but ut Nor
Norwood midway in- Ukraine affected by the war and said in
admire the way his sid his own half to al-
side a statement: “The Premier League and
side were dismantled. lo Morgan Gibbs-
low its clubs today unanimously agreed to
But in his day job as W
White to gift the suspend our agreement with Russian
Middlesbrough se
second for Sharp broadcast partner Rambler (Okko
manager, the 54- fr
from ten yards. Sport) with immediate effect. The
year-old needs to The home side League strongly condemns Russia’s in-
address his side’s ad
added two more after Sharp, above, scored his side’s second to heap more away misery on Wilder, left vasion of Ukraine. We call for peace and
abject away form. the break, Jack Robin- our thoughts are with those impacted.”
They have won nine

but the only road trip

ne
side
on the trot at the Riverside
p from
son volleying home
when JJohn Egan headed a
Norwood corner back across
Norwood
Fulham increase tempo The Premier League’s suspension af-
fects its deal with Rambler, which held
the rights until the end of the season
which they have emerged ged victori- Gibbs-W
goal. Gibbs-White restored the and broadcast matches on Okko. If the

1
ous since early January ary was at Man
Man- three goal advanta
three-goal advantage with ten minutes Fulham. Joël Piroe scored for Swansea. conflict continues, the clubs are likely
chester United in the FA Cup. Many left, flicking home from a Ben Osborn Swansea City Russell Martin’s men enjoyed 65 per to take a similar approach to next
Piroe 75
more supine performances like this — a cross to seal a return to the play-off cent possession in the opening ten min- season’s deal with Match TV, which is

5
fourth defeat in the last five winless places at their visitors’ expense. utes. Michael Obafemi fired in a shot owned by Gazprom, after securing a
away league matches — and they are in The substitute Folarin Balogun had Fulham from 25 yards that forced Marek Rodák deal last year for about £42 million for
Mitrovic 46, Cabango (og) 52,
danger of undermining their efforts to reduced the arrears but there were few De Cordova-Reid 73, N Williams 77, 85 to touch it away from the top corner. 2022 to 2028.
seal a top-six finish. other scares for Paul Heckingbottom’s The defining moment of the first half The decision was made at a share-
In contrast, Wilder’s former employ- side. He said: “We have to be happy with Fulham moved another step closer to a came when Swansea captain Ryan Man- holders’ meeting in London yesterday,
ers look an increasingly decent bet to that. There were so many positives and return to the Premier League as they ning lunged at Harry Wilson just inside where all 20 clubs were in agreement.
secure an immediate return to the top it really was a complete performance.” hammered home five goals against ten- the Fulham half, leading to a red card. One club chief executive defended
flight. Propelled by the goals of Billy man Swansea. With only 14 seconds on the clock the decision to allow the weekend’s
Sharp, who scored his 15th of the season Sheffield United (3-5-2): W Foderingham —
A 5-1 win allowed them to move even after the restart, Swansea lost posses- matches to be shown on the basis that
in all competitions during a decisive B Davies, J Egan, J Robinson — B Osborn further ahead at the top of the table sion and two passes later Mitrovic had the coverage included anti-war messa-
first half, automatic promotion isn’t out (K Gordon 86min), S Berge, O Norwood, J Fleck after Bournemouth were held to a 1-1 scored. Seven minutes later another ges. “The Russian people now know
of the question. (C Hourihane 38), R Norrington-Davies — draw by Peterborough. Fulham now attack ended with Cabango putting the what the football fans of this country
M Gibbs-White, B Sharp (O McBurnie 85).
“We didn’t deserve anything,” Wilder Booked: Sharp, Hourihane, Gibbs-White. hold a 14-point lead. ball into his own net, and DeCordova- think,” he said.
admitted. Yet he was afforded a raptur- Middlesbrough (3-5-2): J Lumley — L Peltier All the goals came after half-time; Reid made it 3-0 five minutes after. The FA has asked the media agency
ous reception 12 months after the end of (J Coburn 75), D Fry, P McNair — I Jones, Aleksandar Mitrovic’s opener was Swansea pulled one back when Piroe IMG to suspend its deal with Match TV,
M Crooks, J Howson, M Tavernier, M Bola
a five-year reign in which he master- (D Watmore 60) — A Sporar (F Balogun 60),
followed by a Ben Cabango own goal, headed home his 16th goal of the as has the EFL, which has also with-
minded an unforgettable journey from A Connolly. Booked Howson, Peltier, Crooks. Bobby DeCordova-Reid’s close-range season, but Williams scored twice in drawn access to its iFollow and other
the third tier to the Premier League. Referee T Robinson. Attendance 28,994. finish and Neco Williams’s first two for the closing stages. club streaming services in Russia.

Results
Luton....................35 16 9 10 48 39 9 57 P W D L F A GD Pts Hartlepool..........34 13 8 13 36 44 -8 47 Weymouth.........32 5 7 20 30 61 -31 22 N M Lyon lbw b Nauman Ali 3
Football QPR.......................35 16 8 11 50 41 9 56 Rotherham.........36 23 7 6 62 21 41 76 Crawley...............34 12 9 13 42 46 -4 45 Kings Lynn..........31 4 6 21 27 59 -32 18 J R Hazlewood not out 0
Middlesbrough.35 16 7 12 46 40 6 55 Wigan...................34 22 6 6 59 32 27 72 Harrogate...........34 11 10 13 52 52 0 43 *Dover Athletic..31 1 5 25 22 72 -50 -4 Extras (b 6, lb 13, nb 8) 27
Champions League Bradford City.....35 9 13 13 38 45 -7 40 Total (140.1 overs) 459
Millwall................35 14 11 10 37 34 3 53 MK Dons..............37 21 9 7 62 37 25 72 * deducted 12pts for breaching league rules
Round of 16, second leg Oxford Utd.........37 19 8 10 71 47 24 65 Walsall.................35 10 10 15 37 47 -10 40
Nottm Forest.....34 14 10 10 46 34 12 52 North Chorley 0 Spennymoor Town 2; Fall of wickets 1-156, 2-203, 3-311, 4-326, 5-
B Munich (4) 7 RB Salzburg (0) 1 Coventry.............35 14 9 12 44 42 2 51 Sunderland ........ 37 18 9 10 64 48 16 63 Rochdale.............33 8 14 11 39 45 -6 38 407, 6-422, 7-444, 8-455, 9-459.
Carlisle.................34 9 10 15 28 46 -18 37 Guiseley 0 Brackley Town 5; York City 3
Lewandowski Kjaergaard 70 Preston................36 12 14 10 40 40 0 50 Plymouth............35 18 8 9 58 39 19 62 Darlington 1. South Maidstone Utd 1 Braintree Bowling Khan 45-9-122-1; Shah 21-2-89-1; Afridi
12, 21 (both pens), 23 West Brom ......... 35 13 10 12 37 32 5 49 Wycombe...........36 17 10 9 61 47 14 61 Colchester..........35 8 12 15 33 49 -16 36 30-5-88-2; Nauman Ali 38.1-9-107-6; Ahmed 3-
Leyton Orient....33 7 14 12 42 36 6 35 Town 0; St Albans 1 Oxford City 1.
Gnabry 31 Blackpool............35 13 9 13 41 41 0 48 Sheff Wed...........35 17 10 8 53 40 13 61 0-20-0; Imam-ul-Haq 2-0-9-0; Azam 1-0-5-0.
Müller 54, 83, Sané 85 Stoke....................35 12 9 14 43 40 3 45 Ipswich................37 16 11 10 57 39 18 59 Stevenage..........35 7 13 15 32 54 -22 34 Cinch Scottish Championship Umpires Ahsan Raza and Aleem Dar.
(Bayern Munich win 8-2 on agg) Swansea..............34 12 8 14 38 49 -11 44 Portsmouth........35 16 9 10 53 38 15 57 Barrow.................34 7 12 15 31 41 -10 33 Partick (0) 1 Queen of South (0) 0 6 Two-match series level 0-0
Cardiff..................36 12 6 18 43 55 -12 42 Bolton .................. 37 16 7 14 59 48 11 55 Oldham................33 7 10 16 34 51 -17 31
Liverpool (0) 0 Inter Milan (0) 1 Scunthorpe........35 4 12 19 24 59 -35 24 Holt 82 (pen) 2,044 Women’s World Cup, group stage
Birmingham ...... 36 10 10 16 42 56 -14 40 Accrington.........35 13 7 15 44 57 -13 46
Martínez 61 P W D L F A GD Pts Mount Maunganui Pakistan 190-6 (50 overs:
Sent off: A Sanchez (Inter Milan) 63 Bristol City.........36 11 7 18 46 65 -19 40 Cambridge.........36 11 12 13 46 52 -6 45 Papa John’s EFL Trophy semi-final Arbroath.............28 13 12 3 40 19 21 51 Bismah Maroof 78 not out, Aliya Riaz 53);
Hull.......................36 10 7 19 30 41 -11 37 Cheltenham.......36 10 14 12 49 59 -10 44 Wigan (1) 1 Sutton Utd (1) 1
(Liverpool win 2-1 on agg) Kilmarnock........28 15 5 8 36 19 17 50 Australia 193-3 (34.4 overs: A J Healy 72).
@Reading.............35 10 5 20 42 68 -26 29 Burton..................37 12 8 17 45 56 -11 44
Partick Thistle...27 12 9 6 40 24 16 45
Sky Bet Championship Charlton..............35 11 7 17 41 47 -6 40 McClean 39 Randall 29 Australia (2pts) won by seven wickets.
*Derby ................. 36 11 12 13 36 39 -3 24 6,541 Inverness CT.....28 10 10 8 35 27 8 40
Barnsley..............35 5 9 21 25 51 -26 24 Shrewsbury.......36 9 12 15 31 35 -4 39 Cycling
Barnsley (0) 1 Stoke (0) 1 Lincoln City........35 10 8 17 40 49 -9 38 (Sutton United win 7-6 on pens) Raith Rovers......28 9 12 7 34 34 0 39
Quina 70 Baker 90+5 Peterborough...35 5 7 23 25 70 -45 22 Ayr United..........28 8 8 12 29 40 -11 32
Fleetwood..........35 7 12 16 48 63 -15 33 Vanarama National League Altrincham 5 Paris-Nice race
12,512 * deducted 21pts for breaching financial rules AFC Wimbledon 36 6 15 15 39 56 -17 33 Morton ................ 28 7 10 11 30 38 -8 31
Weymouth 0; King’s Lynn Town 0 Woking 0; Leading positions: Third stage (Vierzon to
and for going into administration Hamilton Acad . 28 7 10 11 29 43 -14 31
Blackburn (0) 0 Millwall (0) 0 Morecambe 36 7 11 18 45 67 -22 32 Maidenhead Utd 0 Wealdstone 2; Solihull Dun-le-Palestel, 190.8km): 1, M Pedersen
@ deducted 6pts for breaching financial rules Gillingham..........36 6 12 18 28 58 -30 30 Moors 3 Notts County 3; Southend Utd 1 Queen of South 28 6 8 14 29 41 -12 26
Dunfermline 27 4 12 11 24 41 -17 24 (Den, Trek-Segafredo) 4hr 23min 29sec; 2, B
League One Doncaster...........37 8 5 24 28 72 -44 29 Grimsby 0; Wrexham 4 Boreham Wood 2; Coquard (Fr, Cofidis); 3, W van Aert (Bel,
Bournemouth (0) 1 Peterborough (1) 1 Crewe...................36 6 7 23 30 66 -36 25 Yeovil 0 Dagenham & Redbridge 3. League Two Stenhousemuir 0 Kelty Hearts 1; Jumbo-Visma). Leading British 7, F Wright
Bolton (0) 1 Morecambe (1) 1 Stirling Albion 2 Cowdenbeath 1.
Christie 52 Marriott 30 League Two P W D L F A GD Pts (Bahrain Victorious); 9, E Hayter (Ineos
Bodvarsson 90+4 Stockton 41
Stockport Co......31 21 4 6 62 27 35 67
Coventry (0) 0 Luton (1) 1 Crewe (0) 1 Portsmouth (2) 3 Crawley (0) 1 Bristol Rovers (1) 2 Chesterfield.......32 17 11 4 58 32 26 62
Cricket Grenadiers) all same time. Overall 1, C
Laporte (Fr, Jumbo-Visma) 11:34:44; 2, Van
16,996 Adebayo 38 Hessenthaler 69 Anderson 41
Long 90+1 Hirst 3, 66 Wrexham.............31 18 7 6 56 30 26 61 First Test match: Pakistan v Australia Aert at 1sec; 3, P Roglic (Slovenia, Jumbo-
Sheff United (2) 4 Middlesbro (0) 1 4,307 Walker 31 2,223 Collins 65 Halifax.................29 17 6 6 45 22 23 57 Visma) 9. Leading British 17, A Yates (Ineos
Rawalpindi (final day of five): Pakistan drew
Berge 23, Sharp 25 Balogun 62 Ipswich (2) 2 Lincoln City (0) 0 Exeter (2) 3 Swindon (0) 1 Boreham Wood 28 16 8 4 39 21 18 56 with Australia Grenadiers) 39; 20, S Yates (BikeExchange-
Robinson 59 28,994 Brown 17 Payne 90+3 Solihull Moors 31 15 10 6 52 32 20 55 Pakistan First Innings 476-4 dec (Azhar Ali Jayco) same time.
Burns 23 24,989
Gibbs-White 79 Jackson 32 Grounds 26, Jay 81 Notts County......31 15 9 7 57 37 20 54 185, Imam-ul-Haq 157)
Swansea (0) 1 Fulham (0) 5 Grimsby ............... 31 16 4 11 46 31 15 52 Second Innings
MK Dons (2) 3 Cheltenham (0) 1
Piroe 75 Mitrovic 46 Parrott 26, 85 Boyle 89 Forest Green.....34
P W D
19 11
L F
4 64
A GD Pts
29 35 68
Bromley..............29 15 7 7 45 33 12 52
Dagenham & R..31 15 4 12 56 41 15 49
Abdullah Shafique not out 136 Football fixtures
17,012 Cabango 52 (og) Eisa 28 Northampton....35 17 9 9 42 29 13 60 Imam-ul-Haq not out 111
Torquay...............31 12 8 11 45 44 1 44
Reid 73 Exeter...................33 15 12 6 50 34 16 57 Extras (lb 2, nb 3) 5 Champions League: Round-of-16, second
Williams 77, 85
Plymouth (1) 2 AFC Wimbledon (0) 0 Southend.............31 12 8 11 35 41 -6 44
Sutton United....34 16 9 9 53 39 14 57 Yeovil....................31 10 9 12 28 33 -5 39 Total (no wkt, 77 overs) 252 leg (8.0): Manchester City (5) v Sporting (0);
Sent off: R Manning (Swansea) 42 Hardie 29 Real Madrid (0) v Paris Saint-Germain (1).
Broom 61 Newport County35 15 11 9 56 45 11 56 Altrincham.........32 10 7 15 48 54 -6 37 Bowling Starc 7-1-29-0; Hazlewood 5-0-8-0;
P W D L F A GD Pts Mansfield 32 16 8 8 44 34 10 56 Eastleigh..............31 10 7 14 33 44 -11 37 Lyon 26-5-75-0; Cummins 4-0-15-0; Europa League: Round-of-16, first leg (5.45):
Fulham ................ 35 23 7 5 89 30 59 76 Sunderland (0) 3 Fleetwood (1) 1 Tranmere............35 16 8 11 38 30 8 56 Wealdstone.........31 9 8 14 33 46 -13 35 Labuschagne 15-0-56-0; Head 13-1-35-0; Smith Porto v Lyons; Real Betis v Eintracht Frankfurt.
Bournemouth....33 18 8 7 53 30 23 62 Embleton 55 Harrison 28 Swindon..............35 15 10 10 58 44 14 55 Barnet...................31 9 8 14 40 56 -16 35 2-0-15-0; Green 4-0-14-0; Khawaja 1-0-3-0. Papa John’s EFL Trophy: Semi-final
Huddersfield.....36 17 11 8 49 36 13 62 O’Nien 82 28,017 Bristol Rovers ... 35 15 9 11 48 42 6 54 Maidenhead.......31 9 8 14 35 54 -19 35 Australia First Innings (overnight 449-7) Hartlepool v Rotherham (7.45).
Blackburn...........36 16 10 10 46 36 10 58 Clarke 90+1 Port Vale.............33 13 11 9 46 33 13 50 Woking................32 10 4 18 43 48 -5 34 M A Starc lbw b Afridi 13 Cinch Scottish Premiership Dundee v
Sheffield Utd ..... 35 16 9 10 49 36 13 57 Sent off: Z Jules (Fleetwood Town) 87 Salford ................33 13 9 11 38 31 7 48 Aldershot.............31 8 7 16 33 50 -17 31 *P J Cummins c ul-Haq b Nauman Ali 8 St Mirren (7.45).
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Wrong man, Bottom of the table

P W D L F A GD Pts
Newcastle 26 6 10 10 30 46 -16 28
Brentford 28 7 6 15 30 45 -15 27
Leeds 27 5 8 14 29 61 -32 23

wrong time, Everton

Burnley
Watford
Norwich
25 6 4 15 28 46 -18 22
26 3 12 11 22 36 -14 21
27 5 4 18 27 50 -23 19
27 4 5 18 16 58 -42 17
Everton’s remaining Premier League
fixtures: Sunday Wolves (h). Mar 17

wrong club
Newcastle (h). Apr 3 West Ham (a).
Apr 9 Man Utd (h). Apr 23 Liverpool (a).
Apr 30 Chelsea (h). May 7 Leicester (a).
May 15 Brentford (h). May 22 Arsenal (a).
TBC Burnley (a), Leicester (h), Crystal
Palace (h), Watford (a).

Premier League Away Table

The dreamy philosophy No new manager 'bounce'
2021-22
of Frank Lampard is not Although Everton have had more P W D L Pts
suited to stark realities possession and made more passes
under Frank Lampard, they have
Manchester
City
14 11 2 1 35
of a relegation dogfight, actually got worse than under Rafa
Benítez in terms of their threat in
Chelsea 14 9 3 2 30
writes Alyson Rudd front of goal, and their ability to
Liverpool 13 8 3 2 27
keep opponents out
Everton are staring into the abyss as if Wolverhampton
Everton (Premier League 2021-22) 14 7 2 5 23
Wanderers
in a trance, and are ill equipped to step
Benítez Lampard Manchester
away. There is much to admire about 14 6 5 3 23
United
Frank Lampard, but he is the wrong Games
manager in the wrong place at the West Ham
19 5 14 6 3 5 21
United
wrong time as the clock ticks and
Goals per game Tottenham
relegation looms. Hotspur
13 6 2 5 20
The former, very fine England mid- 1.3 0.8
fielder was given the job he most covet- Conceded per game Arsenal 12 6 1 5 19
ed too soon in his managerial career. 1.8 2.2 Brighton and
Chelsea, where his name is still sung by Shots per game Hove Albion
14 4 7 3 19
supporters who loved his wholehearted
yet majestic commitment on the pitch, 12.2 10.6 Crystal Palace 14 3 6 5 15
replaced him with the more experi- Shots faced per game
enced, more tactically astute Thomas 13.4 14.6 Aston Villa 13 5 0 8 15
Tuchel. Lampard did well for a version xG per game
of Chelsea suffering because of a trans- Brentford 14 3 4 7 13
1.2 0.9
fer embargo but not well enough for a
club who demand consistent success. xG against per game Southampton 14 3 4 7 13
Lampard was considered for the 1.5 2
vacancies that then arose at Norwich Watford 13 3 3 7 12
Possession
City and Aston Villa and we wondered 40 44.1
if he was built for a relegation fight in Leicester City 12 3 3 6 12
East Anglia or the re-energisation Passes per game
Newcastle 12 2 4 6 10
required in the Midlands. Then football 345 410 United
royalty came calling. Everton — a Passing accuracy
Leeds United 14 2 4 8 10
stalwart of the top flight, a club who 73.9 77.5
have not been relegated since 1951 and
% passes long Burnley 13 1 6 6 9
have always harboured dreams of glory,
no matter the challenges — needed a 16.7% 12.9%
Norwich City 13 2 2 9 8
replacement for Rafa Benítez, a man so Passes into box per game
closely associated with arch-rivals 25.8 21.4 The swashbuckling Van de Beek was one of the first additions made to Everton’s
Everton 13 1 3 9 6
Liverpool that his every cough, hiccup squad by Lampard, below, a manager who puts the accent on attacking ingenuity
or wipe of his glasses was greeted with
“blue nose” cynicism. the idea of rescuing a couple of very biggest and most secure clubs City’s intransigence. It was a prime they have a manager with no experi-
Goodison Park, he must have players who were fossilising and can put their attacking philoso- example of how giving Spurs room to ence of dealing with arresting a slide
thought, is a grand place to be a manag- coaxing from them performances phy first and still keep winning. counterattack can humble the finest into a pit of despair. Lampard is now
er, a fine place to prove your coaching that could prove doubters wrong. Liverpool can keep on playing opponents. Instead Lampard dwelt on up against two of the most pragmatic
credentials. Lampard was developing But this is like spending time like Liverpool and Man- how close Everton came to wresting a managers in the division in the race to
his philosophy at Stamford Bridge, he and money on the stitching chester City can keep on point against Pep Guardiola’s team last avoid ignominy.
wanted his team to be attacking, play on and design of your Cavalier playing like Manches- month and felt, quite possibly, a Sean Dyche at Burnley and Roy
the front foot, move the ball quickly, battle flag and forgetting to ter City. Leeds surge of pride that his side could hold Hodgson at Watford care about enter-
and be swashbuckling. He immediately feed the horses. United, under Mar- their own. tainment but it is not a priority. They
signed two swashbuckling if margina- After the 5-0 defeat by celo Bielsa, kept on He travelled with a dash of romance understand they are paid to sift through
lised players in the form of Donny van Tottenham Hotspur on playing like Leeds to north London, and in attacking the sludge for enough points to stay
de Beek and Dele Alli. Monday evening Lampard United and were Spurs gave them the space they needed among the elite and while their teams
If you asked 100,000 football fans said that it was patently obvi- plummeting as a to punish any team, let alone one with can be creative and fun to watch, they
which players they would like their club ous the club were in a relega- consequence. a back line as flimsy as Everton’s. understand that their task will
to sign if threatened with relegation, tion scrap. Lampard should Lampard badly needs the versatile comprise a few yawn-fests along the
precisely none of them would scratch “You’d have to be a fool not have taken heed of Ben Godfrey back in action to lift what way.
their chins, look at the stats and conjure to understand it,” he said. how City came un- must be flailing morale among an Neither would have wondered if the
the names of Van de Beek or Dele. This He is, though, surrounded stuck against Tot- accident-prone and slow back four. answer to their predicament was to
is at the heart of Everton’s malaise. by fools for he is not the type of tenham last month. Two victories in the past 19 league leave swathes of grass for Harry Kane
They have invited in a coach dreaming manager needed right now. It was a rare case of games marks Everton out as prime to shine or to welcome in Van de Beek
of attacking ingenuity, who rather likes Only those who coach at the a team exposing relegation candidates and at the helm or Dele.

