How Britain Fell For Halloween: Fracking Banned and Pensions in Spotlight As Truss Legacy Rejected

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27 October 2022
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fell for
Halloween G2
Fracking banned and pensions in

spotlight as Truss legacy rejected
New prime minister’s list guarantee the pensions triple lock
or defence spending.
with further tax measures. The Treas-
ury has drawn up an initial menu of
Treasury worked from a formula of
80/20 cuts and tax, but there is now a
next fortnight, according to No 10,
although the choice to make changes
of cuts risks provoking Any change to pensions or a deci- 70 tax-and-spend options, the Guard- widespread understanding that pub- would be politically difficult.
clash with unhappy sion not to uprate benefits in line with ian understands. lic services cannot take such cuts, Truss committed to the triple lock
inflation would draw new battle lines Hunt will meet new cabinet min- especially with high inflation. at her final PMQs outing – a guarantee
Tory backbenchers between Sunak and Conservative isters over the coming days to brief Ministers will re-examine the that the state pension will rise every
MPs, a number of whom have said them about the fiscal situation and to pensions triple lock and increasing year by whichever is highest of infla-
they would not back cuts falling on discuss the impacts on departments benefits in line with inflation over the tion, earnings growth or 2.5% – and
Jessica Elgot the most vulnerable. and the scale of cuts required. Sunak hinted it would not be his pre-
£35bn
Aubrey Allegretti Sunak and the chancellor, Jeremy The chancellor is understood to ferred course of action by referencing
Hunt, also delayed the autumn be planning a fiscal statement that commitments in the manifesto.
Rishi Sunak rejected what was left of statement for a further fortnight balances spending cuts and tax rises Ending the pensions triple lock for
Liz Truss’s legacy in his first full day to give departments more time to 50/50, including a potential expan- The estimated size of the black 2024-25 would save £11bn.
as prime minister yesterday, aban- find double-digit savings to fill an sion of the windfall tax. hole, in the wake of Liz Truss and Sunak’s spokesper-
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doning fracking and refusing to estimated £35bn black hole – balanced Under George Osborne, the Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget son said “ we wouldn’t
UN warns
world faces
2.5C global
heating rise
Fiona Harvey
Environment correspondent
Pledges to cut greenhouse gas emis-

sions will lead to global heating of
2.5C, a level that would condemn
the world to catastrophic climate
breakdown, according to the United
Nations.
Only a handful of countries have
strengthened commitments sub-
stantially in the past year despite
promising to do so at Cop26 UN sum-
mit in Glasgow last November. Deeper
cuts are needed to limit temperature
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rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial lev-

els, which would avoid the worst
ravages of extreme weather.
Simon Stiell, executive secretary
of the UN framework convention on
climate change, said: “This
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Rory Carroll has not functioned for four of the Troubles ‘legacy’ resolution won’t solve the problem.”
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If the meetings in Belfast do not Deadlines in previous crises have committee has found. to use its veto to block the election
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Thursday 27 October 2022 The Guardian •••
News 3
▲ Ruby Williams was sent home by

her London school due to her hair
made sense,” she said. “We felt very

gaslit by the school itself that we were
being unreasonable. I think to have
an organisation like [EHRC] involved
showed us that we weren’t being
unreasonable, and gave us the con-
fidence that we needed.”
She added: “I feel relieved, and
for me I feel there’s a legacy to her
pain, and also the other children who
have had similar experiences to her
at school. I feel hopeful now it won’t
happen again to other children.”
The commission also supported
the case of Chikayzea Flanders, who
was told on his first day at the Fulham
boys school in west London in 2017
that his dreadlocked hair, which he
wore tied up, failed to comply with
the uniform and appearance policy
and was advised to have it cut or
face suspension. His mother said
his dreadlocks were a fundamental
tenet of his Rastafarian beliefs and
so should be exempt from the policy.
The issue is still a problem. The
EHRC said the Equality Advisory
Don’t penalise pupils for having

▲ The Equality and Human Rights and Support Service, which offers
Commission says some policies over free advice, had received 50 calls
hair can harm pupils’ mental health reporting potential cases of hair dis-
PHOTOGRAPH: KLAUS VEDFELT/GETTY IMAGES crimination since 2018, but in many
afro hairstyles, schools are told a school applies an apparently neu-

tral policy or practice that puts pupils
more cases parents did not report dis-
crimination or take legal action.
L’myah Sherae, founder and chief
sharing a protected characteristic coordinator of the all-party parlia-
boys with afro-textured hair or schools lack understanding about (for example, race) at a disadvan- mentary group for race equality in
Sally Weale hairstyles were disproportionately afro hair and the care it needs. tage compared with pupils who don’t education, which supported the
Tobi Thomas affected by discrimination and The new EHRC guidance, which is share that characteristic. development of the guidance, said:
warned that it could have serious non-statutory and applies to schools “Such policies are likely to be “We want black children across the
Schools are being warned not to long-lasting consequences for them. in England, Scotland and Wales, says: indirectly discriminatory unless the UK to know they can be genuinely
penalise or exclude pupils for wear- Jackie Killeen, the EHRC chief reg- “Discriminating against pupils in school can show the policy is objec- proud of their identity, not penal-
ing their hair in natural afro styles, as ulator, said: “We want to put a stop to relation to or because of their hair tively justified as a proportionate ised for it.”
well as in braids, cornrows and plaits, pupils being unfairly singled out for may have a negative effect on pupils’ means of achieving a legitimate aim.” The EHRC’s guidance only covers
in new guidance intended to prevent their appearance in schools. Every mental health and wellbeing. Indi- The EHRC has funded legal action schools, despite reports of hair dis-
hair discrimination. child deserves to be celebrated for rect discrimination can happen when in cases of alleged hair discrimina- crimination in other public spaces
Britain’s equality watchdog has who they are and to thrive in school tion. In 2020, Ruby Williams won and working environments.
said school policies that ban certain without having to worry about £8,500 in an out-of-court settlement A Department for Education
hairstyles without allowing for excep- changing their appearance to suit a ‘Every child deserves with the Urswick School in Hackney, spokesperson said: “We provided
tions on racial and religious grounds potentially discriminatory policy.” to be celebrated for east London, after she was repeatedly guidance to schools last year to help
are likely to be unlawful. It is there- Discrimination ranges from sent home because of her afro hair. them adhere to the Equality Act with
fore urging schools to review their describing someone’s hairstyle as who they are’ The school did not accept any liability. regards to pupils’ appearance, includ-
policies and practices to ensure they inappropriate or exotic to bully- Kate Williams, Ruby’s mother, ing that leaders should be sensitive to
comply with the 2010 Equality Act. ing and bans on certain hairstyles, said: “Throughout the process, we the needs of different cultures, races
The Equality and Human Rights according to the EHRC. Many of the Jackie Killeen were reassured [by the EHRC] that and religions and act reasonably in
Commission (EHRC) said girls and children affected complain that their EHRC chief regulator the fact we were feeling so outraged accommodating these needs.”
Artist’s Venice Biennale-winning Gallery in May. The biennale’s jury

commended Boyce for proposing
“another reading of histories through
Jacqui Dankworth, Poppy Ajudha,
Sofia Jernberg, Tanita Tikaram and
the composer Errollyn Wallen. Their
that her collaborators’ performances
were born out of a simple question:
“As a woman, as a black person, what
installation to tour UK galleries the sonic. In working collaboratively
with other black women, she unpacks
voices create an evolving, overlap-
ping soundtrack for audiences who
does freedom feel like? How can you
imagine freedom?”
a plenitude of silenced stories.” pass through the pavilion. Skinder Hundal, the global direc-
Commissioned by the British Clarrie Wallis, the director of Boyce previously told Artnet News tor of arts at the British Council, said:
Nadia Khomami Council for the British pavilion, Feel- the Turner Contemporary, said the “Sonia Boyce’s Golden Lion win at the
Arts and culture correspondent ing Her Way features videos of five gallery was delighted to be involved Venice Biennale was a momentous
black female musicians who impro- in the tour. “Supporting artists at piv- moment for both Sonia and the UK,
The British artist Sonia Boyce’s vise and play with their voices. otal moments in their careers and recognising her significant contribu-
award-winning work Feeling Her “The rooms of the pavilion are exhibiting bold new work relevant tion and legacy to UK arts.”
Way will come to the UK next year, filled with sounds – sometimes to a broad range of audiences is cen- Hundal added “We’re so excited
the British Council has announced. harmonious, sometimes clashing tral to our exhibition programme. to bring this award-winning exhi-
The installation, which won the – embodying feelings of freedom, “This joyful, ambitious installation bition to Margate and Leeds where
Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion prize, power and vulnerability,” according celebrates female creativity and visitors can expect an immersive
combines video, collage, music and to the British Council. collaboration, and we look forward experience which speaks of hope,
sculpture. Boyce’s win was a his- The installation will be at the to presenting it in Margate next joy and freedom.”
toric moment – she was the first black Turner Contemporary in Margate in spring,” she said. ▲ Sonia Boyce at the British pavilion Boyce’s installation runs at the
woman to represent the UK at Venice. February before heading to Leeds Art The work features the musicians during this year’s Venice Biennale biennale until 27 November.
4 National
Politics
Sunak ‘stands by’

Conservative
manifesto pledge
to ban fracking
Sunak replied: “I have already said
Jessica Elgot I stand by the manifesto on that. But
Helena Horton what I would say is that I’m proud that
this government has passed the land-
Fracking will in effect remain banned mark Environment Act, putting more
under Rishi Sunak’s government, protections for the natural environ-
his spokesperson confirmed yester- ment than we have ever had, with a
day, saying the new prime minister clear plan to deliver.
was committed to the policy in the “And I can give the honourable
2019 manifesto. lady my commitment that we will
The confirmation came after the deliver on all those ambitions. We will
prime minister told the Commons he deliver on what we said at [Cop26]
“stands by” the manifesto, which put because we care deeply about passing
a moratorium on shale gas extraction. our children an environment in a bet-
The decision is another rebuff ter state than we found it ourselves.”
to Liz Truss, along with the full On the night before Truss resigned,
rewriting of her fiscal plans. Under a crunch Commons vote on frack-
Truss’s short-lived government, the ing propelled by a Labour motion
moratorium was lifted amid divisions descended into mayhem after more
in the parliamentary party. than 40 Conservative MPs failed to
A significant number of MPs have back the government and were left
spoken out against fracking, includ- in limbo about whether it had been
ing the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, a confidence vote. Tempers were so
who said in June that it would create fraught that MPs alleged ministers
“enormous disruption and envi- had physically pulled some wavering
ronmental damage for little, if any, Tories into the voting lobbies.
economic benefit”. Chris Skidmore, a leading voice of
The 2019 manifesto said the ban green Conservatives who had been
would be in place until there was new leading the government’s net zero
evidence about the safety of fracking. review, said earlier he was willing to
It reads: “We placed a moratorium on “face the consequences of my deci-
fracking in England with immediate sion” not to back the government,
effect. Having listened to local com- even if this meant losing the whip.
munities, we have ruled out changes Labour said the moratorium still
All smiles for now New PM must act

to the planning system. We will not opened the door to potential changes
support fracking unless the science of policy, whereas it had pledged a
shows categorically that it can be permanent ban. Ed Miliband, the
done safely.” shadow climate and net zero secre-
Sunak made the commitment in
response to a question by the Green
MP, Caroline Lucas, who said: “Yes-
tary, said: “Last week Rishi Sunak
voted against Labour’s fracking ban,
but this week his spokespeople tell
fast on big issues for UK and party
terday he promised to fix [Truss’s] us he is in favour of the temporary
mistakes as well as to uphold the par- moratorium on fracking in the Con- Rishi Sunak has inherited a hefty Rwanda. The deal has cost £120m under his premiership in his first
ty’s 2019 manifesto. “So if he is a man servative manifesto. in-tray, full of issues on which with more money yet to be paid call to an overseas leader, but the
of his word, will he start by reversing “Whatever their latest position, he will have to act quickly if he to a country with a poor human reality is that such rhetoric is the
the green light she gave to frack- the truth is that the Tories have shown stands a chance of reversing the rights record. easy part. A row over defence
ing since it’s categorically not been they cannot be trusted on the issue of Conservative party’s deteriorating The threat of Rwanda has failed spending looms.
shown to be safe, and instead main- fracking. The only way to guarantee poll ratings. to stem the flow of migrants coming His predecessor’s pledge
tain the moratorium that was pledged fracking will be banned for good is to to Britain overwhelming the to sharply increase defence
in that very manifesto he promised elect a Labour government.” Economy asylum system. The government spending to 3% of GDP was not yet
to uphold?” The move from Sunak was also Calming jittery financial markets is spending about £4.7m a day reconfirmed by No 10 yesterday.
welcomed by the Conservative Envi- after the chaos of the mini-budget housing asylum seekers in hotels. Lifting defence spending to 3%
ronment Network, whose members will be high on Sunak’s list of Police funding and pay is also from the current 2.1% would cost
include about 150 MPs and which priorities. The government will use on the agenda but expected to face an extra £23bn in real terms and
has campaigned on fracking and its 17 November autumn statement further budget cuts. is not obviously necessary given
net zero. Its director, Sam Hall, said to set out debt-cutting plans. other spending priorities and wider
fracking was unpopular and “few Economists expect about £40bn of Defence pressures on the public finances.
communities would approve frack- savings could be needed. Whether Sunak may have promised
ing projects locally, meaning little or Sunak approves an inflation- Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Brexit and Northern Ireland
no gas would be extracted, despite matching rise for pensions and Zelenskiy, that Britain’s support Talks to end the row over the
the high political cost”. benefits is a vital consideration. will remain “as strong as ever” Northern Ireland Brexit protocol
Craig Bennett, the chief executive Sky-high energy bills have are at a delicate stage and Sunak’s
of the Wildlife Trusts, said: “This is pushed inflation to a 40-year high, decision to keep the Northern
a welcome early sign from the new with households expected to face a Reporting team Ireland team in position may help
prime minister. The suggestion that further increase in living costs next Aubrey Allegretti, Rajeev Syal, around the negotiating table.
fracking could do anything to help spring after the government cuts Richard Partington, Patrick The EU and Britain have said
reduce energy bills or deliver energy short its energy price freeze. Wintour, Dan Sabbagh, they are determined to find a
security in the UK always was a lie. Lisa O’Carroll, Rory Carroll, negotiated solution to the dispute
It was promoted primarily because Home Office Severin Carrell, Richard Adams, before Easter, the 25th anniversary
it made the UK more like the US The Home Office must decide Andrew Gregory, Helena Horton of the Good Friday agreement, but
▲ Protesters at the Preston New than the EU, and that suited certain whether to press on with the policy and Josh Halliday the DUP has repeated warnings it
Road fracking site near Blackpool ideologues.” of sending those seeking asylum to will not return to Stormont unless
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▼ The prime minister, Rishi Sunak,
and members of his new cabinet at
their first meeting at No 10 yesterday
PHOTOGRAPH: STEFAN ROUSSEAU/AFP/GETTY
Truss’s policy warned in a new briefing that holding

down public sector pay and cutting
legacy dismantled staff was not politically or practically
viable now given the high inflation
on new leader’s and widespread issues with retention
and recruitment meaning shortages
first day in office across the NHS and education.
It said there was also severe strain
on capital spending, with mainte-
Continued from page 1 nance backlogs for schools, the NHS,
courts and prisons already at £23.7bn.
▲ An independence vote may place comment ahead of any fiscal state- To help make up at least half of the
Nicola Sturgeon further from Sunak ments or budgets” but that he “will expected shortfall, radical spending
do what’s right and compassionate restrictions totalling £25bn were sug-
that are wreaking havoc with their for the most vulnerable”. gested by the influential rightwing
budgets. Many heads are already On benefits, Sunak would face a Policy Exchange thinktank.
warning of major cuts needed to potential cabinet and parliamentary They included measures Hunt has
balance their books. backlash. The new work and pensions already suggested he favours, includ-
Teacher retention and staff secretary, Mel Stride, had previously ing a further windfall tax on oil and
shortages are becoming a problem, warned it would be “extraordinarily gas giants and the cancellation of the
while schools and universities difficult” for the government to per- defence spending rise to 3% of GDP.
across Britain face industrial action suade MPs to link benefits uprating to Making civil service cuts worth
this winter over pay or pensions. wage rises instead of inflation. £3.5bn was also suggested in the
Councils fear cuts in government Sunak is also thought to be wary report co-authored by Iain Mansfield,
spending may further imperil of Truss’s pledge to increase defence a former adviser to cabinet ministers
special needs and disability spending, a commitment from her including Gavin Williamson, and ex-
provision already under stress. leadership campaign. Labour Treasury minister Ruth Kelly.
The defence secretary, Ben Wal- The mini-budget was blamed in
Health lace, who kept his post in Sunak’s the paper for making troubled eco-
Sunak inherits an NHS at breaking cabinet reshuffle, has made it clear nomic circumstances “significantly
point, and one experts agree in the past he wants defence spend- more challenging” and that Sunak
cannot survive further cuts. How ing to rise to 3% of national income should be “prepared to tackle some
to deliver a “stronger” NHS, as he by 2030. of the biggest lines in the budget” or
promised, while slashing funding The prime minister is planning to else make real-terms cuts to public
across Whitehall – including the make reforms to education, accord- services and raise taxes.
Department of Health and Social ing to the Times, which reported Policy Exchange estimated that
Care – remains unclear. But urgent Sunak was preparing wide-ranging ending the pensions triple lock
action is required to prevent the changes including the introduction for 2024-25 would save £11bn, and
NHS from collapsing this winter. of a British baccalaureate. could be bolstered by reprioritising
There are now more than Meanwhile, a formal step will take £2.8bn of the schools budget from
132,000 vacancies across the place in the coming days to confirm education support and so-called back
NHS, the number of patients on the PM’s renewal of the fracking ban. office staff. Scrapping a proposed new
the waiting list for treatment has Sunak’s spokesperson ruled out prison would also recoup £500m.
topped 7 million in England alone, reinstating the national insurance
and emergency care services are rise, which Truss repealed. News Wealth taxes call Page 33
overstretched. Underfunded social The spokesperson also confirmed
care needs more support too. that plans had been abandoned for
Truss’s supply-side reform plans,
Environment which were targeted at eight areas,
First up is the promised review including planning, the environment
of the nature-friendly farming and childcare, which could have seen
payments scheme, which was a new wave of deregulation.
its red lines in Brexit talks are be too great. Both await a supreme expected this week. Officials have been warned that the
met. The short-term solution is to court ruling expected next year on Sunak has confirmed that the scale of the task requires budgets to
persuade the DUP to end a boycott, whether Holyrood can hold that fracking ban, lifted by Liz Truss, fall by at least 7.8% in real terms over
which means addressing the party’s referendum without Westminster’s would be back in place as per the the next four years – a similar scale
objections to the post-Brexit Irish approval: there is no guarantee 2019 manifesto. This was an easy to David Cameron’s austerity years. ▲ Rishi Sunak hosting a celebration
Sea border. That complicates judges will agree with the UK way for him to win plaudits from The Institute for Government for Diwali at No 10 yesterday
Britain’s negotiations with Brussels government that Holyrood cannot. MPs over the divisive issue. But he
over the protocol. Britain may face that divisive vote will have to decide his approach
Scotland
Sunak has stressed that he wants to
next October after all.
Education
to renewables. He criticised solar
farms on farmland during the
summer’s leadership race, but
Eddie Izzard I’m not sure what he’s all about, Keir
Starmer’s not sure what he’s all about.
And you know what, the old tradi-
“work constructively” with Nicola
Sturgeon’s Scottish National party
Headteachers in England are
grappling with the sharp rise in
some think that he was trying to
match the more militant Truss in
Fury at Tory’s tional working-class Labour voters
will take a look at Eddie Izzard and
“on our shared challenges” – but
the gulf between them is likely to
energy costs and inflation along
with the 5% rise in teachers’ pay
order to appeal to Tory voters.
‘vile’ remarks think, y’know, really? Is that what’s
coming to parliament? I think it opens
Levelling up a whole new debate, mate. I’m going
On the face of it, Sunak’s to be honest now, controversial as
appointment will be welcomed always, if he does get elected and
by those who think “levelling Aletha Adu I’m still here, I shouldn’t be follow-
up” is essential to fixing Britain’s Aubrey Allegretti ing him into the toilets.”
unbalanced economy. But any A Tory MP called the comments
enthusiasm comes from a low base: A Conservative MP has been criticised “vile and disgusting”.
the project stalled for three years for making transphobic comments The Labour MP Chris Bryant
under Johnson, despite being his that questioned whether female said: “Eddie is more than capable of
defining policy, and then appeared representation in parliament would defending herself and has run more
to be quietly binned by Truss. “increase or decrease” if the actor and marathons for charity than this chap
comedian Eddie Izzard were elected. could ever manage, but what I don’t
Party unity Lee Anderson, MP for Ashfield understand is why playground bullies
After a bitterly divisive leadership in Nottinghamshire, told Talk TV always think they are God’s gift to
race over the past few months, he “would not follow him into the humanity and that LGBT folk are just
Sunak will have to be wary of toilets” if Izzard – who identifies as waiting to pounce on them in the loo.
making any missteps that risk female – became an MP. Talk about delusional!”
fracturing the party too much. Anderson told the show: “I think Izzard has faced a barrage of abuse
Concerns about his leadership Labour have got 51% of their MPs since she launched her bid to become
could also build depending on now, in parliament, are females. the Labour candidate for Sheffield
how the Conservatives do in two Now, if Eddie Izzard gets elected, I Central. Her rival candidates have
▲ People making the Channel crossing arrive at Dungeness. Immigration will up-coming byelections, as well as at don’t know whether that increases launched a joint statement condemn-
be a tough issue for Sunak PHOTOGGRAPH: JON SANTA CRUZ/SHUTTERSTOCK local elections next May. or decreases the percentage. Because ing the level of “vitriolic abuse”.
••• The Guardian Thursday 27 October 2022
6 National
Politics ▼ Keir Starmer in the Commons
yesterday, when he said Rishi Sunak
‘did a grubby deal, trading national
security’ PHOTOGRAPH: JESSICA TAYLOR/PA
Former Tory minister

The disclosure comes after Labour “If a civil servant had acted in
and the Liberal Democrats called for the way that Suella Braverman
a Cabinet Office inquiry into national was alleged to, using private email
security concerns after Braverman accounts to send confidential govern-
was reinstated. No 10 refused to deny ment business to personal contacts,
accuses Braverman of officials advised against reappointing

her to a great office of state.
Braverman had been in the role
six weeks when she said she made a
they would rightly be expected to
face the harshest of penalties and
lose their security clearance.
“Standards matter, and the clear
multiple code breaches

“mistake”, which she conceded was a signal from her appointment is that
“technical infringement” of the rules. ministers can act with impunity if it
The Lib Dems’ home affairs suits the prime minister.”
spokesperson, Alistair Carmichael, Braverman’s short time at the
called for an inquiry, adding: “If it Home Office was marked by a hard-
is confirmed that Suella Braverman line approach to a multitude of issues,
most senior civil servant, Simon “It was sent from a private email repeatedly broke the ministerial code including proposing to ban people
Rajeev Syal Case, had been consulted and ruled address to another member of parlia- and threatened national security, she entering the UK via small boats from
Jessica Elgot that it had broken the rules. ment,” he told TalkTV’s Kate McCann. must be sacked. A home secretary claiming asylum.
Kevin Rawlinson Sunak yesterday told MPs that “She then sought to copy in that indi- who broke the rules is not fit for a It emerged yesterday that more
Braverman had made an “error of vidual’s wife and accidentally sent it Home Office which keeps the rules.” than 38,000 people have arrived in
Rishi Sunak’s decision to reappoint judgment” and recognised her mis- to a staffer in parliament. The head of the FDA senior civil the UK after crossing the Channel in
Suella Braverman six days after take, adding: “That’s why I was “To me, that seems a really seri- servants’ union, Dave Penman, said more than 900 boats in 2022 to date,
she was forced to resign for a secu- delighted to welcome her back into ous breach, especially when it was the reappointment was a clear exam- compared with 28,526 last year.
rity breach is facing fresh questions a united cabinet that brings expe- documents relating to cybersecurity, ple of “double standards” given that The clandestine Channel threat
after a former Conservative minis- rience and stability to the heart as I believe. That seems a really seri- his members would face severe pun- commander, Dan O’Mahoney, told
ter claimed the home secretary was of government.” ous breach. ishments for similar behaviour. the Commons home affairs commit-
responsible for “multiple breaches Asked during prime minister’s “The cabinet secretary had his say tee during yesterday’s hearing that in
of the ministerial code”. questions if officials had raised con- at the time, I doubt he changed his 2021 the interception rate for French
Jake Berry, who was at the heart cerns about the appointment – given mind in the last six days but that is a ‘It was relating police stopping people trying to cross
of Liz Truss’s government, said Case was said to have been furious matter for the new prime minister.” the Channel was 50%, but this year it
Braverman was responsible for a – Sunak simply said he had already The shadow home secretary,
to cybersecurity. has dropped to 42.5%.
“really serious breach” after send- “addressed the issue”. Yvette Cooper, said Berry’s inter- That seems a really He accepted this was a lower per-
ing confidential information to a Speaking to Piers Morgan Uncen- vention was “extraordinary” and centage but stressed it was a “much,
private address, sending it to an MP, sored last night, Berry said there had “very serious”.
serious breach’ much bigger number”, telling how
attempting to send it to the MP’s wife been “multiple breaches of the minis- Tweeting at the prime minister, French authorities had stopped
and then accidentally sending it to a terial code” after Braverman had sent she wrote: “What security warnings 28,000 migrants crossing the Chan-
member of parliamentary staff. the document to her confidante and did you ignore when you reappointed Jake Berry nel and intercepted and destroyed
He also indicated that the UK’s fellow MP Sir John Hayes. home secretary?” Conservative MP 1,072 boats so far this year.
Did she say that? 7
From Rwanda dreams to tofu-eating wokerati, five shockers
With a tenure of just 43 days, the Suella

enforced resignation of Suella Braverman Sketch
Braverman made her the shortest- was forced to
serving UK home secretary in resign as home John Crace
nearly 200 years. secretary after
But after just one week in just 43 days
the wilderness, the new prime
minister, Rishi Sunak, has restored
her to the post, raising howls of
during her first
stint in the role
PHOTOGRAPH:
Full of culture wars
indignation from opposition MPs VICTORIA JONES/
and human rights campaigners.

They point to the various
PA WIRE
bluster, all Rish! has
controversies she stirred in just a
few weeks before she had to quit.
Here’s a reminder of some of her
to offer the country is
most controversial remarks from
her previous stint: a Boris-lite word salad
‘David Cameron famously said
I
tens of thousands, no ifs no buts.
So that would be my ultimate that risked upsetting No 10 in an Cannabis is a ‘gateway’ drug to t only took a few hours. That was the length
aspiration’ interview in the Spectator, in which more harmful substances of time between Rishi Sunak looking ever so
Within days of her initial she said she had “reservations” The Sunday Times reported that humble and sincere outside Downing Street on
appointment, Braverman caused about Britain’s trade deal with Braverman was considering Tuesday morning as he promised to govern with
alarm in the government by India because it could increase upgrading cannabis to a class A “accountability, integrity and professionalism”
reviving the Conservatives’ earlier immigration to the UK. drug, putting it on a par with and him appointing Suella Braverman as his
failed promise to cut net migration Braverman said Indian migrants cocaine. Parliamentary colleagues home secretary, just six days after she left government
to “tens of thousands”, from made up the largest number of visa viewed this as a further sign that for breaking the ministerial code.
the current level of 239,000. She overstayers in the UK and criticised she was eschewing government For Rish! the equation was simple. Leaky Sue could
trained her sights on international her predecessor Priti Patel’s deal policy in favour of boosting her have her job back in return for her endorsement of
students – a crucial source of with the Indian government aimed popularity among party members. him as party leader. Anything to edge out the threat of
revenue for UK universities – and at facilitating migration last year, The report cited a source who Boris Johnson’s return. And it had worked a treat. The
overseas farm workers, who fill which she said had “not necessarily said she was opposed to calls to Convict had melted away making all his supporters
labour shortages. worked very well”. decriminalise cannabis, which look stupid and Rish! marched into No 10 unopposed.
The declaration appeared to she believed sent a “cultural” A coronation rather than an election.
contradict Liz Truss’s plans to ‘I would love to have a front page signal that using the drug was Now was the time for the Tories to get a first glimpse
allow more migrants to fill UK job of the Telegraph with a plane “acceptable behaviour”. “We’ve of what they had bought. Or, in some cases, for what
vacancies in specific industries. taking off to Rwanda, that’s my got to scare people,” the source they had sold their souls. Day two of the ongoing
The unfeasibility of the target dream, it’s my obsession’ reported. Tory psychodrama and Sunak’s first prime minister’s
has already dogged successive In a further demonstration of questions. In July, Johnson had been the future once.
governments: Cameron’s pledge in her talent for headline-grabbing ‘It’s the Guardian-reading, In September, it had been Liz Truss. Now, there was no
2010 never met the target, which soundbites, Braverman used her tofu-eating wokerati sign of either. Perhaps they are on holiday.
was maintained by Theresa May’s Conservative party speech to share The soundbite that provoked The scene was set for the arrival of Sunak. Cheers
government before being ditched her strength of feeling on deporting most ridicule from opposition rang round the chamber, though not as many as you
in 2019 under Boris Johnson. asylum seekers to Rwanda. MPs and social media might expect for a new leader at his first PMQs. Usually
However, she acknowledged commenters alike came in her there’s a barrage of goodwill and enforced enthusiasm.
‘Look at migration in this country the flights would not happen final parliamentary address, The new-found unity in the Tory party was only
– the largest group of people who soon, with a legal dispute making in which she blamed Guardian skin deep. Wendy Morton, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Kit
overstay are Indian migrants’ deportations unlikely to begin readers and soy products for the Malthouse – all newly returned to the backbenches
Braverman took another gamble before 2023. Just Stop Oil protests. Rachel Hall – remained silent throughout. Jake Berry, the former
party chair, was absent. Missing, presumed disloyal.
Last seen writing a tweet trashing
John Hayes the document had arrived, she real-

ised that she had accidentally sent
them to an assistant to a fellow Con-
years. Both want to see net migration
severely restricted and believe that
it is a crucial issue that will come to
Cheers rang round the
Sunak.
Keir Starmer began by
congratulating Sunak on becoming
chamber, though not
Veteran Tory servative MP.
Braverman said she informed offi-
define the Conservative party.
“Suella is her own person. But she as many as you might
the first person of colour to become
prime minister. It was a heartfelt
disclosed as cials about the breach. A No 10 source
told the Sunday Times over the week-
and John are in lockstep on immi-
gration. They come from the same
expect for a new leader gesture. It’s genuinely a big
moment for the country. Then the
at his first PMQs. The
secret adviser end that Braverman’s exchange with
Hayes was uncovered after the chief
traditionalist wing of the party. They
believe in nationhood, community
unity was skin deep
Labour leader went on the attack.
Had Leaky Sue been right to resign
whip was informed of the security and migration,” said one. for breaking the ministerial code?
breach. “She doesn’t make any deci- The pair met when Braverman was And had senior civil servants raised
sion without consulting John Hayes,” a prospective candidate in the run up objections to her reappointment?
Rajeev Syal the source said. to the 2015 election. After the elec- How could a threat to national
Her friends said this is a sexist exag- tion, and with Braverman elected as security be home secretary?
geration – but admitted Braverman a new MP, they became friends. Their Rish! was unable to answer this, resorting to an
The veteran Tory MP Sir John Hayes and Hayes do agree on immigration families often meet. unintelligible word salad. Braverman had said sorry
has been disclosed as a secret adviser and that he has been a confidant for Hayes told the Guardian last week and besides she’d done her punishment, six days was
to Suella Braverman, with some that Braverman planned to campaign more than long enough, though five would have been
colleagues believ ing he has been alongside him on immigration from way too short and everyone deserved a second chance
influential in the home secretary’s the backbenches. and it wasn’t as if it had been a very serious breach
rise from backbencher. “Suella in seeking my advice, sent even though it clearly had been serious and she had
Evidence of the former minister’s a draft policy document to me. Which lied about it, but in any case Jeremy Corbyn.
influence emerged last week when she inadvertently ended up sending It was Boris-lite. Full of culture wars bluster but
Braverman was forced to resign for to a third party in parliament. That is without the ability to draw his audience into his
what government insiders said was a technical breach of the code. fantasies. Mostly because he doesn’t believe his own
a major security breach. “She reported herself and accepted lies. Well, not enough of them. He’s too much the
Braverman was last week locked in responsibility. She’s disappointed to Goldman Sachs PowerPoint geek. At PMQs the Tories
a row with the then prime minister, leave office but resolved to continue demand a full-on narcissistic fantasist. Someone to tell
Liz Truss, and the chancellor, Jeremy to campaign with me and others to them they are winners. Someone who will deliver a
Hunt, over immigration proposals fulfil the party’s manifesto commit- Promised Land.
and was unsure how to respond. And ments to cut legal immigration and Starmer moved on to the non-dom tax status of
so she emailed proposals from her end illegal migration,” he said. Sunak’s wife and him shovelling cash away from
ministerial account to her personal Now she is back in government, deprived areas in the north. “Yeah,” said Sunak
account, and then attempted to send colleagues wonder whether Hayes triumphantly. “What you’ve got to remember is that
them on to Hayes, a fellow member will still remain close to her office. the whole of the country is in a mess.” In hindsight he
of the European Research Group and A friend said Braverman will main- might think that saying the Tories have fucked up the
the Common Sense Group. ▲ Some MPs believe John Hayes has tain her connections with Hayes and whole of the UK isn’t quite the killer line he thinks it is.
When Braverman asked whether been influential in Braverman’s rise fellow Common Sense Group MPs. Even if it happens to be true.
Thursday 27 October 2022 The Guardian •
National 9
Madame
Tussauds takes
Kanye West
waxwork out
of public view
Nadia Khomami
Arts and culture correspondent
Madame Tussauds has removed its

wax figure of Kanye West from public
view, becoming the latest institution
to “drop” the US rapper after his anti-
semitic and anti-black remarks.
The landmark London museum
moved the figure of the rapper – who
has legally changed his name to Ye
– to an archive room, a symbolic
representation of his fall from grace
over the past few days, during which
he lost his talent representation, con-
nections to major fashion houses and
other lucrative relationships.
After the sportswear brand Adidas
ended its estimated €250m (£217m)
partnership with Ye, reportedly cost-
ing him his billionaire status, many
are asking if the music and fashion
mogul’s decades-long career is over.
“Ye’s figure has been retired from
the attraction floor to our archive,” a
spokesperson for Madame Tussauds
London said. “Each profile earns their
place at Madame Tussauds London
Red Sea record The British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh has completed the world’s first and we listen to our guests and the
public on who they expect to see at
swim across the Red Sea to highlight the threat the climate crisis is posing to coral reefs. The UN the attraction.”
PHOTOGRAPH: ‘patron of the oceans’ swam 76 miles from Tiran Island, Saudi Arabia, to Hurghada, Egypt,before The figure originally appeared
THE LEWIS PUGH
FOUNDATION/PA the international Cop27 climate talks, which take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, next month. in the museum in 2015 alongside
a waxwork of his then wife, Kim
Kardashian.
‘Only a fraction’ of people with

NHS England has established 90 Ye had been ranked earlier this
post-Covid services to provide diag- year at No 1,513 on Forbes’ rich list,
nosis, treatment and rehabilitation valued at $2bn (£1.7bn) thanks to
for those with persistent Covid symp- his fashion brands and deal with
long Covid receiving NHS help toms and no alternative diagnosis for
at least 12 weeks.
An average of 4,000 people have
attended one of these clinics each
Adidas. Forbes now estimates that
the rapper’s value is $400m – stem-
ming from “real estate, cash, his
music catalogue, and a 5% stake in
month between July 2021 and August ex-wife Kardashian’s shapewear firm,
help is available to them; GPs not rec- Ondine Sherwood, a co-founder 2022 for a first review of the symp- Skims”.
Carmen Aguilar García ognising long Covid in those who do of the charity Long Covid SOS, said toms. A third of them had to wait The talent agency CAA announced
Pamela Duncan not self-label as having the condition; many people with long Covid were more than 15 weeks before that first it had dropped Ye, while Balenciaga
and a lack of knowledge of, and local “struggling to get any healthcare – review, Guardian analysis of NHS has also reportedly cut ties with the
Just a “fraction” of long Covid suf- access to, specialised clinics. many are not getting any treatment at England figures found. Those in the 45-year-old. A completed documen-
ferers are getting the help they need, While Salisbury conceded there all.” She said public misconceptions south-east are more likely to face the tary about him has also been shelved.
with a third of them waiting more was no current cure for long Covid, around long Covid made it harder longest waits, as a monthly average In the past few days, Kardashian
than three and a half months to be she said patients required treatment for sufferers to ask for and get help: of almost half of them wait that long and members of her family have
assessed after a GP referral, rising to that involved symptom manage- “There was a lack of preparedness to have an initial assessment. That called for an end to the “terrible vio-
almost half in some areas. ment, psychology, and being made for the potential long-term mor- compares with a fifth of those in the lence and hateful rhetoric” towards
More than 60,000 people in aware they were not alone. Otherwise bidity which was not conveyed to east of England and the south-west. the Jewish community.
England had a first assessment for the lack of access to specialist care healthcare professionals, and this An NHS spokesperson said local Ye has been spreading antise-
post-Covid syndrome in an NHS could leave patients “prey to all sorts has contributed to the lack of care health teams were “working hard to mitic conspiracy theories for weeks
specialist service between July 2021 of snake-oil salesmen”, she added. for long Covid.” continue to reduce waiting times, and in interviews and on social media.
and August 2022. But the prioritise the most complex cases,” The black rapper was also criti-
latest estimates released by the adding: “Since the pandemic began, cised earlier this month for wearing
Office for National Statistics show People in the south-east of England 60% South-east we have invested over £220m and a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to the
that about 277,000 long Covid suffer- face the longest waits for a first review opened 90 specialist clinics and 14 showing of his latest collection at
30
ers in England report that the disease of post-Covid syndrome hubs for children and young people.” Paris fashion week.
England average
0
has limited their day-to-day activities Monthly percentage of people waiting more than People concerned with long Covid
15 weeks for a first assessment for post-Covid syndrome 29 Aug 2021 28 Aug 2022
“a lot”. can access services via their GP or the
These are the people that experts 60% North-east & Yorkshire London East of England NHS Your Covid Recovery website.
would expect to be referred for an Analysis of NHS data draws similar
30
assessment; however, the numbers conclusions to the latest ONS survey
who have been seen are far lower. 0 on long Covid, with women and those
Dr Helen Salisbury, a GP and 29 Aug 2021 28 Aug 2022 29 Aug 2021 28 Aug 2022 29 Aug 2021 28 Aug 2022 aged 35 to 64 are more likely to suf-
columnist for the British Medi- 60% North-west Midlands South-west fer from the condition. The female
cal Journal, said “a fraction of the attendance rate for a first review of
30
people who have got this problem are post-Covid syndrome is 77% higher
actually being seen” within the exist- 0 than men, and those aged 35 to 64
ing services. She said reasons could 29 Aug 2021 28 Aug 2022 29 Aug 2021 28 Aug 2022 29 Aug 2021 28 Aug 2022 reported twice the rates of the 25-to- ▲ The waxworks of Kanye West and
include patients not realising that the Source: NHS England 34 and 65-to-74 groups. Kim Kardashian appeared in 2015
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▼ Brian Robinson, here in 2003, was
the first British rider to complete the
Tour de France, in 1955 PHOTOGRAPH:
CHRISTOPHER THOMOND/THE GUARDIAN
Inspector ‘speechless’
committee, Stuart McDonald, said:
“It seems to have descended into a
state of absolute chaos and disaster.”
Officials said it had bec ome
over poor conditions increasingly difficult to move peo-
ple out. They confirmed about 3,000
people were on a site designed for
at Kent migrant centre 1,000, with a maximum of 1,600.

