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Cameron’s massacre
of the men in suits
µ David Willetts, Damian Green, Dominic Grieve and Alan Duncan among
reshuffle casualties µ William Hague and Ken Clarke step down µ Head of
Civil Service sacked µ New generation of Tory women to fill cabinet vacancies
Singing from the same hymn sheet at last: Church of
England unites to back women bishops NEWS P.4
NI GEL RODDI S/REUTERS
A former Conservative Chief
Whip has been ordered to
apologise for breaching par-
liamentary lobbying rules fol-
lowing an investigation by The
Independent and the Bureau of
Investigative Journalism.
Lord Blencathra, formerly
David Maclean, was found by
the Lords Commissioner for
Standards to have signed an
employment contract with a
Caribbean tax haven agreeing
to lobby members of Parlia-
ment on its behalf.
Lord Blencathra claimed
that while he had signed the
contract with the Cayman
Island government he had no
intention of fulfilling its stipu-
lations. But the Commissioner
ruled that the very fact that
he had signed the contract
to make “representations”
to MPs and Lords on behalf
of the Caymans breached
Lords rules. These prohibit
members from accepting or
agreeing to accept payment or
other reward in return for pro-
viding parliamentary advice
or services.
The Lords ruling comes
after a long-running investi-
gation by the Bureau of Inves-
tigative Journalism and The
Independent into Lord Blen-
cathra’s relationship with the
Cayman Islands.
In 2012 we reported that
Lord Blencathra’s work for the
Cayman Islands government
included lobbying and that he
had written to the Chancellor,
George Osborne, to complain
about air passenger taxes on
flights to the Caymans as well
as approaching MPs who had
criticised the islands.
Those revelations led to an
earlier investigation by the
Commissioner in which Lord
Blencathra maintained that he
did not lobby Parliament and
would not do so.
“None of my work involves
lobbying Parliament or seeking
Tory Lord
censured
for lobbying
deal with
tax haven
MELANI E NEWMAN
AND OLI VER WRI GHT
‘She was a
champion of
freedom’
Bonnie Greer’s
tribute to
Nadine Gordimer
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Grace Dent
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on Twitter to avoid reading
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Malala Yousafzai
Why I spent my 17th birthday
in Boko Haram country
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Virginia Ironside
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Peter Fonda
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Continued on P.12 >
William Hague shocked MPs
last night by quitting as For-
eign Secretary and announc-
ing that he will leave the Com-
mons at next year’s general
election.
David Cameron will name
a new Foreign Secretary
today when he completes a
wider-than-expected cabinet
reshuffle. It will not be George
Osborne, who has expressed
an interest in moving to the
Foreign Office if the Conserv-
atives retain power next year.
He will remain as Chancellor
until the election. Last night
ANDREW GRI CE
POLITICAL EDITOR
Continued on P.6 >
the Defence Secretary Philip
Hammond was tipped as Mr
Hague’s successor
In what was dubbed the
“cull of the men in suits”, sev-
eral ministers were sacked or
stood down to make way for
a new generation of younger
Tory women who entered
the Commons in 2010. Their
posts will be announced
today as the Prime Minister
unveils his new team for the
election.
The departures include
David Jones, the Welsh Sec-
retary; David Willetts, the
universities minister; Dam-
ian Green, the policing min-
ister; Dominic Grieve, the
Women react after the Synod session in York which approved the appointment of women bishops
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TUESDAY15JULY2014 THE INDEPENDENT
In recent years it has become easy – and frankly
rather lazy – to portray the Church of England
as something close to, but less funny than, a
joke. Out of touch, beset by division and with
congregations in serious decline, some have
questioned the institution’s very place in the
public and political life of the country.
There is a self-awareness within the Church,
often even a self-deprecating sense of humour,
which belies the critical rhetoric with which it
is frequently confronted. Equally, the knowl-
edge of its own shortcomings and the real dis-
harmony created by internal wrangling over
several key issues has at times led to a feeling of
futility in the face of lampooning by outsiders.
Yet in spite of everything, the Anglican Com-
munion offers comfort, hope and direction to a
great many people in the United Kingdom. Its
institutional travails impact on its congrega-
tions adversely and are hardly something to
be gleeful about.
The debate over women bishops has been
particularly problematic. The No vote in
2012 must have seemed incomprehensible
to the general public, bearing in mind that the
Church had been ordaining women as priests
for nearly two decades. Women indeed make
up a third of the entire clergy.
Even more startlingly, the decision two years
ago was made despite a majority of each of the
Houses of the General Synod voting in favour
of change. The motion failed only because
it did not secure the two-thirds majority it
needed in the House of Laity. Since 90 per
cent of church-goers are reported to favour
the ordination of women bishops, that only
served further to highlight the inadequacies of
the Church’s decision-making structure.
Against this backdrop, the steps taken by
the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby,
Editorials
Historic chapter
The Church of England’s approval of women bishops is a
vital step in securing it a meaningful role in society
There have been many people in public life
who should have resigned but instead had to
be dragged from office. In the case of Baron-
ess Butler-Sloss, she was eminently qualified
for the role she had been appointed to, but
rapidly decided to step down for reasons that
were purely political.
There is little doubt that, in terms of han-
dling a high-profile inquiry into child abuse
and dealing with the victims sensitively, there
was no one better qualified. She would have
done, in No 10’s words, a “first-class job”. Yet
she did the right thing.
As Lady Butler-Sloss herself concedes, she
had not taken sufficient account of her close
family links to Sir Michael Havers, Attor-
ney General during the 1980s, nor that she
was perceived to be a prominent member of
“the Establishment”, a vague but powerful
notion that has become something of a term
of abuse. It was not enough that the inquiry
should be free and fearless, but that it had
False start
More consensus was needed over the Butler-Sloss appointment
to be free of any questions about its chair,
unfair as they were. When MPs, for what-
ever motives, questioned her appointment,
it was certain that she would be unable to
do the job.
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has
taken responsibility, but it is difficult to blame
her for this false start. In a rational world,
Lady Butler-Sloss’s appointment would have
been uncontroversial, as Ms May envisaged.
But the irrationality that surrounds such sen-
sitive issues is a political fact.
With hindsight, Ms May could have
done more to secure a consensus over the
appointment, albeit with some notoriously
awkward characters on the back benches.
A new chair, or panel – distanced from
the Establishment but with the requisite
skills, experience and knowledge to do the
job well, and also be acceptable to the parlia-
mentary awkward squad – will prove difficult
to find.
to fast-track the issue back before Synod were
an impressive signifier of his abilities. His
actions also sent out a strong message as to his
own views. The fact that sufficient numbers
among the Synod’s lay representatives have
now heeded his call to secure a Yes vote is as
historic as it is welcome. While yesterday’s
result will be troubling for a few, for the bulk
of Church of England worshippers it will bring
real joy. For many women priests, it will vali-
date everything they have worked for in their
ministries until now.
By its momentous – if belated – decision
the Church will not only bring relief to
parishioners and clergy, but will also restore
some credibility in the eyes of the wider
society it seeks both to engage and to serve.
There are other big subjects for Archbishop
Welby to wrestle with but this is a particularly
crucial advance.
Britain is a more secular country now than
it has been for centuries. In many ways, it is
also more tolerant. That is not to say there is
necessarily a causal link. Indeed, if toleration
has become a substitute for genuine under-
standing or even for forgiveness, its merits
are questionable. The Church’s journey to
yesterday’s pronouncement has been a long
one. But this carries the advantage that it
cannot be said to have been made without
proper consideration.
It may be no bad thing to be reminded that
finding time and space to reflect on our actions
is not some peculiar historical pastime. The
Church should be a place where such reflec-
tion is possible – and not only for those who
feel sure in their faith. Yet that can only be so
if the Church feels relevant to all. That women
are no longer to be excluded from its highest
orders is a significant step in that direction.
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TUESDAY15JULY2014 THE INDEPENDENT
Welby wins over the traditionalists to
secure a victory for Church equality
JONATHAN BROWN
After a day of impassioned debate, historic vote means first woman bishop could be appointed within months
Centuries of institutional ine-
quality at the most senior lev-
els in the Church of England
were swept away last night
after the General Synod voted
in favour of legislation paving
the way for female bishops.
The Archbishop of Can-
terbury, Justin Welby, won
an overwhelming majority
for his package of measures
that were designed to win
over the support of tradition-
alists while staving off a crisis
after Parliament threatened
to intervene in the dispute,
which has dogged the Church
in recent years.
There were scenes of jubi-
lation in Central Hall at the
University of York, where
the three houses of the Synod
– Bishops, Clergy and Laity
– had been locked in a day of
impassioned debate.
Backers of the measures
– the most controversial
since the ordination of female
priests was passed by a single
vote two decades ago – cel-
ebrated with champagne and
looked forward to the prospect
of the first female bishop being
appointed within months.
Archbishop Welby had been
prepared to drive through the
change in the event of a repeat
of the shock no-vote from the
House of Laity which blocked
the move two years ago. In the
end, it was not necessary after
months of mediation between
opposing factions delivered 95
per cent of the votes of bish-
ops, 87 per cent of clergy and
77 per cent of the laity – far
above the two-thirds needed.
The Archbishop told the
Synod that the Church had
been embroiled in the “dark-
ness of disagreement” and set
on a “tortuous path” as it bat-
tled over the issue.
He warned that the future
would be “hard work” and
that Anglicans faced a “long
period of culture change”.
Holding out an olive branch
to opponents, he said: “You
don’t chuck out family or even
make it difficult for them to be
at home. You love them and
seek their well-being even
when you disagree.” The vote
was welcomed by the three
main party leaders. The Prime
Minister, David Cameron,
described the news as a “great
day for the Church and for
equality”. Nick Clegg said it
was a “watershed moment”.
The Rev Lindsay South-
ern, from the parish of Cat-
terick with Tunstall, North
Yorkshire, was among those
celebrating. “We are ecstatic,”
she said. “To be at this point is
really wonderful. I don’t think
any of us really expected that
it really would go through.
We’re very relieved, very joy-
ful, and I really want to go and
hug a bishop.”
Rebecca Swinson, 28, the
youngest member of the
Archbishops’ Council, said
the vote paved the way for
young women to take a full
role in church life. “I’m really,
really pleased. I felt very angry
last time but today we have
managed to put some of that
behind us,” she said.
Sufficient numbers of the
House of Laity – which had
blocked the measure last time
by six votes – accepted the five
“guiding principles” thrashed
out in the past 18 months pro-
viding safeguards to allow
the conservative minority to
remain within the Church.
In an at times emotionally
charged atmosphere, liberals
and traditionalists did their
best to follow Archbishop
Welby’s determination that
they should “disagree well”.
However, opponents of the
historic measure repeatedly
denounced the move towards
a female episcopacy.
The deep scars of the dec-
ades-long debate were visible
with gloomy warnings of long-
term schism and growing irrel-
evance from opposing sides.
Prudence Dailey, a member
of the House of Laity from
Oxford who abstained, said it
had been “hard to forget the
amount of bile, vitriol and dis-
approbation heaped upon the
heads of us who voted against”
in the defeated measure of
2012. Samuel Margrave, of
Coventry, said people have
been “bullied” and suffered
“abuse” after voting no. He
claimed that the motion would
mean “the end of the Church
as we know it”. Susannah
Leafe, of Truro, said the con-
servative minority had been
offered few concessions.
But Christina Rees, one of
the most high-profile cam-
paigners for women’s rights in
the Church, was close to tears
as she paid tribute to those
who had agreed to set aside
their personal convictions to
promote church unity.
Archbishop Welby’s daugh-
ter Katharine expressed her
pride in his speech on Twitter,
saying “FYI I love my dad…”
and posting a transcript of his
speech. The approved meas-
ures will now be considered by
parliamentary and Synod com-
mittees before being passed
into law in November.
The first available diocese
to fall vacant will be Guildford
in 2015. There are 1,781 female
clergy in the Church.
THE CHURCH’ S ‘ NEW WAY’
WELBY’ S SPEECH
“If this passes, especially in
the light of the debate, we
are going to deliver. But to
make these principles real
will require practical steps
of training and development,
and a long period of culture
change so that we learn in
practice what it means to
love, to struggle for truth,
and to do so in the mists and
sometimes darkness of disa-
greement that derive from
our fallible humanity.
“Even if at times in the past
we have been overwhelmed
by the tortuous path we have
taken, we must not under-
state the significance of what
we can do now. Today we
can start on a challenging
and adventurous journey to
embrace a radical new way of
being the Church: good and
loving disagreement amidst
the seeking of truth in all our
fallibility; a potential gift to
a world driven by overconfi-
dent certainties into bitter
and divisive conflict.”
Katharine Welby,
Archbishop
Welby’s daughter,
posted how proud
she was of her
father on Twitter
The Rev
Miranda
Threlfall-
Holmes
and Hilary
Cotton (left)
celebrate
the Church’s
decision
yesterday
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The Russian delegation
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in response to the conflict
in Ukraine.
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Miliband ‘a worse party
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Ed Miliband is leading
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Still divided but
now prepared to
trust each other
So finally the Church of
England may have women
bishops. At the vote yes-
terday, bishops and clergy
members of General Synod
maintained the support they
had shown in November 2012
when the enabling legislation
was vetoed by the laity. This
time sufficient numbers of
the laity switched sides to
give the required two-thirds
majority. What made the
difference?
It probably wasn’t the
speeches on the day that
changed minds. Many of
them were excellent,
especially before lunch,
as somebody unkindly
observed. But then the
Synod audience knew the
arguments back to front.
Only one address stirred pas-
sions. This was a barnstorm-
ing speech by John Spence,
who is visually impaired. He
told how his eyesight had
suddenly deteriorated in his
thirties and had been advised
that it would be difficult for
him to retain his job. But he
had persevered and he had
succeeded by trusting that
colleagues and friends would
help him realise his strong
desire to continue working in
a senior capacity.
He urged Synod members
to trust each other in the
same way despite their some-
times bitter divisions.
There were other factors.
The disapproval that rejec-
tion generated in Novem-
ber 2012 among ordinary
members of the public was
so overwhelming that the
conservative evangelicals,
who had instinctively
opposed women bishops on
the grounds that no biblical
authority for them existed,
ANDREAS
WHI TTAM SMI TH
Comment
were prepared to join an
attempt to see whether a new
way forward could be found.
Then searching for a route
out of the impasse was sub-
stantially helped by the use
of what are called facilitated
conversations, in which
differences can be deeply
explored and solutions or
safeguards sought. This tech-
nique is borrowed from the
disciplines of mediation in
which Archbishop Welby is
expert and experienced.
A helpful decision was
also taken by the House
of Bishops when it drew
up a statement of guiding
principles that would bring
comfort to the conservative
evangelicals while at the
same time emphasising that
women bishops would enjoy
precisely the same powers
as men.
They were not to be sec-
ond-class bishops as had
been feared when the legisla-
tion was first drafted. Thus
the conservative evangelicals
were promised that the
Church of England remained
“committed to enabling
them to flourish within its
life and structures” while
future women bishops were
told that they would receive
“due respect and canonical
obedience”.
In fact what the Church of
England achieved yesterday
is noteworthy. For like so
many institutions it has been
struggling to overcome a lack
of trust among its members.
In relation to women
bishops, the questions
became – how do we live with
disagreement, how do we
move from the legalistic to
the relational, can we learn
to respect difference? The
Church is far from alone in
facing such questions.
Andreas Whittam Smith
is the First Church Estates
Commissioner, as well as
one of the founders of
The Independent
Justin Welby arrives for the General Synod meeting in York PA
Conservative
evangelicals
joined an
attempt to
see whether
a new way
forward
could be
found
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Ukraine, Syria, Middle East...
a baptism of fre at the FO
best of timings. The new
Foreign Secretary will have
to “learn the ropes” against
the background of a new
European Commission
with a President who is, at
best, antipathetic to the
British Government.
They will have to for-
mate policy in Middle East
against the growing crisis
of Islamic extremism in
Syria. Then there are on-
going problems in Ukraine,
a nuclear deal with Iran
which is touch and go, and
in the background the big-
gest question of all: how
on earth to deliver a deal
in Europe which will allow
David Cameron to win an
in/out referendum in 2017.
It is pretty daunting
inbox.
To his credit Mr Hague
has been a deft and astute
diplomat who will be
missed. But he may also be
showing that he is a deft
and astute politician – by
getting out in time.
OLI VER WRI GHT
WHITEHALL EDITOR
Comment
Hague shocks Commons by quitting as
Foreign Secretary as PM culls old guard
Attorney General; Nick Hurd,
the minister for Mr Cameron’s
flagship “big society”; Greg
Barker, the energy and climate
change minister; Alan Dun-
can, the international devel-
opment minister and Andrew
Robathan, a Northern Ireland
minister. Last night, the head
of the Civil Service, Sir Bob
Kerslake, was also sacked.
Mr Hague, 53, said he
wanted to return to writing
books, which he did after his
spell as Tory leader between
1997 and 2001. He will remain
in the Cabinet as Leader of the
Commons until the election,
co-ordinating government
policy and staying on as First
Secretary of State, in effect
Mr Cameron’s Tory deputy,
before standing down as MP
for Richmond in Yorkshire
next May.
Another “big beast”, Ken-
neth Clarke, announced his
retirement as a minister after
a marathon 22-year stint. Mr
Clarke, 74, stood down as
Minister Without Portfolio.
But the prominent Europhile
intends to carry on as an MP
after the election and vowed
to play a key role in the In cam-
paign in the in/out referen-
dum on Europe Mr Cameron
has promised in 2017.
Unlike Mr Clarke’s, Mr
Hague’s departure from the
Cabinet was unexpected.
Mr Hague said: “By the
time of the general election
next year, I will have served
26 years in the House of Com-
mons and it will be 20 years
since I first joined the Cabi-
net. In government there is
a balance to strike between
experience on the one hand
and the need for renewal on
the other, and I informed the
Prime Minister last summer
that I would not be a candidate
at the next general election.”
He said was stepping aside
as Foreign Secretary to focus
all his efforts on gaining a
Conservative victory next
year. He will spearhead his
party’s efforts to fight back in
the North of England, where it
needs to win several key mar-
ginals to secure a majority.
“I want to finish in frontline
politics as I began – speaking
in Parliament and campaign-
ing among the voters. After
the general election I will
return to my writing, while
still giving very active support
to the Conservative Party and
campaigning on international
causes I believe in,” said Mr
Hague.
Mr Cameron said: “William
Hague has been one of the
leading lights of the Conserv-
ative Party for a generation,
leading the party and serving
in two cabinets. Not only has
he been a first-class Foreign
Secretary – he has also been a
close confidante, a wise coun-
sellor and a great friend.”
There was speculation that
today’s cabinet departures
might include Andrew Lans-
ley, the Commons Leader;
Owen Paterson, the Envi-
ronment Secretary, and Sir
George Young, the Chief
Whip, and that Eric Pickles,
the Communities Secretary,
might move to a new job.
Right-wing Tories were opti-
mistic of a return for Liam
Fox, who resigned as Defence
Secretary in 2011 over his deal-
ings with his special adviser
Adam Werrity.
In a parliamentary career
dating back to 1970, Mr Clarke
served as Chancellor, Home
Secretary, Education Secre-
tary, Health Secretary and
Justice Secretary as he became
the longest-serving minis-
ter since the Second World
War. He stood three times
for the Tory leadership and
was seen by admirers as “the
best leader we never had”. But
his Europhile views counted
against him as the centre of the
party’s gravity shifted towards
Euroscepticism.
In a letter to Mr Cameron,
Mr Clarke said: “I have been
doing red boxes at night for a
high proportion of my adult life.
There are plenty of other able
people who could take on the
work that I was doing in gov-
ernment and I think the time
has come to return to being a
veteran backbencher.”
TUESDAY15JULY2014 THE INDEPENDENT
Steve Richards, P.13
Then there
is the
biggest
issue of all:
how to
deliver a
deal in
Europe so
the PM
can win a
referendum
News
It just shows – you can’t trust
the political punditry and
the political pundits can’t
trust their “confidential”
briefings.
Until this weekend Down-
ing Street were confidently
telling trusted journalists
that there would be no
change in David Cam-
eron’s top team of George
Osborne, Theresa May and
William Hague.
And now Mr Hague has
gone – to exit door post of
Leader of the Commons
from whom the current
incumbent Andrew Lansley
has just exited.
Downing Street and Mr
Hague both insist that the
move is voluntary and there
is no reason to believe that
it’s not. But it is still not the
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William
Hague
appeared
with the UN
special envoy
Angelina
Jolie at
the four-
day Global
Summit to
End Sexual
Violence in
Conflict in
London last
month AFP/
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MI NI STERS LEAVI NG THE
GOVERNMENT I NCLUDE:
Kenneth Clarke
Minister Without Portfolio
David Jones
Welsh Secretary
David Willetts
Universities Minister
Dominic Grieve
Attorney General
Damian Green
Policing Minister
Nick Hurd
Minister for Civic Society
Greg Barker
Energy and Climate Change
Minister
Alan Duncan
International Development
Minister
Andrew Robathan
Northern Ireland Minister
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New Wonga boss will sacrifce
profts to win respectability
Andy Haste admits controversial payday lender has made ‘serious mistakes’
Does this lender really
deserve another chance?
Wonga’s owners are a mix-
ture of private-equity inves-
tors who are banking on
being able to turn their con-
siderable investment in the
firm into a decent profit. As
such, they plan to take the
high-cost-credit company
to the stock market when
the time is right, and by that
I mean when they can turn
the most profit.
They’ve told me in the
past that they have no par-
ticular time frame in mind.
While the business has been
growing exponentially as
more hard-up people turn to
SI MON READ
PERSONAL FINANCE
EDITOR
Comment
short-term credit to get by,
they’ve been able to sit back
and anticipate a more-than-
decent return in due course.
Yet alarm bells must
have been ringing as the
City watchdog introduced
tough new rules that cut the
amount of profit the com-
pany can make, particularly
through rolling loans. And
the owners must have been
aghast at the storm of pro-
test that erupted last month
over the news that Wonga
had been sending vulnerable
borrowers threatening let-
ters from bogus lawyers.
They hope that parachut-
ing in a respected City name
will persuade us that the
company deserves another
chance. Try telling that to
people forced into a spiral of
debt after being persuaded
to take out a payday loan.
The Wonga TV advertising campaign, featuring puppets, will be scrapped after it was accused of appealing to children
SI MON READ
AND JI M ARMI TAGE
We need to regain our
right to be an accepted
part of the financial
services sector
It has been condemned for
charging 5,838 per cent inter-
est rates, fined for sending
threatening letters from bogus
solicitors, and is so unpopular
that even the Archbishop of
Canterbury declared “war” on
its business model.
But the new chairman of
controversial payday lender
Wonga yesterday set himself
the Herculean task of reviv-
ing the firm’s reputation –
announcing a series of meas-
ures that he conceded would
lead to a drop in its annual
£60m profits in exchange for
respectability.
“Some serious mistakes
have been made. The com-
pany admitted those mistakes
and it has apologised for those
mistakes,” said Andy Haste, a
former boss of insurers RSA
and AXA Sun Life.
“We need to repair our rep-
utation and regain our right
to be an accepted part of the
financial services sector.”
And in comments rarely
heard coming from the mouth
of a business leader, he added:
“We will become a more cus-
tomer focused, and inevitably
in the near term, a smaller and
less profitable business.”
In an attempt to rebrand
the contentious company
as “acceptable”, Mr Haste
revealed his intention to
scrap the puppets that front
in firm’s television advertis-
ing campaigns. The adverts
have been branded irrespon-
sible for trivialising debt and
appealing to children.
Mr Haste said a review
of the company’s customer
base and products would also
ensure it was “only lending to
people who can reasonably
afford our loans”. Wonga said
it would guarantee all lending
was carried out in a “responsi-
ble and transparent manner”,
which would result in a tight-
ening of its lending criteria.
The new chairman also said
he would bring in a culture of
placing “fair treatment of cus-
tomers at the heart of every-
thing we do”.
But Mr Haste said he was
realistic about the challenge
he has set himself – which
represents the most ambi-
tious corporate rebrand since
budget airline Ryanair pledged
“revolutionary” changes to
improve its tarnished repu-
tation last year.
He told The Independent it
would take years to clean up
the image of Wonga following
the fake legal letters scandal.
“I am under no doubt it is a
big challenge and will take a
number of years.”
The father of three sons in
their 20s said he did not know
if any of them had taken a pay-
day loan but added: “They are
either students or in jobs so
they don’t need them, but
I would not have a problem
with it if they did.”
The Financial Conduct
Authority has introduced
tough new consumer credit
rules this month, including
forcing all payday lenders to
include a warning on their TV
ads and a link to the Money
Advice Service.
A radio ad for Wonga was
banned last autumn for being
irresponsible, while Money-
SavingExpert Martin Lewis
has called for the ban of payday
lending advertising on chil-
dren’s television. He accused
lenders of grooming children
to be the next generation of
debtors saying: “Kids are
being dazzled by catchy tunes
and cute puppets.”
Mr Haste said the advertis-
ing will be changed to “reduce
the risk of inadvertently
attracting the very young or
vulnerable”.
His appointment came
a day before a major new
crackdown on lenders. The
Financial Conduct Authority
is expected to announce a cap
on the cost of payday lending
this morning. The move is the
latest watchdog attempt to
clean up the industry but will
hit the lender’s profits.
FCA chief Martin Wheat-
ley told The Independent that
the cap is designed “to achieve
that balancing point between
stopping excesses designed to
abuse vulnerable consumers,
while still allowing the avail-
ability of loans to those who
can use them in a mature and
responsible way”.
Separately, rival high street
payday lender the Money
Shop was yesterday forced to
refund £700,000 of interest
and default charges to 6,247
customers who took out
unaffordable loans.
Andy Haste wants Wonga to
be more ‘customer focused’
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incomes
have been
hit hardest
for those
in their
twenties
News
Pensioners got richer during recession
while young people were hardest hit
Young people in their twenties
were hardest hit by the reces-
sion and its aftermath while
pensioners were protected,
according to new research
revealing a growing generation
gap on jobs and earnings.
The income of young adults
has fallen by significantly
more than that of any other
age group since the the down-
turn, according to a report
published today by the Insti-
tute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
In addition, the employment
rate of twentysomethings has
dropped since 2007 while the
proportion of older adults in
work has remained steady.
The IFS analysis also showed
that the average income of
pensioner households has
increased in recent years
and actually overtook that
of working-age households
in 2009-10 for the first time
ANDY GRI CE
POLITICAL EDITOR
since records began in 1961.
The findings will increase the
pressure on the Government
to ensure a “fair recovery” in
which young adults can catch
up. Some Coalition ministers
are worried about a backlash
from younger voters at the
general election.
“Young adults have borne
the brunt of the recession,”
said Jonathan Cribb, a research
economist at the IFS and an
author of the report. “Pay,
employment and incomes
have all been hit hardest for
those in their twenties. A cru-
cial question is whether this
difficult start will do lasting
damage to their employment
and earnings prospects.”
Although employment rates
among young adults also fell in
previous recessions, the cru-
cial difference this time was
that in-work rates for other
age groups were remarkably
stable. Young adults were also
“the most acutely affected by
some distance” by the very
sharp falls in pay during this reces-
sion, the IFS found.
George Osborne, the Chancellor,
wooed the “grey vote” in his March
Budget with a shake-up of pensions
and this group is much more likely
to vote than young adults.
According to the IFS, between
the 2007-08 and 2013-14 financial
years, the mid-point on the house-
hold income scale of 22- to 30-year-
olds fell by 13 per cent, while for 31- to
59-year-olds it dropped by only 7 per
cent and for those aged 60 and over
it remained steady.
The squeeze on twentysomethings
would have been even worse if more
than a quarter of them did not still
live with their parents – a proportion
which has risen by 7 per cent since
2005-06. Those living at home saw
their income drop by 8 per cent;
without their parents’ incomes, the
fall would have been 17 per cent.
The employment rate for 22- to
30-year-olds fell by four percentage
points, while remaining unchanged
for 31- to 59-year-olds. Among those
in work, real median pay (before tax)
fell by 15 per cent among 22- to 30
year-olds, and by 6 per cent for 31- to
59-year-olds.
Chris Goulden, head of poverty
research at the Joseph Rowntree
Foundation, which funded the study,
said: “Over the past year young peo-
ple aged in particular have fared the
worst. This is in contrast to pension-
ers, who the IFS say face relatively
favourable conditions. The progress
in reducing pensioner poverty shows
what can be done with sustained
effort – a principle that must apply
across all age groups.”
For the population as a whole,
the recession had different impacts
across the UK. Comparing 2007–08
to 2009–10 with 2010–11 to 2012–13,
real falls in median income range
from 8 per cent in Northern Ireland
to 2 per cent in the East Midlands.
After housing costs, London saw
the joint-biggest fall (with North-
ern Ireland). The IFS found no clear
relationship between pre-crisis
income levels and income changes
since the recession, saying there
was no clear North-South divide.
Catherine McKinnell, a shadow
Treasury minister, said: “While
David Cameron denies there is a
cost-of-living crisis these figures
show people have seen a substantial
fall in their income since 2010. It is
worrying that the IFS expects child
poverty – which fell when Labour
was in government – to rise.”
But an aide to Mr Osborne said:
“This shows just how hard Labour’s
great recession hit young people
and why it’s vital we keep working
through our long-term economic
plan which is cutting the deficit, cre-
ating jobs and equipping people with
the skills they need for the future.”
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Want to know who your real friends are? DNA
tests prove they are probably distant relatives
STEVE CONNOR
SCIENCE EDITOR
You can choose your friends,
but you can’t choose your fam-
ily – or so says the adage. But
scientists have found that by
choosing friends we may also
be unwittingly choosing the
company of distant relatives.
A study has found that, on
average, close friends are likely
to be as genetically related to
one another as fourth cousins
who share the same great-
great-great-grandparents.
The findings suggest there
is an unexplained mechanism
that helps us to choose our
friends based on how similar
they are to us in terms of their
DNA, said James Fowler, a
professor of medical genetics
at the University of California
in San Diego.
“Looking across the whole
genome we find that, on aver-
age, we are genetically similar
to our friends. We have more
DNA in common with the
people we pick as friends than
we do with strangers in the
same population,” Professor
Fowler said.
The phenomenon may have
arisen as part of an evolution-
ary process, he said. “The
first mutant to speak needed
someone else to speak to. The
ability is useless if there’s no
one who shares it,” he said.
“These types of traits in
people are a kind of social-
network effect.”
The research involved
genome-wide studies of nearly
2,000 people who were part
of a larger, long-term inves-
tigation into the factors that
influence heart disease and
who, as a result, had already
had their DNA analysed for
the smallest mutations.
Professor Fowler and his
colleague Nicholas Christakis
of Yale University took pairs of
individuals based simply on
whether they were friends or
total strangers and analysed
their DNA to see how differ-
ent or similar each member of
a pair was to the other. They
found that the strangers were
quite dissimilar in terms of
their DNA mutations, but
that the pairs of friends were
on average about as related to
one another as fourth cousins,
a genetic similarity of about
1 per cent of their DNA.
Although relatively small,
the difference was still sta-
tistically significant, Profes-
sor Christakis said. “One
per cent may not sound like
much to the layperson, but to
geneticists it is a significant
number,” he explained.
“And how remarkable: most
people don’t even know who
their fourth cousins are. Yet we
are somehow, among the myr-
iad of possibilities, managing
to select as friends the people
who resemble our kin.”
The findings could not be
explained by people tend-
ing to make friends with
members of the same ethnic
group as the study overwhelm-
ingly involved Americans of
European ancestry, the scien-
tists said.
In their study, published
in the journal Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sci-
ences, Professors Christakis
and Fowler suggest that
the phenomenon may have
evolved as a version of a well-
documented feature in Dar-
winism known as “kin selec-
tion”, when closely related
animals co-operate to the
mutual benefit of the genes
they share.
The two scientists argued
that friends are behaving
as a sort of “functional kin”
and that the genetic similari-
ties of modern-day friends
may have deep evolutionary
roots that have in the past
aided survival.
“Cues of kinship may fos-
ter altruistic impulses and
co-operative exchanges with
individuals displaying those
cues, and it is not hard to
imagine that such a system
might possibly be extended
to preferential [active] friend-
ship formation,” they write.
ARCHI E
BLAND
Comment
Some friendly advice – seek out the blunt misft
On a night out, one doesn’t
often see pinstriped bankers
and football-shirted scaf-
folders sharing a drink and
a laugh.
Poets rarely socialise with
pharmacists. And nor do sol-
diers with social workers.
Yet these unsurprising
divisions aren’t limited
to professions or back-
grounds. Friends are there
to make us feel less lonely;
if they didn’t reassure us
that there were others out
there like us, what would be
the point?
It’s hard to decide
whether the Yale University
study reported yesterday
is not terribly surprising.
What’s harder to decide
is whether it’s reassuring
or unsettling.
Nice to feel your
friendship group has the
imprimatur of the Ivy
League, perhaps – but
it’s always strange to
be told that your genes
are in one sense as
responsible for your
choices as your brain is. In
truth, it’s hard to grasp how
much our genes have to do
with more superficial simi-
larities when we’re sitting in
the pub.
But there is a metaphori-
cal correspondence that’s
worth keeping in mind.
While it might be good for us
as a species to have friends
who act as a kind
of “functional kin”, to
use the term coined by
the study’s authors, it’s
not at all clear to me that
it’s a prescription for per-
sonal well-being.
We all know those awful
cliques whose members lack
the imagination to meet
anyone unlike themselves,
who have identical interests,
jokes, haircuts.
Indeed, we’re almost all
part of one. But probably
we can also all think of that
friend who thinks a bit
differently, who cuts
unapologetically across
your Facebook circles, who
drags you to a gig you never
would have thought of, who
doesn’t give a stuff about
your career plans, who
thinks your girlfriend is
an idiot.
This friend is an
unsettling presence
but doesn’t half liven
things up.
So – sorry, genes. When
it comes to my friends,
I’m going to be the self-
ish one.
A visitor to
Tate Modern
in London
gazes at
‘Black
Square’,
by Kazimir
Malevich,
ahead of the
first-ever UK
restrospective
of his work.
Some may
have seen
just a black
square, but
the Kiev-born
artist said his
1915 painting
was the ‘face
of the new
art, the first
step of pure
creation’. The
Tate calls
it ‘one of
the defining
works of
Modernism’.
Back to
black for
Tate
MI CHA
THEI NER
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‘Cloud Atlas’
author unveils
his new story,
tweet by tweet
The novelist David Mitchell
yesterday began to publish
an original 6,000-word short
story via Twitter (@david_
mitchell). Each day, a morn-
ing and afternoon dose will
add about 20 new segments
to The Right Sort, a tale set in
1978 and related to his new
novel The Bone Clocks.
Prescription drugs, and
their effect on the mind, will
have a part to play. Mitchell,
best known for expansive,
fantastical and cleverly sub-
divided novels such as Ghost-
written and Cloud Atlas, is
using his tweets to break down
fiction into its atomic units.
After a single day of posts,
the mini-episodes of The Right
Sort offer teasing glimpses of
cross-class and cross-gen-
erational intrigue, as young
Nathan and his divorced mum
take the bus to visit Lady Briggs
at her down-at-heel town-
house. So far, it feels closer to
the teenaged perplexity and
social comedy of Mitchell’s
Black Swan Green than to his
more outlandish inventions.
Writing short has long
attracted innovative authors.
For Ezra Pound a poem (In a
Station of the Metro) might
consist of just this: “The
apparition of these faces in
the crowd;/ Petals on a wet,
black bough.” Some of Kafka’s
parables scarcely exceed Twit-
ter dimensions. And here is a
complete story by an acclaimed
American practitioner of the
BOYD TONKI N finds that Twitter is
a suprisingly interesting way to
enjoy David Mitchell’s prose
Senior MP condemns ‘confrontational’ Hodge
JONATHAN OWEN
A respected former chair of
the Commons Defence Select
Committee has condemned
Margaret Hodge’s high-pro-
file leadership of the Public
Accounts Committee (PAC),
claiming her “confrontational
approach” is “counter-produc-
tive” and results in “an envi-
ronment of intimidation, fear
and disrespect which tends to
diminish the standing of pub-
lic servants and politicians”.
James Arbuthnot, a Con-
servative MP who chaired the
committee for almost a decade
before stepping down earlier
this year, made his comments
at the Royal United Services
Institute yesterday.
In her four years as chair
of the PAC, Ms Hodge has
presided over a series of
stormy evidence sessions
during which the former
Labour minister has made
personal attacks on a suc-
cession of government offi-
cials and business leaders. In
November 2011, for example,
she accused HMRC lawyer
Anthony Inglese of being
“evasive” before forcing him
to give evidence under oath.
A PAC spokesman said: “We
make no apologies for using
robust questioning where nec-
essary to get to the bottom of
complex issues.”
James Arbuthnot
said Margaret
Hodge’s approach
was counter-
productive
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Grace Dent:
Twitter is the
best place
to publish a
novel –
if you
don’t want
anybody to
read it
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David
Mitchell is
going short
with his new
story
AFP/GETTY
Teed of: university principal says she
was blackballed then insulted by R&A
The first female principal of St
Andrews University says she
has been taunted by members
of the town’s prestigious Royal
and Ancient golf club after
they excluded her because of
her gender.
Honorary membership to
the club is a traditional perk
of running the university – not
least because it lies just 600
yards from the campus. But
when Louise Richardson was
appointed in 2009 the tradi-
tion was abruptly brought to
an end.
Professor Richardson has
spoken for the first time of her
treatment by the club.
Descri bi ng how other
women at the university have
been offended on her behalf,
she said: “Once or twice,
female professors have seen
me in situations where I’m
surrounded by men wearing
their R&A ties, and they get
really upset and offended for
me,” she said.
Some of the members even
wave their ties at her “to draw
my attention, lest I didn’t
notice”. She added: “They
think that’s funny.”
The Royal and Ancient golf
club was once celebrated for
being the home of the game
but now even the golf estab-
lishment is turning against its
anachronistic admissions pol-
icy. In September the club will
vote on whether to amend the
men-only rule on the same day
as Scotland goes to the polls to
decide on independence.
Peter Dawson, head of
golf’s governing body, which
is based at the club, got him-
self into trouble last summer
when he said that excluding
women from the club was
“part of a way of life [some
people] like” that “didn’t do
anyone any harm”.
Professor Richardson, who
is Irish-American, came to
the university from Harvard,
where she was executive dean
of the university’s institute for
advanced study. The politi-
cal scientist is an enthusias-
tic golfer and said the club’s
snubbing of her had made it
harder to do the networking
necessary for the job.
In an i ntervi ew wi t h
The New York Times, she
described how being barred
from membership had hin-
dered her job. “A supporter
of the university got in touch
and asked if he could possibly
have lunch at the R&A today,”
she said. “I had to arrange for
somebody I know to take him
to lunch at the R&A because,
of course, I can’t. And I had
to arrange for another mem-
ber of the staff to take his wife
to lunch some place in town
because, of course, she can’t
get into the R&A, either.”
She added: “Here’s St
Andrew’s University, ranked
third in the UK, we’re an
organisation of 10,000 people,
we support 9,000 jobs, I run
this place very successfully
and I’m not allowed in the
clubhouse 600 yards from
my house?”
The Royal and Ancient golf
club did not respond to The
Independent’s requests for
comment.
EMI LY DUGAN
SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
140- CHARACTER STUDY THE STORY SO FAR
We get off the Number 10 bus at a pub called
The Fox and Hounds. “If anyone asks,” Mum
tells me, “say we came by taxi.”
“So we’re looking out for an alley called Slade
Alley,” says Mum. “On the left. And mind the
puddles.” Off we trudge.
I hope to God nobody from school sees me in
this tweed jacket and tie Mum bought me from
Littlewoods. I look like a total ponce.
(No point telling Mum about getting picked
on: she just sighs and says, “You should have
passed the scholarship for King’s, Nathan.”)
You can’t see Slade Alley till you’re smack
bang in front of it. Dark. Dunno. It’s like Slade
Alley shouldn’t even be here.
“Lord and Lady Briggs’s main residence is
in Oxfordshire,” Mum tells me for the
umpteenth time. “This is only Lady Briggs’s
town house.”
“We’re to keep our eyes peeled for a door,”
says Mum. “A black iron door. Lady Briggs said
it’s easy to miss.” You can say that again…
…’cause there’s no door down here at all.
No gate. No “town house”. The alley turns
right, then after twenty more paces,
you’re out…
…where a sign says “CRANBURY ROAD”.
Mum scowls at her A to Z, at her scribbled
directions, at me. “I don’t understand,”
she says.
I think I do. It’s Mum’s Valium. Makes her
slapdash. She gets two prescriptions from
two different doctors, and takes a
double dose.
genre: “At a certain point in
her life, she realises it is not so
much that she wants to have a
child as that she does not want
not to have a child, or not to
have had a child.” With that
sort of flabby prolixity, Lydia
Davis busts the Twitter limit.
But if you find her a little on the
wordy side, she has published
many tales more compact than
Double Negative.
Online storytelling has a
15-year history, and bestsell-
ers such as Stephen King
have moved in and moved
out of new-media platforms
for serial publication. As for
Twitter tales, readers in need
of the quick fix will soon tire of
the 140-character straitjacket.
The fascination of The Right
Sort lies in the light it sheds on
the relation of each tiny cell to
a whole narrative.
On the one hand, self-con-
tained blasts of mood have a
haiku-like compression that
recalls Mitchell’s immersion
in the culture of Japan. On the
other, the tweets reveal just
how much potential plot can
be packed into a miniature
storytelling brick: “A real
Lady, married to real Lord, liv-
ing down here? If you ask me,
Mum’s ballsed it up. Wouldn’t
be the first time.”
Now read on, drip by drip.