Kane hints he’ll stay at Spurs . . . if Conte is still there Ex-Everton manager Lee dies

The former Everton manager

Gary Jacob
Harry Kane has hinted that his future
depends on playing in the Champions
League and Antonio Conte staying at
Tottenham Hotspur next season.
The England captain has been open
about his desire to lift a first trophy of
his career. Having pushed to join Man-
chester City last summer, he is unlikely
to settle for another season playing in
second or third-tier European competi-
tions. Kane will turn 29 in July and have
two years left on his contract.
Tottenham improved their chances
of qualifying for the Champions
League by finishing in the top four after
beating Everton 5-0 on Monday, with
Kane scoring twice.
Conte, who signed an 18-month deal
when he took charge in November, has
made recent comments that have put
his future in doubt, but it is thought the
Italian head coach is seeking to ensure
that he is backed in the transfer market.
“A lot of us want to be playing in the
Champions League,” Kane said. “We
haven’t played in it now for a couple of
years [since 2019-20] but it’s where we
think the club should be. The manager
is a fantastic coach, I really enjoy work-
ing with him. Antonio has definitely
given me more strings to my bow.”
Tottenham have won three of their
past four league games, but also lost
away to Burnley and been dumped out
of the FA Cup by second-tier Middles-
brough. “There’s 12 games left and it’s
just down to being more consistent,”
Kane said. “It’s not just about one result,
it’s about putting together a run of four,
five results in a row.”
Kane has set a target of breaking
Alan Shearer’s record of 260 Premier
League goals. He scored twice against
Everton to take his tally to 176 —
moving above Thierry Henry and into
sixth on the list.
“I feel like physically, I am in a really
good place,” he said. “My game under-
standing and my awareness on the
pitch is at a really high level.”
Ryan Sessegnon will undergo a scan
after the left wing back suffered a
muscular injury and was withdrawn at
the interval against Everton.
Gordon Lee, who led the team to a
League Cup final, two FA Cup semi-
finals and two top-four finishes in
the First Division, has died aged 87.
He played as right back for Aston
Villa and Shrewsbury, then managed
Blackburn and Newcastle before
Everton in 1977, where he signed
George Wood and Graeme Sharp.
He was sacked after a poor finish
to the 1980-81 season and went on
to have spells in management with
Preston, KR Reykjavik and Leicester.
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Bigger battle ahead for giants £500k each

if Arsenal
tussling over Mbappé’s future ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES
rejoin elite
Tom Roddy
Arsenal’s players could earn up to
Even if they eliminate £500,000 each in bonuses if they
qualify for the Champions League for
Real tonight, PSG may the first time since 2016-17.
Mikel Arteta’s team moved into the
still lose out in summer top four on Sunday with a 3-2 victory
over Watford, climbing above
if star makes Bernabéu Manchester United; they are now a
point ahead of United with three
move, says Ian Hawkey games in hand. The Times
understands that if they finish in the

H
aving disposed of the
outdated away-goals rule,
Uefa could be forgiven for
thinking that the glamour
tie in the Champions
League has come up with its own
fresh format: not two legs but three.
The first 90 minutes of Paris Saint-
Germain against Real Madrid
produced a 1-0 home win, supplying
ample suspense for tonight’s return in
Spain. But the whole tie risks being
overshadowed by a third joust, of
indeterminate length, between these
behemoths over who ends up with the
rights to Kylian Mbappé’s peak years.
The issue of the 23-year-old’s future
will not keep quiet. The France
forward, scorer of the late goal in the
first leg, yesterday found himself
being primed for an unusual serenade
for an opposition footballer at the
Bernabéu. So encouraged are Real’s
supporters to believe he will join their
club in the summer that he may hear
a dedicated ovation, at least after
60,000 madridistas have finished
booing PSG’s Lionel Messi, an old foe,
and Neymar, who is remembered in
these parts for having reneged on all-
but-agreed deals to join Real.
“I would understand it,” Carlo
Ancelotti, the Real head coach, said of
the possibility of Mbappé being
cheered by most people in the
stadium. “The history of the
Bernabéu shows that great players are
applauded here.”
Real had a bid in excess of
£150 million for Mbappé rejected by
PSG in August. The pursuit has since
intensified, and the more coy Mbappé
has become towards PSG’s ever-
higher offers for him to renew a
contract that expires in June, the
more imminent appears his joining —
without a transfer fee — Real, the
club he has said he dreamt of
representing from childhood.
Mbappé, who has been involved in 12 of PSG’s 14 goals in Europe this term, has dreamt of playing for Real since childhood
Nobody speaking for Real was
sticking obediently to pre-match
protocols on the subject. Luka
Modric, assigned press-conference
duty, answered candidly the question
he had been expecting about
Mbappé: “Of course I’d love to play
alongside him.”
Modric dutifully added: “It’s hard to
talk about players who aren’t here
because other clubs can get angry.”
The midfielder then put aside any
concern for PSG anger, saying of
Mbappé: “You always want to play
with great footballers and he is one.
“Right now he is a PSG player; we’ll
see what happens.”
As for containing Mbappé, who has
shaken off some heavy bruising to his
left foot from a collision with Idrissa
Gueye in training on Monday, Modric
acknowledged that Real face
challenges. Casemiro is suspended, as
is Ferland Mendy, the first-choice left
back, and a final assessment of Toni
Kroos’s recovery from a thigh
problem will be made this morning.
“Toni will come through, but being
without Casemiro is a setback,”
Modric said of his enduring partners
in Real’s midfield, “and it means more
covering from me. But it’s up to all of
us to make up the work, especially
defensively.”
Mauricio Pochettino, the PSG head
coach, recognised that Mbappé would
enter the Bernabéu to special
attention. “I have no doubt that
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whatever might be going on outside,
his performance won’t be affected,”
Pochettino said. “Kylian is mature for
his age and he’s always focused. What
he wants is to give everything for his
team. He’s outstanding at the
moment. His figures speak for
themselves.”
Those numbers spell out why PSG
dread having to bid farewell to
Mbappé. He is their leading scorer
this season by a distance, with 24
goals across all competitions, Messi
the next best with seven. He has
been involved in 12 of their 14 goals
in Europe. Domestically, PSG have
lost five times. Mbappé was missing
from the starting line-up for three of
those defeats.
top four each player will receive a
one-off windfall of about £500,000.
Including weekly bonuses — such
as for appearances, goals and assists
— some members of the squad would
earn significantly more should the
club manage to climb back into
Europe’s elite competition.
Champions League qualification is
worth more than £50 million in prize
money, which Arsenal have gone
without in their past five years outside
the European elite. An agreement was
reached at the beginning of the
season for a slice of that money to go
towards Arteta’s squad. Yet Arsenal
have a far from simple run to the end
of the season with Leicester City and
Liverpool visiting the Emirates
Stadium before trips to Aston Villa
and Crystal Palace.
“I don’t like to look at the table a lot
because we have games in hand,”
Arteta said on Sunday. “We’re going
to have different fixtures and there’s
only one objective. I cannot control
the results.”
Ukraine’s tie is postponed
Fifa has agreed to Ukraine’s request
to postpone their World Cup play-off
against Scotland this month after
Russia’s invasion of the country.
Fifa said that after talks with Uefa
and the four play-off federations “it
was unanimously agreed in the spirit
of solidarity to accept this request”.
Ukraine had been set to face
Scotland at Hampden Park on March
24 in a play-off semi-final which will
now be staged in June. The Wales v
Austria play-off will still go ahead as
planned on March 24.
Fifa also announced that Poland,
who were due to face Russia in their
play-off, will receive a bye and face
the winner of Sweden v Czech
Republic on March 29.

Guardiola: Walker deserves his ban, he did something stupid

Martin Hardy
Pep Guardiola has criticised Kyle
Walker for the reckless challenge that
will rule him out of the first leg of
Manchester City’s likely Champions
League quarter-final — and said the
club should not have appealed against
the ban because his defender “de-
served” it.
Guardiola was unusually critical of
one of his own players after Walker was
shown a red card for lashing out at RB
Leipzig’s André Silva in the 81st minute
of a dead-rubber group game in
December.
The City right back received a three-
match ban, ruling him out of both legs
of the round-of-16 tie with Sporting
Lisbon and the first leg of a potential
quarter-final — which is now almost
bound to occur after City won the first
leg 5-0 in Portugal.
Walker, 31, was initially banned for
one game but that was extended to
three after the challenge was described
as “assault” on a Uefa charge sheet. City players fit for the second leg at the “We have a few problems, Guardiola said: “I would love it if he
appealed, but that was rejected and Etihad tonight. Kevin De Bruyne is Kyle is suspended, João is stays, he is an incredible captain. Now I
Guardiola has little sympathy. unlikely to be risked as he is on a yellow sick. Of course we had an have the feeling he is getting better. I’m
“He deserved it; Kyle Walker card. incredible result in the first pretty sure when a holding midfielder is
deserved the three [games], he Guardiola said he could leg, but football is unpre- thinking about the team, he has every-
did a stupid thing,” the City turn to the club’s dictable [with] red thing to become a manager.”
manager said. Man City (5) academy to fill the cards, the quality City are still fighting for three
“In Leipzig we had right-back spot of opponent. trophies: the Premier League, the
qualified already, and v Sporting against Sport- We’ll take a Champions League and the FA Cup.
then he made this kind ing, but there top side as Asked if they could win the Champions
of action. He deserved Lisbon (0) is also the much as League and the Premier League in the
the three games. I’m still Champions League possibility of possible. We same season, Guardiola replied: “It can
so angry with him. He Round of 16, second leg playing John do not have happen, that’s true. We have to recover
knows it, it’s not necessary. TV: BT Sport 2 Stones there and many alterna- people otherwise it is so difficult with 14
“The club appealed but I recalling Fernandi- tives but we will or 15 players: you cannot sustain as
did not agree. He deserved it. nho at centre back. have the best team much, we need the squad.
Hopefully he learns for the future. Guardiola said that Olek- possible to win the “We are going to try. Every season
“I’m not so kind to Kyle for this kind sandr Zinchenko was also ready to game.” when we are fighting for both, we reach
of action. It wasn’t necessary to discuss play, despite the trauma of the con- On Fernandinho, 36, the semi-final and final. We want to
about that. Kyle Walker is so important flict in his homeland Ukraine. whose contract at City reach the quarter-final [of the
for us. Did you see the game he played “We don’t have many players, ends this summer, Champions League] and we’ll see.”
for us against [Manchester] United [on just 14 available,” Guardiola said.
Sunday]? I said right after the game he “Zinch is ready; it’s not been an Walker was initially
deserved it; hopefully he learnt.” easy period for him, absolutely banned for only one Manchester City (4-3-3, probable): Ederson —
J Stones, Fernandinho, A Laporte, O Zinchenko —
With João Cancelo missing through not, but I think he’d be ready if he game but that was I Gundogan, Rodri, P Foden — R Mahrez, G Jesus,
sickness, City have only 14 first-team has to play. extended by Uefa J Grealish.
64
Sport Champions League: Round of 16, second leg
Liverpool relieved after ruthless
Henry Winter
Chief Football
Writer
0
Liverpool
1
Inter Milan
Martínez 61
Liverpool win 2-1 on agg
On a blowy night at Anfield, Inter
Milan had the wind taken out of their
sails only by a red card for Alexis
Sánchez just as the Italians were threat-
ening to drag Liverpool to extra time.
Lautaro Martínez, the Argentina
forward, had given Inter the lead from
a pass by Sánchez when the Chile
player dived in again, earning his
second booking, and walked after 63
minutes. Much to Liverpool’s relief,
Inter’s chances seemed to follow the
former Arsenal and Manchester
United man down the tunnel.
Liverpool were grateful as they were
off the pace by their high standards and
Inter were coming on strong, moving
the ball more quickly, responding to
Simone Inzaghi’s calls for greater
urgency. Liverpool had won their previ-
ous 12 games in all competitions so this
was simply a reminder of the threats
out there. They headed to defeat
because of occasional sloppiness here
but also headed through to the
Champions League quarter-finals
because of the hard work done in Milan
a fortnight ago.
Accusations of complacency can be
dismissed. Liverpool are too profession-
al for that, too driven individually and
collectively. They are too experienced
in European combat to need lessons but
this was still a general reminder to be
more ruthless in front of goal.
Mohamed Salah, who hardly needs
to have his finishing questioned, struck
the post twice, while Joël Matip headed
against the crossbar. Liverpool’s efforts
at goal were hindered by the swirling
wind and it is a compliment to Trent
Alexander-Arnold’s technique that his
dead-ball deliveries mainly reached
their intended targets. It was another
exercise in dealing with a low block and
Liverpool laboured to find a way
through Inter’s five-man back line.
Above all it was a reminder to avoid
making mistakes in possession, such as
Matip gifting Inter the ball from which
they countered quickly and Martínez
scored after 61 minutes. Liverpool’s
intent was admirable, building from the
back, simply their execution was poor.
Virgil van Dijk played the ball from left
The art of football is to lose the right games, declares Klopp
Paul Joyce
Mohamed Salah believes that the
Champions League defeat by Inter
Milan could serve as a blessing in dis-
guise and provide Liverpool with a
“push” in their quest for the quadruple.
Liverpool progressed to the quarter-
finals of the competition despite losing
1-0 at Anfield last night as their 2-0 first
leg success in the San Siro proved
decisive. Lautaro Martínez’s stunning
strike capitalised on a sloppy passage
from the hosts, but was immediately
undermined by the 63rd-minute
dismissal of team-mate Alexis Sánchez,
the former Arsenal and Manchester
United forward, for a second booking.
Liverpool hit the post three times,
Salah hitting it twice, but succumbed to
only a third defeat in their past
53 matches in all competitions.
Henderson salutes the Anfield crowd
to right, and Matip responded to
Sánchez s press by driving the ball down
the line. Ivan Perisic picked it off,
Hakan Calhanoglu played it to
Sánchez. Liverpool’s shape was out of
kilter, the gaps inviting for Inter. Matip
was wide, Van Dijk still coming across,
so Sánchez sensed the rare vulnerabili-
ty in Liverpool’s defence.
The door was fractionally open.
Sánchez quickly played the ball to
Martínez, who was given a split-second
by Van Dijk’s slight hesitation. Martí-
nez sent the ball flying over Alisson and
in, a wonderful strike.
It was also a lesson in how strict refer-
ees can be in the Champions League.
The game arguably hinged on
Sánchez’s dismissal two minutes after
Martínez’s goal. Sánchez could have no
complaints about the first yellow card
he was shown by Antonio Mateu
Lahoz, the Spanish official, five minutes
into first-half stoppage time. Sánchez
accepted the card with a thumbs-up
after he had slid in strongly on Thiago
Alcántara, lifting his right boot and
catching the Liverpool midfielder on
his right knee. Straightforward yellow.
Sánchez is intelligent and experi-
enced enough not to risk a second yel-
low by flying in again, however inno-
cent the intent. But, having got Inter
back into the tie, he seemed almost on
a mission to regain possession in pur-
suit of the goal that would force extra
time.
He flew in on Fabinho, clearly target-
ing the ball, but following through in a
manner deemed reckless by modern
referees and catching the Brazil player
on the ankle. Mateu Lahoz, never one
to eschew the limelight, rushed in,
waving a yellow card. Inter’s dugout
were enraged at the perceived injustice
and Inzaghi’s assistant, Massimiliano
Farris, was given a straight red card for
his overanimated protestations.
There were 27 minutes remaining but
the Inter revival was slowed and Liver-
pool reclaimed control of midfield. The
sides had been equal in the first period.
However, the Egyptian international
feels a rare blemish can serve as a lesson
to maintain their standards.
“The most important thing is to go
through,” Salah said. “Inter started well
and maybe we had a little bit in our
minds as we were winning [on aggre-
gate], but we can take the result and
learn from it and carry on.
“We have lost a game but sometimes
it can give you a push. We missed a lot
of chances [but] it’s not in the [Premier]
League and we have qualified.
“Everyone wants to win those
trophies and, for sure, we want to win
the Champions League and the
Premier League. We are going to fight
for both and let’s see what happens.”
The red card for Sánchez represent-
ed a turning point as it stifled Inter’s
momentum after Martínez’s goal.
The Chile international had been
2GM Wednesday March 9 2022 | the times
but Liverpool’s press was immediately
evident. Andrew Robertson hounded
Martínez’s fine
finish was not
Denzel Dumfries, Inter’s right wing- enough for the
back. Thiago closed down Milan Skrin- Italian
iar and then Inter’s goalkeeper, Samir
Handanovic, forcing him to clear hur-
riedly. Robertson darted in ahead of
champions
23
Dumfries to nick the ball. Bayern Munich’s Robert
When Diogo Jota fouled Skriniar to Lewandowski scored a hat-
the right of Liverpool’s penalty area, trick after 23 minutes, a
Alisson reacted well to Calhanoglu’s Champions League
strike, pushing it right, away from record, as his side beat
danger. It was a save that highlighted Saltzburg 7-1, 8-2 on
the Brazil international’s responses, aggregate
watching the ball speeding towards
him, always mindful that an Inter
player could divert it past him. Alisson’s
concentration was faultless.
It was the sole moment of danger in
a first half largely under Liverpool’s
control. Alexander-Arnold’s delivery
caused Inter frequent problems. One of
his corners was headed by Van Dijk
straight at Handanovic. When Sadio
Mané was then fouled by Dumfries,
Alexander-Arnold curled in a free kick
that Matip headed against the crossbar.
Liverpool remained calm and con-
trolled, and Thiago was often at the
heart of their moves. Socks slightly
down, tops of the shin-pads showing,
Thiago kept dropping deep and split-
ting Van Dijk and Matip, collecting the
ball and building. Thiago contributed
fully out of possession too, pickpocket-
ing Sánchez, who looked affronted.
Liverpool’s neat and nimble No 6 slid
in and hooked the ball from under the
feet of Arturo Vidal, then flicked out a
foot to play the perfect pass past Dum-
fries to Robertson. The half closed with
Thiago fouled by Sánchez, who caught
him on the knee and was booked.
The second period started with Salah
hitting a post yet the 2,500 Inter fans in
the Anfield Road end sensed their
team’s increased ambition and willed
them on towards them. Martínez duly
obliged but Sánchez then cost them
dear.
Liverpool could have equalised but
Salah’s half-volley encountered a post.
Inter rallied but Liverpool refused to be
blown off course. The last eight awaits.
Liverpool (4-3-3): Alisson 6 — T Alexander-Arnold
7, J Matip 6, V van Dijk 7, A Robertson 7 —
C Jones 6 (N Keita 65min, 6) , Fabinho 6,
T Alcântara 7 (J Henderson 65, 6) — M Salah 6,
D Jota 5 (L Díaz 83), S Mané 6. Booked Jota,
Mané, Robertson.
Inter Milan (3-5-2): S Handanovic 6 — M Skriniar
6, S De Vrij 6 (D D’Ambrosio 46, 6), A Bastoni 6 —
D Dumfries 7 (M Darmian 75), A Vidal 7,
M Brozovic 6 (J Correa 75), H Calhanoglu 7
(M Vecino 83), I Perisic 7 — A Sánchez 4,
L Martínez 7 (R Gagliardini 75). Booked Sánchez,
Vidal, Bastoni. Sent off Sánchez.
Referee A M Lahoz (Sp).
cautioned in the first half for a crude honest. I think it was quite lucky he when we saw the draw we knew it
ântara and
foul on Thiago Alcântara didn t get a re
didn’t red card in the first would be tough. Over the two legs I
nkle of
then caught the ankle half with a leg that high. think we deserved it. We had some
Fabinho and was sent “Pas
“Passion is good, but if problems but that is due to the quality
off by the Spanish sh lea to these kinds
it leads of the opponent.
referee Antonio o of things it just “Their set-up is a little bit like Leeds
Mateu Lahoz. do
doesn’t help.” United under [Marcelo] Bielsa, but they
“If you can win Overall, Klopp have more quality and that makes it
the ball only by w unhappy with
was tricky to play against them. But we still
putting yourself L
Liverpool’s coun- had our chances to win the game.”
in a position to te
ter-pressing and Inter’s head coach, Simone Inzaghi,
endanger the pr
profligacy, but was said: “We feel upset about the fact that
opponent then im
impressed by Inter. we had a player sent off just when we
you don’t win the “
“The art of foot- were getting the upper hand. Obviously
ball,” Jürgen Klopp, p, ball is to lose the right we were very bitter at what happened at
the Liverpool manag- ag- game Klopp said. “I
games,” the San Siro because over the course of
ng in
er, said. “He’s flying hat it but if there
still hate two games we showed we were the
and he cannot stop p and he were any game we could equals of Liverpool.
ad way, to be
hit Fab in a really bad afford to lose, it was this one “We knocked them back when we
because the target wa was to get through. scored and then Sánchez got sent off.
Salah said the second-leg defeat could “I am not over the moon, but I am We played well but I am more bitter
give their quadruple quest impetus really happy we are through because about the San Siro game than tonight.”
the times | Wednesday March 9 2022 2GM 65

Sport

edge deserts them ‘Mankad’ run-out an

acceptable dismissal as
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER BRADLEY ORMESHER

MCC changes the law

Elizabeth Ammon
MCC is changing the laws of the cricket
to make it clear that the game’s most
controversial form of dismissal is
legitimate.
As part of the reforms, so-called
Mankad dismissals, where a bowler
runs out the non-striker if he leaves the
crease before the ball is delivered, have
been moved out of the section of the
Two minutes laws dealing with “unfair play”.
that decided The law changes also permanently
the game prohibit the use of saliva on the ball,
which had been temporarily banned
After 61 minutes Inter during the pandemic, give bowlers
scored when Lautaro more leeway on wides when a batsmen
Martínez, left, struck a is moving around the crease and stop
brilliant shot from just the non-striker crossing to claim the
outside the area to strike when a batsman is out caught.
give the visitors a sniff Mankading, named after the Indian
of going through. all-rounder Vinoo Mankad, who used
However two the method against Australia in 1947,
minutes later Alexis has always been officially allowed but
Sánchez slid into a has often been a source of controversy,
tackle on Fabinho, with many believing it is against the
above, catching the spirit of the game. But from October 1,
Liverpool player on when the new laws come in, it will be
his ankle with the moved from “unfair play” to the dis-
follow through. missals section on “run-outs”.
Having already been Fraser Stewart, the head of the laws
booked, referee department at MCC, the guardian of
Antonio Mateu Lahoz the sport’s laws, said: “It is a run-out but
showed Sánchez a it has always been in the unfair play law
second yellow and and we questioned, why is it unfair?
thus a red. From there “It is legitimate, it is a run-out and
Liverpool were able to therefore it should live in the run-out
make their extra man section of the laws. Before this change,
count and hold on for this was the only way you could be out
overall victory. that wasn’t in the dismissals section.”
One of the most recent Mankad con-
troversies came in the IPL three years
ago when Ravichandran Ashwin ran
out Jos Buttler. Shane Warne, an
ambassador for Buttler’s team, the
Rajasthan Royals, described it as a
“disgraceful and low act”.
It will up to individual governing
bodies whether the changes are fully
adopted into their own playing regula-
tions. For example, the T20 World Cup
takes place in October and the ICC may
decide to let that tournament run using
the present laws.
Use of saliva to shine the ball will now
be permanently outlawed. MCC’s
research found that not using saliva had
little or no impact on the amount of
swing the bowlers were generating.
“It’s a matter of basic hygiene,”
Stewart said. “Banning saliva was part
of regulations during Covid and we
assessed it and there was little impact
on how much the ball swings.”
Deliveries down the leg side, which
are deemed a wide in all limited-overs
cricket, may not in future be penalised
if the batsman moves their position in
the crease. It was felt unfair that a deliv-
ery might be called “wide” if it passed
where the batter had been standing as
the bowler entered their delivery stride.
A law used in the inaugural edition of
the Hundred last summer will now be
adopted so that when a batsman is out
caught, the new batsman will always
face the next delivery unless it is the end
of the over. In further changes, if a field-
er moves unfairly the batting side will
be awarded five runs. At present it is
merely a call of dead ball.
The introduction of these new laws
is the first serious change by MCC
since 2017.