At the time of Neal’s visit, there
were 2,800 people at Manston, 190
at nearby Western Jetfoil and 24 com-
the site who are accredited by the ing from Western Jetfoil to Manston.
Diane Taylor Home Office. However, there are also “The numbers that have been
private security staff on site who do described are clearly outstripping
not have the same training. the capacity of the site,” he said.
The borders watchdog has said it was Neal told a session of the home The lack of officers and guards
left speechless by “wretched con- affairs select committee that along to match the number of people was
ditions” during a visit to a migrant with his concerns about some of “sufficiently alarming” he said, add-
processing centre at Manston in Kent. those staffing the site, he had spoken ing: “When I discovered that, I was Critérium du Dauphiné stage race in
The independent chief inspector of to a family from Afghanistan who had frankly speechless, and I’m not some- First British rider 1961 and was the first Briton to stand
borders and immigration, David Neal, been living in a marquee for 32 days one who is normally speechless.” on the podium of one of cycling’s
was also concerned after discovering and two other families from Iraq and He said the situation at Manston to win stage of Monuments, Milan-Sanremo, fin-
some of those guarding people on the Syria who had spent two weeks in the showed a “creeping lack of ambition ishing third in 1957. His death was
site were not qualified to do so.
Neal said that following his visit
tented accommodation, sleeping on
kit mats with blankets. “This is pretty
from the Home Office”. “It’s a really
dangerous situation. It’s failing to
Tour dies at 91 announced by his grandson and
fellow cyclist Jake Womersley.
to the Ramsgate site on Monday, he wretched conditions,” he said. address vulnerability,” he said, add- Born in Mirfield, West Yorkshire,
urgently raised this issue with the The Home Office could face hun- ing there were risks in terms of fire, Robinson joined his local cycling club
home secretary and the chief inspec- dreds of unlawful detention claims disorder and infection on the site. PA Media as a teenager and later took up rac-
tor of prisons, Charlie Taylor. because many people are being held He said four cases of diphtheria ing in between working for the family
Migrants are meant to stay at the unlawfully for longer than the five- had been confirmed but officials had building company. He competed for
facility, which opened in January, for day time limit. An SNP MP on the not provided specific details about Brian Robinson, the first Briton to win Britain at the 1952 Olympics before
24 hours while they undergo checks testing carried out to check whether a stage of the Tour de France, has died turning professional, riding the Tour
3,000
before being moved into immigration there were any more cases. at the age of 91. Robinson won stages de France for the first time in 1955.
detention centres or asylum accom- Home Office officials told the com- of the Tour in 1958 and 1959 and was Robinson retired at the age of 33,
modation – currently hotels. mittee that there was 24/7 medical also the first British rider to complete still riding his bike in relative anonym-
The outsourcing company Mitie Number of people at Manston, care available on the site and that cycling’s most famous race in 1955. ity until he became an ambassador
manages Manston and it has specially which is designed for 1,000, with they were trying to move people out A pioneer for Britons racing on the for the Grand Départ of the Tour de
trained detention custody officers on a maximum capacity of 1,600 of Manston as quickly as possible. continent, he won the prestigious France in Yorkshire in 2014.
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Party’s
over for
Fiesta, the
car that
won over
Britain
▲ The Ford
factory in
Dagenham,
where the car
was made. Left,
Idris Elba used
to work there,
and Renée
Jasper Jolly Zellweger drives
one
“I don’t know what I’d go for if I didn’t ▲ A Fiesta diesel engines, having produced its said,. describing it as a “modern-day
have the Fiesta,” said Karen Fox, a Finesse in 1986. last Fiesta in 2002. classic”.
civil servant in Edinburgh. She is due The cars were The Fiesta (“party”, in Spanish) Car brands have for the most
to pick up her fourth version of the marketed as was hugely popular through seven part opted to launch electric vehi-
model on Saturday, but it is likely to economical iterations. The Internet Movie Cars cles under new names. Ford is in
be her last: yesterday Ford confirmed superminis Database lists more than 4,000 the middle of a clearout: it has also
that it will end production of the UK’s PHOTOGRAPH: ALAMY appearances in films. However, the announced the end of production of
all-time bestselling car next June. actor Renée Zellweger was said to the S-MAX and Galaxy multipurpose
The model’s end will become Ford sold 22m drive one, while Roger Moore posed vehicles. The Mondeo, the symbol
only the latest symbol of the shift Fiestas around for a picture with an early model of aspirational swing voters during
from internal combustion engines the world over while filming The Spy Who Loved Me Tony Blair’s premiership, was axed
to batteries: the factory in Cologne, 47 years. Of – although it would take a keen-eyed last year. The Focus could be next.
Germany, where the last Fiestas are those, 4.8m car buff to spot it behind the Lotus Ford is instead investing $2bn in
being made will switch to producing went to buyers Espirit that provided the film’s main Cologne to make electric cars on a
two new electric models. in the UK automotive interest. blueprint shared with Volkswagen.
During the 47 years since the first Yet the car could still set pulses It plans for the factory to make 1.2m
Fiestas rolled off the production line, racing. Stephen Millings, a retired electric vehicles over six years.
more than 22m have been sold around retail manager from Belfast, bought For now, however, Ford’s latest
the world. Of those, 4.8m were in the a Mk1 Fiesta XR2 in 1982. “I was a boy bestseller in the UK still burns pet-
UK, where the Fiesta was the top sell- racer,” he said. “The car drove like a rol. Ford has sold 85,000 of its Puma
ing model for 12 years in a row from proverbial roller skate, the handling model since it launched in 2020. The
2009 to 2020. was superb.” Puma has adopted SUV styling that
The US carmaker first launched the Alex Buttle, co-founder of the has rapidly become the dominant
Fiesta in 1976, as engineering teams secondhand car website Motorway. form in the industry, to the chagrin of
rushed to bring out smaller, more effi- Home co.uk, said the Fiesta represented a environmental campaigners because
cient cars in response to an energy comforts: a “consistently significant proportion” of their higher carbon emissions.
crisis. Production started in the UK customised of the cars customers sold on its plat- “I was thinking of upgrading to
a year later, at Dagenham. It was Fiesta in 1981, form, and prices had held up well. the Puma, but I just don’t need such
here that the actor Idris Elba worked just the job for a The Fiesta may have been given the a big car,” said Fox. “I just feel a bit
nights for two years before finding proposal chop by Ford but it’s alive and kick- sad about it,” she said of the Fiesta’s
stardom. The plant now makes only ing in the used car market,” Buttle end. “I really like it.”
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▼ Edinburgh University was the top-
performing UK institution, thanks to
its strong sustainability research
PHOTOGRAPH: MARTIN BERRY/ALAMY
necessarily mean institutions are
doing all that must be done,” she said.
Runkle added that sustainabil-
ity rankings could be a helpful tool
in driving change and expressed
hope that such measures would be
included in overall league tables.
“Worldwide just 3% of people
attend university, but graduates make
up 80% of leadership positions so
universities have an enormous duty
to ensure that decision-makers get it
right when it comes to sustainability,”
she said.
Fiona Goodwin , the chief
executive of the Alliance for Sus-
tainability Leadership in Education,
said “sustainability is an increasing
factor of choice for where students
apply”, adding that she hoped the
Department for Education’s new
sustainability and climate strategy
would provide the leadership and
drive for universities to do more.
The QS survey of 3,000 students
found 82% of applicants had
researched their prospective
institution’s sustainability work,
while 87% had considered its record
on equality and diversity. Nearly
three-quarters (73%) of students from
western Europe cited the climate
emergency as the biggest issue for
young people.
The rankings are based on two
categories: environmental impact,
including institutional sustainability
and teaching and research on the cli-
mate crisis, and social impact, which
measures the institution’s equality
and diversity, and how social justice
features in curriculums and research.
UK universities trail US and Canada

Edinburgh’s high ranking was a
result of it producing research aligned
with the UN’s SDGs, a good record
on diversity, a strong environmen-
in sustainability global league table

tal sciences department – including
a climate institute and courses
such as MSc climate change – and
partnerships with universities from
the global south.
Planned initiatives include a pro-
Edinburgh University the top- of institutions in the top 100 governance, an impressive research gramme to sequester more than 1m
Rachel Hall performing UK institution, coming after the US. “On average, [UK uni- focus that speaks to many of the tonnes of CO2, divestment from fos-
in fourth place as a result of its strong versities] demonstrate good ratios UN’s SDGs[sustainable development sil fuels, scholarships for people from
sustainability research. The second- of gender diversity, both at the staff goals] and evidence of transparent areas most affected by the climate
UK universities are ranked below highest UK university was Glasgow, and student level, published com- governance,” he said. crisis to investigate ways to combat
their US and Canadian counterparts in 13th place, which the rankings mitments to diversity and tolerance However, Quinn Runkle , the its effects, and work supporting the
in a sustainability global league table compiler QS said performed well in as well as climate mitigation and director of education at Students Scottish capital’s net zero target.
that looks at their environmental equality thanks to its large number Organising for Sustainability, warned Dave Gorman, the director of social
footprint and contribution to society, of female leaders and transparent that nearly half of UK universities responsibility and sustainability at
with student climate campaigners approach to governance. ‘This is a reflection of were not on track to meet CO2 emis- Edinburgh University, said the insti-
warning that nearly half are falling Next was Oxford, in 16th place, how far the sector still sions targets and two-fifths had yet to tution aimed to “raise our ambition
behind on their emissions targets. while Newcastle was 18th and Cam- commit to divesting from fossil fuels. year on year”, adding that it hoped
The rankings place the University of bridge claimed 19th spot. has to go’ “While it is positive to see UK to further develop on this over the
California, Berkeley, at No 1, followed Andrew MacFarlane , the QS universities performing well in next decade by widening its sus-
by two Canadian institutions, the ranking manager, said the UK had the overall ranking, I think this is a tainability focus to include social
University of Toronto and the Uni- performed “exceptionally well”, Quinn Runkle reflection of how far the sector still responsibility, biodiversity, resources
versity of British Columbia, with with the second-highest proportion Sustainability activist has to go. Coming at the top does not and the circular economy.
‘Haphazard’ pandemic catch-up the pandemic. There is evidence of

tuition working effectively, but most
schools and colleges lack a system to
sessions that were convenient for
teachers, tutors, pupils and parents.
Leaders in a fifth of the schools vis-
academic mentor was of such poor
quality that they had to instruct other
staff to re-teach the pupils involved.”
tuition varies in quality – Ofsted assess it properly and so do not know
if that’s the case.”
ited “had not thought through the
risks of disrupting children’s learn-
A DfE spokesperson said: “Over
2m tutoring sessions have been
In 10 of the schools visited, inspec- ing” by taking them out of lessons, started through the national tutoring
government’s national tutoring pro- tors said that the tutoring “was the report said, while in some cases programme and evidence highlights
Richard Adams gramme (NTP) was “strong” in just haphazard and poorly planned”, tutor groups were too large to be the positive impact that tutoring is
Education editor over half of the 63 schools visited, adding: “In these cases, the curric- effective. There were also concerns at having on both pupils’ attainment
“the quality of tuition varied greatly ulum rarely aligned with what was the quality of the tutors and mentors: and confidence.
Extra tuition designed to help chil- depending on the school or provider, being provided in the tutoring ses- “For instance, in one school, lead- “We have simplified the pro-
dren in England catch up on learning and most teachers did not know the sions, and there was often a lack of ers said that the tuition given by one gramme by introducing school-led
lost during the pandemic was often extent to which tutoring was having understanding of the [Department tutoring and providing £349m of
£349m
“haphazard and poorly planned”, an impact”. for Education’s] guidance”. funding directly to schools to give
and in some cases disrupted the Amanda Spielman, Ofsted’s chief Inspectors also found that “poor them greater autonomy, and will con-
school day, an independent review inspector of schools in England, said: assessment procedures” meant some tinue to work closely with the sector
by Ofsted inspectors has found. “The government’s tutoring pro- schools were unable to judge when Amount of funding the Department as we move towards our target of
The Ofsted review said that while gramme is potentially an important to stop tuition for pupils, while oth- for Education says it has provided starting six million tutoring courses
the tutoring given through the part of helping pupils catch up after ers struggled to allocate catch-up directly to schools for the scheme by 2024.”
14 National
Bend, spray Grooming gang

the material’s properties, but writing
in the journal Nature, they say they
think chains of polymer form disor-
members lose
or zap it: the dered stacks. One way of thinking
about this is to imagine a messy pile
of playing cards. The stacks pack deportation case
plastic with together in a disordered fashion, cre-
ating a material that is amorphous
but still allows electrons to flow
electrifying horizontally and vertically.
“While we don’t have a really
Josh Halliday
North of England correspondent
clear picture yet, we think that
powers the molecular design of the chains
enables strong overlap and metallic
Two members of a Rochdale groom-
ing gang are to be deported to
character, even when it’s disordered Pakistan after losing a seven-year
and amorphous,” said Anderson. legal fight to remain in Britain.
The team says the material could Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Abdul Rauf,
Nicola Davis prove valuable in a range of applica- 53, were convicted in 2012 of a series
Science correspondent tions. “We envision these materials of sexual offences against young girls
can be more robust electrical conduc- and jailed later that year.
A plastic material has been revealed ▲ The research added, noting that the material had a tors, and they may be easily sprayed The pair mounted a legal challenge
to have metallic properties that help author Dr John conductivity similar to graphite. or painted on to surfaces or other after they were told by Theresa May,
it to remain stable even when heated, Anderson in his Electrical conductivity occurs devices,” said Anderson. the then home secretary, that they
chilled, left in the air or exposed lab in Chicago in materials in which electrons can Mark Miodownik, professor of would be deported. They argued
to acid. PHOTOGRAPH: flow freely. But it has traditionally materials and society at University removal would infringe their human
Researchers say it could prove val- JOHN ZICH been thought that a significant fea- College London, who was not rights and said they had certificates
uable in wearable electronics due to ture of solid conductive materials is involved in the research, welcomed “renouncing” their Pakistani citizen-
its flexibility which means it can be an ordered structure. the work. ship. But immigration judges said
made into any shape. ‘Polymers that can The new substance is a metallo- “Designing flexible polymers that there was a “strong public interest” in
“It’s a dark black powder. How- polymer, formed from chains of can conduct electricity continues to deporting the pair as soon as possible.
ever, when we put it on a surface
conduct electricity molecules made of sulphur, carbon be a longstanding problem. They Judges Charlotte Welsh and Siew
as a film, or press it like Play-Doh, it open the door to and hydrogen that carry nickel at reg- open the door to wearable electronics Ling Yoke said Khan had shown a
becomes iridescent and shiny,” said ular intervals. It has been shown to and many other flexible applica- “breathtaking lack of remorse” about
Dr John Anderson, senior author
wearable electronics’ be highly conductive, despite being tions,” he said. his part in the nine-member groom-
of the research from the University amorphous – lacking solid crystal- “This work opens up a new ing gang, which police believe abused
of Chicago. line structure. theoretical approach to designing up to 47 girls in Rochdale.
“From what we can tell, it’s stable Mark Miodownik The team behind the discovery say this category of materials using The ruling was made in August but
up to [about] 250 degrees celsius,” he Materials scientist there isn’t a solid theory to explain molecular scale calculations.” only released publicly yesterday.
National 15
UN warns of climate Police launch

plans. The NDC synthesis report Cop26 is disappointing. Government
showed current NDCs would lead decisions and actions must reflect the
to an increase in emissions of about level of urgency, the gravity of the
10.6% by 2030 compared with 2010 threats we are facing.”
investigation
catastrophe without levels. This is an improvement over
last year’s assessment, which found
countries were on a path to increase
A second UN report on long-
term low-emission development
strategies, also released yesterday, into murder
new emissions goals
by 13.7% by 2030. But the Intergov- examined plans many countries
ernmental Panel on Climate Change
has estimated that greenhouse gas
emissions need to fall by 45% by 2030
have put in place to reach net zero
emissions by or around mid-century.
These plans showed that emissions
of student in
Continued from page 1 said Stiell, on the 2.7C temperature
compared with 2010 levels, to offer a
chance of staying within 1.5C.
could be about 68% lower in 2050
than in 2019 if all the long-term strate-
Manchester
rise that would have followed from Stiell, minister of environment for gies were fully implemented on time.
enough. This is nowhere near the the commitments made at Glasgow. the island nation of Grenada before As the climate responds to cumu-
scale of reductions required to put He said greater action was needed taking on the UN role this sum- lative emissions, the world could still
us on track to 1.5C. National govern- from the private sector as well as gov- mer, said: “What this shows is that exceed the 1.5C limit even if the long- Josh Halliday
ments must set new goals now and ernments. “This is not just about some progress has been made [since term plans are met, which is why the North of England correspondent
implement them in the next eight words on paper, this is about get- Cop26] but that progress is highly NDCs – which focus on emissions for
years.” ting stuff done,” he said. “We need insufficient. We are moving forward this decade – are so crucial. Police have launched a murder inves-
The plans for emissions cuts coun- to see more from the private sector but every year is a critical year.” Some governments in devel- tigation after a 19-year-old university
tries submitted in Glasgow were and non-state actors [such as local He added: “At Glasgow last year, oped countries have privately said student was stabbed in Manchester.
inadequate to meet the 1.5C goal so governments].” all countries agreed to revisit and they believe their current NDCs are The teenager, who attended Man-
they agreed a “ratchet” mechanism Australia made a significant strengthen their climate plans. The sufficiently strong and that other chester Metropolitan University, was
to toughen targets year on year. How- improvement to its plan, but only fact that only 24 new or updated major emitters – including China, found with a serious knife wound
ever, few governments have updated 24 countries have submitted new climate plans were submitted since the world’s biggest emitter, and oil near a large halls of residence at 2am
plans on emissions in line with 1.5C. nationally determined contributions producers such as Russia and Saudi yesterday, police said.
2.9C
The UN calculated yesterday that (NDCs) since Cop26. Many of those Arabia – need to step up more. The victim, who has not been
the plans submitted by governments countries – including the UK and Taryn Fransen, senior fellow named, was given CPR at the scene
would lead to a temperature rise of Egypt, host of the Cop27 summit that at the World Resources Institute, in the Fallowfield area before he was
between 2.1C and 2.9C, with the starts in just over a week – submitted Estimated highest temperature said the reports “sound the alarm” taken to hospital, where he later died,
best estimate about 2.5C. This rep- new NDCs that were not substan- rise based on emissions plans that progress on commitments had Greater Manchester police said.
resents a “marginal” improvement, tially stronger than their previous submitted by governments to date slowed to a crawl since Glasgow. A spokesperson for the university
said: “We can confirm that Greater
Manchester police has informed us
that one of our students died in an
incident in Fallowfield in the early
hours of Wednesday morning.
End of the “Our thoughts are with their family
and friends at this difficult time. We
line will be contacting them to offer our
Stop Oil help and support.
protesters “This will be a terrible shock to
demanding our whole community and we will be
arranging for professionally trained
a halt to new counselling staff to support any
fossil fuel students and staff who are affected.”
licensing and Officers yesterday increased
patrols in Fallowfield as they
production searched for the man’s killer.
are removed The attack took place on a busy
by police after main road in the centre of a suburb
that is home to thousands of students
blocking traffic from the city’s two main universi-
in London’s ties. The Manchester Evening News
Piccadilly on reported that the student was on his
way home from a party when police
their 26th day believe he came across his alleged
of action in attacker. The two are not believed to
October. have known each other.
A blue forensics tent was erected
between a row of takeaways and a
large halls of residence.
Det Supt Neil Jones of the force’s
south Manchester division said:
“This was a terrible crime which has
robbed a young man of his life. The
investigation is in its early stages, but
I can assure you that our officers are
PHOTOGRAPH: working round the clock and carrying
MIKE RUANE/STORY
PICTURE AGENCY out extensive inquiries to establish
the full circumstances surrounding
this incident.”
Government’s ‘gaping hole’ over It warned that major power black-

outs, floods, landslides blocking
roads, and train lines buckling due
it was astounded that the minis-
ter nominally responsible for CNI
resilience – the then Cabinet Office
He added: “There will be more
officers out on the streets in Fallow-
field and the surrounding area over
climate crisis threatens security to heat had the potential to create a
series of “cascading” risks affecting
minister, Michael Ellis – refused to
appear before it due to his “lack of
the coming days conducting high
visibility and plainclothes patrols
other infrastructure elements. command” of the issue. to gather intelligence and reassure
National Security Strategy said the “We have found that the govern- “Climate risks have previously the community. Greater Manchester
PA Media UK’s critical national infrastructure ment has very little grip on a critical been categorised as tier 1 national police operates a student safe opera-
(CNI) is exposed due an “extreme national security risk,” the commit- security risks, but a grave lack tion ... where our officers patrol the
weakness” in the government. tee, which is made up of senior MPs of ministerial responsibility and student areas, and these efforts will
Britain’s national security is being The committee said no minister and peers, reported. accountability has left a gaping hole be given extra resources.
jeopardised due to the failure of min- was prepared to take responsibility It took evidence during last sum- at the centre of government on this “I hope this goes someway to reas-
isters to prepare for the increasing for ensuring the resilience of vital mer’s 40C heatwaves when the pressing future risk to UK CNI.” sure the community, and if anyone
risks of extreme weather events due power, transport and communica- country faced significant rail disrup- “It is hard to imagine the govern- has any information about this inci-
to the climate crisis, a parliamentary tions networks – even though climate tions, flight delays and power cuts ment taking such a lax approach to dent or has any concerns, I urge you
inquiry has warned. change was a recognised national due to an extreme weather event. any other recognised national secu- to speak to these officers. They are
The Joint Committee on the security risk. However, the committee said rity risk,” it said. there to help and support you.”
Aye-ayes use Godwit breaks

Aye-ayes,
whose nasal
habits would
nonstop flight
long fingers make a monkey
blush, are
nocturnal record with trip
to pick their primates native
to Madagascar of 8,435 miles
nose, say
PHOTOGRAPH:
DAVID HARING/DUKE
LEMUR CENTER/COVER
IMAGES
Graham Readfearn
researchers
A small bird called a bar-tailed god-
wit – known only by its satellite tag
number 234684 – has flown 8,435
Nicola Davis miles from Alaska to the Australian
Science correspondent state of Tasmania without stopping,
appearing to set a new world record
With its big eyes, bushy tail and sen- for marathon bird flights.
sitive ears, the aye-aye may appear a The five-month-old bird set off
cute, if quirky, creature. But research- from Alaska on 13 October, and sat-
ers have discovered it has a less ellite data appeared to show it did not
endearing trait: it uses its long mid- stop during its marathon flight, which
dle finger to pick its nose – and eat took 11 days and one hour.
the mucus. Dr Anne-Claire Fabre, an assistant nearly 8cm – it is really long, and I was most common in species with fine First tagged in Alaska, it took a
Aye-ayes are – like humans – pri- professor at the University of Bern wondering where this finger is going.” manipulative skills. route to thee west of Hawaii and
mates, but they are nocturnal, who co-authored the research, said To dig deeper, the researchers It is unclear why aye-ayes, or other flew at least 13,560km (8,435 miles)
endangered and only found in Mad- she recorded the behaviour on video created a 3D model using CT scans species, have a penchant for nose before touching down at Ansons Bay
agascar. An object of superstition, in 2015 while observing captive aye- of the head and hand of the aye-aye picking, with the researchers noting in north-east Tasmania.
they have a number of unusual fea- ayes at the Duke Lemur Center. to understand where the middle fin- it could just be an act of “self-clean- The previous record was held by
tures including rodent-like teeth and “I was really surprised,” Fabre said, ger was going. The findings suggested ing”. But, they added, the fact several an adult male of the same species
a skinny, elongated finger with a ball- adding the whole middle finger dis- the digit extended deep into the head. species eat the mucus suggested – 4BBRW – that flew 13,000km last
and-socket joint. appeared up the creature’s nose. “It is “This finger is basically ending in there may be other explanations. year, beating his own previous record
While it is known the animal uses the throat,” said Fabre, adding that Among them, the team noted, of 12,000km the year before.
its phenomenal finger for tapping on while nose picking had not been were studies that suggested the “tex- According to a Facebook post from
hollow wood to locate grubs and fish observed in aye-ayes in the wild, it ture, crunchiness, and saltiness” the Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird
them out, researchers have revealed did not mean it did not occur. could be appealing, that snot-eating Centre in New Zealand, 4BBRW’s
they have video footage of it being The team said the aye-aye was in could prevent bacteria from sticking record had been “blown out of the
used for another, rather mundane, good company when it came to nose to teeth, and that the trait might boost water by this young upstart”.
purpose of nose picking. picking, revealing the trait had been immune responses. However, they Scientists track the bird using a 5G
“ This animal inserts the entire recorded in at least 11 other primate add there could be a downside: other satellite tag attached to its lower back.
length of its extra-long, skinny and species including humans, capu- research has suggested nose picking Sean Dooley, of BirdLife Australia,
highly mobile middle finger into the chins, macaques, chimpanzees and spreads nasal bacteria. said the birds were able to shrink their
nasal passages and then licks the orangutans, with some species also Fabre added that nose pick- internal organs to make more space
nasal mucus collected,” the authors Image of an aye-aye head using tools to do the job. The research- ing is understudied, and that more for the fat stores they use to fuel such
wrote in the journal of Zoology. made from CT scans ers said nose picking appeared to be research is needed. a long flight.
National 17
Anger as Cleverly tells

was being supported by the Foreign
Office’s consular team.
He said he would attend the
World Cup if his diary allowed, and
gay World Cup fans to he criticised the Labour leader, Keir
Starmer, for saying he would refuse
to do so because of Qatar’s record
‘show respect’ in Qatar on homosexuality and other human

rights issues. The Labour Welsh first
minister, Mark Drakeford, reportedly
does plan to attend the tournament.
that means they are going to have to Tatchell hit back at Cleverly, claim-
Kevin Rawlinson make some compromises in terms ing attending the tournament would
of what is an Islamic country with a amount to “colluding with a homo-
very different set of cultural norms phobic, sexist and racist regime”.
The UK foreign secretary, James to our own. He said: “The UK government must
Cleverly, has been criticised for telling “One of the things I would say for use its public voice to condemn the
gay football fans they should show football fans is, you know, please do appalling human rights abuses car-
respect to Qatar, which criminalises be respectful of the host nation. They ried out daily by the Qatari regime.
their sexuality, when attending the are trying to ensure that people can “Unless we all speak out,
World Cup in the emirate. be themselves and enjoy the football, ▲ German fans at “shockingly tone-deaf”. She said: Qatar will have achieved its goal
Cleverly said Qatar was will- and I think with a little bit of flex and Wembley calling for “Sport should be open to all. Many of sportswashing its appalling
ing to make compromises to allow compromise at both ends, it can be a human rights to be fans will feel they can’t attend this reputation during the World Cup.
people it would normally persecute safe, secure and exciting World Cup.” respected in Qatar tournament to cheer on their team Cleverly has an opportunity to high-
to attend the tournament, which The broadcaster and former Eng- PHOTOGRAPH: MARCUS because of Qatar’s record on human light the abuses being carried out by
kicks off on 20 November. On Tues- land footballer Gary Lineker pointedly GILLIAR/GETTY rights, workers and LGBT+ rights. The the regime. All fans, not just LGBTs,
day the prominent British LGBTQ+ asked: “Whatever you do, don’t do government should be challenging should boycott the World Cup and
campaigner Peter Tatchell claimed he anything Gay. Is that the message?” Fifa on how they’ve put fans in this use their social media to amplify the
had been arrested in Qatar for high- Lineker, whose 10 World Cup goals ‘With a bit of flex and position, and ensuring the full safety shocking human rights abuses by the
lighting the country’s stance. make him joint-eighth highest goal- of all fans attending, not defending Qatari state.”
Cleverly said: “I have spoken to the scorer in tournament’s history, also
compromise at both discriminatory values.” The Liberal Democrat MP Layla
Qatari authorities in the past about recently said he hoped a Premier ends, it can be a safe, Cleverly said he had not spoken Moran said: “The World Cup … is
gay football fans going to watch the League player felt comfortable to with the Qatari government about the being used by countries like Qatar
World Cup and how they will treat come out during this year’s edition
secure World Cup’ case of Tatchell, who was stopped to sportwash their atrocious human
our fans and international fans. to send a strong message to Qatar. in Doha on Tuesday while staging a rights records. Any UK officials who
They want to make sure that foot- The shadow digital, culture, protest over LGBTQ rights. Cleverly attend should be using their position
ball fans are safe, secure and enjoy media and sport secretary, Lucy James Cleverly told LBC radio he understood that the to highlight human rights abuses, not
themselves. And they know that Powell, called Cleverly’s comments UK foreign secretary campaigner had been questioned and endorsing the regime.”
18 National
UK music industry to adopt new in the UK, from freelance technical

staff to artists working for large com-
The code was born out of a 2021
report by BLIM which found that 63%
underrepresented in senior industry
positions, making up 19.9% of exec-
code of conduct to fight racism

panies. Labels and organisations will of black music makers had experi- utive positions according to a 2021
commit to creating a safe working enced racism in the UK industry, survey by industry body UK Music.
environment, to strive for inclusion a figure that rises to 73% for black “The music industry has a hole in
over diversity and to undertake man- music professionals. The 1,718 per- terms of what black artists are chosen
address inequality in jazz and clas- datory training, data collection and formers, creatives and staff surveyed and what investments are made; the
Safi Bugel sical spaces for black musicians, the accountability processes. reported experiences of harassment, same type of music is being put out
UK Music Industry Anti-Racism Code bullying, microaggression and racist by black people when in reality we do
73%
will cover issues around pay, inclu- language. As a result, 36% said their every kind of music,” said the BLIM
A new code of conduct designed sion and safety for black, Asian and mental wellbeing had declined. chief executive, Charisse Beaumont.
to eliminate racism in the music ethnically diverse people. Black musicians also report “But that space is not being cre-
industry will be adopted in 2023. Supported by the Independent Black music professionals who said being pigeonholed into genres such ated for us. And why is that? Because
Designed by Black Lives in Music Standards Authority, the code will they had experienced racism in the as R&B and hip-hop, while black the decision-makers at the top are
(BLIM), an organisation set up to stand for all those working in music industry, according to a 2021 report and ethnically diverse people are not diverse.”
▲ Analysis by the Law Society found that black people accounted for just
1.09% of the judiciary in England and Wales PHOTOGRAPH: STEFAN ROUSSEAU/PA
Slow progress means too

few black judges until 2149
to coincide with Black History
Haroon Siddique Month, comes just over a week after
Legal affairs correspondent reports were published showing,
respectively, that more than half of
It will take more than 125 years legal professionals surveyed claimed
before black people are properly to have witnessed a judge acting in
represented within the England and a racially biased way and that only
Wales judiciary at the current rate of 90 of more than 13,000 partners at
progress, the Law Society has found. major law firms in England and Wales
Analysis by the professional body were black.
for solicitors found that with black The first of those two studies
people making up just 1.09% of the criticised the current five-year
judiciary, compared with 1.02% strategy to boost judicial diversity
in 2014, it would take until 2149 for failing to mention racial bias or
for their representation to match racism and concluded that the judi-
current estimates for the general ciary was institutionally racist.
population (3.5%). In the past three years black, Asian
With people of Asian ethnicity con- and mixed-race individuals have
stituting 4.79% of the judiciary, up been overrepresented in applica-
from 2.53% in 2014, it is estimated tions for judicial appointment but
that they would achieve represen- all ethnic minority groups have had
tation similar to that in the general lower recommendation rates than
population (8%) in 2033. white candidates. The proportion of
The picture for women, who make women and minority ethnic judges
up 35.34% of judges, compared with is even lower in senior judicial roles.
24.48% in 2014, is rosier, but it is still There are no black judges sitting in
expected to be another decade before the court of appeal, and there has
they account for half of the judiciary. never been a supreme court justice
Lubna Shuja, who recently became of colour. Only one of the 12 current
the first British Asian president of supreme court justices is a woman.
the Law Society as well as the first The government says it has
Muslim to hold the post, said the pro- invested more than £1m in the recruit-
jections were unacceptable. ment of a wider range of magistrates
“We need a judiciary that truly over the next few years.
reflects our diverse society,” she It says actions to increase judi-
said. “We must take action and make cial diversity include funding
real, lasting change so our judges outreach, support and information
can represent the people who come programmes for potential candi-
before them in court. dates from underrepresented groups,
“We urge the government to identifying and reviewing any bar-
address the structural barriers that are riers, publishing data on judicial
holding back talented candidates.” diversity and promoting part-time
The research, published today working in the judiciary.
National 19
Art review
Six Scintillating Sinners, by Jenkin
van Zyl, a work in the show exploring
roots of creative rebellion in horror
PHOTOGRAPH: GUY BELL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
Cauldron E Smith of the Fall was a fan of the

late Victorian horror writer Arthur
Machen, author of The Great God
of creeps
Pan? They do, and they prove it
with letters from Smith to the
Arthur Machen Society.
Another echo of classic horror
dishes up
literature is the sequence of
artworks created by Richard
Wells for Mark Gatiss’s recent BBC
dramatisation of The Mezzotint
strands of
by MR James: as you study the
antiquated prints of a country
house a ghostly figure makes its
way across the lawn towards you.
hot goths
There is romanticism at the
heart of this exhibition, a quest for
a dream of eldritch Britain that’s
always slightly out of reach. The
film director Nic Roeg has a case to
himself; it includes his copy of the
Daphne du Maurier’s stories that
The Horror Show! inspired his masterpiece film Don’t
Somerset House, London Look Now. Elsewhere, there are
black and white shots of the making
★★★★★ of Robin Hardy’s folk horror The
Wicker Man, and Christopher Lee’s
Jonathan Jones The Neon virus of the modern British personal script.
Hieroglyph, a imagination. The story told here There is another Britain, this
R
ghostly exhibit starts to the hypnotic chant of Bela exhibition convinces you, that
eece Shearsmith’s by the Turner Lugosi’s Dead by goth pioneers exists only as a web of imagination,
severed head lies on prize winning Bauhaus, which makes the a phantom realm that defies the
a purple cushion, artist Tai Shani, argument with every echoing beat reality of the everyday like a ghost
eyes open, mouth displayed in the that punk was always gothic and channel taking over your TV.
gaping. The actor show that draws goth its natural evolution. An obsession of the curators is
and writer’s bonce is on imaginative The show succeeds in saying the infamous 1992 BBC Ghostwatch
a prop from the 2018 Inside No 9 takes on the something fresh about the well- broadcast, that appeared to be
Halloween special in which he and supernatural worn story of Britain’s 1970s youth a live broadcast interrupted by
Steve Pemberton play themselves rebellion: instead of Jamie Reid’s supernatural powers. This is shown
in a live broadcast that goes eerily now-cliched Sex Pistols imagery it in eerie fragments. You can see why
wrong, as malevolent ghosts invade includes his painting of a giant owl- viewers were freaked out.
a television studio. It’s exhibited like green monster materialising I am starting to think that all
here not as a joke or curio but as a The Boy From the Chemist Is Here on top of a suburban house. exhibitions of contemporary art
relic of idealism. to See You certainly gave me the Monster on a Nice Roof dreams of should be curated by artists. Pollard
Fans of the black comedy Inside creeps. It consists of a door with a impossible creatures coming to and Forsyth do not get snagged by
No 9 will know its creators have frosted glass panel through which destroy normality. the laboured rationalities that often
a real passion for horror, fully you see the refracted face of a child, The devil is in the detail, as they crush shows. You need to think like
shared by this witch’s cauldron of a charity box figure, its frozen say, and it’s the enthusiasm of the an artist to be able to connect so
an exhibition, entitled The Horror features adding to the unease. curators – the artists Iain Forsyth many gothic strands, strike a pose
Show! A Twisted Tale of Modern This unholy marriage of and Jane Pollard, together with that’s funny and serious at the same
Britain. This is no London Dungeon conceptual art and supernatural Somerset House’s Claire Catterall time, and leave us unsure whether
shop of horrors but that is not to say dread is good evidence for The – for arcana of pop culture that we should laugh or scream or cry.
there are no scares. ▲ The Boy From The Chemist Is Here Horror Show’s claim that gothic makes their thesis as rich and
Kerry Stewart’s 1993 installation To See You, a work by Kerry Stewart subculture is the true dissident knotty as a forest. Who knew Mark Until 19 February
20 National
Hunt’s charity paid two-thirds 2019 to conduct research, but appears

to have produced no papers.
A message on its website says:
explain that the charity chose not to
publish its research, some of which
has been completed, while the NHS
a quasi-judicial role. When Smith
stepped down, he said he had acted
without the authority of his employer
of income to his former adviser “We have an ambitious research pro-
gramme looking into a wide variety of
remained under significant Covid-
related pressure, but it would do so
and allowed an impression to form of
an over-close relationship between
patient safety issues. We will publish “when the climate is right”. News Corp and the Department for
lobbying scandal. Patient Safety details of our forthcoming research Smith resigned as an adviser to Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Rowena Mason Watch, which was set up to research on these pages.” However, the page Hunt in 2012, when the politician Smith is now employed by Hunt
Whitehall editor preventable harm in healthcare, paid for reports says: “Our reports will be was culture secretary, after the Leve- as a parliamentary aide, having
Smith as its sole employee and chief published here – please check back son inquiry, over a scandal in which returned to work for him in 2020.
A charity founded by the chancel- executive about 66% of its income in soon for our first piece of research.” he had exchanged messages with a While the charity’s income for the
lor, Jeremy Hunt, paid more than the year ending January 2022. Its main output appears to be a lobbyist for Rupert Murdoch’s News financial year ending January 2022
£110,000 – two-thirds of its income Hunt part funds the charity but it newsletter from Hunt, in his capacity Corp. The company was seeking was £164,400, Smith’s salary was
– to his former adviser Adam Smith, also solicits donations from the pub- as founder and trustee of the char- permission for a takeover of BSkyB reported by the Civil Society publi-
who lost his political job over a lic on its website. It was established in ity, and a blog. The annual accounts (now Sky) at the time, with Hunt in cation as £110,000-£120,000.
Drones will
s
provide
Trick 5G signal
a ts
for rescue
e
& trright up
missions in
Welsh hills
yo s tree t
Steven Morris
ur Sleek drones circling above the peaks

