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Truss turns on the charm

6 Prime minister plans ‘policy lunches’ to win over Tory critics 6 Proposal for real-terms benefits cut set to be abandoned
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor
Liz Truss will begin an “unprecedented”
charm offensive this week to win over
Tory MPs as concerns mount about her
economic plan and personal attacks on
critics.
The prime minister is preparing to
abandon attempts to force through real-
terms benefits cuts as she accepts the
need to “engage more widely” with her
party after a fallout from last month’s
budget that has left MPs mutinous.
With unease in cabinet about highly
personal briefings against Michael
Gove, who led criticism of Truss at last
week’s Tory party conference, the
prime minister is now preparing to take
a more emollient approach. Allies
accept a need to “show that we have
learnt from the last few weeks”.
As MPs return to Westminster
tomorrow, Truss is planning to hold
regular “policy lunches” with groups of
no more than 30 Tory MPs, as well
as a once-a-month meeting with all
Conservative backbenchers in No 10.
Truss also intends to spend more
time in the Commons tea room, with
allies saying that “she wants to hear
from them and listen to feedback”.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor, will
promise to meet all 356 Tory MPs before
setting out more detail of his plans to
balance the books, a move expected to
be brought forward from November 23.
Truss is also planning a campaign to
“sell the virtues of economic growth” to
voters, after criticism from within the
cabinet that she had not made the link
in the public mind between higher
GDP and better jobs and public
services. But she is also facing a backlash
after authorising anonymous briefings
against Gove, which accused him of
taking “sadistic” joy in opposing Truss
and of having a “darkness inside him”
that “corrupts his soul”.
Nadhim Zahawi, the Cabinet Office
minister, told Times Radio yesterday: “I
don’t like any language that attacks
people, or their personality or anything
else. I think you lose the argument if
you’re attacking people.”
Truss is said to have raised the
possibility before the party conference
of giving Gove an ambassadorial job in
the Middle East, with allies saying she
wanted him part of his team — as long
as he was not too close.
No 10 tried yesterday to distance her
from the attacks, accepting she must
show that she takes seriously the views
of colleagues who disagree. In an effort
to reach out to backers of her defeated
leadership rival, Truss appointed the
Rishi Sunak supporter Greg Hands
as minister of state for international
trade, replacing Conor Burns who was
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Bridge blast
is an act of
terrorism,
says Putin
Maxim Tucker, Samantha Berkhead
President Putin condemned the spec-
tacular attack on the Kerch Bridge as
“an act of terrorism”, setting the scene
for an escalation of his war on Ukraine.
The Russian leader, who will con-
vene his national security council to-
day, said: “There is no doubt. This is an
act of terrorism aimed at destroying
critically important civilian infrastruc-
ture.” He claimed on the Kremlin Tele-
gram channel that it was “devised,
carried out and ordered by the Ukraini-
an special services”.
Putin immediately replaced his top
commander in Ukraine, appointing the
notorious Sergei Surovikin, who fired
on democracy protesters in Moscow in
the 1990s and was accused of brutal tac-
tics in Syria.
Speculation is mounting among Rus-
sian military bloggers that Putin will
shortly sack Sergei Shoigu, the defence
minister, and Valery Gerasimov, the
chief of staff: Kremlin stalwarts who Ukrainians in Kyiv pose on Saturday in front of an artwork imagining an attack on the bridge. A postage stamp to commemorate it is now being hastily prepared
have served him for the past decade.
The campaign in Ukraine is faltering, chaotic and unpopular mobilisation [the] Soviet Union,” the Russian polit- pered heavy goods movement between children. Fears are now growing that a
with lines collapsing in the south and and criticism from pro-war hawks. ical scientist Greg Yudin tweeted. Russia and Crimea, key to Moscow’s ef- cornered Putin could lash out with nuc-
east. The attack on the bridge, opened “It is highly symbolic that Sergei Sur- Military bloggers have been infuriat- forts to resupply the south. lear weapons, a prospect to which he
by Putin in 2018, is deeply symbolic. ovikin, the only officer who ordered to ed by the setbacks, in the latest of which Russian forces struck back at has alluded several times.
Surovikin will be tasked with revers- shoot on revolutionaries in August 1991 three spans of the bridge were partly Ukraine yesterday, hitting apartment Averting armageddon,
ing Moscow’s fortunes, including and actually killed three people, is in destroyed on Saturday, the day after blocks in the city of Zaporizhzhia and leading article, page 33
Ukraine’s eastern counteroffensive, a charge of this last-ditch effort to restore Putin turned 70. The damage has ham- killing at least 17 people, including Countdown to bridge blast, page 34

£4bn Whitehall waste
Government departments
wasted more than £4 billion
last year, a quarter of it lost to
Covid business grant fraud,
an analysis of Whitehall
accounts has shown. Page 2
Canada plan for King
The King might go to Canada
on his first overseas visit as
monarch amid US concern at
the government’s decision not
to let him travel to Egypt for a
climate change summit. Page 5
IN THE NEWS
Hong Kong jailings
Hong Kong has for the first
time imprisoned five teenagers,
aged between 16 and 19, under
its national security law. They
were said to belong to an
independence group. Page 34
Company fraud alert
Thousands of limited liability
partnerships incorporated in
Britain “bear the hallmarks” of
shell companies used for
financial crimes, according to
a transparency study. Page 39
Grand Prix near miss
The French driver Pierre Gasly
feared he could have been
killed by a recovery vehicle at
the Japanese Grand Prix. Max
Verstappen’s victory gave him y(7HB7E2*OTSPLQ( |||+&!=
a second world title. Page 66
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Today’s highlights Whitehall writes off £4bn of

7.20am
7.45am
9.35am
11.00am
Victoria Atkins, work and pensions minister
Rosena Allin-Khan, Labour shadow health minister
Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK
The foreign correspondent Michael Binyon
taxpayers’ cash in single year
talks about his 50 years at The Times George Grylls Political Reporter
2.10pm Richard Coles discusses his latest novel, Government departments wasted
Murder Before Evensong more than £4 billion last year, a quarter
3.35pm Jamie Oliver, right, on his new book, ONE of it lost to fraudsters through Covid
9pm Lorraine Kelly’s take on the business grants.
news of the day A fresh analysis of the accounts of
Whitehall departments for the 2020-21
financial year revealed the scale of the
waste. The Department for Business,
DAB RADIO l ONLINE l SMART SPEAKER l APP Energy and Industrial Strategy was the
most profligate, writing off more than
£1.6 billion of taxpayers’ money. This
included £1 billion in fraud and error
T O D AY ’ S E D I T I O N from Covid grants alone.
The Department for Health and
Social Care was the second most waste-
ful with losses of just under £1.6 billion.
NEWS SPORT TIMES2 It had to spend £111.5 million after being
slow to unload personal protective
equipment such as masks and gowns
from shipping containers and spent
£673 million on items found to be defec-
tive. The sum written off did not include
£8 billion lost in PPE that was unusable
or which depreciated in value.
The Department for Work and Pen-
sions overpaid benefits by £221 million
and the Ministry of Justice wrote off
£98 million after dropping a scheme to
manage prisoners with electronic tags.
Earlier this year Lord Agnew
of Oulton resigned as a Treasury
minister in protest at his department’s
“lamentable” attitude to dealing with
waste. He accused the Treasury of
having “little interest” in tackling fraud
and accused the government of
“arrogance, indolence and ignorance”.
The peer highlighted the failure to
recoup money from the bounce back
loan scheme, which handed out
£47 billion to small businesses to try to
keep them afloat. An estimated
£5 billion of that could have been
wasted, the National Audit Office said.
Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy
leader, accused the government of
“frittering away” public money with
“reckless abandon”. She said: “This
catalogue of waste and write-offs shows
the cost of a Conservative government.
They claim to be the party of fiscal
prudence and sound money, but the
Conservatives in power just can’t
be trusted with Britain’s economy.
“The Tories’ economic policy is just
one colossal write-off, leaving taxpay-
ers on the hook and paying through the
nose for ministers’ mistakes.”
A government spokesman said: “Our
£400 billion Covid support schemes
were implemented at unprecedented
speed and protected millions of
jobs and businesses at the height of the
pandemic.
“We are committed to delivering
value for taxpayers’ money, routinely
examining ways of cutting waste, and
stopped nearly £3 billion in potential
fraud of Covid schemes last year.
“We have also established the
£25 million Public Sector Fraud
Authority to crack down on gangs
that try to defraud government
programmes. It will operate a watchlist
of individuals and companies linked
to organised crime and seize their
money.”
Vaccine chief recalls her fury at
‘Jekyll and Hyde’ Hancock, page 15

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is still helping private pupils extradition
Nicola Woolcock Education Editor
for Qatar loan Privately educated pupils were found
COMMENT to be nearly twice as likely to report
Privately educated pupils are far more having been encouraged to apply to a Charlie Moloney
The BBC has given us not only great entertainers likely to know bankers, politicians and Russell Group university as their state-
lawyers because of flourishing old boy educated peers. A British engineer is in jail in Iraq facing
but generations of mere presenters and girl networks. They are also markedly more likely extradition to Qatar over missed repay-
LIBBY PURVES, PAGE 31 Research shows state school pupils to believe family friends had the experi- ments on a small bank loan in a case
are twice as likely to have no profes- ence to help with their applications. said to highlight the risk of travelling to
sional to support them when compared They are twice as likely to know a the Gulf state, it was reported last night.
Abuse over Iran president is Petrol runs with a child at an independent school. doctor and more than twice as likely to Brian Glendinning, 43, who had been
Those at fee-charging schools are know an accountant. contracted to work on a BP refinery in
Jewish play told to get lost short in France seven times more likely than their state A state school pupil is as likely to Iraq, was arrested on September 12 on
Staff at the Royal A speech at an A fifth of France’s school peers to know a banker or politi- know no one who went to Oxbridge as an Interpol “red notice” at Baghdad air-
Court theatre, central all-women university 11,000 petrol stations cian and four times more likely to know a private school pupil is likely to know port and has been in a police cell since.
London, have been by President Raisi to have been hit by a lawyer. more than nine. Qatar is yet to file its request for extra-
subjected to defuse protests across shortages because of a The research from Zero Gravity, a State school pupils are more worried dition but Glendinning was told on
antisemitic abuse over Iran backfired when strike at refineries, social mobility tech platform, reveals about feeling out of place at a Russell arrest that an Interpol notice had been
its decision to stage a the auditorium was leading to long queues that access to a professional network is Group university and more likely to issued, according to The Guardian.
play highlighting the surrounded by students of cars and frequent a strong predictor of a pupil’s likelihood fear that they would not keep up. Glendinning, a father of three from
problem in British chanting at him to arguments between to apply to and win a place at elite uni- Joe Seddon, founder of Zero Gravity, Kincardine, west of Edinburgh, was
society. Page 23 “get lost”. Page 36 motorists. Page 37 versities. It intends to repeat its Gap said: “Our research highlights a widely paying back a £20,000 loan taken out in
Zero report annually. accepted, but rarely spoken-about, 2018 when he worked in Qatar, his
The report says that a private educa- truth: that who you know often matters family said. His wife, Kimberly, 39, said
COMMENT 29 BUSINESS 39 SPORT 57 tion helps ease the path to leading uni- more than what you know. he had fallen ill and struggled to make
LEADING ARTICLES 33 REGISTER 51 CROSSWORD 66 versities but it is “not necessarily the “With nearly half of state-educated repayments but instalments had still
WORLD 34 LAW REPORT 53 TV & RADIO TIMES2 better facilities and low staff-to-student pupils unable to name a single Russell been made to Qatar National Bank.
ratio that achieves this”. Group university compared to just one Radha Stirling, the founder of Ipex,
FOLLOW US It continues: “Rather, the main in six students at private schools, we’re an NGO seeking reform of Interpol and
thetimes timesandsundaytimes thetimes benefit of a private education is the faced with a situation where both the extradition process, said the case
associated spheres of influence and universities and businesses are missing was a warning to football fans travelling
OFFER support that these networks facilitate.” out on the next generation of talent.” to the World Cup in November.
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From me to
you: stranger
returns stolen
Beatles art
Will Pavia New York
Hours before their last stadium concert
in San Francisco, the Beatles shared a
meal of roast beef and Yorkshire pud-
ding with Joan Baez, the folk singer,
while doodling on the tablecloth.
After the show fans collected ciga-
rette butts from the stage like holy
relics, while Joe Vilardi, the manager of
Simpson’s Catering, carried off the
precious piece of linen.
A local newspaper columnist called it
“the souvenir of the Beatles visit” on
which the band and Baez had “doodled
all sorts of wondrous designs and auto-
graphed the same”.
The gravy-stained cloth was hung in
the caterer’s front window in the centre
of town. Beatles fans gathered on the
pavement outside to stare at it. It van-
ished from the public eye, however,
when a thief smashed the window.
More than half a century later it re-
emerged in all its technicolour glory
when it was returned to Vilardi’s grand-
son, Michael. The family is selling it at
Bonham’s where it is expected to fetch
up to $25,000. The bidding yesterday
reached $18,000, with nine days left.
“It’s been quite a ride,” Michael
Vilardi said. For decades his grand-
father had recounted the story of the
tablecloth at Christmas dinners.
Though his grandfather had catered
for film sets, cooking dinner for the
Beatles had been “a real feather in his
Hotels cancel Eurovision bookings as rates hit £8,000 a night
Ali Mitib
While Liverpudlian music fans wait for
the Eurovision Song Contest to take
over the city of Lennon and McCart-
ney, landlords and hoteliers are looking
forward to collecting sky-high rents
from the competition’s fans.
The city’s hotels are cancelling
existing bookings for the weekend that
Eurovision is taking place to capitalise
on demand for accommodation.
Last week, Liverpool was named the
host of the music competition, which
cap”, he said. And he never gave up
looking for the revered linen.
“Year after year there was still noth-
ing on the tablecloth,” Vilardi said.
“Once the internet came into being, my
father . . . started searching bulletin
boards.” Vilardi took up the search
when his grandfather died in 2014.
Then one evening last spring the 62-
year-old who lives in Nevada and works
as a financial adviser received a phone
call from a Texan number. He said a
woman asked him to confirm his name,
before asking if his family had a cater-
ing business in San Francisco. “Then I
thought: ‘This is going to be something
about the tablecloth.’ ”
Vilardi said the caller “was very emo-
tional”. Her explanation was a little
“fuzzy” in places, he added. She told
him her brother had lived in San Fran-
cisco from the late 1960s to the early
1970s, with two flatmates.
She claimed that towards the end of
his time there, “they had a big argument
about money . . . his room-mate pro-
duced the table cloth, threw it to him,
said: ‘Here, it has value, we are square’ ”.
Her brother kept it secret until last
year when he ran into financial difficul-
ties and tried to sell it. She said one of
the dealers told him he would have
“problems because it’s documented as
being a stolen item”.
The theft had been reported in the
San Francisco Chronicle in 1966. Vilardi,
who was six at the time, said his grand-
was supposed to take place in Ukraine
before it was moved to Britain because
of the Russian invasion.
Prices have soared in the wake of the
announcement with Airbnb hosts
offering accommodation for almost
£8,000 on May 13, the night of the final.
A “modern and stylish” three-
bedroom house in Anfield was adver-
tised for £7,993 a night, including a
cleaning fee. The property, which
sleeps up to 10, is listed at £900 a night
outside the competition weekend.
On Saturday, less than 12 hours after
Joan Baez sketched portraits of the Beatles on the tablecloth while John Lennon
drew a blue meanie and Paul McCartney left a note with his name. The show in
1966 was the last time that they played in an arena before a paying crowd
the announcement, Booking.com said
that 99 per cent of hotels in the city
were fully booked on May 13. The UK’s
biggest hotel-booking website has
three results in the city centre for two
adults, with Eleanor Rigby Apartments
in Stanley Street the most expensive at
£5,580. The cheapest option was
Dream Apartments in Dale Street,
where a one-bedroom apartment is
available for £1,999 for the night.
Fans who booked accommodation in
the city in anticipation that the contest
would be held there voiced anger at
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having their reservations cancelled.
Buzz O’Neill-Maxwell, an events man-
ager, booked hotel rooms in both Liver-
pool and Glasgow, the final two candi-
date cities to host Eurovision, before
last week’s announcement. When
Liverpool was selected, he received a
message saying that his booking was
cancelled. He said: “Total chancers.
Prices now are insane.”
Lastminute.com has also been
criticised after hotels began cancelling
bookings.
The event is expected to provide a
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Here come the superfans
Fans of the Beatles are known for
taking extreme lengths to purchase
bizarre tributes.
Tooth A dentist in Canada paid
£30,000 for one of John Lennon’s
discarded rotten molars in 2011 at
an auction. Michael Zuk has since
begun sequencing Lennon’s DNA
in the hopes of one day cloning
the singer, who was shot dead on
December 8, 1980.
Lock of hair Separately, the
American collector Jim Cushman
has an extensive trove of Beatles
memorabilia that includes a lock
of Paul McCartney’s hair. The
resident of Mattapoisett,
Massachusetts, also had a pair of
John Lennon’s long johns, Ringo
Starr’s drumsticks and a T-shirt
that belonged to George Harrison.
Wooden spoon A wooden spoon,
signed and dated by John Lennon
and Yoko Ono, was bought at
auction in 2013 for £1,200. It was
obtained at an evening of John
and Yoko’s films at the New
Cinema Club at the Institute of
Contemporary Arts in London in
1969.
Musical instruments A host of
Beatles-themed musical toys,
including guitars, ukuleles, drum
sets and banjos, were sold by
Mastro in the US between 1964
and 1966. Today a set of Beatles
Bongos in their original box will
set you back about £9,000.
father had called a photographer to
take a picture of the broken window. He
remembered being asked to sweep up
the glass.
Vilardi said the caller had found the
article and convinced her brother to
return the tablecloth and it arrived
three days later. “Nothing’s faded,” he
said. “It’s a little yellowed from age but
the drawings on it are as crisp and col-
ourful as when they drew them.”
In a yellow pen, John Lennon had
drawn a “blue meanie”, one of the char-
acters from Yellow Submarine. Baez,
who is now a portrait artist, produced a
series of sketches. Ringo Starr and
George Harrison signed it while Paul
McCartney signed his name in blocky
orange letters and wrote that he “did
not lay a hand on this table”.
He said later “it was like: ‘Don’t tell
anyone, this is probably our last gig.’ ”
By the summer of 1966 the band had
grown tired of playing stadiums where
the crowd’s screams drowned out their
amplifiers, which weren’t yet powerful
enough to fill the arena. At their final
show in Candlestick Park, San Francis-
co, many could hardly hear the music.
Their last public performance was
from the roof of their Apple Corps
building in Knightsbridge, central
London, in January 1969.
The proceeds of the sale will be divid-
ed among Joe Vilardi’s family. Michael
said: “That’s what my grandfather
would have approved of.”
boost to Liverpool’s economy. Clare
McColgan, the director of Culture
Liverpool, said last week that the city
was likely to be “packed out” for a
month either side of Eurovision,
helping small businesses to survive.
The contest will be paid for by a
combination of the local authority, the
UK government and broadcasters.
More than 160 million people are
expected to watch it on TV.
Airbnb, Booking.com and Lastmin-
ute.com did not respond to requests for
comment.
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Ochre orb The moon had a golden glow as it rose over Curbar Edge, Derbyshire. It appears this colour when low in the sky because the atmosphere affects its light
Ministers seek compromise on
transgender advice for schools
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor
Schools will be encouraged to accom-
modate transgender pupils in “com-
mon sense” guidance that will risk
opening up a cabinet split over access to
changing rooms and lavatories.
Senior ministers are pushing for a
compromise approach to defuse a “cul-
ture war” over gender identity, despite
demands from some in government to
hold a hard line on biological sex.
Providing gender-neutral lavatories
alongside those for boys and girls or let-
ting trans pupils use changing rooms
before others are among options being
looked at as officials draw up guidance.
In advice that could appear before
Christmas, schools are likely to be told
to let trans children wear the uniform of
their choice, but teachers will be
advised to stick to single-sex sports.
The Department for Education is en-
listing the help of the Equality and
Baccalaureate will switch to ‘future-proof’ online exams
Emma Yeomans
The International Baccalaureate, taken
by thousands of British pupils, will
move to digital exams to “future-proof”
the qualification.
The IB Diploma, which is taught in
203 British schools in place of A-levels
and gives students a wider curriculum,
plans to develop online exams and
possibly “virtual reality” assessments.
At the IB’s conference in the Hague
last week, Olli-Pekka Heinonen, its
director-general, said moving assess-
Human Rights Commission and senior
doctors to create an evidence-based
guide that will allow head teachers to
accommodate trans pupils without
creating political flashpoints.
Ministers also plan to seek advice
from Dr Hilary Cass, whose review of
care for children with gender dysphoria
resulted in an overhaul of NHS services
while maintaining confidence from all
involved. Work on the guidance began
in the spring but it is set to become an
early test of Liz Truss’s approach to sex
and gender issues.
Kit Malthouse, the education secre-
tary, is understood to favour a “com-
mon sense approach” and wants the
guidance published earlier than the
planned date of early next year.
Suella Braverman, the home secre-
tary, is among those pushing for a hard-
er line. This year she said that single-
sex spaces are “really important, partic-
ularly in schools”. She told The Times in
ments online was one of his priorities.
He said it presented opportunities to
assess students in ways better suited to
the workplace and the modern world.
Heinonen, a former Finnish educa-
tion minister, said he expected schools
to be given a choice of digital or paper-
based exams at first.
He said: “The paper assessments will
be there for the interim period, but I
also see that there is a time when we will
move to a digital environment.”
The organisation has not yet ex-
plored what exams will look like online
May that teachers “don’t have to and
shouldn’t” allow pupils who are born
male to use girls’ lavatories.
Truss insisted during the leadership
campaign that “under-18s shouldn’t be
able to make irreversible decisions
about their own future” on gender tran-
sition, but also boasted of making the
process of transition for adults “simpler
and kinder”.
A senior government source said:
“This never used to be such a divisive
issue — people just accepted trans
people and got on with it. It only be-
came an issue once the activists got in-
volved and polarised people. We need
to get back to that British fudge that so
often works.” They added: “In schools
we need to find a compromise that
works for all pupils, whether that’s
having gender-neutral toilets as well or
something else.”
One minister warned against using
the issue to divide Labour and rally con-
and will try a range of approaches,
Heinonen added.
“You can bring so much more to the
assessment in a digital environment,”
he said. “We’re talking of different
types of materials that can be available
there, but we’re talking about also, for
example, virtual reality assessment.
This is something that is already used in
vocational education to assess how
people are coping with certain skills,
and being able to transfer what they
know from one context to another.”
The IB has not set out a timeline. “We
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servative-minded voters, saying: “We
don’t want this to be a culture war. We
need to listen to the experts.”
Nadhim Zahawi, the equalities min-
ister, argued when he was education
secretary that trans children should be
accepted in their new gender with safe-
guards for them and other pupils. He
said this year: “If a child is a trans child,
then they can wear the uniform that
they think is appropriate for them.”
In 2020 the Department for Educa-
tion advised schools that gender issues
were “complex and sensitive matters to
navigate”, telling teachers not to “re-
inforce harmful stereotypes, for in-
stance by suggesting that children
might be a different gender based on
their personality and interests or the
clothes they prefer to wear”.
The new guidance, which will not be
compulsory, is likely to be far more de-
tailed on practical matters such as uni-
forms, changing rooms and sports.
are first creating the capabilities, the
digital platforms for digital assess-
ment,” Heinonen said. “So we will be
running the paper-based tests too, and
we will also have time for schools to
make that choice.”
The IB gives pupils a broader curricu-
lum than A-levels, with six subjects plus
an extended essay. This year The Times
Education Commission called on the
government to reform qualifications,
proposing a baccalaureate-style
curriculum, with all students taking six
subjects up to the age of 18.
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The brother of the Moors Murder
victim Keith Bennett has
criticised the amateur detective
Russell Edwards, who prompted a
week-long dig for the 12-year-
old’s body on Saddleworth Moor
that found no human remains.
Alan Bennett, 66, said: “I’m just
left with a feeling of utter
contempt for him and his actions
and I know the rest of Keith’s
family feel the same, along with
anger and pain.” Edwards later
told BBC Radio Manchester he
was “not wasting anyone’s time”.
Anger at glue protest
Angry drivers dragged Just Stop
Oil activists off Piccadilly Circus
in London’s West End yesterday
after they glued themselves to the
road. It was part of a series of
protests by the group, which is
trying to force the government to
do more to tackle climate change.
One man berated them for
blocking traffic as he tried to get
to hospital. There were 45 arrests.
Drunk teacher banned
A teacher who drank alcohol
from a water bottle and was seen
“swaying all over the place” by
pupils has been banned from the
classroom. Dr Zara Merali, 51,
brought alcohol on to school
premises and drank during
teaching hours. Merali, who
taught at two academies in
Norfolk, also admitted vaping on
school premises.
Three bikers attacked
The police have arrested seven
people after three members of a
motorcycle club were set upon
near Worthing, West Sussex. One
member of the Vikings
Motorcycle Club, based in Surrey,
was stabbed and two were injured
when a gang in a car and a van
attacked them on Saturday
evening. It is believed that their
assailants belong to a rival club.
Cooking oil lorry haul
Police seized stolen barrels of
cooking oil by checking a lorry
while investigating a theft. The
driver of the vehicle was arrested
after the inspection by officers in
Ipswich. Criminals are said to be
converting the oil into cut-price
bio diesel to be sold on the black
market to drivers and targeting
restaurants, pubs and fish and
chip shops to steal it.
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Robes and rituals set for the chop in a slimmed-down coronation
Valentine Low
The coronation of King Charles is to be
much shorter than Queen Elizabeth’s
ceremony in 1953, with fewer ancient
rituals and a greater emphasis on mod-
ernity, it has emerged.
Peers may even be allowed to wear
lounge suits instead of ceremonial
robes, The Mail on Sunday reported.
Among the traditions that could be
done away with is the ancient Court of
Claims, which decides which peers
have the right to perform certain roles.
Core elements of the ceremony will
be retained, however, including the
anointing of the monarch. In 1953 that
was one of the few moments that was
not allowed to be televised.
The King is expected to swear to be
“defender of the faith”, rather than “de-
fender of faith”, as has previously been
speculated.
For Queen Elizabeth’s coronation
8,000 people were crammed into West-
minster Abbey using tiers of seating on
specially constructed gantries. For
Charles the number of guests is expect-
ed to be no more than the abbey’s nor-
mal capacity of about 2,000. MPs and
peers will not be guaranteed a seat.
Under a blueprint known as Opera-
tion Golden Orb, the ceremony could
last little more than an hour, in contrast
to the three hours for the Queen’s coro-
nation. “The King has stripped back a
lot of the coronation in recognition that
the world has changed in the past 70
The coronation ceremony in 1953
years,” a source was quoted as saying.
The King is expected to be crowned
alongside Queen Camilla next spring
or summer, with speculation that it will
be on Saturday June 3.
The ceremony will be masterminded
by the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Nor-
folk, who was also in charge of the
Queen’s funeral. The Prince of Wales is
expected to play a significant role in
helping to plan the ceremony.
Discussions are said to have taken
place on relaxing the requirement for
peers to wear coronation robes.
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Ma-
ther, a former member of the royal
household who previously worked on
coronation planning, told the paper:
“No coronation robes. Give them to a
museum where they belong. It’s not
going to be a tweed jacket and pair of
jeans — but morning suit or lounge
suit.”
Other experts have speculated that
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peers could wear their ermine-
trimmed parliamentary robes.
The Times has reported that the cere-
mony will feature more young people,
more women and more members of
ethnic minorities. Both the King and
the government will be conscious of the
need to avoid too extravagant a cere-
mony at a time of economic hardship.
Different faiths will be represented.
Rituals in the run-up to the corona-
tion that are likely to be done away with
include the presentation of gold to the
sovereign by the Lord Great Chamber-
lain. The Court of Claims, in which
peers argued that they should have the
right to perform certain services at the
coronation by hereditary right, is re-
portedly likely to be scrapped.

Hall rebuilt
in hangar for
rehearsal of
lying in state
Valentine Low
A replica of Westminster Hall was
constructed in an aircraft hangar to
allow troops to carry out practice runs
for Queen Elizabeth’s lying in state, it
has been revealed.
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Mather,
80, who spent more than a decade
drawing up plans for Operation
London Bridge, the arrangements for
when the Queen died, also said he had

King may go
had to tour royal residences working
out how to get the coffin downstairs.
Mather, a former Grenadier Guard
who was a member of the royal house-
hold for 26 years, worked with the Earl
Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, on plans

to Canada
for royal funerals. He headed a team of
300 who met at least once a year.
Mather, who started working on
Operation London Bridge in 1999, told

rather than
Cop summit The Queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall

Oliver Wright
Ministers are considering a proposal to
send the King to Canada on his first
overseas visit as monarch.
The suggestion comes amid concern
from President Biden’s administration
over the decision not to allow Charles
to attend an international climate
change summit in Egypt next month.
Senior government sources said the
King was advised not to attend the
Cop27 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh
because ministers wanted his first trip
overseas as monarch to align with the
government’s diplomatic priorities.
They also feared that, as head of
state, his presence as a participant
would “not have been appropriate”.
The move is understood to have
irritated John Kerry, Biden’s special
envoy on climate, who hoped the King
would have been able to use his
“leverage” at the summit to make fur-
ther progress on the agreement
reached at the previous meeting in
Glasgow.
It is understood that the King has
made clear that his preference, as head
of the Commonwealth, would be for his
first foreign visit to be to a Common-
wealth country.
One source said Canada was at the
“top of the list” for potential visits. The
government is keen to foster closer ties
with Ottawa after Brexit. Ministers
announced the start of negotiations on
a new trade deal last March.
The UK is already Canada’s third
largest trading partner. The country’s
demand for imports is projected to
grow by 45 per cent by 2035.
A Foreign Office source suggested
that a trip to Canada could form part of
a wider royal tour that could take in
Washington as well as parts of the Car-
ibbean. The insider added, however,
that no decision had been made and
other key UK allies were also under
consideration.
One of these is understood to be
France after the rapprochement last
week between Liz Truss and President
Macron. Macron has already invited
the King to visit France “when it is
appropriate for him”, and the two coun-
tries are planning to hold a meeting
next year.
Charles was crowned Chief Red Crow when he visited Canada as Prince of Wales
in 1977 and met children in Ottawa in May this year during a tour of the country
The Foreign Office is said to be keen
after Brexit to use the diplomatic power
of the monarchy to repair relations
with European neighbours.
Kerry had previously made clear his
desire for the government to allow the
King to attend Cop27. He has said that
he “very much” hoped Charles would
still be allowed to participate in the
climate change debate “within the
constitutional process”.
The special envoy told the BBC: “He
is an enormously important convener
and somebody who has the ability to be
able to leverage the kind of action we
need now on a global basis.”
Alok Sharma, a Cabinet Office
minister and the present Cop president,
is also understood to have lobbied to
allow the King to attend the summit but
was overruled by the Foreign Office.
They are understood to have raised
protocol concerns but also argued that
the King’s first overseas trip was a “big
moment” that needed to be “carefully
thought through”.
A senior government figure said:
“You only get the first overseas trip by a
new monarch once and we need to
make it count. We are going to be
carefully looking at the options in close
consultation with Buckingham Palace.”
Downing Street is said to be
unrepentant about the decision to veto
the Cop visit, although senior sources
said the prime minister was now likely
to attend amid fears that her absence
would be portrayed as the government
turning its back on the climate agenda.
There have also been conversations
about the possibility that the Prince of
Wales could take the place of his father
at the summit, although “nothing has
been agreed”.
The Mail on Sunday that he never spoke
to the Queen about it. “The first draft I
wrote was, I think, 15 pages long,” he
said. “My final copy, from 2017, is about
two and a half inches thick. If you have
a plan, you have to keep it up to date.”
A special illuminated railway car-
riage with windows large enough to
allow the public a glimpse of the
Queen’s coffin was available to bring it
from Edinburgh to London if she died
in Scotland. In the end the coffin was
flown south to avoid disruption.
“I have been many times to suss out
royal residences and the routes to bring
the coffin down the stairs. I very nearly
got caught out,” Mather said. “I went for
the same reason to Sandringham, to
Wood Farm, where Prince Philip lived,
and we were going there because we
knew he was out . . . because they have
a problem in that farmhouse. The stairs
are very steep. I was going with the
agent at the time and we turned into the
drive, and he suddenly threw the car
into reverse because Philip was coming
round the corner. One would never
do it while he was there: it would be
insensitive.”
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Students face visa clampdown as
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor
A cap on the number of children that
foreign students can bring to Britain is
being considered by ministers seeking
ways to bear down on “bad migration”.
Ministers are concerned that some
overseas students bring up to six dep-
endants with them to Britain and sus-
pect that some are using their tuition as
a back door to settling permanently.
They are understood to be consider-
ing ways to tighten the rules, which let
students bring in a spouse and any dep-
endent children, as long as they can
support themselves. Sources said that a
cap on dependants was “potentially”
one solution, although no final decision
had been taken.
Suella Braverman, the home secre-
tary, and Nadhim Zahawi, the Cabinet
Office minister, are said to be discuss-
ing plans to cut numbers of dependants
in the latest sign of tension at the heart
of government over migration policy.
Liz Truss is considering liberalising im-
migration to try to boost growth but
Braverman said last week that she still
wanted net migration below 100,000,
less than half the present level.
Zahawi said yesterday: “We want to
bear down on bad migration,” citing the
students as an area of concern. “Inter-
national students are a plus, a really
positive thing for our universities, for
our communities,” he told Sky News.
“But if you look at the number of dep-
endants that come with international
students, you’d expect most inter-
national students may bring one dep-
endant, or if they are doing a PhD they
might bring their wife and maybe a
child. There are some people who are
coming to study in the UK who are
bringing five, six more people with
them. Is that right? No.”
He added: “We have to make sure
that they’re coming to legitimately
study here,” and said that it was “the
right thing to do, to look at bearing
down on abuse of a system”.
Ministers believe that students from
some countries were more likely to
bring a large number of dependants but
those from other countries brought one
or two. They take this as a sign that in
certain places a dependant visa is seen
as the easiest way into Britain.
Zahawi suggested that the rules
could make it easier for skilled workers
to come to Britain: “Look at gigabit
broadband. We need more engineers
Pressure to drop Burns’s knighthood
Ben Ellery, Chris Smyth
Calls are mounting for the MP
Conor Burns to have his nomination
for a knighthood dropped in the wake
of his sacking following a complaint of
misconduct.
Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the
Labour party, said plans to hand Burns
the title in Boris Johnson’s resignation
honours list “beggar belief”.
Nadhim Zahawi, the Cabinet Office
minister, said he believed Burns had
been treated fairly after the MP for
Bournemouth West, 50, accused the
party of rushing to judgment.
Burns vowed to clear his name, and
said he would “fully co-operate” with a
Tory probe into the claim of
inappropriate behaviour. The BBC
reported that a witness allegedly saw
Burns touching a young man’s thigh at
a hotel bar during the Conservative
Party conference in Birmingham.
The MP is said to have learnt on
Friday that he is in line for a knighthood
in Johnson’s resignation list. However,
a friend has suggested that the
ex-trade minister fears that his career is
Zahawi: look
online for tips
Chris Smyth
An energy saving advice campaign
from the government would be
“wrong” because people can just
look up tips online, according to
Nadhim Zahawi. The Cabinet
Office minister, said that blackouts
were “extremely unlikely” this
winter as he defended Liz Truss’s
refusal to encourage people to
save energy.
The prime minister vetoed an
energy-saving campaign drawn up
by the business department and
used her conference speech last
week to insist she would not tell
voters “what to do, or what to
think or how to live your life”.
But Zahawi told Sunday with
Kuenssberg on BBC1: “If you go
on gov.uk you will see lots of ways
where you can cut the cost of
your energy as a business or as a
household. Both the National Grid
and Ofgem are running a
campaign.”
The National Grid has drawn up
emergency plans to cut electricity
for about three hours at a time
and to offer cash incentives to
reduce usage. Zahawi said these
would only be needed in “the
extremely unlikely scenario where
there’s issues in Europe with the
interconnectors” that allow energy
to follow into Britain from the
continent.
6 A former Tory MP has been
accused of sexism after he
described himself as a “hot-
blooded male” while complaining
that “females in my house like to
have the heating on”. Graham
Evans, the MP for Weaver Vale
from 2010-2017, made the joke
during a live broadcast of BBC
Politics North West in which the
panellists were discussing energy
bills.
War on nanny state will hurt us all,
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already “over”. Rayner said: “Just a
month into her premiership, Liz Truss’s
government is proving a match for
the scandal and sleaze of her
predecessor.
“The government must urgently say
whether the investigation into his con-
duct will be concluded before any hon-
Conor Burns is
said to fear that
his career is over
our is considered, and the PM must ap-
point an independent ethics watchdog.”
Her comments were echoed by Daisy
Cooper , the Liberal Democrat deputy
leader, who said: “These allegations are
extremely serious. It would be unthink-
able for Conor Burns to be awarded a
knighthood unless he’s cleared of
wrongdoing.”
Asked if he thought Burns — who
was replaced last night as trade minister
by Greg Hands — had been treated
who can splice the actual technology
together to deliver gigabit broadband. If Rishi Sunak, the Office for Budget
we need another 200 or 300 engineers
to come in to be able to do that at pace,
former chancellor,
came top of the
Responsibility
more closely. Party
I think people will support that.”
He denied splits with Braverman on
the issue, saying that they met weekly
MPs’ ballot in the
leadership contest.
Mel Stride, right,
big beasts such as
Grant Shapps,
below right, who
to discuss legal and illegal immigration, who was Sunak’s backed Sunak,
which he insisted that the government campaign spent the party
wanted to “stamp out”. manager, is conference forcing
Accepting that voters would judge chairman of the Truss into a U-turn
ministers on whether they followed Treasury select on tax rates. They
through, Zahawi said: “Time is against committee and has are a large and
us, delay is our enemy. We have to move pressed ministers powerful pool of
at pace to deliver this stuff.” to involve the discontents.
Nadine Dorries, the Brexit-backing
former culture secretary, also urged
Braverman to loosen the rules on tele- Rishi’s
coms workers. “We need right now
3,000 Spanish telecommunications responsibles
engineers who are in Spain. We need
Suella to say they don’t need the Eng-
lish language test to have a short- term,
six-month, nine-month visa, to come
here and help with gigabyte rollout pro-
gramme,” she told the BBC. “That Boris Johnson has
would get us from 70 per cent gigabyte not given up hope
rollout to 95 per cent.” of a comeback and
At fringe events at the Conservative while he is keeping
conference last week, Braverman said a low profile his
that it was her “ultimate aspiration” to backers, such as
get net migration back to the “tens of Nadine Dorries and
thousands”, the target that had eluded Jacob Rees-Mogg,
David Cameron. Net migration stands both right, do not
at 239,000 a year after Boris Johnson tire of pointing out
ditched Cameron’s target in 2019. She how much the
also provoked a row with universities by Tories owe to the
saying: “I think we have got to definitely former prime
substantially reduce the number of stu- minister. Others of
dents, the number of work visas and in his Praetorian
particular the number of dependants Guard, such as
on those sorts of visas.” Nigel Adams,
Despite a policy to increase the num- remain unhappy
ber of foreign students, a key export in- backbenchers, at
dustry for Britain, Braverman said: “We least until they get
have too many students coming who peerages. This
are propping up substandard courses in would remove a
inadequate institutions.”
6 The home secretary’s claims that
focus of discontent
but lead to tricky
Boris
slavery laws were being abused for im- by-elections. loyalists
migration purposes were challenged by
the head of the labour abuse watchdog.
Elysia McCaffrey, chief executive of the
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse
Authority, told The Guardian: “We don’t
see people gaming the system. That’s
not our experience. What we see is vul-
Tory tribes giving
g PM
nerable people who are being exploited
by opportunists and criminals.” a splitting headache
h
Braverman had said that trafficking
Ps return to financial markets and
M
claims from people “gaming the
system” derailed migration policy. Westminster this Labour taking a huge lead
week with Liz in the polls.
Truss promising to listen After a Conservative
more to her backbenchers
after being forced into a
U-turn on abolishing the
conference overshadowed
by infighting, the outlines
of several overlapping
with justice, Zahawi, Chancellor of the 45p tax rate (Chris Smyth groups of discontented
Duchy of Lancaster, told Times Radio: writes). Tories are becoming
“I do. I think there’s an investigation Backbenchers are either clearer. All have potential
being carried out. The prime minister mutinous or despairing to cause serious headaches
acted swiftly on this and let’s wait to see after a chaotic fallout from for the prime
the outcome of the investigation.” last month’s mini-budget, minister,
Pressed on whether it would have which led to turmoil in the right.
been right to suspend Burns as a minis-
ter, rather than sack him, Zahawi said:
“I think it’s important that she took a
decision on this and that the investi-
gation will then report back and then
she will make a further decision.”
Older Conservatives told
On Friday, No 10 said Burns had been Geraldine Scott Political Reporter tives that caused “huge problems”
dismissed from the government after a when up against Labour quotas in 1997.
complaint of serious misconduct. Older male Tory MPs should stop “bed Although she did not support quotas,
The Whips’ Office said the whip had blocking” and step aside to allow more she said it had meant there were male
been suspended pending an investi- women into politics, the chairman of MPs who had been selected for safe
gation into “allegations of inappropri- the Conservative Women’s Organisa- seats then who were refusing to stand
ate behaviour earlier this week”. tion has said. down and make room for fresh blood.
On Saturday, Burns denied having Fleur Butler, granddaughter of the Butler’s grandfather chaired the de-
met the singer Mel B after the singer former chancellor Rab Butler, said velopment of the Conservative Party’s
suggested he should not be surprised to many of the MPs who had been in the women’s charter in 1949, but she had
be facing a misconduct claim, and Commons for decades “were chosen in not considered standing for parliament
pointed to remarks she alleged he made a different world, chosen under a differ- until 2005 when she was asked by Lord
to her in a lift. A source close to the star ent system”, and it was time for change. Brittan, the former home secretary.
said it was true that they had not had a Butler, a former council leader from “I came from a political family, Rab
proper meeting, but he did make the re- North Yorkshire, said there had been a Butler was my grandfather. My uncle
mark to her in the lift. “structural problem” in the Conserva- was Adam Butler, who was under-
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ministers decry ‘bad migration’

Truss has vowed to
continue “levelling
up” but her focus is
more on achieving
The row about
real-terms cuts to
benefits highlights
an alliance
Do not rule out a
this through tax
cuts and
deregulation than
investment. MPs in
between One
Nation Tories and
the diverse group
who propelled
Johnson comeback,
areas that went
blue for the first
time in 2019 are
not reassured.
Penny Mordaunt,
far left, so far in the
leadership contest.
One Nationers may
says Nadine Dorries
Dehenna Davison, be out in the cold She urged colleagues to stop plotting
Chris Smyth
left, the Bishop under Truss but to remove Truss, but said the prime
Auckland MP, who dozens of MPs Nadine Dorries raised the possibility of minister would be “politically suicidal”
is now a levelling share their Boris Johnson returning as prime min- not to start paying more attention to
up minister, will queasiness at ister if Tory MPs clamour for him to MPs.
have a key role in making savings at make a remarkable comeback. Johnson did not hide his sense of
judging whether the expense of the The former culture secretary, John- grievance at being forced from office
Truss is committed. poorest. Mordaunt son’s most vocal supporter, said that and is understood to have half an eye on
Meanwhile Mark also made clear while it was “extremely unlikely” he returning to Downing Street.
Menzies, below, her opposition would return, it could not be ruled out. Dorries insisted that “the only mes-
MP for Fylde, is during conference. Dorries backed Liz Truss in the lead- sage from Boris Johnson to anyone is to
among northern Problems in the ership contest and insisted yesterday support Liz and to back Liz”.
MPs who oppose NHS are likely to that she was “still one of Liz’s biggest But while saying there was “no pro-
fracking. rise up the political supporters”, though warned that the cess” for him to return, she also laid out
agenda, too, with Tories faced “complete wipeout” if the how she thought it might happen. “In-
Jeremy Hunt, the
Guardians former health
prime minister did not change course.
After Truss used her party confer-
stead of Graham Brady [chairman of
the 1922 Committee] going to see him
of the secretary, left, ence speech to insist that disruption with a revolver, he’d need to go and see
already showing was a price worth paying for growth, him with an olive branch.”
vulnerable that he is not shy Dorries told Kuenssberg on Sunday on She added: “I’ve been in politics a
with criticism. BBC1: “What we don’t need is a disrupt- long time, I don’t rule anything out, but
Red er, what we need is a unifier.” I would say it is highly, extremely
wallers Dorries said that while she was “fully unlikely.”
on board” with promoting growth, “we Dorries is expected to be offered a
have to be very careful we don’t throw peerage by Johnson as part of his final
the baby out with the bath water”. batch of nominations in a move that
She said “people voted for Boris could pave the way for Johnson to take
Johnson” and “also voted for a mandate her seat. His 7,000 majority of in
and a manifesto. We can’t throw what Uxbridge is under threat at the next
they voted for out because then we’ve election and her majority of more than
disenfranchised the voting public”. 24,000 in Mid Bedfordshire would
With Truss promises to boost Dorries reiterated that an election make it far easier to make a comeback.
promising both agricultural was needed to test support for radical Her elevation could be in doubt,
another push on productivity have new policies: “If you’re going to have a however, as the Commons culture,
homebuilding and led to fears that completely fresh mandate, a complete- media and sport committee consider
the liberalising of environmental ly fresh set of policy ideas and a new this week whether to refer her for an in-
planning laws in standards could be prime minister, it would be right to go to vestigation over claims she misled
new “investment relaxed. George the country.” them.
zones”, concerned Eustice, the former But she added: “Liz doesn’t need to do She claimed that a reality show she
MPs such as environment that — and I really hope she won’t do took part in used actors and has not
Theresa Villiers, secretary, and that while we’re 30 points behind in the responded to requests to withdraw or
below, and even other ex-ministers polls . . . if there were a general election substantiate the remarks. An ongoing
Theresa May could such as Rebecca tomorrow that would probably mean Commons inquiry could be used by
take up arms. In Pow, left, have complete wipeout for the Conservative officials to delay or veto her appoint-
addition, Truss’s raised concerns. Party.” ment to the Lords.
Shire
Tories
Backlash after Sturgeon
insists she detests Tories
Kieran Andrews Scottish Political Editor nalist, said the first minister’s words
were “dangerous and I fear the day they
Nicola Sturgeon has said she “detests” incite nationalist violence”. Nadhim
Conservatives in comments that oppo- Zahawi, the Cabinet Office minister,
nents warned risked inciting violence. also called them “really dangerous”.
The SNP’s Westminster leader dis- Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links,
tanced himself from the comments but the former leader of the Scottish Con-
the first minister refused to roll back on servatives, said they were “clearly a
them. Sturgeon spoke out against the rhetoric-raising strategy” ahead of the
Tories as she said she would prefer first minister’s speech today to the SNP

to make way for more younger women Labour to be in charge at Westminster.

“If the question to me is would I pre-
fer a Labour government over a Tory
government — I detest the Tories
conference in Aberdeen. Sturgeon later
told the BBC she did not regret her
words, which she said were not about
individuals or Tory voters.
secretary of state under Mrs Thatcher. 45th for the proportion of women in and everything they ey stand However
However, Ian Blackford,
“Nobody had told me that I had the parliament. Just 35 per cent of MPs fficult
for — so it’s not difficult the SNP leader at West-
right to stand forward. When Leon (225) are women. Of the 559 women to answer that ques- es- minst
minster, told Chan-
Brittan said, ‘Fleur, I think somebody of who have become MPs since 1918, 55 ay
tion,” she told Sunday nel 4:4 “No, I see them
your calibre and skills ought to be com- per cent were first elected as Labour with Laura Kuens- as a political oppo-
ing forward and standing in public life’, MPs, and 31 per cent as Conservatives. sberg on BBC1. ne
nent. You don’t
he gave me permission to stand. Butler said there were training pro- Russell Findlay, de
detest opponents,
“Until that point, nobody had said it’s grammes encouraging women to get the Scottish Con- yyou work to re-
something that women do and women into politics but urged Tory men who servative MSP, m
move them.”
have the right to do it. And I still think were “bed blocking” to make way. She who was the vic- Sturgeon also
women don’t understand that they also teaches women how to cope with tim of an acid sa
said that Starmer
have the right to move forward.” violence online, and recommends stay- attack at his home ha
had “thrown in the
In 2007 she still heard comments like ing off social media. when he was a jour-- tow
towel and no longer
“we’re not looking for a woman, we’re But the message, she said, was: “You want
wants to take the UK
looking for a cabinet minister”. Fleur Butler advises on violence don’t have to be perfect and ready- Sturgeon and deputy
ty Sco
or Scotland back into
Internationally, the UK is ranked as online and says to avoid social media made as a politician.” rday
John Swinney yesterday tthe
he Europ
European Union”.
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CAROLINE HAYCOCK/BAV MEDIA
Amazon delivers
700 e-lorries to
cut UK pollution
Ben Clatworthy
Transport Correspondent
Amazon will put 700 electric heavy
goods vehicles on the UK’s roads in the
next five years, it will announce today.
In an effort to reduce its carbon foot-
Twin turbo Patrouille Suisse, the Swiss Air Force display team, put on a show at Duxford Flying Finale in Cambridgeshire print the online retailer will pledge to
inject £300 million into transforming
its fleet. It already uses five e-HGVs in
the UK. Across Europe the business will
announce a package of €1 billion for
more than 1,500 of the vehicles.
The new fleet is designed to consider-
ably lessen the environmental damage
of delivering parcels. Amazon has more
than a thousand electric vehicles aiding
the “last mile” of delivery, but it relies on
diesel for long-distance transport.
Andy Jassy, the chief executive, said:
“Deploying thousands of electric vans,
long-haul trucks and bikes will help us
shift further away from traditional fos-
sil fuels. [It will] hopefully further
encourage transportation and auto-
motive industries in Europe and
around the world to continue scaling
and innovating, as we will have to work
together to reach our climate goals.”
To power its e-HGVs the company
plans to build hundreds of fast chargers
at its European and UK warehouses,
allowing it to charge the vehicles in
approximately two hours.
There are only 313 electric lorries
registered in the UK, according to the
latest data from the Society of Motor
Manufacturers and Traders. In Europe
statistics from the market analysis
group IHS Markit show that 346 elec-
tric lorries were registered in Europe
last year, an increase of 193 per cent
from 2020.
Amazon’s plans were welcomed by
the government. Anne-Marie Trevel-
yan, the transport secretary, said: “Sig-
nificant investments like Amazon’s
today will be vital to reducing emissions
and meeting our net-zero goals while
supporting growth at the same time.
“By adding thousands of electric and
zero-emission vehicles to its fleet Ama-
zon is not only working to make their
Rising carbon emissions
make trees grow bigger
Fariha Karim
Trees feasting on increased carbon
dioxide emissions have grown thicker
and larger, researchers suggest.
Academics examined the volume of
trees in ten temperate forest groups
across America and found that the vol-
ume of tree trunks was up to 30 per cent
bigger than 30 years ago.
The phenomenon, known as carbon
fertilisation — when an influx of
carbon dioxide increases a plant’s rate
of photosynthesis — is likely to be repli-
cated across the world. The growth is
equivalent to an extra tree ring being
put on for each tree.
Brent Sohngen, co-author of the
study and professor of environmental
and resource economics at the Ohio
State University, said the results sug-
gested trees were helping to shield
Earth’s ecosystem from the impact of
global warming even more than
thought, thanks to their rapid growth.
“It’s well known that when you put a
ton of carbon dioxide in the atmos-
phere, it doesn’t stay up there forever,”
deliveries more sustainable but also
stimulating innovation across industry
in the drive to cleaner transport.”
This year the company said that it
would pump more than £200 million
into a zero-emission road freight pro-
gramme. Under the plans vehicle man-
ufacturers, energy suppliers and fleet
operators have been asked to demon-
strate their technology with the aim of
introducing hundreds more zero-emis-
sion HGVs across the country.
Online shopping surged in popular-
ity during the pandemic, dramatically
increasing the number of delivery vehi-
cles on the roads. The switch to internet
shopping peaked with 37 per cent of all
retail sales being conducted online in
January last year, according to the
Office for National Statistics.
As lockdown restrictions eased, how-
ever, shoppers began to drift back to
traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers.
By this summer internet sales account-
ed for only 27 per cent of all retail sales.
In February 2020 it accounted for less
than 20 per cent of total sales.
In February Tesco said that it was
introducing its first fully electric 18-
tonne HGV, which can operate free in
London’s ultra-low emission zone and
congestion charge zone. The Renault
refrigerated vehicle delivers from a dis-
tribution centre in Dagenham to more
than 400 shops in London. More of the
vehicles are planned.
Amazon has invested large sums into
transforming its “last-mile” deliveries,
where packages are moved from HGVs
to smaller, more eco-friendly vehicles.
Amazon has more than 3,000 small
electric vans across Europe and with
the latest investment it expects to grow
its fleet to more than 10,000 by 2025.
It also has “micro-mobility hubs” in
more than twenty cities across Europe,
including London. It plans to double
the number by the end of 2025 to use
more e-cargo bikes and on-foot deliver-
ies in densely populated cities. It also
says that drones will be able to fly pack-
ages weighing up to 5lb as far as 15 miles
in the coming years.
he said. “A massive amount of it falls
into the oceans, while the rest of it is
taken up by trees and wetlands.
“While we’re putting billions of tons
of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere,
we’re actually taking much of it out just
by letting our forests grow.”
The study suggests that forests in
America have sequestered about 700 to
800 million tons of carbon dioxide each
year, accounting for about 10 or 11 per
cent of the country’s total emissions.
The increase in trees’ wood volume
from 1970 to 2015 correlated with a rise
in carbon emissions, the researchers
said. They added that the research
suggested that planting trees was the
most cost-effective way of combating
global warming.
“Carbon fertilisation certainly makes
it cheaper to plant trees, avoid deforest-
ation or do other activities related to
trying to enhance the carbon sink in
forests,” Sohngen said. “We should be
planting more trees and preserving
older ones because at the end of the day
they’re probably our best bet for miti-
gating climate change.”
the times | Monday October 10 2022 2GM 9

Change law to let museum return marbles, ex-culture minister urges
David Sanderson Arts Correspondent
Museums should be free to sell objects
and return those, such as the Elgin
Marbles, that were taken in contentious
circumstances, the country’s longest-
serving arts minister has said.
Lord Vaizey, minister of state for cul-
ture and the digital economy in David
Cameron’s government, said he was
“strongly of the view” that the marbles
should be returned to Greece from the
British Museum adding that instit-
utions should be given the power to
“give back disputed artefacts”. Vaizey
has secured a House of Lords debate
this week where he will tell the govern-
ment that it is time to review the 1983
National Heritage Act, which prevents
some national museums, such as the
Victoria & Albert, from deaccessioning
objects from their collection.
The Conservative peer, who is also a
trustee of Tate, said: “There are all sorts
of caveats to prevent this being a free-
for-all but I think we would all accept
that museums are grown-up now. They
are to all intents and purposes indep-
endent institutions, which are highly
professional . . . you would expect them
to behave appropriately.
“And there is an element of the cul-
ture war. We now live in an age where it
is much more commonplace to debate
the provenance of objects and whether
it was illegitimately acquired and could
be returned.”
Vaizey said there could be reviewing
committees to oversee deaccessioning
decisions and prohibitions, for exam-
ple, on museums “selling a painting to
pay for a roof”. Vaizey becomes the
most senior Conservative to advocate
the return of the Elgin Marbles, also
known as the Parthenon Marbles, to
Greece. They were taken by Lord Elgin
in the early 19th century and have
become the most high-profile symbol
of the restitution debate.
Various pieces of legislation, includ-
ing the 1983 act, are cited by the
national museums as impediments to
agreeing to any restitution requests.
A series of Conservative ministers,
including Liz Truss, have ruled out any
deal with Greece over the return of the
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marbles. Tristram Hunt, the director of
the V&A, recently called for a rethink of
the 1983 act, saying that there was a
“strong case for updating it”. Vaizey said
his own views had definitely changed
since his tenure as arts minister from
2010 to 2016.
He said he had previously accepted
the argument of Neil MacGregor, the
former director of the British Museum,
that it was a “world museum, more
people see them, we care for them well”.
Vaizey is due to present his debate in
the House of Lords on Thursday.

ADRIAN SHERRATT FOR THE TIMES

Don’t feel bad Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen,

the lead interior designer
on Channel 4’s Changing
Rooms, said he feels “weird”
telling people what to

about being do in their own homes

doing it; it wasn’t fashion

designers in the way that
this isn’t interior

middle-class, designers. There is no

easier way now of
becoming an interior
designer than just doing
some really nice stuff and
putting it on Instagram

says Today host and getting it liked.”

Jack Malvern, David Sanderson
The middle classes should stop apolo-
gising for not being working class, a
leading BBC interviewer has said.
Justin Webb, co-presenter of the
Today programme on Radio 4, said that
middle-class people should not have to
be defensive or justify themselves.
Asked at The Times and The Sunday
Times Cheltenham Literature Festival
why Today was so middle-class, he re-
sponded: “I don’t think there’s anything
wrong with being middle class. I think
we fall into a terrible trap if we cam-
paign against a) people who listen or b)
against people who pay the licence fee.
“I can’t, with my mother looking
down from somewhere, think I’m any-
thing other than upper middle class
because that’s what she told me I am.”
Webb was speaking after publishing
Webb is known for
co-presenting the
Today programme
on BBC Radio 4
Nick Robinson’s
worst interview
Jack Malvern
Nick Robinson has said that his clash
During its first
incarnation on the BBC,
between 1996 and 2004,
Changing Rooms was
his memoir The Gift of Radio: My Child- credited with bringing a
hood and Other Train Wrecks, which hitherto unknown
documents his dysfunctional upbring- popularity to interior
ing. The book describes his loneliness design. It was revived last
growing up with a mentally ill step- year by Channel 4.
father and a mother obsessed with class. Llewelyn-Bowen, 57,
She clung to her status despite being said: “I never really liked
impoverished when she was sacked for being an interior
becoming pregnant outside marriage. designer. I always felt a
Webb said after the talk: “The idea bit weird telling people
that ‘middle class’ is used as a term of what to do,” he said. He
abuse is fatuous. It doesn’t mean they’re added that when he first
right or wrong about anything, it’s just a told his mother he was
fact of life. Being middle class brings in “doing interiors” she
some wonderful things. And, from the replied: “Is that
example of my mother, it also brings gentlemanly? You are
barmy things.” being paid to move
Webb has previously defended the people’s furniture
use of received pronunciation on the around.”
BBC. He told an audience at the Henley “It is sort of something
Literary Festival last week that he dis- you should be doing for
agreed with his Today colleague Amol yourself,” he said, adding
Rajan that it was overused. that this was his “Peter
Research suggests that 70 per cent of Finch moment”, in
newsreaders on the main channels reference to the 1976 film
speak with RP but that this was true Network when Finch’s
only of 10 per cent of the UK character, a television
population. “The question is: can you news broadcaster,
reach people? And, after all, the job is Howard Beale, tells
about communication. You have got to listeners to “turn off your
be understood,” Webb said. television”.
Asked about Rajan’s habit of Instagram to the power “I am telling you to not
cropping his Ts, Webb said: “So my
argument with Amol — I wouldn’t
Llewelyn-Bowen admits that punk music gave
people. “The whole
listen to interior
designers that tell you
quite go so far as say I want to give the
guy elocution lessons because I think
he is on the up and I am on the down
Instagram has given influenza of influencers is
the moment when the
lunatics take over the
how to do it,” he said.
Llewelyn-Bowen, who
is promoting his latest
when it comes to that — but I do think
there is a basic need to be understood.”
designers a makeover asylum,” he told the
festival.
book More, More, More,
said that Britons’ love of
Webb also said that Philip Larkin had “Maximalism is street their homes, and being
aurence and democracy” of style because it comes homeowners, meant they

L
with Boris Johnson, which culminated been right about parents passing on
in the broadcaster telling the prime dysfunctionality to their children in his Llewelyn-Bowen Instagram, telling an from people actually were well disposed to be
minister to “stop talking”, was his most poem This Be The Verse, which begins: has said that audience The Times and doing it. designers. “We love our
shameful moment. “They f*** you up, your mum and dad.” social media has The Sunday Times “It was like punk did, brick and mortar, and
Speaking at the Cheltenham festival, He said that the poet was wrong, made interior Cheltenham Literature like New Romanticism front garden. We like
the Today programme presenter was however, in his conclusion that people designers somewhat Festival that it did. It was people just being shareholders, we
asked about his least favourite inter- should halt the cycle of mental pain by redundant (David allowed like owning a
view. “The one I’m least proud of is say- refusing to have children themselves. Sanderson writes). “absolutely li
little bit of UK
ing to [Johnson] to stop talking,” Robin- Larkin’s final verse reads: “Man The “lead interior everyone to be p
plc,” he said.
son said. “The thing I’m most proud of hands on misery to man./ It deepens designer” of the an interior “I think that is
is retaining control. I didn’t plan that. It like a coastal shelf./ Get out as early as television programme designer”. v
very powerful
was an outburst of frustration.” you can,/ And don’t have any kids Changing Rooms, said the Llewelyn-Bowen, a beautiful
and
He said Johnson “talked and talked yourself.” Webb said that having child- rise of Instagram an enthusiastic a somehow
and
and talked”, picked up a piece of paper ren was in fact the path to redemption. influencers and the sheer supporter of e
employing
and turned away so that he was facing a “However much they [parents] mess quantity of existing maximalism ssomeone to tell
wall. you up, it’s still a life worth living. In advice meant people over minimalism yyou how you
“I thought that was incredibly rude,” spite of all the miseries there were, life could “just do it when it comes to sshould express
Robinson said. “That is when I said, is worth living. The coping is the thing. [themselves]”. design, yyourself doesn’t
‘stop talking’. But I’m ashamed of that All of us have to cope with things that The presenter said he compared the sseem right,” he
because I should have had a phrase that go well and go badly. The fact of having “loved the immediacy rise of a
added.
was more polite.” coped is what life is all about.”
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TIM CLIFTON/ANIMAL NEWS AGENCY
Trees frame the walk up The house is
the hill to Halnaker adorned by scarlet red
Autumn colours are windmill where glorious
colours shine in autumn
Virginia creeper and
Boston ivy which was
known to be there
pretty as a picture transforming the green
to beautiful oranges,
during Darwin’s life.
At Walmer Castle,
spectacular properties enjoyed by browns and reds — near Deal, Kent, the

A autumn
after a
scorching
summer is
to be given a special
display by English
Heritage (Fariha
Queen Victoria,
Charles Darwin and
Capability Brown.
Frames will be
erected at Osborne, on
the Isle of Wight,
where Queen Victoria
enough to get out your
paintbrush and paint
the views like Queen
Victoria did.
“The historic
gardens in our care are
among the finest in the
autumn colour is
provided by Japanese
anemones. Leaves of
Virginia creepers and
crimson glory vines
change colour and turn
the castle walls flame
Karim writes). said it was “impossible country and provide red. The castle was
Visitors will be able to imagine a prettier magnificent views of built by Henry VIII. It
to look through gilded spot”. autumn colour.” has gone on to house
picture frames Christopher English Heritage is the Duke of
designed to capture the Weddell, a senior also installing a frame Wellington, William
autumnal scenes as gardens adviser at at Down House, near Pitt the Younger and
works of art at five English Heritage, said Orpington, Kent, the the Queen Mother.
home of Darwin. For those seeking a
autumn was due to be Results from his natural outlook, the
particular striking this experiments in an trees on the walk to
year after the hot, dry outdoor laboratory at Halnaker windmill,
summer. “We could the house went on to near Chichester, West
have one of the best be published in On the Sussex, provide an
autumn displays in Origin of Species, ideal frame. The tunnel
recent years,” he said. which introduced the is well known for its
“The recent cooler theory of evolution to brilliant colours in
weather is already the world. autumn.

Magistrates’ staff
walk out in row
over ‘car crash’
computer upgrade
Jonathan Ames Legal Editor
Magistrates’ courts will be hit by a
week-long strike this month, union offi-
cials confirmed in the latest blow to the
criminal justice system.
Staff at 65 courts in England and
Wales are to walk out in a long-running
dispute over the implementation of a
£300 million technology upgrade that
one senior judge has described as “a car
crash about to happen”.
Leaders of the Public and Commer-
cial Services Union have criticised the
system, known as the “common plat-
form”, claiming that it is causing chaos
as the courts face record delays. A
union official told The Times last month
that the system was “so flawed that it’s
almost like it’s got a mind of its own”.
The cloud-based system was de-
signed to replace software programs in
the courts. It is meant to allow judges,
the Crown Prosecution Service, the
police and the prison service to find
details of a case in one place.
Officials at HM Courts & Tribunal
Service began introducing the platform
two years ago. Union officials said it was
used in 65 of the 149 magistrates’ courts
in England and Wales.
Court staff have claimed that the
system suffers a range of glitches. In
some cases the terms of orders to pro-
tect victims of harassment have not
been recorded, leaving them at risk. In
others, staff say that additional charges
have been “magicked up” and added to
defendants’ records, causing confusion
with prison officials.
The union confirmed that all its
members at the 65 magistrates’ courts
where the system was operating would
walk out from October 22 to 30. The
strike was to be held several weeks ago
but it was deferred because of the
Queen’s death.
Union leaders said the courts service
had “paused” the implementation of
the system to allow for negotiations.
But officials had “pressed ahead with
the unpopular scheme”, they said.
Mark Serwotka, the union’s general
secretary, said: “We’ve been left with no
choice but to call strike action.”
He added that the common platform
was “simply unworkable”.
The system was “adversely affecting
our members’ health and their ability to
do their jobs and is detrimental to the
delivery of justice”, he said.
The union claimed that the court
service’s own data showed that staff
were working longer hours, sometimes
until midnight, to record results. The
system also operated in the crown
courts, where a senior judge agreed that
it was deeply flawed and blamed it for
“losing entries”, including guilty pleas.
The judge, who wanted to remain
anonymous, told The Times that court
service officials were going “to damage
the health of their staff and lose their
best personnel if they don’t address the
issue urgently”.
Officials at the Ministry of Justice
minimised the impact of the strike in
the magistrates’ courts later this
month, pointing out that only 142 of the
19,000 staff across the courts voted to
strike. The action is likely to bring cases
in those 65 courts to a halt, adding to
the backlog in the magistrates’ courts.
An official in the HM Courts & Tri-
bunals Service said: “We will continue
to work closely with all staff to support
them through this transition and want
to thank all the court staff, judges and
others who have contributed to its
design and implementation.”
Successive Conservative govern-
ments have been criticised by the legal
profession and justice campaigners
over a sell-off programme that has
closed more than half the magistrates’
courts in England and Wales since
2010. The strike comes as barristers
vote on a deal to end their six-month
dispute over criminal legal aid rates.
The ballot result is expected today.
the times | Monday October 10 2022
Leaders of charity backed
by duchess were paid £2m
Ben Ellery
A charity promoted by the Duchess of
Sussex is being investigated after it
emerged that the mother-and-
daughter leadership team were paid
almost £2 million in less than five years.
The Charity Commission is scrutin-
ising payments to Kate Robertson,
chief executive of One Young World
(OYW), and her daughter, Ella Robert-
son McKay, a managing director.
Last month, three days before the
Queen’s death, Harry and Meghan re-
leased a portrait of themselves at the
OYW conference in Manchester where
the duchess spoke of the importance of
young leaders, for whom the charity
describes itself as a “global forum”. Its
profile has been raised since Meghan
became one of its “counsellors” in 2014.
Annual filings reveal that Robertson,
67 today, received a £440,000 salary
and benefits package for the 18 months
to June 2021, despite the pandemic
having interrupted the charity’s sum-
mits, its largest source of funding.
Robertson McKay, 33, also chair-
woman of Conservative Young
Women, manages operations and
received £194,543 in salary and benefits
for the same period.
The commission said it had opened a
“regulatory compliance case to exam-
ine concerns about remuneration at
One Young World” after a
report by The Mail on Sun-
day. A spokesman said:
“All charities should be
able to look donors and
volunteers in the eye and
say how their decisions
about pay impact the
cause they pursue or
the people they help.”
The commission
said that opening a
compliance case did
not imply wrong-
Ella Robertston
McKay took home
more than £580,000
‘Knifeman’ killed by police
was a Romanian engineer
Fariha Karim
An electrical engineer was yesterday
identified as the victim of a police
shooting in Derby.
Marius Ciolac, 35, was shot in the car
park of Ascot Drive police station on
Friday morning after officers reported
seeing a man armed with a knife.
He was seen at 9.55am and by
10.03am he had been shot after armed
officers had been sent to the scene. He
was pronounced dead in hospital. No
one else was injured.
An investigation by the police watch-
dog, the Independent Office for Police
Conduct (IOPC), is under way. Police
are not treating the incident as terror-
related.
Ciolac, a Romanian who had been
living in Derby for several years, had
run a business, Home Builders and Es-
sential Electric, which dissolved in Feb-
ruary. He had received two county
court judgments in the past year and
was ordered to pay about £2,800.
Witnesses described a commotion at
the police station, which opened in
April. One woman, who works close to
the scene, said police cars rushed past
her shortly before Ciolac was shot.
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OLI SCARFF/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
doing but was a first step in studying son’s involvement, it added. OYW said
potential wrongdoing. It wrote to the Robertson’s salary had remained
trustees this year detailing its expectat- £190,000 since 2016. Robertston
ion that they took decisions about pay McKay has been awarded more than
carefully. There is no suggestion that £580,000 in pay and benefits between
the Sussexes knew of the pay levels. 2017 and 2021.
Robertson’s pro-rata remuneration David Jones, a trustee, said the char-
of £293,333 in 2020-21 was higher than ity “complied with Charity Commis-
some larger UK charities. It was sion regulations”. He said its executive
£60,000 more than the pay of the head salaries “are lower than the peer group
of Cancer Research UK, which employs charities and NGOs against which we
3,873 staff. OYW has 33 staff. benchmark ourselves”. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have appeared at One Young World events
In a podcast with her mother, Rob-
ertson McKay said: “We have a lot of
fun, we care so deeply about the mis-
sion of One Young World and obsess
about it as entrepreneurs do.”
During the pandemic the charity set
up a fund to help young people affected
by Covid and levied a 10 per cent “ad-
ministration fee” on donations.
OYW was founded in 2009 by Rob-
ertson and David Jones, both advertis-
ing executives. The charity says it has
created a network of more than 13,700
young leaders. Its summits have
attracted celebrities including Richard
Branson, Bob Geldof and Emma Wat-
son. Delegates are charged £3,150 for a
pass that includes lunch and dinner or
£4,210 with accommodation.
Revenue fell during the pandemic
after a summit due to be held in Munich
was delayed until July 2021. The ac-
counts show that despite not having
held a summit between 2020 and 2021
its top five bosses including Robertson
and her daughter were awarded almost
£1.4 million in pay and benefits. The
charity said that 84 per cent of the total
pay and benefits were deferred until the
next accounting period but con-
firmed that executives
would receive the full
amount.
It said that the sal-
aries of its leadership
team had been inde-
pendently audited
and approved by its
trustees. Robertson and
her daughter’s salaries are set
by the board without Robert-
The woman, who asked not to be
named, said: “We heard people shout-
ing, ‘put it down, stop, put it down’, then
a series of really loud gunshots, five or
six. It was pretty terrifying. We locked
the door straight away.”
Mark Baxter, 59, who works near by,
said: “We saw there was someone on
the ground with a guy stood over him
with a gun, a police officer with a rifle,
and then they shut the road off.
Another person said they saw police
pick up a knife from the road, but we
don’t know exactly what happened.”
Derbyshire Constabulary said: “On
Friday 7 October at 9.55am, officers re-
ported seeing a man armed with a knife
in the secure car park of Ascot Drive
police station. During the incident a
window was smashed at the police sta-
tion.
“Armed officers were sent to the
scene and a police firearm was then dis-
charged. Officers administered first aid
until paramedics attended the scene,
and the man was taken to hospital
where he was pronounced dead.”
Ciolac’s next of kin has been in-
formed and the force said it would be
co-operating fully with the IOPC’s in-
vestigation.
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Watchdog was missing in Vince Lea checks one of

the traps that have
helped water voles fight
back from the threat of

action, says nature charity American mink, far right

and email to the

volunteers whenever
an animal is caught.
Adam Vaughan Environment Editor insider at the regulator said: “The Covid This has enabled a
Checks running low excuse is nonsense as both agency and small team of
Rachel Salvidge
water companies were key workers, un- v
volunteers to cover
Inspections of water companies’
A charity has accused the Environment monitoring of sewage treatment works
less they class these inspections as very a
almost 10 per cent of
Agency of being “missing in action” at fell dramatically in 2020 and 2021 low priority. Also, inspections can al- E
England with more
the height of the pandemic after figures ways be made up over a year, and the t
than 620 traps in two
revealed inspections of companies’ 2015 467 agency chose not to.” y
years. To the team’s
monitoring at sewage treatment plants 2016 490 Most Covid-related restrictions were s
surprise, the trapping
fell off a cliff. 2017 398 relaxed in spring 2021. In another sign h stopped any mink
has
Each year the regulator inspects the 2018 439 that suggests the drop could have been from breeding inside
self-monitoring that water companies
undertake for discharges into rivers 2019 580
avoided if given greater priority, The
Times understands there were several
Hi-tech mink traps Norfolk and Suffolk
and reducing the
populations in nearby
from the 6,327 wastewater treatment
works across England and Wales to
2020
2021
223
334
attempts to make checks remotely.
One source at the regulator said throw a lifeline to counties.
ensure the data withstands scrutiny. resourcing was the problem. “The in- The numbers of
Between 2015 and 2019 there was an av-
erage of 475 inspections a year.
2022
*2022 includes data for the year to date
434

Source: The Environment Agency

spections side has been pared back to
the bone. The reason [for the fall] was a
sinking water voles mink caught has been
halved in Norfolk,
However, statistics released under reduction in resources to the agency.” Suffolk and
atty, the escaped from British Cambridgeshire in the

R
freedom of information rules show in- nies to tackle sewage spills is intensify- Colvin said: “We need strong regula-
spections more than halved in 2020, to ing. Last week Ranil Jayawardena, the tion. We need a regulator equipped to water vole fur farms and began past year to 82. No
223, before increasing last year to 334. environment secretary, vowed to in- do the job, and site visits are an essential from killing native wildlife. juveniles have been
The lack of oversight coincided with a crease maximum fines from £250,000 component of that work.” Kenneth All has seemed lost trapped in Norfolk
period of water pollution incidents in to £250 million. Philip Dunne, Tory chairman of the Grahame’s for the mammal but a and Suffolk this
English rivers that led the Environment Inspections have recovered this year. environmental audit committee, which The Wind in the small team of autumn, when they
Agency to threaten water bosses with There have been 434 already, suggest- published a damning report on the state Willows, has been conservationists is on would normally be
jail sentences. ing that figures will return to pre-pan- of England’s rivers in January, said: “It is given new hope in his course to clear mink leaving their mothers.
Christine Colvin, from The Rivers demic levels by the end of the year. clear reliance on self-monitoring has fight against from East Anglia. The The volunteers are
Trust, said: “Self-monitoring by the A spokesperson for the Environment been part of the problem of sewage dis- extinction at the team believes its seeing water vole
water companies can only work in a Agency said: “Site inspections of waste- charges in recent years. It is therefore hands of an American success could be return to areas where
highly transparent and accountable water treatment works ran at a reduced more important than ever that audits invader (Will replicated across the they have been
environment. This was missing in rate during the pandemic in line with and inspections carried out by the En- Humphries writes). country and the world. missing for decades.
action during 2020 and 2021 with the government advice to minimise the risk vironment Agency are robust.” Water vole numbers The secret weapon Tony Martin,
low level of visits. to staff, water company personnel and 6 Thousands of Environment Agency have fallen by 90 per is the smart trap — a emeritus professor of
“It’s now clear that complacency can- the public. This does not mean that reg- staff are to be balloted on a potential cent in the past 40 floating cage laced animal conservation
not continue and the public want ur- ulation decreased.” strike over pay, the Unison union said. years after thousands with mink scent that at Dundee University,
gent action to stop sewage pollution.” However, sources said that inspec- This year workers voted to reject an of- of American mink sends a text message has led the effort
Political pressure on water compa- tions could have been prioritised. One fer of 2 per cent plus an additional £345.
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be a conservation
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theyy have pretty turn up,” he said. get the “Sunday Scaries”, where they
much gone [in “This year the dread the week ahead, according to a
N orfolk and Suffolk]
Norfolk absence of males has poll for a government campaign.
in the spspace of two and meant females started About 65 per cent felt unease on a
a half yea
years. Our best to move to find mates Sunday — rising to 74 per cent for those
guess is tthere are so and the females being aged 18 to 24 — with causes given as
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banner off ffew malesl left that caught in the core work worries, lack of sleep and looming
Waterlife Recovery reproduction has area this year are not to-do lists, the poll of more than 4,000
East, a partnership pretty much come to pregnant.” people found.
between water an end. If we can roll The project has The Office for Health Improvement
management this out across achieved its results and Disparities (OHID) has launched a
companies, wildlife England and the rest with a £230,000 grant Better Health — Every Mind Matters
charities and of the UK — and from the Department campaign urging people to do small
conservationists. potentially the world for Environment’s things to help their mental well-being.
Martin saved the — the consequences Green Recovery Fund Thérèse Coffey, the health secretary,
most important are profound.” in 2020 and £100,000 said: “My focus is on making sure
penguin and seabird Their barometer of from water people can get the care they need, when
colony when he rid the success is no mink management they need it — and that includes for
island of South breeding for a year in companies. their mental well-being.”
Georgia, near the core eradication Funding for the NHS trusts said they were facing
Antarctica, of rats. It area of 6,000sq km of project ran out in growing demand for mental health ser-
was the world’s largest Norfolk and Suffolk. March so the partners vices amid a severe shortage of staff.
mammal eradication This year they have have been internally Saffron Cordery, NHS Providers’ in-
project, requiring a gone six months funding it since then. terim chief executive, said: “While a
£10 million operation without trapping a Martin said they campaign supporting people’s personal
over ten years. juvenile and very few were seeking well-being is welcome, trusts are con-
He thought wiping females trapped this government help. cerned about the effect of rising in-
out mink might year are pregnant. “We want to clear equality on people’s mental health.
require the same level Mink numbers in England, Wales and “There are almost 1.8 million people
of tenacity. But he said Lincolnshire, then Scotland,” he on mental health waiting lists. Over-
he was “flabbergasted” Cambridgeshire and said. “I am hoping stretched services face severe work-
by what had been Essex have also what we pioneer here force shortages while people’s needs
accomplished so far. dropped dramatically. in East Anglia will be are becoming more serious and more
“Eradicating mink Vince Lea, head of replicated around the complex.”
in East Anglia would wildlife monitoring for world.” ‘Help, I’ve got the Sunday Scaries’,
Times 2, page 2
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Vaccine chief reveals fury over Hancock’s ‘Jekyll and Hyde ambush’
Charlotte Wace
The former head of the Covid Vaccine
Taskforce has described being “stuck to
the ceiling with fury” after an “extra-
ordinary ambush” by Matt Hancock.
Dame Kate Bingham, who received
widespread praise for her role in pro-
curing millions of jabs, described how
the former health secretary “had trad-
ed in Dr Jekyll for Mr Hyde” during a
“tirade” at a meeting where he had
Long-haul holidays taking off again
Ben Clatworthy
Transport Correspondent, Marrakesh
Britons craving a dose of sunshine and
escapism are booking trips to far-flung
countries in their droves.
Bookings for long-haul holidays have
bounced back as more countries drop
strict Covid-19 rules, tour operators and
airlines have reported.
The high-street operator Kuoni said
that bookings to India, Kenya and
Costa Rica had surged in the past two
months as Britons became “more
optimistic about planning more
complex multi-centre travel arrange-
ments”.
Thailand and Japan, both of which
have eased their Covid-19 entry re-
quirements in recent weeks, are also
witnessing an uptick in demand.
Skyscanner, the world’s biggest flight
booking platform, also reported that
bookings to long-haul destinations
were out-performing 2019, the last pre-
pandemic year. Bookings to Belize were
up 133 per cent compared with 2019, it
said, Mexico was up 78 per cent and the
Maldives 72 per cent.
The shift has been hailed as a mile-
stone in the reopening of global travel.
Across the sector, businesses witnessed
a trend towards short-haul “familiar”
destinations as travel restrictions ini-
tially eased. Industry bosses said it had
been driven because of holidaymakers’
fears that Covid-19 rules would change
at the last-minute.
Speaking on the eve of the Abta trav-
el convention in Morocco, Francis Tor-
rilla, Kuoni’s chief executive, said: “A
thirst for exploration is definitely back
in play for British travellers and there’s
been a notable shift even in recent
weeks.
“Many people have put their big holi-
day plans on hold for three years. This
time last year people were booking
more direct ‘A to B’ flights to destin-
ations which were open for travel and
opting for safer, more straightforward
trips. They were just happy to just be on
Poor health puts 200,000 out of work Too chilly to WFH? Now you
Ali Mitib
About 200,000 older workers have left
employment because of ill health since
the pandemic began, a study suggests.
The analysis by the Health Founda-
tion showed that the nation’s underly-
ing ill health, not long Covid or extend-
ed waiting lists, was the primary reason
for the rise in older workers leaving
their jobs.
The charity’s report found that by the
second quarter of this year, 200,000
workers aged between 50 and 69 had
left employment due to ill health, which
it defined as when people reported that
they were sick, injured or disabled.
The Health Foundation said that
rising retirement ages and falling inac-
tivity before the pandemic masked the
growing number of people aged
between 50 and 64 who were inactive
2GM
questioned her competence. Bingham,
56, said it happened in June 2020 after
she had assembled a team of experts.
The venture capitalist had been
invited to a video meeting of a Covid
committee chaired by Michael Gove.
In an article for The Mail on Sunday,
Bingham said she had approached
Hancock for advice beforehand and he
had been friendly, but when the meet-
ing began “he started by suddenly say-
ing he couldn’t understand why I
Tourists are travelling further afield again with sights such as Kilimanjaro driving a surge in recent bookings to Kenya
holiday again after the upset and tur-
moil of the pandemic.”
The resurgence of long-haul is being
reported across the industry, despite
looming fears over the cost of living
crisis.
Privately travel bosses are concerned
that sales will slide again over the win-
ter as households’ lockdown savings
pots are wiped out by inflation and the
because of their health. By the start of
2020, there were an additional 110,000
older workers who were no longer
working on health grounds compared
with 2014.
The study found that the proportion
of people inactive with a long-term
health condition after the pandemic
was 64 per cent, up one percentage
point on the pre-pandemic figure.
The Health Foundation said that the
increase in poor health and economic
inactivity will be worrying to employers
because it restricts the labour supply
and economic growth.
It has called on the government to
provide tailored support to address
health barriers to work faced by eco-
nomically inactive people, include a
strategy to retain older workers, and
commit to publishing the health dispar-
ities white paper to address inequalities
thought people his age — namely mid-
40s — wouldn’t want, or indeed de-
mand, a Covid vaccine for themselves”.
Bingham, whose book The Long Shot
is being published later this month,
found the intervention “puzzling” and
told him the taskforce would not decide
who would be offered the first jabs.
“In a second tirade, he said he ‘could
not believe’ that I’d ordered only
30 million doses of the Oxford-
AstraZeneca vaccine for delivery in
price of energy. Simon Lynch, sales
director at the luxury tour operator
Scott Dunn, however, said “long-haul
travel is certainly back” pointing to the
fact that bookings for African dest-
inations were double those of 2019.
Sales to Latin America were up 20 per
cent.
The cruise sector, which suffered
from negative headlines at the begin-
that exist between older people in the
workplace.
Alice Major, an analyst at the Health
Foundation who led the research, said
that the study revealed that there was a
“longer-term issue with rising levels of
ill health which can’t all be placed on
Covid-19”.
She said: “Increasing numbers of old-
er workers are being forced out of work
due to ill health. Covid has played a fac-
tor, through long Covid and the health-
care backlogs, but our analysis shows
the problem goes back to before the
pandemic.
“If the government’s growth plan is to
achieve its overall aims, it must treat
health and wealth as inseparable. Fo-
cusing on supporting people with ill
health back into employment can boost
labour supply and make a substantive
contribution to growth.”
September 2020.” The deal had been
“largely agreed” with Oxford and
AstraZeneca before her arrival, she
said. When she said it would be “a
miracle” if they received those
doses by Christmas, Hancock
“simply snapped”.
Although Bingham held
Dame Kate Bingham wrote
of her shock at the former
health secretary’s “tirades”
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ning of the pandemic, is also reporting
a strong bounce back.
Uniworld, which operates river cruis-
es, reported that India, Egypt, Venice,
Bordeaux, Vietnam and Cambodia
were its bestselling destinations for
next year.
There is uncertainty over the via-
bility of holidays to India after the
country moved to require Britons to
can spend all day at the pub
Ali Mitib, Dominic Walsh
Venues are offering “work from pub” —
or WFP — packages in an effort to stay
afloat as property experts say that
rising energy prices are forcing 50 each
month to close permanently.
Young’s, a national pub chain, offers
packages for £15 a day at 185 of its out-
lets. They usually include a sandwich,
lunch and unlimited tea and coffee.
WFP is proving popular with em-
ployees who are unable to shoulder the
energy costs of working from home but
are unwilling to return to the office.
Luke McMillan runs Sea Sense,
which sells biodegradable rubber flip-
flops, and began working from The
Flintgate, in Weybridge, Surrey, after
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responsibility for buying the jabs, she
was not responsible for the develop-
ment of the vaccine or its rollout.
Neither was she in any of the signifi-
cant meetings about the rollout.
A spokesman for Hancock said
the vaccine effort was “a mas-
sive success and a huge team
effort” and that he was “proud
that he insisted that everyone
across the UK had access to a
vaccine”.
Comparison of year-to-date
vs 2019
Belize +133%
Mexico +78%
Maldives +72%
Jordan +71%
Tanzania
+64%
have full visas after Brexit. Arrivals
from European Union countries are
eligible for a visa waiver scheme. Travel
associations are now urging officials
there to grant the UK permission to
join in its own right.
Obtaining a full Indian visa is a com-
plex process, processing delays are run-
ning to many months and there is a lack
of appointments at the embassy in
London.
Some travel companies have been
forced to suspend sales to the country,
including Tui, the UK’s largest oper-
ator, which has cancelled all departures
to Goa. It has added new holidays to
Senegal as a result.
“People are now exploring further
afield,” said Julia Lo Bue-Said, the chief
executive of The Advantage Travel
Partnership, the largest group of
independent agents. She said: “As more
destinations have opened to tourism
and with Covid restrictions easing,
we’ve seen a resurgence in long-haul
traffic.
“There has been a pent-up demand
for long-haul travel given [that] it’s been
a limited option for two years and we
are seeing an increase in bookings
reflecting this.
“The US, even with the weakened
pound, is still our fourth bestselling des-
tination. Agents are also selling more
now to Asia and 20 per cent of all 2023
sales are for long-haul travel.”
What the pandemic has changed about
relationships, Times2
he gave up his formal office space this
year to cut costs.
The pub offers a £15 “work and play”
deal, which comes with the use of
power sockets, quiet stations, unlimited
tea and coffee, lunch and a pint or gin
and tonic at the end of the day.
He told The Observer: “I find working
from the kitchen table soul-destroying.
The pub is great for its laidback atmos-
phere, and the best bit is that you get to
bond with other pub workers.”
Figures from the property adviser
Altus Group show that 150 pubs have
closed in England and Wales in the past
three months. Robert Hayton, from the
company, said there were “glaring
omissions” in last month’s mini-budget.
Eateries struggle, Business, pages 40-41
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From left: Robert Garwe, Shauna Flanagan Garwe, Martin McGill, Martina Martin, Leona Harper, Catherine O’Donnell and her son James Monaghan, Hugh Kelly, above, James O’Flaherty and Jessica Gallagher
Girl who died in
blast was buying
a birthday cake
Fariha Karim
A series of vigils were being held last
night for the victims of an explosion at
a petrol station that killed ten people,
including a mother of four and a five-
year-old girl buying a birthday cake for
her mother.
Police released pictures of the ten
who had lost their lives after the explo-
sion in the small village of Creeslough,
Co Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland,
on Friday afternoon.
Another man in his 20s, the boy-
friend of one of those killed, was fight-
ing for his life last night at St James’s
Hospital in Dublin. Seven survivors
being treated in Letterkenny Univers-
ity Hospital were in a stable condition.
The petrol station housed the only
shop and cashpoint in the area
10 miles
Atlantic Ocean Ten killed in
gas explosion
Creeslough
N IRELAND
DONEGAL
IRELAND
Donegal
Milk-pouring activists charged
Charlotte Wace
Vegan activists suspected of pouring
milk on the floor and food displays of
Selfridges and Fortnum & Mason last
week have been charged with theft and
criminal damage.
Steve Bone, 40, a photographer from
Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, and Sofia Fer-
nandes Pontes, 26, a student from the
Portuguese territory of Madeira, are
activists with Animal Rebellion. They
were arrested in Green Park on Satur-
day after officers spotted them in a
crowd during protests. They are said to
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The blast happened at about 3.20pm
at the Applegreen service station and
convenience store, the only shop and
petrol station in the area, housing the
only ATM. The explosion was said to
have been heard from miles around and
three floors of the complex of residen-
tial apartments above the shop and pet-
rol station fell into one another.
The police are treating the explosion
as an accident, although Superintend-
ent David Kelly of Milford Garda dis-
trict said officers had to keep an open
mind. Local reports have speculated
that a gas canister in one of the flats
may have exploded.
Shauna Flanagan Garwe, 5, who had
gone to buy a birthday cake for her
mother, was killed with her father,
Robert Garwe, 50, a construction work-
er originally from Wedza in Zimbabwe.
Friends said that Leona Harper, a 14-
year-old rugby player and Liverpool FC
fan who was killed, had gone to pick up
an ice cream ready for a sleepover.
Catherine O’Donnell, 39, and her son
James Monaghan, 13, were identified as
victims of the blast, having called in at
the shop on the way home from school.
Martina Martin, 49, a mother of four,
is understood to have been working at
the counter. James O’Flaherty, 48, an
engineering director and father of one
from Dunfanaghy in Co Donegal, origi-
nally from Sydney in Australia, also
died. Hughie Kelly, 60, a local construc-
tion worker, was said to have left the
shop to get something from his car
when the explosion went off.
Tributes were also paid to Jessica
Gallagher, 24, a designer who was
studying in Belfast and returned home
after living in Paris. Her boyfriend,
Conor McFadden, was in a critical con-
dition at St James’s Hospital last night.
have entered Fortnum & Mason on Pic-
cadilly at 11.35am on Friday before
taking milk from the shelves and emp-
tying it on to the floor of the shop.
A video showed them being escorted
to the exit by security staff. They are
then said to have entered Selfridges on
Oxford Street and were filmed pouring
milk over a cheese display.
A total of 27 people were arrested at
the weekend in connection with pro-
tests by Animal Rebellion. Activists
vandalised hunting shops with paint as
hundreds of campaigners marched
from Green Park to Piccadilly Circus.
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Rape claims against
model agency boss
‘need court hearing’
Ben Ellery
A British journalist will call for models
to have their rape allegations against a
former boss of one of the world’s top
modelling agencies heard in court.
Lisa Brinkworth and eight other
alleged victims of Gérald Marie, the
former European head of Elite, will
urge MEPs to join demands for the
statute of limitations in France to be
extended from 20 years.
Brinkworth, who claims that she was
abused by Marie while filming an
undercover report for the BBC about
the fashion industry, will make her
appeal at the European parliament.
Although the alleged offence against
her happened more than 20 years ago
the case in France has remained open
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The journalist
Lisa Brinkworth,
who says she
was assaulted
while working for
the BBC more
than 20 years
ago, is calling for
the statute of
limitations to be
extended in
France
because French lawyers argued that a
BBC settlement with the Elite model
agency over the documentary prevent-
ed her from speaking out sooner.
Although her case is still live, she said
she would not proceed with it unless all
the other victims can be heard as wit-
nesses. She said: “It is crucial that all the
voices of these women are heard, since
they were abused at such a young age
and were not protected by an industry
that is still unregulated.”
The women, who call themselves
Victorious Angels, will present their
case for reforms to MEPs at a three-
hour conference this month.
Marie, 72, former husband of the
supermodel Linda Evangelista, has
strenuously denied the claims against
him. Brinkworth, who will be joined by
victims of Jean-Luc Brunel, a model
scout who killed himself in his prison
cell while awaiting trial, said: “We have
all experienced violence at the hands of
these former model agents.
“Having finally found our voices to
speak out against their conduct and tell
our stories about what happened to us
decades ago, the Gérald Marie victims
find ourselves thwarted by the statute
of limitations in France, which contin-
ues to protect our abuser. Now we are
dedicating our long-term mission to
help make Europe a safer place and
ensure that future victims of sexual vio-
lence have legal remedies open to them
that are being denied to us.”
The conference is being co-ordinat-
ed by Omar Harfouch, a former Elite
shareholder who has provided a wit-
ness statement against Marie to the
police. He said: “We will be asking for a
public debate around the issue of the
statute of limitations . . . We will ask all
member countries to harmonise laws
that we are proposing to assist future
generations of victims obtain justice.”
The original Elite has since been split
into two separate companies, with both
entities under new ownership.
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Strictly judge
wore jewellery
‘worth £58,000’
Charlotte Wace
A judge on the BBC’s Strictly Come
Dancing appeared on the show wearing
luxury jewellery worth £58,000 that
can cost up to £1,000 to rent, it has been
claimed.
Motsi Mabuse, 41, wore four expen-
sive pieces from Boodles during an epi-
sode this month. This was said to have
included £15,600 hoop earrings, a
£14,300 ring, a £10,000 bangle and
another bangle worth £18,300.
Mabuse, who is paid £200,000 per
The expensive
pieces included
£15,600 earrings
series, is said to receive a “generous”
clothing budget from BBC Studios, the
commercial arm that makes the show.
This covered the cost of borrowing the
jewellery, The Mail on Sunday reported.
The Boodles items could cost more
than £1,000 to rent, but it is understood
that the sum paid was much less.
Mabuse’s stylist, Sinead McKeefry,
also faced criticism for plugging
Boodles online. The BBC said: “The
BBC has clear guidelines in place which
we take very seriously. We have spoken
to those concerned and their social
media posts have been amended.”
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£50m delay puts Oxford name change on hold
Ben Ellery
Plans to change an Oxford college’s
name to that of the woman behind a
Vietnamese “bikini” airline in ex-
change for a £155 million endowment
are in doubt, it has been suggested.
Linacre College disclosed in Novem-
ber it would become Thao College in
honour of Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao,
the president of Sovico Group.
The first £50 million n instal
instal-
ment that was to have been
paid by June 30 has not
arrived, however, ac- c-
cording to The Sunday
Telegraph. It is feared
that Thao has had a
change of mind after
negative publicity
and doubts the name
would be changed.
The college’s princi--
pal, bursar and develop-p-
ment director went to
Vietnam last month th to
Headstones uprooted by
council over safety fears
Charlie Moloney
Cemetery headstones have been taken
down by a North Yorkshire council in a
health and safety purge on 50,000
graves.
Some mourners at first believed that
plots had been attacked by vandals, but
small stickers on the stones explained
that council workers had uprooted
them and laid them on the ground.
Safety checks have been introduced
in recent years to stop heavy memorials
from falling on people. Many of the
affected headstones, in Scarborough,
were little over knee height, prompting
outrage from families. The checks,
which the council said would subject
any memorial more than 45cm (18ins)
to a “gentle push”, took place at three of
the town’s cemeteries.
So-called topple tests are carried out
by workers who stand next to memori-
als and push them to see if they are un-
steady, but pictures on social media
suggested that all headstones more
than 45cm tall had been targeted.
In some cases the bases were still in
the ground and plaques appear to have
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secure the deal, the newspaper said. A investigation was closed and the De- named after Thomas Linacre, the hu- said: “We are working with Sovico and
source said: “If she doesn’t get the name partment for Education (DfE) officials manist and physician. their financial advisers to develop pro-
change she could pull out.” praised the level of due diligence Thao, 52, began building her fortune cesses for the transfer of funds that are
The insider added that “doubt over undertaken by Linacre College. while at the Plekhanov Russian Uni- transparent, auditable and meet with
the name change and the adverse pub- The college cannot be renamed with- versity of Economics in Moscow, where all the legal requirements of both UK
licity” was the most likely reason for the out permission from the Privy Council, she imported fax machines, plastic and and Vietnamese governments.
delay in payment. of which Lewis is a member. Alumni of rubber into the Soviet Union. She “Finding a fiscal solution that works
Thao said when the donation was an- the college are also campaigning launched VietJet Air in 2007. has caused some delay. We are now put-
nounced: “Oxford is the right place to against the name change. It was the first privately run, low-cost ting all the relevant processes and pa-
make my long-time desire to contribute Thao and the college have an agree- airline in Vietnam and became known perwork in place to transfer the funds.”
to humanity through education, train- ment that the institution will “use as the “bikini airline” after it ran an ad- A DfE spokesman said: “We have
ing and res
research come true.” reasonable endeavours” to change its vertising campaign featuring flight already tabled an amendment that ad-
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ernm
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quiry into the donation It notes that this is “subject to the col- billionaire, is president of Sovico higher education, without stifling the
aft Julian Lewis, the
after lege receiving” Privy Council consent”. Group, parent company of VietJet Air. ability of our world-class universities to
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Tory MP for New Linacre College, founded in 1962, is A spokesman for Linacre College work with global partners.”
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in the Commons
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flew products into Moscow
been wrenched away, with their corners
broken. Home Office rules say that
relatives should be properly informed if
graves are disturbed.
Dawn Jordan, 52, learned the head-
stone commemorating her mother, Bri-
die Jordan, 61, who died in 2003, had
been uprooted when she saw the rows
of flattened headstones on Facebook.
Memorials for her sister, Karen Jordan,
who died aged 36 in 2000, and another
relative, were also uprooted.
She said: “I just think it’s disgusting
that they can just push these over with-
out consulting anyone. I have to get in
touch with the stone masons the cre-
matorium have told me to use and they
have to go look at the grave and give me
a quote on how much it will cost to
re-erect the gravestone.”
Scarborough council said its “sensi-
tive audit” began in July and that “com-
munications were carried out from
early June to give people plenty of no-
tice”. This included letters to families
when they could be identified, signs,
media releases and social media posts,
information on its website and an arti-
cle in the council newsletter.
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Leanne Fridd and her
husband Dan were
A surprise donation shocked by the donation
from Russell Crowe
worth crowing about and made us feel so
valued,” she said.
hen she received an “We were already on
News
months ago had
donated £100. “It’s
those things that are
just mind-blowing,”
Fridd said. The shop
had overcome various
hurdles in the
pandemic, she said,