Ashwin controversially ran out Buttler with a Mankad in the IPL three years ago

Harris serious about Chelsea bid but would need to sell Palace shares
continued from back
The Raine Group, a US merchant bank,
has been appointed by Abramovich to
find a buyer, with sources claiming that
it is targeting American and European
billionaires in an effort to spare the club
potential geopolitical ownership issues.
It is only in the past 48 hours that
potential new owners have been sent
Chelsea’s financial data under strict
non-disclosure agreements, with all
recipients asked to submit a first offer by
next Tuesday. While Abramovich wants
£3 billion, bids closer to half that amount
are considered more realistic when any
new owner will need to consider a
further outlay of more than £1 billion to
redevelop Stamford Bridge.
Even so, a source close to the talks
has said that there is some truth in
claims, initially published by The Finan-
cial Times, that Harris, who also owns
the Philadelphia 76ers NBA franchise,
is seriously considering tabling an offer.
He would have to offload his stake in
Palace to become the Chelsea owner,
and may yet decide to withdraw from
the process. With a personal fortune of
£4.5 billion, he would almost certainly
need to be part of a consortium —
which would probably include Blitzer
— if he were to make an offer. Blitzer,
too, would need to sell his stake in
Palace for any deal to be completed.
Abramovich and his advisers aim to
draw up a shortlist of serious bidders for
Chelsea by next week. Raine hopes that
the deadline for initial expressions of
interest will weed out unrealistic offers.
Sources say the ambition is then to
move quickly to a sale but any
approaches made after the deadline Angeles Dodgers baseball franchise,
will not be ruled out if they are and the 86-year-old billionaire
higher than rival offers. Hansjörg Wyss, had already
Several billionaires in submitted an offer.
Europe and the US are
said to be interested in
Chelsea, though the
£3bn
Roman Abramovich is
There have also been
claims in the US that
Robert “Woody” John-
more vocal among believed to be asking son, the owner of the
them are being treated for £3 billion for Chelsea New York Jets NFL
less seriously. Last night but is likely to franchise, is weighing up
British property tycoon have to settle for an offer. Vivek Ranadivé,
Nick Candy announced significantly less the owner of the Sacra-
he was interested in making mento Kings basketball
a bid. Reports suggest that he team, has also been touted as a
might be willing to pay as much as buyer, while the Turkish business-
£2.5 billion for the club. Candy, 49, is a man Muhsin Bayrak last night made
Chelsea fan and is reported to be put- the implausible claim he had a “90 per
ting together a consortium. cent chance” of buying Chelsea.
The Swiss newspaper Blick reported There is an acceptance that the sale
Harris, owner of the Philadelphia 76ers, that a Swiss-US group, including Todd must be completed swiftly with the
has a personal fortune of £4.5 billion Boehly, who owns a stake in the Los threat of sanctions looming.
66 2GM Wednesday March 9 2022 | the times

Sport West Indies v England: First Test

Bairstow shows character

Bairstow came
in at 48 for
four and hit
109 not out to
rescue England

side have so badly lacked

Mike Atherton
Chief Cricket
Correspondent,
Antigua
West Indies v England
Sir Vivian Richards Stadium (first day
of five; England won toss): England
have scored 268 for six wickets
After a piece with the chief executive of
Cricket West Indies at the weekend, a
reader playfully responded with the
observation that your correspondent
was becoming a little too optimistic, a
reincarnation and fusion of those
relentlessly upbeat fictional characters
Dr Pangloss and Mr Micawber. The
thought occurs that precisely the same
accusation could be levelled at the
England captain right now.
Under the shadow of the Andy
Roberts stand, Joe Root’s pre-match
press conference ticked off the usual
phrases: clarity of roles, tick; opportuni-
ty for all, tick; honest conversations,
tick; start of a new journey, tick. It didn’t
take long for reality to kick in: having
won the toss on a bright, breezy Anti-
gua morning, England found them-
selves four wickets down at lunch and
facing the now routine uphill battle.
The only difference between old and
new was that Root, now at No 3, was
one of those dismissed, bowled shoul-
dering arms and playing no shot, for the
first time in Test cricket, as it happens.
Shorn of their one world-class bats-
man, England were forced to rely on
their one in-form batsman, Jonny
Bairstow, who made a hundred in the
warm-up match and continued in that
confident vein here.
In a team that has lacked character
lately, Bairstow has plenty of it. He is a
remarkably resilient cricketer, written
off after the India tour the previous
winter and seemingly being pushed to a
white-ball future exclusively. He was
not preferred at the start of the Austra-
lia tour, but since returning to the side
in Melbourne, he has looked deter-
mined to hold down his place, scoring
England’s only century of the Ashes in
Sydney and adding another, his eighth
in Tests, just before the close here.
Bairstow has international pedigree
across formats, of course, even if the
range of his talents has meant the
selectors have not always known how
best to utilise them. He has seen it all in
a career now spanning 81 Tests and so
he was not fazed by the crisis — 48 for
four was the forlorn score when he
came to the crease — adding 67 with
Ben Stokes, in a stand that began cau-
tiously before picking up tempo after
lunch, and then 99 with Ben Foakes,
who has been recalled to the side for the
first time in over 12 months, and played
Scoreboard
ENGLAND First Innings
A Z Lees
lbw b Roach
Full and straight, pitched in line
Z Crawley
c Da Silva b Seales
Slashed at full ball, stunning catch
*J E Root
b Roach
Inducker, loses off stump
D W Lawrence
c Blackwood b Holder
Outswinger, edged to second slip
B A Stokes
b Seales
Full, late swing, edged into leg stump
J M Bairstow 109
not out
@B T Foakes
lbw b Holder
Played across the line, hit knee-roll
C R Woakes
not out
Extras
(lb 7, nb 5)
TOTAL (6 wkts, 86 overs)
C Overton, M A Wood, M J Leach to bat.
Fall of wickets 1-12, 2-17, 3-27, 4-48, 5-115,
6-214.
Bowling Roach 16-2-71-2; Seales
19-5-64-2; Holder 16-9-15-2; Joseph
19-2-69-0; Permaul 13-4-35-0; Brathwaite
3-1-7-0.
West Indies *K C Brathwaite,
J D Campbell, N E Bonner, J Blackwood,
S S J Brooks, J O Holder, @J Da Silva,
A S Joseph, K A J Roach, V Permaul,
J T Seales.
Umpires G Brathwaite and J Wilson.
TV umpire L Reifer. Reserve umpire N
Duguid. Match referee R Richardson.
Series details: Second Test: March
16-20 (Kensington Oval, Bridgetown,
Barbados). Third: March 24-28
(National Cricket Stadium, St George’s,
Grenada).
like a man with a point to prove.
Bairstow played watchfully initially,
scoring only five runs in the 29 balls he
faced before lunch. The afternoon ses-
sion brought him 30 more in 80 balls,
before he opened his shoulders after
tea, as the ball softened and the bowlers
began to tire. This classical Test match
tempo was well suited to the situation
which he gradually shaped, if not to one
of overwhelming advantage exactly,
then one at which England looked with
satisfaction by the close.
The ease with which Bairstow coped
asked questions of what came earlier. A
charitable interpretation would be a
slight tackiness to the feel of the pitch at
the start of the day, although any mois-
ture would have disappeared quickly
because of the strong cross breeze that
was blowing. That was utilised to good
effect initially by Kemar Roach, who With runs coming too easily, sergeant
has an outstanding record on this major Holder was brought back to assert
ground, having taken more wickets some control among the troops, and Sea-
here than anyone else. les enjoyed a good contest with Stokes.
R
Roach is a fine bowler at left-handers Brathwaite clearly has plenty of faith in
4 in particular, able to manipulate the his young seamer, who responded with a
ball at will from over and round the fine, full inswinging yorker to beat
wicket, and he was always likely to Stokes’s attempted expansive drive after
8 present a stern challenge to Alex Lees conceding consecutive boundaries. He
on his debut. Having been presented pumped his fist in delight, while Stokes
with his England cap by Bairstow looked to the heavens in frustration.
13 before play, Lees managed one Foakes announced himself with
boundary to third man in a two confident drives down the
nine-ball stay, before falling ground off Roach.
20 to a three-card trick; two In the evening session
outswingers, followed by
West Indies the left-arm spinner
36
one that went the other v England Veerasammy Permaul
way and pinned him TV: live on BT Sport 1 operated from one end
leg-before. from 1pm (2pm start) initially while the seam-
Roach’s new-ball part- ers were rotated from the
Radio: live on
ner is Jayden Seales, the other. The spinner won a
young Trinidadian who is talkSPORT2 caught-behind decision
42 from 1pm
highly regarded here. He is off Bairstow, but the bats-
not express pace, but quick man’s puzzled response as he
24
enough and has a strong physique called a review told its tale. After
that should help to sustain him. Having taking eye-catching boundaries from
been taken for a boundary down the Seales, a clip and short-arm jab through
12
ground by Zak Crawley, Seales’s mid-wicket, Foakes was beaten by a
revenge came swiftly. When Crawley nip-backer from Holder, and left the
268 aimed another big drive, with a stage to the Yorkshireman.
crooked bat this time, the resultant Bairstow’s hundred came with the
inside edge was brilliantly taken one- second new ball and the end of the day
handed by Josh Da Silva, the wicket- beckoning. In the 78th over, he swept
keeper. Brathwaite’s off spin — a charitable de-
Two became three when Root shoul- scription — hard to the square-leg
dered arms, and there was little respite boundary and ran through towards the
in the second hour of the morning. Andy Roberts stand, where England’s
While Alzarri Joseph did not quite find supporters, who had ventured out of
a consistent line, giving Dan Lawrence the burning sun, were sitting in the
some opportunities through the leg shade. They rose to acclaim him,
side, Jason Holder was immaculate, grateful to have had something
sending down five consecutive to cheer after a miserable start
maidens. This was too much for the to the day.
impetuous Lawrence, who pushed It was a very fine innings and
at a full-length ball and edged to an increasingly dominant one,
slip. his second fifty coming in only
Unwisely, perhaps, Kraigg Bra- 63 balls. The closest he came to
thwaite decided to go with inex- being dismissed was when a
perience after lunch, in the return drive from Chris
shape of Seales and Jo- Woakes flicked Jo-
seph, and this produced seph’s outstretched
a mini spurt of runs. hand and can-
Stokes began to pick noned into the
off anything loose, stumps at the
albeit with the non-striker’s
occasional uncer- end.
tainty outside off Bairstow,
stump. Two edges though, was
fell short of the alert to the
slips and danger; with
there were his bat in his right (ie
other ex- left) hand and his wits
amples about him, he dived back
through- to make his ground,
out the day showing the kind of des-
that suggested peration and awareness
the close fielders this team hope to build a
were, in general, not close revival around. One can
enough. imagine the skipper’s Mi-
cawberish post-play team
Stokes leaves the field after talk: “Nil desperandum,
being bowled by Seales lads!” Or something like that.

‘I like being a senior pro and the feeling in camp is good’

continued from back
yesterday. They [the groundstaff] were
worried that it was going to break up
heavily. There was some moisture in
that wicket this morning — we knew,
get through that first session, that new
ball.”
He was assisted by three successive
fifty-run partnerships with Ben Stokes
(36), Ben Foakes (42) and Chris Woakes
(24 not out) respectively, who all helped
to repair the all-too-familiar early
damage.
Alex Lees, the Durham opener, was
leg-before for four on debut, Zak Craw-
ley was caught the next over and the
captain, Joe Root, was bowled shoul-
dering arms as England were reduced
to 27 for three having won the toss.
“Lees was unlucky with that decision,
on another day that doesn’t get given,”
Bairstow said. “It was a good catch that
got Zak [Crawley] — and then you’re off
to a different start. We can take a lot of
positives and the partnerships were one
of those.”
Bairstow scored England’s only
century in the Ashes series, in Sydney,
and he received a huge ovation when he
walked out to bat with England in disar-
ray. He did not play a single Test in 2020
but following the mass cull after the
Ashes he is now one of the senior men.
“I’m enjoying my role as a senior
player. To give Lees his cap was special
having known him for so long [at York-
shire]. There’s a good feeling around the
place. It’s not going to all happen
straight away. If we put the right things
in place to make people go out there and
perform that’s very important,” he said.
“I’m delighted. This is an amazing
place to come, and it is amazing to score
a century in any Test but especially here
in front of the travelling fans who
haven’t been able to come for a couple of
years. We are fortunate to have them.”
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Revival of As new starts go, this beat

Test career
Bairstow’s runs in past three Test
innings:
both Fletcher and Flower
263
Runs in previous 13 Test innings:
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de How England ended up on 48 for four

1. Alex Lees misses a straight one

from Kemar Roach after being set

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up by a series of deliveries that
Antigua moved away............................................12/1
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and by the time we were 80 3. Joe Root shoulders arms to one
minutes into this Test series that comes back slighty from Roach
with West Indies, England’s to clip his off stump............................27/3
cricketers — a new-look team with 4. Dan Lawrence after a fluent 20
new-look management — had plays at an outswinger from Jason
Centuries in previous 37 Test innings: definitely had a few teeth rearranged. Holder and is caught in the slips
1
0
For the past two weeks we have .......................................................................48/4
heard some fine words about the
energy and excitement within the
group as everyone from the interim
head coach, Paul Collingwood, and
the captain, Joe Root, down to the
An exclusive club youngsters on their first tour have
Most Test centuries by England sought to explain and justify the
players batting at No6 or lower biggest gutting of an England Test
side that most can remember.
IT Botham 11 Talk is fine but it has to be backed
JM Bairstow 7 by action, but during the first cut-
and-thrust of the game at the Sir
IR Bell 7 Vivian Richards Stadium, the
TW Greig 7 decision-making of the English
batsmen was as flawed as it had been
MJ Prior 7 in Australia. If this was the start of a
BA Stokes revolution, it hardly got off to the sort
6
of start likely to inspire a mass
following. 2
The fightback in the afternoon was
more encouraging and in one
enterprising innings Ben Foakes
justified his recall in place of Jos
Buttler. Foakes may not be one of the
most dangerous white-ball batsmen in
the world, as Buttler is, but he showed
a lot more intent than his predecessor
had of late.
If Collingwood was feeling a little
nauseous looking at a scoreboard that
read 48 for four, he might have
consoled himself with the thought
that these new starts rarely reach the
sunlit uplands immediately after
setting out from camp.
On the first morning of Test cricket
during Duncan Fletcher’s reign, the
board at the Wanderers showed
England an eye-watering two for four, 3 4
and it was probably lucky that
Fletcher was in the habit of wearing
sunglasses because his eyeballs must spinners — who then helped into people playing for themselves.
have been spinning in alarm. That themselves to 17 wickets. The early days of this tour have
was actually a bit of a hijack: so wet Keith Fletcher lasted little more involved lots of meetings, although
was the pitch that Nasser Hussain than two years in the job but Duncan the process was intended as cathartic,
stood in the crease and watched water Fletcher and Flower, although both and to end once the Tests began.
rising up around his boots. But began on losing tours, eventually built “The Ashes was a very difficult
making a fuss about unfit conditions highly successful teams. time for the team and management,”
was not going to change anything. Tours are well suited to fresh starts Collingwood said. “You’ve got to
England lost by an innings. because the players are corralled and, reflect and then the conversations
Andy Flower fared no better during in the early weeks, cut off from wives move on to how we’re going to go
his first match in charge (as the interim or girlfriends who are only allowed to about this new environment. The
coach at that point, although he would join later, so the management has guys have really bought into it.
be appointed full-time shortly their full attention. They are — or There’s a sense of excitement and
afterwards). England slumped to 51 all should be — entirely biddable. genuine enthusiasm about moving
out in Jamaica — and that was when This England squad contained four the team forward and [the need] to
everyone thought things couldn’t get players uncapped in Test cricket — build self-sufficiency. That comes
worse after the fallout between Kevin one of them, Alex Lees, is playing with unity and direction.
Pietersen and Peter Moores. here — but in these situations it is not “We’re trying to get more voices
England head coaches tend to start simply a matter of bringing in new and leaders in the side. If you get
work overseas and tend to start badly personnel but empowering those who everyone moving in the right
— Chris Silverwood also began with a have been involved before but as direction together it can be very
heavy defeat, in his case in Mount peripheral figures. powerful, very quickly … we are all
Maunganui, as did Keith Fletcher as Collingwood spoke about this last one, there is no divide. A lot of
the cricket manager, as the job was week in an interview with the ECB players and staff have spoken up and
termed in the early 1990s, in Calcutta. website and his comments go some they’re accountable now. What
The latter was a particularly way towards explaining why half the they’ve said in the meetings, they’ve
traumatic experience for the team Ashes squad was left at home. He got to take it on to the field.”
because Fletcher and Graham Gooch stressed the need for the team to be This was a roistering, see-saw day
put into the field such an united and for players who have not — who knows who has got their
extraordinary XI that it directly normally spoken up to articulate their noses in front? — but it feels as if this
contributed to defeat. While they thoughts, and by doing so feel more refashioned England side are in the
decided the pitch warranted four invested. Plenty of anecdotal evidence game, and they can certainly take
seamers, India went with three suggests that the Ashes tour collapsed heart from that.
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Ukraine to get
Bairstow to Mike
Atherton’s
Murray money
Stuart Fraser Tennis Correspondent

the rescue
Century inspires fightback after new England
verdict
Pages 66-67
Andy Murray has pledged to donate his
prize money for the remainder of 2022
to a Unicef fundraising campaign for
children affected by the Russian
invasion of Ukraine.
The three-times grand-slam cham-
pion, who is an ambassador for the
United Nations Children’s Fund,
announced his financial support on
suffer same old top-order batting problems social media yesterday. The final
amount will depend on his performan-
ces on the ATP Tour but it could
Simon Wilde Antigua potentially be close to £1 million.
“Over 7.5 million children are at risk
Jonny Bairstow saved England’s with the escalating conflict in Ukraine,
day with an assured century after so I’m working with Unicef to help
the post-Ashes “red-ball reset” provide urgent medical supplies and
began in all-too-familiar fashion early childhood development kits,”
with a collapse to 48 for four. Murray wrote. “It’s vital [that]
After winning the toss, education continues, so Unicef is
England’s new-look side, which working to enable access to learning for
included six changes from the team Continued on page 60
that played the last Ashes Test in
Hobart, began the series against
West Indies with the same batting
problems that had plagued them
during the 4-0 defeat down under.
US billionaire’s
A fifth-wicket partnership of 67
between Bairstow and Ben Stokes Chelsea interest
gave the 5,000 travelling England
fans something to cheer about in Matt Lawton, Martyn Ziegler
Antigua. But it was Bairstow who
led the fightback, finishing with an A billionaire who has a stake in Crystal
unbeaten 109 from 216 balls as the Palace is considering making an offer to
visiting side reached the close on buy Chelsea.
the first day on 268 for six. Josh Harris, who invested in Palace
It was the Yorkshireman’s eighth alongside fellow American David
Test century in 81 matches, and Blitzer in 2015, when they each bought
his seventh batting at No 6 or an 18 per cent shareholding, has been in
lower in the order, second only to dialogue with the New York bankers
Ian Botham among England acting for Roman Abramovich, the
players. The 32-year-old combined Chelsea owner, in the sale.
early patience with belligerence. Abramovich announced last week
“It was completely different [to that he was looking to sell the west
what England faced in Australia] London club amid concerns that, as a
— different surface, different Russian oligarch, he could soon be
attack, different ball,” Bairstow facing sanctions imposed by the UK
said. “It was always going to be government. Abramovich, who has
tacky from seeing the pitch owned Chelsea for 19 years, has agreed
Continued on page 66 to write off the £1.5 billion he is owed by
the club and to donate the net proceeds
to the victims of the war in Ukraine.
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No gluten-free meal on
Kremlin Inc:
BA! Could the world be In the final extract from her explosive
book, Putin’s People, Catherine Belton
any more inhumane? explains how the Russian president set
Carol Midgley up a near-feudal system of rulership