of Snowdonia, providing an airborne
mobile network in remote areas, may
soon become a feature of mountain
rescues in north Wales as more people
£1
take to the great outdoors – and from
time to time get into trouble.
The drones – like small, unmanned
gliders but with twin engines – would
each provide 4G and 5G mobile connectiv-
ity that would link rescue teams with
people lost or injured on hills, where
there is often patchy or no signal. ‘Mobile connectivity
Drone mobile support could allow
rescuers to pinpoint the location of
would be a powerful
a walker who is lost, guide them tool for the search
down a mountainside, or link a doc-
tor with someone trying to help a
and rescue teams
badly injured person. The walkers to understand and
and rescuers could also share images
or communicate via video.
assess a situation’
A prototype of the Dragon drone,
which measures about seven metres
from wingtip to wingtip, has been Sgt Paul Terry
built by the Snowdonia Aerospace NWP drone unit
Centre and has had successful test
flights from Llanbedr airport in and Wales in 2021, almost 1,000 more
Gwynedd. The plan is to run trials than the yearly average before the
with emergency services next year. Covid pandemic.
David Owens, the head of techni- New research from Virgin Media
cal trials at Virgin Media O2, which O2 shows that 63% of Britons visited
is developing the airborne network at least one national park in the past
system, said it was a first for the UK. year. However, getting lost (35%),
“National parks don’t have fabulous injured (33%) and being unable to
coverage because of the nature of the contact anyone (31%) were some of
terrain, and you don’t want areas of the main concerns of people consid-
outstanding natural beauty covered ering a walking holiday.
in mobile phone masts. It means Sgt Paul Terry of the North Wales
there are lots of constraints on what police drone unit, who is also a
we can do,” he said. member of Ogwen valley mountain
The Dragon drone would be able rescue, said the drone system could
to circle – or “loiter” – for four or five be a gamechanger.
hours above a mountainside and As well as linking rescuers with hik-
there are plans to find ways of extend- ers or climbers, it would help connect
ing the flight time to more than 12 the various emergency responders,
Co-op Milk Chocolate Lolly, 24g, £1.00, Co-op Chocolate Eyeball Net, 85g, £1.00. hours. Owens said the system could which might be especially useful in
Varieties as stocked, subject to availability, participating stores only. also be used in maritime rescues. complex operations such as the one
Mountain rescue teams responded after a helicopter crash in Snowdonia
to a record 3,629 callouts in England in 2017, when five people died.
National 21
Theatre review Mark Fisher

lies partly in its timelessness. That
extends to the techniques used.
an excruciating clash of characters
locked in a plot that is equal parts
McDonagh fields two undelivered funny, sad and violent.
Timeless saga of Martin McDonagh’s hit premiered
letters, a ploy Thomas Hardy would
have enjoyed. Irish drama students
Director Liz Stevenson’s assured
production sees Susan Twist as
in 1996 but, in form theatregoers will be familiar with the theme a compellingly awful Mag, the
a mother battling since Ibsen’s time would recognise of emigration, tension between mother whose sweet smile belies
the single set with its realistic the romance of rural Ireland and a vicious temperament. Elizabeth
her daughter cottage, two-act structure and story
of a woman’s dreams thwarted by
economic survival elsewhere.
Throw in the Hiberno-English
Appleby understands her daughter
Maureen is both contemptuous of
her cantankerous mother. sentence structures and a cast of her mother and fatally under her
The electric kettle and absence unworldly characters, and you grip. It makes for an evening as
The Beauty Queen of Leenane of mobile phones let you to put a have a tragicomedy with deep roots familiar as it is unsettling.
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick more precise date on it, but The ▲ Susan Twist, left, and Elizabeth in tradition, yet it is no pastiche.
★★★★☆ Beauty Queen of Leenane’s appeal Appleby as Mag and Maureen McDonagh holds our attention with Until 11 November
▲ Walkers in
trouble will
be able to
communicate
with rescuers
PHOTOGRAPH: JETHRO
KIERNAN/ALAMY
Sgt Paul
Terry, left, with
the drone and
members of
the drone and
rescue teams
Terry said Ogwen Valley moun- with mobile connectivity would be a

tain rescue typically dealt with about powerful tool for the search and res-
160 incidents a year but had already cue teams to understand and assess a
been called out 140 times this year. A situation immediately, saving crucial
neighbouring team, Llanberis moun- time in life-threatening situations.”
tain rescue, is called out about 200 The Welsh economy minister,
times a year. “We’ve seen an explo- Vaughan Gething, said: “Connec-
sion of people out in the mountains,” tivity is the bedrock of our digital
Terry said. And people are tending world. It brings us all closer and is
to head for riskier spots, with social especially important in situations
media making spectacular but poten- concerning safety.
tially dangerous areas such as Crib “I am delighted we are supporting
Goch (red ridge) more popular. this innovative project, which further
Terry said he often met people demonstrates how technology can
relying on maps on their phones help us problem-solve and improve
that did not give enough detail, and our lives.”
believed mobile phones gave inex- The project has been funded by
perienced walkers a false sense of the Innovate UK Future Flight chal-
security. “They haven’t considered lenge and a Department for Transport
that if they need it later it may not be drone technology research and
charged or they won’t have a signal. innovation grant. It also involves
“With more and more people vis- SwiftFlight Avionics, Wavemobile
iting Snowdonia each year, a drone and the Welsh government.
News 23
▼ One of two trawlers arrested by
the Gambian navy and fisheries
inspectors over fishing violations
PHOTOGRAPH: FLAVIO GASPERINI/SEA SHEPHERD
Developing countries
ultimate beneficial ownership when
registering a vessel or requesting a
licence. Collecting such ownership
data, it says, would allow the appli-
losing billions of dollars cation of laws to combat money
laundering as well as tax and finan-
cial crimes.
to illegal fishing activity Fishing vessels flagged to Asia –

particularly China, which has by far
the world’s largest distant-water
fleet – represent 54.7% of reported
livelihoods of millions of people IUU fishing by industrial and semi-
Dan Collyns across the world, especially [those] industrial vessels, followed by Latin
Lima living in poor coastal communities America (16.1%), Africa (13.5%) and
in developing countries,” said Matti Europe (12.8%).
Developing countries are losing Kohonen, one of the report’s authors At the same time, 8.76% of iden-
billions of dollars owing to illegal, and the executive director of the FTC. tified illegal vessels use flags of
unreported and unregulated (IUU) More than 90% of global fisheries convenience such as Panama and
fishing, which siphons off revenue stocks are being fully exploited, over- the Cayman Islands, which have lax
through illicit financial flows, accord- exploited or depleted, according to controls and low or no effective taxes.
ing to a new study by the Financial the UN. IUU fishing is a major driver Elsewhere, Argentina loses in the coastal regions that are most The report urges the EU, the US
Transparency Coalition (FTC). of the marine ecosystem’s destruc- between $2bn to $3.6bn a year in food insecure and more dependent and Japan – which together account
The study reveals that the top 10 tion and accounts for one-fifth of the terms of IUU fishing catch, Chile on artisanal fishing for protein. for 55% of the seafood market – to
companies involved in IUU fishing are global fisheries’ catches, worth up to estimates its losses at $397m and In addition to the problems caused increase their commitment to tackle
responsible for nearly a quarter of all $23.5bn (£20bn) annually, the third Indonesia’s loss is at $4bn annually. by food insecurity, Kohonen said IUU fishing by eliminating the driv-
reported cases: eight are from China – most lucrative natural resource crime IUU fishing represents about 20% developing countries lose billions of ers that enable the financial secrecy
led by Nasdaq-listed Pingtan Marine after timber and mining. of the global fish catch, according to dollars in illicit money flows owing to happen in the first place, such as
Enterprise Ltd – one is from Colom- Overall, global losses due to IUU a 2013 report by the Pew Trust, thus to illegal fishing. the use of shell companies, joint ven-
bia and another from Spain. fishing are estimated to be up to playing a significant role in over- The report warns that almost no tures and flags of convenience.
The Spanish tuna company Alba- $50bn, according to one study. fishing. The greatest declines in countries require information about Neither Pingtan Marine Enterprise
cora SA emerges as Europe’s largest Africa is the most affected con- fish stocks are expected to happen owners when registering vessels or Ltd nor Albacora SA responded to the
alleged IUU fishing company and tinent, losing $11bn in revenue requesting fishing licences, and those FTC’s request for comment. Con-
$50bn
has received millions of dollars in annually from IUU fishing while ultimately responsible for these tacted by the Guardian, Albacora SA
EU and other subsidies, claims the being the target of 48.9% of identi- activities are not punished – rather, denied any involvement in IUU fish-
report by a coalition of 11 non-profit fied industrial and semi-industrial fines are issued to the captains and ing. A spokesman said: “IUU fishing is
organisations. vessels involved in the practice, the Estimated annual global revenue crews of the vessels. a very grave matter, which this com-
“Illegal fishing is a massive FTC report found. Of that total, 40% loss due to illegal, unreported It suggests that fishing vessel own- pany takes very seriously. We deny
industry directly threatening the are in west Africa. and unregulated fishing ers should be required to report the any accusations related to this.”
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Eyewitness
▲ The Nevers, UK, 2021

A horse and rider, part of a
large background scene in the
retro science fiction drama,
wait for the call to set
Fifteen seconds of fame: the life of an extra

Movie and television extras have always fascinated Keith Bernstein.
On every set he photographs, he looks for these outsiders, always
20 feet from stardom, who subject themselves to long hours, waiting
▲ Game of Thrones, Essaouira, 2011 for their moment in the spotlight. The series began on the set of
On the ramparts overlooking the sea in
the Moroccan port, an extra on the hit Invictus in Cape Town in 2009. Extras will be on show at the Crane
TV series wipes sweat from his face Kalman gallery in Brighton until 16 December.
All photographs: Keith Bernstein
25
▲ Odyssey, Marrakech, 2015

An extra in the terrorism action
drama offstage on a cold night shoot
▲ Invictus, Cape Town, 2009

An extra on the South African
rugby drama waits in front of a
photorealistic backdrop
▲ The 15:17 to Paris, Atlanta, 2018

William and Lucas, the two stand-ins for
the principal actors on the terrorism drama,
wait while an electrician adjusts the lighting
26
Iran’s forces ‘open

mourners attended, arriving on foot
as well as in cars and on motorcycles.
“Death to the dictator,” mourners
chanted at the Aichi cemetery out-
fire’ on protesters
side Saqqez, before many were seen
heading to the governor’s office in
the city centre. The Fars news agency
said about 2,000 people had gathered
mourning young
in Saqqez city and chanted “Woman,
life, freedom”.
Images shared by Hengaw showed
a heavy presence of security forces
woman who
overnight in Saqqez. They had report-
edly shut entrances to the city and
closed roads leading to Aichi cem-
etery. The shootings appear to have
died in custody
happened when a group marched to
the governor’s office.
The protests extended far beyond
Iranian Kurdistan to many cities
around the country, with one group
Her death sparked unexpected of students at Amirkabir University
Patrick Wintour protests involving many students and in Tehran chanting at the police: “We
Agencies schoolgirls removing and burning are free women, you are the whores.”
their headscarves, and confronting Large groups gathered at the univer-
Iranian security forces clashed with security forces on the street. sities of Isfahan and Ahvaz, and at
protesters who had gathered in their In a separate incident, in the city of Azad University and Shahid Beheshti
thousands in Mahsa Amini’s home Shiraz, the Iranian state news agency University in Tehran, while a giant
town to mark 40 days since her death, Irna claimed that at least 15 people poster of Iran’s revolutionary leader
with reports that shots were fired. were killed yesterday after armed was burned at Mashhad.
“Security forces have shot teargas men reportedly attacked a Shia Mus- Hengaw said strikes were under
and opened fire on people in Zindan lim shrine. The attackers were in a way in Saqqez as well as Divandarreh,
Square, Saqqez city,” Hengaw, a Nor- car and shot at pilgrims and staff at Marivan, Kamyaran and Sanandaj,
way-based group that monitors rights the entrance to the shrine of Shah and in Javanrud and Ravansar in the
in Iran’s Kurdish regions, tweeted, Cheragh, according to Irna, which province of Kermanshah.
without specifying whether there claimed police arrested two of the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the
had been any casualties. It said more three “terrorists” and were looking British-Iranian dual national held in
than 50 civilians had been injured by for the third. Another news agency, jail in Tehran for five years, speak-
direct fire in cities across the region. Tasnim, said several women and chil- ing in London at a Thomson Reuters
Eyewitnesses confirmed shots had dren were among the dead. conference, fought back tears as she
been fired, while the government The attack was later claimed by praised the new internet generation
said security forces had been forced Islamic State in a statement posted on on the streets of Iran “risking their
to respond to riots. Iran later tried to the terror group’s telegram channel. lives and fighting for freedom”.
block internet access in the region. Mourners headed to Amini’s grave Apologising as she wiped away
The 40th day after a death tradi- yesterday morning even though the tears, she said the response to Ami-
tionally marks the end of mourning, security services had warned her ni’s death “sparked rays of hope for
and appeals went out for protesters family not to hold the ceremony, all of us, not just in Iran but across
to take to the streets, a call that was threatening that “they should the globe, that hopefully justice will
answered in Tehran, Isfahan and worry for their son’s life”, accord- prevail”. She said Amini’s name had
Mashhad. Reports of teargas being ing to activists. As many as 10,000 become a code for freedom.
fired were backed by video evidence. Zaghari-Ratcliffe added that “the
Despite a ban by the security new, very different generation know a
‘Today the regime is
‘We are Lula’
forces, the biggest gathering was in lot about freedom, they want a more
Amini’s home town of Saqqez in the transparent government, better life- Tom Phillips
western Kurdistan province. Amini
not only fighting to style, freedom of speech and decent Minas Gerais
A
died on 16 September, three days maintain its power, jobs, they know about rights and they
after she was arrested by the moral-
ity police for infringing hijab rules. An
but for survival. Iran are prepared to take risks to get it”.
She said this generation had learnt Passions rmed with red paint
brushes and a bucket
official inquiry said she had collapsed is based on terror’ about freedom from the internet, Tik- of glue the activists
owing to a pre-existing condition, an
explanation rejected by Amini’s fam-
ily, who have been prevented from
Tok and satellite TV, and would not
back down.
She said: “Today the regime is not
run high in marched through
the streets of Parrot
Hill pasting urgent
choosing any doctors on the medi-
cal examination panel.
Nazanin
Zaghari-Ratcliffe
only fighting to maintain its power,
but for its survival. The foundation
of the Islamic Republic is based on
state that warnings on to the walls of what
has become the frontline in the
fight for Brazil’s future.
terror. They survive in a system of “Bolsonaro hates the poor,” read
repression. They have no limits to
their brutality and oppression. The
could decide one poster. “Bolsonaro speaks
nothing but lies. He’s the father
security forces arrest protesters and of falsehoods,” declared another,
put them in solitary confinement,
which is one of the most brutal yet
less physical violent forms of torture.”
Brazil’s next asking residents of one of Belo
Horizonte’s largest favelas: “Are
you really going to vote for him?”
The west, she said, had a respon-
sibility to ensure that Iranian state
censorship was overcome, and to
president Nil César, one of the fly-posting
campaigners, said the president’s
contempt for the poor and dramatic
hold the Iranian regime to account. loosening of gun laws meant their
The regime will be hoping the pre-election operation was quite
40th-day protests are a last gasp for literally a matter of life or death for
the demonstrations, rather than the the community’s disenfranchised
moment they reignite. youth.
Iranian judicial officials announced “I fear this will end in bloodshed
▲ Protesters remember Mahsa Amini in the entrance hall of a university this week that they will put more than … and the problem is that the blood
in Iran, on the 40th day of mourning for her PHOTOGRAPH: SOCIAL MEDIA/REUTERS 600 people on trial for the protests. will be black, favela blood,” he said.
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Abortion in spotlight Artworks hidden forr
at debate for key seat years go on display
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‘This isn’t
an election
Chinese police
between the
left and the
using illegal
right. It’s
democracy
Dutch bases ‘to
versus
dictatorship’
target overseas
Júlio Fessô
Lula supporter
▲ Júlio Fessô at work in Belo
Horizonte’s Parrot Hill favela
dissidents’
state’s impoverished north-east,
to a hero’s welcome. “He’s the best Jon Henley
president Brazil has ever had,” Europe correspondent
Bruno Gomes Pereira, 30, bellowed
as the 76-year-old politician waded The Dutch government has said it is
into the adoring crowd. “He investigating reports that Chinese
brought us water. He brought us police forces have illegally opened
electricity. He brought dignity to at least two stations in the Nether-
the people – and he is going to win!” lands since 2018, using them in part
Accompanying Lula were two to keep tabs and put pressure on over-
women central to his attempt seas dissidents.
to attract non-leftist voters: the An investigation by RTL Nieuws
centre-left former minister Marina and Follow the Money said the “over-
Silva and the centre-right senator seas service stations” in Amsterdam
Simone Tebet, who endorsed Lula and Rotterdam ostensibly served an
after coming third in the election’s administrative purpose, allowing
first round. Tebet, whom some Chinese nationals to renew driving
tip as a future president, said licences and change their civil status.
Bolsonaro’s relentless attacks But the two outlets also spoke to
on Brazil’s institutions meant Chinese critics of the Beijing regime
Sunday’s vote was a referendum on living in the Netherlands who said
her country’s young democracy. the centres, of whose presence the
“We aren’t choosing between Dutch authorities had not been noti-
two democratic candidates here. fied, were being used to track, contact
There’s only one democrat – and and threaten dissidents.
without democracy we will lose our The Dutch foreign ministry said
rights,” she warned. “We are going the two stations reportedly operat-
to remove this inhuman president ing in the Netherlands were illegal.
Luiz Inacio who doesn’t love Brazilian families “We are investigating exactly what
Lula da Silva and was responsible for the deaths they are doing here,” it said.
is swamped of thousands of people because he The stations were first identi-
by supporters delayed the purchase of Covid-19 fied by a Spanish civil rights group,
during a vaccines.” Safeguard Defenders, in a Septem-
campaign rally Eighty-five miles south, in the ber report, which alleged that the
in Minas Gerais heavily pro-Bolsonaro city of Fuzhou and Qingtian police agen-
PHOTOGRAPH: Governador Valadares it was the cies had between them opened 54
DOUGLAS MAGNO/ president’s photogenic evangelical “overseas service centres” in 25 cit-
AFP/GETTY
wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, who was ies across 21 countries.
wowing the crowds. Most were located in Europe, the
Belo Horizonte is the capital of of the bellwether state. “The Bible is so wonderful that report said, including nine in Spain,
Minas Gerais, Brazil’s second most “Minas has always shown Brazil it says the wise lean to the right four in Italy, three in France, two in
populous and fourth largest state. the way. Minas is a mini Brazil,” while the foolish lean left,” she the Netherlands and two in the UK,
And as the country prepares on said Lula’s regional campaign chief, told thousands of Bolsonaristas in London and Glasgow. It said part
Sunday to hold its most important Reginaldo Lopes, predicting his who had come to see her, of their purpose was to “persuade”
election in decades, the south- leader, who governed from 2003 wearing the yellow football shirts dissidents to return to China.
eastern region has become ground until 2011, would triumph there by that symbolise her husband’s “These operations eschew official
zero for the scrap between the far- upwards of 900,000 votes. nationalist movement. Brazil’s first bilateral police and judicial cooper-
right incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, and Both campaigns have been lady is playing a lead role in trying ation, violate the international rule
his leftwing challenger, the former blitzing the vast, mountainous, to win back millions of female of law, and may violate the territo-
president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. state nearly 2.5 times the size of voters alienated by Bolsonaro’s rial integrity of third countries by
No president has won power ▲ The incumbent president, Jair the UK. One scorching morning misogynistic and violent rhetoric. setting up a parallel policing mech-
without securing Minas Gerais Bolsonaro, has been castigated for last week Lula jetted into Teófilo Paulo Rogério Silva Moreira, anism using illegal methods,” the
since Getúlio Vargas in 1950 and his response to the Covid pandemic Otoni, a commercial hub in the 38, an administrative assistant, report said.
observers expect this year to be claimed Bolsonaro alone could stop The Netherlands and China are sig-
the same. “It’s Minas that will Lula’s lead over Bolsonaro has shrunk to four points Brazil becoming an authoritarian natories to the Vienna convention,
determine which direction Brazil basket case like Venezuela or which governs diplomatic missions.
Combined polls
takes,” said Felipe Nunes, a political Nicaragua under what he called Prior permission must be granted for
70%
scientist from the state’s federal Lula’s corruption-riddled Worker’s any intelligence-gathering activity
university. Nunes, who runs the party. Polls suggest Lula currently and administrative matters should
polling company Quaest, said it 60 holds a four-to-eight-point lead. be handled by consulates.
was clear from the election’s recent 52% In Parrot Hill, a favela Lula Earlier in October, a pro-democ-
first round – which Lula won by 6m 50 Lula toured 20 years ago before his racy Hong Kong protester needed
votes – that he would triumph in 48% historic 2002 election, locals said overnight hospital treatment after
Brazil’s north-east while Bolsonaro 40 Bolsonaro they would celebrate Bolsonaro’s being beaten by men who appeared
would prevail in the midwest, eventual downfall with fireworks to emerge from the Chinese consu-
south and south-eastern states of and a barbecue. “This isn’t an late in Manchester, prompting calls
30
Rio and São Paulo. election between the left and for a tough UK government response.
“So there’s only one place where May June July August September October the right. It’s democracy versus The Chinese embassy in the Neth-
we still don’t know who will win, dictatorship,” said Júlio Fessô, 47, a erlands said it was unaware of the
Source: Estadão data
which is Minas Gerais,” Nunes said community activist. stations’ existence.
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Ukrainian refugees
Putin has involving nuclear submarines, stra-
claimed Ukraine tegic bombers and ballistic missiles.
plans to use a The drills – which Putin observed
told not to return yet

dirty bomb, from a control room – were seen as a
raising concerns continuation of Moscow’s unfounded
he is seeking dirty bomb claims.
an excuse to On Tuesday, the Kremlin said
amid fears of energy

escalate the war it would “vigorously” continue to
PHOTOGRAPH: make the case that it believed Ukraine
SPUTNIK/REUTERS intended to detonate a bomb with
crisis this winter

radioactive contaminants.
The Kremlin spokes person,
Dmitry Peskov, told reporters Mos-
cow wanted to prompt a response
from the international community.
The Russian defence minister, Ser-
“You see what Russia is doing. electricity to balance the country’s the contrary, the heaviest of battles gei Shoigu, on Tuesday made calls to
Peter Beaumont We need to survive the winter,” struggling electricity grid. is going to take place for Kherson.” his Indian and Chinese counterparts
she added. The prospect of bitter urban fight- Of the four provinces that the to convey Moscow’s warning, after
The warning was delivered after ing for Kherson, the largest city under Russian president, Vladimir Putin, calls with Nato defence ministers.
Ukraine’s government is advising a period in which, polling sug- Russian control, has come nearer as proclaimed annexed in September, In response to the Russian claims,
refugees living abroad not to return gested, more Ukrainian refugees had Ukraine’s forces have drawn ever Kherson is arguably the most stra- India’s defence minister, Rajnath
until the spring amid mounting fears expressed a desire to return home. closer in their campaign in the south, tegically important. It controls the Singh, said that no side in the war
over whether the country’s damaged Vereshchuk said that although she driving Russian forces back. only land route to the Crimean pen- should resort to the nuclear option.
energy infrastructure can cope with would like Ukrainians to return in the With Russian-installed authori- insula Russia seized in 2014 and the “The prospect of the usage of
demand this winter. spring, it was important to refrain ties encouraging residents to flee to mouth of the Dnieper, the vast river nuclear or radiological weapons goes
The energy crisis comes as officials from returning for now because “the the east bank of the Dnieper River, that bisects Ukraine. against the basic tenets of humanity,”
in Kyiv warned that the coming win- situation will only get worse”. “If it Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Russia’s battlefield setbacks have Singh told Shoigu, while reiterating
ter may herald the heaviest fighting of is possible, stay abroad for the time the Ukrainian president, Volody- been matched by increasingly febrile the need for an early resolution to the
the war around the southern city of being,” she said. myr Zelenskiy, said there was no rhetoric from Moscow including conflict through diplomacy.
Kherson, where Russian forces have With no evidence of a letup in sign Russian forces were preparing highly disputed claims that Ukraine Ukraine and its western allies
been digging in. the fighting in the country’s east to abandon the city. plans to use a dirty bomb on its own have rejected Russia’s allegation and
With a third of the country’s and south, where Ukraine has made “With Kherson everything is territory and the bizarre notion by voiced concern that Moscow is using
energy sector compromised by recent recent gains in Russian-occupied clear. The Russians are replenish- Putin’s security council that Ukraine it as pretext for a further escalation.
Russian missile and drone attacks, areas, many fear the coming winter ing, strengthening their grouping requires “de-satanisation”. Zelenskiy said Russia’s allegation
Ukraine’s deputy prime minister could be challenging. there,” Arestovych said in an online Yesterday, Putin oversaw Rus- suggested Moscow could be planning
Iryna Vereshchuk warned: “The net- Ukrainians have already been video on Tuesday. “It means that sia’s military rehearsing a response to use a tactical nuclear weapon and
works will not cope.” asked to be sparing in their use of nobody is preparing to withdraw. On to a nuclear attack in an exercise would seek to blame Kyiv.
‘We can’t wait’ residential buildings, churches,

hospitals, schools, the shelling of
evacuation corridors,” Matviichuk
Oleksandra Matviichuk at her
office in Kyiv. Her organisation won
the Nobel peace prize this month
Nobel laureate
says. “We received requests for PHOTOGRAPH: ED RAM/GETTY
help from people in the occupied
territories because they were Her key argument is that in
abducted, tortured; we recorded the current conflict, war crimes
says Putin’s sexual violence, extrajudicial
killings.”
risk going unexamined and
unpunished, even allowing for
Staff from the Centre for Civil all the international attention.
victims need Liberties were among those who
travelled through Irpin, Bucha
“We are in a situation when [the]
national system is overloaded with
and towns and villages north-west an extreme amount of crimes and
justice now of Kyiv after Russia abandoned

its attempt to seize the area in
the international criminal court
will limit its investigation only to
March. “I will remind you,” she several select cases. So we have an
says, that bodies were found lying accountability gap.”
uncollected in the streets, or Providing more resources to
dumped in mass graves. “And what the local judiciary and to the
Dan Sabbagh was [Vladimir] Putin’s response? He international court in The Hague
Kyiv provided medals to the army unit is only part of the answer, she
O
that was staying in Bucha.” says. That prompts the question of
leksandra Matviichuk Russia, as governed now, shows whether Matviichuk believes there
has a point she a “genocidal character”, she could be a role for a special Ukraine
wants to make. The argues. At first she admits the sheer war crimes court, similar to the
Ukrainian lawyer emotional difficulty of taking in the Nuremberg trials at the end of the
heads the Centre trauma of individual cases, as her second world war.
for Civil Liberties, a organisation deals with so many. “We have to find the courage
human rights organisation that this Gradually, she tells the story of and to establish an international
month jointly won the Nobel peace a pregnant young woman severely tribunal to hold Putin, [Alexander]
prize. And she wants to use her beaten in Russian captivity after Lukashenko [the Belarus
platform to call for international the war of 2014. “She begged for president] and other war criminals
action against Russian human them to stop beating her because accountable,” Matviichuk says. But
rights violations now. she’s expecting a baby. But she her suggestion would be for it to
The body she heads has patiently was told ‘you have pro-Ukrainian start work now, not as Nuremberg
documented more than 21,000 sympathies, and therefore your did “only after [the] Nazi regime
examples of war crimes committed child has no right to be born’.” had collapsed”. Justice “must be
by occupying Russian forces since Later, in a further insult, independent of Putin’s power. We
2014, including many from after the Matviichuk says, the woman’s can’t wait,” she says.
invasion in February. But, speaking captors agreed to free her if she told ‘What was Putin’s Does the international
quietly and with controlled a Russian journalist that she was community have the will to take on
emotion, she complains: “I haven’t a sniper – a false story – but then
response? He Russia over this issue? Matviichuk
any legal instrument to stop the “asked her to sit in a pose that her provided medals to argues that the peace prize may
Russian atrocities” – no immediate pregnancy was hidden” when being – we can be very clear that Russia help advance the case. “We will use
way of bringing people to court. interviewed. used war crimes as a method of
the army unit that this platform in order to promote
The criminality appears vast These are stories that one may warfare,” she says – and that Russia was staying in Bucha’ justice and accountability in order
when listed. “After the large- not want to dwell on, but they has sought to subject Ukraine to to achieve sustainable peace,” she
scale invasion, we every day cannot be swept aside. “Because a “psychological experiment” Oleksandra Matviichuk says. “We have to provide justice
documented different kinds of war we have a huge material collected through “the immense pain of the Centre for Civil Liberties for people who suffered from
crimes, like intentional shelling of – 21,000 episodes of war crimes civilian population”. horrible atrocities.”
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Candidates clash on abortion in

in the room,” Fetterman said in his
opening remarks. “I had a stroke. He
[Oz] never let me forget that.”
The Democrat was referring to the
battle for crucial Senate seat Republican’s campaign of unsavoury

attacks, with one Oz aide, Rachel
Tripp, claiming Fetterman might
not have had a stroke if he “had ever
eaten a vegetable in his life”.
Capehart said: “After my interview … Fetterman’s highest-profile appear- Oz was asked early in the debate
Adam Gabbatt I got the same question over and over ance of the campaign, since he “should abortion be banned in Amer- ▲ Former movie mogul Harvey
Martin Pengelly New York again: How is he? Each time, it was suffered a stroke in mid-May, which ica”, but declined to answer directly, Weinstein is on trial in Los Angeles
asked in that skittish way one speaks has left him with auditory processing suggesting instead “there should not
Abortion rights took centre stage dur-
ing the debate for Pennsylvania’s US
when inquiring about someone they
fear is in decline.
issues, where the brain struggles to
understand the spoken word.
be involvement from the federal gov-
ernment”, and that states should be Rape made me
Senate seat on Tuesday night, as “Biden is just fine. More than fine To accommodate Fetterman’s able to decide their own abortion law.
Mehmet Oz, a celebrity doctor and
the Republican candidate, said deci-
… I came away with two overwhelm-
ing impressions: Biden is totally
condition, which he said is improv-
ing daily, two monitors were placed
“I want women, doctors, local
political leaders, letting the democ-
self-destructive,
sions over abortion should be left
to “women, doctors, local political
going to run for reelection in 2024.
And he doesn’t just like being presi-
above the heads of the moderators,
which showed the transcribed text of
racy that’s always allowed our nation
to thrive, to put the best ideas forward
accuser tells
leaders”, while John Fetterman, the
Democrat candidate, criticised the
dent; he loves the job of president.”
The Pennsylvania debate was
their questions and Oz’s responses.
“Let’s also talk about the elephant
so states can decide for themselves,”
Oz said. Fetterman said he would Weinstein trial
Republican party’s hardline stance. “fight to re-establish” the overturned
The debate in Harrisburg started Democratic 1973 pro-abortion court ruling Roe
with Oz, a former surgeon and candidate John v Wade, which “should be the law”.
long-time host of the Dr Oz televi- Fetterman, Both were asked about potential Lois Beckett Los Angeles
sion show, discussing his desire to left, with his candidates for the 2024 presidential Agencies
make “Washington civil again”. The opponent election. Fetterman said he would
Trump-backed Republican said he Mehmet Oz; support Biden if the president ran A woman who accused Harvey
wanted to “unify, not divide”. below, Oz’s again but Oz initially said only that he Weinstein of raping her in 2013 tes-
But Oz was soon reverting to a supporters would “support whoever the Repub- tified on Tuesday that the attack had
2022 Republican playbook that has attack lican party puts up”. left her wanting to “destroy” herself.
been characterised by pugnacity in Fetterman’s A moderator reminded viewers The woman, a model and actor
races across the US, as he referred to prison reform that Trump had endorsed Oz and referred to as Jane Doe 1, is the first
Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant policies asked why he wouldn’t return that of eight accusers set to testify in Los
governor, as a “left-wing extremist” MAIN PHOTOGRAPH: support. “Oh I do,” Oz said. “I would Angeles, where the movie mogul is
who had “radical positions”. JIM LO SCALZO/EPA support Donald Trump if he decided on trial for the second time for rape
It set the tone for a contentious to run for president.” and sexual assault.
evening as the pair clashed over abor- Most of the women said their
tion, Pennsylvania’s minimum wage assaults had begun with what were
– at $7.25 (£6.35) lower than each of its supposed to be business meetings at
six bordering states – and the econ- hotels. However, the woman testi-
omy, in what has become one of the fying on Tuesday said she had been
closest-watched elections in the US. stunned to find Weinstein at her door
Fetterman and Oz are vying to late at night in February 2013 after
replace Pat Toomey, a retiring Repub- seeing him earlier at a film festival.
lican. With the Senate evenly divided As she was staying in her hotel
between the two parties, both are under a pseudonym, she said she
desperate to win in a state that Joe had had no idea how Weinstein had
Biden picked up by 80,000 votes in known her room number, and that
2020. she had let him in without think-
Biden himself is “totally run- ing there was any harm in it. That
ning” for a second presidential changed when Weinstein became
term, according to the MSNBC host sexually aggressive, she said.
Jonathan Capehart, who recently The woman, whose first language
interv iewed the president, 80 is Russian, said her English had been
next month. very poor at the time, and she thought
Speculation about Biden’s age and she might have miscommunicated.
ambition has become a constant in “I was feeling guilty that I did some-
US politics. Some Democrats have thing or said something that made
avoided saying he should run again him think something could happen
or committing to supporting him if between us,” she said.
he does. Republicans – members of She said Weinstein had forced her
a party dominated by Donald Trump, to perform oral sex on the bed. “I was
76 – regularly claim Biden is too old. kind of hysterical through tears,” she
Regular Biden gaffes, this week said. “I kept saying ‘no, no no.’”
including calling Rishi Sunak “Rashi She said she had physically feared
Sanook”, have reinforced such Weinstein, and that she had “been
impressions in some quarters. in bad situations where men beat
Writing for the Washington Post, me”. During the assault, she said,
she “didn’t have even one thought
to run or to scream”. Prosecutor Paul
Pete Musico, and Paul Bellar were “The facts drip out slowly,” the Thompson asked why not. “I don’t
Three men convicted of kidnap found guilty of providing “material
support” for a terrorist act as mem-
state assistant attorney general, Bill
Rollstin, told jurors in Jackson, Mich-
know,” she said. “I regret this a lot.”
She said when Weinstein took her
attempt on Michigan governor bers of a paramilitary group, the
Wolverine Watchmen.
igan. “When you see how close Adam
Fox got to the governor, you can see
into the bathroom to rape her, she
objected, crying and saying “stop”
They held gun drills in rural Jack- how a very bad event was thwarted.” and “no”, but that she “didn’t fight”.
son with a group leader, Adam Fox, Morrison, 28, Musico, 44, and Bel- The day after the alleged attack, she
Associated Press who was disgusted with Whitmer lar, 24, were also convicted of a gun said, she had begun drinking heavily.
during the Covid pandemic in 2020 crime and membership in a gang. “I was destroying myself,” she said.
and said he wanted to kidnap her. Prosecutors said the Wolverine In his opening statement, Wein-
Three men accused of supporting a Jurors read and heard violent Watchmen was a criminal enterprise. stein’s attorney Mark Werksman said
plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, anti-government screeds as well as Morrison, who recently tested pos- many of the counts his client was
the governor of Michigan, were con- support for the “boogaloo”, a civil itive for Covid, and Musico watched charged with were consensual sex
victed of all charges yesterday, a war that plotters hoped might be the verdict by video away from the that his accusers had reframed in the
triumph for state prosecutors after triggered by a shocking abduction. courtroom. The judge, Thomas Wil- light of the #MeToo movement. But
months of mixed results in the main Prosecutors said Covid-19 restric- son, ordered all three to jail while in the case of this woman’s claims,
case in federal court. ▲ Gretchen Whitmer was targeted tions ordered by Whitmer were used they await sentencing scheduled for Werksman denied the events had
Joe Morrison, his father-in-law, by a paramilitary group in Michigan to recruit for the Watchmen. 15 December. happened at all. The trial continues.
30 World
German wind Germany’s cabinet passed a decree

last month to bring back idled brown
coal capacity up to next summer to
Macron and
farm removed boost supply. Scholz seek to
Constructed more than 20 years
ago, the turbines at the Keyenberg boost relations
to make way windfarm are less powerful than
modern equivalents, with each pro-
for coal mine ducing about a gigawatt hour of