W Leanne
Fridd, the
director of
an independent
bookshop, started a
“insane” £5,000
donation from the
actor Russell Crowe.
Fridd, 43, was hoping
to raise £15,000 for her
a high and then we saw
that and we were just
like, ‘what is
happening?’ This is
insane.”
and staff hours have
been cut.
While the £15,000
will not fix all of the
shop’s woes it will
crowdfunding Bookbugs And Dragon Fridd, whose mean an end to Fridd
campaign last week it Tales store in Norwich. husband Dan, 47, “scrabbling around
was a last-ditch “My husband and I works at Edelweiss, worrying ‘am I going to
attempt to save her were already incredibly a company that be able to pay this
business (Valentine shocked, amazed and supports bill?’.”
Low writes). thrilled because so independent It is not the first time
Within six hours its many people have said bookshops, said Crowe has displayed
future looked a lot so many lovely things that she has out-of-the-blue
more promising after and been so generous, “cried at every generosity. In 2020 he
single donation gave $5,000 to the
from one pound Beirut restaurant Le
to the £5,000 because Chef after it was
we know people are damaged in a blast.
struggling and we’re In 2009 he gave £1,000
struggling a bit as to a Cancer Research
well”. UK shop in Surrey
She said someone while shooting Ridley
whose house had Scott’s Robin Hood
burnt down six near by.

Booker celebrates
golden touch of
first winner’s wife
David Sanderson Arts Correspondent
The gold paint obsession of the wife of
the first Booker Prize winner is to be
celebrated with a recreation of “the
long-forgotten” trophy created for the
literary award over 50 years ago.
Joan Newby, whose husband P.H.
Newby won in 1969 with Something to
Answer For, spray-painted the 60cm
high trophy gold. It was used by the
family as a plant stand and key holder.
The trophy, designed by Jan Pien-
kowski, the illustrator of the Meg and
Mog children’s books, was later cut
down in size and it is unclear whether it
was in the 1970s or 1980s that winners
stopped receiving one. Up until last
year, the winners, on top of the £50,000
first prize, got a perspex panel.
Following the death of Pienkowski
this year, the Booker Prize Foundation
tracked down the trophy and enlisted
the help of the Factum Foundation,
which uses high-resolution digital re-
cording to recreate cultural heritage.
While the original was silver, the recre-
ation will be gold. It will also be smaller.
“When I was growing up
I remember it being used
to put keys in,” Gabriel
Schenk, Newby’s grand-
son said. “And my grand-
mother had sprayed it gold.
She went through a phase of
spraying everything gold —
she would have sprayed her
daughters gold if they had
stood still long enough.”
According to Booker legend, Pi-
enkowski used an art deco lamp he
bought at Portobello Market in
London as the basis for the design.
Schenk was convinced the original
lamp’s “pair” appeared in an epi-
sode of Poirot.
Schenk took the trophy to an An-
tiques Roadshow event. “It was de-
scribed as having a bum bypass,” he
said. “There is no bottom on the
woman at all. But it is an incredible
shape. I think they said it was price-
less, or at least impossible to put a
value on.”
P.H. Newby’s trophy was sprayed gold.
Recent winners got a perspex panel
Gaby Wood, director of the Booker
Prize Foundation, said they had wanted
to commemorate Pienkowski, adding
that there may be a competition to de-
sign a new trophy. “It will be reissued in
gold, that is now part of the folklore.
“But for the future we have been talk-
ing about doing something different
and we may not use the ‘Booker Girl’
[holding up the bowl.”
Adam Lowe, founder of the Factum
Foundation, said the original had been
recorded using high-resolution photo-
grammetry to capture
“shape and surface”.
A stereolithography 3D
printing system was used
to create a resin replica.
“We will cast it in pewter and
goldplate it,” he said. “It will
be a nice, heavy, golden
trophy.”
The trophy is to be present-
ed to the winner on October 17.
The shortlisted writers are Claire
Keegan, Percival Everett, Alan
Garner, NoViolet Bulawayo, She-
han Karunatilaka and Elizabeth
Strout. All six will receive £2,500
and a specially bound copy of
their novel.
Lowe said that unlike other
cultural statues such as the Os-
cars, the Booker Trophy “is actu-
ally a great design”.
“It is a beautiful way to cele-
brate books and sculpture.” And
the spray-painting habits of writ-
ers’ spouses.
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Chatterley
embraces
emotional
intelligence
Film Kevin Maher
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
London Film Festival
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Lock up your servants. It’s that time
again. Another Lady Chatterley is
here. And this one, unlike most
previous outings (see the kitschy Ken
Russell version with Joely Richardson
and Sean Bean, or the French version
with Sylvia Kristel), is immensely
subtle and moving.
The French director Laure de
Clermont-Tonnerre, together with
the American screenwriter David
Magee (Finding Neverland), has deftly
diluted the central phwoariness that’s
found in Lawrence’s novel and most
adaptations, namely the depiction of
a repressed aristo whose life is
transformed by a couple of woodland
knee-tremblers with a brutish
gamekeeper. This works in Lawrence,
Theatre abused over antisemitism play
Ali Mitib
Royal Court theatre staff have been
subjected to antisemitic abuse over the
venue’s decision to stage a play high-
lighting the problem in British society.
The London theatre is
showing Jews. In Their Own
Words, by the thriller writer
and Guardian columnist
Jonathan Freedland. The
drama is based on his inter-
views with 12 British Jews.
Freedland has said that the
play is “cause for celebra-
tion” but the theatre has
been subjected to anti-
semitic trolling and “horri-
ble” abuse over the phone
and social media with the
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where interior impulses breathe and
contract over 400 richly discursive
pages. But on screen the tacky trope
has always leant more towards Carry
On than A Room with a View.
Not any more. The film-makers
have made the lovers a more
equitable, interesting pair. This
staff being accused of betrayal. Freed-
land told The Jewish Chronicle that as
soon as The Guardian announced the
play “the trolls were out in force”. Staff
at the Royal Court were “resilient” in
the face of the abuse, he said. “But some
said that, horrible as it was, it was also
very validating, confirming much [of]
what the play was saying and indeed
the necessity of staging it.”
Louisa Clien, an actress in the play,
said a friend had received hateful mes-
sages after tweeting about the show. “It
brought it all home to both of us
and showed why the play had
to be written,” she said.
Jonathan Freedland said
the abuse showed why
the play was important
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gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors (Jack
O’Connell, never better), is
intellectually elevated and, though
typically surly in appearance, spends
nights alone reading James Joyce.
Mellors is first introduced in tiny
glimpses, haunting the edges of
Wragby Hall, the estate of the
“Some of the stuff these total strangers
wrote to this friend of mine was
horrific.”
The Jewish actress Tracy-Ann Ober-
man, who inspired Freedland to write
the drama, tweeted: “Can’t begin to tell
you about the abuse Jonathan Freed-
land and I have received from the
moment this production was
announced.”
The play analyses antisemitism by
depicting British Jews such as the
novelist Howard Jacobson, who won
the Booker Prize, the former Labour
MP Luciana Berger and Oberman, who
has starred in EastEnders.
The play also scrutinises the Royal
Court Theatre’s chequered history. It
had to apologise last year when a
wealthy character in the play Rare
Emma Corrin is
a sympathetic
Lady Chatterley
opposite Jack
O’Connell as the
gamekeeper
Oliver Mellors in
the latest film
adaptation of DH
Lawrence’s novel
wounded First World War veteran Sir
Clifford Chatterley (Matthew
Duckett) and his new wife, Constance
(Emma Corrin, aka Princess Diana
from The Crown). Before she meets
Mellors (30 minutes in) Constance
has endured disappointments and
humiliations, acting as Clifford’s
Earth Mettle was called Hershel Fink.
The name was changed to Henry Finn
following accusations of antisemitism
and “unconscious bias”.
It was later revealed that those
involved in the play had warned that
the name could face criticism for
perpetuating harmful stereotypes
about Jews.
In 2009 the theatre staged Seven
Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza, written
by Caryl Churchill in response to the
killing of more than a thousand
Palestinians during Israel’s war with
Hamas from 2008 to 2009. The Board
of Deputies of British Jews described
the ten-minute drama as “horrifically
anti-Israel” and “beyond the bounda-
ries of reasonable political discourse”.
Freedland, who is Jewish, said the
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When Constance eventually
connects with Mellors (they bond
over newly hatched pheasant chicks
and a love of privacy), it is thus an
emotionally sophisticated union, and
not just a guttural jaunt. And yes, the
film briefly pivots around four
centrepiece sex sequences (some
female critics have been calling them
“hot”, but I prefer “effective”) that
chart the couple’s emotional growth
(from missionary to acrobatic), but
they never once feel exploitative.
It helps that Corrin is astoundingly
sympathetic as Constance. The
nonbinary star delivers a wounded
and profoundly ingenuous turn that
always keeps the character’s central
dilemma (torn between two men and
two class systems) in sight. There’s a
new mushier ending, too. It’s a shift,
in essence, from Lawrence to Mills &
Boon. But with a couple this
compelling, and chemistry this
convincing, they deserve a break.
In cinemas from November 25 and
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theatre had learnt from its mistakes.
“We are, rightly, quick to point out
when public institutions cause us hurt
and fail to take responsibility.” he said.
“The Royal Court has taken respons-
ibility and not just by issuing a state-
ment, which would have been easy, but
in the most powerful way it knows, by
putting its full weight and prestige be-
hind a play that puts the British Jewish
experience front and centre, that liter-
ally listens to Jews, in their own words.”
After the premiere of Freedland’s
play last month Oberman told The
Daily Telegraph that the theatre had
been “quite upsetting for the Jewish
community for a number of years”. She
added that it was never too late to learn.
The Royal Court Theatre declined to
comment.
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Student banned from taking her baby to campus

Charlotte Wace
One of the world’s top art schools
refused to let a student mother bring
her newborn baby to campus and
breastfeed her in lectures.
Jasmijn Toffano, 29, has accused
Central Saint Martins of discrimina-
tion after being told that her daughter,
Chloe, who is less than two months old,
could not accompany her.
Central Saint Martins, whose alumni
include Stella McCartney and the late
Alexander McQueen, is part of Uni-
versity of the Arts London (UAL),
ranked as number two in the world for
art and design. Toffano, 29, a second-
year student studying graphic commu-
nication design, is submitting a formal
complaint into the handling of her case
and has started a campaign urging the
university to change its policies. She in-
tends to place posters around campus
and expand it to other universities.
Campaigners said they frequently re-
ceived reports of higher education in-
stitutions that were unwilling to make
adequate breastfeeding provisions.
Toffano quit her retail job to study at
Central Saint Martins. She told staff
that she was pregnant in January before
having further conversations in May.
She wanted to breastfeed Chloe, her
second child, but was also determined
LUCY YOUNG FOR THE TIMES
not to take a year out. “My husband is
the only one working now and this
would delay everything,” she said.
She said she had been led to under-
stand that Chloe could accompany her,
but just before the new term UAL said
a formal decision had not been made.
Toffano, who has excelled on the
course, continued to attend classes. Her
husband, when still on paternity leave,
commuted with her from St Albans. He
would spend the day in a café with the
baby and Toffano would join him
between lectures to breastfeed.
Last week UAL told her that having
Chloe on campus “will not be permit-
ted” as it is “deemed to be in direct con-
travention of the university’s ‘children
on site’ policy”, a document that ap-
pears to have been written more than 13
years ago.
Toffano has been unable to find a
nursery near her home. “We are
searching for a nanny and I will have to
stop breastfeeding,” she said.
Ros Bragg, of Maternity Action, said
Toffano’s experience was not an isolat-
ed one and UAL’s actions were “deeply
disappointing”. She said: “Under the
Equality Act 2010, it is discrimination
for a service provider to treat a woman
unfavourably because she is breast-
feeding. The university should look
carefully at its policies and take action
to ensure that its policies are both law-
ful and in line with good practice.”
UAL said it had apologised to Toffa-
no for the conflicting information she
had received but that its campuses were
“filled with equipment and machinery
which create a potentially dangerous
environment” for babies and that it
“cannot guarantee their safety”. It said
it was attempting to make adjustments
to support her and had offered her a pri-
vate room for expressing milk.
Policies differ across institutions.
Some will carry out a risk assessment if
a breastfeeding request is made. Others
specify that breastfeeding is not usually
permitted during lectures.

Jasmijn Toffano says she will have to stop breastfeeding her daughter, Chloe

BBC actress to build home

in father’s Ghanaian village
Richard Assheton Lagos
The actress Michaela Coel has revealed
that she plans to build a house in her
father’s ancestral village in Ghana.
Coel, who wrote the Bafta and Emmy
award-winning BBC series I May Des-
troy You about her experience of sexual
assault, was born Michaela Ewuraba
Boakye-Collinson in London to Gha-
naian parents.
She first visited the west African
nation in 2018 for a television shoot. “I’d
been to Africa before — Kenya and
Uganda — but when I came here I was
really seeing people who looked like
me,” she told American Vogue.
“A friend of mine was with me and
he remembers us getting off the
plane and me walking around as
if I knew where I was going. I
remember looking at all the
kids playing and it hit me, like,
wow, this could’ve been me and
I think I would have really
enjoyed that.”
She added: “Yes, there are a
lot of sad things: poverty,
unemployment, struggle.
There’s also a lot of peace,
friendliness. There’s a
lack of anxiety.”
She is on the cover
of the magazine before
her appearance in the up-
coming Black Panther: Wakanda For-
ever, a sequel to Hollywood’s successful
superhero film released in 2018.
Coel told Vogue, which interviewed
and photographed her on the streets of
Accra, the Ghanaian capital, that as
well as building a house in her father’s
village she was considering buying an
apartment in the city, where she lived
for six months last year.
She said she had wanted to be in Black
Panther since unsuccessfully audition-
ing for the first film as a drama student.
“I think for a lot of people it was the first
time we’d seen some sort of repre-
sentation on a very mainstream
platform about the magic of
Africa, the magic of the people,
our ancestors,” she said.
In the sequel, due for release in
the UK next month, Coel’s
character falls in love with
a female fellow warrior.
“That sold me on the
role,” Coel said.
Ghana has draconian
anti-gay laws and a bill
passing through parlia-
ment would make ident-
ifying as gay punishable by
five years in prison.
Michaela Coel rose to
fame with her BBC drama
series I May Destroy You
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Like Lolita, Iranian girls
are robbed of a real life
Helen Rumbelow
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Truss’s war on nanny state will hurt us all
Far from resenting a public information campaign on saving energy, many want the government to take a lead
Clare
Foges
@clarefoges
I
t is reported that the business
secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg,
has drawn up advice on how
consumers can save energy: have
your frock coat pressed only
once a month; tell the footmen to
use candles instead of turning on
lights; for short trips, leave the car
and take the penny farthing. To be
fair to the “honourable member for
the 19th century”, the real advice on
turning down thermostats and so on
is sensible, as is the idea of a public
information campaign.
Alas, though, we are not to see it,
for she who knows best has blocked
it. Liz Truss is “ideologically opposed”,
according to well-informed sources.
The climate minister, Graham Stuart,
says, “We’re hesitant to tell people
what they should do when we’re not
a nanny-state government.” Yes, the
prime minister is on the side of
freeborn Englishmen and women
whose home is their castle and who
will darn well keep the thermostat at
Caribbean temperatures if they so
wish! Truss’s doctrine is
libertarianism, her nemesis is the
nanny state, and her ideological
rigidity should worry us all.
At a time of soaring bills and
looming blackouts, having a public
information campaign about how
best to save energy (and money) is
patently sensible. “What about
Google?” cry the critics; “there are
reams of energy-saving tips on the
internet . . .” True, but the cacophony
of information online becomes white
noise easily ignored. A clear and
concise government campaign would
cut through, nudging the already
willing to change their behaviour
and reaching those who haven’t yet
got the message. It is almost 20 years
since the government launched its
“five-a-day” campaign on fruit and
vegetables, and still the perfect
clarity of it influences my eating
habits daily. During the pandemic,
“hands, face, space” became an
earworm that changed behaviour, as
could some equally clear advice on
how to reduce energy use.
Such a campaign would be cost-
effective too. After news of its
blocking, the Truss loyalist MP
Maria Caulfield tweeted: “I’m all for
an energy saving campaign this
winter but do we need to spend £15
million to do that. The PM is right to
question if this is the best use of
taxpayers’ money.” Surely an MP
understands that £15 million is
tuppence against the multibillion-
pound taxpayer-funded energy
President Macron has
started wearing polo
necks under his suits
subsidy, and that even if it turns the
dial of behaviour fractionally it will
have earned its keep?
As for the prime minister’s fear
that we would bristle at this
“interference”, once again she has
failed to read the room. Although a
minority would huff about being told
the radiator-bleedin’ obvious, many
rather like being called upon to do
their bit. We still carry inherited
memories of Second World War
stoicism; still have Keep Calm and
Carry On as our unofficial motto;
still like being rallied against a
common enemy. Eighty years ago
it was Nazi Germany, two years
ago it was Covid, today it’s
Vladimir Putin.
This is a country primed for
national effort. Far from resenting
a public information campaign,
I reckon many would want the
government to go further, as they are
on the Continent. In Germany public
monuments are unlit, heating private
swimming pools is banned and cities
are pulling the plug on Christmas
lights. Spain’s government has
ordered shops to stop doors being left
open and to make sure shopfronts
are dark by 10pm. Italians have been
told to turn their thermostat down by
one degree and have the heating off
for an extra hour. France has just
launched its “energy sobriety” plan,
which includes the advice that
homes, businesses and public
buildings should be heated to no
more than 19 degrees.
To set an example, President
Macron has started wearing polo
necks under his suits, while the
prime minister Elisabeth Borne has
been sporting a gilet. Rallying the
troops, Macron declares that “if we
all come together to stick to it, in
the worst-case scenario we will get
through the winter”. Beyond this, the
objective is to cut the country’s
energy consumption by 10 per cent
over two years.
How I yearn for such decisiveness
here. Yet while Europe takes action,
Britain drifts. Why are office
buildings still keeping their foyers
toasty? Why are so many alight at
3am? Why do street lights have to
blaze brightly all night long,
necessitating a blackout film on
my front bedroom window that
makes it look like we are running
a suburban cannabis farm? Those
in business and local government
may have minds of their own,
but it seems they need a shove
from on high.
Comment
ALAMY
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s guide on reducing
energy use was vetoed by the PM
I write such things without much
hope Truss will change course. Given
the way her economic policies have
bombed, I predict the prime minister
will try to win back Tory support by
focusing on another libertarian
obsession: killing the nanny state.
The Truss administration is closely
linked in ideology and personnel to
the Institute of Economic Affairs
think tank, which publishes an
annual Nanny State Index of the
“worst places in the European Union
to eat, drink, smoke and vape”, by
which they mean those nations that
regulate so that your ready-made
lasagne isn’t laced with arsenic and
11-year-olds can’t legally suck on a
Marlboro. With these freedom
fighters advising Truss, we can
imagine what’s to come: an end to
“nanny state” measures on obesity,
drinking, online gambling and all
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those areas in which free and
sometimes rapacious markets have
helped to ruin lives and cost the
NHS untold amounts of money.
If Truss thinks that crusading
against the nanny state with a
radically laissez-faire approach will
play well here, she is mistaking us for
live-and-let-live America. Her hero
Ronald Reagan once joked that “the
nine most terrifying words in the
English language are: I’m from the
The PM seems to be
mistaking us for live-
and-let-live America
government, and I’m here to help”.
On this side of the Atlantic few would
get the joke. Decades of living with a
wide-reaching welfare state have bred
into us the belief government is there
to help, to step in, to communicate.
We look, in short, for leadership.
I don’t suggest we have “let’s get
through this together” fireside chats
from Truss, or Kwasi Kwarteng
encouraging us to “be a hero — turn
your thermostat to zero”. We just
need simple, factual advice on how
to reduce energy, and requests for
more responsibility from us all. For
the modest price of £15 million we
could cut demand, avoid blackouts
and start to free Britain from the
grip of energy imports. Unless she
is ideologically opposed to doing
anything sensible or popular, Truss
must execute another U-turn, and
approve the campaign.
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Comment
Our response to Russian cyber-attacks is feeble
We wildly overreact to terrorism but overlook online threats that can inflict fundamental harm
Edward
Lucas
@edwardlucas
F
ew readers will be familiar
with Titan Rain, Moonlight
Maze, SolarWinds and
WannaCry, but they are the
online counterparts of
Dunkirk, Pearl Harbor and D-Day
— battles that write history. These
cyberattacks have in recent years
hit our economy, political system,
infrastructure and peace of mind. The
most damaging, NotPetya, a Russian
cybersabotage operation aimed at
Ukraine in 2017, inflicted $10 billion
in damage on other countries.
Not only do we scarcely recall these
episodes. We have no memory of the
devastating counterstrikes launched
in retaliation. But here the fault lies
not with us, but with the guardians
of our security. As Lucas Kello, an
Oxford University academic, outlines
in a new book, Striking Back, our
response over decades has been too
feeble to deter these attacks. The
result: we face more of them.
One reason is that we do not fully
understand the threat. We have
woken up belatedly to the fact we live
in an era of geopolitical competition,
in which revisionist, illiberal powers,
chiefly Russia and China, are trying
to break the western-led world order
(Iran and North Korea are disrupters
too). This struggle is somewhere
between outright war and real peace.
Helen Rumbelow Notebook
Like Lolita,
Iranian girls
are robbed
of a real life
T
he plane is safely about
ten minutes out of Tehran,
and a silent signal passes
between women in the
cabin. Now grab your
headscarf and pull it off! Several
exiled Iranian women have told
me this was the exact glorious
moment when they knew Iran
was out of their hair.
One was Azar Nafisi, author of
Reading Lolita In Tehran, whom I
interviewed when this bestselling
book came out nearly 20 years ago.
When arriving at Heathrow she, a
middle-aged mum, ran with her
loaded luggage trolley at full pelt
through the airport. It had been
forbidden for her to run in Iran
and so it had to be done.
But Nafisi really left Iran to save
her daughter, who as a teenage girl
had started to be harassed for her
appearance by the morality police.
Once in the West it took her a few
weeks to adjust until she turned to
Kello calls it “unpeace”, meaning
“interstate conflict waged below the
level of armed force”. Military
conquest, as Russia has found with its
bridge to Crimea, is messy and risky.
Much better is to attack the enemy’s
political and economic system. This
disrupts decision-making, degrades
the functioning of the state and
demoralises public opinion. Why fight
a war when you can win the peace?
The approach has deep roots, in
works by the Renaissance
philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and,
1,000 years earlier, the Chinese
general Sun Tzu. Lenin and Stalin
would recognise the Soviet dirty-
tricks toolkit known as “active
measures”: these include
MI5 missed Russian
interference with the
Scottish referendum
assassination, blackmail, bribery,
explosions, forgery, kidnapping and
subversion. All are still in use. But
modern technology adds anonymity,
ubiquity and speed, making these
tactics, and the strategy behind
them, far more effective. The
battlefield nowadays is the internet;
the targets are our computers, and
the confidentiality, integrity and
availability of the information we
store on them.
The Chinese speciality is
espionage. One element is the
wholesale theft of commercial
secrets, fuelling the rise of China’s
high-tech industries. Another is
stealing swathes of personal
information, such as health records,
her mother and said in wonder,
“I’ve bought a T-shirt, and I can
wear it outside!” The sun on her
arms, what freedom.
After watching the nightly news of
Iranian schoolgirls throwing off their
headscarves, I’ve just turned again to
Reading Lolita In Tehran. Nafisi was a
literature professor and this memoir
describes an illicit book group she
held for young women at her Tehran
home. The revelation for me was
seeing them reclaim Vladimir
Nabokov. Lolita is often decried
as a slightly seedy apology for
paedophilia, but this novel about
the predatory Humbert Humbert
trapping a teenage girl is seen
by these young women as a
parable of their lives.
As a Russian, “Nabokov
could have written about
Stalin, but he didn’t, he
wrote about the totalitarian
mind,” Nafisi told me.
The girls understood
the way Lolita was
pinned down by
her authority
figure before she
had a chance, just as
their futures were
forced under wraps.
“That’s the worst thing
Humbert does, he takes
away Lolita’s potential.”
Each news bulletin of
Iranian girls protesting,
hotel bookings and credit ratings.
Artificial intelligence trawls and sifts
this data for patterns and anomalies,
seeking threats and weaknesses of
relevance to Chinese interests.
Russia’s forte is meddling, chiefly
sabotage and lies. Its most recent
public stunt in this country was a
simple swamping attack on the MI5
website last month. (A more serious,
secret effort a few years ago targeted
the MI6 recruitment portal.) The
Kremlin’s headline success is still its
influence operation on the US
political system in 2016, when its
hackers stole emails from Hillary
Clinton and senior Democrats and
leaked them. American journalists
should have queried the source of
the material. Instead they focused on
what it revealed: backbiting, policy
wobbles and attempts by party chiefs
to derail Clinton’s rival for the
nomination, Bernie Sanders. Her
presidential bid never recovered
from the unsurprising revelation that
politics involves machinations, and
that public and private behaviour
differ. Russia tried a similar hacking-
and-leaking tactic to derail
Emmanuel Macron’s campaign in
2017. French journalists were savvier
and largely shunned the material.
We wildly overreact to terrorism,
imposing huge inconvenience on
daily life and shredding civil liberties,
but naivety, legalism and timidity
mean we overlook attacks from
countries that seek to inflict more
fundamental harm on us. If violent
extremists targeted a British election,
for example, officialdom and the
public would be outraged. But as an
intelligence and security committee
report in 2020 noted caustically, MI5
I put down my book to watch,
jangling between worry and awe.
Pocket histories
T
his is the week I got out my
heavy coat and discovered a
little pocket full of winter 2021.
Good job no one ever asked me to
curate a time capsule: mine consists
of fluff, pen lids, and wait, 43 grubby
surgical masks. Did we really do
that? It feels like waking from a
very strange night out.
Now we’re not wearing masks
every day, they’re odd again.
Meanwhile I am writing this
while sporting my working-
from-home outfit to get
through the fuel crisis of
winter 2022. It’s an electric
rug that I roll myself up in
like a tight synthetic-fibre
burrito. I can’t make any
sudden moves or I topple
to the floor in a tangle of
wires. Instead I sit still and
set the rug timer on to
stew for three hours at a
medium heat. By the end
I am perfectly slow cooked,
and, it seems to me now,
totally normal.
Exotic Eastbourne
I’
ve got to know a young
couple who have fled
to London: she is
Ukrainian, he is Russian but
V2
appeared to miss completely the
Russian interference with the 2014
Scottish independence referendum.
Such attackers risk little. Sanctions
are ineffective. Asset freezes and visa
bans hold few terrors for Russian
rumour-mongers, North Korean
generals or Chinese military hackers.
Legal remedies are too flimsy: it is
hard to prosecute people who live in
lawless countries. At the same time,
the law strictly constrains any
response involving the use of force.
We need an urgent rethink. One
element is better defence, involving
close co-operation between private
and public realms. We should pay
particular attention to the security of
information. Authentic public debate
is at the heart of our political system.
But unscrupulous attackers can
exploit our reverence for free speech.
Making attacks less effective is a
form of deterrence: countries such as
Finland that work hard on resilience
become unattractive targets. Yet we
also need punishment. Kello suggests
that collective responses, ideally
through Nato or coalitions of the
capable, will be more effective than a
single country acting alone. His main
notion is “punctuated deterrence”,
in which the accretion of mischief
prompts abrupt, punitive responses.
He gives few specifics, but one could
imagine options ranging from drone
strikes to asset seizures — and of
course cyberattacks. The vital point
is to worry less about escalation
and more about the cost of not
responding. If Putin chooses to lash
out against the infrastructure or
financial systems of Ukraine’s
western backers, he will do so with
a well-founded sense of impunity.
was living in Ukraine. Their love story
could be a grand opera, and also a
sitcom. In contrast to our low national
morale, every day Britain entrances
them anew. They were overjoyed to
spend their honeymoon at the Harry
Potter Studio Tour. “We are in an
incredible, magical place,” she texted
me from a weekend away, “we are in
love with it!” Where are you, I asked
eagerly. “Eastbourne.” When, at the
pub (“magnificent”) they wondered if
they should see a football match but
didn’t know which team to support,
four separate blokes sensed a pivotal
moment and rushed to recruit them
to their own. My other half won the
race by taking them to Arsenal last
week, and that’s it, they belong now.
Chocs away
I
have to hide my chocolate. As I
explain to my children, for me it’s
not food, it’s daily medication. To
take my stash would be like taking
insulin from a diabetic. OK, bad
analogy in this case, but still, I have
to squirrel bars in places I know my
offspring don’t frequent, like cleaning
supplies or books with “feminist
classic” on the cover. Fine until the
handyman found my Lindt lodged
under the stair runner last week,
and then I could only say to him,
“Kids, what are they like?”
@helenrumbelow
Monday October 10 2022 | the times
Britain must keep
its pledge to fight
global disease
Peter Sands
F
our thousand girls and
young women get infected
with HIV every week. Every
minute, a child dies of
malaria. This year, roughly
as many people will die of
tuberculosis (TB) as of Covid-19.
Most of these infections and deaths
occur in Commonwealth countries.
South Africa has by far the most
people living with HIV. Almost 30
per cent of people infected with
malaria globally are in Nigeria.
India accounts for about a quarter
of all people living with TB.
That’s why Commonwealth
countries regard the Global Fund to
Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
as so vitally important. Over half the
fund’s grants — some $7 billion —
are invested in Commonwealth
countries. Eighteen members of the
Commonwealth are donors. The
fund also provided $2.2 billion in
extra support to Commonwealth
countries to combat Covid-19.
It is also why many
Commonwealth countries were deeply
concerned to see that Britain did not
make a pledge at the fund’s seventh
replenishment conference last month.
Led by President Biden, 73 public and
private donors pledged $14.25 billion
to fund the next three years. G7
leaders from Germany, Japan, Canada
and the European Commission
pledged 30 per cent increases. France
pledged a 23 per cent increase.
As a founder of the fund and its
third-largest donor, the UK has been
critical to the progress against HIV,
TB and malaria. Over the past 20
years, British taxpayer support has
helped save 50 million lives. In 2000,
life expectancy in Malawi was 46
years. By 2019, it was 65. Two-thirds
of that increase was due to reducing
mortality from HIV, TB and malaria.
Covid-19 set us back, however,
increasing deaths and infections
across the three diseases. To get back
on track we must step up investment;
providing tests and treatments, and
strengthening health systems.
The prize is huge. If fully funded,
we can save a further 20 million
lives. We can quickly identify and
contain new infectious disease
threats. By reinforcing pandemic
preparedness, our investments help
to protect everyone, even those who
live many thousands of miles away.
Commonwealth leaders are
acutely aware of the immense impact
the fund has had on their people’s
lives, and deeply appreciate the UK’s
role in making this happen. It’s now
vital Britain increases its commitment
to the Global Fund. For the hundreds
of millions of Commonwealth citizens
whose lives are threatened by these
dreadful diseases, this is a matter of
life and death. For the UK, it is a test
of the country’s commitment to the
spirit of solidarity and partnership that
makes the Commonwealth so unique.
Peter Sands is executive director of
the Global Fund
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How the BBC created a new kind of fame
Once it was performing that earned you renown, but presenting has increasingly offered a different route to stardom
Libby
Purves
@lib_thinks
A
hundred years ago last
week The Times reported
the death of Marie Lloyd,
queen of the music hall
and variety star. It
acknowledged her talent and
“extremely broad humour”: her
handling of innuendo was well-loved,
as in the song about an innocent
young lady travelling to London
who’d “never had her ticket punched
before”. When purity campaigners
put up screens around her show in
Leicester Square, one of the
protesters pulling them down was a
young Winston Churchill. She was
twice excluded from Royal
Command performances: once in
1912 for “coarseness and vulgarity”
and more shamefully in 1919 despite
her shows’ tireless wartime service to
morale and recruitment.
I am glad that while glossing over
her scandalous life The Times
acknowledged her “vivid personality”
and support for the 1907 music hall
strike. There is pathos in the fact that
her last performance was “I’m one of
the ruins that Cromwell knocked
abaht a bit”, when she could barely
stand. She was only 52, stone broke
after a life of merriment, generosity,
abuse and very hard work: even
stars often dashed between three
crowded theatres a night.
It was ironic to notice another
approaching centenary, and realise
that the great entertainer only
missed the founding of the BBC by
ten days (mind you, John Reith
wouldn’t have let her on air, given
that divorce could get you sacked).
Another linking irony is that in 1896,
at the peak of Marie Lloyd’s success,
legend tells us that a young Italian
inventor newly arrived in Britain
tried to tap her for investment. His
name was Guglielmo Marconi . . .
So it’s a good moment to think
Bruce Belfrage read
the news covered in
soot from a bomb
about what broadcasting in general
has done both for entertainment and
for the nature of fame. As more
homes got receivers and the dance
band craze flourished, even Reith
admitted that people need more than
“grand music”; so the Beeb did
comedy. Lucky entertainers were
catapulted to unprecedented fame:
Arthur Askey and Tommy “ITMA”
Handley were household names by
1930 and dozens followed. It had the
disadvantage of using jokes up too
fast (it still does), but it meant fame,
catchphrases and bigger appearance
fees. The famous “green book” of
1948 banning suggestive references
to everything from “effeminacy in
men” to lavatories was already being
dodged joyfully by the Kenneth
Williams generation: Marie might
have prospered then. Straight actors
thrived too, the first radio drama set
in a coalmine in 1924 proving that
you only need sound and voices.
Thus for a century, entertainers of
all sorts have done more than well
from broadcasting, with less
gruelling lives than former troupers.
But it also made another kind of
fame possible, one unconnected to
any ability to sing, dance, act a part,
create laughter or hold a public
office. First the newsreader was born,
chosen for clarity and correct accent
(though Wilfred Pickles’s Yorkshire
voice was used in the war to make it
harder for Nazis to imitate).
When newsreaders ceased to be
anonymous, names such as Freddie
Grisewood and John Snagge became
so famous they had only to clear
their throat on air to be deluged with
gifts of lozenges and woolly vests.
Bruce Belfrage became celebrated for
carrying on reading the news
covered in soot and plaster when a
bomb hit Broadcasting House in
1940 during the nine o’clock bulletin.
The news itself had become rather
more universally relevant by then: in
1926 the General Strike had shared a
bulletin with the result of the “Stock
Exchange London To Brighton walk”.
Belfrage was an actor, Wilfred
Pickles a comedian, and other news
voices were accomplished reporters
— Frank Gillard, Audrey Russell,
Richard Dimbleby. But gradually a
new trade was born: the mere
presenter. Well before television it
was recognised that broadcasters
Once a generation
comes a genius such
as Terry Wogan
should address listeners not as a
public meeting but intimately.
Charles Hill, the “Radio Doctor”,
puffed on his pipe in flu epidemics
while reassuring listeners to “let
nature do its work”. But as TV
developed, demanding agreeable
looks as well as voices, it became
clearer that the role of “host” was
a thing in itself, distinct from any
artistic or journalistic talent.
Of course presenters have also
often been gifted reporters,
comedians, published commentators
or just serious, well-researched
interviewers. But it is now common
for young people to say, Alan
Partridge-style, that their ambition is
31
Comment
to be a presenter or DJ: not a
journalist, interviewer, skilled
chairperson or entertainer in any
traditional genre. Just a household
name, fresh from hair and make-up;
admired, framed and produced by
invisible others.
In non-music radio the pure
presenter is rarer, tending to emerge
from journalism or professional
comedy, and some music stations
require deep knowledge. But at the
extreme, the craft of pop DJ was
immortally defined by the critic
Robert Robinson as “behaving like a
universal favourite on mere
assumption”. Once a generation
comes a genius (a Wogan) but
vaguely acceptable enthusiastic
chattiness has become a marketable
skill in itself. A route to celebrity.
I offer no judgment; radio has been
an extension of my own journalistic
career. But it’s worth observing how
new this Partridgeism is. Think of
poor old Marie Lloyd, belting out
saucy numbers three times a night in
a corset, flogging through pantos,
rudely detained on Ellis Island for
“moral turpitude”, gallantly joining
poorer entertainers on the picket line
and buying their dinners. It makes
you wish Marconi and the BBC had
arrived in time to give the poor
woman a break. Or that she lived in
our soft age, and could spend her
declining years presenting Countdown
or something soothing on Classic FM.
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Letters to the Editor
Saving the planet
Sir, Bill Gates claims that innovations
beyond electric cars and renewables
will be needed to “save the world”
(“Planet needs more than Teslas and
turbines”, Oct 6). While innovation is
certainly crucial in the effort to tackle
the climate emergency, we should not
overlook one of our most powerful
low-tech allies: trees. There is
increasing evidence that commercial
forestry (productive forests largely
comprising conifers) should be the
mainstay of climate emergency
mitigation efforts. A recently
published report from Forest
Research found that fast-growing
conifers can sequester up to 14 times
more carbon than broadleaved trees
— carbon that can then be locked
away by substituting timber for
concrete and steel in construction
(“Wooden cities could save billions in
carbon emissions, scientists say”,
Aug 31). There is significant unmet
demand for more structural timber in
the UK. With 80 per cent of our
timber need currently imported,
planting more trees (especially
conifers) would benefit biodiversity,
net zero efforts and the economy.
Our response to the climate
emergency and the biodiversity crisis
must involve a mix of native and
coniferous woodland, planted in
appropriate locations. While native
woodlands can play a hugely
important part in biodiversity
recovery, commercial forestry can
shoulder the weight of emissions
reduction and carbon capture. We
need to seize this opportunity now.
Simon Hodgson
CEO, Forestry & Land Scotland
NHS staff exodus
Sir, It seems scarcely believable that
the health minister of a G7 nation
such as the UK should be “relaxed”
about poaching medical professionals
from developing countries around the
world in order to save ourselves the
cost of training an adequate number
of British staff (“Exodus of staff leaves
NHS reliant on foreign recruits as
winter looms”, Oct 8). This neo-
colonialist policy (happily pursued by
a succession of British governments)
of knowingly depriving countries of
their much-needed health workers
brings disgrace to our own country.
Henry Middleton
Maidstone, Kent
Corrections and
clarifications
6 Marc Agar, who is suing the US
businessman Maciek Kaminski, has
never been a business partner of Mr
Kaminski’s son as we wrongly
reported (Sport, Oct 8).
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Pros and cons of a fixation on growth
Sir, Matthew Parris makes a typically
eloquent and forceful case that
economic growth can never be the
overriding aim of policy, to which all
else must be sacrificed (“Growth at
any price fails the fairness test”, Oct 8).
However, during the EU referendum
there were those who made precisely
that point: that we were willing to give
up at the margin some economic
growth — to get richer more slowly —
because there were other things that
we valued in themselves, such as our
conceptions of democratic
accountability and the sense of being
masters in our own house. As we were
vigorously attacked by Mr Parris and
his allies as economic wreckers and
cultural know-nothings, it is difficult
to avoid the conclusion that there are
double standards at play here.
Gareth Howlett
Edinburgh
Sir, If economic growth means
unsustainable consumption of the
world’s natural resources and
unstoppable climate change, shouldn’t
we all be in the anti-growth coalition?
James Turner KC
Quadrant Chambers, London EC4
Sir, As a longstanding member of the
anti-growth coalition I am happy to
welcome Matthew Parris as a
Shut away by Covid
Sir, Your article “How Covid left its
mark on our lives” (Oct 8) says:
“We’ve bounced back after lockdown
but some things will never be the
same.” This is true. But no mention
was made of the situation in which the
immunocompromised find themselves.
For half a million of us with certain
medical conditions, we have not
bounced back because, for us, nothing
has changed. Coronavirus vaccines do
not protect us so we are still shielding.
To make matters worse, 32 other
countries are offering their patients a
product called Evusheld. We are the
only country in the G7 that is not. It is
bad enough getting a cancer diagnosis
or needing an organ transplant. But to
then realise that the government, in
spite of data supporting the use of this
treatment, refuses to offer it to us,
compounds the offence.
Some patients have already had to
give up work to protect themselves.
We cannot go on public transport, to
shops, restaurants or hotels with our
families, which is very life-limiting.
The impact on our mental health is
THE RISE
OF THE
FASCISTI
from the times october 10, 1922
The conventional idea of Italy is
changing. Her foreign policy, though
variable, is being actively pursued.
Yet while official Italy exercises her
rights and powers as a member of
the victorious alliance, the country is
undergoing a remarkable change.
The present Facta Cabinet possesses
hardly more than nominal authority.
The Parliament is torn by dissension.
There are innumerable politicians,
but, as yet, no national leader. The
bonds of national discipline are
being steadily relaxed. At one point
the country appeared to be at the
mercy of revolutionary Socialists,
spokesman for us. Over the centuries
there have been others who have
articulated the cause of putting justice
before growth. As long ago as 1217,
William Marshal, regent to the boy
king Henry III, as well as reissuing
Magna Carta issued the Charter of the
Forest that gave every free man rights
to use lands controlled by the King to
sustain themselves with food and fuel.
Over the centuries the specifics of the
charter became outdated, successive
Enclosure Acts violated it, the
Industrial Revolution made it appear
irrelevant and an act of parliament in
effect repealed it in 1971.
In a modern economy a suitable
measure to preserve the principle that
everyone has a right to a basic means
of sustenance would be for a part (say
25 per cent) of the national income to
be shared equally among all citizens,
irrespective of age. This would meet
all Truss’s social objectives without
environment-damaging growth.
John Field
London SW20
Sir, I am disappointed that your
leading article (“Frenemies Within”,
Oct 8) backs Liz Truss’s crass labelling
of anyone who disagrees with her
reckless plan as “the anti-growth
coalition”. None of the parties
mentioned is, as the PM claims,
considerable as we go into a third
winter in which we cannot mix
indoors. Family members have to live
with the fear of bringing Covid home
and potentially being responsible for
the death of a loved one.
Margaret Bennett
Birmingham
Danger of cannabis
Sir, Marjorie Wallace (letter, Oct 8) is
right to express concern about unwise
messages regarding cannabis that
may reach the public and especially
the young, who are prone to follow
deceptive paths to alleviate their
woes. Of all the illegal drugs cannabis
is the most treacherous because its
immediate effects are usually mild
and undramatic. However, it is
impossible to predict who and when
after a longer use will suffer one or
more of the following: loss of
motivation, depression, lowering of
intellect, psychosis or an outburst of
often murderous aggression.
Andrzej Wilski
Consultant psychiatrist emeritus,
Sandridge, Herts
whose excesses were checked not by
Government but by bands of
volunteers. These bands developed
into the powerful organization of the
Fascisti, who, after crushing the
general strike which the Socialists
proclaimed in the summer, have
gone from strength to strength, and
now constitute the most formidable
power in Italy. The Socialists are
thoroughly routed, but normal order
is not restored. The Government is
inactive; the Fascisti are everywhere
aggressive and assertive. They usurp
the functions of the Administration
and the police. They take it upon
themselves to correct bureaucratic
abuses, to eject officials, to establish
public order in their own way. They
raid towns and villages to carry out
their plans. They are a compact,
strong, and well-disciplined body,
divided into civilian and military
sections, the latter of which appears
to be remarkably mobile and direct
in its aim. They commandeer trains
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trying to “stop growth” and hold
Britain back. Instead, they are looking
to grow our GDP in a responsible
manner. This contrasts with the blunt
and unsuccessful instrument of tax
cuts so treasured by those who judge
a government’s success solely by
changes in their personal wealth.
Gordon Cairns
Edinburgh
Sir, It saddens me that the PM thinks
the anti-obesity strategy would be
anti-growth (“Obesity plan for the
chop”, Oct 6). The chancellor seems
to feel the same way about any
alcohol strategy, given the freeze on
alcohol duty in the recent statement.
A healthier nation would take less
sick leave, be more productive and
put less strain on the NHS and social
services. The government seems to
want to create the conditions for an
unhealthy, stressed and unproductive
nation and then expect to see growth.
It is baffling. I spend much of my time
encouraging individuals to take
responsibility for the choices they
make, but having an environment in
which it is easier to take the healthy
choice is partly the responsibility of
our government.
Dr Rachel Turner
GP specialising in addictions,
Overton, Hants
Feminist Rowling
Sir, I read with utter disbelief that
Nicola Sturgeon had the audacity to
suggest JK Rowling was not a “real
feminist” (“I’m a real feminist, says
Sturgeon in gender law rebuke to
Rowling”, Oct 8). How dare she? As
far as I am concerned, Rowling is the
top real feminist in Scotland; many
women in Scotland like me would like
to thank her very much for the work
and time she has spent in this cause.
Ebyth Morton
Edinburgh
Never knowingly
Sir, Ann Treneman is not the only
one boycotting John Lewis
(Notebook, Oct 7). I have not set foot
in a store, ordered anything online or
visited Waitrose since the Sheffield
store was closed last year.
Elizabeth Clarke
Sheffield
Letters to The Times must be exclusive
at will; they insist on owners of
factories maintaining Fascisti guards;
and they number thousands of
supporters not only in the middle
class but among the workmen and
peasantry. The leader, Signor
Mussolini, demands the resignation
of the Government and insists on
new elections. He expresses
contemptuous toleration for the idea
of universal suffrage, but his aim
would seem to be something very
like the establishment of an
aggressively nationalist oligarchy. As
to foreign policy, Signor Mussolini
expresses violent hostility to our
own country, and declares that the
Mediterranean must be controlled
exclusively by the peoples who live
on its shores. It is hard to believe
that these chaotic views reflect the
real mind of Italy, but the test may
soon come.
thetimes.co.uk/archive
Monday October 10 2022 | the times
Nature as wallpaper
Sir, I found your report “TV ‘is turning
nature into wallpaper’ ” (Oct 7) very
thought-provoking. Are over-beautiful
natural history programmes assisting
the preservation of wildlife or merely
intruding for public thrills? Is the TV
money earned returned to help the
creatures in need or turned into trivial
populist nonsense? But I cannot agree
with Ray Mears that we need more
live presenters: in all too many
documentaries they simply get in the
way, earnestly waving their arms as
they, well, sell their books. In the days
of pure cinema some of the best
documentary films ever were made,
such as Night Mail, We Are the
Lambeth Boys and Every Day except
Christmas, in which no presenters
appeared as cheap and cosy
substitutes for showing the true
subject matter.
David Stevens
Documentary film writer/director,
Woking, Surrey
Backing Ukraine
Sir, That a survey has revealed that
young people are less likely to
support military aid to Ukraine does
not surprise me (“Young have most
doubt over British help for Ukraine”,
news, Oct 7). It has, however,
confirmed my growing belief that we
should abandon teaching the First
World War in British schools and
pivot to teaching the Second World
War. Many of our young people know
about the Somme, Passchendaele and
the assassination of Archduke
Ferdinand but little about D-Day, the
cost of and reasons for it, the
Holocaust or Stalinist Russia. If they
did routinely learn about these and
the price of not defeating dictators, I
am convinced the survey would yield
very different results.
Marie-Claire Dibbern
Kelso, Roxburghshire
Food bank nudge
Sir, Teresa Smee (letter, Oct 7) need
never forget her local food bank
(report, Sep 8) while shopping if she
downloads the Bank the Food app on
her phone. It will “ping” her with a
reminder of her local food bank’s
needs while she is actually shopping
in the supermarket.
Helen Tucker
London SE3
Fruitful search
Sir, Janice Turner (Notebook, Oct 6)
is not trying hard enough in my
opinion: it took me less than seven
minutes to list 44 vegetables and 18
types of fruit, all readily available
fresh, frozen or canned at
supermarkets and high street fruit
and vegetable shops. It’s easy to eat
30 different items every week — five
a day makes 35 in a week.
Ellen Kirton
Dent, Cumbria
God’s own pudding
Sir, I do not usually disagree with
Carol Midgley but she had me
choking on my giant Yorkshire
pudding filled with meat and
vegetables: absolutely delicious and
not a “mastication scene from
hell”(Notebook, Oct 8). But to suggest
also that Alf Garnett in Till Death Us
Do Part is the “only truly funny”
sitcom father-in-law? I don’t know
anyone who ever found him to be that.
Professor Katie Wales
Great Shelford, Cambs
the times | Monday October 10 2022
Daily Universal Register
UK: The House of Lords debates the
government’s growth plan; the High Court
hears a further legal challenge by the charity
Asylum Aid opposing the Home Office’s
asylum deal with Rwanda.
Nature notes
Increasing numbers
of polecats are
being reported in
parts of the country
in which they had
previously been
declared extinct,
partly due to persecution and partly due to
the crash in rabbit numbers after the
myxomatosis pandemic in the middle of the
last century. Some of the recent records are
the result of roadkill which, although
unfortunate, allows for close inspection of
the animal in order to determine whether it’s
a “true” polecat or the result of
interbreeding with escaped ferrets. Other
records come from amateur wildlife
cameras. It is clear this native mammal is
slowly re-establishing itself in the UK, a
source of great hope. melissa harrison
Birthdays today
Baroness (Nicky)
Morgan of Cotes,
pictured, Conservative
MP for Loughborough
(2010-19), digital, culture,
media and sport
secretary (2019-20), 50;
Baroness (Susan)
Campbell of Loughborough, director of
women’s football, the Football Association,
chairwoman, Sport UK (2003-13), 74; Judith
Chalmers, presenter, Wish You Were
Here . . . ? (1974-2003), 87; Frank Clarke, chief
justice, Supreme Court of Ireland, (2017-21),
71; Mary Curnock Cook, chairwoman,
Dyson Institute (of engineering and
technology), chief executive, Universities
and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas)
(2010-17), 64; Charles Dance, actor, Gosford
Park (2001), Game of Thrones (2011-15), 76;
Dame Karlene Davis, general secretary,
Royal College of Midwives (1997-2008), 76;
Oleg Gordievsky, writer and former Soviet
intelligence officer who defected to Britain
in 1985, 84; Sir David Hempleman-Adams,
explorer and mountaineer, 66; Sir Robert
Hildyard, High Court judge, 70; Mark
Johnston, racehorse trainer, 63; Evgeny
Kissin, concert pianist, 51; Sarah Lancashire,
actress, Coronation Street (1987-2000), Last
Tango in Halifax (since 2012), Happy Valley
(since 2014), 58; Chris Ofili, painter, Turner
prizewinner (1998), 54; Sir Stephen Phillips,
lord justice of appeal, 61; Sir Matthew
Pinsent, four-time Olympic gold medallist
rower (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004), 52; Lucy
Powell, Labour MP for Manchester Central,
shadow housing secretary, 48; Fiona Rae,
artist, 59; Nora Roberts, author, Secrets in
Death (2017), Legacy (2021), 72; Chris
Tarrant, broadcaster, Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire? (1998-2014), 76; Midge Ure,
singer, Ultravox, Vienna (1981), 69; Sir
Willard White, bass-baritone, president,
Royal Northern College of Music (2008-16),
76; Very Rev Dr Pete Wilcox, bishop of
Sheffield, 61.
On this day
In 1903 the Women’s Social and Political
Union, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, was
formed at her home in Manchester to fight
for women’s suffrage in the UK.
The last word
“The Suffragette army had a great mission,
the greatest mission the world has ever known:
the freeing of one-half the human race,
and through that freedom the saving of the
other half.” Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own
Story (1914)
Averting Armageddon
Russia’s military setbacks have prompted further nuclear threats by Vladimir Putin.
The West must impress on him the catastrophe he would thereby court
Vladimir Putin launched Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine in February plainly believing it would be
a swift campaign. It has not turned out that way.
Ukraine’s armed forces, government and people
have resisted valiantly. The western democracies
have maintained unity in giving Kyiv military and
material aid. There is immense symbolism, as well
as logistical damage to Russia’s campaign, in the
huge explosion at the weekend that damaged the
Kerch bridge linking Russia and Crimea.
Ukraine’s fightback has prompted the Kremlin
to resort to the language of nuclear brinkmanship.
In response to Mr Putin’s threat to use “all forces
and means” to defend the territories Russia has
seized, President Biden warned last week that the
world was closer to Armageddon than at any time
for 60 years. The best course, and indeed the only
reputable one, for the western democracies is to
persist in the current strategy of helping Ukraine’s
just war of self-defence while impressing upon Mr
Putin the catastrophic consequences of breaching
the taboo on nuclear use.
The assault on the bridge epitomises how far Mr
Putin has misjudged the war. The bridge, which
opened in 2018, was intended to demonstrate the
hold of Russia on the illegally annexed territory of
Crimea. Now Ukraine is not only reversing Russian
The government has a responsibility to protect welfare benefits against inflation
In her campaign for the Conservative leadership,
Liz Truss stressed the difference in her economic
approach from those of previous governments. It
has caught up with her. Opinion polls show not
only a precipitous decline in Conservative ratings
but also a big lead for Labour as the party most
trusted with the economy.
Ms Truss risks entrenching her government’s
difficulties if she decides to abandon a pledge
made by Rishi Sunak, then chancellor, in March to
increase benefits in line with inflation. This would
be an unforced error that would inevitably brand
the Conservatives as heedless of the struggles of
low-income households in a cost of living crisis.
She should swiftly rule it out.
The government has had a torrid fortnight since
Kwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor, delivered his
mini-budget. Financial markets did not give
credence to his plans for unfunded tax cuts. Hence
the prompt reversal of Mr Kwarteng’s proposal to
abolish the 45p additional tax rate, which in truth
was just a small part of the overall package but had
political symbolism. Far more economically
significant would be a decision to uprate welfare
Tom Watson should not be appointed to the House of Lords
It is a constitutional anomaly for a legislative
chamber in a democracy to be appointed rather
than elected, yet the House of Lords performs a
valuable role in scrutinising and revising
legislation. Maintaining its reputation requires in
turn that nominations for potential new members
be unimpeachably merited.
The independent House of Lords appointment
commission turned down three peerage nomina-
tions in 2020 from Jeremy Corbyn, made when he
was Labour leader. One was Tom Watson, who
served as deputy leader to Mr Corbyn and stepped
down as an MP in 2019. The commission’s decision
incursions on Donbas but challenging Mr Putin’s
previous depredations too. Mr Biden’s warning
was timely, as it gave a signal to the Kremlin that
escalation would prove disastrous. Nato has
refrained from direct military intervention on
Ukraine’s behalf. The right response to Mr Putin’s
bluster is to reinforce deterrence by stressing that
the risk of nuclear escalation goes both ways.
Though Mr Biden referenced the Cuba missile
crisis of 1962 as a parallel, the risks of escalation
should not be overstressed. Cuba was a unique
case. Not even President Kennedy was aware of
the presence of more than 100 Soviet tactical
nuclear weapons smuggled on to the island, which
might have been used had US forces invaded.
Mr Putin has avoided striking the territory of
Nato countries that are channelling military aid
to Ukraine, for fear of precipitating a response.
Even when Ukraine fired missiles at the Belgorod
oblast in Russia in July, Mr Putin refrained from
expanding the war. The evidence suggests that,
while brutal and criminal, he is not impulsive. In
launching the Ukraine invasion, he simply
miscalculated: it has proved a far more onerous
campaign than aggression against Georgia in
2008 or the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and its
disastrous costs are provoking discontent at home.
Poverty Pledge
benefits in line with earnings rather than inflation,
meaning their real value would fall.
It is usual to increase working-age benefits and
tax credits each year in line with prices. In normal
economic times, at least in the past 30 years when
inflation has been muted, these changes are not
dramatic. Yet the decisions have far-reaching
effects because of compounding, and a single year
in which benefits lag inflation by a significant
amount will have a big impact on living standards
at the lower end of income distribution. The Child
Poverty Action Group, a pressure group, said
yesterday that some 200,000 children would be
pushed into poverty should this happen.
The government is admittedly contending
with a severe economic crisis and has already
made spending pledges on health and defence.
September’s inflation figure is likely to be about
10 per cent; indexing benefits instead to wages,
running at about 5 per cent annually, would save
about £11 billion for the exchequer, according to
the Resolution Foundation, a think tank.
Nor is it unprecedented to uprate benefits by
less than inflation. Indeed the government froze
Peer Pressure
was justified, and it is a serious error for Sir Keir
Starmer to include Mr Watson’s name among
eight Labour figures proposed for peerages.
Mr Watson claimed in 2012 in the Commons
that there was “clear intelligence” of the existence
of a “powerful paedophile network linked to
parliament and No 10”. There followed a flood of
lurid rumours in the press about monstrous crimes
in high places. The police eventually established
Operation Midland, to investigate alleged child
murders by members of the establishment.
There was absolutely no truth to these rumours,
yet the police questioned Lord Brittan of Spen-
33
Leading articles
Russia’s nuclear arsenal has undoubtedly served
as a deterrent against direct Nato involvement but
the deterrence works both ways.
Mr Biden’s warning should concentrate the
minds of Mr Putin and his close circle. If the
Kremlin used a tactical nuclear weapon to counter
Ukraine’s military successes, the consequences
would be incalculable. It would elicit worldwide
condemnation and directly endanger Russia. Nor
does Mr Biden need to explicitly spell out the
nature of US retaliation. Even a very small risk of
a nuclear exchange has a powerful deterrent effect.
The overriding task of world leaders is to stop
this happening. Some purported realists in foreign
policy, as well as disarmers, fail to grasp that Nato’s
military readiness is crucial to maintaining peace.
Should Mr Putin believe that he is safe from
retaliation, then, as happened with President
Assad’s unpunished use of chemical weapons in
the Syrian civil war, he will engage in atrocities
without mercy. Other aggressive regimes would
rush to develop or acquire a nuclear-weapons
capability, and blackmail neighbouring states into
submission. The surest route to preventing this
scenario is for the West to continue to stand with
Ukraine, and ensure it gets the advanced weapons
and economic aid it needs to prosecute this war.
working-age benefits for four years in 2016. But
that is partly why the issue is so salient now. High
inflation is proving especially severe for low-income
households, including those in work, as they
spend proportionately more of their budgets on
food and energy. And those struggling to make
ends meet who are not in the labour market will be
significantly worse off next year than they are now.
Benefits were raised by 3.1 per cent in April this
year, the inflation figure for September 2021, and
have hence been squeezed dramatically in inflation-
adjusted terms just in the past few months.
It would do the government great damage, and
deservedly, if it were seen to make the most
vulnerable shoulder the burden of budget cuts. It is
not an answer that the government’s energy bail-
out will ease household bills this year, as it is next
year’s benefits that stand to be cut in real terms.
Conservatism historically is a philosophy of
limited government, not minimal government,
and one of the state’s crucial tasks is to ensure that
the vulnerable are supported through times of
tribulation. Mr Sunak was right to make this
pledge and his successors should follow suit.
nithorne, a former home secretary, Lord Bramall, a
former head of the army, and Harvey Proctor, a
former Conservative MP, and allowed suspicions of
them to burgeon. The source for the claims turned
out to be Carl Beech, a fantasist and himself a
paedophile who is now serving a long prison term.
Mr Watson helped along a malicious and base-
less conspiracy theory that had real victims. The
reasons for rejecting his peerage nomination the
first time have not gone away, and it is hard to see
how they ever could. He harmed public discourse
and blighted the lives of blameless people, and
should permanently bow out of political life.
34 2GM Monday October 10 2022 | the times

World
Countdown to moment Putin’s
Ukraine
Maxim Tucker, Samantha Berkhead
In a grainy video clip from the morning
after President Putin’s 70th birthday, a
lorry can be seen rumbling through the
darkness from Russia towards Crimea
along his cherished Kerch bridge.
At about 6am, as it crossed some of
the deepest waters of the Kerch strait, it
disappeared in an enormous flash, bil-
lowing smoke. Debris from the explos-
ion appears to have torn through the
flammable containers of a freight train
on the rails above, causing an inferno
that melted rail and road alike.
Satellite photos and video taken in
the aftermath of the attack show entire
sections of roadway scorched and
slumped into the sea. “It seems at least
three spans of the bridge have col-
lapsed. Two at the location where a
train is burning and another further to
the east,” Nick Waters, a digital invest-
igations expert at Bellingcat, said. It was
unclear why a second span had col-
lapsed because there was no apparent
damage to the guardrails, he added.
The absence of scorch marks on the
underside of the bridge lends plausibil-
ity to the idea of an explosion on the
bridge surface, Rob Lee, a former US
Marine and fellow with the Foreign
Policy Research Institute, said. “Two
photos, one from [the space technology
company] Maxar, also suggest the ex-
plosion occurred above the bridge,
given the burn marks and explosive res-
idue above the road and not below.”
Others disagreed, pointing to an
apparent split-second delay between
the first flash of an explosion and the
lorry, apparently still intact, becoming
engulfed in smoke. “I’ve seen plenty of
large vehicle-borne IEDs [improvised
explosive devices] in my time,” a former
British army explosives expert told the
BBC. “This does not look like one.”
There has been speculation that a
boat could have been used to hit the
bridge after an uncrewed surface
vessel, probably Ukrainian, was
recovered and destroyed by
Russian forces near Sevastopol
last month. “Bridges are
generally designed
to resist down-
wards loads on
the deck and a
certain amount
of side loading
from the
wind,” the
explosives
expert said.
“They are not generally engineered to
resist upward loads. I think this fact was
exploited in the Ukrainian attack.” How it happened
Russia set up a committee to invest- The Kerch bridge was damaged
igate the explosion, which it has blamed when a lorry heading north to
on a bomb planted by Ukrainian “spe- Crimea was parallel with a train on
cial services”. Three people were killed, the adjacent rail line carrying tanks
including the driver, who was a resident of flammable liquid. The north-
of the southern Russian Kuban region, bound roadway fell into the sea
it said. The explosion appears to have and the extent of damage to the
been carefully timed to do maximum rail line has yet to be established.
damage at a stretch of the bridge over Video, left, showed the lorry,
deep water, making it harder to repair. circled, on the road and, moments
“Ukrainian vandals were able to later, engulfed in flames. Some
reach the Crimean bridge with their experts believe, however, that the
bloody hands,” Vladimir Konstantinov, source of the blast may have been
the Kremlin-installed chairman of Cri- a boat, not the lorry
mea’s parliament, said.
Kyiv has declined to provide formal
confirmation that the strike was carried
out by its forces but officials hinted at
responsibility on social media. “Dawn,
the bridge is burning beautifully,” the
SBU security service posted on its offi-
cial channel, rearranging a verse by the
poet Taras Shevchenko. “A nightingale
in Crimea meets the SBU.”
Hours later the country’s post office
announced a new stamp immortalising
the explosion, following the earlier
success of a stamp commemorating the
sinking of the Russian Black Sea flag-
ship Moskva.
A Ukrainian official who wished to
remain anonymous briefed media that
the SBU had orchestrated the explos-
ion. The agency is known for its sab-
otage and intelligence missions behind
Russian lines in Ukraine.
Officials had hinted for months that
the bridge was a target after airbases
and ammunition depots in Crimea
were hit. Russian state media commen-
tators and officials had boasted of the
bridge’s impenetrable defences.
In May the pro-Kremlin tabloid
Komsomolskaya Pravda claimed that
the 12-mile bridge was protected by Russia
20 different modes of defence, inc-
luding jets and missile frigates, a
“dome” of air-defence systems, Tuzla Island
satellite monitoring and even
military dolphins.
All vehicles crossing it should
also be subject to checks for ex-
plosives by x-ray systems at its by Russian media appears to show the wreckage and check its support struc- By yesterday the nature of Moscow’s
two entry points, making vehicle blamed for the explosion re- tures, Marat Khusnullin, deputy prime retaliation was already clear: dozens of
the explosion a particularly ceiving only a cursory check. Corrup- minister, told state news agencies. Ukrainians were killed or injured in
embarrassing lapse in tion is rife in Russia, allowing goods to On Saturday the state TV propagan- strikes on the southern city of Zapor-
security. A video shared often be transported with no questions dist Vladimir Solovyov called for retal- izhzhya before dawn, many of them
asked by drivers or officials. Russian iation “by all means available”, includ- children.
President Putin officials rushed to return the bridge to ing strikes on Ukraine’s bridges, dams, Anatoliy Kurtev, a city official, said 17
yesterday during normal operation. Starting early yes- railways, thermal power plants and people were dead and at least 20 houses
a meeting with terday morning divers were deployed to other infrastructure. Ukraine “must be and about 50 multi-storey buildings
military chiefs the waters beneath it to inspect the plunged into dark times”, he said. damaged. Video published on social

Teens sentenced under Hong Kong security law Musk backs

Hong Kong
Didi Tang
Hong Kong has for the first time sen-
tenced a group of minors under the
controversial national security law.
Five teenagers, two boys and three
girls, aged between 16 and 19 were sen-
tenced to detention in a rehabilitation-
focused juvenile centre.
Beijing introduced the law in the city
in 2020 and the sweeping powers have
made it easier to prosecute protesters.
Many who defy the Chinese govern-
ment have since been jailed, removing
much of the political opposition.
The teenagers, along with two people
in their 20s, were members of Return-
ing Valiant, a pro-Hong Kong inde-
pendence group. The court was told
that the group had called for a “bloody
revolution” to overthrow the Chinese
state in the former British colony.
In his ruling Kwok Wai-kin, a desig-
nated national security judge, said the
defendants’ message could have turned
peaceful demonstrators violent,
though he conceded there was no di-
rect evidence of anyone being incited.
“Even if one person is incited, Hong
Kong’s stability and residents’ safety
could have been greatly harmed,”
Kwok said. Noting the defendants’ “age
and immaturity”, he sentenced the
teenagers to a juvenile detention and
training centre instead of prison, argu-
ing they were most likely “misled” in
their views.
The centre, which takes in juveniles
aged 14 to 20, can decide how long to
keep a detainee, ranging from six
months to three years. The two adults
will be sentenced next month.
At an earlier hearing Stella Lo, the
prosecutor, said the group had cam-
paigned outside railway stations and
held online broadcasts for four months.
The defendants cited the French revo-
lution and years of struggle for demo-
cracy in Ukraine, the court heard.
Flyers handed out by the group also
quoted the Chinese communist revolu-
tionary Mao Zedong’s saying that “re-
volution is not a dinner party” but “an
act of violence by which one class over-
throws another”, Lo added.
Some of the teenagers were still at
school when they were arrested. Most
had already spent a year in pre-trial de-
tention after new rules made it more
difficult for suspects to get bail.
The security law came into force
after nationwide pro-democracy pro-
tests that Beijing regarded as a direct
challenge to its rule over Hong Kong.
More than 210 people have been ar-
rested under the law, with nearly 130
formally charged.
China
Didi Tang Beijing
Elon Musk has caused fury in Taiwan
by suggesting that the self-governing
island become a special zone within
China.
Musk relies on China to make nearly
half the world’s Teslas and his com-
ments align with President Xi’s pro-
posal that the island be annexed under
the “one country, two systems” policy.
“People in Taiwan or in no other
country will accept the proposal that
one democratic country should be-
come a special administration region of
a dictatorial regime, as suggested by
the times | Monday October 10 2022
prized bridge was brought down
Explosion
media showed buildings engulfed in
flame alongside the rubble of residen-
tial buildings.
President Zelensky denounced the
attack as an act of evil and vowed that
those responsible would face account-
ability. “Zaporizhzhya again. Merciless
strikes on peaceful people again. On
residential buildings, just in the mid-
dle of the night,” he said on his Tele-
China’s claim over Taiwan Mandrake at the root of Naples food poisoning
Musk based purely on investment
interests,” Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs
Council said. “We welcome Mr Musk
and other international businesspeople
to visit Taiwan to learn about the demo-
cracy, freedom, innovation and devel-
opment in Taiwan, which are starkly
different from the dictatorial market
system and malicious coercions and
suppression under a communist party.”
Qin Gang, China’s ambassador to the
US, thanked Musk. “Peaceful reunifica-
tion and one country, two systems are
our basic principles for resolving the
Taiwan question . . . and the best
approach to realising national reunif-
ication,” he said.
2GM
6,000 tonnes Crimea
35m above
the water
gram channel. “Absolute meanness.
Absolute evil. Savages and terror-
ists. From the one who gave this
order to everyone who fulfilled this
order.”
Zaporizhzhya, which Putin claimed
in his annexation of four Ukrainian
regions last week, has not been under
Moscow’s control at any point in the
seven-month invasion. Instead it has
Beijing has warned that it will use
force if necessary to take the demo-
cracy of 23 million people, which it
claims as Chinese territory. The
People’s Liberation Army has increased
the number of incursions into Taiwan’s
air defence. This has inflamed tensions
with the US, which has stepped up
support for Taipei.
Musk’s intervention, made during an
interview with the Financial Times, fol-
lows his equally controversial peace
plan for Ukraine, which suggested rec-
ognising the illegally annexed penin-
sula of Crimea as part of Russia and
holding new referendums in four other
occupied territories.
Rijksmuseum ‘sinking’
as foundations rot
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REUTERS
Crimea
Kerch
Crimea
Tuzla
Island
Explosion
Five miles Russia
come under regular fire thanks to its
proximity to the front line.
Last week Kyiv said that at least
thirty people had been killed in the re-
gion when Russian shelling struck a
convoy of civilian cars.
Putin’s threats of a nuclear strike cannot
go unanswered, leading article, page 33
We overlook Russia’s cyberattacks at our
peril, Edward Lucas, page 30
Italy
Tom Kington Rome
A vegetable boasting magical powers in
the Harry Potter novels has proved to
be rather more poisonous in real life
after ten people in Naples were rushed
to hospital after accidentally eating it.
Helpings of mandrake, a green-
leafed plant, were enough to give vic-
tims stomach pains, vomiting, halluci-
nations and loss of consciousness, with
one man, 44, left in intensive care.
The vegetable, known to be toxic if
eaten in large quantities, was unwit-
tingly mixed with spinach picked in
central Italy and distributed for sale at
Naples greengrocers.
Training bases in EU
will give Ukraine
manpower and skills
European Union
Bruno Waterfield Brussels
The EU is planning to train up to 15,000
Ukrainian soldiers on European soil in
the next two years with operational
headquarters in Germany and Poland.
The “military support mission for
Ukraine” will be co-ordinated with pro-
grammes being run by British forces
and will be signed off by the bloc’s for-
eign ministers on October 17.
Britain has already set up Operation
Interflex providing basic training for
10,000 Ukrainian soldiers with the in-
volvement of the Danes, Dutch, Finns,
Lithuanians and Swedes, and this will
continue. According to confidential
documents seen by Welt am Sonntag
newspaper in Berlin: “In view of the
urgency of the Ukrainian demands, the
relevant modules and structures
should be set up quickly.”
Under the plan a “multinational
operational-level training command”
will to be set up in Poland with a focus
on air defence and the use of artillery, as
well as defending Ukraine against
cyber, chemical, biological and nuclear
attacks. In Germany a special com-
mand will work on mine clearance and
tactical training on a larger scale than
the more expert courses in Poland, with
combat simulation facilities.
The EU has accepted that Russia will
see the mission as an “escalatory step”
and Germany blocked initial Brussels
proposals to set up a central training
command in Poland because its prox-
imity to Ukraine might provoke Russia.
The aim of the EU programme is that
“Ukraine is able to independently con-
duct combat operations to defend terri-
torial integrity and sovereignty. The
successful counteroffensive of the
Ukrainian armed forces on several
fronts is encouraging, but it does not yet
mark a turning point,” the leaked paper
said. “Ukraine’s needs exceed its cur-
rent capabilities.”
A senior British source welcomed the
initiative and said that the UK had been
In her wizard stories JK Rowling de-
picts mandrake as a key ingredient in
potions with a living root that screams
when unearthed, killing anyone who
w of the
hears it. Her fictional view
vegetable is rooted in my-
thology dating back to the he
Middle Ages and be--
yond, when herbalists
hailed the plant for its
hallucinogenic, pain-
killing and aphrodisiac
properties. Medieval
devotees of the plant
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Spiders moved indoors
to escape Sydney rains
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in talks throughout September with
European allies to “make sure the dif-
ferent training programmes add value”.
Since June Britain has trained 5,000
Ukrainians and 5,000 more are due to
complete training in the next 120 days.
The existing programme is the suc-
cessor to Operation Orbital, which
trained more than 22,000 between
2015 and May 2022. The Dutch and Bal-
tic and Nordic nations have helped to
provide trainers to the British pro-
grammes in an example, British diplo-
mats said, of “European co-operation
without having to have the EU”.
During the summer France ruled out
large-scale training of the Ukrainian
military and it is not clear what role the
French will play in the new mission.
The combined training programmes
still fall short of Ukrainian demands. In
an internal letter to the EU last month
Kyiv asked for the training of up to nine
brigades, each of which can consist of
up to 5,000 people.
Germany is investigating who was
behind sabotage on its railway network
after travel chaos on Saturday caused
by cut communications cables.
Leaked internal documents of the
Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), the federal
police, do not exclude a Russian attack
after the sabotage of Nord Stream gas
pipelines, for which no one has claimed
responsibility, a fortnight ago.
A BKA analysis, seen by Bild news-
paper, warned that “critical infrastruc-
ture facilities, in particular the trans-
port sector with rail traffic, are subject
to a risk of becoming the target of
attacks and sabotage actions”.
“In connection with the proximity in
timing to the leaks on the Nord Stream
1 and 2 gas pipelines, a state-controlled
sabotage is at least conceivable,” the
BKA analysis said. Deutsche Bahn, the
German rail operator, had to suspend
services in northern Germany on Sat-
urday morning for about three hours
“due to sabotage on cables that are
indispensable for rail traffic”.
Backing Ukraine, letter, page 32
also believed that witches ate it to help
them to fly.
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the more prosaic though potentially
grave sym
symptoms of eating too
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the pupils, dryness of the
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mouth, dizziness, head-
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World

Students abuse Iranian president Kim angers

as hackers seize TV evening news
Iran
Richard Spencer
Middle East Correspondent
A speech at an all-women university by
President Raisi in an attempt to play
down protests across Iran that have led
to the deaths of scores of people back-
fired when the auditorium was sur-
rounded by students chanting at him to
“get lost”.
Raisi’s speech repeated the regime’s
claim that the protests, which began
with the death in custody of a young
woman arrested for allegedly not wear-
ing her headscarf properly, was the
work of foreign-backed agitators.
He told a selected audience at Al-
Zahra University in Tehran on Satur-
day that he was confident that the “vig-
ilance of university professors and stu-
dents” would crush the “false dreams of
the enemy”. In an inflammatory addi-
tion, later scrubbed from the official
record but preserved on video record-
ings, he quoted a Persian poem, saying:
“The noise is very similar to the noise of
a fly and will disappear soon.”
A subsequent video posted online
showed a young woman wearing a
mask spraying fly-killer over a mini-
mised recording of Raisi speaking,
before swatting it with a flip-flop.
Mahsa Amini, 22, the woman whose
death in custody on September 16
prompted the protests, was from Iran’s
Kurdish minority and the protests in
the Kurdish northwest have been par-
ticularly loud.
A “hacktivist” group broke into a tele-
vision news broadcast on Satur-
day night, flashing up an image
of the supreme leader, Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, covered by gun-
sight cross-hairs and flames.
The image also contained a pic-
ture of Amini and other women
killed in the protests, with the
slogans “The blood of our youths
is on your hands” and “Join us
and rise up”.
On the campus, young women,
mostly continuing to wear the hi-
jab, danced and shouted: “We
don’t want a corrupt guest.” Graf-
fiti mocked Raisi’s own lack of a
standard higher education. He
went straight to a seminary from
primary school.
There was no immediate re-
sponse from the authorities but
later in the evening Raisi held an
emergency meeting with the
Speaker of parliament, Moham-
mad Bagher Ghalibaf, and the chief
justice, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni
Ejei, both noted hardliners. Yester-
day morning, according to posts on
social media, vans arrived at
neighbours
with new
missile tests
North Korea
Peter Stubley
North Korea fired two more short-
range ballistic missiles into the sea yes-
terday, hours after a US aircraft carrier
finished joint naval drills in the region.
State media reported that the seven
recent missile launches were all “tacti-
cal nuclear” drills, personally overseen
by Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader.
They were immediately condemned by
Japan and South Korea as unacceptable
and a serious provocation.
A report from Korean Central News
Agency said North Korean army units
“staged military drills from September
25 to October 9 . . . to check and assess
the war deterrent and nuclear counter-
attack capability of the country”.
Toshiro Ino, Japan’s vice-minister of
defence, said the missiles might have
been launched from a submarine.
South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff
(JCS) said the launches were detected
between 1.48am and 1.58am on the east
coast. The missiles flew more than 200
miles and reached a maximum altitude
of about 60 miles before falling into the
waters between the Korean Peninsula
and Japan. They followed two short-
range launches on Thursday.
North Korea’s defence ministry has
described its tests as a “righteous
reaction” to the presence of the USS
Ronald Reagan and its battle group off
the east coast of the peninsula.
Hackers imposed an image of a mask on state TV and doctored shots of Ayatollah Khameini. They said Iran should “rise up” The aircraft carrier, which completed
two weeks of naval drills with South
s
schools across the country to arrest Sunni Muslim Baluchi ethnic group, in Korea, was sent back to the area on
g
girls who had taken part in protests. clashes following claims that a teenage Tuesday after North Korea fired a
Elsewhere, unrest continued to be girl was raped by a senior police officer. nuclear-capable, intermediate-range
m with violence. Videos showed
met In total 19 minors have been killed in ballistic missile over Japan into the
p
police officers and the Basij, the par- various protests, the human rights Pacific. The North’s Hwasong-12 mis-
a
amilitary police force, pursuing and group said. Iran’s state news agency said sile is estimated to have travelled about
b
beating groups of protesters, includ- that there had been more protests yes- 2,850 miles, far enough to reach the US
in young women, in towns across
ing terday in Tehran and that the security territory of Guam.
t country. In the northern city of
the forces had been forced to use tear gas to South Korea’s JCS said the redeploy-
S
Sanandaj a man who honked in quell them. Protesters set fire to public ment of the USS Ronald Reagan de-
s
support of the protesters was shot property, including a police booth, the monstrated the alliance’s determina-
d
dead at the wheel of his car, accord- agency said. tion to “respond decisively to any kind
in to a Norway-based human
ing An official coroner’s report released of provocation and threat from North
r
rights group. on Friday attributed Amini’s death to Korea”. Pyongyang has fired more than
Another Norway-based human “underlying health conditions”. That 40 different rockets during a record
r
rights group said that at least 95 was rejected by her family, who insist year for weapons tests.
p
people had so far been killed in the that she was beaten around the head. Officials in the US and South Korea
p
protests and the security forces’ The demonstrations have attracted believe North Korea is also preparing to
a
aggressive response to them. The unusual levels of support from across conduct its seventh nuclear test,
r
regime says that 14 members of the the world, with women including celeb- perhaps later this month after China’s
s
security forces have been killed, rities filming themselves cutting their Communist Party congress.
in
including a Revolutionary Guard hair in solidarity with a common form The US Indo-Pacific Command said
fi
fighter in Sanandaj and a member of protest inside the country. in a statement that the recent launches
o the Basij in Tehran.
of Yesterday Annalena Baerbock, the highlighted the “destabilising impact”
In a separate uprising, at least German foreign minister, called for of North Korea’s weapons pro-
9 people are believed to have
90 more sanctions including asset freezes grammes. It added: “The US commit-
b
been killed in Iran’s far southeast, and entry bans for Iranian officials. ments to the defence of the Republic of
w
which is dominated by the largely Robbed of a real life, Notebook, page 30 Korea and Japan remain ironclad.”