W
hile Putin was the St Petersburg group took what

D
o you ever feel that squeezing the the Moscow group hadn’t wanted to
we are a nation of independence give.” One by one, Putin’s men were
pampered Matt just out of the being put in charge of swathes of the
pantywaists? Do you Yeltsin-era economy, while the siloviki [see Putin’s
ever think that some keeps on oligarchs, players, below] were taking over the
people need to get a jailing Mikhail court system, the federal tax service
grip? I ask because giving Khodorkovsky and threatening to and other branches of government
amid a hideously eliminate the others as a class, Yury previously out of reach to them.
cruel war which is proving that Matt “I never had Kovalchuk, the KGB-connected It was part of a process that became
Ukrainians have the hearts of lions, in casual sex with main owner of St Petersburg’s known as “Kremlin Inc.”, whereby
the UK a woman from Isleworth is anybody . . . I fell in Bank Rossiya, was at the centre of a Putin in his second term appointed
complaining that her Caribbean lerrrv” Hancock is group of loyal KGB allies rising fast key loyalists in charge of strategic
holiday was “ruined” and that she reportedly miffed that to replace them in the second term sectors of the economy. The process
suffered “major anxiety for days”. his Diary of a CEO of Putin’s presidency. was most visible as he installed his
Why? Because she didn’t get a meal on podcast with Steven At first quietly and then ever more closest KGB allies not only in charge
the flight. Quick: someone relay this Bartlett left in things noticeably, they began to benefit from of the state-controlled energy majors
outrage to Mariupol. that he thought would insider deals. The transfers from Gazprom and Rosneft, but of a host of
The woman, 32, had failed to order be cut out. Such as Gazprom transformed Bank Rossiya, state companies.
a gluten-free meal 24 hours in advance where he asks Bartlett for instance, from a regional banking First there was Aeroflot, the airline
(she has coeliac disease) because she to rephrase the minnow few in Moscow had ever that had once been the fiefdom of the
misread the (admittedly confusing) question about his heard of into a new financial Yeltsin Family. Viktor Ivanov, Putin’s
British Airways website. So the cabin extramarital powerhouse with tentacles across KGB comrade from St Petersburg who
crew cobbled together celery, carrot bum-groping photo Russia. Its assets mushroomed forty- now served as deputy head of the
sticks, chocolate buttons, crisps, “in a little bit more fold after 2004, to reach $8.9 billion administration, was installed as its
popcorn, nuts, chocolate bars and a is NOT funny.” Oh, on the contrary. respectful way”. within eight years. The transfers also chairman at the end of 2004. Then
tangerine, taking some of it out of The club now has enough new “Let’s start this bit led to the handover of control of the there was Russian Railways, a vast
their own meals. Now, I have great material for an entire show. again and I’ll relax,” country’s third-biggest bank, empire of 1.3 million employees and
sympathy for coeliacs; one of my I’m getting flashbacks to the time he says. Apparently Gazprombank, the Gazprom financial revenues totalling nearly 2 per cent of
dearest friends has this condition and when, years ago, I was speechless after he’d said, “This is off ”, arm that held assets worth tens of Russia’s GDP, where Vladimir
I know how debilitating it can be. a woman from Beaconsfield told a meaning “the record”, billions of dollars, to Bank Rossiya. Yakunin, the bluff former senior KGB
But doesn’t that sound like the crew newspaper: “I was so upset. I nearly although he could None of the asset transfers would officer who’d been a leading Bank
making the best of a bad job at collapsed. I don’t want someone else to equally have meant have happened had Putin’s men not Rossiya shareholder and a member of
30,000ft? And doesn’t it seem like go through what I had to go through.” that tight black taken over Gazprom at the start of his the Ozero dacha co-operative, was
quite a lot of food? OK, it’s not the What terrible calamity had befallen turtleneck that made presidency. Ever since Putin made the appointed president in June 2005.
healthiest fare but when was not this poor lady? Well. She had taken a him resemble the Milk replacement of its management with Andrei Akimov, the former Soviet
scoffing a three-course meal during dress back to Marks & Spencer but Tray man’s dad. Oh, his own allies from St Petersburg one state banker with ties to foreign
a flight to the Dominican Republic was refused a full refund. She had left Matty. May I call you of his first priorities, its vast cash pools intelligence, was repatriated from
deemed akin to being starved? People it too late because the company had Matty? You are a and financial assets had presented a Vienna and promoted to oversee
frequently go nine hours without just ended its longstanding, 90-day, newspaper columnist’s wealth of opportunity for his inner Gazprombank. Andrei Kostin, a
eating, ie when they’re asleep, and no-quibble money-back guarantee and dream; a golden goose circle. The asset sales would also never former Soviet diplomat once based
don’t seem to die. Yet this passenger, cut it to 30 days instead. How much that keeps on laying. have gone through if the more liberal at the embassy in London, took over
who claims her hunger made her more are people expected to take? His spokesman said: Yeltsin-era holdovers such as Mikhail the reins at Vneshtorgbank, or VTB,
vomit, said BA had been “inhumane”. Don’t get me wrong: I myself “There are much more Kasyanov and Alexander Voloshin had the direct descendant of the Soviet
Send in the irony clowns. occasionally indulge in outstanding important things going remained in government. “Before, bank of foreign trade. Putin
This is nowhere near as hilariously First World Problemery. Such as when on in the world.” True, everyone had to agree,” said Vladimir appointed his closest colleague from
whiney, however, as the couple from I curse “FFS, that’s all I need” when I but I still think Matty, Milov, a former deputy Russian energy the Dresden years, Sergei Chemezov,
Hull who booked two tickets for a see that my bag of rocket salad is not who has degrees from minister. “But in Putin’s second term as head of the state arms export
comedy club in Blackpool and are “washed and ready to eat” or the little Oxford and Cambridge there was a very clear moment when agency, Rosoboronexport, in 2004.
demanding, with enthusiastic use of piece of foil off the top of a new tube yet still was dim enough
the caps lock, a “FULL REFUND” of toothpaste proves a tad fiddly to to open a Just Giving
page so that people
because, and I quote: “Due to events in
Russia and Ukraine it’s not safe for us
to travel as we are both retired.”
remove. But if we don’t get some
perspective now, when will we? Maybe
don’t hold your breath. I awoke to see
could call him a
“useless weasel” and
Putin’s players
Glorious. Take care out there, retired on my Next Door app someone doesn’t have the sense
people in Hull. The couple, whose complaining that their milk had been to just say nothing for Putin’s inner circle, the siloviki 6 Viktor Cherkesov — Former senior
angry email has been released by the stolen from the step. Annoying, a while, should get a 6 Igor Sechin — Putin’s trusted KGB officer who ran the St Petersburg
Comedy Station in Blackpool, were obviously, but this was the day after gong for services to gatekeeper, a former KGB operative FSB and was a mentor to Putin,
indignant at being told to check the cancer-stricken children were forced national morale. from St Petersburg who rose in power moving with him to Moscow, where he
T&Cs because, and I quote: “nowhere to flee their hospital in Kyiv to make Don’t go changin’. as deputy head of Putin’s Kremlin to remained a close adviser, first as first
in them does it say about no refunds a perilous journey to Poland. So I’m lead the state takeover of the Russian deputy head of the FSB and then
FOR A WAR”. They added: “You are going to stick my neck out here, guys, oil sector. Later became known as running the Federal Drugs Service.
supposed to be a comedy store but this and say it really could be worse. “Russia’s Darth Vader” for his ruthless 6 Sergei Ivanov — Former Leningrad
propensity for plots. KGB officer who became one of the
6 Nikolai Patrushev — Powerful youngest ever generals in Russia’s
ambience at Japan’s hot There’s the “hide and “true” croc who brings former head of the Federal Security foreign intelligence service in the
volcanic spring baths wait” croc who appears refreshments so he can Service (FSB), the successor agency Nineties and then rose in power
Gawping where people when a young women perv away for hours. to the KGB, and current Security under Putin’s presidency, first as
traditionally bathe steps in; the “acute” I don’t want to Council chief. defence minister and then as Kremlin
crocs cop naked by lurking to cop croc who gawps, imagine the scenes 6 Viktor Ivanov — Former KGB chief of staff.
an eyeful of women and mesmerised, at naked below the water but officer who served with Putin in the 6 Dmitry Medvedev — Former
an eyeful enjoy their own special flesh; the “middle- maybe we shouldn’t be Leningrad KGB and oversaw lawyer who started out working as a
“rejuvenation”? aged” croc who strikes too harsh on the croc personnel as deputy head of Putin’s deputy to Putin in the St Petersburg
Did you hear about the So prolific are these up conversations with men. Perhaps they’re Kremlin during his first term, leading administration when he was in his
lecherous “crocodile voyeurs, the Japanese women while boggling suffering from a reptile the Kremlin’s initial expansion into early twenties, and followed closely in
men” ruining the have categorised them. at their breasts; and the dysfunction. Sorry. the economy. Putin’s footsteps thereafter: first as a
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“The people from the KGB and the
financiers of the KGB are the ones
who run the show now,” said one
leading participant in this process
triumphantly. “Finally, they are taking
over from the first layer of capitalism.”
“The 1990s oligarchs have ceased to be
oligarchs and just become businessmen
again. Now we have a Chekist
oligarchy,” said leading opposition
politician Boris Nemtsov sardonically.
But it was the shareholders of Bank
Rossiya who were accumulating
wealth most silently and rapidly.
Among their number, for a time, was
Gennady Timchenko, the low-profile
alleged former KGB operative-turned-
oil trader who’d worked closely with
Putin in St Petersburg. After
Khodorkovsky was jailed and Igor
Sechin’s Rosneft began taking over
Yukos, the west Siberian oil producer
that had belonged to Khodorkovsky
and was once Russia’s biggest oil
producer, Timchenko focused more on
his oil-trading operations. His latest
venture, Gunvor, was sinking roots
deep into Switzerland. Quietly, almost
imperceptibly at first, it began picking
up the barrels of oil once traded by
Khodorkovsky’s Yukos.
The Bank Rossiya shareholders were
the elite of Putin’s inner circle. And as
the bank grew in size during the
second term of Putin’s presidency, so
did the residences of the shareholders.
They moved en masse to a leafy island
in the delta of St Petersburg’s Neva
Vladimir Putin at
the 2004 inauguration
ceremony for his
second term
as president
Extracted from Putin’s
People: How the KGB
Took Back Russia and
then Took on the West
by Catherine Belton,
published by
HarperCollins at £9.99
River that had once been home to the
chancellors of the tsars. The gated
compound of palatial townhouses on
Kamenny Ostrov, or Stone Island, was
surrounded by an ornate moat,
sweeping stone bridges and heavy
security. The new inhabitants of the
renovated compound, the financial
courtiers behind the Putin regime,
took on the mantle of modern-day
noblemen. They would dress in
tailcoats for secret parties at palatial
estates, their wives and girlfriends in
ballgowns from the era of Catherine
the Great. The starlets hired to
perform for them would not be told
who their audience was, and would be
paid in diamond rings, wristwatches
and icons — anything valuable, as
long as it didn’t leave any trace.
More than any other, the story of
the rapid expansion of Bank Rossiya
in Putin’s second term casts light on
the formation of a Kremlin obschak
— Russian criminal parlance for a
common cash pot or slush fund for a
criminal gang — that could be used
both for Putin’s personal needs and
to bolster the rule of his KGB clan.
As with the slush funds created in
Liechtenstein and other havens for
Putin and his St Petersburg allies in
the early Nineties, the lines between
cash taken for strategic and personal
needs were always blurred. The share
transfers of Sogaz, Gazprom’s
insurance arm, to Bank Rossiya, for
instance, were the start of a process by
means of which a vast national media
empire was transferred into
Kovalchuk’s loyal hands, helping
cement the Kremlin’s strategic media
monopoly. But they also allowed a
palace fit for a tsar to be built for
Putin on the Black Sea. Some of the
hundreds of millions of dollars stashed
in the network of companies behind
Bank Rossiya appeared to lead directly
to Putin. They were part of Putin’s
personal wealth, according to a
financier who worked on the schemes.
The man who drew open the curtain
on how the system worked was Sergei
Kolesnikov, a member of the tight-knit
circle of financiers closely involved in
Bank Rossiya’s operations. He’d
become increasingly concerned at
how the bank’s precipitous growth was
symptomatic of the increasing lack of
checks and balances on Putin’s regime.
“When Putin first came to power,
I viewed his arrival with great
gladness,” he said. “We all connected it
to the bringing of order to the country.
In the first three years, I supported
him and saw that everything he did
was good, and even when he threw
Khodorkovsky in jail I thought it was
good. But then, after the second
election in 2004, this understanding
that he could rule forever began to
appear . . . They’d taken control of the
media and then business through the
Khodorkovsky case. But then they
cleared the political field. They
cancelled the elections for governors
and for the mayors in the biggest
cities. This was the main task. There
was no chance for independent people
to appear and develop themselves.”
It was a process, said Kolesnikov,
shaking his head, that had left Putin
ruling like a tsar, presiding over what
was becoming a near-feudal economy.
The Yeltsin-era oligarchs were cowed
by Khodorkovsky’s trial, fearing that
any one of them could face a similar
fate. Kolesnikov saw that, instead of
eliminating oligarchs as a class as
Putin had pledged, the men behind
Bank Rossiya had become part of a
new oligarchy.
Kolesnikov himself had been one
of their number. He knew intimately
how the Putin system worked. He’d
lived among the Bank Rossiya
shareholders on Kamenny Ostrov.
But he became ever more horrified
as he observed the escalation in
asset-siphoning from Gazprom: “As
soon as you take control of financial
resources, it is not possible to stop.
This is a law of business.”
By the autumn of 2010, he was
unable to bear it any longer. Taking
only a small bag that contained,
among other things, USB sticks with
a trove of documents on all the
transactions he’d conducted for Putin’s
men, he slipped out of his townhouse
on Kamenny Ostrov and hurried to
the airport, where he bought a
one-way ticket to Turkey, and then to
the US. The documents he carried out
with him were a road map of the
creation of a presidential obschak.

deputy head of the Kremlin
administration, then as its chief of
staff, then as Putin’s interim
replacement as president.
The custodians, the
KGB-connected businessmen
6 Gennady Timchenko — Alleged
former KGB operative who rose
through the ranks of Soviet trade to
become co-founder of one of the
first independent traders of oil
products before the Soviet fall.
Worked closely with Putin from
the early Nineties, and according
to some associates, before the
Soviet collapse.
6 Yury Kovalchuk — Former
physicist who joined with other
KGB-connected businessmen to
take over Bank Rossiya, a St
Petersburg bank that, according
to the US Treasury, became the
“personal bank” for Putin and
other senior Russian officials.
Nikolai Patrushev, left, 6 Arkady Rotenberg — Former
and Igor Sechin Putin judo partner who became a
billionaire under Putin’s presidency
after the state awarded his
companies multibillion-dollar
construction contracts.
6 Vladimir Yakunin — Former
senior KGB officer who served a stint
undercover at the United Nations in
New York, then joined with
Kovalchuk in taking over Bank
Rossiya. Putin anointed him chief of
the state railways monopoly.
‘The Family’, the coterie of
relatives, officials and
businessmen closely
surrounding the first Russian
president, Boris Yeltsin
6 Valentin Yumashev — Former
journalist who gained Yeltsin’s trust
while writing his memoirs, and
was anointed Kremlin chief of staff
in 1997. Married Yeltsin’s daughter
Tatyana in 2002.
6 Tatyana Dyachenko — Yeltsin’s
daughter who officially served as his
image adviser, but was essentially
gatekeeper to the president.
6 Boris Berezovsky — Former
mathematician who made his fortune
running trading schemes for carmaker
AvtoVAZ, the producer of the boxy
Zhiguli car that epitomised the Soviet
era, and inveigled his way into the
good graces of Yeltsin and his Family.
When he helped Roman Abramovich
acquire the Sibneft oil major, he
became the epitome of the intensely
politically wired oligarchs of the
Yeltsin era.
6 Alexander Voloshin — Former
economist who started out working
with Berezovsky on privatisations and
other schemes, and was transferred to
the Kremlin in 1997 to work as
Yumashev’s deputy chief of staff.
Promoted to chief of staff in 1999.
6 Roman Abramovich — Oil trader
who became Berezovsky’s protégé
and associate. Once described by
Alexander Korzhakov, Yeltsin’s
security chief, as “cashier” to the
Yeltsin Family (a claim denied by
Abramovich). Later said to have a
“good relationship” with Putin.
6 Sergei Pugachev — Russian
Orthodox banker who was a master of
the byzantine financing schemes of
Yeltsin’s Kremlin, and then became
known as Putin’s banker too.
Co-founder of Mezhprombank, he
straddled the worlds of the Family
and the siloviki.
The Yeltsin-era oligarch
who crossed Putin’s men
6 Mikhail Khodorkovsky — Former
member of the Communist Youth
League who became one of Russia’s
first and most successful businessmen
of the perestroika era and the 1990s.
Richard Morrison on cancelling
Russian artists. Arts, page 9
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fashion
Think hot pink like Valentino
— it’s the shade of the season
There’s a reason we reach for bright fuchsia colours
when our spirits need a lift, says Anna Murphy
ow is a fashion lover accelerated my way through by as being, on the day of a show,

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supposed to respond
to the present
moment? How is
anyone? Should we
be wearing — and
feeling — black?
Or should our
riposte be the opposite? Should we be
living and dressing as joyfully as we
can? (While, of course, donating as
much as we are able to Ukraine, and
keeping Ukrainians in our thoughts.)
Pierpaolo Piccioli of Valentino made
clear his view in Paris on Sunday,
with a show in a bright pink space in
which 48 of the 81 looks were in that
same hue. (The others were black.)
Under its founder, Valentino Garavani,
the house always used to be known
for its red. Now his successor’s pink is
about to be added to the Pantone
pantheon as “Pink PP”. I would
happily add some to my wardrobe if
funds were permitting.
Luckily Essentiel Antwerp, one of
my favourite mid-market brands, is
equally hot on pink. Its founder, Inge
Onsea, likes it so much that the walls
of her boutique in London, and her
dressing room at home in Antwerp,
are painted in it. “I love pink because
it stands for love, kindness and
femininity,” she says. “And because
way of Mac’s Candy Yum-Yum
(light and bright) or
Relentlessly Red (more of a
pink, despite its name, and
darker, but still bright).
Other Essentiel picks include
the rhinestone puzzle brooch
(£65) and a neon shoulder bag
(£115). But there are plenty of
more subtle options, from the
light-pink boyfriend jeans (£145)
to the silk shirt that the label
insists is lilac (£160). It’s worth
noting that a pale pink can
function in a similar way to a
neutral such as camel, while —
if you choose the right one
for you — lifting your
complexion in a way that is
anything but neutral.
The Dior museum and some
Hollywood history
Further evidence as to the balm
that is colour, the stupendous
staircase at La Galerie Dior, the
brand’s new museum in Paris. Its
walls are lined with a rainbow of
miniature clothes and accessories
that gradate from white through pinks,
peaches, reds, oranges, yellows, greens,
blues and purples to end in what is
Valentino AW22 at
Arabesque. (“Hell-ooo.”)
Paris Fashion Week
something more quiet, a rusty,
“like theatrical dressing rooms . . .
inhabited only by good fairies”.
Then of course there are the
dresses — so many gobsmackingly
beautiful ones, by the seven
designers to have headed up the
house — not to mention that suit
that changed the world when it
cocked a snook at postwar
deprivation in 1947. Indeed, there
is no label that better exemplifies
the degree to which fashion, in its
beauty and joie de vivre, can
represent a kind of counter to war,
while underlining the problematic
dimension too. For every
individual who swooned over the
New Look, there was another who
raged at its “wasteful” use of fabric.
One more highlight of the
museum for me was a montage
of Dior’s cinematic appearances
over the years, on everyone from
Marlene Dietrich to Elizabeth Bridgerton is back
Taylor. Gregory Peck delivers
one of the best jaw-drops in and the bodices
Hollywood history — let’s face it,
he had the jaw to do it with —
when Sophia Loren turns up in
are heaving, says
Dior chiffon and marabou in
the new designer
My eye was also caught by
ring on the second series