energy, roughly a sixth of the out- Angelique Chrisafis Paris
put of a state of the art turbine. Philip Oltermann Berlin
Since windfarms in Germany are no
longer eligible for subsidies after 20 The French president, Emmanuel
Philip Oltermann years in operation, the Keyenberg site Macron, hosted the German chancel-
Berlin would probably have been “repow- lor, Olaf Scholz, for lunch yesterday as
ered” with new technology or wound they sought to iron out significant dif-
Authorities in Germany have urged down even without the nearby mine. ferences on energy and defence that
one of the country’s biggest energy Nonetheless, North Rhine-Westphal- have weakened their relationship at
companies to stop dismantling a ia’s ministry for economic and energy a time of war in Ukraine.
windfarm to make way for an open- affairs has urged RWE to abandon its Both leaders, whose countries are
pit mine, after activists said the move ▲ Activists feared a rollback of climate protection plans PHOTO: INA FASSBENDER/AFP plans to dismantle the windfarm. “In seen as the EU’s joint driving force,
symbolised a rollback of the govern- the current situation, all potential for made an effort to smile as Scholz
ment’s climate protection plans. operational permit meant it expected Rebuilding the turbines to make the use of renewable energy should emerged from his car at the Élysée
Consisting of eight turbines, the to have to dismantle the five remain- way for the expanding mine was be exhausted as much as possible Palace to shake hands, but the chan-
Keyenberg windfarm in North Rhine- ing turbines by the end of 2023. part of the original deal that allowed and existing turbines should be in cellor appeared to sidestep Macron’s
Westphalia is located about half a Given that Olaf Scholz’s coalition the windfarm to be built in 2001, he operation for as long as possible,” a attempts to put an arm around him.
mile from the edge of a mine that cov- government has pledged to expand added, and not the result of a recent spokesperson said. A French government spokesper-
ers 18 sq miles and is named after the energy production from renewable change of German energy policy. The ministry said it had informed son, Olivier Véran, said the meeting
local village of Garzweiler. sources, and with German citizens RWE of its opinion last week. showed “this friendship remains
One turbine was dismantled last worried about power cuts amid a Activists said the dismantling of alive”, after a cooling in relations
week to make way for the mine’s decline in Russian gas deliveries, the ‘We realise this the turbine was symbolic of the gov- led to the postponement of a joint
expansion, with two others to be energy company that owns the mine comes across as ernment’s reneging on its climate French-German cabinet meeting.
taken down next year, said a spokes- said it was aware that dismantling promises as it turned to fossil fuels French officials briefed that while
person for WPD, which manages a windfarms sent a confusing message. paradoxical’ in the face of a looming energy crisis. the centrist Macron and Scholz’s pre-
portion of the windfarm. “We realise this comes across as After being sworn in last December, decessor, Angela Merkel, texted each
A spokesperson for Energiekontor, paradoxical,” said Guido Steffen, a Germany’s left-liberal coalition said other every day, Macron has had far
which built and runs the rest of the spokesperson for RWE. “But that is Guido Steffen it intended to boost renewables fol- less contact with Scholz, who heads
windfarm, said a time limit to its as matters stand.” RWE spokesperson lowing years of sluggish growth. a liberal-left coalition.
World 31
Farewell to the
king of shadows
The French abstract artist
Pierre Soulages, known as
the ‘master of black’, has died
aged 102. A household name
in France but less well known
internationally, his paintings
hung in more than 110
museums around the world,
with hundreds more housed
in the Musée Soulages in his
southern hometown of Rodez.
‘I love the authority of black,
its severity, its obviousness,
its radicalism,’ the painter,
who himself always wore
black, once declared. ‘It’s a
very active colour. It lights up
when you put it next to a dark
colour.’
PHOTOGRAPH: JOHANNES
EISELE/AFP/GETTY
‘Art is the memory of the people’

worth $300,000 (£258,000) but was
bought back from an unsuspecting
dealer for $200. Still the bulk of the
pieces remain unaccounted for.
Iraq exhibits rediscovered treasures Although the wars have since

subsided, the country’s recovery
is hamstrung by internal strife,
corruption and mismanagement.
National Museum of Modern Art were at the museum when the US “The government is removed
Simona Foltyn was pillaged in the aftermath of the invaded Iraq. In the ensuing chaos, from the arts. We are frustrated
Baghdad 2003 Iraq invasion. looters ransacked museums and because of that. They only care
U
“Art is the memory and other institutions as American about themselves, not about
pon entering the drab conscience of the people,” said troops stood by. “What happened the artists,” said Saad al-Tai, a
building housing Fakhir Mohammed, head of the in 2003 was a painful blow to 78-year-old artist whose painting is
Iraq’s culture ministry’s “plastic arts directorate”, Iraq’s heritage and the plastic arts exhibited at the ministry.
ministry, visitors which deals with contemporary movement,” said Mohammed. “We Dozens of Tai’s other works were
unexpectedly paintings and sculptures. During suffer from it until today.” lost in the 2003 looting. He has
stumble upon a tour of the recently opened hall, Some pieces were hidden little hope that his paintings – or
some of the country’s greatest Mohammed said the return of away by museum staff. Others an artistic golden age – will ever
treasures. In a newly refurbished artwork to its walls “is just part of were later found in local antique return. “Iraqi society is still headed
hall that used to be the cafeteria, 76 our ambition”. He added: “Now markets, including a sculpture by towards an unstable direction,” Tai
precious paintings and sculptures there’s a real will to restore Iraqi the renowned artist Jawad Salim. ▲ Iraq’s culture ministry now houses said. “The conditions have forced
from Iraq’s foremost artists are on culture to the previous level.” The wooden statue depicting a 76 prized paintings and sculptures people to retreat inwards. The
display for the first time since the Roughly 11,000 works of art woman, entitled Motherhood, was PHOTOGRAPHS: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/GETTY artistic spirit is gone.”
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Use wealth taxes to protect Barclays soars

for Public Policy Research and the
Common Wealth thinktanks found
a windfall tax on share buybacks – a
type of investment payout used by past forecasts
the poorest, campaign urges
companies listed on the stock mar-
ket – could raise £4.8bn a year.
Should the UK follow Joe Biden to £2bn profits
in adopting a 1% tax on share buy-
backs, about £225m could be raised. on back of rise
While dividends are a well known
Richard Partington
them in “red wall” seats, would sup-
port wealthy individuals paying more ‘I don’t need to
mechanism to hand company prof-
its to shareholders, buybacks work
in interest rates
Economics correspondent in tax than they do now, according to by companies repurchasing their
polling of 2,000 adults by Opinium on
explain to the prime own shares to increase their value.
Leaders of Britain’s two biggest polit- behalf of the campaign. minister how non- The practice benefits investors – but Kalyeena Makortoff
ical parties are being urged to support Asked if they felt Britain’s current also company bosses whose bonuses Banking correspondent
higher taxes on wealth amid growing economic situation made spending
dom status works – depend on a rising share price.
fears over the impact that a renewed cuts inevitable, 21% of respondents he already knows’ Keir Starmer recently rejected sug- Barclays has become the second big
austerity drive would have amid the who voted Tory at the last election gestions that Labour could impose a bank to breeze past profit forecasts
cost of living crisis. agreed, with almost half believing “wealth tax”, but he has said the party this week, after an increase in bor-
In an intervention that comes as cuts would make the situation worse. wants to make the tax system fairer. rowing costs and bond trading during
the new prime minister, Rishi Sunak, “We want politicians to stop the Keir Starmer The only policy it has announced the UK’s market meltdown pushed
considers options for filling a £35bn squeeze by urgently introducing During PMQs so far is a promise to scrap non- earnings to £2bn this quarter.
black hole in the public finances, a policies which both address the dom status, which allows wealthy The results, which follow a higher-
new coalition of 40 charities and cam- immediate crisis and fix structural after the damage caused by the Liz UK residents with their “domicile” than-expected windfall at HSBC on
paign groups – including Oxfam, Save problems with our economy that Truss mini-budget. The chancellor is elsewhere to avoid tax on their world- Tuesday, will add to calls for the
the Children and Christians Against have led us to this point,” the cam- said to have drawn up a menu of 104 wide income and capital gains. government to tax banks’ excess
Poverty – said Britain’s tax system paign group said in a statement. options to cut public spending to get Starmer called on Sunak to axe it earnings, as lenders reap the benefits
was broken and those who paid the The group, which includes the the public finances back on a sustain- at prime minister’s questions yester- of higher interest rates and volatility
most should “pay their proper share”. Economic Change Unit, the New Eco- able path, according to the financial day, saying: “I don’t need to explain across UK markets.
The Stop the Squeeze campaign nomics Foundation, and Tax Justice news provider Bloomberg. to the prime minister how non-dom Barclays, which had been expected
said deep cuts to public spending UK, said profits at some large corpo- But some economists believe other status works – he already knows all to reveal a slight dip in earnings,
would only deepen poverty as soaring rations were going through the roof, choices could be made. According to about that.” It emerged this year that revealed that pre-tax profits had risen
gas and electricity bills and the rising while there had been a sharp rise in research by the campaign group Tax Sunak’s wife claimed the status. He 6% in the three months to the end of
cost of a weekly shop leave house- the number of UK billionaires. Justice UK, as much as £37bn could be said he would need to take “difficult September, about £200m higher than
holds facing the biggest collapse in The government is under pres- raised to help pay for public services decisions to restore economic stabil- the £1.8bn that analysts had forecast.
their living standards for 60 years. sure to avoid damaging spending and to support energy bills through ity”, and that more details would be That compares with £1.9bn during the
A majority of voters who backed cuts as the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, a string of taxes on wealth. revealed in the autumn statement, same period last year.
the Conservatives in 2019, many of attempts to repair the public finances A separate report by the Institute now delayed until 17 November. The bank was aided by a rise in bor-
rowing costs, which helped boost net
interest income by almost 60% to
Heathrow warns £3bn, as the gap widened between

what the bank pays out in interest
on deposits and what it charges
some flights may customers on loans and mortgages.
The Bank of England has raised
move off-peak interest rates from all-time lows of
0.1% last year to 2.25%, to help tackle
inflation, which soared to 10.1% in
September. The move, along with
Mark Sweney recent market volatility, has caused
banks to increase the interest they
charge on loans to customers.
Heathrow has said passengers may It came as Barclays’ investment
have to fly outside peak times on banking division almost doubled its
some days in the run-up to Christ- income from bond trading to £1.5bn,
mas to avoid further travel chaos, as after an increase in buying and sell-
it admitted it was still short of 25,000 ing during the market meltdown that
staff to meet high demand. followed the mini-budget last month.
This Sunday the airport is due to The Liberal Democrats are now
lift the cap of 100,000 passengers a calling on the chancellor, Jeremy
day that was introduced in July as Hunt, to raise taxes for the sector to
summer holiday travel descended plug a £40bn hole in public finances.
into chaos. It said it was in talks with While the UK’s banking lobby
airlines over the selective cap. group has railed against higher taxes,
It is understood Heathrow is in dis- Barclays’ chief executive, CS Venka-
cussions about retiming flights from takrishnan, refused to be drawn on
morning peak time – when most pas- the issue, telling journalists: “Taxa-
sengers prefer to get away – to quieter tion is the purview of the government
afternoon slots if the airport needs to and we will see what they decide.”
manage the festive travel rush. Santander UK also reported an 11%
“We are working with airlines to rise in net interest in the nine months
agree a highly targeted mechanism Bright City lights People view sculptures in the City of to the end of September to £3.3bn,
that, if needed, would align supply while Deutsche Bank reported its
and demand on a small number of
London by Ukrainian/Canadian artist duo Hybycozo, as highest third-quarter profits since
peak days in the lead-up to Christ- part of IlluminoCity Festival, commissioned by Brookfield the financial crisis, at €1.6bn (£1.3bn).
mas,” Heathrow said. Properties. Running until 27 January next year, the large-
6%
The airport added passenger num- scale light installations follow the recent launch of the ‘Art of
bers were likely to hit 60 million to 62
million this year, 25% lower than in the Workplace’ report in partnership with the School of Life,
2019, and does not expect a return measuring the positive impact that art has on connectivity Proportion by which Barclays profits
to pre-pandemic levels for “a num- PHOTOGRAPH: rose in the three months to the end of
JOHN NGUYEN/PA and wellbeing in the office environment.
ber of years”. September, £200m above forecasts
34 Financial
Apple confirms iPhones will use of its product line over to the stand-
ard, which can send up to 240W of
power and 40Gbps of data over the
EU-mandated charging sockets same cable. But the company had
resisted requirements to switch its
phones over, saying that “strict reg-
New EU rules require all phones ulation mandating just one type of
Alex Hern sold after autumn 2024 to use the connector stifles innovation rather
Technology editor USB-C connector for their charging than encouraging it”.
ports. The elongated oval plugs, also Now, Apple’s head of marketing,
Apple has confirmed it will ditch the known as USB3, are already standard Greg “Joz” Joswiak, says the com-
Lightning connector on its iPhones on other devices such as e-readers, pany is conceding defeat. “Obviously
after EU regulators ruled all smart- games consoles, laptops and the vast we’ll have to comply, we have no
phones must have a USB charger as majority of new Android phones. choice,” he told a technology con-
standard in two years’ time. Apple has already switched much ference in California.
TV left in the cold as

brands trim festive
ads amid Qatar and
cost of living jitters
extravaganzas traditional to the fes-
Mark Sweney and Sarah Butler tive season.
British companies will still spend a
record £9.5bn in the run-up to Christ-
There will be no Christmas TV adver- mas, known as the “golden quarter”,
tising boom this year as jitters over when many retailers make the lion’s
associating with the World Cup host share of their annual profits and sales,
Qatar’s human rights record and but the amount targeted at traditional
the cost of living crisis put paid to TV, newspaper and radio outlets will
the annual battle of the big-budget decline this year.
Video wars Alex Hern

Technology editor
Income falls YouTube’s long battle against

TikTok has started to take its toll
after its parent company, Alphabet,
at YouTube reported a decline in revenue at the

video-streaming site.
The fall, from $7.2bn (£6.2bn) in
as TikTok 2021 to $7bn this year, is the first

since Alphabet started reporting
YouTube’s performance separately
two years ago.
takes its toll The decline was partly attributed
to the worsening global economy,
with rising inflation and cost
of living pressures leading to a
retrenchment in advertising.
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Aldi’s 2021 Christmas TV advert,

styled on the tale A Christmas Carol,
was voiced by Marcus Rashford
Business view
PHOTOGRAPH: ALDI/PA Phillip Inman
editor of the trade journal Market-
Bank of England left to speculate

ing Week, said: “A lot of brands have
switched focus towards value and
price. … Understanding that it will
on interest rates as chancellor

be a difficult Christmas for many
families, they don’t want to be too
indulgent.”
hopes something will turn up

While glitzy Christmas campaigns
are out, targeted digital marketing
is in. The AA/Warc report forecast
that spending on search advertising,
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including Google and the increas-
ing amount spent on promotions by he Bank of England points, this could be seen as
companies targeting Amazon shop- will next week a victory for Hunt and Sunak,
pers, will rise 7.3% year-on-year in consider how much vindicating the budget delay.
the fourth quarter to £3.4bn – twice to raise interest Yet any such celebrations will
the amount budgeted for TV spend- rates, without having probably be short lived. Extra
ing this Christmas. received any guidance help given to the poorest people
Historically, the football World from the government about its tax must mean larger spending cuts
Cup is a bonanza for commercial TV and spending policies, after Jeremy elsewhere in Whitehall, higher
with advertisers clamouring to pay up Hunt, the chancellor, pushed taxes or higher borrowing.
to £500,000 for a 30-second slot in a back the date for the “autumn But a deflationary budget
high-profile England game. statement” this year. cannot allow for taking on extra
But this year, which marks the first The central bank’s policymakers government debt. When the annual
time a World Cup has been held so meet on 3 November to decide the deficit is on course to be £200bn
close to Christmas, it is not proving increase in the cost of borrowing this year – more than double the
to be advertising gold. The amount required to tackle a rate of inflation £99bn expected by the Office for
forecast to be spent on traditional TV that went above 10% in September. Budget Responsibility when it
advertising will instead fall by 0.6% Due to the shift in the date of the last made forecasts in March – the
year-on-year in the final quarter, with autumn statement – an event that chancellor must say he is going to
some companies wary of a backlash will feel like a full-blown budget – reduce it. That leaves the Treasury
from being too closely associated from Halloween to 17 November, to make deep spending cuts and
with Qatar. the bank will be left in the dark increase taxes.
“There would normally be much about how far the Treasury will That is not all. Higher borrowing
more advertiser interest but unless squeeze public spending. rates, even if they are restricted
a brand has specific links with the Since Hunt abandoned almost to a 0.75 percentage point rise,
World Cup the ethical question, and all of the tax-cutting stimulus will still hurt mortgage payers and
the cost inflation, has left some cli- planned by Liz Truss, which private renters. Add to the mix the
The 4.5% year-on-year growth in families will want to celebrate after ents questioning whether it is worth many considered to be extremely potential for a property price slump
spending forecast for the final quarter the Omicron variant of Covid put a spending that money,” said a senior inflationary, the betting in financial next year, and Sunak’s tactical
is the smallest in a Christmas period dampener on last Christmas. executive at one media agency. markets has been that the bank will victories may not take him very far.
in almost a decade, excluding 2020, However, Britons are expected to “If England does well then I’d be more restrained.
when the nation was in lockdown, spend £4.4bn less on non-essentials wager there will be late money into Fears that its base rate was on Taxing property
according to the Advertising Asso- before Christmas as inflation cuts into TV and other media, but for a lot of course to jump by more than one The taxation of wealth becomes
ciation and the research firm Warc. their cash reserves. advertisers Father Christmas is a percentage point above its current more pressing with every financial
Major retailers will begin to launch With smaller celebrations and much less controversial target for level of 2.25% have calmed, and crash. It’s an uncomfortable
their Christmas campaigns in the next fewer presents on the cards, retail- ad budgets.” a rise of 0.75 percentage points is prospect for those with assets,
fortnight including Marks & Spencer, ers’ marketing budgets are expected In the UK, spending on broadcaster now being forecast. But this calm and especially those relying on
Sainsbury’s, Boots and John Lewis. to be trimmed as they focus efforts on video-on-demand services (BVOD) in may prove temporary if financial property to underpin their wealth.
However, prices for TV spots at keeping prices down. the final quarter – which as the com- traders start to expect that Hunt Property has become the
prime times are as much as 20% more Charlotte Rogers, the associate mercial broadcaster airing the World will be more generous in the financial rock to which most people
expensive than usual – as the Black Cup predominantly means ITV’s new budget than his first comments cling. Britain’s property laws give
Friday discount period, the World streaming service, ITVX – will rise by gave them reason to believe. landlords the whip hand, making
Cup and the buildup to Christmas 4.2% year-on-year. At his first prime minister’s renting precarious, and the laws
all coincide – drawing in companies However, the increase in online question time yesterday Rishi shower property ownership with
that do not usually buy spots during TV spending will not be enough to Sunak backed Hunt with a numerous rewards, including tax-
the season, such as gambling firms prevent the total £1.7bn UK TV ad message that emphasised how free sales of “main residences”.
and sports brands. market experiencing a flat Christ- the government would need “to If the equity in a home is big
As a result, traditional Christmas mas year-on-year. take difficult decisions to restore enough, people expect that
advertisers are looking for alternative Overall spending on newspapers economic stability”. The bank’s property to also provide an income,
outlets, such as cinema and social is also forecast to fall 4.2% in the monetary policy committee (MPC) retirement income and inheritance.
media, which can prove a more cost- final quarter, despite a small bump could take this to mean that all To some extent the taxation of
effective way of reaching consumers. ▲ Concerns over human rights in in online spending, while radio ad Whitehall departments will have private pensions recognises that
Retailers and brands are hoping Qatar have hit World Cup TV adverts spending will fall 0.6%. heavy spending restraints placed the state has provided from 20% to
upon them. Therefore the budget’s 40% of the asset through tax relief.
net effect will be deflationary, However, there is no recognition
“When Google stumbles, it’s a when it comes to active users. of the zeitgeist, forcing YouTube to allowing the bank to cap interest that all property values benefit
bad omen for digital advertising TikTok is in fifth place but YouTube play catch-up. rates at a lower level than financial from good schools, clean streets,
at large,” said Evelyn Mitchell, does not make the top 10. YouTube The platform has responded by markets expect. low crime and public transport.
the principal analyst at Insider still has the lead on consumer launching TikTok-style formats If only Sunak’s messaging were The campaign group Tax Justice
Intelligence. But the slump also spending in the US, but even there such as YouTube Shorts, a service clear. To please another audience, UK has suggested equalising capital
comes as competition intensifies TikTok is hot on its heels. offering vertical video, limited to he also said: “We will always gains tax with income tax bands, to
between YouTube and TikTok, he The conflict is about more than 60 seconds, in an infinite scroll. protect the most vulnerable” raise £14bn. It is a sensible idea, but
said. “YouTube ad revenues shrank the bottom line. YouTube’s format, Despite YouTube reporting five and restoring economic stability relies on reaping extra funds from
for the first time since Google with longer videos, more ad breaks trillion cumulative views on Shorts would be done “in a fair and liquid assets easily shuffled from
started reporting YouTube earnings and an older audience, is easier to in January 2022, the service has compassionate way”. one financial centre to another. Not
separately in Q4 2019, due in large monetise than TikTok’s short-form failed to reach TikTok’s heights. Fair and compassionate policies so property. It cannot move.
part to persistent competition in infinite scroll. But TikTok is the star But the services are meeting in cost money, and so Sunak’s Somehow politicians need to
streaming and short video.” the middle. As YouTube has been statements leave the MPC to begin persuading the electorate
$7bn
According to research from the trying to chase TikTok’s audience, consider how the prime minister that only higher property taxes can
market analysts Data.ai, TikTok TikTok has made its service can find a way to be both Father provide the answer if we all chip
is number one worldwide for more YouTube-like increasing Christmas and Scrooge as the in. The income from a small tax on
consumer spend, with YouTube in Revenues posted by YouTube, down its maximum video length to 10 festive season approaches. If a all property sales would be fair and
second place as of September 2022. from $7.2bn in 2021, a fall caused in minutes in February, triple the majority of the nine-strong MPC raise hundreds of billions over the
But the discrepancy is far larger part by a worsening global economy previous limit of three. caps the rise at 0.75 percentage coming decades.
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the articles that he has published as a single author

– is broken.”
McCrory was a founder member of the CISG, an
influential presence on its committees, and lead author
on several iterations of the consensus statement.
The BMJ reviewed the last consensus statement
and while they concluded there was no plagiarism
involved, they did point out that “the question of the
extent of McCrory’s contribution to, and influence
on, the five versions of the consensus statement is a
matter within the purview of the scientific committee
appointed by CISG”. Which was an eloquent way of
T
saying “over to you”.
he problem is not just that McCrory’s

own research has been discredited.
As an influential member of the CISG
scientific committee, he was passing
judgment on the credibility and
quality of everyone else’s research.
The consensus statements have, for
instance, consistently questioned the
link between head impacts and the neurodegenerative
disease CTE. The current one states “a cause-and-effect
relationship has not yet been demonstrated between
CTE and sports-related concussions or exposure to
contact sports”, a line that has been repeatedly cited by
the sports’ governing bodies as they defend themselves
against calls for reform.
The decision about whether the new consensus
should acknowledge the clear and considerable body
of evidence of a causal link between CTE and repeated
head impacts will be one of the key decisions made at
the conference.
Trust in the consensus process was already low,
especially among players suffering with the kinds of
▲ ‘It doesn’t matter injuries it is trying to address. There were concerns
whether you’re in the around the lack of transparency about potential
Premier League or a conflicts of interest, the selection methods used to
Sunday league’: Bristol decide who sits on the committees and the criteria
City’s Adam Nagy was used to evaluate research. In the wake of McCrory’s
concussed last year resignation, Fifa, the IOC and World Rugby committed
BPI/SHUTTERSTOCK to reviewing the consensus process.
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Eight months later, Fifa says “positive steps
have been made in relation to the
Broken trust
ou may not know that the sixth ‘We need international concussion conference.
International Consensus Conference This includes a revised governance
on Concussion in Sport is being held in to stand up model, the confirmation that CISG
Amsterdam this week. You may never and say: remains independent, and changes
Concussion
even have heard of the Concussion in
Sport Group who are organising it, but This work is to the leadership group of the
scientific committee.”
if you play rugby, football, ice hockey or potentially Those “changes to the leadership
any number of other contact or collision group” refer to the inclusion of Prof
polluted
conference begins
sports, then the decisions taken there will affect you. Robert Cantu, medical director of the
The work of the conference is to review the latest and we Cantu Concussion Centre, and the
research into concussions, brain injuries, and the don’t know independent medical ethicist Prof
short- and long-term effects of head impacts in sport, Mike McNamee. Beyond that, there
the extent’ is not a lot of detail about what’s
and its impact will
then produce a consensus statement about the best
ways to diagnose and treat them. new. One spokesperson said an effort
It doesn’t matter whether you play in the Premier was being made to include “more critical voices in
League or a Sunday league, the consensus document the room”.
be felt across sport

shapes the treatment you’ll receive if you’re hit in the They include Dr Judith Gates and Dr Sally Tucker
head while playing. CISG is one small group among the of the Repercussion Group. “I think of the McCrory
large international community of doctors, scientists case as a stone in the pond,” says Gates. “It has
and researchers who work in this field. The last sent ripples through an entire research network, it
consensus was signed by 36 people, but the group is spreads everywhere his work has been referenced, or
supported by the IOC, Fifa and World Rugby, among quoted, or used to direct new research projects. The
other sports bodies, which means it has an outsize ramifications are immense. That’s why this week’s
authority and influence. conference is so important. As a community we need to
Their last conference was held in 2016 and the last stand up and say: ‘This work is potentially polluted and
consensus was published the following year. They are we don’t yet know the extent of the pollution. So how
supposed to happen every four years, but this one was do we get it back to where we need to be?’”
postponed, twice, because of the pandemic. The Repercussion Group have submitted a white
The chair, Dr Paul McCrory, resigned in March after paper to the conference that suggests ways to do it.
it emerged he had plagiarised an article he had written It asks for a clear disclosure of all potential conflicts
for the British Journal of Sports Medicine. McCrory of interest from CISG members and the inclusion of
Andy Bull said it was an editing error, but after more investigation players, patients and care providers in the process.
the British Medical Journal retracted nine more of his At heart, the question in Amsterdam is whose
articles, and added expressions of concern to another consensus this is and whether it reflects the views of
74. “The scientific record relies on trust,” the BMJ CISG or the broader sports community who are subject
said, “and BMJ’s trust in McCrory’s work – specifically to its influence.
40 Sport
▼ Ireland’s Josh Little ▼ The umpires
Cricket T20 World Cup jumps for joy after confer in the rain
dismissing Jos Buttler before ending the
SCOTT BARBOUR/EPA match at the MCG
Scoreboard
Melbourne Ireland beat England by five runs (DLS method)

Ireland Balls 4s 6s
PR Stirling c Curran b Wood ................14 8 1 1
*A Balbirnie c Hales b Livingstone ......62 47 5 2
†LJ Tucker run out (Rashid) ................34 27 3 1
HT Tector c Buttler b Wood ...................0 2 0 0
C Campher c Buttler b Wood ...............18 11 3 0
GH Dockrell b Livingstone ....................0 1 0 0
GJ Delany not out ..............................12 10 1 0
MR Adair c Curran b Livingstone ...........4 4 0 0
BJ McCarthy b Curran ..........................3 3 0 0
F Hand b Curran ...................................1 2 0 0
JB Little c Buttler b Stokes ....................0 1 0 0
Extras (lb2, w7) ...................................9
Total (19.2 overs) ............................157
Fall 21, 103, 103, 132, 132, 138, 149, 152, 156.
Bowling Stokes 2.2-0-8-1; Woakes 3-0-41-0;
Wood 4-0-34-3; Curran 3-0-31-2; Rashid 4-0-24-0;
Livingstone 3-0-17-3.
England Balls 4s 6s
*†JC Buttler c Tucker b Little ...............0 2 0 0
AD Hales c Adair b Little .......................7 5 1 0
DJ Malan c Hand b McCarthy...............35 37 2 0
BA Stokes b Hand.................................6 8 0 0
HC Brook c Delany b Dockrell ..............18 21 1 0
Moeen Ali not out ..............................24 12 3 1
LS Livingstone not out.........................1 2 0 0
Extras (lb4, w10) ...............................14
Total (for 5, 14.3 overs) ...................105
Fall 0, 14, 29, 67, 86.
Did not bat SM Curran, CR Woakes, Adil Rashid, MA Wood.
Bowling Little 3-0-16-2; Adair 2-0-10-0;
McCarthy 3-0-20-1; Hand 2-0-17-1; Delany 3.3-0-33-0;
Dockrell 1-0-5-1.
Toss England elected to field.
Umpires AT Holdenstock (SA) and PR Reiffel (Aus).
TV umpire HDPK Dharmasena (Sri).
Referee RS Madugalle (Sri).
Rain and Balbirnie leave

bowlers leaked runs and their bat- ripped up their plans. As they did so,
ting was pedestrian. The powerplay Ireland were halfway through their
is often key in this format and rarely is innings, 92 for one, and heading for
one team more emphatically superior a sizeable total.
England on the precipice

than Ireland were here: they stood Momentum shifted once England
at 65 for one after six overs, where turned to spin and with a moment
England were 37 for three. The tale of of outrageous fortune. He made
the match was essentially of England 34 off 27 but Lorcan Tucker’s luck
trying to claw back the ground they was definitely out, stranded after a
ceded in that opening phase. straight drive by the excellent Bal-
England in Bengaluru in the 50-over cricket while still midway through This was the same team that fielded birnie deflected into the stumps at the
Simon Burnton World Cup, and their folklore has a the group stage. so impressively against Afghanistan non-striker’s end off the underside of
Melbourne Cricket Ground glorious new chapter. England will On that occasion they held their in their opening game, but somehow Adil Rashid’s hand. Ireland had been
cling to the fact that defeat did not nerve and rolled all the way to the also not the same. What we saw there 103 for one and were to be bowled out
England’s air of invincibility was stop them qualifying from their title and there are plenty of veterans was the highlights reel; here were the for 157, losing their last seven wickets
washed away on a damp and dramatic group, though it was a tournament of that campaign in this dressing bloopers and outtakes. for 25 runs in 23 balls.
afternoon in Melbourne. A combi- with a much more forgiving format room. But if they are to stand any With the exception of Ben Stokes, Liam Livingstone was an unexpect-
nation of Ireland’s excellence and than this one. chance of repeating that achievement England’s seamers too often made edly central figure in this collapse,
an ill-timed downpour turned one There will be memories, too, of they will need to bring to every future life too easy for Ireland. Chris Woakes taking three wickets, including that
of the tournament favourites from another 50-over World Cup, in 2019, game an intensity and quality that was remorselessly punished, bowling of Balbirnie. The problem was that he
Twenty20 benchmarks to no-marks. when three defeats left England was notably absent here. three overs for 41 runs before being was also unexpectedly peripheral as
Ireland won by five runs on the playing what amounted to knockout England were poor in the field, key hidden in the outfield as England England tried to capitalise on it. Eng-
Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method land might not have expected to be
after rain fell 14.3 overs into Eng- hugely inconvenienced by a target of
land’s innings. Moeen Ali had scored Tournament humblings From chicken farmers to Dutch delight 158, but then Josh Little started bowl-
12 runs from the previous three balls ing, Buttler was caught behind off his
and had the weather held for even second ball, and the tone was set.
another two minutes this could well Neither Alex Hales nor Stokes,
have been their game. “I’ve seen a beautifully bowled by Fionn Hand,
lot of rain in my time playing cricket lasted long enough to make an
and I’ve never been happier to see impact, which contrasted with
that rain come down,” said Andrew Dawid Malan and Harry Brook, who
Balbirnie, the Ireland captain. lasted too long and made too little
The forecast was as clearcut as the of an impact. In the 11th over they
darkening clouds were impenetrable haplessly attempted to accelerate,
and at no stage of England’s innings leading to Brook being dropped at
had they been ahead. Zimbabwe 1992 50-over World Cup Netherlands 2009 T20 World Cup Ireland 2011 50-over World Cup long-on, Malan being dropped at
Jos Buttler won the toss and chose England were already through to The hosts – featuring Rob Key in his Jonathan Trott’s run-a-ball 92 point and then Brook being caught
to field precisely so, given the chance the semi-finals but morale took a only T20 international appearance helped England to an imposing at deep midwicket.
of rain, his side would know the blow at the Lavington Sports Oval – strode out at Lord’s to kick the 327 for eight in Bengaluru and Livingstone and Moeen, more
match situation when they came to in New South Wales. Chasing 135 tournament off and made a healthy with Ireland limping to 111 for five explosive and in better form, faced
bat. The problem was that they did for victory against the amateurs 162 for five. But a succession of by the halfway stage, Andrew 14 balls between them. Buttler won-
not use that knowledge. “We had of Zimbabwe, they were skittled batters kept the total in Dutch Strauss’s side looked home and dered whether “there was a way we
everything in our favour in terms out for 125 thanks to cricket’s sights and Stuart Broad’s overthrow hosed. Step forward Kevin O’Brien. could have got them more involved
of winning the toss, so we knew most famous/only chicken on the final ball allowed Edgar The 26-year-old smashed 113 in the game” and the inability to do
exactly what was required of us,” he farmer, Eddo Brandes. “You’re Schiferli to scamper the two they from 63 balls as Ireland reached so was perhaps crucial.
said. “To not take advantage of that not going to play well in every needed. The England captain, Paul the target with five balls to spare. If England cannot manage their
certainly hurts.” match,” said the England captain, Collingwood, said: “There’s a fine “Our bowling could have been so-called finishers better than this,
It is 11 years since Ireland beat Graham Gooch. line between winning and losing.” better,” was Strauss’s assessment. it might be they who are finished.
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Brian Robinson, first Briton to win a
Tour de France stage, dies at 91 Page 10
Netball the 28-year-old, a Noongar woman Rugby league World Cup get other people in. We’ve had some
from Western Australia. “To finally important chats with Stuart. He’s a
Wallam makes get out there and just play in this
dress was just really special and it
‘Passionate’ Pearce rallies very humble man.”
Wane has invited Pearce and
dream debut makes the last couple of weeks feel
like a blur. I just hope that I’m now a England for final group game Southgate to England games as the
tournament progresses. “I spoke to
to lift Australia role model to the young girls and boys

coming through.”
Gareth over text about a few things
and I’ve invited him in to any of
Australia got off to a strong start our games depending on how we
in first Test but could not shake off England, with
the teams level at 14-14 after the first
Aaron Bower progress,” he said.
England have won their opening
quarter. A huge penalty count started two games and have already qualified
A lay-up goal by the Australian to take its toll on the Diamonds, who England’s preparations for their final for the quarter-finals before the
Diamonds debutant Donnell Wallam racked up 40 to England’s 24 in the Rugby League World Cup group game game on Saturday at Bramall Lane.
in the dying seconds secured a thrill- first half. But the home side trailed with Greece have been aided by a St Helens’ Joe Batchelor will make his
ing 55-54 victory over England in the by one – 27-26 – at the main break. motivational speech from football’s Test debut in a rotated side.
opening Test in Newcastle. Australia dominated the third Stuart Pearce. The 60-year-old, who He said he enjoyed the experience
England levelled in the final quarter to take control for the first represented England at two major of being in Pearce’s company. “It was
minute through Eleanor Cardwell time, leading 42-39 heading into the tournaments as a player, was invited Stuart Pearce is great to get someone of his experience
but Wallam sealed the win with a final quarter. into the camp on Wednesday to share a keen supporter in; he’s got knowledge of representing
stunning goal before being mobbed The Diamonds coach, Stacey his experiences of representing his of Warrington his country at the highest level.
by her teammates. She became the Marinkovich, continued to ring the country at the highest level. “He’s a leader, that’s what he’s
third Indigenous Australian woman changes but England refused to Pearce is a keen rugby league known for. He gave us some lessons
to don the green and gold and the first go away. It looked like it would go supporter and with Shaun Wane, “He’s been talking to us. He’s an about that experience of being in a
in more than two decades when she to extra time before a turnover by the England coach, having also impressive Englishman,” Wane said team playing in major tournaments.”
ran on in the final quarter to a massive Kate Moloney brought the ball back forged links with Gareth Southgate of Pearce. “He’s very passionate and The Wigan forward Kai Pearce-
cheer from the crowd. Australia’s way and Wallam delivered in recent years, Wane said he is he’s presented to the group really Paul will also make his first Test
After being in the spotlight in the the victory. AAP keen for his players to experience well. I think he got a lot from us as appearance and George Williams
lead-up for her opposition to spon- insight from as many different well. He spoke very highly about the will captain the side in Sam
sors Hancock Prospecting, and being sports as possible. experience. It’s really important to Tomkins’s absence.
blamed in some quarters when they
dumped their $15m deal, she settled
her nerves with a goal before finish- the sport was grounded in the new to make progress towards the
ing with eight from eight attempts. Sport engine regulations due to begin in front of the grid,” he said. “To
An emotional Wallam told Austral-
ia’s Kayo Sports the “outside noise”
In brief 2026. Sauber has been competing
in F1 since 1993 when it used
become Audi’s official works team
is not only an honour and a great
over the past few weeks had taken a Mercedes engines. The team’s best responsibility: it’s the best option
toll. “I was relieved to finally get my finish in the world championship for the future, and we are fully
chance on court – it’s been some of the ▲ Australia’s Donnell Wallam scored Formula One was second in 2007 (the year confident we can help Audi achieve
toughest few weeks of my life,” said the winning goal in the dying seconds McLaren were disqualified) and the objectives they have set for
Audi confirms deal with third in 2008. The Sauber team their journey in F1.” Giles Richards
Sauber for 2026 entry principal, Fred Vasseur, was
Isle of Man TT
‘LIV Golf is professional golf throughout the
world and the excitement level in the Audi has confirmed it will enter
optimistic Audi resources would
make a real difference for them.
Sidecar passenger dies
countries around the world of having Formula One by taking a stake in “The partnership between Audi
a force that’s some of the best players coming and the Sauber team that will become AG and Sauber Motorsport is a key from injuries after crash
competing. It’s pretty remarkable the car manufacturer’s works entry step for our team as we continue
not going away’ how far LIV Golf has come in the last
six, seven months.”
in 2026. Sauber currently races
under the Alfa Romeo brand using
Isle of Man TT organisers have
announced that the French sidecar
Mickelson’s meeting with Cam- Ferrari engines. It will continue Greg Wood’s racing tips passenger Olivier Lavorel had
Continued from back page eron Smith is the pick of the opening to use their power units when it is died of his injuries, bringing the
matches of this LIV Team Champion- expected to revert to the Sauber death toll for this year’s event
Northern Irishman. “I think a lot of ship, which begins tomorrow. Every name for 2024 and 2025 before Worcester 1.20 Lazy Sunday 1.55 Marettimo to six. Lavorel suffered serious
Rory,” Mickelson said. “I really have player is guaranteed a $250,000 pay- becoming the Audi factory team 2.30 Half The Freedom 3.05 Icare Grandchamp injuries and his compatriot César
3.40 New Beginnings 4.15 Punxsutawney Phil
the utmost respect for him. day from their appearance. and using Audi engines on its entry 4.50 Nickelsonthedime 5.20 Kingofthewest
Chanal was killed in a crash on
“Maybe I shouldn’t have said stuff into the sport. Audi, which is part of Stratford 1.30 Floating Rock 2.05 Bolintlea 4 June. “Everyone at the Isle of
like that, I don’t know. But if I’m just the Volkswagen group, announced 2.40 Heltenham 3.15 Pencreek (nap) Man TT Races is deeply saddened
looking at LIV Golf and where we are ‘People were its intent to enter F1 at the Belgian 3.50 Higher Ground 4.25 Jack Thunder to today learn of the passing of
today to where we were six, seven GP in August. Its partnership with 5.00 Guguss Collonges Olivier Lavorel,” organisers said.
months ago and people are saying
saying this is dead Sauber was long expected and Lingfield 1.40 Elsaab 2.15 Apex 2.50 Peace Of Olivier had initially been airlifted
Mine 3.25 Pearl Beach 4.00 Queen Aminatu
this is dead in the water. in the water’ was confirmed yesterday. The 4.35 Street Kid (nb) 5.05 Bugle Major to a hospital in Liverpool after the
“Here we are today, a force in the manufacturer, which was founded Chelmsford 5.30 New Definition 6.00 Vape crash, before being transferred to
game that’s not going away, that has Phil Mickelson in 1909, has not competed in F1 6.30 Bird For Life 7.00 Under The Twilight another hospital in France in late
players of this calibre that are moving before and the decision to enter 7.30 Tara 8.00 Charming Kid 8.30 Modaara June. Reuters
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▼ Sam Kerr celebrates in
style after her fourth and
Chelsea’s fifth goal
BRYN LENNON/GETTY IMAGES
Rugby union
Cowan-Dickie offers Jones