Will most readers feel tick-
led, or tortured, by the slow
release? In any case, impatient
fans only need wait until early
September for Mitchell’s The
Bone Clocks – all 600 pages of
it, in a single bulk delivery.
I had to arrange for
somebody to take a
supporter for lunch at
the R&A because I can’t
Professor Louise Richardson
said some club members
waved their R&A ties at her
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An amnesiac unable to
remember his own name
after being found in a
Peterborough park has
been identified after
almost two months. The
family of Alvydas Kanaporis
(pictured), 22, who is
originally from Lithuania,
contacted him after medics
released a photograph and
set up a hotline.
NEWS I N
BRI EF
Tory peer
signed contract
to lobby for
tax haven
to influence either House. I
made that clear when I took
on the role,” he said.
He also told the Bureau in
an email, which was part of
evidence sent to Paul Ker-
naghan, the Lords Commis-
sioner for Standards: “You
have confused lobbying Par-
liament, which I do not do,
with lobbying the Govern-
ment, which I do.”
The Commissioner subse-
quently concluded in Novem-
ber 2012 that there was “no
evidence that Lord Blencathra
exercised parliamentary influ-
ence on behalf of the Cayman
Islands Government Office in
the UK”. He added: “Equally,
no evidence has been pre-
sented that he provided par-
liamentary advice.”
But earlier this year the
Bureau was passed a copy of
the contract between Lord
Blencathra’s company, Two
Lions Consultancy Ltd, and
the Finance Ministry of the
Cayman Islands govern-
ment, signed in November
2011, that showed lobbying
Parliament was part of the
job description.
The contract sai d the
company’s responsibilities
included: “Promoting the
Cayman Islands’ interests in
the UK and Europe by liais-
ing with and making repre-
sentations to UK ministers,
the FCO [Foreign and Com-
monwealth Office], members
of Parliament and members of
the House of Lords.”
Following that revelation
the Standards Commissioner
instigated a second inquiry.
Yesterday he concluded that
Lord Blencathra had breached
parliamentary rules and
ordered him to apologise.
In a statement, included in
the report, Lord Blencathra
said while he had not “actu-
ally provided nor intended to
provide” parliamentary serv-
ices to the Cayman Islands he
acknowledged and “deeply
regrets” that I entered into
the contract.
“I mi sl ed mysel f i nto
thinking that, since it was
understood that I would not
be making representations
in reality, then the wording
did not matter. But words
do matter; I was wrong and
I apologise to the House for
that misjudgement. I deeply
regret having breached the
code in this way and the
embarrassment to the House
that I recognise is caused by
such conduct. I offer the
House my sincere apology.”
But the Labour MP Paul
Flynn, who made the original
complaint, said he had got off
lightly. “I think the committee
have been very lenient with
Lord Blencathra as he didn’t
reveal to the first investigation
that he had signed a contract
in which he had agreed to
lobby,” he said.
“The committee would
be justified in suspending
him from the House and this
would be in line with previ-
ous decisions. I believe he has
got off lightly. The danger of
future scandals from lobby-
ing is as serious now as when
David Cameron warned in
2010 that lobbying would be
the next major scandal.”
The ruling came on the
same day as MPs were heavily
criticised by their standards
watchdog for dragging their
feet over bringing in tougher
rules about lobbying in the
House of Commons.
Kathryn Hudson, the Par-
liamentary Standards Com-
missioner, expressed “grave
concern” that changes to
tighten controls on lobby-
ing and declaring interests
proposed 18 months ago had
yet to be brought before the
House for a vote.
Under t he pr opos ed
changes MPs with second jobs
would be banned from initi-
ating parliamentary proceed-
ings in the interests of their
employers, and could be dis-
ciplined if their “private and
personal” behaviour brought
the House into disrepute.
But the Leader of the
House, Andrew Lansley, has
been refusing to bring any of
the proposals before Parlia-
ment because he believes
MPs would reject the idea of
inquiries into their private
behaviour. Similar plans were
voted down in 2012.
Amnesiac found
in park identified
The
committee
would be
justified in
suspending
him. He
has got
off lightly
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Steve Richards
Behind the new, female-dominated Tory facade
lurks the same, male-dominated party
The departure of Dame
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
from the child sex abuse
inquiry was inevitable
from within minutes of
her appointment. The
long-term aim of such
inquiries is to find out what
happened, but the short-
term objective is to calm a
political frenzy.
Immediately after she
was appointed last week
questions were raised
about her suitability.
Her late brother, Sir
Michael Havers, had been
Attorney General and Lord
Chancellor during the
period the abuse is said to
have occurred. Fears that an
inquiry exploring potential
cover-ups will become part
of a cover-up because of
the inquirer’s connections
fuelled the frenzy.
Her departure will make
no practical difference.
There are now so many
inquiries being conducted
we will find out what
happened. There is a police
investigation, an inquiry
into the precise activities of
the Home Office, and the
wider inquiry into abuses
at public institutions.
Separately, the BBC
is conducting its own
independent review, as are
Savile-related hospitals. As
the former Home Office
minister David Mellor has
wisely noted, we are almost
at the other extreme of a
cover-up, when innocent
figures get caught in the
determination to expose.
With suspicion so
intense, Butler-Sloss was
right to step down. Her
successor will need to be
regarded as purer than pure.
Whether such perceived
innocence will equip him or
her to conduct an inquiry
more effectively than
Butler-Sloss might have
done is a different matter
and totally irrelevant.
Perceived purity is all that
matters for now.
Twitter: @steverichards14
Esther
McVey at
Downing
Street
yesterday.
She is
tipped for
promotion,
but will Iain
Duncan
Smith keep
his job?
AFP/GETTY
Purer than
the driven
Butler-Sloss
Bring on the women.
Once David Cameron
completes his pre-
election reshuffle,
expect many photocalls
in which women are recorded in their new
positions of apparent power. Do not expect
another television image between now and
the election of a government front bench
with only men sitting comfortably. There
will be women there too. In the TV studios
and on the Today programme there will be
more women.
There is an unavoidably clunky feel to
reshuffles when they are carried out for
symbolic purposes. The symbolism is
too obvious and is usually without wider
significance. This is especially the case
in the last reshuffle before an election.
The Government has already agreed its
final legislative session. New or promoted
ministers will be implementing policies
and Bills prepared long ago by others.
The ministers will be in their new posts
for less than a year, after which they will
be in opposition or part of an even bigger
reshuffle following the election. The
election strategy will be decided by David
Cameron, George Osborne and Lynton
Crosby, and not by them. The three male
leaders will dominate the next election
campaign because British elections are
reported as if they are presidential contests
even though they are not.
In terms of the women’s cause in the
Conservative Party, there is little behind the
symbolic changes. It is possible there will be
fewer women Conservative MPs after the
election than there are now. Some female
Tory MPs are standing down. Increasingly
assertive local parties select whom they
wish, resistant to pressure from the
national leadership to appoint more women
candidates. The device is crude and leads to
the unfair omission of some potentially good
male MPs, but positive discrimination is the
only way the Conservatives will elect many
more women. Until they do, leaders will
be left with acts of symbolism that do not
symbolise very much at all.
As far as the forthcoming election is
concerned the course is more or less set for
the Conservatives, and ministerial changes
will not lead to a revision. Cameron has
spoken quite openly about fighting a 1992-
style election campaign, the last contest
when the Conservatives won an overall
majority. Part of the campaign then took
the form of a relentless onslaught against
Neil Kinnock, aided by several newspapers
and the threat of Labour’s “tax bombshell”.
Cameron, assisted once more by several
newspapers and their inadvertent echo in
parts of the BBC, plans to do the same with
Ed Miliband.
It will not work as neatly as that. Indeed
Cameron’s pre-election reshuffle highlights
the limits of fighting derivative election
campaigns. The parallels never stack up in
the way that leaders assume they do. Each
election is unique and rooted in a distinct
context. Cameron and Osborne should have
learnt the intimidating lesson about the past
being a poor guide to the future, having set
out in the early phase of their leadership to
fight the last election as Labour had done
in 1997. Crudely they attempted to be a
Tory version of Blairite New Labour and
discovered they could not pull it off in the
dramatically changed times of the 2010
election. Now they leap back to 1992.
In the case of that strange, distant
election it felt there had been far more than
a reshuffle in advance. John Major had not
long previously replaced Margaret Thatcher
as Prime Minister. The moderate Chris
Patten was appointed chairman of the party.
The least popular policy, the poll tax, was
scrapped. Major spoke favourably of the
BBC and Europe. It felt as if there had been
a change of government before the election
got under way. The attacks on Kinnock
and Labour’s tax plans were ruthless and
played their part, but the far more significant
element was the novelty of Major and his
new-ish cabinet compared with Kinnock who
had been leader for nine wearying years.
Cameron’s final reshuffle will not feel like
a change of government. At the next election
Cameron will have been leader of his party
for 10 years. He cannot be the equivalent of
Major, who was new to the job. In policy terms
Cameron leads a party to the right of Major’s
in 1992. On the opposite side Miliband and
Ed Balls will not fall into the same tired old
“tax and spend” traps, partly because they
know the traps are being laid yet again. They
have fought several elections avoiding tax
bombshells, which is why Balls confidently
asks the Office for Budget Responsibility to
review his tax and spend plans.
This all feels very different to 1992. I
am not necessarily forecasting a different
outcome to 1992. I have no idea what the
outcome will be next time and nor does
anyone else, but I predict with confidence
that the campaign will be unique and that if
Cameron and Osborne attempt to copy the
past it will go wrong as it did in 2010.
One difference is that there will be more
Tory women ministers on our screens
from today onwards, but they will exert
little power. As far
as this Parliament
is concerned their
moment in the sun
comes too late.
There may well be fewer
women Tory MPs after
the next election
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May under fre as Butler-Sloss
resigns from child abuse inquiry
NI GEL MORRI S AND
ANDREW GRI CE
Home Secretary
‘disappointed’
with ex-judge’s
decision as search
begins for her
replacement
Theresa May came under
repeated fire over her failure
to look in enough detail at the
family background of Baron-
ess Butler-Sloss, who yester-
day stepped down as chairman
of a wide-ranging inquiry into
child abuse claims.
The former High Court
judge’s dramatic resignation,
just six days after accepting
the post, severely embar-
rassed the Home Secretary.
In fiery exchanges with
MPs, Ms May insisted she
stood by the appointment of a
woman of “absolute integrity”
to head the Government-com-
missioned panel of inquiry.
However, the Home Sec-
retary indicated she had
been taken by surprise by
allegations that the peer’s
brother, the late Sir Michael
Havers, attempted to thwart
an attempt to expose paedo-
phile activity.
Lady Butler-Sloss’s panel
would have had to investigate
whether Sir Michael, who was
Attorney General from 1979
to 1987, failed to act on allega-
tions of child abuse involving
senior establishment figures.
Sir Michael also reportedly
tried to prevent the late Tory
MP Geoffrey Dickens from
using parliamentary privilege
to name the diplomat Sir Peter
Hayman as a paedophile.
Asked about the Hayman
allegation, Ms May told the
Commons Home affairs select
committee: “This is an issue
that has been raised in the last
few days.”
The Home Secret ary
insisted that “consideration
was given to the nomination”
and she stood by the short-
lived appointment of the
retired judge.
“It is a mark of the woman
that she herself has come to
this decision. I respect it. I’m
disappointed, but I respect it,”
Ms May said.
But the committee’s chair-
man Keith Vaz said: “She has
shown better judgement, has
she not, than the Government.
This is the due diligence you
and your officials should have
carried out.”
He urged Ms May to con-
sult more widely over her
replacement to avoid he or
she being “put in the invidi-
ous position Lady Butler-
Sloss appears to be in”.
Ian Austin, a Labour MP,
told the committee: “It is now
clear the child abuse inquiry
has no chair, no terms of refer-
ence and it doesn’t seem to me
to have any agreed purpose.”
Tory MP Zac Goldsmith
MP welcomed Lady Butler-
Sloss’s decision, claiming
that Sir Michael had ensured
the terms of reference for an
inquiry into paedophile activ-
ity at Kincora boy’s home in
Northern Ireland were nar-
rowly drawn.
In a statement, the 80-
year-old peer acknowledged
there was a “widespread per-
ception, particularly among
victim and survivor groups,
that I am not the right person
to chair the inquiry”.
She added: “It has also
become clear to me that I
did not sufficiently consider
whether my background and
the fact my brother had been
Attorney General would
cause difficulties.”
Downing Street said Lady
Butler-Sloss had reached her
decision over the weekend
after discussing the issue with
Ms May.
The Pri me Mi ni ster’s
spokesman insisted she had
been chosen for the right
reasons and that no one had
questioned her expertise or
integrity after she headed an
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I must admit she was her brother’s sister
Pressed yesterday by
Labour’s David Winnick
on what she knew when,
Theresa May announced:
“Of course there was
absolutely no doubt that
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was
Michael Havers’ sister.”
This was a relief. Who
could accuse the Home
Office of not having carried
out what the chairman Keith
Vaz called “due diligence”
when it had obviously
checked Debrett’s before
appointing her?
Unfortunately this wasn’t
what Winnick was asking,
which was whether she knew
about the story that as Attor-
ney General, the judge’s late
brother had tried to prevent
the MP Geoffrey Dickens
naming a paedophile diplo-
mat in the House of Com-
mons. She obviously hadn’t
but couldn’t quite bring
herself to say so. This was
an issue “which has been
surfaced in the past few days
as far as I am concerned”. So
that’s a No? asked Winnick.
“I’ve answered the question
in the way I chose to answer
it.” she replied primly.
Ms May would not have
ideally chosen yesterday
to appear before the Home
Affairs Select Committee. If
she dreaded that the Labour
chairman Keith Vaz would be
– from her point of view – at
his most insufferably patron-
ising, her dread was justified.
Standing by the appointment,
she insisted the only issue had
been the peer’s “integrity”.
Yes, yes, said Vaz, the
MPs were all “great fans”
of Baroness Butler-Sloss’s
integrity; the point was not
her “integrity but “your
judgement”.
Asked how she did not
even know the titles of the
famous 114 missing files she
said, elegantly passing the
baton, if not the buck: “I
think this is a matter for the
Permanent Secretary [Mark
Sedwill] to consider.”
At one point a sarcas-
tic sounding Vaz told her
“You’re just the Home
Secretary” and that it was
Sedwill who ran the depart-
ment. At another, he told her
grandly, he had no objection
to her consulting her notes.
Equally grandly, Vaz
reminded Ms May that he
had at last week’s session
raised with Mr Sedwill the
very question of Lady But-
ler-Sloss’s suitability to chair
the enquiry, given that she
was, as a peer, a parliamen-
tarian. Ms May might have
pointed out – but didn’t
– that the committee chair-
man had not always seemed
quite as perturbed by it. For
when Sedwill had replied
that “no one would ques-
tion the integrity [that word
again] capability intelligence
and rigour she will bring to
this review,” Vaz had actually
said: “I agree with you…”
But that was then. Yester-
day was a day for homilies.
“Can I just gently suggest to
you that you should consult
more widely?” he asked
silkily about the unhappy
judge’s replacement. There
were moments when Vaz’s
headmasterly tones made
you almost want to sympa-
thise with the Home Secre-
tary over the appointment.
DONALD
MACI NTYRE
Sketch
TI MELI NE THE BACKLASH
AGAI NST BUTLER- SLOSS
Tuesday
Baroness Butler-Sloss, who
led the Cleveland child
abuse inquiry, named by
Theresa May as chairman of
a review into historical child
sex abuse.
Wednesday
MPs and lawyers say she
should not take up the post as
her late brother, Sir Michael
Havers, was Attorney General
in the 1980s when paedophile
allegations were raised.
Thursday
Sir Michael alleged to have
urged the Tory MP Geof-
frey Dickens not to name
the paedophile diplomat Sir
Peter Hayman using parlia-
mentary privilege.
Saturday
She is reported not to have
acted on claims about abuse
in an inquiry into how the
Church of England dealt
with paedophile priests
because she “cared about
the Church” and “the press
would love a Bishop”.
Yesterday
Baroness Butler-Sloss steps
down as head of the inquiry.
inquiry into child abuse in
Cleveland in the 1980s.
Pressure grew over the
weekend amid claims the
retired judge kept allegations
about a bishop out of a review
of how the Church of England
dealt with two priests alleg-
edly involved in paedophilia.
Lady Butler-Sloss report-
edly told a victim that she did
not want to name the bishop
because “the press would
love a bishop”. Peter Ball, the
former bishop of Lewes and of
Gloucester, was later charged
with indecent assault and mis-
conduct in a public office.
Lady Butler-Sloss responded
that she “never put the reputa-
tion of any institution, includ-
ing the Church of England,
above the pursuit of justice
for victims”.
Alison Millar, a lawyer who
is representing some alleged
abuse victims, said: “This would
never have been acceptable for
an inquiry which requires not
only to be transparent, but to
be seen as such by those who
have in the past been failed by
the establishment.”
The Rochdale MP Simon
Danczuk, who has cam-
paigned for an inquiry, said:
“The priority now is to find a
strong and independent per-
son to chair the inquiry.”
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‘own’ NHS hospitals
under mutual plans
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Human rights groups challenge GCHQ
at tribunal over ‘mass surveillance’
Human rights groups chal-
lenged the Government in
open court yesterday over its
alleged mass surveillance of
private communications.
In a historic case which will
continue all week, UK intel-
ligence agencies will have to
account for their activities
at a hearing into whether
GCHQ’s mass surveillance
breaks human rights laws.
The legal challenge is being
heard by the Investigatory
Powers Tribunal, which hears
complaints about MI5, MI6
and GCHQ – usually behind
closed doors. It was prompted
by revelations from the US
intelligence analyst turned
whistleblower Edward Snow-
den last year. Ministers are
refusing to confirm or deny
the existence of the British
“Tempora” surveillance pro-
gramme, in which GCHQ
is allegedly able to intercept
communications through
fibre optic cables.
Liberty, Amnesty Interna-
tional and Privacy Interna-
tional, along with seven for-
eign human rights groups,
are challenging the Govern-
ment’s claim that is it acting
within the law.
Liberty claims there is a
“reasonable likelihood” that
intelligence services have
“interfered with” its private
communications in breach
of rights to private life and
freedom of expression. In its
skeleton argument, the Gov-
ernment avoids confirming
the existence of Tempora.
In what amounts to a theo-
retical defence, it says: “The
Claimants’ communications
might in principle have been
intercepted... and some might
in principle have been ‘read,
looked at or listened to’.”
JONATHAN OWEN
Government
examines ways to
operate health
services as
companies with
shared ownership
Ministers are drawing up plans
to allow doctors and nurses
to own and run the hospitals
they work in as part of a radi-
cal blueprint to change the way
the NHS is run.
Under proposals to be floated
today, staff could be able to take
over hospitals and other NHS
responsibilities and run them
as new mutual companies in
the style of the department
store chain John Lewis.
Staff would then become
“shareholders” in the new
company with the power to
dismiss the chief executive
and board members as well as
set policy and targets for the
new organisation.
Ministers are not ruling out
the possibility that staff could
even be given a financial stake
in the organisations for which
they work – sharing bonuses
if their hospital makes a profit
on NHS work. The new policy
comes after an independent
review, led by the independ-
ent think-tank the King’s
Fund, found what it described
as “compelling evidence” that
NHS organisations with high
levels of staff engagement
delivered better quality care.
By contrast, hospitals like
the one at the centre of the Mid
Staffordshire scandal had low
levels of staff engagement.
Ministers have been par-
ticularly taken by the success
of Hinchingbrooke Hospital
in Cambridgeshire, which had
been losing £10m a year and
had very low levels of patient
satisfaction until taken over
by the private provider Cir-
cle, which manages it for the
NHS. Circle is owned jointly
by the staff who work for it and
private-equity funders. Since
taking over Hinchingbrooke,
Circle has brought it to finan-
cial break-even point. It was
recently named the top hospital
in England for quality of care.
While the Conservatives
and Liberal Democrats are
sensitive to accusations that
mutualisation amounts to
back-door privatisation, they
point out that if the worst-
performing hospitals could
be brought up to the standard
of the best then the NHS could
save billions of pounds a year.
Today the Health minister
Norman Lamb and the Cabi-
net Office minister Francis
Maude will announce that ten
NHS organisations will share
a £1m fund to investigate dif-
ferent forms of mutualisation
within the NHS.
They will report on what
they’ve found next spring,
setting out the main benefits
of mutualisation in the health
sector and the main barriers to
implementation. Both the Lib-
eral Democrats and the Con-
servatives are likely to commit
to implement the changes
should they be in power after
the next election. Labour’s
shadow Health Secretary Andy
Burnham has also expressed
enthusiasm for the plan.
Mr Lamb said all the evi-
dence showed that trusts with
staff who feel empowered and
have a shared sense of owner-
ship performed better while
Mr Maude hinted he was
happy with the ideas of the new
mutual making profits.
“You only need to turn to
Cambridge’s Hinchingbrooke
Hospital for inspiration,” he
said. “Letting frontline staff
take ownership of their services
and giving them the power to do
their jobs in the way they know
best results in higher quality
and more efficient public serv-
ices.” Chris Ham, who carried
out the review into mutuals for
the Department of Health, said:
“It is time to give serious con-
sideration to the role staff-led
mutuals could play in increas-
ing staff engagement.”
GCHQ is
allegedly able
to intercept
private data
through fibre
optic cables
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Eighties hero SuperTed reborn
as a politically correct bear
I AN BURRELL
MEDIA EDITOR
Feminist successor
to ‘Spare Rib’ folds
before going into print
ADAM LUSHER
The Feminist Times, launched
just nine months ago amid a
copyright spat with the found-
ers of the ground-breaking
magazine it intended to emu-
late, Spare Rib, has closed
before a print version could
be published.
The editors said yesterday
they had failed to raise enough
money to realise their vision
of an “a not-for-profit, ad and
PR-free space” for “interest-
ing women”.
“We are saddened to
announce that this week will
be the final week of Feminist
Times as it is. We simply can-
not survive any longer without
having to change our values,”
it said. “We believe the best
move is to put the project on
ice; to celebrate nine months
of incredible agenda-setting
content; and that we achieved
what many others haven’t: we
made a feminist online maga-
zine that competed with the
mainstream while keeping our
principles intact.”
The magazine’s editor-in-
chief Charlotte Raven had
initially hoped to call it Spare
Rib, to revive memories of the
radical feminist publication
which launched in 1972, but
she faced objections from the
original co-founders.
When t he magazi ne
launched last October, one
national newspaper women’s
editor warned: “Most women
I know still think of feminism
as joyless, strident and – cru-
cially – not being for them.”
In her online manifesto
Ms Raven did concede: “The
random, unscientific ‘focus
groups’ I held to test the idea
merely confirmed that a small
circle of metropolitan artists
and activists would buy it.”
Unlike the original Spare
Rib, however, Feminist Times
also faced competition from a
profusion of feminist blogs.
The new
‘SuperTed’
TV show is
being made
by the BBC
Editor Charlotte Raven faced
objections from the founders
of ‘Spare Rib’ SUSANNAHIRELAND
A show featuring a talking
skeleton with an effeminate
voice, an overweight character
called “Bulk” and a girl called
“Blotch” with less than perfect
skin – is being revived by the
BBC children’s department for
a 26-episode remake.
Welcome back SuperTed,
the less than politically cor-
rect story of a Welsh teddy bear
with cosmic powers. Known
to children of the Eighties as
an improbable superhero, the
animated and anthropomor-
phic toy is expected to return
to the small screen in 2016 after
an absence of 30 years.
It is the latest in a series of
popular children’s shows from
a bygone era being revived
for a new generation. Thun-
derbirds, The Wombles, The
Clangers, Dangermouse, Bob
the Builder and Teletubbies are
also undergoing revivals.
The remake of SuperTed has
been revealed to Radio Times
by its creator Mike Young, who
said he hoped actors Melvyn
Hayes and Derek Griffiths,
who were the familiar voices
in the original series, will be
available for the new run.
“We’ll definitely be talking to
Melvyn and Derek,” he said.
Griffiths, 67, the former
presenter of BBC children’s
show Play School, was the
voice of SuperTed himself, a
bear that was discarded in the
toy factory but is transformed
into a superhero by “cosmic
dust” bestowed on him by
“Mother Nature”.
Hayes, 79, best-known for
playing Bombardier “Gloria”
Beaumont in the BBC sitcom
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum but seen
I N TOON WI TH THE TI MES? POLI TI CALLY I NCORRECT CHI LDREN’ S TV SHOWS
Thomas the Tank Engine was
attacked in Canada for having
only eight female characters
out of 49 and having a “con-
servative political ideology”
that saw Thomas slaving away
for the Fat Controller.
Popeye, the spinach-eating
and highly aggressive sailor,
first appeared in 1929 and
became most politically
incorrect during the Second
World War, singing songs like
“You’re a sap, Mr Jap” and
calling America’s then foes
“Japansies”.
Barney and Fred, stars of The
Flintstones, used to appear
in adverts for the cigarette
brand Winston, idling
against a rock while having
a fag break and leaving their
wives to do the housework.
“Winston tastes good as
a cigarette should,” Fred
would observe.
Looney Tunes, the name given
to Bugs Bunny and related
characters was politically in-
correct. Bugs loved firearms
and was not beyond carrying
out the odd homicide, as in
1946’s Rhapsody Rabbit.
The Simpsons often appears
politically incorrect while
pushing a politically cor-
rect message. Witness the
1997 episode Homer Phobia,
where the family visits a
collectibles shop called Cock-
amamies run by a gay antique
dealer called John. Homer is
horrified but it wins awards
for fighting prejudice.
SpongeBob SquarePants lives
in Bikini Bottom and has a
friend called Sandy Cheeks.
more recently in the ITV com-
edy Benidorm, is expected to
return as the voice of Skeleton,
a camp and cowardly enemy of
SuperTed. Roy Kinnear, who
voiced another SuperTed vil-
lain, the stupid and obese Bulk,
died in 1988.
It is unlikely the modern
SuperTed will be as politically
incorrect as his Eighties’ incar-
nation. “In SuperTed, we had
a gun-slinging cowboy, a flam-
boyantly gay skeleton and a fat
guy who had jokes made about
his weight and all these things
you just wouldn’t do today,”
Young told Radio Times from
Los Angeles, where he has
lived for the past 25 years. “But
you can still write the show in a
funny, entertaining way.”
He noted that the Ameri-
can cartoon Popeye “used to
smash people in the face” and
was very funny. “But of course
there is no television network
anywhere in the world that
would let you do that now.”
Joe Godwin, the executive
in overall charge of BBC chil-
dren’s programmes, denied
that the plethora of remakes
was an indication of a lack
of new ideas. He told Radio
Times that the reworked Tel-
etubbies, Dangermouse and
The Clangers amounted to
only “a tiny fraction of the con-
tent” produced across CBBC
and CBeebies.
µ Shaun the Sheep has topped
a poll of favourite children’s
BBC characters over the past
70 years – beating older crea-
tions such as Sooty and Sweep
and the Wombles.
The Aardman creation,
which made its debut in the
1995 Wallace and Gromit film
A Close Shave, triumphed in
the poll, compiled by Radio
Times and the BFI.
The male-dominated Thomas
the Tank Engine; Bikini
Bottom resident Spongebob
Squarepants; Barney and Fred
enjoy a Winston cigarette
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‘Medieval turf war’ killer
jailed for 38 years
A judge called for an end
to a “medieval turf war” in
London as he jailed a hit
man for at least 38 years for
murdering a gang leader.
Jamie Marsh-Smith,
23, of Manor House,
north London, was hired
to kill Zafer Eren, of the
Tottenham Turks gang, by
rivals the Hackney Turks
in April last year. Days
later he tried to kill his co-
defendant, Samuel Zerei,
21, of Newington Green,
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jailed for at least 28 years.
Judge John Bevan QC at the
Old Bailey said the murder
was part of a feud.
COURTS
mortgage, Mr Gault said.
The committee also criticised
the Government for its lack
of a renewable energy target
beyond 2020, saying it needs
to set a goal of making the
UK’s electricity supply almost
entirely green by 2030. With-
out this, would-be investors in
wind, solar and other renew-
able projects won’t have the
confidence they need to back
new power plants, it said.
A spokesman for the Depart-
ment for Energy and Climate
Change (DECC) said: “The
Government is firmly com-
mitted to meeting our carbon
reduction commitments by
2050... We are not compla-
cent and realise there’s more
work to be done as we keep
up the momentum towards
a low-carbon economy while
also ensuring we minimise the
impact on consumers bills.”
independent adviser on global
warming.
The Green Deal was intro-
duced in January 2013, offer-
ing households 25-year loans
to pay for energy-saving meas-
ures such as insulation, boiler
upgrades and double glazing.
The loans are repaid through
the resident’s energy bills and
the idea is that the resulting
savings will more than com-
pensate for the loan repay-
ments.
But the report pointed out
that just 170,000 cavity walls
were insulated in 2013, down
from more than 600,000 in
2012, as households failed to
take up the Green Deal.
People are concerned about
the scheme’s complexity; the
fact that the loan is 25 years
and tied to the house, while,
at around 7 per cent, the inter-
est rate is far higher than a
Failure to hit carbon emissions target
blamed on poor Government policies
Britain will fail to meet its car-
bon emissions target after the
Government scrapped a suc-
cessful subsidised home insu-
lation programme, according
to a new report.
Under the current rate of
progress, the UK will reduce
its carbon emissions by only
21-23 per cent between 2013
and 2025, leaving it nearly a
third short of the 31 per cent
drop required over the period,
the Climate Change Commit-
tee (CCC) warns.
The committee blames
most of the shortfall on the
Government’s failure to set a
renewable energy target after
2020 and its removal in Janu-
ary last year of heavily subsi-
dised and free cavity wall and
TOM BAWDEN
ENVIRONMENT EDITOR
loft insulation, which helps
households to save energy.
The pr ogr amme was
replaced with the widely criti-
cised Green Deal commercial
loan scheme.
The hard-hitting report
says the Government needs
to act quickly to close the gap
to avoid much greater costs in
the future if the UK is to meet
its ultimate, legally binding,
target of reducing emissions
by 80 per cent by 2050.
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this is a significant gap that’s
been identified and to put
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something you can leave till
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Gault, acting chief execu-
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is the Government’s official
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promotes the broadcast of the final
‘Monty Python Live’ stage show PA
‘This parrot has
ceased to be...’
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THE INDEPENDENT TUESDAY15JULY2014
Grace Dent
Twitter is the best place to publish a novel –
if you don’t want anybody to read it
The Pizza Express chain has been sold to
a Chinese equity firm, Hony Capital, in
what is the biggest European restaurant
sector deal in the last five years, for £900m.
This doesn’t surprise me one bit. Even as
a restaurant critic with London’s rich glut
of dining experiences at my disposal, I find
myself in my safe space of Pizza Express all
too often. I often wonder why so many other
chains fall short.
Here’s a restaurant that welcomes families,
babies, oldies, single women with time to
kill, students, work parties, kids’ birthday
parties, the not massively hungry and the
ravenously hungover. Service is generally
good. It’s a place that’s never hip and always
unpretentious. They serve all day. They’ll
take reservations for larger groups without
fuss. They’ve offered up more or less the
same menu for 20 years. In fact, most diners
could order without looking at a menu at all,
but the restaurant brings in minor changes
along the way to stay fresh.
Such simple plus points – and now a brand
that will be rolling out in China – why can’t
more restaurants do it?
Pizza Express – La Reine of restaurants
Who of those deeply
involved in social media has
time to read a novel?
After becoming
fascinated by the
medium of Twitter,
the author of Cloud
Atlas, David Mitchell,
has written a rollicking short story – The
Right Sort – to be broadcast in 280 chunks
of 140-character tweets. I’m enjoying it
greatly, and want to congratulate him for
discovering Twitter and then achieving
anything at all.
The dark secret about Twitter – which
no creative type who devotes earthly hours
there wants to admit – is that Twitter is one
of the most toxic tools of life-frittering folly
ever invented. And I say this after 63,000
tweets and amassing 207,000 followers.
Twitter is the Devil’s own social network,
cluttering up idle hands that could be
writing a film script, sketching the first
draft of a new novel, or penning that tricky
second album.
Yes, Twitter is indeed fantastic for
keeping users utterly up to the minute
on current affairs, zeitgeist in-jokes,
whistleblowings, cross-party slander, media
slanging matches and the story behind the
story, but the use of this in creating art is
perilously limited.
In 1845, Charlotte Brontë created Jane
Eyre after a long, tedious stare out of the
window. The Beatles lost themselves in
India and penned 45 tracks of varying
intricate splendour. Right at this moment,
finer minds than even Charlotte, Paul and
John are staring slack-jawed at computer
I’ve been really rather busy. Far too busy
to write another novel. Besides, Tweeter
A (whom I don’t care about) has remarked
that Tweeter B (who everyone knows is a
crank) is a bad feminist and now all Tweeter
B’s fans are trolling Tweeter A’s account and
she is claiming to be bullied.
It’s a terrible to-do and I’m really not
terribly interested but that will take me
up until lunchtime, when people who
become angry about the cliché that Twitter
is “people discussing their lunch” will
readily explain their lunches. I might try to
read a few chapters – 280 characters or so
– of David Mitchell’s novel, but I’m really
rather busy.
Voices
screens or iPhones, mulling over the fact
that Tweeter A (whom they don’t know) is
gently passive-aggressively sub-tweeting
about Tweeter B (whom they know a tiny
bit) while frantically refreshing their screen
to see whether either of them (whom they
wouldn’t even give the time of day to in a
pub in real life) has taken the bait and is
starting a Twitter scrap.
Social media, and specifically Twitter,
give us a previously unthinkable, seemingly
omniscient perspective on the world, but
it’s a bit like when the boys from This Is
Spinal Tap were at Graceland staring at
Elvis’s grave. “Well, this is thoroughly
depressing,” David St Hubbins said. “It
really puts perspective on things, though,
doesn’t it? Too much. There’s too much
fucking perspective.” We’re granted so
much access to everything to think about,
there’s literally no time to think.
Of course, here’s where works like The
Right Sort – so gorgeously slender, and
to the point, and comprising manageable
bite-sized chunks – find their forte. Who
of those deeply involved with social media
has time to read an actual whopping novel
like Cloud Atlas? I’ll just wait for one of
the Twitterverse’s great readers to tweet
their views, or buy it and add it on my
Kindle to the stack of other books I was
recommended on Twitter which I haven’t
read yet, and never will as I was on Twitter.
I have halloumi in my fridge older than
Cheryl Cole’s relationship with French
restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-
Versini, but the pair has married after three
months nevertheless. Congratulations to
the utterly beautiful duo. “Mazzles!” as my
Essex Jewish friends would say.
Three months, in my opinion, is the
perfect time to get married, as one is still
wholly drugged by those glorious initial
stages of lust, denial and idealism. Love is
– let’s be frank – glorious, delicious mental-
health Armageddon. It makes crazies of us
all. All that and a great dress too.
Well done Cheryl for marrying at the
point where merely staring into the eyes of
a loved one makes one’s waist feel smaller
and one’s eyelashes longer. Movie love. A
love without fear, chiefly as one has literally
no idea who the person to fear is. Plus you’re
too cerebrally imbalanced to care. Woo hoo!
Seize the day, Cheryl!
Waiting until seven or eight months to
marry is for fools and slackers who want
their day ruined with the subtle, slow drip
of reality. And that’s enough to put anyone
off a marzipan-smothered three-tier fruit
loaf. The reality being that one is actually
simply staring at another flawed human
being – one with a history, weaknesses,
secrets, plain unknowability and stuff that
needs mending while offering no ability
whatsoever to mend you.
We should all get married at three
months. Wed in haste, and work out who
the hell this person is who’s in your house
forever at absolute leisure.
Twitter: @gracedent
That’s the
way to marry,
Cheryl!
Cheryl Cole has tied the knot in a secret
ceremony after three months of dating AFP/GETTY
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The Diary
Andy
McSmith
Witnesses are coming
forward offering to give
evidence to the inquiry
into child abuse that was
going to be carried out by
Baroness Butler-Sloss. They
include the adopted child
of a Tory MP named Ralph
Bonner Pink, who has told
the Sunday Express that
Pink sexually abused her,
and had her packed off to
Broadmoor when she was 16
to keep her quiet.
Pink died in 1984, causing
a by-election in Portsmouth
South, in which the Tory
candidate was Patrick
Rock, later one of David
Cameron’s special advisers,
who was charged last month
with possessing images of
child abuse. He lost the seat.
The surprise winner was the
current MP, Mike Hancock,
who apologised last month
to a vulnerable constituent
for inappropriate
behaviour. May the voters
of Portsmouth South have
better luck in their next MP.
With friends like these...
Another potential witness,
Anthony Gilberthorpe,
has offered via the Sunday
Mirror to name senior
Conservatives who he says
were at a party with rent
boys in 1983. He is not
someone you would want to
trust as a friend.
A Conservative MP
named Piers Merchant
did, having known him for
years. In 1997, Merchant
stupidly began an affair with
a teenager, and asked his
friend whether they could
make secret use of his spare
room during a week when
Mrs Merchant thought
that her husband was at the
Conservative conference.
Gilberthorpe agreed, and
played the part of the
indulgent host, but hid a
camera in the bedroom, and
sold the story to the Mirror.
Graphic video images of
the couple in the bedroom
were broadcast on the
Mirror’s cable TV channel,
Live TV, without regard to
the impact such exposure
might have on an 18-year-
old woman. Merchant,
who quit the Commons
and is now dead, was told
that Gilberthorpe’s alleged
reward for this endeavour
was £25,000.
In the dock
“Rapists are set to serve
shorter jail sentences under
controversial new guidelines
being drawn up for judges,”
warned the Sunday
Telegraph, on 12 March
2006. “The move could cut a
year off the average seven-
year sentence handed out to
convicted rapists….”
This piece of writing
appeared under the byline
of the then home affairs
correspondent, Ben
Leapman. He is now in
custody awaiting sentence
after a jury in Kent found him
guilty yesterday – of rape.
Balls’ World Cup joy
With the World Cup over,
I assume that is the end
of the phase when adults
could be seen swapping
Panini cards in the Houses
of Parliament – and very
successfully, in the case of
the shadow Chancellor Ed
Balls, who tweeted: “Our
office Panini album finally
complete – just in time!”
Marxists disunited
Marxists of the world are
not united. There is furious
argument raging online
between defenders and
detractors of Lawrence and
Wishart, the publishing
firm which has one of the
Western world’s longest
backlist of Marxist writings.
It threatened legal
action against an internet
publisher, the Marxist
Internet Archive, for
putting 10 volumes of
the Collected Works of
Marx and Engels online,
in breach of copyright. In
the words of one outraged
commentator, “L&W has
placed bourgeois property
rights above the works
of two men whose lives
embodied the struggle to
overcome such rights.”
But the good news for
the publishers is that they
have a surprise defender
in the party that claims to
be Britain’s second-oldest,
the Socialist Party of Great
Britain, which says it is
wrong to pick on one firm
for doing what any publisher
would do. Instead we should
all “condemn the socio-
economic system which has
led to the repugnant concept
of ‘intellectual property”.
A constituency that
really can pick them
Gilberthorpe
agreed,
but hid a
camera in
the bedroom
and sold
the story
NEWS I N
BRI EF
Councils ‘fail to look after
vulnerable claimants’
Councils in England are
failing to recognise how
vulnerable people who
claim social care and other
benefits may be after the
number of complaints
soared by more than a
quarter last year, the Local
Government Ombudsman
has said.
Complaints about the
handling of tax and benefits
Give patients power to
trigger inquiry, says Nice
Patients who receive poor
standards of nursing care
in hospital should be able
to prompt an investigation
into staff numbers on their
ward, new NHS guidance
suggests. Patients in
England should be able
to alert ward managers to
poor care, which should be
investigated, according to
the watchdog Nice.
BENEFI TS NHS by councils rose by 26 per
cent and disputes over the
provision of social care by
16 per cent. Almost half of
cases were upheld.
Town-hall chiefs
blamed the increases on
government cuts. But the
Ombudsman’s report said
it had “no evidence to
indicate a link”.
“Failures to administer
properly can have an acute
impact on [claimants’]
lives,” the watchdog said in
a report compiling national
statistics for the first time.
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The three Israelis who are the
main suspects in the murder
of an Arab teenager that trig-
gered the worst unrest in Jeru-
salem in years have confessed
to dousing their 16-year-old
victim with petrol and burn-
ing him alive, police said.
A 29-year-old man and two
17-year-old youths arrested
last week “have admitted to
carrying out the murder and
have re-enacted the murder,”
police spokesman Micky
Rosenfeld said yesterday.
Police believe the killing
was revenge for the murders
of three Israeli teenagers
abducted while hitchhiking
near a West Bank settlement.
They were buri ed the
evening before Mohammed
Abu Khdeir was abducted in
East Jerusalem. “They have
admitted they poured petrol
on him and burned him alive,”
Mr Rosenfeld said.
The Israeli authorities have
not named the suspects, who
are to be kept in custody until
Friday, but have not been
charged.
Last month the Israelis
did name two Palestinians
as suspects in the abduction
and murder of the three Israeli
teenagers on 12 June, saying
they were actively hunting
the pair. Israel has blamed
Hamas, although it has pro-
duced no evidence to back its
claim. It responded by rear-
resting prisoners it had freed
in an exchange deal with the
Islamist group. The events
set the stage for the current
Israel-Gaza mini-war, now in
its seventh day.
The death toll in Gaza has
reached 169, most of whom
were civilians. International
pressure is mounting on Israel
to agree a ceasefire. The EU said
that it was in contact with “all
parties in the region” to press
for an immediate halt to hostili-
ties. US Secretary of State John
Kerry has also offered help to
secure a truce.