there will always be a bit of Barbie in
me.” This season Essentiel seems to
be more in the pink than ever. Its
jacquard jacket is my favourite piece
(£290, essentiel-antwerp.com).
If a lot of pink feels de trop, you can
always go for a little. An accessory or
two is one way to go, as demo-ed by
Katie Holmes in New York the other
day, when she paired her ivory suit
with popping sling backs from the
Row. She also wore a matching lippie.
I have lost count of the number of
slow starts to the day that I have
known as Dior grey. The space opened
on Monday on the site of Christian
Dior’s original atelier at 30 Avenue
Montaigne — its walls still that Dior
grey, needless to say — alongside an
epic reinvention of the boutique.
I cannot recommend a visit more,
even — especially — if you saw the
V&A exhibition in 2019. (Tickets are
€12; galeriedior.com.) Here you can
see a recreation of the designer’s
“office of dreams”, plus the original
so-called cabine where fittings took
place, which Monsieur Dior described
coppery star, a hole at its centre, its
Men’s health original use unclear. The designer
Train with found it on a Parisian street in 1946,
and took it as a sign that he should
Harry accept a proposal he had received to
Jameson open his own fashion house. It became
his lucky charm, and never left his
My fat-blasting studio. That star remains part of the
exercise circuit aesthetic language of Dior today, a
Join our fitness version of it dangling from your
trainer in a 15-minute carrier bag if you make a purchase,
workout video and regularly used as a pattern on
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of Bridgerton. Its timing
couldn’t be better,
available on Netflix from
March 25. Never were
we more in need of
some bodice-and-
breeches-strewn
escapism. My advance peek at the first
few episodes would suggest that it
doesn’t disappoint.
What is afoot in Regency London
this time? Well, there are the new
heroines in town — sorry, ’ton. Kate
and her younger sister Edwina, 18, are
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boob and
tighter
breeches’
recently arrived from India in
mysterious circumstances. The former
is over the hill and out of the marriage
market at the ripe old age of 26, her
waspishness reminiscent of her
Shakespearean namesake in The
Taming of the Shrew. The latter is
butter-wouldn’t-melt — and, in truth,
dreary — perfection.
Then there are the next Bridgertons
in the marital firing line. With Daphne
hitched to some bloke called the
Duke of Hastings it’s the turn of her
brother Anthony, on the lookout for
a would-be Viscountess Bridgerton
of impossible-sounding flawlessness,
and her sister, the bookish Eloise.
And not forgetting the smaller yet
also pressing questions. How will the
arriviste and sartorially full-throttle
all-female Featheringtons — having
lost control of their fortune via
primogeniture — make do with having
to wear last season’s wardrobe? (In the
first ball of the series Penelope
laments how her mother has dressed
her as, “A sunflower. I declare a bee
might mistake me for the real thing.”)
Plus, which debutante will Queen
Charlotte — in one scene appearing in
a matching dress and wig of sky blue
— choose as this season’s so-called
diamond? And while viewers may now
be fully abreast with the true identity
of the society gossip monger Lady
Whistledown, how long will it take the
’ton to catch up?
The plot bounces along with its
signature vigour. Similarly bouncy are
those boobs and male bottoms for
which the first series became
notorious. “There can never be too
much boob in Bridgerton,” Sophie
Canale says, laughing. Canale is the
Brit who has taken over as costume
designer from the American Ellen
Mirojnick, having worked as assistant
costume designer on season one. “We
always want more boob!”
Canale also went for more buttock
this time. “I have slimmed down the
leg of the men’s breeches to give a
more contemporary feel. It may not be
period-correct, but it’s a busy show,
and I wanted to get this sharper look
on the men.” And sexier, of course.
Bridgerton is Austen for the Fifty
Shades of Grey generation. Even Julia
Quinn, the author of the original
books, goes into a swoon when the
Duke of Hastings comes up during
our Zoom conversation. “I don’t
think I ever imagined anyone like
Regé-Jean Page. I don’t know that
anybody could!”
The charming Quinn (real surname
Pottinger) — who lives in Seattle and
describes herself as a Georgette Heyer
superfan — embarked on her own
take on the genre known as Regency
romance back in 1995 with her
Splendid trilogy. She published the first
Bridgerton book, The Duke and I, in
2000. Why was this her chosen
epoch? “It is far enough in the
past that we are able to give it a
certain fairytale quality, but it
is close enough to the present
that people thought in ways
that are fundamentally
familiar to us.”
Her aim was “historical
plausibility, which is not quite
the same thing as veracity”.
Why go where Heyer had already
so superlatively trodden? “To
amp up the drama and the
sexiness. It’s less about the
manners, more about the
emotions.” Indeed.
“I am not a very visual writer,”
Quinn continues. It’s true that
in the books only passing
reference is made to “sage green
silk” here, a “swanlike neck”
there. “I do not picture my
characters clearly. I don’t have
faces in my head. In some ways
that lends my books to
adaptation, as it gives the
production designer and the
costume designer a blank slate to
work with.”
Canale talks of “this extraordinary
opportunity visually to create
characters. You start with writing on a
page and then, with the showrunner,
the director and the actors you have
this lovely collaboration through
which you create this new character
who didn’t exist, and who now enters
the world.” That point at which an
actor first tries on their costume at a
Interview fitting is, she says, “Amazing. You see
someone literally transform into, step
by Anna into their character. Their posture
changes. The way they hold their
Murphy hands.” Putting on gloves is often “a
key moment”. Apparently reticules are
also a game-changer. Canale’s speech
is peppered with such historical
terminology. The stock — the neck
scarf worn by men during that period
— crops up a few times in our
conversation too.
Ruth Gemmell, who plays Lady
Bridgerton, tells me how “the
constraint of the corsets means you
have to find different ways of being at
ease. And the weight of the ballgowns
gives you a feeling of gravitas. When
you walk into those scenes you
really feel you can hold your own.”
Mirojnick spoke at the time of
the first series of “shifting the
aesthetics of a period drama to
make it feel scandalous and
modern”. She studied the Regency
period in London through drawings
and paintings. “Then it was about
looking at the different
silhouettes and shapes while
knowing that this had to be
aspirational, as opposed to
historically accurate.”
Canale has continued in that
vein. The new series is as
sumptuous and as Technicolor
as ever. More is more doesn’t
even begin to cover the
moodscape, with everything
dialled up to within an inch of
its life. “You could watch the
show with no sound and still
have a wonderful time,” is
how Quinn puts it.
The numbers involved
when it comes to the
costumes are stupendous. Canale
headed a team of 120, with three
Sophie Canale, above, jewellers and two milliners alone, and
and on set with was tasked with producing 150-160
Jonathan Bailey. complete outfits for every two-episode
Top: Simone Ashley filming block. (There are eight
and Bailey; Shelley episodes in total.)
Conn and Charithra One change is the degree to which
Chandran in the new Canale themes the colours worn by
Bridgerton series different characters in a single scene,
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fashion
balancing the pleasing melodiousness
of matchy-matchy with descriptive
flourishes of individualism. It’s easy as
a viewer to overlook the level of detail
that the designer and her team have to
wrangle. “Even in the big set pieces
you need to make sure no one has the
same sleeve.”
It is not only about surfaces. Canale
talks of using costume to delineate
character, citing the development of
Kate from ice queen to romantic
interest. “She has her guard up at the
beginning, so I used heavier-weight
fabrics like silk taffetas to make her
look stiffer, and darker colours.
Through the season she softens, so the
palette and the fabrics change.”
A self-confessed textile junkie,
Canale says this tended to be her
starting point for each ensemble. She
would often end up looking online for
what she had in mind late into the
night. There are going to be some
flabbergasted Etsy sellers come two
weeks on Friday. “I wanted a checked
taffeta for Eloise, and Etsy is where I
eventually found it. The person I
bought it from had no idea what I
wanted it for.”
Quinn — who acts as a consultant
on the series — has nothing but praise
for its creator Shonda Rhimes, the
television hit-machine behind shows
such as Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal.
Rhimes’s brocade-heavy New York
apartment, incidentally — as featured
in the present issue of Architectural
Digest — looks straight out of the ’ton.
“Everyone said to me, ‘How did you
give up creative control?’ ” Quinn says.
“But I am not going to tell Shonda
Rhimes how to make television! And it
has been a masterclass in how to adapt
a novel. There is almost nothing that is
word for word, or even scene for scene
from the books, and yet everything is
true to what I wrote.”
The novelist describes her first visit
to Bridgerton’s costume warehouse as
“Unreal. You go into this nondescript
building and inside it is just
overwhelming. There’s even a photo of
me caressing a bolt of velvet. There
was a little note on it saying ‘double
velvet’, and I remember thinking,
‘Oooh, is this something super-rich,
like double cream?’ And they said, ‘No,
we just have two bolts of the same
velvet.’ That made me laugh.”
Quinn took away a swatch of pink
brocade that was destined to become
Penelope’s dressing gown in the first
series. “I used it as a bookmark, but for
the longest time I couldn’t show it to
anyone because it was embargoed.”
An embargoed bookmark. The
world of Bridgerton is indeed a
frenzied one. Quinn still can’t get her
head around it all. “It’s surreal! It’s
bonkers!”
The first series made many of us —
endlessly stuck in our lockdown track
pants — long for corsets; and the
braver among us shop for them. Sales
of corsets increased 1,000 per cent
according to the social shopping
service Like To Know It, albeit, one
assumes, from a vanishingly low,
elasticated-waist-addicted base.
For the second series the luxury
shoe brand Malone Souliers is
launching a Bridgerton-themed
collection heavy on moiré silk and
feathers, and light — needless to say
— on practicality. There is another
fashion hook-up yet to be announced.
Once upon a time historical dramas
did not inspire real-world fashion
trends but then again, once upon a
time, historical dramas did not look
like Bridgerton.
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Influencer
Emilie
Joseph
Dig out your
501s, then lop
off three inches
They’re the look of the season — and you might have
them in your wardrobe. Harriet Walker looks at the
new way to wear your old jeans. Scissors at the ready!
ever mind what was
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going on on the
catwalk, I spent
most of the Paris
shows staring at
people’s bottoms.
I was a little
nervous about
being cancelled for it, but casual and
impassive ogling is still a national
sport in France, and besides, this was
important research. Once I noticed
the first little red Levi’s tab on a back
pocket, I began to spot them
everywhere.
Have you still got your old 501s?
Prepare to feel very smug if so.
Prepare also to lop three inches off the
bottom of them — the way to wear
501s now is cropped at ankle height.
The latest reissue of the 1990s
favourites were not just the front row’s
foundation garment of choice this
past week, but they seem to have
infiltrated the Parisienne wardrobe
from Maxim’s to the Marais, the
Tuileries to the tabac queue.
It comes as a particular surprise in
fashion land, where jeans can cost
upwards of £2,000. The average front
row pair is probably around the £300
mark. Yet French editors, stylists and
PRs plumped virtually as one for this
(or shorten yours)
£100 wardrobe staple instead.
Why now, 37 years after the
style’s Nick Kamen launderette
advert heyday? One can
only assume they’d heard it
through the grapevine.
With plain T-shirts or
frilly blouses, pavement-
friendly ankle boots or
after-dark heels, this
Paris Fashion Week 501s
provided what the city’s
bistros refer to as
garniture to an
abundance of outfits.
High-waisted, fitted
through the hip and
thigh, a straight leg in
vintage blue that is
cropped just above the
ankle — these are not only
the vital statistics of the 501,
they are also the denim
directive as handed down by
top-end designers and Insta
influencers alike.
Yet the fashion crowd is
only now cottoning on to the
once market-capturing Levi’s
classic. Some of the styles I
suspected of being 501s turned
out, on closer bottom ogling, to
cost almost five times the price
501 crop jeans, £100,
levi.com. Right:
Harriet Walker
Cropped 501s
Harriet’s
501s
from a posh label instead. In fact, I
conducted my Parisian bum safari in
a much-loved pair from Arket that
offered much the same thing for
£69 (arket.com).
Then I tried on the real deal.
What a revelation! Stiff but
not-too-stiff denim with none
of the unasked-for stretch that
now sneaks into so many pairs
on the high street. A button
fly rather than a zip, which,
when it comes to rumple
and give around the area
that my other mum friends
affectionately term “the
pooch”, allows none. Mine
are in the shade “Troy
Horse”, perhaps for the fact
that we fashion editors have
only just noticed the
revolution in our midst.
There were jeans aplenty
Influencers at on the ringside seats this
Paris Fashion Week season, and they tended to
fall into two camps. Either
guests had gone all out in Celine’s
£690 bootcuts or some variation
thereof, or — and this was the
majority — they had plumped for a
501-ish high-waist, straight crop.
There were those who wore an
updated version of the Levi’s classic:
CHRIS MCANDREW FOR THE TIMES; GETTY IMAGES
In Paris the
Levi’s provided
‘garniture’ to
an abundance
of outfits
the new 90’s 501s are a little slouchier
around the hip and thighs, as though
you’d gone a few sizes up. While these
might work on influencers and Gen Z,
I found that the originals were more
flattering and — as they’ve more than
proved with this latest revival — came
with in-built longevity.
The French front row clique wore
their denim with black or navy blazers
— an ensemble so chic it transcends
boundaries and works for almost every
occasion. The bestselling author Lucy
Foley even wore the combo to the
launch party of her latest whodunnit,
The Paris Apartment, last week. Clearly
spending time in the city while writing
it rubbed off on her wardrobe choices.
The Parisian finishing touch for your
jeans is a pair of statement but
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comfortable shoes. The recognisably
curved virgule (“comma”) heel of a
pair of Roger Vivier slingbacks was
visible with some 501s, the stacked
column and split-toe of Maison
Margiela Tabi boots (the only thing in
my wardrobe that my husband hates)
under others.
Ankle boots came either with kitten
heels or track-sole platforms, but all
fitted, sock-like, under the cuffs. Once
this icy blast has passed, prepare to
wear your cropped denim with loafers
or ballet shoes all spring too.
I teamed mine with the stompy
Nodaleto heels I cribbed from the
Instagram feeds of various hip staffers
at Vogue France, but I also noticed a
swing among this Gallic gamine
crew back towards mary-janes. Theirs
were from Musier Paris, Maje and
Monnier Frères, but Charles &
Keith’s square-toed version are in
the sale at the moment (£49,
charleskeith.co.uk).
Just when you thought being
French was an endless parade of
impossible-to-replicate sophisticated
haute smoulder, they offer you a pair
of old jeans and your work jacket.
Merci beaucoup! I’m afraid you’ll need
to supply your own je ne sais quoi.
Twitter: @harrywalker1
Platforms — why the frow ditched
trainers for heels you can walk in
C
hange is afoot. Two feet,
actually. The verdict from
the fashion week frow
(that’s the front row, do keep
up) is here and anybody
contemplating a pair of post-pando
heels might want to take stock before
striding out in any old stilettos. This
spring, the style set has swung
decisively behind platforms.
It makes a change, after two years of
trainers, hiking boots, slippers and —
in my case at least — anything you
don’t have to bend down to put on.
Indeed, lockdown made some of the
shoes many women used to wear
every day look like a sort of niche
interest sport. If you want a picture of
the future, imagine a Birkenstock clog
stamping on a human face.
Personally, I have never had the
balls — I’m talking feet — for the
extreme cantilever that the highest
heels enforce, nor, at 5ft 8in, the
motivation to add very much extra
height with my shoes.
In fact I swore off heels in 2011 after
breaking my leg in three places while
dancing in, erm, a pair of platforms.
But what did I find myself purchasing
late at night before London Fashion
Week last month?
A pair of chunky-heeled platform
slingbacks that reminded me how
joyous it can be to put on a pair of
shoes that look and feel like fun.
At 4in with a 1.5in sole, they are
heels I can actually walk in. Radical, I
Five to buy
£275, £550,
russellandbromley.co.uk piferi.com
know, but I’m a firm believer that this
should be the main criterion when
choosing shoes, though even I will
admit there are some outfits that need
— no, deserve — a heel.
Legion are the women I know who
say they can’t face their court shoes
again after a year of walking
comfortably, but will their resolve
wobble in the face of platforms
instead? Their ankles certainly won’t.
The street-stylers have been out in
Valentino’s £780 Tan-go style, which
are already close to sold out on Net-a-
Porter. At 6in with a 2in platform,
they’re actually a 4in walkable heel in
disguise — granted, it’s quite a
maximalist, look-at-me-and-my-giant-
shoes disguise, but no wonder the
multiple women wearing them looked
so laid-back.
Versace’s £1,000ish Medusa Aevitas
platforms were another influencer
favourite at the Italian shows — these
clock in at 3.5in with a 2.5in platform,
which practically puts us back in
running-for-a-bus territory. Finally,
heels for real life!
I’m being facetious, of course. These
shoes remain firmly glam rock but, as
we peep out from hibernation and into
a yet more anxious future, emergent
shoppers want a modern version of
glamour that doesn’t hurt or constrict.
Platforms offer that boost in more
ways than one.
On the high street meanwhile, it was
so difficult to find a pair of platforms
£375,
russellandbromley.co.uk
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only a few months ago that, as one of
by Harriet the few on offer, Asos’s £42 black
suede sandals had sold out by mid-
Walker November. Now there are far more.
Russell & Bromley’s strappy Spritz
comes in grass green, gold or white,
Street-stylers at while its Topform is a little more
Milan Fashion low-key (£295 and £225,
Week russellandbromley.co.uk). The latter
are not unreminiscent of the £675
suede Prada platforms that have
become a front row perennial
(available on matchesfashion.com)
Zara’s range covers everything from
leopard print to a more disco-inflected
metallic green (£29.99 and £55.99,
zara.com).
I like Penelope Chilvers’ suede
Arusha mules and Cairo sandals,
which come with authentically
Seventies clog-like wooden soles (both
£159, penelopechilvers.com).
The French It girl favourites
Nodaleto’s version come with a
futuristic fat heel (from £595,
matchesfashion.com) that has been
admirably replicated for £40 in Schuh’s
Swae style (schuh.co.uk).
Fashion editors tend to wear their
platform sandals with socks and jeans
to make them an everyday runaround.
If you’re planning to resurrect a pair
you already own, be aware that the
most modern-looking platforms come
with a thick heel as opposed to a
spindly one. Think Studio 54 rather
than Spearmint Rhino and you won’t
go far wrong.
£29.99, £225,
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A survey suggests
many young Brits
haven’t tasted old
traditional dishes.
Yes, it’s true, says
Hannah Evans, 27
I
remember the day that I vowed I
would never eat liver and onions
again. I was 16 in the kitchen at
my London home and my mum
had just broken the news that for
dinner we’d be having her
childhood favourite. “I used to
have it all the time,” she said
cheerfully, stirring a pan of gravy. “It’s
full of iron, good for you, yum!”
Of course, I ate what was on my
plate, closing my eyes and counting
down the chews until the strong offaly
taste of the liver was gone, but I
promised myself never again. Ten
years later, that’s a vow I’ve kept.
It seems I am not the only Gen-Zer
ditching the food their parents were
brought up on. This week research
found that people my age, 27 and
younger, are falling out of love with
classic British dishes. Most of us have
never even tried them.
The list in question reads like a
nostalgic recipe book plucked straight
out of the 1970s, aka the Olden Days.
As deputy food editor, it’s my job to
report from the front line of food
trends, to be willing to try any dish
with unwavering enthusiasm, but on
the list are at least eight meals that
I haven’t got a clue about.
I was born and brought up in
southeast London, but I’ve never
ordered pie and mash or jellied eels.
Blasphemous, I know, but where are
the greens? And how do I know if the
meat has been ethically sourced?
I have to google what a saveloy
sausage is and I need to be reminded
of what is in a ploughman’s lunch.
There are a few dishes that I recognise
but know I don’t like. Liver, obviously,
but also spotted dick (too stodgy) and
pork pies — the jelly bit between the
meat and the pastry freaks me out.
It’s not just because they’re not
exactly healthy — or environmentally
friendly (my generation has been
tasked with fixing climate change,
remember). Growing up in London my
taste buds have been spoilt with dishes
from around the world.
We’re a new breed of fussy eaters.
Instead of Great British food, my
friends love Middle Eastern flavours
such as harissa, sumac and tahini. We
are disciples of Ottolenghi. When
we’re feeling like basic biatches, we go
for brunch and gorge on spicy baked
eggs and crumbled feta. Bubble and
squeak has been replaced with labneh
and flatbreads.
As with so many things, trends come
and go. Just as I have banned liver
from my kitchen, I doubt any children
I have will get excited about harissa
chickpeas the way their mum once did.
In my defence, there are a few items
on the list that I am more than happy
to personally stop from becoming
endangered. Black pudding —
unhealthy yes, but a full English
non-negotiable. Welsh rarebit is pure
comfort food and my dad’s bread and
butter pudding is famous in our family.
Liver and onions, though? I am happy
to see that go extinct.
CIRCE HAMILTON FOR THE TIMES
onions, or pie and mash with liquor,
according to a study by Perspectus
Global on behalf of Sushi Daily. This
doesn’t surprise me. Almost all of my
Gen Z friends have cut out meat,
whether it’s to fight climate change or
simply to lose a few kilos. That my
generation has turned their back on
British classics in favour of healthier
options has people worried that those
traditional foods are set to die out.
I’m curious to see what the fuss is
all about. Where better to try the
dishes for the first time than London’s
oldest eel and pie house? I’ve come to
Manze in Bermondsey, where the
menu has barely changed since it
opened in 1902.
As a lost first-timer, I go for pie,
mash and liquor. My question of, “Is
the liquor actually booze?” is met by
laughter from Sophie behind the
counter. I’m almost afraid to ask
whether such a traditional joint does
a veggie pie. But they produce a soya
mince one, which I hack at with a
spoon, because using a knife is not
traditional. Seeing me struggling,
Sophie teaches me the correct pie
procedure: “Flip the pie upside down,
cut a hole in the top, put a bit of
chilli vinegar in, then spoon the liquor
in.” The liquor doesn’t taste too
unfamiliar — like a thin Colman’s
Georgina parsley sauce — but any chance of
ketchup to sweeten it? “We don’t have
Roberts
eats pie My question ‘Is
the liquor really
booze?’ is met
with laughter
Gen Z have never
ketchup or brown sauce. Only gravy
and liquor,” she says.
The sight of a bowl of jellied eels
approaching my table has me quaking.
I don’t know what I expected, but it
wasn’t four chunks of eel floating in a
eaten jellied eels?
sea of clear jelly cubes. It looks like an
alien. “I like sushi,” I say nervously,
“Will that help?”
“It’s completely different to sushi,”
says Amy the waitress. “It’s an
acquired taste. It depends if you have
Let’s give it a try
been raised on it.” The jelly is
inoffensive, just slippery — but then
I bite into an eel and nearly gag. The
cold, hard, fishy chunks are not going
down well after skipping breakfast.
My face must have given me away,
because Sophie says: “It’s not just a
young person thing — I’m old and
Non-Gen Z foods
‘I bite into the cold, I think they’re vile.”
Do I think my Gen Z friends would
Jellied eels ......... 65% haven’t tried
fishy chunks and nearly be up for trying classics like steak
Diane, black pudding or spotted dick
Haggis ......................................... 46%
Steak, well done ....................... 42%
gag’ Georgina Roberts, 26 for the first time? Not if the dinner
I have been trying to organise for
Welsh rarebit ............................ 40% three girlfriends at my flat this week is
T
Liver and onions ....................... 35% he closest I have come anything to go by. It’s been a complete
Pie, mash and liquor ............... 32% to an eel is when one nightmare. Every meal suggestion I
Black pudding ........................... 32% touched my foot in a put forward on the WhatsApp group
Saveloy sausage and chips ..... 30% river, and it didn’t look has been firmly vetoed by my guests.
Lancashire hot pot .................. 30% like an appetising “Cheesy gnocchi?’” was met with
snack. Safe to say “Absolutely not. Do you want me to
Research by Sushi Daily I have never tried the cry from bloating?”. “Seafood paella?”
East End classic of got the response, “You must be joking.
And what they do eat jellied eels. Lancashire hotpot could You know I don’t eat fish.”
Vegan burgers be a dance move as far as I’m Meet my dinner guests — one is a
Vegan cheese concerned, I couldn’t tell you what vegetarian, the other is gluten-free
Oatly flat whites saveloy and chips is, and until today and the third is a pescatarian. They
Flat breads and labneh I thought steak and kidney pudding are typical of our picky generation.
Orzo was a dessert. If my friends refuse to eat meat,
Ramen I’m not alone — more than a third gluten, fish, or dairy, I doubt they will
Chickpeas of young people like me have never be munching on haggis any time soon.
Sushi tried the old-fashioned British As for me, I’ll stick to my sushi instead
favourites of Welsh rarebit, liver and of eels, thanks.
the times | Wednesday March 9 2022
Ban Gergiev and Netrebko, but
don’t cancel all Russian artists
Barring Russian
performers who
don’t back Putin
is an own goal
for us, argues
Richard Morrison
D
oing the rounds in
orchestral circles is a
grim little joke about
Valery Gergiev, the
Russian conductor
who has been
stripped of his job at
the Munich
Philharmonic and his honorary
presidency of the Edinburgh
International Festival because of
his longstanding support for his
friend Vladimir Putin. “At last Gergiev
is being punished for his crimes
against humanity,” the quip goes.
“However, let’s not talk about his
Mahler recordings.”
Facetious though the remark is, it
does make you think about the
morality of this rush to cancel
appearances by Russian performers
and companies. In Gergiev’s case it
seems a no-brainer. He has
masterminded victory concerts for
Putin. He has used Putin’s power (by
proxy, as it were) to raise billions to
build new opera houses and concert
halls for his beloved Mariinsky
Theatre in St Petersburg. Nothing
moves, culturally, in Putin’s Russia
without Gergiev’s backing. He’s in it
up to his neck.
On top of this, however, he has
become a figure of ridicule in musical
circles (at least outside Russia) for
reasons that have nothing to do with
politics or invasions. He’s a conductor
who grabs every job he can and does
almost no rehearsal. His performances
are often horribly superficial. Hence
“crimes against humanity”.
So sacking him is an easy gesture.
The news would have been cheered by
musicians across the globe.
The problem is that his
circumstances are unique. When I
look at other Russian performers and
ensembles that have been dumped
because of the invasion of Ukraine, I
see few where the argument is as clear
cut. Yes, I understand why the Royal
Opera House has cancelled the
Bolshoi Ballet’s appearance in London
this summer. The Bolshoi’s home is a
grand theatre just up the road from
the Kremlin. Geographically and
spiritually, it’s at the heart of the
Russian state. The cancellation will
dent Russian pride, and that’s good.
What, though, about the enforced
cancellation of a UK tour of smallish
theatres by the much less exalted
Russian State Ballet of Siberia? Our
culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, says
that “we can’t allow representatives of
Valery Gergiev in 2016. the Russian state to continue
Top: Anna Netrebko performing” in the UK (a dictum that
with Vladimir Putin surely raises its own questions about
in 2008 how far a British minister should
impose her political views on the
cultural world). The reality, however, is
that a bunch of young dancers now
won’t get the chance to hear first-hand
what’s being said by British people and
the British media about their country’s
incursion into another. We are doing
the Russian censors’ work for them.
And what about the widespread ban
on some of Russia’s superstar
performers? The soprano Anna
Netrebko has joined her friend
Gergiev on the blacklist, notably at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York,
where she has sung more than 200
We are times. In fact Peter Gelb, the Met’s
doing the general manager — and one of
Netrebko’s most loyal champions until
Russian last month — has not only cancelled
her engagements this season and next,
censors’ but says he finds it “hard to imagine a
scenario” in which she would sing at
work for the Met again. Netrebko thinks this is
harsh, claiming to be “not a political
them person”. She has, she says, “many
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friends in Ukraine and the pain and
suffering right now breaks my heart”.
Maybe that’s true, but she’s another
one who seems too close to Putin to
denounce his deeds. Indeed, when
asked once by Newsweek if she was
Putin’s mistress, she denied it but said
she would “love to have been”, and
mused wistfully on his “strong, male
energy”. A quote that hasn’t aged well.
A more nuanced case can be made
for Tugan Sokhiev, a youngish Russian
conductor who has worked a lot in the
West (he was briefly at Welsh National
Opera) and is now — or was until this
week — music director of both the
Bolshoi and an orchestra in Toulouse.
He has resigned from both —
honourably, in my opinion — claiming
he was being pressurised by the mayor
of Toulouse to denounce the
Ukrainian invasion and thus “choose
one cultural tradition over another” if
he wanted to keep his French job.
The mayor denies this, but adds that
it would be “unthinkable” for Sokhiev
to have remained silent. Which seems
to bear out Sokhiev’s general point:
that his fellow Russian “colleagues,
artists, actors, singers, dancers and
directors” are being “menaced, treated
disrespectfully and becoming victims
of so-called cancel culture”.
Without being prompted or
threatened, some eminent Russian-
born performers have issued
unequivocal denunciations of Putin.
They include three conductors —
Vasily Petrenko, Vladimir Jurowski
and Maxim Emelyanychev — with
strong British connections. All three,
however, have flourishing careers
outside Russia. Putin’s wrath can be
tolerated from a safe distance.
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arts
It’s a different matter for creative
figures still based in Russia, or with
close family there. There’s a story
about the great Soviet composer
Dmitri Shostakovich that seems as
relevant today as 70 years ago. He is
interviewed by some American
journalists who are clearly
disappointed that he won’t give them
damning quotes about Stalin. Back
home, he explodes with anger. “Who
do these people think they are?” he
rants to his friends. “They risk nothing
but expect me to risk everything.”
Something similar could be said
about those concert promoters (mostly
in America) who are cancelling
contracts with perfectly blameless
Russian musicians who have never
said a public word about politics in
their lives. Why should they risk
speaking now? The only thing at risk
for the promoters is the goodwill of
their audiences or sponsors.
Even worse, surely, is cancelling
Russians who have actually dared
speak out against Putin. That,
however, is what has happened at the
Glasgow Film Festival, where two
films — Kirill Sokolov’s No Looking
Back and Lado Kvataniya’s The
Execution — have been dropped
because they are Russian state-funded,
even though their respective directors
have both issued public repudiations
of the invasion. Sokolov comes
from a half-Ukrainian family, while
Kvataniya has had his work censored
in Russia. Where’s the logic in denying
these dissident voices an audience
outside Russia?
We have even reached a point, I’m
told, when concert halls and theatres
are seriously considering banning the
performance of Russian works from
earlier centuries because they think
that will somehow send a message of
support for the invasion. That sort of
mindless virtue-signalling is fraught
with pitfalls, not least because quite
a few of the most famous “Russian”
creative geniuses in history —
Prokofiev, the composer of Peter and
the Wolf, for instance; or Gogol, the
author of Dead Souls; or Bondarchuk
who directed the epic eight-hour
Soviet movie of War and Peace —
were actually Ukrainian by birth.
I can see why people feel
emotionally compelled to press for
a cultural boycott of all things Russian.
I just question what good it does.
When Dorries announces that she is
“working to mobilise the full might of
the UK’s soft power against the
Russian state”, I don’t imagine Putin
quaking in his cowboy boots. It just
feeds into the pernicious myth he is
peddling to his people — that the
West is trying to isolate and belittle
Mother Russia, and that censorship
and bans are fine because we do it
as well. Far better to let Russian
performers come here, face the
protests, and begin to understand
why, for all their magnificent
achievements in music, literature
and dance. they aren’t the world’s
favourite people.
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Sorcery, terror — and a touch of Alan Partridge PETE DADDS