China’s remote painting valley enjoys a brush with better fortune

Wendy Tang Hong Kong
Towards the end of the 19th century,
Pablo Picasso and his artistic peers
would gather in Els Quatre Gats, a cosy,
art nouveau café a stone’s throw from
Barcelona’s imposing Gothic cathedral,
turning the café into a meeting point for
the Modernism movement.
For China’s budding art talent, it is
the jagged Taihang mountains and
waterfalls of the country’s remote
“painting valley” that have become
their annual pilgrimage.
Every summer Shibanyan, a town-
ship in China’s central Henan province,
attracts hundreds of students from
across the country to paint and sketch
its valley which is 30km (19 miles) long
and 4.5km wide.
“When I wake up I open the door and
see these mountains and the air is so
fresh. It makes me want to stay here for-
ever,” Wu Yuhan, an art student, told
local media. Another student said: “The
village has green mountains and clear
waters — different from what we usual-
ly see in the city.”
Shibanyan was once a remote and
impoverished town, where residents
would have to leave their homes to seek
jobs and chances elsewhere.
But when groups of teachers and stu-
dents from art schools discovered this
scenic town and set up art bases in the
1990s, the town’s prospects started to
look up. “The scenery is very special,
with a full and unique view of the
Taihang Mountains. The village is sur-
rounded by mountains,” said Wu Guiq-
in, a vice-principal at a school in Luohe,
Henan.
“Inside the village, the buildings are
very distinctive, including the slab
stones, these houses are very inspira-
tional for the students.”
As the word of Shibanyan’s beauty
spread, tourism boomed. Businesses
such as homestays, restaurants and
painting workshops — all of which
greatly increase the income for local
Painting by nature: China’s artists are
drawn to the remote valley’s beauty
residents — have been established in
recent years. Shibanyan comprises 17
villages, with a population of only 9,040
people.
Gu Cuiping, a resident of a Shiban-
yan village, where her family operates a
private guest house, has benefited from
the surge in tourism. “Every local
family has something to live on, people
are happy since they can make money
without leaving their hometown,” she
told Xinhua news agency. Shibanyan
now hosts 141 painting bases. The town
is working to improve supporting facili-
ties for the tourism and painting indus-
tries, with the aim of turning itself into
China’s “painting valley”.
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World

Tempers flare as French queue for petrol

France
Adam Sage Paris
A petrol shortage in France looks likely
to worsen after unions pledged yester-
day to prolong a strike at refineries.
The government said that a third of
the country’s 11,000 petrol stations had
been hit by shortages and long queues
of cars have formed outside those that
still have fuel, often resulting in arg-
uments between motorists.
In northern France, where the crisis
is particularly acute, the police have
been called out on several occasions in
recent days to break up fights. In the
Alps a 20-year-old French man has
been charged with attempted murder
after admitting stabbing a Swiss motor-
ist six times for allegedly trying to jump
the queue at a supermarket petrol
station on Wednesday. The 33-year-old
victim, whose two children witnessed
the attack from the back seat of the car,
was taken to hospital but is now said to
be out of danger.
Doctors and nurses have expressed
concern that they will be unable to
attend to patients for lack of fuel and
several départements have given prior-
ity access to the emergency services. A
dozen or so others have banned people
from filling containers such as jerry-
cans with petrol and one, the Vaucluse
in the south, has limited purchases to
30 litres.
Difficulties first emerged last month
after an attempt by politicians to
appease the yellow-vest protesters who
campaigned against rising fuel prices in
2018 during President Macron’s first
term of office. Under a €21 billion pack-
age of measures designed to offset in-
flation, fuel is being subsidised to the
tune of 30 cents a litre until November.
The subsidy will fall to 10 cents before
disappearing at the end of the year.
Macron, who won a second term in
the spring, hopes the move will help to
prevent a planned left-wing demon-
stration against the cost of living crisis
next Sunday spiralling into a new
round of yellow-vest riots.
He was aided by the French oil group
TotalEnergies, which added its own
20 cent discount. The upshot, though,
has been a 30 per cent increase in
demand at the group’s 3,500 petrol sta-
tions in France, partly because Belgian,
Swiss, Spanish and other motorists
from neighbouring countries have been
flocking across the border in search of
cheaper fuel. Many of TotalEnergies’
stations, which account for about a
third of the overall number in France,
were running dry even before staff at
three of France’s seven refineries walk-
ed out on September 27.
Their industrial action, which has
since spread to at least one petrol depot
along with a biorefinery, has accent-
uated the chaos.
The hard-left CGT union is demand-
ing a 10 per cent pay rise backdated to
January 1, arguing that TotalEnergies
can afford the sum, having made a
second-quarter profit of €5.7 billion.
The oil group, which gave its staff a
3.5 per cent rise this year, says it will
open talks on next year’s pay in mid-
November, although Christophe
Aubert, a CGT delegate, said executives
had privately indicated that they
wanted to offer a 5.5 per cent increase
along with a €3,000 bonus. He said the
package was “insufficient to cover gal-
loping inflation, especially in the con-
text of the megaprofits [made by oil
firms]”. Inflation is running at 5.6 per
cent in France.
Aubert added that his members had
voted to continue the strike.
Aurore Bergé, the head of Macron’s
Renaissance party in the national as-
sembly, said oil group workers were jus-
tified in demanding a pay rise but added
that the strike was punishing “French
people who work, who have to get up
early to try several petrol stations in the
morning simply in order to get to work”.

EXTINCTION REBELLION/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Burger King
Pair stick
to Picasso with maggots
in climate on the side
protest Germany
Rob Hyde Berlin
wo Extinction

T Rebellion
activists
glued
themselves to
a Pablo Picasso
painting at a
Melbourne gallery
(Bernard Lagan
writes).
Police arrested
the climate change
protesters after they
used superglue to stick
themselves to
Massacre in Korea,
on loan to the
National Gallery of
Victoria in an
exhibition developed
by the Centre
Pompidou and the
Musée National
Picasso-Paris.
The gallery said the
work, which depicts
the massacre of naked
women and children,
was not damaged
because it was
protected by a perspex
cover. The pair were
arrested and released
without charge.
The climate activist
group said it targeted
the 1951 anti-war
expressionist painting
to urge governments,
corporations and
A covert TV investigation at Burger
King branches in Germany has uncov-
ered kitchens filled with maggots,
mould and out-of-date food.
Günter Wallraff, 80, a veteran jour-
nalist, first exposed the fast-food giant
in 2014, leading to the closure of 89
franchises. In his latest investigation his
team discovered that the manager of
the Burger King branch in Bernau, a
few miles northeast of Berlin, put new
best-before labels on expired food
every day. In one case burger buns
weeks beyond their expiry date were
used in the kitchen.
The team also found staff with un-
washed fingers snacked on the chips
they served to customers and put chick-
en nuggets into meat-free orders. The
organic waste bin was full of writhing
maggots and mice ran across the floor.
Company instructions to keep costs
down led to understaffing, with workers
doing exhausting night shifts and bur-
dened with up to 60 hours of overtime
a month. The documentary concluded:
“Burger King is a global corporation
that exploits employees for its profits
Two Extinction Rebellion “Climate Chaos = War targeted the work to of to draw attention to people were brave,” and sometimes deceives customers
protesters glued their + Famine”. link climate change what is happening.” she said. The group is maliciously.”
hands to a Picasso work, A spokeswoman for with war. “Picasso, for Strong said the calling for the When Wallraff handed the findings
making sure that the art the gallery said police all his faults, was a group took pains to government to declare to Burger King Deutschland GmbH,
was not damaged unglued the activists’ lifelong pacifist,” she ensure the painting a climate emergency. the company said: “We immediately
hands “with no harm said. “Paintings like was not damaged in A spokesman for closed the named restaurant and
institutions to take to the work”. these really evoke the line with its Victoria Police said a ordered an extraordinary external
action on the global Catherine Strong horrors of war. philosophy of non- 49-year-old woman audit for all 750 Burger King restau-
environmental crisis. from Extinction “We are at a point violent action. and a 59-year-old man rants in Germany.”
The pair lay down a Rebellion said the where we have to do She praised the were removed from The company has also been stripped
black banner that said: demonstrators anything we can think protesters. “These the painting after 2pm. of its right to describe five of its veg-
etarian-range products as vegan.

Rijksmuseum ‘sinking’ as foundations rot in record drought

The Netherlands
Bruno Waterfield Brussels
There are fears that the Dutch national
museum is sinking as Amsterdam
becomes vulnerable to rotting wooden
pilings caused by the worst drought in
500 years. Up to a million homes across
the Netherlands face a similar problem.
The retreat of groundwater in the
capital and other marshy areas has
exposed wooden foundations to attacks
by fungi, undermining the stability of
buildings, including historic mon-
uments and museums. Older struc-
tures in the Netherlands are built on
wooden pilings, and the problem of
subsidence caused by rot following ied that there are any concerns. The deed a problem in many parts of the per said. “Replacing or reinforcing part
drought is estimated to have caused museum, which houses masterpieces Netherlands including Amsterdam, but of the foundation of the house is com-
€60 billion of damage, with bills for such as Rembrandt’s The Night not for the Rijksmuseum,” a plicated and expensive.”
households of up to €80,000. Watch and Vermeer’ss The spokesma said.
spokesman He said that after centuries of an epic
“There is nothing wrong if those piles Milkmaid, said that workork th Dutch capital the
In the Dutch struggle to keep water out new
are continuously under water but if the ns
to refurbish foundations reco
record-breaking sum- policies were needed “to use it more
groundwater level drops due to drought between 2003 and 20133 me drought has low-
mer economically”. He added: “We will have
the piles sometimes rise, sometimes had pre-empted the er
ered the water level to drain less water and retain more
above the water, and start to rot,” Maar- problem. an
and exposed the water in healthy soils. In the end we all
ten Kuiper, a hydrogeologist for Dar- “Fungi rotting w
wooden pilings to the draw from the same stock, which is get-
eius, a Dutch company specialising in wooden poles is in- a allowing fungus
air ting smaller and smaller.”
water management, said. sp
spores to take hold. Dutch insurers, homeowner asso-
Concerns were raised that the The foundations of “T fungi are really
“The ciations and banks have called on the
national Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Rijksmuseum and slo and silent killers,
slow government to take preventive meas-
which stands on 8,000 poles driven into a million other they literally eat the ures to raise groundwater levels by
marshy ground recovered from the sea, om
buildings are at risk from woode poles to the point
wooden holding back water that is being used
was sinking to one side, but it has den- a devastating fungus that they lose stability,” Kui-
that for agriculture or industry.
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World
Senator asked why Jan 6
rioters ‘hadn’t been shot’
United States
Will Pavia New York
The Republican senator Lindsey
Graham said police officers defend-
ing the US Capitol on January 6 last
year should have opened fire on the
rioters and “shot them all in the
head”, a former policeman who was
nearly killed by the mob has alleged.
Graham, a Donald Trump ally,
condemned the insurrection in a
speech hours after it unfolded and
implied that he was severing his ties
with the president, saying in a
speech on the Senate floor: “Count
me out, enough is enough.”
In the months that followed, how-
ever, he visited Trump at Mar-a-
Lago, opposed the creation of a
bipartisan panel to investigate the
attack and sought to repair party
rifts by arguing that it needed to act
“with Trump, not without Trump”.
Now a new book by Michael Fan-
one, a former Washington police
officer injured in the riot, says that
Graham believed that Trump sup-
porters who stormed the Capitol
ought to have been met with deadly
force. Fanone, who was tasered and
suffered a brain injury and a heart
attack, writes of telling Graham that
officers had been outnumbered.
“Graham interrupted,” Fanone
writes, in an excerpt of Hold The Line
published by CNN. He said Graham
told him: “You guys should have shot
them all in the head. We gave you
guys guns and you should have used
them. I don’t understand why that
didn’t happen.”
Fanone said he met Graham and
other Republican leaders to try to
encourage them to support a bipar-
tisan investigation into what hap-
pened. “I told him that I appreciated
his enthusiasm but unfortunately, as
law enforcement officers, we have
very strict guidelines that dictate
how we can use force,” he told CNN.
“Shooting into a crowd like that, you
would have individuals who would
most likely have been killed or
injured who did not deserve to be.”
Graham has not commented. The
claim matches the sentiment he is
said to have expressed as senators
were told to take shelter. Graham
shouted at the Senate’s sergeant-at-
arms: “You’ve got guns, use them!”
according to The Washington Post.
Stable influence Pumuckel, a three-year-old Shetland pony, works as a therapy horse in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
FROM OUR
CORRESPONDENT
Record rainfalls have dampened hopes of a
typical endless summer in Sydney and lured
a host of deadly critters into suburban homes
Bernard Lagan
SYDNEY
y arachnid-loving
M daughter has a
needy male friend
that emerges during
rain: Gordon, a
bulky huntsman spider the size of
her 18-year-old palm, who likes to
shelter on her bedroom wall.
This year Gordon has become a
regular visitor, with more than 7ft
of rain having already fallen upon
Sydney, over three times London’s
annual average rainfall.
When smaller but venomous
redback spiders moved into the
dry spaces beneath the sliding
doors that lead to the garden I
was less obliging. We have been
warned that the great wet is
likely to make the world’s most
lethal spider — the Sydney funnel
web — especially mobile.
On Thursday a 20-minute
deluge pushed Sydney’s rainfall
beyond that recorded in any year
since records began, topping the
86.4 inches (2,197mm) set 72
years ago — with three months
still to spare.
“It’s not like we’ve just scraped
in,” Tom Saunders, the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation’s
weather forecaster, told his
viewers. “The record has been
obliterated. I’ve never seen
anything like it.”
Indoors, mould and leaks are
the new curse. Water drips from
our kitchen ceiling during the
heaviest falls. The local roofer
scoffs; we are far down his list for
scheduled repairs.
The city, fabled for sun-kissed
parks and beaches, has reverted
to a wetland. Ibis birds — large
waders with long, curved beaks
that colonised backlands in the
1970s, eating garbage — have
reclaimed sodden ovals and
reserves where the rains have
forced worms to the surface.
“They’re starting to use their
long bill in the way that it was
actually made for, to probe soils
for invertebrates,” says the
Australia-based Irish wildlife
ecologist Dr Grainne Cleary.
“They don’t want to go back to
McDonald’s, they don’t want bin
rubbish any more.”
Months of rain have
nts.
crippled native plants.
The city’s Royal
Botanic Garden is
racing to save 16
species,
including the
prized native
guava, at risk of
being wiped out
by myrtle rust, a
disease that thrivess
ns.
in sodden conditions.
Animal species have
also been disturbed.d.
Typically less activee in winter
winter,
snakes awoke from their sleep in
Deadly Sydney funnel web spiders
are on the move in the great wet
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the mid-year cooler months to
seek shelter and warmth closer to
suburban homes. Blood-sucking
leeches, usually confined to damp
spots outdoors, are reported in
houses, drawn by the unusual
indoor moisture.
Avoiding potholes is a
challenge for Sydney drivers.
Those stranded with damaged
wheels have doubled to well
beyond 10,000 a month.
This soggy spring is in stark
contrast to the 2019-2020 Black
Summer fires that tore through
parched swathes of Australia
almost the size of the UK, leaving
Sydney choking in smoky heat.
The Australian Bureau of
Meteorology has declared a La
Niña event in the Pacific Ocean,
meaning much of the country
can expect the rains to persist at
least until the year’s end and
possibly through to next autumn.
Say goodbye to another endless
Australian summer. It is the third
in a row in which a La Niña event
— a warming of ocean
temperatures in the western
Pacific, leading to more rain and
floods — has been declared.
While scientists are wary of
attributing the event to climate
change, a University of
Washington study published this
month suggested it could be
“weighing the dice” toward La
Niña events.
Sydney’s unnerved politicians
are not taking chances. As
the rainfa
rainfall record was
shatte
shattered last week,
they announced the
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South Wales, Dominic Perrottet
to enraged conservationists.
There lies the problem, some
might say.
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Novacyt subject to legal claim after ‘troubling’ Covid test results
Alex Ralph
Chief Business Correspondent
The government launched a £135 mil-
lion breach of contract High Court
claim against one of Britain’s most
prominent Covid-19 testing companies
over concerns about “troubling” and
inconsistent results.
The fortunes of Novacyt, its senior
executives and share price were trans-
formed after it secured lucrative work
Fraud alert
raised over
21,000 firms
‘Glaring’ gaps in plans to tackle financial crimes
Alex Ralph, James Hurley
Thousands of limited liability partner-
ships incorporated in Britain “bear the
hallmarks” of shell companies used for
financial crimes, according to research
that prompted warnings of “glaring
gaps” in proposed legislation.
More than 21,000 partnerships,
14 per cent of the total set up over the
past 20 years, “share almost identical
characteristics” with those known to
have been used in corruption and
money laundering schemes, a report
from Transparency International UK
found. Almost 950 “suspect” partner-
ships were registered at an address in
Cardiff, near Companies House. The
researchers said the report was the
“first to expose the scale of abuse of this
type of company, with a conservative
estimate putting the economic damage
caused in the hundreds of billions.”
The findings were released before a
debate by MPs this week on the Eco-
nomic Crime and Corporate Transpar-
ency Bill, which includes reforms
designed to tackle the use of companies
as a front for crime and corruption.
Introducing the bill to parliament
last month the government said the
abuse of Britain’s corporate registry by
“kleptocrats, organised criminals and
terrorists” would be confronted
through the biggest reforms to Compa-
nies House, the registry of companies,
in 170 years. The planned changes will
make it a “more active gatekeeper” with
identity verification powers and the
ability to “check, challenge and decline
incorrect or fraudulent, information.”
The government hopes the reforms can
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with the Department of Health and
Social Care early in the pandemic.
It became the second company after
Roche to have its test listed by the
World Health Organisation for emer-
gency use and struck a partnership to
create a testing laboratory in Cam-
bridge with the university and GSK and
AstraZeneca.
It also became one of the top five
traded stocks on Euronext and Aim,
and its two most senior staff shared an
tackle problems linked to the ease with
which companies and partnerships can
be established, and a lack of oversight.
However, Transparency Inter-
national said the reforms would leave
vulnerabilities for money launderers to
exploit. Duncan Hames, its director of
policy, said there were “glaring gaps” in
the bill and parliament should “prohibit
opaque corporate control of UK-
registered companies to further
strengthen this legislation and buttress
Britain’s defences against dirty money”.
He said a “substantial proportion” of
partnerships show “red flags for use in
high-end money laundering”.
Experts have expressed concerns
about whether Companies House and
other agencies will be given the finan-
cial resources to fund their increased
workload. Dame Margaret Hodge, the
Labour MP who chairs the all-party
parliamentary group for anti-
corruption and responsible tax, said
shell companies were a “dangerous
tool” in the arsenal of criminals and
government needed to use the bill to
“plug the gaping holes in our defences
against dirty money”. She added: “We
will never have sustained economic
growth off the back of dirty money.”
Limited liability partnerships are a
type of corporate entity, first estab-
lished in 2001. They differ from private
limited companies as they are made up
of partners instead of directors and
shareholders. Law firms and legitimate
investment vehicles are commonly
partnerships. But the structure is also
attractive to those seeking to move
illicit funds because they can provide
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£11 million payout after its shares
soared on the back of testing contracts.
The share scheme was started at about
the time it listed on Aim at 59p a share
in 2017. The price rose from about 13p at
the start of 2020 to £11.94 in October
that year. Eight individuals shared
£19 million.
However, Novacyt has since become
involved in a legal dispute with the gov-
ernment, hitting shares and profits and
forcing it into a writedown of stock.
Riding high The UK subsidiary of Netflix, whose hit shows include The Crown, paid an interim dividend of £50 million
to its American parent company for the first time in August after reporting that pre-tax profits reached £27.9 million
Confidence declines as problems pile up
Jessica Newman
Business output and confidence fell last
month as employers put the brakes on
hiring amid growing economic uncer-
tainty, according to a closely watched
survey.
Business output fell by 2.05 points to
94.30, marking its lowest reading since
February last year when the UK’s out-
put was curtailed by a third national
lockdown, the latest report from BDO,
the accountancy group, found.
With the figure below the 95 level
that indicates annual growth, it sug-
gests that UK output has fallen into
contractionary territory as businesses
battle higher input costs.
A separate survey from the Institute
Business
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Novacyt and the government have pre-
viously declined to comment on details
of the High Court claim, launched in
April, but documents show that the de-
partment launched a claim alleging
that its Exsig testing kits “did not func-
tion in accordance with the contractual
specification”.
The £134.6 million breach of contract
claim is against Novacyt and Primerde-
sign, the subsidiary it acquired in 2016
for £12.3 million and which is behind its
of Directors showed that the level of
businesses reporting a strengthened
order book fell sharply from 41 per cent
in July to 29 per cent last month. “The
economy is teetering on a knife edge,”
Kitty Ussher, the institute’s chief econ-
omist, said.
Last week, the purchasing managers’
index for September showed that
growth in the services sector, which ac-
counts for nearly three quarters of the
economy, ground to a halt for the first
time in 18 months, increasing fears that
the economy is heading for recession.
BDO’s snapshot of business confi-
dence also does not bode well. Its opti-
mism index fell for a sixth consecutive
month, by 4.48 points to 96.32, in Sep-
tember. The research shows that opti-
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PCR test and is based near Southamp-
ton. The dispute relates to a second sup-
ply contract agreed in September 2020.
According to the department’s parti-
culars of claim, Exsig failed the govern-
ment’s test and trace technical valida-
tion group’s validation in November
2020. The group was set up to advise the
department on procuring Covid tests.
Its report made criticisms about “poor
sensitivity and false negatives”. There
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mism is lowest among businesses in the
services sector, particularly retail and
hospitality, as they grapple with weaker
consumer spending. Last month retail
sales growth was the slowest since
shops reopened after lockdown, BDO’s
high street sales tracker revealed.
The increased uncertainty has led
businesses to press pause on expanding
their workforce, signalling the end of a
ten-month positive growth streak for
BDO’s employment index, which
slipped 1.14 points to 114.19 last month.
The figures show that hiring intentions
are at their weakest levels since the
third quarter of last year.
Kaley Crossthwaite, a partner at
BDO, said that the falls represented a
“stark warning sign for the economy”.
40 Monday October 10 2022 | the times

Business

Need to know
1
Government departments
wasted more than £4 billion of
taxpayers’ money last year, a
quarter of which was lost to
City restaurants starved
fraudsters from Covid business
grants. Analysis of the accounts of
A damaging combination of train strikes, rising
Whitehall departments from
2020-21 has revealed the scale of
costs and hybrid working is forcing proprietors
waste in government. Page 2 to take drastic action, Dominic Walsh writes

2
Pub companies are offering
“work from pub” packages in
an effort to stay afloat as
property experts say that rising
energy prices are forcing 50 each
month to close permanently.
Young’s, the pub chain, offers
packages for £15 a day at 185 of its
venues. They usually include a
sandwich, lunch and unlimited tea
and coffee. Page 15
H
alf a dozen times a year a
Greek businessman comes
for lunch at Pied à Terre, a
restaurant in central
London, and orders a
£1,000 bottle of wine with his meal.
The Charlotte Street establishment
also attracts occasional “irrational
guests”, such as the table of three who
recently walked in on a Saturday night
and spent £6,000.
Welcome to London’s longest-stand-
the number of diners booking through
its system across the UK as a whole rose
by 18 per cent in September, but in
London it fell by 14 per cent.
One of the big issues is the large
number of commuters who for at least
part of the week are continuing to work
from home, despite the ending of Covid
restrictions. This is particularly the
case in the City, where the hybrid work-
ing culture means customers are in-
creasingly eschewing establishments

3
Thousands of limited liability
partnerships incorporated in
Britain “bear the hallmarks”
of shell companies used for
financial crimes, according to
research that prompted warnings
of “glaring gaps” in proposed
legislation. Page 39
ing Michelin-starred restaurant, a tem-
ple of gastronomy that will shortly
secure a star (or maybe two) for the
30th year in a row.
Yet despite its long and illustrious
track record of serving “meticulously
constructed modern French dishes”,
the outlook is far from assured.
Unfortunately, such customers at its
near their offices and using local
restaurants and pubs in the suburbs or
outside London.
According to data from CGA, by
Nielsen IQ and Alix Partners, the City
has lost 14 per cent of its licensed prem-
ises over the past two years.
Karl Chessell, a director of CGA, said:
“The City of London’s hospitality

4
The government launched a
£135 million breach of
contract High Court claim
against Novacyt, one of Britain’s
most prominent Covid-19 testing
companies, over concerns about
“troubling” results. Page 39
Greek diner are the exception rather
than the norm. Staff shortages mean
that David Moore, the proprietor, has
had to cut its opening times.
“I can’t find a kitchen porter and
we’re trying to recruit two chefs,” he
said. In July he was so short of staff that
he had to cancel lunch.
market was hit harder than most city
centres by Covid-19, with lockdowns
and restrictions limiting commuting
and tourism initially.
“However, shifts in working patterns
are going to be permanent for many,
and this has led to a sustained impact
on the centre of the capital. Many

5
Business output and
confidence fell last month as
employers put the brakes on
recruitment because of growing
economic uncertainty, according
to a survey. Output fell by 2.05
points in September to 94.30, the
latest report from BDO, the
accountant, found. Page 39
Thanks to inflation, he estimates his
costs have risen by 18 per cent: his
business rates are £60,000 and refuse
collection costs £18,000. “I seriously
doubt that inflation is running at 9 to 10
per cent,” he said. “It definitely feels
more like double that to us.”
As though soaring costs and staff
shortages were not enough, outfits like
Pied à Terre have also been hit by other
venues have closed their doors over this
period, and it is uncertain if they will
open again.”
The latest Coffer CGA Business
Tracker sales data for August also
shows contrasting fortunes between
London and the rest of the UK. Like-
for-like sales in the capital were down
by 2 per cent, but they were up by 3.5 per
cent outside the M25.

6
A combination of train strikes,
Covid and hybrid working is
making life very hard for
many of London’s restaurants. The
latest Coffer CGA Business
Tracker sales data shows like-for-
like sales in the capital were down
by 2 per cent, but up 3.5 per cent
outside the M25.
things beyond their control. “Train
strikes are disastrous for central restau-
rants like ours. Every time you get one
it totally kills that week.”
So is he making money? “We didn’t in
August, but hope to in September.
“We’ve been just about break-even for
the past six months. Coming into
Christmas you would hope things
would look up, but then Covid’s back.
Figures from Tortilla, a Mexican
chain, show a similar pattern, with sites
outside London performing better in
the first half. Underlying earnings in its
sites outside London were £20,000
higher than those inside the capital.
Although it said that London’s recov-
ery “continues unabated”, with sales
trending at 98 per cent of pre-Covid
levels in central London, it said that it

7
Generation Z may be the most
digitally savvy generation ever
but the technology education
they have received is not
preparing them for work, says a
report from Intel. It found a “lack
of understanding” among
18 to 21-year-olds about what skills
they will need to have.
I’ve lost 30 customers to Covid this
week.”
Pied à Terre’s travails are by no
means unusual in London. Research
from OpenTable, the provider of soft-
ware that handles restaurant reserva-
tions and payments, suggests that while
had lost £250,000 of sales over the sum-
mer because of train strikes and the
heatwave, and the pent-up consumer
demand for foreign holidays also had
an impact.
Sales overall have continued to grow
strongly for the chain, but it said that
“inflationary cost pressures remain the
biggest challenge across the industry”,
causing a £1.8 million hit on margins.
All of which resulted in Liberum, the
broker that floated Tortilla a year ago,
cutting its pre-tax profit forecasts by
83 per cent this year and 75 per cent for
next year. Some chains have responded
by refocusing expansion on the regions.
David Page, 70, chairman of Fulham
Shore, says the company is opening
Franco Manca pizza restaurants in
Cardiff and Chichester and Real Greek
outlets in Gloucester, Edinburgh and
continued from page 39

8
Houses and flats are
overvalued by about 30 per
cent, the Oxford Economics
Gen Z ‘let down by tech education’ Fraud alert

multiple layers of secrecy, making it

consultancy will say this week. Its
analysis — based on affordability
relative to mortgage payments and
earnings — will show affordability
has fallen over the past few weeks
as underlying funding costs for
lenders have risen. Page 42
Robert Lea Industrial Editor
Gen Z may be the most digitally savvy
generation in history but the techno-
logy education they have received— or
have taught themselves — is not
preparing them for the workplace.
That is the conclusion of a report
to do so. The report by Intel states that
Gen Z could make up as much as a quar-
ter of the UK workforce by later this
decade and that nine in ten of those jobs
will require digital skills.
It concludes, however: “Gen Z hasn’t
been educated about emerging tech-
nologies. The acceleration of emerging
tion said that if the new T-levels for
students aged 16 to 18 were to be a
success then 43,500 work placements
would need to be provided by employ-
ers. That is against a current engage-
ment rate of 9 per cent of employers
taking part in T-level education and a
further 12 per cent saying that they
difficult to identify the true owner,
Transparency International said.
Its analysis of all 146,948 partner-
ships incorporated between April 2001
and September last year found that 14
per cent showed three or more money
laundering “red flags”. These included
having one or more corporate partners

9
Anna Soubry, a former small
business minister, has urged
the government to reinstate
the post after it was scrapped last
week. “If you’re committed to a
growth strategy you need one of
the largest parts of the economy
on board,” she said. Page 42
from the technology giant Intel which
found a “lack of understanding” in a
survey of 1,000 adults aged 18 to 21
about what skills they will need to have.
In a separate report released today
one of Britain’s leading employers’
organisations has praised the introduc-
tion of the new T-level vocational qual-
ifications — an alternative to A-levels
technologies is outpacing the educa-
tion system. As a result, Gen Z are not
going to leave formal education
equipped with an understanding of the
emerging technologies that will shape
the future workforce.”
Taking three of the probable techno-
logical boom areas in the coming years,
the survey found that: 55 per cent of
intended to.
Many employers have said that fi-
nancial or internal capacity constraints
are holding them back from working
with T-level students. Make UK said
that to overcome this the government
must reinstate the £1,000 incentive that
was available when the vocational
courses were launched.
in one of 21 high-risk jurisdictions, such
as Belize and the British Virgin Islands,
being registered at addresses with hun-
dreds, “sometimes thousands”, of
“identikit” partnerships and sharing
partners with “dozens or sometimes
hundreds” of other partnerships.
The research found that an “inter-
connected network” of 15,000 partner-

10 Investors are preparing

for America’s biggest
banks to reveal a sharp
drop in quarterly profits this week.
An economic slowdown and
volatility in global markets has
drawn a clear line under Wall
Street’s bumper run during the
pandemic. Page 45
— but warned that students could be
failed by business unless tens of thou-
sands of work placements are found to
complement their education.
Gen Z, or Generation Z, is the age
group usually taken to have been born
from the late 1990s through the first
decade of this century; that is the demo-
graphic of young people who have just
joined the workplace or are preparing
respondents either did not understand
or had no idea about AI (artificial intel-
ligence); 70 per cent either did not
understand or had no idea about quan-
tum technologies (such as data
science); and 50 per cent either did
understand or had no idea what cyber-
security is.
In a separate Make UK report, the
manufacturing employers’ organisa-
“More than ever, the manufacturing
industry is crying out for skilled techni-
cians, data scientists and technical op-
erators,” said Bhavina Bharkhada, head
of policy at Make UK. “The pipeline
from the EU has been severely cur-
tailed since the UK left the European
Union, so we need to turbocharge the
best quality training in these skills from
homegrown talent.”
ships, 10 per cent of the total, was con-
trolled by pairs of “omnipresent” off-
shore corporate partners. A total of
1,873 were controlled by only two hold-
ing companies in Belize and another
661 by two firms in the Seychelles. Both
jurisdictions are “infamous secrecy
havens” with no publicly available
information on who owns companies
there, Transparency International said.
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of staff and diners
Solihull. “We’re not planning any in
London. That says it all really.”
Robin Gill, 42, the restaurateur be-
hind London establishments including
Sorella and Bermondsey Larder, said
that moving out of London was not the
answer as it was only in London and big
The group wants a ban on all UK busi-
nesses, including the partnerships,
being controlled by “opaque” offshore
companies and to give Companies
House powers to review “know your
customer” checks carried out by com-
pany formation agents “where rogue
behaviour is suspected”.
It called for an independent investi-
gation of “high-risk” company forma-
tion agents to review compliance with
money laundering rules.
An investigation three years ago by
an international consortium, including
The Times and Finance Uncovered, an
investigative journalism body, and co-
ordinated by the Organised Crime and
Corruption Reporting Project, re-
vealed how a web of businesses, banks
and tax havens used by international
crime gangs and fraudsters had been
created by Formations House, a
London-based agency.
The Department for Business,
Energy and Industrial Strategy said the
bill will “bear down on the use of thou-
sands of UK companies and other cor-
porate structures as vehicles for facili-
tating international money laundering,
fraud, corruption, terrorist financing
and illegal arms movements”.
CHRIS HARRIS FOR THE TIMES
cities that you could attract business
seven days a week.
“I can see why lots of businesses are
looking out of London or to the suburbs
simply because of rising utility and rent
costs. Everyone is frantically looking at
ways to save outgoings. My business
continued from page 39
Novacyt legal claim
were two particular problems, accord-
ing to the claim. First, when Exsig, a
laboratory only kit, was tested on sam-
ples that were towards the lower end of
the viral load spectrum, it lacked “suffi-
cient sensitivity” to detect them. And
second, even with samples that were at
the high end of the viral load spectrum,
ie were strong positives, the Exsig
would “occasionally and randomly fail
to detect these”.
“This second issue was particularly
unusual and troubling,” the depart-
ment has claimed. After the validation
report the NHS sites did not “go live”
with Exsig because of “concerns about
its performance and the potential ad-
verse implications for public health”, it
claimed. The report was kept in draft
form as publication would have had
“adverse commercial consequences”
for Primerdesign.
Discussions to resolve the dispute
broke down and the department for-
mally rejected Exsig in April 2021. It
prompted Primerdesign to issue a dis-
pute notice under the contract. In
August 2021 the department issued a
In July David Moore h d so few staff
had
he had to stop opening at lunchtime
model has always been to shy away
from the out-of-control rents of central
London — Soho, Piccadilly and Covent
Garden — and opt for neighbourhoods
where we can be the best there but for
much lower outgoings.”
The breadth and scale of the prob-
lems facing restaurants had led to
hopes that the chancellor’s mini-
budget might provide succour for small
businesses in the form of reduced VAT
and perhaps a revamp of business rates.
But James Robson, 47, co-founder of
Fallow, a restaurant in St James’s, said
that the government had “all but aban-
doned small independent businesses
that are the life blood and diversity of
our high streets” by “scrapping the min-
ister for small business, refusing to
engage in any meaningful debate on
outdated high street business rates and
not stimulating sales for our sector at
all”.
He added: “The expired temporary
restaurant VAT reduction of 12.5 per
cent needs to return to give the major-
ity of independents a small chance of
survival the coming 12 months.”
Dean Banks, 34, a Masterchef finalist
who runs Haar, a restaurant in St An-
drews, and The Pompadour in Edin-
burgh, reckons one benefit of operating
outside London over the past couple of
years is the nature of the relationship
he has built with his customers.
“We have loyal following of custom-
ers who have become friends and
support what we do, coming back time
after time. In London it’s all a little bit
more anonymous.”
formal invoice seeking a refund, before
launching the High Court claim.
Primerdesign and Novacyt have re-
jected the claim and in June launched a
counterclaim against the department
of £81.5 million for goods and services
and damages for breach of contract.
The company said the tests “func-
tioned in accordance with the specifica-
tion” and the department’s claim was
based on an allegation that Exsig failed
to achieve a “sufficiently high level of
‘real-world’ performance”, yet the
claim does not “identify any promise,
assurance or warranty of such perform-
ance which might be said to have been
breached”.
It has denied Exsig failed the valida-
tion, which was never completed, and
said it was based on a “series of internal,
inconsistent and incomplete draft re-
ports”, with the “methods and data ap-
parently used to produce them . . . seri-
ously flawed” and providing “no sound
basis for any of the allegations”.
Novacyt also denied that “any con-
cerns” about performance of the tests
were “well-founded” or posed any “ad-
verse implications for public health”.
The department said it could not
comment on legal proceedings.
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Business
The week ahead
The International Monetary Fund
will downgrade its growth forecasts
for the world economy next year,
warning of growing recession risks
at its annual meetings in
Washington this week.
Finance ministers and central
bankers from more than 140
countries are in the US capital for
the meetings hosted by the fund and
the World Bank amid the backdrop
of war in Ukraine, rising central
bank interest rates and the prospect
of energy shortages across Europe
this winter. The IMF will release its
latest outlook on the global
economy tomorrow and has already
signalled it will slash its GDP Kristalina Georgieva of the IMF has
forecasts for next year. warned of a global risk of recession
Kwasi Kwarteng will meet his
international counterparts for the markets ahead of the MPC’s next
first time since becoming chancellor. meeting on November 3.
Andrew Bailey, Bank of England Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF’s
governor, will also be speaking at managing director, has issued a
events tomorrow and on Saturday. gloomy assessment of the state of
His fellow monetary policy the world economy, warning that a
committee member Catherine third of countries are at risk of
Mann will be hosted by the Peterson falling into recession this year and
Institute on Friday, with comments next as high inflation eats into
being closely watched by financial household incomes.
tomorrow
The last time the beneficiary of wage that figure to grow to
market heard from inflation, given the fees £65.8 million by the
Robert Walters, its it earns are based upon end of the 2023
chief executive said the first year of a financial year.
that the business was candidate’s salary. That Interims Sanderson
“yet to see signs of any is expected to translate Design
slowdown in job into a rise in its full- Finals ScS Group,
market activity”. year earnings. For the YouGov
Investors will want to year, analysts at Trading updates
know if that is still the Liberum forecast a Marston’s, Reach,
recruiter’s view. The full-year profit of Robert Walters,
business is a natural £60 million and expect XP Power
wednesday
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investors at the full-year results £20 million and £60 million, citing
stage after the value of the a significa
significant increase in
online retailer’s sharess return rates in certain
dropped more than regions. Analysts at
regio
two thirds this year. Jef
Jefferies, who expect
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Asos to post an
month did not paint aannual pre-tax
a rosy picture, with p
profit of £27 million
sales in August a are looking for
and
weaker than re
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expected, which the 2. per cent, believe
2.8
company blamed on the
there are downside
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like the analysts from UBS, do not investors. As the Federal Reserve
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and being £650 million in the red that its action risks triggering a
after the first three trading quarters prolonged downturn. While banks
of this year, UBS thinks that despite tend to earn more when interest
a busy summer season easyJet will rates are higher, they also rely upon
fall £175 million short of a profit. a healthy economic environment.
Shares in the short-haul airline have Analysts estimate that revenue at
fallen 80 per cent to below £3 from JP Morgan rose 5 per cent to
their pre-pandemic high and are at $32 billion, according to a consensus
a ten-year low. UBS says the shares compiled by Refinitiv, while profit is
at that level are pricing in a rotten expected to have dropped 24 per
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Business
Kwarteng put UK’s reputation for stability at risk, says Moody’s
Mehreen Khan Economics Editor
The UK could lose its reputation for in-
stitutional stability with the financial
markets after the government’s “ideo-
logically” driven mini-budget, says
Moody’s, the ratings agency.
Colin Ellis, chief credit officer for
Europe at Moody’s, said that attempts
by Kwasi Kwarteng to create new fiscal
rules could stoke market fears that the
government was “moving the goal-
posts” to suit its objectives.
“Given the financial turmoil and test-
ing of the UK’s credibility, it is not a
great look if you revise the fiscal rules to
meet your own targets,” he said. “Credi-
bility is very easy to lose and it can be
hard to win it back. The government
House prices
‘overvalued by
a third and
likely to fall’
James Hurley
House prices are overvalued by about
30 per cent, the Oxford Economics
consultancy will warn this week.
Its analysis — based on the afforda-
bility of the average house, relative to
mortgage payments and earnings since
2000 — will show that affordability has
fallen over the past few weeks as under-
lying funding costs for lenders have
risen. Swap rates, which are used to
price fixed-rate deals, have been partic-
ularly affected by the financial turbu-
lence that followed Kwasi Kwarteng’s
mini-budget last month.
Oxford Economics’ conclusions will
add to concerns about turmoil in the
property market that followed the gov-
ernment’s announcement of plans for
big tax cuts. Its analysis does not take
into account households’ increased
outgoings in light of inflation being at a
40-year high, so the true picture may be
even worse. But the research nonethe-
less portrays a “powerful message”,
Oxford Economics said.
The rate on a typical five-year fixed
mortgage rose above 6 per cent last
week for the first time in 12 years, while
two-year fixes breached 6 per cent for
the first time in 14 years.
Senior executives from banks and
building societies met Kwarteng on
Thursday for talks on how mortgage
holders might be helped with the rising
cost of borrowing. An extension of
the mortgage guarantee scheme, which
would protect lenders from losses when
lending to first-time buyers, was
discussed.
Oxford Economics said last week
that in major economies “overall, this is
the most worrying outlook for the
housing market since 2007-2008, with
markets poised between the prospect of
modest declines and much steeper
ones”.
The consultancy has also warned
that a UK house prices crash “is looking
increasingly likely” after the mini-
budget.
Andrew Goodwin, chief UK econo-
mist at Oxford Economics, said that he
expected higher interest rates until at
least early 2024. He said that this was
partly because the government may
can introduce credible targets without
moving the goalposts.”
There are reports that the chancellor
will announce a new fiscal rule to have
the national debt-to-GDP ratio on a
declining path within five years. Rishi
Sunak set a three-year horizon.
Last month Moody’s called the mini-
budget a “credit negative” development
for the country’s borrower status.
Moody’s is due to make an update on its
rating on October 21.
Moody’s rates the UK in its fourth
highest borrower category of Aa3. A
downgrade would represent a 50 per
cent to 60 per cent increase in the UK’s
credit risk and put Britain in the same
category as countries such as China
and Japan, Ellis said. Britain is a “strong
struggle to convince markets that it has
a credible economic plan.
Beyond the abandoned policy to
scrap the 45p tax rate for high earners,
a broader U-turn on its tax-cutting
plans seems unlikely, while finding po-
litically acceptable spending cuts will
be challenging, Goodwin said.
“There’s a real challenge here for the
government and I’m not particularly
confident that it’ll rise to the challenge.
If there’s no U-turn on tax cuts, then
markets will demand a credible plan to
cut spending and I’m concerned that
the government will struggle to come
up with one. So, as far as we’re con-
cerned, much higher interest rates are
likely here to stay.
“If the government doubles down on
its rhetoric, we risk a situation where
market credibility is not restored.”
Goodwin said the Oxford Economics
affordability analysis, due to be pub-
lished this week, did not necessarily
point to a house price crash, particular-
ly in the short term, as many people
were on long-term fixed rates.
“In aggregate terms, there are more
people who are on fixes that have some
time to go. So that group of people that
are suddenly suffering that big increase
in debt servicing cost is at the moment
relatively small — but obviously the
further down the line we get, the more
people get drawn into that.
“Over the next few years we’re going
to see a real divergence in fortunes
amongst households, almost depend-
ing on luck as to when you took a mort-
gage out and when your fixed deal
expires.”
One positive factor is that mortgage
debt-to-income ratios in the UK are
lower today than in 2007. However,
Goodwin said: “It’s hard to see how a
sharp drop in transactions and a
marked correction in prices can be
avoided.
“We think mortgage rates will stay
quite close to the sort of levels they are
now — two and five-year fixed as being
above 5 per cent, and the standard vari-
able rate potentially going above 7 per
cent — for all of 2023. I think that for
someone who took out a two-year fix
this summer, it’s still going to be a prob-
lem for them when their fix expires.”
Monday October 10 2022 | the times
and very creditworthy sovereign of first time in more than a decade since to politicians and a central bank that
which we have learnt things that raise the fiscal statement. can spot and stop a nascent liquidity
questions about the rating,” Ellis said. Ellis said that the hole in public finan- crunch. It is even a good thing to have
He said that the prime minister’s deci- ces, coupled with the chancellor’s deci- a fiscal watchdog [the OBR] that politi-
sion to reverse the abolition of the 45p sion to bypass independent scrutiny cians are scared of. But all of that has
top rate of income tax was “not substan- from the Office for Budget Responsibil- interacted with politics and created a
tive from a fiscal point of view” and said ity and warnings from within the Trea- negative outcome.”
there was little evidence to suggest that sury, could prove to be a permanent The importance of credit ratings
tax cuts can provide a permanent boost dent in the UK’s reputation as a stable agencies has taken a hit since the finan-
to growth and productivity. sovereign borrower with resilient inde- cial crisis when the big institutions fail-
Ratings agencies and the bond pendent institutions. ed to spot the mis-selling of mortgage
market have taken fright at tax cuts “The chancellor and the prime min- derivatives that drove the US housing
worth about £40 billion a year an- ister would have spoken to the Treasury market crash. But a downgrade from
nounced alongside tens of billions in and they would have warned them [of any of the big three rating agencies
additional borrowing needed to fund the implications of the mini-budget]. would probably push up UK bond
an energy price cap. They went ahead and did it anyway. yields and deliver an embarrassing
The ten-year gilt yield, a proxy for the That was striking and very different. blow for the government. S&P Ratings
government’s borrowing costs, has “The UK has clear institutional is due to assess the UK on October 21,
been pushed above 4 per cent for the strengths: a legal system that stands up with Fitch scheduled for December 9.
ALAMY
Anna Soubry thinks the role
of small business minister
should be brought back
with greater importance
She said that a
dedicated ministerial role
was even more important
with small companies
facing a myriad of
challenges, from rising
prices to continued
disruption from Brexit.
“They are owned by
individuals and families
who put their own money
in to keep the business
going, often at the
expense of not paying
themselves. It’s never
been more important
that they are represented
and understood at the
highest level.”
Dean Russell, 46, a
junior minister for
enterprise and markets,
has been given “small
business, enterprise and
access to finance” as one
area of responsibility.
The Department for
Business, Energy and
Industrial Strategy said:
“Small businesses are at
the heart of Dean
Russell’s brief. So, while
some people concern
themselves with job titles,
we’re more concerned
with actually getting on
with the job.”
Craig Beaumont, chief
of external affairs at the
Federation of Small
Businesses, said the
group had campaigned to
secure a small business
minister at cabinet level
“to match the situation in
the USA, where President
Obama and his
successors see the benefit
of having a champion at
the highest level within
government.”
cabinet meetings, said the cabinet as the role was Peter Higgins, co-
government had made a given a more junior founder of Charles
Ex-minister “big mistake”. She added: ministerial ranking. She Tyrwhitt Shirts, the
attacks plan “If you’re committed to a
growth strategy you need
said that the role should
be upgraded to its
clothing retailer, wrote to
The Times last week to
to scrap small one of the largest parts of previous status. express his anger at the
the economy on board. “Small businesses are decision.
business post You have to understand such a huge part of the “Far from downgrading
what drives growth and economy, they are the small businesses, the
former small it’s not as simple as tax majority of businesses in Conservative government
A
business cuts. To have small the country,” Soubry, 65, should be doing
minister has businesses properly said. “Too often their everything to promote
urged the represented and needs are somewhat them. How can Liz Truss
government to recognised by the swamped by those of big be so economically
reinstate the post after it government is of huge businesses. That’s why it illiterate?” he wrote.
was scrapped last week importance.” was recognised they Soubry added that she
(James Hurley writes). The Times revealed last needed their own was concerned by a lack
Anna Soubry, who held week that the title had champion, as this big of entrepreneurial and
the title under David been scrapped. Soubry’s disparate group, that was small business experience
Cameron and attended successors did not attend the principle.” at cabinet.
the times | Monday October 10 2022
Paul Johnson
Flexible pensions could offer a way
“
out of the public sector pay crisis
Kwasi Kwarteng
faces a host of
problems, many of
his own making.
Announcing a
£43 billion tax cut without any
evident plan for the public finances is
going to constrain him, and his
successors, for years to come.
The markets gave the chancellor
his first headache, which millions of
us will share as our mortgage
payments rise. His next, and perhaps
even more severe, headache is going
to come from nearly six million public
sector workers. I wrote here at the
start of the year that the public sector
pay round could prove the biggest
challenge facing this government.
With inflation running even higher,
and likely to stay high for longer, and
a chancellor who has given himself
even less room for manoeuvre, it is
looking like an even bigger challenge
today.
The public sector pay bill, covering
5.7 million employees, amounted to
more than £230 billion last year,
representing more than a fifth of total
government spending, a third of what
government spends on delivering
public services and almost 10 per cent
of national income. That’s why
decisions about public pay are
economically and fiscally so
important. They also have a direct
effect on the standard of living of an
awful lot of families.
Spending totals to which the
government is committed were set
out a year ago when inflation was
projected to average less than 3 per
cent over the spending review period.
Well we all know what has happened
since then. The government has
responded by offering pay rises of
about 5 per cent this year. That is a
compromise, but one which is
unlikely to satisfy anyone. It implies a
big real terms pay cut for millions of
nurses, teachers, and civil servants, a
bigger pay cut than most in the
private sector are experiencing. But it
is still more than was budgeted for,
and hence will mean perhaps 100,000
job losses, or other cuts to public
spending.
With even the Royal College of
Nursing balloting its members
nationwide over strike action for the
first time in its 106-year history, the
next few months look set to be bumpy
enough. But the problem will only get
bigger. The Bank of England expects
inflation to remain around 10 per cent
for much of next year. What then for
public pay? Is another big real-terms
cut really feasible?
One doesn’t have to worry about
industrial action to worry about the
effects that “cut” might have. Pay cuts
on this scale, coming after a decade of
cuts, both in real terms and relative to
the private sector, would surely
worsen the already severe
recruitment and retention problems
faced in teaching, nursing and
elsewhere. There is a limit to how
much you can cut pay and still expect
to deliver decent public services.
But with fixed budgets, even after
this year’s below inflation settlements,
raising pay in line with inflation next
year seems likely to prove incredibly
hard. It could imply the loss of well
over 200,000 jobs to pay for it.
That creates quite a conundrum. By
coming in all guns blazing with big
tax cuts the chancellor has made it
almost impossible to solve the
conundrum by relaxing the budget
constraint. Indeed, he has made it
clear he wants to cut spending even
more.
This will be an equally big
conundrum, let’s not forget, for an
incoming Labour government. It has
committed to reversing less than half
the recent tax cuts and have hemmed
themselves in almost as much as has
Kwarteng. If it wants to keep or
increase the number of people
delivering public services, and not
accept large scale pay cuts, it too will
have to tell us how it will pay.
Perhaps there is one way to square
Public sector workers are suspicious
of changes to pension arrangements
this circle. I have not yet mentioned
pensions. Pay in the public sector may
have fallen behind that in the rest of
the economy. Pensions most
definitely have not. Generous defined
benefit occupational pensions, almost
extinct in the private sector, remain
ubiquitous in the public sector. Can it
really make sense that more than a
fifth of the total remuneration of the
average public sector worker comes in
the form of deferred pay — a pension
— while pensions form only 7 per
cent of the total remuneration of
private sector workers?
As public pay has fallen behind,
pension contributions, from both
employer and employee, have kept on
rising. It is not just pay restraint that
has squeezed take home pay over the
past decade.
Most public sector workers have
also faced increased deductions from
their pay to “fund” their pensions, as
well as higher national insurance
contributions (NICs). The latter
followed the end of so-called
“contracting out”, a change which led
to higher NICs for those — almost
entirely in the public sector — still in
a defined benefit pension.
One can see why unions might be
suspicious of offers to raise pay today
in return for lower pensions. Pay can
always be cut again tomorrow. But
what about at least offering people
some flexibility.
Why not let public sector
employees choose to pay lower
contributions themselves in return for
lower pensions in the future? The
current schemes are hopelessly
inflexible, all or nothing, in or out.
Some are also absurdly generous. It is
actually possible for low-paid public
sector workers, struggling to make
ends meet as they bring up a family,
to end up with more income in
retirement, from their state pension
plus, say, an NHS pension, than they
ever earned during their working life.
’’
With a bit of flexibility on both
sides there is surely a win to be had
here: a win for the workers and a win
for the government.
With a cost of living crisis on the
one hand and
something close to a
fiscal crisis on the
other, both need it
more than ever.
Paul Johnson is director of the
Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Follow him on @PJTheEconomist
Comment Business
Sarah Bentley
My three-point plan
to improve standards
in the water industry
ecent reports of leaks and
R
sewage pollution have
shone a spotlight on the
water industry. People
have every right to be
aggrieved when their expectations
for water supply and waste
management are not being met,
especially when high inflation is
exerting upward pressures on bills.
When I started at Thames Water
two years ago, I found a business
performing poorly for customers,
with Victorian infrastructure
struggling to cope with how we live
today. My priority is to revitalise
Thames Water and I have assembled
a new leadership team with one
clear focus: to fix the basics first.
The root cause of the water
industry crisis today is an absence of
resilience, borne of decades of
neglect, failures to prepare for
climate change and a growing
‘The regulatory
environment has to
encourage responsible
long-term investment
into the water sector’
population. In the past water
companies did not invest enough in
modernising their networks and the
results of this short-termist
approach are plain for all to see.
Today, Thames Water is supported
by patient shareholders who have
opted not to take a dividend for the
past five years and are underwriting
a turnaround plan that will see us
invest £2 billion more in the network
than we will receive from bills. This
programme aims to progressively
cut incidents of sewage pollution,
act more quickly on leaks and
upgrade aged piping. Our progress
in delivering the turnaround,
leading to improving levels of
service day-by-day, is how my
leadership will and should be
judged.
But this will not be enough. As we
focus on fixing the problems of
today, we must act now to build
resilience for tomorrow. The scale of
the challenge demands urgent and
systemic reform with a shared
undertaking that our industry needs
to work better for customers.
This agenda for reform should
43
focus on three key areas. First, we
need to place sustainable water and
waste management at the heart of
our planning regime: reducing the
amount of drinking quality water
flushing toilets or washing cars;
recycling rainwater from roofs,
patios and driveways; and improving
drainage to cut sewage pollution.
Resolving these issues can reduce
the risk of flooding and make water
supplies more resilient. Water needs
to be central to all new planning and
housing development, including
retro-fitting homes and businesses.
We’ve woken to the climate crisis
and we need to wake up to the
importance of water. If we don’t take
a more joined-up approach the
problem of sewage pollution,
flooding and water shortages will
become more difficult and more
expensive to fix.
Second, the regulatory
environment has to encourage
responsible long-term investment
into our sector. The goal must be to
drive a step-change in the supply of
the services on which we all depend.
To deliver this we need to move
beyond short-termism and plan for
future generations. That will require
us all to think beyond the five-year
regulatory cycles — an approach
that will attract more patient
investors, such as pension funds.
Enduring improvements in customer
service are the surest route to stable
and dependable returns.
Third, we need a new co-
ordinated approach to expedite
critical national projects. The
Thames Tideway Tunnel, which was
started in 2016 and on course to be
in use in 2024, is an example of how
new infrastructure with huge
societal benefits can be delivered at
pace. The 15-mile super sewer will
prevent millions of tonnes of
untreated sewage from entering the
Thames, protecting the river for at
least the next century. It shows what
can be achieved when the
government articulates an ambition
and regulators and planners work
hand in hand.
It is right that our industry is held
to account when we let down the
communities we serve. By working
together, with real urgency, we can
fix the problems of today and build
the resilience we need for tomorrow.
Sarah Bentley is chief executive of
Thames Water
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Business
‘Thousands’ of retirement villages needed
Jessica Newman
The UK needs more than 3,000 retire-
ment villages to be built, according to
research by BNP Paribas Real Estate.
The property company said there
was a shortfall of more than 487,000
homes for pensioners and, assuming
there are 150 units a scheme, about
3,245 retirement living communities
were needed.
BNP said the shortage was a “cause
for alarm” and indicated “misconcep-
tions” about retirement villages and
their differences from care homes.
“Senior living schemes consistently
evolve to meet the needs of changing
demographic requirements,” said Sam
Rowland, head of healthcare and senior
living at BNP Paribas Real Estate.
“There are many benefits to provid-
ing this in terms of the improvements it
can make to residents’ health and well-
being, thus relieving pressure on the
NHS, the community it can provide,
particularly across ages where loneli-
ness can be prevalent, and the boost it
can provide to local economies in terms
of disposable income.”
Retirement communities, which are
mostly flats kitted out for older people,
allow residents to live independently
but also offer access to facilities and
care services. There are 12.2 million
people over 65 in the UK, according to
the Office for National Statistics, and
V2
that figure is expected to rise to 16.5 mil-
lion by 2036. Figures from Strutt and
Parker’s housing futures report indicate
than nearly half of those over the age of
66 would prefer to rent their own home.
Data from Arco (Associated Retire-
ment Community Operators) shows
that 5 to 6 per cent of over-65s in Amer-
ica, New Zealand and Australia live in
retirement communities but only
0.6 per cent of over-65s in the UK do.
Rebecca Shafran, at BNP Paribas Re-
al Estate, said: “The government, local
authorities and the real estate industry
desperately need to plan ahead to
create homes or free up alternative
housing options for the growing per-
centage of lifelong renters and buyers.”
Reality bites in
Zuckerberg’s
virtual mission
Callum Jones
US Business Correspondent
Mark Zuckerberg is expected to unveil
a new virtual reality headset this week
as he updates the real world on the
digital one he is building.
A year after changing the name of the
biggest social media group from Face-
book to Meta Platforms — reflecting its
focus on the metaverse, a virtual realm
seen by many as the internet’s next
frontier — he will try to inspire users,
developers and sceptical investors.
Executives are set to outline Meta’s
progress in the metaverse tomorrow as
it spends billions of dollars on con-
structing this new space and develop-
ing hardware through which it can be
accessed. The company has promised
an update from Zuckerberg on Project
Cambria, its new virtual reality headset.
Kwarteng faces IMF chiefs
who attacked his tax cut
Alex Ralph
Kwasi Kwarteng will this week meet
other international finance ministers
for the first time as chancellor at the
International Monetary Fund’s annual
gathering and after the financial insti-
tution criticised his mini-budget.
The Washington get-together is set
to be dominated by discussions of infla-
tion, interest rate rises and the eco-
nomic fallout from the Ukraine war.
For Britain, the event will also
present an opportunity for Kwarteng to
seek to reassure his counterparts after
the IMF warned the government over
its unfunded fiscal plans.
Last week Kwarteng scrapped plans
to abolish the 45p income tax rate for
the highest earners.
Tomorrow the IMF is set to reduce
global growth forecasts for next year in
its latest world economic outlook.
Last week Kristalina Georgieva, head
Monday October 10 2022 | the times
He published pictures of himself ap-
pearing to be wearing the device.
As Meta attempts to encourage con-
sumers to engage with the metaverse,
Zuckerberg raised eyebrows in August
when he published a picture of his own
avatar which critics said looked re-
markably basic. Days later, he pub-
lished a more detailed version of the
avatar, trailed “major updates” to
graphics and promised to provide more
information at this week’s event, called
Connect. Horizon, Meta’s virtual real-
ity social platform, was “improving
very quickly”, he added.
The company reiterated it is “always
making quality improvements” after
the Verge technology news website re-
ported last week on internal memos
from executives that suggested its own
staff are not spending much time on
Horizon themselves.
of the IMF, last week said that it will cut
its growth outlook as a third of coun-
tries are due to fall into recession. She
said the global recovery from the pan-
demic had suffered a “massive setback”
that would wipe $4 trillion off global
output until 2026.
The fund has downgraded growth
projections three times in the past year,
and its most recent projections esti-
mate global GDP growth at 3.2 per cent
for this year and 2.9 per cent for 2023.
The US is likely to defend any con-
cerns from counterparts over forces be-
hind the value of the dollar, which has
risen strongly as the Federal Reserve
has aggressively raised interest rates.
Janet Yellen, the US Treasury secre-
tary, told the Financial Times that the
“significant appreciation in the dollar
[was] mainly driven by differences in
macro fundamentals, across countries”.
Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England
governor, will also attend.
the times | Monday October 10 2022
Vishal Shah, its vice-president for the
metaverse, wrote to staff last month:
“The simple truth is, if we don’t love it,
how can we expect our users to love it?”
Meta, based in Menlo Park, Califor-
nia, owns Facebook, Instagram, and the
messaging services WhatsApp and
Messenger. These apps generate 98 per
cent of its revenue, mainly by carrying
advertising.
The company has been at the centre
of a stock market sell-off, and has lost
60 per cent of its value this year, during
a broader technology rout and concern
about the strength of its advertising
business.
Analysts are alarmed about the in-
tensity of Meta’s focus on the metav-
erse and the scale of its investment,
while its social media platforms come
under pressure from more competi-
tion and global economic problems.
Wall Street is on the lookout for
more detail, according to Scott
Kessler, a technology ana-
lyst at Third Bridge.
“Last year when hen
they were talkingng
about the con--
cept of Meta
Platforms,
one of the
things that
caught
people’s atten-
tion was thatt
[Meta sees] a bil-l-
lion users in the
US braced for profit falls at big banks
Callum Jones
Investors are preparing for America’s
biggest banks to reveal a sharp drop
in quarterly profits when earnings
season returns this week.
An economic slowdown and sus-
tained volatility in global markets has
drawn a clear line under Wall Street’s
bumper run during the early years of
the pandemic.
Dealmaking has fallen, knocking
investment banking fees, and lenders
are also preparing for the impact of a
significant downturn.
JP Morgan Chase, the biggest bank
in the United States, will update
investors on the third quarter on Fri-
day, alongside Citigroup, Morgan
Stanley and Wells Fargo.
Last week’s unexpectedly robust
employment data for September has
compounded unease that policymak-
ers at the US Federal Reserve may go
further to bring inflation back down
from its highest levels in a generation
and cool the world’s biggest economy.
V2
Mark Zuckerberg is under
pressure to break new ground
with virtual reality headsets
after his first avatar in the
metaverse was criticised
Matt O’Connor, an analyst at
Deutsche Bank, told clients: “The
concern is that rates will rise too
much and slow the economy or push
it into a recession.”
The Fed has already raised interest
rates five times this year, including by
75 basis points at each of its previous
three policy meetings. Officials are
$8.5bn
JP Morgan profit, down 24 per cent
Source: Refinitiv
expected to order another big in-
crease at the start of November.
Higher rates enable banks to
charge their customers more to bor-
row, boosting their performance, but
banks are also reliant on the strength
of the underlying economy.
Fears of a recession are reflected in
their respective share prices: Citi has
fallen by 33 per cent this year, JP Mor-
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metaverse by the end of the decade,” he
said. “To a lot of people that came off as
uninspiring.
“A billion is a big number, but you’re
basically suggesting it will take a decade
to get there. What are people supposed
to do over those 10 years?”
Market expectations for Meta “are
pretty muted at this point”, Kessler
added, “and that’s even before the com-
pany reports its Q3 results and provides
guidance on Q4. People are bracing
themselves for that.”
Matthew Ball, a venture capitalist
who wrote a book saying that he be-
lieves the metaverse will revolution-
ise society, said: “I’m most keen to
hear about Meta’s plans for a web-
based and launched version of Ho-
rizon Worlds, which would ex-
pand the platform from tens of
millions of users to billions, but
[also] involve many technical
concessions and alterations,
while also improving econom-
ics. It’s not clear whether this
will be featured.”
Joseph Teasdale, at End-
ers Analysis, said Meta
must persuade soft-
ware developers that it
is “worth their while” to
build for its platform. “If
Meta can offer creators the tools they
need to build great content, and an au-
dience to serve it to, then they’ll have
cleared the first hurdle in the long race
to rule the metaverse.”
gan by 34 per cent, Morgan Stanley
by 21 per cent and Wells Fargo by
18 per cent.
Market turbulence has driven
down the level of mergers and acqui-
sitions, which had helped some of
Wall Street’s top firms to deliver a
string of record quarters. Daniel
Pinto, president of JP Morgan, who
moved from London to New York
earlier this year, warned in Septem-
ber that its investment banking fees
could fall by as much as half in the
third quarter.
JP Morgan’s profits are estimated
by analysts to have fallen by 24 per
cent on the year to $8.5 billion, ac-
cording to a consensus figure com-
piled by Refinitiv. Earnings at Citi are
projected to have dropped 32 per cent
to $3 billion, while profits at Morgan
Stanley and Wells Fargo are forecast
to have slipped 28 per cent to $2.6 bil-
lion, and 17 per cent to $4.1 billion,
respectively.
Bank of America and Goldman
Sachs will follow next week.
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alternative more than just a payout
ownership to a trust that will donate to
as they hand over the environmental causes as “going
purpose” rather than “going public”.
reins, says Amy Wilson
he founder of Patagonia,
Yvon Chouinard, described
options available. So, we created our
own.” Chouinard explained: “If we
his decision last month to
transfer ownership of the
have any hope of a thriving planet —
much less a thriving business — 50
outdoor clothing company years from now, it is going to take all
of us doing what we can with the
resources we have.”
The Chouinard family has split its
He said: “There were no good shareholding between two new
entities. Their voting rights have been
irrevocably transferred to the
Patagonia Purpose Trust, which has
the job of protecting the company’s
values, while the rest of the shares
have been given to the Holdfast
Collective, a non-profit organisation
that will give all the profit that is not
reinvested back into Patagonia to
projects designed to fight climate
change. Patagonia expects that to be
about $100 million a year.
Chouinard’s decision to make Earth
“our only shareholder” may be
incomprehensible to many
entrepreneurs, and those without a
company valued at $3 billion to give
away. But for many business founders,
ensuring a long-term future for their
values is more important than selling
to the highest bidder.
The number of employee-owned
companies in Britain, for example,
doubled between 2020 and 2022, to
1,030 as of June, according to the
Employee Ownership Association.
The biggest is John Lewis and the list
also includes Arup, which is 100 per
cent employee-owned, and Adventure
Forest, the owner of Go Ape, which
became 90 per cent employee-owned
in 2020.
So how do founders and owners go
about putting such alternative
ownership models in place? In the The founders of Lush aim to make the
case of handing over control to
employees, the first step is to obtain step back, Postlethwaite said. Lush,
an independent valuation of the stake. the beauty products company set up
The next decision is whether to sell in 1995, is run by its founders but they
the company or gift it. In most cases, put 10 per cent of their shares into an
there is a sale and the company pays employee benefit trust in 2017, with a
the founder back over a number of long-term aim of the business
years, said Robert Postlethwaite, becoming majority owned by its
solicitor and co-author of The employees. The founders will sell
Employee Ownership Manual. their shares at a below market rate,
Some sellers ask for the full said Karl Bygrave, a Lush director.
market rate, while le others Bygrave said h he applauded
cept a
are willing to accept Patagonia’s move
discount becausee because “the
they do not havee to enviro
environment does
pay capital gains need our help,
tax when they and they’ve
sell to an rai
raised the
employee qu
question and
ownership go people
got
trust. ta
talking about
Chouinard, 83, it
it”.
avoided capital Lush spent
gains tax by 15 years
handing over loo
looking at
control of opti
options for an
Patagonia to a owne
ownership
trust. structu that would
structure
“We would advisevise it founding
protect its
never to do it onlyly for tax usi natural
values of using
hwaite said.
reasons,” Postlethwaite ingredients wherever
ingredients wher possible,
“You have to be sure it’s a good fit for supplie fairly and
treating staff and suppliers
the company, and employees have to eliminating animal testing. The
start to experience some financial founders’ deliberations were spurred
benefits right away. If you tell the on by the public fallout after the sale
employees the business is now of the Body Shop to L’Oréal in 2006.
employee-owned and in five years’ The late Anita Roddick was criticised
time, once the seller has been paid, for selling the business she founded to
then you’ll start a profit-sharing a large corporation and because the
arrangement, that’s not a very French beauty giant had no
attractive message.” commitment to end animal testing,
Founders or owners do not have to one of the Body Shop’s main
relinquish their leadership role when principles.
they hand over to a trust, but such a “There’s something distasteful
change most commonly happens about people being sold along with
when the original owners are ready to the business, like computers and
the times | Monday October 10 2022
business majority owned by its employees. Yvon Chouinard, 83, below, handed his company over to a trust and non-profit
desks,” Bygrave said. “It’s not to say
that entrepreneurs shouldn’t be well
rewarded — they should. But at some
point, it’s nice to recognise the efforts
that people put in at every level. We
have very passionate people who
work for us, who care and do amazing
things every day.” Lush has more than
12,000 employees and shops in 24
countries. Every shop and team in its
factories and offices elect a
representative who feeds back to the
trust on issues affecting working life.
Each employee would also have a say
on any takeover offer. “The ethics, as
set out in our charter, can’t be
reduced or whittled away unless
everybody agrees,” Bygrave said.
For owners who prefer the more
traditional route of passing on their
business to their children,
philanthropy is an option. Last year
Doreen Lofthouse, who helped build
Fisherman’s Friends into an
international brand making five
billion sweets a year, left £41.4 million
to Fleetwood, Lancashire, where the
company is based. Via the Lofthouse
Foundation, the family-owned
company’s donations include paying
for an RNLI lifeboat, public art and
improvements at the football club.
Patagonia’s “new” model can be
seen as just the latest incarnation of
the conspicuous charitable giving
beloved of successful Victorians and
wealthy figures such as Warren
Buffett, who said back in 1986 that he
would give away his fortune to good
causes rather than pass it on to his
children. But for companies like Lush,
alternative ownership is a way to
enshrine the values of their business
for the future, rather than simply
sharing a slice of the pie now.
Black Farmer owner seeks
more interest from the city
Hannah Prevett
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, the farmer
and entrepreneur best known for the
Black Farmer brand of sausages, is
planning to raise a £10 million invest-
ment to build a farm shop, restaurant,
conference space and wedding venue
near Stonehenge.
Emmanuel-Jones, 65, said he had
already found a suitable plot of land for
the Black Farmer Experience, but
admitted the project was likely to face
delays due to complicated planning
procedures near the historic Unesco
site. “For me, it’s the ideal site because
people will be in the mode to be visiting
places and experiencing something,” he
said. “It is about five minutes from
Stonehenge so I’m just hoping that I
don’t get caught up with planning.”
Emmanuel-Jones started the Black
Farmer in 2004 after buying a 30-acre
farm on the border between Devon and
Cornwall in 1997. The sausage brand
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has annual sales of £9 million and is
stocked by the major supermarkets.
“I own the Black Farmer 100 per cent
and I’ve done that so I haven’t had to be
dependent on the money man,” he said.
“But in order to do the Black Farmer
Experience, I need to start looking for
investment. It is going to cost around
£10 million to get the whole thing [off
the ground].”
He said he hoped his new venture
would tempt city dwellers, particularly
young people from diverse back-
grounds, to get a taste of the country.
“What I want to do is be a bridge
between urban and rural Britain, be-
cause still there’s this massive divide
between those communities,” he said.
“Still today, people from diverse back-
grounds feel as though rural Britain
isn’t for them or they’re not invited.”
Emmanuel-Jones is speaking on a
panel hosted by The Times Enterprise
Network at the UK Black Business
Show on October 22.
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After the U-turns,
the priority is to
restore confidence
Sir Martin
Sorrell
f the government was worried
I about railway and postal
workers taking industrial action
during the run-up to last week’s
Tory party conference, it faces a
far more damaging prospect:
business itself going on strike.
For Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng
the urgent need is to restore some
certainty after the recent U-turns.
Failure to do so will mean
businesses suspending capital
investment, as companies deliver
their own verdict on the package of
measures that spooked the markets
so badly. Until that uncertainty is
resolved, any hopes of achieving real
growth in the UK economy are
going to prove a mirage.
Many of us have total sympathy
with the government’s underlying
growth strategy in the mini-budget
of pursuing low regulation and low
taxation post-Brexit, as outlined
(without any details) again in the
prime minister’s speech in
Birmingham. But the political
calculus was tin-eared, the timing
was awful and the big
questions still hanging
in the air are: how do we
pay for it and how do we
finance the investment
until growth arrives? It
is like the chief
executive and finance
chief of a company
outlining a huge
“
The mistake
is to think
that cutting
investment programme
without financing
corporation
details. Overall the
package was worth
tax will itself
stimulate
£45 billion (excluding
the cost of the energy
intervention) and the
reversal on the 45 per
investment
cent tax rate has
removed only about £2 billion of the
unfunded tax cuts.
At the heart of the original
announcement was a basic
misunderstanding: cutting
corporation tax does not stimulate
investment. It might help, but it does
not create investment. Cutting
corporation tax does have a modest
effect in increasing the discounted
present value of future cashflows
and so it could push a marginal
project into positive territory, but it
is ludicrous to suggest that lower
taxes will stimulate investment
when the cost of funding that
investment has gone from 1 per cent
or 2 per cent to 6 per cent. What
really determines investment is the
certainty of the business
environment and right now the UK
is a very uncertain place.
Getting inflation out of the system
is the biggest issue for business, and
it is what the Bank of England is
focused on, but the tax cuts will only
serve to stimulate inflation and that
means that interest rates will have
to go up even faster. We are
borrowing money at the same rate,
or worse, as Italy, Spain and Greece.
In order to save pension funds the
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Business
Bank of England has had to come in
to buy bonds, which is stimulative
again, so that is another inflationary
move. We are back to quantitative
easing, not quantitative tightening.
In terms of how all this has been
communicated, it has been a big
black hole. The prime minister hid
until she went out on local radio and
insisted that she was not going to
shift one iota — less than 24 hours
before her chancellor announced
the U-turn. Before all this, it appears
the Office for Budget Responsibility
wrote to the chancellor on the day
he went into the Treasury and said,
“We can do a forecast for you.” But
the government said it would not be
detailed enough and rather
arrogantly said they did not need it.
It seems to me that the
government is making a huge
political bet and gambling on trying
to stimulate growth before the next
general election. Politically this is a
disaster for the Conservative Party
and it is certainly not going to
endear them to the Red Wall.
So the question is, what can the
government do now? As I see it,
they have three options. First of all,
they can continue to reverse
direction and cancel the unfunded
tax cuts. Option two, they can keep
the tax cuts but make cuts in public
spending on the NHS and elsewhere
to pay for them. The third option is
to maintain their
package, stay as you are,
and wait until the target
2.5 per cent growth is
achieved, which I just
don’t think is going to
happen.
The sensible choice
would be to reverse
direction and cancel
what is unfunded and
then focus on tackling
inflation as the top
priority. That is the way
to restore confidence in
the markets and to bring
back some certainty for
business. Rishi Sunak
certainly foresaw most
of this and should have a role, but
that clearly is not going to happen.
Outside the UK we are already
facing an uncertain economic
environment during 2023 and 2024
until the American presidential
election, when US business and a
divided electorate will probably
favour Trump or a Trump lookalike.
Like it or not, and it is a very
difficult thing to stomach, I think it’s
highly likely. There are other huge
challenges to face: climate change,
the war in Ukraine and Russian
imperialism, the threat of war in
Taiwan and Iranian instability.
So there is all the more reason to
need the UK economy to get out of
limbo and return to some form of
stability. A lot of damage has
already been done and the
government is going to have to find
a way to restore the confidence of
the markets as well as trust from
business and work constructively
together with hitherto trusted and
tested institutions.
Sir Martin Sorrell is founder and
executive chairman of the digital
advertising and marketing services
business S4 Capital
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(million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E (million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E (million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E (million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E (million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E (million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E

Automobiles & parts 4.20 Drumzv 1 + V … -8.3 42,645.55 Lond Stk Ex Gp 7682 + 84 1.0 78.5 29.49 Billington Hldgsv 228 + 8 1.8 18.5 8,987.92 Segro 743V + 26V 3.0 2.2 21.06 Checkitv 19K – 1K … -2.3

573.68 EFG-Hermes Hldg 98N – 3K … 6.3 4,104.39 M&G 168W + 8K 10.8 52.6 325.67 Boot (Henry)‡ 244 – 2 2.2 13.0 360.37 SIG 30K + 1V … … 192.19 Cohortv 465 – 10 2.3 41.3

383.81 Aston Martin Lag 101O – 23X … -0.6 42.03 EPE Special Oppsv 140 + 10 … 7.8 2,927.15 Man 228O + 11W 3.6 9.1 3,168.50 Br Land 341O + 1O 4.4 46.8 262.32 SigmaRocv 41 + 3K … … 77.45 Crestchic Plcv 275 + 4 … …

311.60 FBD 875K – 8O … 3.8 13.81 Manx Finv 12 + 2O 1.4 6.0 17.97 Caledonian Tstv 152K … … 30.4 826.15 Sirius Real Estate 70O + 4N 4.6 5.5 83.64 Dewhurstv 1035 + 5 1.3 11.9

Banking & finance 8.16 Fiskev 69 … … 12.2 2.12 Marechale Capv 2V … … 1.0 892.99 Cap & Count Prop 104Y + 3V 0.4 30.8
65.47 Smart (J) 160K … 2.0 4.3 79.07 Dialight 240 + 2K … …
68.99 Steppe Cementv 31K + 1 12.0 7.2 2,630.16 Electrolux 'B' 956O + 31Y 6.8 7.2
75.83 Frenkel Toppingv‡ 59K – 5K 2.2 34.5 70,779.35 Marsh McLn 14101Y + 644Y 1.4 29.3 80.63 Cap & Regnl‡ 48O – 1 … -0.4
2,885.27 abrdn 135Y + 1O 10.7 2.9 3,285.45 Taylor Wimpey 93 + 7Y 8.9 6.1
275.69 Georgia Capital 615 + 13 … 1.6 322.34 Mattioli Woodsv‡ 630 … 3.3 … 27.59 Cardiff Prop 2550 … 0.7 27.7 15.33 Feedbackv K … … -3.0
5,925.05 Admiral 1973K + 42 7.6 10.0
75.47 Town Centre 155K + 4K 2.2 6.1
294.71 Gresham Housev 770 + 30 0.7 30.9 26.26 Metal Tigerv 15K – 1 … 5.9 115.40 Carecapitalv 22O – 1N … -2.7 143.23 Gooch Hsegov 572 – 13 0.7 42.3
12.89 ADVFNv 49 – 2 3.0 8.5
1,721.33 Travis Perkins‡ 810 + 62 1.4 7.8
200.40 H&T Groupv‡ 457 + 19 1.8 14.6 217.23 Goodwin‡ 2825 + 45 3.6 15.6
1,296.58 AJ Bell 315W + 60V 2.2 29.5 136.60 Metro Bank 79V + V … -0.5 50.27 Clarke T 114 + 6N 3.8 8.2
2,504.23 Tritax Big Box Reit 134 + 5X 4.8 2.4
8,200.34 Halma 2160 + 149 0.8 31.2
53,083.02 Aon Corpn 25166X + 963O 0.5 61.4 46.77 Hansard Global‡ 34 – 1O 13.0 11.7 54,836.64 Nat Aust Bk 1738X + 73K 2.7 17.2 572.78 CLS Hldgs 144V + 10K 5.2 4.9
512.32 Tritax Eurobox 63K + 3K … …
55.53 Appreciate Groupv 29O + 3 3.3 12.9 822.48 Hill & Smith 1028 + 135 2.8 24.1
4,200.57 Hargreaves L‡ 885K + 51O 4.3 15.7 22,186.22 NWG 229K + 8K 4.5 9.0 1,028.43 Countryside Prop 205O + 12K … 15.0
398.49 Tyman 203 + 14O 3.9 8.0
119.05 Arbuthnot Bkgv 792K + 147K 2.0 17.5 3.48 Holders Techv 82K … 0.9 5.0
101.00 Helios Underv 149 – 7K 2.0 … 262.12 Numisv 235K – 6 5.1 4.8 0.55 Craven Housev 14N – 5O … -0.3
3,303.10 UNITE GRP‡ 825K + 11 2.3 9.6
4.68 Argo Groupv 12 … … 5.5 1.51 Image Scanv 1 – N … 6.4
94,109.37 HSBC 471N + 4N 3.4 10.3 1,888.72 Onesavings Bank 434O + 22K 4.4 5.7 22,413.07 CRH‡ 2982K + 117 2.8 12.3 1,263.72 Vistry Group‡ 579 + 22 6.9 5.0
1,404.10 Ashmore Gp 197 + 1K 8.5 6.7 3,150.23 IMI 1208 + 119 1.9 16.5
3,316.52 IG Group‡ 784K + 41 5.5 8.0 409.73 PayPoint 594 + 31 5.4 18.6 2,211.00 Derwent London‡ 1969 + 48 3.8 8.7 500.49 Warehouse REIT 117O + 12W 5.2 2.7
41,888.44 Aus New Z 1400Y + 76Y 5.7 10.9
1.37 Inspirit Energyv … … … …
714.70 Impaxv 539 + 25 1.9 17.7 4.17 PCF Groupv 1N – 1N … -0.6 32.11 Dolphin Capitalv 3K + V … -2.4 738.57 Workspace Grp 385W – 8O 4.6 -5.7
11,259.56 Aviva 401X + 23X 5.3 52.8
464.13 Judges Scientificv‡ 7300 – 100 0.7 36.8
37,308.76 Banco Santander 222V + 9Y 2.8 5.3 3,142.32 Intermed Cap 1081K + 128N 5.1 6.2 5,353.20 Phoenix Gp 535V + 23V 9.0 -6.1 29.38 First Propv 26K … 1.7 … 17.39 Wynnstay Propsv 645 – 10 3.2 4.6
9.78 LPAv 72K – K … …
943.20 Bank of Georgia‡ 1960 + 6 … 6.0 190.33 IPF 85W + 4Y 2.5 4.8 437.87 Provident 172K + 4X … 3.2 3.95 Fletcher Kingv‡ 38K + 1 … …
6,261.19 Meggitt 798O + O … …
22,972.49 Barclays 144O + V 2.0 3.5 2,916.56 Intl Public Pntshp‡ 152K + 6K 4.8 19.6 25,816.07 Prudential 939 + 76K 1.2 15.2 96.72 Foxtons Group 31 + W 0.5 … Consumer goods
4,169.98 Melrose‡ 102O + 3O 1.5 …
7.49 Blue Star Capitalv V … … 3.0 3,711.67 Investec 389V + 37K 3.3 9.7 14.46 Quantum Blockchainv 1W … … -7.9 167.13 Galliford Try 151 + 6 3.1 33.5
109.03 BP Marsh&Ptnrsv 291 + 8 0.8 8.0 1.06 Agriterrav 5 … … -0.6 709.14 Morgan Advanced 248K + 31K 2.7 10.4
13.50 Investment Co 283 + 2 0.3 10.1 1,308.35 Quilter 93V + 3X 5.6 66.5 742.53 Genuit Group 298 + 27 2.9 18.0
5.58 Braveheart Invv 8O – K … 0.2 10.55 Aireav 25K … … 9.4 54.55 Mpacv 267K … … 7.0
629.54 IP Group 60O + 5 1.6 2.2 315.50 Randall & Quilterv 83K + 13K 4.6 … 243.72 Gleeson (MJ) 418 + 24 3.5 6.5
1,564.20 Brewin Dolphin 515 + 1 2.8 28.1 307.58 Anglo-Eastern 776 + 4 … 7.1 52.31 MS Intlv 323 + 4 1.0 46.1
56.58 Jarvis Securitiesv 126K + 9 10.6 9.0 1,067.83 Rathbone Grp 1692 + 68 4.3 13.0 1,590.38 Grafton Gp Uts‡ 695 + 63K 5.1 8.0
1,686.05 Bridgepoint 204O + 22V … 12.8 149.03 Animalcarev 248 – 4K 1.6 … 1,099.52 Oxford Inst 1906 + 142 0.8 26.0
513.28 Jupiter Fund Mgmt 92O + 2X 18.4 3.4 4.85 RiverFort Global Oppsv X … 3.2 1.8 1,667.94 Grainger 225 + 3 2.4 13.9
24.66 Cenkos Secsv 43K + 1K 8.0 8.8 9,955.30 AB Foods 1257K + 20K 0.4 20.7 12,630.68 Philips El nv 1420N + 45V 5.0 25.2
412.93 Chesnara‡ 275 – 3K 8.0 15.2 674.54 Just Group 64Y + 8K … … 35.70 Rockwood Strategic 1405 – 10 1.9 2.0 1,151.04 Gr Portland 453W + 33 2.7 -5.6
533.07 Bakkavor Group‡ 92 + 2Y 7.2 9.5 4.90 PipeHawkv 13K – K … 28.7
47.77 City of Lon Gpv 40 + K … -2.7 1,237.89 Lancashire Hdgs 508K + 3 2.2 … 257.60 S&U 2120 + 125 4.2 10.0 844.58 Hammerson‡ 18N + 1 2.1 -1.9
523.17 Barr (AG)‡ 467 + 13 … 16.5 8.62 Pressure Techv 27O + 4K … -2.3
198.92 City Lon Inv Gp‡ 392K + 4K 8.4 9.2 13,391.21 Legal & Gen 224V + 11X 7.9 6.8 8.25 Sancus Lending Grpv 1X … … -0.8 377.93 Harworth Gp‡ 117 + 3 1.5 4.0 27.71 Bidstack Groupv 2Y + W … -2.4 2,680.07 Renishaw 3682 + 264 1.7 21.0
1,445.16 Close Bros 960K + 66K 6.2 7.1
1,438.66 Liberty Group 502X –50034W … … 215.70 Schroder REIT 44 + 1X 5.7 4.6 15.21 Heath (Samuel)v 600 … 1.1 12.4 8.38 Brand Architektsv 30 – 1K … -1.3 51.40 Renoldv 22O – K … 8.1
659.77 CMC Markets 235 + 23K 13.0 7.1
553.90 Liontrust 853 + 149 5.5 10.6 1,223.35 Schroders 382K – 5W 30.3 1.7 394.12 Helical PLC 319K – 20K 3.1 7.7 73,321.22 Brit Amer Tob‡ 3266 – 3K 6.6 11.0 5,965.26 Rolls-Royce 71N + 3 … 48.5
8,091.95 Commerzbk 646V + 15X … 33.1
67.63 Livermore Invsv 40Y – 7V 8.6 2.6 1,223.35 Schroders N/V 2165 – 105 5.3 9.9 51.17 Highcroft Invs‡ 985 – 15 5.2 4.2 1,909.65 Britvic 726 + 18K 3.3 16.4
14,293.51 Deutsche Bk 691K + 24 … 8.1 3.27 Ross Gp 1N … … -3.2
28,750.95 Lloyds Bkg Gp 42K + 1O 6.0 5.9 5,417.48 St James Place 995K + O 6.1 18.9 677.72 Ibstock 170X + 10N 2.4 22.1 7,430.69 Burberry Grp 1912K + 178K 2.2 16.4
2,572.31 Direct Line Ins 196V + 14K 11.3 8.1 2,171.83 Rotork 252W + 22W 3.4 27.4