But judging by a random
sample of Israelis in the
middle class Beit Hakerem
neighbourhood of Jerusa-
lem, Israelis are ready to
keep going and are worried
that if the army stops now,
‘They
poured
petrol on
him and
burned
him alive’
Three Israelis have now confessed to
the revenge killing of a Palestinian boy.
BEN LYNFIELD reports from Jerusalem
A protester with a portrait of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was killed in a suspected revenge attack AFP/GETTY
Rebel cause
Ukraine accuses Russian army officers
of fighting alongside separatists
24
World
Tributes for Gordimer
The Nobel Prize-winning author
Nadine Gordimer dies aged 90
25
Raising the Concordia
Salvagers succeed in refloating the wrecked
Italian cruise ship – but the job is not over yet
26
Malala Yousafzai
The girl shot by the Taliban explains why she
is spending her birthday in Boko Haram country
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‘We can stop
when we’ve
eliminated
all Hamas’s
rockets’
without decisively defeating
Hamas, the rocket problem
will return soon. “We can’t
stop now or the same thing
will happen again a year from
now,” said Adi Eliav, a 49-year-
old building contractor. Near
him a television flashed the
latest news of Hamas rocket
attacks: “Eight-year-old boy
lightly wounded in Ashdod”;
“Rockets against Ashkelon,
Gan Yavne and Lachish”; and
“Interceptions in Ashdod.”
“We can stop when we’ve
eliminated all their stores of
rockets and hurt them in a way
that it will be hard for them to
come back. We’re not there
[yet],” Mr Eliav said.
But he was unsure whether
a ground incursion into Gaza
– which many right-wing poli-
ticians are advocating – is the
solution. “I’m hesitant. I don’t
want Israel Defence Force sol-
diers to be harmed,” he said.
“So I think it’s best to continue
[bombardments] from the air.
I don’t think these should be
escalated though, we should be
careful not to harm civilians.”
Mr Eliav credits Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu
with managing the war effort
well. “I’m not usually among
his fans, but he’s been reason-
able, he’s showing restraint.
He did not decide on a ground
operation.”
Ofer Shemtov, 28, who buys
and sells real estate, said that
“going towards a ceasefire now
means accepting that this will
happen again and that Hamas
will improve its capability”.
“As sad as it is, there is no
solution. This is because the
nature of this war is that it’s not
over territory, but rather that
they want to finish us off.”
Yaacov Levy, a retired bus
driver, said: “I’m willing to
stop on the condition that the
leading countries in the world
take out all the missiles from
Gaza. I’m sure that if they stop
now, it will happen again.
“They should go to a ground
operation only if they are will-
ing to take it all the way and take
out all of Hamas’s weaponry.”
Mr Levy was satisfied with Mr
Netanyahu’s performance. He
said: “He is making decisions
from his head, not from his
[heart]. He will do what is nec-
essary, but at the right time.”
But Tamar Paikes, an artist,
said: “Netanyahu is always
blaming and never taking
responsibility for anything.
“We should go to a ceasefire
because using force didn’t lead
us anywhere. It’s like a violent
family that just deteriorates
into more violence.”
Hamas has said a ceasefire
must include the release of
prisoners arrested in West
Bank sweeps, an end to Israel’s
Gaza blockade and a return to a
2012 truce agreement. It also
wants Egypt to ease restric-
tions at the Rafah crossing.
Last night, Egypt’s for-
eign ministry proposed a
three-step plan starting with
a temporary ceasefire to go
into effect within 12 hours of
“unconditional acceptance”
by the two sides. That would
be followed by talks in Cairo
within two days.
Two rockets fired from
Gaza were reportedly inter-
cepted over the Tel Aviv area
yesterday after a lull during
the morning. Ninety rockets
were fired at Israel yesterday,
bringing the total since the
start of the war to 1,050, an
army spokesman said. The
air force mounted 100 strikes
on targets in Gaza.
‘My brothers are staying
and I am staying, this is our
land... we will build again’
Seven people were squeezed
inside the ageing Mercedes
with two mattresses strapped
to the roof and plastic sacks
bulging out of the boot. This
was a family on the move in
North Gaza, where residents
had been ordered by the Israeli
military to evacuate. They were
not, however, fleeing their
home, but returning there,
determined to stick it out.
The exodus which had taken
place in fear of an impending
major military assault is being
reversed with an extraordinary
display of defiance; a steady
stream of people are heading
back to their towns and vil-
lages, some within 24 hours
of departing from them.
This puts Benjamin Netan-
yahu’s government in a dif-
ficult position over an area
which it claims is the prime
launching site for hundreds
of rockets into Israel. Leaflets
had been dropped demanding
evacuation with a deadline of
midday on Sunday, with the
threat: “Those who fail to
comply with the instructions
will endanger their lives and
the lives of their families.
Beware”. A senior Israeli mil-
itary officer, in a briefing to
the media, had maintained:
“the enemy has built rocket
infrastructure in between
houses” at which forces will
“strike with might”, indicating
this was likely to be on Sunday
night, but without elaborat-
ing whether this would mean
a land offensive.
However, the officer had
added: “He [the enemy] wants
to trap me into an attack and
into hurting civilians.” A senior
Israeli official, while stressing
the threat from North Gaza,
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How social media
became weapon in
propaganda war
The Twitter hashtag #gaza-
underattack, which emerged
as Israel launched Operation
Protective Edge against the
Palestinian territory earlier
this month, was founded on
the presumption that media
are failing to report the story.
Graphic violent images
of civilians under fire were
posted in large numbers,
suggesting that news organi-
sations were turning a blind
eye to the attacks. “The media
are not reporting anything,”
was the hashtag’s catch line.
But social media, especially
in its treatment the Middle
East, has become a minefield
of propaganda and misinfor-
mation. Analysis by Abdi-
rahim Saeed of BBC Arabic
found that some of the pic-
tures of violence circulated on
the #gazaunderattack thread
were recycled images from as
long ago as 2007. Some were
not even from Gaza at all but
showed events from the ongo-
ing conflict in Syria. Many of
the pictures have since been
distributed as the subjects of
thousands of retweets.
“I didn’t expect to get over
1,800 retweets – I didn’t actu-
ally know that the picture was
recycled,” one 16-year-old
Twitter user told the BBC.
“People don’t need to take it as
a literal account. If you think of
bombs going off, that’s pretty
much what it looks like.”
I AN BURRELL
MEDIA EDITOR
Chris Hamilton, social
media editor at the BBC, said
media organisations were using
reverse image search facilities
– which show if a photo has pre-
viously been published online
– to determine the provenance
of pictures.
Social media has become
one of the weapons of war.
The Israeli army, which has
been on Twitter since 2009,
now has 286,000 followers.
During violence in 2012, the
Hamas military wing set up
its own @AlqassamBrigade
account to trade threats with
the IDF.
In the student union of
a private university in the
Israeli coastal city of Herzliya,
a “Hasbara war room” has
been set up as a contribution
to the military effort. Hasbara
literally means “explanation”
but has also come to signify
propaganda. Up to 400 stu-
dents sit at banks of computers
getting Israel’s message out
online. “The goal is to deliver
a very clear message to people
abroad – Israel has the right to
defend itself,” Lidor Bar David
told the Israeli news website,
Ynet. “Although they haven’t
been called up yet, they’ve
decided to enlist in a civilian
mission that is no less impor-
tant,” reported Ynet.
The students target online
forums while aiming to appear
as ordinary social media users.
They lobby Facebook to take
down pages which incite
violence against Israel and
circulate drawings of Hamas
rockets made by traumatised
Israeli children.
Clockwise
from main:
Palestinians
gather at a
house where
five people
were killed in
Rafah, Gaza;
a property
in Ashdod,
Israel, hit by
rocket fire;
Israelis take
shelter near
Ashkelon
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had acknowledged that there
was only a limited window to
carry out operations before
residents began to drift back.
There is a feeling that
nowhere and no one is really
safe in Gaza in this missile war
between Hamas and Israel. The
home of Dr Nasser al-Tatar, the
director of al-Shifa Hospital in
Gaza City, was destroyed in an
attack on Sunday evening. The
death toll, according to Pales-
tinian officials, stand at 172, the
UN says 77 per cent of them
are civilians.
There were air strikes by
Israel and rocket launches by
Hamas in the north yesterday
afternoon, but nothing like
the onslaught which had been
anticipated. That was one of
the reasons why Abdulrahman
al-Karimi had brought his wife
and six children back home to
Jabaliya after just one night at
a UN shelter.
“We have had some very
bad bombings by the Israelis
here since the fighting began
and so when we got the leaf-
lets I thought it was going to
get even worse and we may get
soldiers coming in”, said the
36-year-old mechanic. “But
we heard the attacks have not
been so bad since [the dead-
line] yesterday and we decided
to come back … The situation
won’t be too bad, Inshallah,
and we will be all right.”
Brothers Riaz and Ayman
al-Farhat and their families
had misgivings about leaving
their homes in Beit Lahiya in
the first place after the experi-
ence of two years ago when,
they say, their house was
looted by Israeli troops.
“We went to stay with an
aunt in Rafah; but there were
already two families living
there whose homes have been
bombed. We were worried
about our homes, they might
damage them or, maybe this
time, even blow them up,
so when we heard that our
neighbours were going back,
we decided to as well,” said
Ayman al-Farhat.
“We don’t think the Israelis
will invade, they are too scared
that they will lose a lot of peo-
ple. At first we thought that just
Riaz and I will go back. But our
wives, our children, were very
upset at being left behind, so
we all came back.”
Salah Rajab, 40, had already
had his house destroyed in an
air strike in Beit Lahiya four
days ago after a warning in a
mobile call by the Israeli mili-
tary. He and his family decided
to stay on, at the house of one
of his brothers.
“I am just a farmer, I had
nothing to do with poli-
tics, but they destroyed my
home,” he protested. “Maybe
they had false information, I
will never find out. There is
nowhere for us to go to. My
brothers are staying and I am
staying, this is our land, they
have destroyed a house, but
we will build again.”
For Izaak Musullam, shop-
ping with his two-year-old
grandson, Adham, the issue is
also one of principle. “Even if
my house falls down around my
head, I am not going to go.”
But some who have stayed
behind have chosen to leave
their homes and move into
schools in Jabaliya. “We don’t
want to go out of here unless
there is a ceasefire, it is too
dangerous,” said Faiza Sabah.
“In the meantime we are stuck
here, with no one to help us.
We don’t want these schools
to turn into refugee camps.”
Media
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NEWS
I N BRI EF
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Ukraine accuses
Russian ofcers
of helping rebels
NATALI A ZI NETS AND
RI CHARD BALMFORTH
IN KIEV
Ukraine yesterday accused
Russian army officers of fighting
alongside separatists in the east
of the country and said Moscow
was once more building up its
troops on the border.
A missile that brought down
a Ukrainian transport plane
near the border was probably
fired from Russia, Ukrainian
officials said.
President Petro Porosh-
enko held an emergency
meeting of his security chiefs
after a weekend of Ukrainian
air strikes on rebel positions
near the border with Russia,
and charges by Moscow that
Kiev killed a Russian man with
a cross-border shell.
The war of words between
Kiev and Moscow and intense
fighting, in which Ukrainian
forces say they inflicted heavy
losses on the rebels, marked a
sharp escalation in the three-
and-a-half-month conflict.
“Information has... been
confirmed that Russian staff
officers are taking part in
military operations against
Ukr ai ni an f orces,” Mr
Poroshenko said.
He made similar complaints
about Russian incursions
on Sunday to the European
Union with an eye to push-
ing the bloc to exert greater
Rivals agree to an audit
of election results
The two presidential
candidates have agreed to
an audit to try to resolve a
dispute over the result of
last month’s vote. In a deal
brokered by US Secretary of
State John Kerry, Abdullah
Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani
agreed to abide by the result
of the review of all eight
million ballots, which will
begin within 24 hours.
AFGHANI STAN
Mubarak party leaders
able to run for elections
A Cairo appeal court ruled
yesterday that leaders of the
former ruling party of the
ousted President Hosni
Mubarak will not be barred
from running for elections.
This overturns an earlier
ruling and observers expect
former National Democrat-
ic Party members to make a
strong comeback in
parliamentary elections. AP
Soldier held by Taliban
returns to service
The American soldier who
was held for five years in
Afghanistan returned to
duty yesterday, having
completed therapy and
counselling.
Bowe Bergdahl, who was
released in May after five
years as a Taliban prisoner,
is being assigned to work at
Joint Base San Antonio-Fort
Sam Houston.
Officials characterised the
move as “the final phase of
the reintegration process”.
The Pentagon also said the
Army was still investigating
the circumstances
surrounding Sgt Bergdahl’s
disappearance in 2009 from
his post in Afghanistan
and subsequent capture by
Taliban militants.
UNI TED STATES
EGYPT
Voice against apartheid:
Nobel laureate Nadine
Gordimer dies, aged 90
The South African Nobel
Prize-winning author Nadine
Gordimer, an unwavering mor-
alist who became one of the
most powerful voices against
the injustice of apartheid, has
died at the age of 90.
Gor di mer , who wa s
awarded the Nobel Prize in
literature in 1991, died at her
Johannesburg home on Sun-
day with her children, Hugo
and Oriane, at her side.
“She cared most deeply
about South Africa, its cul-
ture, its people and its ongo-
ing struggle to realise its new
democracy,” a statement from
the family said.
Gordimer, regarded by
many as South Africa’s lead-
ing writer, published novels
and short stories steeped
in the drama of a society
warped by decades of white-
minority rule.
Many of her stories dealt
with the themes of love, hate
and friendship under the
pressures of the racially seg-
regated system that ended in
1994 when Nelson Mandela
became South Africa’s first
black president.
She was a member of
Mandela’s African National
Congress (ANC), which
was banned under apartheid,
but used her pen to bat-
tle against the inequality of
whi te rul e, earni ng her
the enmity of sections of
the establishment.
Some of her novels, such as
A World of Strangers and Burg-
er’s Daughter, were banned by
the apartheid authorities.
But Gordimer, a petite fig-
ure with a crystal-clear gaze,
did not restrict her writing
to a damning indictment of
apartheid. She cut through the
web of human hypocrisy and
deceit wherever she found it.
“I cannot simply damn
apartheid when there is
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pressure and possibly more
sanctions on Moscow.
Mr Poroshenko told his
security chiefs that govern-
ment forces, which lost 23
men in a rocket attack on an
army camp last Friday, were
now facing a new Russian mis-
sile system and there would
have to be a change in tactics.
Ukrai ne Nati onal and
Security Council spokesman
Andriy Lysenko said: “In the
past 24 hours, deployment of
[Russian] units and military
equipment across the border
from the Sumy and Luhansk
border points was noticed.
The Russian Federation con-
tinues to build up troops.”
Nato sai d Russi a had
increased its forces along the
border and now had 10,000 to
12,000 troops in the area.
Moscow’s response to the
cross-border shelling and the
Ukrainian reports of Russian
troops being moved up to the
border raised again the pros-
pect of Russian intervention,
after weeks in which President
Vladimir Putin had appeared
intent on disengaging troops.
The Ukrainian army said it
had broken a rebel encircle-
ment of Luhansk airport on
Sunday night.
Russia said it had invited
monitors from the OSCE, a
European security and rights
body, to visit two of its border
crossings with Ukraine as a
sign of goodwill. REUTERS
NDUNDU SI THOLE
IN JOHANNESBURG
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human injustice to be found
everywhere else,” she said
shortly before winning her
Nobel Prize.
In later years, she became
a vocal campaigner in the
HIV/Aids movement, lobby-
ing and fundraising on behalf
of the Treatment Action Cam-
paign, a group pushing for the
South African government to
provide free, life-saving drugs
to sufferers.
Nor di d she shy away
from criticising the ANC
under the current President,
Jacob Zuma, expressing
her opposition to a pro-
posed law which limits the
publ i cati on of i nforma-
tion deemed sensitive by
the government.
“The reintroduction of
censorship is unthinkable
when you think how people
suffered to get rid of censor-
ship in all its forms,” she said
last month.
The ANC responded to her
death by describing Gordimer
as an “unmatched literary
giant whose life’s work was
our mirror and an unending
quest for humanity”.
The daughter of a Lithua-
nian Jewish watchmaker,
Gordimer started writing in
earnest at the age of nine.
She was a champion of freedom
BONNI E
GREER
Appreciation
She wrote
the social
history of
our nation
Nadine Gordimer will be
remembered in South Africa
and abroad as a towering
literary figure and powerful
voice for justice and freedom
of expression.
Although by her own
admission she was not a
“political person” by nature,
she had a profound impact
on political life.
Appreciation
Gordimer refused to be
longlisted for the Orange Prize
Nadine Gordimer visiting the Alexandra township in 1986 to lay
wreaths at the graves of victims of political unrest REUTERS
the lives that ordinary peo-
ple could recognise, could
understand, could relate to,
abounded with great acts of
courage and love.
Occasion for Loving tells
the tale of a white woman
in love with a black artist, a
shambolic man. She loves
his chaos as opposed to the
order of her white husband,
a kind of symbol not only of
apartheid itself, but of the
status quo.
My own life and grow-
ing up was caught up in the
turbulence and the awful
beauty of America in the
1960s and 1970s, and so
Gordimer’s work passed me
by then. I was living another
version of Gordimer’s great
adventure towards justice.
And yet, it is not in the
great themes that she lives
for me, and will continue to
live through the ages.
It is her writer’s eye – its
unflinching precision; her
great compassion, her
heart, and her consistency.
Consistency in that she saw
the fight against HIV/Aids
and apartheid as essentially
battles for human dignity,
for humanity itself.
Nadine Gordimer could
battle both aspects of the
post-apartheid South Afri-
can government and the
apartheid one. Not because
they were the same thing,
but because they limited
human capacity.
Nadine Gordimer was a
“guerrilla of the imagina-
tion”, as the late Seamus
Heaney called her. “This is
the creature that has never
been,” she writes in Burger’s
Daughter. This is true of
Nadine Gordimer, too.
Bonnie Greer is a writer and
broadcaster
Through her writing
and choices of subject she
strengthened the forces of
resistance to apartheid and
continued to speak
out against any form of
official censorship.
She inspired Nelson
Mandela and was one of
the first people whom he
asked to see after his release
from 27 years in jail in Febru-
ary 1990.
Gordimer, who won the
Nobel Prize in literature in
1991, wrote 15 novels, three
of which were banned under
the apartheid government’s
censorship laws.
One of her books, briefly
banned, was Burger’s
Daughter, which tells the
story of a woman’s search for
her identity after her father,
a political revolutionary, dies
in jail.
The book was inspired by
the life and example of the
legendary Bram Fischer, an
Afrikaner who turned his
back on his own people to
devote his life to the libera-
tion of black South Africans.
He was the brilliant lawyer
who led the legal team that
saved Nelson Mandela and
his colleagues in the seminal
Rivonia trial of 1964.
Gordimer’s novels, non-
fiction, essays and short
stories were translated into
40 languages and for most
white South Africans dur-
ing the apartheid years her
novels were uncomfortable
reading; her South African
audience was dwarfed by her
vast international following.
Gordimer, who secretly
joined the ANC following
the Sharpeville massacre
in 1960, was active in the
underground, driving activ-
ists under threat to the bor-
der and assisting victims of
apartheid in other ways.
The themes of her books
focused on the various
stages of apartheid but her
writing was itself not overly
political. Her priority was
always to enter the world of
others with great empathy
and insight and take readers
on a subjective journey.
The patchwork quilt that
her books formed over
the years is like a social
and political history of the
country under apartheid
and beyond.
John Battersby was the
editor of ‘The Sunday
Independent’ in South Africa
from 1996 to 2001
I cannot simply damn
apartheid when there is
human injustice to be
found everywhere else
A lonely childhood trig-
gered an intense study of the
ordinary people around her,
especially the customers in
her father’s jewellery shop
and the migrant black work-
ers in her native East Rand,
outside Johannesburg.
A teenage naivety was even-
tually replaced by a sense of
rebellion and as her talent
and public reading grew, her
liberal leanings earned her a
reputation as a radical.
Eventually the government
censors clamped down and
banned three of her works in
the 1960s and 1970s, despite
her growing prestige abroad
and her acceptance as one of
the foremost authors in the
English language.
The first book to be banned
was A World of Strangers, the
story of an apolitical Briton
drifting into friendships with
black South Africans and
uncovering the schizophrenia
of living in segregated Johan-
nesburg in the 1950s.
In 1979, Burger’s Daughter
was banished from the shelves
for its portrayal of a woman’s
attempt to establish her own
identity after her father’s
death in jail makes him a
political hero.
Despite Gordimer’s place
in the international elite, she
maintained a passionate con-
cern for those struggling at
the bottom of South Africa’s
literary heap.
“It humbles me to see some-
one sitting in the corner of a
township shack he shares with
10 others, trying to write in
the most impossible of con-
ditions,” she said.
Gordimer also remained
proud of her heritage despite
her hatred of apartheid and
only once considered emi-
grating – to nearby Zambia.
“Then I discovered the
truth, which was that in
Zambia I was regarded by
black friends as a European, a
stranger,” she said. “It is only
here that I can be what I am: a
white African.”
Nadine Gordimer with ANC
leader Nelson Mandela in
1993 LOUI SE GUBB/CORBI S
Nadine Gordimer was a
writer who, above all, wrote
within the precincts of the
heart. Gordimer’s works not
only had the ring of truth,
but were the truth – a writ-
er’s truth – hewn from the
fabric of her own life and the
life she saw around her.
In many ways, she made
a pact with that writer’s life:
that it would be as much as
she could possibly make it
– uncensored. She refused to
be longlisted for the Orange
Prize because it admits only
women’s work. To have been
on that list went against
everything she stood for.
Her criticism of some of
the decisions of Thabo Mbeki
and Jacob Zuma may have
shocked many, because she
had been such a champion
of a post-apartheid South
Africa. But what she was a
champion of was freedom.
She wrote of freedom in
love and freedom in politics
and for her there was no divi-
sion. Her books, grounded in
JOHN
BATTERSBY
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World
Salvagers
succeed
in foating
wreck of
‘Concordia’
MI CHAEL DAY
IN ROME
The final, critical phase in
refloating the wrecked Costa
Concordia cruise liner is under
way, with salvage experts yes-
terday managing to lift the
vessel off the specially con-
structed shelf that has sup-
ported its 114,000 tons for
almost a year.
After partially filled buoy-
ancy tanks raised the wreck
two metres off the shelf, it
was then towed further from
the bay of Giglio island for the
refloating to continue.
Franco Porcellacchia, the
engineer in charge of the
salvage, hailed the success of
the initial stage of the refloat:
“The boat is now floating with
its sponsons attached,” he said
“The ship is upright and is not
listing either longitudinally or
latitudinally. This is extremely
positive news.”
Salvagers will continue to
pump compressed air into
the 20 sponsons, which act
like giant armbands, until the
290-metre craft rises another
12 metres. They hope to com-
plete the refloat by the week-
end, and then tow the stricken
liner nearly 200 miles north to
the port of Genoa, where it will
be scrapped. The date for the
five-day towing procedure has
been tentatively set for 21 July.
“The operation began well, but
it will be completed only when
we have finished the transport
to Genoa,” Italy’s Environment
Minister Gian Luca Galletti
told reporters.
The partially capsized ship,
which crashed into rocks off
the Tuscan island on 13 January
2012, with the loss of 32 lives,
was hauled upright last Sep-
tember, before engineers fit-
ted the sponsons to its sides.
The salvage master Nick
Sloane this morning warned
of uncertainties. “The risks
are that the ship could bend
as it is raised, or the chains
underneath it could snap,” he
No nirvana in
Nepal for Buddhist
teacher who took
on the Chinese
Two weeks ago, the remains of
Shamar Rinpoche, a Tibetan
Buddhist teacher, were flown
from Delhi to a monastery in
north-east India where his cof-
fin was met by monks playing
trumpets and cymbals.
Shamar Rinpoche, 62, who
held the title Sharmapa, died of
a heart attack in Germany. His
supporters wanted to fulfil his
wishes and transport his body
first to Kalimpong, in India’s
north-east, and then to Nepal
for a funeral service at an insti-
tute he had established.
But his supporters around
the world fear their teacher
may have fallen foul of power
politics playing out in the
Himalayas. Having initially
granted the go-ahead for his
body to be taken to Nepal, the
authorities in Kathmandu have
now withdrawn permission. It
has been reported they did so
under pressure from neigh-
bouring China, which does
not want to encourage Tibetan
Buddhism in Nepal.
“It’s a very dramatic situ-
ation,” said Khenpo Mriti,
administrator of the Karmapa
International Buddhist Insti-
tute in Delhi, where the Shar-
mapa’s coffin was kept after
arriving from Germany. “We
are in trauma. We do not know
what to do.”
The Sharmapa held a sen-
ior position within the Karma
Kagyu school of Tibetan
Buddhism, But he was a con-
troversial figure. In 1992, he
declined to recognise the per-
son identified as the 17th Kar-
mapa, who heads the Karma
ANDREW BUNCOMBE
ASIA CORRESPONDENT
Kagyu school. Instead he
identified his own candidate
and today, the Karma Kagyu
school remains split over who
is its true head. The Chinese
government recognises the
Karmapa that the Sharmapa
refused to recognise.
Despite this, his supporters
were planning a large funeral
service for him in Nepal and
were due to transfer his body
there on Monday. Represent-
atives of other branches of
Tibetan Buddhism, including
the Dalai Lama’s school, were
expected to attend.
Over the weekend, the
Kathmandu Post newspa-
per reported that a source in
the Nepalese home ministry
said the decision to withdraw
permission was taken under
pressure from the Chinese
embassy. It claimed the Chi-
nese objected to a representa-
tive of the Dalai Lama attend-
ing and did not want a large
rally to take place.
A spokesman for the Dalai
Lama said a representative
would probably have attended
the funeral. Since he fled Tibet
in 1959 and set up a Tibetan
government in exile, the Dalai
Lama has been repeatedly
denounced by the Chinese
authorities. Meanwhile, his so-
called Middle Way of trying to
secure autonomy but not inde-
pendence for Tibet has made
little progress. In the last few
years, dozens of Tibetans have
immolated themselves over
China’s actions.
Nepal, which sits between
India and China, has long
been the subject of efforts to
lever influence by both of its
huge Asian neighbours. In
recent years, it has sought to
control the Tibetan freedom
movement and has regularly
detained monks and their
supporters.
A spokesman for Nepal’s
home ministry confirmed
permission had been given
and then subsequently with-
drawn. He said officials at the
Nepalese Embassy in Delhi
had granted permission when
it was believed the Sharmapa
held a Nepalese passport, but
it was then discovered he held
a Bhutanese passport; offi-
cials said permission could
not be given as there was no
legal provision for allowing
foreigners to travel to Nepal
for a funeral.
Asked whether Nepal had
acted under pressure from
China, the spokesman said:
“No, no, no. That’s not true
– 200 per cent not true.”
Shamar Rinpoche’s body has
yet to be repatriated ALAMY
Monks say Beijing
thwarted Himalaya
funeral plan after
body is flown in
from Germany
COSTA CONCORDI A RAI SI NG A GI ANT
1The ship is
secured to the
ground with cables
2 Platforms are
built on the seabed
to assist the
operation
3 Flotation tanks flled with water are ftted
with pulling devices and welded on to the
port side and the ship is pulled up
Weight
114,500 tonnes...
which is the
weight of 570
blue whales
Length
951 feet
Canary Wharf,
London
800 feet tall
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‘We raise our voice
so those without a
voice can be heard’
Birthdays are a time to move
forward. We look back with
gratitude on what has passed
and decide that this year we
will be even stronger.
I have already lived what
many people might say is a
lifetime. I was 11 when I started
speaking out against the Tali-
ban and for my right to go to
school. I was 12 when I had to
leave my home in Pakistan’s
Swat Valley as terrorism and
extremism raged in my city. I
was 15 when I was shot by the
Taliban and almost died but
was given another life. I was
16 when I once again raised
my voice for girls’ rights and
education, this time on an
international stage. This past
weekend, I turned 17.
The first time Malala Day
was celebrated, in November
2012, I was in the hospital,
barely clinging to life. People
across the world came together
to pray for my recovery and
to raise their voice for girls’
rights, to say that together we
were stronger than terrorism,
stronger than violence.
Last year the Uni ted
Nations officially declared
my 16th birthday, July 12, to
be Malala Day. I spoke before
the UN General Assembly
with the Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon, special UN
envoy Gordon Brown and
other great leaders. On that
day, I raised my voice not for
myself but so that those with-
out a voice could be heard. I
spoke of strength and power:
“One child, one teacher, one
book and one pen can change
the world.”
As we celebrate Malala Day,
I have both hope and heart-
break. I thought we had hit a
turning point in our history,
that never again would a girl
face what I had to face. I did
not think that, just one year
after my UN speech, more
than 200 girls would be kid-
napped in Nigeria by Boko
Haram simply for wanting to
go to school. These girls are
my sisters.
Every day women and girls
face unspeakable challenges.
More than 66 million girls are
still out of school around the
world. In Pakistan, my sisters
are taken out of school and
made into brides when they
still are children. In India this
May, two of my sisters were
raped and killed, their bodies
left hanging in a tree. I strug-
gle even to understand such a
devastating act of violence.
I think of the girls from Syria
who not so long ago knew
what it felt like to be in a class-
room and now live in refugee
camps, while the world stands
by as they become a lost gen-
eration. I think of girls who are
caught in the crossfire of con-
flict between Gaza and Israel,
heads down as they hear the
terrifying sound of the air-raid
siren, instead of heads down
in a book, as they should be.
No student, anywhere,
ever, should be a target of
conflict or violence. Let us
all lay down our weapons. We
cannot sit on the sidelines and
let this continue. Each of us is
responsible. We cannot rest
until we have justice and free-
dom for every girl and every
boy. Since last Malala Day, I
have been working to help my
sisters, raising my voice. But
we must all do more.
I know education is what
separates a girl who is trapped
in a cycle of poverty, fear
and violence from one with
Malala holds a picture of a kidnapped girl, with her mother AP
MALALA YOUSAFZAI explains in her own words why she
is spending her 17th birthday in Boko Haram country
campaigning for the release of Nigeria’s missing schoolgirls
a chance at a better future.
During my school holidays,
I travelled to help my sisters
through my organisation, the
Malala Fund. I have visited
refugee camps in Jordan, spent
time with girls facing poverty
in Kenya, and even been to
New York City, where girls
face bullying and violence.
I know that my small contri-
bution is not enough. But it is
a start; I am just one girl.
Everywhere I have gone,
I have been humbled by the
power of all my sisters. I am
grateful to have met many
world leaders and inspiring
people. But it is my sisters
I carry with me. We all may
seem different from far away.
But up close, we face the same
fears, and we own the same
courage.
We raise our voice so that
those without a voice can be
heard. We pledge not to forget
the voiceless. Not to get tired
of calling for the creation of a
world that we want to live in.
Not to lose hope, and not to
stop caring.
Last Malala Day I told the
world my story. This Malala
Day, I have come to Nigeria,
to honour the stories of these
brave girls who have sacrificed
so much to get an education
and achieve their dreams. I am
meeting some of the abducted
schoolgirls who have escaped
from Boko Haram, and also
some of the families of girls still
in captivity, to listen to their
stories and call on Nigeria’s
President Goodluck Jonathan
to do even more to help them.
They suffer, but I believe they
are stronger than their oppres-
sors. Will you listen?
We are stronger than those
who oppress us, who seek to
silence us. We are stronger
than the enemies of educa-
tion. We are stronger than fear,
hatred, violence and poverty.
My birthday wish this year
is that we all raise our voices
for those under oppression, to
show our power and to dem-
onstrate that our courage is
stronger than their campaign
of fear. The road to education,
peace and equality is long, but
we will succeed if we walk it
together.
Malala Yousafzai is a global
education advocate and co-
founder of the Malala Fund
©The Washington Post
told AFP before the operation.
The fragility of the vast vessel,
which is twice the size of the
Titanic, is not the only con-
cern. Its route to Genoa takes
it through one of Europe’s
largest marine sanctuaries – a
haven for dolphins and whales
– and environmentalists have
warned about the dangers of
toxic waste or fuel leaking into
the sea as the ship is towed.
“It’s an unprecedented
operation and, as with any-
thing being done for the first
time, there are risks. But we
are confident,” Mr Porcellac-
chia said. The ship’s captain
Francesco Schettino is on
Everywhere
I have
gone I am
humbled
by the
power of
my sisters
trial for manslaughter, causing
a shipwreck, and abandoning
the vessel before all passengers
had evacuated.
The body of one of the Con-
cordia staff, Indian waiter
Russel Rebello is still missing
and a search for his remains is
expected to be carried out once
the ship is clear of the area.
The mayor of Giglio, Sergio
Ortelli, said there would be “no
celebration” when the giant
vessel was finally removed, two
and a half years after it crashed
there. “First and foremost this
was a tragedy,” he said. “But
the islanders will be relieved
when it is finally gone.”
Water is
expelled
from the
wreck of
the Costa
Concordia
during the
operation
to refloat
the stricken
vessel
AFP/GETTY
4 Once upright 15 starboard re-foating
stabilisers will be attached to the port side of
the ship and flled with water
5 Finally, the water tanks are emptied,
allowing the ship to be towed away and
broken up for scrap
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Why do we swallow Hamas propaganda?
Hamas must be so
disappointed. Only 170 dead
and not many of them the
children they took such care
to put in the line of fire. You
see, they understand the
Western media better than
we do ourselves.
Hearts bleed copiously
whenever Israel tries to
stop Hamas rockets being
launched from a clutch
of domestic housing. It’s
nothing to do with me. I’m
not Jewish and have never
been to Israel. I’m a great
admirer of Arab culture and
the Sufis.
But why do the Hamas/
Islamic Jihad threats of
genocide seem to mean
nothing to the bien-pensants
here? Why do we keep
swallowing their propaganda
whole and, without pausing
for a little chewing-time,
start vilifying the Israelis?
Steve Kerensky
Morecambe
Professor Walker is
right to remind us that
European colonisation
has historically been
catastrophic for the peoples
of the territories that have
been annexed. Canadian
Indians, Australian
Aborigines, Caribs
suffered horrendously. The
Spanish Empire wrecked
civilisations. And it is no
different with Israel. Since
that country has already
instituted apartheid,
the logical thrust of its
brutal treatment of the
Palestinians, the original
owners of the land, will be
to obliterate them.
Michael Rosenthal
Banbury, Oxfordshire
I wonder if the Israeli
government realises how
its lethal and apparently
indiscriminate attack on
Gaza is affecting public
opinion, even among
moderates, around the
world?
Harriet Kennett
South Warnborough,
Hampshire
Your correspondent Dr
Jacob Amir’s (Letters, 12
July) history of Palestine in
1947 is highly selective, and
accords with what Israel
wants us to believe.
He claims that
Palestinan Jewry accepted
the 1947 UN partition
plan, but ignores the
many Jews who rejected
it and wanted still more
land than the 60 per cent
they received from the
UN. He also ignores the
many Arabs who then
and today oppose ethnic
discrimination and favour
ethnic equality within a
democratic state (what
today is called “the one-
state solution”).
Within this framework,
there would be no need to
dismantle the settlements,
but the settlers would have
to accept the principles
of democracy and ethnic
equality. What is so bad
about that?
John Bibby
York
The Israeli government has
told residents in Gaza to
leave their homes before
the planned attack takes
place. Just where are they
supposed to go?
Alison Chown
Bridport, Dorset
In the current conflict in
Gaza casualty figures play
a large role in the minds
of uninvolved observers.
When they hear that no
Israelis have been killed by
missiles fired from Gaza
into Israel, but that 100
Gazans have been killed
by Israeli counter-strikes,
people tend to sympathise
with the side that has the
larger body count. But that
is simplistic.
Notwithstanding the fact
that c.650 missiles that have
been fired from Gaza into
Israel in the past few days,
starting the conflict, there
have been no deaths in
Israel because the majority
of the missiles targeted at
populated areas have been
RETURN OF THE
‘ SNOOPERS’ CHARTER’
As Benjamin Franklin
said: “Those who would
give up essential Liberty,
to purchase a little
temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty
nor Safety.” When is a
snooping charter, not a
snooping charter– when
David Cameron and his
stooge Nick Clegg call it
the Data Retention and
Investigation Powers Bill
(report, 11 July).
Will this legislation be
applied to companies?
Will it apply to
multinationals that supply
weapons to terrorists?
Will it apply to tax dodgers?
Will it apply to politicians?
No? Thought not.
This draconian law
isn’t happening in other
EU countries, so why
just the UK? It would
seem that Obama and the
NSA’s influence trumps
everything, even EU law.
In 1979 Stiff Little
Fingers sang “They take
away our freedom in the
name of liberty”. They
were singing about the
terrorists; 35 years later it
could equally apply to our
government.
Julie Partridge
London SE15
The Data Retention and
Investigatory Powers Bill
has been allotted one
day this week before the
Commons and one day
before the Lords before
voting day and the summer
recess.
This Bill has the support
of all three political leaders
and directly flouts the
ruling of the European
Court of Justice that the
UK government’s powers
to submit all UK citizens
to electronic surveillance
without particularity,
judicial oversight, appeal or
review are essentially illegal.
The European Human
Rights Convention
provides guarantees of
legal protection for all
citizens. This essential
security is explained in the
preamble to the Universal
Declaration of Human
Rights of December 1948.
Respect for the
Declaration, and
implementation of the
international human rights
conventions that followed, is
as fundamental to democracy
as is the independence of
the judiciary.
What evidence suddenly
convinced Messrs
Cameron, Clegg and
Miliband that this Bill was
so urgent that it must be
whipped through to the
vote, thereby denying
Parliament the time to
consider the implications
and consequences of
their votes?
And why, given the acts
of terrorism and violence,
does the UK Government
impose severe cutbacks
on our police forces, and
deny the police a more than
decent pay rise?
Vanessa Redgrave
London SW1
NETWORK RAIL IS
DEFINITELY ON TRACK
Network Rail has been
entrusted by its regulator
and Government to spend
and invest £38bn over the
next five years in running
and improving Britain’s
railway (“Trains, fines and
big claims – Network Rail is
way off track”, 11 July).
A strong and diverse
supplier base is crucial to
our success. We have over
4,000 regular suppliers
and of the £7bn spent and
invested in our railway last
year, 98.5 per cent was with
companies that are based or
have significant presence in
the UK.
As someone new to the
industry, I see clearly that
we need to make further
improvements, especially
to train punctuality, which
currently stands at 90 per
cent, and we will do so
over the coming years.
Overall, the rail network is
providing its users with a
service that is seeing record
levels of safety, passenger
numbers, satisfaction and
investment but there is still
much to improve.
We recognise that we
are entirely accountable
for investing wisely and
making every penny count
to improve our railway. That
is precisely what we are and
will be doing.
Mark Carne
Chief Executive
Network Rail, London N1

FAILING SCHOOLS?
BLAME THE COUNCIL
The head of Ofsted
castigates councils for not
raising concerns about
under-performing schools
(report, 12 July).
So, after 12 years of
successive governments
forcing the transfer of
nearly all education funding
from Local Education
Authorities to schools and
the private sector, thus
leading to the dismantling
of School Effectiveness
Services across the
country, followed by drastic
reductions in other council
funding which make it
impossible to find money
to maintain such services,
how exactly are councils
supposed to do that?
John Prescott urged Tony
Blair not to abolish LEAs
because then any blame for
shortcomings would fall
on national government.
Wrong again, John.
Paul Clein
Liverpool

SAME- SEX BALLROOM
DANCING BAN
Joyce Grenfell would have
been dismayed to learn that
two ladies should not dance
together and then would not
have written, “Stately as a
galleon, we glided across the
floor...” (report, 11 July).
Lorna Roberts
London N2
BEMUSED BY
BEARDED BARBS
Janet Street-Porter writes
(12 July) that she doesn’t
know a single woman who
finds a full beard remotely
attractive. As someone with
a full beard, I can put her
mind at rest.
Steve Mills
London SW17
Will this legislation be
applied to companies?
Will it apply to
multinationals that supply
weapons to terrorists?
intercepted by the Iron
Dome anti-missile system.
This has been developed
by Israel at great expense
precisely to protect its
civilian population from
such repeated attacks. The
Red Alert alarm sounds to
warn civilians to run for
cover.
Jack Cohen
Netanya, Israel
Has Israel never considered
another option in its
relationship with Gaza?
Instead of endless
bombing which achieves
nothing except to stoke
further resentment and
hate why not try killing
with kindness? Building
hospitals, schools, and
generally contributing to
the welfare of the people of
Gaza would considerably
lessen the appeal of Hamas
and it might cause Israel to
pause before it destroys its
own handiwork.
Nicky Ford
Guildford, Surrey
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When there is a likelihood of even small
amounts of snow, sleet or ice, I move my car
to the top of the hill that shelters my farm. If I
need to run errands during such times, I just
walk up the hill to it. The car is old, our drive is
steep and close to a quarter-mile long. Depend-
ing on how deep the snow is, and how often
my attention is caught by something else, the
walk can take a few minutes or half an hour.
Upon returning, I park in the same place, and
walk back down, carrying the day’s mail and my
small purchases through the woods. Emerging
from the forest at the base of the hill and seeing
my farm covered in snow, I think of it as cut free
from time – and myself cut free as well.
My car can take me to neighbours, to shops, to
1014: a space
odyssey
Manual labour: writer Keith Ferrell discovered the joys and challenges of ancient agricultural equipment such as scythes and mattocks ALAMY
THE BIG READ
When his life came crashing
down, KEITH FERRELL took
shelter on his farm, relying
on only ancient tools to
work the land. But could a
21st-century science and
science-fiction writer last as
an 11th-century field worker?