comedy featuring a dead woman more uptight, sneaky and self-serving

James hanging from a tree? Look no further!
Here we are in 1645 East Anglia,
than either. There’s a good person
buried under his idiocy — it’s Tim Key
Jackson where awful men — among them
Key’s rubbish witchfinder wannabe
Gideon Bannister — revel in
playing him, after all — but so far
you’d need a telescope to see it.
The Partridge similarities are no
TV review consigning women to the stake as
entertainment for baying mobs. Well,
surprise given that this is created by
the Partridge scribes Neil and Rob
tragedy plus time and all that, because Gibbons, although one might have
The Witchfinder has little problem expected more madcap Pythonesque
finding the ridiculousness in all of this, absurdity here. The first episode was
being a bit like an actually quite one of those comedies that’s more
horrible Horrible Histories. clever than laugh-out-loud funny, as it
Take the reasons that women find worked hard to set up how Bannister
themselves under suspicion of comes to spend the series taking
witchery: a goat that cries like a baby, Gooch across country to trial, despite
The Witchfinder or a chicken not laying eggs because much loving detail and rich
BBC2 a woman stared at it, or in the case characterisation. Particularly good is a
{{{(( of Thomasine Gooch (Daisy May near-unrecognisable Jessica Hynes as
Cooper), “a demon in animal form Bannister’s weatherbeaten assistant.

W
hen the serenity of
rural England was
shattered by civil war,
evil was spawned.
Hounding the
innocent in violence and terror,
witchfinders came for the women of
England, burning them to death at the
stake. Does this sound like the start of
a nasty horror film? That’s because it
is — I’m paraphrasing the trailer for
the cult classic Witchfinder General.
Making the dark idea into a half-hour
sitcom? That’s more ambitious.
It makes The Witchfinder, the new
series starring Tim Key, a bit of a
curious fish to say the least. Fancy a
seen approaching your dwelling to
suckle at your teat!” Actually it was a
chicken wandering towards her looking
for seeds. Clearly it was a dangerous
business being a woman in those days.
Poor Gooch, whose only crime is
being unmarried and smarter than the
average pox-ridden peasant, has been
accused of “maleficium” and instantly
become a career opportunity for a
pompous idiot. Bannister is very much
in the vein of humdrum beta males
such as Alan Partridge and David
Brent, right down to his delivery
(you visualised Brent when he said:
“What I do have is balls. Two of them.
Massive”). Except Bannister is far
Rather like This Time with Alan
Partridge, it is the kind of thing that
works better on a second viewing,
when you catch some of the more
blink-and-you-miss-it humour. Things
are much more fun in episode two
once Bannister and his “witch” are off
on their picaresque road trip across ye
olde England, with its sinister Cavalier
soldiers and lynch-mob maniacs.
I’m not sure this is quite the comedy
we need right now. But Cooper is
deadpan incarnate, and at least we
know a lot more about the malicious
sorcery of witches. They like hair, did
you know, and sometimes congregate
Tim Key as a witchfinder wannabe with Daisy May Cooper outside barber shops — with spoons!