timely lift for autumn Tests
England forwards coach has given
Gerard Meagher the loosehead prop’s leadership
credentials a glowing endorsement.
Cowan-Dickie sustained a knee
England have received a boost injury in Exeter’s defeat by Saracens
before their autumn international on Saturday and with Jamie George
campaign begins next week with out with a foot problem England
Luke Cowan-Dickie able to undertake were already looking light at hooker.
light training in Jersey yesterday. Without Cowan-Dickie, Jones’s
Eddie Jones would be facing a options are restricted to Jack Singleton,
full-blown crisis at hooker without who has made three Test appearances,
the Exeter player but the forwards and the uncapped George McGuigan.
coach, Richard Cockerill, has revealed “Luke took part in some units this
there is “every chance” Cowan-Dickie morning,” Cockerill said. “There’s
will return to full training next week every chance he will train fully next
before England’s opening Test against week. We’ve got some quality hookers
Argentina on Sunday week. in and around the England squad and
Cowan-Dickie’s return to fitness we have some injury concerns to guys
would be welcome for Jones, who is that have been the favoured ones
wrestling with a captaincy dilemma previously. But as you can imagine,
at England’s five-day training camp if the opportunity arises, they’re
in Jersey with Courtney Lawes and working hard to be ready to take it.” Football Women’s Champions League
Owen Farrell absent with head Genge starred on the summer tour season, and the draw delivered the
injuries. If neither is able to face
the Pumas, Cowan-Dickie could
conceivably come into the mix to take
of Australia. Jones opted against
giving him the captaincy in the
summer of 2021, when Farrell, Lawes
Kerr hits fab four in glamour ties many of their players
had been dreaming of. Lexie Knox
told Goal that playing against Sam
on the role as well as Tom Curry, who
did so for the first two matches of this
year’s Six Nations, and Ellis Genge.
It was Cockerill who signed Genge
and Curry were away with the British
& Irish Lions, but he went on to captain
Leicester to the title last season and
has established himself as one of the
the eight wonders Kerr “would be an honour”.
At times you could be forgiven for
thinking the Vllaznia players just
wanted to stand back and watch their
for Leicester six years ago and the leading looseheads in the world.
“He is a fantastic player who leads
by example,” Cockerill said. “He is a
of Chelsea’s world heroes, but that would be harsh: they
just couldn’t keep up. There were two
changes at half-time, with Popovic
guy you can trust, when things get one of those hooked, saved from any
tough he steps up to the mark.” more embarrassment at the hands, or
On his captaincy credentials, feet, of Reiten.
Chelsea 8
Cockerill said: “He’s done it at his Just before the hour mark it was
Kerr 10 37 57 60, Harder 39 72 88, Svitkova 78
club and done it well, so we know he three for Kerr, with the forward ris-
has strong leadership qualifications. ing highest to meet Reiten’s corner
Vllaznia 0
Eddie will have an idea of what he to head in. Three minutes later and
potentially wants to have as captain she had a fourth, with Reiten cutting
▲ Luke Cowan-Dickie is set to return for the autumn, nobody has been back from the left and Kerr firing in
to full England training next week ruled out of the captaincy equation.” Suzanne Wrack before celebrating with a backflip.
Kingsmeadow Then it was six, with Harder poking
over the line.
Boxing not attend the hearing, he was Chelsea found the free-flowing Pernille Harder makes The seventh was as easy as the
legally represented. rhythm that has previously eluded it 6-0 – she completed preceding six, with Svitkova sending
Benn gives up The positive Vada test came to light
in the week the catchweight fight
defeat of Albanian champions
Vllaznia in the Champions League.
her hat-trick at the death her fellow substitute Alsu Abdullina’s
cross in with a powerful header for
licence after against Eubank Jr, which was due to
be staged at the O2 on 8 October, was
Four goals from Sam Kerr, three
from Pernille Harder, one from the Paris Saint-Germain or Real Madrid
her first Chelsea goal.
The visiting Albanian fans
fight cancelled called off. Benn’s test is being inves-

tigated by UK Anti-Doping, while
substitute Katerina Svitkova and four
assists from Guro Reiten on her 100th
in Group A. At times the Chelsea play-
ers were queuing up to punish the
remained in fine voice, with play
paused late on as the flares which
upon conceding defeat in attempts Chelsea appearance, helped the Blues Albanian side and although it only accompanied their constant chanting
to stage the fight the promoter take control of Group A with Real took 10 minutes for the home team were thrown on to the pitch, shroud-
Conor Benn has relinquished his Eddie Hearn threatened the BBBofC Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain hav- to take the lead, it felt like they could ing the Chelsea goal in mist. Unfor-
licence with the British Boxing with legal action. ing drawn 0-0 in the earlier fixture. already have been four or five up. tunately for the visiting fans this was
Board of Control, the governing body After the cancellation of the fight, Kerr has only scored one goal in the The opening goal was sublime, the most dramatic action Chelsea’s
has announced. Benn tweeted: “I am truly gutted that WSL this season but general manager Danish forward Harder playing in goalkeeper Zecira Musovic would see
Benn was due to face a BBBofC we were unable to make this fight Paul Green, again standing in for the Kerr and the Australia international all night.
hearing last Friday at which allega- happen on Saturday and I’m sorry absent Emma Hayes, said there has lifting it over the goalkeeper Kay- “Maybe they got a little bit carried
tions of misconduct following the to everyone who has been affected never been a worry about that. “She’s lin Conner Williams-Mosier, one of away throwing things on to the pitch
cancellation of his fight against Chris by the postponement. won the golden boot two seasons in a six Americans in the away team’s but in the main they added to a great
Eubank Jr were upheld. “I am still shocked and surprised row and we’ve never had any doubts squad. The floodgates were open, atmosphere,” said Green.
It comes after trace amounts of by this and it has been a tough couple she would score this season,” he said. but Vllaznia had fleeting moments There was time for one more
the fertility drug clomiphene, which of days. My team and I will consider Kerr said: “I’m paid to score goals of positive play, with Megi Doci, who thrust forward and Harder got her
elevates testosterone levels in men, the next options including resche- but I also think I bring a lot to the scored 66 league goals last season and hat-trick from it, tapping in a loose
had shown up in a test taken by the duling the fight, but my immediate team when I’m not scoring too, so was playing on the left wing, their ball from close range. Chelsea needed
Voluntary Anti-Doping Association. focus is on clearing my name because it’s just about being patient, getting brightest outlet. this emphatic win, regardless of the
In a statement the BBBofC said: I am a clean athlete.” PA Media in my groove, and I did tonight and There was never any doubt which opponent. It was a reminder of what
“On the morning of the hearing, hopefully I can again against Villa [on way the game would go though, they can do, a reminder for the fans
Mr Benn voluntarily relinquished Sunday].” and Chelsea hit two in two minutes and for themselves.
his licence with the BBBofC. Vllaznia were well supported on a to extend their lead and improve
“In accordance with its rules and crisp evening at Kingsmeadow, with their goal difference in a group that Chelsea Vllaznia
4-3-3 4-2-3-1
regulations, the board determined 420 tickets sold officially to travel- could prove to be tight. First, Reiten Musovic; Périsset•, Williams-Mosier
the allegations following the hearing ling fans but far more of London’s breezed past the right-back Aleksan- Buchanan, Eriksson,
Charles (Carter• 63);
(Rexhepi 76);
Popovic (Ramadani ht),
at which Mr Benn was legally repre- Albanian community showing up dra Popovic and delivered for Kerr Ingle, Fleming Knox, Maliqi, Gjini;
(Kirby 74), Harder; Berisha, Franja;
sented. The allegations of miscon- to watch their team take on the WSL who fired in from close range. Then Kaneryd (Svitkova 63), Patterson (Shala 76),
duct against Mr Benn were upheld.” champions. Reiten provided again from the left, Kerr (England 64), Cavanaugh, Doci;
Reiten (Abdullina 74) Baska (Lufo ht;
Benn was given notice on The home side naturally domi- this time for Harder to turn in. Davidson 83)
17 October of his requirement to ▲ Conor Benn had misconduct nated from the off: Vllaznia are Vllaznia had only got past quali-
face the board and, while he did allegations against him upheld unlikely to trouble either Chelsea, fying once in 11 attempts before this Referee Sabina Bolic (Cro)
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Gay football fans should ‘show respect’
Football to hosts in Qatar, says Cleverly Page 17
understand the interest but we during a campaign in which he Champions League

Europa League especially look at Manchester could play more than 60 games
In brief United. We have to get the right
results and performances,” he
said. Varane may recover and be
for club and country. Eyebrows
were raised last week when Mikel
Arteta said his team, in relation to
Defeat by Bayern caps
Manchester United
Maguire eyes platform
available for France’s defence of the
World Cup. “I think so but we have
to wait and see how it develops,
their workload and Bukayo Saka’s
inclusion in European ties, should
take the example of top players
Barcelona’s humiliation
how his rehab develops,” said Ten who “play 70 matches, every three
for World Cup chance Hag. “He will certainly be out until days, make the difference and win
the World Cup.” the game”. defeats followed by an error-strewn
Barcelona 0
Harry Maguire is back in contention Cristiano Ronaldo is back in the Arteta has made minimal 3-3 draw with Inter that left Barcelona
for Manchester United after injury squad after a one-game penalty changes to his starting XI in the facing the abyss and Xavi calling
and may get the game time to be for refusing to come on during Premier League wherever possible the competition “cruel”. They
Bayern Munich 3
match fit for the World Cup because last week’s win over Tottenham and has not been shy to field big had to win their remaining two
Mané 10, Choupo-Moting 31, Pavard 90
of Raphaël Varane’s hamstring and exiting down the Old Trafford names in an untaxing Europa games and needed Inter not to win
problem. Varane will be out at least tunnel before the final whistle. “I League group but Jesus believes either of theirs.
until the start of the tournament think we said everything and we hitting his manager’s target would Sid Lowe “Hope is the last thing you lose,”
that begins on 20 November, answered all the questions,” Ten not fatigue him. “Of course not,” he Camp Nou Xavi had said, but it was the first.
leaving Maguire to compete with Hag said.” With Anthony Martial said. “I’m doing good recovery after Inter faced the side who had
Victor Lindelöf for a place alongside still injured, Ronaldo may start. the games: eating better, sleeping Barcelona’s players sat beneath the lost all four matches and conceded
Lisandro Martínez in the centre Jamie Jackson better, enjoying life in the Arsenal stand here and watched their Cham- 16, Barcelona’s players called in to
of the United defence. Maguire T-shirt a lot. So I’m ready to play 50, pions League campaign come to an watch it together. It was not great
has not played since sustaining a Arsenal 60, 70 games per season.” end, then ran out on to the pitch and motivation: before half-time, the
thigh injury in England’s draw with Jesus could start against PSV demonstrated some of the reasons Italians were two ahead; as Barcelona
Germany in September and had
Jesus: I’m ready to play Eindhoven tonight as Arteta seeks why. Already eliminated when this ran out to warm up, they scored their
previously lost his United place, 70 games this season the draw that would guarantee game began, witnessing any last hope fourth. It was over, they knew. Time
with Erik ten Hag preferring to pair top spot in Group A with a game to extinguished on the television where for Europe’s second tier.
Varane with Martínez. Gabriel Jesus believes suggestions spare and avoid the complication Internazionale beat Viktoria Plzen Xavi tried to avoid the word failure
Maguire is back in full training Arsenal’s players could experience of an extra knockout round in in the early kick-off, they were not but the Europa League is not the place
and available for tonight’s burnout are unfounded and February. In theory he could play even able to have a bit of fun before Barcelona are supposed to be. Not the
penultimate Europa League says he has no fear of fatigue 70 times this season if both Arsenal bidding farewell. Instead, they head place they budgeted for, either – still
group game against Sheriff at Old and Brazil, for whom he hopes into the Europa League with their less for a second season running. The
Trafford. United need to avoid to play at the World Cup, enjoy sixth defeat in a row against Bayern last manager to take charge of two
defeat to qualify for the knockout successful campaigns. Munich. Aggregate score: 19-2. consecutive years in the Uefa Cup
stages. Ten Hag said: “He always The question regarding overwork Who knows: maybe if it had mat- here was Terry Venables. If last year
has an important role. He was has cropped up in part because tered, it would have been different. was a reflection of their reality this
injured and is happy he is back and Jesus, who scored five goals in his Maybe watching their own execution was supposed to be different, which
now he has to get back into games. first nine Arsenal games, has drawn immediately beforehand was not the made it hurt more.
It’s always about performance. blanks in his last five outings. Those greatest idea, either: “Being knocked Barcelona cannot afford this,
Regarding his qualities – no figures do not tell the full story of out before the game affected us,” Xavi certainly. At a time when every euro
problem. He is a great player and his contribution but he was happy said. And this is Bayern too, a “super matters, this early exit costs around
has great capabilities.” to address the topic. “I don’t want team” in his words. But ultimately 20 million of them, plus knock-on
The manager was asked whether it to be like this. I want to improve, Barcelona brought about their own effects. There is an emotional element
Maguire’s need for matches Harry Maguire (right) may I want to work and then next game, demise, left feeling this level is still as well: the (in)famous levers pulled,
before the World Cup in Qatar now get a run of games I try again. And I’m 100% sure I will beyond them. “We’re a young team multiple signings made and assets
would influence his thinking. “I for Manchester United score.” Nick Ames and we don’t yet have enough to sold were a risk designed to begin a
compete,” Pedri said. virtuous cycle. Instead, Barcelona
Bayern were better in everything, have been knocked out earlier than
Eintracht Frankfurt (2) 2 Marseille (1) 1 Fleetwood Town 15 3 8 4 13 14 -1 17 Xavi admitted. If there was pride at at any time in 24 years, gone with a
Results Kamada 3
Muani 27
Guendouzi 22 Cheltenham
Accrington Stanley
15
15
5
4
2
4
8 13 20 -7
7 17 25 -8
17
16
play, a point to prove, it didn’t often game to go. Two games, in fact.
Tottenham (0) 1 Sporting (1) 1 Oxford Utd 14 4 3 7 15 17 -2 15 show. It is not that Bayern destroyed Nor could they enjoy the first of
Bentancur 80 Edwards 22 MK Dons 15 4 1 10 15 22 -7 13 them exactly, more that they eased those, or offer hope for the future.
Forest Green 16 3 4 9 15 33 -18 13
UEFA WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE past. Goals from Sadio Mané and Just nine minutes had passed when
Burton Albion 16 3 3 10 18 31 -13 12
Group A Morecambe 15 2 5 8 11 25 -14 11 Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting were Serge Gnabry sent Mané away from
Football Chelsea (3) 8 Vllaznia (0) 0
Sheffield Wed (1) 1 Bristol Rovers (0) 1
already enough before Benjamin Héctor Bellerín to clip in the opener
Kerr 10 37 57 60
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Harder 39 72 88 Smith 45 Coburn 60 Pavard added another with the and on the half hour he rolled the ball
Group A Svitkova 78 VANARAMA NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH very last touch. into Choupo-Moting to score. At the
P W D L F A GD Pts Real Madrid (0) 0 PSG (0) 0 Havant & Waterlooville 2 Bath City 2
Napoli Q 5 5 0 0 20 4 +16 15
Barcelona had not managed a death, he hit a volley that Pavard
Liverpool Q 5 4 0 1 15 6 +9 12 Group B
Cricket single shot on target. Even when turned in for the third, and his third
Ajax 5 1 0 4 8 15 -7 3 St. Pölten (1) 3 Roma (0) 4 ICC MEN’S TWENTY20 WORLD CUP Robert Lewandowski thought he assist. Gnabry had thought he had
Rangers 5 0 0 5 1 19 -18 0 Eder 30pen, Schumacher 46 Linari 75, Giacinti 77 Group 1 Melbourne New Zealand v Afghanistan. No result.
Mikolajova 89 Giugliano 80, Lázaro 87
had a penalty before half-time it was scored one of his own earlier, only for
Ajax (0) 0 Liverpool (1) 3 Tennis not to be, the ball taken from him on it to be ruled out, but it didn’t matter.
Salah 42, Núñez 49, Slavia Prague (0) 0 Wolfsburg (1) 2
Elliott 52 Brand 11, Pajor 76 ATP SWISS INDOORS (Basel, Switzerland) the spot, Anthony Taylor consulting Ultimately none of it did, over before
First round: M Kecmanovic (Ser) bt A Davidovich Fokina
Napoli (2) 3 Rangers (0) 0 FA WOMEN’S CONTINENTAL TYRES LEAGUE CUP
(Sp) 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 6-1; R Bautista Agut (Sp) bt L Djere
the VAR and deciding he had dived – it had started.
Simeone 11 16 Group A
Östigard 80 (Ser) 6-4 6-1; U Humbert (Fr) bt J Brooksby (US) 6-1 6-4; which spoke of frustration, the impo-
Durham (1) 2 Manchester United (1) 2 H Rune (Den) bt A de Minaur (Aus) 6-2 7-5; A Ramos
Group B Clarke 45 Moore 22 tence that defined them. Barcelona Bayern Munich
Viñolas (Sp) bt L Musetti (It) 1-6 6-3 6-4; F Auger- 4-4-2 4-2-3-1
P W D L F A GD Pts Robson 90 Bøe Rise 66 Aliassime (Can) bt M Hüsler (Swi) 6-7 (3-7) 6-4 6-4 In any case it was already done, Ulreich; Mazraoui•
(Durham win 3-1 on pens) Ter Stegen; Bellerín,
Club Brugge Q 5 3 1 1 7 4 +3 10 ATP ERSTE BANK OPEN (Vienna, Austria)
Porto Q 5 3 0 2 10 6 +4 9 Everton (0) 1 Aston Villa (0) 1
confirmation of what Barcelona had Koundé (García 68),
Alonso, Balde; Kessié,
(Stanisic 79),
Upamecano• (Pavard 63),
Second round: D Evans (GB) bt K Khachanov (Rus) 6-2 6-2
Atlético Madrid 5 1 2 2 4 7 -3 5 Beever-Jones 62 Harding 49 known from the start of the day: that Busquets• (Torres De Ligt, Davies; Kimmich,
Bayer Leverkusen 5 1 1 3 4 8 -4 4 (Everton win 4-2 on pens) Fixtures their fate would be decided on a far 58), De Jong, Pedri Goretzka• (Sabitzer ht);
Group B (Raphinha 59); Gnabry, Musiala
Club Brugge (0) 0 Porto (1) 4 Football (8pm unless stated) away field. Or, perhaps more accu- Dembélé (Fati 68), (Gravenberch 67), Mané;
Taremi 33 70 Leicester (0) 0 Liverpool (3) 4 Uefa Women’s Champions League Choupo-Moting (Müller 63)
Lewandowski
26,144 Evanilson 57, Eustáquio 60 Kearns 14, Roberts 33 Group C Arsenal v Zürich; Juventus v Lyon (5.45pm). rately, already had been, even then. (Torre 82)
Furness 45, Stengel 72 Group D Benfica v B Munich; Rosengard v Barcelona (5.45pm)
Atlético Madrid (1) 2 Bayer Leverkusen (2) 2 In Munich and Milan, Barcelona
Manchester City (3) 6 Blackburn (0) 0 Uefa Europa League
Carrasco 22 Diaby 9
Raso 16, Fowler 40pen 69 Group A PSV v Arsenal (5.45pm); Zürich v Bodø/Glimt had moments but were beaten, those Referee Anthony Taylor (Eng) Attendance 84,016
De Paul 50 Hudson-Odoi 29
Losada 43, Blakstad 85 87 (5.45pm). Group B AEK v Dynamo Kyiv (5.45pm);
Group C Fenerbahce v Rennes (5.45pm). Group C Ludogorets v Real
P W D L F A GD Pts SKY BET LEAGUE ONE Betis (5.45pm); HJK v Roma. Group D Union Berlin v Braga Sadio Mané
Bayern Munich Q 2 +14 15 P W D L F A GD Pts (5.45pm); Malmö v Union SG (5.45pm). Group E Man Utd
5 5 0 0 16
v Sheriff; Omonia v Real Sociedad. Group F Lazio
sends Bayern
Inter Q 5 3 1 1 10 5 +5 10 Plymouth 16 12 2 2 32 17 +15 38
Barcelona 5 1 1 3 8 10 -2 4 Ipswich 16 11 3 2 31 14 +17 36
v Midtjylland (5.45pm); Sturm Graz v Feyenoord. Group G Munich on their
Nantes v Qarabag; Freiburg v Olympiakos. Group H Red Star
Plzen 5 0 0 5 3 20 -17 0 Sheffield Wed 16 9 4 3 29 14 +15 31 Belgrade v Trabzonspor; Ferencvarosi v Monaco way to an easy
Inter (2) 4 Viktoria Plzen (0) 0 Peterborough 16 9 1 6 31 19 +12 28 Uefa Europa Conference League win that dumps
Bolton 15 8 3 4 18 11 +7 27 Group A Fiorentina v Basaksehir (5.45pm); Hearts v RFS.
Mkhitaryan 35
Group B Anderlecht v FCSB (5.45pm); West Ham Barcelona out of
Dzeko 42 66, Lukaku 87 71,849 Portsmouth 14 7 5 2 24 16 +8 26
v Silkeborg. Group C Austria Vienna v Lech Poznan the Champions
Barcelona (0) 0 Bayern Munich (2) 3 Exeter 16 6 4 6 26 21 +5 22
(5.45pm); Villarreal v Hapoel Be’er Sheva (5.45pm).
Mané 10 Charlton 16 5 7 4 23 19 +4 22 Group D Nice v Partizan Belgrade (5.45pm); Slovacko League
Choupo-Moting 31 Barnsley 15 6 3 6 17 14 +3 21 v Köln (5.45pm). Group E Vaduz v AZ (5.45pm); Dnipro-1 NACHO DOCE/REUTERS
Pavard 90 Derby 14 6 3 5 15 12 +3 21 v Apollon. Group F Molde v Djurgardens; Shamrock v Gent.
Group D Lincoln City 14 5 6 3 17 17 0 21 Group G Ballkani v Slavia Prague; Sivasspor v CFR Cluj.
GD Pts Group H Basel v Zalgiris; Slovan Bratislava v Pyunik
P W D L F A Shrewsbury 15 6 3 6 15 17 -2 21
Tottenham 5 2 2 1 6 5 +1 8 Wycombe 15 6 2 7 20 20 0 20 Cricket
0 7 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup
Sporting 5 2 1 2 7 7 Bristol Rovers 16 5 5 6 25 27 -2 20 Group 1 South Africa v Bangladesh, Sydney (4am).
Eintracht Frankfurt 5 2 1 2 5 7 -2 7 Port Vale 15 5 4 6 17 22 -5 19 Group 2 Netherlands v India, Sydney (8am);
Marseille 5 2 0 3 7 6 +1 6 Cambridge Utd 16 6 1 9 18 28 -10 19 Pakistan v Zimbabwe, Perth (noon)
44 Sport
Football Champions League
Liverpool regain
Berghuis who hit the frame of the a 90th clean sheet in the Liverpool
goal with only 128 seconds gone. He goal. The Brazil international inter-
should have accomplished far more. vened to prevent Jorge Sánchez’s
Davy Klaassen and Daley Blind cross reaching the unmarked Dusan
swagger as Elliott
combined near the corner flag with Tadic at the back post.
the former Manchester United Berghuis curled just wide after
defender’s pass deflecting to Brian Trent Alexander-Arnold had given
Brobbey inside the Liverpool area. the ball away cheaply, Sánchez shot
stylishly seals
The Ajax centre-forward held off straight at Alisson from 25 yards and
Virgil van Dijk and laid the ball off Tadic had a glorious chance when
to Berghuis, who stepped around Brobbey broke down the right and
Andy Robertson on his 50th Cham- centred for his captain standing
spot in last 16
pions League appearance for Klopp’s unmarked inside the area. Alexander-
team. The goal was at the mercy of Arnold recovered just in time to block
the midfielder but, with Alisson to Tadic’s powerful drive.
beat from close range, his low shot “I should have scored,” the winger
cannoned off a post to safety. said. “If I had scored or Steven had
Unlike in Naples, Liverpool scored it would have been a differ-
▲ Jürgen Klopp hailed Liverpool’s night. Ajax, after a determined start learned from the reprieve, although it ent game. They scored from their first
Ajax 0
‘sensational football’ in the 3-0 win that should have delivered a two- took a while. Alisson made his 200th situation. Top teams always punish
goal lead, wilted on the spot. Two appearance for the club and overcame you if you don’t score.”
Sweet 16 Liverpool
Salah 42, Núñez 49, Elliott 52
3 second-half goals in quick succession
from Darwin Núñez – his fourth in his
sustained early pressure to preserve Liverpool threatened little initially.
Klopp delight
past four starts – and Harvey Elliott
consolidated second place in Group A Simeone consigns sorry Rangers to fifth loss on spin
Andy Hunter behind the rampant leaders Napoli.
after progress Johan Cruyff Arena The roles will be reversed should
Liverpool beat the Italian club by Rangers’ sobering Champions set-piece but can take a lot of
in Europe The Champions League has brought

familiar comfort in a season of mad-
a four-goal margin at Anfield next
week. The opportunity may feel like
League campaign continued on
its downward trajectory with a
positives from the game although
we lost and a loss is still a loss.”
dening inconsistency for Jürgen a luxury to Klopp after the way this 3-0 defeat against Napoli in the A 7-1 defeat by Liverpool at
Klopp. Liverpool secured their place Champions League campaign opened Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. Ibrox in their previous outing had
in the knockout stage with a game in Naples. The response to that 4-1 Giovanni van Bronckhorst, shocked Rangers and it looked
Andy Hunter to spare, their troubled away form reverse has been an emphatic demon- however, tried to take a positive ominous when Giovanni Simeone
and injury problems forgotten as Ajax stration of Liverpool’s European view of the game. “A defeat is a scored twice in the first 16 minutes.
were eased aside in Amsterdam. experience and pedigree. defeat but I think the way we lost Leo Østigård headed in a
Jürgen Klopp said qualification for Mohamed Salah opened the There were shades of Napoli to today after two early goals in 15 third in the 80th minute to seal
the Champions League knockout scoring shortly before the interval Liverpool’s start at a raucous Johan minutes, we gave them away too the win and leave Napoli top of
stage should never be taken for to move a step closer to becoming Cruyff Arena where their defence easily, we reacted really well,” the Group A with five wins from five.
granted after Liverpool secured their Liverpool’s all-time leading goal- was prised apart and their woodwork Rangers manager told BT Sport. Van Bronckhorst’s side have lost all
passage with an ultimately comfort- scorer in European football. Liver- was struck from Ajax’s first attack. In “We stayed in the game and five. Last season’s Europa League
able defeat of Dutch champions Ajax. pool had been second best until that Naples Victor Osimhen had struck could have scored for 2-1 just finalists are now out of Europe,
Liverpool progressed from their point but with one delicate flick Salah the base of a Liverpool post after before half-time. In the end barring an unlikely thrashing of
group for a sixth successive season, changed the complexion of the entire 42 seconds. This time it was Steven we conceded the third goal by Ajax at Ibrox next week. PA Media
and with a game to spare, courtesy of
goals from Mohamed Salah, Darwin
Núñez and Harvey Elliott in Amster-
dam. Ajax were the better team until
Salah opened the scoring with his
40th European goal for Liverpool and
Klopp insisted the achievement of
reaching the last 16 was one to savour.
The Liverpool manager said:
“Nobody should ever take for granted
qualifying for the knockout stages
of the Champions League. We did it
again in a game that started off really
tricky and that makes victory even
sweeter. Ajax are a really good team
and we beat them twice. They were
the better team for the first 35 min-
utes, they were more settled than us.
“We came through that, one situ-
ation where we were lucky and the
other with a good block and then we
scored our goal, which was brilliant,
and the next situation was a sensa-
tional football moment but unfor-
tunately we hit the post. Then we
scored the two goals in the second
half and controlled the game. We are
really happy about going to the last
16. It’s great.”
Liverpool’s captain Jordan Salah puts
Henderson, who created Salah’s Reds on
opener with a superb pass, was
forced off with a knee injury late
path to
on but Klopp believes the problem victory
is not serious. “I was worried,” he
said. “But it was knee-on-knee so Mohamed
painful, a bruise, but as far as I know Salah (left)
now nothing else. He should be fine.” lifts the ball
Klopp admitted he would have over Remko
been satisfied with just the draw that Pasveer
Liverpool needed to qualify. But he to give
added: “I’m not sure what is better Liverpool
– to fly through a game, or to over- the lead
come difficulties and develop into ANDREW POWELL/
LIVERPOOL FC/
your best self like we did today. That GETTY IMAGES
stays with us.”
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▼ Rodrigo Bentancur flies
high to score Tottenham’s
goal against Sporting
TONY O’BRIEN/REUTERS
Spurs and
Salah’s blocked volley from Robert-
son’s delivery in the 29th minute was Liew scoops top award
the visitors’ first genuine chance of
note. Klopp deployed Núñez and
Salah at the top of a 4-4-2 diamond
with Roberto Firmino dropping deep
to orchestrate attacks, but it was not
Conte The Guardian
and Observer
writer Jonathan
until the closing moments of the first
half that the plan clicked into place.
The Uruguay international, who
fume after Liew was named
Sports Journalist
of the Year at
missed Saturday’s defeat at Notting-
ham Forest with a hamstring prob-
lem, reverted to theatrics when going
last-gasp the prestigious
London Press Club Awards.
Judges said they “were impressed
to ground holding his face after non-
existent contact from Calvin Bassey.
The moment appeared to sum up
Kane strike that his writing combined sharp
reporting laced with wit and a
wider perspective of the role of
Liverpool’s frustration in the final
third. But then, from almost out of
nowhere, they claimed an invaluable
ruled out sport in society”. Liew also won
the top writer prize at the 2021
British Sports Journalism Awards.
lead. It was a goal created superbly by
Jordan Henderson and executed bril- Marseille next Tuesday must be nego- Ruben Amorim is a manager lately second half.” Thrust to the margins,
Tottenham 1
liantly by Salah. Receiving a Firmino tiated for Spurs to progress. A horrible linked with vacancies at Aston Villa Edwards was eventually subbed off.
Bentancur 80
pass out on the left, the Liverpool October, containing three Premier and Wolves. Sporting’s 2-0 win over Lloris’s mistake was reflective of a
captain rode a challenge from the League defeats, continues. An early Spurs in September and this dogged poor, shapeless first half from Totten-
Sporting 1
Ajax right-back Sánchez and flicked goal from Marcus Edwards during a yet enterprising display will further ham. Their half-time oranges were
Edwards 22
a beautiful, instant pass with the brilliant first-half display from the burnish his reputation. His team’s clearly served with Italian invective.
outside of his right foot into Salah’s former Tottenham youngster, put supporter base had travelled to Lon- Soon enough, Højbjerg forced a cor-
darting run through the middle of the John Brewin Spurs in jeopardy, only for Rodrigo don in numbers and filled the north ner, and from that, after a penalty-
home defence. Remko Pasveer came Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Bentancur to nod home an equaliser. London sky with odorous pyrotech- box pinball session, Kane’s volley was
racing off his line and succeeded only And for all Tottenham’s pressure, just nics and guttural chants. saved well before Doherty leant too
in inviting the Egypt international to The Champions League remains a as in Sunday’s loss to Newcastle, the Playing for their own Champions far back on the rebound.
clip a first-time finish over him and cruel mistress for Antonio Conte. A goal they badly wanted did not come. League lives, Sporting did not come Despite Francisco Trincão miss-
into a gaping goal. It was Salah’s 40th manager with five domestic league There were again boos at full time, to sit back. In an open first half they ing a decent chance, the weight of
European goal for Liverpool, taking titles to his name has still never been even if they were aimed at the referee, fed on Spurs’ anxiety. Enfield-born pressure remained with Tottenham.
him to within one of the club record past the competition’s quarter-finals Danny Makkelie, and his colleagues. Edwards’ mazy runs were trouble- Moura dragged a shot wide, then Son
established by Steven Gerrard. and just as he was celebrating Totten- With so many players strug- some from the very start. Pedro Heung-min claimed an unlikely pen-
Belief immediately drained from ham reaching this season’s knockout gling for form, Conte had made six Porro’s cross found an unmarked alty. Desperation was taking hold,
Ajax, players and supporters alike. stage, the VAR gods intervened. changes. Lucas Moura was making Paulinho in the 20th minute, only and Romero was lucky to escape a
Liverpool should have doubled their In the final seconds of time added a first start of the season in the lat- for the striker to lift the ball over. red card for a reckless-looking chal-
lead before half-time when Robertson on, the maniacal celebrations of est attempt to make up for Dejan No matter. Within moments, lenge on Paulinho.
took Joe Gomez’s pass in his stride, scorer Harry Kane and his manager Kulusevski’s absence. Pierre-Emile Edwards had danced past Højb- As the game entered its last 15, with
darted away from Steven Bergwijn, had matched each other, only for an Højbjerg and Cristian Romero added jerg’s desperate tackle and his low Bryan Gil on for Matt Doherty, Spurs
and pierced the Ajax defence with a interminable wait and a final judg- experience to midfield and defence shot beat Hugo Lloris. A fine goal had four up front, gaping holes left at
precise pass into Firmino. The Brazil- ment that Kane had been offside from with Doherty and Ivan Perisic supple- from a player whose renaissance is the back, giving Flávio Nazinho two
ian opted not to shoot and picked out Emerson Royal’s header just before menting the attack from wing-back. one of the most heartening stories good chances, with Lloris unpro-
Núñez completely unmarked at the knocking in the winner. It was all too of the European season but almost tected. Amorim sank to his knees as
back post instead but, with an open much for Conte, his joy oscillating to certainly a disappointment for the Bentancur nodded in the equaliser
goal to aim for, the striker’s effort blind rage. He was shown a red card Frenchman in being beaten from that from Perisic’s corner but when Kane’s
struck the post. amid chaotic, insurrectional scenes. distance. Edwards attempted a non- “winner’ was ruled out in the 98th
Amends were made quickly in “I’m really upset,” said Conte, dur- celebration celebration but under- minute, Conte’s agony would be yet
the second half when Núñez headed ing his lengthy post-match diatribe. standably failed. greater. And visibly, audibly so.
Liverpool into a two-goal lead from “I don’t see honesty in this decision. “All my family and friends are here
a Robertson corner. With Fabinho It create a big damage.” supporting me,” he said. “I wasn’t Tottenham Sporting
3-4-3 3-4-2-1
taking care of Jurriën Timber around “Of course we thought we’d won going to celebrate, but I couldn’t Lloris, Romero•, Adán; Inácio, Coates•,
a crowded penalty spot, the cen- it, the way we celebrated,” said Matt help myself. It took me a long time Dier, Davies
(Lenglet 81),
Matheus Reis; Porro,
Ugarte•, Morita
tre-forward spun away from Sánchez Doherty. “I don’t really know what to get here.” Doherty (Gil 71), (Fernandes 61),
Højbjerg, Bentancur, Nuno Santos (Názinho 62);
to send a stooping header beyond happened at the end.” He wasn’t While the 23-year-old had enjoyed Perisic, Moura Trincão (Gomes
Pasveer and into the far corner. alone in that. “It’s still in our hands,” Harry Kane shows his his big night out, his manager was (Emerson 82), Lourenço 71), Edwards
Son, Kane (Fatawu 71); Paulinho
It was only three minutes later Elli- said the Irishman, attempting a hope- disbelief after his late urging caution. “He can be very good (St Juste 75)
ott rounded off a flowing move with ful note amid such disappointment. goal is chalked off but he must improve,” said Amorim.
a fine finish into the roof of the Ajax Whatever the discussion of VAR, “He must sustain his first half in the Referee Danny Makkelie (Neth)
keeper’s net. Salah turned exquisite
provider this time, receiving Alexan-
der-Arnold’s pass in a central position so brave enough to make an unfair said. “Then the end of the game we
and releasing the young midfielder
with a superb ball behind the Ajax
‘I don’t see honesty’ Manager decision. I’m really upset because
sometimes you can ask this situation
deserve to get three points but now
[after] the decision we have to wait
defence. Elliott applied the final
touch that the pass deserved to beat
blasts officials over decision sometimes, I think it’s not good.
I don’t see honesty in this type of
to the last game.”
Conte appeared to ask the Spurs
Pasveer from a tight angle. situation, when I don’t see this I hierarchy for aid in pursuing his com-
The Ajax coach, Alfred Schreuder, knockout rounds when Kane’s goal become really upset.” plaint. “I hope the club understands
heard his substitutions heckled and John Brewin would have guaranteed progress. “All Sporting had led until the 80th this and then in the right situation
jeers accompany a home perfor- the people came on to the pitch and minute through Marcus Edwards’s they also speak with the people they
mance that went rapidly downhill the referee decided to send me off,” goal, only for Rodrigo Bentancur to have to speak with because otherwise
following Salah’s opener. Dropping Antonio Conte launched a furious an indignant Conte said. equalise with a header. “Sporting it is only the manager to speak. I think
down into the Europa League beck- attack on the “honesty” of refe- The manager chose to make a deserved to stay 1-0 up,” Conte the club has to be strong.”
ons for them in the spring. reeing and the VAR system after a wider point about VAR and its effect
For Liverpool, it is the familiar late decision overruled a winner in on Tottenham’s season. “You know Harry Kane
ground of the Champions League Tottenham’s 1-1 Champions League I don’t comment on ref’s decision (centre) was
knockout phase that awaits for a sixth draw with Sporting. but the VAR this season, we are not ruled to be
successive season. Deep in injury time, Harry Kane so lucky,” he said. “Until now we are offside after a
knocked in Emerson Royal’s assist only the team that has repeated a VAR decision
Ajax Liverpool to set off wild celebrations that were penalty. And every penalty I go to see that took several
4-2-3-1 4-3-3
Pasveer; Sánchez, Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, curtailed when the video assistant if the keeper moves on the line and minutes to
Timber, Bassey,
Blind (Wijndal 58);
Gomez, Van Dijk,
Robertson (Tsimikas 87);
intervened. Kane was ruled offside, then I see it a lot of the time. conclude
Álvarez (Grillitsch 85), Elliott (Carvalho 71), and in the melee that followed Conte “I want to see a repeat of penalties BT SPORT
Berghuis (Conceição 85); Fabinho (Bajcetic 71),
Bergwijn, Klaassen Henderson (Milner 71);
was dismissed for his protestations to in the Premier League ... I think they
(Kudus 58), Tadic; Salah, Firmino, the Dutch referee, Danny Makkelie, create a big damage. I would like to
Brobbey (Taylor 63) Núñez (Jones 63)
and his assistants. see if this type of decision made with
Tottenham must negotiate Mar- a top team in an important game.
Referee José María Sánchez Martínez (Sp) seille next Tuesday to qualify for the “I would like to see if the VAR is
•••
Seeing red Goals galore T Guardian