102.54 Downing ONE VCT 57 … 4.3 7.7 25.43 LMS Capital 31K … 2.8 13.7 16,640.44 Stand Chart‡ 573K + 16O 1.5 12.8 869.90 James Halsteadv 201 – 1 3.7 21.4 613.69 C&C Grp 156V + 12N … -9.3
173.23 SDI Groupv 169K + 10K … 27.9
9.17 Capital Metalsv 4O + W … -1.2
521.76 Senior 124W + 13W … 21.7
92.12 Carr's Grp 98 + 6 5.1 12.1
Investment companies 85.92 Character Grpv 445 – 55 2.0 7.9
160.96 Severfield‡ 52 + 4 5.5 9.2

14.75 Six Hundredv 12K – N … 73.1

Mkt cap Price Wkly Forecast Mkt cap Price Wkly Forecast 142.97 Churchill Chinav‡ 1300 + 15 … …
(million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E (million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E 5,418.97 SKF B 1272V + 82X 4.4 9.4
6,932.71 Coca Cola HBC 1892 + 36 2.8 15.1
2.36 Slingsby (HC)v 225 … … 3.7
10,998.09 3I Group 1130 + 50K 3.3 -19.8 226.30 Invesco Asia Tr 338K + 18K 4.3 -13.1 52.29 Colefaxv‡ 722K – 22K … 12.7
5,596.37 Smiths 1567 + 89K 2.4 24.9
2,825.85 3i Infrastructure 317 + 28K 3.5 5.3 252.87 Invesco BondInc 150 + 4 7.1 -7.8
1,480.63 Cranswick 2766 + 146 2.5 14.6
274.45 Abrdn Div I&G 89 – K 4.8 -23.5 6.05 IPST Bal 143K – 4 … -5.1 114.00 Solid Statev 1007K – 17K 1.5 24.2
953.98 Aberforth Smlr 1114 + 38 2.9 -15.7 52.68 IPST Gbl Eq 212 – 2 3.0 -10.8 281.65 Devro 168V + 4V 5.4 9.1
1.24 IPST Managed 98K – K 0.9 -7.2 228.94 Somero Enterv‡ 410 + 15 3.9 9.1
2,814.06 Alliance 957 + 47 2.4 -7.2 84,925.86 Diageo‡ 3728K – 53K 1.9 28.6
509.31 Asia Dragon Tr 427 + 15 1.4 -12.2 107.40 IPST UK Eq 150N + 2N 4.0 -15.7 2,976.67 Spectris‡ 2829 + 139 2.4 9.3
4.42 Athelney Trust 205 … 4.9 2.3 135.98 IP UKSmallerCos 402 + 21K 1.8 -16.8 7.19 Distilv 1 … … 26.2
904.08 AVI Global Trust 184 + 6 1.6 -11.2 1,366.71 JPM American 720 + 33 0.9 -4.9 8,010.99 Spirax-Sarco 10860 + 600 1.1 34.2
463.06 Evans (M.P.)v 850 + 14 3.2 7.2
160.15 Baillie Gifford Ch Gr 258N + 8N 2.5 -10.3 337.02 JPM Asia 348K + 11 4.8 -9.9 80.10 Surface Trsfmsv 41 + 1 … …
302.37 Baillie Gifford Eu Gr 84N + 6N 0.4 -13.3 265.00 JPM Chinese 318K + 13K 6.8 -9.7 110.83 Finsbury Foodv 85 + 7 2.8 10.1
704.49 Baillie Gifford Jpn Tr 752 + 22 0.7 -9.1 395.11 JPM Claverhs 659 + 27 4.9 -0.4 3.26 Tanfieldv 2 … … -5.5
1,991.77 Games Workshop‡ 6065 + 375 4.2 16.7
490.23 Baillie Gifford SN 156 + 1K … -10.5 7.46 JPM Elect Mg C 102 … 0.2 -0.9
413.10 Thorpe FWv 352K + 7 1.6 24.5
230.88 Baillie Gifford UK Gr 152V + 9O 2.3 -15.0 249.15 JPM Elect Mg G 930 + 15 1.9 -4.0 2,855.65 Glanbia‡ 1048O + 11W 2.2 25.8
1,283.82 Bankers 98Y + 4 2.1 -8.9 66.46 JPM Elect Mg I 92 + K 5.1 -3.1 11.30 TP Groupv 1W … … -2.2
376.30 Greencore 72Y + 2W … 14.5
1,359.70 BH Macro 4615 + 30 … 8.5 1,234.59 JPM Em Mkts 105O + 5 1.1 -12.5
212.48 Headlam 253 + 7 3.0 10.9 11.92 Transense Techv 74K + 4 … 54.7
398.42 Biotech Growth 994 + 10 … -9.1 587.38 JPM Euro disc 373 + 28 1.6 -14.0
171.30 BlckRck Com Inc 127K + 9K 3.5 -6.4 355.36 JPM GEMI 119O + 2N 3.9 -12.6 2,513.35 Ultra Electrncs 3500 + 8 1.6 37.4
555.81 Hilton Food 621 + 92 3.6 12.9
247.54 BlckRck Fro Inv 130O – 2N 3.8 -10.1 1,281.34 JPM GG&I 424 + 26K 4.0 -5.4
626.57 JPM Indian 824 – 8 … -21.7 48.41 Hornbyv 28K … … … 892.84 Vesuvius 329V + 27 6.2 8.7
437.01 BlckRck Grt Euro 431 + 19K 1.4 -7.9
37.05 BlckRck Inc & Gwth 175 – 11 3.9 -8.4 180.97 JPM Jap Sml Co 332 + 11 5.0 -11.3 583.28 Videndum‡ 1256 + 106 1.2 23.0
18,475.93 Imperial Brands 1944 + 67 7.1 6.5
118.97 BlckRck Latin Am 404 + 39 4.8 -16.1 708.19 JPM Japan# 458 + 18 1.1 -10.3
183.36 JPM Mid Cap 827 + 68 3.4 -12.0 2.61 J Lewis Hfordv 1N … … 7.9 413.65 Volexv 260 + 30K 1.2 14.1
161.66 BlckRck Sustain American Inc201K + 8K 3.9 -7.8
609.40 BlckRck Smlr 1248 + 64 2.6 -13.5 71.70 JPM Multi-Ass Grw & Inc91O + 1O 4.5 -3.7 3,934.42 Weir‡ 1515K + 111 0.7 25.6
14,239.91 Kerry Gp 8046W + 109Y 0.9 22.2
34.01 JPM Russian 84 + 9K 53.1 76.5
545.40 BlckRck Throgmorton 539 + 52 1.9 -3.9
192.79 JPM Smllr Co 247 + 7K 2.0 -16.3 41.34 McBride 23O + W … -4.2 325.23 XP Power‡ 1648 – 30 5.5 8.8
1,124.97 BlckRck Wld Min 596 + 43 7.5 -6.0
124.87 Keystone IT 202 + 13O 1.8 -17.2
5.44 Blue Plan Int Fn# 11 … … -16.1 132.17 Mulberry Groupv 220 – 5 … 9.1 11.94 Zytronicv 117K + 5 … 39.1
873.04 Law Debenture 689 + 30 4.4 -2.5
293.44 BMO Cap&Inc 275 + 2 4.2 -4.4
287.75 Lowland 106K + 3K 5.4 -11.4 401.23 Nicholsv 1100 + 25 1.6 …
535.28 BMO Comm Prop 76N + 2K 3.1 -49.4
88.77 Majedie 167K + 7K 5.2 -28.1
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244.26 M Currie Port 302 + 15 1.4 -2.1
164.26 Norcros 184 + 19 4.4 5.8 Health
56.05 Marwyn Val In 101 … 5.4 -40.1 350.06 Origin Entsv 303N – 17K 3.0 9.5
179.07 BMO Real Estate 76W + 3K 3.0 -42.5
1,390.54 Mercantile IT 176 + 16 3.5 -15.1
65.08 BMO UK HIT 76K … 6.7 -8.7 6.65 Pittardsv 55K + 1 0.9 26.1 3,249.57 Abcamv 1419 + 108 … …
697.50 Merchants 512 + 26 5.6 1.6 4.66 Starvestv 8 … … -1.3 470.10 Keller 646 + 17 5.5 7.5
24.87 BMO UK HIT B 81 … … -4.0
449.65 Mid Wynd 685 + 25 1.5 -2.2 46.15 Portmeirionv‡ 330 + 5 3.9 14.0 525.32 AdvancedMedicalv‡ 242K + 7K 0.7 38.1
98.72 BMO UK HIT UNIT 308 … 4.1 -8.7 15.45 STM Groupv 26 + K 5.3 10.0
2,208.48 Monks Inv Tst 1009 + 60K 0.2 -11.3 7,826.20 Kingspan Group‡ 4307K + 362V 0.7 16.9
149.10 Brown Advsr US Smlr1247K + 60 … -15.5 16.08 Provexisv X … … 0.3 115.94 Allergy Therapv 18 – 1 … …
209.89 Montanaro Eur Sml 110O + 6K 0.7 -14.6 21,534.25 Sun Life Can 3674 + 92W 3.6 9.4
409.42 Brunner 959 + 29 2.0 -15.8 3,809.29 Land Sec‡ 511K + 8O 6.6 …
872.85 Murray Income Trust 750 + 35 4.5 -10.2 47.21 Tavistock Invv 8K + O 0.5 1.4 836.01 PZ Cussons 195 + 2W 3.1 22.4 172.58 Anglev 66N + 1O … -9.0
1,801.17 Caledonia Inv 3295 + 240 4.8 -34.3
1,525.29 Murray Int 1218 + 62 4.5 -6.3 255.85 Life Science Reitv‡ 73 + O … …
252.87 Invesco BondInc 150 + 4 7.1 -7.8 977.75 TBC Bank Group‡ 1774 + 140 2.0 5.1 50.19 REA 114K … … -9.0 98.99 Anpariov 415 … 1.9 21.8
166.26 Nb Global Floating 75 … 6.5 -7.5
1,791.73 City of Lon IT 383K + 11K 5.4 1.7 14.89 Lon & Assoc 17W + N … -2.3
417.91 Pacific Assets 345K + 3K 0.4 -10.6 25.54 Ternv 7N – 1K … 5.4 1.05 Real Gd Fdv 1 – N … 0.1 152,440.69 AstraZeneca 9838 – 95 2.1 …
84.48 Crystal Amber Fd 101K – 8K 14.9 -22.9
1,337.20 Pantheon Int 251 + 7 … -47.7
67.19 Dunedin Entp 511K … 5.3 -11.1 14.34 Time Financev 15K – 1N … 9.4 1,705.43 London Metric Prop‡ 173Y + 10K 5.0 3.7 13.52 Tandemv‡ 250 – 5 3.5 3.5 142.66 Circassia Groupv 34 – O … 34.0
5,351.30 Pershing Sq 2755 + 55 0.9 -33.9
970.27 Edinburgh IT 574 + 31 4.2 -8.8 26.03 Volverev 1075 + 175 … …
1,838.24 Personal Assets 476 + 7 1.5 0.7 35.86 Macau Prop Op 58 – N … -7.5 346.32 Treatt 569 – 16 1.0 22.8 4,308.12 Convatec‡ 211 + 10V 1.9 49.2
686.94 Edin Wwide 174K + 5K … -16.8
2,578.55 Polar Cap Tech 1986 + 120 … -13.1 19.25 WH Irelandv 31 … … 17.4
85.18 EP Global Opp 291K + 1K 1.4 -20.0 763.97 Marshalls 302 + 20W 2.9 11.0 0.69 Ukrproduct Gpv 1O … … -1.1
30.37 Prem Glb & Inf 166K – 10K 3.8 -10.5 25.21 Creighton 36 … 3.1 6.9
297.06 European Assets 82K + 4K 9.7 -8.2 11.50 Walker Crips Grp‡ 27 – K 2.7 77.1 6.35 Unbound Groupv 9O – O … …
3,182.98 Renewables Inf 128V + 1W 5.1 -6.2
676.05 European Opp Tr 666 + 36 0.2 -15.2 77.20 Michelmershv 80K – 2 4.5 12.8 2,941.06 Dechra Pharma 2584 + 60 1.5 38.5
3,306.37 RIT Cap Ptnr 2115 + 123 … -14.7 144,167.02 Wells Fargo 3800O + 183 1.5 10.4
4,712.89 F&C Investment Tr909 + 14 1.4 -4.9 113,761.81 Unilever (NV) 4475K – 116K 3.2 22.9
320.83 Riverstone 616 + 6 … -45.7 722.57 Morgan Sindall‡ 1530 + 90 4.5 7.4 6.47 Deltex Medicalv Y … … -5.4
333.93 Fidlty Asian Val 463K + 9K 1.7 -10.7 44,123.21 Westpac 1260N + 58 3.7 17.0
437.86 Schroder TotRt 409 + 9 2.1 -6.6 99,946.70 Unilever 3932 – 148K 3.6 20.1
1,138.07 Fidelity China Sp 226 + 8 2.1 -9.9 452.29 Mountview 11600 … 3.6 14.4 96.10 e-Therapeuticsv 18X + O … …
808.83 Schrd Asia Pac 503 + 22K 1.8 -11.4 8.17 Worsley Investors Ltd 24V + 2X … 75.6
1,149.45 Fidlty Euro Val 281 + 14 2.4 -9.3 516.66 Victoriav 448 – 10 … …
192.07 Schrod Inc Gwth 276K + 10 4.7 -2.1 54,344.22 Zurich Fincl 36118X + 406N 4.5 14.1 223.32 NewRiver REIT 72 – 1W 4.1 -2.5 80.59 Eco Animal Hlthv 119 … 0.8 14.4
215.76 Fidlty Jap Tru 166N + 4K … -10.9 247.43 Schrod Jap Gwth 203 + 4N 1.9 -13.6
803.77 Fidlty Spec Val 248 + 14K 2.7 -8.1 203.35 EKF Diagnosticsv 44X + 4X 2.2 12.6
1,762.83 Fins Gwth & Inc 818 + 38 3.2 -4.8
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884.80 GCP Infrastructure 100 + 6K 6.2 -13.0 52.72 Panther Securitiesv‡ 300 + 10 4.0 2.7
830.38 Scot American 471 + 31 2.8 -8.3
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592.25 Scot IT 895 + 895 3.7 0.9 property 4,029.84 Persimmon 1262 + 87 18.6 5.1 0.31 Ass Br Eng# 15 … … -3.5
1,702.25 Genus 2588 + 82 1.2 46.0
11,252.09 Scot Mtge 789 + 26 0.4 -12.8 53,795.14 GSK‡ 1322K + 6O 6.0 15.2
3,567.17 Greencoat UK Wind 153Y + 5V 5.7 -1.7 223.58 Secs Tst Scot 223 – 4 2.6 -1.9 5.85 Pires Investmentsv 3V – V … -6.9 313.78 Avon Rubber 1037 – 44 2.8 …
72.80 Hansa Investment 182 – 2 1.0 -39.6 52.39 Alumascv‡ 145 – 2K 6.5 7.3 1.87 Gunsyndv W … … 4.0
1,506.82 Sequoia Eco 86N + 7N 6.5 -12.7 1,436.91 Babcock 284V + 6W … -1.7
140.80 Hansa Inv Co 'A' 176 – 1 1.0 -39.9 4.46 Plaza Cent 65 … … -0.2
660.55 Temple Bar 206K + 8Y 3.9 -5.9 23.07 Aseana Props 11K + W … -5.7
25,444.46 26,240.04 Haleon 284V + 4 … …
1,700.75 Hbrvest Glbl Pt Eq 2150 – 15 … -47.7 1,696.07 Tplton Emg Mkt 145W + 6W 2.4 -14.1 BAE Sys 818K – 6W 2.9 14.9
1,519.55 Assura Grp‡ 51N + K 5.6 10.2 1,416.68 Primary Hlth 106 – 2V 5.8 10.8
276.25 Hend Euro Foc 129O + 4K 2.4 -16.1 1.01 Tiger Royal and Investv V … … 87.5 2,847.56 Hikma Pharms 1293 – 56K 2.9 9.6
29.52 Braime A N/Vv‡ 2050 … 0.5 23.1
190.48 Hend High Inc 146O + 5 6.8 -6.4 926.66 TR Property 292 + 8K 4.7 -9.3 3.97 Aukett Swankev 2W … … -3.4 57.53 Real Estate Invsv‡ 32 – 1 11.7 4.1
25.20 Braime Groupv‡ 1750 … 0.6 19.7 1,374.99 Hutchmed Chinav 159 – W … -8.6
554.29 Hend Smlr 742 + 52 2.9 -12.9 191.67 Troy Inc&Gth 67Y + X 2.1 -2.4 1,836.56 Balfour Beatty 305W + 2V 1.4 14.4
1,420.56 Redrow‡ 415K + 30O 5.9 5.1
1,089.82 Herald 1728 + 160 … -17.8 155.95 Utilico Ord 186 – 2K 3.1 -27.8 14.83 Caffyns 550 … … 7.9 109.44 Immunodiag Sysv 378 … 0.5 …
3,571.03 Barratt Devs‡ 352 + 28K 8.3 5.5
1,553.06 HgCapital Trust 339 + 11K 1.7 -23.1 446.66 Utilico Emerging Mkt 217 + 6 3.3 -13.2 1,811.86 Safestore 859 + 65 2.3 4.8
3,262.57 HICL Infra 160K + 19.01 Cap XX Ldv 3X – V … -7.9 9.35 ImmuPharmav 2O … … -0.8
K 5.1 -0.5 51.40 UtilFin RdZDP 2022 144K … … -1.2 2,188.81 Bellway 1772K + 186 6.6 5.3
2.45 Highbridge Tactical 226 – 9 … -13.4 1,290.41 Vietnam Ent Inv 624 – 6 … -15.2 1,193.07 Savills 826K + 63 2.7 8.2 1,938.31 Indivior 281W + 6K … 16.1
3,693.74 Berkeley 3390 + 225 0.2 8.8 121.53 Castings 279 – 2 5.4 13.4
742.72 ICG Ent Tr 1084 + 110 1.2 -41.3 1,490.46 Witan 216 + 10K 2.5 -10.2
1,919.53 Big Yellow Group 1042 + 29 3.2 6.8 7.43 Secure Propertyv 5O … … 15.2 4.83 Chamberlinv 4K … … -0.3 50.76 Inspiration Healthv 74K – 12 0.8 11.5
1,275.82 Impax Env Mkts 420 + 30 0.7 -2.2 2,160.95 Ww Health 3360 + 95 0.7 -9.0
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Mkt cap Price Wkly Mkt cap Price Wkly Mkt cap Price Wkly Mkt cap Price Wkly Mkt cap Price Wkly Mkt cap Price Wkly
(million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E (million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E (million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E (million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E (million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E (million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E

16.37 IXICOv 34 … … 10.9 312.97 Bloomsbury Pub 383K + 15K 2.3 15.8 46.40 Condor Gldv 29N + 3K … … 19.31 Serabi Goldv 25K + 1K … 3.4 450.79 Renewi 563 + 3 … 11.9 1,188.15 GB Groupv 471 – 120K 1.3 35.9

3,641.98 Mediclinic Int 494 + 1W … 30.8 6.86 Bonhill Groupv 5O … … … 1,042.09 Serica Energyv 382 + 24 0.9 … 9,129.05 Rentokil Itl 489O + 15Y 1.5 34.7 117.19 GreshamTech 140K – 1K 0.5 …
1.99 Corcelv W … … -0.4
4.71 N4 Pharmav 2K + K … -3.0 86.84 Ilikav 55 – 1 … …
18.72 Catalyst Mediav 89 + 1K … … 440.52 DRD Gold 50Y + 3W 7.4 6.0 98.01 Shanta Goldv 9N + K 1.0 5.9 534.00 Restorev‡ 390 + 10 0.6 46.4
17.88 Ingentav‡ 109K + 18 1.3 64.0
163,958.12 Novartis CHF 75.54 + 55Y 3.5 8.6 165,356.02 Shell 2312 + 70K 2.6 12.1 275.32 Ricardo 442K + 8 1.5 39.5
0.78 Catenaev N … … -0.5 7.19 ECR Mineralsv X … … -4.2
22.13 Intercedev 38 … … 13.1
6.66 Omega Diagsv 2O + W … -1.0 362.44 Robert Walters 480 + 40 3.4 10.9
569.16 Daily Mail‡ 270 … 8.9 10.3 2.38 Edenville Energyv 11 + … -0.7 23.11 Sound Energyv 1N … … 7.8
N 174.81 Iomartv 159 – 4 4.4 17.4
5.30 Ovoca Biov 6K – 1O … -1.8 3.91 Roebuck Food Grpv 13 … … 1.9
2.54 DCD Mediav# 100 – 50 … 5.0 4.22 Sunrise Resourcesv … … … … 288.10 IQEv 35O + 2 … …
6.98 Empyrean Energyv Y … … -6.2
329.56 Oxford Biomedica 342K – 14K … 15.4
56.83 Ebiquityv 49 … … … 3.99 Tertiary Mineralsv N … … -6.8 663.25 RPS Group‡ 239 + 4 0.1 … 56.14 K3 Business Tchv 125K … … -2.1
3,942.58 Endeavour Mining1598 – 7 3.0 23.7
2.14 Physiomicsv 2V … … -8.4
10.58 Thor Miningv K … … -3.2 4,792.90 RS Group 1016 + 71K 2.5 25.7 5,039.12 LG Electronics 1277N + 116 … 3.4
1,580.55 Euromoney In Inv 1446 … 0.7 …
12.94 Proteome Sciesv 4W + V … … 561.06 EnQuest 29O + 3X … 1.8
116,285.94 Total Eng SE 4535Y + 369V 5.0 10.3 2.78 RTC Groupv 19 … … … 4.10 Location Sciencesv V … … -2.5
1,679.90 Future 1390 + 109 0.1 23.9
42,510.74 Reckitt Benck 5940 – 184 2.9 … 142.68 Eurasia Miningv 5 – O … …
1,235.38 RWS Hldgsv 317V – 4O 2.9 29.1 1,747.59 Micro Focus Intl 520 – K 3.4 -5.5
1,224.44 GlobalDatav‡ 1035 … 1.7 51.2 8.89 Tower Resourcesv N … … -4.8
9.10 RUA Life Sciencesv 41 … … -3.9 21.58 Europa Oil&Gasv 2N + V … 20.4 43.29 MTI Wirelessv 49 … 3.7 16.3
640.54 Tullow Oil 44K + 3 … 4.4 177.10 Science Groupv 390 + 4 1.0 17.9
163.32 Hyve Group 56 + 3 … …
148.05 Sareum Hldgsv 217K + 47K … … 745.79 Ferrexpo 126X + 7Y 11.3 0.9 128.97 Nanoco Gp 40 – 1O … …
1,848.97 Serco Gp‡ 156K … 1.4 6.4
86.29 IG Design Grpv 88K + 10K 9.8 12.9 15.82 UK Oil & Gasv … … … -2.5
9,029.11 Smith & Neph‡ 1037 + 13K 2.6 23.5 129.30 Netcallv 83K + 8K 0.4 …
5,968.84 Fresnillo 810 + 62V 3.0 19.1 79.26 Smiths News 32 + X 1.5 3.1
7,789.59 Informa 542W + 35O … … 3.62 URU Metalsv 220 … … 7.1 12.94 Northamberv 47K … 2.1 …
864.53 Spire Hcare 214 + 3 … …
43.86 G3 Exploration# 28 … … -2.6 6,617.13 Smurfit Kappa‡ 2543 + 34 3.8 11.6
37.18 Synairgenv 18W + 1W … -0.8 2,370.16 ITV 58Y + 3X … 6.3 6.60 Vast Resv W … … … 1.75 Online Blockchainv 12N + N … -6.4
38.57 Galantas Goldv 37K + 8K … -6.4 62.99 Staffline Gpv 38 … … 29.2
9.99 Victoria Oil&Gasv# 3O … … -1.8 108.36 Oxford Metricsv 83K + 2 2.1 36.3
34.48 Tissue Regenixv W … … -6.1 6.88 Jaywingv 7W – V … …
11.39 GCM Resourcesv 6N + 1 … -5.2 506.09 SThree 376K + 34 2.1 12.1 8.76 Parityv 8K … … …
57.15 Totallyv‡ 30K – N 1.6 48.4 7.04 Live Company Gpv 3V – N … -0.6 3.89 W Resourcesv# 2X … … -0.3
43.21 Gem Diamonds 31 … 5.9 3.2 19.04 Synecticsv 107 + 2 … … 11.77 Pennant Intlv 32 + 1 … …
162.93 Tristelv 345 + 20 1.9 71.1 0.91 Mediazestv … … … -6.5 4.25 Westmount Engyv 2Y … … -0.6
34.45 Thruvision Groupv 23K + Y … -8.5 1,448.45 Playtech 472O + 51 … 4.9
14.65 ValiRxv 16N + 1 … … 11.02 Getechv 16W – Y … -3.9 911.50 Wood Grp (J) 131O + 6O … -5.4
8.15 Merit Grpv 34 … … … 1,960.83 QinetiQ 338O + 10 3.3 26.4
151.55 Tribalv 71K + 2 1.6 22.3
64,074.67 Glencore 494 + 7N 1.7 18.0 92.02 Woodboisv 4N … … 16.4
2.90 Miradav 32K – 7K … -1.4 25.25 RM 30 + 2V 15.6 6.0
Industrials 40.50 Mission Groupv 44K – K 5.2 7.5
3.43 Global Petrolv N … … -4.0 29.34 Xtract Resourcesv 3W … … -6.1
15.84 Vianetv 55 + 1K … …
7,334.52 Sage Gp 720 + 27V 2.4 27.6
296.34 Vp 738 – 27 3.3 18.1
6,955.24 Gold Fields 780N + 55K 3.3 12.0 87.40 Zephyr Energyv 5K + N … -7.1 268.44 Seeing Machinesv 6W + 1 … …
977.09 Moneysupermarket 182 + 4W 6.4 18.5
137.15 Accsys Techv 66W … … … 4.96 Westminsterv 1K … … -1.8
17.28 Goldplatv 10N … … 7.8 23.46 Shearwater Grpv 98K + 6K … 61.0
5,507.58 News Corp A 1428N + 83Y 1.0 23.3
33,322.74 BASF 3628 + 212X 7.6 7.1

41,200.27 Bayer DM50 4193X – 1N 4.0 48.9

2,849.47 News Corp B 1455 + 86X 1.0 23.7
29.05 Goldstone Resv 5Y – O … … Professional & Retailing
10.85 Smartspace S'warev 37K + 4K … -3.9
2,446.12 Softcat 1227 + 91 1.7 24.0

1.88 Biome Techv 50 + 3K … -1.6 828.64 Next 15 Commsv 842 + 87 0.8 … 402.37 Greatld Gldv 8O + 1K … … support services 1,632.13 Spirent Comms 266O + 9K 1.7 24.8
6,590.58 Pearson 906V + 67K 2.1 43.3 131.17 Griffin Miningv 75 – 4K … 8.2 284.65 AO World 49N + 7Y … … 53.30 SRT Marinev 29K + 3K … -8.7
9.30 Byotrolv 2 – W … …
1,026.53 4imprint Grp 3655 + 310 0.3 61.6
4.98 Camb Gbl Timberv 6O … … -9.0 404.49 Photo-Me 107 + 1K … 18.6 473.58 Gulf Keystone‡ 219 + 21 3.8 13.7 3,107.75 B&M European 310V + 14X 5.5 7.2 17,205.45 Tele. Ericsson 560 + 36N 3.2 10.2
217.20 Andrews Sykesv‡ 515 + 20 4.5 16.4
3,913.29 Harbour Energy‡ 453W + 14K … 52.9 99.00 Brown (N)v 21K – 2 … 6.3 6.14 Touchstarv 72K … … …
861.22 Coats Grp 53Y + 2K 2.6 12.0 3.50 Primorus Invv 2K … … 4.5
19,358.35 Ashtead 4400 + 406 1.0 21.4 276.40 Tracsisv 930 – 20 … …
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Obituaries
Nicolas Belfrage
British Master of Wine who coined the term ‘Super Tuscans’ and was a leading authority on Italian grapes
The most sought-after fine wines to
emerge in postwar Italy were known as
“Super Tuscans”. This was shorthand
for Tuscan wines such as Sassicaia,
Solaia and Ornellaia, which were
predominantly made from non-Italian
grape varieties, such as cabernet sauvi-
gnon, cabernet franc and merlot.
Despite selling for several hundreds
of pounds a bottle, they were not
included by the Italian wine authorities
in any official category except the lowly
Vino da Tavola (table wine). Nicolas
Belfrage, a pioneering British expert on
Italian wines, invented the term “Super
Tuscan”, though his own personal taste
was for traditional Italian wines made
from native grape varieties.
In 2010 he was involved in a success-
ful campaign against allowing Tus-
cany’s Rosso di Montalcino to include
non-Italian grape varieties, explaining
that in general “I have nothing against
these blends and Italy can produce
great wines from these, but I do have a
problem with historic denominations
such as chianti. It can be a blend, but not
a blend from another tradition. I want
to see Chianti take out the French
grapes, and allow it to be a traditional
Tuscan wine.”
An unassuming, scholarly man, he
wrote an unpublished book about Dan-
te and once studied Sanskrit at the Uni-
versity of London’s School of Oriental
and African Studies (Soas) so he could
read the Upanishads, Hindi philosoph-
ical texts, in their original language.
He spent half a century buying, sell-
ing and writing about Italian wines and
His father joined the
US Communist Party
and was later imprisoned
passed his Master of Wine examina-
tions in 1980. Two of his volumes on
Italian wines, published in 1999 and
2001, remain the standard reference
works on the subject. Along with Bur-
ton Anderson, the American wine writ-
er, he was considered the most influen-
tial authority on Italian wine.
Nicolas John Belfrage was born in Los
Angeles in 1940, the son of Cedric
Belfrage and Molly Castle. His parents
were both British and worked as writers
and journalists in Hollywood. Bruce
Belfrage, his uncle, was an actor and
BBC broadcaster during the Second
World War. In 1940 he continued calmly
reading the evening news despite a
direct hit from a German bomb covering
him in debris. Nicolas’s elder sister, Sally
Belfrage, was a writer, social activist and
close friend of Jessica Mitford.
Cedric Belfrage briefly joined the US
Communist Party in the 1930s and later
co-founded a radical American weekly
called the National Guardian. His activ-
ities in the Second World War included
working as a double agent for British
intelligence and afterwards assisting to
create a free press in postwar Germany.
He was later hauled in front of Senator
Joseph McCarthy’s House Committee
on Un-American Activities, where he
was sentenced to prison for refusing to
discuss his communist past or reveal
the names of other alleged Marxists.
Nicolas Belfrage was at the time at
school in the Bronx, where none of the
Crime writer who
created DCI Banks
Peter Robinson
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Belfrage in Tuscany: he spent 50 years
buying, selling and writing about wine
pupils mentioned his father’s tribula-
tions, save for his teacher — “One Bessie
Coyne, whose adoration for McCarthy
was matched only by her loathing of
communists and Brits (I was deemed to
be both) inquired of me before a packed
and silent class: ‘Who are you going to
kill today, Belfrage?’ I was 13 at the time.”
Reflecting on his father in 2010, Belf-
rage said: “From a son’s point of view, he
was someone to admire rather than love.
He was always too busy saving the world
to be a good father . . . He was a man led
by principle. He had a lot of charm and a
great sense of humour, which he always
said was essential in life.”
Molly Castle, his mother, was a well-
known beauty and society journalist
for the Daily Express but found it
impossible to get employment during
the McCarthy era, so returned to Britain
in 1954 with her son.
Virtually penniless, she was able to
arrange for Nicolas to sit for and obtain
a full scholarship to St Paul’s School. In
the late 1950s he spent a year at Antioch
College in the US and then a few terms
at the Sorbonne, but he returned to
London without graduating.
He then went to University College
London (UCL), where he graduated in
French and Italian in 1964. A year spent
in Siena in the mid-1960s cemented his
love of Italy and their wines as well as
helping him to perfect his Italian,
though at this stage he had no thoughts
of a career in wine.
He began a doctorate on the author
Albert Camus, but abandoned the idea
after a year. He had always wanted to be
a writer and wrote three unpublished
novels.
From 1965 until 1969 he worked for
the British Tourist Authority, including
a year based in Paris. In 1970 he was
playing poker with Albert Vince, a
schoolfriend at St Paul’s, who had just
taken over a number of shops which
later became a chain of speciality stores
called Europa Foods.
Vince knew of his love of French
wines and so offered him the job of
supervising wine purchases for the
shops. In 1971 Vince opened a small
chain of wine shops called the Grape-
vine, and Belfrage again was responsi-
ble for purchasing all the wine, which
was mainly French and German.
In 1974 Belfrage separated from his
first wife, who moved to Bergamo.
Register
While visiting her on occasion, he
drank various wines, including Super
Tuscans, in a local bar, as well as classical
wines from Barolo, which provided the
catalyst for Belfrage importing a range
of Italian wines into Britain for the first
time.
This coincided with him starting the
Market Food & Wines in Upper Street,
Islington, as a joint venture with Colin
Loxley, the former finance director of
Europa Foods. It expanded to include
other locations, including Le Provençal
in Hampstead.
During this period Belfrage began
writing regular articles for Decanter
magazine and travelling to Italy. In 1985
he was commissioned by the wine
writer Jancis Robinson to complete his
first book, Life Beyond Lambrusco: Un-
derstanding Italian Fine Wine.
In 1986 he created Winecellars, a
retail wine warehouse in Wandsworth,
south London, that later branched into
the wholesale business. Belfrage said in
a 2010 interview that “the idea was to
establish ourselves as the first non-Ital-
ians to ship and distribute quality
Italian wines, as distinct from the medi-
ocrity that seemed to be on offer from
the Italian importers at the time”.
It was known in the trade as “The
MW Factory” as it employed at least
five people who went on to earn the
highly competitive Master of Wine
qualification.
One of the earliest employees was
David Gleave MW, who later formed
Liberty Wines, now the leading import-
er of quality Italian wines into Britain.
Belfrage’s first wife was Baiba Kru-
mens, a Latvian whom he married in
19 and divorced in 1987. In 1988 he
1968
m
married Candida de Melo, a Brazilian,
a had two children: Beatriz (named
and
a
after Dante’s muse), who became a pot-
te and Ixta (named after a Mexican vol-
ter,
c
cano), who is a cook and food writer.
In 1994 the family moved to the ser-
v
vants’ quarters of a Renaissance villa
n
near Acone, northern Tuscany, where
t
they lived for the next four years before
m
moving back to London. Two years later,
in 1996, Belfrage created Vinexus, a spe-
cialist Italian wine company that man-
aged connections between Italian pro-
ducers and importers in all of the leading
international wine markets.
He was highly regarded in the trade
for his exceptional knowledge of the
Italian wine scene and was also respon-
sible for the Italian section of Hugh
Johnson’s bestselling annual Pocket
Wine Book, which has sold more than
eight million copies.
He gave equal emphasis to his writing
and his business activity: “I started with
the commercial side and I took up
writing, and I think I contributed quite
a bit to the Italian cause, but without
the commercial side there wouldn’t
have been anything at all.”
For the past decade he suffered from
Parkinson’s disease. On good days he
would still go to his office at Vinexus.
He told one friend that he could not
wait to meet the grim reaper. After his
death at home, his carer found an open
copy of Dante’s Paradiso on his desk.
Nicolas Belfrage MW, wine writer and
importer, was born on July 19, 1940. He
died of complications from Parkinson’s
disease on September 17, 2022, aged 82
51
Lives remembered
John Miller
Roger K Bingham
writes: Your obitu-
ary of John Miller
(October 6) men-
tioned his attending
Nottingham Uni-
versity. He was the
most memorable
figure I encoun-
tered during my freshers week in 1961.
He seemed to be everywhere, out-pon-
tificating the vice-chancellor at the ma-
triculation ceremony or taking part in a
skit-cabaret. Although he was “reading”
politics and was a forthright public
speaker, he was not flagrantly political
but he was involved in an early Sixties
CND demonstration: a two-hour sit-in
inside the university’s Great Hall.
John reinforced a blow for freedom by
taking up the cudgels of a student who
had been evicted from his lodgings for
possessing a copy of Lady Chatterley’s
Lover. Despite the fact that the book had
been judged as “legal literature”, the
landlady demanded that the student
“pornographer” should be sent down.
Although the authorities may have been
swayed by the book’s literary merits and,
perhaps, by its author, DH Lawrence,
having been a Nottingham alumnus,
John Miller’s eloquence and urbane
charm might have helped keep the
alleged miscreant at the university —
but the dislodged scholar did not return
to his former digs.
Kallistos Ware
Dr Graham Speake
writes: Your obitu-
ary of Metropolitan
Kallistos (October
5) did full justice to
his public persona
as an academic, a
writer, and a cam-
paigner for Christ-
ian unity. There was a fourth strand to
his work to which he gave equal atten-
tion, and that was his role as parish priest
and pastor. Having co-founded the
Orthodox parish in Oxford in the 1970s,
he would by his own reckoning spend up
to 30 hours a week on pastoral work: not
only the church services and the parish
committees, but also hearing confes-
sions and providing spiritual guidance.
He would hold an afternoon “surgery”
from 3 or 4 o’clock until 8, during which
streams of people would pass through
his door. He maintained that his pastoral
work — serving the Liturgy, visiting the
sick, counselling the bereaved — provid-
ed context to his work as a theologian.
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Oliver Everett writes:
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(obituary, Septem-
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keen fisherman. He
was at our wedding
in the west of
Ireland, after which
my brother-in-law
(whom he hadn’t met before) asked him
to stay on for a couple of days to fish.
After two weeks, Andrew had to be gen-
tly asked how long he intended to stay.
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Peter Robinson
Crime fiction author whose bestselling DCI Banks novels, set in his native Yorkshire, were turned into an ITV drama
Living in Canada and feeling homesick
for Yorkshire, Peter Robinson found
solace in writing about the place where
he had grown up. “It was a way of
coping when I was a long way away,” he
said. “I found it something of a comfort
to sit in my room on a cold wintry
Toronto day and be roaming the Dales
in my imagination.”
He invented the town of Eastvale,
loosely modelled on Richmond in
North Yorkshire, and drew on his mem-
ories of its surrounding villages such as
Reeth, Hawes and Swaledale.
Into this bucolic landscape of his
youth he dropped a dogged and unos-
tentatious detective named Alan Banks,
who had moved from London in search
of a more peaceful life but found that
crime was as rife in the Yorkshire Dales
as on the gritty streets of the metropolis.
In his first novel, Gallows View (1987),
Robinson’s detective investigated a
peeping tom, a pair of youthful burglars
and, of course, the obligatory murder.
If he knew the setting of the Dales,
his knowledge of policing was less
extensive, so he conducted his research
by accompanying officers on duty in
Toronto, including on one occasion in
pursuit of an armed suspect on foot.
When he stopped to consider his rash-
ness and wondered if he should have
stayed in the car, he was told: “It’s fine,
you’ve signed a waiver,” so if he was shot
the police department would not have
been liable.
His books about his detective — 27 of
them, with the 28th due for posthu-
mous publication in 2023 — went on to
sell more than ten million copies,
although success was far from instant.
While writing the early books he
worked as a part-time teacher in order
to pay the rent. At one point in the
mid-1990s he was dropped by his US
publisher, and he was almost 50 before
he was able to afford to buy a house.
However, his success grew to the point
that in 2004 Hodder & Stoughton
poached him from Pan Macmillan in a
£1.4 million four-book deal.
His work reached an even bigger
audience in 2010 when his detective
John Hartman
Hard-living drummer and co-founder of the Doobie Brothers, whose hits included Listen to the Music and Long Train Runnin’
When John Hartman applied to
become a police officer, his reputation
preceded him. He had successfully
completed three years training at a
police academy but it counted for
nothing when his rambunctious past as
the drummer with the Doobie Brothers
came to light.
The band, which he had formed 20
years earlier, took its name from a slang
term for a marijuana cigarette and
while selling millions of records with
hits such as Listen to the Music and Long
Train Runnin’, they had enjoyed the
rock’n’roll lifestyle to the limit — and
Hartman had led the excess.
When the band signed to Warner
Brothers, Ted Templeman, their pro-
ducer, reported that they asked for a
$20,000 advance, “ten for equipment
and ten for cocaine”. In their early days
they had been the house band to a rene-
gade gang of Hell’s Angels, and Hart-
man once pulled a gun on record com-
pany executives in the studio. His drug
abuse grew so out of control that at one
point his bandmates — who were no
slouches themselves in the hedonism
stakes — told him that if he did not tone
down his excesses he was out.
After leaving the band for the first
time in 1979 and cleaning up, he
claimed to be a reformed character and
dreamt of becoming a full-time police
was put on the screen in an ITV drama
series. Robinson took a Hitchcock-style
walk-on part in the first episode and
worked closely on developing Banks’s
character with Stephen Tompkinson in
the lead role.
The ratings were impressive enough
to run to five series between 2010 and
2016, but Robinson admitted that many
long-term readers did not like the por-
trayal of a detective they felt they knew.
“They have their own ideas of what he
was like and a book allows for that in a
way TV does not,” he said.
As the success of his books grew, he
bought a second holiday home in North
Yorkshire, spending a couple of months
there every summer, tramping the Dales
in search of “a good place to find a body”.
He felt his physical return to Yorkshire
also changed the tenor of his writing. “I
do need to smell the smells, hear the
voices and see the sights,” he said.
“When I started spending more time in
Richmond and being part of the com-
munity, the books became a bit more
reflective of the way things really are.”
He kept his fictional detective fresh
by “throwing a load of crap at him and
seeing how he handles it”, he said, and
in later books Banks investigates topi-
cal issues such as a celebrity who preys
on underage girls, Asian grooming
gangs and county line drug trafficking.
His character also evolved as the
books went on. “Banks has unfolded
slowly over the years,” he said.
“The greats like Sherlock Holmes and
Poirot never really changed. They exist-
ed only in order to solve puzzles. The
modern detective develops as an ordi-
nary man does.”
It was this “everyman” aspect that
was perhaps his detective’s greatest
appeal. “Banks’s very ordinariness
makes him all the more convincing,” the
critic Marcel Berlins wrote in The Times
in 2005.
Carolyn Mays, his editor at Hodder &
Stoughton, believed that Robinson
drew on elements of his own personali-
ty in creating his detective. “Peter was a
combination of all the best bits of Alan
Banks — thoughtful and passionate
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Hartman in 1978: he led the excess
officer, walking a beat, catching crimi-
nals and educating young offenders
about the dangers of drugs. Yet his past
could not be so easily erased and his
application was rejected by no fewer
than 20 police departments across Cali-
fornia after he was subjected to lie-
detection tests about his drug history.
The question was not whether he had
inhaled, but about how much and how
often. He admitted that he had used
marijuana and cocaine “plus or minus
100 times” but could not be more
accurate due to a “foggy memory”. His
argument that the drugs had been “an
Peter Robinson wrote 28 Banks novels with the last one to be published in 2023
about justice and a totally down-to-
earth view of the world,” she said.
Robinson admitted to some similari-
ties. “Banks is a bit of a maverick in that
he likes to get things done his own way.
We also share the same working-class
background,” he said. “But he’s not
afraid of getting down and dirty,
whereas I don’t like physical violence. I
couldn’t do his job. I don’t even like him
all the time.”
One thing author and fictional char-
acter did have in common was taste in
music: several of the books were named
after Robinson’s favourite rock songs,
including Piece of My Heart (Janis Jo-
occupational hazard of the times” and
that he had “picked myself up from the
sewer” cut no ice.
After his rejection, he tried a differ-
ent tack: complaining that “these guys
still think I have a credibility problem
because of what I used to do”, he sued
the police under discrimination laws
covering disabled people. His drug use,
he claimed, represented a disability
because it had limited a “major life
activity”.
Unsurprisingly, the courts rejected
his suit and he never got his badge. Nor
did he rejoin the Doobie Brothers when
other members of the group reformed
in 1993. A planned reunion perform-
ance when the Doobie Brothers were
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in 2020 was nixed when the Cov-
id pandemic forced the ceremony to be
downgraded to a video presentation.
John Hartman was born in 1950 in
Falls Church, a wealthy enclave in Vir-
ginia named by Forbes magazine in 2011
the richest county in the United States.
His father was a military man, which
may have explained his later desire to
don a uniform, although in his teens he
rebelled against parental authority and
fell under the spell of rock music.
At 19 he headed for California to
meet Skip Spence of Moby Grape, with
the intention of joining a reformed line-
ALAMY
plin), Friend of the Devil (Grateful Dead)
and When the Music’s Over (The Doors).
Robinson is survived by his wife Sheila
(née Halladay), a Canadian attorney
whom he met when he gave a talk at her
son’s school. He had no children of his
own. “It was a choice I made to devote
my younger years to writing rather than
starting a family,” he said in the York-
shire accent that remained undiluted by
half a century living in North America.
He reinforced his ties with Yorkshire
by funding a scholarship at Leeds
University to help students from disad-
vantaged backgrounds.
Peter Robinson was born in Castle-
up of that band. It failed to transpire
when Spence was diagnosed with
schizophrenia and committed to a psy-
chiatric institution, but not before he
had introduced Hartman to the singer
and guitarist Tom Johnston, with
whom he formed the group Pud.
They landed a residency at the Cha-
teau Liberté, a former stagecoach stop
in the Santa Cruz mountains, which
had become a biker bar. “It was one of
those places where you over-drink and
step outside and throw up,” Hartman
told Rolling Stone. “It was beautiful,
man!” The venue was “a little funky
with a lot of stabbings, shootings and
kicking butts, sometimes involving us”,
Johnston admitted.
They became great favourites with
the local chapter of the Hell’s Angels,
who on one occasion drove their bikes
through Hartman’s front door and into
his living room to invite him to join a
game of baseball. By 1970 the group had
become the Doobie Brothers after a
friend had suggested the name change,
“because you’re always smoking pot”.
Their first album flopped but the fol-
low-up, Toulouse Street (1972), included
the hit single Listen to the Music and
launched a spectacular run of success,
including the 1974 US No 1 hit single
Black Water. By the mid-1970s, when
their The Best of the Doobies album sold
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ford,
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the son of Clifford Robinson, a
rrent collector, and his wife
Miriam (née Jarvis), a cleaner.
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He grew up in a back-to-back
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terraced house in Leeds, shar-
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ing a toilet with other families.
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ggood but if you had to go in the
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middle of the night, it wasn’t
ggreat,” he recalled.
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new council estate and on leav-
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ing school he worked in a fact-
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ory before reading English at
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do a master’s degree at the Uni-
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with the ambition of becoming
a poet. After he had read his poetry at an
event attended by Joyce Carol Oates,
who taught creative writing at the
university, she asked why he had not
enrolled on her course. “I applied, but
you turned me down,” he told her. She
promptly arranged for him to be
switched to her course.
Having gained his MA he briefly
returned to Britain intending to teach,
but he could not find a job. He flew back
to Canada, did a PhD at York Univers-
ity, Toronto, on “The sense of place in
contemporary British and Irish poetry”,
found a teaching job and published two
volumes of his verse.
At the time he had read no crime fic-
tion except for Sherlock Holmes. When
he returned to Yorkshire for a holiday,
he by chance picked up a Raymond
Chandler omnibus his father had left
lying around. He was hooked and after
working his way through Chandler he
turned to Georges Simenon, Agatha
Christie and Dashiell Hammett.
“Crime is an excellent way of looking
at society and if you want to know about
a country, read its crime writers,” he said.
“We’re a bit like detectives — curious
about motives and why people do
things.”
Peter Robinson, author, was born on
March 17, 1950. He died after a brief
illness on October 4, 2022, aged 72
ten million copies, they were rivalling
the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac as the
biggest band in America, complete with
not one but two private planes, “the
Doobieliner” for the band and “the
Crewbieliner” for their employees.
They were also living up to the title of
their 1974 album What Were Once Vices
Are Now Habits. Hartman’s hard-living
habits almost resulted in his eviction
from the band while Johnson’s led him
to hospital. In his absence, Michael
McDonald was recruited as the lead
singer, and his soulful vocal style led to
a change of sound and image as the
biker rockers were transformed into
shag-cut pop stars, and the freewheel-
ing rhythms of their early recordings
gave way to the smooth, easy-listening
“yacht rock” of hits such as Takin’ It to
the Streets and What a Fool Believes.
When Hartman first left the Doobie
Brothers in 1979 he claimed that
“everything was falling apart”. The
band broke up three years later but re-
formed for a benefit concert for Viet-
nam veterans in 1987, leading to more
tours and albums, before Hartman left
in 1992, this time for good.
John Hartman, rock drummer, was born
on March 18, 1950. His death, of
undisclosed causes, was announced on
September 22, 2022. He was 72
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Law Report
Compensation order against man convicted
of fraudulently obtaining employment
Supreme Court
October 10, 2022
Regina v Andrewes
Before Lord Hodge, Lord Kitchin, Lord
Hamblen, Lord Burrows and Lord Stephens
[2022] UKSC 24
Judgment August 18, 2022
In confiscation proceedings
under the Proceeds of Crime
Act 2002 against a person con-
victed of fraudulently obtaining
employment by false represen-
tations as to their academic
qualifications or employment
experience, it would not be dis-
proportionate to make a confis-
cation order even where the
person’s performance after
appointment represented full
value for the salary paid.
The appropriate order would
reflect the difference between
the higher earnings obtained in
that employment and the lower
earnings that the person would
have obtained had he not used
fraud.
The Supreme Court so held in
allowing an appeal by the
Crown against the order of the
Court of Appeal (Criminal Divi-
sion) (Lord Justice Davis, Mrs
Justice Andrews and Judge
Marks QC) ([2020] Lloyd’s Rep
FC 557) quashing a confiscation
order made against Jon An-
drewes by Recorder Meeke QC,
in the Crown Court at Exeter,
following his guilty pleas and
sentence to two years’ imprison-
ment for:
(i) One count of obtaining a
pecuniary advantage by decep-
tion under section 16 of the
Theft Act 1968 in respect of his
obtaining employment as chief
executive officer at St Marga-
ret’s Hospice, Taunton; and
(ii) Two counts of fraud under
section 1 of the Fraud Act 2006
in respect of his obtaining posi-
tions as a remunerated office-
holder at the Torbay NHS Care
Trust and at the Royal Cornwall
NHS Hospital Trust.
By section 6(5) of the 2002
Act where the court decided
that a convicted person had
benefitted from criminal con-
duct it had to decide on a
“recoverable amount” which
the defendant had to pay by way
of a confiscation order, provided
that “it would not be dispropor-
tionate”.
By section 7 of the Act, the
“recoverable amount” was the
lower of the defendant’s benefit
from the conduct concerned or
“the available amount”.
By section 9 the “available
amount” was the aggregate of
the free property then held by
the defendant and the values of
any tainted gifts.
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Martin Evans QC and Cam-
eron Brown QC for the Crown;
Jonathan Ashley-Norman QC
and Richard Reynolds for
Andrewes.
Lord Hodge and Lord Bur-
rows, in a joint judgment with
which the other members of the
court agreed, said that the
appeal concerned what was
often referred to as “CV fraud”
(“CV” being shorthand for “cur-
riculum vitae”).
Typically, as in the present
case, it occurred where a fraud-
ster included lies on his or her
application form for a job (for
example, by including qualifica-
tions or experience which he or
she did not have) and, as a result,
was appointed to the job. The
fraudster performed the agreed
services satisfactorily and was
paid the agreed salary until the
fraud was discovered.
On a conviction for fraud,
should there be a confiscation
order stripping the fraudster of
his or her earnings (net of tax
and national insurance)? In
particular, would such a confis-
cation order be disproportion-
ate under the proviso in section
6(5)?
In 2004 the post of chief exec-
utive officer at a hospice was
advertised, specifying that a first
degree was “essential” and an
MBA “desirable”. In terms of
experience, ten years of man-
agement experience, with three
years in a senior position, were
specified as “essential”.
In his application form An-
drewes claimed to have ob-
tained a first degree and an
MPhil from Bristol University,
an MBA from Edinburgh Uni-
versity and to be in the course of
studying for a PhD at Plymouth
University. Under the heading
of Professional Qualifications,
he claimed to have an advanced
diploma in management ac-
counting. None of this was true.
As regards his employment his-
tory, his representations as to his
management experience were
either false or inflated.
Andrewes, who had been one
of two candidates to be inter-
viewed, was offered, and accept-
ed, the post at an initial annual
salary of £75,000. He remained
in that post until 2015 when his
employment was terminated.
In 2006 he told staff that he
had obtained the PhD from
Plymouth University that he
had been working towards. That
was untrue. He insisted that he
should thereafter be referred to
as Dr Jon Andrewes.
In 2007 he applied for, and
was appointed to, the additional
role of non-executive director (a
remunerated office) at Torbay
NHS Care Trust, having used
the same false academic qualifi-
cations as he had used in rela-
tion to the application to the
hospice, but adding a PhD quali-
fication and styling himself
“Dr”.
In 2015 he was additionally
appointed as chairman of the
Royal Cornwall NHS Hospital
Trust, another remunerated
office, again having used lies as
to his academic qualifications
and employment history.
Those two appointments also
came to an end in 2015 when the
truth started to emerge.
At the confiscation hearing
the Recorder decided that An-
drewes’s benefit from his parti-
cular criminal conduct com-
prised the net earnings he re-
ceived from his employment
and the two NHS appointments:
£643,602. However, the avail-
able amount, and hence the re-
coverable amount, was agreed
to be £96,737.24. A confiscation
order was made for that sum.
The Court of Appeal, how-
ever, quashed that order as
being disproportionate under
the proviso in section 6(5)
because Andrewes had given
full value for the remuneration
he had received. The situation
was therefore analogous to re-
storing the benefit received, and
to confiscate the value of a bene-
fit where the benefit had been
restored would amount to “dou-
ble recovery”.
Before the Supreme Court,
the Crown argued that it would
not have been disproportionate
to take the full net earnings had
they not exceeded the recovera-
ble amount. The value of the
services performed should not
be offset because they were
equivalent to the costs of the
criminal enterprise. They did
not constitute restoration.
That “take all” approach was
to be rejected. Although the per-
formance of the services was not
restoration as such, the position
was analogous. If the confisca-
tion order did not reflect a de-
duction for the value of the ser-
vices rendered, the order would
constitute what could most ac-
curately be labelled “double dis-
gorgement”.
The only exception was
where the performance of the
services was illegal, as where a
person lied about having the
necessary qualifications or li-
cence to work as, say, a surgeon
or airline pilot or HGV driver. In
that situation it would not be
disproportionate to confiscate
the full net earnings because the
performance of those services
had no value that the law should
recognise as valid.
At the other extreme, counsel
on behalf of Andrewes had sub-
mitted, in line with the decision
of the Court of Appeal, that any
confiscation order would in the
present case be disproportion-
ate. That “take nothing” ap-
proach also had to be rejected.
If one were to focus solely on
his performance of the services,
it would be hard to deny that the
hospice and the two trusts
had received full value in ex-
change for the salary paid to
Andrewes.
But they had sought to em-
ploy or engage in a senior mana-
gerial position a person of hon-
esty and integrity and An-
drewes would not have obtained
the employment or office, which
would have gone to another
candidate, if the truth about
his qualifications had been
known.
How then should the propor-
tionality proviso be interpreted
so as to take into account the
analogy to restoration while en-
suring that a fraudster did not
profit from his criminal con-
duct?
The answer in principle was
that the relevant benefit from
the fraud that it was proportion-
ate to disgorge was not the full
net earnings but rather the dif-
ference between the higher
earnings that Andrewes had ob-
tained and the lower earnings
that he would have obtained
had he not used fraud and hence
had not been offered the parti-
cular job.
That would take away the
“profit” made by the fraud and
provide a principled middle way
between the take-all or take-
nothing approaches to confisca-
tion in CV fraud cases.
Applying that middle way to
the facts of the present case, the
contrast between the salary of
Andrewes in the new job and the
salary that he had been earning
was 38 per cent. On a broad-
brush basis a proportionate con-
fiscation order would be 38 per
cent of £643,602: £244,569. That
was the profit he had made from
his CV fraud.
It was therefore also propor-
tionate to confiscate the far
lower recoverable amount of
£96,737.24. The confiscation
order made by the Recorder in
that amount would be restored.
Solicitors: Crown Prosecu-
tion Service, Appeals and
Review Unit; Harris Cuffaro &
Nichols, Old Harlow.
Court Circular
St James’s Palace
8th October, 2022
The Countess of Wessex this
morning departed from Addis
Ababa Bole International
Airport, Ethiopia, for
Botswana and was received
upon arrival this afternoon at
Sir Seretse Khama
International Airport,
Gaborone, by the British High
Commissioner to the Republic
of Botswana (Her Excellency
Ms Sian Price).
St James’s Palace
8th October, 2022
The Princess Royal, Patron,
the Wooden Spoon Society,
this afternoon attended the
Vets Fest Rugby Tournament
at Moseley Rugby Club,
Billesley Common, Yardley
Wood Road, Billesley,
Birmingham, and was received
by Mrs Dawn Ward (Deputy
Lieutenant of West Midlands).
Balmoral Castle
9th October, 2022
Divine Service was held in
Crathie Parish Church this
morning.
The Reverend Dr. Jane
Denniston preached the
Sermon.
St James’s Palace
9th October, 2022
The Countess of Wessex this
evening attended a Dinner
given by the British High
Commissioner to the Republic
of Botswana (Her Excellency
Ms Sian Price) at the
Residence in Gaborone,
Botswana.
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Aberdeen
A dry day in England and Wales
Aberporth 14 C 0.0 6.1
with spells of sunshine. Ireland and At 17:00 on Sunday there were 15 9
Anglesey 15 C 0.0 3.3 Scotland will have a largely cloudy day flood alerts and one warning in 8
Aviemore 12 C 1.4 2.7 with spells of rain pushing in from the England, six flood alerts and no
28 s energy costs rise and

A
Barnstaple 17 PC 0.0 ** west later. C F
warnings in Wales, and 11 flood alerts Aberdeen
Bedford 17 PC 0.0 **
Belfast 13 R 5.0 4.2
Max 15C, min 2C
and 11 warnings in Scotland. 35
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the threat of shortages
For further information and updates
Birmingham 16 C 0.2 **
in England visit flood-warning- 25 77 loom this winter, there
Bournemouth 17 S 0.0 8.4 11 NORTH has been an upsurge in
15 S 0.0 **
information.service.gov.uk, for Wales 20 68
Bridlington
naturalresources.wales/flooding and SEA 15 59 sales of firewood for
Bristol 16 C 0.0 2.0
Camborne 15 PC 0.0 5.3
14
for Scotland SEPA.org.uk 9
Edinburgh
10 50
wood-burning in homes.
Cardiff 15 PC 0.0 2.0
15
27 Glasgow 5 41
A wood fire is not only warming,
Edinburgh 13 PC 0.0 2.6 0 32
Eskdalemuir 10 R 2.4 4.3
9 26 -5 23 it’s also a mesmerising sight, so what
Glasgow 13 R 7.8 3.4
15
-10 14 could possibly be wrong with that?
Hereford
Herstmonceux
15
16
C
S
0.0
0.0
**
2.9 ATLANTIC Londonderry -15 5 But government data highlights the
Ipswich 15 B 0.0 9.4 OCEAN
Newcastle risk of indoor air pollution from
Carlisle
Isle of Man 15 PC 0.8 8.3
Wednesday Belfast wood burning, especially from
17 S 0.2 ** 12
Isle of Wight
Jersey 16 S 0.0 8.3 Unsettled in northern and western 12 11 highly dangerous microscopic
Keswick 13 C 0.0 **
areas with spells of rain and showers.
Southeastern areas will be largely dry
12
Yorkk particles that float around in the air.
Kinloss
Leeds
14
13
C
C
0.0
0.0
2.7
**
with sunny periods. 26 The polluting particles are so tiny
Lerwick 11 C 3.4 3.4
Max 16C, min 0C
Manchester Hull
they are easily breathed in and pass
Leuchars 14 PC 0.0 3.8 ooo
Liverpool 13 through the lungs into other parts of
Galway IRISH 24
Lincoln 15 S 0.0 7.6
14
the body, and are blamed for severe
Liverpool 14 S 0.0 ** SEA Sheffield
London 16 C 0.0 2.9 Dublin
LLlandudno
13 medical problems of the heart, brain
Lyneham 16 PC 0.0 5.7 and other organs.
Manchester
Margate
14
16
PC
S
0.0
**
**
**
15 13
Shrewsbury
Nottingham Government research estimates
Milford Haven 15 C 0.0 ** 16
i h
Norwich
that wood burners give off 17 per
Newcastle 13 PC 0.2 ** 14 11 cent of all particle pollution in the
14 C 0.0 6.7
Nottingham
Orkney 11 R 4.8 2.2 16
Cork
Birmingham Cambridge UK, even worse than traffic
Oxford 16 PC 0.2 ** 14
Swansea Oxford 15 pollution, which accounts for 13 per
Plymouth
Portland
17
17
C
S
0.0
0.0
**
** Cardiff
cent. And over the past ten years,
Scilly, St Mary’s 15 B 0.0 **
Thursday Channel Islands CELTIC 6
16 this pollution from domestic wood-
Shoreham 17 PC 0.0 3.0 A cloudy day in southern England,
SEA Bristol London burners has increased by a third.
south Wales and southern Ireland with
15
Shrewsbury
Snowdonia
14
13
PC
C
0.2
0.0
**
**
spells of heavy rain pushing in from
the southwest later. Dry with spells of Southampton
Work at the University of
3
13 Manchester helped to show how to
Southend 16 S 0.0 2.4 sunshine elsewhere. Exeterr
South Uist 12 B 9.6 ** Max 16C, min 4C 21 Plymouth Brighton help minimise the pollution
Stornoway
Tiree
12
12
R
R
9.4
13.2
2.2
3.9
problem. “Bursts of particulate
Whitehaven 11 S 0.0 2.6 12
15
CHANNEL 26
matter can enter the home when the
Wick 13 R 0.0 ** 19 stove door is opened, flooding the
Yeovilton 16 C 0.0 0.7
inside space with air pollution,” said
13
16 General situation: Early rain will clear ugh the afternoon.
sunny through afterno Light to start the day but this will quickly clear Amanda Lea-Langton at the
The world southeast England, then it will be a moderate northwesterly winds. through the first half of the morning, university. “In typical household
All readings local midday yesterday
largely dry day with spells of sunshine Maximum 16C (61F), minimum leaving a largely dry day with lengthy use, stoves are ignited from a cold
Alicante
Amsterdam
25
16
S
S
Madeira
Madrid
23
22
B
PC
16 and the risk of an isolated shower in 3C (37F). sunny spells. Light to moderate start, reloaded repeatedly and left
the northwest. SW Eng, Wales, W Mids, NW Eng, IoM, northwesterly winds. Maximum
Athens 24 S Malaga 26 PC
Republic of Ireland, N Ireland: Hazy Cen N Eng, Lake District, Borders, 16C (61F), minimum 1C (34F). smouldering overnight — all of
Auckland 16 C Mallorca 26 PC
sunny periods with the risk of an NE Eng, Edinburgh and Dundee, SW Scotland, Moray Firth, Argyll, which affect the rate of emissions.”
Friday
Bahrain
Bangkok
35
31
PC
PC
Malta
Melbourne
25
12
PC
PC Northwestern areas will be cloudy
isolated shower. Light to moderate Aberdeen: Sunny spells with the risk of N Isles, Cen Highland, NW Scotland, Rohit Chakraborty, at the
Barbados 31 PC Mexico City 19 B with spells of heavy rain. Other areas northwesterly winds. Maximum an isolated shower. Moderate to fresh NE Scotland, Glasgow: Sunny periods University of Sheffield, highlights
14C (57F), minimum 4C (39F). northwesterly winds. Maximum with the risk of a shower, especially in
Barcelona 21 PC Miami 28 C will have sunny periods and scattered
showers. London, SE Eng, E Anglia: A cloudy 15C (59F), minimum 1C (34F). the morning. Fresh to strong west or
the risk posed by log-burning stoves.
16 S 16 R
Beijing
Beirut 27 PC
Milan
Mombasa 28 B Max 17C, min 4C morning with spells of patchy rain E Eng, E Mids, Cen S Eng, Channel Is: northwesterly winds. Maximum Minimising the time the stove is
Belgrade 20 S Montreal 7 B pushing southeastwards. Dry and Some thick cloud and patchy rain to 12C (54F), minimum 2C (36F). open, he said, would “help in
Berlin 14 PC Moscow 16 S reducing the exposure to the
26 PC 30 S
Bermuda
Bordeaux 24 S
Mumbai
Munich 13 S
10 Tides Noon today emissions released indoors”.
Brussels 17 PC Nairobi 23 PC Tidal predictions. 992 LOW
The moisture level of the wood
Bucharest 22 S Naples 22 B
12
Heights in metres LOW LOW also affects the amount of
19 PC New Orleans 28 S Today Ht Ht
Budapest
Buenos Aires 14 S New York 16 B 17 Aberdeen 02:01 4.5 14:36 4.4 984 1016 microscopic particles given off.
Cairo 27 B Nice 17 SH Avonmouth 08:19 13.8 20:38 14.1
LOW HIGH Because of this, Defra implemented
LOW
Calcutta 32 PC Nicosia 28
10
PC
S 15
Belfast --:-- -- 12:15 3.5 1000 LOW 1000 1008 1024 a “Ready to Burn” scheme so that
12 PC
Canberra
Cape Town 22 S
Oslo
Paris 18 S
Cardiff 08:08
06:54
12.7
5.6
20:28
19:06
13.0
5.8
992 1000 firewood and briquettes with its logo
Devonport
Chicago 13 PC Perth 20 C
Dover --:-- -- 12:15 7.0 1016
show they are dry enough to burn
Copenhagen 14
24
S
PC
Prague 13
3
PC
B Saturday Dublin 00:08 4.3 12:45 4.0 1008 immediately at less than 20 per cent
Corfu Reykjavik
Delhi 24 M Riga 14 PC An unsettled day with scattered heavy Falmouth 06:18 5.2 18:32 5.4 moisture. But work at the University
Dubai 36 S Rio de Janeiro 24 C showers and longer spells of rain,
most persistent in southwest England,
Greenock 01:14 3.7 13:42 3.4
1024 Cold front of Manchester suggests optimum
Harwich --:-- -- 12:45 4.1
Dublin
Faro
14
25
R
PC
Riyadh
Rome
36
23
S
PC
Wales and northwest Scotland.
Holyhead 11:24 5.7 23:34 6.0
LOW Warm front moisture levels are actually between
Florence 24 PC San Francisco 18 PC
Max 16C, min 2C
Hull 07:03 8.0 19:45 7.6
1024
HIGH
HIGH
Occluded front 10 per cent and 18 per cent.
Frankfurt 16 S Santiago 19 S Leith 03:17 5.8 15:47 5.7 1016 Trough
Geneva 15 B São Paulo 23 PC Liverpool --:-- -- 12:16 9.4
Gibraltar 21 PC Seoul 14 R 10 London Bridge 02:49 7.2 15:04 7.1
Synoptic situation Highs and lows Hours of darkness
Helsinki 11 PC Seychelles 27 B Lowestoft 10:08 2.7 22:56 2.5 24hrs to 5pm yesterday Aberdeen 18:49-07:03
Hong Kong 30 PC Singapore 30 B Milford Haven 07:16 7.2 19:33 7.4 A cold front will push through Belfast 19:08-07:15
Honolulu 30 PC St Petersburg 11 B southeastern areas during the Warmest: St James Park,
12 Morecambe --:-- -- 12:26 9.5 Greater London, 18.6C Birmingham 18:54-06:56
Istanbul 21 B Stockholm 11 S morning bringing thick cloud Coldest: South Newington, -1.1C Cardiff
15 Newhaven --:-- -- 12:18 7.0 19:01-07:00
Jerusalem 28 PC Sydney 15 SH and spells of patchy rain. High Wettest: Achnagart,
Newquay 06:07 7.2 18:23 7.4 Exeter 19:03-07:00
Johannesburg 28 S Tel Aviv 28 PC pressure will build in from Inverness-shire, 20.8mm
Kuala Lumpur 30 PC Tenerife 26 PC Oban 06:43 4.0 19:01 4.3 Sunniest: Wattisham, 9.4hrs* Glasgow 18:59-07:10
16 Penzance 05:40 5.6 17:56 5.8 the southwest of the British Liverpool 18:58-07:01
Kyiv ** ** Tokyo 21 PC Isles through the day, bringing
24 B 19 PC Portsmouth --:-- -- 12:34 4.9 Sun and moon London 18:48-06:47
Lanzarote Vancouver largely dry and settled weather, For Greenwich Manchester 18:54-06:58
Las Palmas 26 PC Venice 23 PC Shoreham --:-- -- 12:29 6.6 Sun rises: 07.15
The Times weather Southampton --:-- -- 12:09 4.7
although there is the risk of Newcastle 18:50-06:58
Lima 15 DU Vienna 16 PC Sun sets: 18.18
an isolated shower in northern Moon rises: 18.42 Norwich 18:41-06:43
Lisbon 22 S Warsaw 11 B page is provided Swansea 07:24 9.7 19:43 10.0
and western Scotland, Northern Moon sets: 09.02 Tue Penzance 19:11-07:07
Los Angeles 23 S Washington 13 B Tees 04:26 5.8 17:00 5.6
31 S 12 B
by Weatherquest Ireland and northwest England. Third Quarter: October 17 Sheffield 18:51-06:55
Luxor Zurich Weymouth 07:54 2.3 20:13 2.3
the times | Monday October 10 2022 2GM 57

Sport
ALASTAIR GRANT/AP

Djokovic seals
Rodgers denied as
Giants take London his 90th title
Tennis

I
t was hard to say The unfancied
which was louder, Giants then negotiated Novak Djokovic claimed the 90th
the roar from the a tricky final 60 tour-level title of his career with a com-
New York Giants fans seconds, in which they fortable victory over Stefanos Tsitsipas
or the collective groan gave up a safety but in the final of the Astana Open.
from those in green nothing worse, and Djokovic, who also won in Tel Aviv
and yellow (Charles now travel back to last week, needed only 75 minutes to
Walford writes). The the US at a barely record a 6-3, 6-4 victory, his seventh
Green Bay Packers believable 4-1 after Barkley shone straight success against the No 3 seed
had fourth and two on this 27-22 win; the for the Giants Tsitsipas. When the on-court
the Giants’ six-yard Packers will spend the in front of the interviewer observed that Djokovic
line with barely a flight home wondering England rugby probably never dreamt of 90 ATP Tour
minute left, trailing by how they let slip a ten- stars Marcus titles, the 21-times grand-slam singles
seven points; this was point half-time lead. Smith and Maro winner shook his head.
the moment that It was not supposed Itoje, above “I dared to dream, actually,” Djokov-
London, which had to be like this for ic, 35, said. “Obviously, I didn’t know the
waited 15 years to see Green Bay, the amount of finals I was going to play, the
the storied Packers in nominated “home” of “cheesehead” hats Allen Lazard put them touchdown. The of half-time as the amount of tournaments I was going to
the flesh, would bear team, who were dotted around the 10-0 up on a four-yard Giants kept in touch Packers entered the win, but my intention was always to
witness to Aaron making their first trip capacity crowd at the touchdown pass from with a bit of trickery fourth quarter with a reach the highest heights in our sport.
Rodgers’s greatness. to London, completing Tottenham Hotspur Rodgers. The Giants’ — Daniel Jones 20-13 lead. “I’m just very grateful and blessed to
Instead, the the full set of teams Stadium and the roar Scottish-born kicker handing off to Saquon However, the Giants be able to play this well at this stage of
quarterback’s pass to have made the that went up when Graham Gano reduced Barkley, who handed then added scores my life. You know, 35 is not 25.”
attempt was batted up journey. They Rodgers ran on to the the deficit by three off to the tight end through Gary Taylor Fritz won an all-American
in the air before appeared to have field before kick-off. before Rodgers Daniel Bellinger to Brightwell and final at the Japan Open, beating
falling harmlessly brought a fair few of Green Bay already connected with rumble in. Barkley to secure an Frances Tiafoe, while Barbora Krejcik-
to the ground amid the town with them, led through a Mason Marcedes Lewis for The sides exchanged unlikely lead that they ova, of the Czech Republic, beat the
the cacophony. judging by the number Crosby field goal when the Packers’ second field goals either side did not relinquish. world No 1 Iga Swiatek on home soil in
the final of the Agel Open in Ostrava.