Continued on P.30 >
Michael McCarthy
The day I explored London in search
of the once ubiquitous sparrow
31
Skin deep
From DNA to dinosaurs, the scientists with
a secret love of cerebral tattoos
32
Pink stinks
Ballet companies are now reaching out to
boys, and there’s not a tutu in sight
34
Peter Fonda
On Easy Rider, his classic, hippie film
that caused a lifetime of bitterness
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Whether kept clear with tractors
and mowers, or brush axes and
scythes, cleared land is artifce,
and artifce takes work
town. Across the meadow, my house, a (mostly)
converted barn, contains telephone and internet
connecting me to friends, relatives, colleagues,
a universe of information and distraction, the
modern world. Right between them lies the
sliver of land I use to try my hand at agriculture,
as it was practised 1,000 years ago.
The transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer
has always fascinated me. The ability to plant,
cultivate and harvest crops stands alongside the
emergence of self-awareness, control of fire,
the wheel, and the development of mathemat-
ics and written language as one of humanity’s
transformational events. We became something
different once we began to farm.
I have found something like that taking place
in me. For a variety of reasons – partly financial,
partly intellectual – I have approached my 35
acres of farmland with tools that, for the most
part, would have been available in 1014: scythes,
sickles and mattocks recognisable from paint-
ings and tapestries of 11th-century farms.
I arrived here through circumstances in my life
and career. I purchased some land in Virginia in
the mid-1990s as a weekend and summer home,
a getaway. Part of the farm’s attraction was the
old barn, half-converted into living quarters. The
downstairs had electricity, running water from
a good well, a water heater, a bath and a toilet, a
septic system. There was a stove in the kitchen.
The place had a phone line, which meant that we
had dial-up internet. The nearest town, Rocky
Mount, with just over 4,000 people, was 15 miles
away. On clear nights with the lights turned low,
the stars came out nearly as brilliantly as they
would have 1,000 years before.
The first couple of years of ownership had a
peaceful pace. At the time, I was still editor-in-
chief of Omni magazine, a science and science-
fiction publication, often travelling throughout
the country and around the world. My wife was
teaching in high school. The farm was our week-
end refuge. I left most of the fields in meadow,
hiring a neighbour for a few hundred dollars
to bring in a tractor and mow them a couple
of times a year. Most people with a weekend
farm would have had the sense to buy a small
tractor or at least a riding mower. Not me. It
would have made sense to buy a four-wheel
drive vehicle, too, not to mention a generator
for times of power outages, but I never did.
Awaking after my first night there, I found
myself thinking that I could live here and, if
need be, live here just like this. Later in the day,
I returned to the city and, once the work week
began, found myself in offices, on aeroplanes,
travelling around the country and the world
for Omni, talking and writing about the future.
But now I thought more and more frequently:
I could live there, on my farm.
Not that I planned anything of the sort.
One memorable day, a neighbour showed
me how to sweep the long, curved blade of my
wood-handled scythe to slice tall grass or stalks
of grain cleanly at ground level. Done properly,
scything is not a chopping or hacking action. It
is fluid and rhythmic, performed with muscles
at the waist more than the arms. Who knew?
The scythe I used had evolved since ancient
times. By the Middle Ages, its sharpened blade
would have been fashioned by a blacksmith,
with his own long years of experience and skill.
The addition of lateral grips to the scythe’s
snathe (the long, wooden, often curved han-
dle to which the blade is attached) improved
the farmer’s ability to control the implement,
and made its use more efficient. Until one
attempts to use a scythe by holding on to the
snathe, as one might a baseball or cricket bat,
it’s difficult to appreciate just how innovative
the grips were.

M
y attraction to scythes and other ancient
artefacts was curiosity, even indulgence
– a city boy playing with old farm tools – until
our full-time move to the farm in 1997, a year
after Omni ceased its print edition and I became
a freelance writer again.
The permanent move was prompted by an
illness. As a result of that illness, my wife was
unable to continue teaching, and the vagar-
ies of a freelance income couldn’t be counted
on to support two homes. So the farm became
our home. We had hoped to build a small, real
house, and make the barn-cum-cabin my office
and library. The small house never got built.
I filled my garden with tomatoes, beans, peas,
onions, squash, cucumbers, corn, herbs. I set
up a small desk in a glade overlooking the broad
creek that ran next to the garden. With pencil
and paper, I wrote large parts of two books there,
scratching my way through hundreds of pages as
the seasons passed, then returning to the 20th
century to type them into the computer in my
office. When autumn arrived, I hired a neighbour
to mow the fields and meadows once more.
Supporting all of this was fine so long as the
freelance economy was good, and the approach
of the millennium brought boom times for
freelancing. But freelance writing is, in many
ways, the very definition of a hunter-gatherer
profession, and my freelance markets collapsed
as the internet rose up. I became increasingly
unable to care for the farm. Weeds grew. Bram-
bles began to spread. The forest encroached
upon what I now saw had been an artificially
maintained illusion of order.
Unmown, my lawns and meadows became
seas of tall grass and impenetrable thickets of bri-
ars and blackberry canes. In some areas, the grass
reached shoulder height; the briars grew even
taller. The pleasant walk to the big garden and the
glade beside the creek became an obstacle course
blocked by brush and thorns. I lost one meadow,
several acres, to scrub pines, and a good portion
of another. Whether kept clear with tractors and
mowers, or scythes and brush axes, cleared land
is artifice, and artifice takes work.
Unable to maintain mine with costly, large-
scale mowing, I found myself in retreat against
the incursion of vines and canes and trees. When I
could afford to have the land cleared every spring
and autumn, I could walk anywhere I wished,
and do so in shorts and tennis shoes during warm
weather. Walking much of my property now
requires stout boots as well as heavy trousers and
a long-sleeved shirt, and even then I accumulate
scratches and cuts from the briars.
Lacking the money and wherewithal to have
my fields clear in mere hours, I asked myself:
what could I do with what I had? The param-
eters of an experiment began to take shape. I
would see how a 21st-century man – one who
bought his farm with income from writing, edit-
ing and speaking about the future – survived as
an 11th-century field worker. After all, we lived
here, whether I could afford to keep the fields
cleared or not. I was on my own.
The 11th-century farmers I conjured would
have had children, relatives, perhaps a draft ani-
mal for ploughing and hauling. But with my wife
self-confined to the house, our son married and
only infrequently here, I was my sole source of
labour, so I picked my spots to make my stands,
to preserve in certain areas at least something
of the sense of a farm, of what a farm is, what it
provides. I did my best to keep the areas nearest
the house – the yard and even a stretch that could
honestly be called a lawn – neat and mowed. I
put in a vegetable garden closer to the house
than the big garden had been.
And I kept that 11th-century idea in my head, a
vision and a game. If I cranked my lawnmower, or
on occasion a neighbour’s borrowed tiller, I did
so while roughly calculating what the equivalent
of an hour of mowing would be in true horse – or
ox – power. My imaginary predecessors moved
to Ireland, from where I learnt about loy plough-
ing, an ancient approach to hand-tilling hilly and
rocky soil inaccessible to horse teams. The loy
is closest to the tool we now know as the spade,
and the spade was a tool I owned. I would take my
spade and dig in, working out rocks and roots,
cutting a furrow as straight as I could manage
(not very), moving sod and soil to either side of
the trench. A few hours’ work, and I could plant
a few seed potatoes.
My most constantly used tool was the
mattock, which offers a pointed pick on one
side of its head and a hoe-like blade on the other.
Also a favourite 1,000 years ago, the mattock’s
two heads, one for digging and one for cutting,
give it a versatility that I find unmatched. The
spade was once called the “poor man’s plough”
and I thought of my mattock, which I used to
break ground, chop roots, pry up rocks, turn
and prepare beds, the same way. Restricted to
one tool, I would choose the mattock.
A central truth about living closely on the
land is that the land itself will show you what
you have accomplished and what you have
done wrong. Mine mostly showed me my mis-
takes. Opportunistic pines, finding purchase
and uncut when small, soon became trees.
Blackberries, spreading beneath the ground,
erupted, their briars making familiar pathways
impassable. The first emergence of an invader
is the time to catch it – something I failed to do.
This year’s seedling pines are next year’s forest
covering a portion of a favourite meadow.
But even in the spots where I put in the time
to keep things clear, especially my garden, my
struggles were obvious. My pea rows – perfect
in the days of having the ground tilled by tractor
– now rarely rose straight, their twists and turns
mocking me and imposing irony and honesty
upon my thoughts. Was my declaration to “do
what I could with what I had” just denial? My
circumstances all but demanded that I let the
farm go, and with it the freelancing, to move
back to Greensboro or another city where I
could find a job. But I kept on.
During the worst of my economic problems,
I came close to losing it all, and wondered if
that might not be the best thing for myself,
my wife, and the land. Someone else, I knew,
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Last week I went
looking for London’s
most special wild
birds. There have been
various candidates for
this title over the years. In the immediate
post-war period a charming, quite
uncommon songbird began nesting on the
weed-bedecked bomb sites in the City: it
was the black redstart. (There’s still the odd
one around, although the bomb sites are
long gone.) And more recently, peregrine
falcons have started nesting on the capital’s
tall buildings: pretty special.
But the birds I was seeking are more
notable still, because they were once the
commonest and most familiar of all in
London, and even taken as symbols of
streetwise urban Londoners: Cockney
sparrahs. Yet in one of the greatest
unsolved wildlife mysteries of recent
years, house sparrows have gone from
London almost completely.
Independent readers may remember that
in 2000 this newspaper offered a £5,000
prize for the first scientific paper which, in
the opinion of our referees, would explain
the disappearance of the house sparrow
from London and other urban centres (the
referees were the Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds, the British Trust for
Ornithology, and Dr Denis Summers-Smith,
the world expert on the sparrow family).
There have been three entries for the
prize, which has not been awarded. Two,
from the same independent researcher,
both suggested the reason was predation
by sparrowhawks: the referees rejected this
unanimously. The other, from a group of
conservation scientists, proposed that the
reason was lack of insect food: over this,
the referees were split. This latter paper
convincingly suggested the parent birds
could no longer get enough of the insects
such as aphids which the chicks need in
the first few days of their lives – but it did
not explain why the insects themselves had
disappeared, which remains an enigma.
In the meantime, the sparrows that
vanished remain vanished, and central
London is a sparrow-free zone – more or
less. I say that because from time to time,
there are reports of the odd colony of house
sparrows clinging on in quiet corners, and
the person who knows more about this than
anyone else is Helen Baker, president of the
London Natural History Society.
A retired civil servant and sparrow
enthusiast, Helen was one of the first
people to notice that London’s sparrows
were vanishing; in 1994 she began to
organise an LNHS sparrow survey, with
the increasingly obvious disappearance in
mind. Twenty years on she is still looking
out for sparrows, and last week I joined her
on a three-hour walk to try to find traces
of Passer domesticus, or Passer domesticus
londoniensis, as you might say.
Helen thought she knew of three small
colonies, two of them on the South Bank, so
we slowly walked the length of the riverside
from London Bridge to Waterloo Bridge,
watching and listening – you often hear
sparrows chirruping before you see them
– past the raft of tourist attractions from
Borough Market to The Globe to Tate
Modern to the National Theatre, all with
associated eating places, where in the past
hungry sparrows would have gathered by
the score.
There were hungry pigeons, hundreds and
hundreds of them, and in Borough Market
there were starlings too, and further on,
various gulls, and the occasional magpie: but
of sparrows, not a sign. At the two places
where Helen had noted colonies in the
recent past, a garden near The Anchor pub,
and another garden at Gabriel’s Wharf, there
was no trace of them whatsoever. The South
Bank was sparrow-free.
We crossed Waterloo Bridge then, into
the West End, a last throw to try for Helen’s
third colony, and to my thrilled amazement,
eventually, we found it. It was in a very
quiet part of a famous street, almost a
backwater in the heart of tourist London,
centred on a tiny public garden where the
birds foraged: they nested in an old block of
flats nearby.
Just a handful of them. Very shy, hiding in
the garden’s bushes. But there they were.
The sound of them, the chirruping, came
before the sight, and it’s hard to describe
my elation: I cried out “I hear them! I hear
them!” and then when I saw them, they
might have been the rarest birds in the
land, red-backed shrikes or black-winged
stilts, such was my delight. I said to Helen:
“I never imagined I would ever feel this way
about sparrows.”
Even the commonplace is vulnerable
now, in a world where wildlife is under
ever-increasing stress
and threat; we should
treasure it all.
Twitter: @mjpmccarthy
could come in with money and equipment and
open it up in a season. This wasn’t, after all, a
species-wide apocalypse, but a personal one – I
could pack up, leave, start over elsewhere. But
I continued to believe that both my career and
my farm could be turned around – and that if I
really had to, I could survive on what I grew.
My peas tasted no less sweet for the dis-
array of their rows. Potatoes dug from soil
roughly worked with spade, shovel and mat-
tock were firm and well-shaped, tasty and
nourishing. I never used synthetic fertilisers.
Whatever I produced was nurtured, instead,
with compost, manure (during the years we
had a horse), chopped leaves and hay cut with
a scythe. I ate plenty of blackberries from the
canes that sprouted across once-mown fields,
and appreciated the animals – hawks, fox, even
bear – whose population increased along with
the spread of habitat. The deer and rabbits and
groundhogs didn’t care how straight my rows
were as they dined upon them – and in any true
apocalypse, they could feed us, too.
Time exerted its effects. Planting a large crop
of anything by hand took so much time that
plans for other large plantings went unfulfilled.
This season or phase of the moon for planting
this crop; this temperature means it’s too late
or too early to plant that one. Eleventh-century
farming was a pre-sunup to post-sundown
endeavour, or nearly. For everything I accom-
plished outside, far more tasks and chores – not
to mention plans – languished undone.
Still I held on. When my son came to visit
last November, I dug potatoes to share with
him and with other members of my family. I
was still here.
Things are looking up. This year promises to
be a good one at my desk, giving me the lift I
need to work my farm. In light of the lessons of
the last few years, I am ready to reconsider my
strategy and renew the fight to reclaim more
from the briars and the canes and the pines.
Our modern era’s dependence upon technol-
ogy and, especially, chemical and motorised
technology, has divorced most of us from soil and
seeds and fundamental skills. The schism would
challenge survivors in any post-apocalyptic
world. Without modern agricultural technology,
and the production and distribution systems that
are built upon it, hunger would arrive quickly
in most cities and towns, with starvation close
at heel. A cinematic global apocalypse would
see most of the survivors dead by starvation
within months if not weeks. Those who made
it through – farmers and gardeners, undoubtedly
some preppers (survivalists), maybe (or maybe
not) me, would find themselves in subsistence
and endurance mode for years. Planning and
long-practised rhythms were at the core of the
11th-century farmer’s life; improvisation, much
of it desperate, would be the heart of the post-
apocalyptic farmer’s existence.
I find I’ve become better at both. Oddly – or
maybe not – as life improves, I find myself look-
ing at powered equipment less longingly. But I
do have my eye on a custom-crafted, straight-
snathed European scythe. µ
This is an edited version of an article that first
appeared in Aeon Magazine; aeon.co/magazine
Sparrows in London were once ubiquitous.
Now the sight of them is a thrill
Brush with nature: without
mechanical tools, the
working farm quickly
became unmanageable
DOUG LANDRETH/CORBI S
We
became
something
different
once we
began to
farm
Nature Studies
Michael McCarthy
The sound of them – the
chirruping – came before
the sight. ‘I hear them!’
The drastic decline of house sparrows in the
capital is still a mystery REX
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If your interest in football begins and ends with
biannual international tournaments, you’ll be in
need of a handy cut-out-and-Google-later guide
to the new world champions. Here’s all/some
of what you need to know. Rule 1, if in doubt,
they probably play for Bayern Munich...
Coach: Joachim ‘Jogi’ Löw
Low first became known to the world as Jürgen
Klinsmann’s assistant in 2006, when the pair
nearly took Deutschland to the title on home
soil, wearing matching shirts and trousers. Very
neu man. Euro 2008 aside, Jogi has proved him-
self a semi-final specialist of almost Henman-
esque skill. His hairstyle sits somewhere
between a dialogue-free assassin in a Dolph
Lundgren movie and Chrissie Hynde’s.
Manuel Neuer, Bayern Munich
Neuer was both the best stopper in the tour-
nament and the man responsible for Guy
Mowbray and Mark Lawrenson overusing the
phrase “sweeper-keeper” like a new pair of
jeans. As well as being a brilliant keeper, Neuer
paid homage to old Germany with his tribute to
Harald Schumacher’s 1982 hip-in-face assault
on Patrick Battiston when he floored Gonzalo
Higuain. More scary than that was “Frighten-
ing” Frank McCay, the character Neuer voiced
in the German version of Pixar’s Monsters
University. Your move, Joe Hart.
Philipp Lahm, Bayern Munich
Germany’s densely eye-browed Kapitän may
have the look of someone you went to school
with who was good at racquet sports, but he has
proved himself pretty useful at football, too,
having won absolutely everything. However,
Lahm had the lifting of the World Cup slightly
ruined for him by Sepp Blatter and Dilma
Rousseff, who cowered behind the Deutsche
players lest they were further booed by the Rio
crowd. This meant that Lahm had to shuffle
to the middle of his team with the trophy in
his hand before raising it. Another reason, if
required, to dislike Sepp.
Jérôme Boateng, Bayern Munich
Boateng found himself in the unusual position
of playing against his brother when Kevin-
Prince Boateng lined up for Ghana in the group
stages. The latter was sent home in disgrace
for insulting his coach, while Jérôme turned
in a man of the match-worthy performance in
the final. Which will no doubt make the “what
did you do in the summer?” chats at Boateng
family dinners somewhat tense. His one season
at Manchester City in 2010/11 was so disap-
pointing than even the wonderful nickname
Das Boat failed to catch on. There’s still time.
Thomas Müller, 24, Bayern Munich
Arguably Germany’s best player in Brazil,
Muller once described himself as a “ramdeuter”,
a “space interpreter”. Which is his clever way
of saying that he puts himself about a bit. Not
quite a striker, not quite a midfielder, unfath-
omably effective. Müller’s boy-next-door good
looks allied with a propensity for rolling down
his socks – a look evocative of previous World
Cup heroes Paul Breitner, Mario Kempes and
Laurent Blanc – provide a combination that can
make otherwise heteronormative male fans go
weak at the shinpads.
Bastian Schweinsteiger, Bayern Munich
Despite taking the brunt of more Argentinian
hacks on Sunday than the editorial staff of La
Nación, Schweinsteiger is perhaps the most
traditionally German player in the World Cup
winners’ squad. And although his exterior is
harder than a frozen wurst, Schweinsteiger
was pictured offering his commiserations – à
la Andrew Flintoff at Edgbaston – to his van-
quished opponents. What a guy. And like Löw’s
(pronounced “love”), his name is a treat to Brit-
ish tabloid headline writers. It not only trans-
lates, roughly, as “pigclimber” – but allows for
linguistic tour de forces like, “you schwein” and
“you dirty schwein”. Those two gems earned
The Mirror and The Sun bans from Bayern
Munich press conferences in April.
Per Mertesacker, Arsenal
Worthy of a place in any squad on the basis of the
nickname given to him by Arsenal: BFG, or “Big
Fucking German”. A moniker made infamous
by German broadcaster Chris Lymberopoulos,
who glibly mentioned it on air on Sky Sports
News in March.
Mesut Özil, Arsenal
Along with Sami Khedira, İlkay Gündoğan
and Jérôme Boateng, Özil has been part of a
generation of German players with diverse
backgrounds who have helped the country
thrive. Yet, as Özil was born in Germany,
grew up in Germany to German-born parents
(his grandparents were Turkish immigrants)
and has played for Germany at three differ-
ent levels, he must have been thrilled in 2010
to receive a Bambi Award (a sort of German
public Oscars) for successful “integration” into
German society.
Miroslav Klose, Lazio
The veteran striker, 103, became the World Cup
Finals’ leading all-time scorer, with two goals in
2014, overtaking compatriot Gerd Müller and
Brazil’s Ronaldo. Klose’s achievement was all
the more impressive given that his 16 tourna-
ment goals came from a Lineker-esque com-
bined distance of 1.3 metres. He celebrated his
record-equalling 15th goal with the worst piece
of gymnastics (a failed frontflip) since McKayla
Maroney stacked it at London 2012.
Mario Götze, Bayern Munich
Despite looking like an exchange student who
can’t find his favourite baseball cap, Götze
sealed his role as German football’s wunder-
kind with his exceptional winning extra-time
volley, which ought to ensure he need never
buy a stein of Hofbräu ever again. Götze was
still living with his parents when he made the
controversial move from Borussia Dortmund to
Bayern (announced just before the two played
each other in the Champions’ League final). He
now goes out with lingerie model Ann-Kathrin
Brommel, so you hope for his folks’ sake that
he’s since moved out. µ Winning combination: the German team AFP
They’re going to rule football for a generation, so we’d
better get to know the world champions, says WI LL DEAN
THE KAISER
CHIEFS
FOOTBALL
Beneath their sober exteriors, many scientists harbour a
secret: intricate tattoos of molecules or favoured formulae.
NICK DUERDEN puts the trend under the microscope
APPLIED
SCIENCE
BODY ART
Carl Zimmer, a noted American science writer
and lecturer at Yale University, found himself
at a pool party a few years back attended almost
exclusively by scientists. Instead of promptly
fleeing, he fell into conversation with one after
noticing something he hadn’t expected to see:
a tattoo on the man’s forearm.
“It was of DNA,” Zimmer explains, “and
to me this was interesting because it showed
me a side to scientists I didn’t necessarily
know about.”
His interest duly piqued, Zimmer took a pho-
tograph of it and posted it onto his blog, then
asked his blog’s many readers if there were any
other scientists out there also concealing skin
ink related to their profession. There came a
deluge, scientists from all over the world only
too happy to share their hitherto largely hid-
den passions. “It’s as if they couldn’t wait to
reveal their secret,” he laughs. There were
the neuroscientists with neurons intricately
recreated onto their biceps, the biologists
with molecules, fish, even remote Hawaiian
archipelagos etched across their torsos, and
the palaeontologists whose legs had become
canvasses for dinosaurs.
Zimmer has collected some of the finest
examples in a book, Science Ink: Tattoos of
the Science Obsessed, which does everything
a good coffee table-cum-toilet book should,
crammed as it is full of fascinating photographs
that capture the artistry of each alongside help-
ful text explaining why, for example, Australian
biologist Bryan Grieg Fry took his study of ven-
omous sea snakes so seriously that he now has
one immortalised on his back alongside the
molecular symbol for adrenaline. “Required
in abundance,” Zimmer notes, “for his line of
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Oh, spiralizer – how do I love thee? Let me
count the ways. Firstly, there’s the courgetti
(courgette spaghetti) you allow me to effort-
lessly create with a turn of your handle. The
cunoodles (cucumber noodles), the perfect
addition to the sesame chicken salad from the
delectable new Hemsley and Hemsley cook-
book, The Art of Eating Well. The carrot ribbons
I add to my vegetable curries, garlic fries and
the cauliflower or the sweet-potato rice that I
can whip up with a whizz of your blade. Forget
smoothie makers, juicers and pricy blenders,
the spiralizer is the health gadget of the year.
Inexpensive, mess-free, easy to use and simple
to incorporate into meals, it’s no wonder this
gadget has already taken America by storm, and
is quickly catching on over here.
If you’re at a loss as to what I’m talking about,
allow me to explain. A spiralizer is effectively a
pimped-up grater that attaches to your kitchen
surface or chopping board with some suction
cups to keep it in place while you work.
Models come with several different blades,
each of which create different shapes. Above
the blade is a revolving crank handle, attached
to a spiky grip, which holds whatever you’re
spiralizing in place. Simply clamp the vegetable
between the blade and crank (so it is sitting on
top of the blade), turn the handle and apply a
bit of pressure and, as the vegetable is pressed
between the turning handle and the blade, it’s
cut into ribbons, or spirals.
While you can get similar results with a con-
ventional peeler, grater, mandolin or a julienne
peeler, it’s a lot more work and a lot less fun than
using one of these gadgets. It’s a huge hit with
kids, too, who love seeing the veggies squidge
out in interesting curly shapes.
At the moment, you can only really find
spiralizers on Amazon (it’s surely only a mat-
ter of time before Lakeland, John Lewis et al
catch on), which is where I bought the one I’ve
been using since the start of the year, the Lurch
1-piece Spiralo.
This model is basic, simple and only contains
the blades you actually need, rather than all the
bells and whistles you’ll never use.
So why have they become so popular now?
Truth is, while they’ve been in the pantries of
health nuts such as me for some time, they’ve
truly been thrust into the spotlight by a bunch
of high-profile health writers; the wonderful
Hemsley sisters (Jasmine and Melissa) and
Deliciously Ella, the vegan food blogger whose
recipes have taken the UK by storm.
But this is one fad that’s actually worth invest-
ing in. Eating courgetti instead of pasta with
your bolognaise sauce saves you lots of calories
and significantly helps you cut back on refined
carbohydrates, which is great if you are watch-
ing your waistline (some websites claim a 125g
portion of raw courgette spaghetti contains 21
calories and less than 4g of carbohydrate, com-
pared with 346 calories and 64g of carbohydrate
for normal spaghetti).
Spiralizing also encourages us to eat larger
quantities of fruit and vegetables, especially raw
ones, which helps increase the amount of fibre
we’re eating, too. See? It’s all good.
Health benefits aside, it’s also really rather
fun working out which produce works best on
it (obviously, it only really works with firm,
slightly starchy things). I like making cucum-
ber noodles and sweet-potato rice (spiralize the
potato, then whizz it in the blender until it’s
chopped up), while my friend Jane is obsessed
with making sweet-potato fries, rubbed in
crushed garlic and baked in the oven. The
excellent food blog inspiralized.com has so
many recipe suggestions that you’ll never run
out of inspiration.
Go on – give it a twirl. µ
research.” Elsewhere, one Drew Lucas, a post-
doctoral researcher at the University of Cape
Town, where he studies the flow of the ocean,
has a scientific formula inked onto his left leg.
“It’s the incompressible form of the conserva-
tion of mass equation fluid, also known as the
continuity equation,” he helpfully explains.
“When people ask what it means, I say it defines
flow. For an incompressible fluid, the partial
derivative of the velocity of the fluid in the
three spatial dimensionals must sum to zero.
It therefore concisely states the fundamental
nature of a fluid.”
Of course it does, Drew. Mercifully, another
scientist here, Colm O’Dushlaine, offers com-
parative light relief when explaining away his
tattoo. An Irish research scientist now based
at Harvard, he got a double helix immortalised
on his right bicep shortly after completing his
PhD on the subject.
“I felt I should have something that records
my passion for genetics in the same way
another tattoo I have, a Celtic knot, records
my ancestry,” O’Dushlaine says.
A year later, he was able to show it off to James
Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of
DNA. “He was very surprised by it, I think,”
he beams.
Like many scientists, O’Dushlaine was ini-
tially wary of discussing his ink with fellow
scientists. Many of his own generation, he says
(he is 34), have no problem with body art, but the
older generation still view it as inappropriate
for such studious folk. “In which case, it’s often
best to wait until you’ve got tenure before you
start revealing it to all...”
Zimmer, a big fan of both science and
history, became increasingly fascinated during
his research by society’s changing attitudes
towards tattoos. “When they first came to the
West, they were for a long time downright
illegal,” he says.
Nowadays, of course, tattoos no longer
represent counter-culture societies as they
once did. In a world where we inexplicably
allow ourselves to be influenced by Premier-
ship footballers, everyone and their mother
has some or other cod Sanskrit hieroglyphics
about their body that they hope – but never
quite can fully confirm – translates into a
variation of “peace and love”.
Tattoo artists, it turns out, are no better at
spelling than the rest of us. But scientists, says
Zimmer, take the whole business very seri-
ously indeed. Research occurs.
“This is not a minor undertaking for them,
not something they do at midnight when
drunk and wake up the next morning wonder-
ing what happened. No, they consider these
things for years, and it’s often a major collabo-
ration between scientist and artist to get it just
right.” Accuracy, he explains, is critical. “Sci-
entists can be pretty ruthless when it comes to
critiquing other science tattoos.”
Seven years ago, a geographer called Marina
Islas from the University of Austin, Texas, had a
map of the world immortalised across her back.
“I was in love with the world,” she says, “and
wanted to have it tattooed on my back to honour
that love.”
Far from hiding it, Islas often shows it off by
wearing backless dresses. “I take pride in my
body,” she says. Colleagues are impressed.
“At the Annual Meeting of the Association
of Geographers, I often get compliments,
and I’ve heard comments such as: ‘That’s
dedication!’”
But there is a downside to having such ornate
body art on frequent show. “There are times
when strangers approach me and touch my
back,” Islas admits. “It’s very rude.” David
Beckham presumably suffers similarly. µ
‘Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed’,
by Carl Zimmer (Sterling, £12.99)
Smart art: some cerebral tattoos featured in
the book ‘Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science
Obsessed’ by Carl Zimmer
The spiralizer is the hottest health-food gadget of the
year. But do we really want to eat spaghetti made from
courgettes? You’d be surprised, says NI COLE MOWBRAY
GRATE
EXPECTIONS
Healthy turn:
spiralizing
encourages
us to eat
larger
quantities
of fruit and
vegetables,
especially
raw
DI NTELMANN
FOOD
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OUR BAND OF
BILLY ELLIOTS
Ballet boys: Oscar, 11, Arlie, 6, and Marlo, 9, show their flexibility; (above right) the boys with mother Jane and father Joe UNP
With three sons, the Kempsey-Faggs might not have imagined that ballet would feature
strongly in their family life. But all the boys have been talent-spotted and selected for
elite dance training. And there’s nothing girly about it, they tell JENNY HUDSON
It started with a letter that Oscar Kempsey-Fagg
brought home from school. He had been spot-
ted during a school workshop run by Birming-
ham Royal Ballet and was invited to attend an
audition. His parents were intrigued. “Ballet
wasn’t on our radar,” recalls Oscar’s father, Joe.
“Although we wouldn’t have been consciously
against it, we wouldn’t have really thought of
taking the boys to ballet lessons.”
Each year, Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB)
runs workshops in schools across the city with
more than 1,500 children aged five and six.
Approximately 200 are invited to audition,
with around 60 being offered free, professional
ballet tuition on a programme called Dance
Track, which aims to identify children with
potential to become dancers. At least half of
those chosen will be boys. Oscar was selected
and subsequently so, too, were his two younger
brothers. Now, despite having no previous links
with ballet, Jane and Joe Kempsey-Fagg have a
whole family of ballet-dancing sons and dance
has a central place in family life, opening up
new possibilities for the boys.
While ballet classes are a routine part of
childhood for many girls, boys can find the
classes off-putting. “Often, in ballet classes for
that age group, the class will be full of girls and
the activities geared around them, such as run-
ning around being fairies,” says Rachel Hester,
a Dance Track teacher. “The boys don’t want
that and you’ll lose them. We made a conscious
decision to have white shoes and blue tops on
Dance Track. There is no pink.
“At first, I don’t use the word ‘ballet’ – I talk
about dance and movement and challenge them
to see who can jump the highest and furthest.
I give out gold medals because boys like that
competitive element.”
After his first year with Dance Track, Oscar
was selected to join a smaller group for another
year then, at the age of eight, won a place on
the prestigious Royal Ballet Junior Associate
scheme, a three year elite training programme
for eight- to 11-year-olds with the potential to
become professional dancers. At the same time,
it was the turn of Oscar’s younger brother Marlo
to take part in a workshop at Colmore Junior
and Infant Schools, which the boys attend. He,
too, was selected for Dance Track.
“It isn’t unusual for siblings to be selected,”
says Rachel. “When we see children at the age
of five and six, a lot of what we are looking for in
children is the physical facility for dancing. We
are looking for natural ankle flexibility, the abil-
ity to turn the hips out naturally, very straight
legs, co-ordination and, particularly in boys,
the ability to jump. The Kempsey-Fagg boys
have ‘magic feet’ – they are physically perfect
for dance, as well as having great musicality.”
As well as the rounds of lessons, the boys
would regularly see performances by BRB and
the Royal Ballet, being given free tickets as part
of their training schemes. They talk knowledg-
ably and enthusiastically about whether they
prefer classical or modern styles of ballet. If
some people express surprise at the place of
ballet in a family of boys, their parents feel it
all fits perfectly.
“The boys race BMX bikes competitively,”
says Joe, an architect, who is 42. “I suppose
that might seem to be on the opposite end of
the spectrum to ballet, but you can see that
their ballet helps them in terms of their bal-
ance, strength and stamina. They do all the
‘boys stuff’ – they are out in the garden, making
ramps for their bikes and climbing, then they
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Dilemmas
Virginia Ironside
Dear Virginia
My husband and I have
been in the acting
business all our lives, and
although we’ve just been
able to make a living, we
know how hard it can be.
Now our only daughter,
who is 18, wants to follow
in our footsteps and we’re
desperate to discourage
her. The truth is that she’s
not very good and there’s
no chance she’ll be able to
make any headway. And
long periods of “rest”
wouldn’t suit her. When
we suggest that it might
not be the right thing for
her to do, she says that we
followed our hearts, so
why can’t she? Is there
any way we can get her to
change her mind?
Yours sincerely, Babs
NEXT WEEK’ S DI LEMMA
I was so worried about my 20-year-old
student daughter smoking that I said I
would pay her rent if she stopped. She
promised she would, and I have paid around
£400 a month for six months. Now my
other daughter, aged 26, tells me that her
sister has been smoking all along, and has
even shown me Facebook pictures to prove
it. How can I confront her without telling
her that her own sister was the “grass”? Not
only do I feel utterly betrayed by my
daughter, but, as it is, I can’t afford this
money and I’m having to borrow it. I feel
very confused and distressed.
Yours sincerely,
Annie
I wonder what happened to you and your
husband when you told your parents that
you wanted to go into acting? Was there a
general celebration, or did they hang on to
their hats and advise caution? Because there
is hardly a parent in the world, I would
imagine, whose hearts wouldn’t sink slightly
if their children said they wanted to take up
acting as a career.
It’s an extremely precarious business, and
acting talent is only one of the skills needed
to get anywhere. You need to know how to
butter up the right people, how to make the
right friends, to work incredibly hard doing
rubbish parts – and doing them willingly,
efficiently and as well as you can – for very
little money to start with. You need to be
proactive – take a show to Edinburgh for
example, or push your way into a local
theatre company – and extremely good with
people. A little bit of ruthlessness doesn’t
do any harm, either.
So, rather than either agree or disagree
with her chosen career, couldn’t you
suggest that your daughter took a stage-
related course, such as theatre or stage
management, or even looked into the
technical side? She would be able to get a
lot of experience at the university theatre at
the same time as getting some proper skills
that might hold her in good stead on the
occasions when the acting profession failed
her. The great thing about acting is that it
is, like writing, something you can learn on
the job – and whether acting courses (any
more than creative writing courses) are
actually worth taking three years to go
through is certainly debatable.
Your daughter is pretty young – so there is
plenty of time for her to have a go at acting
and then, if it doesn’t work out, call it a day.
Why not give her a year to have a go at it,
with your blessing, and see how she does?
One thing good about you both being actors
is that it’s not just the pitfalls you can advise
her about. You can give her positive advice,
too – on how to behave at auditions, how to
impress an audience or a director and so on.
Perhaps you could try to see her decision
as something of a compliment to both of
you? After all, you admit that you’re not
international stars yourselves, so your
daughter must have first-hand experience of
what a very risky business an actor’s life can
be. But perhaps she’ll find that it’s the
theatrical life she’s really after, rather than
acting itself – and she can only find out
which aspect would suit her best by getting
immersed in all aspects of it, rather than
picking a particular role right away.
In the end, there is virtually nothing you
can do to make your daughter change her
mind, so it’s better to be as much on her
side as possible than to take a stand against
her. And it’s worth remembering that, when
they’re young, people’s career plans can
change and adapt a great deal as they grow
into their twenties.
Readers say...
Help her find her way
We have had a similar experience with our
daughter (now 28) who wants to be a writer.
When she is able to write, she is
transformed. But because we kept telling her
that she should have a day job to earn a
living, so she could be independent, she
tried for six months doing a job suited to her
skill set, but which was essentially office-
based. By the end of that time, she confessed
that she felt the life blood was being drained
out of her and she was completely dead
inside. She said she would prefer to be poor
and follow her heart. So now she lives at
home, earns peanuts teaching a few hours a
week, but has the time to think and be
creative and is a new person.
I know of two other young aspiring
actresses, one of whom has gone into drama
for therapy and community projects, and the
other who is working in the theatre in other
roles beside acting. So there are other
avenues besides the stage for those who have
the motivation and love of theatre but not the
necessary skills. Perhaps it’s not so much
necessary to change your daughter’s mind as
to help her think creatively about how else
she can use her passion for acting.
Name and address supplied
Let her follow her heart
Pressure from you will either harden her
resolve, or lead to resentment in later life.
Please let her follow her heart.
Jeff Berliner
by email
Don’t try to stop her
I remember the disapproval and lack of
enthusiasm I faced when I decided I wanted
to go to music college. I wasn’t all that good
when I auditioned, but they must have seen
something in me, and I was given a place. I
worked hard and went on to have a
successful career as an orchestral player.
The first hurdle your daughter will face is
the audition. If she really isn’t any good, she
won’t get in anywhere. That will allow her to
discover for herself that acting isn’t the
career for her. Who knows – she may
suddenly blossom and find her niche. If she
doesn’t act, she might become a producer,
set designer or other associated career.
Whatever the outcome, she needs to discover
it for herself. If you try to stop her, she’ll
blame you for the rest of her life for what
might have been.
Celia Johnson
by email
Virginia says...
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While
ballet
classes are
a routine
part of
childhood
for many
girls, boys
can find
the classes
off-putting
will go on the trampoline and practice their
ballet. It’s all part of the mix.”
Not surprisingly, many of the boys who are
selected for Dance Track also excel at sport.
Several on the ballet programme have also
been selected for academies run by professional
football clubs. “You imagine that if ballet is up
against football on a boy’s schedule, it might
seem inevitable which one they will choose,”
says Rachel. “But it’s not always the case. When
classes clashed for one boy recently, his mum
told me he was desperate to keep up ballet,
so his coach allowed him to come to football
training late.”
The way that boys see ballet does seem to be
changing, fuelling a new interest in participa-
tion. In March 2014, the London Boys Ballet
School was established by James Anthony. “It
was clear that more boys wanted to try ballet,
but there was nothing for them,” says James.
“They would be lucky to find a ballet class with
just one other boy taking part and the image
would be very pink and fairy-like.” Creating
boys-only classes, focusing on strength, jump-
ing and athleticism, the number of participants
at the new school quickly grew to more than 30
with ages ranging from four to 14.
“Many of the boys want to try ballet after
watching a performance – not only Billy Elliot
but other musicals featuring dancing, or see-
ing dance shows on TV,” says James. “There is
certainly less stigma around ballet – it is rec-
ognised as a foundation for all dance forms and
for its athleticism.”
The footballer Rio Ferdinand, who trained in
ballet, and the street dance crew Diversity, are
influential figures who have praised the benefit
of dance for boys. And at the highest perform-
ance level, Balletboyz, the company formed by
former Royal Ballet lead dancers, is shaping the
re-branding of ballet from a male perspective.
Equally now, if boys do express an interest
in ballet, they are more likely to be supported
by their parents. “This generation is different,”
says James. “Dads are proud to bring their sons
to our ballet classes; there is no sense that bal-
let is ‘girly’.”
If the Kempsey-Fagg brothers do ever hear
occasional comments that ballet is “not some-
thing for boys”, it is not off-putting. When con-
sidering this, Marlo quickly fires back, saying:
“Ballet is awesome.” Beaming with pride, he
adds: “I’m the only one in my class who is in it.”
Like his older brother, Marlo, now aged nine,
won a place on the Royal Ballet’s Junior Asso-
ciate programme and has just completed his
first year. His younger brother Arlie, six, has
recently also been selected for Dance Track.
Oscar has just taken a major new step with
his ballet, having been awarded a scholarship
to attend Elmhurst School for Dance, the
internationally renowned associate school for
Birmingham Royal Ballet. “I am so proud of
them,” says Rachel. µ
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TUESDAY15JULY2014 THE INDEPENDENT
Bad trip: Dennis Hopper
and Peter Fonda in ‘Easy
Rider’ (above); Fonda with
his sister, Jane, and father,
Henry, in 1969 (top left);
Fonda today (below) BFI ; RON
GALELLA/WI REI MAGE; GETTY
Dennis Hopper might have been turning in his
grave if he knew that the key guest of the Dennis
Hopper season at the British Film Institute was
Peter Fonda. After all, he barred his Easy Rider
cohort from his own funeral.
Fonda recalls, “Well, I knew that Dennis
was dying and I made many attempts to see
Dennis as did Bert Schneider [the Easy Rider
financier]. But he refused to see us. The funeral
service was in a chapel in Taos, New Mexico.
I rented a private jet and flew in, but I was not
allowed in the chapel. So as much as I wanted
to pay my respects, to Dennis and his family, I
was not allowed to be a part of it.”
It’s yet another sad ending to the Easy Rider
story. As Fonda explains it, their dispute was
over who should get the writing credit and
how the share of Barbarella screenwriter Terry
Southern’s should have been divided when he
dropped out of the project. “My contract with
him was the same, he just felt that he deserved
to have that. He got millions from me that he
misappropriated investing in phony gold
mines. That’s his problem. I mean, it’s a shame,
because he was too whacked out on drugs. I
just think that he was so caught up in his own
megalomania and his own bitterness that he
couldn’t see that I treated him quite fairly and
that I respected his genius and his work.”
The 74-year old laughs heartily at the irony of
all these money problems coming from a movie
that was supposedly about not caring about
money. He says, “I find it amazing that Colum-
bia insists that Easy Rider has only made $19m,
I know what I got, I know what my percentage
was, I can do the math, it’s really simple.”