The
T
Furious Conte Kerr and
lashes out Harder hit
after Spurs are hat-tricks in
denied by VAR Chelsea rout
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Smiles better Poulter has

as Liverpool Ryder Cup in
make last 16 sights despite
LIV allegiance
Ajax Liverpool
Ewan Murray
Doral
0 3 Ian Poulter has insisted his Ryder Cup

days are far from over, and dismissed
Liverpool goalscorer Harvey any sense he has turned his back on
Elliott (left) celebrates his fine the biennial joust between Europe
strike with Roberto Firmino and the US by signing for LIV Golf.
Match report Page 44 Poulter, an iconic figure for the
European team, is at the forefront of
a legal challenge to the DP World Tour
aimed at allowing LIV golfers to fea-
ture on that circuit. Regardless of the
outcome of that, the assumption is
Poulter, Sergio García, Lee Westwood
and other LIV rebels will not feature
in the Ryder Cup again. Rory McIlroy
has been firm in his belief that the
Ryder Cup should be a LIV-free zone.
Poulter, speaking in Miami before
the final LIV event of 2022, has other
ideas. “We can still qualify for the
team as far as I’m aware,” Poulter
said. “Unless we’ve been told we can’t
qualify, then I’m still ready to play as
much as I possibly can and try and
make that team.”
Speaking in the Guardian earlier
this week, McIlroy said he felt a sense
of “betrayal” by European teammates
who had at least jeopardised their
Ryder Cup futures by accepting LIV’s
lucrative overtures.
“My commitment to the Ryder
Cup I think goes before me,” Poulter
said. “I don’t think that should ever
DEAN MOUHTAROPOULOS/GETTY IMAGES come in question. I’ve always wanted
to play Ryder Cups and have played
‘Angry and disappointed’

maintain those standards and we with as much passion as anyone else
weren’t at that level.” that I’ve ever seen play a Ryder Cup.
Though Ireland have defeated I don’t know where that comment
England before, including at the really has come from, to be honest.”
Damp England deserved shock 50-over World Cup in 2011, their

captain, Andrew Balbirnie, said this
stood as the greatest victory. “We’ve
Henrik Stenson, who was briefly
Europe’s Ryder Cup captain, has
firmly denied he used the position
Ireland defeat, Wood admits

never had a result like this,” he said. as leverage for a move to LIV. Phil
“We came into this round Mickelson was accused by McIlroy of
knowing that any win we got would issuing “propaganda” when asserting
be a huge achievement. You look LIV was trending upwards against a
through their XI. I looked through it downward spiral for the PGA Tour.
this morning and at the match-ups Mickelson – more confident than he
England’s innings. The match and part of me was struggling to has looked at any point since joining
Simon Burnton tomorrow against Australia, also understand if they show up how we LIV – was not of a mind
41 
Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne and with a similar compete with them.” to joust publicly with the
weather forecast, thus becomes Jos Buttler, the England captain,
Mark Wood said he was “angry and a virtual eliminator, with neither was out for a duck two balls into his
disappointed” as England fell to side able to afford defeat. side’s innings, and said the defeat
a shock defeat against Ireland in “If you don’t play well you can get would sting his players. “We should
the T20 World Cup after a hugely punished,” Wood said. “It doesn’t have let it hurt,” he said. “Days like today
underwhelming performance with to be the No 1 team in the world, it can are really, really disappointing and
the bat and in the field. “We were off, be any team. We knew the intensity you’ve got to feel that.
they were on and they deserved to Mark Wood had to be there and the first 10 overs “It wasn’t we were a little bit off.
win,” he said. says England that intensity wasn’t there. That is We were too far off, it took us too long
Ireland won by five runs on the did not play what’s most important. We set high to get to the level we needed to be.”
Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method with enough standards and want to be consistent. ▲ Ian Poulter says nobody should
after rain fell in the 15th over of intensity to win To win competitions you’ve got to Ireland stun England Page 40 question his Ryder Cup commitment
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Pass notes
The Guardian
Adrian
Chiles
Sport can transform Can someone
stop my
kids’ lives. Politicians glasses sliding
nod and do nothing down my nose?
W
ith a lifetime in politics behind him, Charles
Clarke, the former Labour cabinet minister,
edited a book called The ‘Too Difficult’ Box
My spectacles keep slipping down
my nose. They’ve been doing so
roughly every 10 minutes since the
№ 4,478
about the problems politicians never get
around to addressing because they are, well,
just too difficult: drugs policy, welfare reform,
dark day in 1980 when an optician
in Stourbridge lodged some specs
on this 13-year-old and blighted his
Sharkskin
sex work and so on. I wish to pitch a companion book called Policy life for ever. Age: 420m years or so.
Issues That Are Fantastically Obvious With Fantastically Obvious Indoors or out, whatever the Appearance: Incredibly attractive to tuna.
Solutions That Everyone Appreciates But Still Somehow Never Get ambient conditions, down they I can vouch for this. I wore a sharkskin suit
Fixed. The idea came to mind on Tuesday evening as I was giving a slip. I’m writing this in my cool, on a night out recently, and someone hurled
short speech at a House of Lords event. calm, air-conditioned dressing a can of John West at my head. That sounds
This was the launch of the report by the Chiles Webster Batson room as I wait to appear on Loose very unfortunate, but I’m afraid we’re talking
commission on sport and low-income neighbourhoods. Webster Women on ITV. And down my specs about real sharkskin here. As in the actual
is the broadcaster and campaigner Charlie Webster; Batson is are slipping. I push them back up, skin of an actual shark.
Brendon Batson, pioneering footballer and, as it happens, one of and back down they go. Up down And actual tuna? That’s right. They can’t
my childhood heroes. Charlie and Brendon grew up in Sheffield and up down up down, all day every keep away from sharkskin.
Walthamstow respectively, and have intense personal experience of day, for nearly half a century. Even though the sharkskin comes attached
the importance of sport in less affluent communities. Opticians aren’t much help. They to a real-life shark? Yes. Why?
The commission spent more than two years speaking to hundreds spend hours faffing around with I don’t want to spook any tuna here, but
of academics and young people and which line you can read, and which do they know what sharks do? Yes, but
countless workers and volunteers is clearer – red or green – and all that the skin performs an important function:
scraping together the meagre carry on. And lately they’ve started a project led by the University of Western
money they need to run all the little firing puffs of air at your eyeball to Australia has discovered that other fish,
organisations and projects that, as determine something or other. But especially tuna, will often swim up to sharks
our mantra on the commission has it, when it comes to fitting the specs, and rub against them to help shed dead skin
give young people somewhere to go, scant attention is paid to whether and parasites.
something to do and someone to trust. the effing things will stay perched in Of all the fish in the sea, they had to choose
You may ask what my name is the correct position. This seems to sharks. This is because sharks are apparently
doing on the commission because, be something regarded as desirable the perfect underwater scratching post.
unlike Charlie and Brendon, I grew but not essential, a bit of a bonus. Their skin is abrasive enough to scrape off
up in a relatively affluent area I’ve tried antiperspirant on my parasites; plus, as researchers noted, they
and had sporting and recreational face and sticking little nose pads have “relatively large, long and flexible
opportunities aplenty. But this is to my glasses. Neither helped caudal fins, and [a] relatively slow and
The importance
exactly the point. As one of the much. I’d all but given up hope predictable tail beat”.
of sport in
report’s key findings puts it: “Lack when I came across a Pritt Stick- Personally, I have never been so itchy that
less affluent
of access to and lower levels of participation in sport are two style product promising to be the I’d risk being eaten by a shark. Did you ever
communities inequalities experienced by children and young people living in answer. It didn’t work. It made think that maybe we’ve got sharks all wrong?
can’t be low-income communities.” It also emphasises that physical and things slippier. Furious with Maybe they aren’t the unrelenting killers
overestimated mental health issues are greater in these areas than for those in disappointment, I tried actual Pritt the movies would have us believe. Look at
wealthier communities, which is why they are in particular need of Stick, which worked very well, but how happy they are to help all these itchy fish
the sport and recreational opportunities they lack. when I removed my glasses the in need.
Very early on, having heard in great depth about the work of these pads remained attached to my nose. I suppose it’s a sign of nature in action,
(to use the jargon) locally trusted organisations, I must admit I became I met my daughter’s friend from too. That’s right. We are part of a complex
discouraged, bored almost. The story was always the same: everyone college the other evening. A quite and fluid ecosystem, and every plant and
was doing astounding work giving children and teenagers places to delightful bespectacled girl from animal plays its part. This study shows that
go and things to do. And the outcomes were positive in every area: Shropshire. I saw she too had to even apex predators such as sharks can be
physical and mental health, discipline, crime, education and so on. keep pushing them up. Barely in beneficial to those around them.
And everyone in charge told the same story about what stood in their her 20s, she has a lifetime of this to Beneficial? It actually looks like those tuna
way: where the next pennies were coming from, and the endless come. My heart bled for her. We can are trying to bully the sharks. Perhaps the
application forms for paltry grants. Pitifully small sums that will save put people on the moon, a machine sharks enjoy having fish parasites wiped all
thousands, and possibly millions, in the long run. on Mars and have telephones that over their bodies on a daily basis.
I honestly think everyone from Jacob Rees-Mogg to Mick Lynch work without cords. So, please, You think? No, they’re being bullied. But has
would nod along to this. And yet very little changes. Probably please, if not for me then for the this changed your opinion on sharks, now
because everyone already knows the truth of all this: it’s incredibly children, can somebody sort this? you know they are basically mobile loofahs?
difficult to get people engaged in the issue. Writing in the Guardian You know, I think it has. Sharks aren’t even
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about it, I got the sense that it had all been heard before. And even that tough, anyway. Recent drone footage
with brilliant work having been done on the subject, I get the showed a great white shark being chased
unpleasant sense of “’twas ever thus” shrugs lingering all around. down and murdered by a pod of killer whales.
It was all so frustratingly obvious that I’m afraid I pretty much So it’s killer whales that are the problem?
opted out. So when it came to the launch this week I felt a proper No, no, that’s not what I was getting at.
fraud. Jane Ashworth, one of the commission’s administrators, Remember what I was just saying about the
having seen hardly hide or hair of me for two years, let me off the complex and delicate ecosystem?
hook. “Don’t worry,” she said. “You came along, got it straight away, Down with the killer whales! Well, this has
realised it was all bloody obvious, and kind of lost the will to live. backfired.
Just spare a thought for those of us who’ve been round the houses a Do say: “Fish scratch themselves on
dozen times with this.” Point taken. passing sharks.”
Don’t say: “I’d like to order the tuna
psoriasis, please.”
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Azar Nafisi;
and (right)
a veil is set
on fire in the
street during
protests
‘Women in Iran
was expelled for refusing to wear already spent time in the west. I
the veil. I remember the chair of had been sent to England at 13, to a
the English department asking me school in Lancaster – where I would
why I was resisting when tomorrow huddle under the duvet with a hot-
I would have to wear it in the local water bottle and read the books that
have discovered grocery store, but the university

was not a grocery store. If I wore
one, I would feel ashamed in front
of my students, because what
became my portable home – and I
later studied in the US. My husband
went to the US to study engineering,
and we met there through the
their power’
kind of a role model would I have student movement in the 70s.
been for them? One thing people We only returned to Iran in 1979,
don’t see about Iranian women is just as the Shah was toppled in the
that their fight is, above all, about Islamic revolution. I remember
humiliation and dignity. It is easier arriving at the airport, seeing all
regime has discovered it has failed. to be physically flogged than to be the revolutionary guards with guns
The violence used by the Islamic insulted by being forced to wear the searching people for alcohol, and
Republic no longer comes from veil, or being subjected to a virginity realising this was not my home
The protests sweeping the country after a position of strength. It comes test, as one of my students was. any more. Almost immediately we
the death of Mahsa Amini will be a turning from weakness. They are so afraid,
and the only thing left to them
I lost my job at the university in
1981 but stayed on in Iran, though it
fell into demonstrations. On
8 March 1979, tens of thousands of
point, no matter the outcome, says Azar is the gun. More than 222 people
have been killed during the recent
became more and more difficult to
teach or write. I ran a small private
women took to the streets across
Iran against Ayatollah Khomeini’s
Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran protests, including other young
women such as Nika Shakarami and
class that I wrote about in Reading
Lolita in Tehran (2003), and nearly
introduction of mandatory veils,
with the slogan: “Freedom is
I
then on, it became part of my life: Sarina Esmailzadeh, both 16 years 20 years later some of the students neither western nor eastern,
I wake up in the morning and go old. Of course, there is outrage at are still friends. In 1997, I left for freedom is global.” We stayed in
to sleep at night with this mixture seeing these young people being so the US. Both my husband and I had the Islamic Republic for 18 years,
of anxiety and elation. indiscriminately murdered, almost
I know there have been many in front of our eyes, but there’s also
false dawns, not least the Arab a realisation that it is happening
spring a decade ago, but two things because the protesters are not going
have happened in Iran that made to give up and because there is no
first became aware that us realise this was a turning point, other alternative left for this regime.
something big was happening from no matter what the outcome. One I come from a political family,
my husband, who is an avid reader is the fact that the Iranian people although my parents were both
and follows all the news from Iran. in general, but women and young very bad politicians because they
We had returned from one of the people especially, have discovered were so independently minded.
first US demonstrations after the their power, and decided to use it. My father was mayor of Tehran at
death in custody of 22-year-old That means something fundamental the time of the White Revolution
Mahsa Amini, after being arrested has changed. They know that they in 1963, and was thrown into jail
for failing to wear her hijab correctly, can walk down the streets of Tehran, for four years on trumped-up
and he directed my attention to not obeying the law, so that their charges before he was exonerated. Protests against
the main slogan of the protesters: bodies, the way they appear in My mother was one of the first six the death of
Woman, Life, Freedom. I couldn’t public, become a sign of protest. women to go into parliament after Mahsa Amini
get it out of my mind, and kept It is telling the regime: “You don’t it became legal to do so that year. spread to
walking in circles around the living own me, you cannot impose your When I was a young academic, New York
room of our home in Washington image upon my identity.” teaching at Tehran University, I,
DC, repeating it to myself. From The second thing is that the along with two of my colleagues,
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Thursday 27 October 2022 5
children and grandchildren to wear

the veil. My mother considered
herself a Muslim and she never wore
one. The regime has confiscated
religion, using it as an ideology, and
A debate to keep you awake
The regime this is a big theme of fundamentalist
and totalitarian mindsets the
cannot win. world over. I tell people that Christina Ricci has
every culture has something
What are they to be ashamed of: fascism and said she shares a bed
going to do? Put
communism were once the culture
of Europe; slavery was once the
with her eight-year-
all of them in jail, culture of the US. And every culture
has the right to change.
old, reactivating
kill them all? Anyone who thinks the Islamic the debate about
Republic represents our tradition
and culture should go and read up co-sleeping. But,
on history. Around the same time
that women were awakening in the asks Nell Frizzell,
but by the time we left, our son and
daughter were 11 and 13, and we
west, in the 19th century, they were
also awakening in Iran. In 1848,
is there any right ‘If bedsharing
means you get
wanted them to be free, as we had
been, to choose.
the first woman unveiled in public:
Táhirih Qurrat al-‘Ayn, a poet and
way for families to more sleep,
then go for it’
One of the things that impresses theologian of the faith that would get their shut-eye?
me about the young demonstrators later become the Bahá’í religion,
today is that, unlike my generation, was put under house arrest and
A
they are not ideological. They are murdered because she was too comment by the we all feel judged about it. Those, able to co-sleep. Some, like me, will
saying: we want life and freedom popular. She said: “You can kill me actor Christina Ricci like me, who put their children in start off on one tack and evolve to
and a decent living. They’re asking as soon as you like, but you cannot that she shares a separate rooms, did sleep training another. Furthermore, the picture
for unity. For Iranian women, stop the emancipation of women.” bed with her eight- and shut their bedroom doors. will look very different for single-
this movement is existential. It is Throughout the 20th century, year-old son became Those who have children in their parent families, large families, foster
saying: we can no longer tolerate women continued to fight for their international news bed. Those who sleep on mattresses and adoptive families and families
this imposition upon who we are. rights so that, at the time of the last month. Whereas she has her on their children’s floors. of different cultural backgrounds.
And that is why the regime cannot Islamic revolution, they were active bed invaded by her older child, her “It is interesting and increasingly Perhaps the greater question,
win. They can destroy political in all walks of life: as engineers, youngest sleeps soundly solo. “The frustrating to me how much then, is what long-term effect
organisations, but what are they pilots, doctors, government fact I can put her down in her crib space is taken up with people bedsharing or co-sleeping has on
going to do with the thousands upon ministers. So these young women and she just goes to sleep when my being convinced that there is one a child’s development? Again,
thousands who are coming onto the today do not only look to the eight-year-old still sleeps with me is way that is better than another the answer is not simple. “Later
streets refusing to wear their veils? west or other countries for their amazing,” she told People magazine. way,” says Dr Jen Wills Lamacq, co-sleeping [in the United States
Can they put all of them in freedom; they look to their own Few things in the parenting world a psychologist specialising in the and UK] is something we don’t
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jail, kill all of them? Fortunately mothers and grandmothers and attract more opinions than sharing early years. “That distracts people have much data on,” says Emily
not. And these young women are great-grandmothers. a bed with your baby or child. And from what they need to be getting Oster, an economics professor
amazing: they go into the streets Iran and Ukraine remind us, understandably so: according to on with. What I say to parents, at Brown University who has
and risk their lives, throwing in the west, that there are places The Lullaby Trust, 133 babies die when they’re making any caring written bestselling evidence-based
their veils on the fire. Some are where people give their lives for each year in the UK in co-sleeping decision that they think will have pregnancy and parenting books.
tortured and even killed but they freedom and democracy – things situations. The death of a baby is a a long-term consequence, is that Even if you were to compare a child
still don’t give up. It gives the lie we take for granted. But this is tragedy beyond comprehension and you’re making that caring decision who co-slept until they were seven
to the mythology that the Islamic not only Iran’s problem: I see I was so frightened of the possibility to meet the needs of your child. And with a child who didn’t, says Oster,
Republic has dictated what Iran’s totalitarian trends in the west, too, that I spent the first two years of meeting a child’s needs – physical or there are still going to be so many
traditions and culture are. from banning books to outlawing my son’s life stumbling around in emotional – sets a good foundation differences in their experiences of
I have been so frustrated in the abortion and protest. the dark and trying miserably to for adulthood.” Bearing in mind the childhood that to pull out the single
west because, when I talk about Five years ago I retired from settle him in a cot, hallucinating specific caveats about safe sleeping thread of co-sleeping is almost
the situation of women in Iran, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced with tiredness and vibrating with for infants – that may mean sharing impossible. “So it’s not just that
somebody will inevitably say: “But International Studies after 20 years, adrenaline. Eventually he became a bed, it may mean putting them in we don’t have a lot of data about
you’re westernised, and it’s their to devote myself to writing. My big enough and mobile enough, their own bed – you know your child that but that it would be difficult to
culture.” And it makes me so angry, mission now (in the words of James after transitioning to his first bed, and you know your own family. learn very much from it.”
as if the west has a monopoly on Baldwin) is to disturb the peace and that to keep him from invading ours Sarah Ockwell-Smith, author of What we do know is that
freedom, and the DNA of Iranian not be comfortable. I maintain my felt like trying to keep the Atlantic The Gentle Sleep Book says: “I’ve got bedsharing with a grown child
women is somehow different, so portable home by reading poetry in Ocean off a beach. four kids, I’ve been a working mum is comparatively very safe. Once
that they don’t want freedom of Farsi and English, and dream that But things get less clear as for ever; I get that it’s exhausting a toddler can rotate across your
choice; they want to be married one day I will return to Iran. children get older. The five, seven, and our society is crap for parents. mattress like a fleshy catherine
at the age of nine or be stoned to As told to Claire Armitstead. or even 10-year-olds who creep I just think there must be a middle wheel, many of the risks associated
death for prostitution. It is such an Azar Nafisi’s latest book is Read under the duvets of their parents’ ground. It’s really, really hard being with bedsharing have diminished.
insult, because this is not religion; Dangerously: The Subversive Power or carers’ beds like a tarantula while a parent and we need more sleep. So Also, as with all areas of parenting,
my grandmother was an Orthodox of Literature in Troubled Times they are barely conscious. Are you if bed-sharing means you get more well-laid plans are only ever that;
Muslim and she never forced her (Dey Street Books) making a rod for your own back by sleep, then go for it.” you can never fully predict what
letting them sleep with you? Are It should be said that co-sleeping you’ll do or if they will stay in
you simply responding to the needs is not always a choice. Many their own bed for ever. “I’m not
of your individual child? Is this parents do not have the financial sure if Christina Ricci would have
Female students gentle parenting gone mad? means to put their child in a expected to be doing this when she
protest at Tehran This is, of course, a very western separate bedroom. Some parents, first became a mother,” says Oster,
University in 1981 debate. In large parts of the world, due to experiences in their own “but it’s one of those things that
co-sleeping (which tends to mean lives, including disability or work works for your family and there’s
sharing a room but can also mean patterns, will neither want nor be no particular reason not to.”
sharing a sofa) and bedsharing (more If we educate parents – allow
self-explanatory) are unremarkable. them to make an informed decision
Janhavi Jain, who is 23 and grew about the risks and benefits – they
up in India, describes sleeping would probably feel less guilty,
alongside your parents as “very anxious and stressed about what
common” well into late childhood. they’re doing. They may even,
“I grew up in a family that was very who knows, raise more contented
close knit. We slept with our parents children. Or be a little less sleep-
until the age of five or six,” she tells deprived. In the meantime, if
me over the phone from Delhi. anyone knows how to get toast
Talk to parents for any length Christina Ricci crumbs, urine and an array of
of time about sleep and one stuffed whales out of their bedding,
resounding truth will emerge; that I’m all ears.
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‘It’s
become
a real
monster!’
It used to be a very American tradition,
but love it or loathe it, Halloween
is now bigger than ever in the UK.
Tim Dowling asks how it happened
‘I
remote-control cars that chased A house in
children down the road. “I had a lot Rainham, Kent
of appreciation that year,” he says.
“A lot of parents saying: ‘Oh God,
you saved Halloween.’”
When I first took my children out
trick-or-treating in London – about
20 years ago – nobody was making
t started with that kind of effort. As an American, Anecdotally, how you feel about
the Coffin of Doom,” says Jeremy I was disappointed; there were a Tim Dowling Halloween seems to depend on
Hayward, of the year he first few pumpkins on doorsteps, but (right) trick-or- how old you are, and where you
decided to create an experience the lack of enthusiasm for the treating in 1968 grew up. Some of our readers
for children ringing his bell on whole enterprise was palpable. from Scotland, Wales, Northern
Halloween. Just beyond his Most people seemed to have no Ireland and Ireland have a pretty
threshold was a coffin, with a idea it was Halloween. I watched uncomplicated relationship
dressed-up Hayward daring brave one man chase the children who with Halloween. “We decorate
trick-or-treaters to open the lid. rang his bell down the road with a the house in late September, go
“And inside there were treats, but stick. It was the wrong sort of scary. pumpkin picking in October, dress
there was also a baby on a cross. Two decades later, Halloween up in costumes as a family group,
No one complained.” is a very different holiday. In one give treats to trick-or-treaters on
In fact, the Coffin of Doom was poll, 68% of respondents said the day itself and have a special
a success. “It was a bit gruesome,” they would buy sweets for trick- spooky meal,” says Emily Lawler,
says Hayward, “and slightly or-treaters, up from 58% in 2021. 38, from Glasgow.
irreligious, I guess, but then that’s Pumpkin sales have increased “I’m Irish, so Halloween is bigger
Halloween for you.” There were every year, even during the than Christmas!” writes Anna,
additions and improvements over pandemic. Walking around my 39, who has plans to go to a club
the next few years – spooky music, neighbourhood last year, I noticed night in east Belfast, dressed as the
lights, the front door rigged to more and more houses aspiring to builder from the Village People.
open automatically – but it wasn’t Hayward’s level of engagement. But some English people find
enough for him. “You have to One of the bestselling the idea of trick-or-treating
keep reinventing. It’s great for the innovations for this Halloween is threatening: more than one
little ones, but as soon as they’ve an outdoor display consisting of a respondent used the phrase “with
done it a couple times, it’s: ‘Ah, it’s giant black spider – 1.2 metres (4ft) menaces”. Others have seized
the Coffin of Doom; there’s just a wide – hanging from a 6 metre web on the open-ended nature of
baby inside.’” that hooks on to your guttering. Halloween to create alternative,
Hayward, 54, who lives Stretchable cobwebs – sufficient community-based events.
in Nunhead, south London, to cover 20 sq m – can be had for crass American import while I’ve bought an antique dentist’s In 2016, Northfields allotments
progressed to the more elaborate as little as £5.99, to accompany simultaneously claiming it as an chair off eBay,” says one, “along in Ealing, west London, were
Wall of Doom, which was so rolls of crime scene tape and Keep ancient British custom, one they with a few well-chosen rusty tools.” threatened by development, and,
popular that it had kids queueing Out signs. “Make your house an seem to feel is more honoured in Many horror fans seem to in a bid to raise awareness, plot-
down the road. It had various holes abandoned and creepy place,” the breach than the observance. consider Halloween their personal holders inaugurated a pumpkin
into which participants stuck their reads one Amazon blurb. Ironically, Where does the UK’s love/hate holiday – a time to indulge ghoulish trail for Halloween.
hands; some contained treats, it is now customary to announce relationship stand in 2022? tastes and a dark sense of humour – “Everyone sort of spookified
others tricks. Hayward wore a fake your participation in the ritual of When Guardian readers were and its increasing popularity is, for their plots and invited the local
hand, so he could use his free hand trick-or-treating by disguising your asked how they intend to celebrate some, a disappointment. “I do have community to have a look around,”
to grab people’s fingers from the home as a condemned property. Halloween this year, their responses mixed emotions about it being so says committee member Richard
other side. For 2020, he developed Still, a significant proportion ran the gamut. Like Hayward, some mainstream now,” writes Hannah Ashcroft, 44. “And it’s grown from
an outdoor experience that of the population refuses to join people have elaborate plans for Turner, 40, from Brighton. “It used there, really. It’s become a real
included large spiders mounted on in, dismissing Halloween as a scaring trick-or-treaters. “This year to be a lot more of a subculture.” monster – excuse the pun.”
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sweets after a couple of hours.

For all I knew, it was a tradition
stretching back centuries.
In fact, the phrase “trick or treat”
did not appear in print anywhere
until the 1920s, and the practice,
though it has its roots in old-world
door-knocking customs such as
guising, wasn’t widespread in
America until after the second
world war. It has even been
suggested that the ritual emerged
as a civic fix, imposed to turn
Halloween – traditionally a time for
pranks and minor criminal damage
– into something more law-abiding.
When I was a child, Mischief
Night (which has 18th-century
British roots and is still marked
in the north of England on the
night before Bonfire Night) was
unofficially celebrated on the night
before Halloween. We spent that
evening soaping windows, draping
Pumpkins at toilet rolls over power lines and
Northfields throwing eggs at passing cars. A lot
allotments; of the vandalism was still evident
(right) Jeremy the next night, which lent a little
Hayward’s house menace to the atmosphere.
But on Halloween, the menace
– or at least the perception of
it – flowed in the other direction.
Jim Hawker, co-founder of the stock they can’t shift.” Few things Rumours circulated about evil
marketing agency Threepipe Reply, are as worthless as a pumpkin householders putting razor blades
describes Halloween as “a rising on 1 November. Still, as a trend inside toffee apples, or poisoning
consumer trend”. In addition to Halloween remains buoyant. candy by injection. Part of the ritual
sweets and pumpkins, people now Spending continued to rise through
I’ve bought an was combing through your sweets
Pullquote
also buy lights, smoke machines,
decorations and costumes for
the pandemic. Certain brands have
managed to identify themselves
antique dentist’s
at the end of the night, looking for
evidence of tampering. Somehow,
Pullquote
dogs. Once largely a kids’ thing, the
event is increasingly celebrated by
with the day: Fanta, for example,
mounts an annual effort combining chair off eBay,
the balance between fun and fear
that characterises Halloween
Pullquote
young adults. “The thing to think
about this year is, obviously, it’s
special Halloween branding and
a social media campaign. Others along with
always manages to restore itself.
Whatever your feelings about
Pullquote
happening on a Monday night,”
says Hawker, “which gives you the
have developed promotional
ranges – toffee flavours, autumnal a few rusty tools
it, Halloween in its present form
appears to be here to stay. To a great
Not every plot-holder

Pullquote
whole weekend from a partying
perspective – quite good for the
packaging – designed to span the
period between Halloween and
extent, your attitude to it is formed
by childhood experiences, and the
participates, but the ones who do
are competitive. “Me and a mate
Pullquote
millennial audience.”
A report that Hawker’s firm
bonfire night.
Where did Halloween as a retail
UK trick-or-treaters of 20 years
ago are now old enough to have
have been constructing our rig for produced in October 2021 contains extravaganza spring from? Is it tradition: people burned nuts and children of their own.
at least a month,” says Ashcroft. some compelling stats. Halloween just an American export? “I think poured molten lead into cold water But some of the people who
“It’s going to be a series of bicycle is now the third biggest annual there’s a little bit of a globalisation to predict the future. It was a time make the biggest deal of it have
wheels, with very strong cabling to shopping event for supermarkets, aspect to it,” says Hawker. “But of year when the barrier between no history of celebrating. Ashcroft
attach ghosts that will float around after Christmas and Easter. The if you know history, apparently the living and the dead was said grew up in Lancashire. “I lived in
and over the path.” percentage of people who celebrate Halloween started in Scotland.” to thin. Sometimes, according to the middle of nowhere, so we didn’t
Last year, the pumpkin trail it is higher in the north (56%) It’s a well-regarded assumption folklore, ghosts appeared from the really have much going on,” he
was so popular that 8,000 people than in the south (45%). Four in that modern Halloween traditions other side. Sometimes, they took says. In response, his mother and
turned up. This year, it’s a ticketed 10 Halloween costumes are worn are derived from rituals associated people back with them. aunt made up their own Halloween
event, with restricted numbers. “I just once before being binned, with the Celtic festival of Samhain Over time, in England at ritual, placing seasonal decorations
mean, it’s £1, plus a 25p booking generating an estimated 2,000 – marking the end of harvest and least, certain traditions became – pumpkins and plastic bats – in the
fee,” says Ashcroft. “But the tonnes of plastic waste. the start of winter – but it’s just more strongly associated with oven. “We’d go off dunking apples
ticketing allows us to manage the It is difficult to make solid as possible the influence was the Guy Fawkes and the fifth of or something like that, and then
PHOTOGRAPHS: JAMES BELL/ALAMY; COURTESY OF TIM DOWLING; KEN RAKE; MARK KEHOE
flow.” The proposed development spending predictions for this other way round. What we do November, and the importance come back to the oven. And that
of the site has been ruled out, but year, in the face of a cost of living know is that at some point in the of Halloween diminished. had magically turned into all sorts
the pumpkin trail is too popular to crisis. “People are going to be ninth century, a Christian holiday It is said that Scottish and Irish of cakes and treats and stuff,” he
give up. “It’s a labour of love now.” more concerned about saving for commemorating saints and martyrs immigrants brought their traditions says. “I still believe to this day that
A significant proportion of Christmas than perhaps spending was shifted from May to the end of to the US and Canada, where they it was magic.”
respondents plan to stick to the money on Halloween,” says October, a time when pagan rituals evolved into their present, highly Hayward comes from Devon,
tradition of ignoring Halloween Hawker. “I think there’s a little bit were also conducted, including exportable form. When I was a with almost no Halloween rituals to
altogether. “As every year – put of nervousness in retail anyway, the lighting of bonfires and guising child growing up in Connecticut, speak of. “I remember one year we
out all the lights and retreat to the in terms of retailers not wanting (going door to door, in disguise). Halloween was a big deal. The did mobile apple-bobbing,” he says,
back of the house,” says retiree to take the risk of having lots of Divination was also part of the suburban town I lived in was “bringing Halloween to people’s
Martin Ross from Devon. “Front perfectly suited to trick-or-treating houses. But we didn’t have trick or
door never answered to Halloween – you could hit a lot of houses treat. That wasn’t the culture at all.”
callers. Really dislike this tacky without having to walk too far For 2021, Hayward built a fake
US-style commercialisation of what – and local participation was door in front of his own front door.
used to be called All Souls’ Night.” close to 100%. Kids dressed as This year the same theme will
Actually, All Souls’ Night is the ghosts, witches, superheroes or feature minor improvements, but
evening of 1 November; 31 October Snow White. There were horror- with his children grown he requires
is the day before All Saints’ Day – All based costumes – Frankensteins, volunteers to help run the evening.
Hallows Eve, hence Halloween. Draculas, Egyptian mummies, etc Halloween equipment now takes
But the idea of the occasion as a The 2021 – but these were the days before up a third of his loft, and his partner
retail opportunity has become Halloween the “lifesize severed head” became is nowhere near as keen on the
increasingly prevalent. In 2001, parade in an acceptable holiday decoration. holiday as he is.
Halloween consumer spending in New York From a young age – eight or nine “I don’t know how it ends,” he
the UK was about £12m. This year – we went out unsupervised, and says. “My worry is if I didn’t do it,
it’s estimated to reach £687m. returned with pillowcases full of I’d just get egged.”
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Arts Thursday 27 October 2022
‘We were
convinced
we were in
a flop!’
Dominic Dromgoole, author of a
new book about amazing first nights, Fulfilling ...
Stuff Happens
talks to Eileen Atkins, Ciarán Hinds
and other stars of stage about the
electric openings they’ll never forget
H
istory has I thought: “Oh no, not another concentrating it and concertina-ing ‘I drank gallons of wine to directed by the brilliant Howard
no shortage northern mother. Boring.” I it. This is not possible with film, settle my Olympic nerves’ Davies. A single door to enter and
of explosive was 64 and I’d never worked in given its precise time scheme. David Eldridge, attending various exit the tenement living quarters
first nights London before. Peter Gill directed There was more adrenaline in Sometimes it’s not obvious that of the Boyle family. Second act, a
and openings. it so beautifully. Everything was playing live to the film than in something is a hit. I was at the raucous party going on. There’s
Moments in art specific in its choreography: this any other show because it’s two Royal Court for the opening night yet another knock at the door,
when the concerns of an epoch is the height to hold a teapot, this hours of having to stay focused to of Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. Juno goes to open it. Several twists
meet the truths of artists and is how to take off and hang a coat. the millisecond, keeping up with One senator of British theatre and tugs later, she summons her
catalyse a volcanic response. Whatever the action, he said if you something that doesn’t stretch or claimed it was “a misfire”. I asked husband, Jack, my unfortunate
These are the nights when pins take your time and present it, the slow. The film is on such a pitch him if he needed his ears and eyes self. Many more twists and tugs
can be heard dropping, when audience will find it interesting. of rightness it is silly: a human tested. Sometimes you feel your later, a revelation that this door
time is stretched into unforeseen And he was so definite about story, a fairy story and an epic life shifting if it’s your own play. will not open for love nor money.
patterns, when success is grasped pace: play the first scene legato, told in ways that are engaging and At the opening of Festen at the Apologies to audience, curtain
or failure faced. For artists they the second pizzicato – he really exciting. Just to keep up with it Almeida, even the gallons of wine comes down. Men arrive with drills,
are electrifying. With adrenaline knew the music of a scene. The was a thrill. settling Olympic nerves couldn’t hammers and saws. Two minutes
sluicing round bodies, and silences in the theatre that night dull the awakening feeling my later, the curtain goes up again.
collective attention providing … spellbinding! Later, we went to agent might be on the phone The play picks up where it left off.
incredible focus, first nights are the Royal Court bar and as Peter Nerves ... regularly. Sometimes, the culture The knock at the door. Door opens.
experiences of vivid sharpness. walked down the stairs everyone David Eldridge’s itself is shifting beneath your stalls Cheers, whoops and applause. In
Here are some stories from burst into applause. Festen seat. All through the first night of the doorway stands Mrs Tancred
the frontline. Katie Mitchell’s revival at the NT in funereal garb, destroyed with
‘For two thrilling hours, I had to of Martin Crimp’s Attempts on grief by the murder of her young
‘I threw my arms around stay focused to the millisecond’ Her Life, I was pinching myself. son. Don’t imagine she’d ever had
Samuel Beckett – and he Anoushka Shankar, scoring and I was actually watching this a reaction like that before.
stood like a stone’ performing Shiraz, 2017 masterpiece of post-dramatic
Eileen Atkins, attending Writing a score for Shiraz, a silent theatre – in the Lyttleton! ‘People thought a higher power
Beckett’s Play, 1964 film from 1928 about the creation was looking out for us’
There were three figures on the of the Taj Mahal, was hard because ‘We apologised to the audience Paula Garfield, directing Love’s
vast Old Vic stage, all encased I was a novice, and in the absence and the curtain came down’ Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare’s
in jars. They did the same script of a director, there wasn’t an expert Ciarán Hinds, starring in Juno and Globe, 2012
twice through. Mad about Beckett shaping the process. Part of the joy the Paycock, November 2011 For deaf actors such as myself to
anyway, I was overwhelmed by of music is improvisation: playing Opening night of Seán O’Casey’s be in an environment where their
the cleverness and what it did to games with time by stretching it, masterpiece at the National, language and community were
my brain. It was extraordinary the
difference in effect when done
at first one pace, then an entirely
Hallucinatory ...
different one. The whole meaning
shifted. Later I was in a car when Frances Barber,
I saw the director George Devine Amanda Abbington
walking along with a man. I leapt and Reece Shearsmith
out and shouted: “George, George, I in The Unfriend
just saw your amazing play.” “Well,
say hello to the author,” he said
and there was Samuel Beckett. I
threw my arms around him and he
stood like a stone. I wasn’t going to
let him make me feel abashed, so
I carried on.
What a joy
‘The silences in the theatre ... Love’s
that night were spellbinding!’ Labour’s Lost
Anne Reid, The York Realist,
Royal Court, 2003
I had no idea this was such a
good play. The first time I read it,
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front and centre was incredibly