Rahm emulates ‘hero’ Seve

Frost a winner again after six months out
Racing
Rob Wright Racing Editor
Bryony Frost, the leading jump jockey
who has been out since being injured in
a fall at Aintree in April, made a
successful return when partnering
Zikany to a 14-1 success on the Flat at
Goodwood yesterday.
Frost fractured a vertebra in her back
when Thyme White fell in a big-field
handicap chase at Aintree. She rarely
rides on the Flat, having had only ten
previous tries, and yesterday’s win was
her first on the level in a race that was
restricted to jump jockeys.
The 27-year-old has been overshad-
owed in recent times by the Irish jockey
Rachael Blackmore, but she remains
the most successful female British jump
jockey, with her 2020 King George VI
Chase victory on Frodon being the high
point of a career in which she has
landed six grade-one victories.
She was delighted to make a winning
return and after the race said: “Just
awesome, he [Zikany] is a complete pro.
With the jumps ground being a bit firm
at the minute, Amanda Perrett
[Zikany’s trainer] asked if I wanted to
ride him, so I took the opportunity.
“I thought it was a great place to start
and an amazing track to ride. It’s been a
long time off track, but the buzz was
there. I was actually thinking when he
travelled strongly to the front, ‘Oh no,
this’ll be it, I’ll hit the front and then get
swallowed on the line’.
“Luckily, he kept me going all the
way. He was a really happy horse out
there and he loved the step up in trip.
He was back on his last winning mark
and everything was looking right for
him. To come back on a winner is abso-
lutely awesome and I can’t thank the
team enough for it.
“It was a long process, but it’s not our
first time being out for so long, we know
what to do with our body now to get it
back 110 per cent.”
She is set to return to jump racing at
Fakenham on Friday, with four rides
booked for the trainer Lucy Wadham.
Frost, whose father, Jimmy, won the
1989 Grand National on Little Polveir,
Frost enjoys her
success on Zikany
at Goodwood
hit the headlines in an unwanted way
early on last season when involved in a
dispute with fellow jockey Robbie
Dunne, who was banned for 18 months
in December last year after it was ruled
he had bullied Frost.
A BHA disciplinary hearing found
that Dunne was guilty of the “deliber-
ate, unwarranted targeting of a col-
league over a considerable time”.
That sentence was reduced to ten
months on appeal and Dunne is due to
return to the saddle with three rides at
Hereford tomorrow.
Neil Mulholland, who trains one of
Dunne’s mounts, Molliana, told the
Racing Post: “Robbie has been a massive
part of my team for years. Everyone
deserves a chance.
“He’s been a good team player and is
a very good horseman.”
Golf Spain’s Jon Rahm cruised to a
third Spanish Open title to match
the tally of his “great hero” and
compatriot Seve Ballesteros.
Rahm, the world No 6, carded an
eagle and eight birdies in a closing
round of 62 at Club de Campo in
Madrid. “It was the goal coming in
— Seve is a great hero of mine and
to do something he took his whole
career to do in just a few years is
quite humbling,” Rahm, 27, said.
Record crowd for Ronnie
Snooker Ronnie O’Sullivan defeated
the home favourite, Marco Fu, 6-4
to win the Hong Kong Masters in
front of 9,000 spectators at the Hong
Kong Coliseum — a record crowd for
a snooker match.
O’Sullivan, 46, who earned
£100,000 for his first title of the
season, said: “This is probably the best
tournament I’ve ever played in.”
558 Monday October 10 2022 | the times

Sport Racing
9-4 Gone, 5-1 Equiami, 6-1 Twilight Guest, 13-2 Everythingshewants, 10-1 4.10 Handicap (£11,339: 7f) (10) 2.50 Handicap (£4,536: 1m 2f) (11) 5.30 Novice Stakes
Yarmouth Attrazione, Love Getaway, 12-1 Unforgetable Move, Dream Frontier.
1 (2) 35020 SOUND OF IONA 14 (C) J Goldie 6-9-12 Amie Waugh (5) 1 (5) 42210 ANGEL'S WHISPER 20 (P,T) Miss A Murphy 7-10-1 (2-Y-O: £3,672: 6f) (11)
Rob Wright Wright choice: Equiami, a fair fourth at Wolverhampton, 2 (6) 06664 ESPRESSOO 25 (D) C & M Johnston 3-9-10 C Lee C Hutchinson (5) 1 (6) 0126 GIRL MAGIC 9 Alice Haynes 9-9 S Osborne (3)
can take a weak contest Dangers: Techno Lady, Gone 2 (11) 12142 WISPER 14 (BF,D) M Tregoning 4-9-13 A Keeley (5)
3 (1) 5-600 MISTY AYR 14 K Dalgleish 3-9-8 S Gray 2 (3) 03153 CORINTHIAN KID 19 (D) J Portman 9-7 L Morris
1.55 Alzahir 4.00 Goolwa 3 (4) 442 DAME ETHEL SMYTH 15 J & T Gosden 3-9-11 B Sayette (3)
2.30 Tafreej 4.30 Equiami 4 (5) 1-653 QUEENLET 9 (T) W Haggas 3-9-6 D Tudhope 3 (8) 43 CATWALK MODEL 26 (H) Miss A Murphy 9-2 H Doyle
5.05 Handicap (£4,536: 7f) (9) 5 (8) 00010 SELBY'S PRIDE 22 (P) T Coyle 3-9-6 P Mathers 4 (7) 02-63 OBLONG SONG 116 (BF) R Varian 3-9-10 J Mitchell
4 (2) 0 PERDIKA 13 G Boughey 9-2 K Stott
3.00 Goldsmith 5.05 Priscilla’s Wish 5 (1) 26-00 GOLDEN DOVE 161 S Earle 4-9-8 D Keenan
3.30 Sea Stone (nap) 5.40 Fourshadesofsilver 1 (2) 4-360 CANTERS WELL 11 C Dwyer 3-10-0 Kaiya Fraser (7) 6 (9) 103 FLORAL SPLENDOUR 37 (BF,D) I Jardine 3-9-1 A Mullen 5 (11) QALAHARI QUEEN J Tate 9-2 P J McDonald
2 (3) 05330 ARTHUR'S VICTORY 13 (D) Joseph Parr 4-10-0 H Burns (3) 7 (7) 43210 BURNING EMOTION 17 (BF,D) J Camacho 3-9-1 G Lee 6 (8) 01245 MELERI 26 (H,BF,D) J Boyle 3-9-6 P Cosgrave 6 (9) 0 SEABREEZES 61 T Easterby 9-2 F Norton
Going: good to soft, good in places 3 (5) 12521 IDEAL GUEST 38 (V,D) G Margarson 3-10-0 T P Queally 7 (3) 6-412 ALBION PRINCESS 19 (BF,D) H & R Charlton 3-9-3
8 (10) 45340 GOMETRA GINTY 23 (P,CD) K Dalgleish 6-9-1 B Garritty 7 (7) 4 SMOOCH 20 J J Quinn 9-2 JP Sullivan
Draw: no advantage Sky Sports Racing T Whelan
4 (8) 21111 PRISCILLA'S WISH 26 (CD) P McBride 4-9-13 H Davies (3) 9 (4) 41635 EMILY POST 28 (H,D) E Bethell 3-8-9 P Hanagan 8 (5) 0 STAR OF HAVANA 16 K Ryan 9-2 R Scott
8 (2) 5544 BAY DREAM BELIEVER 15 (H) A Balding 3-9-2 D Probert
1.55 Novice Stakes 5 (9) 61402 YOSHIMI 6 (D) M Herrington 5-9-12 T Eaves 10 (3) -5163 COAXING 57 (D) D & N Barron 3-8-5 Joanna Mason
9 (10) 42410 RIKONA 26 (D) K P De Foy 3-9-2 Rossa Ryan 9 (4) 0 SUNDOWNER 24 E J-Houghton 9-2 C Bishop
(2-Y-O: £5,373: 7f) (9 runners) 6 (1) 02646 GNAT ALLEY 26 C Allen 3-9-11 N Callan 100-30 Queenlet, 9-2 Espressoo, Floral Splendour, 15-2 Emily Post, 8-1 10 (1) 50 STRIP OUT 19 (H) J Camacho 9-0 C Hardie
10 (9) 13156 RENEGADE ROSE 13 (P) W Muir & C Grassick 3-8-11
7 (6) 00166 FANTASY NAVIGATOR 38 M Appleby 3-9-5 F Larson (5) Burning Emotion, Coaxing, 10-1 Selby's Pride, 12-1 others. L Edmunds 11(10) 53 TOPO CHICO 28 Joseph Parr 9-0 S Cherchi (3)
1 (7) 20 ALZAHIR 114 (W,H,T) J & T Gosden 9-7 L Dettori
8 (4) 13133 SPANISH MANE 49 (P,CD) J Feilden 7-9-5 Rose Dawes (7) 11 (6) 62344 MREMBO 26 (D) J Portman 3-8-9 R Hornby 3-1 Topo Chico, 7-2 Girl Magic, 5-1 Corinthian Kid, 6-1 Catwalk Model, 10-1
2 (3) 0 BODE 15 (T) M Botti 9-7 N Callan
3 (4) 0 GOODFELLA 120 Patrick Owens 9-7 L Steward
9 (7) 00500 DASHING RAT 15 (P) W Stone 3-9-4 A Farragher (5) 4.45 Handicap (£3,726: 5f) (14) 7-2 Dame Ethel Smyth, 4-1 Albion Princess, 6-1 Oblong Song, Wisper, 10-1 Qalahari Queen, 12-1 Smooch, Perdika, 16-1 Sundowner, Star Of Havana.
11-4 Priscilla's Wish, 7-2 Ideal Guest, 9-2 Yoshimi, 5-1 Spanish Mane, 10-1 Rikona, Meleri, Angel's Whisper, 12-1 Bay Dream Believer.
4 (9) 20 GUITEAU 117 D Loughnane 9-7 R Dawson 1 (7) 22140 PRIMO'S COMET 50 (CD) J Goldie 7-9-9 P Mulrennan
5 (6) MUKEEDD S & E Crisford 9-7 A Atzeni
Fantasy Navigator, Gnat Alley, 12-1 Arthur's Victory, 20-1 others.
2 (3) 22466 HAVAGOMECCA 26 (P,D) M Dods 4-9-9 P Dennis 6.00 Handicap (£4,536: 5f) (8)
6 (1) PHERENIKOS C Appleby 9-7 W Buick
Wright choice: Priscilla’s Wish has won here on her past four 3 (4) 00243 NEVER DARK 10 (P,CD) I Jardine 5-9-8 J Peate (5) 3.20 Handicap (£5,508: 1m 2f) (14) 1 (1) 0-410 TRIPLE JAYE 10 (H,P,D) T Easterby 4-9-10 S B Kirrane (3)
starts and can strike again Dangers: Yoshimi, Ideal Guest 4 (10) 50410 LOTUS ROSE 9 (P,D) R Fell 3-9-8 S James
7 (8) RESOLUTE MAN R Varian 9-7 David Egan 1 (10) 0-440 MOTAZZEN 103 (W,T,D) G Baker 4-10-2 T Whelan 2 (5) 05603 ANGLE LAND 27 (V,D) R Cowell 3-9-7 R Havlin
8 (2) SSENWAN W Haggas 9-7 T Marquand 5 (11) 45141 SHEIKH MAZ MAHOOD 34 (T,CD) D Carroll 3-9-6 2 (2) 11140 ANDALEEP 25 (T,C,D) D & C Kubler 6-10-2 J Mitchell 3 (7) 36610 SECOND COLLECTION 19 (H,C,D) A Carroll 6-9-7 K O'Neill
9 (5) VILLAGE LEGEND J Ferguson 9-7 D Muscutt
5.40 Handicap (£4,536: 1m) (12) Z Wheatley (5)
3 (12) S0000 HUMANITARIAN 18 (H,T,D) S C Williams 6-10-1 R Coakley 4 (3) 12100 BONITA B 13 (CD) M Channon 3-9-6 F Norton
1 (4) 01245 EPONINA 82 (P,D) M Appleby 8-10-0 F Larson (5) 6 (13) 65031 LADY LADE 14 (D) K Dalgleish 3-9-6 B Garritty
9-4 Alzahir, 9-2 Pherenikos, 11-2 Ssenwan, 6-1 Resolute Man, 8-1 Guiteau, 4 (11) 34-43 FURTHER MEASURE 24 S Kirk 5-10-0 L Keniry 5 (6) 52326 LUCKY SHAKE 19 (D) P Midgley 3-9-5 C Hardie
2 (11) 00003 NEWTON JACK 15 (B,D) W Kittow 5-9-12 A Atzeni 7 (6) 35340 JOHN KIRKUP 19 (CD) D Thompson 7-9-5 C Lee
Mukeedd, 10-1 Village Legend, 20-1 Goodfella, 25-1 Bode. 5 (7) 23223 TARTAN CHIEF 15 (P,T,BF,C) P & O Cole 3-9-12 M Tabti 6 (8) 13500 BLISSFUL SONG 12 (P,D) M Appleby 4-9-2 A Rawlinson
3 (5) 0-600 AR EL BEE 15 (H) D Menuisier 3-9-11 N Callan 8 (14) 06352 PROSPECT 9 P Midgley 4-9-5 G Lee
Rob Wright’s choice: Alzahir has shown useful form on 6 (3) 4120 ORIOLE 25 (D) R Beckett 3-9-11 R Hornby 7 (4) 00035 ETERNAL HALO 65 (D) K Dalgleish 3-8-11 R Scott
4 (7) 64444 ROGUE STAR 102 (H) Tom Clover 3-9-11 David Egan 9 (5) 50144 HARROGATE 16 (CD) Mrs Stella Barclay 7-9-3
both starts Dangers: Pherenikos, Resolute Man Joanna Mason 7 (13) 1256- SALIGO BAY J158 G L Moore 4-9-11 R Clutterbuck (3) 8 (2) 01100 NEXT SECOND 18 (CD) R Carr 3-8-7 Josephine Gordon
5 (1) 035 JACK SPAROWE 24 (H) J Butler 3-9-9 G Wood
10 (9) 50144 RORY 10 (P,BF,CD) J Goldie 4-9-3 D Tudhope 8 (5) 04234 BEAUTIFUL CROWN 32 (V,BF,CD) B Johnson 4-9-9 5-2 Angle Land, 4-1 Triple Jaye, 9-2 Eternal Halo, 8-1 Blissful Song, Lucky
6 (6) 00-46 HOPEFORTHEBEST 80 M Murphy & M Keady 3-9-7 W Carson
2.30 Novice Stakes (2-Y-O: £5,373: 6f) (10) A Farragher (5) 11 (8) 02001 GABRIELLA'S SPIRIT 28 (D) E Alston 3-9-1
9 (14) 020 SWIFT TUTTLE 114 B Meehan 3-9-6 S M Levey
Shake, Second Collection, Bonita B, 16-1 Next Second.
O McSweeney (5)
1 (8) 03 AL KHAWANEEJ SPIRT 18 Alice Haynes 9-7T Marquand 7 (9) -0440 SHABANO 20 E Walker 3-9-7 G Downing 10 (9) 4262 LEBSAYER 70 (BF) Sir M Stoute 3-9-6 R Kingscote
2 (10) MIQDAAD R Varian 9-7 A Atzeni 8 (2) 00051 FOURSHADESOFSILVER 6 (P,D) J Ryan 3-9-7(6ex)
12(12) 140-0 THRILLA IN MANILA 19 (P,D) P Midgley 6-9-0 P Hanagan 6.30 Maiden Stakes
13 (2) 03034 ALBEGONE 9 (B,CD) T Easterby 4-9-0 D Allan 11 (1) 36530 LATER DARLING 26 A Perrett 3-9-5 D O'Neill
3 (2) 06 OMNIKING 9 (H) D Loughnane 9-7 David Egan C Planas (7) (2-Y-O: £3,672: 7f) (12)
14 (1) /0000 HARD NUT 13 (H) Miss L Perratt 5-8-12 Mark Winn (5) 12 (4) 66402 CARP KID 19 (P,CD) J Flint 7-9-4 D Probert
4 (6) 0 POSEIDON PRINCE 12 C Appleby 9-7 W Buick 9 (10) 00000 DEFENCE TREATY 13 (P,D) R Fahey 6-9-4 J Garritty 1 (3) 2 AL SHAMI 15 J Butler 9-7 L Morris
9-2 Lady Lade, 11-2 Sheikh Maz Mahood, 13-2 Never Dark, 8-1 Rory, Prospect, 13 (8) 55043 LAWN RANGER 19 (CD) M Attwater 7-9-3 B Sayette (3)
5 (7) 00 SPEZIATO 27 K P De Foy 9-7 M Harley 10 (8) 34131 ANGLO SAXSON 50 (CD) Patrick Owens 5-9-3 L Steward 2 (1) 2335 ANA HADI 40 (P,T) G Kelleway 9-7 R Havlin
10-1 Gabriella's Spirit, Lotus Rose, Primo's Comet. 14 (6) -0223 BUNKER BAY 28 W Knight 3-8-12 Rossa Ryan
6 (1) 63 TAFREEJ 24 W Haggas 9-7 J Crowley 11 (3) 51130 CLIPSHAM GOLD 18 (D) K P De Foy 3-9-3 D Muscutt 3 (11) DAPPER BOY Miss A Murphy 9-7 Doubtful
7-2 Lebsayer, 9-2 Tartan Chief, 7-1 Carp Kid, 8-1 Further Measure, 12-1 Saligo
7 (4) 0 TWAYBLADE 15 C Dwyer 9-7 T Hammer Hansen 12(12) 00625 QUEEN'S COMPANY 25 J Feilden 3-9-1 D E Hogan 4 (10) 00 HAALAND 12 G Kelleway 9-7 C Noble
8 (3) AWTAAR Patrick Owens 9-2 L Steward 9-2 Fourshadesofsilver, 5-1 Anglo Saxson, 11-2 Eponina, 7-1 Rogue Star, Queen's
5.15 Handicap (£2,916: 5f) (14) Bay, Lawn Ranger, Bunker Bay, Andaleep, Beautiful Crown.
5 (12) INNY LAD Alice Haynes 9-7 K O'Neill
9 (9) 00 CLOUD QUEEN 12 E Dunlop 9-2 N Callan Company, 10-1 Jack Sparowe, Clipsham Gold, 12-1 Ar El Bee, Newton Jack. 1 (7) 35033 PRAYER MATT 6 (B) T Easterby 3-9-10 D Allan 6 (8) 5 KURT'S CAT 12 K Frost 9-7 C Hardie
2 (9) 54300 TANASOQ 22 (CD) J Goldie 9-9-9 P Mulrennan
3.50 Maiden Stakes (Div I: £4,320: 1m) (12)
10 (5) 5 DEAR DAPHNE 128 G Scott 9-2 D Muscutt Wright choice: Fourshadesofsilver improved for the fitting 7 (6) RAINTOWN J S Moore 9-7 Georgia Dobie (3)
of cheekpieces Dangers: Queen’s Company, Clipsham Gold 3 (1) 32400 QUANAH 17 (V,CD) Liam Bailey 6-9-8 D Nolan 1 (11) PITTSBURG J48 (T) R Potter 6-9-10 F Marsh 8 (2) 0 ROYAL DREAM 9 E Dunlop 9-7 H Doyle
5-4 Tafreej, 3-1 Miqdaad, 5-1 Poseidon Prince, 8-1 Dear Daphne, 16-1 Cloud
4 (13) 04403 BONITO CAVALO 22 J Goldie 3-9-8 D Tudhope 2 (5) 40 ALL ARE MINE 72 B Meehan 3-9-7 S M Levey 9 (5) 4 TOMAHAWK KING 11 M Channon 9-7 F Norton
Queen, Al Khawaneej Spirt, Awtaar, 33-1 Omniking.
5 (11) 01025 BURTONLODGE BEAUTY 14 (P,D) Miss L Perratt 3-9-7 3 (6) 6 FAITHLESS INSOMNIA 20 P McEntee 3-9-7 T Heard (3) 10 (7) 62433 WE'RENOTREALLYHERE 23 (P) J J Quinn 9-7 H Shaw
Wright choice: Tafreej was a good third at Newbury; he can Mark Winn (5)
open his account Dangers: Poseidon Prince, Miqdaad Musselburgh 6 (8) 00500 DANZART 14 (B) Mrs Stella Barclay 4-9-4 S Gray
4 (1) 222-2 FIRTH OF CLYDE 25 (BF) P & O Cole 3-9-7 Rossa Ryan
5 (4) IRISH FLAME C Cox 3-9-7 A Kirby
11 (9)
12 (4)
LADY OF ARABIA E J-Houghton 9-2
MINOLI M Murphy & M Keady 9-2
C Bishop
A Rawlinson
Rob Wright 7 (3) 00000 STRONSAY 14 (P) Liam Bailey 6-9-3 B Garritty 6 (9) MOORGATE P G Murphy 3-9-7 L Keniry
3.00 Handicap (3-Y-O: £3,726: 1m 2f) (16) 8 (10) 00600 THE GLOAMING 14 (CD) I Jardine 4-9-2 A Mullen 7 (3) 0 SEREN Y TEIGR 46 E Williams 3-9-7 Isabel Williams (5)
7-4 Tomahawk King, 3-1 Al Shami, 5-1 We'renotreallyhere, 8-1 Lady Of Arabia,
1.35 Lilikoi 3.40 Fools Rush In Ana Hadi, 10-1 Inny Lad, 33-1 Minoli, Haaland, Royal Dream, Raintown.
1 (13) 22322 RICHARD P SMITH 18 (P) E Dunlop 9-11 N Callan 9 (6) 01560 NELLIE FRENCH 199 (D) K Scott 5-9-2 P Dennis 8 (10) 00 SOAMES FORSYTE 151 K P De Foy 3-9-7 J Mitchell
2 (2) 32603 GOLDSMITH 24 (H,BF) D Menuisier 9-10 T Marquand 2.10 Brazilian Beach 4.10 Emily Post 10(12) 25042 MRS BAGERRAN 3 (H) T Waggott 4-9-2 Z Wheatley (5) 9 (2) 40 BIBURYINMAY 24 J Gallagher 3-9-2 N Currie
3 (8) 34-55 DASHING TO YOU 241 W Stone 9-9 Isobel Francis (5)
2.40 Society Lion 4.45 Lady Lade
11 (5) 00603 ARMO 11 (T) M & D Easterby 3-9-0 Joanna Mason
7.00 Handicap (Div I: £3,726: 7f) (12)
3.10 Makanah 5.15 Burtonlodge Beauty 10 (8) 4 CELTIC SAOIRSE 20 (H) P Phelan 3-9-2 C Bennett
4 (12) 03005 FIFTY SENT 20 M Bell 9-9 D E Hogan 12(14) 50003 STROXX 12 (B) Liam Bailey 5-9-0 S James 11(12) 0 LORDSBRIDGE GIRL 18 W Knight 3-9-2 S Donohoe 1 (8) 53410 SPLIT ELEVENS 25 (P,C,D) J Butler 4-9-10 L Morris
5 (1) 31456 MISS CLEMENTINE 20 (D) E Dunlop 9-9 Doubtful Going: good to soft, soft in places Racing TV 13 (2) 5-060 STAR CITIZEN 12 (D) F Watson 10-9-0 P Hanagan 2 (9) 2223 SHIN SAW GYI 12 G Scott 3-9-9 H Doyle
12 (7) 0 PURE MOTION 19 A Balding 3-9-2 R Hornby
6 (14) 60040 MARQUIS OF YORK 13 (P) R Fahey 9-6 J Garritty Draw: 5f, high numbers best 14 (4) 0-500 ROYAL PRINCESS 47 R M Smith 4-9-0 C Murtagh 5-6 Firth Of Clyde, 5-1 Irish Flame, 10-1 All Are Mine, 14-1 Pure Motion, 16-1 3 (11) 00015 AVIARY 11 (H,CD) A Wintle 4-9-7 C Howarth (5)
7 (10) 03415 COCONUT BAY 40 (BF,D) H Morrison 9-5 David Egan 100-30 Bonito Cavalo, 9-2 Armo, 11-2 Prayer Matt, 13-2 Burtonlodge Beauty, 4 (7) 00001 CRYSTAL DAWN 16 (T,D) D Brown 6-9-5 C Hardie
1.35 Handicap (£3,542: 1m 1f) (11) Faithless Insomnia, Seren Y Teigr, 20-1 Soames Forsyte, Lordsbridge Girl, Pittsburg.
8 (15) 463 FILLYFUDGE 49 Miss A Murphy 9-4 G Wood Stroxx, 15-2 Mrs Bagerran, 12-1 Tanasoq, 14-1 Quanah. 5 (4) 35304 CHELSEA ANNIE 42 (D) N Mulholland 3-9-4
1 (2) 01523 TOMMY G 4 (CD) J Goldie 9-11-4 Miss Lucy Harper (7) Elisha Whittington (5)
9 (3) 50550 JAMES JUDE 29 A West 9-3 R Dawson 4.20 Maiden Stakes (Div II: £4,320: 1m) (11)
2 (1) 142-0 SMART LASS 66 (C) I Jardine 7-11-0 6 (2) 25630 ADATORIO 60 (V) C Cox 3-9-3 J Fahy
10(11) 0000 SOUS SURVEILLANCE 191 A King 9-1 M Harley
11 (7) 04000 HEY BAILS 18 (P) A Carson 8-13 Jimmy Quinn
Miss Alisa McClung (7)
3 (8) 21423 LILIKOI 28 (BF,C) D & N Barron 4-10-12 Miss A Keighley
Windsor 1 (2) AMERIGHI M Attwater 3-9-7
2 (4) 22323 BROADSPEAR 26 (B,BF) R Varian 3-9-7
W Carson
J Mitchell
7 (6) 03406 SAY GRACE 14 (CD) G Harris 3-9-1
8 (5) -0240 SUMMER SECRETS 23 (V) R Fahey 3-8-13
K Stott
H Shaw
12 (9) 40643 SHABS 25 (B) Martin Smith 8-13 C Shepherd
4 (4) 1640 WOTEVER NEXT 7 A Keatley 3-10-12 Miss Becky Smith Rob Wright 3 (8) IDEE FIXEE J Chapple-Hyam 3-9-7 P Bradley (3) 9 (12) 23420 CHIFA 14 (BF,D) E De Giles 5-8-11 P-L Jamin (3)
13 (6) 41320 KELAPA 46 (H,T,CD) Joseph Parr 8-12 T Hammer Hansen 5 (5) 31160 LUNA MAGIC 23 (CD) A Watson 8-10-11 Ms B Hampson
1.15 Coup De Force 3.20 Lebsayer 4 (7) 06 IMPERIAL CULT 15 M Hoad 3-9-7 A Keeley (5) 10 (1) 20600 HACHERT 42 (P,CD) J Candlish 5-8-11 K O'Neill
14 (4) 03000 CONNIE R 4 (P) M Herrington 8-9 T Eaves
6 (7) 11002 BY YOUR SIDE 27 E Dunlop 3-10-10 Mr F Yarham (5) 1.45 Kerdos 3.50 Firth Of Clyde 5 (10) 05 MORNING POST 46 Sir M Stoute 3-9-7 R Kingscote 11(10) -0000 DECONSO 46 (CD) C Kellett 6-8-9 G Rooke
15(16) 30500 ARTEMISIA GENTILE 82 J R Jenkins 8-9 H Davies (3) 7 (10) 03/00 GEORGE RIDSDALE 26 M & D Easterby 6-10-8
16 (5) 02000 LADY SPIRITUS 50 (V) C Wallis 8-9 R Da Silva
2.20 The Big Board 4.20 Idee Fixee 6 (11) PROUD WARRIOR A Carroll 3-9-7 S Hitchcott 12 (3) 04400 TWILIGHT BAY 69 (B) Miss A Murphy 3-8-7 S Cherchi (3)
Miss S Brotherton
2.50 Oblong Song 4.50 Eklil 7 (3) 03 VIDHAATA 164 M Botti 3-9-7 B Sayette (3) 3-1 Shin Saw Gyi, 4-1 Crystal Dawn, 9-2 Aviary, 8-1 Split Elevens, 10-1 Adatorio,
11-4 Richard P Smith, 9-2 Goldsmith, 7-1 Coconut Bay, 8-1 Fifty Sent, 10-1 8 (11) 30030 TACITUS 10 (T) T Collier 4-10-2 Mr M W Brown (5)
Going: good Sky Sports Racing 8 (1) 0 DARKEST DREAM 16 S Durack 6-9-5 C Fallon 12-1 Hachert, Chifa, 14-1 Chelsea Annie, Twilight Bay, Summer Secrets.
Fillyfudge, Kelapa, Shabs, 12-1 Dashing To You. 9 (6) 00560 COSA SARA 4 J Goldie 4-10-2 Mr M Ennis
9 (6) 0 BLUE DAISY 24 G Boughey 3-9-2 P Cosgrave
Wright choice: Goldsmith remains unexposed over this 10 (9) 33666 FERGIE TIME 33 (P,C) K Dalgleish 3-10-0 Mr E Cagney (3) Draw: 5f-6f, low numbers best
distance Dangers: Richard P Smith, Miss Clementine 11 (3) -5060 MR SUNDOWNER 4 (P,C,D) D Thompson 10-9-11
10 (5) 65252 FOLLOW THAT STAR 16 (BF) A Balding 3-9-2 D Probert 7.30 Handicap (Div II: £3,726: 7f) (12)
Danielle Mooney
1.15 Handicap (£5,508: 6f) (14) 11 (9) 06 WHISPERING SONG 19 Sir M Prescott 3-9-2 D Keenan 1 (10) 26200 SILVER KITTEN 23 (D) C & M Johnston 3-9-9
7-2 Lilikoi, 4-1 Tommy G, By Your Side, 6-1 Luna Magic, 8-1 Fergie Time, 12-1 1 (1) 01323 SARAH'S VERSE 13 (C,D) R Harris 5-9-10 Gina Mangan (5) 9-4 Broadspear, 11-4 Follow That Star, 4-1 Morning Post, 5-1 Idee Fixee, 13-2 O Stammers (3)
3.30 Handicap (£5,508: 1m 3f 104yd) (10) Smart Lass, 14-1 Tacitus, Wotever Next. Vidhaata, 20-1 Whispering Song, 25-1 Proud Warrior, 33-1 Amerighi. 2 (9) 30-52 RETURN VOYAGE 41 C Cox 3-9-9 J Fahy
2 (11) 34335 TWILIGHT MADNESS 11 (P,D) S Hodgson 4-9-9
1 (10) 1-203 SEA SPEEDWELL 39 (P) W Haggas 4-10-0 A Farragher (5) W Carver (3) 3 (7) 03000 MARTINEO 12 (CD) J Butler 7-9-7 Grace McEntee (3)
2 (9) 23164 WESTERN STARS 15 E Dunlop 3-9-11 N Callan 2.10 Selling Stakes (£5,076: 1m 4f 104yd) (5) 3 (12) -0206 MAKINITUP 17 (P) P Chapple-Hyam 4-9-8 C Hutchinson (5) 4.50 Handicap (3-Y-O: £4,536: 1m 3f) (12) 4 (1) 3635 ON REFLECTION 25 (P) J Tate 3-9-4 P J McDonald
3 (6) 0451 SEA STONE 28 I Mohammed 3-9-9 H Davies (3) 4 (7) 64010 WILLOUGHBY BAY 12 (D) C Hills 3-9-8 A Kirby 5 (6) 24100 TWISTALINE 23 (C) M Appleby 3-9-3 A Rawlinson
1 (1) 26000 GOODWOOD GLEN 65 K Dalgleish 4-9-13 B Garritty 1 (8) 02336 TEAGARDEN JAZZ 17 (P) H & R Charlton 9-10 D Probert
4 (5) -1500 OBSIDIAN KNIGHT 152 T Kent 4-9-8 J Crowley 5 (2) -0016 FIGHTING TEMERAIRE 86 (CD) D Ivory 9-9-8 C Bennett 6 (3) 51500 CONTACTLESS 19 (T,V,CD) D Carroll 3-9-3 H Shaw
2 (3) 04036 MAGNA MORALIA 9 (P,D) J J Quinn 5-9-6 D Tudhope 2 (12) 21230 EKLIL 23 (C) R Guest 9-10 Rossa Ryan
5 (1) 0434 PRIMI ORDINIS 28 (BF) E Walker 3-9-3 T Marquand 6 (4) 0-020 TORVI 38 (D) K P De Foy 3-9-7 J Mitchell 7 (5) 30323 CLASHANISKA 11 (P,D) A Wintle 6-9-1 H Doyle
3 (4) 0-510 KANZINO 22 K R Burke 3-9-4 C Lee 3 (11) 35350 SHARED 19 (B) H & R Charlton 9-9 R Kingscote
6 (8) 03541 SUPER CHIEF 18 (P) J & T Gosden 3-9-3 L Dettori 7 (14) 42451 BEAUTY CHOICE 9 (B,D) W Jarvis 5-9-7 B Sayette (3) 8 (12) 624-5 BAWAADER 11 (D) A Sadik 7-8-12 Josephine Gordon
4 (2) MASTER OLIVER I Jardine 3-9-0 A Mullen 4 (5) 5602 BYKER 11 R Hannon 9-9 S M Levey
7 (4) 60411 GLEN COVE 19 D M Simcock 3-9-1 C Shepherd 8 (6) 25002 TWILIGHT HEIR 19 (D) S Durack 4-9-6 C Fallon 9 (11) 22405 MAAHI VE 23 (V) M Attwater 4-8-11 R Havlin
5 (5) 02304 BRAZILIAN BEACH 4 (B) T Easterby 3-8-13 D Allan 5 (9) -0534 WARD CASTLE 61 (P) M Botti 9-8 A Kirby
8 (7) 20352 TYPICAL WOMAN 17 (P) I Williams 3-9-1 W Buick 9 (13) 44-6 LIBRA TIGER 195 (H) D Menuisier 3-9-6 Rossa Ryan 10 (4) 6-000 SUN RISING 12 (D) D Brown 3-8-10 C Hardie
15-8 Magna Moralia, 9-4 Goodwood Glen, 4-1 Kanzino, 5-1 Brazilian Beach, 6 (6) 50401 ARAB CINDER 7 W Knight 9-8(6ex) B Sayette (3)
9 (2) 22163 JALEA MOON 25 (C) J Chapple-Hyam 3-9-0 David Egan 10 (5) -3415 GRAND CRU GAGA 13 (BF,D) P & O Cole 3-9-5 D Probert 11 (2) 00560 STORM MASTER 7 J Riches 5-8-9 JP Sullivan
10-1 Master Oliver. 7 (7) 004- STREGA DE VEGA 352 R Beckett 9-7 R Hornby
10 (3) 6-66 ALHABOR 46 A King 3-8-13 M Harley 11 (9) 44000 CONCIERGE 19 (C,D) M Attwater 6-9-5 W Carson 12 (8) 50050 SIR DUKE 55 (B,T) Mrs N Evans 3-8-7 J Haynes
8 (3) 21216 TESSY LAD 32 (CD) R Hughes 9-7 F Marsh
9-2 Super Chief, 5-1 Typical Woman, 6-1 Jalea Moon, 13-2 Glen Cove, 7-1 Sea 12 (3) 00104 WHITE UMBRELLA 17 H & R Charlton 3-9-5 R Kingscote 5-2 Clashaniska, 3-1 Return Voyage, 5-1 On Reflection, 13-2 Maahi Ve, 12-1
Stone, 8-1 Sea Speedwell, Alhabor, 10-1 Primi Ordinis.
2.40 Handicap (£3,726: 7f) (12) 13 (8) 63131 COUP DE FORCE 15 (D) W Kittow 3-9-4 R Hornby
9 (10) 02555 DREAM HARDER 12 J Osborne 9-6 N Currie
10 (4) 03020 GARGLE 20 R Hannon 8-11 S Hitchcott Bawaader, 14-1 Contactless, Storm Master, 20-1 Sun Rising, Silver Kitten.
Wright choice: Sea Stone won in good style at Kempton; he 1 (2) 10023 SOCIETY LION 26 (T,D) E Dunlop 5-9-13 C Lee 14(10) 03412 ALCAZAN 6 (D) R Teal 4-9-4 S M Levey
2 (1) 00620 MUNTADAB 3 (CD) R Fell 10-9-12 J Peate (5) 11 (2) 5-000 LONG TIME COMIN 26 (P) M Attwater 8-5 T Ladd
can improve again Dangers: Sea Speedwell, Primi Ordinis 9-2 Alcazan, 5-1 Beauty Choice, 6-1 Coup De Force, 13-2 Sarah's Verse, 8-1 8.00 Handicap
3 (6) 55053 SURPRISE PICTURE 16 (B) K Dalgleish 4-9-12 12 (1) 03606 ELEMENTOFSURPRISE 18 J Bridger 8-4 A Keeley (5)
Twilight Heir, 10-1 Twilight Madness, 14-1 others.
Jason Watson 100-30 Arab Cinder, 11-2 Tessy Lad, 6-1 Byker, 7-1 Eklil, Teagarden Jazz, 8-1 (£5,508: 1m 1f 104yd) (12)
4.00 Listed Stakes (£28,355: 1m 6f) (15) 4 (8) 10230 EY UP ITS THE BOSS 18 (P,D) T Coyle 3-9-9 D Nolan Ward Castle, Strega De Vega, 12-1 Dream Harder. 1 (8) 10036 SUCELLUS 17 (T,CD) Oliver Greenall & Josh Guerriero
1 (5) 020-6 BRUNNERA 18 (H) H Palmer 4-9-6 J Crowley 5 (4) 31100 JUDGMENT CALL 13 (D) Miss L Perratt 4-9-9 D Tudhope
1.45 Novice Stakes (2-Y-O: £3,672: 6f) (14) 6-9-11 G Rooke
2 (2) 2-320 FRANKENSTELLA 16 (B) J J Quinn 5-9-6 J Hart 6 (10) 00005 UGO GREGORY 4 (P,T,D) T Easterby 6-9-7 D Allan 1 (13) 1 KERDOS 17 (D) C Cox 9-11 A Kirby 2 (2) 45523 NOBLE MARK 6 Sir M Prescott 3-9-9 L Morris
3 (11) 61-45 GOOLWA 24 (D) A Balding 4-9-6
4 (4) 13306 PEARL BEACH 26 (D) W Knight 5-9-6
W Buick
N Callan
7 (3) 44340 KATS BOB 14 (P,CD) I Jardine 4-9-6 Poppy Wilson (7)
8 (9) 02345 MERRICOURT 13 (P,C,D) I Jardine 6-9-5 A Mullen
2 (10)
3 (11)
00 ALASKAN 24 (T) C Hills 9-4
00 ALL DUNN 5 J Osborne 9-4
R Hornby
N Currie
Wolverhampton 3 (7) 10232 FRANCESI 11 (P,T) S P C Woods 3-9-9
4 (1) 21245 DUNGAR GLORY 7 (H,BF,C) A Keatley 3-9-8
R Havlin
K Stott
5 (15) 0502- PENNYMOOR 347 (H) J & T Gosden 4-9-6 L Dettori 9 (5) 12302 COBRA KAI 13 (D) K Dalgleish 3-9-1 B Garritty 4 (8) 0 ARBAAWI 64 S C Williams 9-4 Rossa Ryan Rob Wright 5 (10) 33156 GANGWAY 12 (CD) C & M Johnston 3-9-7 F Norton
6 (8) 5-505 QUENELLE D'OR 17 H Palmer 4-9-6 James Doyle 10(11) 22201 MONHAMMER 13 (CD) Miss L Perratt 4-9-0 G Lee 5 (5) ART OF ROMANCE B Meehan 9-4 D Probert 6 (4) 3-254 SUPER LOVER 114 (V) A King 3-9-7 H Doyle
5.00 Cavendish 7.00 Aviary
7 (9) 26254 SEA SYLPH 19 (B,D) A King 4-9-6 M Harley 11 (7) 63263 GLOBAL HUMOR 13 (B,D) J Goldie 7-9-0 P Mulrennan 6 (1) 06 MONOPOLISE 61 (H) E Walker 9-4 R Coakley 5.30 Catwalk Model 7.30 Return Voyage 7 (3) -6126 DEFINITE 58 (BF) R Beckett 3-9-7 H Crouch
8 (13) -3016 SECRET SHADOW 19 (BF,D) A Balding 4-9-6 H Turner 12(12) 02142 STAR OF ST JAMES 13 R Fahey 5-8-9 C Murtagh 7 (14) 0 MUY MUY GUAPO 24 J Boyle 9-4 P Bradley (3) 6.00 Triple Jaye 8.00 Super Lover (nb) 8 (12) 31303 ALPINE SIERRA 14 (P) K Dalgleish 4-9-2 R Scott
9 (1) 52105 SINGLE 19 (CD) M Channon 5-9-6 G Bass 4-1 Surprise Picture, 11-2 Monhammer, 6-1 Society Lion, 7-1 Star Of St James, 8 (3) 46 PRESIDENTIAL DANCE 122 D Loughnane 9-4 C Fallon 6.30 Tomahawk King 8.30 Wolf Of Oxshott 9 (5) 40005 VISIBILITY 6 (CD) S Dixon 5-9-1 K O'Neill
10 (7) 33131 STRAWBERRI 19 (D) R Varian 4-9-6 A Atzeni 8-1 Global Humor, Cobra Kai, 10-1 Judgment Call, 12-1 Muntadab. 9 (7) 40 ROMAN SPRING 39 R Hannon 9-4 S M Levey Going: standard Sky Sports Racing 10 (9) 15200 THE NEW MARWAN 16 R Fahey 5-8-12 C Hardie
11 (6) 22205 TRINITY GIRL 16 (D) Jessica Macey 5-9-6 T Hammer Hansen 10 (2) SAO TIMOTHY R Stephens 9-4 D Keenan 11 (6) 30-34 COWBOY J85 N Mulholland 3-8-12 S W Kelly
Draw: 5f-7f, low numbers best
12(10) 02352 VIOLA 19 J Fanshawe 5-9-6 D Muscutt 3.10 Conditions Stakes (£9,990: 5f) (5) 11(12) 20 SPIDER MURPHY 11 P Evans 9-4 D O'Neill 12(11) 02051 KENILWORTH KING 9 (CD) W Jarvis 3-8-9 P J McDonald
13(12) 53321 ARK 47 (P) A P O'Brien (Ire) 3-8-13 R L Moore 12 (6) ZOUKSTER E Walker 9-4 R Kingscote 5.00 Handicap (£3,726: 1m 6f) (12) 4-1 Kenilworth King, 5-1 Francesi, 6-1 Noble Mark, 7-1 Alpine Sierra, 15-2
1 (4) 50502 JUSTANOTHERBOTTLE 16 (B,D) K Ryan 8-9-7
14 (3) 64160 FENNELA 57 (P) J Harrington (Ire) 3-8-13 David Egan O McSweeney (5) 13 (9) SELINA'S STAR D Ivory 8-13 C Bennett 1 (6) 61100 DESERT QUEST 13 (D) Ewan Whillans 4-10-0 C Hardie Dungar Glory, 10-1 Super Lover, Definite, 12-1 Gangway, Visibility.
15(14) 41012 PERFECT ALIBI 44 W Haggas 3-8-13 T Marquand 2 (5) 10305 LAMPANG 36 (T) T Easterby 5-9-7 D Allan 14 (4) 50 THE GAME IS UP 11 P Phelan 8-13 R Clutterbuck (3) 2 (2) 264-4 TRUE ROMANCE J13 (P,T,C,D) N Mulholland 8-9-11
9-2 Perfect Alibi, 5-1 Viola, 7-1 Strawberri, Pennymoor, 10-1 Ark, Goolwa, 3 (3) 23300 EDWARD CORNELIUS 10 (CD) K Dalgleish 3-9-4 S Gray 6-4 Kerdos, 6-1 Presidential Dance, 8-1 Zoukster, Art Of Romance, 10-1 Spider S W Kelly 8.30 Handicap (£3,726: 1m 4f) (12)
Quenelle D'or, 12-1 Fennela. 4 (2) 34056 MAKANAH 29 (CD) J Camacho 7-9-4 P Hanagan Murphy, Roman Spring, 12-1 Monopolise, 14-1 Selina's Star, Muy Muy Guapo. 3 (12) 01414 KING CHARLES 14 (B,CD) B J Llewellyn 5-9-11
Jordan Williams (5) 1 (7) 01243 PERIPETEIA 9 P Kirby 4-9-12 K Stott
Wright choice: Goolwa can repeat last year’s win in this 5 (1) 10605 LULLABY BAY 9 (D) K R Burke 3-8-13 C Lee 2 (8) 12442 BOY GEORGE 34 (D) D F Davis 5-9-10 J Bryan
4 (9) 60/2- AIR HAIR LAIR J343 Miss S West 6-9-5 H Crouch
race, when it was staged at Bath Dangers: Ark, Strawberri 7-4 Makanah, 2-1 Justanotherbottle, 11-4 Lampang, 12-1 Edward Cornelius, 2.20 Nursery (2-Y-O: £5,508: 6f) (11) 5 (1) 0-060 SICARIO J98 M Appleby 7-9-4 L Morris 3 (5) 61660 MORNING SYMPHONY 18 (P,T,CD) J Snowden 4-9-9
14-1 Lullaby Bay. S W Kelly
1 (8) 501 MAGICAL MERLIN 44 (CD) H & R Charlton 9-9 T Whelan 6 (5) 54414 EDDIE THE BEAGLE 18 (D) W Muir & C Grassick 3-9-4
4.30 Nursery (2-Y-O: £3,726: 7f) (11) 2 (7) 6312 THE BIG BOARD 34 (D) R Hannon 9-9 S M Levey P J McDonald 4 (12) 61126 TEMUR KHAN 35 (D) A Carroll 7-9-9 Mollie Phillips (3)

1 (8) 555 EVERYTHINGSHEWANTS 14 J O'Keeffe 9-11 J Garritty

2 (11) 6045 TWILIGHT GUEST 27 G Margarson 9-9
3 (5) 660 UNFORGETABLE MOVE 34 H Palmer 9-8 James Doyle
4 (7) 00453 GONE 11 C & M Johnston 9-7
5 (4) 5000 DREAM FRONTIER 20 (V) E Dunlop 9-7
6 (9) 6000 LOVE GETAWAY 24 (P) R Varian 9-6
7 (2) 0040 STINTINO SUNSET 24 J Feilden 9-6
8 (3) 5004 EQUIAMI 13 P McBride 9-6
9 (10) 600 ATTRAZIONE 25 (T) G Boughey 9-1
10 (6) 0400 TECHNO LADY 28 R Fahey 8-12
11 (1) 06P0 PRIMROSE MAID 26 C Dunnett 8-8 Isobel Francis (5)
3.40 Handicap (£10,308: 7f) (9) 3 (6) 10046 PADDY'S DAY 13 (CD) C Hills 9-7 A Kirby 7 (10) 20330 AURORA PAPILLON 12 (P) B Meehan 3-9-4 G Rooke 5 (6) 45342 POINT LOUISE 27 (C) H Dunlop 4-9-8 C Howarth (5)
1 (4) 21055 FOOLS RUSH IN 9 (P,T,D) H Palmer 4-9-12 Jason Watson 8 (4) 4060 ZYRA'S LIONESS 96 (W) Miss S West 4-9-1 C Bishop 6 (3) -1130 EAGLE EYED FREDDIE 41 (T) M Appleby 4-9-8
T P Queally 4 (3) 524 APACHE SPARK 62 (BF) R Beckett 9-6 R Hornby A Rawlinson
2 (2) 52010 ABOLISH 2 (P,D) I Jardine 6-9-11 P Hanagan 5 (5) 34230 REWARD SMILE 7 (T) H Palmer 9-6 R Coakley 9 (7) 16223 HELLAVAHEART 35 (BF) P Evans 3-9-0 H Doyle
7 (2) 5320 SALVE JAPAN 22 (P) H Palmer 3-9-7 S Osborne (3)
3 (7) 00104 RAATEA 29 (H) J Camacho 5-9-9 G Lee 6 (1) 042 DARK TROOPER 24 E Walker 9-5 R Kingscote 10 (3) 400-0 AFFAIR 47 (D) H Morrison 8-9-0 Sophie Reed (7)
J Hart 8 (11) 33664 AWAY WIT DA FAIRYS 6 (P,D) Alice Haynes 3-9-6
4 (3) 00215 GWEEDORE 13 (CD) K Scott 5-9-6 Ryan Sexton (5) 7 (2) 01365 WHISTLE AND FLUTE 15 (D) E J-Houghton 9-4 11(11) 60-03 OWENS LAD 9 D Loughnane 4-9-0 S Cherchi (3) K O'Neill
T Marquand
5 (6) 56001 ABERAMA GOLD 4 (V) K Dalgleish 5-9-6(5ex) B Garritty D Probert 12 (8) 22036 CAVENDISH 20 (P) C & M Johnston 3-8-11 F Norton 9 (9) 31530 CAFE SYDNEY 15 (D) A Carroll 6-9-6 H Doyle
David Egan
6 (8) 21111 AUTUMN FESTIVAL 20 (D) D O'Meara 3-9-2 D Tudhope 8 (4) 023 ACAI 24 C Cox 9-2 Rossa Ryan 7-2 Hellavaheart, 5-1 Eddie The Beagle, 6-1 King Charles, 13-2 True Romance, 10(10) 0-064 WOLF OF OXSHOTT 19 Joseph Parr 3-9-5 L Morris
D E Hogan
7 (9) 12011 ABDUCTION 13 (D) J Goldie 4-9-2 P Mulrennan 9 (10) 505 WADI BANI 12 S Durack 9-0 P Cosgrave 8-1 Owens Lad, 10-1 Cavendish, Air Hair Lair, 12-1 Aurora Papillon, Desert Quest. 11 (4) 05633 HAMMY END 14 (H,P,D) W Muir & C Grassick 6-9-4
H Davies (3)
10(11) 003 ORIGINAL THINKER 25 J & T Gosden 8-11 B Sayette (3)
8 (5) 1-160 MAYWAKE 60 (D) R Fahey 4-9-1 Oisin Orr P J McDonald
D Muscutt 11 (9) 3U340 LAHINA BAY 75 J Bridger 8-6 A Keeley (5) Blinkered first time: Musselburgh 5.15 Danzart. Windsor 12 (1) 50454 CICELY 9 (BF,C) S Kirk 3-9-3 O Stammers (3)
9 (1) 04340 PAWS FOR THOUGHT 16 (D) D McCain 4-8-12 A Mullen
T Eaves 9-2 Magical Merlin, 6-1 Dark Trooper, Original Thinker, The Big Board, 15-2 4.20 Broadspear. 4.50 Shared. Wolverhampton 7.00 4-1 Point Louise, 9-2 Boy George, 11-2 Wolf Of Oxshott, 15-2 Peripeteia, 10-1
7-2 Autumn Festival, 4-1 Abduction, 6-1 Aberama Gold, 7-1 Raatea, Gweedore,
Abolish, 8-1 Fools Rush In, 14-1 Paws For Thought, Maywake. Acai, 8-1 Reward Smile, Apache Spark, Paddy's Day. Twilight Bay. Yarmouth 4.00 Sea Sylph. Hammy End, Away Wit Da Fairys, Eagle Eyed Freddie, Temur Khan.

Yesterday’s racing results

Ffos Las
Going: good
1.25 (2m 4f 199yd ch) 1, Ho Que Oui (Phillip
Armson, 3-1); 2, Dancing Dani (13-2); 3, Astra
Via (11-4 fav). 6 ran. 3l, 3Kl. Alexandra Dunn.
2.00 (1m 7f 182yd hdle) 1, Tintintin (P J
Brennan, 9-4); 2, Zoeman (2-1 fav); 3, Junior
Des Bordes (13-2). 5 ran. 2Nl, 1Ol. F O’Brien.
2.35 (2m ch) 1, Straw Fan Jack (Sean
Houlihan, 3-1); 2, Black Poppy (15-8 fav);
3, Wicked West (12-1). 5 ran. NR: Boothill.
7Kl, 4Ol. Sheila Lewis.
3.10 (1m 7f 182yd hdle) 1, Effernock Fizz (Sam
Ewing, 9-2); 2, Milkwood (3-1); 3, Severance
(2-1 fav). 5 ran. NR: Gin Coco, Zambezi Fix. 2l,
nk. C M Collins.
3.45 (2m 7f 191yd hdle) 1, Camembert Electric
(Stan Sheppard, 5-1); 2, Robbie Dazzler (17-2);
3, Farceur De Maulne (9-2 fav). 12 ran.
NR: Black Lightning, Inferno Sacree. 2Nl, 1Kl.
T Lacey.
4.20 (2m ch) 1, Court Royale (Adam Wedge,
4-1); 2, Folly Gate (5-2); 3, Obey The Rules
(2-1 fav). 7 ran. Sh hd, 1Kl. Evan Williams.
4.55 (1m 7f 182yd Flat) 1, Rock On Harry (Stan
Sheppard, 6-4 fav); 2, Benny Silver (100-30);
3, Kioto Sun (11-2). 7 ran. NR: Bensini, Not Long
Left. Hd, Ol. T Lacey.
Placepot: £230.50. Quadpot: £26.60.
Goodwood
Going: good to soft (good in places)
1.50 (2m) 1, Zikany (Bryony Frost, 14-1);
2, Tralee Hills (8-1); 3, Orin Swift (20-1);
4, Planet Legend (13-2). 16 ran. Ol, 1Nl. Mrs A J
Perrett.
2.25 (6f) 1, Yacowlef (Tom Marquand, 4-9
fav); 2, Fierce (15-2); 3, Goodwood Vision (9-1).
8 ran. NR: Many Rivers, Swift Asset. 2Nl, 2l.
P O Cole.
3.00 (6f) 1, Spanish Star (Tom Marquand,
10-3 jt-fav); 2, Dora Penny (17-2); 3, Indian
Creak (18-1). 10 ran. NR: Marshal Dan,
Punchbowl Flyer. 1Nl, sh hd. P R Chamings.
3.35 (7f) 1, Benacre (W Buick, 100-30); 2,
Solutre (5-2); 3, Eminency (85-40 fav). 5 ran.
2Ol, Ol. C M Johnston.
4.10 (1m 1f 11yd) 1, Rathgar (Charles Bishop,
11-10 fav); 2, Ramensky (9-2); 3, King’s Code
(15-2). 9 ran. 2Kl, 3l. M R Channon.
4.45 (1m 3f 218yd) 1, Tritonic (Hollie Doyle,
6-1); 2, Goshen (5-1); 3, Ajero (11-4 fav). 8 ran.
Nk, 1Nl. A King.
5.20 (1m) 1, Mystery Fox (David Egan, 10-1);
2, Stately Home (5-2 fav); 3, Global Esteem
(8-1). 10 ran. 1Ol, nk. R Varian.
Placepot: £50.90.
Quadpot: £8.40.
Southwell
Going: standard
1.40 (1m 13yd) 1, Revoquable (D Allan, 40-1);
2, Kodebreaker (11-1); 3, Come To Pass (20-1).
14 ran. 3Kl, Kl. T D Easterby.
2.15 (7f 14yd) 1, Pastiche (Kevin Stott, 9-4);
2, Canadiansmokeshow (5-2); 3, Miss Cynthia
(125-1). 10 ran. NR: Chealamy, Fortis Regina,
The Angelus Belle, Trickledown. 1Kl, 4Nl.
G Boughey.
2.50 (6f 16yd) 1, Golden Apollo (D Allan, 9-1);
2, Bellagio Man (40-1); 3, Macchiavello (6-1).
11 ran. Ol, 1Kl. T D Easterby.
3.25 (4f 214yd) 1, Lumacho (Kevin Stott,
7-4 fav); 2, Kodi Dancer (7-2); 3, Wedgewood
(33-1). 10 ran. NR: Fortunate Star. 1Nl, hd.
G Boughey.
4.00 (1m 4f 14yd) 1, Night Bear (C Lee, 5-1);
2, Wholeofthemoon (6-5 fav); 3, Pub Crawl
(15-8). 5 ran. NR: Arclight. Nk, 1Nl. A W Carroll.
4.35 (1m 3f 23yd) 1, Gold Standard (C Lee, 7-2);
2, Bellshill Beauty (13-2); 3, International Law
(7-2). 8 ran. NR: Tiberio Force. Ol, nk.
A W Carroll.
5.10 (1m 3f 23yd) 1, Another Odyssey (Benoit
D L Sayette, 11-10 fav); 2, Prophesise (13-8);
3, Catch My Breath (20-1). 9 ran. 2Kl, ns.
George Scott.
Placepot: £1,112.30. Quadpot: £18.80.
60
Sport Gallagher Premiership
A cruel defeat – now Wasps have
Alex Lowe How they stand
Rugby
Correspondent
P W D L F A B Pts
Saracens 4 4 0 0 156 98 4 20
0
36 Sale 4 4 0 0 120 78 3 19
Wasps
2
Exeter 4 3 0 1 137 104 2 14
Bristol 5 3 0 2 123 153 2 14
1
Harlequins 4 2 0 2 144 133 5 13
40
Northampton
Northampton 5 2 0 3 150 163 5 13
Gloucester 3 2 0 1 87 79 3 11
Leicester 5 2 0 3 131 143 3 11
Wasps 4 1 0 3 104 121 4 8
London Irish 3 1 0 2 105 116 3 7
In the grand scheme of things the Newcastle 4 1 0 3 96 125 2 6
disappointment felt by Wasps at the Bath 5 0 0 5 135 175 4 4
manner in which they lost this game * Worcester were suspended from the league
and their results have been removed from
will seem like small fry. The former the table
English and European champions have
a much more important battle to win as
they enter arguably the biggest week of watch the club go to the wall. Luke
their 156-year history, with the grim Broadley, the former Worcester team
prospect of administration looming manager, said Dallaglio’s argument
large over the club. “sums up what is wrong with the game”.
Wasps have until next Monday to For 80 minutes, the gathering gloom
find £2 million and fend off a of the club’s uncertain future was held
winding-up petition from HM Revenue at bay as Wasps defied all manner of
& Customs, although there is also the hurdles to score four tries and stand on
wider issue of a £35 million bond that the brink of a morale-boosting victory.
was supposed to be repaid in May. Sport, though, is a cruel mistress
David Armstrong, the and in the 81st minute all their
former Wasps chief execu- efforts were undone.
tive, is advising an invest-
ment firm, Terminum
Capital, which is pre-
3
Red cards for
Courtnall Skosan scored for
Northampton with the final
play of the game, finishing a
pared to buy the club and Jacob Umaga in sweeping attack from deep
the stadium — but only if his past in their own half, to snatch
the business goes into 12 games the victory.
administration. Under RFU Wasps were spent, physical-
regulations, which have been ly and emotionally. Two minutes
applied to Worcester Warriors, earlier they held a 36-28 lead, with
administration would mean Wasps Jack Willis involved in two critical turn-
being relegated as punishment. overs that appeared to have won them
It is said that Armstrong, who was at the game. Willis deserved to be on the
this defeat by Northampton Saints, has winning side. Wasps have always been
already made representations to the about heart and soul rather than bricks
RFU that an insolvent sale should not and mortar and Willis epitomised that.
lead to Wasps being demoted to the The England flanker was extraordi-
Championship. Lawrence Dallaglio, a nary again, setting the emotional tone
Wasps director, questioned whether for the team with the opening try. It was
the RFU would want to lose the club his first since the England game against
from the Gallagher Premiership. Italy in February 2021, in which he
“They’ll say that any club that’s in wrecked his knee. Willis reacted with a
administration has to go the same way roar of celebration, punching the air.
as Worcester, but the reality is, do you Wasps built on that with a try from
want to lose one of the biggest brands in Paolo Odogwu, who scored wide on the
club rugby, in world rugby and one of right after a powerful maul and a series
the brands that’s been one of the most of pick-and-gos in the left corner.
successful sides in the Premiership? Northampton reduced the arrears
Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that,” before the interval when Dan Biggar’s
Dallaglio said on BT Sport. kick caused chaos in the Wasps
The former England captain’s point, defence. He then tapped the ball on to
unsurprisingly, did not go down well at Alex Coles for the try.
Worcester, who already believe their Wasps had lost Tom Willis and
rivals were too happy to sit back and Vincent Koch before kick-off and then
Gruesome Vunipola red card mars Saracens’ stroll in the Park
0
14
result. “Saracens are a well-drilled,
Newcastle Falcons
2
well-coached team with a lot of super-
stars,” he said. “But we’re very dis-
1
34
appointed with how easy we made it for
Saracens them. They showed why they are the
top team by being ruthless and very
clinical. They know what they want to
Alasdair Reid do and they do it very well. They are
very hard to stop. Today was not a
Four wins, four bonus points and a representation of what we are about.
place at the top of the Gallagher That’s the frustrating thing.”
Premiership table. Saracens are If Saracens’ 26-0 lead at the break
tracking nicely. They put Newcastle suggested things may have been a
Falcons away with embarrassing ease touch one-sided in the first half, it was
in a match that for long periods looked a perfectly accurate picture. It did not
like a training game. flatter them one bit, for at that point it
But Mako Vunipola, the Saracens was fiendishly difficult to recall a single
prop, put an ugly stain on the achieve- Newcastle venture into their oppo-
ment with a reckless shoulder-charge nents’ 22, let alone one in which they
to the head of Tom Penny, the Newcas- had posed any sort of danger.
tle full back, in the 54th minute. It was To their credit, the Falcons did
a gruesome moment and the Falcons defend well at times — but not often
fans were justifiably outraged when it enough. And when Saracens sniffed an
was replayed on the Kingston Park opportunity, they finished off beauti-
screens. Wayne Barnes had no option fully. They put four tries on the board in
but to show Vunipola a red card, which that opening half, with deft touches by
could have implications for England. Elliot Daly setting up three of them.
Dave Walder, the Newcastle coach, Daly may not be appearing at Twicken-
had no grounds for complaint about the ham this autumn, but he will be turning
Monday October 10 2022 | the times
Ben Morris, who came in to start at
Umaga takes
No 8, was withdrawn with a head injury out Skosan in
inside the opening quarter, while Joe
the air but
Launchbury and Dan Robson failed to ends up with
reappear after half-time. a red card and
They coped with the setbacks well an oxygen
and found their way over the line again, mask, right, for
with Gabriel Oghre touching down his troubles,
after Odogwu had spun out of a tackle before Skosan,
like an NFL running back. bottom, scores
Charlie Atkinson then embarked on
the winning try
a brilliant run, beating five players
before chipping ahead for Josh Bassett.
Neither the Wasps wing nor Tommy
Freeman, his opposite number, could
ground the ball and Atkinson followed
up to score. Wasps were 30-14 ahead.
The mood was buoyant, troubles
temporarily forgotten.
But the clouds would soon descend.
Ollie Sleightholme hit back for Saints
and, with 14 minutes remaining, Jacob
Umaga was sent off for taking out
Skosan illegally in the air. Skosan had
come down on Umaga’s head and the
red card was shown as the Wasps player
was assisted from the field while
wearing an oxygen mask.
The resultant penalty try brought
Saints back to within five points. Wasps
extended that to eight, but they could
not hold on.
Coles galloped over for his second
try, Wasps then failed to win the restart
again and Northampton flashed
downfield to snatch a bonus-point win;
80 minutes of graft undone in the 81st
as Skosan crossed.
“It’s a tough one,” Lee Blackett, the
Wasps head coach, said. “The last few
minutes was painful to watch. We are
staying tight as a unit. It’s only natural,
the longer it carries on, the more people
will start to get worried.”
Scorers: Wasps: Tries J Willis (10), P Odogwu (16),
G Oghre (54), C Atkinson (56). Cons Umaga 2.
Pens Umaga (20, 24, 64), Haydon-Wood (76).
Northampton Saints: Tries Coles (39, 78),
Sleightholme (57), penalty (66), Skosan (80).
Cons Furbank, Hutchison. Pens Biggar (4, 13, 42).
Wasps J Umaga (sent off 66); P Odogwu
(W Haydon-Wood 66), B Odendaal, R Mills,
J Bassett; C Atkinson, D Robson (W Porter 41);
R Hislop (R Martínez 50), G Oghre, J Ryan (B Alo
55), J Launchbury (T Cardell 41), K McDonald,
B Morris (K Curran, 13; D Frost 66), J Willis, N Carr.
Northampton Saints G Furbank; T Freeman,
M Proctor (R Hutchison 50), F Dingwall,
O Sleightholme; D Biggar (C Skosan 47; M Proctor
66-76), A Mitchell; A Waller (E Waller 50),
S Matavesi (R Smith 79), P Hill (A Petch 57),
L Salakaia-Loto, A Moon (D Ribbans 57), A Coles,
L Ludlam, S Graham (J Augustus 50).
Referee A Leal. Attendance 10,249.
later, was a rare Daly-free event, coming second from Malins, soon afterwards.
when Kapeli Pifeleti broke away from a With Saracens a man down, Newcastle
driving maul and crashed through some were finally able to play a bit, and
execrable tackles. helped themselves to two tries — the
In the 24th minute Daly was back in first by the replacement hooker Jamie
the provider role, contributing the neat Blamire after a break by Tian Schoe-
offload that sent Alex Lozowski over in man, followed by a marvellous solo
the left corner. Then, in the 31st, he was effort by the left wing Mateo Carreras.
on the other side of the pitch, taking a They were still a long way back,
pass from Owen Farrell and feeding though, and Saracens added one last
Max Malins the ball for the fourth twist of the knife when Farrell clipped
Saracens try. over a penalty six minutes from time to
With their bonus point secured, and make things that little bit more secure.
no great concern about a Falcons fight-
back, it was no big surprise that Sara-
cens seemed to lack a certain urgency Scorers: Newcastle Falcons: Tries Blamire (65),
Carreras (70). Cons Schoeman 2. Saracens: Tries
after the interval. Even so, they still Lewington (3), Pifeleti (9), Lozowski (24), Malins
dominated every area of the game and (31, 56). Cons Farrell 3. Pen Farrell (74).
spent almost the entirety of the third Newcastle Falcons T Penny; A Radwan
Malins powers over to score Saracens’ quarter in Newcastle’s half. In truth, (B Stevenson 54), M Moroni, M Orlando (P Lucock
59), M Carreras; T Schoeman, S Stuart (M Young
fourth try in a dominant team display there was probably a bit of showboating 53); A Brocklebank (L Mulipola 59), G McGuigan
in some of their offloads, but at least (J Blamire 53), R Palframan, G Peterson (S de
up in the Falcons players’ nightmares they had earned the right to indulge Chaves 54), S Robinson, W Welch, C Collett
(F Lockwood 40) C Chick.
for the rest of this week. themselves by then. Saracens E Daly; M Malins, A Lozowski (J Hallett
It was a wonderfully well-judged The show got ugly when Vunipola 77), N Tompkins, A Lewington; O Farrell, I van Zyl
grubber by the Saracens full back — and charged into Penny, with a mass brawl (R de Haas 77); M Vunipola (sent off 54), K Pifeleti
a very helpful bounce — that put Alex erupting before the red card could be (T Dan 65), M Riccioni (A Clarey 65), C Hunter-Hill
(A Christie 65), T McFarland, J Wray, B Earl
Lewington in for the first try after three shown. Even then, Saracens girded (H Tizard 77), B Vunipola (E Mawi 60).
minutes. The second score, six minutes themselves and added a fifth try, a Referee W Barnes. Attendance 6,125.
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a week to stay alive Take referees to DAVID DAVIES/PA; DAVID ROGERS/GETTY IMAGES

task over Genge’s

battery by bicep
defence), thereby maintaining as
Stuart Barnes many players as possible in the
defensive line?
As an aside, Exeter were excellent
in their decision-making. They rolled
over Bristol’s poorly “resourced”
rucks, especially in the second half.
There is no doubting Genge’s guilt
relating to Law 9.20(a). But what

E
llis Genge is fortunate to
be available for England’s
forthcoming autumn
internationals. On Friday
night he was shown a yellow
card by Christophe Ridley for a
combination of offences that surely
should have constituted a red. He
could easily have missed the matches
against Argentina and Japan.
Here’s what happened in the 17th
minute of the match against Exeter
Chiefs. A Bristol Bears player was
tackled by his opponent. At the tackle
scene Bristol had one player (just
about) on his feet while Exeter’s
Jonny Gray was also on his feet in a
perfectly legal position, poised over
the ball. It’s something we see all the
time; we call it the breakdown, but
technically it is a ruck.
These are the battles for the ball
that rage all over the field. Attacking
teams yearn for quick ball, defensive
sides desire either a turnover or, at
least, slower ball for the offensive
scrum half and extra seconds in
which a defence can reorganise.
This is the world inhabited by the
specialists known as jackals.
The jackal is an evolution
exclusive to the professional game,
characterised by gymnastic flexibility,
great strength and limpet-like body
positions. It would take human
dynamite to shift these players from
the ruck. Genge is human dynamite.
He hurtled into the ruck and
walloped Gray. He didn’t dive
dangerously off his feet. He used his
explosive power. Commentators call it
“the clearout”. The problem is that
this sort of vigilante approach is not
within the laws of the game.
Law 9.20(a) states: “A player must
not charge into a ruck or maul.
about 9.20(b)? This states that: “A
player must not make contact with
an opponent above the line of the
shoulder.” The initial camera shot
wasn’t conclusive, but eventually an
angle was found that revealed the
contact was with the face of Gray,
the Scotland second row. Elvis
Vermeulen, the Exeter flanker,
appealed to the nearby touch judge at
the moment of impact. He saw it. The
offence lacked subtlety or disguise.
Let’s continue our reading of the
lawbook. “Players must not do
anything that is reckless or dangerous
to other players, including leading
with the elbow or forearm.” At last,
the case for the defence! Neither
elbow nor forearm played a part in
hitting Gray square in the face.
Fortunately for Genge, the referee
ignored the bit about not “punching
or striking with hand, arm, elbow or
shoulder”. Ridley made much of the
fact that the direct contact with the
head was, beyond doubt, from the
prop’s big bicep — as if the bicep is
not part of the arm.
Still, I am sure that Genge has a
flabby bicep incapable of causing
damage to an opponent. If referees
really believe this, I suggest they all
take a Genge bicep flush in the face.
Shoulder or head are more
dangerous, but a taut bicep can do
plenty of damage. Gray took the blow
straight in the face. The referee made
that point as Genge was sent for his
ten-minute punishment, indicating
contact between muscle and nose.
To summarise the incident, there
was an unquestionable case of
charging, unbound, into a ruck. There
was also foul play leading to contact
with the head. Any such acts, so the
good lawbook says, “Shall result in at

TMO (the monday overview) Words by Kit Shepard

Charging includes any contact made
[with Gray’s face in this instance]
without binding on to another player
least a mid-range entry point.” That
means up to a six-week ban.
Yes, the Bristol loose-head prop
in the ruck or maul.” The England is lucky. Yet he would have been
Player of the week Try of the week Team of the week prop, like so many others, was
charging solo. He didn’t look to bind,
desperately unfortunate to miss the
autumn internationals. Technically
either on to a team-mate or an his offence merited a red card but
Matías Alemanno, the Gloucester lock, Richard Capstick’s opposing player. You cannot hit as similar incidents have occurred all
showed his class in the 21-17 victory over try was the pick of hard when bound to another. One over the rugby world. If the crime
1 2 3
Bath. The Argentinian scored two tries, the seven Exeter assumes this is one reason for the isn’t policed, the villain won’t even
the first from one of Gloucester’s Chiefs had against V Rapava- G Oghre W Stuart law’s emphasis on binding. In some know he has done anything wrong.
Ruskin (Wasps) (Bath)
trademark rolling mauls and the second Bristol Bears. (Gloucester) ways it is an antiquated law for a This column is not a criticism of
after a smart carry against the flow of Harvey Skinner 4 5
pre-jackal era. In others it is at the Genge. It is an indictment of a game
the attack. He was also the main exploited the space ugby s
very essence of rugby’s in which rucks and mauls
M Alemanno J Gray
disruptor of Bath’s dismal lineout, which with a cross-kick, (Gloucester) (Exeter)
determination to made have been badly officiated
misfired seven times. which the No 8, the sport safer. for too llong.
right, fielded 6 8 7 The modern-day ay If th
the breakdown
and scored. A Coles R Capstick L Ludlow terminology is is no
not refereed
(Northampton) (Exeter) (Gloucester) “resourcing” the acc
according to the
ruck. Do you law
laws, if referees
9
send in several ar
are not held to
Stat of the week
R Quirke 10
(Sale) men to drive ac
account, do not
C Atkinson over the eexpect players
(Wasps) 12 tackler/tackled an
and coaches to

3 Games lost
by Leicester
Tigers this
season after
Saturday’s 11 15
F Dingwall
(Northampton) 13
A Lozowski
(Saracens)

14
ruck area, or do
you keep the
numbers down
(especially in
b
w
worry about
sm
small matters
suc
such as unbound
entry and battery
byy bice
bicep. Genge’s
home defeat by Sale Sharks. They The vigilante “clearout”
arout” misdeed
misdeeds are the effect
O Woodburn J Carpenter J Cokanasiga
lost four games in the entirety of (Exeter) (Sale) (Bath)
for which Genge was of this mala
malaise; the root
the 2021-22 league campaign. ow card
shown only a yellow cause is a failure of refereeing.
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Sport T20 international
Dominant Hales and
cool Curran all but
seal World Cup spots
Steve James
Australia v England
Perth (Australia won toss): England
beat Australia by eight runs
It was probably just as well that
Matthew Wade did not see Australia
home, because it would have been one
of the more controversial match-win-
ning innings. Indeed, had this been a
World Cup match there might have
been bedlam.
Wade had yet to get off the mark
when he appeared to impede Mark
Wood as the fast bowler sought a
caught-and-bowled chance when the
ball looped up into the air after the
Australia batsman top-edged it into his
helmet. England did not make any
prolonged fuss, though, and the
umpires allowed Wade to continue. He
underwent the mandatory concussion
protocols before taking the game to the
last over, from which Australia required
16 runs to win.
Wade hit the first ball from the
left-armer Sam Curran for four, but
then succumbed to the third, and
Australia ended up eight runs short.
Curran also took the wicket of Kane
Richardson in a fine final over on an
excellent evening for the Surrey
all-rounder. He will be very difficult
to leave out of the T20 World Cup
side now.
David Warner made 73 from 44 balls
for Australia, but the outstanding
batting of the match had come from the
England openers, Jos Buttler and Alex
Hales. Buttler had not played since
August 18, but he required only one ball
to have a look before hitting four fours
from the opening over of the game,
bowled by Cameron Green.
Buttler made 68 from only 32 balls,
with four sixes and eight fours, but,
although he was the more destructive,
the innings played by his partner,
Hales, was probably more significant.
Hales was preferred to Phil Salt at the
top of the order and justified his place
with an increasingly fluent and domi-
nant 84 from 51 balls, with three sixes
and 12 fours, as he and Buttler put on 132
for the first wicket in 11.2 overs.
After an absence of more
than three years Hales has
been restored to the England
side because of his experi-
ence of Australian conditions
and his exceptional Big Bash
League record. Though he
was understandably nerv-
ous at the start, he was soon
taking Buttler’s lead,
moving into his power-
hitting position early,
cutting and hitting
through the off side and
straight with devastating
effect. His World Cup place is
surely secure now. He also
took two catches.
On a quick and bouncy
pitch, Australia had put En-
Curran will be hard to leave
out of the World Cup team
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84
Hales’s score was
his highest in T20
internationals since
116 not out against
Sri Lanka in 2014
Second
T20i
Australia v England
Canberra
that means for the tournament is Wednesday, 9.10am
Scoreboard anyone’s guess. TV: BT Sport 1
The openers made 58 in the
powerplay and by the halfway stage
ENGLAND R B
had surged to 118. Buttler played a
*@J C Buttler 68 32 couple of trademark scoops for four and
c Richardson b Ellis six off consecutive balls from
Miscued to mid-off
Richardson and he greeted Mitchell
A D Hales 84 51 Swepson’s leg spin with two successive
c David b Richardson
Slugged to long-off sixes. Hales joined in the fun, smashing
B A Stokes c Warner b Stoinis 9 9 19 of the 21 runs that came from Marcus
Holed out to long-on Stoinis’s first over, even if he could have
H C Brook 12 10 been run out on 43.
c Richardson b Sams Buttler was dropped on 30, a very
Mistimed to deep midwicket difficult chance for Mitchell Marsh at
M M Ali c Marsh b Ellis 10 7 short third man off the impressive
Ramped to short third Nathan Ellis, but passed fifty off 25 balls
S M Curran b Ellis 2 5 before holing out off Ellis to mid-off.
Bowled behind his legs Ben Stokes was promoted to No 3
D J Malan not out 2 2 instead of Dawid Malan in search of
C R Woakes not out 13 5 some touch after missing the recent
Extras (lb 2, w 5, nb 1) 8 series in Pakistan. Unsurprisingly, he
TOTAL (6 wkts, 20 overs) 208 looked rusty. The England Test captain
A U Rashid, R J W Topley and M A Wood
was dropped on one at mid-on and, to
did not bat. the next ball from the left-armer Daniel
Fall of wickets 1-132, 2-165, 3-167, 4-183, Sams, attempted a reverse-sweep and
5-193, 6-194. was hit on the chin. He then holed out
Bowling Green 3-0-38-0; Richardson to long-on for nine off as many balls.
4-0-39-1; Sams 4-0-42-1; Ellis 4-0-20-3; That he and Hales batted together
Swepson 2-0-31-0; Stoinis 3-0-36-1. was interesting, of course, given the
breakdown of their relationship after
the incident outside a nightclub in
AUSTRALIA R B
Bristol in 2017, which ended in Stokes
D A Warner c Hales b Wood 73 44 being charged with affray — of which
Toe-ended to deep point he was later cleared — but they
C D Green c Buttler b Topley 1 2 appeared happy enough, smiling and
Good length ball, edged touching gloves.
M R Marsh b Rashid 36 26 When Hales fell to Richardson,
Went to cut, played over it caught at long-off, England faltered,
*A J Finch run out 12 7 with Ellis dismissing Moeen Ali and
Pushed for two, just short Curran to finish with three for 20, while
M P Stoinis c Malan b Wood 35 15 Sams got rid of Harry Brook. Chris
Short ball, skied to cover Woakes smoked a huge six off the
T H David c Hales b Wood 0 3 penultimate ball of the innings, but
Skied to deep backward square immediately suffered some of his own
@M S Wade c Stokes b Curran 21 15 medicine at the beginning of Australia’s
Picked out deep midwicket reply, as his third ball to Warner went
D R Sams c Brook b Topley 6 4 for six and the over cost 14.
Smashed to long-off Buttler called an excellent review to
N T Ellis b Curran 0 2
Missed length ball, into stumps
K W Richardson not out
M J Swepson not out
0
2
1
1
remove Green, caught behind off the
inside edge off Reece Topley, but the
introduction of the pacey Wood did not
bring the desired effect, as Warner took
Buttler: Too early in trip
Extras (lb 4, w 10) 14 him for three consecutive boundaries, Elizabeth Ammon wanted to appeal for obstructing the
TOTAL (9 wkts, 20 overs) 200 leaving Australia just ahead at the end field but decided against it. “It was hard
Fall of wickets 1-15, 2-86, 3-105, 4-158,
of the powerplay, albeit with a wicket Jos Buttler said that he did not appeal because I didn’t see what I was appeal-
5-158, 6-173, 7-193, 8-197, 9-198. down, at 62. for Matthew Wade to be given out for ing for,” Buttler said. “I could have
Bowling Woakes 2-0-21-0; Topley But Curran, with his clever changes obstructing the field because he asked some of the other boys to see if
4-0-36-2; Wood 4-0-34-3; Curran 4-0-35-2; of pace, pegged back the home team, thought it was a “risky” dismissal to go they had a better view but I thought I
Rashid 3-0-41-1; Stokes 2-0-18-0; Ali before Adil Rashid broke the partner- for “so early on in the trip”. would get on with the game. Maybe I
1-0-11-0. ship of 71 in 44 balls, bowling Marsh, The opening fixture of the three- should have asked a few of the lads.”
who had hit both Woakes and Wood for match series between Australia and Asked if he would have appealed had
Umpires D M Koch and S J Nogajski. leg-side sixes, with a googly. England was in the balance, with the the match been of more significance, for
6 England lead three-match series 1-0 Soon Aaron Finch, the captain, was home side five down and needing 39 off example when the two sides meet dur-
Details: Second T20: Wednesday run out attempting a second run to the 23 balls when Wade edged a short ing the T20 World Cup group stage in
(Canberra). Third: Friday (Canberra). brilliant Curran. Warner passed his delivery from Mark Wood into his three weeks, Buttler replied: “Maybe.”
half-century off 29 balls, though, and helmet, sending the ball up into the air. He added: “I wasn’t sure what
Stoinis smashed Rashid for two sixes in Wood ran towards the striker’s end to happened. They asked if I wanted to
gland into bat, even though an over. try to take the catch but was blocked by appeal and I thought, ‘We’re here for a
they were without their When Wood returned, Stoinis then Wade, who put his arm out as he tried to long time in Australia.’ ”
three main fast bowlers, launched his first ball over long-on for get back into his ground, leaving Wood Marcus Stoinis, the Australia
Mitchell Starc, Josh six but, to his third, he attempted to slap unable to get to the ball. all-rounder, defended Wade’s actions.
Hazlewood and Pat a short ball over the off side, skying it for The Australian middle-order “There’s a lot that goes on there when
Cummins, who, along Malan to take a good catch running batsman then underwent concussion you get hit in the head and you’re
with Glenn Maxwell backwards. Stoinis had made 35 from testing and received a new helmet but running around,” he said. “You don’t
and Adam Zampa, did only 15 balls. was passed fit to continue batting. He know where the ball is. It’s chaos.”
not travel to Perth for Tim David went third ball for a duck, went on to make 21 before being Alex Hales made 84 from 51 balls in
this match after Aus- pulling Wood to deep square leg, and dismissed in the final over as England England’s total of 208 for six and looks
tralia had played West crucially Warner hit the last ball of won by eight runs. to have cemented his place at the top of
Indies in Brisbane on Wood’s spell out to deep backward The laws state that “either batter is the order for the World Cup, although
Friday. There were five point, where Hales took the catch. out obstructing the field if he/she wil- Buttler admitted that he and the
changes here from Topley bowled a superb 19th over, fully attempts to obstruct or distract the England management spent “a lot of
that match, with Steve conceding only six runs and dismissing fielding side by word or action”. Buttler, time debating” whether Hales or Phil
i also omitted. Quite what
Smith Sams, before Curran finished it off. the England captain, was asked if he Salt should be his opening partner.
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Hales justifies
his selection
ahead of Salt in
Defeat leaves Scotland on the brink
Perth with 84

0
18
from 51 balls Wales
2
Scotland
1
15
Women’s Rugby World Cup
Alasdair Reid
Scottish Rugby Correspondent
A heartbreaking result for Scotland,
and one that will almost certainly sink
their chances of reaching the knockout
stage. Deep into added time, with the
scores level at 15-15, they conceded an
offside penalty just outside their 22.
Keira Bevan, the replacement Wales
scrum half, stepped up and slotted the
ball between the posts for the win.
This really was a must-win game for
the Scots. In the same pool as Australia
and New Zealand, their main hope of
progress was as one of the best third- Bevan, third from right, was the hero as Wales defeated Scotland in Whangarei
placed sides. Chances are they will now
finish bottom of their group and be on Scotland finally enjoyed a sustained Welsh offence the yellow card finally
their way home in a couple of weeks. period of possession and formed a appeared, with Cara Hope sent to the
Wales dominated the first 40 min- driving maul that ended in a try for sin-bin. Scotland moved the ball wide
utes but the pattern was turned on its Lana Skeldon. Helen Nelson missed from the next scrum and Chloe Rollie
head in the second half as the Scotland the conversion, so Scotland still trailed put Gaffney over in the corner.
forwards took control and Wales con- by five points. They fell further behind A second yellow card for Wales was
ceded penalty after penalty. Scotland when Wales won a scrum near the shown to Jasmine Joyce for a deliberate
were furious that Clara Munarini, the Scots’ 22, moved the ball swiftly along knock-on. Scotland came again and
referee, took so long to show a yellow the line and sent Kayleigh Powell over. sent Gaffney over for her second try.
card, but when she did they took full Scotland started the second half just Again, Nelson could not convert.
advantage, with two tries from Megan as poorly as the first. However, Wales The hooter went before the restart,
Gaffney to set up the dramatic finale. failed to take their chances and Scot- but the referee allowed play to
Wales’s early control earned its land began to turn the screw, winning a continue. Wales went through their
reward when Alisha Butchers finished stream of penalties. An arm injury for phases, won the penalty and won the
off a catch-and-drive with a try in the Eilidh Sinclair, the Scotland lock, led to game. As the sun set over Whangarei,
right corner, before Elinor Snowsill’s a long break. The game resumed with a Scotland’s World Cup hopes seemed to
penalty extended their lead. Scotland scrum, and after yet another be fading as well.

Cavallo fury at role models’ gay ‘joke’

continued from back
about an hour later and then claimed
that he had been hacked, writing:
“Hacked account. Luckily everything
in order. Apologies to all my followers.
And of course, more apologies to the
LGBT community.”
Puyol also tweeted an apology last
night, writing in Spanish: “I have made
a mistake. Apologies for a clumsy joke
without bad intention and totally
out of place. I understand that it may
have caused hurt sensitivities. All my
respect and support to the LGTBIQA+
[sic] community.”
Josh Cavallo, who plays for Adelaide
United in Australia and became the
only openly gay male top-flight player
in the world when he came out last year,
condemned the Spanish pair.
He wrote on Twitter: “@IkerCasillas
and @Carles5puyol joking and making
fun out of coming out in football is
disappointing . . . To see my role models
and legends of the game make fun out
of coming out and my community is
beyond disrespectful.”
Casillas had been praised for his
bravery in apparently coming out. The
former goalkeeper, who won 167 caps
over a 16-year Spain career, was
married to the television presenter and
journalist Sara Carbonero, whom he
famously kissed on camera when Spain
won the World Cup in 2010.
Jake Daniels, 17, the Blackpool striker,
became the only openly gay male
professional footballer in the UK when
he came out in May.
Pride in Football, a network of
LGBT+ fan groups in the UK, said: “In
November, the World Cup is in a
country [Qatar] that persecutes people
because of their gender identity and
sexual orientation. High-profile sports
stars joking about that exact thing is
damaging to people in the community.”

to appeal for obstruction Results

American football I P K P Kishan c Hendricks
b Fortuin 93 (84)
LPGA Tour Mediheal Championship
Somis, California: Leaders after three
Knights 28 (Myreside, Edinburgh);
Wales 22 Lebanon 38 (at Heywood
NFL S S Iyer not out 113 (111) rounds (United States unless stated): Road, Sale).
Buffalo 38 Pittsburgh 3; Cleveland 28 †S V Samson not out 30 (36) 202 J Ewart Shadoff (Eng) 64, 69, 69.
Los Angeles Chargers 30; Green Bay 22 Extras (w 3, nb 2) 5 206 P Reto (SA) 67, 70, 69. 207 C Boutier Rugby union
New York Giants 27 (at Tottenham Total (3 wkts, 45.5 overs) 282 (Fr) 69, 72, 66; A Lee 71, 70, 66; H Shibuno Gallagher Premiership Newcastle
Hotspur Stadium); Jacksonville 6 S N Thakur, W Sundar, S Ahmed, K (Japan) 73, 66, 68. 208 D Kang 67, 73, Falcons 14 Saracens 34; Wasps 36
Houston 13; Minnesota 29 Chicago 22; Yadav, A Khan and M Siraj did not bat. 68; Y Saso (Japan) 70, 70, 68; Lin Xiyu Northampton Saints 40. Saturday Bath
New England 29 Detroit 0; New Orleans Fall of wickets 1-28, 2-48, 3-209. (China) 69, 69, 70. 209 G Lopez (Mex) 17 Gloucester 21; Leicester Tigers 16 Sale
39 Seattle 32; New York Jets 40 Miami 17; Bowling Fortuin 9-1-52-1; Parnell 8-0-44- 68, 70, 71; S Meadow (N Ire) 68, 70, 71; Sharks 26.
Tampa Bay 21 Atlanta 15; Washington 17 1; Rabada 10-1-59-1; Nortje 8.5-0-60-0; L Coughlin 70, 71, 68; D Darquea (Ec)
Tennessee 21. Maharaj 7-0-45-0; Markram 3-0-22-0. 71, 69, 69. Selected: 210 G Hall (Eng) 71, RFU Championship Cornish Pirates 15
6 Three-match series level 1-1 68, 71. Ampthill 13. Saturday Caldy 19 Jersey
Basketball Twenty20 tri-series
34; Doncaster 50 Bedford 19; Ealing 56
BBL Championship Christchurch Bangladesh 137-8; New
Ice hockey Richmond 19; Hartpury 39 Nottingham
31; London Scottish 32 Coventry 46.
Cheshire 49 Sheffield 62. Zealand 142-2 (D P Conway 70 not out). Elite League
National League Two: North Otley 10
BBL Cup New Zealand (2pts) won by eight wickets. Belfast 2 Guildford 4; Coventry 5 Hull Ionians 15.
First round Plymouth 75 Newcastle 77. Manchester 4; Dundee 0 Sheffield 5.
Golf Premier Sports Challenge Cup
United Rugby Championship Benetton
Cricket DP World Tour acciona Open de España Group A Fife 7 Glasgow 2.
Treviso 34 Dragons 14. Saturday
Glasgow Warriors 35 Bulls 21; Leinster 54
Second one-day international Campo Villa de Madrid: Leading final Sharks 34; Scarlets 10 Cardiff 16; Ulster
South Africa v India scores (Great Britain and Ireland unless Motorcycling 47 Ospreys 17; Zebre 20 Stormers 37.
stated): 259 J Rahm (Sp) 64, 68, 65,
ort
Wood delivers a short Wade tthen appears to Ranchi (South Africa won toss): India 62. 265 M Pavon (Fr) 64, 68, 68, 65.
World Superbikes Championship Women’s World Cup: Pool A Australia 17
ball to Wade with obstru
obstruct Wood, inset, beat South Africa by seven wickets 266 Lee Min-woo (Aus) 67, 65, 66, 68. Ninth round: Portimao, Portugal: New Zealand 41 (at Eden Park, Auckland);
South Africa (balls) 268 E Molinari (It) 68, 70, 63, 67; Z Leading positions: Superpole race 1, T Wales 18 Scotland 15 (at Northland Events
Australia chasing and prevent a catch †Q de Kock b Siraj 5 (8) Lombard (SA) 69, 66, 66, 67. 269 A Razgatlioglu (Tur, Yamaha) 16min Centre, Whangarei). Pool B (at Northland
J N Malan lbw b Ahmed 25 (31) García-Heredia (Sp) 69, 65, 71, 64; L de 45.342sec; 2, A Bautista (Sp, Ducati) at Events Centre): Japan 5 Canada 41; United
R R Hendricks c Ahmed b Siraj 74 (76) 0.123sec behind; 3, J Rea (GB, Kawasaki) States 10 Italy 22. Pool C (at Eden Park): Fiji
“It’s great to in at the World
ing A K Markram c Dhawan b Sundar 79 (89)
Jager (SA) 71, 64, 65, 69. 270 K
Aphibarnrat (Tha) 63, 69, 68, 70; D van 1.434. Second race 1, Bautista 33:40.730; 19 England 84; South Africa 5 France 40.
have him [Hales] C
Cup]. It was a H Klaasen c Siraj b Yadav 30 (26) Driel (Neth) 63, 69, 72, 66; M Warren 70, 2, Razgatlioglu at 2.256; 3, Rea 4.758.
Tennis
D A Miller not out 35 (34) Championship 1, Bautista 448pts; 2,
back, he’s settled r
really tough call, W D Parnell c Iyer b Thakur 16 (22)
65, 65, 70; Y Paul (Ger) 70, 66, 68, 66; H
Razgatlioglu 392; 3, Rea 366. ATP Astana Open
Du Plessis (SA) 65, 66, 72, 67.
back in really well we spent a lot of
w *K A Maharaj b Siraj 5 (13)
Nur-Sultan: Final N Djokovic (Ser) bt
— a really ti
time debating it B C Fortuin not out 0 (1) US PGA Tour Shriners Children’s Open Netball S Tsitsipas (Gr) 6-3, 6-4.
Extras (b 4, lb 2, w 3) 9 Summerlin, Las Vegas: Leaders after Third Vitality international England 64
destructive player an
and it was only Total (7 wkts, 50 overs) 278 three rounds (United States unless Uganda 51 (at Copper Box Area, London).
ATP Rakuten Japan Open
K S Rabada and A Nortje did not bat. stated): 194 P Cantlay 67, 67, 60; T Kim Toyko: Final T Fritz (US) bt F Tiafoe (US)
who accesses all re
really Alex’s record Fall of wickets 1-7, 2-40, 3-169, 4-215, 65, 67, 62. 197 M NeSmith 68, 66, 63; G 6 Engand won three-match series 3-0 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-2).
areas of thee A
in Australia that got 5-215, 6-256, 7-277. Mito Pereira (Chile) 67, 63, 67. 198 Im Rugby league WTA J&T Banka Ostrava Open
Bowling Siraj 10-1-38-3; Sundar 9-0-60-1;
ground,” Buttler said. d. him ahead. He’s Ahmed 10-0-54-1; Khan 7-0-35-0; Yadav
Sung-jae (S Kor) 65, 70, 63; Kim Seong-
Men’s World Cup warm-up matches
Final B Krejcikova (Cz) bt I Swiatek (Pol)
hyeon (S Kor) 65, 69, 64. 199 A Hadwin
“Things nge
change intimid
intimidating to bowl at 9-0-49-1; Thakur 5-0-36-1. (Can) 67, 67, 65; Kim Si-woo (S Kor) 64, Bradford Bulls 34 Greece 34 (at Odsal,
5-7, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3.
quickly in sport but ut he’s so it was great to watch at India (balls) 68, 67; J T Poston 67, 69,. 63; A Rai (Eng) Bradford); Leeds 0 New Zealand 74 (at WTA Jasmin Open Tunisia
*S Dhawan b Parnell 13 (20) 69, 68, 62; R Shelton 68, 63, 68. 200 T Headingley); France 12 Tonga 48 (at The Monastir: Final E Mertens (Bel) bt A
got the first crack att it [open- the other en
end.” S Gill c and b Rabada 28 (26) Hoge 63, 72, 65. Shay, Halifax); Scotland 4 England Cornet (Fr) 6-2, 6-0.
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Sport Japanese Grand Prix
Verstappen dazed, confused
Rebecca Clancy
Motor Racing
Correspondent
Max Verstappen said he found the
chaotic scenes around the sealing of his
second successive world title “quite
funny” but there was little to amuse
anyone else — particularly the fans —
in the shambolic ending to yesterday’s
Japanese Grand Prix.
Verstappen was deservedly crowned
a double Formula One world champion
only ten months after claiming his
maiden title, with the 25-year-old
taking the chequered flag in Suzuka
and his closest rival, Ferrari’s Charles
Leclerc, in third. This gave the Dutch-
man a 113-point lead in the drivers’
rankings, with a maximum of only 112
available from the remaining four
races. He is the 17th driver to have won
more than one world championship.
Yet this only tells half the story.
Leclerc actually crossed the line in
Monday October 10 2022 | the times
second but was demoted to third after race was completed. And so the slightly
receiving a five-second penalty on the confused initial celebrations, with the
final lap, which handed the spot to the Red Bull mechanics all cheering but
other Red Bull of Sergio Pérez. looking to each other to see if everyone
With little more than half of the race else was as happy, lasted only a few
distance completed (28 laps) because of minutes, as Verstappen continued to
heavy rain, which enforced a stoppage question his championship credentials
of more than two hours, everyone on the way to the podium.
assumed that full points would not be The confusion came as a result of a
awarded and that even with Leclerc’s rewrite to the regulations after last
demotion, the championship fight year’s Belgian Grand Prix, when points
would go on to the next race, in Austin, were awarded even though there was
Texas. However, as Leclerc’s penalty no actual racing. The rules now state
was handed down minutes after the that reduced points are only awarded if
chequered flag, the FIA suddenly the race is stopped and cannot be
declared Verstappen champion. resumed. This race was suspended, but
“Are you sure?” was Verstappen’s was able to restart and finished with a
response when told he was champion chequered flag, so full points were
moments after he finished his post-race awarded — something which the teams
interview, in which he talked about said afterwards was not quite what they
taking the fight to Austin. Even the thought they had agreed to.
teams’ sporting directors, who know The rule also means that even if there
the regulations better than most, were had been only one lap of racing but it
confused as to how it was possible. ended with the flag, full points would be
Historical precedent had been that given out, which would suggest that the
reduced points would be awarded if FIA needs to review this regulation,
only a certain percentage of a race had and quickly.
been completed. Previously, at least 75 Even Christian Horner, the Red Bull
per cent of a grand prix had to elapse for team principal, felt the FIA had made a
full points. In Suzuka, 52 per cent of the “mistake”, adding: “The regulations
obviously haven’t been mopped up. We
were under the strong impression that
Dutchman’s only with 75 per cent of the race, full
season by points will be scored. So we felt we were
numbers going to be one point short.” Mattia
Binotto, the Ferrari team principal,
admitted his team were “confused”.
5 The outcome was not the only farcical
Fastest laps for aspect of this race. Pierre Gasly
Max Verstappen narrowly avoided a recovery truck,
this season, more which came on to the track in poor visi-
than any other bility as the race was red-flagged amid
driver. Charles heavy rain. A furious Gasly said he
Leclerc is second, “would have been dead” if he had been
with three only two metres further left on the track.
For all the confusion, Verstappen is a
10.47sec worthy champion. He and Red Bull
Average margin have, by quite some margin, been the
of victory for better driver and team for the majority
Verstappen in of the season. Two DNFs (did not fin-
his 12 race wins ishes) in the first three races did not
this year cause panic, but a resilience to sort out
their issues, and Verstappen went on to
458 win five of the next six races. His domi-
Laps leading in nance from that point has never been in
Formula One question, with 12 victories from 18 races.
this season Verstappen said the highlight had
been a sublime drive in Belgium in
5 August but added that he knew the title
Pole positions by was in his grasp in July after the French
Verstappen this Grand Prix, when his victory opened
year, second to up a 63-point lead over Leclerc.
Leclerc (9) “We had a quite competitive car, I
knew it was going to be quite close in
8 the coming races, but I was like, you
Fastest pitstops know, this is a gap which we cannot give
by Red Bull. away anymore,” he said. How they finished
McLaren are Verstappen flew home to Monaco M Verstappen (Neth) Red Driver Team Points
second with four after the race last night with his Bull 3hr 01min 44.004sec 1 Verstappen Red Bull 366
girlfriend, Kelly Piquet. His father, Jos,
2 a constant presence in the paddock, was S Pérez (Mex)
Red Bull +27.066
2
3
Pérez
Leclerc
Red Bull
Ferrari
253
252
Fastest pitstops absent but will no doubt join in the
by Verstappen, celebrations back home with a C Leclerc (Mon) 4 Russell Mercedes 207
fourth-best this two-week gap before the next race. Ferrari +31.763 5 Sainz Ferrari 202
season. His Unlike his maiden title, won on the 4 E Ocon (Fr) Alpine +39.685 6 Hamilton Mercedes 180
team-mate, Sergio last lap of the final grand prix, this has 7 Norris McLaren 101
5 L Hamilton (GB) Mercedes +40.326
Pérez, leads the been a procession, with four races still
6 S Vettel (Ger) Aston Martin +46.358 8 Ocon Alpine 78
way with six to come this season. Verstappen said
both triumphs were equally sweet. 7 F Alonso (Sp) Alpine +46.369 9 Alonso Alpine 65
“Both are beautiful and both are, at 8 G Russell (GB) Mercedes +47.661 10 Bottas Alfa Romeo 46
the end of the day, nice to experience,” 9 N Latifi (Can) Williams +70.143 Fastest lap of race Guanyu 1:44.411
he said. “It’s nice to always have the 10 L Norris (GB) McLaren +70.782
pressure on and having to perform to Constructors Points
11 D Ricciardo (Aus) McLaren +72.877 1 Red Bull 619
your limit every single lap of the race.
But not for too many years in a row. So, 12 L Stroll (Can) Aston Martin +73.904 2 Ferrari 454
I was very happy with the year we had.” 13 Y Tsunoda (Jpn) AlphaTauri +75.599 3 Mercedes 387
Verstappen still has some motivation 14 K Magnussen (Den) Haas +86.016 4 Alpine 143
for the forthcoming races, as Red Bull 15 V Bottas (Fin) Alfa Romeo +86.496 5 McLaren 130
can seal the constructors’ title in Aus- 16 Z Guanyu (Chn) Alfa Romeo +87.043
tin. They are expected to be hit with a 6 Alfa Romeo 52
penalty for overspending on their bud- 17 M Schumacher (Ger) Haas +92.523 7 Aston Martin 45
Leclerc has had get cap last year, an offence they deny, 18 P Gasly (Fr) AlphaTauri +108.091 8 Haas 34
nine poles to but the punishment is highly unlikely to 19 C Sainz (Sp) Ferrari DNF 9 AlphaTauri 34
Verstappen’s five affect the outcome of last year’s drivers’ 20 A Albon (Thai) Williams DNF 10 Williams 8
or constructors’ championships.
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but celebrating second title CLIVE MASON/GETTY IMAGES

Celebrations
break out but
Verstappen,
Winning mentality

Verstappen only needs one win from

Race-by-race: how he
inset, had
completed the
race, inset, still
thinking he
the last four races this year to equal
the record for most wins in a
Formula One season retained championship
Schumacher (2004) bahrain canada
had yet to
13 It was the worst possible start for Yet another win for Verstappen, who
clinch the title
Vettel (2013) Max Verstappen, who failed to finish was able to see off a late charge from
due to mechanical failure. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz. Leclerc finished fifth.
13
Charles Leclerc took the chequered britain
Verstappen (2022*) flag. Beforehand, the pair had shown Leclerc should have won, but again,
12 why they were the two title favourites, Ferrari’s strategy cost him. Verstappen
Schumacher (2002) going wheel-to-wheel in Sakhir. finished seventh after debris was
11 saudi arabia lodged in his car, while Sainz took his
Vettel (2011) The drivers threatened a boycott after first career victory.
11 a missile strike during the opening austria
practice, but the race did go ahead. A great battle between Leclerc and
Hamilton (2014, 2018, 2019, 2020) This time it was Verstappen who took Verstappen as the Ferrari driver was
11 the victory after passing Leclerc with forced to pass his Red Bull rival three
Hamilton (2015, 2016) four laps left. times on his way to a first victory
10 australia since Australia.
Verstappen (2021) Verstappen failed to finish for the france
10 second time in three races after Again Leclerc was leading but again
another reliability issue. Leclerc took he failed to win, as he lost control and
his second win of the season for a ended up in the barriers. Verstappen
Most race wins in F1 career 46-point lead over the Dutchman. won to extend his lead to 63 points.
Verstappen joked that he was going to hungary
Hamilton need 45 races to win the title. Ferrari’s questionable strategy played
103 emilia romagna its part again as Leclerc dropped from
Schumacher This marked the start of Verstappen’s the lead to sixth, while Verstappen
91 return to form and a run of victories went on to claim his eighth win.
Vettel as he dominated the wet-dry race at belgium
Imola. Leclerc made a costly mistake, Perhaps Verstappen’s most dominant
53
spinning off, and finished sixth. display in F1. He qualified on pole but
Prost
miami started 14th after taking an engine
51 Verstappen had a bad start to the penalty, yet took the lead after only
Senna weekend, with reliability issues 12 laps and cruised to victory.
41 hampering his practice sessions. Yet the netherlands
Alonso in the race he was up to second by the Verstappen took advantage of a late
32 first corner and leading after nine laps safety car to put on fresh tyres and
as he passed Leclerc to take the win. win in front of his adoring home fans.
Verstappen
spain italy
32
Verstappen’s third consecutive victory Verstappen started seventh after a
meant he took the lead in the title five-place grid penalty for excess
race from Leclerc, who had engine engine parts, but still claimed a fifth
Most race wins before 26thbirthday issues and retired. Verstappen would consecutive win.
Verstappen never concede his advantage.
singapore
32 monaco This was Verstappen’s first tilt at the
Vettel
Leclerc was hopeful of winning his title, but a fuelling issue in qualifying
home race after starting on pole, but meant he started eighth, where he
29 Ferrari messed up his strategy and he then finished the race.
Alonso finished fourth. Sergio Pérez took the
18 victory, while Verstappen was third. japan
The rain-affected race was reduced to
Hamilton azerbaijan 28 laps but Verstappen was supreme
14 Another retirement for Leclerc hurt to finish 27 seconds clear. A penalty
Schumacher his title chances and Verstappen’s for Leclerc pushed him down to third,
10 victory did more damage, as his lead giving the Dutchman the points lead
opened up to 34 points. he needed to claim his second title.