Fonda was also known for his drug taking,
famously taking LSD with The Beatles and
Nancy Sinatra. “I’m a pot head,” he chirps. “I
do it at night when I’m going to sleep. I don’t
have the desire to do speed or coke, I already
talk too much. LSD I don’t need to do it again.
I’ll do the magic mushrooms. I love to laugh
and they make me scream with laughter.” For-
merly a big advocate of LSD, he says of the drug
today, “That drug was miraculous for me, but I
see a psychiatrist now. I think it’s much better
to talk to him than take LSD.”
Fonda belongs to one of the great movie
dynasties. His dad was Henry, sister Jane, and
daughter Bridget. It’s a fact that he’s reminded
of every time he calls one Easy Rider co-star
Jack Nicholson. They first worked together
when Nicholson wrote the script for the Roger
Corman-directed The Trip. “I don’t see Jack
so much, every now and then I’ll call him. His
houseboy answers the phone and I say, “Tell
Johnny Hot that the Patrician is on the phone!’
Because Jack would say, you are, Fonda, you’re
a Patrician, far out.
Nicholson surely recognises that the man
who seems most important in his former
colleague’s life is his father, Henry. Even his
biography is titled Don’t Tell Dad. He crops
up several times when Peter talks. When I
meet him he’s wearing antique Persol wrapa-
round sunglasses that were given to him by his
optometrist. “I had a fascination with General
Douglas MacArthur and his aviator lenses, so
I started wearing them when I was 13 to piss
my father off, and I just kept wearing glasses,”
he says. Later, explaining his desire to be the
best artist he can, he posits, “If I wasn’t an actor
and I was digging ditches, let me tell you that
I’d be digging the best ditches. People at the
other end of the ditch would be looking over
and saying, ‘Do you know who that is? That’s
Henry Fonda’s son.’ Fuck that, that’s who they
see me as. If I’m on stage, if I’m on film, I’m not
Henry Fonda’s son. I can’t duck my lineage. I
can’t denounce my father, my name is Peter
Henry Fonda, that doesn’t mean that I have
to be like him.”
Some of his antagonism comes from the fact
that his dad told him that his mother had had
a heart attack in 1950 and died. In truth she
committed suicide. He found out the truth
a decade later. Hopper made him relive the
story on camera in Easy Rider, despite Fonda’s
protestations. “I wanted to cut that out of the
film and everybody else convinced me not to
do it, it’s so personal and the character Captain
America is my dream, not my youth. Others say
it’s such a raw moment. But I didn’t fight with
Hopper, we went back and forth, and ultimately
he said he wanted me to do it because he was the
director. How could I argue with that?”
He speaks in that same beguiling enigmatic
manner of Nicholson. It’s impossible not to be
find him endearing. Every word had me hang-
ing on for more. He admits that interviews are,
“a performance, because I have to be sharp, say
things that are not too provocative but interest-
ing enough that you want to see the film I’m
promoting. I’m performing Peter Fonda.” As
if to prove the point he adds, “You don’t do it
by being a bump and a log. If you’ve ever had
to interview Harrison Ford you know what it’s
like to interview a bump and a log. I love him
but he’s a cabinet maker.”
There’s also the impression that he didn’t
have the career that he should have given
the success of Easy Rider. It was Hopper and
Nicholson that went on to have other iconic
roles. Despite directing three films in the
Seventies, it’s often said that Fonda dropped
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SUCH
AN
EASY
RIDE
As a Dennis Hopper seasons opens at
the BFI Southbank, his ‘Easy Rider’
co-star and fellow counter-culture
symbol Peter Fonda tells KALEEM AFTAB
about their troubled relationship
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ONLY
MEN
ALLOWED
Between In the Loop (Armando Iannucci’s Thick of
It movie spin-off set against the Iraq war) and Veep,
his sitcom starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a hapless
American Vice-President, Iannucci pitched an idea
to HBO about an internet startup. It was a show, he
said, “about twentysomethings who’d got a very
popular website, who are on the verge, potentially,
of being billionaires”. HBO commissioned a script
and Iannucci wrote it, but the project was shelved
after the 2008 financial crash. “We thought, ‘Do
people really want to watch a comedy about people
loving being rich?” Iannucci told The New Yorker.
“And then The Social Network came out and we
thought, ‘Oh. They do.’”
If 2008 seemed premature, the zeitgeist has
most definitely arrived in 2014, HBO having in
the meantime produced Silicon Valley, a new
sitcom from Beavis and Butt-head creator Mike
Judge that will (ironically enough) be broadcast
in a Sky Atlantic double bill with Veep when it
begins on 16 July.
Dubbed “Entourage for geeks” and already
recommissioned for a second season, Silicon
Valley follows six twentysomething foot-
soldiers in California’s super-cluster of high-
tech businesses. Jesse Eisenberg lookalike
Thomas Middleditch takes the central role
of Richard Hendriks, a shy programmer who
has developed a music app called “Pied Piper”,
which nobody is interested in until it’s discov-
ered that it contains a revolutionary data com-
pression algorithm potentially worth billions.
The show (co-created with Judge’s King of the
Hill writing partners John Altschuler and Dave
Krinsky, and the animator’s first live-action com-
edy) follows these socially awkward geeks as they
enter the cut-and-thrust jungle of venture capi-
talism. Among a universal set of positive reviews,
Hollywood Reporter said: “HBO finds its best
and funniest full-on comedy in years”, while TV
Guide found that these “socially maladroit posse
of computer misfits every bit the comedy equal
of The Big Bang Theory’s science nerds.”
If Big Bang Theory, the long-running CBS
sitcom about a pair of young physicists and their
friends, and Channel 4’s The IT Crowd were
comedy outriders for the coming nerd culture,
Silicon Valley marks a new maturation. And
while television tends to treat geeks as comedy
characters, US cable channel AMC’s successor
to the departing Mad Men, Halt and Catch Fire,
sees them as heroic (and anti-heroic) protago-
nists worthy of a straight drama.
Set in Dallas in 1983, during the infancy of
the personal computing industry, Halt and
Catch Fire (the title refers to a fictitious machine
code instruction that would cause the computer
to crash) follows the entrepreneurs rushing to
(illegally) clone the IBM PC. Lee Pace plays Joe
MacMillan, a handsome, manipulative but effec-
tive salesman who forces a small Texan firm, Car-
diff Electrical, into the competition to create a PC
clone. Needing a techy guy to fulfil his ambitions,
he draws geeky Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy)
into helping him reverse-engineer an IBM.
Joe and Gordon’s relationship has been
compared to that of Apple founders Steve
Jobs and Steve Wozniak – but others have dis-
cerned fictional counterparts within the AMC
drama stable: Mad Men’s Don Draper and
Breaking Bad’s Walter White. Actually, a huge
IBM mainframe computer became a plot driver
(and harbinger of the future) in the last series of
Mad Men when one was installed in the New
York offices of Sterling Cooper and Partners.
Back on the West Coast, Silicon Valley is
a milieu well known to Mike Judge from his
own experiences of working there for a start-up
company after graduating from the University
of California with a major in physics. “It really
felt like a cult,” he says. “The people I met were
like Stepford Wives. They were true believers in
something, and I don’t know what it was.”
The show satirises the unimaginable wealth
of some of these true believers, at a time when
programmers have agents, and the 24-year-old
CEO of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel, turns down
a $3bn acquisition offer and reportedly dated
Taylor Swift. Indeed, the first episode opens at a
rooftop party thrown by the owners of a company
that has just sold itself to Google for $200m. Kid
Rock is the hired entertainment, performing to
a handful of milling tech entrepreneurs who’d
rather be talking about “per-centage points”. As
a boisterous self-made millionaire, Erlich (who
allows the other software developers to stay at his
“incubator” in return for 10 per cent of any future
profits), says to his young lodgers: “Kid Rock is
the poorest person here, except for you guys.”
Erlich (played by stand-up comedian TJ Miller)
is Silicon Valley’s equivalent of Entourage’s
scene-stealing agent Ari Gold. As his charges
dream up apps such as “NipAlert” (it gives users
the location of a woman with erect nipples),
Erlich wanders around in his “I Know HTML” T-
shirt” (so much wittier than Topshop’s “Geek”
T-shirt) and dispensing self-serving homilies.
Judge provides a feast of “insider” observations,
such as the hostility between software writers and
the programmers, the disdain among techie folk
for Steve Jobs and a remark that is put in the mouth
of a Googlesque CEO when he says: “It’s weird.
They always travel in groups of five, these program-
mers. There’s always a tall skinny guy, short skinny
Asian guy, fat guy with a ponytail, some guy with
crazy facial hair and then an east Indian guy. It’s like
they trade guys until they have the right group.”
The comment underlines the absence of non-
guys in Silicon Valley. In fact, the only female char-
acters in the first two episodes are a lap dancer
and a personal assistant. Don’t let that put you off,
because Silicon Valley is fresh and funny and if you
don’t know the meaning of terms like “multi-plat-
form functionality” it really doesn’t matter. µ

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Sky Atlantic’s ‘Silicon Valley’ is a show about
California’s hi-tech companies – so don’t expect
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out of Hollywood. “OK, in ’73, I starred in Dirty
Mary, Crazy Larry, that made a shit pile of
money. More money than any film Dennis ever
made. It’s just that Hollywood thought that I had
come back when I made Ulee’s Gold,” he says
about the beekeeper role that saw him garner
a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination. “I’ve
made 70 films, did theatre, maybe I’d have two
or three months off, but I always worked. People
thought that because I bought a sail boat, lived on
a boat, I didn’t own any property, they thought
that I was sailing stoned out of my head.”
Had he taken drugs and sailed he said he
would have had an accident and be dead. Nor
if he dropped out would he be able to afford to
live on a ranch in Montana where he now lives
with his third wife.
He explains, “That Dennis and Jack had their
careers didn’t affect me at all. I know Holly-
wood didn’t like me. They blamed me for what
they thought was trying to overthrow the sys-
tem. My reaction to that is are they kidding me?
The government yes, Hollywood no.”
In 2011 he took part in the documentary
The Big Fix, which slammed the Obama
administration’s handling of the BP oil spillage
in the Gulf of Mexico. “Allowing companies to
tell our law enforcement or coast guard what
to do. Excuse me you don’t do that. And yet I
see my government, I see them allowing this
to happen, and not fighting strongly for the
American people. What are we doing in the
Middle East fighting religious wars? Somehow
the energy lobby is so big that Obama can’t
break through it. And that’s what’s happened
to our politics, it’s become the best government
money can buy.”
He remains outspoken, but he also remains
tremendously busy, and is currently shooting
three projects back-to-back, he’s playing Nic
Cage’s father in political drama The Runner, is
starring alongside Bruce Dern in thriller Bor-
derland, and has just shot a pilot for Galyntine,
a TV show being produced by Ridley Scott. µ

Dennis Hopper: Icon of Oblivion, BFI Southbank,
London SE1 (020 7928 3232) to 31 July.
Dennis Hopper ‘The Lost Album’,
Royal Academy, London W1
(020 7300 8000) to 19 October
Hopper
was so
caught up
in his own
bitterness
that he
couldn’t
see that
I treated
him quite
fairly
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Eminem arrived in Britain a dozen years
ago as an infamous folk devil. Now, he is
simply one of the biggest pop stars left,
with an autobiographical, abrasive artistic
drive undimmed on his latest album, The
Marshall Mathers LP 2. The video before
his entrance for the first of two Wembley
nights is a True Crime-style sequel to
“Stan”, the multi-layered stalker saga which
was nearly Christmas No 1 back when
Eminem was feared. We watch CCTV
footage of Stan’s vengeance-crazed brother
Matthew breaking into Eminem’s mansion,
then the interloper’s corpse sagging out of
his car, having met the rapper’s crazed alter
ego, Slim Shady.
This mix of psychopathic myth and
nostalgia is the perfect apéritif for Eminem
himself. Restlessly pacing and crouching
across the stage, his 2009 recovery
from deadening addictions that almost
finished him has made him a more potent
performer, with physical charisma and
energy he never had before.
Starting with the new album’s “Bad Guy”,
his career is offered as a mix-tape, verses and
choruses of even “Stan” just dipped into,
with a back-projected boom-box as an apt
stage set. The gothic bass-and-drum boom
finds its focus on “Kill You”, with its comic
feminine shrieks, and a gun-shot climax so
violent you can almost smell the cordite.
“White America” then the slow slave-
galley sway of “Mosh”’recall Eminem’s
brave stand against George W Bush’s
warmongers, as he describes a night-march
of bleached-blond Shady rebels on the
White House. “Rap God” is a fitting term
for a man whose flow has reached new heights
of supersonic articulacy on recent albums.
But Wembley’s vastness and crude sound
leaves his words mostly mangled and lost.
“The Way I Am” does achieve escalating,
staccato density, as its ju-jitsu inversion
of critical attacks ends in screaming rock
guitar. A surprise mini-set with Dr Dre,
the Frankenstein who helped bring the
Eminem monster to the masses, ramps up
the excitement further. “Love the Way You
Lie”, the ballad about a mutually abusive,
passionate relationship that Rihanna helped
top the US charts, is then dedicated to the
“ladies of London”.
Such R&B and rock
hybrids have brought
Eminem new mainstream
listeners but give a bland,
blanketing sound after
tonight’s spare hip-hop
start. The hand-claps and
slick synths of “Cinderella
Man” could be Queen.
The segue of “Sing for the
Moment” into “Like Toy
Soldiers”, mixing helium-
voiced hysteria and regret at
rap’s casualties and wrecked
dreams, still exhilarates.
The sound that makes most of the
rapper’s words unheard articles of faith is
unfortunate, as is the way his old musical
edge has been shaved down just a little.
When a goon near me reluctantly stops
trying to batter the woman in front of him
to resume singing the redemptive “Not
Afraid”, it’s clear Eminem might as well
be whistling in the wind to some fans. For
most, though, his music rides a positively
unruly energy preciously rare in pop in 2014.
Neil Young has suffered more than his share
of death and disease in recent years, the
mild stroke that forced Crazy Horse bassist
Billy Talbot off this European tour just the
latest blow to his inner circle. The warm
glow of battling optimism with which Young
bathes Hyde Park only seems stronger for it.
“People say don’t rock the boat/ Let
things go their own way,” sneers a man
who would rather sink the boat than
compromise his course, in “Days That
Used to Be”. Songs such as “Love to Burn”
start like the tide coming in, on waves
of electric guitar.
A taste of the solo acoustic sets he’s
playing in the US includes his only UK
hit, “Heart of Gold”, which people wander
past me absent-mindedly singing.
There’s internal rhyme and reason to the
set, as the low barroom thump “Psychedelic
Pill” surges into the Californian grunge of
“Cinnamon Girl”.
Both love dancing girls. Social justice
is repeatedly demanded, the hippie
dream still fiercely alive in Young’s
ruddy face. But the slow, sparking blues
of “Down by the River” is the majestic
gift he leaves us with.
One always expects high style from the
directing duo Leiser and Caurier, and the
opening moments of their new Maria
Stuarda are both arresting and puzzling. But
thereafter they let the simple line of the plot
– and the non-stop, full-on beauty of the
music – dictate a graceful visual restraint,
with the two queens in Elizabethan costume
and the rest of the cast in modern garb.
The crowd who make their intermittent
appearance function like figures in a
Renaissance painting, with the occasional
choreographed gesture speaking volumes.
All this serves to set off a performance
in the title role by Joyce DiDonato that is
nothing short of transcendent. Matthew
Rose’s burnished bass-baritone as Talbot and
the Spanish tenor Ismael Jordi’s unforced
sweetness as Leicester provide superb
support, as does Bertrand de Billy presiding in
the pit, while Carmen Giannattasio’s forcefully
sung Elisabetta highlights the subtlety with
which DiDonato colours her every phrase.
The Yankee Diva creates a complex and hugely
compelling character; from her wistful address
to the clouds to the valedictory duets and arias
of the final act. Five stars? No, at least 10.
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Rap god puts
his rivals
in the shade
Rich pickings in
a captivating tale
of two Americas
In Michael Lewis’s latest inevitable bestseller,
Flash Boys, Lewis tells the sorry tale of
Sergey Aleynikov, a talented programmer
who was pretty much the only person on Wall
Street to go to prison in the wake of the great
crash. Aleynikov, Lewis reveals, was helped
into custody by former employees Goldman
Sachs for emailing himself computer code.
His sentence was overturned.
Meanwhile, from the Libor scandal of 2012,
to HSBC’s money-laundering to the many
shady deals preceding and following the crash
itself – no company has been indicted, merely
fined – not least thanks to the infamous 1999
memo from the now US Attorney General
Eric Holder warning against prosecuting
corporations (later dubbed “too big to jail”).
Which is where Matt Taibbi, the former
Rolling Stone journalist whose work on the
financial crisis spawned some of the best,
angriest, journalism of the post-Lehman
Brothers era and, of course, his zeitgeisty
2009 description of Goldman Sachs as “a
great vampire squid wrapped around the face
of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood
funnel into anything that smells like money.”
Alongside Lewis, Taibbi has probably been
the best, and most vivid explainer of how
these vast, labyrinthine institutions work. And
if Lewis, the former trader, is the man from
the inside shipping information out, Taibbi is
the punk outsider, barely containing his fury
as he unravels how modern America works.
His thesis in The Divide is that there are two
justice systems. One for the rich and one for
the poor and, often, the non-white. As well as
taking us behind the door of the big business
– like the lucrative deal to sell parts of an
ailing Lehman to Barclays, he takes us to meet
immigrant workers sucked up by a Kafkaesque
system of semi-privatised justice. They include
a man arrested for standing outside his own
house at 1am, another deported to the wrong
country and right into the hands of a cartel.
All these people, Taibbi tells us with
barely suppressed rage, are picked up and
turned over by a US justice system that has
monetised criminality, and is thus responsible
for a prison/parole population that exceeds
that of Stalin’s gulags. And though Taibbi’s
journalism and passion carry the reader
through sometimes dense reporting about
financial chicanery, it’s the tales from the
bottom of the divide that are captivating.
Taibbi’s skill at weaving these two
disparate worlds together through the prism
of justice is an enviable one. And while
there’s no line as memorable as the Vampire
Squid, The Divide enshrines its author’s
position as one of the most important voices
in contemporary American journalism.
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Dennis Kelly’s returning conspiracy
thriller makes the perfect start
No far-fetched
conspiracy theories are
necessary to explain
the return of Utopia.
Channel 4’s acid-toned
paranoid thriller got off to a disappointing
start ratings-wise, but soon built a detail-
orientated fanbase whose obsessiveness was
almost a match for the show’s own graphic-
novel nerds. In February, David Fincher
announced he’d be directing a HBO remake,
scripted by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn.
That’s no small compliment, so it says
something about the originality of Utopia’s
writer-creator Dennis Kelly that his second
series is still the more exciting prospect.
Kelly is good and he knows it. How else
to explain the risk he’s taken by delaying
the resolution of several cliffhangers
with this Seventies-set prequel episode?
Admittedly, we won’t have to wait too
much longer to discover which characters
are still alive and how Grant will escape
punishment for that school massacre; the
second episode of this series-opening
double bill airs tonight at 10pm.
It could have backfired but it didn’t.
Tom Burke and Rose Leslie (Ygritte from
Game of Thrones), as the young Carvel and
Milner, proved more than adequate stand-
ins for the regular cast. Leslie, using her
native cut-glass accent, alternated expertly
between elegance and menace, while their
period costumes and MI5 connections
were pleasingly reminiscent of the Tinker
Tailor Soldier Spy film. This episode might
easily have been part of an entirely different
series, were it not for two Utopia constants:
the Janus plot to sterilise humanity and all
those extended torture scenes.
Clearly, Kelly had heeded none of the
criticism of what some regard as gratuitous
violence. His only concession being to
introduce a gentleman-torturer with a more
refined bedside manner. “Always with my
first torture I like to start with something
brutal and traditional,” he explained brightly
to his victim. “I’m simply going to pull out
the fingernails on your right hand...”
Maybe the rule should be that anyone
who wants to watch the fictional comic-
book violence in Utopia should first have to
watch Royal Marines Commando School,
the documentary series that Channel 4 has
thoughtfully also scheduled on Tuesday
evenings for the next eight weeks. This was
a programme about real violence, the state-
sponsored kind that sends young men to kill
and die, but, from the vantage point of the
Royal Marines’ Commando Training Centre
in Devon, all that seemed a very long way off.
This is where raw recruits, barely out of
their teens, are transformed into Royal Marine
commandos. It’s the most rigorous military
training in the world, which explains why
every year roughly a third of entrants fail to
make it to the 32-week finish line. The Bafta-
winning team behind Educating Yorkshire
have embedded with the corps, using fixed
rig cameras to make sure that no nuance of
the training regime escapes our attention.
You might expect this to be a radical departure
from the daily life a Dewsbury comp, but in
fact the similarities were more striking.
The excellently named Corporal “Froggy”
Chauffour would clearly love to be giving his
recruits the Full Metal Jacket treatment, but
instead he often finds himself playing the role
of nursery nurse. The first step of training is to
teach the basics – the very basics – such as how
to iron a sheet and how to keep your private
parts clean. A higher level of competency is
expected in most reception classes.
It’s only the odd, observant detail that
reminds us that, for these young men, a test
much more serious than mock GCSEs is
looming in the distance.
Pity the poor recruit
caught dozing while he’s
supposed to be learning
how to use a rifle.
Rose Leslie, using her native cut-glass
accent, alternated expertly between
elegance and menace
Last Night’s TV
Ellen E Jones
Leading light: Rose Leslie in ‘Utopia’
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Hive Alive 8pm BBC2
Anyone who caught Martha
Kearney’s fascinating recent
BBC4 series about keeping
bees will probably feel they
know all they want to know
about our buzzy friends.
Actually, Kearney is present
in this two-parter, alongside
Chris Packham, as they
conduct a Springwatch-type
thing all about Apis melifera.
Glasgow Girls 9pm,
12.30am & 3am BBC3
A lively musical drama
inspired by the case of a
15-year-old Roma pupil at a
Glasgow school detained by
immigration officers. Her
classmates begin a campaign
to secure the release of
the girl and her family –
eventually inspiring a
change in immigration
practice in Scotland.
Nick & Margaret: Too Many
Immigrants? 9pm BBC1
Having (inconclusively)
confronted the benefits
system by pairing claimants
with those who believe the
unemployed to be feckless
scroungers, grimacing
Apprentice veterans Nick
Hewer and Margaret
Mountford (left) undertake
a similar exercise by pairing
hand-picked immigrants
such as Polish carpenter
Mariusz and Filipino
care-worker Mel with
some Britons “highly
critical of immigration”.
Again, one has to ask,
what does this prove?
Exposure: Don’t Take My
Child 10.40pm ITV
Starting with some
upsetting, secretly filmed
footage of police and social
workers divesting a mother
of her baby just six hours
after giving birth, this asks
why Britain is almost alone
in forcing adoption without
parental consent, and how
the practice is set to grow.
Barton Fink 7.50pm
Sky Movies Select
(Joel Coen, 1991) Barton Fink
(John Turturro) is a playwright
staying in a decrepit hotel in
Forties Hollywood while he
struggles with the script for a
low-grade movie. Hollywood
satire combines with gothic
melodrama, a serial killer
plot and screwball comedy.
Made in Dagenham
9pm BBC4
(Nigel Cole, 2010) The
story of the female sewing-
machinists at a Dagenham
Ford factory whose 1968
industrial action paved the
way for the Equal Pay Act
Film choice Critic’s choice
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truth about his condition after
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9.00 Nick & Margaret: Too
Many Immigrants? See Critic’s
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10.35 Summer’s Supermarket
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8.00 Hive Alive See Critic’s
Choice, above (T).
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Ade Adepitan examines what happens to
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smallest garden to date (T).
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the 2012 instalment of the landmark
documentary series, featuring an
update on a group of participants
whose lives have been chronicled
since 1964, when they were seven
years old. (R) (T).
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Child See Critic’s Choice, above
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6.30 Hollyoaks An argument with
Patrick ends with Maxine taking a
tumble, leading to fears about her
baby’s health (T).
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Free In Essex, Kirstie Allsopp
comes to the aid of a woman whose
frst-time fat purchase has proved a
considerable fnancial drain (T).
9.00 Undercover Boss New series.
Brian Brick works undetected
alongside his front-line staf at
clothing retailer Moss Bros,
discovering the consequences of his
cost-cutting measures (T).
10.00 Utopia In the present day,
Jessica has been held captive by
Milner, who has tortured her in an
attempt to fnd out what adjustment
Carvel made to Janus. (T).
11.05 Royal Marines Commando
School Behind the scenes at the Royal
Marines’ Commando Training Centre in
Devon (R) (T).
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Away! Paul Bohill and Steve Pinner
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in a fght with a pit bull and the
Liverpool inspector Anthony Joynes
investigates a complaint about some
English bulldogs that may have been
abandoned (T).
9.00 CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation Sara discovers a
bomb in the bag of a man who was
found barely alive in a storm drain,
while Greg is accused of planting
evidence (T).
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action in the house (T).
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St Andrews Cathedral (R) (T).
8.00 Jigs & Wigs: the Extreme
World of Irish Dancing High
fashion in the world of Irish dance.
Last in the series (R) (T).
8.30 Commonwealth on Film
Archive footage capturing the
essence of home throughout the
Commonwealth, featuring images
captured in countries including
Australia, Malta, Bangladesh,
Canada and India (T).
9.00 FILM Made in Dagenham
(Nigel Cole 2010) See Film Choice,
above (T).
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The changing fortunes of the car
manufacturer (R) (T).
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Bhutan (R) (T).
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Schama (R) (T). 1.45 Jigs & Wigs: the
Extreme World of Irish Dancing (R) (T).
2.15 Commonwealth on Film (R) (T).
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Karaoke as Art?
11.30am Radio 4
Something’s happening to
karaoke in Portland, Oregon.
Katie Puckrik (left) finds that
it’s turning into a new art
form as she meets KJ (karaoke
jockey) John Brophy, whose
special nights are where the
serious performers go.
The Documentary:
Back to Charm School
9.05am, 3.30pm, 8.05pm
& 12.30am World Service
How, in the run-up to the
Commonwealth Games,
Glaswegians are being taught
to speak “properly” and
use positive body language.
of 1970 may sound like dry
material, but this colourful,
feel-good ensemble comedy
makes it seem anything
but. Sally Hawkins (left) is
excellent as the woman who
unites her co-workers in the
fight for their rights.
From Dusk Till Dawn
11.05pm Film4
(Robert Rodriguez, 1996)
Two kinds of B-movie are
welded together here: the
first is a sweaty crime thriller
in which Quentin Tarantino
(who wrote the script in
his usual zingy argot) and
George Clooney play bank
robbers hitching a ride to
the Mexican border. The
second is a gore-spattered
exploitation extravaganza.
Mr Death: the Rise and Fall
of Fred A Leuchter, Jnr
1.10am Film4
(Errol Morris, 1999) One in a
series of documentaries Errol
Morris has made relating
to the US justice system,
this fascinating film profiles
the consultant who advised
prisons on how to modify
and improve their electric
chairs and gas chambers,
before he professionally
disgraced himself as an
expert witness in the trial
of a Holocaust denier.
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Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm
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7.00 Zane Lowe 9.00 The Review Showwith
Edith Bowman 10.00 Phil Taggart and Alice
Levine 12mdn’t Punk Showwith Mike Davies
2.00 Nihal 4.00 Gemma Cairney. To 6.30am.
RADIO 2
6.30am Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce 12noon
Jeremy Vine 2.00 Steve Wright 5.00 Simon
Mayo 7.00 Jamie Cullum 8.00 Jo Whiley
10.00 David Rodigan 11.00 They Write the
Songs 12mdn’t Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester
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von Dittersdorf 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3
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Free Thinking 10.45 The Essay: Homage to
Caledonia 11.00 Late Junction 12.30am
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6am Today 9.00 The Life Scientifc 9.30 One
to One 9.45 Book of the Week: Last Man Of
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12noon News 12.04 Call You and Yours
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Guide to Garden Wildlife 2.00 The Archers
2.15 Afternoon Drama: Come to Grief 3.00
Making History 3.30 The Human Zoo 4.00
Word of Mouth 4.30 A Good Read 4.55
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Guide 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 7.45
Babycakes 8.00 File on 4 8.40 In Touch 9.00
Inside Health 9.30 The Life Scientifc 10.00
The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: A
Man Called Ove 11.00 The Infnite Monkey
Cage 11.30 Today in Parliament 12mdn’t
News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week:
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World Service 5.20 Shipping 5.30 News
Briefng 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming
Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day. To 6am.
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8.31am Yesterday in Parliament 9.45 Daily
Service 12.01pm Shipping 5.54 Shipping
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6am Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire
12noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Richard Bacon
4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 7.30 5
Live Golf 9.00 Tour de France 10.30 Phil
Williams 1am Up All Night 5.00 Morning
Reports 5.15 Wake Up to Money. To 6am.
More 4 E4 Film4 Sky Atlantic Sky Arts 1 London Live
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am.pm. 4.15-5.15 The Super League Show. ITVWales AS ITVEXCEPT: 6.00-6.30ITVNews Wales at Six. STVAS ITVEXCEPT: 10.30Scotland Tonight. 11.05 Exposure: Don’t Take My Child. 12.05 Jeremy Kyle Show. 1.00Jeremy Kyle ShowUSA. 1.45 Rory Bremner’s Great British Views.
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8.55 Four Rooms (R) (T). 10.00 Jamie’s
30 Minute Meals (R) (T). 10.30 Jamie’s
15 Minute Meals (R) (T). 11.05 Kirstie’s
Vintage Gems (R) (T). 11.10 FILM
Bataan (Tay Garnett 1943) Fact-based
Second World War drama, starring Robert
Taylor (T). 1.25 Time Team (R) (T). 2.30
Time Team (R) (T). 4.40 APlace in the
Sun: Home or Away (R) (T).
6.50 Grand Designs Kevin
McCloud follows a couple who
experience a variety of problems as
they try to revamp their Victorian
terraced house in Hackney, east
London (R) (T).
7.55 Grand Designs Kevin
McCloud revisits the carpenter Bill
Bradley and his wife Sarah, who set
out to build two timber houses on a
very limited space in south London
(R) (T).
9.00 Selling Houses with Amanda
Lamb The host helps homeowners
in Leicester who are struggling to
sell their properties to make their
homes more appealing to buyers
Maria and Terry (T).
10.00 Grand Designs Australia
An adventurous couple try to restore
a 19th-century building on the Gold
Coast – but begin to wonder
whether tearing it down and starting
again might be a wiser course of
action (R) (T).
11.10 24 Hours in A&E A 50-year-old
mechanical engineer is rushed in with a
suspected heart attack (R) (T).
12.15 Embarrassing Bodies (R) (T). 1.20
Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb (R)
(T). 2.25 24 Hours in A&E (R) (T). 3.35
Close
6.00 Switched (R) (T). 6.25 90210 (R)
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(T). 8.00 Charmed (R) (T). 9.00 Glee
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11.00 Charmed (R) (T). 12.00 Hollyoaks
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(T). 1.00 HowI Met Your Mother (R)
(T). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R) (T).
3.00 Rules of Engagement (R) (T).
4.00 Suburgatory (R) (T). 5.00 HowI
Met Your Mother (R) (T).
6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R) (T).
6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R) (T).
7.00 Hollyoaks Ste fnds out about
John Paul’s assault (T).
7.30 How I Met Your Mother Lily
and Marshall start sleeping in
separate beds (R) (T).
8.00 The Big Bang Theory
Sheldon gets upset about his career
(R) (T).
8.30 How I Met Your Mother Part
one of two. Ted prepares for his new
life in Chicago (R) (T).
9.00 New Girl Jess decides to
throw a Halloween party to
reconnect with Cece (T).
9.30 The Mindy Project Peter
resists Mindy’s eforts to bond with
him (T).
10.00 First Dates (R) (T).
11.00 The Big Bang Theory Leonard
confronts a bully from his past (R) (T).
11.30 The Big Bang Theory Sheldon is
encouraged to feign interest in Amy’s
career (R) (T).
12.00 Rules of Engagement (R) (T).
12.30 Rules of Engagement (R) (T).
1.00 The 100 (R) (T). 2.00 First Dates
(R) (T). 2.55 The Ricky Gervais Show
(R) (T). 3.20 The Cleveland Show (R)
(T). 3.45 Glee (R) (T). 4.25 Desperate
Housewives (R) (T). To 6am.
11.00 Jesse James (Henry King 1939)
Western, starring Henry Fonda and
Tyrone Power (T). 1.10 Only the Valiant
(Gordon Douglas 1951) Western, starring
Gregory Peck (T). 3.15 King & Country
(Joseph Losey 1964) First World War
drama, starring Dirk Bogarde and Tom
Courtenay (T). 5.00 The Gentle
Gunman (Basil Dearden 1952) Drama,
starring John Mills and Dirk Bogarde (T).
6.45 Romancing the Stone
(Robert Zemeckis 1984) A romantic
novelist goes in search of her
kidnapped sister in the steamy
jungles of South America, only to
become the target of a villainous
general who demands as a ransom
the valuable treasure map in her
possession. Help is at hand in the
form of a craggy daredevil fortune
hunter, who has his eye on a share of
the profts. Comedy adventure,
starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen
Turner and Danny DeVito. Edited for
daytime broadcast (T).
9.00 One Day (Lone Scherfg 2011)
A principled working-class woman
and a selfsh wealthy man meet the
day they graduate from university,
beginning a friendship that becomes
a pivotal part of their lives. The
changes they go through over the
next 20 years are shown through the
anniversaries of the day they frst
met. Romantic drama based on
David Nicholls’ book, with Anne
Hathaway and Jim Sturgess (T).
11.05 From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert
Rodriguez 1996) See Film Choice, above
(T).
1.10 Mr Death: the Rise and Fall of Fred
ALeuchter, Jnr (Errol Morris 1999) See
Film Choice, above (T). 3.00 Loving
Memory (Tony Scott 1971) Tony Scott’s
drama, starring Rosamund Greenwood
(T). 4.00 Close
6.00 Stargate SG-1 (R) (T). 7.00
thirtysomething (R) (T). 8.00 Star
Trek: Enterprise (R) (T). 9.00 Without
a Trace (R) (T). 10.00 David
Attenborough’s Galapagos (R) (T).
11.00 Stargate SG-1 (R) (T). 12.00
Without a Trace (R) (T). 1.00 House (R)
(T). 3.00 Star Trek: Enterprise (R) (T).
4.00 Without a Trace (T). 5.00 Blue
Bloods (R) (T).
6.00 House A scientist is taken ill
on a research base at the South Pole
(R) (T).
7.00 House A bride collapses with
internal bleeding (R) (T).
8.00 The Petrol Age Paul McGann
explores how British luxury car
manufacturers became
internationally renowned, and
profles the people who helped make
them leaders in their feld (R) (T).
9.00 Alan Partridge’s Mid
Morning Matters Comedy, starring
Steve Coogan (R) (T).
9.30 Alan Partridge’s Mid
Morning Matters The host asks
listeners to nominate Norfolk’s
greatest-ever resident (R) (T).
10.00 Ray Donovan New series.
An FBI agent arrives to investigate
the shootout at the dock, and a
desperate Ray tries to track Mickey
down when he needs his help (T).
11.10 Last Week Tonight with John
Oliver A satirical look at news and pop
culture (T).
11.45 Witness The work of the
photojournalist Eros Hoagland in the
favelas of Rio de Janeiro (R) (T).
12.50 Game of Thrones (R) (T). 2.05
Curb Your Enthusiasm (T). 2.40 The
Sopranos (R) (T). 3.50 Blue Bloods:
Meet the Characters (R) (T). 4.00
thirtysomething (R) (T). 5.00 The
Devil’s Dinner Party (R) (T). To 6am.
6.00 In Confdence 7.00 Hollywood’s
Best Film Directors (T). 7.30 Capture
(T). 8.00 South Bank ShowOriginals –
Francis Bacon (T). 8.30 Rory Gallagher:
Irish Tour 1974 (T). 10.00 The Donovan
Concert: Live in LA (T). 11.30 Johnny
Cash: the Anthology (T). 12.30 The
Hollies: Look Through Any Window (T).
3.00 Neil Young: Silver and Gold (T).
4.25 Johnny Cash: American VI – Ain’t
No Grave (T). 5.00 Art of Survival (T).
6.00 Picasso & Braque Go to the
Movies Cinema’s infuence on the
cubist painters (T).
7.00 In Confdence With the
Southbank Centre artistic director
Jude Kelly (T).
8.00 London Calling How
photography shaped the images of
British rock bands. Featuring
contributions by Pennie Smith, who
created the cover image for the
Clash’s album London Calling (T).
9.00 Kings of Rock ’n’ Roll
Highlights of the London Rock and
Roll Show concert held at Wembley
Stadium in 1972, with performances
by Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill
Haley and Little Richard (T).
10.00 Prisoners of War News of
the kidnapped soldier awakens
feelings of guilt in Nimrode about
the fate of Amiel, while Yael frets
about the identity of the man in
captivity. In Hebrew (T).
11.05 Isle of Wight Festival 2014 With
music by Bify Clyro, Calvin Harris,
Rudimental and Katy B (T).
1.05 In Confdence (T). 2.05 Felix
Dennis: Millionaire Poet 3.00 Capture
(T). 3.30 Prisoners of War (T). 4.30 Art
of Survival (T). 5.30 Tim MarlowMeets
Paul Smith To 6am.
6.00 Wake Up London 9.00 Food
Junkies (R). 9.30 Bugs (R). 10.30
London’s Burning (R). 11.30 Food
Junkies (R). 12.00 Shop London (R).
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Headline London 1.30 London’s
Burning (R). 3.30 Bugs (R). 5.30
Food Junkies (R).
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Dunlop whips up London’s best
pizza (R).
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queue near you.
7.00 Not The One Show A view
of the day.
8.00 Girl on Girl New series.
Louise Hulland meets some of the
young women who have joined
the city’s female urban gangs, and
sets out to discover how these
often threatening groups afect
their neighbours.
9.00 NY-LON Edie returns to
London in the hope of tracking
down Michael, while Luke turns
to Astrid for support as he copes
with the death of his brother (R).
10.00 Soho Blues Highlights
from the documentary series
following police in London’s West
End. Last in the series (R).
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driver of Wratten’s car (R).
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ShadowLine (R). 2.00 Back to the
Future Sounds (R). 2.30 Talking
Points 3.00 Talking Points 3.30
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THE INDEPENDENT TUESDAY15JULY2014
Fabiano Caruana (to play)
vs Peter Leko. The pressure
is unpleasant, but it looks
as though Black should be
able to defend himself.
Can you see how Caruana
proved otherwise?
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The annual Dortmund
Sparkassen Chess Meeting
got underway on Saturday
and continues until next
weekend. Tournaments were
held in Dortmund in 1928,
1951 and 1961, but the present
series began in 1973, when
Heikki Westerinen from
Finland won, and has been
contested every year since,
making this the 42nd edition.
Michael Adams won
last year and he’s back this
time too, together with
Fabiano Caruana, Vladimir
Kramnik, Peter Leko,
Ruslan Ponomariov and
three very strong Germans:
Arkadij Naiditsch, who
was the surprise winner
in 2005, Georg Meier
and David Baramidze.
All five foreigners have
won Dortmund at one time
or another. Caruana was
first jointly with Sergey
Karjakin in 2012 (the year
before Adams), Ponomariov
in 2010, and Leko in 1999
and twice since. But it is
Kramnik who has made
the tournament his own,
winning by himself or
jointly no fewer than 10
times from 1995 onwards.
Kramnik has shown signs
of fragility in the last few
years, however, and in the
first round he lost as White
against Meier – something
you could have hardly
contemplated in his absolute
pomp. He recovered as
Black against Adams and
pushed all the way, but
Adams just held on.
After the first two rounds,
Caruana led on 2/2
after beating Baramidze
and then Leko in the
outstanding finish
from the first diagram.
After 39.Re7!! Qxe7
40.Ba6! Leko accorded his
opponent the compliment
of allowing checkmate on
the board with 40...Kxa6
41.Qa8 mate.
In the second game, 7.b4
looks normal trying to set
up 7...cxb4 8.axb4 Bxb4
9.Nxe5! but simply (7.b4)
Bd6 is fine for Black. 8.e4
was extremely committed
and Kramnik ended up
worse on both sides of
the board.
After 28...bxc6! the black
knight was freed to go to
d6 and the white position
quickly collapsed.
Vladimir Kramnik vs
Georg Meier
Dortmund 2014 (round 1)
English Opening
Chess Jon Speelman
West
Q 7 4
A 7 3
J 10 9 8
10 8 4
North
9 8 5
K J 6
A K 7 2
5 3 2
South
A K J
Q 10 9 8
Q 4
A K Q 6
East
10 6 3 2
5 4 2
6 5 3
J 9 7
Love all; dealer East
Holding up an ace until
the last moment can have
a devastating effect on
what appears to be an
impregnable contract.
Looking at the North-
South hands, it doesn’t
appear that there can be
any problems. Three heart
tricks, once the ace has
gone, three diamonds, four
clubs, due to the kindly
break, and two spades come
to 12 tricks, without resort
to the spade finesse.
The bidding was over
rapidly: South opened Two
No-Trumps, North made
a quantitative leap to Four
No-Trumps and South,
sitting in the middle of the
20-22 point range, took
a rosy view of his heart
intermediates and bid
Six No-Trumps.
West led the jack of
diamonds, won with the
queen. South immediately
set about the heart suit,
but the ace was not taken
until the third round,
and the ten of diamonds
was returned.
Now declarer was at the
crossroads. In dummy for
the last time, he had to
decide what to discard on
the other top diamond.