moving. This was the first time the
deaf community had taken over
the Globe – what a joy to see the
Vikram Kushwah
positive impact on deaf and hearing
communities coming together. The
deaf audience were deeply inspired
and able to connect with the
‘When I was two, I started picking up crude words. So my
performers and access Shakespeare father took out massive loans and I went to an elite school
in a new and meaningful way. We
opened in May 2012. The rain had in the Himalayas. This is the school I would have attended’
been pelting down for weeks. When
the actors got on stage, suddenly
the sun came out and beamed for
both shows. Many said a higher
power was looking out for us,
protecting our language. Alison Balsom
in Gabriel;
‘At the curtain call, I was having below, Shiraz
an out-of-body experience’
Adjoa Andoh, performing in
Stuff Happens, 2004
Taking the curtain call at the hotly
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anticipated press night, I felt myself

have an out-of-body experience. To
play Condoleezza Rice in a drama
of such soul-searching national
and international consequence;
directed with such wit and
elegance by the king showman,
Nicholas Hytner, one of our
country’s mightiest exponents of
placing bodies in space to delight other in panic. After the first scene,
an audience; written with such there was a standing ovation. At the
craft, empathy, forensic research interval we stood awestruck and
and imaginative dexterity by asked each other if that really just
the playwright whose work was happened. In the second act, the
the inspiration for my career audience were rolling in the aisles. The school where this was taken is in a village Girls and boys don’t really mingle at the
as an actor, David Hare … well! The end was like a hallucinatory in rural Uttar Pradesh, the state in northern school. I took a photograph of the girls in
That night was the fulfilment experience, as if I’d floated out of India where I was born. It’s a poverty-ridden a similar pose but it’s much more reserved.
of everything I believe most my body and was looking down on area and this is a poorly funded school with I couldn’t really get them to relax, which
meaningful in the work to which the curtain call. The writer, Steven few books and no electricity. My father demonstrates the
I have devoted my life – political Moffat, looked as if he was in a taught there for 35 years but it’s not the The CV way traditional
reflection, insight, humanity, coma. Maybe the audience thought school I attended. When I was two, I started gender dynamics still
laughs, Shostakovich, audiences they were going to be clobbered repeating crude words I’d picked up from Born: Delhi, 1983 hold sway in India,
full of intense curiosity, and a work on the head by something dark, older boys. My father’s response was to sell Trained: London especially outside
that’s alive and significant. and when they realised there was off his inheritance, take out massive loans College of the big cities.
no message, no feeling of guilt, and send me to an elite boarding school in the Communication; I don’t think my
‘Relief swept through the no excess of suffering, the relief Himalayas. For the next 18 years, my parents University for the dad really got what
audience causing hysteria’ filtered through until they actually could only afford to live in a tiny shack. Their Creative Arts, Kent I was doing. Two years
Frances Barber, playing in became hysterical. It was a bizarre bedroom doubled as a kitchen and they Influences: on, he does look back
The Unfriend, 2022 moment, a sort of collective shared an outside toilet. These were drastic ‘Deborah Turbeville, fondly on that day,
If you’re in a comedy, at the end unconscious hysteria. measures but my father was determined to Francesca but when I told him
of rehearsals the laughs dry up. give me the best possible chance of escaping Woodman, Sarah the series had been
Through dress rehearsals and the ‘We came about as far off the environment I had been born into. Moon, Anna published in Italian
tech, the creative team have their the rails as you can go’ By the time my dad retired in 2020, I’d Gaskell, Tim Walker, Vogue and that I’d
own concerns and they watch the Alison Balsom, trumpeter, been in the UK for more than a decade. I was Guy Bourdin.’ given a talk about it
show with a stony-faced silence Gabriel, Shakespeare’s Globe, working as a fashion photographer and on High point: to 400 people, he was
that feels like disdain. We were London, 2013 my own creative projects. I had never visited ‘Creating my series utterly bemused.
convinced we were in a flop and First nights for classical musicians the school where my father spent his entire The Education I I called the series
plodded on petrified. Then the don’t really exist. Every working life, but as the time approached for Never Had, and The Education I Never
show began. Within two minutes performance we give is like a first him to leave I felt a sudden urge to go and when part of it was Had. If my parents
the audience started shrieking night – quite often it’s the only photograph it. The first time I asked, he said exhibited at the had made different
with laughter so loud that Reece one – so they have gravitas and a no. I’m not sure he really understood my National Portrait decisions, I could
Shearsmith and I stared at each sense of instant evaporation. But motives. I’m not certain I did, either. Gallery.’ easily have been one
with Gabriel [a mixture of Henry It was my wife who persuaded him that Low point: ‘My of these children.
Purcell’s music and scenes set in my request came from a good place. It turned laptop bag was Many of them may
1690s London], that first moment out my mum had never been to the school, stolen in 2020. have greater gifts than
of putting this unique new thing on either – when I finally visited, she came too. Some of my me but, no matter how
Sinéad Cusack stage – not a play, not a musical, not Everyone had been told I was coming and favourite negatives talented or intelligent,
and Ciarán a semi-opera but all of those things they were dressed in their best clothes. The were in there.’ they might never get
Hinds in – felt like a kind of thrilling slow- students were a little apprehensive at first. I Top tip: ‘Ground the opportunity to
Juno and motion train wreck. Not a disaster think some were surprised that I spoke fluent your work in fulfil their potential.
the Paycock at all, but as in Polar Express, where Hindi, but I tried to spend time with each truthfulness and it Photography wasn’t
you’ve come far off the rails but one, talking about their studies and asking will flow like water – the career my parents
somehow, somehow, it’s still just what they wanted to do when they grew up. free and liberated.’ had in mind for me,
within your grasp. And suddenly I took lots of pictures and we had some but both are glad
we had a sense of its beauty. That fun, but this is the photograph where the ice I have chosen my
we loved it and the audience did was really broken. I lined the boys up for a own path. My mum
too, and were rapt … it was the very traditional-style school photograph and likes some of my
best feeling in the world. initially they were all sitting and standing work, though she
Astonish Me! First Nights that straight and looking very serious. I said: “Could refers to my more
Changed the World by Dominic you all settle your hair?” Then, when they surreal images as
Dromgoole is published by Profile started combing with their fingers, I said: “No, “horror pictures” and
Books at £20. that’s not good enough.” Their movements wonders why I don’t take more photographs
The Unfriend opens at the Criterion became much more vigorous and there was of flowers. Interview by Chris Broughton;
theatre, London, on 15 January laughter. That’s when I pressed the button. vikramkushwah.com
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The Love Box in Your

Konnie Huq with Living Room
1950s children’s
favourite
9pm, BBC Two
Muffin the Mule
Do not adjust your television set … Paul

Whitehouse and Harry Enfield reunite
once more to get cleverly creative with
the BBC archive and tell its centenary
story. Inspired by the work of Adam
Review Kids’ TV: The Huq, a one-time Blue Peter presenter and so part of
the problem of making generations of British kids good Curtis (who also makes an appearance),
Surprising Story, BBC One for literally nothing, fascinatingly proposes that kids’
TV was not mind-rotting but good for us. Johnny Ball their mock documentary is comically
was effectively a numeracy ambassador. As Huq grew critical of the Beeb’s legacy (“The BBC
up, what she watched was a diverse alternative to a
racist, homophobic and otherwise narrow-minded didn’t know anyone who was working-
Flower Pot Men, British society. But of course Huq would say that,
wouldn’t she?
class, because it was like a giant public
school!”). They send up the corporation
sticky-backed She relates something sad about the Huq family. Her
parents would summon her to watch the racist 70s
sitcom Mind Your Language because at least there was
in their wonderfully weird, unique way.
plastic and lessons

Hollie Richardson
a south Asian couple on it – even though they and all
the other diverse members attending the evening class
in the sitcom were devised to be laughed at for their
in inclusivity funny voices. Racist representation was, at least,
representation.
The Pride of Britain
Awards 2022
show is spreading itself
slightly too thin. Tonight,
Kids’ TV was different. It was an outlier for a 8pm, ITV Sarah Millican has a good
different kind of diversity. Trinidad-born Dame Floella The annual sob fest in old rummage around in a
★★★★☆ became a role model to Huq. She had scarcely seen a which unsung everyday cottage pie while Munya
black Briton on telly other than in racist contexts. Me heroes are honoured Chawawa demonstrates
Stuart Jeffries neither. Perhaps, then, kids’ TV made Britain less racist
than it would otherwise be.
returns, this time with
Ashley Banjo joining
his martial arts chops.
Quite literally.
Huq sensibly rounds on parents who blubbed that Carol Vorderman on Phil Harrison
the Teletubbies were dumbing down their spawn. Tim presenting duties.
Smith, a professor of cognitive psychology at Birkbeck, Famous faces in Gangs of London
tells Huq that the preverbal sounds of Laa-Laa et al attendance include David 9pm, Sky Atlantic
W
hy don’t you just switch off your were devised precisely to speed little viewers along Beckham, Michael Sheen, “The window for
television set and go and do the path to language acquisition. Mel B, Joan Collins, Mo retribution is closing.”
something less boring instead? As for diversity, Huq reminded us that in 1988, Farah, and Sharon and After literal eye-popping
This was the title of a long-running what grownups hilariously called “homosexual acts” Ozzy Osbourne. action in the opener,
kids’ show that, through ironic between two men aged below 21 were illegal, and Hollie Richardson season two of the
inversion, showed the BBC’s self- Margaret Thatcher’s Local Government Act forbade hyperviolent crime drama
loathing at producing content for what The Simpsons’ schools teaching the “acceptability of homosexuality Aldi’s Next Big Thing takes a rare breath to fill
And
Sideshow Bob would later call the omnidirectional as a pretended family relationship”. In such a climate,
another 8pm, Channel 4 in some vital backstory.
sludge pump. Leslie Stewart and Roger Tonge’s teen drama Two of Us thing It’s all going a bit Bake Off In the present, stressed
Don’t tell me what to do, I told TV in the 1970s. If had to cut the kiss between the two teen boys. Only in in the Aldi test kitchen ex-cop Elliot (Sopé Dìrísù)
I wanted to waste my life having my prepubescent 1990 could the kiss be restored. Tonge tells Huq that he as small-scale bakeries tries not to provoke his
sexuality shaped by ogling presenters such as Magpie’s still keeps the letters from kids struggling with their Now Mock the compete for some space wicked new boss Koba
Susan Stranks, Play School’s Floella Benjamin, Tiswas’s sexuality who found his drama consoling. Week is over, on the supermarket (Waleed Zuaiter).
Sally James and the nameless Swedish protagonist of Kids’ TV remains an outlier for a kinder, more Dara Ó Briain shelves. Do you like the Graeme Virtue
proto-Scandi noir Gold on Crow Mountain, that was my inclusive world, Huq tells us, citing CBeebies’ is free to sound of “dessert sushi”?
business. If my brother and I would solemnise our George Webster, the channel’s first presenter with become Have High-end doughnuts? Or Fantasy Football
fondness for Bill and Ben by making tinfoil hats from Down’s syndrome. I Got News perhaps an Indian-spiced League
custard tarts the better to imitate the Flower Pot Men’s True, there are many lacunae in Huq’s analysis. for You’s pastry? Either way, it’s 10pm, Sky Max
preverbal “Flobba dob”, nobody could stop us. Where’s Rastamouse? Where’s Bayleaf the Gardener? permanent the tastebuds of Julie, Liverpool fan Chris
Why Don’t You? was, as Konnie Huq points out in Where’s the analysis of the military-industrial complex host. Aldi’s MD of buying, that McCausland will no
Kids’ TV: The Surprising Story, based on the same of Camberwick Green’s Pippin Fort? When Grange Hill, really need tickling. doubt have many
principles of user-generated content as YouTube and after dramatising heroin addict Zammo in rehab, Ellen E Jones thoughts to share about
TikTok. It was cheap and cheerless. Huq includes a clip released the hit single Just Say No, did it change teen his team’s recent defeat to
of a girl in Belfast making the letter H out of cardboard, attitudes to drug taking? Taskmaster Nottingham Forest as he
gluing coins to its surface and then hanging the But there is a bigger question. Why don’t you turn 9pm, Channel 4 joins hosts Matt Lucas
resulting bling around her neck. She looks like the least off the television set? Today’s kids already have. Huq The second series of and Elis James in the
badass rapper in the history of even Northern Irish hip- should make another programme asking how today’s Taskmaster this year studio. Man United fan
hop. And then – this is the best bit – she invited viewers little herberts, without the omnidirectional sludge remains gloriously daft Rachel Riley will also be
to do the same if they want to look trendy. Why don’t pump for guidance, get the positive images and diverse escapist fun, even if it there to flaunt her fantasy
you do one, I might well have told the telly. messages that she champions. occasionally feels as if the football team. HR
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and ideas
Even Sunak
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s Rishi Sunak was pronounced disappear soon. It is not the only potential abuse that ILLUSTRATION:
Conservative leader by the may come to haunt Sunak’s leadership – the Boris SEBASTIEN THIBAULT
backbench 1922 Committee, few Johnson privileges inquiry is next month and there
noticed a tantalising anniversary. It are questions about the return to government of
may fail to hold

was 100 years ago this month that Gavin Williamson, sacked by Theresa May for leaking
Tory MPs abandoned the coalition classified documents. For now, Braverman is the issue
that David Lloyd George had led that could rattle Sunak’s carefully balanced cabinet
since the end of the first world war. soonest and most dangerously.
the crumbling
The decision proved a Tory triumph. The party won the At PMQs, Sunak tried to dismiss Braverman’s
resulting election and, without knowing it yet, seized resignation as an error of judgment. It was much
control of 20th-century party politics. The dauntingly more than that. Braverman’s offence was serious: she
successful Tory party of the democratic era dates from shared an internal Home Office draft document on
Tories together
that period. So does the 1922 Committee’s name. immigration with rightwing backbenchers. It was a
Whether Sunak can take that record of Tory electoral breach of ministerial responsibility, and a deliberate
dominance into a second century is very much an open one. It is conceivable – public details are sketchy – that
question. History casts no light on the future. The she was in the habit of doing such things.
prime minister is focused not on securing another Tory What is certain is that, as a security minister, it was
Martin electoral triumph but on avoiding an electoral disaster. a breach with big implications. Home Office officials
Kettle A Conservative resurgence like the one that followed
the realignment of 1922 remains a long way off.
thought it was serious enough to report it to the cabinet
secretary, Simon Case. He appears to have thought it
The most immediate evidence of that is Sunak’s grave enough to advise Truss that Braverman should
decision to reappoint Suella Braverman as home go. Sunak may struggle to shut this story down and
secretary, less than a week after Liz Truss forced her prevent an inquiry that could force his
to resign. The issue dominated Sunak’s first prime
minister’s questions yesterday, and it is not going to
hand over whether she can continue in the
job. Even if he succeeds, the appointment
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the crumbling Tories together
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will do Sunak reputational harm. Sunak v Starmer winter, but the post-2020 dynamic of Labour
Rectitude is one of his assets. He prides

himself on telling the truth. He resigned
as Johnson’s chancellor saying that “the public
competence against Conservative culture war
is over. To rehash an old rule of politics: it’s the
economic crisis, stupid. And neither Mr Sunak
rightly expect government to be conducted properly, Drop the Westminster nor Sir Keir is prepared.
competently and seriously”. He arrived back in In fairness to the new prime minister, he
Downing Street promising “integrity, professionalism panto and tackle the has got one thing right. By putting off the next
and accountability”. The reappointment of Braverman
does not square with any of that. UK’s economic crisis budget until mid-November, he has given his
government breathing and thinking space to
Why did he do such a thing? He did it because he make more serious fiscal plans. The bad news is
thought he had to. Partly that’s about policy. Sunak Forget Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder – Westminster he plans another disastrous round of austerity.
seems still to believe that neoliberal economics can is braced for its own epic bout: “weird guy” versus Yesterday’s most telling challenge came from
coexist with restrictive immigration measures. Not “centrist dad”. At least, that is how advisers to Sir Keir the SNP’s leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford,
many economically informed politicians believe the Starmer would like it framed: the super-wealthy and who asked for a guarantee that benefits would
circle can be squared that way. Truss certainly did preternaturally young new prime minister versus rise in line with inflation – a guarantee the
not, and nor does Jeremy Hunt. But Braverman’s their reliably grownup leader. prime minister refused to give. This will drive
reappointment was less an affirmation of her views If yesterday’s prime minister’s questions is any to destitution some of the lowest-paid Britons,
than a reminder of his weakness. Her backing for guide, Labour ministers will need to deepen and as recognised by a Tory chancellor who just
Sunak at a critical stage in the contest last weekend is broaden their attack. It’s not that they lack for a few months back swore benefits would be
I
what has got Braverman her job back, nothing else. material, served up in a reliably adult manner by linked to inflation. That chancellor was none
the leader of the opposition. From Rishi Sunak’s other than Mr Sunak.
t is important not to be pious about this. non-dom wife to his reappointment of Suella The odds-on favourite to be the next prime
Given the dire situation facing the Tory party, Braverman to the very office she quit in disgrace just minister is of course Sir Keir, and it is natural that
Sunak is surely right to try to unite the party. last week, all was present and correct. One can see in he will be asked more and more what he would do
He has to overturn Truss’s preference for a this the germ of this winter’s political debate – and differently. So far, the honest answer is: we don’t
cabinet based on fidelity rather than ability. the two big problems with it. know. Labour has a £28bn-a-year green investment
It follows that this means giving jobs to some Not only did Mr Sunak have his guard up, he’d package and a pledge to scrap the non-dom tax
people whom Sunak would prefer not to have brought his own parries. In the new prime minister’s loophole. But it needs to do more on wealth taxes,
round the cabinet table. It is why not just view, his rival is a north London remainer who and it should argue that spending cuts amid
Braverman, but others such as the foreign secretary, worships Jeremy Corbyn. Missing from this tired a recession are madness. Far better to protect
James Cleverly, the environment secretary, Thérèse ding-dong between Sir Forensic and a reedy, dweeby benefits and public servants’ wages, and to lay out
Coffey, and perhaps even the defence secretary, Ben understudy of Boris Johnson was the fact that plans to grow the economy. Given how fast food
Wallace, are still there. Hug your friends close, but the vast majority of voters are suffering a vicious prices are rising, it should also guarantee meals
your enemies even closer. squeeze on their living standards. for schoolchildren – in and out of term.
Sunak is not going to be his party’s magic bullet. Meanwhile, pubs and churches are setting Oppositions don’t win elections, it is often said;
The Braverman deal underlines that. He is not as themselves up as warm hubs, so that people who can’t governments lose them. From Boris Johnson to
brilliant as his admirers claim. He made bad errors afford to heat their homes do not freeze this winter. Liz Truss, through parties and lobbying scandals
at the Treasury. His commitment to Brexit is bizarre Hospitals in Leicester have started food banks for and foolhardy budgets, this government has done
for someone so economically literate and committed their own workers. Not only does the parliamentary its level best to lose the next election. Now it’s up
to globalisation. He is politically inexperienced – pantomime ring particularly hollow in this brutal to Labour to prove why it should win.
and it sometimes shows. And he faces a task that is
probably beyond anyone anyway. That said, in the
torrid circumstances created by the falls of Johnson
and Truss, Sunak is definitely the least-worse choice Russia be achieving. Their dismay registers with anxious
available. It is hugely to the Tory party’s credit that it families back home.
has chosen Britain’s first Asian prime minister. But just Opinion polls that show massive support
as Tory supporters should not overstate the difference
that the coronation of Sunak has made, so also Tory
Military failure in Ukraine for the war are unreliable, since opponents of
Mr Putin are warier of sharing their views with
opponents should not understate it, either.
Consider what the Tory party managed to achieve
is exposing big cracks strangers. Independent analysts say that there
probably is still a majority in favour, but that it is
in the past week. Most strikingly, it put a stake through
the heart of Johnson’s attempt to make the party his
in the Kremlin’s facade not monolithic. There are hardline nationalists
who see the conflict as a crusade against the west,
own. It was widely assumed by friend and foe that he but also a less ideological segment that backs the
would win. The story of how that was prevented will Vladimir Putin is losing the war in Ukraine, but this country’s armed forces as a matter of cultural
be fascinating. This could nevertheless mark the end does not make him any less dangerous. A despot habit. The former group is committed to total war
of the Johnson era in British politics. If so, the Tory whose authority at home depends on projecting without limits. The latter camp would gladly see
party has done us all a favour, not just itself. strength abroad cannot afford the humiliation of the whole thing brought to a swift conclusion. That
The good work does not stop there. The party defeat. So far, the Russian president has responded division is increasingly reflected in debates on state
also managed to get rid of Truss and all her fanatical to every setback with more aggression. That propaganda channels, where it is no longer taboo
advisers, to spare itself a Penny Mordaunt prime involves more indiscriminate attacks on civilians to suggest that things have not gone to plan.
ministership that would surely have ended badly, and civil infrastructure. But Mr Putin also makes The president is still beyond criticism. In
and to see the back of Jacob Rees-Mogg. The 1922 more demands of Russians. When the war began, drafting civilians to fight, Mr Putin intended to
Committee deserves more gratitude than it has civilian support for what censorship laws insisted on harden opinion, appealing to national myths
received. It devised rules that got the party out of the calling a “special military operation” was high, but of self-sacrifice for the greater glory of Russia,
hole it had dug for itself by electing Truss, but without mostly passive. Saturated with Kremlin propaganda, converting waverers into crusaders. However,
allowing the members to vote Johnson back in. Labour most of the country accepted the deranged official he might be achieving the opposite.
has been quick to dismiss the Sunak government as version of events – that Ukrainians were crying out He badly underestimated the capacity of
a massive retread, and as the Johnson government for “liberation” by Russian soldiers. Ukraine to resist invasion in February, and he
without Johnson. It is a strange form of insult, since But there was also dissent and protest in defiance has overestimated the readiness of Russians to
Johnsonism without Johnson is what Sunak would of repression. Tens of thousands of people left the martyr themselves for his vanity. Independent
want to offer – a party cleaving to the 2019 manifesto country in horror when the war began. Their number Russian media in exile report that senior
but no longer led by the chancer on the cover. was then swollen by Mr Putin’s decision last month to government figures have lost faith in Mr Putin,
The Tory party’s crisis is not over. It has merely declare a “partial mobilisation” of fighting-age men. but have no way of replacing him. The image of
entered a new phase that may be little more than a Plenty have signed up willingly, following what totalitarian control shown to the west is a facade,
holding pattern. Hunt’s autumn economic statement, they believe is their patriotic duty, or for want of better concealing a weak structure held together by fear,
postponed until 17 November, will be the next decisive employment. But many are not so keen on spilling corruption and inertia.
moment. That’s when it will have to make a choice. It their own blood for a cause that was more appealing Mr Putin’s authority cannot withstand unlimited
can cut spending, raise taxes or, most likely, attempt when confined to fictionalised news bulletins. military setbacks and his regime might be more
some combination of the two that will please few The scale of the mobilisation has made it harder brittle than it looks. His method of responding to
people. Against the backdrop of interest rate rises, to conceal the abject condition of Russian soldiers failure with escalation is leading to yet more failure.
inflation, energy price rises, strikes and a winter crisis in the field. Conscripts are being sent to Ukraine His defeat in Ukraine would be the just outcome for
in the NHS, it is a bleak season ahead for Sunak and his without training, warm clothes, functioning the people of that country. It is also a necessary step
party – whether they hold together or not. weapons or any sense of what they are supposed to on the long road to a better future for Russia.
Opinion 3
Labour should My dark skin

at the 2010 election, Labour had a 13% lead among
Hindus and a 48.5% lead among Sikhs, but by the 2015
election, the Tories were 8% ahead among Hindus and
Sikhs together.
be worried by got me sacked

However, this is where the complexity of Asian
migration comes in – and with it the fact that Sunak does
not represent all Asians. Unlike the West Indies and the
Windrush, Asian migration cannot be symbolised by the
the Tory Hindu from British TV.

arrival of one ship. There were two distinct migration
streams. The first, known in the community as the
“direct-flight” migrants, arrived soon after Britain left
the subcontinent, and were mainly rural migrants from
revolution Still, I fight on

Punjab and Gujarat, with a large number of Muslims
from Mirpur in Pakistan-Kashmir.
Sunak is part of a different wave of Asians. In the
days of the empire, his ancestors had been encouraged
by the British to migrate to east Africa, to act as
Mihir middlemen between the British and the Africans. But Barbara
Bose when these countries gained independence in the
60s, gaining new leaders and in some cases becoming Blake-Hannah
more hostile towards their Asian populations, many of
those migrants moved to Britain. His father came from
Kenya, and his mother from Tanzania. And these Asians
R F
have had reason to be more grateful to the Tories than
to Labour.
ishi Sunak’s arrival in No 10 is a more It was Harold Macmillan’s Tory government that ifty years ago, when racists called
complex story than that of the first agreed that Kenyan Asians could come to Britain if they and wrote letters to ITV’s Today
brown man to hold the highest office. were driven out of Kenya, and Harold Wilson’s Labour programme in 1968 telling the
It is the result of a revolution in the government that passed the Kenyan Asian bill, which corporation “Get that nigger off our
Tory party’s attitude to Hindus, went back on this promise. In 1972, it was Edward screens”, they were speaking about
which illustrates the complex nature Heath’s Tory government that overcame opposition – me, the first visibly Black TV journalist
of postwar Asian migration to this including from many in Labour – to allow in Ugandan in Britain.
country, and should also ring alarm Asians who had been thrown out of the country by Idi It resulted in me losing my job,
bells for Labour. The Tories have converted from a Amin. Those Asians faced well-documented racism having been in post just nine months. The official
party that, historically, hated Hindus – and that is not and hardship, but still, with pluck and with much excuse was, “She didn’t fit in.” But this was not
too strong a word – to one that has pivoted enough entrepreneurship, made their mark on British society what I was told when the producer showed me the
towards Hindus for the community to lose its old fear and the British economy. complaint letters, and then the door.
of the Tories. Sunak has made much of the pharmacy his mother It hurt. Not least because, only a few weeks earlier,
The Tories may not like being reminded of their ran, and the long hours he worked there. His mother  the British government had passed the Race Relations
hatred for Hindus, but Sunak will be unable to miss the was one of many east African Asians who ran such Mihir Bose Act, making it illegal to discriminate against people
portrait in No 10 of the man who articulated it: Winston businesses, in contrast to the image of the Asians of the is an author in housing, education or jobs based on their race or
Churchill. As recorded in the diaries of Churchill’s direct-flight generation as factory workers. whose books religion. My employer, Thames Television, could
Downing Street secretary, John Colville, on returning In 1969, when I worked in a factory in Leicester during include The have told the racists they it would have been breaking
from Yalta in 1945, “the PM said the Hindus were a the summer holidays, I would have dismissed as fantasy Spirit of the the law. It sided with the racists instead.
foul race... And he wished Bert Harris [head of the RAF the idea of Asians owning businesses. It is the children Game: How TV was black and white then, which is probably
Bomber Command] could send some of his surplus of these east African Asians who have done well, and Sport Made why Eric Anthony Abrahams, a Jamaican journalist at
bombers to destroy them”. particularly the Hindus: about two-thirds of Hindu men the Modern the BBC a few years before I got my job, escaped the
Tories will argue that they have moved a long way, are in managerial and professional jobs, but only around World; and same fate as me. His paler skin had not appeared dark
spearheaded by David Cameron, who, at a reception in a third of Muslim men. From Midnight enough on TV screens to receive the same racism that
Wembley for Narendra Modi in 2015, wooed the Indian Labour needs to learn from the Tories how to court to Glorious mine inspired. Skin tone mattered. It always has.
prime minister by speaking a few words in Gujarati, the various divergent sections of Asian communities if it Morning? There is a startling illustration in the Jamaican
while his wife wore a sari. This continuing courtship is not to see Sunak and his party further mine the Asian India Since National Library showing three slave women washing
was already paying rich dividends for the Tories: gold it has found. Independence clothes in a river. One is a beautiful, near-white
woman with Caucasian facial features. Those light-
coloured “mulatto” and “quadroon” slaves were
born from the unions of Caribbean slave owners
with the African women they had enslaved. This
miscegenation produced many children living with
the disadvantage of their “one drop” of African blood.
There is no escape from the negative association of
having that “one drop”, no matter how light-skinned
the person is, as Meghan Markle has discovered.
The word black with a “b” is first associated with
the spectrum colour, but also with black magic,
blackmail, darkness, despair. It is not just the
Black negative connotations of the word black, but how
History confusing it is when used to describe the many hues
Month of the African race – from milk chocolate to ebony.
This article For this reason, calling Black people Black with a “B”
is part of an needs to become universally adopted by the print
Opinion series media, for clarity when a person’s race is referred to.
about what Looking now from Jamaica, where I live, I know
it means to that Britain is a different place, but I find it hard to
be Black in be too optimistic. All signs of a rush to Black Lives
Britain in 2022 Matter-style action after George Floyd’s death have
disappeared. The Barbara Blake-Hannah Press
 Gazette award, which was created for up-and-coming
Barbara Black and minority ethnic journalists in the wake of
Blake-Hannah the BLM protests in 2020, was cancelled after just two
is an anti-racist years. The excuse the awards organisers gave was
activist and that they wanted to “ensure a diverse range of people
a former TV are recognised across the awards”, not focus on Black
Rishi Sunak lights a candle for Diwali in Downing Street in November 2020 PHOTOGRAPH: LEON NEAL/GETTY broadcaster journalists. It’s dispiriting, but all I can do is fight on.
4 Opinion
Kanye West’s
on Monday, arriving fashionably late to a position on It is perhaps an obvious point, but when Britney
her bigoted ex-husband. At an earlier stage of her life Spears shaved her head and told the paparazzi
journey, after Kanye had backed Donald Trump, she to do one, she was placed under an involuntary
was able to settle on the less costly, “I let him have his conservatorship for 13 years. Ye’s spiral, by contrast,
hate speech is
own views.” despite featuring uncoded incitements to race hate,
Now the risk analysis has changed. When Ye and being enabled entirely by online culture, hasn’t –
supported Trump in 2018, wearing a Make America and presumably won’t – result in any such sanction.
Great Again hat and doing the kind of under-the- This is a man who should, for his own sake as well as
pure Trump
radar antisemitism he’d been engaged in since at others’, at the very least have his phone taken away
least 2013, that was one thing; who knows how many from him.
of his associates discreetly agreed with him? But by The question is how Ye was permitted to launder
turning up in a “white lives matter” sweater, implying his far-right views as the clownish eccentricities of
Diddy was controlled by Jews, then doubling down to a colourful billionaire for so long. This is the Trump
Emma threaten “death con 3” on Jewish people, he – sadly playbook (minus the billions), an anti-strategy for
Brockes for Ye’s fellow travellers – said the quiet part out loud,
sending his brand-partners’ share prices plummeting
which chaos is the delivery system and ultimate
goal. If fear and instability drive people to the right,
and ruining the party for everyone. cynicism keeps them there.
Not even appeals for sympathy based on Ye’s Ye setting up a private school while saying he’s
disintegrating mental health could keep him in the air; never read a book – as he did in September – would
I
as well as Adidas cutting ties, Balenciaga, Foot Locker appear like a piece of satirical performance art if
and a range of other brands did, too. His agents at CAA we hadn’t already seen it in Trump’s “university”.
f there has been a single enjoyable aspect to dropped him. Twitter, finally, kicked him out. The theatrical philistinism, of a piece with Trump’s,
the initially sad, latterly alarming downfall The damage, in material terms, was already done, draws down into deep chambers of inferiority that,
of Ye, the rapper and mogul formerly known and no amount of belated scrambling could change it. apparently, money never mends.
as Kanye West, it has been the sound of Ye’s statements took place online but, as we know from Offenders with only slightly less reach than Ye have
screeching tyres this week as successive the incitements of other far-right fanatics, there are been rehabilitated, meanwhile. Witness Mel Gibson:
associates understood – finally – that real-world consequences. if not entirely back, then at least hireable again – in the
supporting him wasn’t in their interests, and When your wealth, celebrity and influence are last year, he has made two movies and a miniseries.
slammed on the breaks. sufficiently large, hate speech has the power to Ditto men kicked out during the height of #MeToo
Without Ye and his frothing antisemitism, we make people log off after posting a poisonous rant quietly creeping back to their former positions. We are
might have been denied a trot around the little- and leave the house to actually do something. For all suckers for a meltdown story, and the culture has
known origins of Adidas, official sports shoe of the reasons difficult to fathom, the most popular real- infinitely more patience for men suffering breakdowns
German Olympics team in 1936, and, until Tuesday, world medium for Ye’s followers seems to be the than women; plus remember how Ye lost his mother,
one of Ye’s many lucrative sponsors. overpass network of greater Los Angeles, from which poor guy. The fact remains that, whatever health issue
And it has been a pleasure, as ever, to be reminded banners declaiming “Kanye is right about the Jews” triggered the dissolution of filters that allowed Ye’s
of the venality of the Kardashians. “Hate speech is and expressing other, similar sentiments have been antisemitism to flow out, it all had to be there inside in
never OK or excusable,” tweeted Kim Kardashian unfurling for weeks. the first place.
West
ME G A
Africa’s
LOPO
future The long read
The stretch of coast
L I S
between Abidjan
in Ivory Coast and
Lagos in Nigeria
is on course to
become the largest
continuously
populated zone
on the planet. But
a lot needs to change
to help it flourish.
By Howard W French