‘We lost Jules in this way . . . it is totally unacceptable’

continued from back
and suffered a serious brain injury. He
died nine months later, at the age of 25.
Gasly, Bianchi’s compatriot, said he
“would have been dead” if he had been
only two metres further left on the
track, and criticised the FIA. “We lost
Jules already, we lost an amazing guy
and amazing driver for the reasons that
we know,” he said. “Eight years ago, on
the same track in the same conditions,
with a crane. How today can we see a
crane, not even on the gravel, on the
racetrack while we are still on the track?
“Obviously I got scared, obviously if I
would have lost the car in a similar way
as Carlos lost it the lap before, it doesn’t
matter the speed, 200[km/h], 100 . . . I
would have just died. Simple as that.
“We are risking our lives out there.
We’re doing the best job in the world
but what we’re asking is to keep us safe.
We could have waited one more minute
to get back in the pitlane and then put
Shock near-miss at Suzuka sparks memories of tragic Bianchi collision
Gasly — having
pitted after
colliding with
an advertising
hoarding dislodged
in Sainz’s crash —
tries to catch up
with the field. As
he reaches turn
12, the race is red-
flagged. Moments
later, he passes
the barely visible
A recovery vehicle removes Sainz’s Ferrari recovery vehicle
after he crashed on a chaotic, wet first lap on his left, circled.
the tractors on track. I’m just extremely respect for Jules’ memory, incredible.” voiced their shock upon seeing it — or
grateful that I’m here.” It is normal procedure for a truck to barely seeing it, given the conditions.
Philippe Bianchi, the father of Jules, be on the track under safety-car condi- Gasly was called to the stewards for
made his feelings clear on social media: tions, but it became clear that no drivers speeding under a red flag, which came
“No respect for the life of the driver, no had been told it was there, and many out seconds before he reached the
recovery truck. He was given two
penalty points on his licence and 20
seconds were added to his time as the
FIA recorded him doing speeds of
250km/h after the red flag, though it
said a mitigating factor was his “shock”
at having seen the truck.
Sainz explained why, even under
safety-car conditions, with such poor
visibility there should not be a vehicle
on the track in such conditions. “If one
driver decides to get a bit out of the rac-
ing line or has a small [incident of] aq-
uaplaning . . . and gets a bit out of line
and hits a tractor, it’s over,” he said.
This is the latest in a string of
incidents which has led some to
question if the FIA is fit for purpose. It
is understood that Formula One is not
happy with its governing body and has
been exploring the idea of creating a
new one. The FIA said that while it is
“normal practice to recover cars”
during a safety car or red flag, it has
launched a “thorough review”.
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Gabriel, left, and Driver fury at

FA investigates Henderson in one of
several confrontations
between players during
the game, as the referee
Oliver looks on
tractor on track
Rebecca Clancy
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flashpoint Formula One drivers were left furious

with the sport’s governing body after
Pierre Gasly feared he was “two metres
from death” when narrowly avoiding a
recovery truck during the Japanese

at Emirates
Grand Prix, which Max Verstappen
won to seal a second world title.
The race was red-flagged as heavy
rain fell in Suzuka after only one lap,
when the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz went
into a wall. The Spaniard also hit an
advertising hoarding, which ended up
Flare-up between players over what striking Gasly’s car, causing damage
which forced him into the pits.
Klopp claims was dive by Jesus The safety car was deployed and, as
the 26-year-old AlphaTauri driver
emerged from the pitlane, with visibili-
ty limited by the rain, he passed a recov-
Gary Jacob ery vehicle on the track. Thoughts im-
mediately turned to 2014, when Jules
The FA last night launched an Bianchi crashed into a recovery vehicle
investigation into an incident on the in similar conditions at the same track
pitch during Arsenal’s 3-2 win over Continued on page 65
Liverpool that took them back to the
top of the Premier League.
The referee, Michael Oliver,
interrupted the game to speak to the
managers, Mikel Arteta and Jürgen
‘Gay joke’ puts
Klopp, about the incident, thought to
have been a verbal exchange between heat on Casillas
rival players. Neither manager
revealed what Oliver had said, and Iker Casillas, the former Real Madrid
the FA did not give any details. and Spain goalkeeper, has been
The flashpoint appeared to occur condemned for “joking” about
in the aftermath of Arsenal’s winning homosexuality after he deleted a tweet
penalty, converted by Bukayo Saka in which he said that he was gay.
14 minutes from time and awarded for Casillas, who has been linked with a
what Klopp considered to be a dive by string of high-profile women in the
Gabriel Jesus after he was challenged Spanish press since his divorce last year,
by Thiago Alcântara. Several players wrote on Twitter: “Espero que me
squared up to each other, and one respeten: soy gay”, which translates as:
lengthy confrontation took place “I hope you respect me: I am gay”.
between Arsenal’s Gabriel and Carles Puyol, the former Barcelona
Liverpool’s Jordan Henderson. centre half, responded in Spanish: “It’s
“If there was contact — and I’m not time to tell our story, Iker.”
sure there was — it might have been Casillas’s tweet sparked suggestions
soft contact,” Klopp said. “But [Jesus] that he had become by far the most
was on both feet and then [fell] down. high-profile male footballer to have
That’s an indication that something come out. But soon after it was reported
might have been made up.” in Spain that it was a sarcastic response
Full story, the Game, pages 2-3 to press speculation about the 41-year-
old’s private life. He deleted the tweet
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penalty helps he could become

Arsenal return to the next great
top of the league Spanish manager
All the action from
the weekend

700
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Ronaldo comes off the bench to score the
winner for Manchester United
against Everton — his 700th club goal
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Saka finds iron will to seal
Arsenal Liverpool
32
Martinelli 1 Núñez 34
Saka 45+5, 76 (pen) Firmino 53
POSSESSION
44%
SHOTS ON TARGET
7 3
FOULS
11
RATINGS
Arsenal (4-3-3) A Ramsdale 7 — B White 8,
W Saliba 8, Gabriel 6, T Tomiyasu 7 —
M Odegaard 7 (K Tierney 83min), T Partey 7,
G Xhaka 7 — B Saka 8 (F Vieira 90+3), G Jesus 7
(E Nketiah 90+1), G Martinelli 9. Booked
Odegaard.
Liverpool (4-2-3-1) Alisson 6 — T Alexander-
Arnold 5 (J Gomez 46, 6), J Matip 6 (I Konaté
69, 6), V van Dijk 7, K Tsimikas 6 — J Henderson
7, T Alcântara 7 — M Salah 6 (Fabinho 69),
D Jota 7 (H Elliott 80), L Díaz 7 (R Firmino 42, 7)
— D Núñez 7. Booked Díaz, Gomez.
Referee M Oliver.
HENRY
WINTER
Chief Football Writer
At the Emirates Stadium
Even when Bukayo Saka did nothing
he did something special, something
that underpins this resilient Arsenal
side. It was when he was forced to
wait and wait to take what proved the
match-winning penalty that Saka
confirmed he was ready for tests of
nerve as well as technique.
The clock showed 72min 54sec
when Thiago Alcântara was deemed
to have fouled Gabriel Jesus, a soft
penalty, presenting Saka with the
opportunity to make it 3-2 from
the spot.
Saka practises penalties regularly
but even that can never prepare him
fully for the pressure of a key
moment like this, especially when he
was forced to wait. The memories
could have flooded back of missing in
the Euro 2020 final, and the torrent
of shocking online abuse that coursed
his way. His manager, Mikel Arteta,
mentioned that afterwards, and it is
testament to Saka’s character that he
is volunteering to take penalties, so
willing to take responsibility.
He stood there calmly with the ball
as a storm raged around him. Thiago
complained loudly to Michael Oliver,
the referee, with some justification as
Jesus had milked the contact. Jordan
Henderson and Granit Xhaka were
exchanging views robustly, eventually
squaring up. Saka just waited. Finally
peace broke out, and the set piece was
addressed. The clock now displayed
75:17 as Saka made contact, sending
the ball low and fast past Alisson.
This was a huge moment, and Saka
delivered.
This felt a landmark win for
Arsenal, a deserved victory over
significant opponents who had done
the Premier League double over them
in the past two seasons. This felt
another reminder of the wisdom in
trusting the process under Arteta, and
even those Arsenal fans who doubted
ARTETA NEGATES
SALAH THREAT
Arsenal played 6ft 2ins right back
Takehiro Tomiyasu at left back to field
long balls towards Mo Salah. The result
was Salah had only one touch all game
in Arsenal's box, had fewer touches per
minute than in any other league game
this season, and was substituted for the
first time this season
Salah's 27
touches
56%
11
Direction
of play
him a year ago sing his praises loudly
now.
The Emirates Stadium shook with
passion, hope and expectation.
Arsenal fans vehemently disputed
decisions that went against them.
They cheered every run made by the
outstanding Gabriel Martinelli, every
challenge by the excellent, alert Ben
White, every dribble by Saka, and
then his two goals, especially his
penalty. They believed.
Liverpool responded but Arsenal
were better. On the weekend of the
seventh anniversary of Jürgen Klopp’s
appointment as Liverpool manager,
his 393rd game was ultimately
painful. His defence was opened up
far too easily and Trent Alexander-
Arnold was caught out for Arsenal’s
first two goals. The right back did not
reappear after the break after taking a
bad knock to his ankle.
Liverpool have now failed to win
any of their opening four away
Premier League games for the first
time since 2010-11, under Roy
Hodgson. They need to rediscover
their old energy and intensity but
simply found Arsenal too determined.
Simply better on the day.
The game actually could not have
started better for Arsenal. They began
as though smarting from the sight of
Manchester City being top of the
table. Liverpool had not conceded
against Arsenal in 605 minutes but
that pristine run was ruined within
58 seconds.
William Saliba read Diogo Jota’s
attempted pass to Darwin Núñez,
White released Saka down the right,
and Liverpool were back-pedalling
Monday October 10 2022 | the times
Dijk shouted at his team-mates, fast for Gabriel, stretching out his left
HOW THEY STAND demanding more, but Arsenal were in foot to steer Liverpool level. Núñez
P W D L F A Pts control. Martinelli was superb, racing ran away, celebrating and rubbing his
Arsenal 9 8 0 1 23 10 24 again down the left until Luis Díaz eyes as if mocking any Arsenal tears.
Man City 9 7 2 0 33 9 23 brought him down. How times have The temperature kept rising. When
Tottenham 9 6 2 1 20 10 20 changed at Arsenal. Erstwhile Saka went down and Oliver gave
Chelsea 8 5 1 2 13 10 16 scapegoats are accorded “GOAT” Liverpool a free kick, Arsenal fans
Man Utd 8 5 0 3 13 15 15 treatment. “We’ve got Granit Xhaka,” were again out of their seats, again
Newcastle 9 3 5 1 17 9 14 chanted the Arsenal fans, a far cry screaming at the referee, again
Brighton 8 4 2 2 14 9 14 from the days when he was almost convinced that Arsenal had been
Bournemouth 9 3 3 3 8 20 12 hounded out of the club. short-changed. There is such unity of
Fulham 9 3 2 4 14 18 11 It was a high-speed, high-scoring, purpose at the Emirates now, such a
Liverpool 8 2 4 2 20 12 10 highly entertaining encounter, change from the fractious days.
Brentford 9 2 4 3 16 17 10 Liverpool gradually picking up the Such were the disruptions and
Everton 9 2 4 3 8 9 10 pace, and Oliver, the country’s best injuries that five minutes were added
West Ham 9 3 1 5 8 10 10 referee along with Anthony Taylor, on and the drama simply intensified.
Leeds 8 2 3 3 11 12 9 failed to keep pace for a couple of Arsenal suddenly countered. Jesus
Crystal Palace 8 2 3 3 10 12 9 minutes. First, he missed Gabriel’s passed to Martinelli, who cut inside
Aston Villa 8 2 2 4 6 10 8 clear handball when Jota lifted the Henderson and Alexander-Arnold,
Southampton 9 2 1 6 8 17 7 ball across. Surely the VAR, Darren again caught out. He crossed towards
Wolves 9 1 3 5 3 12 6 England, would rescue Oliver, but no. the far post, Tsimikas was badly out
Leicester 9 1 1 7 15 24 4 The Professional Game Match of position, pushing into the middle
Nottm Forest 8 1 1 6 6 21 4 Officials Board advised that Gabriel and leaving Saka the chance to slide
had no chance to remove his hand, the ball across the line.
which was nonsense. Gabriel’s hands In a game that bordered on a
frantically. Saka slid the ball inside to were initially by his side, in a natural classic, Liverpool responded again,
Martin Odegaard, who placed it position. When Jota crossed, he raised equalising eight minutes after the
between Joël Matip and Alexander- them and blocked the ball. break. Thiago and Henderson
Arnold for Martinelli, who was Then Saka fell, clutching his face, combined to transfer the ball to Jota,
running in at pace from the left. having being caught by Kostas who teased it behind Saliba for Díaz’s
Martinelli timed his run perfectly and Tsimikas’s right hand, but was replacement, Roberto Firmino, to
measured his shot with equal ordered to get up by Oliver. Arsenal score with a low left-foot shot past
precision, placing the ball past fans bayed in outrage. Just as the Aaron Ramsdale.
Alisson. Arsenal fans were goading the away Arsenal responded again, Alisson
The Emirates was rocking. Arteta’s corner about their subdued nature, saved from Saka and Jesus, although
decision to field Takehiro Tomiyasu at Liverpool broke after 34 minutes. there were concerns over whether
left back ahead of Kieran Tierney, Alexander-Arnold drove a long ball Jesus should continue after taking a
relying on the Japan right back’s upfield, Gabriel’s poor touch gifted bad blow to the head. Yet Jesus then
height and strength to combat balls to Díaz the chance to speed down the went down theatrically when lightly
Mohamed Salah was vindicated and inside-right channel, and Arsenal touched by Thiago as both went for
Salah was eventually withdrawn were opened up. Díaz crossed, the ball. Having played the waiting
midway through the second half. delivering the ball too quickly for game, Saka won the game for Arsenal
Liverpool looked jittery. Virgil van Saliba to intervene. Núñez was too from the penalty spot.
the times | Monday October 10 2022
triumph of skill
Martinelli gives
Arsenal an early
lead, right; Saka
pounces for his
first, main, then
steps up for the
decisive penalty
I’m surprised Klopp: Jesus tricked ref
Liverpool were
denied penalty
The expert’s view
PETER
WALTON
Former Premier League referee
I can understand why Liverpool felt
frustrated by how the two penalty
incidents were judged. With the way
handball is being interpreted this
season, I think Liverpool could easily
have had a penalty when the ball
struck Gabriel’s arm in the first half. It
was away from his body in an
unnatural position and although the
fact he was close to Diogo Jota when
he struck the ball is a factor in his
defence, I was still a little surprised
this wasn’t given.
The Arsenal penalty that decided
the match in the second half I would
put in the soft category. But
ultimately there is evidence that
Thiago Alcântara did catch Gabriel
Jesus, and did not get to the ball. The
contact is enough to send Jesus to the
ground, so the officials are within
their rights to deem that a penalty.
1GG
GARY JACOB
Jürgen Klopp appeared to accuse
Gabriel Jesus of diving for Arsenal’s
winning penalty and his problems
worsened when two of his stars were
injured and will now need scans. The
Arsenal striker was adjudged to have
been fouled by Thiago Alcântara from
a cross, and Bukayo Saka converted.
Klopp conceded that Liverpool
were out of the title race, trailing
Arsenal by 14 points, and expressed
concern about Luis Díaz and Trent
Alexander-Arnold. Díaz departed
with his left knee in a brace and using
crutches, while Alexander-Arnold
was withdrawn at the interval with
a twisted ankle. Having watched
Liverpool twice draw level, Klopp
was unhappy about Michael Oliver
awarding a penalty when Jesus went
down after the back of his leg
was caught 14 minutes
from time.
“If there was contact
— and I’m not sure
there was — it
might have been
soft contact,” he
said. “But the player
was on both feet
and then [fell] down.
That’s an indication
that something might
Jesus, left, is adjudged to
have been fouled by Thiago
Saliba is colossus
on which the title
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER MARC ASPLAND
bid must be built
JAMES
ANT
GHEERBRANT
At the Emirates Stadium
When Arsenal signed William Saliba,
one of the best young defenders in
Europe, from Saint-Étienne, they did
something almost unheard of. For
three whole years, they made him
linger in Ligue 1, honing his craft and
waiting his turn, before they so much
as let his boots touch the Emirates
grass. This was an unprecedented
level of pre-education. It felt brutal
and overcautious. At times, it made
Saliba feel like a castaway. It led to
the bizarre situation of the player
appearing in the Champions League,
and for France, before he was deemed
ready by Arsenal. It made you think:
what are they so scared of?
This was probably the exact kind of
game they had in mind. This was one
of those wild, tempestuous matches
where neither team has control in
midfield and every touch can be a
dagger, where the game can be
whipping around in front of your eyes
and then behind you in a flash, where
the high line feels like a tightrope
above a canyon and the opposition
press feels like a force-eight gale: in
other words, where being a Premier
League centre back really does look
like one of the hardest jobs in sport.
And Saliba acquitted himself pretty
well. Not flawlessly, by any means —
in fact, he made a mistake for
Liverpool’s second goal, one of those
split-second decisions that you know
is an error the second you make it,
and which you have no more hope of
have been made up. That’s not the
fault of the refs.”
recovering than a phone dropped
down a drain. But he was also brilliant
in some crucial moments, and
He contrasted the decision with the
failure to give his side a spot kick in
the first half when Diogo Jota’s cross
throughout the match decisive and
calm in a way that transcends the
immediate radius of each action.
hit the hand of Gabriel and Darren At the end of it, Arsenal’s defence
England, the VAR, judged that the had restricted a Liverpool front four
Arsenal defender could do nothing as of Mohamed Salah, Luís Díaz, Diego
he was too close to the ball. Jota and Darwin Núñez ñez to 1.1
“They thought it was a clear not expected goals. And as Ben White
handball and we cannot change that,” leapt into his arms att the final
he said. “So, he thought immediately ill see Saliba
whistle, you could still
it’s a penalty, which is interesting. as the colossus upon which an
Mr England had a look [at the Jesus ge might
unlikely title challenge
challenge] and thought it’s a penalty. be built.
So [that’s] how we know in life: if two ountain is
Sometimes, the mountain
refs think the same, then it’s the truth hin the
also the source. Within
we have to live with. The game is a atch,
first minute of the match,
draw, but today we have nothing.” Arsenal were in flow,,
Alexander-Arnold was said to be streaming downfield,, scoring a
in too much pain to continue. “Like urity. But
goal of crystalline purity.
Díaz, it doesn’t look good for both,” iba, and
it all started with Saliba,
he said. “That is the icing on the cake. his sangfroid in dealingng
We’re not in the race.” with a long ball over his
Virgil van Dijk, the head. The 21-year-old d read
Liverpool centre back, the situation well and d
added: “If you are not made the interception, n,
winning in the way easing Díaz out of thee way,
we are used to, and had the composure ure to set
confidence is Arsenal moving with h a pass to
creeping away.” White.
Meanwhile the Two things stand out
Arsenal manager, about Saliba in
Mikel Arteta, refused possession. One is hiss
to say his side were in way of passing. He
title contention. “I’m
not mentioning it,” he Saliba’s long loan
said. “You’re not going to spell in France has
hear it from me.” proved a success
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reminds you that at the highest level
of technical quality, there is simply a
different way of hitting the ball, a
contact that seems to combine the
caress of a top-spin forehand with the
crispness of a right hook, which sends
it flat along the ground with an
audible pop.
The other is his courage. This was
his toughest game yet from a ball-
playing perspective. Díaz and Núñez
did a terrific job of blocking his usual
build-up pass to Thomas Partey. For
25 minutes in the middle of the first
half, Arsenal lost all fluency in the
face of the Liverpool press. Still Saliba
kept looking forward, not back or
square. He finished having played 68
per cent of his passes forward,
compared with 65 per cent for Virgil
van Dijk, the paragon of progressive
centre-back play for the past few
seasons.
This was a tough assignment,
particularly during that strong
Liverpool spell. Saliba diverted a cross
straight at his own goal, forcing
Aaron Ramsdale to make a save: it
didn’t look convincing, but it was
probably a goal-saving intervention,
with Díaz lurking behind him. He
couldn’t affect the first Liverpool goal,
with Díaz’s cross to Núñez going
through his legs.
The momentum of the match could
have swung then. Seconds after the
restart, Díaz was sprung clear in the
inside-left channel. Saliba produced a
fantastically quick and strong piece of
defending to get level with him, not
diving in, just getting his shoulder the
right side and ushering the ball (and
Díaz) out for a goalkick. As the
winger got to his feet, Saliba bounced
the ball back to Ramsdale like a
basketball point guard, a deliciously
casual no-fuss gesture.
With Liverpool chasing the game
again after half-time, Saliba made his
mistake. Jota picked the ball up
between the lines and Saliba got his
body position wrong, stepping
towards the ball and letting Roberto
Firmino run in behind him. On the
replay, you cou
could see his head twist
one way as hish body went the
other, wrun
wrung like a dishcloth by
one wrong move.
But Saliba
Sa kept his cool,
kept bbisecting the Nuñez-
Firm
Firmino pincer
m
movement with sharp
p
passes. As Arsenal saw
out the win, he
cushioned a calm
h
header back to
Ramsd
Ramsdale. And perhaps
Saliba has even come, via
that ccircuitous
appre
apprenticeship, to represent
a vindication
vind of the club’s
long-ter
long-term strategy. If Granit
r
Xhaka reminds Arsenal fans
f they’ve come, and
of how far
Bukayo S Saka how much they
love this cl
club, Saliba reminds
them to trus
trust the process.
Can Arsena
Arsenal really make a race
seem an impossibly
of this? It seems
imposing task, withw Manchester City
fo
looking more formidable than ever.
But in a strange way, it feels like the
sheer scale of ththe challenge before
them is the wellspring
we of Arsenal’s
T mountain is also
inspiration. The
the source.
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Far from finished
– Ronaldo’s 700th
goal really counts
Everton Man Utd
12
Iwobi 5 Antony 15
Ronaldo 44
POSSESSION
39% 61%
SHOTS ON TARGET
2 4
FOULS
7 13
RATINGS
Everton (4-3-3): J Pickford 6 — S Coleman 5
(J Garner 75min), C Coady 6, J Tarkowski 6,
V Mykolenko 6 — A Iwobi 6, I Gueye 5
(D Calvert-Lewin 76), A Onana 6 — A Gordon 5
(D McNeil 67, 6), N Maupay 5 (S Rondon 84),
D Gray 6. Booked Onana, Gordon.
Manchester United (4-2-3-1): D De Gea 6 —
D Dalot 6, V Lindelof 6, L Martinez 7, L Shaw 7
— Casemiro 7, C Eriksen 7 (S McTominay 81) —
Antony 7 (R Varane 90), B Fernandes 7,
M Rashford 7 — A Martial 6 (C Ronaldo 29, 7).
Booked McTominay.
Referee D Coote.
PAUL
JOYCE
Northern Football Correspondent
At Goodison Park
The decades come and go for
Cristiano Ronaldo, his starts rationed
these days, much to his disgust, but his
appetite for goals remains undimmed.
Some 20 years and two days after
the first strike of his club career, he
scored No 700 at Goodison Park to
earn Manchester United the three
points. From the moment he was sent
galloping clear of Everton’s back line,
there seemed no doubt that an
unerring finish would follow.
If that was not testament to
Ronaldo’s enduring quality and
remarkable longevity, then the fact
he stepped off the substitutes’ bench
to inexorably shape this contest
underlined how he still has plenty
to offer. A week ago the Manchester
United manager, Erik ten Hag,
had refused to pitch him into the
Manchester derby, given the mauling
their neighbours Manchester City
were inflicting, out of respect to the
37-year-old.
Last night he was thankful for his
ability to add a clinical flourish to a
move they would have recognised in
Madrid. The Brazilian Casemiro was
the architect, having recovered from
an early mistake that handed the
home side the initiative to exude the
midfield calm anticipated when he
moved from Real Madrid for
£70 million in late August.
Everton’s seven-match unbeaten
run was checked in the process and a
disjointed display highlighted just
why their manager, Frank Lampard,
has been so eager to stress that they
have been making only baby steps so
far this season. A lack of bite in the
final third remains pronounced.
As for United, Ten Hag would have
derived plenty of pleasure from the
recovery his players mounted and the
character they showed, as well as the
contribution of Casemiro, who was
handed a full league debut as he
searched for firm foundations.
The time and space that the
30-year-old was afforded in La Liga,
aided by the presence of Toni Kroos
and Luka Modric alongside him, was
never likely to be granted to him here,
and so it initially proved.
He had been left grounded in the
opening seconds and, after receiving a
pass from Antony, found Amadou
Onana breathing down his neck like a
wide-jawed Alsatian. The Belgium
midfielder outmuscled his rival, who
could only look on as Demarai Gray
then fed a ball into Alex Iwobi.
Iwobi would take a touch and pick
his spot, but the execution of his
strike from 20 yards was still sublime
as he curled an effort beyond David
de Gea’s outstretched hand and
towards the top corner.
Goodison Park under the lights
has become a testing environment
again, especially as the fractured
relationship between supporters and
this team has been repaired by
Lampard, and the early concession
was exactly the wrong way to limit
Everton’s threat.
Credit then to United — and
Casemiro — for not only
finding their bearings but
performing with a poise
that turned around the
deficit before the
interval and should
have yielded a greater
margin of victory.
Lampard will feel
that his side were
complicit in their
own downfall and it
is true that they
became far too lax
when in possession,
but the visiting team
were also ruthless
when it mattered.
The equaliser
came when Idrissa
Gueye allowed a
pass from Iwobi
to run away from
him and Bruno
Fernandes pounced
on the mistake in a
flash to transfer a
first-time ball to
Anthony Martial. To
his right, Antony had
Ten Hag guided
United to a fourth
win in their past
11 trips to Everton
already exploded out of the blocks
and with the Frenchman picking out
his team-mate with aplomb, it was left
to the former Ajax winger to expertly
dispatch the opening beyond the
advancing Jordan Pickford.
In doing so, the man signed for
£86 million on deadline day last
month became the first United player
to score in his first three league
appearances for the club.
Everton’s defensive fortitude has
been founded upon the partnership of
Conor Coady and James Tarkowski,
but the error in midfield left the duo
horribly exposed and unable to cover
the cracks. The aberration would be
repeated. Casemiro should have
scored a diving header from eight
yards out after bursting through a
huge gap to meet Marcus Rashford’s
pinpoint cross, and reacted by beating
his fists into the turf.
His anguish lasted only two
minutes. When Iwobi tried a stepover
in front of Casemiro, United’s No 18
read the move to halt his opponent
with one touch and send Ronaldo,
who had replaced Martial just before
the half-hour, away with his next.
Seamus Coleman was never going
to make up ground and with Coady
unable to cover across in time, a
speared finish brought another career
milestone for the Portugal forward.
His first goals had been for
Sporting against Moreirense all those
years ago and it is doubtful he will
rest on this landmark.
“It’s really impressive when you
score 700 goals,” Ten Hag said. “It’s a
huge performance and I’m really
happy for him and congratulate
him. With that performance,
I’m also happy that it’s his first
Premier League goal of the
season, he had to wait for it.
I’m sure that more goals will be
coming. I think every player
needs that, even when you’re
h best in the world you need it,
the
you need the goals.
“They need the goals every
season, to have that
feeling and that
confirmation of
their intuition.”
Rashford
thought he had
given United breathing space in
the 80th minute when he
rounded his England team-
mate Pickford to score,
but VAR ruled that the
forward had handled
th ball when breaking
the
through Tarkowski’s challenge
before bearing down on the
Everton goalkeeper.
But United’s celebrations were
only temporarily silenced.
At the final whistle, a posse of
red shirts formed a tight circle on
the pitch, perhaps recognising that
this was an important step forward.
Goodison has tended to be a
graveyard for their hopes in recent
years. A fourth win in their past 11
trips owed much to Ronaldo.
Monday October 10 2022 | the times
TWENTY YEARS, 700 GOALS
*All club competitions
2002/3 (Sporting Lisbon)
5
2003/4 (Man Utd)
6
2004/5 (Man Utd)
9
2005/6 (Man Utd)
12
2006/7 (Man Utd)
23
2007/8 (Man Utd)
42
2008/9 (Man Utd)
26
2009/10 (Real Madrid)
33
2010/11 (Real Madrid)
53
2011/12 (Real Madrid)
60
2012/13 (Real Madrid)
55
2013/14 (Real Madrid)
51
2014/15 (Real Madrid)
61
2015/16 (Real Madrid)
51
2016/17 (Real Madrid)
42
2017/18 (Real Madrid)
44
2018/19 (Juventus)
28
2019/20 (Juventus)
37
2020/21 (Juventus)
36
2021/22 (Juventus/Man Utd)
24
2022/23 (Man Utd)
2
Who he scored them for
Juventus Sporting CP
101 5
Man United
144
Real Madrid
450
Injury to Martial could give
January 2021, a miserable record of
IAN WHITTELL injury problems that have continued
in this campaign.
An injury to Anthony Martial could After a hamstring problem in
mean that Cristiano Ronaldo is pre-season Martial then suffered an
handed a bigger role in Erik ten Hag’s achilles injury, from which he has
new-look Manchester United. only just recovered, although Ten
The 37-year-old came off the bench Hag insisted that the new, unspecified
to score the 700th club goal of his issue was not a recurrence of that.
remarkable career — his first in the “I have to see, I cannot tell what it
Premier League this season — at is, how serious,” the United manager
Goodison Park last night. Ronaldo said. “Let’s wait the first 24 hours,
replaced Martial in the first half, with [see] how serious it is.”
the France forward limping off after Ronaldo is still reportedly unsettled
29 minutes of his first league start for at United after his summer attempts
United since October 2 last year. to leave Old Trafford and long spells
Martial has not completed 90 on the bench this season.
minutes in the Premier League since But a lengthy absence for Martial
a defeat by Sheffield United in would make it almost impossible for
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unsettled icon route back into starting XI
Ten Hag to entertain the thought of
allowing Ronaldo to leave in the
January transfer window.
Ronaldo was not the only star to
catch Ten Hag’s attention, with the
Brazilian newcomers Casemiro and
Antony both earning praise from the
Dutchman. Casemiro, making his first
start since his £70 million summer
move from Real Madrid, made an
error leading to Everton’s opening
goal but grew into the game. “You see
he has settled in and you see [the]
impact he can have and when he gets
games he will be better and better,”
Ten Hag said. “He won the ball and
set up the winning goal for Cristiano.”
Antony, meanwhile, scored the
United equaliser to become the first
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player to score on his first three
appearances for the club in Premier
League history. “We have to expect
more from him, he needs challenges,
that’s why he came to the Premier
League,” Ten Hag said of the
£86 million signing from Ajax.
“He gets it here, he wants to play
with the best players, the highest
stress factors against the best players,
and from there on he will step up.
“First weeks, he scored goals, he
did good stuff, but also I saw a lot of
room for improvement in his game,
and what I was happy with the goal
was that he got in behind.
“He has to do that more, he has to
use his space, he has a good dribble,
but he needs more variation.”
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OLI SCARFF/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Ronaldo moves
clear and fires
an unerring
low shot past
Pickford in the
44th minute
Frank Lampard, the Everton
manager, praised the goalscoring
achievements of Ronaldo.
“He’s one of the greatest players
that’s graced the game in an era when
you had himself and [Lionel] Messi,”
Lampard said. “The comparison
doesn’t matter. Both are incredible
players in football history and to be
going like that, looking as good as he
does physically, is amazing. He has
made abnormal numbers normal
year after year.
“When he was on 699, I wanted
him to score in the Europa League in
midweek and get it out of the way
before the weekend but, in the cold
light of day, all you can do is give him
huge credit for that. It’s amazing.”
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Ronaldo’s leap is sign that,
like Vardy, he’s getting old
Cristiano Ronaldo is 37 and
struggling to get consistent
game time, so it is no surprise that
he has lost half a yard of pace and is
lacking match sharpness — and I
say that despite his crisply taken
goal last night. The clearest sign
that this is not the Ronaldo of old is
not when he has the ball at his feet
but his declining leap. In his prime,
the Manchester United forward was
so dangerous from crosses because
he got so remarkably high off the
ground, and this was exaggerated
by his ability almost to hang in the
air. I watched him on Thursday
against Omonia Nicosia in the
Europa League and he had good
chances, but he does not rise with
the same level of height and
conviction any more. Jumping was
the first thing I noticed fading
during my career — I remember
not getting high enough to meet a
cross on one occasion and thinking:
“I would have got to that six
months ago.”
He’s not the only Premier League
great on the decline. I cannot
understand why Leicester City gave
Jamie Vardy a two-year contract
before this season. Clubs like
Chelsea hesitate before offering a
player older than 30 more than a
Toothless Wolves look
like relegation fodder
Wolverhampton Wanderers
could barely fashion an
opportunity against Chelsea. They
are not getting goals from
anywhere on the pitch and, with
just three strikes in nine games this
season, they are walking into a
relegation battle. With such a high
frequency of penalties and free
kicks being awarded, the laws have
never been more in favour of the
attacking side, so Wolves’ record is
truly dreadful.
When a team is struggling going
forward, the staff play a crucial role.
They can work with individuals
and, because Premier League teams
are so well resourced, all the causes
of the lack of goals can be tackled.
Julen Lopetegui is quite pragmatic
and may have to appoint a more
inventive coach alongside him,
should he fill the vacant manager’s
job at Molineux as is rumoured.
Superb Cancelo reminds
me of United great Irwin
João Cancelo is the most gifted
player with both feet that I can
remember. He can play on the right
or left flank in Manchester City’s
wingback system and land crosses
on a sixpence from either side. He
was superb against Southampton
and swept in a fine goal with his left
foot — supposedly the weaker of
the two. He reminds me of Dennis
Irwin, who also excelled in both full
back positions. But in 40 years of
watching football, I think Cancelo
may be the most assured in this
department.
5
TEAM OF THE WEEK
4-3-3
Lloris
(Tottenham)
Trippier Cancelo
(Newcastle) (Man City)
Botman Aké
(Newcastle) (Man City)
Guimaraes Mount Hojbjerg
(Newcastle) (Chelsea) (Tottenham)
Scamacca
(West Ham)
Saka Foden
(Arsenal) (Man City)
year and I feel Leicester should
have taken this approach with
Vardy, who is 35. Though he ended
last season well, the former England
striker has lost the dynamism that
made him so dangerous. His game
is built on one-against-one
situations and through balls, which
are less effective at his age. Ronaldo
and Vardy will both get goals this
season but they are fading stars.
Father time gets us all in the end.
Klopp’s tinkering left his
side exposed out wide
Jürgen Klopp paid the price
for going away from his best
formation against Arsenal. He
played only two central midfielders,
Thiago Alcântara and Jordan
Henderson, so that he could deploy
Darwin Núñez as a lone striker. For
a side more familiar with having
three in midfield, going to two
makes defending difficult, and that
Thiago is not a traditional ball-
winner did not help. I would have
started Fabinho and used Klopp’s
tried and tested 4-3-3.
The system left Liverpool exposed
and they were caught out in the
wide areas. Gabriel Martinelli gave
Trent Alexander-Arnold a torrid
time, but Kostas Tsimikas did not
fare any better against Bukayo Saka
on the other side.
When a team is as vulnerable as
Liverpool were, any opponent
believes they can get something out
of the game.
As for Arsenal, each player is
running their socks off, and that
was crucial against Liverpool
because they were not at their best.
The noise inside the Emirates
Stadium matched the players’
intensity. Even when Arsenal were
pegged back to 2-2, the home fans
roared their team on and were
rewarded with Saka’s winner.
The atmosphere was similar to
Anfield at its best and that was
fitting. Right now, Arsenal’s energy
and team spirit is comparable to
Liverpool in previous seasons, while
Klopp’s men, with their defensive
issues and inconsistency, look like
an Arsenal side from the past few
campaigns.
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Scamacca finds a friend in VAR
West Ham Fulham
3
Bowen 29 (pen),
Scamacca 62, Antonio 90+1
1
Pereira 5
RATINGS
West Ham United (4-2-3-1): L Fabianski 6 —
T Kehrer 6, C Dawson 6, K Zouma 5,
A Cresswell 6 — D Rice 5, T Soucek 5 — J Bowen 6,
L Paquetá 7, P Fornals 6 (F Downes 90min) —
G Scamacca 8 (M Antonio 80).
Booked Kehrer.
Fulham (4-2-3-1) B Leno 5 — B De Cordova-Reid 5,
T Adarabioyo 6, T Ream 5, A Robinson 6 —
J Palhinha 6, H Reed 6 (T Cairney 71) —
N Kebano 6 (S Duffy 89), A Pereira 6
(J Onomah 77), D James 6 (H Wilson 77) —
C Vinicius 4.
Booked Pereira, Reed.
Referee C Kavanagh.
ALYSON RUDD
Victory hinged on images that not
long ago would never have been
much analysed as a sublime lobbed
finish from Gianluca Scamacca to
give West Ham United the lead was
pored over for two possible
infringements only for VAR to find
nothing concrete enough to rule it out.
That Scamacca did not even
celebrate meant the London Stadium
braced itself for disappointment.
David Moyes said it all took so long
he thought the decision would go
against his side. Instead, it was Marco
Silva and his Fulham team who were
livid that a handball was not spotted
and a game they seemed on course to
wrest at least one point from,
unravelled.
Silva had sympathy for Chris
Kavanagh, the referee. “I saw in his
face that he was embarrassed when
he saw it on the screen,” he said.
A dispiriting start to the campaign
for West Ham had been eased with
victory over Wolverhampton
Wanderers and Moyes, one of the
game’s more conservative coaches,
maintained the same line up with the
exception of Pablo Fornals who came
in for the injured Maxwel Cornet but
if Moyes was after consistency he
instead, initially, got lethargy.
Caretaker O’Neil likely to be in a job longer than Rodgers
Bournemouth
Billing 68, Christie 71
2 Scott Parker was dismissed in
Leicester City
Daka 10
1 and quality of his Bournemouth
RATINGS
Bournemouth (4-3-3): Neto 7 — A Smith 7,
C Mepham 7, M Senesi 7, R Fredericks 7
(J Stacey 72min) — J Lerma 7, L Cook 7,
M Tavernier 6 — R Christie 7, D Solanke 7
(K Moore, 90), P Billing 8 (J Anthony 77).
Booked Fredericks.
Leicester City (4-2-3-1): D Ward 6 — T Castagne
6 (D Amartey 66, 5), J Evans 6, W Faes 5,
J Justin 6 (A Pérez 86) — B Soumaré 5
(K Iheanacho 79), Y Tielemans 6 — J Maddison
6, K Dewsbury-Hall 5, H Barnes 6 — P Daka 7
(J Vardy 66, 5). Booked Soumaré, Maddison.
Referee M Salisbury.
Attendance 10,272.
PAUL ROWAN
For Brendan Rodgers, appearances
need to be deceptive. It looks as
though his team do not mind whether
he gets the sack or not, whereas
Bournemouth played with a verve
and energy that suggested they would
love Gary O’Neil, their caretaker
Scamacca’s lob to put West Ham in front was subject to a double VAR check with many in the London Stadium surprised that the goal was allowed to stand
Fulham took an early lead courtesy
of slick but also rather laid-back
passing with Neeskens Kebano sliding
the ball into the path of Andreas
Pereira who decided to shoot from a
tight angle. Kurt Zouma, tasked with
monitoring Pereira’s movement,
appeared shocked that the Belgium-
born Brazil international chose to
shoot in the first place and Lukasz
Fabianski seemed similarly aghast.
Shortly afterwards, Dan James
struck the crossbar with the home
side seemingly unprepared for the
fluid, carefree approach of Silva’s
team but they soon stirred thanks to
the keenness of Scamacca who, on his
third start in the Premier League,
would have equalised with a header
from a Lucas Paquetá cross but for a
fine reaction save from Bernd Leno
and the Italian came close again with
a strike that whistled past the far
manager, to get the full-time job.
August after a car-crash interview in
which he questioned the commitment
players after a 9-0 thrashing by
Liverpool. A bewildered Rodgers,
whose side had beaten Nottingham
Forest 4-0 five days earlier, had some
questions of his own after the inertia
his players showed in conceding
two second-half goals, having taken
the lead.
“It shouldn’t really matter who you
are playing against,” Rodgers said,
when asked to contrast the two
performances. “The intensity is part
of the identity of our game. We saw in
the first half our want to get up and
press the game and be there, so you
have to bring that to every game,
whether it is a derby or not.”
As for the tail-off in performances
of several experienced players,
Rodgers was at a loss to identify what
was going wrong. “I don’t know, I
don’t know,” he replied wistfully. “It
was a challenging summer for us.
We are going through this cycle
now where it is inconsistent, but I
upright and he then had another
chance with another header.
At last the equaliser came, albeit in
controversial circumstances after a
period of scuffling in the penalty area
with Craig Dawson and Pereira
warned for grappling at a corner.
Given that Dawson tumbled over
during the next skirmish Kavanagh
was somewhat bound to point to the
spot and Jarrod Bowen scored with
his firm penalty kick.
Fulham began the second half as
sloppily as they had been sharp at the
start and it almost cost them when
Paquetá unleashed a strike that Leno
did well to hold. Then came another
Scamacca header, although this one
did not require a save. Scamacca
scored 16 goals in 36 appearances in
Serie A last season and he seems to
be warming to the same theme after a
quiet start in east London.
don’t know, it is just the nature of it
this season.”
me answers,
If he fails to find some
with two home games coming
ace and
up, against Crystal Palace
Leeds United, then it will get
very twitchy indeed, ass the
club’s owners pay hugee
attention to home form m L
and the reaction of
supporters at the
King Power.
Their results at
home are especially
important given that
they have yet to pick
up a single point on
the road this season,
although for the best
part of an hour againstt
Bournemouth they
looked comfortable
enough, with Patson
Daka’s smart finish
giving them the lead in n
the tenth minute.
A pensive Rodgers saidd
he could not explain hiss
players’ inconsistency
When the Italian finally beat Leno,
his lob was subject to a double VAR
check, first for a possible offside and
then for handball. That the goal was
eventually awarded incensed Silva
and his staff, and they objected
furiously, en masse, leading to the
Fulham manager being shown a
yellow card. Although it felt
instinctively there had been a
handball offence, the images were not
definitive and we were left to laud a
composed finish. “He’s not a one-trick
pony when it comes to goalscoring,”
Moyes said of the £35.5 million striker.
“And what a bench we have for you
today,” the stadium announcer had
said before kick-off and indeed it has
been a while since Moyes could call
upon so many high-profile
substitutes, leading him to joke that it
must have been David Sullivan, the
club’s joint chairman, on the Tannoy.
Leicester became more and more
tense as the second half progressed,
cal
and some calamitous defending —
by Wout FaeFaes in particular —
allowed P Philip Billing to volley
spec
in a spectacular equaliser in
the 6 68th minute. Three
mi
minutes later the
Leicester defence was
again at sixes and
sevens, with the ball
iin the air in their box
before Ryan Christie
knock
knocked it in for the winner.
Un
Unbeaten in five games
since O’Neil stepped
into the temporary role,
the victory moved
Bo
Bournemouth into eighth
pos
position in the table,
no lo
longer looking like
the rele
relegation certainties
they didid under Parker.
At th
the moment O’Neil is
a shoo-
shoo-in for the job, but it
looks aas though no permanent
appoint
appointment will be made
until th
the Premier League
ratifies the club’s new owner,
Bill Fol
Foley, which could take up
Monday October 10 2022 | the times
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The West Ham manager waited
until the 80th minute, however, to use
any of them, bringing on Michail
Antonio for Scamacca and then
Emerson. The impact was for a kind
of mass exhalation as the home side
gave every impression of being glad
just to have something to hold on to
while Fulham, for all their neat
passing, badly missed their brusque,
effective forward. Carlos Vinícius had
replaced Aleksandar Mitrovic and
was tasked with leading the line again
but the Brazil forward was far from as
imposing as the Serbia international.
The third West Ham goal was less
forged than gifted as a weak Antonio
effort, when clean through, was
spilled by Leno. Tim Ream should
have mopped up but instead tripped
over his goalkeeper, the ball remained
loose and Antonio slotted the ball
into the unguarded net.
to a month. Foley’s expectations will
have been raised by the nature of
Bournemouth’s fightback, with Lewis
Cook, Billing, Jefferson Lerma and
Dominic Solanke all playing at the
top of their game, while Adam Smith
did an excellent man-marking job on
James Maddison.
It was a distinct reminder of the
best days of Eddie Howe at the club.
O’Neil is his own man, though,
having come in when Jonathan
Woodgate was in charge in 2019
and impressed Richard Hughes, the
club’s technical director, who made
sure he stayed at the club when
Parker and his team departed.
“From a real tough moment at
the club we have pulled together,”
O’Neil, 39, said. “Five unbeaten in the
Premier League for a promoted
side — I couldn’t believe we could do
so well.”
He would not be drawn on getting
the job, or even whether he was
getting better as a manager. “I hope
I am not getting any worse,” he said
with a sigh.
There are some big weeks coming
up, for both O’Neil and Rodgers.
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Chess fan Eze
helps Palace to
finally deliver
the killer move
Crystal Palace Leeds United
2
Edouard 24
Eze 76
1
Struijk 10
RATINGS
Crystal Palace (4-3-3): V Guaita 6 — J Ward 6,
J Anderson 7, M Guéhi 7, J Schlupp 7 — M Olise
8 (W Hughes 85min), C Doucouré 7
(L Milivojevic 64, 8), E Eze 9 — J Ayew 8
(T Mitchell 65, 7), O Édouard 8 (J-P Mateta 86),
W Zaha 8. Booked Doucouré, Guéhi, Olise.
Leeds United (4-2-3-1): I Meslier 6 —
R Kristensen 6 (L Ayling 84), R Koch 8,
L Cooper 7, P Struijk 6 — T Adams 7, M Roca 6
(J Gelhardt 84) — B Aaronson 8 (M Klich 76),
Rodrigo 6, J Harrison 6 — P Bamford 6
(C Summerville 62, 6). Booked Struijk, Koch,
Kristensen.
Referee P Tierney.
MOLLY HUDSON
When Eberechi Eze spent an
extended period on the sidelines last
season with an achilles injury, it was
not the away games he missed, but
the roar of the Selhurst Park faithful.
The silky footed midfielder provides
an added injection of class to this
Crystal Palace side and it was no
surprise that he produced the cool
finish that brought the home fans off
their seats to light up an even game
and secure his team a much-needed
win over Leeds United.
On a weekend that the NFL is in
London, the American theme
continued at Selhurst Park, a clash
between two managers in Patrick
Vieira and Jesse Marsch who had
faced each other on both sides of the
Atlantic in the Hudson River derby.
Vieira admitted that he and Marsch
had the same kind of temperament,
having both received bookings on the
touchline this season, and they kept
the fourth official busy in a fiery
Lingard struggling to justify £100k-a-week deal
JOE CHILDS
Steve Cooper says he needs more
from senior players if Nottingham
Forest are to lift themselves off the
bottom of the Premier League table.
The Forest manager was given a
new contract at the club last week
and after five successive losses he
needs a drastic improvement in
performance as his side prepare to
host Aston Villa this evening.
Forest’s struggles have been
highlighted by Jesse Lingard, who has
so far been an expensive gamble that
has not paid off with the 29-year-old
failing to score or contribute an assist
in any of his first seven games. The
former Manchester United attacker
arrived on a free transfer in the
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opening half. Leeds, going into the
match four places above Palace,
dominated the opening exchanges
and Brenden Aaronson, the young
American star, proved a handful for
an off-colour Palace defence.
Aaronson, dubbed the “Medford
Messi” after the New Jersey township
where he grew up, produced a
Messi-esque dribble in the Palace
area, slaloming past three defenders
and hurdling a trailing leg before his
shot came back off the post. Pascal
Struijk reacted quickest to scramble it
home, nutmegging Joel Ward on the
goalline in the process.
Vicente Guaita, the Palace
goalkeeper, had a shaky start after
gifting possession to Leeds on two
occasions but did prevent the away
side from extending their lead with a
one-on-one save from Patrick
Bamford after an incisive through ball
by another influential American,
Tyler Adams.
Bamford, who is pivotal for Leeds,
has been plagued with injury
problems in recent seasons and is one
short of 100 career league goals.
Marsch hopes he can be part of the
solution to his side’s wasteful finishing
when he is back in peak condition,
but he would rue his miss, as Palace
equalised out of nothing, a curling
Michael Olise free kick receiving the
slightest of touches from Odsonne
Édouard to find the net.
Hearts were in Palace mouths as
they awaited the results of a lengthy
VAR review, fearing another armpit
offside, but Édouard was marginally
behind a Leeds defender and the goal
stood. It was a mark of Leeds’s
dominance that Marsch was so
unhappy not to be ahead at the break,
berating the fourth official as he
walked along the touchline to the
tunnel. “The first half was one of the
best 45 minutes we’ve had since I’ve
been here,” Marsch said. “It was a
summer and his £100,000-a-week-
plus wages have now shattered the
pay structure at the City Ground.
“We need our really good players to
play well, there’s no doubt about it,”
Cooper said.
“Now is not the time to be
talking about individuals.
It’s really about the Nottm Forest relegation battle in his
narrative of being
together, as much as we v Aston Villa
can. That’s what you do TV: Sky Sports Main Event/
in tough times, you stick Premier League from 7pm. Forest’s promotion last
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“We can’t just say [it’s]
him [Lingard], whether it’s the
goalkeeper or striker or everyone
in between.
“Everybody has to play well. If we
can do that in our way and in our
team then that’s how we improve.
Eze provided an injection of dynamite for Palace as he secured the club their first victory in five Premier League matches
shame to go in 1-1 at half-time. When
you go through matches we have had,
we have had moments where we are
on top of things, but don’t score
enough goals.”
Palace have endured a difficult start
to the season, having played Chelsea,
Manchester City, Liverpool and
Arsenal during their opening seven
matches and appeared a little rusty in
their attacking passages of play, neat
interchanges of possession offering
promise before coming to nothing.
A back-heel from Jordan Ayew,
who was bright for Palace, came
shortly before he was eventually
substituted after a significant blow to
the head in the first half that resulted
“You build confidence, you build
spirit and the results will improve, so
we’ve got to earn that.”
Having scored at the World Cup
and been a key performer for
Manchester United and West
Ham United in recent years,
Lingard will not have had a
mind when he decided on
his surprise move to the
City Ground after
season.
Cooper admits Lingard is
feeling frustrated, but said his
huge wage was no reason to
single him out for criticism.
“I don’t think you can go, and with
respect, write that just about Jesse,”
he said.
in him being bandaged up, began
bleeding again.
As the clock ticked on, Palace’s
recent penchant for conceding late
goals must have been playing on the
mind of Vieira — in his programme
notes he had berated the fact they
came away from their match against
Chelsea with nothing after Conor
Gallagher’s 90th-minute winner.
He urged more aggression and
better game management from his
side. It proved that the best kind of
defence was, in fact, attack, a Wilfried
Zaha back-heel finding Eze, who
shimmied across the edge of the box
before slotting in the bottom corner
in the 76th minute.
“He’s a high-profile player but we
don’t treat him differently here. He
will be feeling exactly like everybody
else, I’m sure, but it’s all about looking
forward now and improving on what’s
happened over the past few weeks.”
Tonight’s visitors Aston Villa are on
the way up after a difficult start to the
season, and have gone three games
unbeaten, including a 1-1 draw with
Manchester City.
Having fixed some defensive issues,
the Villa manager Steven Gerrard
now hopes things start to fire at the
other end of the pitch, with goals
proving to be a problem.
“We want to push individuals to
keep edging closer to their top form,”
Gerrard said. “Once we get players
where we need them we are a good
team and we will be where we want to
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8
Premier League goals
for Odsonne Édouard —
and all have come in
London (seven at home,
one at the Emirates)
“Today wasn’t pretty, but we
showed different tools that we need to
win football matches,” Vieira said.
“It was a good performance from
[Eze] and he is getting better and
better. I am pleased for him, but I am
pleased for the team, I think the
players deserved to finally win a
football match. We had some really
good performances where we didn’t
get the win.”
Eze, 24, is busy honing his chess
skills when he is not on the pitch,
and his strike was the checkmate that
gave Palace some breathing
space from the relegation zone and a
first win in five Premier League
matches.
be. The poor start we had has been
well documented. We were conceding
too many goals and we weren’t
getting the results we wanted.
“We needed to regroup, go back to
basics and become more difficult to
play against. We have found our base
and our defensive structure, and
when people get back to their top
form in attacking areas, we will get
better results.”
Nottingham Forest (probable; 4-2-3-1):
D Henderson — S Aurier, W Boly,
S McKenna, R Lodi — R Yates, O Mangala —
J Lingard, M Gibbs-White, B Johnson —
T Awoniyi.
Aston Villa (4-3-3): E Martínez — M Cash,
E Konsa, T Mings, A Young — J Ramsey,
D Luiz, J McGinn — E Buendía, O Watkins,
P Coutinho.
Referee A Taylor.
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thegame

Maths genius has

City’s £15m
outlay for Akanji
looks like good
business for a
versatile player

become perfect
addition for Pep
Manchester City
Cancelo 20, Foden 32, Mahrez 49, Haaland 65
Southampton
RATINGS
Manchester City (4-3-3): Ederson 6 — M Akanji
7, R Dias 7, N Aké 7, J Cancelo 9 (S Gomez
70min, 6) — K De Bruyne 8 (J Álvarez 70, 6),
Rodri 7, B Silva 6 (R Lewis 82) — R Mahrez 7
(C Palmer 80), E Haaland 6, P Foden 8
(J Grealish 57, 7).
Southampton (4-4-2): G Bazunu 8 — K Walker-
Peters 5 (J Larios 78), A Bella-Kotchap 6,
M Salisu 6, R Perraud 6 — S Armstrong 5
(M Djenepo 65, 5), I Diallo 5, J Ward-Prowse 5,
J Aribo 5 (S Mara 78) — A Armstrong 5
(M Elyounoussi 65, 5), C Adams 6. Booked
Walker-Peters.
Referee A Madley. Attendance 53,365.
IAN WHITTELL
Perhaps there is an alternative
football reality in which Erling
Haaland is not the best signing
Manchester City made in the summer
transfer window after all; in fact not
even the best signing Pep Guardiola
made from Borussia Dortmund in
2022.
And if anyone could solve the
equation of that particular sci-fi
physics conundrum, then Haaland’s
team-mate Manuel Akanji may be
just the man to do it.
post and could score “only” one goal,
4 Akanji played superbly at right back,
the position that the injured Kyle
Walker vacated this week.
0 The England full back will not play
for his club until Boxing Day and
John Stones, a potential stand-in for
Sunday’s game away to Liverpool, is
also out injured.
Akanji looks a probable to fill that
position at Anfield — and not just
because of the prodigious mental-
arithmetic skills he showcased in a
remarkable demonstration for the
Sky cameras this week — the answer
to 93 x 60 was delivered without the
blink of an eye.
“I said for this season we need a
striker and a central defender. We
were lucky to get him,” Guardiola
said. “He’s very pleased how his whole
life is compared to Erling. He’s a
person who is at home with the
family, studying mathematics.
“We are very pleased with him,
now I discover today when we went
three at the back and we needed him
on the right, with the absence of Kyle
and John.
“He had a chance to play right back
and it’s so important we have another
weapon at set pieces, with long balls,
how aggressive he is with the ball, he
is the whole package.
“Yes, it takes players a long time to
the right, I am there. It depends on
who we play. We built up with three
at the back most of the time against
Southampton so I didn’t stay wide. It
was basically what I do as a centre
back so it made it pretty normal for
me.
“When the ball was up high you
obviously have to run a little bit more
— more intensive runs than I am
used to — but it was OK.”
Even factoring in a fee that looks
risibly low, Akanji’s move to the
Etihad will obviously not have had
quite the same dramatic impact as
Haaland’s but, pound for pound, the
defender may still be one of the best
signings of the year.
“Erling texted me, then my agents
talked with the club,” Akanji said.
“Erling said that they had asked him
about me. I think they had already
made their plans but just wanted
some more information so asked
Erling. I don’t know what he said —
hopefully just good words.”
As for Haaland, the unthinkable
happened after 13 minutes when he
could only strike the post when
played clean through on Gavin
Bazunu, although it hardly mattered,
as goals poured in from Cancelo, Phil
Foden and Riyad Mahrez before
Haaland finally scored after 65
minutes for his 20th goal in 12 games,

Such was the extreme case of
Haaland-mania that accompanied the
striker’s transfer from Germany, and
his performances over the first two
months of his City career, that Akanji
trod the same path from the
Bundesliga as the Norwegian with
barely a ripple.
Part of that was due to his modest
£15 million fee but, with City
experiencing multiple injury problems
in defence, the 27-year-old
Switzerland defender has been fast-
tracked into regular football, with
spectacular results.
On Saturday, with Haaland actually
making a “mistake” as he struck a
settle here, but when you are
intelligent — I didn’t know him but
you realise immediately — I only had
to tell him once and he knows it. It’s a
gift for a manager, a gift.”
City’s tactic of pushing left back
João Cancelo into midfield, left them,
effectively, with three at the back
while in possession, which might have
played to Akanji’s strengths but still
impressed his manager who claimed
it took him just one training session
to learn the right-back role.
Akanji said: “At every club there
have been some games at right back
but my best position is still at centre
back but, when the team needs me on
4
at an average of one every 47.7
minutes.
Little wonder Southampton lost
and, while the pressure mounts on Or more goals for City
their manager Ralph Hasenhüttl, in five consecutive top
his fate will surely not be determined flight home games.
by a result in which his team kept Spurs (1963) were the
City below the average of five goals a last team to do that
game that Guardiola’s team had
maintained over their first four home
league games.
“After this game, we have no
clarity,” said Hasenhüttl of his job
security. “I know the clarity is that I
come in tomorrow, we must analyse
this game and prepare for a tough
home game against West Ham.”

Kane happy for his joint best start to remain in

Brighton
Tottenham
Kane 22
RATINGS
Brighton & Hove Albion (3-5-2): R Sánchez
6 — J Veltman 6 (T Lamptey 88min),
L Dunk 6, A Webster 6 — S March 7,
P Gross 7 (A Lallana 82), A Mac Allister 7,
M Caicedo 6 (B Gilmour 89), P Estupinan 7
(K Mitoma 67) — L Trossard, D Welbeck 6.
Booked Veltman.
Tottenham Hotspur (3-5-2): H Lloris 7 —
C Romero 6, E Dier 7, B Davies 7 —
M Doherty 7, P Hojbjerg 8, Y Bissouma 6
(Richarlison 70), R Bentancur 7,
R Sessegnon 7 — Son Heung-min 8
(I Perisic 80), H Kane (O Skipp 90). Booked
Bissouma, Kane.
Referee T Harrington.
Attendance 31,498.
GREGOR ROBERTSON
It would be rather easy, as the nation
0 bows at the feet of the Nordic Goal
God Erling Braut Haaland, to
overlook the prolific start to the
1 season made by a mere mortal: Harry
Edward Kane.
In any other season, Kane, whose
eight goals from nine games represent
his joint-best start to a Premier
League campaign, would find himself
in that most comforting of places for
a striker, sitting atop the goalscoring
charts.
And yet, barring injury to Haaland,
the Manchester City phenom who
scored his 15th league goal of the
season this weekend, Kane’s chances
of adding a fourth Premier League
golden boot to his haul already
appear over ten days into October.
“Look, the golden boot’s something
you can talk about in April time, or
around that time, there’s a long way
to go in the season,” Kane said after
scoring the only goal against Brighton
& Hove Albion on Saturday. “I’m
someone who concentrates on my
game, what I can do for the team.
That’s the most important thing, and
that’s what I’ll continue to do.”
How strange is it, though, to
witness someone scoring at a rate
that defies all convention? “I said
before the season, we’ve had great
strikers in the Premier League, great
players in the Premier League, and
obviously [Haaland has] had a really
good start to the season — as has
their team,” Kane said.
“It’s not something I think about
too much. I try to concentrate on
what I can do, and control, and that’s
doing my best for this team with and
without the ball. Thankfully I was
able to nick one today and go home
with three points.
“I’m feeling good.
There’s a long way to go,
a lot of games to play —
every three or four days
now — so I’m just making
sure I recover well and get
ready for the next one.”
The England captain’s
decisive goal was typical Kane
— equal parts the right place,
the right time and the
instinct to stoop and divert a
cross-shot beyond
Robert Sánchez
from six yards. The
source, Son Heung-
min, was familiar too.
This was the 43rd time the
top flight’s most deadly duo
Kane is fast closing in
on Greaves’ Tottenham
goalscoring record
have combined to score for Spurs.
Kane, moreover, is now only ten goals
shy of Jimmy Greaves’s record of 266
goals for the club in all
competitions.
Matt Doherty, the Spurs
wingback, admitted “it’s
hard not to look [at
Haaland] when he’s
scoring that many goals”,
but added: “Harry Kane’s
done it. for how many
years on the spin now?
He just keeps going about
his business, scoring goals
almost every game. For me,
he’s the best striker in the
world.”
Doherty, in the absence of
the suspended Emerson
Royal, was handed his first
Premier League start since
suffering a knee injury in April,
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Haaland’s shadow . . . for now
while Yves Bissouma was included in
midfield against his former club as
Antonio Conte sacrificed a forward,
Richarlison, to switch to a 3-5-2
formation.
Wingback, though, continues to be
Spurs’ biggest issue. Conte has five
players for two positions and yet the
only one he truly has faith in is Ivan
Perisic, 33, who was rested after his
exertions against Eintracht Frankfurt
in midweek. Ryan Sessegnon’s final
ball infuriated Conte on Saturday,
while Djed Spence continues to warm
the bench.
Doherty, 30, spurned a glorious
chance at the back post in the first
half, but defended well in the closing
stages after Conte’s stinging response
to questions last week about the
Ireland wingback’s lack of action.
“I’m not stupid, I don’t want to lose,”
Conte had said.
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CAN YOU MATCH AKANJI’S
AMAZING ABILITY AT
MENTAL ARITHMETIC?
Guimarães: I feel
In a Sky Sports interview the City
defender solved these sums in
between one and two seconds I’m a Geordie now
Newcastle Utd
Guimarães 21, 56, Murphy 28, Almirón 82,
5 this was special. My parents were in
Pinnock (og) 90
Brentford
Toney 54 (pen)
1 His second goal, which was drilled
RATINGS
Newcastle United (4-3-3): N Pope 6 —
K Trippier 8 (K Targett 84min), F Schär 7,
S Botman 8, D Burn 7 — S Longstaff 7,
B Guimarães 8 (A Saint-Maximin 77),
J Willock 7 — M Almirón 7 (E Anderson 84),
C Wilson 7 (C Wood 84), J Murphy 7 (Joelinton
See how you get on, answers below 65, 6).
Brentford (5-3-2): D Raya 4 — A Hickey 5 (S
Ghoddos 83), K Ajer 6, B Mee 6
(M Damsgaard 71, 4), E Pinnock 4. R Henry 6
A 23 x 42 — S Baptiste 5 (F Onyeka 62, 4), M Jensen 6,
J Dasilva 5 (V Janelt 46, 4) — B Mbeumo 6
(Y Wissa 62, 4), I Toney 6. Booked
Toney 45.
Referee J Brooks.
B (93 x 60) + 20 Attendance 52,067.
MARTIN HARDY
C 89 x 5 NORTHERN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT
At some point, perhaps later this
week if nature takes its intended path, second half before the Brazilian then
D 26 x 77 Bruno Guimarães’s son will be born.
“Will he be a Geordie?” the
Newcastle midfielder was asked.
“Yes,” he replied. “I never thought
E 83 x 4 this, but yes. I feel at home
here.”
A day after the one-
year anniversary of
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Answers A. 966 B. 5,600 C. 445 D. 2,002 E. 332
Newcastle United’s
£305 million takeover,
it felt fitting that the
Since his debut in
most important
February, Guimarães has
addition to the club
scored more league
during those dramatic
goals than any other
first few months
Newcastle player
bewitched Tyneside once
more.
Guimarães is a lovely
footballer to watch, an expert in the
arts of movement and touch and
blessed with the vision to see how the
game will unfold before others. Great
attacking players know what a
defensive player is about to do. When
Shandon Baptiste came in to
challenge Guimarães, the Brazil
playmaker simply flicked the ball over
the Brentford player’s head with his
first touch and then set Newcastle on
another attack with his second.
The 24-year-old scored a goal in
the first half that came from a
textbook set-piece move, arriving late
on the left ten yards out and straining
his neck to add power to a downward
header that went into the ground and
across David Raya into the far corner.
He added his second and Newcastle’s
econd half
third in the second
with a wonderful rful 25-yard
“Look, I spoke to the manger when shots to Spurs’ eight — but, tellingly, mbined
strike that combined
I was on international [duty], I know only three of those attempts were on hnique.
poise and technique.
what he expects of me,” Doherty target. “I recovered d the ball
said. “I took no offence to the Some of Brighton’s risky build-up and went to do o a pass,”
comments at all. I knew that I would play frayed the nerves of the home Guimarães said. id. “I didn’t
continue to train hard and that if an support but Adam Webster spoke see anybody though. hough. I
opportunity did arise I’d be good about seeing new “patterns” in the thought, ‘I’ll justust
enough to take it. team’s play under De Zerbi. “It’s all shoot’ and it was
“The last four-to-six weeks I’ve about how we can react off the beautiful. It
started to feel like myself again. The pressure that’s coming at us to make was importantt
way the manager wants to play we space and get the No 10s on the ball, because
know how important the wingbacks midfielders on the ball,” the Brighton Brentford
are. defender said. “We have to take risks, scored two
“We have to be at the back post one and as long as we’re in the right minutes
end and at the back post at the other positions then we can get out and before so it
end. I think if I get a run of games I’d hurt teams.” was vital.
really start to shine again.” The difference, however, as is so “That
Brighton welcomed their new head often the case, was Kane. “He’s second goal
coach Roberto De Zerbi to the Amex proven over the last ten years how made me really ly
Stadium for his first home game in good a striker he is,” Webster said. “It ficult
happy. It’s difficult
charge. They dominated possession wasn’t really a chance, it was a goal
for long spells, had 29 touches in the out of nothing. We switched off Guimarães after ter his
opposition box to Spurs’ 16, and 14 slightly, and he punished us.” “beautiful” strike rike
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to speak about the best moments but
the stadium, my son will be born in
the next week, so I am so grateful. It
is one of the best days of my life.”
into the bottom corner of Raya’s net,
was his seventh strike since arriving
from Lyon for £35 million in January.
No Newcastle player has scored more
goals in that time.
Guimarães’s move from France has
been seamless and he has quickly
become a favourite among the club’s
supporters. Eddie Howe, the
Newcastle manager, is careful with his
words, but when asked if a footballer
who cost £35 million could be
considered cheap, he said: “I find it
difficult with that number but I would
say that he’s a bargain in today’s
climate.”
After Guimarães had put his side
ahead in the 21st minute, Jacob
Murphy added a second seven
minutes later. Ivan Toney pulled the
deficit back with a penalty in the
restored the two-goal cushion. It was
in the 77th minute when Guimarães,
who has recently recovered from a
hamstring injury, signalled to Howe
that he had “run himself out”
as his head coach described
it.
Guimarães is a very
intelligent man, which
is evident in his perfect
use of English, and he
knew when to leave
the field. He is also
well aware that there is
growing interest in him.
Real Madrid were
reportedly suitors in the
summer.
“Real Madrid is the best team in the
world,” he said. “It is nice [to be linked
with them]. It was just a conversation,
but it is nothing. The ground loves me
and I love them. No joking, I am at
home here. I need to keep going.”
He also knows that this is just the
start of change at Newcastle, which is
now 80 per cent owned by Saudi
Arabia’s public investment fund. The
club moved up into fifth place on
Saturday and have scored nine goals
in their past two games.
“It is the beginning of the project,”
he said. “It is important to be in this
position at the end of the Premier
League. It is step by step and game by
game but it is nice to win. I think we
have the team to keep it going. The
last game against Fulham [a 4-1 away
win] was very importan
important. We have
showed what we are tra training for.
“I am happy for the gaffer g as well.
He always puts the stra strategy down in
such a smart way.”
Guimarães had dyed his hair a
peroxide blond before th the game. “My
wife doesn’t like it a lot, but I will keep
it for ever after sc scoring two,” he
said.
B
Brentford’s
g
generosity
i
increased after
Guimarães
went off.
Ethan
Pinnock was
short with a
b
back-pass to
Raya that Miguel Almirón
capitalised on to score, before
the defender put a Joelinton
cross past his ow own goalkeeper
to complete a mi miserable day
Fran side.
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Broja looks natural heir to Costa JUSTIN SETTERFIELD/GETTY IMAGES

Chelsea
Havertz 45+3, Pulisic 54, Broja 89
3 Southampton and Crystal Palace
Wolves 0 Chelsea. Potter, though, has somehow
RATINGS
Chelsea (4-2-3-1) K Arrizabalaga 6 —
C Azpilicueta 7, T Chalobah 7, K Koulibaly 6,
M Cucurella 6 — R Loftus-Cheek 6
(M Kovacic 66min, 6), Jorginho 6 —
C Gallagher 7 (C Chukwuemeka 86),
M Mount 8 (R James 72), C Pulisic 7
(A Broja 72) — K Havertz 7 (H Ziyech 86).
Booked Azpilicueta, Jorginho.
Wolverhampton Wanderers (4-2-3-1) J Sá 6 —
N Semedo 6, M Kilman 6, Toti 6, Jonny 5
(R Ait-Nouri 72)— J Moutinho 7, M Nunes 7 —
A Traoré 6 (Campbell) , D Podence 6,
G Guedes 5 (Hodge 45, 6) — D Costa 5
(Hwang Hee-Chan 56, 6).
Referee S Hooper.
Attendance 39,940.
TOM RODDY
In years to come Chelsea may well
reflect on Saturday as the day that
those at Stamford Bridge witnessed a
moment of succession. Thirty-four
minutes after Diego Costa’s farewell
to his old club, the home spectators
put those fuzzy feelings of nostalgia
aside to celebrate the first goal of
Armando Broja’s crystallising career.
Could it be that the Spaniard’s
long-awaited successor had been
there all along?
Álvaro Morata, Timo Werner
and Romelu Lukaku are among a
high-profile list of strikers, signed for
almost £300 million since Costa’s
acrimonious exit in the summer of
2017, who stumbled under the
pressure of trying to fill his boots.
Five years on, Costa is considered to
be part of an exclusive society of
No 9s to thrive here.
The nature of his departure, filled
with threats and fines after being
ostracised by Antonio Conte, the
head coach at the time, was not
reflected in his return, wearing the
gold of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Substituted in the 56th minute,
Costa was given a standing ovation,
applauding fans who reached out for
high fives as their two-time Premier
League winner walked around the
Broja celebrates his first goal for Chelsea on a day when the club great Costa made a nostalgic return to Stamford Bridge
perimeter of the pitch in what, in
truth, was the moment of the match.
“It was a very special day,” Costa,
34, said. “I was so happy here. It’s
when you leave somewhere [that]
you realise just how happy you were.
I have been at a lot of clubs with
great fanbases, but I think that the
fans here have given me the most
support. There’s something different
about them.”
Costa embraced old friends with
warm smiles and hugs, but there was
one verbal punch he could not resist.
“I’ve never had a problem with the
fans,” Costa said of his exit. “I left in
bad terms with that manager [Conte].
I left a champion for the second time
[in 2017] and he didn’t count on me.”
Few know the story better than
Broja, a boyhood Chelsea fan who
grew up idolising Didier Drogba. The
21-year-old was raised in a single
room in Slough that he shared with
his Albanian parents and sisters. The
love of football came from his father,
Xhevahir, a former bricklayer who
now owns a company that installs
swimming pools. Saturday was
Xhevahir’s 48th birthday, opportune
timing for his son to score his first
goal for the club he joined in 2009,
aged eight. “It was a really good gift
for him,” Broja said. “My dad played a
big role of getting me here.”
Similar in build to Costa, Broja’s
qualities are often reduced to his
physical attributes. At 6ft 3in, he has
2
Mason Mount provide two
assists for the second time
in a Premier League
game
the ability to lead the line and hold
the ball up as those with a reputation
for technical skills swarm forward.
But Broja’s goal against Wolves
offered evidence to the contrary: the
product of a perfectly timed run,
leaning on the last line of defence,
attentive and alert, before some neat
touches and an accurate, fizzing finish
sparked the celebrations.
Whether Broja does, indeed,
emerge as the striker Chelsea have
long been searching for is far from
clear. And yet failure to do so will not
be down to a lack of opportunity. The
soft touch used by Graham Potter, the
new head coach, appears to be paying
off. Players such as Broja and Conor
Gallagher, academy products who
had excelled on loan last season, with
respectively, had struggled to perform
under the pressure of playing for
lifted the weight of expectation off
their shoulders.
Given the competition for places,
it would not have been easy for Potter
to leave out some big names. Yet the
47-year-old chose to leave the
summer signings Pierre-Emerick
Aubameyang and Raheem Sterling
on the substitutes’ bench in favour
of a fourth appearance in as many
games for Broja.
“When you are not starting, it is
always a disappointment, but you
have to have the right mentality,”
Broja said. “When the coach puts you
on the pitch, you need to show him,
the team and the fans that you should
be coming on to challenge for that
starting spot.”
And so to the San Siro, Chelsea’s
Champions League game tomorrow
night against the Italian champions,
AC Milan, and a club Broja knows
well given his father’s admiration for
the Brazilian Ronaldo. “He loved him,
watched him all the time, and always
wanted me to play like R9,” Broja said.
“He would always show me clips on
YouTube and we would sit and watch
games of him. I watch a lot of his
games and try and get little bits of
tricks and stuff he did.”
Footage of Costa from five years
ago could help too, but Wolves may
be worried about his waning powers.
Perhaps it was the Chelsea love-in
that blunted those famous tools of
destruction, but the managerless
Midlands club are now in the Premier
League’s bottom three and in need of
shaking into shape.
Julen Lopetegui, the former Sevilla
and Spain coach, is the favourite to
succeed the popular Bruno Lage.
“It was the club’s decision, but we
were all quite upset because we really
liked him,” Costa said. “It was a big
shame, but that is life and we have to
keep moving forward. We have to
turn the page now and get out of this
situation that we find ourselves in.
That’s our objective.”