Aware that six outstanding
cards in a suit break 3-3
only 36 per cent of the
time, and that a simple
finesse will be right half the
time, he chose to discard
his small club and take the
spade finesse. Two off.
Declarer cannot
reasonably test the clubs
before the ace of hearts has
gone as, if the hand with
four clubs also has the heart
ace, the contract fails.
Bridge Maureen Hiron
1.c4 c5
2.Nf3 Nf6
3.g3 Nc6
4.Bg2 d5
5.0–0 d4
6.a3 e5
7.d3 a5
8.e4 Be7
9.Ne1 h5
10.f4 h4
11.f5 hxg3
12.hxg3 g6
13.Nd2 gxf5
14.exf5 Rg8
15.Qf3 Bd7
16.Rf2 Qb6
17.Re2 0–0–0
18.Ne4 Qb3
19.Nf2 a4
20.Bh6 Bf8
21.Bxf8 Rdxf8
22.g4 Rg7
23.Ne4 Nxe4
24.Qxe4 Rfg8
25.Bf3 f6
26.Rg2 Nd8
27.Qe2
(see diagram)
27...Bc6
28.Bxc6 bxc6
29.Qe4 Kc7
30.Nf3 Nf7
31.Rf1 Nd6
32.Qe2 Rxg4
33.Rf2 Nxf5
34.Nd2 Rxg2+
35.Rxg2 Rxg2+
36.Kxg2 Qxb2
37.Kf3 Nd6
38.Qh2 Qxa3
39.Ke2 Qb2
40.Qh7+ Kb6
41.Qe7 Nb7 0–1
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Across: 1 Score, 4 Paean (Scorpion), 8 Species, 9 Unwed, 10 Avert, 11 Extreme,
12 Cachet, 14 Cogent, 17 Empower, 19 Tacit, 21 Amiss, 22 Soprano, 23 Enemy,
24 Sinus.
Down: 1 Saskatchewan, 2 Obese, 3 Epistle, 4 Pester, 5 Exult, 6 Nowhere,
7 Adventitious, 13 Capsize, 15 Octopus, 16 Frisky, 18 Waste, 20 Chain.
Concise crossword #8657
Codeword #647
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Cryptic crossword #8658
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Yesterday’s solution
Across
9 National material
snapped in a camera (9)
10 Movable arms of
sextants? Excellent
couple (5)
11 Composure shown by
artist’s frst painting
technique (7)
12 Set up marine area with
new weapons (7)
13 Rebellions forcing US
to intervene? On the
contrary (9)
15 Secretary, mostly
fastidious, exhibiting
alarm (5)
17 Sweet salad plant,
untouched – the
best (10,5)
20 Nonconformist recalled
unpleasant look about
book (5)
22 Finished year occupying
isolated tourist attraction
(6,3)
24 Game allowed to fnish
early – with this sound?
(7)
25 New opus here curtailed
for classical musician (7)
27 Mark left, abandoning
despot (5)
28 Catastrophic vote loser:
US President (9)
Down
1 Notable meal continues
with stimulating stuf
(4,6)
2 Money supporting a hair
treatment (4)
3 College blocking legal
right to observe grant-
holder (8)
4 Success capturing a
Welsh knight (6)
5 Tailless nag is acceptable
for clockmaker (8)
6 Amateur engaged in
homework, making audio
device (6)
7 Evaded crooks, accepting
a bloke’s credit in part of
London (4,3,3)
8 Attempt to include ‘right’
in sentence (4)
14 Party person regarding
supplier of drinks (10)
16 Make up for security
group getting involved in
fght? (10)
18 Bush bud topped – happy
about that? (8)
19 Caught you fnally when
probing less adequate
spinner? (8)
21 Some will support
literary catalogue (6)
23 Note one upset about
company exhibiting
traditional values (6)
24 Mostly discreet over
husband’s desire (4)
26 Calm incident, not
tense (4)
Obituaries
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Lorin Maazel was the most prolific conductor of
his generation, a child prodigy who performed
with the New York Philharmonic at the age of
12. Born in Paris, raised in the US and fluent in
English, French, German and Italian, Maazel
conducted more than 150 orchestras in more
than 5,000 opera and concert performances
and made at least 300 recordings.
He served as music director of the Cleveland
Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orches-
tra, the New York Philharmonic and the Bavar-
ian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and as chief
conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the
Vienna State Opera. He stepped down as direc-
tor of the Munich Philharmonic last month.
Known as a technician with a clear beat, cel-
ebrated for his educational and charity work,
Maazel remained an irascible and mysterious
figure throughout his long, lucrative and tur-
bulent career. “I’m never looking for a perfect
performance,” he said in 2003. “I’m looking for
an impassioned performance.”
Maazel moved to the Cleveland Orchestra in
1972, to the dismay of the musicians who had
voted 96-2 against him, clinging for 10 years
to the post of artistic director. He was artistic
director in Vienna for only two years, fighting
bitterly with Austrian bureaucrats.
Leaving Vienna in 1984, Maazel announced
that he would focus on guest conducting, and
only took the directorship of the Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra (1988-1996) after a pro-
longed on-off courtship. He described the
music directorship of the New York Philhar-
monic, which he held from 2002 to 2009, as
“the summit” of his field.
“The orchestra I found had a problem with
self-esteem. Their reputation was not what it
should have been,” he recalled. “So it became
my goal to restore their belief in themselves.
And I leave feeling that I’ve been quite success-
ful.” He opened his inaugural season in with the
world premiere of John Adams’ On the Transmi-
gration of Souls, written to commemorate the
World Trade Centre attacks of 11 September
2001. In his final season he earned almost $3.3
million, while the Philharmonic itself incurred
an operating deficit of $4.6 million.
Maazel took the orchestra to China and
North Korea in 2008, when Stephen Spiel-
berg’s withdrawal as artistic director to the
Beijing Olympics was tipping public opinion
against partnerships with oppressive regimes.
He faced widespread criticism, especially for
the performance in Pyongyang, which some
saw as a propaganda victory for the North
Korean regime. “The Philharmonic is being
used in a game it neither understands nor plays
professionally,” wrote the music critic Norman
Lebrecht. “Music is the loser in this transac-
tion, a poisoned pawn on a dirty board.”
Maazel maintained that the visit represented
a step forward for North Korea. “The reason
they opened their doors is that there is a rec-
ognition in some part of the government, start-
ing at the very top, that the time has come to
move on,” he said after the trip. “In a way, it was
alerting the populace that the party line had
changed. Americans are no longer criminals
and mad people and fanatic warmongers.”
His compositions included concertos writ-
ten for the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and
flautist James Galway and The Ring Without
Words, a symphonic synthesis of Wagner’s
Ring cycle. His operatic adaptation of George
Orwell’s novel 1984, premiered in 2005 at the
Royal Opera House and was roundly derided as
a vanity project. “I’ve never seen such hateful
reviews,” he said.
He was born in 1930 in Neuilly-sur-Seine
in the Parisian suburbs. He was said to be
able to hum Brahms’ Lullaby at eight months.
Lorin Maazel
Child prodigy who became
a prolific and demanding
conductor unafraid of
conflict and controversy
Delighted by his perfect pitch and photo-
graphic memory, his American parents, Marie
and Lincoln – an actor, poet and singer whose
own talents were ignored by his violinist father
– moved to Los Angeles, where Maazel took up
violin and piano lessons from the age of five.
He began studying conducting under
Vladimir Bakaleinikoff in 1937. By the time he
was 11, the plump wunderkind had conducted
at the 1939 World’s Fair, shared a stage with
Leopold Stokowski at the Hollywood Bowl and
been interviewed by Time magazine, declaring:
“I still have a lot of hard work ahead of me.”
In August 1942 he made his debut with the
New York Philharmonic, conducting a pro-
gramme that included Mozart’s Overture to
The Marriage of Figaro and Beethoven’s Fifth
Symphony. “Undoubtedly some were sceptical,”
The New York Times reported, “but by the end
of the evening there was no doubt of the boy’s
talents. The crowd applauded heartily, recall-
ing him to the stage four times, and showed no
disposition to disperse until it became obvious
that no encore was forthcoming. The men of
the orchestra joined in the applause.”
When he was 17 he enrolled at the University
of Pittsburgh, supporting himself by playing
violin and acting as apprentice conductor to the
Pittsburgh Symphony. “I worked all day, had a
string quartet, gave violin recitals, and went to
night school from eight to midnight to study
economics, literature, French and Russian,” he
recalled. It was the Italian conductor Victor de
Sabata who persuaded him that conducting was
his destiny, and Europe his destination.
In 1951, Maazel memorised a page of con-
versational Italian and bluffed his way into a
Fulbright scholarship to study in Italy. Over
the next decade he made a series of debuts in
Europe and America, often directing from the
violin. In 1960 he was both the first US conduc-
tor and the youngest-ever conductor to perform
at Bayreuth. He made his debut at the Metro-
politan Opera in 1962.
Maazel was married three times, the last
time to the German actress Dietlinde Turban.
The couple restored an antebellum mansion in
Castleton, Virginia, where their three children
were home-schooled, sharing the estate with a
camel, a zebra, several emus, waxworks of the
great composers and a 130-seat theatre.
In 2009, Maazel’s Chateauville Foundation
opened its first annual music festival on the
property. He died of complications from pneu-
monia at home; he had been rehearsing for the
sixth Castleton festival, which runs until 20
July. µ LAURENCE ARNOLD
Lorin Varencove Maazel, conductor and
composer: born Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
6 March 1930; married firstly and secondly
(three daughters, one son), 1986 Dietlinde
Turban (one daughter, two sons); died Castle-
ton, Virginia 13 July 2014.
© The Washington Post
Maazel: he
conducted
more than
5,000
concerts
and made
over 300
recordings
EPA
‘I’m not looking for a
perfect performance,’ he
said, ‘I’m looking for a
passionate performance’
Musician. Born: 1930
Bob Hastings
Character actor best known
as the bumbling Carpenter
opposite Ernest Borgnine in
the sitcom ‘McHale’s Navy’
Entertainer. Born: 1925
The character actor Bob Hastings made his
biggest impact as the bumbling Lieutenant
Elroy Carpenter, opposite Ernest Borgnine
in the American sitcom McHale’s Navy. In a
varied career, which began on the radio when
he played the role of Archie Andrews in a series
based on the Archie comic book series, he also
provided voices for numerous cartoons.
Borgnine had played Lt-Cdr Quinton
McHale in a one-off drama, Seven Against
The Sea (1962) the story of the crew of a US
Navy torpedo boat whose Pacific island base
is bombed by the Japanese. The men survive
by going into hiding on the island, assisted by
the friendly locals.
Seven Against The Sea effectively served as
the pilot for McHale’s Navy, which became
wackier in tone. Its producer, Edward J Mon-
tagne, had enjoyed great success with The Phil
Silvers Show – in which Hastings appeared
– and McHale’s Navy was to all intents and pur-
pose a maritime version, centring on McHale’s
schemes to get money and girls. The series ran
from 1962 until 1966.
Most of Hastings’ work was on television,
including numeous guest appearances in com-
edy shows like Car 54, Where Are You? and Den-
nis the Menace, as well as soaps like General
Hospital. He also became a regular fixture on
the Universal Studios lot, paid, along with other
actors, to spend time at the studio and talk to
tourists. His voice-over work included the role
of Commissioner Jim Gordon in the popular
Batman: The Animated Series and its various
spin-offs, such as Batman: Mask of the Phan-
tasm. µ EVE THOMAS
Robert Francis Hastings, actor: born Brook-
lyn, New York 18 April 1925; married 1948
Joan Rice (four children) died Burbank, Cali-
fornia 30 June 2014.
Hastings: he
later became
a fixture
on the
Universal
studio lot
greeting
tourists AP
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Professor Sir James Ball,
economist, 81; Charles
Barnett, Chief Executive,
Ascot Racecourse, 66; Sir
Harrison Birtwistle,
composer, 80; Professor
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
astrophysicist, 71; Crispin
Blunt MP, 54; Sally
Brampton, novelist, 59;
Julian Bream, guitarist and
lutenist, 81; Carmen Callil,
founder and former Chairman,
Virago Press, 76; Alistair
Carmichael MP, Deputy
Chief Whip, 49; Professor
John Casken, composer,
65; Robert Conquest,
writer, 97; Josephine Cox,
writer, 74; John Denham
MP, 61; Professor Monica
Grady, Professor of Planetary
and Space Sciences, Open
University, 56; Trevor Horn,
record producer, 65; Arianna
Huffington, co-founder,
The Huffington Post, 64;
Celia Imrie, actress, 62;
Ann Jellicoe, playwright
and director, 87; Mario
Kempes, commentator and
former Argentina footballer,
60; Rachel Lomax, former
Deputy Governor, Bank
of England, 69; Henry
McCubbin, Joint Editor,
Scottish Left Review, 72;
Fay Maschler, restaurant
critic, 69; David Miliband,
President and Chief Executive,
International Rescue
Committee, and former
government minister, 49; Sir
Philip Moor, High Court
judge, Family Division, 55;
Brigitte Nielsen, actress,
51; Artimus Pyle, drummer,
66; Marky Ramone (Marc
Bell), drummer, 58; Scott
Ritter, former UN weapons
inspector, 53; Shirley
Robertson, Olympic
sailing champion, 46; Linda
Ronstadt, musician, 68;
Gareth Thomas MP, 47;
Forest Whitaker, actor, 53;
Professor Lord Winston,
obstetrician, gynaecologist
and broadcaster, 74.
BIRTHDAYS
Birthdays
Trevor Horn, record
producer, 65 CREDI T
Nadine Gordimer won the 1991 Nobel Prize
for Literature for morally complex novels that
explored the cost of racial conflict in apartheid-
era South Africa, tightly interweaving personal
and public passions. As a white South African
who hated apartheid, she also played a political
role in her country’s troubled history.
She was born near Springs, a mining town
near Johannesburg. Her father, Isidore, was a
Latvian watchmaker, while her mother, Han-
nah, or Nan, was from a London family of Jewish
origins, although Nadine was raised in a secular
household. Her father had been a refugee from
tsarist Russia – although, Nadine noted, his
experiences gave him no particular feeling for
those oppressed under apartheid.
Her mother did, however, and opened a
crèche for black children. Political awareness
came early: when Nadine was in her teens the
police raided the family home, taking letters
and diaries from a servant’s room. She was
educated at a Catholic convent school, though
she was often kept at home by her mother,
apparently because she feared she had a weak
heart. Gordimer published her first stories
for children when she was 15: “The Quest for
Seen Gold” appeared in the Children’s Sun-
day Express, while “Come Again Tomorrow”
appeared in a magazine.
Gordimer studied at the University of the
Witwatersrand, mixing for the first time with
fellow professionals across the colour bar.
Leaving after a year, she moved to Johannes-
burg where, while taking classes, she contin-
ued writing – stories she collected in Face to
Face, published in 1949, just after apartheid
had become state policy. Two years later New
Yorker accepted her story “A Watcher of the
Dead” – the start of a long and fruitful relation-
ship with the magazine.
Her first publisher, Lulu Friedman, was the
wife of the United Party MP Bernard Friedman
– who later co-founded the Progressive Party
– and it was at their house in Johannesburg that
Gordimer met other anti-apartheid writers. Her
first novel, The Lying Days, a Bildungsroman
charting the growing political awareness of a
young woman, came out in 1953, and the fol-
lowing year she married the art dealer Reinhold
Cassirer (she had already married and divorced
a dentist, Gerald Gavron) . Their son, Hugo, is
a film-maker in New York.
Her political consciousness was sharpened
in 1960 when her best friend, the campaigner
Bettie du Toit, was arrested and the Sharpeville
massacre shocked the world. She became close
friends with Nelson Mandela’s defence lawyers,
Bram Fischer and George Bizos, during his trial
in 1962, and she helped Mandela edit the “I
Am Prepared To Die” speech that made him
a global cause célèbre. When he was released
from prison in 1990, Gordimer was one of the
first people he wanted to see. She later recalled
that after he was established in Johannesburg,
often alone in his big house at night, he would
call her and invite himself to dinner.
Leaving for short periods to teach at US uni-
versities, she began to achieve international
recognition. The South African government
banned several books – The Late Bourgeois
World for a decade, A World of Strangers for
12. She joined the ANC and hid ANC leaders
in her home; she said the proudest day of her
life was when she testified at the 1986 Delmas
Treason Trial on behalf of 22 activists.
In 1974 she shared the Booker Prize with
Stanley Middleton for The Conservationist,
which explores Zulu culture and the world of
a wealthy white industrialist. One of her best-
known books was Burger’s Daughter (1979),
in which a woman analyses her relationship
with her father, an anti-apartheid martyr, and
is drawn into activism. Written in the aftermath
of the Soweto uprising, it was another of her
books to be banned; she described it as a “coded
homage” to Mandela’s lawyer Bram Fischer.
In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize.
The Nobel committee’s citation observed:
“Gordimer writes with intense immediacy
about the extremely complicated personal and
social relationships in her environment.” In her
acceptance speech she said that as a young art-
ist she had agonised that she was cut off from
“the world of ideas” by the isolation of apart-
heid. But she came to understand “that what
we had to do to find the world was to enter our
own world fully, first. We had to enter through
the tragedy of our own particular place”.
Her activism was wide-ranging: in the post-
apartheid era she was active in the HIV/Aids
movement, and in 2004 she gathered around
20 well-known writers to contribute stories
to Telling Tales, a fund-raising book for South
Africa’s Treatment Action Campaign. She was
critical of the government’s stance, and said
she approved of everything President Thabo
Mbeki had done except his stance on Aids. In
2001 she urged her friend Susan Sontag not to
accept an award from the Israeli government,
though she angered some by refusing to equate
Zionism with apartheid. In 1998 she refused
to be shortlisted for what was then the Orange
Prize, because it was open only to women.
Her final novel, No Time Like The Present
(2012), follows the fortunes of a family and their
friends in a Johannesburg suburb between the
mid-1990s and 2009. In The Independent, Boyd
Tonkin wrote, “With her impacted syntax and
unsettling, even opaque, diction, late-period
Gordimer can test the reader as much as late
Henry James. Yet at best her free-style, high-
velocity storytelling delivers a visceral immedi-
acy and intensity that lets us inhabit the minds,
and share the views, of her characters with the
minimum of novelistic fuss.”
Her close friend Per Wastberg, a fellow author
and a member of the Nobel Prize committee,
said her descriptions of the different faces of
racism told the world about South Africa during
apartheid. “She concentrated on individuals,
she portrayed humans of all kinds,” he said.
“Many South African authors and artists went
into exile, but she felt she had to be a witness to
what was going on and also lend her voice to the
black, silenced authors.” µ CHRIS MAUME
Nadine Gordimer, author: born Springs,
South Africa 20 November 1923; married
1949 Gerald Gavron (marriage dissolved; one
daughter), 1954 Reinhold Cassirer (died 2001;
one son); Nobel Prize for Literature 1991; died
Johannesburg 13 July 2014.
Author and activist whose novels interweaved the personal
and the political in her accounts of apartheid South Africa
Gordimer in
Johannesburg
in 2006,
giving her
friend Nelson
Mandela
the Amnesty
International
Ambassador
of Conscience
Award EPA
Writer. Born: 1923
She turned
down a
place on
the Orange
Prize
shortlist
because it
was only
open to
women
Nadine Gordimer
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Historic US fine
Citigroup agrees $7bn settlement over its
toxic mortgage-backed bonds
48
AbbVie’s high five
Shire succumbs at fifth time of asking and
will recommend $53bn takeover
49
The unlikely publican
How former investment banker Noah Bulkin
plans to arrest the pub industry’s decline
50
The wizards of Oz?
Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley and Topshop’s
Sir Philip Green buddy up in Aussie web deal
52
Police question London traders
over ‘wild parties and gifts’
JI M ARMI TAGE
DEPUTY BUSINESS EDITOR
Emails suggest an official
at a Libyan state-owned
fund asked for help
getting a Cartier watch
The battle for
new orders
between
planemakers
Airbus and
Boeing has
begun at the
Farnborough Air
Show, with BA’s
owner, IAG,
reporting
a firm order for
20 Airbus A320s
to use on
short-haul
flights. Boeing,
meanwhile,
announced that
the UK’s
Monarch Airlines
is close to buying
30 of Boeing’s
737 MAX 8s AP
Dogfight
between
aero giants
Police are investigating allega-
tions City bankers plied
Gaddafi-era Libyan officials
with luxurious parties in
Morocco and invitations to a
London lingerie modelling
party in the hope of persuading
them to invest billions of dollars
of their country’s oil money.
The Wall Street Journal yes-
terday documented emails
between the international bro-
kerage Tradition Financial
Services, which has offices in
London and around the world,
and their contacts.
One exchange has a Tradition
broker recounting to an outside
trader how, at a party in a luxury
Marrakech villa rented by Tra-
dition, a prostitute was “strip-
ping in front of 11 guys” while
they apparently offered her
money to perform lewd acts.
The cache of emails being
trawled through by the police
are part of wider investigations
into how bankers, often operat-
ing out of London, are claimed
to have gone about winning
investment money from Colo-
nel Gaddafi’s state-owned
Libyan Investment Authority
before his regime fell in 2011.
The emails continue with
coarse banter between Tradi-
tion brokers and staff at the
Arab Banking Corp, which was
a government-controlled fund
that handled some of the Lib-
yan Investment Authority’s
trading operations.
Further emails suggest an
executive of the Arab Banking
Corp asked for help getting a
Cartier watch with a sapphire
winding mechanism. The WSJ
said he even specified he pre-
ferred gold with no diamonds.
The investigators are assuming
this was a request for such a
watch. A Tradition spokesman
has denied any knowledge of
the watch being purchased.
At London Fashion Week in
2010 Tradition is said to have
invited Arab Banking Corp
executives to join them at a pri-
vate lingerie modelling party.
City of London Police have
interviewed several former Tra-
dition staff over their activities
and are said to be close to decid-
ing whether to bring charges.
The investigation has been
progressing as the Libyan
Investment Authority, under
the post-Gaddafi regime, pur-
sues a civil case set for the
High Court in London against
Goldman Sachs and Société
Général e al l egi ng they
exploited the fund’s lack of
financial nous. Goldman
Sachs also stood accused in
the civil lawsuit of plying Lib-
yan executives with gifts and
luxury trips to Morocco. Both
SocGen and Goldman Sachs
deny wrongdoing.
Tradition did not return calls
seeking comment last night,
but the company has said it is
co-operating with the UK
investigations. It adds that
former employees, rather than
Tradition itself, are being inves-
tigated and said the company
was a victim of fraudulent
expenses claims for inappropri-
ate entertainment. “We do not
believe that any misconduct
amounted to corruption,” the
spokesman added.
The WSJ, citing British
investigators, alleges Tradition
charged the Libyans commis-
sion of sometimes three times
what it levied on other clients,
with fees estimated by the
Financial Conduct Authority
regulator totalling £8.9m in
2008 and 2009 – a figure Tradi-
tion disputes.
Tradition also introduced
other London bankers to Lib-
yan financial contacts at the
Marrakech parties, the paper
claimed. Sordid emails had a
euphemism for the Marrakech
jaunts, with one executive
describing them as an “NSL
zone”, which stands for No
Sperm Left.
Accounts for Tradition
Financial Services Limited in
London show it is owned by
Switzerland’s Viel et Compag-
nie Finance group. The most
recent set, for the year to 31
December 2012, also show
three directors resigned during
that year. The Libyan fund’s
i nvestments i n London
included the building housing
Tradition in the City.
Arab Banking Corporation
has declined to comment.
Lewd emails
detail how staff at
Tradition courted
business from
Gaddafi’s regime
48
The historic
penalty is
appropriate,
given the
strength of
evidence
against Citi
Latest banking scandal
costs Citigroup $7bn
some of these loans were
closed at all.” Despite know-
ing many of the mortgages
were toxic, Citigroup went
ahead and securitised the loan
pools containing the defective
mortgages and sold the result-
ing bonds to investors for bil-
lions of dollars.
Citigroup’s conduct, along
with similar behaviour by
other banks that bundled toxic
loans into bonds and misled
the investors who bought
those securities, contributed
greatly to the financial crisis,
the department said.
Under the settlement,
Citigroup has agreed to pay
$2.5bn to help consumers it
harmed. This includes loan
modifications, providing
helping with refinancing,
down payments and closing
costs, and donations to organ-
isations that help to create
affordable rental housing for
low-income families.
Michael Corbat, the chief
executive of Citigroup, said:
“We also have now resolved
substantially all of our legacy
RMBS [residential mortgage-
backed securities] and CDO
[collateralised debt obliga-
tions] litigation. We believe
that this settlement is in the
best interests of our share-
holders, and allows us to move
forward and to focus on the
future, not the past.”
Citigroup agreed a $7bn
(£4bn) settlement yesterday
to resolve civil claims that it
misled investors about the
quality of its toxic mortgage-
backed bonds sold before the
2008 financial crisis. The deal
brings to an end months of
horse-trading and political
posturing between the bank
and the US Department of
Justice.
The department, anxious to
prove it is punishing financial
institutions that helped cause
the financial crisis, stressed
that a $4bn civil penalty
included in the settlement is
the largest ever of its kind and
that the deal does not absolve
Citigroup or its employees
from possible criminal charges
in the future.
However, the deal does
avoid a department lawsuit
that was in the making until
last month, when an unex-
pected news headline caused
a change of plan, according to
The New York Times.
The Justice Department
feared news that a suspect in
the attack on the United States
Mission in Benghazi, Libya’s
second-biggest city, had been
captured would overshadow
its case against Citigroup, so
it delayed the lawsuit – creat-
ing an opening for 11th-hour
negotiations that eventually
led to yesterday’s deal.
“This historic penalty is
appropri ate, gi ven t he
strength of the evidence of the
wrongdoing committed by
Citi,” the US Attorney Gen-
eral Eric Holder said.
“The bank’s activities con-
tributed mightily to the finan-
cial crisis that devastated our
economy in 2008… Citi is not
the first financial institution
to be held accountable by this
Justice Department, and it
will certainly not be the last.”
As part of the settlement,
the Justice Department said
Citigroup “acknowledged it
made serious misrepresenta-
tions to the public – including
the investing public – about
the mortgage loans it securi-
tised in residential mortgage-
backed securities”.
The Justice Department
said Citigroup securitised and
sold residential mortgage-
backed bonds with underlying
mortgage loans that it knew
had defects.
One Citigroup trader, the
department said, wrote in an
email that he “went through
the diligence reports and
think[s] [they] should start
praying … [he] would not be
surprised if half of these loans
went down… It’s amazing that
MARK MCSHERRY
IN NEW YORK
Shares in the
electricity
generator
Drax jumped
4 per cent
after the
High Court
quashed a
Government
decision not
to include
one of its
projects to
convert a coal
generator
into a
biomass
plant in a
new subsidy
scheme. The
Department
of Energy
and Climate
Change has,
however,
been granted
leave to
appeal PA
Drax court
win over
Coalition
NEWS I N
BRI EF
China charges detective
investigating Glaxo tape
Morrisons sells Kiddicare
operation for only £2m
Morrisons has sold its
Kiddicare baby and children
products business to the
private equity firm Endless
for just £2m. The group
paid £70m for the business
in 2011. It said it would retain
the liabilities relating to 10
Kiddicare stores but was
confident the £163m it has
set aside would cover costs.
The UK corporate detective
hired by GlaxoSmithKline
to discover who had been
sending explicit videos of
the drugs giant’s China boss
has been charged by
prosecutors in the country.
Peter Humphrey, a former
Reuters correspondent and
highly regarded operator in
the region, is charged with
“illegally obtaining private
Fears of rate rises put
the brake on spending
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month amid concerns about
higher interest rates, a
retail industry report
suggests today.
The latest retail sales
index from the British
Retail Consortium and
KPMG showed like-for-
like sales fell 0.8 per cent
compared with a year ago.
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information”. His American
wife, Yu Yingzeng, faces the
same charges.
Their trial has reportedly
been set for 7 August. Mr
Humphrey’s agency,
ChinaWhys, was trying to
discover who had sent a sex
tape of the general manager
in China, Mark Reilly, to
executives at Glaxo.
The emails containing the
video, of Mr Reilly with his
girlfriend, are also thought
to have included a number
of allegations of corruption
against him.
Business
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NEWS I N
BRI EF
Pym quits Co-op for the
chair at Allied Irish Banks
Richard Pym is leaving
Co-operative Bank to become
chairman of Allied Irish
Banks, which was nationalised
through a €3.5bn (£2.8bn)
bailout in 2009. Mr Pym has
chaired Co-op Bank for 13
months through its £1.5bn
bail-in and will leave in
October. Until a successor is
found, the bank will be
chaired by senior independent
director Dennis Holt.
BANKS
Espirito Santo shares fall
as turmoil rumbles on
Shares and bonds in
Portugal’s second-biggest
bank Espirito Santo fell
further after the country’s
central bank ordered that
management changes take
place immediately and its
troubled parent company
sold a large stake. In London,
the Financial Conduct
Authority extended the ban
on short-selling Espirito for
a further two days.
MARKETS
KPMG pumps £20m into
Imperial analytics venture
KPMG has invested £20m
in a new partnership with
Imperial College London on
using data to help businesses
such as banks predict fraud
and retailers to better
understand consumer
behaviour. The new Centre
for Advanced Business
Analytics aims to create
about 800 data scientists
over the next eight years.
DATA
Huntsworth profit warning
turns heat on Chadlington
Lord Chadlington’s position
as chief executive of
Huntsworth came under
fresh pressure as shares in the
PR group crashed 15 per cent
after the owner of the
financial PR outfit Citigate
Dewe Rogerson warned first-
half results will miss
forecasts. It gave no reason,
but its Grayling business is
thought to have disappointed.
PUBLI C RELATI ONS
Shop closures help owner
of Wine Rack boost profit
The owner of Bargain Booze
and Wine Rack boosted its
pre-tax profits by 31.5 per
cent to £9.3m in the year to
27 April after closing more
than 60 stores in the past
year. Conviviality Retail,
which has 595 franchise-run
shops, said like-for-like sales
at Wine Rack were up 1.4 per
cent in the second half after
it acquired the business.
OFF-LI CENCES
US suitor wins Shire, and a British
tax rate, in ffth takeover approach
Shire finally succumbed to US
suitor AbbVie at the fifth time
of asking yesterday as the drug
group’s board said it was ready
to recommend an improved
$53bn (£31bn) takeover.
The FTSE 100 big-pharma
player, best-known for its
Vyvanse blockbuster treatment
for attention deficit hyperactiv-
ity disorder, has been in the
sights of AbbVie since early
May when the US firm tabled
its first bid proposal.
The two boards are now
locked in “detailed discus-
sions” in New York following
the improved £53.20-a-share
proposal, but AbbVie looks to
have succeeded where US rival
Pfizer failed in its much bigger
£63bn bid for AstraZeneca.
The deal as it stands – £24.44
in cash and 0.896 AbbVie
shares – would give Shire’s
investors a 25 per cent stake in
the combined company. The
shares rose 33p to 4,903p.
The company said: “The
board of Shire has indicated to
AbbVie that it would be willing
to recommend an offer at the
level of the revised proposal to
Shire shareholders. Accord-
ingly, the board is in detailed
discussions with AbbVie in
relation to these terms.”
The pursuit of Shire has
stoked far less controversy than
AstraZeneca because – apart
from offices in Basingstoke – it
is headquartered in Dublin but
managed from Boston. The
vast majority of Shire’s staff and
sales are in the US.
AbbVie covets Shire’s rare
diseases unit, bolstered by the
$4.2bn deal for the US com-
pany ViroPharma last year,
which the company is building
up in response to more generic
competitors to its ADHD
drugs. It also wants Shire’s
portfolio to reduce its reliance
on its top-selling rheumatoid
arthritis drug Humira, which
accounts for 60 per cent of its
sales but loses US patent pro-
tection in late 2016.
AbbVie is also looking to cut
its US tax bill by moving its tax
base to Britain, in a tactic
known as inversion. Mick
Cooper, an analyst at Edison
Investment Research, said:
“The proposed offer seems a
fair price that represents good
value for both companies’
shareholders.”
Shire previously fought to
maintain its independence as
its chairman Susan Kilsby
unveiled a new target to double
annual product sales, which
account for the bulk of reve-
nues, to $10bn by 2020.
The company was founded
in 1986, with early successes
including a range of calcium
products to treat osteoporosis,
and listed in 1996. The US firm
was formed last year when
Abbott Laboratories split into
two companies, a medical
products business which
retained the Abbott name and
a pharmaceuticals firm which
became AbbVie.
RUSSELL LYNCH
AbbVie Inc booth traders hard at work at the New York Stock Exchange BLOOMBERG
A former
employee
of Sweett,
based in
Dubai
(pictured),
may have
paid bribes
AFP/GETTY
RUSSELL LYNCH
Property veterans face
SFO bribery inquiry
The Serious Fraud Office
launched a formal inquiry
into one of the UK’s oldest
surveying firms yesterday fol-
lowing bribery claims about
a $100m (£58m) project to
build a hospital in Morocco.
The investigation centres on
claims that a Sweett director
told architects HLW, which
was chasing the $5.6m con-
tract to design the hospital in
2010, it would have to pay 3.5
per cent of the contract to
officials inside the personal
foundation of the United
Arab Emirates president
Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan.
HLW initially paid but then
stopped the payment on legal
advice, according to The Wall
Street Journal, where the
claims emerged a year ago.
Sweett hired law firm Pin-
sent Masons last year to inves-
tigate but closed the original
inquiry in January with allega-
tions “unproven”. But a sec-
ond inquiry, this time by the
legal firm Mayer Brown,
found “material instances of
deception may have been per-
petrated by a former employee
or employees”, between 2009
and 2011.
The former employee was
based in Sweett’s Dubai office.
It is “co-operating fully” with
the SFO, although it is under-
stood no senior staff have yet
been interviewed.
Sweett’s latest accounts
show the firm has had to pay
£490,000 for the two inves-
tigations. It has yet to make
any provision for potential
fines related to the bribery
claims, saying as yet there
was insufficient evidence.
The offer
seems to
represent a
fair price
for both
companies’
investors
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HOOKED
THE STRI NG OF DEALS
AbbVie’s £31bn takeover of
Shire is the latest in a string
of huge deals – both success-
ful and unsuccessful – in the
sector this year:
April: Britain’s top drug
maker, GlaxoSmithKline,
reshuffles its drug cabinet
with a three-part, multi-billion
dollar asset swap with Swiss
rival Novartis. It sells cancer
drugs for Brentford-based
Glaxo for up to $16bn, buying
the Swiss giant’s vaccines
operation for $5.25bn while
the consumer health divisions
of both are merged.
April-May: US firm Pfizer
launches a takeover attempt
for AstraZeneca – eventually
raising its proposal to a
potential $118bn or £55 a
share – but the offer isn’t
enough to bring Astra’s board
to the table. Bad-tempered
negotiations are conducted
against a backdrop of political
concerns over the impact of a
deal on the UK’s research and
development capacity.
April-July: Botox maker
Allergan is still fending off a
$53bn hostile approach from
Canadian drug company
Valeant and activist investor
William Ackman.
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Business
Market Report
Tesco’s trading problems
have been well trailed
but one analyst yesterday
decided it was worth having
its shares in your basket.
Cantor Fitzgerald said
“Tesco UK is 35 per cent
undervalued compared with
its UK peers”, and could be
one of the few that will be
successful in “recapturing
the shifting customer
base in retail” with its
convenience stores and
online where it is “growing
ahead of the market”.
Cantor raised its rating
from sell to buy, with a 325p
target. Tesco was one of the
top risers on the Footsie,
up 6.35p to 284.45p.
The wider market
recovered its poise after a
dire week last week, and
the FTSE 100 lifted 55.97
points to 6,746.14.
The market was buoyed
by M&A activity – Shire
said it would recommend an
improved $53bn takeover
approach from US rival
AbbVie and the drugs group
soared 33p to 4,903p.
Mike Ashley’s Sports
Direct announced a
partnership with recently
floated MySale to enter the
Australian and New Zealand
retail markets. Sports
Direct will post its full-year
results on Thursday and
scored a 25p rise to 723p,
topping the Footsie.
MySale rose 4p to 214p.
Ryanair said it had
no plans to cut its profit
forecast this year despite
warnings by rivals
Air France-KLM and
Lufthansa. But investors
were nervous and budget
airline rival EasyJet slipped
22p to 1,244p.
Off-licence group
Conviviality Retail, owner
of Wine Rack and Bargain
Booze, reported its full-
year results with a 31.5 per
cent jump in pre-tax profit
to £9.3m but total sales
slipped 4.33 per cent to
£355.7m and the shares
eased 0.5p to 163p.
Under fire Aim-listed
outsourcing group Quindell
said first-half sales had
more than doubled. Its
shares took a battering
earlier this year when
US-based Gotham City
Research questioned its
sales model, claims that
Quindell strongly denied.
It rocketed more than
30 per cent, or 54.5p, to
235.5p after reporting a
117 per cent rise in first-half
sales to £355m.
Miner Bullabulling will
delist from Aim, having
been taken over in a hostile
bid by Norton Gold Fields.
Its shares were unmoved
at 4.12p.
THE
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Johnson Matth 3056.00 +84.00 +2.83
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Morrison Wm 176.20 +3.50 +2.03
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The banker who
spent his bonus
on 400 pubs
After being hit by the smoking ban, recession and
cheap supermarket booze, the pub industry is finally
fighting back. MATTHEW BOYLE finds a new breed of
investor is moving into the sector
Noah Bulkin is not the man
you’d expect to be pouring
your next pint of beer.
The Oxford-educated Mr
Bulkin, 37, spent 15 years cut-
ting deals as a mergers and
acquisitions banker for Merrill
Lynch and Lazard before leav-
ing last year to start his own pub
company, Hawthorn Leisure.
He has acquired hundreds
of struggling pubs and plans to
turn them around by tracking
everything from the price
charged for beer to daily sales
fluctuations to customers’
drink preferences.
“Understanding pricing and
the mix of drinks is incredibly
important,” Mr Bulkin says in
an office overlooking Hyde
Park in London. “A lot of pubs
don’t have that data. If you can
make them the core of your
business, there’s a fantastic
opportunity.”
Over the past decade, Brit-
ain’s £70bn pub industry has
fallen on hard times. About
10,000 outlets have closed
since 2004, according to the
British Beer & Pub Associa-
tion, hit by the recession, a
2007 smoking ban and cheaper
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THE INDEPENDENT TUESDAY15JULY2014
MySale deal opens the easy route to
the land of opportunity for Ashley
Outlook
James Moore
A fat finger, a tumbling
share price, then a fat stake
taken out by a company
whose founder is apparently
not unfond of the pies
they sell at half-time at his football club. The
Australian fashion discounter MySale has
packed more news into its first few weeks as a
quoted company than many more established
businesses manage in months, if not years.
To explain: while grappling with the
aftermath of its shares mistakenly being priced
in pounds rather than pence when it floated
in London – traders misread £2.26 as 2.26p,
causing a rush of automatic sell orders – Mike
Ashley’s Sports Direct swooped to buy a
4.8 per cent stake.
To add even more spice to the mix, the move
meant Mr Ashley was sort of partnering with
Sir Philip Green – the retail mega-mogul’s
wife Tina owns just over 20 per cent of MySale
through an offshore investment vehicle.
But that isn’t what this was all about. Mr
Ashley wanted a gateway into Australia, and he
wanted MySale to provide him with it.
The tactic of taking a sizeable minority stake
in another business as a means of forcing the
target to the table to talk business is one his
Sports Direct has used before.
You’d think a better use of shareholders’
funds would be to just pick up the phone. But
Mr Ashley and his company seem to get what
they want. A similar assault on Debenhams
shares, for example, led to the group offering
Sports Direct concessions in its outlets.
The MySale purchase has yielded an even
bigger prize because MySale has agreed to
provide Sports Direct’s Antipodean gateway
by way of a joint venture between the two.
At first you might wonder why the latter
doesn’t simply go it alone. After all, it’s now in
19 European countries. Moreover, sportswear
prices in Australia suggest that the time is right
for a discounter to come in and undercut them.
Take replica Wallaby rugby tops. You’ll pay
A$160, nearly £90. An equivalent England
rugby shirt will cost £55. The same goes for
cricket where an Australia twenty20 jersey will
cost you A$120, or £66, compared with an
England jersey at £37. Exchange rates can’t be
the only explanation for this, and the pound
has strengthened against the Aussie dollar of
late. Say G’day to Sports Direct and kit like
that may soon be cheaper.
But why bother taking the time and money
to do something yourself if you can get it done
cheaper with the help of a partner like MySale,
which has nearly 12 million customers that it’s
willing to let you get your hands on?
It’s true MySale will reap some benefits if
Mr Ashley’s operation takes off down under as
it has over here, and in large parts of Europe.
But the big winner here isn’t wearing a
Wallaby top. He’s wearing the black and white
stripes of Newcastle United.
Politicians and regulators
share the blame for Wonga

It looks like wonga.com is going to have to do
with less of it. Wonga that is. So says Andy
Haste, the payday lender’s new chairman. He
has moved quickly on taking the reins at the
scandal-hit company, jettisoning those
ubiquitous ads featuring cutesy grandparent
puppets for starters.
That will garner the headlines given their
high profile and success in attracting legions
of customers, many of whom clearly couldn’t
afford to repay loans with even relatively
modest interest charges, let alone Wonga’s
near-6,000 per cent APR.
Of more significance is that their removal
is to be accompanied by a tightening of
Wonga’s lending criteria together with an
admission that the company is about to
become a smaller, and significantly less
profitable, business.
The grandiose ambitions of Errol Damelin,
the man Mr Haste is replacing, to rival
Apple, Amazon and Facebook have been put
on ice. Probably permanently now that a cap
on the charges companies such as Wonga can
levy is being introduced.