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experience of escaping Iran
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project on kindness A fast-paced, one-man sketch show with 10.00 Sports Bar 1.00am Extra Time
9.45 (LW) Daily Service Damien Slash (1/4)
9.45 Death by Conspiracy?
The role social media played in pushing Gary
11.15 Chris Neill: Raging Enigma talkRADIO
Autobiographical stand-up, written by and Digital only
toward conspiracy theories (8/10) starring Chris Neill (3/6) 5.00am James Max 6.30 Julia Hartley-
10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.30 Today in Parliament Brewer 10.00 Mike Graham 1.00pm Ian
Topical conversation offering a female
perspective on the world, presented by
12.00 News and Weather
12.30am Death by Conspiracy?
Collins 4.00 Cristo Foufas 7.00 Kevin
O’Sullivan 10.00 James Whale Feat Ash
Emma Barnett The role social media played in pushing Gary 1.00am Paul Ross
11.00 The Case of the Brillante toward conspiracy theories (8/10) (r)
Virtuoso
An extraordinary high seas hoax that became
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1.00 As BBC World Service
6 Music
connected to a murder. Last in the series Digital only
11.30 Angstrom
The investigation takes Angstrom and Mina
Radio 4 Extra 5.00am Chris Hawkins 7.30 Lauren Laverne
10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs 1.00pm Craig
Digital only Charles 4.00 Steve Lamacq 6.00 The 6 Music
to the remote Celibate Puffin Island (4/4) (r)
8.00am Hancock’s Half Hour 8.30 If You’re Album Club 7.00 Ezra Furman 9.00 Gideon
12.01pm (LW) Shipping Forecast
So Clever, Why Aren’t You Rich? 9.00 Booked Coe 12.00 Freak Zone Playlist 1.00am
12.04 Sea Change
9.30 All the Young Dudes 10.00 A Man 6 Music’s Best of the Festivals 2.00
By Alix Nathan (3/10)
Alone 11.00 The Real Comedy Controllers: Best of the 6 Music Festival by Day 3.00
12.18 You and Yours
The Things That Made Us Laugh 12.00 Cillian Murphy’s Limited Edition
1.00 The World at One
Hancock’s Half Hour 12.30pm If You’re So
1.45 The Museums That Make Us
Neil MacGregor visits Penrhyn Castle in
north Wales (3/20)
Clever, Why Aren’t You Rich? 1.00 Hercule
Poirot: Death on the Nile 1.30 Destination: Virgin Radio
2.00 The Archers (r)
Fire! 2.00 The Librarian 2.15 The L Shaped Digital only
6.30am The Chris Evans Breakfast Show
2.15 Drama: A Fair Shot
Room 2.30 Salt 3.00 A Man Alone 4.00
Booked 4.30 All the Young Dudes 5.00 with Sky 10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris 1.00pm
By Viv Groskop. A millionaire businesswoman Tim Cocker 4.00 Kate Lawler 7.00 Steve
Alexei Sayle’s Imaginary Sandwich Bar
launches a new brand of centrist politics Denyer 10.00 Stu Elmore 1.00am Virgin
5.30 Conversations from a Long Marriage
promising a fairer shot for voters and
minority parties (r)
6.00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward 6.15
And Another Thing 6.30 The Radio
Radio Through The Night 4.00 Sam Pinkham
3.00 Money Box Live
Financial questions
Detectives 7.00 Hancock’s Half Hour 7.30 If
You’re So Clever, Why Aren’t You Rich? 8.00
Classic FM
3.30 Inside Health FM: 100-102 MHz
Hercule Poirot: Death on the Nile 8.30 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00
Demystifying health issues (9/11) (r)
Destination: Fire! 9.00 The Real Comedy Alexander Armstrong 12.00 Charlotte
4.00 Rewinder
Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh. Hawkins 4.00pm John Brunning 7.00
Greg James goes in search of archive clips
Revisiting the best of radio satire and Smooth Classics at Seven 8.00 The Classic
of Agatha Christie (1/4) (r)
sitcoms from the 1960s and 1970s 10.00 FM Concert with John Suchet. John marks
4.30 The Media Show
Comedy Club: Conversations from a Long 180 years since the premiere of Verdi’s opera
5.00 PM
Marriage 10.30 Bunk Bed 10.45 Josie Nabucco, with a performance of the chorus
5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast
Long: All of the Planet’s Wonders 11.00 Va Pensiero by the National Academy of St
6.00 Six O’Clock News
Radio Active 11.30 Ectoplasm
6.30 Conversations from a Cecilia Orchestra and Chorus. Plus, a
Long Marriage Beethoven work by the Orchestre
Comedy starring Joanna Lumley (2/6) Radio 5 Live Revolutionaire et Romantique and Nigel
7.00 The Archers MW: 693, 909 Hess’s Piano Concerto performed by Lang
Kate is feeling competitive 5.00am Wake Up to Money 6.00 Lang 10.00 Smooth Classics 1.00am Bill
7.15 Front Row 5 Live Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell Overton 4.00 Early Breakfast
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Viewing Guide since, but nothing has
worked and politicians
Joe Clay seem powerless to halt
— or even reverse —
Who Made the alarming rise in
Britain Fat? Britons living with
Channel 4, 9pm
obesity. And after three
It has been national lockdowns in
Top30 years the space of two years,
since the
pick restricting people’s
government movement, closing
started to set targets to gyms and encouraging
tackle obesity. An people to stay at home,
astonishing 689 policies it’s no surprise that
have been put in place many have seen their
BBC1
6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Morning Live. Magazine show,
Early
hosted by Kimberley Walsh and Gethin Jones 10.00
Crimewatch Live. Appeals for information from the public
about crimes 10.45 Caught Red Handed. A man is filmed
mistreating his pony (AD) 11.15 Homes Under the
Hammer. Properties in Ebbw Vale, Lichfield and Southsea
(r) (AD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt. Charlie Ross hosts from
Wadebridge in Cornwall (r) (AD) 1.00 BBC News at One;
Weather 1.30 BBC Regional News; Weather 1.45
Doctors. Valerie helps Luca take Winnie on the trip of a
lifetime (AD) 2.15 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private
Investigators. Frank and Lu struggle to protect a troubled
teenager (r) (AD) 3.00 Escape to the Country. Ginny
Buckley helps a former army couple find a new home in
Devon (r) (AD) 3.45 Garden Rescue. A woman in Alton
hoping for a “gin and gym” garden (r) 4.30 Antiques Road
Trip. Roo Irvine learns the history of the loo (r) 5.15
Pointless. Quiz in which contestants try to score the
fewest points possible by giving the least obvious
correct answers to questions. Presented by Alexander
Armstrong, with Richard Osman (r) 6.00 BBC News at
Six; Weather 6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather
7.00 The One Show Including full
7PM
highlights from day two of the Red
Nose and Spoon Race
7.30 EastEnders Karen agrees to hide
Gray in her flat (AD)
8.00 Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts
8PM
New series. Mary Berry teaches
three novice cooks how to create
dishes for afternoon tea so they
can throw a thank you party for a
woman who runs a youth charity
in Cardiff (AD)
9.00 Interior Design Masters with Alan
9PM
Carr New series. Ten aspiring
designers compete to get their big
break in the world of commercial
interior design, beginning by
transforming upmarket rental
apartments in Manchester.
See Viewing Guide (1/8) (AD)
10.00 BBC News at Ten
10PM
10.25 BBC Regional News and Weather
10.35 Mood Forced to fend for herself,
Sasha has ended up sofa-surfing at her
drug dealer Saleem’s flat, a million
miles from the superstardom she
dreams about. Drama starring Nicôle
Lecky (2/6) (r) (AD)
11PM
11.20 Stacey Dooley: Inside the Convent
Stacey Dooley lives with the nuns of a
Whitby convent to find out whether
their timetabled existence can help to
make her own life more meaningful.
See Viewing Guide (AD)
12.20am Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next
Late
Documentary following the celebrity’s son as he turns 19
and pursues a more independent life, embarking on his
first term at a specialist college that provides courses
for young adults with disabilities (r) (AD) 1.20
Weather for the Week Ahead 1.25-6.00 BBC News
weight increase during
the pandemic. In an
eye-opening two-part
series, the journalist
and broadcaster
Michael Mosley asks
the question: who made
Britain fat? “The
pandemic has
contributed to soaring
rates of childhood
obesity, type 2 diabetes
and blood pressure, all
linked to our growing
love of takeaways and
BBC2
6.15am Marcus Wareing’s Tales from a Kitchen Garden
(r) 7.15 Escape to the Country (r) 8.00 Sign Zone: Inside
Culture with Mary Beard (r) (SL) 8.30 Great Coastal
Railway Journeys (r) (AD, SL) 9.00 BBC News 10.00 BBC
News 11.15 Politics Live 1.00pm Ready Steady Cook (r)
1.45 Eggheads (r) 2.15 Put Your Money Where Your
Mouth Is (r) 3.00 The Heights (r) (AD) 3.30 Murder,
Mystery and My Family. Criminal barristers Sasha Wass
and Jeremy Dein examine a violent burglary and murder
in Oxford in 1931, which resulted in the conviction and
execution of Henry Seymour (r) (AD) 4.15 Sacred
Wonders of Britain. Neil Oliver finds out how the epic
journey of St Cuthbert led to the Lindisfarne Gospels, and
visits Glastonbury Tor to explore the story of the Holy
Grail. Last in the series (r) (AD) 5.15 Flog It! The experts
visit Althorp House, Herstmonceux Castle, Reading Town
Hall and Greenwich Royal Naval College to value
collectables and antiques being sold at auction (r) 6.00
Richard Osman’s House of Games. With Jennie McAlpine,
Ugo Monye, Joe Pasquale and Felicity Ward 6.30 Marcus
Wareing’s Tales from a Kitchen Garden. The chef brings in
some sheep to produce his favourite meat, lamb
7.00 Doctors Valerie helps Luca take
Winnie on the trip of a lifetime,
while Jimmi makes progress
with Asif (r) (AD)
7.30 Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat Recipes
include a layered chocolate and peanut
butter cake (3/6) (r) (AD)
8.00 Your Body Uncovered with Kate
Garraway Kate meets a doting
grandmother to 23 grandchildren, who
tries to understand why Covid hit her
so hard, as well as a man whose
prostate has enlarged so much,
he is in agony (2/6) (AD)
9.00 Great British Menu For their main
courses, one chef from the north-east
and Yorkshire takes inspiration from
the first Christmas message on the
radio, while another celebrates
Strictly Come Dancing
10.00 The Office Brent becomes a
motivational speaker (4/6) (r) (AD)
10.30 Newsnight Headline analysis,
with Kirsty Wark
11.15 Unspun World with John Simpson
The week’s major global news stories
11.40 Rock Till We Drop The two bands
come together to rehearse for the
first time (2/4) (r)
12.40am-2.40 Sign Zone: We Are Black and British
Six people from different backgrounds come together to
share deeply personal stories that raise tough questions
about being black and British. In this episode, the group
share their experiences of school, and coming out as gay
to the black community (r) (AD, SL)
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ultra-processed foods,” also meets everyday a hairdresser, a fashion
Mosley says. “The people, as well as
Interior Design stylist and a maker
current government passionate campaigners Masters with of artisan goat’s cheese
appears keen to do such as Jamie Oliver, Alan Carr — compete to clinch
something about it — who tell their own BBC1, 9pm a contract with a
but will its solutions stories about what’s at The competitive yet luxury hotel in
work?” Mosley will be stake if the government wholesome design Cornwall. For the first
seeking answers from doesn’t get serious show returns for a new challenge the
political insiders, about tackling obesity. series with Alan Carr as contestants are sent
including the former In the first episode host and the interiors to Manchester.
chancellor George Mosley digs deep into guru Michelle Working as pairs,
Osborne, as he tries to the Boris Johnson Ogundehin on judging they must transform
uncover the truth about government’s wide- duties. Ten aspiring a two-bedroom
industry lobbying and ranging new anti- designers from all apartment for a young,
political pressure. He obesity proposals. walks of life — there’s stylish couple.
ITV Channel 4 Channel 5
6.00am Good Morning Britain. Magazine featuring a 6.00am Live Winter Paralympics. Day five continues 6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine. The broadcaster
lively mix of news and current affairs, plus health and with wheelchair curling 8.00 Winter Paralympics and guests discuss the issues of the day, with co-host
lifestyle features 9.00 Lorraine. Entertainment, current Breakfast 9.00 Frasier (r) (AD) 10.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Storm Huntley joining him for phone-ins and reading out
affairs and fashion news, as well as showbiz stories and Nightmares USA (r) 11.25 Channel 4 News Summary viewers’ correspondence 12.15pm Nightmare Tenants,
gossip 10.00 This Morning. A mix of showbiz chat, 11.30 Coast vs Country (r) 12.30pm Steph’s Packed Slum Landlords. Updates on a property developer who
lifestyle features, advice and competitions. Including Lunch. Weekday magazine show, hosted by Steph bought an old tram station as an investment, only for it
Local Weather 12.30pm Loose Women. Another helping McGovern 2.10 Countdown. Janet Ellis joins Susie Dent in to be taken over by squatters, and a couple owed £10,000
of topical studio discussion from a female perspective, Dictionary Corner 3.00 A Place in the Sun. A quest for a in rent by their tenant (r) 1.10 5 News at Lunchtime 1.15
featuring showbiz interviews 1.30 ITV News; Weather property in the lively resort of Corralejo on Fuerteventura Home and Away. Justin and Alf’s argument escalates in
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. David Dickinson and the team (r) 4.00 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now? the hospital 1.45 Neighbours 2.15 FILM: Stalked by
are in Llandudno in Wales, where James Layte snaps up a A Bristol man takes his South of France watersports My Teacher (PG, TVM, 2020) A father and daughter
telescope from the Napoleonic era, and there is a huge company in a new direction 5.00 Four in a Bed. move to California, where a cheerleading coach turns their
surprise in the den (r) 3.00 Lingo. A ballroom dancing The rivals stay at Portsonachan Hotel & Lodges in lives into a nightmare. Thriller starring Vivica A Fox and
couple, a pair of fashionistas, and a married couple try to Argyll and Bute 5.30 Winter Paralympics: Today in Corin Nemec 4.00 Filthy House SOS. A pair clean up a
work out words that appear in the Lingo grids and Beijing. Action from day five in Beijing 6.00 The semi-detached house in Bedford belonging to a woman
Puzzlewords (r) 4.00 Tipping Point. Ben Shephard hosts Simpsons. Bart meets a hip-hop-quoting priest and with rheumatoid arthritis, which has left her with
the arcade-themed quiz in which contestants drop tokens decides to become a Catholic — to the dismay of extremely restricted mobility (r) 5.00 War in Ukraine:
down a choice of four chutes in the hope of winning a Homer, who tries to lure him back to the Protestant 5 News Special 6.00 Neighbours. Levi refuses to believe
£10,000 jackpot 5.00 The Chase. Bradley Walsh presents fold (r) (AD) 6.30 Hollyoaks. As Sienna fulfils that Freya is a stalker, but he is rattled as the group
as four more contestants work as a team to take on one her duties as Ethan’s partner, he entrusts her with departs for River Bend. David is upset about the state of
of the ruthless Chasers and secure a cash prize 6.00 something important. Meanwhile, Nancy puts her foot his marriage, and Dean notices this (r) 6.30 Eggheads.
Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather down against Charlie’s behaviour (r) (AD) Strangers on a Train try their luck against the Eggheads
7.00 Channel 4 News 7.00 The Gadget Show Georgie goes
treasure hunting with Annabel Croft as
they put Apple’s AirTag up against two
contenders to see which is best (2/6)
7.30 Emmerdale Mackenzie and Pollard do
their best to sabotage each other’s
events (AD)
7.55 5 News Update
8.00 Coronation Street Abi forms a 8.00 Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It: 8.00 Police Interceptors In Nottingham,
plan to retrieve the stolen car for Brilliant Builds Kirstie Allsopp the knife crime team pull over a group
Tyrone, Gary is alarmed by Laura’s and Phil Spencer remember helping a of men in a car, and their agitated
decision to track down Rick, and Daisy pair whose three-bedroom semi in East behaviour leads them to believe they
makes the acquaintance of a face from Grinstead was so cramped they were are hiding something (5/10)
Daniel’s past (AD) forced to eat meals in the bedroom
9.00 Our House Fi has to come to terms 9.00 Michael Mosley: Who Made 9.00 Soham: The Murder of Holly &
with losing the house and tries to find Britain Fat? Michael Mosley Jessica New series. Documentary
out more about Bram’s whereabouts. investigates the rise in obesity, examining the deaths of 10-year-old
She turns to her new partner, Toby, for investigating why past government girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman
support, but he has secrets of his own. policies have failed and whether new in the Cambridgeshire town in August
Concludes tomorrow (3/4) (AD) initiatives stand any better chance. 2002, a crime that shocked the entire
See Viewing Guide (1/2) (AD) country. See Viewing Guide (1/3)
10.00 ITV News at Ten A fresh perspective 10.00 Naked Attraction Singletons from
on the major stories of the day Bristol and Bolton take their pick of six
potential partners, based purely on
their naked bodies. Dating show
10.30 Regional News hosted by Anna Richardson (AD) 10.30 My Lover, My Killer The case of a
10.45 Peston Political magazine show, disabled man who formed a close
featuring major interviews with MPs, relationship with his carer and her son,
topical guests and cultural figures a situation they exploited to ultimately
murderous ends (5/6)
11.05 Sex Actually with Alice Levine The
presenter steps out of her comfort
zone to embark on a journey of sexual
discovery, invited into homes across
the UK to find out what sex means for 11.30 Skin A&E Dr Adil is unsure what
11.40 Paul Sinha’s TV Showdown With modern Brits (1/3) (r) (AD) two lumps on a patient’s back actually
Joanna Page, Jenny Powell, Adam are. The only way to find out is to cut
Thomas and David Baddiel (r) into them (10/10) (r)
12.15am Teleshopping 3.00 Bling. Gok Wan meets a 12.05am 24 Hours in A&E (r) (AD) 1.00 Live Winter 12.35am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera (r)
woman who has inherited her nana’s ring, stirring up Paralympics. Coverage of day six from Beijing, including 1.00 The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment
loving memories of family time together. Lydia makes Great Britain v China in the round-robin stage of the News on 5 3.10 Celebrity 5 Go Fishing (r) 4.00 Get Your
her customers’ day by surprising them with Bling that wheelchair curling and the giant slalom 3.30-6.00 Tatts Out: Kavos Ink (r) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (r) (SL) 5.10
they consider the perfect price (r) (SL) 3.50 Unwind Live Winter Paralympics. Coverage of day six of the House Doctor (r) (SL) 5.35 Peppa Pig (r) 5.40 Paw Patrol
with ITV 5.05-6.00 Tipping Point (r) (SL) Beijing Winter Paralympics continues (r) 5.50-6.00 Pip and Posy (r) (SL)
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discovery of their expected to fail and yet Priory in Whitby. All
Soham: The bodies in a ditch close
Writing with Fire: it endures and has
Stacey Dooley: the sisters have taken
Film One Day
Murder of Storyville Inside the Film4, 6.50pm
to the town. The man stirred a revolution. the three key vows of
Holly & Jessica BBC4, 10pm Convent
responsible was the The chief reporter, poverty, obedience and David Nicholls’s
Channel 5, 9pm school caretaker Ian The 80 million Dalit Meera, and her tight- BBC1, 11.20pm celibacy and Dooley romantic bestseller
In August 2002 two Huntley, who had women of India face knit team of journalists Stacey Dooley isn’t will be following their comes to the screen
ten-year-old no criminal record the “triple burden” — armed with just their religious, but she is strict daily timetable of with Anne Hathaway as
schoolgirls, Holly Wells but who had faced of gender bias, caste smartphones — cover open to exploring her work, reading and Emma (a bookish
and Jessica Chapman, repeated allegations discrimination and the country’s political, spirituality. So it’s in at prayer to find out what frumpy duckling who
went missing from of abuse. Over the economic deprivation. social and local news the deep end for our life is like for a 21st- blooms into a confident
the Cambridgeshire next two nights this This remarkable film from a female intrepid reporter as she century nun. Will some swan) and Jim Sturgess
town of Soham, harrowing true follows a group of Dalit perspective. It’s a spends ten days living peace and spiritual as Dexter (a pampered
sparking a frantic crime documentary women who started up humane, funny and alongside a small reflection help her to posh boy who
14-day search. It ended recounts events in their own newspaper hopeful study community of Anglican answer some of life’s temporarily loses his
in tragedy with the forensic detail. in 2002. They were of courage under fire. nuns at St Hilda’s big questions? way). (12, 2011)

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6.00am Stargate SG-1 (r) 8.00 Supergirl (r)
9.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (r) 10.00
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3.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (r) 4.00
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6.00 Stargate SG-1 (r)
7.00 Stargate SG-1. The team encounters a
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11.30 Fast & Furious’ Greatest Moments.
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Stop, Search, Seize (r)
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6.45 The Sopranos. Tony suffers a bout
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7.55 Game of Thrones. Arya makes progress
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9.00 FILM: Notes From the Field
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Sky Documentaries Sky Arts
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Urban Secrets (r) 9.00 Discovering: Ronald
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Hollywood Couples (r) 12.00 The Seventies (r)
(AD) 12.50pm Janet Jackson (r) 1.45 Mr
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Director Ron Howard’s documentary charting
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as Water (PG, 2021) 5.00 Urban Secrets (r)
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11.30 The Directors (AD)
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12.00 Sky Sports News 2.00pm Live The
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7.30 Live EFL Trophy Football: Hartlepool United
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10.15 Sky Sports News. Round-up of the sports
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11.00 Live World Golf: Hall Of Fame Induction
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1.30am Live ICC Women’s World Cup: New
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Variations
BBC1 N Ireland
As BBC1 except: 10.35pm Nolan Live. Lively
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Farmer-ish. Teams from England and Wales
rev up for a thrilling semi-final 12.05am Mood
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Convent (AD) 1.50-6.00 BBC News
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As BBC1 except: 2.15pm Politics Scotland
3.00-3.45 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private
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Topical debate on the big issues affecting
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12.20am Katie Price: What Harvey Did
Next (r) (AD) 1.20 Weather for the Week
Ahead 1.25-6.00 BBC News
BBC1 Wales
As BBC1 except: 3.00pm-3.45 Escape to
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Hard-hitting stories and in-depth interviews
11.00 Weather 11.05 Mood (r) (AD) 11.50
Stacey Dooley: Inside the Convent. Stacey
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BBC2 N Ireland
As BBC2 except: 10.00pm-10.30 Spotlight.
Social and political issues (r) 11.15 The Office.
Brent becomes a motivational speaker (r) (AD)
11.45 Unspun World with John Simpson. The
week’s major global news stories
12.10-12.40am BBC News

STV
As ITV except: 10.30pm STV News 10.40
Scotland Tonight 11.05 Peston 12.00-3.00am
Teleshopping 3.50am-5.05 Unwind with STV

BBC4 Talking Pictures More4 Film4 ITV2 BBC Scotland

7.00pm The Lakes with Paul Rose
7.30 Fred Dibnah’s World of Steam, Steel
and Stone. Documentary (2/12)
8.00 Great Barrier Reef. Monty Halls reveals
how an array of creatures travel thousands of
miles to visit the reef, and considers how
climate change could affect its future.
Last in the series
9.00 Digging for Britain. How a lobster led
archaeologists to the discovery of an
8,000-year-old Neolithic underwater settlement,
and the team who excavated an Iron Age
crouched burial in Dorset (3/4)
10.00 Writing with Fire: Storyville.
A documentary following a group of women as
they set up India’s only newspaper run
by women. They are expected to fail, but instead
they stir a revolution. See Viewing Guide
11.35 Natural World: Heligan – Secrets of the
Lost Garden. Wildlife inhabiting the popular
Cornish gardens
12.35am The Lakes with Paul Rose. The
explorer heads to Coniston 1.05 Fred Dibnah’s
World of Steam, Steel and Stone 1.35 Digging
for Britain 2.35-3.35 Great Barrier Reef (SL)
ITV3
6.00am Classic Coronation Street (AD) 7.00
Classic Emmerdale 8.05 George and Mildred
9.40 The Royal (AD) 11.50 Heartbeat (AD)
2.00pm Classic Emmerdale 3.00 Classic
Coronation Street (AD) 4.05 Midsomer Murders
6.00 Heartbeat. Rural drama (AD)
7.00 Heartbeat. The arrival of a mysterious
stranger sets off a treacherous chain of
events in Aidensfield. Guest starring
Nicholas Farrell and Clare Holman (AD)
8.00 Maigret Sets a Trap. The Parisian detective
comes under pressure to trap the killer of four
women before he strikes again. Drama starring
Rowan Atkinson (1/2) (r) (AD)
10.00 Law & Order: UK. Brooks agrees to help
old friend Jimmy Valentine with an undercover
drug sting, but when a dealer ends up dead,
suspicion falls on the officers (6/6) (AD)
11.00 Flesh and Blood. The children’s ongoing
distrust starts to put a strain on Vivien and
Mark’s relationship (3/4) (AD)
12.00 A Touch of Frost. A pawnbroker is shot
dead in an armed robbery (AD) 2.10am
Unwind with ITV 2.30 Teleshopping
6.00am FILM: The Atomic City (PG, 1952)
(b/w) 7.40 Dial-A-Bus in Harlow 8.00 FILM:
Tread Softly (PG, 1952) (b/w) 9.30 Enemy
at the Door 10.30 FILM: Dear Mr Prohack
(U, 1949) (b/w) 12.15pm FILM: Soho
Conspiracy (PG, 1950) (b/w) 2.00 Secret
Army 3.05 FILM: King Creole (PG, 1958)
(b/w) 5.20 Scales of Justice (b/w)
6.00 For the Love of Ada
6.30 Look at Life
6.50 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
8.00 Rumpole of the Bailey (5/6)
9.05 FILM: The Offence (15, 1973) A police
officer’s disenchantment with the world bubbles
to the surface as he interrogates a suspected
child molester. Drama starring Sean Connery
11.15 FILM: The Spy Who Came in from
the Cold (PG, 1965) A burnt-out British spy
fakes his resignation and alcoholism to venture
undercover in East Germany. Spy thriller with
Richard Burton and Claire Bloom (b/w)
1.30am FILM: House on Haunted Hill (12,
1959) Horror starring Vincent Price (b/w) 3.05
FILM: The Detective (15, 1968) 5.20 FILM:
A Yank Comes Back (U, 1949) (b/w)
ITV4
6.00am The Best of the 80s 6.10 Cadfael 7.30
Dempsey and Makepeace (AD) 9.35 The
Professionals (AD) 10.40 Minder (AD) 11.50
The Champions 12.55pm Cadfael 2.35 Dempsey
and Makepeace (AD) 3.40 The Professionals
(AD) 4.50 Minder (AD)
6.00 Made in Britain (AD)
7.00 Cycling: Paris-Nice Highlights
8.00 Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad.
Bradley Walsh and his son Barney embark on
another road trip across America together (AD)
8.30 Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad.
The actor and his son head to the
Great Smoky Mountains (AD)
9.00 FILM: The Bourne Supremacy (12,
2004) The amnesiac assassin is framed for a
botched CIA operation and faces a fight for
survival as he tries to uncover his past. Action
thriller sequel with Matt Damon, Brian Cox,
Joan Allen and Julia Stiles (AD)
11.15 FILM: Carlito’s Way (18, 1993)
Thriller starring Al Pacino and Sean Penn (AD)
2.05am The Protectors 2.35 Unwind with ITV
3.00 Teleshopping. Buying goods
8.55am A Place in the Sun 10.35 Find It,
Fix It, Flog It 12.35pm Heir Hunters 1.35
Four in a Bed 4.15 The Hotel Fixers 4.50
Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.50 Car SOS
6.55 Escape to the Château: DIY (AD)
7.55 The Yorkshire Dales and the Lakes:
Season by Season (AD)
9.00 Secrets of the Royal Gardens. Behind the
gates of the spectacular royal parks found across
London — from Greenwich Park south of the
Thames to the vast Richmond Park in
south-west London (AD)
10.00 24 Hours in Police Custody:
Murder in the Woods. The first of two editions
taking viewers behind the scenes of the police
investigation into the premeditated murder
of a man in Hinchingbrooke Country Park,
Cambridgeshire (1/2) (AD)
11.05 24 Hours in A&E (5/8) (AD)
12.05am Secrets of the Royal Gardens. Behind
the gates of the royal parks across London (AD)
1.10 24 Hours in Police Custody: Murder in the
Woods (AD) 2.15 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 3.20
Winter Paralympics: Today in Beijing (AD, SL)
3.50-3.55 Escape to the Château
Dave
6.00am Teleshopping 7.10 Sin City Motors
(AD) 8.00 Ultimate Movers 9.00 Storage
Hunters UK 10.00 Eddie Eats America 11.00
Travel Man: 48 Hours in Athens (AD) 11.30
Travel Man: 48 Hours in Porto (AD) 12.00 Red
Bull Soapbox Race 1.00pm Fast Justice 2.00
Travel Man: 48 Hours in Tallinn (AD) 2.30 Travel
Man: 48 Hours in Hamburg (AD) 3.00 Rick
Stein’s Road to Mexico 4.00 Red Bull Soapbox
Race 5.00 Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico
6.00 Taskmaster
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
7.40 Room 101. With David Tennant, Trevor
McDonald and Aisling Bea
8.20 Would I Lie to You?
9.00 QI XL. Joe Lycett, Zoe Lyons and Liza
Tarbuck join Alan Davies and Sandi Toksvig for
an edition on the theme of reflections
10.00 Outsiders. Tempers flare as the
comedians take pot shots at one another (AD)
11.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You
12.00 Hypothetical 12.40am QI 1.20 Would I
Lie to You? 2.00 Live at the Apollo 2.45 This
Country 4.00 Teleshopping
11.00am The Bells of St Mary’s (U, 1945)
(b/w) 1.35pm Anne of the Thousand Days
(PG, 1969) 4.30 Donovan’s Reef (U, 1963)
A soldier settles on a South Sea island after the
Second World War, but his friend’s daughter
throws his easy-going life into turmoil. Comedy
drama with John Wayne and Lee Marvin
6.50 One Day (12, 2011) The 20-year
friendship between two university graduates is
explored through the anniversaries of their first
meeting. Romantic drama with Anne Hathaway
and Jim Sturgess. See Viewing Guide (AD)
9.00 Venom (15, 2018) A journalist gains
superhuman strength and power when his body
merges with an alien organism. Fantasy
adventure starring Tom Hardy and Riz Ahmed
11.10 Snowpiercer (15, 2013) In a
snow-ravaged world, travellers fight for survival
on a train that perpetually circumnavigates the
globe. Fantasy thriller starring Chris Evans
1.45am-3.55 Things to Come (12, 2016) A
high-school teacher is forced to re-examine her
life when her husband leaves her for another
woman. Drama starring Isabelle Huppert. In
French, German and English
Drama
6.00am Teleshopping 7.40 Where the Heart Is
(AD) 8.35 The Bill 9.35 Classic Holby City
10.55 Classic Casualty 12.00 The Bill 1.00pm
Classic EastEnders 2.15 A Place to Call Home
4.20 Peak Practice 5.20 Brush Strokes
6.00 Are You Being Served?
6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine.
Something sinister stirs in the woods
8.00 The Last Detective. When a man is found
dead after a college reunion, Davies discovers
bitter rivalry and secrets could provide a motive.
Guest starring Stephen Tompkinson (1/4) (AD)
9.35 New Tricks. The squad investigates a feud
between two family ice-cream businesses —
which resulted in a shooting 10 years earlier.
Standing enlists his daughter’s aid in cracking
the case (7/8) (AD)
10.55 Silent Witness. Sam’s professional
skills are tested to the limit following the
murder of a close friend and the evidence leads
her into a deadly game (AD)
1.00am Kavanagh QC 2.35 Traces (AD) 3.25
Brush Strokes 4.00 Teleshopping
6.00am Dress to Impress (SL) 7.00 The Ellen
DeGeneres Show 8.00 You’ve Been Framed!
Uncaged! 9.00 Secret Crush 10.00 Dress to
Impress 11.00 Love Bites (AD) 12.00
Supermarket Sweep 1.00pm Tipping Point:
Lucky Stars 2.00 Rolling in It (AD) 3.00 The
Ellen DeGeneres Show 4.00 The Masked Singer
US 5.00 You’ve Been Framed! Goes Savage!
6.00 Catchphrase Celebrity Special (AD)
7.00 Superstore. A new employee makes
a terrible first impression (AD)
7.30 Superstore. Cheyenne and her fiancé come
up with a jingle for the store (AD)
8.00 Bob’s Burgers (AD)
8.30 Bob’s Burgers (AD)
9.00 Family Guy (AD)
9.30 Family Guy (AD)
10.00 Family Guy (AD)
10.30 Family Guy (AD)
11.00 Family Guy (AD)
11.30 American Dad! (AD)
11.55 American Dad! (AD)
12.25am Bob’s Burgers (AD) 1.25 Superstore
(AD) 2.20 Hey Tracey! 3.15 Unwind with ITV
3.30 Teleshopping. Buying goods from home
Yesterday
6.00am Antiques Roadshow 8.00 Murder Maps
9.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) 11.00
Himalaya with Michael Palin (AD)
12.00 Great British Railway Journeys
2.00pm Abandoned Engineering (AD) 4.00
Adolf Hitler’s War 5.00 War Factories
6.00 Himalaya with Michael Palin (AD)
7.00 Great British Railway Journeys. Michael
Portillo visits Lossiemouth and Inverness
7.30 Great British Railway Journeys
8.00 The Architecture The Railways Built. Tim
Dunn visits the historic Grade 1 Curzon Street
Station, to be reborn as part of the terminus for
HS2, the rail link between London and
Birmingham (10/10) (AD)
9.00 Steam Train Britain. A newly built Pullman
carriage is on its way to Caernarfon Station (AD)
10.00 Full Steam Ahead. The historians take a
trip on the Flying Scotsman (AD)
11.00 Bangers and Cash. Behind the scenes
of a North Yorkshire-based, family-run historic
car auction business (1/10)
12.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) 1.00am
Antiques Roadshow 3.00 Teleshopping
7.00pm Getaways. Joe Lindsay and Jennifer
Reoch explore Philadelphia, the USA’s
“city of brotherly love” (r) (AD) 7.30
Style Fixers (r) (AD) 8.00 This Farming
Life 9.00 The Nine 10.00 The Scotts (r)
10.30 Debate Night 11.30-12.00 David
Wilson’s Crime Files (r) (AD)
BBC Alba
6.00am Alba Today 5.00pm Su Pic (Peek
Zoo) (r) 5.10 Bing (r) 5.25 Gudrun: A’
Bhana-phrionnsa Lochlannach (r) 5.30 Lon le
Linda (r) 5.50 Peataichean/Pets (r) 5.55
Stòiridh (r) 6.00 Kung Fu Panda (r) 6.25
Damhan & Durrag/Pipas & Douglas (r) 6.30
@12 6.35 Saidheans Sporsail (Backyard
Science) (r) 7.00 Turas a’ Bhradain (r) 7.30
SpeakGaelic (r) 8.00 An Là (News) 8.30
Cidsin Granaidh Chalanais 9.00 Am Posadh
Afraganach/The African Wedding (r) 10.00
OMC! (r) 10.30 Na Gleidheadairean (The
Animal Keepers) (r) 11.25 Na Trads: An
Tobar (r) 12.00-6.00am Alba Today
S4C
6.00am Cyw: Blociau Rhif (r) 6.05 Halibalw (r)
6.15 Digbi Draig (r) 6.30 Sigldigwt (r) 6.45
Octonots (r) 7.00 Ty Mêl (r) 7.10
Cymylaubychain (r) 7.20 Caru Canu a Stori
7.30 Sion y Chef (r) 7.45 Gwdihw (r) 8.00
Peppa (r) 8.05 Antur Natur Cyw (r) 8.20
Tomos a’i Ffrindiau (r) 8.30 Straeon Ty Pen (r)
8.45 Sam Tân (r) 8.55 Timpo (r) 9.05 Abadas
(r) 9.15 Rapsgaliwn (r) 9.30 Blero yn Mynd i
Ocido (r) 9.45 Fferm Fach (r) 10.00 Ty Mêl (r)
10.10 Cymylaubychain (r) 10.20 Caru Canu a
Stori (r) 10.30 Sion y Chef (r) 10.45 Gwdihw
(r) 11.00 Dysgu Gyda Cyw: Bing (r) 11.10 Y
Brodyr Coala (r) 11.20 Antur Natur Cyw (r)
11.35 Guto Gwningen (r) 11.50 Anifeiliaid
Bach y Byd (r) 12.00 News; Weather 12.05pm
Sgwrs Dan y Lloer (r) 12.30 Heno (r) 1.00
Anrhegion Melys Richard Holt (r) (AD) 1.30 Yn
y Fan A’r Lle (r) (AD) 2.00 News; Weather
2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00 News; Weather 3.05
Noson Lawen (r) 4.00 Awr Fawr: Timpo (r)
4.10 Caru Canu a Stori (r) 4.20 Ty Mêl (r) 4.30
Sigldigwt Byw 5.00 Stwnsh: Oi! Osgar (r) 5.10
Efaciwîs 5.35 Itopia 5.55 Ffeil 6.00 Natur
Gwyllt Iolo (r) (AD) 6.30 Rownd a Rownd (r)
(AD) 6.57 News 7.00 Heno 7.30 News;
Weather 8.00 Pawb a’i Farn 8.30 Pobol y Cwm
(AD) 8.55 News; Weather 9.00 Ty am Ddim
10.00 Côr Cymru 2022 (r) 11.00-11.35
Gwely a Brecwast Maggi Noggi (r)
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MindGames
Poker Byron Jacobs Codeword No 4531 Train Tracks No 1575