6 The long read
I
own right, or gradually being absorbed by bigger cities. Previous page: a 1992, when I took another long drive along this coast, a
Meanwhile, newborn cities are popping into existence satellite image of stretch of highway had been built on either side of the
in settings that were all but barren a generation ago. Accra, Ghana frontier between Ivory Coast and Ghana circumventing
When one includes these sorts of places, the projected PEETER VIISIMAA/ a coastal lagoon, and relegating the old picturesque
population for this coastal zone will reach 51 million GETTY/ but chancy border-crossing ferry to quaint memory.
people by 2035, roughly as many people as the north- Back then, few could have imagined the full scope of
eastern corridor of the US counted when it first came the changes coming to this stretch of coast – though, in
to be considered a megalopolis. retrospect, some of the signs were already clear.
But unlike that American super-region, whose As late as 1980, Lagos had still seemed like a series of
population long ago plateaued, this part of west modest towns barely stitched together by its highways
Africa will keep growing. By 2100, the Lagos- and bridges. By the early 90s, though, it had exploded
Abidjan stretch is projected to be the largest zone of in size, and was already choking on itself. It had
continuous, dense habitation on earth, with something become notorious for some of the world’s worst traffic
in the order of half a billion people. jams, known locally as go-slows. Abidjan, the region’s
“I have worked in China and in India, and that is second-largest city, had also begun to morph. Its
where most of the attention on cities has been until suburbs were expanding, thrusting toward the border
t has long been said that no one fairly recently, but Africa is unquestionably the with Ghana to the east. The other national capitals
knows with any certainty the population of Lagos, continent that will drive the future of urbanisation. of this region – Accra in Ghana, Lomé in Togo and
Nigeria. When I spent time there a decade ago, the And it is that strip along the coast of west Africa Cotonou in Benin – were likewise starting to mushroom.
United Nations conservatively put the number at where the biggest changes are coming,” said Daniel But it was on more recent trips, in the 2010s, that
11.5 million, but other estimates ranged as high as 18 Hoornweg, a scholar of urbanisation at Ontario Tech I saw the urban revolution transforming west Africa
million. The one thing everyone agreed was that Lagos University. “If it can develop efficiently, the region will coming into full view. By then, Ivory Coast had laid
was growing very fast. The population was already become more than the sum of its parts – and the parts down a true highway all the way from Abidjan to its
40 times bigger than it had been in 1960, when Nigeria themselves are quite big. But if it develops badly, a border with Ghana. Abidjan had gobbled up early
gained independence. One local demographer told me tremendous amount of economic potential will be lost, colonial capitals like Bingerville and the postcard-
that 5,000 people were migrating to Lagos every day, and in the worst of cases, all hell could break loose.” pretty but long-stagnant beach town of Grand-Bassam,
mostly from the Nigerian countryside. Since then, the turning them into dormitory communities. The
city has continued to swell. By 2035, the UN projects The first time I travelled along this stretch of coast was roadside scenery during a drive from border to border
that Lagos will be home to 24.5 million people. in the late 1970s, on a long road trip to Nigeria from along the Ghanaian coast bore no resemblance to the
What is happening in Lagos is happening across the Ivory Coast, where my family then lived. My father, lightly peopled landscapes of earlier decades. Towns
continent. Today, Africa has 1.4 billion people. By the who ran a 20-country healthcare training programme and cities were strung together one after another along
middle of the century, experts such as Edward Paice, for the World Health Organization, had a meeting to nearly the entire route. For long stretches, one scarcely
author of Youthquake: Why Africa’s Demography attend in Lagos, and he decided to invite my brothers ever left an urban environment.
Should Matter to the World, believe that this number and me along for the ride. At the time I was a first- As always in this region, Lagos is where the most
will have almost doubled. By the end of this century, year college student in the US, but it was the summer dramatic changes are visible. As it swells, the city is
the UN projects that Africa, which had less than one- holidays, and I was excited to jump aboard a clattering shooting thick urban tendrils west toward Benin – the
tenth of the world’s population in 1950, will be home old-school grey Land Rover for the trip. slender, francophone nation of 12 million people next
to 3.9 billion people, or 40% of humanity. He followed a route traced out on a well-worn, door – rendering much of that country’s economy a
These are staggering numbers, but they do not tell foldable Michelin map. It did not take long to discover satellite not so much of Nigeria, but of Lagos itself. (If
the full story. We need to zoom in closer. It is in cities that many of the routes marked on the map in red Lagos state were an independent country, its economy
where most of this astounding demographic growth – supposedly signifying national or international would rank as the fourth-biggest in Africa.)
will occur. Once we begin to think along these lines, highways – were little more than two-lane asphalt Led by Lagos, as coastal west Africa’s urbanisation
what is at stake becomes even clearer. Much western roads, some of which had long ago been chewed to gathers pace, and populations and regional commerce
commentary on Africa’s population growth has been oblivion by heavy trucking traffic, or eroded by years begin to surge across old imperial borders, the lives of
alarmist and somewhat parochial, focusing on what of seasonal rains. The secondary or tertiary roads, tens of millions of people along the coastal corridor
this means for migration to Europe. The question of traced more faintly in yellow and white, signalled far are changing in ways that neither colonial designs nor
how African nations manage the fastest urbanisation greater challenges: jarring dirt paths that were more six decades of independent government seem to have
in human history will certainly affect how many like trails than highways. These would leave our bodies remotely anticipated.
millions of its people seek to stay or leave. A recent aching and caked with dust. For long stretches, the
continental survey by a South African foundation, west African countryside was so empty that we had to Earlier this year, I returned to the coast, this time not
for example, found that 73% of young Nigerians carry our own fuel in jerry cans. for one long road trip, but for a series of shorter forays
expressed an interest in emigrating within the next One unfortunate artefact of this region’s imperial by car in Ghana, Togo and Benin. Everywhere I went,
three years. But given its scale, this is a story with history is that, while the British and French built roads the speed and scale of the historic transformations
far larger implications than population movements and railways to transport agricultural commodities under way were evident. In Ghana, I visited a place
alone, shaping everything from global economic and minerals from the hinterlands of their colonies to I had encountered on previous trips, Takoradi, and
prosperity to the future of the African nation state and modern ports – where they could be shipped home for its conjoined twin, the railroad town of Sekondi. In
the prospects for limiting climate crisis. great profit – in their intense imperial rivalry, they did 1980, the two towns together counted 197,000 people.
There is one place above all that should been little to connect their respective possessions. But by GUARDIAN GRAPHICS This year, their population surpassed a threshold
seen as the centre of this urban transformation. It that only 14 American cities have ever reached:
is a stretch of coastal west Africa that begins in the 1 million people, a more than five-fold increase in
west with Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory little more than a generation.
Coast, and extends 600 miles east – passing through On the July morning I returned to Takoradi, it was
Ghana, Togo and Benin – before finally arriving at Benin the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, or Tabaski, and the
Lagos. Recently, this has come to be seen by many narrow downtown streets were packed with young
experts as the world’s most rapidly urbanising celebrants from the local Muslim minority, all dressed
region, a “megalopolis” in the making – that is, a Ivory Coast Ghana Togo Nigeria colourfully in flowing laced robes. When the centre
large and densely clustered group of metropolitan of Takoradi was built, more than a century ago, the
centres. When its population surpassed 10 million city was Ghana’s lone port. It was here that Kwame
people in the 1950s, the New York metropolitan area Nkrumah famously returned by ship from England
became the anchor of one of the first urban zones to in 1947, emerging from obscurity to lead his country,
be described this way – a region of almost continuous Prampram then a British colony known as the Gold Coast, to
dense habitation that stretches 400 miles from Lagos independence 10 years later. In their fading pastel and
Bingerville Kasoa
Washington DC to Boston. Other regions, such as Cotonou dreary grey tones, the verandaed buildings of the old
Japan’s Tokyo-Osaka corridor, soon gained the same Lomé downtown looked like the set of a period drama. Just
Abidjan
distinction, and were later joined by other gigantic beyond here, though, the antiquated scene gave way
Accra
clusters in India, China and Europe. to an enormous construction site, where a highway
But the Abidjan-Lagos stretch now stands to Takoradi flyover was rising above dusty streets. Once complete,
become the granddaddy of them all. In just over The coastal road route it will allow traffic to bypass the old, outgrown centre
a decade from now, its major cities will contain spanning the new Gulf of Guinea in favour of the much larger modern periphery, where
40 million people. Abidjan, with 8.3 million people, megalopolis most of the city’s people now live.
will be almost as large as New York City is today. The At Takoradi’s western edge, I stopped at a new
story of the region’s small cities is equally dramatic. 200 km shopping mall where, on the shelves of a busy
They are either becoming major urban centres in their 200 miles supermarket, I found South African wines, Swiss
Most of the people who fill the streets of places

like Kasoa are recent arrivals from the countryside,
and live in ramshackle cinderblock dwellings. Julius
Ackatiah, a 55-year-old, recently set himself up in
business here after many years in Italy, where he had
already realised the African dream of emigration,
legally acquiring a new nationality in a rich European
country. I met him as he peered out from the unfussy
sidestreet storefront where he sells secondhand
housewares he has shipped from Italy.
Why had he chosen Kasoa, I asked him? Accra
has recently become overbuilt and too expensive,
Ackatiah said, but Kasoa was on the rise. “There are
lots of people here, and they are trying to set up new
homes for themselves and make new lives in this
town. That makes for good business.” As Ackatiah
spoke on the stairs of his shop, he was engulfed by
his used-goods stock in trade: cheap plastic chairs,
living room couches and tables, computer monitors
and household appliances, small and large, from
refrigerators and microwaves to laundry irons.
One of the biggest challenges for Africa’s emerging

megaregions remains its weak transport networks. In
2018, more than 40 nations agreed to creat the African
Continental Free Trade Area, an arrangement that
economists say could boost African GDP by $450bn
by 2035, mostly thanks to increased intra-African
commerce. Since then, another 10 countries have
joined, including Nigeria, making for a truly continent-
wide agreement. “At its crux, outside the World Trade
Organization, it is the biggest region of free trade in
the world,” said Astrid Haas, a Ugandan independent
economist based in Kampala. “What it is intended to
do is unlock the benefits on the continental scale for
African countries to be able to trade with each other;
to eliminate both tariff and non-tariff barriers.”
But realising its full potential will require much
more cooperation between neighbours, and especially
on improving physical infrastructure. Algiers and
Cairo remain the only African cities with underground
commuter lines. Abidjan and Lagos are building
surface light urban rail systems, but both are small-
scale and behind schedule. Meanwhile, the lack of
chocolates, cellophane packs of the same brand of decent roads continues to hold this region back. The
blueberries I eat every day in New York, and – an even four-lane highway between Accra and Kasoa aside,
more surefire sign of disposable income – expensive almost the entire 600-mile stretch of coast consists
canned dog food. There were also Portuguese and of an undivided two-lane road that passes slowly
Chinese restaurants, a beauty salon, mobile phone During a border-to-border drive through small towns and villages.
shops and a bridal gown dealer doing brisk business. Then there are the predatory police and soldiers
It is not immediately obvious where the income
necessary to sustain this kind of commercial strip
all along Ghana’s coast, for long who stop drivers in order to extort money under the
pretext of traffic safety checks or the fight against
comes from. Some surely derives from work in the
offshore oil business, some from a recently expanded
stretches, one scarcely ever crime. Last summer, on the outskirts of Takoradi,
I was waved down by a portly, peanut-chewing police
regional port, some from a combination of old-
line cocoa farming and new jobs in tech. And this
leaves an urban environment officer who asked, as if it was the most normal thing
in the world: “What have you brought for me?” West
points to the reality of what makes this megaregion African travellers face holdups like this on a daily
so distinctive from earlier ones. Since at least the basis. On a trip in Ghana in the 90s, when I travelled
18th century, as the writings of Hegel and Hume 340 miles from the northern town of Bolgatanga to
show, Africa has been widely regarded in the west Lagos, Nigera upward. There is little high-rise housing here, and the central city of Kumasi, I counted 72 roadblocks.
as if it existed outside the flow of history – scarcely a PEETER VIISIMAA/ few tall buildings of any kind. From up high, Kasoa International borders in the region have long been
participant in the global present, and even less relevant GETTY/ has a rough-hewn, unfinished look. The newborn even worse hotspots for this kind of predation.
to the future. This has never been true, but those city lurches outward from the highway junction in all Yet there is some reason for optimism. In May, the
who cling on to such misapprehensions would do directions, its roads jammed with traffic. For many African Development Bank announced it had raised
well to visit this stretch of coastline. In Lagos, Accra, experts, this is a problematic feature of much of west $15.6bn to fund the construction of a new coastal
Abidjan, or even in much smaller places like Takoradi, Africa’s urbanisation: it is almost entirely unplanned. highway from Lagos to Abidjan. “We are talking
meanwhile, globalised enclaves with strong links to the Kasoa’s streets are frenzied with jumbles of wooden about something like the road between Baltimore
rich world jostle with expanses of ragged urbanity, half stalls and incessant trading. In the dusty byways and New York – a toll road,” said Lydie Ehouman, a
hopefully striving, half congealed in poverty. beyond the highway, young people were everywhere: transportation economist at the bank, who told me
hawking sachets of cold water, running after cars to sell the target for completion of the highway, which will
On another morning, I drove from the heart of Ghana’s mobile phone credits and cheap plastic toys, crying out be four to six lanes wide throughout, is 2026. “It will
capital, Accra, to the city of Kasoa, less than 20 miles the prices of sweet, puffy bread or plantain chips from be free-flowing, with a chip in your licence plate so
away. Kasoa is sometimes touted as one of the fastest- beneath beach umbrellas on street corners. you don’t need to stop at toll gates. It will be a modern
growing conurbations on the continent. When I made Most noticeable of all were the schoolchildren highway.” Economists at the African Development
my first trips along this coast in the 70s, it was little walking the streets in their uniforms and backpacks. Bank argue that the West African Highway, as the new
more than a shambling collection of rural roadside By 2050, about 40% of all the people under 18 in the road will be called, will increase cross-border trade
traders’ stalls. In 1984, Kasoa had 3,000 people. world will be African, a proportion that will reach half among the participating countries by 36%.
Scarcely a decade ago, its population was just shy of by century’s end. On the streets of Kasoa, statistics like “If people are confident in the availability of
70,000. Now it is home to roughly half a million people, these come to life. Everywhere there were billboards reliable, rapid transportation, other things will begin
equal to Edinburgh or Tucson. for daycare centres, kindergartens and “international to change dramatically, too,” said Hoornweg, the
The view from an overpass above Kasoa on the schools”. The only real competition for school ads Ontario Tech professor. “Property values will rise

coastal highway is a reminder that cities throughout came from church ads, which offer promises of along the major transportation axes,
Africa have tended to sprawl outwards, rather than success in this world as much as in the next. and that will encourage people to build
8 The long read

Togo maintains a democratic facade through regular
elections, but has been tightly controlled by one
family since 1963. In contrast to Nigeria, though, the
electricity works, the internet is fast, and everyday
life is not plagued by insecurity. With its commercial
future in mind, Togo has built a port with capacity
much larger than its domestic needs, and also produces
cement, steel and other goods for its larger neighbours.
On this basis, Wells sees the country as a good bet,
and hopes to make money building hotels there. “The
places that learn how to create the right tax incentives
and legal protections [for investors] will be able to
arbitrage on Lagos and its dysfunction,” he told me.
Others are much more sceptical that this vision
will ever be realised. After all, it relies on canny
decision-making at the top of government. Bright
Simons, a prominent Ghanaian political analyst and
entrepreneur, called this five-nation megaregion
“one of the most administratively broken landscapes
on the planet”. Its governments are “unbelievably
un-strategic”, he said. “I am always puzzled by
the enthusiasm of elites for creating chambers of
commerce with Mexico, or some other distant country,
rather than with their own neighbours.”
Here, the needs of west Africa’s booming population
collide with the stubborn realities of the nation state,
and specifically with contrasting colonial histories.
Ivory Coast, Benin and Togo are former French
colonies, and Nigeria and Ghana were colonised by
Britain. This has left different official languages in
place, whether English or French, as well as a currency
in the French-speaking states, the CFA franc, that is
a relic of colonisation – it was once tied to the French
franc and is now attached to the euro. Perhaps the
most important imperial legacy, though, is the insular
national elites who, because of colonial history and
the near-checkerboard way the countries alternate
between English and French, pay scarce heed to each
other. A Nigerian I met in Accra, for example, told
upward, with highrises, rather than out with more me: “It wasn’t until I started spending time in Ghana
and more sprawl. The cities will also become much recently that I realised Ghana isn’t our neighbour.
more efficient and environmentally friendly, and that Benin sits next to us, followed by Togo.”
makes their development more sustainable.” Cotonou, the capital of Benin, lies 20 miles from
On the ground today, a vision like this isn’t so The region’s governments are the border of Nigeria, and 76 miles from Lagos, but
easily conjured. It’s true that in Lagos a collection of there is no immediate sense of the behemoth next
impressive modern highrises is slowly taking shape.
And in downtown Accra, a dazzling new real estate
setting their sights far too low to door. The city of 700,000 clusters around a small
and tidy administrative centre, complete with a
scheme – high-end apartment towers, office buildings,
fancy shopping plazas, luxury hotels – is planned for
address the huge demographic modernist presidential palace whose large size belies
the diminutive nature of Benin itself, the corridor’s
the waterfront. But such projects are catering to the
needs of the already wealthy, and not to the growing
and social changes on their way second-smallest state. With its low-rise buildings and
heavy scooter traffic, much of Cotonou feels scarcely
millions of people in the region who will soon urgently different from a big town or village. Whether Benin
need housing. Here, the contrast with China, where likes it or not, Lagos’s accelerating expansion seems
huge clusters of residential high-rises ring every large destined to one day swamp this place.
city, could not be more striking. Rather than avatars of Toward the end of my trip, I took a three-hour drive A billboard When I asked a longtime acquaintance, a successful
the future, in fact, the easiest thing to conclude from from Accra to the border with Togo. Accra soon gave advertising businessman from Benin, whether people in his
projects like these is that the region’s governments are way to a grimy industrial zone that stretched for miles. a new country, including its leaders, sustain close relations
setting their sights far too low to address the sweeping From here all the way to the border, about 120 miles, development in with Nigeria, the answer was no. “The elite here still
demographic and social changes on their way. This the landscape was filled with peri-urban sprawl, its Accra, Ghana flatters itself with talk about being the Latin Quarter
may even be true about the coastal highway system. most distinctive feature being the ubiquitous roadside HOWARD W FRENCH of the region, due to our French chauvinism,” he said,
“The best thing that could happen to west schools where children played sports or milled about. referring to the pre-independence era when France
Africa would be if someone could convince these At the border, as soon as I climbed out of my car made Benin a regional centre of colonial education.
countries to consider Asia,” said Alain Bertaud, a I was surrounded by touts eager to sell me taxi rides, “Our leaders are very poor at thinking ahead … If you
senior fellow at the Marron Institute at New York exchange currency for me or help expedite my visa tell the president he has nice shoes, he’ll be swimming
University. As a former World Bank official who and vaccination checks. I proceeded alone, expecting in happiness. With Nigeri a next door, what we should
specialises in urbanisation, Bertaud advised China complications, but was pleasantly surprised at how have done long ago is make English a second language
about developing one of the world’s most successful straightforward the procedures were on both sides in school, but no one has ever thought of that.”
megaregions, in the Pearl River delta. “Density itself of the border. My first question to the driver I hired This kind of pessimism, built upon a scornful
does not create prosperity,” Bertaud told me. “You will on the Togolese side was how far it was to the capital, assessment of governance at the national level in west
have to have lots more transportation, including new Lomé. He laughed. “You’re already in Lomé,” he said. Africa, is widespread. “We are going to need to have a
rail lines, new roads that link the coastal highway to “In 15 minutes, you will be at your hotel.” functioning Ghanaian state, functioning states in Benin
the hinterlands and to small cities, where the cheaper The next day, a Sunday, I drove 30 minutes east from and Togo, and at least a minimally functional Nigerian
land is.” He pointed out that this requires a lot of Lomé to a small town with Royce Wells, a 30-year-old government in order to make this hugely urbanised
building across national borders, which is not easy. “In American IT professional who wanted to inspect the  future livable,” said E Gyimah-Boadi, the 70-year-old
India, we have seen that even building a corridor that progress on a beachside house he is building. Togo is Howard W co-founder and former CEO of the Ghana Center for
crosses states within the same country is difficult. In an unusually narrow country – wedged between Ghana French Democratic Development, a thinktank.
Africa they will need much better coordination.” and Benin, it runs about 430 miles north to south, but is a journalist “Part of me wants to believe that the youth of west
Haas, the Ugandan economist, agreed. “Africa faces has only 31 miles of coastline. For this reason, local and author, Africa can be their own saviours, and that it is not
a need for $20-25 billion annually in infrastructure elites and foreign investors alike have long dreamed and teaches at because of the failures of my generation that they are
investment, plus $20bn more each year for housing. of building it into a kind of entrepot trading state that the Columbia necessarily doomed. The nation state has been a huge
Trying to convey the scale here is very hard. We are profits from various kinds of arbitrage, from currency University curse. It worked very well for some of us, but we have
talking about ballooning numbers, and people need fluctuations in Nigeria and Ghana to varying levels of Graduate School left very little behind for the young. Basically, we have
to be shocked into action.” corruption and political risk among its neighbours. of Journalism cheated them.” •
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to crumple towards decay. Then think of tax as an investment in Birmingham • In your article on spending was born in 1946, not 1948 as
its gold, russet, ochre, dun and our future health and wellbeing cuts, I was surprised that local our obituary said (21 October,
brown pigments will have a instead of regarding it as “legalised • It is wrong to follow uncritically government was omitted from Journal, p7).
moody nostalgia like that of slide theft” of our hard-earned wages? the conventional wisdom that the list of vital public services
transparencies in old Agfa film. Scandinavian countries seem the “unfunded” tax reductions – once again (How spending Editorial complaints and corrections can be sent to
The smell is of autumn – to work successfully to this and expenditure increases in the cuts could affect vital public guardian.readers@theguardian.com or The readers’
editor, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU.
fermenting leaves, the fragrance higher tax model. Truss-Kwarteng mini-budget services, 26 October). You can also leave a voicemail on 020 3353 4736
of rot and fungal spores dancing in Surely those who complain created a hole in the nation’s Local council funding was
dappled light, and an earthiness about waits for ambulances, finances that can only be filled by severely cut under George
through which the bracken
rhizomes burrow underground.
the lack of hospital beds, the
scandalous cost of childcare, the
further austerity (Where will the
axe fall? No easy targets for public
Osborne’s policy of austerity,
despite delivering a raft of Sunak’s ability, not
Above, the plant’s architecture,
caught in sunlight, feels redolent
lack of care for elderly relatives,
crumbling schools, the shambles
spending cuts, 19 October). Of
course, the mini-budget did not
vital frontline services related
to social care, education,
race, is what matters
with imaginary objects – things that is our public transport system propose unfunded tax reductions; housing, the environment
far older than modern human wish to see improvements in they were to be funded by and many more. Am I the only person who isn’t
thoughts, ideas and emotions, those areas. Where is the money borrowing. As a result, government A large number of local councils remotely interested in the race or
something beyond them. The needed going to come from, if not debt would have risen faster than are now facing being unable to age of the new prime minister? All
trampling migrations of extinct from our taxes? GDP, which is unsustainable in provide statutory services, let I care about is his competence.
and mythical creatures; the That is not to say that I think our the long run because ultimately alone anything else, and becoming Nina Young
seismic tremors of delinquent tax system is fair. There are still far debt interest would absorb the bankrupt. Moreover, they are Collingham, Nottinghamshire
gods; the atmospheric pressure too many loopholes that prevent whole of GDP. lumbered with an out-of-date and
of the sky carrying spores of everyone paying their fair share, But in the short term, and in the unfair system of council tax, which • Rishi Sunak is teetotal, yet he
ancient story; the gravity of but with a competent government right circumstances, it’s entirely is used to raise taxes by the back has promised us IPA – integrity,
ecological webs tying them to the in charge, greater fairness could appropriate for government debt to door. Enough is enough. professionalism and accountability
earth; the crushing indifference easily be achieved. For too long, the rise faster than GDP, as happened Bill Stephenson (Report, 26 October). We could
of a world that doesn’t care: Tories have been peddling the myth in 2009-10 in response to the Harrow council leader, 2010-12 all drink to that.
history is not weightless. Les Bright
This small illumination of Exeter, Devon
one bracken frond belongs to an
exploding colony with the potential Enduring advice family matters? It’s certainly not
the case for us, and one day I shall Treat asylum seekers • Why is a breach of the
to cover all these fields, woods
and mountains when they are
from the ‘experts’ point this out to the bank.
Name and address supplied
like human beings ministerial code a resignation
matter last week, but no bar to
eventually abandoned. Mowed, appointment in the same post now
baled, sprayed with herbicide, Rebecca Solnit’s article (Which • Reading Rebecca Solnit’s article, To lose one child is a misfortune, (Braverman’s return after breach
bracken is nature’s answer to woman hasn’t been bombarded I felt the need to scream at the but to lose 222 unaccompanied sparks indignation, 26 October)?
the questions of land use. This by unsolicited help from men?, sudden appearance of menopause asylum-seeking children is gross Owen Davies
frond belongs to a patch of heath theguardian.com, 20 October) will experts everywhere. It’s good negligence (Home Office accused London
recolonised by trees on the edge of strike a chord with many women. that it’s no longer a taboo subject, of ‘catastrophic child protection
the old racecourse above Oswestry, But it’s not men alone who labour but I now have gym instructors failure’, theguardian.com, • Having read that Jacob Rees-
along the borderline of Offa’s Dyke, under the misapprehension mansplaining to me what the 22 October). The Home Office needs Mogg resigned on St Crispin’s Day
between the plains of England that women can’t manage to menopause means for me, what to undergo a total reorganisation (Report, 26 October), I found out
and the hills of Wales. get anything “important” done the effects are and how to manage by people with compassion and that St Crispin is the patron saint
Over there, in the green folds of on their own. One of my bank it – regardless of the fact that I’m an understanding of what would of cobblers. How appropriate.
country, jackdaws stuff sticks down accounts is in joint names with my 20 years past that. be the best outcomes for all Alyssa Ford
the flues of hollow churchyard husband. The bank regularly sends I know I need to take care of my concerned. By this I mean that London
yew trees. Over there, in the emails to each of us – inviting my joints and bones, and have been asylum seekers should be treated
border-town streets, collared doves husband to consider investments doing so for some time. It’s yet as valuable human beings and • In view of the rapid turnover
croon down chimneys like ancient and private banking, and me to another example of men taking given the safeguards required – of prime ministers, would it not
gramophones. Each of these places think about insurance. ownership of the expertise about particularly in the case of children. help the economy if they stopped
are as magical or mundane as Do all banks still presume the how we should live with what is I would like to see Rishi Sunak commissioning personalised
sunlight shining on fern fronds but man to be in charge of making the an inevitable part of ageing. make radical humanitarian reforms lecterns and were loaned a simple
both have a mystical quality in the most of joint money, leaving the Anne Strong instead of using wild rhetoric folding legilium instead (What
imaginative symbiosis between the woman to deal with home and Sheffield to inflame public opinion with we can learn from PM’s lectern
human and more-than-human. unworkable schemes. This would designs, 26 October)? You can get
Common to both places are include speeding up times for new ones for about £250.
for a while. They only wanted to
the “encroachments” of bracken,
its fronds autumn-turning, Let down by the NHS know if he was still breathing. He
issuing identity cards once asylum
has been granted, so people can
Fr Alec Mitchell
Holyhead, Anglesey
defiant yet buckling under the was, but, lying flat with bronchitis, find jobs and get on with their lives.
weight of human prejudice, My 91-year-old brother spent nine it wasn’t easy. It was demoralising It’s not rocket science to behave • Has the Tory party turned the
its own radiant artfulness, the and a half hours lying on the floor and upsetting to watch him and be well, just plain common sense. UK into Dr Who? The country
“thoughts” of imagined objects. waiting for an ambulance. It was unable to help. Finding those lost children who constantly under threat from
Paul Evans requested at 6.30pm and finally The recent scenes on fracking in may be with family or enslaved aliens, occasionally timeshifted
arrived at 4am. He was in great the Commons were understandable, by traffickers should be the first to some historic glory, the
pain, with a broken shoulder and but the scandal in the NHS should priority. Surely tackling trafficking lead character regenerating
We may edit letters. Submission a head injury. We made three 999 be foremost in everyone’s minds, should begin at home. periodically. Boris Johnson must
and publication of letters is subject calls as he was drifting in and out whichever party they support. Lucy Lucy look on David Tennant with envy.
to our terms and conditions: see of consciousness and slurred in Rosemary Hale Former chair, Destitute Asylum David Nunn
theguardian.com/letters-terms speech, but then he would rally Wallasey, Merseyside Seekers Huddersfield Bristol
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10 Obituaries
art of line, silhouette and colour

reached an exquisite peak.
However, initially he was viewed
as being a member of what in
Encounter magazine in December
1954 the critic David Sylvester
called “the kitchen sink school”.
This provided an inadvertent
group name for four young British
painters who had been taken up
by the artist and gallery director
Helen Lessore, with shows in her
gallery, the Beaux Arts, in Mayfair.
Greaves, John Bratby, Edward
Middleditch and Jack Smith were
already out of sorts about John
Berger having proclaimed them
in 1952 as social realists. Now that
they were grouped as the “kitchen
sink” school, three of them were
positively dismayed – the exception
being Bratby, who enjoyed the
T
popular fame it brought him.
he uneasy quartet
seemed stuck with
the label when
the choice fell on
them to represent
Britain at the
Venice Biennale
in 1956. And in
1957 Greaves and Bratby were
among six young British painters
in Moscow to open a show of their
paintings hand-picked by Berger.
But that year, the nation swallowed
Harold Macmillan’s message
that they’d never had it so good
and began to reject social-realist
austerity. Bratby, Greaves and
Smith each won prizes at the 1959
John Moores Liverpool exhibition,
but pop art was edging out realism
as painting’s high-gloss response to
bright new times.
Greaves’s first solo show at the
Beaux Arts gallery in 1953 had
been a huge critical and popular
Derrick Greaves success, while he was still a student
on a scholarship at the British
School at Rome (1952-54). There,
Initially
Artist whose mastery he was
viewed as
although he maintained the realism
made in Sheffield, partly under
the influence of the renowned
of line, silhouette and being a

member
Italian realist Renato Guttuso, it
flowered and took on colour in the
Italian sunshine. Stephen Bone,
colour built on his early of what

was called
the Manchester Guardian critic,
singled out Men and Dogs in a
Landscape in the Beaux Arts show,
years as a sign writer ‘the

kitchen
sink
notably for the blazing blue sky
above an arid olive grove: “It is a
pity this picture was not included
I
in … [the exhibition] Figures in
school’ Their Settings, at present at the
n 1979 the artist Derrick finessed them for his own ends, Greaves in his Tate Gallery, for Derrick Greaves,
Greaves, who has died attracted in part by the flatness that studio, above, in unlike most of the artists [at the
aged 95, visited the Negev had haunted western artists since 2020, and two of Tate], has really been concerned
desert, in southern Israel, the late 19th century. his works: top, to design human figures and
and observed the vivid Later still he took inspiration Still Life With their surroundings.”
paradox of the apparently from some of Georges Braque’s White Lillies, Social realism, Greaves said,
cracked surface of the greatest canvases: large interiors 2021; and, was aesthetic suicide, although
barren waste invaded by of his studio, each overlaid with right, Ivy House his younger contemporary Patrick
flowers springing up overnight. a bird in full flight, an image that Farm – Garden Procktor recalled Greaves once
The resulting pared-down works Greaves refined further for his Reflections, 2014 confessing to a gathering of
that he produced for an exhibition own purposes, as in Shangri-La JAMES HYMAN contemporaries: “I was a teenage
in Britain and Tel Aviv built on (Two Exotic Birds) from 2002. GALLERY social realist.”
a push towards abstraction that Greaves’s line had always been Yet he stayed in touch with
had started in the 1960s. Later, he strong and pure, and in his his working-class roots and
borrowed motifs from the Ukiyo-e Shangri-La series, intended to remained a socialist from his
masters of woodblock printing provide an uplifting response to days selling the communist
Hokusai and Hiroshige, and the horrors of the Iraq war, his Daily Worker on a Sheffield
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street corner to late in life when, Birthdays

for instance, he smuggled the
photographic silhouette of an Iraqi
prisoner of war under torture in
Theo Richmond Roberto Benigni, actor, 70; Hilary
Abu Ghraib into what was at first
sight a purely abstract image.
Born in Sheffield, Derrick was
Journalist and prize-winning Callan, former director, Royal
Anthropological Institute, 80;
John Cleese, actor and writer,
the son of Mabel (nee Swindells),
a seamstress and costumier, and
Harry Greaves, an accomplished
author of Konin, about a Jewish 83; Lula da Silva, Brazilian
politician, 77; Prof Michael
Driscoll, economist, former vice-
cabinet maker but a remote parent,
traumatised by his first world
war experiences. Smith, a year
community that vanished chancellor, Middlesex University,
72; Bernie Ecclestone, former
chief executive, Formula One, 92;
I
younger, lived a few doors away Prof David Evans, mathematician,
in the same street. At the age of 82; Peter Firth, actor, 69; Sir Paul
14 Derrick left school and trained n 1968, an 800-page surviving Koniners scattered in then went freelance, working with Fox, TV executive, 97; Francis
as a draughtsman in a foundry. memorial book arrived locations from New York to Omaha MGM and particularly the Boulting Fukuyama, political economist
A remarkably accomplished pen in the post at Theo to Tel Aviv, and assembled a vast brothers. In 1957, while publicising and writer, 70; Henrietta Green,
drawing of his mother’s kettle on Richmond’s west documentation on the life and the film version of Lucky Jim, he food writer, 74; Sharon Heal,
a grate hung with drying towels London home – a book of death of their vanished community. met Kingsley Amis, who became director, Museums Association, 55;
survives from this time. remembrance for a Jewish From this mass of material he was a lifelong friend. Glenn Hoddle, football manager
In 1943 he took an community destroyed able to recreate, street by street, In the 1960s Theo moved away and commentator, 65; Simon Le
apprenticeship in sign writing during the Holocaust, put even house by house, the Jewish from publicity into directing for Bon, singer and musician, 64; Fran
and did evening classes, and a together by the few survivors. This quarter of 1930s Konin clustered television programmes including Lebowitz, author, 72; Vanessa-
drawing teacher encouraged him one commemorated the Jewish round its market square, the The South Bank Show, Man Alive Mae, violinist, 44; Kelly Osbourne,
to try for the Royal College of Art community of Konin, then a small Tepper Marik. and This Week. For the Shell singer and broadcaster, 38; Kumar
in London. In 1948 he won a place Polish town on the river Warta. He also recreated its inhabitants, Film Unit, he also researched Sangakkara, cricketer, 45; Prof
and a scholarship worth £600, Theo’s parents had lived there even down to their nicknames, and directed a number of Barry Supple, economic historian,
handsome at that time. before emigrating to Britain just from Leibke the Scribe to Dokonch documentaries. Two in particular 92; Chris Tavaré, cricketer,
It was a massive stroke of before the first world war, and the Burper. By telling the story appear well ahead of their time 68; Mark Taylor, cricketer, 58;
good fortune for Greaves. Yet not Theo and his father had subscribed of their lives as well as their from today’s perspective: Time for David Warner, cricketer, 36;
only had he loved working as a to a donation for the book’s deaths, Theo, who has died aged Energy (1982), about alternative AN Wilson, writer, 72.
signwriter, but in the end that publication. Since it was written in 93, ensured that they would be energy sources; and For Want of
trade, rather than the RCA or the Yiddish, which at that time he was remembered as individuals rather Water (1983), about developing
Beaux Arts period, turned out to unable to read, Theo put it aside. than as statistics. countries’ urgent need for clean Letter
be the foundation of his mature Twenty years later, he picked it Theo was born in Forest Gate, water. Making For Want of Water
painting. At the RCA he studied up again, looked at its closing list east London, to Samuel Richmond took him on adventures ranging
Robbie Coltrane
under Carel Weight, and his bleak of the 2,000 Konin Jews murdered ( born Ryczke), a businessman, from the dangerous to the comic
Sheffield cityscapes of these years in the Holocaust, and found he and his wife, Bertha (nee Sarna). in remote corners of the world. In the film Mona Lisa (1986),
were a romantic as much as a realist could decipher the names of at least He was educated in St Albans, While filming in Nepal, he slipped Robbie Coltrane (obituary,
reaction to industrial desolation seven of his relatives, including where his family moved during in a rock fall and broke his finger. 17 October) played the friend of
not too far in spirit from Weight’s two of his grandparents. As he later the second world war, and did two There was no hospital within two Bob Hoskins, the chauffeur to
ghost-ridden renderings of shabby wrote: “I turned over the pages and years’ national service teaching days’ journey, so Theo ended up in a high-class call girl. Coltrane
London streets and back gardens. knew that the decision had been in the RAF before studying a mountain hut, with a local nurse bookends the movie: at the start
In 1982 Greaves moved to made for me: I must write a book of international relations at the setting his finger by torchlight and he leads the Hoskins character,
Norfolk, where he remained for my own about the Jewish men and London School of Economics. a goat nibbling at his left foot. released from prison, away
the rest of his life. From 1983 to women of Konin.” He then embarked on a career From the 70s onwards he also from his abortive attempt to see
1991 he was head of printmaking The result was Konin: A Quest as a film publicist. He began wrote much newspaper journalism, his daughter, and at the end is
at Norwich School of Art. This (1995), an extraordinary work of at the Rank publicity office at mostly for the Guardian and skipping happily arm-in-arm with
was enriching for him and for his social and cultural history, which Pinewood in Buckinghamshire, the Telegraph magazine; he father and daughter. He displayed
students, and when in 2004 he had won both the Jewish Quarterly- encountering such household contributed more than 40 profiles the quirkiness of character
an exhibition at Bury St Edmunds Wingate prize and the Royal Society names as Richard Attenborough, to the Guardian alone. Among the and moral strength that would
art gallery in the beautiful Market of Literature Heinemann award. Dirk Bogarde and Brigitte Bardot figures he interviewed were Yehudi become his trademarks.
Cross built by Robert Adam, the Over seven years Theo learned (to whom he once offered a wine Menuhin, John Berger, Sir Huw Tom Stubbs
visitors’ book was studded with Yiddish, travelled to interview gum she found “disgusting”). He Wheldon and James Lees-Milne.
huzzahs from former pupils Theo was an unforgettable
gladdened by this viewing of his Richmond in the character, warm, extremely kind, Announcements
latest flowering. His exhibitions Picos de Europa an excellent host and a great
continued, principally with the mountains of raconteur. He had a brilliant
James Hyman gallery in London. northern Spain sense of humour, with a flair for
Irises in 2018 was followed by transforming angst into laughter.
BEN-TOVIM, Atarah, MBE, flautist, presenter
Blossom in 2020, and for his 95th He was also deeply erudite, with of children’s concerts, teacher, and examiner,
birthday this year From Shangri-La a vast crosscultural frame of died at her home in France on 20 October aged
to the Walled Garden, the new reference, capable of long, not 82 after a long and successful career, including
paintings recalling the rough stone entirely serious, disputes about Principal Flute with the National Youth Orchestra
and with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
walls that the artist encountered such arcane matters as the date of Orchestra. Deeply missed by her family, friends,
in the Derbyshire hills as a child. the last British cavalry charge (it pupils and colleagues. An Atarah Legacy Prize has
Hyman’s 2007 study of the artist was at Toungoo in Burma in 1942). been established to support musically promising
was titled Derrick Greaves: From In 1955 Theo married Diane players. Information and donations via the British
Flute Society (chair@bfs.org.uk). At a later date
Kitchen Sink to Shangri-La. Souccar, whom he had met at the
there will be a celebration in London of her life
In 1950 Greaves married LSE. She died suddenly in 1961, which has inspired so many.
Margaret Johnson, a nurse. They leaving him to bring up their two
had two sons and a daughter; the young children, Jonathan and
younger son, Daniel, won an Oscar Sarah. In 1965 Theo married the KNEEN, Liz. 18/6/1943 - 27/10/2007.
in 1991 as an animator. In 1990 novelist and screenwriter Lee Will always be greatly missed by everyone who
they divorced, and four years later Langley. He is survived by Lee and knew her.
he married Sally Butler, formerly their son, Simon, and by Sarah.
his model. She and his children Jonathan died in 2020.
For Announcements, Acknowledgments, Adoptions,
survive him. Munro Price Anniversaries, Birthdays, Births, Deaths,
Michael McNay Engagements, Memorial Services and In Memoriam,
Herbert Theodore Richmond, email us at announcements@theguardian.com
Derrick Greaves, artist, born 5 June writer, born 7 May 1929; died including your name, address and telephone
number or phone 0203 353 2114.
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and is represented by the same number wherever it appears. The letters
Killer sudoku The normal rules of decoded should help you to identify other letters and words in the grid.
Easy Sudoku apply: fill each
row, column and 3x3
box with all the numbers
from 1 to 9. In addition,
the digits in each inner
shape (marked by dots)
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Cryptic crossword Guardian cryptic crossword No 28,899 set by Matilda

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A R P C H E T 1 Do not attend church service 1 President sounds sustained by it
I T AL I C JOKE S TE R
R G S N F A E when drunk or collection when (6)
CA R G O S D O L OM I T E disorderly (8) 2 Silly cat among pigs? (6)
U A D C C G L P
TA CT I CAL LY 9 10 5 Walk and talk aimlessly (6) 3 Spell please (5,4)
S E C R A G B B 9,10 A little money surely needed 4 Leaping into little retail outlet?
F A T SWA L L E R 11 No, a big one! (8,4)
C S T M T M A U for reorientation (6,2,6)
A U T H O R E D L E MM A S 12 Christian starting off with a 6 Home origins of Anne Brontë
T R P L F E S 12 13 measure of whisky? (5) poem (5)
SMA S HH I T P I F F L E
U I A S S U L 13 China cut back Chinese social 7 Blocks providing coverage of
P I N E T R E E WH E L P S media conclusions at home (9) ghastly Love Island (8)
14 Dating? Must grab apartment at 8 Tiny tree developing all the time
14 15 top speed … (5,4,3) (8)
18 … shown by them getting pissed 11 Patisseries getting income
16 17 in Somerset, possibly (12) distributed or else (12)
21 Nomad shot real vulture, having 15 Tunes three-wheeler for raid (3,6)
18 ignored us (9) 16 Abstruse Euro-sceptic cup
23 Cards from a suit or a trump to running over (8)
19 20 West (5) 17 Calls up movement to do with
24 Polluted air not helping (6) words (8)
21 22 23
25 Everybody negotiating a nice 19 Carla touring East Asian country
partnership (8) (6)
26 Bone picked up from the last of 20 27 is out to frolic and run naked
half a dozen roosters? (6) (6)
24 25
27 Star in danger after moving east 22 Lastly, latte? Skinny or black? (5)
(8)
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