In addition to shrinking the business, Mr
Haste, and a new chief executive whenever
they are appointed, will have to spend much
of their time dealing with the wreckage left
by Mr Damelin’s pursuit of those ambitions.
Saying “sorry” – a word prominently
displayed on Wonga’s eponymous website
– may not be enough.
Apparently, Mr Haste wants to
“reintroduce” Britons to a more responsible
business. Your future financial health would be
best served by saying thanks, but no thanks.
But let’s not forget, either, how easy it was
for Wonga to get to this point and how
long it took politicians and regulators to
act while Betty, Earl and Joyce tempted
the foolish and the desperate into using its
usurious product.
Some would say they should take
responsibility for their decisions, and that’s
true up to a point. Trouble is, when you’re
in dire straits you’ll clutch at straws, even if
they’re covered in hidden thorns. Even if you
know they’re there.
Those who facilitated Wonga’s rise through
their inaction should reflect on the fact this is
a scandal that need never have happened.
PR firm could do with some
help with communications

When it comes to communications,
Huntsworth could do with some help.
The company is warning shareholders that
earnings will be short of expectations. But
there’s no explanation as to why this might
be. And you won’t find any contact numbers
at the bottom of its profit warning, sorry,
trading update.
Perhaps Huntsworth should call in a PR
adviser? Except that it already owns one of
London’s biggest (Citigate).
If you’re a worried investor, you could try
calling them. But they’re
probably all in meetings.
Don’t worry, though, as
they promise to get back
to you.
Noah Bulkin
tracks
everything
in his pubs,
from prices
charged to
daily sales
fluctuations
to what
customers
like to drink
BLOOMBERG
supermarket booze. The vol-
ume of beer drunk in British
bars has declined 45 per cent
since 2000, leaving companies
such as Punch Taverns and
Enterprise Inns weighed down
with debt after years of rapid
expansion.
The industry is fighting
back, thanks in part to inves-
tors such as Mr Bulkin. After
years of declines, sales at pubs
open at least a year have grown
for 14 consecutive months,
according to pub industry data
provider CGA Strategy.
Pub deals valued at $730m
(£426m) have been announced
in the past year, more than in
the previous two combined.
Shares of pub companies
JD Wetherspoon, Spirit Pub
and Fuller Smith & Turner
have all bested the FTSE
All-share index over the past
12 months.
Britain’s 50,000 pubs are
split into three parts: managed
outlets, controlled by compa-
nies such as Wetherspoon;
tenanted or “tied” pubs, where
the property is run by individ-
ual tenants who pay rent and
buy their beer from a corporate
landlord such as Punch Tav-
erns; and free houses, which
operate independently.
The tenanted sector has suf-
fered most, due to what a Par-
liamentary committee has
called “downright bullying” of
tenants by the pub companies,
who it said often kept them in
the dark about how rents were
calculated. Flying in the face of
conventional wisdom, this is
where Mr Bulkin is focusing.
So far this year, the entre-
preneur has bought 363 pubs,
including 275 tenanted and
leased sites from the brewer
Greene King, with which it
then signed a three-year sup-
ply deal. He says there are
more than 1,000 more pubs on
his radar.
To boost sales, he will add
food, repair tattered pool tables
and widen the beer selection
– offering popular ales such as
Doom Bar. A former Lazard col-
league has built analytical mod-
els for each pub, estimating
potential sales and earnings.
“Applying some granular
analysis of what a person might
drink and what they will pay is
an incredibly important ele-
ment,” Mr Bulkin says. “This
hasn’t been done in the bottom
end of the sector.”
For instance, two beers that
are identical in price per pint
and taste similar could deliver
as much as an 80 per cent dif-
ference in profit per keg to the
pub, Mr Bulkin says. Area man-
agers will check in on tenants
more often, discussing which
drinks to offer and at what
price. There is a risk, though:
replacing, or changing the price
of, a popular ale can send cus-
tomers fleeing across the street
to a rival establishment.
Hawthorn Leisure is backed
by New York-based Avenue
Capital Group, a sign that “pri-
vate equity is coming back to
the sector with a vengeance”,
according to Paul Charity, the
managing director of Propel
Info, an industry publication.
Last year, Cerberus Capital
Management bought Admiral
Taverns, which it plans to use
as a platform for more acquisi-
tions. This month, Risk Capital
Partners of London invested in
The Laine Pub Company, a 45-
pub chain based in Brighton.
The fresh money has inspired
new business models. Oakman
Inns & Restaurants, a chain of
nine high-end pubs in Hert-
fordshire, generates 60 per
cent of its sales from food.
Its founder, Peter Borg-Neal,
uses the same meat supplier as
Windsor Castle, and spends
about £1m refurbishing the
pubs he buys, adding dining
rooms, cosy outdoor areas and
services such as Orderella, a
smartphone ordering app.
Oakman’s pubs are data-
driven, linked by systems that
allow managers to analyse sales
and customer traffic patterns
hourly, rather than waiting
until the end of the month. One
supplier of such technology,
Zonal Retail Data Systems, will
increase sales to about £50m
this year, more than double the
figure for 2010.
To be sure, no technology
can improve the camaraderie
that attracts Britons to pubs. “I
feel special here,” says Bruce
Brunson, 37, at the White
Horse in Welwyn, Hertford-
shire. “When I walk in, it’s like
I’m Norm from Cheers.”
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Switzerland’s Lindt is to pay a reported $1.4bn (£818m)
for Russell Stover, the US maker of the chocolates
eaten by Forrest Gump in the movie UNI VERSAL
Ashley and Topshop’s Green
buddy up in Aussie web deal
For Lindt, life is like
a box of chocolates
one in New Zealand based on
its highly successful UK for-
mat. The stores will include
a click-and-collect service
being developed by MySale.
Sport Direct also said it
would announce a “partner-
ship with a leading Australian
retail partner” shortly.
Under Mr Ashley, the
owner of Newcastle United,
Sports Direct has amassed
a range of sporting brands,
including Lonsdale, Dunlop,
Slazenger and Karrimor.
Jamie Jackson, the founder
of MySale, said: “Sports Direct
showed its confidence in our
business when it took a 4.8
per cent stake in us a month
ago, shortly after our success-
ful IPO.
“This partnership is the
logical next step in the devel-
opment of our relationship.”
Sports Direct did a similar
deal with Debenhams earlier
this year, having also bought
a 4.6 per cent stake in the
department store chain last
year. The two have agreed
Sports Direct will open in
under-performing areas of
some Debenhams stores.
Mr Ashley owns 58 per cent
of Sports Direct and recently
won backing for a controver-
sial £200m bonus scheme at
the third time of asking.
The retai l er i s set to
announce its full-year results
on Thursday.
Mike Ashley and Sir Philip
Green extended their long-
standing friendship to the
other si de of the worl d
yesterday.
Mr Ashley’s Sports Direct
announced a partnership with
recently floated MySale’s flash
sale site Oz.Sale.com.au,
which will give it immediate
access to its 12 million-strong
customer base.
The online discounter
MySale is backed by Top-
Shop’s Sir Philip, who holds a
22 per cent stake in the Lon-
don-listed company.
Shortly after its float last
month, Sports Direct snapped
up a 4.8 per cent stake in
MySale, at a cost of more than
£15m, with a view to helping
it to expand abroad.
MySale shares, which came
to market at 226p in mid-June,
gained 4p to 214p.
Sports Direct’s chief execu-
tive Dave Forsey said yester-
day: “We are delighted to
announce this partnership
with MySale, which will give
Sports Direct access to the
tremendous markets in Aus-
tralia and New Zealand and
enable customers in both
countries to benefit from
our quality and unbeatable
value.
“It will be great to enter
these markets, where sport
is a way of life. I have been
really impressed by the team
at MySale and look forward to
working with them.”
Sp o r t s Di r e c t a l s o
announced it would open
three shops in Australia and
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Simon Kerrigan, apparently
being considered as England’s
answer to their spin problem,
looked anything but yesterday
as Lancashire kept themselves
in this game by bowling out
Nottinghamshire for 261 on a
cool, blustery day that offered
little evidence of any impend-
ing heatwave.
The 25-year-old left-arm
spinner, who joined up with
England last night with a
return to the side to face
India at Lord’s on Thursday
presumably under serious
consideration for selection,
bowled seven overs in the
afternoon session.
He conceded two fours in
his first three balls with a cou-
ple of loose full tosses and was
withdrawn wicketless from
England hopeful Kerrigan fails to
impress as Chapple undoes Notts
Lancashire 225 & 55-2
Khawaja 29 not out; Siddle 2-25
Nottinghamshire 261
Mullaney 82; Chapple 4-73
JON CULLEY
AT LIVERPOOL CRICKET CLUB
the attack when the new ball
became due. After finishing
the innings with figures of
10-1-37-0, there was nothing
to contradict the assessment
he offered on Sunday that his
recovery from the effects of
conceding 53 runs in eight
overs against Australia on
his Test debut at The Oval
last year remains a work in
progress.
Nottinghamshire’s collapse
had nothing to do with him.
Instead it was largely down to
the skills of Glenn Chapple,
whose 963 first-class wickets
Batsman of the Day
Sam Hain, who last month be-
came the youngest player to
score a first-class century for
Warwickshire when he made
134 against Northampton-
shire, completed his second
hundred in only 10 first-class
innings as Durham’s bowlers
suffered at Chester-le-Street.
The Hong Kong-born,
Australian-raised batsman,
whose parents are both Brit-
ish, finished on 109 not out
in a Warwickshire total of
472. John Hastings took five
wickets in an innings for the
first time for Durham but that
was small consolation for his
captain, Paul Collingwood,
who had asked the visitors
to bat first when the match
began on Sunday.
Hain, who will be 19 tomor-
row, took Ian Bell’s place in
the county record books with
his hundred against North-
amptonshire, made when he
was 18 years and 336 days
old. He has played for Aus-
tralia’s Under-19s but wants
to play any future representa-
tive cricket for England.
Bowler of the Day
Sajid Mahmood, who at his
peak played in eight Tests
and 26 one-day internation-
als for England, took three
wickets in his first appearance
for Essex’s first team in any
competition since September
COUNTY ROUND- UP JON CULLEY
last year as Hampshire were
bowled out for 246 on day
two of the Colchester Festival.
The pace bowler turned out
for the Southport side Ains-
dale in the second tier of the
Liverpool Competition last
week but was recalled after
Reece Topley joined Tymall
Mills and David Masters on
a long Essex injured list. The
Essex bowling, in fact, was
shared among all 10 outfield
players. Almost three-quar-
ters of Hampshire’s runs were
scored by Nathan Rimmington
and Adam Wheater, who made
his first century of the season
against his former county.
Extras
Craig Kieswetter, who was
England’s one-day interna-
tional wicketkeeper until
he lost his place to former
Somerset team-mate Jos
Buttler, is to undergo surgery
after suffering a broken nose
and a fracture to his right eye
socket when he was struck
in the face by a bouncer from
Northamptonshire’s David
Willey on Saturday.
The 26-year-old faces
an indefinite spell on the
sidelines. In his absence,
Somerset’s substitute
wicketkeeper, Alex Barrow,
held two more catches as
Northamptonshire, offered a
nominal target of 404 to win,
lost half their wickets for 98.
Simon
Kerrigan
bowls during
his 10-over
stint for
Lancashire
yesterday
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Cricket
never won him a single cap.
Nottinghamshire slipped
from 235 for 5 to 261 all out,
with the 40-year-old maestro
of seam and swing dismissing
Peter Siddle, Chris Read and
Luke Fletcher in the space of
10 deliveries as the last four
wickets fell for nine runs,
keeping Lancashire’s first-
innings deficit to 36.
The one wicket that did fall
to spin was claimed by Steven
Croft, the off-spinner, who
benefited from an unusual
piece of wicketkeeping from
Jos Buttler, standing up, who
dropped an edge from Riki
Wessels but trapped the ball
between his pads, from where
he retrieved it in the manner
of a stage magician.
Movement off the pitch
and through the air meant
batting remained as hazard-
ous as it had on day one, and
Wessels’s 46 was the highest
score apart from Steven Mul-
laney, who was dropped four
times in making 86.
Nonetheless, it was a dis-
appointing effort by Notting-
hamshire as they seek the
win that would put them into
a clear lead in the Champion-
ship. Michael Lumb edged
behind to Chapple’s fifth ball
of the day, before Mullaney
was leg-before to Tom Smith.
James Taylor bottom edged
into his stumps, Samit Patel
edged to second slip and, fac-
ing the second new ball, Chris
Read miscued a pull as Not-
tinghamshire’s chances of a
sizeable lead disappeared.
But then Siddle, bowling
what may be his final new
ball spell for Nottingham-
shire, dismissed both Lanca-
shire openers before bad light
hastened the close, with the
home side 19 in front.
LV COUNTY CHAMPI ONSHI P -
FI RST DI VI SI ON
DURHAMVWARWICKSHIRE
EMIRATESDURHAMICG(Day2of 4): Durhamare
trailingWarwickshireby410runs with7first-in-
nings wickets inhand
Durham won toss
WARWICKSHIRE—First Innings 256-5
First Innings Contd
Runs 6s 4s Bls Min
S R Hain not out 109 1 12 193 248
†TR Ambrose b Hastings 4 0 1 4 6
R Clarke c Mustard b Hastings 54 2 8 77 102
K H D Barker c & b Borthwick 15 0 1 29 34
J S Patel c Mustard b Onions 32 0 5 26 36
WB Rankin lbw b Borthwick 3 0 0 20 33
Extras (lb20 nb4) 24
Total(124.1 overs) 472
Fall: 1-41, 2-98, 3-229, 4-250, 5-256, 6-260, 7-361, 8-
390, 9-439.
Bowling: C Rushworth 20-1-69-0, G Onions 29-2-121-
1, J W Hastings 30-5-94-5, M A Wood 25-4-78-0, P D
Collingwood 4-0-20-1, S G Borthwick 16.1-0-70-3.
DURHAM—First Innings
Runs 6s 4s Bls Min
M D Stoneman c Ambrose b Wright
5 0 0 17 14
K K Jennings b Barker 12 0 2 42 56
S G Borthwick not out 24 0 4 50 70
M J Richardson c Clarke b Barker 2 0 0 9 11
G J Muchall not out 13 0 3 17 18
Extras (nb6) 6
Total(for 3, 22 overs) 62
Fall: 1-13, 2-35, 3-47.
ToBat: *P D Collingwood, †P Mustard, J W Hastings, M
A Wood, G Onions, C Rushworth.
Bowling: K H D Barker 11-5-22-2, C J C Wright 9-3-34-1,
J S Patel 2-1-6-0.
Umpires: S C Gale and P J Hartley.
LANCASHIREVNOTTINGHAMSHIRE
LIVERPOOL(Day2of 4): Lancashireareleading
Nottinghamshireby19runs with8second-innings
wickets inhand
Nottinghamshire won toss
LANCASHIRE—First Innings 225(Buttler 52)
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE—First Innings 69-1
First Innings Contd
Runs 6s 4s Bls Min
S J Mullaney lbw b Smith 82 0 12 149 194
M J Lumb c Buttler b Chapple 8 0 0 45 60
J WATaylor b Smith 29 0 2 88 128
S R Patel c Agathangelou b Smith
19 0 2 43 50
M H Wessels c Buttler b Croft 46 0 7 67 84
*†C M WRead c Khawaja b Chapple
25 0 2 69 88
PM Siddle b Chapple 6 0 1 25 22
LJ Fletcher c Smith b Chapple 1 0 0 7 12
AR Adams c Agathangelou b Hogg
8 0 1 11 14
H F Gurney not out 0 0 0 1 5
Extras (b9 lb13 w1 nb6) 29
Total(87.5 overs) 261
Fall: 1-20, 2-69, 3-133, 4-158, 5-171, 6-235, 7-252, 8-
253, 9-257.
Bowling: G Chapple 22-4-73-4, K W Hogg 20.5-7-41-2,
Kabir Ali 16-6-39-0, T C Smith 15-4-44-3, S C Kerrigan
10-1-37-0, S J Croft 4-1-5-1.
LANCASHIRE—SecondInnings
Runs 6s 4s Bls Min
PJ Horton c Read b Siddle 16 0 2 24 29
APAgathangelou c Read b Siddle 0 0 0 2 3
U TKhawaja not out 29 0 3 43 50
AG Prince not out 7 0 1 9 24
Extras (lb3) 3
Total(for 2, 13 overs) 55
Fall: 1-5, 2-28.
To Bat: S J Croft, †J C Buttler, T C Smith, Kabir Ali, *G
Chapple, K W Hogg, S C Kerrigan.
Bowling: P M Siddle 7-1-25-2, L J Fletcher 3-0-11-0, A
R Adams 3-0-16-0.
Umpires: M A Gough and A G Wharf.
NORTHAMPTONSHIREVSOMERSET
NORTHAMPTON(Day3of 4): Northamptonshire,
with5second-innings wickets inhand, require296
runs tobeat Somerset
Somerset won toss
SOMERSET—First Innings 375(Trescothick124)
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE—First Innings 221
SOMERSET—SecondInnings 72-3
SecondInnings Contd
Runs 6s 4s Bls Min
C R Jones lbw b Middlebrook 87 1 11 211 303
J C Hildreth c & b Middlebrook 43 0 5 93 117
PD Trego c Stone b Azharullah 2 0 0 12 16
C Overton b Azharullah 7 0 1 8 13
LGregory not out 40 1 6 60 76
AC Thomas c Coetzer b Middlebrook
0 0 0 7 7
G H Dockrell not out 15 0 2 25 29
Extras (b7 lb4 w2) 13
Total(for 8 dec, 86 overs) 249
Fall: 1-4, 2-5, 3-72, 4-164, 5-171, 6-181, 7-214, 8-214.
DidNot Bat: †C Kieswetter.
Bowling: D J Willey 18-6-59-1, Mohammad Azharullah
21-9-33-3, A J Hall 16-5-41-0, O P Stone 10-0-48-0, J D
Middlebrook 14-4-40-4, M N W Spriegel 5-0-13-0, K J
Coetzer 2-1-4-0.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE—SecondInnings
Runs 6s 4s Bls Min
J M Kettleborough c Jones b Dockrell
58 1 11 93 128
*J D Middlebrook c Sub b Gregory18 0 4 37 48
R E Levi c Sub b Gregory 0 0 0 1 1
R I Newton b Thomas 5 0 1 13 18
M N WSpriegel c Hildreth b Thomas
0 0 0 15 23
K J Coetzer not out 20 0 4 57 57
O PStone not out 0 0 0 19 22
Extras (b4 lb1 nb2) 7
Total(for 5, 39 overs) 108
Fall: 1-40, 2-40, 3-58, 4-70, 5-98.
To Bat: †A M Rossington, A J Hall, D J Willey, Moham-
mad Azharullah.
Bowling: A C Thomas 10-5-25-2, L Gregory 10-5-23-2,
C Overton 8-5-19-0, P D Trego 7-0-30-0, G H Dockrell
4-3-6-1.
Umpires: J H Evans and R K Illingworth.
SECOND DI VI SI ON
GLOUCESTERSHIREVDERBYSHIRE
CHELTENHAM(Day1 of 4): Gloucestershirehave
scored304for 6wickets against Derbyshire
Gloucestershire won toss
GLOUCESTERSHIRE—First Innings
Runs 6s 4s Bls Min
WATavare c Cross b Taylor 135 2 17 269 320
*M Klinger c Godleman b Footitt 2 0 0 14 18
APR Gidman c Durston b Taylor 10 0 1 36 47
H J H Marshall lbw b Palladino 45 0 6 56 73
I ACockbain lbw b Palladino 5 0 1 25 25
WR S Gidman not out 88 0 14 151 190
B AC Howell b Taylor 4 0 0 8 20
†AR Rouse not out 2 0 0 17 16
Extras (b5 lb3 w5) 13
Total(for 6, 96 overs) 304
Fall: 1-7, 2-34, 3-100, 4-118, 5-293, 6-301.
ToBat: T M J Smith, J M R Taylor, L C Norwell.
Bowling: M H A Footitt 13-2-60-1, A P Palladino 22-8-41-
2, D J Wainwright 20-3-67-0, T A I Taylor 16-2-43-3, A L
Hughes 16-4-53-0, W J Durston 9-1-32-0.
Derbyshire: B A Godleman, B T Slater, *W L Madsen, S
Chanderpaul, W J Durston, A L Hughes, †G D Cross, D J
Wainwright, A P Palladino, T A I Taylor, M H A Footitt.
Umpires: N L Bainton and M R Benson.
ESSEXVHAMPSHIRE
COLCHESTER(Day2of 4): Essex aretrailing
Hampshireby176runs with9first-innings wickets
inhand
Hampshire won toss
HAMPSHIRE—First Innings
Runs 6s 4s Bls Min
M ACarberry c Foster b Napier 0 0 0 32 36
*J H K Adams c Westley b Ryder 8 0 1 16 27
WR Smith c Westley b Mahmood 7 0 1 26 38
J M Vince c Foster b Ryder 13 0 2 12 12
LADawson c ten Doeschate b Napier
2 0 0 3 6
†AJ Wheater lbw b Mahmood 107 1 11 147 167
S M Ervine c Smith b Phillips 20 0 3 23 42
M TColes c Panesar b Westley 0 0 0 5 11
N J Rimmington not out 65 0 9 130 139
D R Briggs c Napier b Mahmood 3 0 0 9 13
J ATomlinson c Browne b Panesar 5 0 0 24 26
Extras (b1 lb13 nb2) 16
Total(71 overs) 246
Fall: 1-8, 2-14, 3-27, 4-30, 5-32, 6-83, 7-97, 8-212, 9-
220.
Bowling: G R Napier 12-3-29-2, J D Ryder 12-4-34-2,
S I Mahmood 12-0-54-3, R N ten Doeschate 2-0-9-0,
M S Panesar 15-5-31-1, R S Bopara 1-0-5-0, T J Phillips
5-0-26-1, T Westley 6-1-18-1, N L J Browne 5-1-25-0, G
M Smith 1-0-1-0.
ESSEX—First Innings
Runs 6s 4s Bls Min
TWestley not out 35 0 7 73 99
N LJ Browne c Vince b Coles 4 0 0 14 14
R S Bopara not out 24 1 3 76 84
Extras (lb5 nb2) 7
Total(for 1, 27 overs) 70
Fall: 1-10.
To Bat: J D Ryder, *†J S Foster, R N ten Doeschate, G
M Smith, G R Napier, T J Phillips, S I Mahmood, M S
Panesar.
Bowling: J A Tomlinson 6-2-14-0, M T Coles 6-3-7-1, S
M Ervine 5-1-18-0, N J Rimmington 6-2-22-0, D R Briggs
3-1-4-0, L A Dawson 1-1-0-0.
Umpires: A K Chaudhary and R T Robinson.
WORCESTERSHIREVLEICESTERSHIRE
NEWROAD(Day2of 4): Worcestershirearelead-
ingLeicestershireby89runs with8second-innings
wickets inhand
Worcestershire won toss
WORCESTERSHIRE—First Innings 317-9(Mitch-
ell 90, Oliver 78)
First Innings Contd
Runs 6s 4s Bls Min
S H Choudhry c Robson b Shreck 42 0 4 125 147
C AJ Morris not out 3 0 0 16 27
Extras (lb10) 10
Total(103.3 overs) 321
Fall: 1-163, 2-188, 3-205, 4-206, 5-206, 6-226, 7-270,
8-282, 9-314.
Bowling: C E Shreck 15.3-5-50-2, N L Buck 19-2-65-3,
R M L Taylor 8-1-24-0, J S Sykes 22-2-72-3, J K H Naik
31-11-80-0, D J Redfern 8-1-20-2.
LEICESTERSHIRE—First Innings
Runs 6s 4s Bls Min
G PSmith c Kohler-Cadmore b Ajmal
85 0 13 138 165
AJ Robson lbw b Shantry 11 0 2 24 36
E J Eckersley b Ajmal 48 0 7 69 78
D J Redfern lbw b Shantry 57 0 12 65 67
*J J Cobb lbw b Ajmal 30 0 6 49 69
†N J O’Brien c Mitchell b Morris 12 1 1 16 20
R M LTaylor c Kervezee b Ajmal 0 0 0 5 2
J K H Naik b Leach 12 0 2 40 45
J S Sykes not out 8 0 1 17 29
N LBuck c Cox b Leach 4 0 1 7 10
C E Shreck b Leach 0 0 0 3 3
Extras (lb11 nb2) 13
Total(71.5 overs) 280
Fall: 1-34, 2-125, 3-194, 4-218, 5-244, 6-245, 7-264,
8-272, 9-280.
Bowling: J D Shantry 14-1-71-2, C A J Morris 16-4-59-1, J
Leach 7.5-0-45-3, Saeed Ajmal 28-10-66-4, S H Choudhry
6-0-28-0.
WORCESTERSHIRE—SecondInnings
Runs 6s 4s Bls Min
*D K H Mitchell c O’Brien b Buck 4 0 1 17 19
R K Oliver not out 35 0 5 36 55
TC Fell lbw b Buck 0 0 0 4 4
AN Kervezee not out 5 0 0 33 32
Extras (lb4) 4
Total(for 2, 15 overs) 48
Fall: 1-21, 2-21.
ToBat: T Kohler-Cadmore, J Leach, S H Choudhry, †O B
Cox, J D Shantry, Saeed Ajmal, C A J Morris.
Bowling: C E Shreck 5-2-12-0, N L Buck 6-1-21-2, J K H
Naik 3-1-2-0, J S Sykes 1-0-9-0.
Umpires: M J Saggers and P Willey.
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Sport / Golf / The Open
As the Justin Rose collection
grows, so does the conviction
of Luke Donald that he was
right to opt for swing retool-
ing to bolster a game that had
run its course. Donald was
good enough to get to world
No 1, but as the saying goes,
there are lies, damn lies and
statistics. And though majors
do not always deliver the best
player, a world No 1 without
one is not worth the bother in
the eye of the purist.
It was watching Rose thread
the ball through the Merion
needle to lift the US Open a
year ago that persuaded Don-
ald he needed to deconstruct
his swing and rebuild in order
to make the ultimate step.
After the fortnight Rose has
just had, claiming the Quicken
Loans Trophy on the PGA
Tour and the Scottish Open
last Sunday, the big idea has
lost none of its power.
“I think I’m about 90 per
cent of the way there,” Don-
ald says. “People said it would
take about a year and the US
PGA will be a year. It’s like
coming back from an injury
– you don’t quite commit to
some of the shots because you
don’t quite trust it. That’s how
I’ve been with some of my first
rounds. I’ve always come back
after bad starts and played a
good Friday round but I
need to go out there and be
a bit more assertive. I need to
After watching Rose win the US Open, former world No 1 felt he’d have
to make alterations to his action if he was to claim that elusive title.
He tells KEVIN GARSIDE he’s happy with how it is all coming along
It sounded like advice from
Frankie Goes to Hollywood,
“Relax, don’t do it, when you
want to go to it.” Perhaps we
should stop there. You get the
gist listening to Phil Mickel-
son tell his audience how he
won The Open.
Mickelson was speaking of
the final-round 66 that took
him through the field and into
congress with the Claret Jug at
Muirfield last year, one of the
greatest tales the old pot has
witnessed. “When you try to
have a round like that, that’s
when it goes south and you
end up making big numbers.
“The thing about that round
is I never really got ahead of
myself, I never really tried to
force birdies. I just tried to play
the hole, and each shot as well
as I could, and you know you
are going to have to make a lot
of long putts to make birdies,
and every shot came off well.”
Mickelson speaks of his
pride at parading the Claret
Jug around family, friends and
commercial partners, about
the 1990 Romanée-Conti
burgundy that was supped
from the mythical metal. “I
didn’t know what it was when
I drank it. I just knew that it
was really good.”
Mickelson is equally proud
of the three green jackets
won as Masters Champion
but accepts that the sartorial
prize must yield to the oldest
ornament in golf. “Everybody
had a chance to hold it or drink
out of it and take pictures with
it. There’s really not much you
are going to do with the jacket
other than pull on the lapels.”
On the pitch, the defending
champ has not had the year for
which he hoped, but being a
man for whom the jug is always
half full, he could feel the sap
rising as he walked through
the gates of Royal Liverpool to
attempt to reclaim the trophy
just handed back.
“ The memor i es a nd
emotions created will last a life
time, but I’d like to do it again.
I’d like to create new memo-
ries and opportunities.
“It almost motivates me to
work harder, practice even
more because I know there is
a finite amount of time. When
I look back on the highlights
of last year’s tournament it
brings out such emotion.”
Mickelson leads the after-
noon starters on Thursday
alongside 2012 Open cham-
pion Ernie Els and Bubba
Watson, who claimed his sec-
ond green jacket in three years
in April. Back-to-back winner
in Scotland Justin Rose goes
out two groups later with world
No 1 Adam Scott and US PGA
champion Jason Dufner.
0837 L Donald (Eng), R Fowler
(USA), S Garcia (Spa)
0904 T Woods (USA), A Ca-
brera (Arg), H Stenson (Swe)
0926 H Matsuyama (Jpn), R
McIlroy (Nirl), J Spieth (USA)
0948 M Kuchar (USA), G Mc-
Dowell (Nirl), L Oosthuizen (Rsa)
1338 J Day (Aus), M Kaymer
(Ger), Z Johnson (USA)
1405 P Mickelson (USA), E Els
(Rsa), B Watson (USA)
1427 A Scott (Aus), J Rose,
(Eng), J Dufner (USA)
1438 R Ishikawa (Jpn), L West-
wood (Eng), K Bradley (USA)
SELECTED PAI RI NGS
AND TEE- OFF TI MES
Jug is still
half full for
Mickelson
despite year
to forget
KEVI N GARSI DE
AT HOYLAKE
Donald sure he’s
taken big swing
towards Open title
think about making birdies
and playing great.”
Donald was speaking last
week at the Scottish Open,
where he kept pace with
Rose for two days at least,
book-ending his tournament
with a 67 and 66. Friday and
Saturday were not the best but
there was encouragement in
the run to the tape and the
six-under-par finish.
“The danger of making
changes is that there is going
to be that period of time where
you don’t feel that comfort-
able over the shot. When I’m
playing friendlies at my club
it feels very natural, but it
takes continued practice and
continually putting yourself
in those positions to trust it
under the gun. If I’m feeling in
control of my game it doesn’t
matter which tournament I’m
playing, I’m going to have a
chance. It’s about having that
belief again and trusting your
swing.”
Donald, 36, has stood back
from the idea of gaining length
off the tee in favour of adding
shape to his shots to cope
better in all conditions, partic-
ularly holding the ball against
a right-to-left wind. His short
game remains imperious and
any player on tour would take
his putting stroke. The Open
has not been kind to him, but
in recent years, if he makes the
cut he makes the top 10. And if
his CV is to be embellished by
only one major bauble it would
have to be this.
“Chuck [Cook, his coach]
said to me that Royal Liver-
pool isn’t too dissimilar to
a Hilton Head or a Tampa
– places I play well. It’s reason-
ably narrow, you have to get it
between the bunkers and play
strategic golf. If I can think of
it in that way then hopefully I
can have some success.
“For me the Claret Jug is on
the top of the pile. Growing
up, it was what I watched. I
watched the Masters as well
but my two heroes, Seve and
Faldo, were pretty good at
winning Open Champion-
ships. The Masters is hyped
up through television and it
seems to be the most popular
major with the look of it and
everything that goes with it,
but there is nothing like the
great grandstands around 18
at an Open Championship.
I would love to win a Claret
Jug.”
God loves a trier, and
Donald is the grafter-plus,
nursing a pathological work
ethic that even drives him
mad sometimes.
“It has tapered down a little
since I have had three kids. I
have had to be a bit more effi-
cient. It used to be I would get
up at 7am and go to the gym
for an hour and a half and then
breakfast and then out on the
It’s like
coming
back from
an injury –
you don’t
commit to
some shots
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Farah unsure over fitness
for Commonwealths
Mo Farah has admitted he
faces a race against time
to be fit to compete at the
Commonwealth Games.
The double Olympic
champion pulled out of
the weekend’s Glasgow
Grand Prix after suffering
from abdominal pains. The
31-year-old will now make
a decision on contesting
the 5,000m and 10,000m
“further down the line”.
“I don’t know,” Farah said
when asked whether he
would be ready for Glasgow.
“Hopefully I should be
good, but we’ll see.”
ATHLETI CS
SPORT
I N BRI EF
Jayawardene announces
retirement from Tests
Former Sri Lanka captain
Mahela Jayawardene will
retire from Test cricket
after 18 years following the
home series against South
Africa and Pakistan.
“It was not an easy
decision to make, but I
believe this is the right
time,” the 37-year-old said.
The right-handed
batsman has played 145
Tests, scored 11,493 runs
– the sixth highest of
all-time – including 33
centuries and has a batting
average of just over 50. He
will still play in ODIs.
CRI CKET
Broncos players to stay
full-time in Championship
London Broncos head coach
Joey Grima says the club
will remain full time in the
Championship in 2015 as
they bid to bounce straight
back to the Super League.
The club’s relegation was
sealed at the weekend after
their 20th league defeat of
the season, ending a 19-year
unbroken stay in the top
flight. But Grima says he
has been told they will stay
full time. “[Chairman David
Hughes] has given me his
assurance so that gives us
every chance to get back
into Super League,” he said.
RUGBY LEAGUE
Powell free to run after
his doping ban is cut
Jamaican sprinters Asafa
Powell, the former 100m
world-record holder, and
Sherone Simpson have
had their doping bans
reduced from 18 months
to six months and are free
to compete immediately,
the Court of Arbitration
for Sport announced last
night.
ATHLETI CS
American with rare condition finished second in US Open
and now has his sights set on Hoylake, writes KEVIN GARSI DE
Compton the medical
miracle is on his third
major... and third heart
Erik Compton is the man who
shouldn’t be here. Nature has
tried to kill him twice, the first
time at the age of 12. Now 34,
he is on his third heart, donated
by a former volleyball player
and victim of a hit-and-run car
accident six years ago.
Compton survives thanks
to naturally occurring exuber-
ance and a stack of potions that
trick his body into believing
the heart of Isaac Klosterman
is his own. Even as we spoke in
front of the clubhouse yester-
day his caddie, Victor, slipped
him a sachet along with his
phone and a few dollar bills.
The money went straight in
his pocket, the sachet straight
down the hatch.
Compton had just played
his first 18 holes at Hoylake
with golfing gentry. His story
so captivated America when
he led the US Open pack in
pursuit of Martin Kaymer last
month that Sir Nick Faldo felt
compelled to show him the
ropes when he pitched up at
Royal Liverpool, a setting as
alien to him as the heart beat-
ing in his chest.
When t he cal l came
Compton had no hesitation.
“He’s a nice guy, and who
better to play a round of golf
with? He played pretty good,
too, hit it great.”
Compton marvelled at the
attention Faldo and the other
members of the group, Matt
Kuchar and Gary Woodland,
attracted. While they stopped
to sign balls and flags, Comp-
ton was invisible to most in
the crowd, but not all.
“One woman obviously
knew my story. She had a
child about four years old
with similar problems to me
so I stopped and we spoke. I
know how difficult it is for the
families in these situations. If
I die I’m gone, right, I don’t
care. It is those left behind
who suffer, so it was nice to be
able to share one or two things
like that with parents.”
Compton is remarkably
open about his condition.
When you have been as close
to death as he has, celebrating
the present is no hardship, and
if that means talking about his
lot with any who express an
interest or concern, then he
is happy to indulge.
“There are a lot of things
they can do with drugs and
such. You know in a few years
from now they might even
have mechanical hearts so
there will be no need for the
transplant. The longer I last,
there are more chances for
good things than bad.
“I had my bloods checked
before I came out here and
the doctors reckon I am fit-
ter than I have ever been. I
don’t worry too much about
life expectancy. I just take the
medication and listen to my
doctors. It is definitely going
to be around long enough to
keep playing – before I decide
to stop and get old like you
bastards. I mean who wants
to be old like you?”
At the age of nine, Comp-
ton was diagnosed with a
condition called cardiomy-
opathy, an inflamed heart
with a compromised capacity
to pump, and had to wait three
years for his first transplant.
“Even that came with com-
plications. It changed my
appearance, my face became
bloated and I grew facial hair.
My eyebrows were basically
connected to the hair line. It
was tough.” It took two years
for the condition to settle, dur-
ing which time he was forced
to change schools. “Kids make
fun of each other. I would have
made fun of me.”
The jocularity is deeply
embedded and sincere. Here
is a man who understands
how precious existence is
and how frail the attachment
to this mortal coil. When his
second heart began to give
way he drove himself to the
hospital and in a dramatic
phone call home told his par-
ents he was dying.
He was. The doctors kept
him alive temporarily with
an emergency pacemaker
but sent him home knowing
he could not survive without
a replacement heart. His first
transplanted heart was 16
years in situ, a year beyond
expectancy. Isaac Kloster-
man’s tragic death saved him.
He keeps in touch with Isaac’s
parents, whose support he
carries with him into every
tournament he plays.
This is only his third major.
He almost won the last, and
likes his chances here. “This
is so different to what I’m used
to but I love the course and so
far I’m getting my ball around
pretty good.” For the record,
Compton went round in one
under yesterday.
I don’t worry too much
about life expectancy. I
just take the medication
and listen to my doctors
Erik Compton hits a shot during a practice round for The Open
which starts at Royal Liverpool on Thursday GETTY
The morning highlights fea-
ture Tiger Woods, playing his
first major of the year after back
surgery, grouped with Henrik
Stenson and Angel Cabrera.
Rory McIlroy leads a youthful
trio alongside Jordan Spieth
and Hideki Matsuyama.
Ian Poulter suffered an injury
scare yesterday and underwent
an MRI scan on his wrist after
taking a knock during last
week’s Scottish Open. He
expects to receive the results
today but said there was no
evidence of a fracture.
He wrote on Twitter: “Just
off to Leeds to have a MRI
scan on the wrist. Precaution-
ary but has to be done.”
Defending Open
champion Phil
Mickelson has
had a difficult
year since his
win at Muirfield
course from 10 till 5 or 6pm.
I certainly work hard at it. I
want to succeed as much as I
can. I am one of those players
who feels if I don’t work it,
then I am not going to get my
full potential out of it.
“Some peopl e I know
hardly practice at all. Bubba
[Watson], I don’t think he
ever practices. He goes to the
course and plays 18 holes. He
is a feel player – that is just the
way he works. But not eve-
ryone can hit it 350 [yards]
off the tee and have that big
advantage.”
Donald is grouped on Thurs-
day in a marquee three-ball
alongside Sergio Garcia and
Rickie Fowler, another emerg-
ing from swing rehab after a
rebuild with Tiger Woods’
former guru Butch Harmon.
Fowler, unlike Donald, is not
one for overthinking things, a
feature the Englishman feels
has probably hindered his
prospects in the past.
“I probably cared too much,”
Donald says. “Especially around
the world No 1 period. Your
expectations for doing well are
so high they begin to impact on
results. Now I don’t think there
is anything holding me back.
Once the changes have bed-
ded in properly and confidence
starts to come back, which is
already happening, there is no
reason why I can’t have a great
next five years or so.”
Luke Donald says he is about
‘90 per cent of the way there’
with his new swing
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TUESDAY15JULY2014 THE INDEPENDENT
Sport / Cycling / Tour de France
‘Destroyed’ Contador forced
to quit after breaking his leg
The battle for the Tour de
France took another dra-
matic turn yesterday when
the second of the two pre-race
favourites, Alberto Contador,
fell and was forced to quit.
The Spaniard, who was said
afterwards to be “mentally
destroyed” at having to aban-
don the race, joins Britain’s
Chris Froome on the casu-
alty list and leaves Vincenzo
Nibali in pole position for the
title. The Italian reclaimed
the overall lead yesterday
with a superb solo triumph
forged with an attack 2.5km
from the line. Sky’s Richie
Porte rode strongly to move
into second place overall, but
Contador’s sudden exit over-
shadowed Nibali’s return to
the yellow jersey.
The first TV images of
double Tour de France win-
ner Contador’s crash showed
the Spaniard hunched over
slightly and standing on the
side of the road on a rain-
soaked descent 95km from
the finish. Blood was seeping
from a deep cut on his right
knee, the back of his jersey
was ripped open, his Tinkoff-
Saxo team car was drawn up
beside him and mechanics
and team staff were already
trying to tend his injuries.
Contador initially seemed
to take things calmly, asking
for a replacement left shoe
which he sat down to change,
allowing a bandage to be
wrapped around his knee,
and then insisting he was well
enough to race on.
Almost the entire Tinkoff
Saxo team, meanwhi l e,
dropped back to try and assist
their suffering leader, with
other dropped riders glancing
at Contador in disbelief at his
lowly position as the Span-
iard’s squad drove as hard as
possible to try and pull him
back into contention.
However, the pursuit proved
fruitless, with Contador clearly
in pain, dropping back again
towards his team car and receiv-
ing a comforting arm round his
shoulder from a team-mate as
On last Wednesday’s peril-
ous stage over the cobbles,
Contador had lost nearly
three minutes to leader Nibali
when mud jammed his gear-
ing. But on Saturday’s first
short, sharp ascent, he had
been the strongest of the over-
all favourites, gaining time on
Nibali. Yesterday, on a stage
when he was expected to make
further gains, the 31-year-old
was forced to quit, with an
X-ray later revealing a broken
tibia. That he could continue
in such circumstances after
the crash for another 17km is a
sign of his iron determination,
but it was clearly impossible for
him to ride on.
“It’s not a bad fracture but
he needs surgery,” Tinkoff
boss Bjarne Riis said later.
“He’s in a lot of pain and is
getting stitches. Mentally he’s
destroyed, of course. He was
in the shape of his life... This
was his Tour. He was in super
good condition, never better.
It’s a big, big pity.”