To bet or not to bet? this is almost certainly a mistake.

The most fundamental decision in
poker is whether to bet or not.
This is a tricky decision not least
because you often have no infor-
mation. If you are responding to a
bet at least you know that Villain
rates their hand (for whatever
reason) as worth a bet. It’s not
much information but it’s some-
thing. However, if you have to play
first or if Villain has just checked
you are playing “in the dark”.
A decent plan when deciding
whether to bet is to remember the
three key reasons a hand is worth
betting. First, you can get value
when a worse hand calls. Second,
you can get protection. This is
when you have a decent but vul-
nerable hand and want to charge
the Villain(s) to stay in the pot.
You bet to “protect” your hand.
Finally, you can bet as a bluff.
Sometimes you bet without being
certain what category your bet
comes into. Is it value or protec-
tion? You may not be sure. Let’s
see how this works in practice.
Hero has a decent hand and
opens the betting. The Small Blind
and Big Blind both call and eve-
ryone else folds. The flop comes
A♥-K♠-4♣ and both blinds check.
The following are reasonable ways
to play various holdings based on
the basic betting principles.
Hero has A♠-K♦. Hero has a
monster hand with top two pair
and is a huge favourite. Hero
must bet. Some players check
here to disguise their hand but
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If either blind has an A-x hand or
even K-x, they will call a bet. By
not betting Hero misses a chance
to bet strongly for value.
Hero has A♠-2♠. This is more
blurry but Hero should probably
bet. Hero is behind if someone has
a stronger A-x, which although a
little unlikely, is not impossible.
However, Hero gets value (and
protection) when another player
has K-x or even, occasionally, 4-x.
Hero has K♣-9♣. Hero should
be inclined to check. If Hero bets
it is difficult for a worse hand to
call (the only likely candidates are
specifically weak K-x hands) so
this doesn’t work well as a value
bet. Also Hero doesn’t need pro-
tection as, if Hero happens to be
ahead, getting outdrawn is unlikely.
Hero has 5♥-5♠. Hero should
bet. This may seem odd as I rec-
ommended checking K♣-9♣, a
stronger hand. The point is that,
although 5♥-5♠ is weaker, it needs Lay tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village
B. The numbers indicate how many sections of rail go in each
protection. If a Villain has a hand
row and column. There are only straight rails and curved rails.
such as 10-9 this can outdraw 5♥- The track cannot cross itself.
5♠ by making a higher pair. When
holding K♣-9♣ Hero is delighted
for a Villain to make a pair with a
weaker hand as then Hero’s pair Win a Dictionary & Thesaurus
of kings is still ahead and can get
(a little) value. This is a further Fill the grid so
reason to check with K♣-9♣. that every
Hero has a worthless 8♦-7♦. A column, every
bet as a bluff is possible and row and every
player-dependent. If the blinds 3x2 box contains
Every letter in this crossword-style grid has been substituted for a number from 1
tend to give up easily, then bet. If the digits 1 to 6
to 26. Each letter of the alphabet appears in the grid at least once. Use the letters
they tend to get sticky and call already provided to work out the identity of further letters. Enter letters in the main
multiple streets with moderate grid and the smaller reference grid until all 26 letters of the alphabet have been
holdings then check and give up. accounted for. Proper nouns are excluded. Yesterday’s solution, right

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KenKen Medium No 5523 Futoshiki No 4168 Kakuro No 3127

Fill the grid

using the
17 16 3 13 34 22 numbers 1 to 9
17 4 14 only. The
numbers in each
8 7 31 horizontal or
31 17 vertical run of
23 white squares
add up to the
4 32 total in the
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10 36 4 triangle to its left

6 18 or above it. The
same number
17 23 may occur more
3 4 28 than once in a
row or column,
24 12 but not within
30 17 16 the same run of
30 24 white squares.
22 16
7 16
31 17
17 6 7
12 41
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All the digits 1 to 6 must appear in every row and column. In Fill the blank squares so that every row and column contains
each thick-line “block”, the target number in the top left-hand each of the numbers 1 to 5 once only. The symbols between 7 16 4
corner is calculated from the digits in all the cells in the block, the squares indicate whether a number is larger (>) or smaller
using the operation indicated by the symbol. (<) than the number next to it.
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MindGames
times2
T2 Crossword No 8847
CROSSWORD No 8847 Brain Trainer Cell Blocks No 4414
Just follow the instructions from left to right, starting with the number given to reach an answer at the end.
Divide the grid

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ANSWER ANSWER ANSWER
1 2 3 4 5 6
into square or
EASY 11 x 2 + 8 1/
3
OF IT
+ 14 75% x 3 + 11 20% +9 rectangular
7 OF IT OF IT blocks, each
containing one
8 9 digit only. Every
block must
+ 1/4 2/
MEDIUM 16 x 7 – 48 OF IT
+ 45 60%
OF IT
+ 59 x 2 + 98 3
OF IT
contain the
number of cells
10 11 12 indicated by the
digit inside it.

+ 1/2 x 4 – 882 7/
– 995
78 x 3 + 424
5/
HARDER OF IT
6
OF IT
+ 821 8
OF IT
13 14

15 16

17 18 19
Polygon Set Square No 3130

From these letters, make words of Enter each of

four or more letters, always including the numbers
the central letter. Answers must be in from 1 to 9 in
20 21 22
the Concise Oxford Dictionary, excluding the grid, so that
capitalised words, plurals, conjugated the six sums
verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending work. We’ve
in LY, comparatives and superlatives. placed two
23 24 How you rate 16 words, average; numbers to get
22, good; 26, very good; 30, excellent you started.

© PUZZLER MEDIA
Each sum
Across 19 French nobleman (5) Yesterday’s answers should be
1 Taj Mahal city (4) 20 Series of links (5) calculated left
heir, her, hero, hers, hey, hie, hire, his, hoe,
3 Orbits' furthest points (7) 22 Go or come in again (2-5) to right or top
hoer, horse, horsey, horsy, hose, hoser,
to bottom.
8 Happens to (7) 23 Deep regret (7) hosier, hosiery, hoy, ish, rho, she, shire,
9 Drunk; tense (5) shoe, shore, shy, soh, yeh
24 Strongly recommend (4)
10 Take off one's clothes (5) Please note, BODMAS does not apply
11 US area remote from large Down
cities (7)
13 Restlessly eager (9)
1
2
Surprise attack (6)
Renovate, redecorate (9)
Killer Tricky No 8197 Solutions
17 Play by Shakespeare (7) 3 Soldiers' training area (7,6)
Solution to Crossword 8846 4 Solemn vows (5) Quick Cryptic 2086 Codeword 4530 Kakuro 3126
T A P DANCE S C OW 5 Ovum (3) I RON GA D A BO U T 3 1 7 9 3 1
D N O B M F O 1 2 7 4 5 3 1 6 2
E U B U U O R 6 Long seat (6) E X AMP L E AWF U L 6 8 9 4 1 2
S UB F USC B I NGO 7 Make a mistake (4,2) N I T R S H D
1 5 7 1 2 4 6
T L T K U S N 12 Aircraft's height T OR SO D I SMA L
6 8 9 7 3 1 2 7 9
B A I T WO R R Y I NG I U E N H
indicator (9) F R OM T H EWO R D GO 7 9 9 8 3 4 5 1 7
E C E O B D Y R N D M 7 8 9 7 9 2 8
D E L UX E W I P ERS 14 Engraves B A N A N A DOD GE 9 8 7 1 8 4
I T R A R I (on glass/metal) (6) S T N N S U S 4 8 5 9 6 7 3 8 9
T A B L EMA T Y AWN C L I N G G R OWN U P
15 Association football (6) A O E U N C U
7 9 5 9 9 7
O R R N S T G 16 Expression of dismay (4,2) M ON A L I S A ME A N Train Tracks 1574
K HA K I S P E C I A L
18 Relating to the moon (5)
E R O O E O E Sudoku 13,052 Quintagram Suko 3432
N A Y REMBR A ND T 21 Annual general meeting (3)
1 Parka
2 Stubs
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Brain Trainer
Bridge Andrew Robson Easy 22; Medium 244; Harder 1,959

Cell Blocks 4413 Set Square 3129 Lexica 6253

Five Instructive Themes (b). East opened a Weak 2♠ .
13. Declaring Notrumps Sudoku 13,053
West leads ♠ 9. You know spades T W I N G E
(d) Ducking are 6-2 so should win ♠ A on the H O
Ducking — deliberately not win- second round, exhausting West.
ning a trick when you can — is key (c). East opened a Weak 3♠ . West Killer Deadly No 8198 B A K I N G

in several situations. leads ♠ 2. You know spades are 7-1 R S I

In these examples, the hand with so should win ♠ A straight away. F E Y V

the long, strong suit has no side entry: (d). East overcalled 1♠ ; West E
(i) ♣65 facing ♣AK7432 raised to 2♠ . West leads ♠ 4.
(ii) ♥ 85 facing ♥ AQ764 Spades are 5-3 and you should delay
(iii) ♦73 facing ♦AKQ42 winning ♠ A until the third round. Futoshiki 4167 KenKen 5522 Lexica 6254
In (i), you must duck the first It can be right to duck when you C O U P O N
round, so you still hold a second have two stoppers — when there Sudoku 13,054
club to lead to ♣AK. Assuming a are two high cards to dislodge. I P U

3-2 split, you can then enjoy ♣743. Dealer: South ♠ K 6 3 D E S I G N

In (ii), if you need four tricks, ♥K 6 3 E E L
hope for a 3-3 split with ♥ K onside. Vul: Neither ♦Q 10 8 5 3
You must duck the first round to ♣Q 6 R T A

retain communication then lead ♠ Q 10 8 5 4 N ♠ J9 A D D

♥ 8 to ♥ Q. Cash ♥ A and follow ♥4 2 W E ♥ Q J 10 9 8

♦A 2 S ♦K 6
with ♥ 76. Lucky — and skilful. ♣J 9 7 2 ♠ A 7 2 ♣10 8 5 3 Tetonor 237 Word watch
In (iii), if you need only four Gongorism (b) A florid and
tricks, not five, duck the first round ♥A 7 5
♦J 9 7 4 33 128 18 140 pedantic writing style (Chambers)
to cater to a 4-2 split. ♣A K 4 14 + 19 8 x 16 17 + 1 2 x 70 Rivage (c) A coast or shore
Killer 8195
Another ducking position is (OED)
holding up your stopper to exhaust S W N E 90 25 266 19 Aune (b) A measure of cloth
length (Collins)
one opponent of their cards. 1♦ 1♠ 3♦ Pass 9 x 10 3 + 22 19 x 14 10 + 9
There’s no good rule here (sorry, Chess — Winning Move
Rule of Seven fans) — in each sit-
3NT End
West leads ♠ 5 to ♠ J. If you win
24 234 24 72 1 Rxe6+! crashes through, eg 1 ...
12 + 12 6 x 39 8 + 16 2 + 70 Kxe6 2 Re1+ Ne5 (2 ... Kd7 3 Qf5+
uation, you must work out how ♠ A, East will win the first dia- Kd8 4 Qd5+ mates) 3 Rxe5+
many cards each opponent has mond and lead ♠ 9, forcing out 144 17 66 45 Kd7 4 Rxe8 Rcxe8 (better is 4 ...
and duck sufficient times to ♠ A while West has ♦K and three 12 x 12 1 x 17 22 x 3 39 + 6
Rgxe8 but 5 Qxf6 still wins
remove the shorter hand’s cards. spade winners. So you must let easily) 5 Qf7+ Kd8 6 Qc7 mate
Dummy East’s ♠ J win. East may switch to 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 12 12 14 16 17 19 22 39 70
♠ 87 ♥ Q and you must again duck in
West -3NT- East both hands — win and West will As with standard Sudoku, fill the grid so that every column, Killer 8196 Quiz
Declarer win the first diamond to lead her every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set 1 Goliath 2 Water 3 Pluto 4 Life of Brian 5 Cork
♠ A63 second heart, leaving East with of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the target number
in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells joined by dotted
6 John Wilkes Booth. Mudd set his broken leg
(a). No E-W bidding; West leads ♦K and three heart winners. 7 Aeronautics 8 Felixstowe — named after Felix of
♠ 2. E-W spades are splitting 4-4 After ducking the first spade and lines, a digit cannot be repeated.
(West’s ♠ 2 lead, being her fourth Burgundy (died c 647) 9 Pink Floyd 10 Father Brown
the first heart, you are home. You
highest, indicates precisely four win East’s (say) second heart and 11 Floors Castle — home to the Duke and Duchess of
Cluelines Stuck on Sudoku, Killer or KenKen? Call 0901 293
cards). You may as well win ♠ A force out ♦AK with only East able 6263 before midnight to receive four clues for any of today’s
Roxburghe 12 Khartoum 13 Robert Kagan 14 Rowing
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Word watch Sudoku Difficult No 13,055 Fiendish No 13,056 Super fiendish No 13,057
David Parfitt

Gongorism
a Desperate greed for
awards
b A florid and pedantic
writing style
c An overused joke

Rivage
a Tearing
b Competitiveness
c A coast or shore

Aune
a A title of respect for a
female friend
b A measure of cloth
length
c A puffin-like seabird
Answers on page 15

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Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

The Times Daily Quiz Olav Bjortomt Suko No 3432

1 In the Book of Samuel, was introduced in

which Philistine giant an episode of which
was slain by David? BBC series?

2 Hydrophilic 11 What is the largest

substances have a
strong affinity for
which liquid?
3 Which dwarf planet
was discovered in 1930?
4 Shot in Tunisia,
which Monty Python
film reused sets from
Franco Zeffirelli’s Jesus
of Nazareth?
5 Ireland’s largest
county by area
shares its name with
which city?
6 Maryland doctor
Samuel Mudd became
infamous for treating
which injured
presidential assassin?
15
7 What is the science of
designing and building
aeroplanes?
8 Which Suffolk seaside
town is named after
the saint credited with
introducing Christianity
to East Anglia?
9 Which English rock
band soundtracked
More (1969), Barbet
Schroeder’s debut as a
feature film director?
10 The title character
in the TV show Sister
Boniface Mysteries (2022)
inhabited castle in
Scotland?
12 A capital of the
kingdom of Kush,
Meroë is an ancient
city about 124 miles
northeast of which
modern capital?
13 Which American
foreign policy thinker
wrote the 2018 book
The Jungle Grows Back?
14 Held in La Spezia,
what type of race is the Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the spaces so
Palio del Golfo? that the number in each circle is equal to
the sum of the four surrounding spaces,
15 Which classic French and each colour total is correct
seafood soup is pictured?
For interactive puzzles visit
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The Times Quick Cryptic No 2087 by Alconiere

1 2 3 4 5 6 Across 2 Old chairman has year in Irish

1 Spell “issue” in reverse (4) county (4)
7 3 Leaves office, concerned with 3 Cloaked in scarlet, one’s king is
omens? (7) imperilled (6)
8 8 Meekly assures wretched 4 Desert’s peaks, bizarrely, for
refugees (6,7) winter sportspeople (5,7)
9 Understand bishop’s 5 Ray eager to straighten out
responsibility (3) something ill-defined (4,4)
10 Chance to abandon golf for a 6 Fair request for assistance
9 leisurely walk (5) leads to nothing (2-2)
12 Delegate’s outside to help 7 Chemistry equipment cook
10 11 12 13 providing warrant (7) ruining cakes has sent briefly
14 In kitchen, no blender to raise in (6,6)
(7) 11 Great friendliness of bishop on
16 A month’s broadcasts are one being invited into dwelling
14 15 16 astounding! (5) (8)
17 One finishes sentence? Party 13 Awful sights I witnessed,
time! (3) reportedly with son (8)
17
20 Terrible Tim trains road 15 US inventor has no side, on
runner (13) reflection (6)
18 19
21 Five go astray, cutting round a 18 Left out of greeting that goes
French swamp (7) over saint’s head? (4)
20 19 Possible German teetotaller
22 Sleep is something easy to do!
(4) getting in a couple of rounds
(4)
Down
21 22
1 For example, hurling up some
limestone, magma, etc (4,4) Yesterday’s solution on page 15