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WONDERS
Chief Football Writer on City’s
class act and football’s morals
Foden is now among the league’s best
As the Haaland
midfield eventually but for
apprentice at
Sheffield United, there have
been six prime ministers,
nine sports ministers, 18
Chelsea managers, 25
Watford managers, all eight
Harry Potter films and six
different actors playing
Doctor Who. And Jagielka is
still going strong at 40,
giving everything for Stoke
individuals in the
Premier League, and the
goalkeeper was the perfect
choice to carry the shirt
bearing the name of
Tottenham Hotspur’s late
fitness coach, Gian Piero
Ventrone, and to show it to
the fans, who sung “Gian
Piero” after full-time against
Brighton & Hove Albion.
put away the
loose ball after the AC Milan
goalkeeper Dida saved his
second-half penalty for
Liverpool in the Champions
League final in 2005 because
Alonso is one of the best
people you could meet. Those
whose know Alonso are
desperate for him to do well
in his first management steps
and also keep in
mind the sportswashing of
their Saudi Arabian owners. It
is possible to attend games at
St James’ Park and revel in the
football conjured up by players
such as Bruno Guimarães, the
remarkable 24-year-old
Brazilian, who scored twice
against Brentford, first with a
well-worked header and later

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on, Phil Foden,
Manchester City’s
homegrown
22-year-old, goes from
strength to strength. Partly it
is the space that Foden
increasingly enjoys as
opponents fixate on Erling
Haaland, a point eloquently
made by Ian Wright on Match
of the Day, but it is also his
own transformation into one
of the Premier League’s best
players, under Pep Guardiola’s
guidance and his own drive.
He may drop into central
now he’s such a force out
wide, playing on the left
against Southampton to
accommodate Riyad Mahrez
on the right. Foden’s passing
City, and now scoring
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England to
face Italy
in trickiest
Euros group
MARTYN ZIEGLER
CHIEF SPORTS REPORTER, FRANKFURT
England drew the toughest group for
qualifying for Euro 2024 but manager
Gareth Southgate said the “jeopardy”
caused by the risk of missing out
would build the excitement around
the competition.
Group C contains Italy, England’s
conquerors in the Euro 2020 final,
and Southgate has yet to get the
better of his opposite number Roberto
Mancini in three meetings over the
last two years. Ukraine, North
Macedonia — who beat Italy to
qualify for the World Cup — and
Malta make up the group.
Southgate’s three previous
qualifying campaigns have been little
more than a procession, with 23 wins
and only one defeat in 28 matches,
but for the Euro 2024 draw England
were second seeds rather than among
the top countries.
“It’s a challenging group,” he said.
“Once you’re in Pot 2 of seeds you
know there’s going to be high-level
games, and we certainly know
enough about Italy, so it’s not like
there’s too many surprises. England’s
record against Italy is generally not
very good — and we’ve got to
improve that.
“Ukraine are a really strong team,
and as North Macedonia showed
against Italy, that’s also got
complications. I suppose it’s the first
time for a while where there’s maybe
a bit more jeopardy and excitement in
a qualifying group. It’s good for
football, because you need that
jeopardy to make it more exciting.”
If a sense of perspective was needed
for England’s Euro 2024 qualifying
campaign it was provided by
Oleksandr Petrakov, the Ukraine
Huddersfield embrace tough love to turn season around
Huddersfield
Coyle (og) 29, Helik 51
2 guide, Mark Fotheringham’s reign
Hull City 0 Huddersfield Town players. It will be
RATINGS
Huddersfield Town (3-4-1-2): L Nicholls 8 —
T Lees 8, M Helik 9, Y Nakayama 8 —
S Thomas 8, J Rudoni 8 (C Mahoney 66min, 7),
E Camara 8, B Jackson 8 (J Ruffels 78) —
D Holmes 7 (O Turton 78) — D Ward 7
(C Ondo 88), J Rhodes 8. Booked Nakayama,
Mahoney, Thomas, Ondo.
Hull City (4-2-3-1): N Baxter 5 — L Coyle 2,
A Jones 4, J Greaves 4, C Elder 4 (D Sinik 46, 5)
— R Slater 4 (G Docherty 56, 5), O Tufan 4
(J M Seri 55, 5) — C Christie 4, D Pelkas 5
(R Woods 55, 4), R Longman 3 (T Smith 86) —
O Estupinán 3. Booked Slater, Christie,
Longman.
Referee T Robinson. Attendance 18,628.
SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP
JASON MELLOR
1GG
head coach, expressing the hope that
his team could play some of their
matches in cities such as Kyiv, Lviv or
even Kharkiv.
Ukraine have been playing their
home matches in Poland since
Russia’s invasion — which is also why
Russia have been excluded from the
2024 competition — and Southgate
expects an “emotional” match when
they come to Wembley.
As was evident when they beat
Scotland in the World Cup play-off
in June, Ukraine will have enormous
goodwill from opposition supporters,
something Petrakov acknowledged.
“I feel it and the players feel it,” he
said. “At many of our matches there
are children with their mums and
their grandmothers and they fill us
with support from other countries
in Europe. We are so grateful as it is a
special feeling, and in return we
would like to wish that they never feel
the effects of war in their country.
“We live our lives day by day. Any
day you never know what could
happen, because the people who are
against us could do anything. Every
day many people die in our country.
It is hard to say what it will be like
by 2024.”
Before Southgate can turn his mind
to Ukraine he has to come through
the World Cup in Qatar. His contract
as England manager runs until
December 2024 and although he
retains the full support of the FA
leadership, he accepts that whether he
will be in charge by the time the finals
in Germany come around depends to
a large extent on how England
perform the World Cup.
The 52-year-old believes that the
congested club schedule before the
tournament kicks off on November
20 will lead to him losing more
players through injury, with Kyle
If his first fortnight in charge is a
promises to be more stick than carrot
when it comes to dealing with his
fascinating to see if it is an approach
that ultimately bears fruit.
Victory in the Scot’s first home
match since leaving his role as the
Hertha Berlin assistant manager lifted
Huddersfield to within two points of
escaping the relegation zone. The
straight-talking 38-year-old, though,
will not be resting on his laurels in
training this week.
“I care for these players and I’ll
build strong relationships with them,”
Fotheringham said. “But if you show
me bad body language or you are
sloppy, you won’t play in my team.
There were certain aspects that I
wasn’t happy with and you probably
heard me telling the team that in the
Jordan Pickford and Raheem Sterling will want to settle a painful score against Italy
Walker and Kalvin Phillips already
doubts.
“What I see is a really packed
schedule, a lot of players playing a lot
of minutes, and realistically we will
lose more,” said Southgate, who will
name his squad shortly before the
final Premier League weekend before
the tournament, which starts seven
days later on November 20. “It’s so
intense and the players have had so
much football.”
An expanded squad size of 26
players, instead of 23, allowed
Southgate to gamble on the fitness
of Jordan Henderson and Harry
Maguire when they suffered injuries
before Euro 2020, a tactic that paid
off. He may therefore adopt a similar
approach for Qatar.
“I think you can [take risks] with
the additional squad members,”
dressing room at half-time. I was
angry, but we responded.
“As a head coach, I need to shout at
the players, to challenge them and
make the environment more
competitive. I’m not here to be their
friend. I’m going all in on this.
“If you coast in training you will
not be in my team, whether that’s
Jordan Rhodes on the big money or
Etienne Camara on the small money.
When we train it’s competitive. I don’t
need it to be a paradise at that
training ground, I need it to be
aggressive and horrible. We’ve got to
work and sweat and fight.”
After the unexpected collapse of a
deal to install the Portuguese coach
Pedro Martins as the successor to
Shota Arveladze this week, this result
rounded off a miserable few days for
Hull City. Unfortunately for the
Huddersfield supporters, the fixture
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER MARC ASPLAND
Southgate said. “With Kyle and
Kalvin, I would imagine they’re not
going to get a lot of football before
the tournament. It’s just working out
what their core fitness levels will be,
because we’ve got no friendlies.”
Southgate also revealed that talks
are being held with senior England
players to decide on the level of
access for families during the World
Cup. Most are staying on a cruise ship
and there are concerns that a Covid
outbreak among family members
could lead to players being isolated.
“We would have a preference that
families can engage [with players],
because that’s better for everybody,”
he said. “But how much risk do you
want to take? Because if you lose a
player, or two players, that may be
their only opportunity to play at the
World Cup, and I’m sure their
computer will not acquiesce to their
desire to play Hull every week, but on
the evidence of this listless display the
requests from the stands were wholly
understandable.
It was an afternoon to forget for
Lewie Coyle, who began his side’s
demise by deflecting a 29th-minute
cross from Camara, Huddersfield’s
promising teenage French midfielder,
into his own net.
Worse followed for the Hull captain
when he was easily outjumped at the
far post by Michal Helik, as the
Huddersfield defender headed in his
team’s second from a lofted Danny
Ward cross six minutes into the
second half.
In mitigation, Coyle mustered
Hull’s first shot on target. The fact
that it arrived on the hour mark
spoke volumes of the paucity of their
attacking play. This latest dispiriting
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HOW QUALIFYING WORKS
GROUP A
Spain, Scotland, Norway, Georgia,
Cyprus
GROUP B
Holland, France, Ireland, Greece,
Gibraltar
GROUP C
Italy, England, Ukraine, North
Macedonia, Malta
GROUP D
Croatia, Wales, Armenia, Turkey,
Latvia
GROUP E
Poland, Czech Republic, Albania,
Faroe Islands, Moldova
GROUP F
Belgium, Austria, Sweden,
Azerbaijan, Estonia
GROUP G
Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro,
Bulgaria, Lithuania
GROUP H
Denmark, Finland, Slovenia,
Kazakhstan, Northern Ireland, San
Marino
GROUP I
Switzerland. Israel, Romania,
Kosovo, Belarus, Andorra
GROUP J
Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Iceland, Luxembourg, Slovakia,
Liechtenstein
Who qualfies?
The top two teams from each group
will go through to the finals, while 12
more teams will battle it out for
three additional spots via the
play-offs to be played in March
2024. The winners of the groups in
Leagues A, B and C of the Nations
League — which includes Scotland —
are guaranteed at least a play-off
place if they fail to finish in the top
two of their qualifying group.
families will realise that as well. It is a
decision that we’re talking with the
senior players about, and they’re
realising how complicated that is.”
Wales, who are also in Qatar, will
believe they have a good chance of
reaching a third consecutive major
tournament after being drawn with
Croatia, Armenia, Turkey and Latvia
in group D. Scotland, aiming to
qualify for a second successive Euros,
have been drawn against the three-
times European champions Spain in
group A, and will also have to face
Erling Haaland’s Norway, as well as
Georgia and Cyprus.
There was little luck for Ireland, as
they face France, the world
champions, Holland, Greece and
Gibraltar. Northern Ireland take on
Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, San
Marino and Kazakhstan in group H.
away performance leaves them
without a victory on the road since
April and sitting an uncomfortable
three points above the relegation
zone.
Ryan Longman wasted their
clearest chance in first-half stoppage
time when the midfielder, put
through on goal by Coyle, dragged his
shot narrowly wide. Óscar Estupiñán
fired wildly over with their final
opportunity, while at the other end,
Rhodes nearly stretched the
advantage for Huddersfield with an
angled drive that came back off the
post. Alfie Jones then cleared off the
line from Helik’s follow-up.
“We needed to start the game
better so it’s disappointing,” Andy
Dawson, the Hull interim manager,
reflected. “We didn’t show enough
quality on the ball and gave away two
poor goals.”
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POSTCARDS FROM THE PYRAMID stories from the EFL each weekend

Preston manager: Now call us boring PAUL GREENWOOD/SHUTTERSTOCK

“We are not boring,” insisted Debbie
Mahon, a Preston North End fan,
before her club’s game away to
Norwich City. “It’s not as bad as it
sounds. We’ve been ever so unlucky.”
Preston’s ensuing 3-2 victory, full of
incidents and momentum shifts, made
her seem clairvoyant.
Both teams led, with the deadlock
broken inside two minutes. There was
stoppage-time drama, as the hosts
had an equaliser disallowed for a soft,
off-the-ball foul by Grant Hanley.
And the final result, Norwich’s first
loss since August, is the great outlier
in Preston’s season.
In 12 Sky Bet Championship
matches before Saturday, Preston had
scored four goals and let in four. Five
of their first six fixtures ended 0-0.
They did not concede until their
eighth game and were yet to be
breached in five away matches. That
all changed in Norfolk.
“I hope people will stop talking
about it. A lot of managers would
have liked that record of not
conceding,” the Preston manager,
Ryan Lowe, said after the win, which
takes them within two points of the
play-off places. “We will score goals
and keep the back door shut. But it
does not matter how you win games.”
The dearth was unsustainable.
According to Opta, Preston had
accumulated 12.7 expected goals over
their first dozen games and allowed
13.1. There is also nothing in Lowe’s
free-flowing style to explain such a
drought at both ends.
“Their game on Wednesday against
West Bromwich Albion [a 1-0 win]
had goalmouth action,” the Norwich
manager, Dean Smith, said. “It wasn’t
what I didn’t expect and
unfortunately we did not take our
chances today.”
Preston fans, the helpless victims of
this statistical fluke, are therefore
content. ”I’ve loved it. Even the 0-0
games, I have never gone away
disappointed,” Richard Reynolds, who
follows the club home and away, said.
“It’s just this weird thing.”
He might have been disappointed
early on at Carrow Road, as Josh
Sargent fired past Freddie Woodman
to end Preston’s spotless away
defensive record.
Lowe’s preparation had been
hindered by a stomach bug running
through his squad but, if anything, the
adversity rallied them once they went
Bilic berates
his players
The honeymoon between
Watford and their new
manager Slaven Bilic
appears to have lasted
precisely six days after a
desultory 3-1 defeat away to
Blackpool.
A 4-0 win away to Stoke
City on Sunday, Bilic’s first
game, was encouraging but
a midweek 2-1 loss at home
to Swansea City stalled
momentum. Their display in
Lancashire, which helped
Blackpool to win for the first
time in five games, left the
straight-talking Bilic, left,
furious.
“We got what we
deserved today,” he said. “If
it wasn’t for our goalkeeper
it could have been 5-1. They
wanted it more than us.
They were competitive and
aggressive, especially in the
second half.
“I’m very disappointed.
It’s about time we picked
ourselves up and started
working as a team.
“I see quality on paper in
our squad but not on the
pitch, and certainly not
consistently. I don’t see a
group of players
determined to win every
game and willing to give
everything.”
behind. Robbie Brady’s cross in the
25th minute found Emil Riis, whose
header back past Tim Krul provoked
unbridled euphoria in the away end.
Norwich should have gone down to
ten men less than five minutes later,
THEY STAND OUT IN
CHAMPIONSHIP
No team has conceded fewer or
scored fewer than Preston
Goals against
Bristol City
20
10
Preston
North End
Goals for
0
0 5 10 15 20
but Sam Byram received just a yellow
card for sinking his studs into Alan
Browne’s thigh. Smith’s sense of
injustice over the Hanley foul on
Jordan Storey that prevented Kenny
McLean’s late equaliser was made less
valid by this decision.
Preston’s second goal, coming just
after half-time, also frustrated Smith.
Krul’s sloppy pass was dealt with by
neither Liam Gibbs nor Max Aarons,
and Álvaro Fernández pounced. The
19-year-old Manchester United
loanee, who had a fine all-round
game at left wingback, calmly squared
to Riis for a simple finish, marking
Preston’s first time scoring twice in a
league game this term.
Gabriel Sara equalised with his first
Norwich goal but, in the 80th minute,
Preston got the ugliest of winners.
Troy Parrott’s cross – which was
certainly not on target — took a
wicked deflection off Gibbs and Krul
could only palm the ball into the roof
of the net. Parrott turned to celebrate,
but immediately hurt his hamstring
and collapsed in agony. What better
way to encapsulate Preston’s
excruciating, compelling season?

Cardiff make height count Roberts shows Frustrating start for Warne
The Championship met Sunday
league at the
and the game began only seven
minutes late.
his worth Paul Warne, the new Derby County
manager, was left frustrated by the
wrong. But it’s just one game of many
I hope I manage here.
DW Stadium, as “I did ask if Jordan Roberts’s decision to leave dismissal of James Collins and a 2-1 “Hopefully, I manage here for years
Cardiff City’s 3-1 w could attack
we Scotland and reject offers from Sky defeat by Port Vale in his first home and years and look back and think,
win away to t
that end in Bet League One clubs may prove game in charge. that didn’t go as well as I wanted.”
Wigan Athletic b
both halves but significant in the League Two But that was nothing compared Having opened the scoring, Collins,
was played with tthey weren’t promotion race. with the lecture he admitted, in good the 31-year-old striker, was shown a
goals that were h
having that,” The 28-year-old former Hearts and humour, that he was facing from his straight red card for tussling with
different sizes. M
Mark Hudson, Motherwell midfielder scored both mother. Nathan Smith in the 58th minute, by
One of the tthe Cardiff goals in Stevenage’s 2-0 victory over “I walked on the pitch at about which time Port Vale had equalised
Cardiff coaches ccaretaker Swindon Town. The result made it 1.15pm and enjoyed that moment, on through a Ellis Harrison penalty.
claimed there m
manager, eight wins in ten league games for my own with some music on,” Warne James Wilson, the former Manchester
was a disparity q
quipped. “We Steve Evans’s side, and their tenth said. “So it was a great day for me and United striker, then scored the winner
before the game fflagged it consecutive home league victory. my family, although I’ve got to wait in the 66th minute to move his side
and it was sstraight away, Leyton Orient’s draw with Doncaster for my mum to tell me where I went up to 14th in League One.
subsequently aand then they Rovers means Stevenage are now top.
established that
one of the goals
was two inches
h
had to
rrecalibrate it
b
because of
“Jordan’s a top player,” Evans said.
“I took him on loan to Gillingham
and if I told you the figure why we
Challinor has EFL BASEMENT DWELLERS
Rochdale’s win against Newport
higher than the
permitted
height of 8ft.
H
Hawk-Eye [the
o
operator used for
ggoal-line
didn’t retain him, it would be
embarrassing.
“I’ve always felt there was a good
the last word County offers only brief respite from
their relegation fears
Most days in League Two
Faced with ttechnology in player there and kept in touch with Dave Challinor, the Stockport County relegation zone, 2022-23
the prospect of tthe Premier his performances through Robbie manager, gave a cryptic reply when
a two-hour L
League], I think.” Neilson, who is manager of Hearts. asked by local radio for four words to Rochdale
wait to make Cardiff’s third “And I kept in touch with Jordan describe the season after his team 58
the correction, ggoal, scored by personally and, when I got the collected their first away points in a Hartlepool United
both sides R
Ryan Wintle, opportunity to speak to him, and surprise 1-0 win against Bradford City. 48
agreed to play w
went in off the given that his family is from just “Frustrating, disappointing, maybe Crawley Town
with the u
underside of the north of Watford, I felt we had a good interesting or insightful might be the 20
inconsistency, ttaller crossbar. “It chance of getting him. He had last word,” he said. “That’s more to do Swindon Town
jjust sums up the multiple chances to play in League with different things that have been 7
The bar is still nott high d
day for us doesn’t One but he said he wanted to play for challenges off the pitch more than
enough for Wigan as Cardiff’s Ryan it?” Leam Ri h d
Richardson, the Wigan me and for the last three weeks he anything else, which maybe people Tranmere Rovers
Allsop watches this effort fly over manager said. has been outstanding.” don’t see.” 7
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‘David worked all his life - he hated that
players now earn more than surgeons’
The widow of midfield
great David Armstrong
tells Martin Hardy
how a dream trip ended
in unbearable tragedy
David Armstrong and his wife
Maureen were sitting at an al fresco
restaurant at the InterContinental
Hotel in Athens, overlooking the
Acropolis. They were enjoying a glass
of wine each before bed and thinking
about the seven-day cruise that would
eventually take them to Istanbul.
Armstrong had been one of the
most expensive players in the history
of English football in 1981, when the
midfielder moved from
Middlesbrough to Southampton for
£600,000. In terms of longevity he
still holds the record, at 358, for the
most consecutive Middlesbrough
appearances. “David never wanted to
give someone the chance to take his
place in the team,” Maureen says.
That work ethic had carried beyond
a playing career that peaked in an
11-goal season when Southampton
secured second place in Division One,
in 1983-84, the club’s highest league
finish, and in the three caps he won
for England. Armstrong celebrated
his 67th birthday in December last
year, still as a working man, having
cut his hours as an accounts manager
in office supplies to three days a week
so that he could spend more time
with his one-year-old granddaughter,
Lilly Isabella.
Earlier that August day in Athens
the couple had boarded a bus for a
sightseeing trip behind a young man
with a backpack featuring the
Southampton club crest. “David
tapped him on the shoulder and the
young man, who was 25, couldn’t
believe he’d met a Southampton
legend,” Maureen says.
The toast then, back at the hotel
and with the lights of the Acropolis
presenting the perfect backdrop for a
couple soon to be celebrating their
40th wedding anniversary, was to the
forthcoming cruise that the pair had
worked so hard for that year.
Life was good. Then, in Maureen’s
words, her world turned into an
“absolute nightmare”.
ilences, tears, sighs of
There will be silences,
air. Maureen
a deep, deep despair.
believes she now has an
occasional stammer mer because
of the devastation n that
llic night.
followed that idyllic
They had met in 1980,
in the restaurant of a
golf club in the
North East. She did
not even know who ho
Armstrong was.
“We were sat
chatting and he
was really lookingg
into my eyes, as iff
he was really
interested in whatt
I was saying,” she
says. “I said to
David, ‘What do
you do?’ and he
said, ‘I play
football.’ I said,
‘Uh-huh, but what at
ob?’
do you do for a job?’
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Maureen says. “He could have been a
travel agent.”
In Greece, they had finished their
wine and by 9pm were back in their
room. “David was watching the
football. I went off to sleep. He
obviously switched the television off
and during the night I heard a noise
and I didn’t know what it was. I went
to the bathroom and came back and
tried to get hold of David’s hand again
and his hand . . . he was really cold.
“I thought it was the air
conditioning so I got up. I touched his
arm, and I thought, ‘David, you’re
really cold, colder than you should be.’
“I went round to his side of the bed,
and . . . and . . . [there is a big pause] and
he had gone in his sleep.
“I couldn’t believe it. I still can’t
believe it, actually. It was the worst
feeling in the world.
She does not know how she coped
from there. “It was a nightmare after
that,” she adds. “I spent the whole day
on my own, talking to family and
friends, giving them the horrible
news. How did I get through it? I
really don’t know.
“You’re in a different country, you
don’t speak the language. Then you’re
in a hospital that is like a third-world
country. My husband is in the room,
and there is someone else in the room
behind a curtain. You can’t even say
goodbye properly, but obviously I
did.”
Justin, her son, arrived.
“We had to go to the police station
and that was a nightmare. It was dirty,
it was a small room. It was like
watching a bad movie. We were
standing in the police station and
there were drug addicts, people being
arrested sitting in these chairs that
had no arms because people had
pulled the arms off.
“There were holes in the walls
where people had kicked them
through. I just thought, ‘How am I in
this horrible position?’ Because
David’s death was a sudden death I
had to be questioned.
“After that we went to the funeral
director. He said, ‘You have to pay
now.’ What do I do? One credit card
worked, thankfully. I got another out
Armstrong playing for Middlesbrough, who sold him to Southampton for £600,000, and enjoying life with Maureen, inset and that was declined so I rang the
people and I said, ‘Can you tell me
and he said, ‘I play football and I get from Whitburn in Sunderland to She saw him play a game for the why my card has been declined?’ and
paid for it.’ Hampshire. Taking her two boys, first time at Southampton, watched she said, ‘What’s your name? I said,
“We went outside and he had a car Justin and Christian (the couple from afar as George Best and Michael ‘Maureen Armstrong.’ She said, ‘Why
with his name blazoned on the side of would have a daughter, Kate) with Parkinson came into the players’ are you using this card?’ I had to
it! He would ring up and ask for her and finding a new job. Maureen is lounge at The Dell after games and actually say why and she said,
lunch. I would say no, I was 70 now and still works. They were a when Southampton finished second because David Armstrong is the main
married. It developed
d working couple from a time that feels and David was player of the season, name and mine is secondary, ‘You
from there. It sounds very distant from the modern game. she felt enormous pride. “He was my can’t use it, we’re going to block it’.
awful to my first “Oh God, he was from a completely man, it was a special time in our lives. “Justin said, ‘Don’t worry, mam, I’ll
husband — we are different era to the modern players!” David was doing what he loved doing get somebody to do a bank transfer.’ ”
still great friends she says. “I have always worked and and I was going to see him. Maureen and Justin stayed in
— but it was a so did he. Most people who marry “He thought he should have been Greece for two more days before
lo
love story. footballers now will never have to picked for England a lot more than he flying home. Armstrong underwent a
“It was six work in their lives. I liked to did and people would say to him, ‘I post-mortem examination in Athens
m
months before contribute and I liked to work. don’t know why he’s left you out.’ and then another when his body was
w
we became an “He was being paid well but a lot of “People used to think he looked flown to England the following
it
item. We had it was going to his ex-wife. If David older than he was, not to me he Tuesday. Both were inconclusive.
b
been together was playing today he would be didn’t, it didn’t matter to me that he Maureen says only that he had
fo
for two earning millions, because he was a didn’t have any hair, he had these suffered badly with Covid last year.
m
months before fantastic player. beautiful blue eyes, and he certainly Two weeks ago, on September 23,
he was about “He thought modern players were proved himself to be good enough.” Armstrong, the former marauding left
to move to paid far too much, because a surgeon Armstrong was forced to retire winger, was cremated in
So
Southampton doesn’t earn that kind of money. because of a severed ligament in his Southampton.
and he said, ‘I David hated the fact they didn’t love left ankle. He had done his coaching “It was a very surreal day,”
don’
don’t want to go the clubs like he did. He was proud to badges but the pain was so bad he Maureen adds “I didn’t believe David
without you. Please wear the jersey and he felt when could hardly kick the ball with his left was in front of us, but it was
come wiwith me. I want people scored and touched the badge foot. He worked for Reading, for comforting as well. People said lovely
to spend the rest of it didn’t really mean anything, Radio Solent as a match summariser things about him. We had a lovely life
my life wwith you.’ ” because they would be away to and for 20 years was an accounts together, I was very lucky, but I still
So she did. Moving another club the following week.” manager. “He loved his holidays,” can’t believe he has gone.”
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Premier League
Home Away
P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts
W 1 Arsenal ........................................... 9 5 0 0 14 7 3 0 1 9 3 13 24
W 2 Manchester City..........................9 5 0 0 24 5 2 2 0 9 4 24 23
W 3 Tottenham Hotspur...................9 4 0 0 13 4 2 2 1 7 6 10 20

Game in
Y 4 Chelsea...........................................8 3 1 0 9 4 2 0 2 4 6 3 16
W 5 Manchester United .................... 8 2 0 1 6 4 3 0 2 7 11 -2 15
Y 6 Newcastle United ....................... 9 2 3 0 11 5 1 2 1 6 4 8 14
Z 7 Brighton & Hove Albion...........8 2 1 1 6 3 2 1 1 8 6 5 14
Y 8 Bournemouth...............................9 2 2 1 4 4 1 1 2 4 16 -12 12
Z 9 Fulham............................................9 2 1 1 8 9 1 1 3 6 9 -4 11

numbers
Z 10 Liverpool........................................8 2 2 0 15 5 0 2 2 5 7 8 10
Z 11 Brentford.......................................9 2 1 1 10 6 0 3 2 6 11 -1 10
Y 12 Everton...........................................9 1 2 2 3 4 1 2 1 5 5 -1 10
Y 13 West Ham United........................9 2 1 2 6 6 1 0 3 2 4 -2 10
Z 14 Leeds United ................................ 8 2 2 0 6 2 0 1 3 5 10 -1 9
Y 15 Crystal Palace..............................8 2 1 2 7 7 0 2 1 3 5 -2 9
Z 16 Aston Villa.....................................8 2 1 1 4 3 0 1 3 2 7 -4 8
Z 17 Southampton...............................9 1 1 2 5 6 1 0 4 3 11 -9 7 Bill Edgar on high scorers,
Z 18 Wolverhampton Wanderers...9 1 2 1 2 4 0 1 4 1 8 -9 6
Y 19 Leicester City...............................9 1 1 2 7 5 0 0 5 8 19 -9 4 low scorers, palindromic scorers
Z 20 Nottingham Forest.....................8 1 0 3 5 8 0 1 3 1 13 -15 4
and second half non-scorers
Sky Bet Championship
Home Away
P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts
W 1 Sheffield United 13 4 1 1 12 3 3 2 2 9 7 11 24
W 2 Norwich City................................13 4 2 1 14 8 3 1 2 6 5 7 24
Y 3 Queens Park Rangers..............13 3 2 1 9 6 4 1 2 10 7 6 24 Wrexham’s high fives and Steve Evans). The most-fouled
W 4 Burnley..........................................13 2 4 0 10 7 3 3 1 10 5 8 22 player in the Premier League this
Z 5 Reading.........................................13 5 1 1 12 7 2 0 4 3 11 -3 22 Only twice since March 2010 has a season is Arsenal’s Gabriel Jesus
Y 6 Swansea City...............................13 3 1 3 8 9 3 2 1 9 7 1 21 team in any of the top five tiers of (26 times); and the player who has
Z 7 Blackburn Rovers......................13 5 0 2 12 6 2 0 4 4 9 1 21 English football won a league match committed the most fouls is … Jesus
Y 8 Preston North End....................13 1 4 2 2 4 3 3 0 5 2 1 19 despite conceding as many as five (19).
W 9 Luton Town.................................13 1 4 2 9 9 3 2 1 7 4 3 18 goals – both times Wrexham were
Y 10 Cardiff City...................................13 3 2 1 5 3 2 1 4 7 10 -1 18
the victors and each of those cases
Z 11 Sunderland..................................13 1 4 1 6 4 3 1 3 11 9 4 17 Home comforts
Z 12 Watford.........................................13 3 1 2 9 8 1 4 2 8 8 1 17
has occurred in their past 13 home
Y 13 Millwall..........................................13 5 0 2 11 6 0 2 4 4 11 -2 17 games. The National League club Having beaten Manchester United
Y 14 Birmingham City........................13 2 2 2 7 5 2 2 3 5 7 0 16 beat Dover 6-5 last March and 6-3, Copenhagen 5-0 and
Y 15 Stoke City.....................................13 2 2 2 8 9 2 2 3 7 8 -2 16 defeated Barnet 7-5 on Saturday. Southampton 4-0 at the Etihad
Z 16 Wigan Athletic............................12 0 3 3 4 11 4 1 1 9 5 -3 16 Between those games Wrexham also Stadium, Manchester City are the
Z 17 Rotherham United....................12 3 3 1 12 5 0 3 2 1 7 1 15 found time to concede five at home first top-flight team since the league’s
Z 18 Bristol City....................................13 3 1 2 9 5 1 2 4 11 16 -1 15 to Grimsby Town in a play-off tie in formation in 1888 to have scored four
W 19 Blackpool......................................13 2 1 3 7 7 2 2 3 6 10 -4 15 May, losing 5-4. or more goals at home three times in
W 20 Hull City.........................................13 4 0 3 9 12 0 2 4 4 14 -13 14
Y 21 Middlesbrough...........................13 3 3 1 9 7 0 1 5 5 11 -4 13
the space of seven days in all
Z 22 West Bromwich Albion............13 1 4 2 11 10 0 4 2 6 8 -1 11 Duo on a roll competitions. Kevin De Bruyne’s nine
W 23 Huddersfield Town...................12 3 1 3 9 7 0 1 4 6 12 -4 11 league assists for City this season are
W 24 Coventry City.............................10 1 0 2 1 2 0 4 3 7 12 -6 7 The combined 47 points and plus-37 more than 12 Premier League sides
goal difference recorded by Arsenal have managed as a whole; and Erling
and Manchester City after nine Haaland’s 15 league goals for City
Sky Bet League One games is the best recorded by a pair constitute a landmark 13 teams have
of teams at this stage of a top-flight still to reach. Since the start of the
Home Away season since the increase to three 2017-18 season City have played 100
P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts points for a win in 1981-82. The home league games and scored
W 1 Plymouth Argyle.......................13 7 0 0 13 2 3 1 2 11 11 11 31
W 2 Ipswich Town..............................13 4 2 0 14 5 5 1 1 13 6 16 30
leaders in the first and fourth tiers exactly 300 goals. City have hit 28
W 3 Sheffield Wed ............................. 13 4 2 1 17 8 4 0 2 8 4 13 26 are Arteta’s Arsenal and Steve’s second-half goals in all competitions
W 4 Portsmouth..................................11 3 3 0 12 6 3 1 1 10 6 10 22 Stevenage (managers Mikel Arteta since Wolverhampton Wanderers
W 5 Barnsley........................................12 3 1 2 8 7 3 1 2 9 5 5 20
W 6 Bolton Wanderers.....................12 5 0 1 10 3 1 2 3 3 5 5 20
W 7 Peterborough United...............12 4 1 1 13 2 2 0 4 8 11 8 19
Y 8 Exeter City...................................12 3 1 2 10 6 2 2 2 10 6 8 18 Results
Y 9 Shrewsbury Town.....................12 3 1 2 7 8 2 2 2 6 6 -1 18
Z 10 Derby County..............................11 4 0 2 10 8 1 2 2 2 3 1 17
Premier League Norwich (1) 2 Preston (1) 3 Shrewsbury (2) 2 MK Dons 0) 1
(0)
Y 11 Fleetwood Town........................12 1 4 1 4 4 2 3 1 7 6 1 16 Sargent 2 Riis 25, 51 Bayliss 24 Jules 54
Arsenal (2) 3 Liverpool (1) 2
Z 12 Accrington Stanley...................12 2 3 1 10 9 2 1 3 4 7 -2 16
Martinelli 1 Núñez 34 Gomes Sara 76 Parrott 80 Shipley 45+2 5,875
Z 13 Cambridge United.....................13 4 0 2 9 9 1 1 5 6 14 -8 16 Saka 45+5, 76 (pen) Firmino 53 26,062 Sent off: D Devoy (MK Dons) 59
Y 14 Port Vale.......................................12 2 2 2 6 6 2 1 3 6 11 -5 15 Bournemouth (0) 2 Leicester (1) 1 Stoke (2) 3 Sheffield Utd (1) 1 League Two
Y 15 Wycombe Wanderers..............12 2 1 2 6 4 2 1 4 8 12 -2 14 Billing 68 Daka 10 Wilmot 4 Brewster 28 Barrow (0) 0 Mansfield 0) 1
(0)
Jagielka 45+4 22,008
Z 16 Lincoln City...................................11 1 4 0 6 4 2 1 3 8 12 -2 14 Christie 71 10,272
Delap 90+1
3,713 Bowery 50
W 17 Cheltenham Town.....................12 3 0 3 8 8 1 2 3 3 7 -4 14 Brighton (0) 0 Tottenham (1) 1 Swansea (2) 2 Sunderland (0) 1
Bradford City (0) 0 Stockport (1) 1
Z 18 Charlton Athletic.......................12 2 3 0 9 4 0 4 3 6 11 0 13 31,498 Kane 22
Cooper 13 Clarke 51
18,615 Madden 26 (pen)
Y 19 Bristol Rovers.............................12 2 2 3 10 13 1 1 3 7 10 -6 12 Chelsea (1) 3 Wolves (0) 0 Darling 45+1 18,008 Colchester (2) 2 Harrogate (0)) 1
Z 20 Oxford United..............................11 2 1 3 6 7 1 1 3 3 5 -3 11 Havertz 45+3 39,940 West Brom (0) 0 Luton (0) 0 Appiah 8
Nouble 37
Pattison 57
2,750
Pulisic 54, Broja 89
Y 21 Forest Green Rovers................12 2 0 5 5 14 1 2 2 6 11 -14 11 21,550
Crystal Palace (1) 2 (1) 1 Crewe (1) 1 Gillingham (1) 1
Z 22 Milton Keynes Dons..................11 1 1 3 5 8 2 0 4 7 8 -4 10 Leeds Wigan (0) 1 Cardiff (1) 3
Agyei 19 Kashket 12
Édouard 24 Struijk 10
W 23 Burton Albion ............................. 13 1 0 5 3 12 1 2 4 12 16 -13 8 Eze 76 Wyke 83 Robinson 7, Ojo 65 3,809
W 24 Morecambe.................................12 0 2 4 3 12 1 2 3 6 11 -14 7 10,340 Wintle 90+2
Everton (1) 1 Man United (2) 2 Doncaster (0) 1 Leyton Orient (1) 1
Iwobi 5 Antony 15
League One Biggins 76 Smyth 26
39,258 Ronaldo 44 Barnsley (0) 0 Exeter (1) 2 6,314
(2) 4 Southampton (0) 0 10,384 Stansfield 1, 48 Grimsby (1) 3 Crawley Town (0) 0
Sky Bet League Two Man City
Cancelo 20 53,365 Bristol Rovers (1) 2 Cambridge U (1) 1 Driscoll-Glennon 4 6,068
Foden 32 Taylor 17 (og) Ironside 35 (pen) Holohan 52, Taylor 85
Home Away Mahrez 49 Coburn 56 9,007 Hartlepool (1) 1 Carlisle (0) 3
P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts Haaland 65 Derby (1) 1 Port Vale (0) 2 Lacey 43 Moxon 53
Y 1 Stevenage 13 7 0 0 12 2 3 1 2 7 8 9 31 Newcastle (2) 5 Brentford (0) 1 Collins 5 Harrison 55 (pen) 5,525 Patrick 75, 82
Z 2 Leyton Orient..............................12 5 0 1 11 4 4 2 0 9 3 13 29 Moura 21, 56 Toney 54 (pen) 28,706 Wilson 66 Newport Co (0) 0 Rochdale (1) 1
Z 3 Northampton Town..................13 5 0 2 13 7 3 2 1 10 7 9 26 Murphy 28
Almirón 82
52,067 Sent off: J Collins (Derby) 58 3,824 Ball 5
Y 4 Salford City..................................12 3 2 1 9 4 4 1 1 8 5 8 24 Pinnock 90 (og) Forest Green (1) 1 Bolton (0) 0 Northampton (0) 0 Salford (1) 1
Y 5 Mansfield Town.........................12 3 2 0 10 5 4 0 3 9 7 7 23 West Ham (1) 3 Fulham (1) 1
Wickham 32 3,419
5,577 Galbraith 45+1
Z 6 Bradford City .............................. 12 3 3 1 9 4 3 0 2 9 7 7 21 Bowen 29 (pen) Pereira 5 Lincoln City (0) 0 Charlton (0) 0 Stevenage (1) 2 Swindon (0) 0
Y 7 Carlisle United............................12 3 3 0 8 5 2 3 1 8 6 5 21 Scamacca 62 8,160
Roberts 11, 60 4,087
W 8 Doncaster Rovers......................13 4 1 2 12 9 2 2 2 6 7 2 21 Antonio 90+1 Morecambe (1) 1 Ipswich (0) 2 Sutton United (0) 0 Tranmere (2) 2
Z 9 Barrow...........................................12 4 0 2 8 6 3 0 3 7 7 2 21 Sky Bet Championship Phillips 34 Edmundson 54
3,007 Hemmings 19 (pen)
4,776 Evans 65 (pen)
W 10 Swindon Town............................13 3 2 1 9 5 2 3 2 5 8 1 20 Birmingham (2) 3 Bristol City (0) 0 Lewis 45+4
Y 11 Grimsby Town............................12 1 3 2 7 6 4 1 1 7 4 4 19 Oxford Utd (0) 0 Wycombe (1) 1 Walsall (1) 3 AFC Wimbledon (1) 1
Trusty 3, 43 3,107
10,007 Forino 33
Z 12 Tranmere Rovers......................12 3 0 2 8 4 3 1 3 5 5 4 19 Sanderson 75 Hutchinson 5 Towler 21
Z 13 Crewe Alexandra.......................12 3 2 2 10 7 1 3 1 3 5 1 17 Blackburn (1) 3 Rotherham (0) 0 Peterborough (0) 1 Burton Albion (0) 1 Johnson 50 4,905
Clarke-Harris 47 Adeboyejo 75 Knowles 90+3
Y 14 Walsall...........................................13 3 2 2 11 6 1 2 3 4 6 3 16 Brereton 21 (pen), 63 12,233
8,032
Z 15 Sutton United..............................13 4 1 2 9 7 0 1 5 3 10 -5 14 Szmodics 75 Vanarama National League
Plymouth (1) 3 Accrington (0) 0 Altrincham (1) 4 Dorking (0) 1
Y 16 Stockport County......................12 2 3 1 6 5 1 0 5 7 11 -3 12 Blackpool (1) 3 Watford (1) 1
Ennis 24, Cosgrove 63 15,065 Colclough 45 Gallagher 73
Z 17 AFC Wimbledon.........................12 2 1 2 6 6 1 2 4 8 13 -5 12 Madine 10
Yates 81, 85
Louza 29
11,567 Hardie 90+3 Mullarkey 48 1,862
Z 18 Newport County........................13 1 1 5 5 11 2 1 3 7 6 -5 11
Coventry (0) 0 Burnley (1) 1
Sent off: D Scarr (Plymouth) 38; S Conneely Bennett 64, Dinanga 87
Z 19 Gillingham....................................12 2 2 2 2 4 0 3 3 2 8 -8 11
19,445 Tella 39
(Accrington) 38
Bromley (0) 1 Gateshead (0) 1
Y 20 Colchester United ..................... 12 2 2 3 6 8 0 1 4 4 9 -7 9
Huddersfield (1) 2 Hull (0) 0
Portsmouth (1) 1 Fleetwood (1) 1 Dennis 72 Ward 80
Y 21 Hartlepool United......................13 1 4 2 5 8 0 2 4 6 15 -12 9
Coyle 29 (og) 18,628
Koroma 7
18,271
Mendes Gomes 15 2,593
Z 22 Harrogate Town........................12 1 1 3 4 7 1 1 5 4 9 -8 8 Helik 51 Sheffield Wed (1) 3 Cheltenham (0) 0
Y 23 Rochdale.......................................12 0 1 4 3 7 2 1 4 5 11 -10 8 Millwall (1) 2 Middlesbro (0) 0 Windass 3, Bannan 83 22,375
Z 24 Crawley Town.............................12 1 0 4 6 10 0 3 4 4 12 -12 6 Flemming 5, 49 15,638 Dele-Bashiru 85
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Premier League away games – yet
De Bruyne’s HIGH SCORERS they have proceeded to lose all three
nine league
assists for City The English top flight remains on matches against Brighton & Hove
this season are course to record three goals per Albion, Tottenham Hotspur and
more than 12
game this season for the first time Bournemouth. Leicester are also the
Premier
since 1967-68. In that period it has first side for five years to lose seven
League sides
lagged behind the German top Premier League games out of eight
have managed
division in all but one season but win the other one in that
(1989-90), whereas it has only failed sequence by at least four goals (they
to outscore the French top tier twice beat Nottingham Forest 4-0).
since 1983-84
Goals per top-flight game in Fulham flashback
Europe’s big five leagues
Four seasons ago Fulham moved
England France Germany ahead in the opening five minutes
Italy Spain away to West Ham United but
4 conceded a 29th-minute equaliser
and lost 3-1 after Michail Antonio
scored in the 91st minute — and the
same happened yesterday. Last
3 season one in 8.8 Premier League
games saw victory for the team
conceding first; this season it has
happened in one per 4.5 games.
2
Crystal Palace also came from behind
to beat Leeds United yesterday.
Palace and Cardiff City both
recorded a winning goal by a
palindromic surname at the weekend:
1 Ebere Eze and Sheyi Ojo.
1963 74- 85- 96- 07- 18-
-64 75 86 97 08 19
Familiar position
were last able to
celebrate scoring Nottingham Forest sit in
after half-time in a 20th position, where they
match. finished in 1996-97 and
1998-99; they could
Cherries become the first club to
finish bottom in three
ripen top-flight campaigns
Bournemouth are the first in a row – ten teams
team since Everton in 1958 to have done it twice in
have conceded nine or more succession.
goals in a top-flight game yet Forest are joined in
remained unbeaten in their next the bottom three by
five league fixtures. They lost 9-0 Leicester and Wolves:
to Liverpool but are two places it is the first time
above them in the table. Gavin three Midlands clubs
and Stacey played for south- have been in the
coast teams on Saturday: Gavin relegation zone at any
Bazunu for Southampton and point in a season
Jack Stacey, right, Bournemouth. since Leicester,
Leicester City are the first Birmingham City and
team for more than five years to West Bromwich
score in the opening ten Albion were there in
minutes of three consecutive M 1986.
May

Fixtures
Dagenham & R (1) 1 Southend (0) 1 Gateshead...........13 2 6 5 16 20 -4 12 Tonbridge ...........11 5 2 4 19 19 0 17 Ayr United (2) 5 Queen’s Park(0) 0 Kick-off 7.45 unless stated Sky Bet Championship Bristol City v Millwall;
Morias 19 Powell 78 Halifax..................13 3 3 7 9 20 -11 12 Slough Town.......11 5 2 4 13 17 -4 17 Akinyemi 6, 36, 53 2,052 Today: Premier League Nottingham Forest Burnley v Swansea; Cardiff v Coventry; Luton
3,542 Maidstone...........13 3 3 7 17 30 -13 12 Eastbourne..........11 5 1 5 24 19 5 16 Young 59 v Aston Villa (8.0). v QPR (12.30); Middlesbrough v Blackburn;
Aldershot.............13 3 2 8 17 22 -5 11 Oxford City..........11 4 3 4 17 16 1 15 Preston v Stoke; Reading v West Brom;
Dempsey 62 Tomorrow: Champions League: Group E Rotherham v Huddersfield (12.30); Sheffield
Eastleigh (1) 2 Chesterfield (0) 1 Scunthorpe.........13 2 5 6 19 26 -7 11 H Hempstead......11 4 3 4 12 15 -3 15 (8.0): AC Milan v Chelsea; Dinamo Zagreb v
Cissé 45 Mandeville 50 Torquay...............13 2 3 8 9 23 -14 9 Chippenham ....... 11 4 3 4 8 11 -3 15 Morton (3) 5 Hamilton (0) 0 RB Salzburg. Group F (8.0): Celtic v RB
Utd v Blackpool; Sunderland v Wigan;
Baird 8 1,361 Watford v Norwich (7.45). League One
Camp 90+2 2,541 North Blyth 1 Banbury 1; Boston 2 Hereford Dover Athletic....11 4 2 5 17 18 -1 14 Leipzig; Shakhtar v Real Madrid. Group G Accrington v Derby; Bolton v Barnsley;
St Albans City....10 3 4 3 8 8 0 13 Kabia 16 Borussia Dortmund v Sevilla (8.0);
Maidenhead (0) 1 Oldham (1) 1 4; Brackley 1 AFC Fylde 1; Bradford PA 2 Gillespie 23 Burton v Morecambe; Cambridge Utd v
Taunton Town....11 3 4 4 7 11 -4 13 Copenhagen v Man City (5.45). Group H Sheffield Wednesday;Cheltenham v Bristol
Adams 74 (pen) Tollitt 34 Curzon Ashton 1; Chester 0 Darlington 1; Hampton & R......11 3 3 5 15 16 -1 12 Muirhead 48, 54 Maccabi Haifa v Juventus (5.45); PSG v
Gloucester 3 Southport 2; Kidderminster 0 Rovers; Exeter v Oxford Utd; Fleetwood v
1,640 Farnborough ...... 11 3 1 7 9 14 -5 10 Benfica (8.0).
Farsley 2; Kings Lynn 2 Chorley 0; Raith Rovers (2) 3 Cove Rangers (0) 0 Shrewsbury; Ipswich v Lincoln; MK Dons v
Maidstone (0) 1 Halifax Town (0) 1 Dulwich Hamlet.11 2 2 7 14 19 -5 8 Connolly 6 1,517 Sky Bet Championship Wigan v Blackburn. Plymouth; Port Vale v Forest Green;
Leamington 1 Alfreton 2; Peterborough Hungerford ........12 2 2 8 7 15 -8 8 League One Charlton v Exeter; MK Dons v Wycombe v Peterborough. League Two
Deacon 90 Dieseruvwe 66 Sports 3 AFC Telford 2; Scarborough 5 Gullan 27 Bristol Rovers; Peterborough v Forest Green.
Concord Rgrs....10 2 2 6 8 19 -11 8 Stanton 65 AFC Wimbledon v Sutton Utd; Carlisle v
2,397 Kettering 0; Spennymoor 0 Buxton 1. Cheshunt..............11 1 0 10 12 29 -17 3 Doncaster; Crawley v Newport County;
Papa John’s Trophy Doncaster v Barnsley.
Scunthorpe (3) 3 Aldershot (1) 3 P W D L F A GD Pts Weymouth...........11 0 2 9 7 26 -19 2 P W D L F A GD Pts Gillingham v Stevenage; Harrogate v
Partick Thistle.....9 5 2 2 21 12 9 17 Vanarama National League York v Hartlepool (12.30); Leyton Orient v
Apter 8, Rowe 10 Alfa 2 Kings Lynn...........11 7 3 1 21 10 11 24 Cinch Scottish Premiership Dagenham & Redbridge.
Darlington............11 7 2 2 17 9 8 23 Ayr United............9 5 2 2 19 11 8 17 Northampton; Mansfield v Walsall (1.0);
Nuttall 29 (pen) Cordner 48 Dundee Utd (2) 4 Aberdeen (0) 0 Cinch Scottish Premiership Dundee Utd v Rochdale v Barrow; Salford v Bradford City;
3
3,083 Amaluzor 58 Banbury................11 6 3 2 19 12 7 21 Inverness CT........9 5 2 2 13 9 4 17
Behich 41, Watt 45 11,010 Queen’s Park.....10 5 1 4 14 18 -4 16 Hibernian. Stockport v Grimsby; Swindon v Colchester.
AFC Fylde.............11 6 3 2 16 12 4 21
Wealdstone (0) 1
W Boreham Wood (0) 2 Scarborough.......11 6 2 3 21 14 7 20 McGrath 73 (pen) Dundee................10 4 2 4 17 15 2 14 Cinch League One Kelty Hearts v Queen of FA Cup: Fourth qualifying round Altrincham
A
Akinola 79 Rees 53 Kidderminster....11 5 3 3 13 8 5 18 McCrorie 82 (og) Morton.................10 4 2 4 14 13 1 14 South. League Two Bonnyrigg Rose v v Gateshead; Alvechurch v Worksop; Anstey
1,
1,386 Marsh 60 Alfreton Town....11 4 5 2 17 12 5 17 Raith Rovers........9 4 0 5 11 11 0 12 Annan; Elgin v Albion. Nomads v Chesterfield; Barnet v Weston-
Hibernian (0) 1 Motherwell (0) 0 Cove Rangers....10 3 2 5 14 17 -3 11 Wednesday: Champions League: Group A super-Mare; Beckenham v Dagenham &
Leamington........12 4 5 3 12 8 4 17 Porteous 67 16,435
W
Woking (1) 2 Notts County (3) 3 Peterboro Sports 11 5 2 4 21 18 3 17 Hamilton...............9 1 4 4 7 17 -10 7 Napoli v Ajax (5.45); Rangers v Liverpool Redbridge; Blyth Spartans v Wrexham;
D
Daly 30 Rodrigues 9 (pen) Sent off: C Shields (Motherwell) 56 (8.0). Group B Atletico Madrid v Club Brugge Boreham Wood v Wealdstone; Bracknell v
Brackley Town 11 5 2 4 10 10 0 17 Arbroath...............9 1 3 5 6 13 -7 6 Banbury; Bromley v Hereford; Buxton v
G
Grego-Cox 87 (pen) Scott 14, 43 Gloucester City..11 5 1 5 16 17 -1 16 (5.45); Bayer Leverkusen v Porto (8.0).
3
3,267
Kilmarnock (0) 2 Hearts (0) 2 League One Airdrieonians 3 Queen of Group C (8.0): Barcelona v Inter Milan; Plzen Hyde; Chelmsford v Aldershot; Dorking v
Curzon Ashton...11 4 3 4 13 10 3 15 Stokes 47, Lafferty 59 Humphrys 62 South 3; Alloa 0 Dunfermline 3; Clyde 1 v Bayern Munich. Group D (8.0): Sporting v Eastleigh; Ebbsfleet v Sevenoaks; Havant &
W
Wrexham (3) 7 Barnet (2) 5 Hereford...............11 4 3 4 17 15 2 15 6,651 Atkinson 90+4 Montrose 3; FC Edinburgh 2 Kelty 0; Marseille; Tottenham v Eintracht Frankfurt. Waterlooville v Weymouth; Hendon v
Chorley ................. 11 3 5 3 15 11 4 14 Peterhead 0 Falkirk 4. League Two Albion Chippenham; Maidenhead v Eastbourne;
H
Hayden 8, 58 Kabamba 28, 75 Chester..................11 3 4 4 14 14 0 13 Livingston (0) 0 Ross County (0) 1 Sky Bet Championship Bristol City v Preston. Merthyr Town v Folkestone; Needham
O
O’Connor 35 Pritchard 31 2 Bonnyrigg 1; Forfar 1 East Fife 3;
Spennymoor.......11 2 7 2 12 14 -2 13 3,696 Edwards 73 Stenhousemuir 2 Annan 2; Stirling Albion 6
Thursday: Europa League: Group A Bodo/ Market v Maidstone; Notts County v Coalville;
M
Mullin 37, 53 (pen) Kanu 51, 84 Southport.............11 4 1 6 14 19 -5 13 Glimt v Arsenal (5.45); PSV Eindhoven v South Shields v Scunthorpe; St Ives Town v
Y
Young 55, Palmer 64 9,987 Boston United.....11 3 3 5 17 21 -4 12 Rangers (2) 4 St Mirren (0) 0 Dumbarton 0; Stranraer 2 Elgin 3. Zurich (8.0). Group B (5.45): AEK Larnaca v Halifax; Torquay v Hampton & Richmond;
Y
Yeovil (0) 1 Solihull Moors (0) 0 Buxton...................11 2 6 3 9 13 -4 12 Colak 4, 73 49,274 French Ligue 1 Angers 2 Strasbourg 3; Fenerbahce; Dynamo Kiev v Rennes. Group Woking v Southend; Yeovil v Taunton.
Farsley Celtic......11 2 4 5 12 17 -5 10 Tavernier 30 (pen) Brest 1 Lorient 2; Clermont 2 Auxerre 1; C Ludogorets v HJK Helsinki (8.0); Real Betis Women’s Super League Aston Villa v West
Jo
Johnson 58 2,244 Sakala 90+1 v Roma (5.45). Group D Union Berlin v Ham (12.30).
Blyth Spartans....11 2 3 6 8 17 -9 9 Lille 1 Lens 0; Marseille 1 Ajaccio 2;
Y
York City (0) 1 Torquay (0) 0 Malmo (8.0); US Gilloise v Braga (5.45).
Kettering Town..11 2 3 6 9 19 -10 9 St Johnstone (0) 1 Celtic (1) 2 Montpellier 0 Monaco 2; Nice 3 Troyes 2;
Group E (8.0): Man Utd v Omonia Nicosia; Cinch Scottish Premiership Celtic v
H
Hurst 71 4,339 AFC Telford........12 1 4 7 9 22 -13 7 Mitchell 90+3 Considine 42 (og) Reims 0 PSG 0; Rennes 3 Nantes 0. Real Sociedad v Sheriff. Group F Feyenoord Hibernian; Livingston v St Johnstone; Ross
Bradford PA........11 1 3 7 8 18 -10 6 7,093 Giakoumakis 90+5 German Bundesliga Augsburg 1 v Midtjylland (5.45); Lazio v Sturm Graz (8.0). County v Dundee Utd; St Mirren v Kilmarnock.
P W D L F A GD Pts South Bath 2 Hungerford 3; Chelmsford 2 Wolfsburg 1; Bayer Leverkusen 4 Schalke 0; Group G (5.45): Qarabag v Olympiacos; Cinch Championship Cove v Inverness CT;
N
Notts County......13 9 3 1 31 13 18 30 P W D L F A GD Pts
Cheshunt 0; Dover 3 Braintree 1; Dulwich 1 Celtic ...................... 9 8 0 1 29 5 24 24 Bochum 3 Eintracht Frankfurt 0; Borussia Nantes v Freiburg. Group H (8.0): Dundee v Ayr; Hamilton v Partick; Morton v
Wrexham.............13
W 9 2 2 38 15 23 29 Dartford 2; Eastbourne 5 Weymouth 1; Dortmund 2 Bayern Munch 2; Borussia Ferencvaros v Red Star Belgrade; Raith. League One Alloa v Airdrieonians;
B
Boreham Wood.13 7 4 2 20 12 8 25 Rangers.................9 7 1 1 24 8 16 22 Dunfermline v FC Edinburgh; Kelty v Clyde;
Ebbsfleet 5 Taunton 0; Hampton & Mönchengladbach 5 Cologne 2; Hertha Trabzonspor v Monaco.
C
Chesterfield........13 7 3 3 25 18 7 24 Hibernian..............9 5 2 2 12 7 5 17 Montrose v Falkirk; Queen of South v
Richmond 1 Welling 1; Havant & St Mirren...............9 5 0 4 10 13 -3 15 Berlin 2 Freiburg 2; Mainz 1 RB Leipzig 1; Europa Conference League (selected):
Peterhead. League Two Annan v Stranraer;
B
Bromley...............13 7 3 3 20 13 7 24 Stuttgart 0 Union Berlin 1. Group A Fiorentina v Hearts (5.45). Group B
S
Solihull Moors....13 6 4 3 27 16 11 22 Waterlooville 2 Concord Rangers 0; Slough Hearts .................... 9 4 2 3 15 14 1 14 Bonnyrigg v East Fife; Dumbarton v Albion;
0 Hemel Hempstead 2; St Albans 1 Aberdeen..............9 4 1 4 18 15 3 13 Italian Serie A AC Milan 2 Juventus 0; West Ham v Anderlecht (8.0). Group F
Y
York.......................13 6 3 4 17 11 6 21 Shamrock Rovers v Molde (8.0). Elgin v Forfar; Stenhousemuir v Stirling.
Woking.................13
W 6 2 5 22 14 8 20 Chippenham 1; Tonbridge 2 Oxford City 2; Motherwell.........10 4 1 5 13 12 1 13 Bologna 1 Sampdoria 1; Cremonese 1 Sunday; Premier League Aston Villa v
Worthing 1 Farnborough 2. Livingston ............ 9 4 0 5 7 12 -5 12 Napoli 4; Monza 2 Spezia 0; Roma 2 Friday: Premier League Brentford v
W
Wealdstone.........13 5 4 4 14 13 1 19 Brighton (8.0). Chelsea (2.0); Leeds v Arsenal (2.0); Liverpool
Eastleigh..............13
E 5 4 4 15 15 0 19 P W D L F A GD Pts St Johnstone......10 3 1 6 11 15 -4 10 Lecce 1; Salernitana 2 Verona 1; Sassuolo 1 v Man City (4.30); Man Utd v Newcastle (2.0);
Dagenham
D & R..13 5 3 5 23 29 -6 18 Ebbsfleet Utd......11 10 1 0 32 9 23 31 Kilmarnock ........ 10 2 2 6 8 19 -11 8 Inter Milan 2; Torino 1 Empoli 1; Udinese 2 Sky Bet League Two Tranmere v Crewe. Southampton v West Ham (2.0).
Southend.............13
S 4 5 4 12 11 1 17 Havant & W.........11 9 2 0 28 13 15 29 Ross County.......10 2 2 6 5 18 -13 8 Atalanta 2. Cinch Scottish Championship Queen’s Park Sky Bet Championship Hull v Birmingham.
M
Maidenhead ......13 5 2 6 13 16 -3 17 Chelmsford .........11 7 3 1 16 7 9 24 Dundee United...9 1 2 6 8 22 -14 5 Spanish La Liga Almería 3 Rayo v Arbroath. Women’s Super League Everton v Chelsea
B
Barnet...................13 5 2 6 27 32 -5 17 Dartford...............12 8 0 4 21 13 8 24 Cinch Championship Vallecano 1; Atlético Madrid 2 Girona 1; Kick-off 3.0 unless stated (1.0); Man City v Leicester (2.0); Man Utd v
Dorking
D ...............13 5 2 6 24 30 -6 17 Worthing..............11 5 5 1 18 11 7 20 Barcelona 1 Celta Vigo 0; Cádiz 2 Saturday: Premier League Fulham v Brighton (midday); Reading v Arsenal (6.45);
A
Altrincham..........13 3 5 5 18 24 -6 14 Welling..................11 5 4 2 20 14 6 19 Arbroath (1) 1 Dundee (1) 1 Espanyol 2; Getafe 0 Real Madrid 1; Real Tottenham v Liverpool (2.0).
Bournemouth; Leicester v Crystal Palace
Yeovil....................13
Y 2 7 4 12 14 -2 13 Bath City...............11 5 3 3 23 19 4 18 Linn 37 Rudden 6 Sociedad 1 Villarreal 0; Real Valladolid 0 (12.30); Tottenham v Everton (5.30); Cinch Scottish Premiership Aberdeen v
O
Oldham ................ 13 3 4 6 14 22 -8 13 Braintree .............. 11 5 2 4 19 16 3 17 3,372 Real Betis 0; Sevilla 1 Athletic Bilbao 1. Wolverhampton v Nottingham Forest. Hearts; Motherwell v Rangers (midday).
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IAN
HAWKEY
European Football
Alonso could oust Arteta and Xavi
as Spain’s next coaching superbrain
Want to know what New Manager Bounce looks
like? Check out Xabi Alonso bouncing around
the technical area of the BayArena, Leverkusen.
He left barely a square inch of its turf uncovered
during a landmark 90 minutes against Schalke
04 on Saturday. He filled much of its airspace
too, a pumped-up, leaping Zebedee finally doing
the sort of work football has long been impatient
to see him in.
Alonso, identified as great manager-in-waiting
by a wide consensus of those who played
alongside him through his garlanded career as a
midfield strategist, was making his bow as a
senior head coach, two training sessions into the
20-month contract he accepted from Bayer
Leverkusen after they sacked Gerardo Seoane.
Seoane’s successor promised “fresh energy”. The
Spaniard immediately transmitted it, in clear
German, one of the four languages he
commands, and through vivid movements and
gestures.
It turned into a dream debut. New Manager
Bounce was activated with the striker Moussa
Diaby’s rocket from outside the Schalke penalty
area. It spread to Callum Hudson-Odoi’s bold
slalom from inside his own half to set up a
second goal, from Jeremie Frimpong, before half-
time. By the end, New Manager Bounce had
produced a 4-0 win, reversing the scoreline from
Seoane’s last Bundesliga outing, a thrashing by
Bayern Munich, and recording Leverkusen’s first
home victory in the league since May.
Leverkusen moved out of the bottom three,
which meant some reassessing of Xabi’s one
faltering moment at his unveiling, when he
appeared not to understand the compound
German word for “relegation battle”. The
message: relegation battles would not be in
Leverkusen’s lexicon once the new coach has his
feet under the table.
Leverkusen believe they have hit a jackpot
with Alonso. They trumped nearby Borussia
Mönchengladbach, who in March offered the
40-year-old, then coming towards the end of his
two-year apprenticeship with Real Sociedad B,
the head coach job. After he guided Sociedad’s
feeder team into the Spanish second division for
the first time in 60 years, other top division clubs
elsewhere in Europe showed an interest, most
acting under the assumption that, if he said yes,
they would probably be a stepping stone on his
route to grander places, such as those where
Alonso the player collected his many
decorations: Liverpool, Real Madrid or Bayern.
To report that those three will now be closely
monitoring Alonso’s development would
be inaccurate. They already were.
When he retired as a player, with
his World Cup winners’ medal,
his European Championship
golds, his brace of Champions
Leagues and quartet of league
titles from two different
countries, Karl-Heinz
Rummenigge, then the
executive president at Bayern,
told him he envisaged his
return soon, as head coach.
When Pep Guardiola had
asked for Bayern to sign Alonso
three years earlier, in 2014, it was
because the team “needed his eyes, his
vision”. Almost as far back as you go, Alonso
has fitted the prototype of manager-to-be. As a
precocious Sociedad midfielder, son of a former
player, he was a teenager relied on to see the
telling through-ball earliest, to anticipate and
thwart the opposing counterattack. The long list
of illustrious managers who valued and trusted
Alonso enjoys the leap into senior coaching as he watches his Leverkusen side beat Schalke 4-0 at the
weekend. The Spaniard, proficient in four languages, provides instructions to Charles Aránguiz, inset
his analyses and leadership is its own
endorsement. He suited both Guardiola and José
Mourinho, and was diplomat enough to avoid the
public confrontations with Mourinho that others,
such as Sergio Ramos, in Mourinho’s Real
dressing room were drawn into. He learnt from
Carlo Ancelotti and Rafa Benítez, and was candid
enough to say out loud that Benítez’s
many qualities did not always extend
to human-touch warmth towards
players, and to absorb lessons
from that.
Alonso is presentable, which
is important for modern club
presidents and for corporate
Leverkusen, backed by the
pharmaceutical giant Bayer.
He is multilingual and
urbane. He has appeared on
the fashion pages, stylish
enough to look good even in
lederhosen and cardigan, to have
been thought cool by younger
team-mates with very contemporary
musical tastes when he recommended
listening to Neil Young or Tom Waits. “He has a
natural authority,” his former Liverpool team-
mate Didi Hamann told German television.
He has plotted his big leap into senior
management carefully. “This felt like the right
time,” he said of the Leverkusen offer, made six *
months after he finished at Sociedad B, and
having watched two like-minded friends take the
plunge: Mikel Arteta, with whom Alonso shared
an upbringing in football in the Basque Country,
at Arsenal; and Xavi Hernández, with whom he
combined so successfully in Spain’s all-
conquering midfields of a decade ago, at
Barcelona.
Leverkusen, a small city, a club with a
medium-sized fanbase, may feel gentler than
North London or Catalonia for a manager still
wearing L-plates. Alonso made a point of
highlighting the Bundesliga’s tendency to back
younger coaches. There are four younger than he
is at the 17 top-tier German clubs he will be
competing against.
He has Champions League football in the
immediate diary too, starting at home to Porto
on Wednesday, his first assignment in group B’s
rats–in-a-sack scuffle for the runners-up position
behind Club Bruges, with Leverkusen, Porto and
Atletico Madrid all on three points. Finish second
and Alonso would have a feather in his cap.
Finish third and blame will mostly be
apportioned to his predecessor, Seoane, and put
Leverkusen into the Europa League knockout
stage, most likely, along with Arteta’s Arsenal,
and, on the present Champions League
standings, with Xavi’s Barcelona. That would
make Thursday nights quite the place to size up
the next generation of elite managers.
Monday October 10 2022 | the times
FUNNY
OLD
GAME
Comedian
George Lewis
reflects on the
week’s action
Do you think Erling
Haaland is the greatest
striker of all time? It’s a question
you will have heard a few times
and I’ll warn you; you’ll hear it
every week until it’s just one
constant beep.
The most common answer is:
“It’s too early to say, but he has
the potential to be.” Unless, of
course, you ask a Manchester
United or Liverpool fan. They
don’t say anything, they just turn
pale and start to shake.
I understand why people are
reluctant because we’ve all been
burnt predicting a player’s world
dominance too early. I’m very
embarrassed how certain I was
that Eric Djemba-Djemba would
win a Ballon d’Or. But Haaland is
different. Never has someone
shined so fast and so bright. Even
if he stopped playing tomorrow it
would only strengthen the legend.
But he won’t stop because the
only way the Manchester City
striker could get injured is if he
bumped into a United-supporting
bear down a dark alley. And even
then, I’d advise the bear to hide its
scarf and keep its head down.
Some people say that his free
scoring will end when teams work
out how to manage him. But I’m
not sure how you’d train your
defenders to control Haaland
other than to tell them: be twice
as fast, twice as large and twice as
good at football, then all four of
you gang up on him.
Southampton did better than
most at containing him on
Saturday. But if success means
letting him get only one of the
four goals put past you, everyone
is in big trouble.
Haaland might be the first
proof that superheroes exist. It’s
not just his strength and eyes that
wouldn’t look out of place with
laser beams bursting from them,
but he also seems to be able to
slow time — always exactly where
he needs to be, a moment before
the defender. The scientists in the
secret lab that developed his
powers should feel proud. They’ve
created the perfect striker. My
only criticism is they might have
made him too good, too quickly.
Most players take months to
acclimatise to the English league.
It took Haaland a single game.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Robbie Keane
and Didier Drogba managed
three Premier League hat-tricks
over the course of their careers
and he has already hit 20 goals.
We like to see records broken in
slight increments. When a player
arrives and instantly threatens to
shatter everything that has come
before, it’s almost impossible to
process. It’s like someone turning
up to the Olympics and running
the 100m in five seconds.
It makes a mockery of all we
thought we knew. You start to
wonder if Dennis Bergkamp, Alan
Shearer and Robbie Fowler were
even very good or are your
memories now worthless.
So maybe that’s it. The only
way Haaland won’t be fondly
remembered as the greatest
striker of all time is if he is so
good, he ruins the entire history
of the Premier League for
everyone else.
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What the Sexting

Lower divorce rates

pandemic

has changed
Abstinence

‘Intentional dating’

about relationships
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Help, I’ve got the Sunday

JK Rowling?
scaries — can keeping
a ‘mind diary’ cure me?
‘No one has
Kevin Maher done more
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to bring joy
ell? How Camp David Summit, just
was standing there, awkwardly
yesterday? verklempt and waving a full gravy
Did you boat about until both sides came
have to their senses). The strange thing
them? The was that we were, during Monday

to so many
so-called to Saturday, a family of warmth,
“Sunday scaries”? According to jokes and cuddles. It was Sunday
the government you probably did. alone that was reserved for rage.
This troubling psychological Those Sundays always ended
phenomenon, analysed by the with the entire family in a tense
Department of Health, describes communal sulk, sitting in front of

the slow build of stress and
anxiety that typically peaks at
5pm every Sunday. The
government’s new Every Mind
Matters campaign claims that
67% of us suffer from Sunday
scaries, and that this figure rises
to 74% for those aged 18-24, who
are apparently most likely to
doomscroll through social media
in order to nullify negative
feelings. Older generations,
meanwhile, will combat the
angst by binge-watching junk
TV and engaging in mindless
bouts of comfort eating — the
Strictly dance-off with extra
lashings of Sunday pudding?
Don’t mind if I do!
And the solution? The Every
Mind Matters campaign offers a
nifty online quiz that tests your
compulsory trip to Mass, which,
to an impressionable mind then
mostly obsessed with the
fantastical imaginings of Star
Wars, was defined by grim
Crucifixion statues and
fulminating sermons crackling
out through cheap church
speakers about all the things you
couldn’t, wouldn’t or shouldn’t do.
It was quite the buzzkill. Then it
generations’
the popular Irish soap opera
Glenroe. The theme tune to
Glenroe is a high-pitched faux-
traditional ditty, the first few bars
of which, if accidentally stumbled
upon today, will still send me into
an instant neurasthenic stupor,
like Princess Leia getting blasted
by a Stormtrooper’s stun-gun.
Today, of course, the Sunday
scaries are still with me. They
usually kick off, just like the
government says, at about 5pm.
I’ll be making a roast and will As Draco Malfoy, Tom Felton was the
have just finished parboiling the
potatoes when I’m overcome by boy villain of the Harry Potter films.
the sudden desire to rush into the
sitting room and argue loudly
with my children about climate
He tells Dominic Maxwell why he won’t
change, the Northern Ireland
protocol or the untrammelled
join the attacks on the books’ author
narcissism at the roots of all

S
Sunday scary levels and breaks was home for explosive identity politics. It’s either that or itting in a busy café behind the highly readable Beyond the Wand,
down your worries to manageable arguments, mostly political, work out how to tackle the Harry Potter’s favourite or have starred in his first West End
handy headers such as “money, around the dinner table between overwhelming sense of gloom railway station, King’s production this summer, the ghost
work and housing” “maintaining my three older sisters and my that descends upon me at that Cross, Tom Felton looks play 2:22, without it. “It’s the gift
relationships” “life changes” or father, almost coming to blows time. I have found that a hefty different enough from that keeps on giving.” Not that it’s
“none of the above”. As a chronic over the Middle East, the glass of red wine usually helps. Draco Malfoy that at first always plain sailing. He was called
and lifelong Sunday scary legitimacy or not of Irish But the government says no. I fail to recognise him. the “broomstick prick for a while at
sufferer, I took the test. I was Republican aims and the The Every Mind Matter Felton reverted to his secondary school”; he made the
none of the above. I needed a importance of a woman’s right to campaign suggests, instead, natural sandy hair colour after he news this summer after a publicist
header, in short, that said freely available contraception getting active, learning a new skill finished making the eight films that connected to the 25th anniversary
“feelings of unease rooted in (that last one was always a or keeping a so-called “mind required weekly top-ups of peroxide. celebrations for the first book, Harry
childhood winters, familial humdinger — my father was not diary”. This diary, written on a The trimmed beard, gold-rimmed Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,
tension and an unspoken sense a fan). These arguments Sunday, allows you to write down glasses, cream cardigan and light tan stepped in to stop a Sky News reporter
of soul-crushing sadness”. Lie invariably ended with my mother your feelings about the scaries are those of a 35-year-old actor who asking about the absence of the series’s
back and tell you all about it? in tears, or half-tears, threatening and thus, ultimately, reframe lived for several years in Los Angeles. creator, JK Rowling.
Don’t mind if I do! to storm out if common ground unhelpful thoughts. Sound So it seems only sensible to agree to Felton’s co-stars Daniel Radcliffe,
As a child my Sunday scaries could not be found (she would’ve complicated? Nope. You’ve just his thoughtful suggestion that we Rupert Grint and Emma Watson
were an all-day experience. They been very useful at the Oslo read it. Welcome to my mind take an outside table so I can record have set themselves in opposition to
began in the morning, with the peace negotiations or Clinton’s diary. I feel better already. our conversation in a less rackety Rowling’s recent stance on gender
space. It’s not as though anyone is politics. Felton states in his book that
going to bother us. he kept and framed a note from
presenter has revealed can be checked and a smartphone: don’t How wrong can you be? First our Rowling after she wrote to compliment
that, in order to combat vetoed by the parents. get your child a waiter arrives, flabbergasted, asking if him on his performance in the
My tech the harmful impact of Any failure to meet the smartphone! it’s really him. “I paid him 20 quid sixth film, Harry Potter and the
digital culture on the terms of the contract I didn’t give my eldest to do that,” Felton jokes, but the Half-Blood Prince. He mentions her
ban took mental health of his and the phones will be a smartphone until he self-deprecation is exposed a few only three times in his book, he says,
three young children, removed (I hope the was 15, when most of minutes later when two men in their simply because he didn’t have much
its toll he demanded that they kids have good his friends got them at twenties sidle up to ask for a selfie. contact with her.
sign personalised lawyers). He has also 12. And what did I get Felton smilingly complies in a way “I couldn’t speak for what others
Radio journalist, contracts before being revealed that he didn’t in return? Three years that’s practised but friendly. He says have said or what she said, to
football enthusiast, allowed to own give his eldest child a of absolute hell. “Dad, he can’t remember a day since the be completely honest, but I’m often
breakfast TV presenter, smartphones. phone until she was 12, when can I have a films started coming out that this reminded, attending Comic Cons
Strictly Come Dancing The Walker family and says that he’s just phone? Dad, when can hasn’t happened at least once or twice. [fantasy conventions] in particular,
favourite and Channel 5 contract outlines strict trying to deal with the I have a phone? Dad, People are almost always polite and that no one has single-handedly done
newsreader. To the list terms governing the “toxic landscape” when can I have a kind. “So I don’t see that as a bad more for bringing joy to so many
of Dan Walker’s ever- usage of social media within which children phone?” All day, every thing to have in my life.” different generations and walks of life.
expanding roles and apps, it describes where sometimes have to live. day, for three years. In Work has kept coming for Felton I’m constantly reminded of her positive
disciplines we now have the phones are to be Hmm. Here’s another the long run it was since his ten-year Potter stint ended work in that field and as a person. I’ve
to add “parenting kept (downstairs at way to deal with the beneficial for his in 2011, when he was in his early only had a handful of meetings with
guru”. The 45-year-old night) and lists the toxicity that emerges mental health. Mine? twenties. However, he knows that he her but she has always been lovely.
former Football Focus website content that when your child gets Not so much. wouldn’t have written his new memoir, So I’m very grateful for that.
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“I’m pro. I’m pro choice. I’m pro
life. I’m pro discussion. I’m pro love.
I don’t tend to pick sides. I won’t talk
specifics but I enjoy reminding myself
and others that a lot of my good
friends have ways of life or personal
decisions that I don’t necessarily agree
with. We should enjoy celebrating
each other’s differences.”
So, yes, Felton is gentler, more
diplomatic, altogether less dastardly
than Draco Malfoy. This shouldn’t
be surprising, but it’s not just little
kids who are wrongfooted when he
turns out to be “quite a nice chap” in
real life. It gives him a low bar to
exceed, he says with a chuckle. And it
was telling stories about himself at
Comic Cons that prompted him to
start jotting some of them down.
Later, as he moved to London from
Los Angeles when the pandemic
took grip, and he felt himself isolated
from too many friends and family,
he started turning those jottings into
a book.
He loved his stage job this summer
and wants to do more theatre but
notes how different it is from screen
work: he hadn’t done any of it since
playing a snowman and a tree at
drama club at Fetcham Village Hall
in Surrey when he was seven. His
grandfather had funded him and his
three older brothers to go to a private
prep school, Cranmore School in West
Horsley, after which they went to the
local comprehensive, Howard of
Effingham School. By then he already
had his job on Potter, after early
successes in the films The Borrowers
and Anna and the King. As the
youngest of four rambunctious boys,
he was used to standing his ground.
So when he went to the auditions for
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
Stone, he had just the sort of cockiness
that the director wanted for Draco.
“Everyone else there, as I recall,
was fans of the book. I was the only
one who had no idea what this story
about the boy under the cupboard
was about and probably thought it was
a bit uncool too. Because of my older
brothers I was 12 going on 21.”
He suggests that Radcliffe, Watson
and Grint were quite close in real life
to their ideas of Harry, Hermione and
Ron. Similarly, although Felton now
is polite and charming with refined
diction, he was enough of a rebel at
the time to do things like smuggling a
skateboard on to the set even though
he was forbidden to do so for fear of
injury. He tells in the book of once
getting caught smoking dope by the
police; of getting banned for life
from HMV after a clumsy attempt to
impress his friends by stealing a
DVD. He wasn’t self-destructive, he
says, he just didn’t define himself by
his acting.
“Back then I didn’t preface any
decision with: ‘How is this going to
affect my career?’ My mum would
have been pissed off. That’s about it.
I certainly didn’t imagine my life
would have been over.” As a
supporting character, he spent enough
time in the real world, he says, that it
never took over his whole life like it
might have done for the
principals. The films, he
writes, came fifth in his
teen life behind “fishing,
music, cars and friends”.
And though they
were big-budget affairs
from the off, he insists
nobody knew quite how
huge and persistent
their success
would be.
“People think
we signed
up to an
eight-film
deal, but
that was
3
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n
never the case. It was just one after
tthe next. I certainly expected them
to replace us with half-decent actors
aat some point.”
The lowdown
Felton remembers keeping his
ccomposure for his final shoot on Jared Leto
th
the film, a low-key event with the
ssecond unit. He then cried all the Breaking news in the fashion world!
way home in his car, but tried to
w Being ultra-skinny is finally out
hide his tears from his driver. He
h of style?
laughs at the thought. “I’m quite an
la
eemotional chap, to be fair. I only Of course not. Nothing will ever
have to watch the news just to start
h taste as good as skinny feels,
blubbing sometimes.”
b remember?
After Potter he got a job straight
aaway on a Hollywood blockbuster: How could I forget. What’s happened?
Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Yet
R
aalthough he relocated to Los Angeles, Jared Leto has left the House of
his big (second) break didn’t lead to
h Gucci!
tthe stardom he briefly imagined. I didn’t know he ever lived there.
““It is a process of relentless rejection.
I always say to any young actor now He played the eccentric Paolo
tthat you’re right for maybe one out of Gucci in House of Gucci last year.
1100 roles, which means welcoming And now he’s lost his Gucciness?
99 ‘nos’ as quickly as possible.” Work
9
ccame, though: he appeared in films Apparently! He has ascended the
including Risen (with Joseph Fiennes)
in ranks to House of Chanel.
aand A United Kingdom (with David
How did he wrangle that?
Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike).
O
HHe had recurring roles in the TV
He’s playing Karl Lagerfeld in a new
sseries Murder in the First, The Flash
film about the Chanel creative
aand Origin.
director.
However, after he started drinking
— he never went off the rails, he says, It makes sense — he does already
bbut he did change — his agents staged have the long hair.
aan intervention and insisted he go to
rrehab. Ever the rebel, he walked out of Very true! And Lagerfeld
tthe first rehab centre but went to apparently once said, “Only you,
another, made some big changes such darling, only you,” when Leto said
as ending his long-term relationship he wanted to play him in a movie.
with Jade Olivia, whom he had met Quel honneur!
when she was a stunt assistant on the
Potter films. He spent a couple of Quite. Now it’s time for Leto to
years living in Venice Beach. He adopt some of the unique
realised that he, like two of his Lagerfeldian traits.
brothers, suffers from depression. He Didn’t he have 310 iPods?
got a dog, Willow, now four, and took
I’m pro. twice-daily swims in the sea. All black and white, I’d say, given
I’m pro Now he lives in north London.
He won’t say whether he is in a
his penchant for monochrome.
Mais oui. But you’re forgetting the
choice. I’m relationship, but he values his hobbies:
walking Willow, seeing friends, playing most important question.
pro life. music. He says financially he still
needs to work, and in any case he What?
I’m pro wants to keep busy so he can do his
charity work. And that helps him as
Who’s going to play Lagerfeld’s chic
white cat, Choupette?
discussion. much as he helps anyone else, he
says. “The ultimate, game-changing Surely Choupette herself, of course.
I’m pro element for me in the past few years She just turned 11.
has been helping others.” He did some
love. I volunteering for a food truck for the
Good for her. Bon anniversaire,
Choupette!
don’t pick homeless in Venice Beach as part of
his second stint in rehab and found he Blanca Schofield
sides got more out of it than he put in.“It’s a
relatively small gesture. It took two
hours of my entire week. But it lifted
my spirits for the rest of the week.”
He has several films ready to come
out, and enjoyed helping to produce
one of them, Canyon Del Muerto, a
historical drama about the American
archaeologist Ann Axtell Morris in
which he plays her husband, Earl,
reputedly an inspiration for Indiana
Jones. He knows to be proud of Potter,
to be glad of the opportunities it gives
him, but not to rely on it for his
sense of self-worth. Or, indeed, to rely
on any work for that. “You can’t,
otherwise the rejection would be too
painful. Playing my keyboards and
guitar is great: they don’t care who you
are or what you do. My dog doesn’t
Tom Felton as care what job I do, she just wants to be
Draco Malfoy walked. So, yeah, there are things that
in Harry Potter give me value beyond what people
and the think of me. Increasingly I try to
Chamber of remind myself that that’s not what is
Secrets, 2002. important in life.”
Above: Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton
Felton and is published by Ebury on Thursday
JK Rowling at £20
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The man who knows what we
What did the past three years do to our private lives?
Dr Justin Garcia, head of the Kinsey Institute, has
the answers. It took being locked up for couples to
say what they wanted, he tells Julia Llewellyn Smith
T
he question Dr Justin
Garcia is asked all the
time is: how many
times a week should
couples have sex? “I
always say, ‘As much as
they want,’ ” he says,
laughing. “People are
like, ‘No, but really, how much?’ But
that really is the answer that’s
associated with the best outcomes.
There’s not a magic number.”
Garcia, 37, is the youngest director in
the history of the Kinsey Institute,
based at Indiana University. Its
20-strong team of anthropologists,
biologists, sociologists and
psychologists publish about 100
articles a year on research into sex
and relationships.
The team’s work encompasses
everything from studies into the now
commonplace sending of dick pics cs as a
courting ritual (more of which later),
ater),
to the use of sex toys and — more re
generally — our searches for love ve
and commitment.
“When people find out what
I do, they often tell me things.
Very intimate things,” says
Garcia, who has led the
institute since 2019 and who
has a cheery conviviality that
could certainly lead to soul-
bearing. “A good friend jokes,
‘Justin’s the most fun to have at a
cocktail party, but when we leave ve
he also could bury us.’ ”
Does he ever fall about laughinghing at
the confessions he hears? “Sometimes
metimes
we have a good laugh together, but
whether I’m at a party or doing
research, when people share things I
feel responsibility to answer
thoughtfully. Sexuality’s delicate,
you have to approach it with humanity
and dignity.”
Much of the institute’s research has
focused on how the pandemic has
reshaped sex lives. “A natural
experiment unfolded about social
isolation,” he says. Initial multinational
studies of people of all backgrounds,
genders and religions pointed to a
43 per cent decline in sexual
frequency, borne out when the
predicted pandemic baby boom
failed to materialise.
“I’m an evolutionary biologist so my
conclusion was that our physiology
was in a bit of a threat response,
which is not conducive to mating,”
Garcia says. “We don’t stop for a chat
in a burning building because your
body is mobilising.”
Yet these drops in frequency are not
necessarily a problem. Garcia’s team
also noted that about one in five
people had used the pandemic to
enhance their sexual repertoire. Of
those, 49 per cent had tried a new
sexual position and 41 per cent had
shared sexual fantasies (although only
27 per cent had acted on them).
81% of men surveyed said they
He continues: “All of us thought, thought sex was less
‘Wow, in some ways this is really an important now than they
indictment on how we talk about sex,’ did before the pandemic
that it took being locked up for people
who had, in some cases, been together
for decades to say to their partner, ‘Is
there anything you’ve ever wanted to
try?’ The pandemic forced all of us to
slow down and focus on the people we
were most connected to, and nourish
those connections.”
Their research was faithful to the
mission of Alfred Kinsey, who founded
his institute — with its vast archive of
erotica and sex-related material — 75
years ago, after Indiana University
asked him to teach a course on
marriage and family.
When he looked for the science
behind human sexual behaviour he
found there was virtually nothing and
so began conducting his own. His
team crisscrossed
crissc the US, putting its
list of 350 questions about sex (“How
old wer
were you the first time you had
sexual
sexua intercourse?” “In warm
weather,
wea how often do you sleep
nude?”)
nu to more than 18,000
men
m and women. The results
formed
fo the basis for two
landmark
la books: Sexual
Behaviour
B in the Human Male,
published
p in 1948, and, in
1953,
19 the far more
controversial
con Sexual Behaviour
in the
th Human Female or — as
headlines preferred — that book.
headl
Many were hostile to the findings
of Kinsey,
Kinsey who died in 1956 and who,
according to his biographers, had
Dr Justin Garcia affairs with
wi men and encouraged they needed them, when they were important now than they did before
open marriages among his staff. In his depressed or angry or scared. From the pandemic.
time he was called a pervert, a maniac my evolutionist perspective, that’s the “After boosters became widely
and a communist intent on whole reason relationships evolved available, there was all this talk we
undermining the American family. four million years ago. We formed were going to see the hot-vax summer,
Since then — in the country that these intense relationships to weather the Roaring Twenties, like we saw
gave us Viagra, Sex and the City and uncertainty, to support each other. So after the Spanish flu,” Garcia says.
the Kardashians — he has been the pandemic was, in some ways, the “But it never really happened. There’s
blamed by the US right for everything ultimate evolutionary test and a lot of people suffering, a lot of debt
from Roe v Wade to the explosion in humanity passed.” and economic fallout. People began
the porn industry. Now, in the post-pandemic US at taking close relationships more
Some of his methodology was least (“though I think it’s happening seriously to help weather the storm.
flawed and biased towards the globally”), promiscuity is out of One of my colleagues calls it an
sexually adventurous — he and his fashion. In the institute’s 11th annual international growing up. It was
researchers met many of their report, Singles in America, made with certainly a global awakening.”
interviewees in bars, then got them to The data also shows a rise in what
recruit their friends. Yet much of his Kinsey researchers call “intentional
findings are still embedded in public dating”. “People are going on dates
consciousness, for example, that with a goal. They’re saying, ‘I just want
10 per cent of men are gay. People are going sex,’ or, ‘I want a relationship by
“Dr Kinsey had a great line that his
research could provide light in the on dates with summer’ — either way they’re making
it more clear,” Garcia says.
darkness and that was what we were
trying to do,” Garcia says.
a goal. They’re Most of these dates are initiated
online. In the US 40 per cent of people
While, anecdotally, divorce lawyers
saw a rise in queries during the
making it clear met their most recent first date
through an app, compared with 6 per
pandemic, the most recent 2020 the online dating service Match — cent who met in a bar (in the UK
statistics show UK divorces fell by and which looks at a new, 50 per cent of singletons have never
4 per cent. It’s a figure supported by demographically representative asked out someone in person). “But
the institute’s research, which found, sample of 5,000 Americans every year we’ve seen people really struggle with
Garcia says, that “most couples fared — two out of three singletons said apps; they have cognitive overload.
better than you might expect”. they wanted to wait until after the They go on and swipe 300 times
“A lot of people realised their third date for sex, while 81 per cent of because they’re thinking there are
partners were there for them when men said they thought sex was less more options, when what we actually
the times | Monday October 10 2022
do in bed
do is read just five
need to do cognitively is slow down
and read just five profiles carefully. It’s
the same on early dates. If you meet
someone for a coffee, in the back of
your mind, you’re thinking,‘Well, it’s
not perfect, but there’s another 6,000
out there,’ and we don’t really focus on
the person we’re with.”
Yet now, to Garcia’s surprise,
research shows that people have
trained themselves to overcome the
apps’ shortcomings. “We often say,
‘If you go on a first date and think
there might be a chance of
something developing, then go on a
second date,’ because building
connections with people takes time.
And we’ve found now people are
doing that: they focus on the person
they’re having a drink with and, if
they see an opportunity, they have a
second date.”
The same stress on personal
relationships was, surprisingly,
revealed in the institute’s recent report
on sex tech. “There was a section on
cam modelling, when you log on and
maybe someone pays you to cook
dinner, but then they’ll say, ‘Take your
blouse off.’ But what we found was a
lot of the chats were not explicitly
sexual. It was people just looking for
connections, who actually just did
want to watch you cook dinner.”
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On apps people
swipe 300 times.
What we need to
profiles carefully
It’s not all so soft-focus. Garcia’s
colleagues produced a report on dick
pics, something I know from my
teenagers is a standard (though
virtually always unsuccessful) form
of Gen Z male courtship. “We saw
pretty high rates of men sending
these photos and then saying, ‘It’s
because I thought that the person I
was texting wanted it.’ And then
heterosexual women saying, ‘No, I
find it offensive and gross.’ It’s what
we call a sexual misperception bias,
when one gender thinks the other
wants something but just hasn’t talked
about it.”
Most of these studies are funded
by industry since, in America,
“federal funding is kind of phobic
about funding work on sex and
sexuality”, Garcia says. Several
organisations exist to lobby against
all sex research, whipping up
hostility when, for example the
institute, located in conservative
Indiana, recently unveiled a bronze
statue of Kinsey.
“The field sometimes isn’t taken
seriously,” Garcia says, choosing his
words carefully. “Even though we
know, for example, that the biggest
predictor of divorce is sexual issues. So
if we want to keep marriages together,
let’s do work on sex and couples.”
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Why I’m getting a tattoo at 58
(Annie Lennox got hers at 67)
By Candida Crewe
S
ome years ago my eldest considering a little inky something
son went off to Galway to shock my children when I got
with a bunch of mates. home. I chickened out and opted
When he came home I instead for a few more, rather tamer,
discovered he had a ear piercings.
tattoo on his upper thigh
saying “Squadron”, only
spelt wrong. He was 16. I
was horrified.
But that was eight years ago and in I’m trying not to
that time something radical has
happened. Now I want one. be a staid and
Last week, Annie Lennox, still
cool at 67, posted a picture on
prissy person as
Instagram of her first tattoo (two
birds and a red heart on her hip).
I face mortality
I’m a mere 58 but am not waiting — Last month I was ordering two
and I’m not alone among my peers. stunning silver rings from the Agnes
I read a report saying that more and Gray website. The company’s
more older Americans are getting inspirational designer is my age and
inked for the first time and about a designs and makes all her irresistible
third of the US population has at jewellery herself, but it appeals to all
least one tattoo. The piece cited a ages. The strange thing was, and it
retired judge in Florida, aged 70, had never occurred to me before, I
who has had one along with her Candida Crewe wanted them for my right thumb and
38-year-old daughter. and Annie Lennox forefinger, not more conventional
I rang an ex-boyfriend because he fingers. What was that about?
had beautiful ones that I thought I realised the piercings and the
were sexy and cool at the time, and particular placing of her two
were done by an artist he rated in fabulous rings on my right hand were
Reading. Alas, that artist is dead. I my joyful tattoo substitutes. What
don’t know of any other brilliant my boys would call entry-level, or the
tattooists, so am simply looking at first rungs on the ladder of my trying
designs, contemplating words and not to be a staid and prissy person as
pictures, and making an appointment I increasingly face my mortality.
at the local tattoo parlour.
Unlike Lennox, I won’t be getting
No longer. My first tattoo is
booked. A final decision on
birds because I have a bird phobia,
but I quite like the cliché of a red
design and location on the body
will be spontaneous. It will be my
heart. Possibly my sons’ names? boys’ turn to be either admiring
Maybe “Squadron”, spelt correctly, as — or horrified? It’s a risk I
it will make me laugh. I think I’ll can’t wait to take.
decide on the day.
I used not to like tattoos, with their
inadequate colours and often coarse,
trashy designs. How did my volte-
face come about, so radically and
unexpectedly?
My eldest son has had several more
inkings since that first one, and
tattoos in general have become
mainstream, both culturally and in
this house. His two brothers, aged 20
and 22, now also have plenty, all
done by tattoo artists wherever they
happened to be when they suddenly
wanted one, from Belfast to
Budapest.
Some of my friends have said they
would hate it if their kids got a single
tattoo but that ship sailed among my
lot long ago. And the funny thing is, I
gave up minding almost as long ago.
My younger half-siblings, brother-in-
law and nephew have loads. I have
come to like a few of them, especially
the pylons round one son’s bicep,
although I object to others — but
only on the grounds that they are
rubbish, artistically speaking.
For all my new-found acceptance,
there remains just one rule, which I
cannot enforce except on myself,
obviously: none on the hands, neck
or face. The boys haven’t broken
it yet.
Maybe the awakening began when
I went on tour round Ireland with the
wonderful band Police Dog Hogan
four years ago, and found myself in a
Galway tattoo parlour seriously
6 Monday October 10 2022 | the times
life
Ask Professor Tanya Byron I don’t know whether to tell my
grandson that his mother is addicted to drink and drugs
N
I am worried about my
teenage grandson who
Q lives with his parents
— my daughter and
her long-term partner.
My daughter has
been addicted to drugs and drink
since her teens, and took them
during her pregnancy. She and her
partner met through the drugs
culture, and although her partner
has managed to keep working, my
daughter has not had a job for years.
She is a kind and loving woman,
and our grandson is a wonderful,
gentle soul, but he is obese and
has been bullied throughout his
schooling. He isn’t in any clubs and
he doesn’t go out with friends.
My daughter has been prescribed
methadone for many years, and
suffers from depression. In her youth
she went to rehab but left after a few
days. I have on occasion lost my
temper at her idleness. When we fall
out, we cry and hug — I can’t bear
to see how she has wasted her life.
My grandson stays with us quite
often and we have a lovely time, but
I don’t know if he knows why his
mother is the way she is. His father
works away and never gives enough
money to my daughter so she’s
always asking us to help.
My question is, should we speak
to our grandson about his mum’s
addictions? I’m so scared that this
would make things so bad we
wouldn’t be able to recover from it,
but I feel it’s so wrong to pretend
everything is normal. Would it be
right to invite the three of them to
our house and talk about it together?
I love my daughter, but I think the
focus now has to be on our grandson.
Sophie
N
I completely agree
with you — the
A focus now has to be
on supporting your
grandson, who is
clearly affected by his
mother’s substance misuse. You are
right when you say that “it’s so wrong
to pretend everything is normal”.
Research shows that children living
in homes where there is parental
substance abuse find the chaos and
unpredictability confusing and
distressing; not talking to them about
this does the opposite of protecting
them. They will always know that
something is wrong, even if they don’t
know what it is. The risk is that
children presume it must be to do with
them and blame themselves. Such
children will experience neglect
through a lack of consistent nurture,
and can develop psychological and
mental health difficulties.
Talking about the addiction openly
and honestly is essential, and while it
could be argued that it is the mother’s
right to choose whether to share this
information, I would argue that these
rights are overridden by the rights ts of
a child whose needs are neglected d in
a confusing, unhappy environment. nt.
Not only will such information enablenable
your grandson to understand what at is
going on around him, the truth will
challenge any erroneous and
damaging beliefs that he may hold, ld,
for example that the home situation tion
and his mother’s mental state aree his
fault. Knowledge is power, and it
will help him to find healthier
ways to cope with the trauma he’s’s
experiencing.
He may assume responsibility for
helping his mother to “get better”. ”.
This has to be challenged becausee
a) he can’t, b) it’s not his role and
d negative impact on your
c) it risks that he develops a
codependent relationship with his is
mother that will have an impact
on his relationships moving
forward.
Codependency is a term used
to explain the enmeshed and
unhealthy relationships of those
close to a substance misuser
where one party becomes
entwined in responding to the
needs of the other, often to the
detriment of their life and
relationships. A dysfunctional
Talking
about the
dynamic develops between the
codependents in which the care given
by one enables the maintenance of
the problems of the other.
addiction You are clearly a loving, supportive
mother, but your description of the
openly and dynamic between you and your
daughter appears to be codependent.
honestly The understandable emotional and
financial support you offer enables
is essential your daughter to not address her
addiction. The pattern of you getting
angry followed by hugs and tears
suggests you feel sorry for her in a way
that removes a boundary that she
If you have a problem needs to see, and so doesn’t help her
and would like Tanya to recognise a possibility for change.
Byron’s help, email Why, despite having a child, does your
proftanyabyron daughter remain a helpless child in
@thetimes.co.uk the face of her own addiction? How
much are you enabling her to
maintain the state with your responses
mainta
behaviours? See codauk.org.
and beh
I have
hav worked with many people
who have
ha tried hard to address their
addiction, especially when they
addicti
become parents. To really help your
grandson, not only does he need the
grands
truth, but b your daughter needs to face
the damage
da that her addiction is
doing to her child. Perhaps some
doin
honesty about the impact on her
hon
child, plus some truth-telling from
chi
you, would enable this moment
yo
tto be the beginning of positive
cchange for your daughter
as well. See nar-anon.co.uk.
So what, already, is the
n sidekick.actionforchildren.org.uk, and
grandson? He is a lonely child,
withdrawn and not socially
cconnected with his peers — this
is extremely sad. He is bullied
because of his weight, a result of
b mental health services.
struggles to regulate his diet. This
str
has p probably arisen because of the
chaos around him and a lack of
support from his parents, and also,
suppor
many unhappy children (and
like ma
adults), your grandson comforts
adults)
himself by eating.
His self-esteem must be so low,
worsening his disordered eating as he
turns for comfort when distressed to
the substance that causes him
problems. He may experience a numb
state when comfort eating (as his
mother will when using), related
to the impact of food on brain
chemicals associated with mood.
His health will be negatively impacted
by his obesity, as his mother’s is by her
drug use. The self-loathing he will
probably feel, compounded by his
loneliness and the bullying, will drive
him further towards food because his
mother is unlikely to be emotionally
available to him consistently. All this
behaviour mirrors his mother’s: the
cycle of addiction continues, and the
tragedy of this is significant.
I can see a need for a significant
intervention for your grandson —
either with or without your daughter
present. A meeting all together would
be best; however, you need to consider
whether your daughter’s emotional
state would overwhelm a meeting that
needs to be fully focused on his needs.
He needs to be told the truth in a
compassionate and age-appropriate
way, and I advise that you plan this
and educate yourself. See nspcc.org.uk
and childrenssociety.org.uk, and
support at: famanon.org.uk and
adfam.org.uk. He needs to understand
that he didn’t cause the addiction and
there’s nothing he can do to prevent
his mother’s drug use. Find spaces
for him to get support, such as
Childline on 0800 1111 and
consider how to address his health
and mental health needs (he may be
depressed) by talking with his GP for
a referral to child and adolescent
All this, I’m sure, feels
overwhelming, but not only will it
allow your grandson to have the
support he needs, it will perhaps help
your daughter to recognise that it’s
time for her to address her addiction
— if not for herself, for her son.
 the times | Monday October 10 2022 7
ALAMY

life
life

Could you survive a blackout?