Froome sent a message of
support to his top rival via
Twitter, saying: “Big loss for
the TDF today. Recover well
@albertocontador.”
He then added: “I hope to
see you at the Vuelta”, in what
appears to be confirmation
that the Briton will be riding
in cycling’s third Grand Tour
in Spain this September.
Froome’s and Contador’s
combined absence means
there is no former winner in
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With steadily rising pain
from multiple injuries, the
Spaniard eased over to the
side of the road, dismounted
and then – in images echoing
Froome’s abandon – clam-
bered gingerly inside his
director’s team car.
the race, but Italy’s Nibali,
who won both the stage and
returned to the lead, appears
determined to ensure there
will be no power vacuum.
Nibali shot away from a tiny
front group of favourites some
2.5km from the line on the
seventh and final climb of the
day, the ultra-steep Planche
des Belles Filles. Catching
and quickly dropping earlier
attacker Joaquim Rodriguez of
Spain, the Italian crossed the
line with a 15-second advan-
tage over his closest pursuer,
Thibaut Pinot of France.
Overall Nibali’s increased
advantage of 2 min, 23 sec is a
very solid one, although with
so much racing left, it is insuf-
ficient to say that the Tour is
definitively in his grasp.
However, it was two years
ago on the Planche des Belles
Filles that Sir Dave Brailsford
said Sky had begun to believe
it was possible for Sir Bradley
Wiggins – after taking the lead
there – to win outright. And
this time round it could well
be the same for the 29-year-
old Sicilian.
Sky’s Porte led the string of
half a dozen counter-attack-
ers and rode strongly to move
into second, but the Australian
said afterwards that the others
had shadowed him too closely.
“I felt good today but it’s not
great to be towing everybody
to the line, he said. “[But] if
Vincenzo goes I guess you
have to respond. It’s a shame
to lose Alberto. I hope he’s OK.
It’s definitely going to change
the dynamics of the race.”
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(Portugal) Lampre - Merida at same time, 14 J
Gadret (Fr) Movistar Teamat 1 min 8secs, 15
HZubeldia Agirre (Sp) Trek Factory Racing 16
F Schleck (Lux) Trek Factory Racing both at
same time 17 J Van Den Broeck (Bel) Lotto-
Belisol 1min 16secs, 18 CHorner (US) Lampre
- Merida at 1min 21secs, 19 GThomas (GB)
TeamSky at 1min 23secs, 20 S Spilak (Sloven)
TeamKatusha at 1min 26secs, 21 CRiblon (Fr)
AG2R La Mondiale at 1min 42secs, 22 L Ten
Dam(Neth) Belkin Pro Cycling at 1min 58secs,
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Sport / Cricket / England v India
Nine Tests
without a
win leave
England in
a tailspin
…and a squad of 14 for Lord’s indicates
they don’t yet know how to get out of it
STEPHEN BRENKLEY
CRICKET CORRESPONDENT
On a glorious evening in
Durham less than a year ago
nobody could have foretold
what would shortly happen to
England. The turning point of
the whole match, the fourth
Test of the Ashes, came when
Tim Bresnan produced a bru-
tal lifter to David Warner to
have him caught behind.
Australia never recovered
from that moment. An hour
or so later, England had won
a deceptively convincing
victory by 74 runs. The Ashes
were already staying at home
but that clinched the series
and extended an unbeaten
run of Tests to 12.
What a day it was. Here
were a team who had forgot-
ten how to lose. Looking back
now it seems unreal that they
should not only have beaten
Australia for the third time in
the series (as well as for a third
successive series) but that it
should have been achieved
with such muted applause.
England would give any-
thing for a win now, any win
and if the back-slapping would
still be underwhelming, the
relief would be immense. The
run without defeat has turned
into another sequence, of nine
Tests without a victory, the
worst for 21 years.
There is no persuasive
evidence that the end is in
sight. That much can be
gleaned from the squad of 14
chosen for the second Test
of the Investec series against
India, which starts at Lord’s
on Thursday. When the
summer started, the selectors
picked 12 players, which was
then increased to 13 for the
last Test and now has another
addition.
This is because they can-
not be sure what their best
team is but are fairly satisfied
that they have not arrived at
it yet because they are still
not winning. With assistance
from the system in which they
are operating, the selectors
have backed themselves into
a corner. It is unquestionably
a mess.
Of the concerns for Eng-
land, the two gravest are pre-
cisely what they were when
they went into the opening
Test against India at Trent
Bridge: the form of the cap-
tain, Alastair Cook, and the
lack of a spinner worthy of
the description in an interna-
tional team. The fact that their
only innings at Trent Bridge
fell away so alarmingly, as two
before them had already done
this summer, simply exacer-
bates their deficiencies.
It was wrongly presumed
(perhaps hoped on a wing
and a prayer would be a more
worthy leg-spinners should
be added similar quests for
slow left-armers, of which
there has usually been one to
get England out of a hole, and
even off-spinners.
Moores said: “The way the
season has gone for spinners
there has not been a mas-
sive time to bowl because
the seamers have held sway.
The back half of the county
season is a bit funny because
there is not that much county
cricket so I am not sure if the
schedule fits the spinner at the
moment.
“But Simon is bowling well.
We looked at the last three or
four days and he was certainly
challenging our batsmen and
we have some good players of
spin so I say he gets his chance
in the squad.”
Without a spinner, Eng-
land may as well write off the
Ashes next year and this series
against India. But as a result
of the squads they have so
far selected they have given
themselves a huge problem
with balance. If Kerrigan plays
he will presumably have to
come in for one of the bowl-
ers, perhaps Liam Plunkett or
Ben Stokes, neither of whom
deserve to be omitted.
On the other hand, they
could ask Stokes, who made
an unimpressive duck at
Nottingham, to bat at six,
the position where he made
a deeply impressive hundred
in Perth last winter. In that
case they would have to drop
a batsman and as the three
novitiates, Sam Robson, Gary
Ballance and Moeen Ali, have
all scored hundreds that will
be difficult.
If Kerrigan does not play,
they will still expect Moeen
to do a job for which he is
patently ill-equipped. He has
taken wickets but he offers
no control. A glance at the
aggregate wicket-taking and
average lists for spin bowlers
in the last three seasons shows
that Moeen is the sixth among
English qualified spin bowl-
ers, but that sadly indicates
the decline of a wonderful
art.
Cook’s return to form would
compensate for much. He
remains determinedly relaxed
about it, as does Moores. But
25 innings without a Test hun-
dred tells its own grim story.
To put the tin lid on it, Ian
Bell has played 17 Test innings
since his last hundred. That
was at Chester-le-Street last
August. The world was differ-
ent then.
µ Plan A
Omit one of their four
seamers, presumably Ben
Stokes or Liam Plunkett, on
the grounds that rest may
be needed, and put in the
spinner. But that would place
enormous pressure on Simon
Kerrigan to bowl a hefty
number of holding overs in
the first innings and attack
in the second. India would
be certain to go after him, as
they have already with Moeen
µ Plan B
Drop a batsman and enter
extremely murky waters.
It is unthinkable to leave
out Moeen after his epic
rearguard against Sri Lanka
at Leeds but there is, just,
a case for moving up Ben
Stokes to six. Leaving out
Sam Robson, who has a
hundred and a 50, and asking
Joe Root to open, which was
where he played in the last
victory, is an option they will
also be anxious to avoid
µ Plan C
Leave it as it is and delay
making the hard decisions.
England have played with
a four-man attack for long
enough and when Stokes ar-
rived last winter it seemed to
give them another dimension
ENGLAND’ S OPTI ONS
BY STEPHEN BRENKLEY
England coach
Peter Moores
(left) gave
handsome backing
to Simon Kerrigan
yesterday
Moeen Ali
could again
be asked to
do a job for
which he is
ill-equipped
PA
England’s women signed a
“ground-breaking” first stand-
alone sponsorship agreement
yesterday with car manufacturer
Kia Motors.
The ECB refused to reveal
how much the two-year deal
was worth but confirmed it was
in excess of six figures per year.
ECB chief executive David
Collier said: “This agreement
is a ground-breaking first for
the England women’s team and
reflects the huge success the
side has enjoyed over the last
12 months.”
‘ GROUND- BREAKI NG’ DEAL
FOR ENGLAND WOMEN
accurate reflection of the
policy) that an attack of four
fast bowlers, albeit of different
types, plus a part-time spin-
ner could see off Sri Lanka and
possibly India. With the sort
of pitches provided this has
proved impossible and in the
case of Sri Lanka the policy
proved terminal.
To address it, the Lanca-
shire spinner Simon Kerrigan
has been called up. There is
clearly a view to playing him
and he was given handsome
backing by the England coach,
Peter Moores, who was also
his county coach for five years.
Kerrigan was with the squad
for a few days before the match
at Trent Bridge and seems to
have been potent enough to
assure the selectors and Cook
that he and they will not be
embarrassed again.
If nothing else, it shows how
inadequate the spin resources
in England have become. To
the eternal search for trust-
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Van Gaal in
a hurry to
take charge
deal with Chevrolet, boast a
huge international market,
especially in the Far East.
Only yesterday it was
announced that NBC Sports
in the United States will show
United’s summer tour match
against Internazionale in
Washington live on 29 July,
reflecting the growing pull of
English football in the States
and a love of the game buoyed
by the US national team’s
World Cup showing.
Despite overseeing the
Netherlands’ campaign in
Brazil, Van Gaal is taking just
two days off before formally
taking charge at United this
week.
“I don’t need a holiday,” the
62-year-old former Bayern
Munich, Barcelona and Ajax
coach said. “It’s great to have
such an exciting challenge.”
Van Gaal’s first match in
charge of United will be on
23 July in a friendly against
the Los Angeles Galaxy at the
Rose Bowl.
Sport / Football
Shirt bonanza will help United compete
but Adidas will be expecting trophies
GLENN MOORE
FOOTBALL EDITOR
Comment
We will never know if
Adidas would have agreed
to pay such a huge sum to
make Manchester United’s
kits if David Moyes had
been retained as manager,
but this is certainly a vote
of confidence in Louis van
Gaal as well as the United
brand.
The new deal will not
kick in until the 2015-16
season, and Adidas clearly
expects Manchester United
not only to be back in the
Champions League, but
also to have a strong chance
of winning it.
They ought to be
strong contenders.
With Chevrolet’s shirt
sponsorship deal already
in place, United will be
earning £125m a season
just from their shirts.
That figure can be
doubled through Premier
League TV income, and
increased again through
European football, ticket
receipts and corporate
entertainment, and the
myriad country-specific
marketing agreements the
owners, the Glazer family,
continue to sign.
The Glazers’ initial
instinct, that there was
money to be made from
United, has proven to be a
smart judgement, though
they can expect outgoings
to increase sharply, too,
as players’ agents apprise
themselves of United’s
income, think of a figure,
then treble it.
Will they meet such
demands? We will see,
but there is no financial
reason for United not to
go head-to-head with Real
Madrid, Barcelona, Paris
St-Germain and, of course,
Manchester City. The latter
two may, in theory, have
limitless petro-dollar funds,
but Uefa’s Financial Fair
Play rules are very much to
United’s advantage.
The deal is a fillip for
the English game, if not
necessarily the national
team, after a season that
was disappointing in
Europe as well as at the
World Cup. It underlines
the strength of the Premier
League product, albeit
most other teams cannot
command anything like
these sums.
However, the pity is it is
highly unlikely much of this
cash will be re-invested into
the game; indeed, a lot of it
may not even be re-invested
in United.
The Glazer family were right
to think there was money to
be made from United GETTY
Players’
agents will
now be
thinking
of a figure
and then
trebling it
SPORTING DIGEST
FOOTBALL
FRIENDLYMATCH
St James Gate 0 Milton Keynes Dons 6.
GOLF
JOHN DEERE CLASSIC, TPC DEERE
RUN, SILVIS, ILLINOIS, FINAL ROUND
(US unless stated, par 71): 262 B Harman
63 68 65 66; 263 Z Johnson 63 67 69 64;
265 J Kelly 66 68 65 66; J Vegas (Ven)
69 68 63 65; 266 S Brown 67 70 61 68; T
Clark (SA) 72 63 64 67; 268 B Van Pelt 67
69 67 65; J Wagner 66 65 69 68; R Moore
66 67 67 68; J Spieth 71 64 67 66; 269 S
Stricker 68 65 64 72; S Bowditch (Aus) 64
67 70 68; 270 K Na (US) 68 66 71 65; C
Campbell (US) 69 71 62 68; S Stefani (US)
73 67 64 66; B Fritsch (Can) 70 68 63 69;
D Toms (US) 65 70 67 68; B Molder (US)
73 65 67 65; D Summerhays (US) 69 68
65 68.
US SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP,
OAK TREE GOLF CLUB, EDMOND,
OKLAHOMA, FINAL ROUND (GB &
Ireland unless stated, par 71): 279 C Mont-
gomerie 65 71 74 69 (Montgomerie won
after three play-off holes); G Sauers (US) 69
69 68 73; 283 W Austin (US) 72 70 71 70;
D Frost (SA) 71 71 71 70; 284 V Singh (Fji)
69 71 71 73; M Dawson (US) 66 76 69 73;
J Sluman (US) 70 69 72 73; 285 K Triplett
(US) 69 72 75 69.
MOTORCYCLI NG
WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 9, LAGUNASECA, MONTEREY,
CALIFORNIA, Race 1: 1 M Melandri (It)
Aprilia 35mins 07.782secs, 2 S Guintoli (Fr)
Aprilia 35:08.687, 3 T Sykes (GB) Kawa-
saki 35:14.409, 4 D Giugliano (It) Ducati
35:21.356, 5 T Elias (Sp) Aprilia 35:21.637,
6 J Rea (GB) Honda 35:23.357, 7 L Haslam
(GB) Honda 35:26.602, 8 A Lowes (GB)
Suzuki 35:27.966, 9 L Baz (Fr) Kawa-
saki 35:42.261, 10 D Salom (Sp) Kawasaki
35:45.245.
Race 2 (7 Laps): 1 T Sykes (GB) Kawasaki
9mins 51.346secs, 2 S Guintoli (Fr) Aprilia
9:52.360, 3 J Rea (GB) Honda 9:54.139, 4
E Laverty (GB) Suzuki 9:55.027, 5 T Elias
(Sp) Aprilia 9:55.511, 6 L Baz (Fr) Kawasaki
9:58.506, 7 L Haslam (GB) Honda 9:58.677,
8 D Salom (Sp) Kawasaki 10:06.407, 9 A
Andreozzi (It) Kawasaki 10:07.020, 10 L
Camier (GB) Suzuki 10:08.361.
Standings: 1 T Sykes (GB) Kawasaki
325pts, 2 S Guintoli (Fr) Aprilia 281, 3 J Rea
(GB) Honda 261.
Manufacturers: 1 Kawasaki 342pts, 2
Aprilia 318, 3 Honda 261.
TENNI S
ATPBET-AT-HOME OPEN GERMAN
CHAMPIONSHIPS, HAMBURG: First
round: M Kukushkin (Kaz) bt M Ilhan (Tur)
6-2 6-2; D Brown (Ger) bt P Carreno-Busta
(Sp) 7-6 (7-5) 6-3; P Andujar (Sp) bt M
Delic (Croa) 6-4 6-2; T Kamke (Ger) bt J
Nieminen (Fin) 6-3 4-6 6-2; B Paire (Fr) bt
A Golubev (Kaz) 1-6 6-1 7-6 (7-4); G Elias
(Portugal) bt A Montanes (Sp) 6-4 6-3; D
Gimeno-Traver (Sp) bt T Gabashvili (Rus)
6-2 6-3; D Thiem (Aut) bt J Vesely (Cz Rep)
7-5 6-0; D Lajovic (Serb) bt K De Schepper
(Fr) 6-3 6-2; F Krajinovic (Serb) bt J Struff
(Ger) 1-6 7-5 6-2.
ATPCLAROOPEN, BOGOTA, COLOM-
BIA: First round: A Kuznetsov (US) bt A
Mannarino (Fr) 6-4 7-6 (7-3).
WTACOLLECTORSWEDISHOPEN,
BASTAD: First round: J Cepelova (Slovak)
bt R Peterson (Swe) 6-4 6-4; C Scheepers
(SA) bt M Duque Marino (Col) 6-3 6-4; L
Arruabarrena (Sp) bt I Begu (Rom) 6-1 4-2 ret;
G Min (US) bt (2) A PAVLYUCHENKOVA
(Rus) 6-0 6-4.
WTAISTANBULCUP, TURKEY: First
round: (3) K KOUKALOVA (Cz Rep) bt
D Vekic (Croa) 4-6 6-0 6-4; (7) B JO-
VANOVSKI (Serb) bt A Van Uytvanck (Bel)
1-6 6-4 7-5; (4) E SVITOLINA (Ukr) bt D
Kovinic (Montenegro) 6-1 4-6 6-4.
TODAYS FIXTURES
(Football 7.45pm unless stated)
FOOTBALL
UEFACHAMPIONSLEAGUESECOND
QUALIFYINGROUNDFIRSTLEG
KR Reykjavic v Celtic (8) ...................................
BATE Borisovv Skenderbeu (6) ........................
Cliftonville v Debrecen ......................................
Dinamo Zagreb vVMFD Zalgiris ......................
Sheriff v Sutjeska (6) ..........................................
Partizan Belgrade v HB Torshavn ......................
Rabotnicki Kometal v HJK Helsinki (7) ............
Santa Coloma v Maccabi Tel-Aviv (7) ...............
Slovan Bratislava vThe New Saints FC (5.45)..
Sparta Prague v Levadia Tallinn .........................
Valletta v FK Karabakh (5.30) ...........................
Zrinjski Mostar v Maribor (6.30) .......................
Friendlies: Bath City v Swansea XI, Droghe-
da Utd v MK Dons, Stevenage v Barnet, UCD
v Bradford, Weston-S-Mare v Newport Co,
New Mills v Accrington, Ilkeston v Burton
(7.30), Wigan v Besiktas (7.0), Exeter v
Reading (7.30), Oldham v Newcastle (7.30),
Albion v St Mirren, Braintree Tn v Norwich,
Forest Green v Birmingham, Shrewsbury v
West Brom, St Neots Tn v Cambridge Utd,
Penrith v Carlisle, Cheltenham v Bristol Rov-
ers, Wealdstone v Dagenham & Redbridge.
CYCLI NG
TOUR DE FRANCE (Besancon) (Rest Day).
SWI MMI NG
DIVING WORLD CUP (Shanghai, China).
TENNI S
ATP BET-AT-HOME OPEN GERMAN
CHAMPIONSHIPS (Hamburg). ATP
CLARO OPEN COLOMBIA(Bogota).WTA
COLLECTOR SWEDISH OPEN (Bastad).
WTAISTANBUL CUP (Turkey).
60
TUESDAY15JULY2014 THE INDEPENDENT
Sport / World Cup 2014
The Policia Militar in Brazil
drive black 4x4s with a matt
finish, the kind you usually see
only in Premier League train-
ing-ground car parks. Walking
past Botafago metro station in
the centre of Rio on Saturday
night I stepped out of the road
to let one pass and from the
open back window was a gun
barrel casually resting on the
frame, pointing out towards
the busy city streets.
This has been the story of
Brazil 2014, a huge but dis-
creet police operation and
nowhere more than at the
heart of the World Cup in Rio’s
tourist areas. As a television
spectacle, in the stadiums and
the Copacabana backdrop to
the BBC and ITV studios, the
World Cup must have looked
like a ravishing, sunlit party.
For Rio itself, a temporary
return to its 1930s glory days as
a playground for millionaires
and Hollywood stars when it
was the “Cidade Maravilhosa”
and today’s inequalities were
much less of concern.
On the ground, it felt dif-
ferent. If it took this many
police to ensure a city oper-
ated safely, what would it be
like when they went back to
their usual hours? The esti-
mated security bill for the
Brazilian state is £500m. Two
days before Sunday’s final, the
authorities made it clear they
were taking no chances around
their marquee game with the
jailing at the notorious Bangu
penitentiary outside Rio of 17
activists under “temporary
prison” legislation.
It is remarkable that the
various Brazilian police forces
have been unable to stop a
64-year-old Englishman, Ray
Whelan, suspected of ticket
fraud, evading arrest by walk-
ing out of the service entrance
of the most famous hotel in
Rio. But they have no problem
rounding up those whom they
only suspect might disrupt the
proceedings.
The World Cup finals began
with The Sunday Times’ most
comprehensive investigation
yet into the wholesale corrup-
tion of Fifa over Qatar’s suc-
cessful bid to host the 2022
tournament, an issue that has
been conveniently parked for
the duration of Brazil 2014.
That, in the main, was because
Sepp Blatter, the Fifa presi-
dent, kept such a low profile
– so much so that some have
wondered whether he has
been in the country for the
duration.
As usual, Fifa will leave with
its profits from the event, esti-
mated at £580m, untouched
by the Brazilian taxman, an
accord to which every host
nation has to sign up, along
with other privileges that
would be beyond ordinary
citizens. On Sunday night,
Blatter found himself much
less unpopular than Brazil’s
president, Dilma Rousseff,
who was loudly booed every
time she appeared on screen
by the predominantly middle-
class Brazilians who attend
the games. It was a first for
Blatter, who may request that
Rousseff accompanies him on
more official events.
This World Cup finals easily
outshone the drab 2010 tour-
nament for the sheer quality
of football. It got off to a flier
with Brazil’s victory over
Croatia and then on to the
Netherlands’ 5-1 destruction
of champions Spain.
A general leniency from ref-
erees helped at times but may
also have encouraged the spike
in fouls after the group stages.
For the organisers, it could
not have worked out better
– drawing attention from the
pre-tournament concerns
about the deaths of stadium
workers and establishing an
unstoppable momentum
around the football itself.
After the first two rounds,
the narrative had become
whether this was the best
World Cup of all time – a
debate that flagged in the four
quarter-finals over which only
five goals were scored.
But even so, it squeezed out
other less-flattering issues.
When a motorway flyover col-
lapse in Belo Horizonte killed
two people four days before
Brazil’s semi-final there
against Germany, the vic-
tims were not even afforded
a minute’s silence before the
game. In fact, you rather got
the impression that it was
viewed by the authorities as
an inconvenient downer on
the general mood. At that
point, nothing was permit-
ted to interfere with the Brazil
team’s progress.
While the country’s major
television channels were on
message, treating Neymar’s
injury like it was the Kennedy
assassination, the mood
among ordinary Brazilians was
different. They had thought
for some time that Luiz Felipe
Scolari’s team were mediocre.
Nobody expected the semi-
final was going to be 7-1, but
even so, for all the gloomy talk
of “Maracanazo II”, largely
from those of us in the foreign
press, there has been no wide-
scale wailing in the street. It’s
only football, after all.
When Mario Götze popped
in the winner in the second
half of extra-time in the final
on Sunday, it took the total
number of tournament goals
to 171, equalling the record set
in France in 1998. The Ger-
man football nation is superb,
having produced many of the
key players in the great Bayern
Munich Champions League
winning team of 2013 too. But
generally, this tournament has
proved that what qualifies one
as a good player in Europe’s
big-money leagues does not
necessarily translate to a suc-
cessful summer tournament.
Teams such as Colombia,
Costa Rica, Algeria and the
United States showed that
good players, especially those
who have been lightly raced
over the course of a domestic
season, can come together and
perform with the so-called best
in the world. As for England,
Fifa
president
Sepp Blatter
(left) stands
next to the
World Cup
mascot
“Fuleco”
after a press
conference
in Rio
yesterday
REUTERS
The Brazil
president Dilma
Rousseff was
booed every time
she appeared on
screen at the final
Beautiful
World Cup
hid some
ugly truths
As the carnival packs up, the people of Brazil will
be left to work out whether the deaths, jailings
and multi-million pound bills were really all
worth it. BY SAM WALLACE in Rio de Janeiro
their performance left a mere
thumb print on this tourna-
ment. In terms of fallout, the
Football Association and Roy
Hodgson have benefited from
the distractive capacity of an
exciting World Cup.
The television viewing fig-
ures have been remarkable,
holding up long after Eng-
land were eliminated. The
BBC attracted 16.7m viewers
for the final, confirmation,
at least, that the love burns
stronger than ever for football
in the United Kingdom, how-
ever much the home nations’
performances try to kill any
domestic optimism.
Before Sunday’s final, the
Fifa montage machine was in
full effect on the big screens.
If you went to a game in Brazil
dressed as, say, a sausage, or
held up a sign saying that this
was the best World Cup ever,
then there was a good chance
you would be on it. This is how
Fifa would like the world to see
its four-yearly pageant, an exu-
berant meeting of the nations
with more face paint than a
Sioux Indian re-enactment
and some football too.
Once again, one suspects,
Fifa has got away with it. None
of the stadiums collapsed, the
protestors spent the last week-
end in jail and the football was
pretty good. The fundamen-
tal questions, like how the
hell it chose Qatar for 2022,
will not be answered now.
Perhaps they never will. But
now that Fifa has gone, Brazil
itself will discover the unvar-
nished truth as to whether it
really was all worth it.
As for
England,
they left
nothing
more than
a thumb
print
The talk
had now
become if
this was
the best
World Cup
of all time
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Ole, Argentina
Unusual but true. The Bra-
zilian press are full of pure
gratitude to Germany, the
opponent that hit them for
seven to knock them out of
their own World Cup. They
were unsuccessful, so they
celebrate Argentina’s demise.
They were made a fool, but still
cheered Germany’s victory.
Far from criticising our
country, we thank them. We
know they did us proud.
Lance, Brazil
Thank you, Götze. You have
brought great pleasure back to
Brazil at the World Cup. A just
and deserved title. In the hour
of truth, it was Germany that
was superior and showed what
you can do with charisma and
preparation of Champions.
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How the
world’s
sports pages
saw the final
BILD, Germany
World champions! Thank you,
Jogi Löw! Thank you guys! You
have made us infinitely happy.
Jérôme Boateng was immov-
able all game, Götze outshone
Lionel Messi.
We bow to coach Jogi Löw.
He remains quiet after big
wins. He remains calm after
tough matches. And now Löw
is finally on par with Sepp
Herberger, Helmut Schön
and Franz Beckenbauer. He
goes down in German foot-
ball history, leading us to the
fourth star on our jersey.
Der Spiegel, Germany
When Jürgen Klinsmann
mentioned winning the World
Cup as he was presented as
national coach in 2004, it
sounded about as credible as
tobacco advertising.
Now Germany are world
champions, and German foot-
ball is barely recognisable. It’s
the perfect mix of virtue and
magic, of hurrah and heave
ho.
He goes
down in
football
history,
leading us
to the
fourth star
Ticket chief
surrenders
to police
Ray Whelan, the English
director of Fifa’s official ticket
and hospitality partner Match,
is in police custody after hand-
ing himself in to a judge in Rio
de Janeiro several days after
being declared “a fugitive” by
police investigating a ticket-
touting ring.
According to a Rio civil
police statement, Whelan
– Sir Bobby Charlton’s former
agent – presented himself to
the chief judge of Rio’s 6th
criminal chamber, Rosita
Maria de Oliveira Netto, after
which he was re-arrested by
police. Whelan was accompa-
nied by his lawyer, Fernando
Fernandes, and told police
he had been preparing docu-
ments for his defence, accord-
ing to Brazilian media.
Whelan disappeared from
his hotel on Thursday via a
service entrance minutes
before police investigating
illegal World Cup ticket sales
arrived to re-arrest him.
MARTYN ZI EGLER
IN RIO DE JANEIRO
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The aftermath of a World
Cup final in the area of the
stadium in which journalists
and players can mix – albeit
separated by a barrier, to
remind us of our place in
the Fifa order – is always an
intriguing environment. One
squad of players walks in as
just your average superstar
internationals, and walks out
hours later having written
their names into history.
In 2002, in Yokohama,
the Brazil team emerged en
masse singing, dancing, play-
ing drums and tambourines
with the trophy carried before
them. The Italians came out in
2006 like men released from
jail, after the Calciopoli scan-
dal of the previous months
had dragged the reputation of
their game into the muck. The
Spanish in 2010 emerged to
share the moment with their
media, with whom they have
a close relationship, like glow-
ing children greeting their
parents at sports day.
On Sunday, the Germany
team, as is their way, walked
out as if adding the fourth star
to their shirt was the most
perfectly normal thing in
the world. Some of them had
made an exception to their
usual standards of excellence
by drinking the official spon-
sors’ beer, laid on for them in
the dressing room. Per Merte-
sacker tried to get a song going
but he was so out of tune that
it was difficult for any of his
team-mates to follow.
Germany as Weltmeister? It
fits. Third place in 2006 and
2010, the Euro 2008 beaten
finalists and semi-finalists at
Euro 2012, one can hardly say
it had not been coming. “We
started this project 10 years
ago,” said coach Joachim
Löw. The only question that
capable of defending their
title – the question will be who
the Germans have developed
by then to challenge the older
guard.
“You never know what
happens i n the future,”
Schweinsteiger said. “But we
are fit, we are hungry and we
have some good players who
are around 25 years of age. It
will give us hunger. The impor-
tant thing is that the young
guys have the experience of
this tournament. Experience
is very important in football.
“We have some players who
have a big future and I think
the Spain team and the Brazil-
ian team changed a little bit.
We believe we are now the
No 1 team in the world. We
have to enjoy this moment
and not talk about the future
too much.
“The most important thing
is that we have quality, we have
quality players, and that we
have the tradition in our game.
We have the mentality of the
Germans. We can run, we can
make pressure, we can defend
and the mix between this is
the solution. We have a young
team. But we have some play-
ers like Philipp Lahm, Mesut
Özil and Per Mertesacker who
have the experience. This mix
makes a big difference.”
Naturally, all paths lead
back to that Germany Under-
21s team that beat England
4-0 in the European Cham-
pionship final in Malmo five
years ago. Had Sami Khedira
been fit to start Sunday’s
final, six players from that
Under-21s team – Neuer,
Benedikt Höwedes, Jérôme
Boateng, Khedira, Özil and
Hummel s – woul d have
started the game against
Argentina. An astonishing
return by any reckoning.
Asked whether this was
Germany’s best genera-
tion, Hummels dodged the
question, although he did
Germany
could rule
the world
for years
to come
Schalke midfielder, played
just 14 minutes. Even Mario
Götze, the substitute who
scored the match-winning
goal in the final, was lightly
used.
Last season at Bayern
Munich, Pep Guardiola chal-
lenged Götze to try to attain
the levels that Lionel Messi
has reached. It will be intrigu-
ing to see how Götze develops
in his second season at Bay-
ern. His winning goal is one
further step towards being the
level of player which Germany
believe he can be.
Aside from the 36-year-old
Miroslav Klose, now surely
set to call time on his glori-
ous international career, the
oldest outfield player in the
squad is Philipp Lahm, at 30.
Bastian Schweinsteiger will be
33 come the next World Cup
finals; Manuel Neuer will be
32; Mats Hummels, 29; Tho-
mas Müller, 28; Götze, 26.
They will all be more than
World Cup-winning squad members
are of a decent age and there is plenty
more talent ready and able to step up
SAM WALLACE
CHIEF FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT
remains is how much longer
the great German 21st-cen-
tury generation can continue
to dominate the game. In foot-
ball we have come to believe
that all success comes in cycles
and that even the best must
eventually cede the throne, or,
like Spain at this World Cup,
have it seized from them.
But Germany have refined
a system that is consistently
producing players of the top
level. In this tournament alone
they were denied Marco Reus,
Ilkay Gundogan and Lars
Bender through injury. Julian
Draxler, the highly prized
Over 10 years Germany
have refined a system that
is consistently producing
world-class players
AND LOOK WHO’ S NEXT FOUR GERMANS WAI TI NG I N THE WI NGS
LARS BENDER
Age 25
Position Midfield
Germany record
Caps 17
Goals 4
Bundesliga clubs
2009-present
B Leverkusen
Appearances 127
Goals 13
On Arsenal’s
radar. At inter-
national level the
tough tackler
could eventually
replace Bastian
Schweinsteiger
in Germany’s
midfield
MARCO REUS
Age 25
Position Midfield
Germany record
Caps 21
Goals 4
Bundesliga clubs
2009-2012
B M’gladbach
Appearances 109
Goals 41
2012-present:
B Dortmund
Appearances 90
Goals 42
Missed out in
Brazil with injury
but should be a
star of the future
with his pace
and trickery
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It was the bitterest of consola-
tion prizes, not least because
even Lionel Messi knew, deep
down, that he did not deserve
it. When he put that final free-
kick way over the bar his first
reaction was an endearing
smile, as if to suggest: “See,
I’m mortal after all.” But when
the Argentine picked up Fifa’s
Golden Ball award for the best
player of this World Cup he
looked disappointed, and
sheepish. James Rodriguez,
Arjen Robben and a clutch of
Germans were all better can-
didates and Messi looked well
aware of it. “I don’t care at all
about that prize, only lifting
the trophy matters,” he said.
Hi s coach, Al ej andro
Sabella, said he thought Messi
deserved the award, “because
he played an extraordinary
World Cup, he was a funda-
mental factor in the team mak-
ing it to the final”. But Diego
Maradona felt the award had
been made at the behest of
sponsors and was embarrass-
ing for Messi. “I could see that
he didn’t want to go up and col-
lect it. I would give heaven and
earth to Leo, but when mar-
keting people want him to win
something he didn’t [deserve
to] win, it is unfair,” said Mara-
dona. Even Sepp Blatter, nor-
mally so removed from the
public mood, said Messi didn’t
deserve the award.
The script was meant to
include Messi winning the
Golden Ball, but only after
leading Argentina to victory
as Maradona did in 1986. Fail-
ure re-opened the old debate
as to whether Messi matches
his compatriot.
The answer has to be no. It
is not entirely fair to suggest a
player must shine in a World
Cup to underscore his great-
ness; George Best and Alfredo
Di Stefano never played in one,
Stanley Matthews was 35 when
he made his World Cup bow.
But Messi plays for a country
that has won it twice and is
always a credible contender.
And the comparison with
1986 is unavoidable. Then, as
now, Argentina were decent,
but far from exceptional, except
for their star player. A World
Cup has never been dominated
by one player as much as it was
in Mexico. Then, Maradona
scored five and helped make
five of Argentina’s 14 goals.
When it mattered he delivered,
scoring twice in both the quar-
ter-final and semi-final and cre-
for more success. They will be
received in Berlin as heroes,
the first team from a unified
Germany to win the World
Cup. In 1990, months before
reunification, their home-
coming celebrations were
in Frankfurt. They seem, on
the whole, to be a humble,
grounded bunch, but they
now have a status that German
footballers have not experi-
enced for a generation.
Later this month, the
Under-19s European Cham-
pionship is staged in Hungary
with Germany involved, as
well as the defending cham-
pions Serbia although not
England. The English are
current European champi-
ons at Under-17 level, Spain
at Under-21. If ever there was
evidence of the importance of
these junior tournaments it
was there at the Maracana on
Sunday night when six Under-
21s team-mates carried out the
World Cup trophy.
Messi’s mortal moment
keeps him one step short
of Maradona’s greatness
ating the winner in the final.
This time Messi scored four
and helped make two of Argen-
tina’s eight goals, underlining
his importance to the team, but
the goals were against Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Nigeria and Iran.
In the knockout stages his goals
dried up, and so did Argenti-
na’s. They scored two in seven
hours’ play.
Surprisingly, given that
Argentina’s defence was seen
as its weakness, they conceded
only once in those matches,
but that partly reflects Sabel-
la’s approach. He focused on
defence and hoped Messi,
GLENN MOORE
FOOTBALL EDITOR
Angel Di Maria, Gonzalo
Higuain and Sergio Aguero
would turn scraps of posses-
sion into goals. With all four
affected by injury, or its after-
effects, they largely failed.
Even troubled by injury
Messi scored 48 goals for club
and country this season, taking
him past 400 in 550 games. Add
the number he has created, and
the style in which he has scored
many, and there is the argu-
ment for his greatness.
There are, though, two
aspects that make Maradona
stand apart from Messi. He
dazzled in an era of brutal
tackling of which he was a
frequent victim, and he would
seize games by the scruff of the
neck, turning ordinary teams
into great ones. It was not just
Argentina, look at Napoli. In
an 88-year existence they have
won two Serie A titles and one
European trophy. All during
Maradona’s six-year spell at
San Paolo. He also achieved
this despite a wild private life
and terrible injuries.
Only Pele matches Mara-
dona, and the argument over
which was better will never be
settled. This World Cup con-
firmed Messi belongs in the
next tier of football’s Pantheon
with the likes of Johann Cruyff,
Di Stefano and Franz Becken-
bauer. There is no shame in
that, none at all.
A disconsolate Lionel Messi (right) shakes hands with Germany
goalkeeper Manuel Neuer after they were awarded the
Golden Ball and Golden Glove awards respectively EPA
acknowledge the achieve-
ments of that Under-21s team.
“I was only born in 1988. I
only saw 20 years of German
football. Maybe it’s the best
generation of the ones I have
seen, but I can’t say anything
about 1974, 1982, 1986, 1990
because I didn’t see them.
“We knew that this was a
special team in 2009. If you
see the names, there are
something like 10 players in
the World Cup who played in
that tournament. Six or seven
of them are from Germany,
the rest from other countries.”
He added: “We’re very happy
with what has happened, the
whole tournament. Winning
the World Cup is something
special not just for your career
but for your whole life.”
Indeed, it gets no bigger
than this and the challenge
now, having accomplished the
mission laid out in the after-
math of Euro 2000, is to keep
this golden generation hungry
In the
knockout
stages his
goals dried
up and
so did
Argentina’s
Golden Ball
Lionel Messi (Arg)
Silver Thomas Müller (Ger)
Bronze Arjen Robben (Ned)
Golden Boot
James Rodriguez (Col), 6 goals
Silver Thomas Müller (Ger), 5
Bronze Neymar (Bra), 4
Golden Glove
Manuel Neuer (Ger)
Young Player Award
Paul Pogba (Fra)
FIFA Fair Play Award
Colombia
FI FA WORLD CUP 2014
THE GOLDEN WI NNERS
Mats Hummels
was part of
Germany’s
successful
Under-21 team
JULIAN DRAXLER
Age 20
Position Midfield
Germany record
Caps 12
Goals 1
Bundesliga clubs
2011-present
Schalke
Appearances 142
Goals 27
A youngster
with the world
at his feet. At
20, Draxler has
already cap-
tained Germany,
broken records
at Schalke and
is worth in the
region of £35m
SVEN BENDER
Age 25
Position Midfield
Germany record
Caps 7
Goals 0
Bundesliga clubs
2009-present
B Dortmund
Appearances 148
Goals 4
Solid early on at
Munich 1860,
Sven is often
the overlooked
Bender brother.
Key player for
Dortmund, with
a Champions
League final
start on his CV
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Germany
squad is ‘ft
and hungry’
for further
success
The Germany midfielder
Bastian Schweinsteiger says
that his team are “hungry”
for more and believe that they
can go on to win the European
Championship in 2016, having
been crowned champions of
the world here on Sunday.
The formidable German
talent production line that has
produced this great generation
of players has not stopped,
Schweinsteiger said, and the
experience of this World Cup
triumph will be crucial when
they try to defend their title
in Russia in 2018. The great
Spain team of the last six
years won three consecutive
international titles from 2008
to 2012 and now Germany
threaten to dominate in the
same way.
“You never know what
happens in the future,”
Schweinsteiger said, “but we
are fit, we are hungry and we
have some good players who
are around 25 years of age.
It will give us hunger. We
want to do it again at the next
tournament. The important
thing is that the young
guys have the experience
of this tournament. Like
the tournaments before in
South Africa and Germany,
experience is very important.”
Wol f gang Ni ersbach,
the president of the DFB,
German football’s governing
body, said the country would
not stop developing players
now that its long-terms plans
post-Euro 2000 had come
to fruition. “You must take
note of the fact that six of our
players won the Under-21
European Championship in
2009 and they are now part of
a World Cup-winning team.
We put a system together and
other young players will come
through behind them in the
coming years.”
Manchester United under-
lined their global status as a
brand yesterday by signing the
world’s biggest sports kit deal
– for an astonishing £750m
with Adidas.
That figure, just £40m shy
of what the Glazer family paid
for the club in 2005, could
potentially be worth even
more, with the £750m over
10 years yesterday described
as a “minimum guarantee”,
though United refused to Continued on P.58 >
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IN RIO DE JANEIRO
elaborate on exactly what that
meant.
The fact United are not in
the Champions League for the
first time in 14 years and the
team are being rebuilt under
new manager Louis van Gaal
has certainly not put off Adidas
from trumping Nike, United’s
kit supplier for 13 years.
Nike pulled out of nego-
tiations over a new deal last
week because they felt United
were demanding too much
money.
Adidas is paying more than
double what Nike had been
global technical sponsorship
and dual-branded licensing
deal”, with Adidas providing
training and playing kit to all
the club’s teams.
Adidas has not given any
details about the design of
the new strip but said it may
look to United’s kits of the
1980s and early 1990s for
inspiration.
United, who this season
begin a world-record seven-
year £53m shirt sponsorship
Why Germany can dominate
in the coming years P.62-63
MARTI N THORPE
United hit the jackpot as they seal
record £750m kit deal with Adidas
paying. However, Adidas chief
executive, Herbert Hainer,
explained why the new deal,
which starts in the 2015-
16 season, made economic
sense when he predicted:
“We expect total sales to reach
£1.5bn during the duration of
our partnership.”
The previous record kit
deal was held by the France
football team at £36m a year.
The highest non-football deal
is the £11m a year Nike pays
the NFL.
The Adidas agreement was
described in a statement as “a
Manchester United, Adidas
..........................£75m per year
France national team, Nike
.......................... £36m per year
Real Madrid, Adidas
...........................£31m per year
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.......................... £30m per year
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.......................... £27m per year
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.......................... £25m per year
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