My day without power
This winter we new-build uses electricity for
everything. One survey suggests two
could face sporadic in every three British households have
an electric oven. My hob needs power.
My toaster needs power. Everything in
outages. Chris my home seems to need power.
I clock just how dark it’ll likely be in
Stokel-Walker a few months’ time. Already it’s
gloomy. Reading the papers on my
tries to get by tablet gives me anxiety as the battery
life drops from 65 per cent to 55 per
with no electricity cent in a few minutes. Uh-oh.
9am-noon
20 per cent that we start thinking
about needs versus wants. Do we need
battery-operated kit to stock up on
before winter — cool boxes, torches,
What to buy to scroll through TikTok? I think we night lights and a power bank. I do
Candles and a torch
all know the answer to that . . . have one of those but unfortunately
it’s only half-charged. Note to self:
Don’t forget matches
either. The Coquimbo
Noon-2pm keep banks fully charged in future.
Laptop battery: 39 per cent What if I have some kind of
COB LED torch (£12.99
from Amazon) has a
Phone battery: 86 per cent
Tablet battery: 54 per cent
emergency, I wonder. BT recently
switched over my landline phone from
USB-charging port.
Power bank
Last night we made pizza, and the
following day’s lunch is usually a
the traditional copper cables to a
digital alternative, as part of the
To keep smartphones and
tablets going, a power
highlight — warm and crisp from a
reheat in the oven. But given that
removal of the entire UK analogue
phone network by 2025. That’s all well
bank is a must-have. The almost the entire kitchen is a no-go and good, except the phone calls go

N
ow is the winter of
our discontent.
With the National
Grid warning that
the country could
face rolling
blackouts this
winter due to a lack
of energy supply, households have to
plan for potential disruption.
Headlines are harking back to the
1970s, the three-day week and
shopping by candlelight, which is bad
enough — but in the nearly 50 years
since much of our lives have changed.
We’re more dependent on power than
ever, thanks to our smartphone
addiction, and that four in ten people
expect to work from home more often,
using laptops as they do.
So is it time to stock up on tealights?
In the name of investigative
journalism I spent 24 hours living off-
grid — without a generator in sight.
7am-9am:
Laptop battery: 95 per cent
Phone battery: 100 per cent
Tablet battery: 65 per cent
It’s 10 minutes since my alarm went
off (set on my phone, which I charged
overnight — my last blast of electricity
for the next 24 hours). Already I’m
realising quite how dependent we are.
My usual morning shower? Not
possible. I glance wistfully at the
kettle’s cable extending to a plug
socket. And before you tell me to boil
some water in a pan, my mid-2010s
Laptop battery: 72 per cent
Phone battery: 91 per cent
Tablet battery: 55 per cent
I spend the best part of an hour
turning off equipment at the socket as
per advice I come across on the British
Gas website. It’s something I know
about well: as a child my parent’s
house suffered a power cut, then a
power surge when the electricity came
back on. It blew out fuses and caused
thousands of pounds of damage.
Then I sit down to work at my
laptop. By 10 am it’s down to 72 per
cent battery. When a radio producer
gets in touch to ask if I can be
interviewed on air via Skype about a
piece I’ve written, I have to think
twice. Skype calls are known to be big
power drainers. To try and mitigate
this I close down unnecessary
programs and turn the brightness of
my screen down to its lowest level.
Because my plugged-in internet
router is a no-go, I’m having to tether
my devices, including my laptop and
tablet, to my mobile. That means that
everything I do online is being sent
through my mobile phone carrier and
relying on 4G connections and my
phone’s monthly data package.
Handling all that data is hell for a
phone’s battery.
It’s a concern that Aleesha Joy
Rodriguez, a researcher at Queensland
University of Technology who has
studied “battery anxiety”, says is
shared by many. Rodriguez says that
it’s when our battery life drops to
Charmast 10,400mAh
power bank (£17.99 from
Amazon) is good value
for money. It won’t work
on laptops, though, and
of course you need to
charge it before the
power goes.
Portable power station
For those really eager to
embrace their inner
prepper, the EcoFlow
DELTA 2 (uk.ecoflow.com)
provides 1,800W of AC
output to up to 13 devices
and can power 90 per
cent of all appliances,
including microwaves,
kettles and laptops. But it
comes at a cost: £1,099.
Tech-saving tips
6 Close down any
unnecessary apps on your
devices, which can drain
batteries quickly
6 Switch off the location
service on your phone (its
regular pinging of
satellites is a power suck),
and NFC and Bluetooth,
which often aren’t used
6 Most smartphones have
a power-saving mode,
which stops your device
asking apps if there are
any notifications and dims
your screen. Use it
area, I chew over limp, cold crusts,
washed down with a lukewarm Diet
Coke — blackouts also mean dead
fridges, remember?
Speaking of fridges, I’m trying to
avoid opening mine as much as
possible. According to UK Power
Networks, if the doors are kept shut
food should keep for 4 to 6 hours in
the fridge and 15 to 24 hours in the
freezer before you need to bin it.
At the same time I ruminate on
what it means to lose power in 2022.
Where I live, in the northeast of
England, the area was a strong
exporter of goods, with an economy
built on manual labour. Today it’s as
much dominated by services. And
services need electricity.
2pm-6pm
Laptop battery: 0 per cent
Phone battery: 69 per cent
Tablet battery: 36 per cent
My laptop finally gives way just after
lunch. Thankfully the wonders of
cloud storage mean I can pick up my
work on my phone. I do, for a while —
but the small screen makes tapping
out these words nigh-on impossible
and makes me want to shout “duck” at
the screen.
Frustrated, I go for a walk — only I
won’t be able to listen to music as I
usually would. I think nostalgically of
the battery-operated Walkman of the
1980s . . . which gives me an idea. The
afternoon stretching out ahead me, I
pass the time by making a list of
through my internet router.
6pm onwards
Laptop battery: 0 per cent
Phone battery: 44 per cent
Tablet battery: 26 per cent
As the night draws in, darkness starts
to surround me. How on earth did
people keep themselves occupied
before electricity? I call a friend of a
friend named Joel for inspiration.
Joel lives in a field in a 16ft yurt with
no power. “It’s a caveman lifestyle,
almost,” he admits. Joel was born in
London and grew up in Brighton. Two
and a half years ago he dipped out of
societal norms and set up his yurt.
I ask Joel what to do with my Friday
night stretching out ahead of me. He
tells me he’s fortunate enough to see
for miles from his yurt down a valley
to the sea. “If it’s tipping it down, it’s
really nice to watch the waves of rain
sweep across it.”
The view from my windows is not
quite so picturesque — though, staring
into the gloom, inspiration strikes. My
car! It has enough petrol in it to get to
a takeaway. Is that cheating? As my
phone charge drops nearer the 20 per
cent limit, I decide I don’t care, so I
head out to pick up dinner.
My girlfriend and I sit in the
darkness, eating fried chicken before
deciding to get an early night. After all,
with barely any battery left in my
phone, and my charger off limits until
the morning, I won’t be able to rely on
my alarm to wake me up.
8 Monday October 10 2022 | the times
CAMILLA GREENWELL

artsfirst night
theatre opera
The Caucasian Chalk Circle Tamerlano
Rose Theatre, Kingston Hackney Empire
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T A
his production finally ignites
about two hours in, with the
appearance of a man in a
DIY judge’s wig whose
booze-reddened nose is only
slightly outshone by his tatty crimson
robe. Azdak is a carnivalesque
apparition – a drunk, a cynic and lord
of misrule – who through becoming a
judge by accident reveals the
hypocrisies of his war-torn society.
Twenty-five years after its last big
London production, Bertolt Brecht’s
The Caucasian Chalk Circle proves a
tricky proposition. You would have
thought that the still rumbling
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the
South Caucasus — or the fallout from
Ukraine — would make a script about
war in this part of the world feel
cutting-edge, but in practice it’s as
rattly as an old Lada.
The problem is in part with the
dark, stark opera needs a
dark, stark staging, and
James Conway’s new
production of Tamerlano
for English Touring Opera
is just that. Presented on a single set
that doubles as both Tamerlano’s
throne room and the dungeon of his
deadly rival and captive, Bajazet, it
allows Handel’s profound, austere
music, written at the peak of his
theatrical powers, to make its impact
without frills or gimmicks.
The only flamboyances are some
dramatic lighting changes (Tim van
’t Hof). The Turner-like canvases that
are the most prominent components
of Rebecca van Beeck’s designs are
occasionally bathed in reds or blues to
complement the mood of the arias.
Otherwise the emphasis is on the
Agathe Rousselle as Blake, the Kurt Cobain character in the opera based on Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film performers and how they react to their
characters’ fluctuating fortunes as

Smells like a spirited hit

unwieldy script, a parable-like play Tamerlano’s lust for Bajazet’s daughter
within a play about the repossession of Asteria is thwarted, but not before the
land after a war. Often productions deranged Bajazet has killed himself.
have ditched the prologue. Here the Conway (directing his last new show
adapter, Steve Waters, has gamely for ETO after 20 years at the helm)
embraced it by throwing his has assembled a fine cast, with a

protagonists into a modern refugee
camp and referencing everything from
drones to UN incompetence.
Like so much here, it’s a good idea.
Other promising elements include Oli
Townsend’s three-tier set, in which six
ladders swoop up from a dormitory
filled with beds that turn into
barricade sand mountain paths. The
setting promises to be a physical and
conceptual playground, but
Christopher Haydon’s production
never achieves the heights promised.
Brechtian theatre is inherently as
disrupted as it’s disruptive; yet this
story of a girl who fights to adopt the
baby she has rescued lacks something.
There are high points, not least
Carrie Hope Fletcher, the musicals
and YouTube star, who brings
vibrancy and dignity to the role of
Grusha. From the spirited ensemble
other stand-out performances include
Shiv Rabheru as her “almost-dead”
husband and Joanna Kirkland as the
governor’s wife.
But it’s Jonathan Slinger as Azdak
who steals the day as he swaggers
round the stage like an out-of-control
Caucasian Falstaff. Sadly, though, he is
not enough to rescue an overlong
production — Brecht without the bite.
Rachel Halliburton
Until October 22, rosetheatre.org
W
Oliver Leith’s ith suicide the theme
of the ballet Mayerling
opera about in its main auditorium
Kurt Cobain and this new opera on
is weird and its Linbury stage, a
trip to the Royal Opera House might
wonderful, be inadvisable right now for those of a
says Richard depressive disposition. That said, I
commend Last Days to everyone else.
Morrison It’s grim but fascinating.
Based on Gus Van Sant’s enigmatic
opera 2005 film, itself based on the 1994
suicide of the rock star Kurt Cobain,
Last Days Oliver Leith’s opera is strange and
Linbury Theatre, WC2 surreal, yet occasionally sublime.
{{{{( Death comes across as peaceful, even
beautiful, because life is depicted as
banal and chaotic. That’s a philosophy
I find deluded and dangerous, but I
can quite believe it’s what drove the
self-destruction of Cobain.
Here the icon is renamed Blake and
portrayed by the voguish French
actress Agathe Rousselle, who mutters
and grunts and slumps in despair, but
leaves the singing to a parade of
oddball characters who come to find,
rescue or evangelise their idol. More
spookily, Blake also gets visitations
from a shaman-like figure who gives
him a silver bullet, and a Grim Reaper
type who welcomes him to oblivion.
There’s some absurdist humour —
including surely the only operatic aria
to begin with a cry of “DHL!” — but
the overwhelming mood is bleak. Two
things, however, make it compelling.
The first is the visual imagery,
masterminded by the artist Matt
Copson, who wrote the sparse libretto
and also co-directs (with Anna
Morrissey). Grace Smart’s bipolar set
— a roofless, debris-strewn shack on
stilts set inside a cave that occasionally
glows like a volcano — surely
symbolises the fatal dichotomy inside
Blake’s head: the shabby pointlessness
of reality; the apparent liberation of
death. The grungy-chic costumes, too,
are remarkable, nabbed from the
catalogue of Balenciaga in what the
Royal Opera says is its first
partnership with a fashion house (am I
the only one to remember its Armani-
clad Così fan tutte in the 1990s?).
The second compelling factor is
Leith’s chamber orchestra score.
Heavy on slithering strings and
jangling percussion, it mostly sounds
detuned, unhinged and unearthly.
Once or twice, however, it breaks into
luscious postmodern romanticism —
especially in an aria sung on tape by
Caroline Polachek, freighted with
nostalgia and elegy. The 12 Ensemble
play well for the conductor Jack
Sheen, and the singers are superb.
To tomorrow, roh.org.uk
superb countertenor, Rodrigo Sosa
Dal Pozzo, dominating in the title
role. He acts the part — sneering,
sadistic — and he sounds right too,
with the coloratura pumped out like
a machinegun.
This is a two countertenor show,
however, and James Hall is equally
convincing as the wimpish prince
Andronico, forever trying but failing to
stand up to Tamerlano’s bullying. I was
worried at first that Ellie Laugharne,
playing Asteria, wouldn’t muster the
vocal heft to match the boys, but the
very lightness of her voice becomes a
strength. Trapped between her father’s
pyrrhic pride and her conqueror’s lust,
Asteria is like a crushed flower, and
Laugharne conveys this vulnerability
perfectly. There’s an excellent
performance from April Koyejo-
Audiger, too, as the princess Irene.
My one reservation concerns Jorge
Navarro Colorada as Bajazet. You need
a tenor voice of weight and range to
deliver the final scene effectively, and
Colorado struggles here.
No complaints, though, about the
conductor Jonathan Peter Kenny’s
sizzling tempos or the firmly etched,
stylish playing from the Old Street
Band. Three hours fly by.
Richard Morrison
Touring, englishtouringopera.org.uk

B
ack on stage for the first time
comedy since his Edinburgh Fringe
show was pulled after one
Jerry Sadowitz performance, Jerry Sadowitz
The Town House, Hamilton is apoplectic. Granted, the
{{{{( top-hatted Glaswegian stand-up is
always apoplectic on stage. Although
some of his targets are new — Truss,
Kwarteng, Putin, white heterosexual
men — many are old: Jimmy Savile,
Frankie Boyle, pseudo-intellectuals,
John Bishop, bisexuals.
Still, it’s the imaginativeness as well
as the excessiveness of his vitriol that
makes him, on this form, more treat
than disgrace. He is freeingly willing to
say the wrong thing, rather than
grubbily offensive. The cancellation
still rankles. He gives a semi-
fantastical retelling of what led to the
complaints at his Edinburgh show and
Jerry Sadowitz was in defence mode
keeps coming back to the issue. He
whips out his willy (apparently a
triggering incident in Edinburgh) but
it’s clearly a prop. And, although he
mounts a defence of using the word
“P**i”, it’s semi-sincere at most. He
knows the word is unacceptable. He
also wants his show to be a safe space
for horrible sentiments that you don’t
have to agree with to laugh at. In fact,
it’s probably best if you don’t agree
with them.
This show sees Sadowitz, at the age
of 61, doing something I never thought
I’d see him do: mount a kind of
defence of his act on stage,
underlining his equal disrespect for all
ethnicities and identities. “I don’t want
to upset anybody,” Sadowitz says, after
suggesting that no grouping of people
is above being laughed at.
That purity of intent can be outright
hilarious. Sadowitz has his lulls, and
the evening peters out a bit, but often
his delivery is so fast and fulminating
you haven’t got time to notice just how
carefully written it all is.
Forget cancellation: the routine
about the Queen’s funeral would have
had him taken to the Tower in an
earlier age. It’s also incredibly funny.
How does his act mix this sort of
happy horror with a jaggedly cosy
nostalgia routine about Heinz sponge
puddings? Somehow he manages it.
Not everyone falls under his spell,
even here so close to his home town.
“I’m not leaving because I’m
offended,” the woman next to me said
as she and her friend gathered their
things 20 minutes in. “I’m leaving
because he’s not funny.” He is, as his
title suggests, a divisive flavour: the
Marmite Dynamite Chilli of stand-up
comedy. When he clicks, though, he
plays glorious games with awfulness.
Dominic Maxwell
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‘I worked 24
hours a day.
I slept in the
back room’
Adam Hardiman, 38, former
head chef and founder of
Madame Pigg in East London
I miss my restaurant. I did well
to keep it afloat for three years,
but I’m a human being, and it
took a toll. In March I
announced that we were closing.
I’m not exaggerating when I say
I slept in the backroom of the
restaurant for six months to keep
it afloat. I was crying every night
because I was so broken. But I
always thought we would survive.
I was doing everything on my
own. I had a couple of other
people in the kitchen, but they
weren’t full time. I probably saved
us £100,000 a year on wages from
me being in the kitchen, me doing the he
sous chef job, me washing up until six
o’clock in the morning.
When you’re doing 24-hour days in
the kitchen with no sleep, you’re
going to hurt yourself. I once cooked
300 covers for a Sunday roast with my
burnt foot in a bucket of water. If I
had taken the responsible time off that
a normal person would have taken,
we would have shut in year one.
A person who works 24 hours a day
doesn’t do it on coffee. For me to be
able to do that, I was drinking
horrendous amounts and I was using
a shitload of drugs at the time. I didn’t
mind doing all the labour because I
had help from drugs and I had help
from alcohol, and that was my safe
place. I was an addict and I had been
all my life. Regardless of whether I was
a chef or not, I still would have been.
But I’m in recovery now, I’m nearly
ten months sober.
Each service we would do anything
up to 200 covers. Sunday was our
bread and butter, so if I knew that we
were going to make a certain amount
of money on a Sunday, we would be
all right for a week. But there were
some days when I did one cover, for
one person. I drank more on that day
than I did when I had to do 200.
In the business plan for my
restaurant the only thing that I didn’t
plan for was a pandemic. If Covid
hadn’t happened, my restaurant,
Madame Pigg, would still be here now,
fact. If Covid hadn’t happened I would
be able to stand these bills and these
costs. In lockdown we tried to do a
takeaway, but nobody really wanted
Madame Pigg at home. Because a lot
of people came to my restaurant not
for the food. They came for the vibe,
for the staff, for a chat.
In the third lockdown I put out an
Instagram funding appeal to keep us
open. The only way that we stayed
open was a secret donor who gave
£20,000. But I was struggling. We used
to take £15,000 to £20,000 a week, but
we had a £125,000 deficit.
I had a three-day meeting with my
financial adviser. We went through
everything: how can we stay open?
How much do we owe? How can we
get around it? When it came down to
it, my adviser said: “Look, I’m gutted
for you, but the money that you owe
is going to take you two years to pay
back, while working like a nutter. I
know you are a nutter, but this is
insanity. You need to take your pride
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his family’s business afloat. But how accurate is it?
Three restaurateurs reveal all
and your personality out of your
business and look at your life.” I had
an investor, but he pulled out, and that
was the final straw.
Was it all worth it? Yeah. Because it
was my dream.
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‘Customers
would just
steal everything’
Robin Gill, 42, chef patron of
Bermondsey Larder and formerly
the Dairy in south London
After 15 years training as a chef you
would assume that I’d be ready to
open a restaurant. That’s not the case.
When you’re solely focused on
cooking, you never think about issues
with leases or plumbing.
When we opened the Dairy we were
trying to do everything on a budget.
It was only when we were getting
ready for a busy Christmas period that
I realised all the pipes we’d put in for
the kitchen were not commercial —
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they were domestic. So we got flooded
in the middle of a service. We had
to pull up floorboards all over the
kitchen to try to find the source of the
problem. And then because it was
such a busy season we didn’t have
time to fix it all. So we literally put
planks out all over the kitchen just to
walk around.
On one particular night my former
boss Raymond Blanc came to the
restaurant for dinner. And I kept
saying to my wife, Sarah, “Keep him
out of the kitchen! We don’t want him
to see where we’re working.”
But he came in to give me a hug. I
was hugely embarrassed. Fortunately,
he was reassuring and said: “We all
start somewhere — you think I just
opened Le Manoir as it is today?”
Another thing that was horrendous
was dealing with theft. We had a lot of
eclectic crockery, such as old vintage
knives that we sourced from markets.
Customers would just steal everything.
There will always be events you
can’t plan for. One year for St Patrick’s
Day we had an oyster-shucking
station. We were extremely busy and
one of our chefs ended up slicing
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it is that it’s absolutely consuming.
Those first few months were back-to-
back battles. On the second day of
trading we got a call from the bank
saying we had gone £6,000 overdrawn.
All of the bills had gone out of our
account, but the money from
customers hadn’t cleared through the
payment system yet. The bank gave us
one hour to pay it. I didn’t have six
grand. I had no idea what to do. I had
to ring up my girlfriend at the time
and ask to borrow the money.
We started out with three chefs in
the kitchen, which is crazy now
because we’ve got eight. It was me and
a guy I’d known for years and worked
with before. We were up for it, but the
third person kept walking out.
The shifts back then were long too
— 12 hours or more. I remember being
exhausted. I had to lock up at the end
of the night, and some nights I would
just lie on the pass and go to sleep.
In month three the roof started to
leak into the kitchen. We have an
open kitchen in the middle of the
restaurant. We had to shift everything
from one side of the kitchen to the
other and put out pans to catch the
rain. We then had a food critic come
in for lunch.
The Bear shows viewers how thin
restaurant margins can be. There have
been loads of moments where I’ve
been, like, “What the hell are we going
to do? We don’t have any money.” For
a few months this summer we were in
a bad position financially. All of our
energy bills went through the roof,
and because of reports of a cost of
living crisis our bookings dropped by
30-40 per cent. Brexit meant we
couldn’t get staff. We were losing
money. My dad died last year. We
were in such a tough position that I
was having to harass the solicitors to
push through the sale of his house.
All restaurants in London are
struggling now. Owning and running
a restaurant is a rollercoaster. When
something goes well, you have a high.
You are bouncing off the walls. But
when something goes wrong, it feels
like the end of the world.
As told to Hannah Evans
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Cruising for a bruising (from a . . . killer duck) PETER MARLEY

Carol There’s not a great deal more to

recommend this barking mad drama,
a (very, very) slow and steady tortoise
that won the race over zippier hares.

Midgley
though, which is a cross between a Aspects of the plot were far-fetched
high-school comedy movie and a and things did, for a brief second, get
slasher flick with the killer being toe-curlingly Hollywood when the
Orville the Duck. Imagine if Bernie boss said, after she had cracked the
TV review Clifton had gone rogue with his
ostrich on an entertainment ship.
case: “I underestimated you, Karen
Pirie.” Gugh.
Actually, I’d watch that. There were, Thankfully, though, it was only
though, some funny lines and a kinky momentary and we were soon back to
initiation ceremony for crew members Karen’s dry minimalism. Lauren Lyle
that involved a large dead fish. Let’s has been perfectly cast in this role,
just say it evoked those rumours about despite looking about 12 years old. She
David Cameron and a pig’s head. has an open face that manages to be
Oscar Kennedy (Ladhood) managed aloof and expressive at the same time,
to keep an impressively straight face and this has been an admirably
Wreck playing Jamie, who has taken a job on contained performance. In a story
BBC3 the luxury hell-ship Sacramentum to about how one selfish man had
{{((( find out what happened to his sister, wrecked many lives and how sexism
which we knew because we had still prevails in the police, it managed
Karen Pirie watched her, three months earlier, to make strong feminist points without
ITV
{{{{( jump overboard pursued by the ramming them down the viewer’s
aforementioned killer duck. throat. Spoilers ahead.

A
s someone who steadfastly
refuses to go on a holiday
cruise, I’m obliged to
Wreck for summarising
why. “This place is a
floating prison,” a crew member said
shortly before a giant yellow duck in
a sou’wester and a raincoat began
killing people. See? With the limitless
booze, the cabin claustrophobia and
the “hell is other people” vibe, this is
precisely the sort of thing I’d expect to
happen on a cruise ship. Thank you
for confirming my fears.
I also liked the ball-busting crew
manager called (what else?) Karen,
who told them the ship was a
merciless mistress and they’d get no
time off. I’d guess it needs more funny
characters and a more intriguing
mystery to make most people last the
full stretch, but if you want silly
escapism it’s here.
Talking of Karens, I thought the
Karen Pirie finale was terrific, which
is just as well given that it had taken
six (count ’em!) ITV hours to reach the
denouement. In cop show terms it was
The guilty older man had appointed
Pirie to reinvestigate the cold case
precisely because he assumed that,
being a young female, she wouldn’t be
up to it. That’ll teach him. I’d like to
say that it was also far-fetched that
a serving police officer was the killer
in plain sight all along but, tragically,
we know that it isn’t. As she walked
out triumphantly, a pint-size woman
in a male world, it felt like a shift, a
reckoning. As a drama it felt fresh
and relevant. Could she be the newer,
Oscar Kennedy takes a job on board a luxury hell-ship in Wreck (much) younger Vera?

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Ian Skelly starts a week of programmes that
are part of Radio 3’s 150th anniversary
celebrations of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Tallis (God Grant with Grace); Ravel (Boléro);
Vaughan Williams (Over Hill, Over Dale —
from Three Shakespeare Songs); Byrd
(Vigilate, from Cantiones Sacraw); Finzi
(Five Bagatelles, Op 23); Vaughan Williams
(England, My England; Symphony No 6;
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Have but a Second; Irish Rhapsody No 4
in A minor Op 141 — The Fisherman of
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9.45 (LW) Daily Service
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Premonitions Bureau to investigate those
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10.00 Woman’s Hour
Emma Barnett presents the magazine show
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Sonia Sodha considers the ethics of
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the composer’s birth, one
senses that the world is
having a Vaughan Williams
moment and that his work
is being discussed more
seriously. This week five
writers and artists consider
their particular connection
to a particular piece of work
and the role it has played in
their life, starting with the
poet and dramatist Clare
Shaw, above, on Vaughan
Williams’s setting to music
of the Welsh hymn
Rhosymedre. Tomorrow the
poet, playwright and
performer Rommi Smith
discusses how The Lark
Ascending, his most popular
composition, is a key part of
her English DNA.
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Donald Macleod and Ceri Owen discuss
Vaughan Williams’ early development,
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emerging composer drawing on a wide range
of influences. They explore how his youthful
music reveals a composer with a restless and
innate curiosity who was really trying hard
to work out what his own voice could be. (r)
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Razin, Op 13); Shostakovich (Violin Concerto
No 2 in C sharp minor, Op 129); Stravinsky
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Tom Service explores the relationship
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including talking to composer Gavin Higgins
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Williams means to them, beginning with the
poet Clare Shaw considering the role that his
setting of the Welsh hymn Rhosymedre has
played in their life since first playing it on
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Clarrie faces a sticky challenge
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Manoush Zomorodi explores the links
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Holly Wells and Jessica a toxic relationship break. His jealous rages woman or semi-
Our Dementia campaigning to make
Ben Dowell Chapman through the with a sad, unpleasant (calling her a “slag”) accomplice enjoying Choir Sings Again music therapy available
BBC1, 9pm
eyes of Maxine Carr, young man. We meet hint at the darkness the press attention. If to everyone with
Maxine the teaching assistant Huntley (Scott Reid) within, though nothing there is a hero in this When the Line of Duty dementia. It’s quite a
Channel 5, 9pm
girlfriend of their killer, applying for the job of is thankfully seen of the terribly sad story it is actress Vicky McClure big ambition in these
Are we Ian Huntley. For one school caretaker, the actual killing. As the Press Association formed a choir of financially straitened
Top running out thing it is not camera lingering for a Soham becomes a hive reporter Brian Farmer people living with times, but along the
pick of true crime immediately clear why slightly tasteless of press activity, Ian (Steve Edge), who is dementia it made for way they record and
stories? You the scriptwriter Simon moment on the boot of frets narcissistically instantly suspicious of moving TV full of tears, release a single at
might think so after Tyrrell thinks this is the car that we know while Maxine helps him Huntley. The rest of anger, frustration and Abbey Road. One
watching this three- worth telling. Jemma Huntley will use to to clean their home and this grim story plays hope. And now they are poignant fact to note is
part drama, which tells Carlton’s Maxine is a dispose of the girls’ lies to police. This first out tomorrow and back, with McClure that not all of the
the tragic tale of the naive, slightly dim and bodies. On the fateful episode can’t seem to Wednesday, if you possibly even more singers who appeared
2002 murder of the vain young woman day Maxine had headed quite work out whether can bear it. angry about the plight last time have returned.

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6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Rip Off Britain. A parcel delivery 6.30am Bargain Hunt (r) (AD) 7.15 Antiques Road Trip 6.00am Good Morning Britain. News, current affairs and 6.00am Countdown (r) 6.40 Cheers (r) 7.30 Everybody 6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine. The broadcaster
Early

company has had a rebrand, but viewers say it is still not
up to scratch 10.00 Crimewatch Live. Appeals for
information about unsolved cases 10.45 Paramedics on
Scene. A crew must rescue a patient from the summit of
Arthur’s Seat (r) (AD) 11.15 Homes Under the Hammer.
Properties in south London, South Yorkshire and Cheshire
(r) (AD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt. Natasha Raskin Sharp
presents the show from Hele near Exeter (AD) 1.00 BBC
News at One; Weather 1.30 BBC Regional News; Weather
1.45 Doctors. Emma is shocked when the police raid
Roxy’s house, Scarlett involves Sid in her problems, and
university Lecturer Miriam has to deal with a demanding
student (AD) 2.15 London Kills. Grisly remains reveal the
dark secrets of former student housemates. Crime drama
starring Hugo Speer (r) (AD) 3.00 Escape to the Country.
Nicki Chapman helps a family find a home in Guernsey
3.45 Antiques Road Trip. Izzie Balmer and James Braxton
kick off a new adventure in South Wales 4.30 The
Tournament. Quiz hosted by Alex Scott 5.15 Pointless.
Stephen Mangan joins Alexander Armstrong 6.00 BBC
News at Six; Weather 6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather
(r) 8.00 Sign Zone: Eat Well for Less? (r) (AD, SL) 9.00
BBC News 12.15pm Politics Live. The latest stories
from Westminster and beyond 1.00 Chase the Case.
Strategic game show hosted by Dan Walker in which five
contestants trade general knowledge for information to
gain access to a case containing a secret amount of cash
(r) 1.45 Eggheads. Quiz show hosted by Jeremy Vine (r)
2.15 Lightning. Quiz hosted by Zoe Lyons (r) 2.45 The
Best Dishes Ever. Homemade meals to sate cravings for a
takeaway (r) 3.00 Politics Live Conference. Jo Coburn
introduces coverage of the final day of the 2022 SNP
Conference, being held at The Event Complex, Aberdeen
4.00 All That Glitters: Britain’s Next Jewellery Star.
Katherine Ryan hosts as eight talented jewellers battle it
out to prove they can be the next big jewellery-making
sensation (r) (AD) 5.00 Flog It! People are invited to try
to make money out of their antiques by taking them to
auction 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games. With
Diarmuid Gavin, Roo Irvine, John Kearns and Claire
Richards 6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two. Rylan chats to
the couple who were eliminated at the weekend
lifestyle features 9.00 Lorraine. Entertainment, current
affairs and fashion news, as well as showbiz stories and
celebrity gossip. Presented by Lorraine Kelly 10.00 This
Morning. A mix of celebrity chat, lifestyle features, advice
and competitions 12.30pm Loose Women. Celebrity
interviews and studio discussion from a female
perspective 1.30 ITV News; Weather 2.00 Dickinson’s
Real Deal. David Dickinson is at the Royal Air Force
Museum Cosford, where Tracy Thackray hopes to take off
with a hoard of silver, and a big bag of coins checks in
with Laurie Scully (AD) 3.00 Tenable. A family team of
five from Stoke play to take home a big cash prize by
answering a series of Top 10 list questions. Quiz show
hosted by Warwick Davis 4.00 Tipping Point. Ben
Shephard hosts the arcade-themed quiz in which
contestants drop tokens down a choice of four chutes in
the hope of winning a £10,000 jackpot 5.00 The Chase.
Bradley Walsh presents as four more contestants answer
general knowledge questions and work as a team to take
on one of the ruthless Chasers and secure a cash prize
6.00 Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather
Loves Raymond (r) (AD) 8.55 Frasier (r) (AD) 10.25
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (r) 11.25 Channel 4
News Summary 11.30 Help! We Bought a Village (r)
12.30pm Steph’s Packed Lunch. Weekday magazine show
hosted by Steph McGovern 2.10 Countdown. Ardal
O’Hanlon is in Dictionary Corner 3.00 A Place in the Sun.
A mother-of-two seeks a holiday home along Spain’s
northern Costa Cálida, seeking Jean Johansson’s help on
how best to invest her £65,000 budget (r) 4.00
Renovation Nation. Former Welsh international rugby
player Matt Robinson and his wife Michelle Robinson, a
former GB Olympian, take on a derelict Grade II listed
farmhouse (AD) 5.00 Four in a Bed. The first visit of the
week is to The Lazy Pug in Warwickshire 5.30 The Perfect
Pitch. This week’s camping connoisseurs go in search of
the perfect pitch in north Wales. Their first stop is the
coastal campsite of Porth Iago on the Llyn Peninsula 6.00
The Simpsons. Marge and Homer suspect Bart might be a
sociopath (r) (AD) 6.30 Hollyoaks. Maxine is set up on a
date with Eric, Imran’s cooking skills are put to the test
and Grace sets out to teach someone a lesson (r) (AD)
and guests discuss the issues of the day with co-host
Storm Huntley joining him for phone-ins and reading out
viewers’ correspondence 12.45pm Holiday Homes in the
Sun. Amanda Lamb, JB Gill and Sam Pinkham are in the
Cotswolds, around the towns of Tetbury and Cirencester,
competing to find the ultimate holiday home for a family
vacation 1.40 5 News at Lunchtime 1.45 Home and
Away. With her surfboard broken, Bree’s day off is
derailed (r) (AD) 2.15 FILM: A Dying Wish (PG,
TVM, 2021) A woman decides to track down the
daughter she gave up for adoption after being diagnosed
with breast cancer. Drama starring Kelly Hu 4.00
Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun. Diane becomes the
newly appointed Chairman of the RBL Benidorm. Her new
position brings added responsibility, and she is using it
to positive effect by throwing a BBQ fundraiser 5.00
5 News at 5 6.00 Walking Tudor Britain. Suzannah
Lipscomb takes to foot all around the country on the
trail of history’s most fascinating dynasty (r) 6.30
Eggheads. New series. A team of friends from Essex take
on the experts in the quiz show 6.55 5 News Update

7.00 The One Show Alex Jones and 7.00 The Crash Detectives A pedestrian 7.00 Channel 4 News 7.00 Police Interceptors A suspected
7PM

Jermaine Jenas present more topical
stories and celebrity chat
7.30 EastEnders Alfie makes a grand
gesture to win Kat back (AD)
is seriously injured after being struck
by a car in a residential street (2/4)
7.30 Mastermind This week’s specialist
subjects are Detectorists, the Alice
books of Lewis Carroll, British politics
in the 1960s, and Sir Elton John
stolen Mini is pursued in Nottingham,
and after nearly hitting a man walking
his dog, police have a familiar
7.30 Emmerdale Will makes matters face in handcuffs once again (r)
worse with Harriet (AD)
7.55 5 News Update

8.00 Will the NHS Care for Me?: 8.00 Only Connect The Scrummagers take 8.00 Coronation Street Ken’s efforts to 8.00 Food Unwrapped How many apples 8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching
8PM

Panorama Investigating why people
with learning disabilities often
die from avoidable causes
8.30 We Are England Inside Derby’s
famous Rolls-Royce factory
on the Crustaceans in the quiz show
8.30 University Challenge Jeremy
Paxman presents, featuring Gonville
and Caius College, Cambridge and
the University of St Andrews
keep Wendy a secret from Tracy prove
futile, Eric’s confession leaves Aaron
heartbroken, and Max’s hopes for a
fresh start are dashed (AD)
actually go into a can of cider (AD)
8.30 Jamie’s One-Pan Wonders Recipes
for shakshuka and pulled pork (AD)
Britain’s Speeders Two officers are
on the tail of an uninsured vehicle, but
when they finally catch up to the
vehicle, they discover the driver has
never taken a driving test (3/10)

9.00 Our Dementia Choir Sings Again 9.00 Rise of the Nazis: The Downfall 9.00 The Walk-In The National Action 9.00 24 Hours in A&E A London 9.00 Maxine New series. Fact-based drama
9PM

with Vicky McClure The actress
reunites her singers, as well as some
new members, for a charity single,
becoming the first dementia choir to
record at the legendary Abbey Road
studios. See Viewing Guide (1/2) (AD)
New series. Germany is losing the war
but Hitler refuses surrender. Instead
he pursues a policy of Total War,
which plays out as a psychological
drama within his inner circle.
See Viewing Guide (1/3) (AD)
insider reaches out to Matthew
Collins and Hope Not Hate to try to
prevent the murder of another MP.
See Viewing Guide (2/5) (AD)
Underground worker undergoes tests
to look for signs of a heart attack
after collapsing at a Tube station,
and recalls the difficulties he faced
in his childhood (AD)
about Maxine Carr’s relationship with
Ian Huntley, who murdered schoolgirls
Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
Starring Jemma Carlton and Scott Reid.
See Viewing Guide (1/3)

10.00 BBC News at Ten 10.00 Stuck It is the evening of Joy and 10.00 ITV News at Ten 10.00 Katie Price: Trauma and Me The 10.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second
10PM

10.30 BBC Regional News and Weather
10.40 Have I Got a Bit More News for
You Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts,
with Ivo Graham and Isabel Hardman
joining Paul Merton and Ian Hislop
11PM
Kurt’s important dinner (5/5) (AD)
10.15 Mandy Comedy short with Diane
Morgan (1/6) (r) (AD)
10.30 Newsnight Headline analysis
11.15 A United Kingdom (12, 2016)
model and reality television star Counts Paramedics rush in
reflects on events that saw her crash 30-year-old who has been admitted
her car and nearly get sent to prison, after being in a motorbike collision
10.30 Regional News exploring the nature of her post- and may have spinal injuries (r)
traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (AD)
10.45 Des O’Connor: The Ultimate
Entertainer A tribute to the
longest-serving prime time television
host of all time, featuring 11.05 Hospital Undercover: Are Our 11.05 999: Critical Condition When a

11.25 The Graham Norton Show
The host is joined by actors Lesley
Manville, Hugh Bonneville and Lashana
Lynch. Plus, UK Eurovision star
Sam Ryder chats and performs his
new single, Somebody (r)
King Seretse Khama of Botswana puts
his kingdom into political and
diplomatic turmoil after falling for
Ruth Williams, a London office worker.
Fact-based drama starring David
Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike. See
Viewing Guide
contributions from family and friends, Wards Safe? Dispatches An heavily bandaged man is helicoptered
and clips of Des’s most memorable investigation into Essex Partnership into hospital following an industrial
performances (r) (AD) University Trust, where a series of accident, the trauma team leader
patient deaths has driven bereaved immediately fears the worst (1/8) (r)
11.40 Sorry, I Didn’t Know With Chizzy families to fight for a statutory
Akudolu, Eddie Kadi, Emmanuel inquiry into patient safety
Sonubi and Shazia Mirza (r)

12.15am The Hit List Celebrity Special Dan Walker, 1.00am Sign Zone: Countryfile Joe Crowley is on the 12.05am Teleshopping 3.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. 12.10am FILM: The Watermelon Woman (15, 12.05am Police Interceptors (r) 1.00 Live NFL:
Late

Dion Dublin, Joe Swash, Rita Simons, Jamelia and Lemar
compete in a celebrity edition of the music quiz show,
hosted by Marvin and Rochelle Humes (r) 1.00 Question
of Sport. With Keira Walsh, Anton Ferdinand, Joe Cordina
and Lutalo Muhammad (r) 1.35-6.00 BBC News
south Devon coast, where a chance discovery could
revolutionise scallop fishing (r) (SL) 1.55 The Hotel
People. VIP guest Liam Neeson seeks comfort food (r)
(AD, SL) 2.55-3.25 How To with John Wilson. The
complex art of splitting the bill (r) (AD, SL)
David Dickinson is at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford,
where Tracy Thackray hopes to take off with a hoard of
silver, and a big bag of coins checks in with Laurie Scully
(r) (AD, SL) 3.50 Unwind with ITV 5.05-6.00 Tenable. A
team from Stoke play to take home a big prize (r) (SL)
1996) 1.40 Night Coppers (r) (AD) 2.35 Britain’s Evicted
Kids: Dispatches (r) (AD, SL) 3.05 Handmade: Britain’s
Best Woodworker (r) (AD, SL) 4.00 Ugly House to Lovely
House (r) (AD, SL) 4.55 Grand Designs: The Streets (r)
(AD, SL) 5.50-6.00 Sunday Brunch Best Bits (r)
Monday Night Football: Kansas City Chiefs v Las Vegas
Raiders. (Kick-off 1.15). Coverage of the week 5 fixture in
the AFC West division, which takes place at Arrowhead
Stadium 4.30 Entertainment News on 5 4.40 Wildlife
SOS. A pigeon needs assistance (r) (SL) 5.30 Milkshake!
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reality. The latest and with disgust to the now having an extra
Rise of the Nazis: final series in the
The Walk-In attack and tonight he
House of the dragon it’s all to play
Film A United
The Downfall “Rise” franchise rather
ITV, 9pm
reaches out to Matthew Dragon for. “We play an ugly Kingdom
BBC2, 9pm Sky Atlantic/Now, 9pm BBC2, 11.15pm
contradicts itself with Jeff Pope’s powerful Collins (Stephen game,” said Ser Otto,
On December 12, 1944, its new subtitle. drama about the far Graham), a Hope not Last week’s corking restored as the King’s The commitment of a
Hitler assembled his However, these final right continues, with Hate journalist, in a bid episode had one Hand, and tonight’s mixed-race couple
top generals in western instalments, which the nation reeling from to prevent an attack on wedding, a funeral and action, which jumps (David Oyelowo and
Germany to unveil his once again deploy the shocking murder of another MP. Will a faked death for another six years, is no Rosamund Pike) in
new plan: total war that dramatic the Labour MP Jo Cox Mullen be able to work Rhaenyra’s husband different. The nobles of 1947 London is tested by
will secure victory. It reconstructions and in June 2016. Robbie undercover? As we Laenor. As Laenor fled Driftmark start with the might of the British
was madness, of course, imaginatively chosen Mullen, the drifter who have seen, these fascist with his lover, some bad news that government, with
but as Professor Sir talking heads to has attached himself to folk are ruthless and Rhaenyra married prompts Daemon and Oyelowo’s law student
Richard Evans says, he penetrate the minds of the hardcore not too keen on Prince Daemon. But Rhaenyra to return to about to become king of
had a habit of thinking key figures, is as organisation National people they feel have with King Viserys’s King’s Landing to find Bechuanaland (now
his fantasies were captivating as ever. Action, has reacted betrayed them. wife, Queen Alicent, Viserys looking peaky. Botswana). (12, 2016)

Sky Max
6.00am Stargate SG-1 (r) 8.00 The Flash (r)
9.00 The Blacklist (r) 10.00 Supergirl (r) 11.00
NCIS: Los Angeles (r) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (r)
2.00 MacGyver (r) 3.00 DC’s Legends of
Tomorrow (r) (AD) 4.00 The Flash (r) 5.00
Supergirl (r) 6.00 Stargate SG-1 (r)
7.00 Stargate SG-1. Carter embarks on a
mission to retrieve the Prometheus — but finds
herself mysteriously left alone on the ship (r)
8.00 Resident Alien. Everyone gathers for a
surprise party in celebration of Harry, but
some dangerous guests cause havoc (r)
9.00 COBRA: Cyberwar. An urgent response is
needed to the malware attack (6/6) (r) (AD)
10.00 Brassic. Erin organises a charity fete to
raise cash for the struggling community centre,
but then a young woman called Amy turns up
and announces that she is Erin’s half-sister (r)
11.00 A League of Their Own (r)
12.00 Fantasy Football League (r) 12.35am The
Russell Howard Hour (r) 1.20 Hawaii Five-0 (r)
4.05 MacGyver (r) 5.00 Highway Cops (r) (AD)
Sky Atlantic
6.00am Urban Secrets (r) 7.45 The Wire (r)
10.00 The Sopranos (r) (AD) 12.15pm Ray
Donovan (r) (AD) 2.25 Game of Thrones (r)
(AD) 3.30 The Wire (r) 5.45 The Sopranos (r)
(AD) 6.50 The Sopranos (r) (AD)
7.55 Game of Thrones. Stannis and Davos arrive
in Braavos for their meeting with the Iron
Bank, while Tyrion’s trial begins in the throne
room and he is stunned by the identity of
one of the witnesses (r) (AD)
9.00 House of the Dragon. Game of Thrones
prequel following the story of House Targaryen,
set 200 years before the events of the
fantasy saga. See Viewing Guide
10.20 Gangs of London. The Wallaces are
forced to go into hiding (r) (AD)
11.25 House of the Dragon. Game of Thrones
prequel following the story of House Targaryen,
set 200 years before the events of the fantasy
saga. Paddy Considine and Matt Smith star (r)
12.35am Big Little Lies (r) (AD) 3.50 In
Treatment (r) 4.15 Urban Secrets (r)
Sky Documentaries Sky Arts
6.00am Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets (r) (AD)
7.00 Discovering: Christopher Plummer (r) 8.00
The Directors (r) (AD) 8.55 Wu-Tang Clan: Of
Mics and Men (r) (AD) 10.00 The Vow (r)
11.05 Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (r)
(AD) 12.00 FILM: Althea (18, 2014) (AD)
1.40pm My Icon: Maggie Alphonsi (r) (AD)
2.00 FILM: Framing John DeLorean (15,
2019) 4.00 The Directors (r) (AD) 5.00
Discovering: Christopher Plummer (r) 5.55
Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (r) (AD)
7.00 The Vow (r)
8.05 Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge.
The history of the magazine (1/6) (r) (AD)
9.00 FILM: Going Clear — Scientology and
the Prison of Belief (15, 2015) (AD)
11.10 Janet Jackson (2/4) (r) (AD)
12.10am Michael X: Hustler, Revolutionary,
Outlaw (r) 2.00 FILM: Breslin and Hamill
— Deadline Artists (12, 2018) 4.00
The Directors (r) (AD) 5.00 Rolling Stone:
Stories from the Edge (r) (AD)
6.00am Son of Cornwall 8.00 Leonard
Bernstein By Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 9.00 Tales of
the Unexpected (AD) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents 11.00 Discovering: Gene Hackman
(AD) 12.00 Mystery of the Lost Paintings (AD)
1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00
Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien 3.00
Portrait Artist of the Year 2018 4.00
Discovering: Omar Sharif (AD) 5.00
Tales of the Unexpected (AD)
6.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.00 André Rieu: La Vie Est Belle
8.40 Discovering: Grace Kelly
9.35 Mystery of the Lost Paintings (AD)
10.35 Buddy Holly: Music Icons
11.00 The Other Art Show
11.30 Brian Johnson’s A Life on the Road
12.30am Comedy Legends 1.30 The Nightmare
Worlds of HG Wells (AD) 2.30 Sex Revolutions
3.30 Hollywood Censored (AD) 4.30 Inside Art:
Picasso/Ingres at the National Gallery
5.00 Landscape Artist of the Year
Sky Main Event
6.00am Sky Sports News 7.00 Good Morning
Sports Fans 10.00 The Football Show 11.30 Ref
Watch 12.00 The Football Show 1.00pm Sky
Sports News. The latest headlines and updates
7.00 Live MNF: Nottingham Forest v Aston
Villa. (Kick-off 8.00). Coverage of the top-flight
match from The City Ground with both sides
looking to improve on poor starts to the season.
The home side haven’t beaten Villa since
February 2017 when they faced each other in the
Championship. That game saw goals from Brett
Assombalonga and Ben Brereton Diaz turn round
a goal deficit to win 2-1 at The City Ground
11.00 Shields v Marshall: The Gloves Are Off.
Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall
face each other ahead of their bout (AD)
11.30 Behind the Ropes
12.30am Mayer v Baumgardner: Fight Talk
1.00 Live NFL: Kansas City Chiefs v Las Vegas
Raiders. (Kick-off 1.15). Coverage of the week
five match at Arrowhead Stadium
4.30 Sky Sports News
Variations
BBC1 N Ireland
As BBC1 except: 8.00pm-9.00 Mountain Vets
10.40 Will the NHS Care for Me?: Panorama
11.10 Have I Got a Bit More News for You
11.55 The Graham Norton Show (r) 12.45am-
1.30 The Hit List Celebrity Special (r)
BBC1 Scotland
As BBC1 except: 6.55pm-7.00 Party Political
Broadcast 8.00 Inside Central Station
9.00-10.00 The Ice Cream Wars 10.40 Our
Dementia Choir Sings Again with Vicky
McClure. See Viewing Guide (AD) 11.40 Will
the NHS Care for Me?: Panorama 12.10am
Have I Got a Bit More News for You (r) 12.55
The Graham Norton Show (r) 1.45 Weather for
the Week Ahead 1.50-6.00 BBC News
BBC1 Wales
As BBC1 except: 8.00pm X-Ray 8.30 Ruck
Stars 9.00-10.00 Wales On Air 10.40
Will the NHS Care for Me?: Panorama 11.10
Our Dementia Choir Sings Again with Vicky
McClure. See Viewing Guide (AD) 12.10am
Have I Got a Bit More News for You (r) 12.55
The Graham Norton Show (r) 1.45-6.00 News

BBC2 N Ireland
As BBC2 except: 10.00pm-10.30 Peataí! (r)
11.15 FILM: Waves (2019) 1.25am-1.55
Martin Compston’s Scottish Fling (r)

ITV Wales
As ITV except: 10.45pm Sharp End
11.10-11.40 Gino’s Italy: Like Mamma
Used to Make. In Tuscany (r) (AD)

STV
As ITV except: 6.25pm-6.30 Party Political
Broadcast 10.30 STV News 10.40 Scotland
Tonight 11.05 Sorry, I Didn’t Know 11.35

TalkTV BBC4 Talking Pictures Film4 More4 Sorry, I Didn’t Know 12.00-3.00am
Teleshopping 3.50-5.05 Unwind with STV

6.00am James Max. An initial insight into the
day’s top stories 6.30 The Julia Hartley-Brewer
Breakfast Show. All the stories you need to
know to start your day 10.00 The Independent
Republic of Mike Graham. The host takes a look
at the morning newspapers 1.00pm Ian Collins.
Hard-hitting monologues, stimulating debates
and dedicated time for your calls 4.00 Vanessa
Feltz. The big stories of the day from the world
of politics, current affairs and showbiz
7.00 Jeremy Kyle Live. Debate and discussion
8.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored. Piers presents
his verdict on the day’s global events with
debate and straight-talking interviews
9.00 The Talk. Sharon Osbourne and a panel of
opinionated famous faces from the worlds of
politics, showbiz, business and current affairs
debate the hot topics everybody’s talking about
10.00 First Edition. Reports
11.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored
12.00 Petrie Hosken. The latest news stories
1.00am Vanessa Feltz 2.00 Jeremy Kyle Live.
Debate and discussion 3.00 Piers Morgan
Uncensored 4.00 The Talk 5.00 James Max.
An initial insight into the day’s top stories
7.00pm Great American Railroad Journeys.
Michael Portillo strikes west across Manitoba
into the province of Saskatchewan. At Riding
Mountain, he discovers how a British boy from
Hastings became an influential naturalist
8.00 Nicola Benedetti at the BBC. A compilation
of Nicola Benedetti’s performances at the BBC.
Since winning BBC Young Musician in 2005,
Nicola Benedetti has become one of the
country’s leading classical soloists
9.00 Nicola Benedetti: This Cultural Life.
Nicola Benedetti talks to John Wilson about
her key influences and inspirations
9.30 James May at the Edge of Space. The
presenter undergoes rigorous training at a US
Air Force base in California before boarding a U-2
spy plane that will take him to 70,000ft
10.00 The Sky at Night. An expert panel field
viewers’ questions on all things astronomical
11.00 Horizon: Which Universe Are We In? The
scientific validity of the “multiverse” concept
12.00 The Secret Life of the Motorway
1.00am Francesco’s Italy Top to Toe 2.00 Great
American Railroad Journeys 3.00-4.00 Forest,
Field & Sky: Art Out of Nature (SL)
6.00am Get Some In! 6.30 FILM: Gert &
Daisy’s Weekend (U, 1941) Comedy (b/w)
8.05 FILM: Scrooge (U, 1935) Drama (b/w)
9.40 FILM: I Wake Up Screaming (PG,
1941) Thriller (b/w) 11.15 Look at Life 11.30
FILM: The Captive Heart (PG, 1946) Drama
(b/w) 1.30pm FILM: The Men of Sherwood
Forest (U, 1954) Adventure 3.05 FILM:
Saloon Bar (PG, 1940) Mystery starring
Gordon Harker (b/w) 4.35 FILM: Mystery
Junction (U, 1951) Crime drama starring
Sydney Tafler (b/w) 5.55 FILM: They Who
Dare (U, 1954) Second World War drama
starring Dirk Bogarde
8.00 The Main Chance (2/6)
9.00 Noble House (1/4)
10.50 Look at Life
11.00 Secret Army
12.05am FILM: Fourteen Hours (U, 1951)
Drama starring Richard Basehart (b/w) 1.55
FILM: During One Night (15, 1961) Second
World War drama starring Don Borisenko (b/w)
3.35 FILM: The Smart Aleck (PG, 1951)
Crime drama starring Peter Reynolds (b/w)
4.50 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
11.00am The Rare Breed (U, 1966)
Romantic comedy Western starring Maureen
O’Hara and James Stewart 12.55pm The
Malta Story (U, 1953) Second World War
drama starring Alec Guinness (b/w) 3.00 The
Long Memory (PG, 1952) Thriller starring
John Mills (b/w) 4.50 Yangtse Incident (U,
1957) Fact-based naval adventure starring
Richard Todd (b/w) (AD)
7.05 Skyscraper (12, 2018) A security expert
must infiltrate a burning skyscraper, 225 storeys
above ground, when his family is trapped inside
by criminals. Action thriller starring Dwayne
Johnson, Neve Campbell and Chin Han (AD)
9.00 I, Robot (12, 2004) A detective is
convinced a robot has killed its creator, even
though it has been programmed never to harm
humans. Sci-fi thriller with Will Smith, Bridget
Moynahan and Alan Tudyk (AD)
11.15 Parasite (15, 2019) A family living in
poverty plan to infiltrate a wealthy household as
domestic staff. South Korean satirical thriller
starring Kang-ho Song and Sun-kyun Lee
1.55am-4.00 The Last Tree (15, 2019)
Drama starring Samuel Adewunmi
8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft 9.15 A Place in
the Sun 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 1.10pm
Heir Hunters 2.10 Four in a Bed 4.50 Find It,
Fix It, Flog It 5.55 Car SOS (AD)
6.55 Escape to the Château. The wooden double
front door is in a state of disrepair, and Angel’s
father works to make a copy of the only key,
which is 150 years old (AD)
7.55 Great Canal Journeys. Sheila Hancock and
Gyles Brandreth continue to explore the
waterways of Staffordshire, taking a ride
on an old working boat and uncovering
the history of Stourport (AD)
9.00 Devon and Cornwall. A visit to the Isles
of Scilly, meeting the owners of a vineyard who
are planning to retire as they show their
successors the ropes (4/4) (AD)
10.00 Britain’s Most Expensive Houses. Shereen
mentors a junior broker who wants to swap her
portfolio from Russia to London (1/4) (AD)
11.05 24 Hours in A&E. A 12-year-old girl needs
emergency brain surgery (11/11) (AD)
12.10am Shocking Emergency Calls (AD) 1.15
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 2.20 24 Hours
in A&E (AD) 3.25-3.50 Food Unwrapped (AD)
UTV
As ITV except: 10.45pm-11.40
View from Stormont
BBC Scotland
2.00pm Sign Zone: Trick Pony Club — Our Lives
(r) 2.30 Darts Dreams — Our Lives (r) 3.00
Martin Compston’s Scottish Fling (r) 3.30-4.00
Scotland’s Best Dog (r) 7.00 Highlands with
Ewan McGregor (r) (AD) 8.00 This Farming
Life (r) 9.00 The Nine 10.00 River City (AD)
10.30 Scot Squad (r) (AD) 11.00 Two Doors
Down (r) (AD) 11.30-12.00 Loop (r)
BBC Alba
6.00am Alba Today 5.00pm Treubh an
Tuathanais 5.15 Su Pic (r) 5.25 ‘S E Iasg a
Th’Annam (I’m a Fish) (r) 5.30 AH-AH/No-No
5.40 Pip & Posy 5.45 Piseag & Cuilean/Kit &
Pup (r) 5.50 Stòiridh (r) 6.00 Ronia, Nighean
a’ Mheirlich/Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter (r)
6.25 A’ Chuil (r) 6.30 Saidheans Sporsail (r)
7.00 Dealbhan Fraoich (r) 7.30 SpeakGaelic (r)
8.00 An Là 8.30 Fillte 9.00 Trusadh — Falt?
(Hair?) (r) 10.00 Bannan (r) 10.30 Elena
Baltacha (r) 11.50 Dealbh is Slighe (r)
12.00-6.00am Alba Today

ITV2 ITV3 ITV4 Drama Yesterday S4C

6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records 7.00 In for a Penny (AD) 8.00 Dress to
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Supermarket Sweep 1.00pm Family Fortunes
2.00 The Masked Singer US 3.05 Veronica Mars
4.00 One Tree Hill 5.00 Hart of Dixie
6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase (AD)
7.00 Secret Crush. Radiographer Joe confesses
his feelings to colleague Esther
8.00 Bob’s Burgers (AD)
8.30 Bob’s Burgers (AD)
9.00 Family Guy. An accident leaves Peter with
a high-pitched voice (AD)
9.30 American Dad! Stan and the family go out
to dinner at a buffet restaurant (AD)
10.00 Family Guy (AD)
10.30 Family Guy (AD)
11.00 Family Guy (AD)
11.30 American Dad! (AD)
11.55 The Sex Lives of College Girls. The
parents of the four room-mates visit
12.30am The Sex Lives of College Girls 1.00
Bob’s Burgers (AD) 1.55 The Emily Atack Show
2.40 Unwind with ITV 3.00 Teleshopping
6.00am Classic Coronation Street (AD) 7.00
Classic Emmerdale 8.05 On the Buses 9.10
Upstairs, Downstairs 11.30 Heartbeat (AD)
1.40pm Classic Emmerdale 2.45 Classic
Coronation Street (AD) 3.50 Agatha Christie’s
Poirot (AD) 6.00 Heartbeat (AD)
7.00 Heartbeat. The police investigate the
murder of an archaeological enthusiast and
suspect a building dispute could provide a
motive. Plus, Rosie goes on a blind date (AD)
8.00 Endeavour. The detective investigates the
murder of a librarian, and discovers a web of
professional and personal rivalries with a grim
connection to the Holocaust (4/4) (AD)
10.00 The Larkins. Bradley Walsh and Joanna
Scanlan star as Pop and Ma in a reboot of The
Darling Buds of May. In the first edition, there is
excitement at the approaching May Day Fair and
new blood in the village (1/6) (AD)
11.00 Holding. When human remains are found
in a sleepy Irish village, Sgt PJ Collins finally has
a genuine mystery to solve (AD)
12.05am Agatha Christie’s Poirot (AD) 2.10
Unwind with ITV 2.30 Teleshopping
6.00am The Saint 6.50 Minder (AD, SL) 7.50
Magnum, PI (AD) 8.55 The Sweeney 10.00
Minder (AD) 11.05 The Return of Sherlock
Holmes (AD) 12.15pm The Saint 1.20 Match
Time Revisited 2.25 Magnum, PI (AD) 3.30 The
Sweeney 4.35 Minder (AD) 5.45 River Monsters
6.20 FILM: A View to a Kill (PG, 1985)
James Bond battles a megalomaniac computer
tycoon plotting to cause a devastating
earthquake in California’s Silicon Valley. Spy
adventure starring Roger Moore in his final
appearance as 007 (AD)
9.00 The Grand Fishing Adventure. The second
leg of the UK tour sees Ali and Bobby attempt to
catch a monster shark over 400lbs from just off
the north Devon coast (AD)
10.00 FILM: Jaws 3 (12, 1983) A ferocious
mother shark comes looking for her dead baby,
causing havoc in a Florida marine centre. Thriller
sequel starring Dennis Quaid, Simon
MacCorkindale and Louis Gossett Jr (AD)
12.10am Motorsport UK 1.05 Auto Mundial
1.35 Motorsport Mundial 2.10 The Protectors
2.40 Unwind with ITV 3.00 Teleshopping
6.00am Teleshopping 7.00 ’Allo ’Allo! 7.40 All
Creatures Great and Small 8.40 New Tricks (AD)
10.00 Casualty (AD) 12.00 The Bill 1.00pm
Classic EastEnders 2.20 Dalziel & Pascoe (AD)
4.20 All Creatures Great and Small 5.20
Waiting for God 6.00 ’Allo ’Allo!
6.35 Last of the Summer Wine (AD)
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine (AD)
8.00 The Brokenwood Mysteries. Lynley Foster
moved to a community of beach cottages at
Pteke Point in search of peace and quiet, but
that dream is dashed by her disagreeable
neighbour, Wyatt (3/6) (AD)
10.00 New Tricks. The team is given the task of
re-examining the unsolved case of a peace
protester found dead near a nuclear base in
1984, when one of his former friends is locked
up for murder (4/7) (AD)
11.15 Spooks. A British soldier is kidnapped by
al-Qaeda with the warning he will be killed
unless Remembrance Day services are cancelled,
and Harry is reunited with his protégé (1/8)
12.35am Bad Girls 1.45 The Heart Guy 2.50
A Place to Call Home 4.00 Teleshopping
6.00am Great Continental Railway Journeys
8.00 Top Gear (AD) 9.00 WW2 — Battles for
Europe 10.00 War Factories 11.00 Abandoned
Engineering (AD) 12.00 Secrets of the London
Underground (AD) 1.00pm Bangers and Cash
(AD) 2.00 Steam Train Britain (AD) 3.00
Abandoned Engineering (AD) 4.00 War Factories
5.00 WW2 — Battles for Europe
6.00 Top Gear (AD)
7.00 The Fred Dibnah Story. The life of the
steeplejack, explaining how his TV career began
and exploring his passion for steam engines
7.30 The Fred Dibnah Story
8.00 Abandoned Engineering. An industrial ruin
in the Florida Everglades (6/12) (AD)
9.00 The Buildings That Fought Hitler. Reigate
Fort, which was repurposed to block the Nazis
from getting to London (5/8) (AD)
10.00 Bangers and Cash. The Mathewsons
sell a 1958 Bedford D122 (8/10)
11.00 Abandoned Engineering. Exploring a
once lavish palace in Iraq (1/12) (AD)
12.00 Top Gear (AD) 1.00am Great Continental
Railway Journeys 3.00 Teleshopping
6.00am Cyw: Blociau Rhif (r) 6.05 Do Re Mi
Dona (r) 6.20 Sam Tân (r) 6.30 Sbarc (r) 6.45
Anifeiliaid Bach y Byd (r) 6.55 Cywion Bach
7.00 Sigldigwt (r) 7.15 Odo 7.25 Octonots (r)
7.40 Awyr Iach (r) 8.00 Ty Mêl (r) 8.10
Halibalw (r) 8.20 Rapsgaliwn (r) 8.35 Sion y
Chef (r) 8.45 Yr Ysgol (r) 9.00 Y Crads Bach (r)
9.05 Stiw (r) 9.20 Bach a Mawr (r) 9.30 Patrôl
Pawennau (r) 9.45 Gwdihw (r) 10.00 Blociau
Rhif (r) 10.05 Do Re Mi Dona (r) 10.20 Sam
Tân (r) 10.30 Sbarc (r) 10.45 Anifeiliaid Bach
y Byd (r) 10.55 Cywion Bach (r) 11.00
Sigldigwt (r) 11.15 Odo (r) 11.25 Octonots (r)
11.40 Awyr Iach (r) 12.00 News; Weather
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MindGames
General Knowledge Crossword No 150 Codeword No 4715 Train Tracks No 1755

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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24 26 25

Lay tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village

26 27 B. The numbers indicate how many sections of rail go in each
row and column. There are only straight rails and curved rails.
The track cannot cross itself.
Across 25 Shoe also known as a thong
1 Anne ---, wife of William in North America (4-4)
Shakespeare (8) 26 Actors’ trade union (6) Mini Sudoku
5 Bible book including the story 27 Play by Ibsen set to
of Samson and Delilah (6) music by Grieg (4,4) Fill the grid so
9 Uhuru ---, African politician that every
whose father, Jomo, also led Down column, every
his country (8) 1 Ceremonial war dance row and every
10 Thick Italian ice cream (6) associated with rugby (4) 3x2 box contains
Every letter in this crossword-style grid has been substituted for a number from 1
the digits 1 to 6
12 Early-years reading series 2 Fish with skipjack to 26. Each letter of the alphabet appears in the grid at least once. Use the letters
first published in 1949 (5,3,4) and bluefin species (4) already provided to work out the identity of further letters. Enter letters in the main
15 Set of cards divided into 3 Fine-grained type of grid and the smaller reference grid until all 26 letters of the alphabet have been
accounted for. Proper nouns are excluded. Saturday’s solution, right
major and minor arcana (5) gypsum used in statuary (9)
16 Constellation including 4 First African-American Cluelines Stuck on Codeword? To receive 4 random clues call 0901 293 6262 or
the Plough asterism (5,4) tennis player to win a text TIMECODE to 64343. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network
18 Acacia tree sap widely used in grand-slam tournament (6,6) access charge. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network charge. For the full solution
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19 Informal name for 7 Swiss artist known for his
denatured alcohol (5) sculptures of long slender Lexica No 6561 No 6562
20 Boundary marking the human and animal forms (10)
limits of a black hole (5,7)
24 Dance music genre featuring
8 Transposition of initial word
sounds, such as “guzzles pud”
A S K S E R S E A T C H Winning Move
very fast, heavy beats (6) for “puzzle’s good” (10) D
L 11 Large grouse of Scottish White to play.
highland forests (12) T P I O This position is from
S O D A P O P P O R T H O S
13 Insect whose males bear a pair
R ß R R Di Nicolantonio-
C I A I U O E P
R O S E N B E R G T U L L E of conspicuous mandibles (4,6) T Y R O R R R q Visakh, Titled Tuesday
chess.com 2022.
E C C D I I L E 14 Classification applied to certain R R ß R
A L O H A P I N K F L O Y D
high-quality French wines (7,3) O E A N
M V K I E W
17 Oscar-winning director
R R R R A common theme in
E X E M P L I G R A T I A chess is that of the
P R E M W Y of The King’s Speech (3,6) R D D O R á R R isolated queen’s pawn
A N Y A S
R I
H R U B S O L E
R R N S
21 2020 Christopher Nolan film
L E Y T RÅR kÄRÅ (IQP). Here Black has
the IQP but hopes for
with a palindromic title (5)
M O G A D I S H U C O T T A
22 Muhammad Ali’s surname ÅR R kÅR counterplay thanks to
E E E Y G H Y Y R A I H S C R L L U O
S O N I C B A L T I M O R E by birth (4) R 4ÇR Â his active rook and
knight. In fact, White
A E A I I D N R 23 Narrow bar of land projecting Slide the letters either horizontally or vertically back into the grid to produce a can win at once. How?
N A T U R A L A B S C E S S into the sea at a headland (4) completed crossword. Letters are allowed to slide over other letters

KenKen Easy No 5707 Futoshiki No 4321 Kakuro No 3280

Fill the grid

using the
numbers 1 to 9
only. The
numbers in each
horizontal or
vertical run of
white squares
add up to the
total in the
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triangle to its left

or above it. The
same number
may occur more
than once in a
row or column,
but not within
the same run of
white squares.
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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
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 Crossword No 9031 Brain Trainer Cell Blocks No 4598

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Divide the grid

ANSWER ANSWER ANSWER

1 2 3 4 5 6
3/ into square or
+ 1/5 + 1/3
7 EASY 31 x 2 + 6 4
OF IT
+ 14 OF IT
–9 OF IT
– 8 ÷ 12 rectangular
blocks, each
containing one
8 9 digit only. Every
block must
10 MEDIUM 66 + 87 x 3 + 89 x 2 – 98 50%
OF IT
– 79 90%
OF IT
+ 1/2
OF IT
contain the
number of cells
11 12 13 indicated by the
digit inside it.

+ 1/2 + 2/5
HARDER 159 x 7 – 946 x 5 + 972 x 2 + 864 OF IT
– 732 OF IT
14 15 16 17 18

19

20 21 22 23
Polygon Set Square No 3283

24 From these letters, make words of Enter each of

three or more letters, always including the numbers
the central letter. Answers must be in from 1 to 9 in
25 26
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
27 28 How you rate 15 words, average; numbers to get
21, good; 25, very good; 29, excellent you started.

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Each sum
Across 20 Since (7) Saturday’s answers should be
1 What bees collect (6) 23 Farewell (5) acetyl, achey, achy, acolyte, acyl, ahoy,
calculated left
4 Vertical rock face (5) 24 The thing's (3) to right or top
catchy, chayote, chocolatey, chocolaty,
to bottom.
8 Traverse (5) 25 Nullifies (7) chyle, clay, cloy, coaly, coley, coly, coyote,
9 Completely clean (7) 26 In that place (5) cycle, ethyl, eyot, holey, holy, hooey,
hooley, hoya, lacy, leccy, oaty, oocyte,
10 Definite article (3) 27 Fibre used for ropes (5) talcy, techy, they, toey, yacht, yahoo, yeah Please note, BODMAS does not apply
11 (Of an egg) go off (5) 28 Population count (6)
12
14
Point of no return (7)
Wonderful thing (6) Down
Killer Gentle No 8534 Solutions
16 Old writing implement (6) 1 Premium reduction (2-6,5)
Solution to Crossword 9030 2 Seafood soup (7) Quick Cryptic 2239 Codeword 4714 Kakuro 3279
3 Lacking comforts (7) SOC I A L I SM P A S
CH I V V Y V E L L UM
R N I M I A
4 Bread fragment (5) K L P N O S C
5 Sir — Newton, physicist (5) I C E B E RG D R AM A
E XCUS ED P E A K S P A R E L N
D E A I H N T 6 Alien craft (6,7) F RO N T I E R SMA N
I ONS E S CA L A T E 7 Drug addicts (5) U A D A E
S U P I N E S T A R E D
T S P P S R 13 Climbing plant (3) C O O O E
EDUCA T I O N 15 By way of (3) H E A D M I S T R E S S
M N R S E A O N E W T B
17 Warm sandwich (7) L I GH T A D I P OS E
AMER I CA N C ARD 18 Hangs around (7) A L R L N R E
R R T G S R D RU E E ND A NG E R S
KHA K I E X PR E S S 19 Robbery (5) Train Tracks 1754
E S V I S U 21 Confines behind bars (5) Suko 3616 Square Routes
Chess — Winning Move
DE E P ER I NS T E P 22 Up to (a time) (5) 186
1 Qxe4! nets a piece as 1 ...
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Bridge Andrew Robson Easy 7; Medium 567; Harder 8379

Cell Blocks 4597 Set Square 3282 KenKen 5706 Word watch
I was honoured to be invited to Dealer: North, Vulnerability: Neither
run the Stuart Wheeler Memorial ♠- Urceolate (a) Shaped like
Rubber
Bridge Week at Carol and Charlie ♥ A K 10 a jug (Collins)
Summer-tree (a) A great
Skinner’s lovely villa on the beau- ♦10 9 7 4 3
tiful Greek island of Paxos, an
♠ 9842
♣A 8 7 3 2
♠ KQ J 7 6
Killer Tricky No 8535
horizontal beam
supporting a floor or roof
hour’s boat ride south of Corfu (a N (Chambers)
choppy hour in the case of the out- ♥Q J 4 W E ♥9 8 5 3 2 Vapulate (c) To undergo a
ward journey. Tip — I learned ♦A 6 5 S ♦8 2 flogging (OED)
only afterwards: don’t lie down;
♣KQ 9 ♠ A 10 5 3 ♣5
stand up and look at the horizon). ♥7 6
Lovely lunches by local beaches, ♦KQ J Futoshiki 4320 Tredoku 1754 Sudoku 13,544
swims in the warm Mediterranean, ♣J 10 6 4
and lots of bridge — what’s not to like? S(AR) W N E
Charlie Skinner was a most gen- 1♦ 1♠
erous host and I felt a bit mean to 2NT 3♠ Pass Pass
exploit his (West’s) false defensive 3NT(1) End
claim on this deal from the first (1) A tad undsciplined, perhaps, but ♦KQJ
evening (or perhaps night — we facing partner’s suit looked like a good
played until 2am most days). West source of tricks, and were poor defensive val-
led the nine of spades to East’s ues; I didn’t think we’d get rich defending Quintagram
(mildly deceptive) queen and I 3♠ (actually, we do quite well).
won the ace immediately. 1 Blind
Contract: 3NT, Opening Lead: ♠ 9 2 Carbon
Killer 8533
At tricks two, three and four, I 3 Double
led out my top diamonds, West tak- ♠- 4 Closing
ing the third with the ace and lead- ♥A 5 Antedate
ing a second spade. East won the ♦9 (led)
♣A 8 7
jack and king and, knowing (from ♠- N ♠- Lexica 6559
West’s initial nine-lead) that I had ♥Q J W E ♥8 5 3 2
the master ten, switched to the nine ♦- S ♦- S

of hearts (I’d discarded dummy’s ♣KQ 9 ♠ 10 ♣5 E A R N S

♥ 10 — and ♣32 — on the spades). ♥7 D O U T
I won the king of hearts and ♦-
cashed the fourth diamond. In the ♣J 10 6 U N I T Y

end-position across, I followed the jack of hearts, I could cash the C

with the fifth diamond. Consider
matters from West’s perspective.
“I must score two more tricks,”
said Charlie.
“I’m not so sure,” I retorted. I
discarded my stranded winning
spade from hand, and awaited
West’s discard. If West discarded a
club, I could play ace and another
club, to set up a second club trick.
ace of hearts (removing his safe E R R O R Quiz
heart exit) and lead a club to the As with standard Sudoku, fill the grid so that every column,
jack. West could win the queen but every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set Lexica 6560
1 Richard III 2 War 3 China 4 Soviet-Afghan War
now had to lead from ♣K9. I could of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the target number 5 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough 6 Millie’s
run his nine round to the ten, and in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells joined by dotted A C C E P T Cookies 7 Emmeline Pankhurst 8 Alfie 9 Alexander I
score the last with dummy’s ace, lines, a digit cannot be repeated. O W
10 Spitsbergen, in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard
beating West’s king. D O M I N O
11 Peter FitzGerald 12 Mos Def aka Yasiin Bey, born
“Sorry, Charlie. I may have read Cluelines Stuck on Sudoku, Killer or KenKen? Call 0901 293 Dante Terrell Smith 13 Lockwood & Co 14 Jockey Club
it anyway,” I naturally said. Entre 6263 before midnight to receive four clues for any of today’s
A A U
15 Bernard Ingham
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Word watch Sudoku easy No 13,545 Difficult No 13,546 Fiendish No 13,547

David Parfitt

Urceolate
a Shaped like a jug
b Having bearlike
features
c Of ancient
construction
Summer-tree
a A great horizontal
beam
b The wild cherry
c A large abacus
Vapulate
a Residue left after the
release of steam
b To render less
flavoursome
c To undergo a flogging

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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 3616

1 The 2022 film The
Lost King is about the
search for the long-lost
remains of which
Plantagenet king?
2 The Latin phrase
“status quo ante bellum”
means “the state existing
before the …” what?
3 Which country is
home to the remaining
wild population of fewer
than 2,500 giant pandas?
4 Svetlana Alexievich’s
book Boys in Zinc is
about which 1979-89 war?
5 John Neville starred
as which duke in the
1969 BBC serial The
First Churchills?
6 Which UK-based
chain of retail bakeries
is named after founder
15
Mario Budwig’s
grandmother Mildred?
7 On March 6, 1930,
Stanley Baldwin unveiled
a statue of which
suffragist in Victoria
Tower Gardens?
8 Which Lewis Gilbert
film, starring Michael
Caine, was adapted by
REX FEATURES
Bill Naughton from his
1963 play?
9 In 1934, which
king of Yugoslavia was
assassinated in Marseilles
by the Bulgarian Vlado
Chernozemski?
10 Founded by Sweden
in 1910, Pyramiden is an
abandoned Soviet coal-
mining settlement on
which island?
11 Which Northern Irish
biochemist founded
Randox in 1982?
12 In 1997, who formed
the hip hop duo Black
Star with fellow Brooklyn-
born rapper Talib Kweli?
13 The Screaming
Staircase (2013) is the
first novel in which YA
supernatural thriller series
by Jonathan Stroud?
14 Which British horse
racing organisation owns
15 racecourses, including
Aintree, Cheltenham Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the spaces so
and Epsom Downs? that the number in each circle is equal to
the sum of the four surrounding spaces,
15 Which chief press and each colour total is correct
secretary to Margaret
Thatcher is pictured? For interactive puzzles visit
Answers on page 15 thetimes.co.uk

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2240 by Hurley

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Across 24 Newly relive the French

1 With embarrassed look, see
ship manoeuvring at entrance
to harbour (8)
5 Linger behind tedious person
8 9 (4)
8 Sanction program run at
10 London cricket ground (8)
9 Unaccompanied part song
11 12 bringing great delight (4)
11 Discourage careful eater,
initially itching to quit (5)
12 Talk about port vehicle (7)
13 14 15 16 13 Servant shortage disheartened
Emily (6)
15 Bad luck, using criminal circles
17 (6)
18 At the outset so confident,
18 19 20 relying on one’s generous
ethos — not this guy’s! (7)
19 Sweetheart from Florida with
armlet oddly selected (5)
21 22 21 To some extent share a
productive harvest (4)
22 Homeless wanderer’s saga with
new introduction and promise
(8)
23 24 23 Tired, with no energy, making
one cautious (4)
morning call for soldiers (8)
Down
1 Clubs cutting footwear leads to
malicious talk (7)
2 One living abroad formerly —
with a light touch (5)
3 Owner’s torpor ripe for change
(10)
4 Look through some prose,
archaic (6)
6 Republican, with help from
others, made comeback (7)
7 Visitor speculated, we hear (5)
10 Arrived to collect old
university standard in disguise
(10)
14 Pirate’s surprised expressions
on air (7)
16 Do revue, fantastic — that
should have happened sooner
(7)
17 More than one chap, expert,
providing this threat (6)
18 One dramatically tamed in
Shropshire town — not half!
(5)
20 Island area’s first levy (5)
Yesterday’s solution on page 15