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Beware hipster men
One woman’s dating saga
England team playing gesture politics by taking knee, says Patel
Henry Zeffman
Priti Patel has become the first cabinet
minister to criticise the England foot-
ball team for taking the knee at the
European Championships, accusing
them of engaging in “gesture politics”.
While Boris Johnson has urged the
country not to boo England players for
their anti-racism protest, the home
We must
learn to live
with Covid,
warns PM
Johnson extends lockdown and speeds up jabs
Steven Swinford Political Editor
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor
Henry Zeffman
Chief Political Correspondent
Boris Johnson has said that Britain
must learn to live with coronavirus as
he delayed the end of Covid restrictions
by four weeks and insisted that July 19
would be the new “terminus date”.
The prime minister pushed back the
unlocking by a month as he announced
yesterday that the vaccination pro-
gramme would be accelerated to pro-
tect more people. He said that the deci-
sion would save thousands of lives.
Johnson said he was “pretty confi-
dent” that restrictions would come to
an end on the new date but would not
give a “cast-iron guarantee”.
Concern is mounting in the cabinet
and on the Tory back benches that the
rapid spread of the Indian variant could
force the government to delay the eas-
ing of restrictions for more than a
month.
Johnson said that it was “sensible to
wait just a little longer” and “give the
NHS a few more crucial weeks to get
those remaining jabs into the arms of
those who need them”. He said: “Now is
the time to ease off the accelerator.
Because by being cautious now we have
the chance in the next four weeks to
save many thousands of lives by vacci-
nating millions more people.”
The only exceptions will be an end to
the 30-person limit for weddings while
crowds will be allowed into sporting
events such as the European Champi-
secretary said that it was the “choice” of
fans whether they did so.
Patel’s intervention threatens to re-
open government splits over the issue
before England’s second match of the
tournament. On Friday at Wembley
the Scotland team will join the England
players in taking a knee before the
game starts.
“I just don’t support people partici-
onhips, Wimbledon and the British
Formula One Grand Prix. Care home
residents will be allowed to go on visits
without needing to self-isolate for 14
days when they return.
The limit on guests at weddings will
be dropped from Monday. Capacity will
still be limited by the size of the venue
and the need for social distancing.
Dancing and stand-up drinks recep-
tions will not be allowed.
Johnson’s science advisers agreed
that little more would be gained by a
delay beyond four weeks, with model-
ling saying that the pause would reduce
a peak of cases in August by up to half.
Other leading scientists say that it
will be difficult to ease restrictions if
infections continue to double at the
present pace.
Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scien-
tific adviser, said that the next few
weeks would bring a “double protec-
tion” as the over-40s gained the benefit
of a second dose and young adults had
their first one. Delaying the end of re-
strictions until close to the school holi-
days would “also take the pressure off,
and that should between them signifi-
cantly reduce the peak”, he said.
Chris Whitty, chief medical officer
for England, said that “no one thinks at
the end of the four-week delay the risk
has gone — there will still be substan-
tial numbers in hospital”. He said,
though, that this needed to be balanced
against the harms of restrictions. The
prime minister announced a series of
new targets to accelerate first and
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pating in that type of gesture politics,”
the home secretary told GB News, the
TV news channel that was launched
this week. “It’s all well to support a
cause and make your voices heard but
quite frankly we saw last year in some of
the protests that took place — speaking
very much from what I saw of the im-
pact on policing — it was devastating.”
Some critics associate taking the
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knee with Marxist leaders of the Black
Lives Matter group.
The comments were filmed last week
and published yesterday. A minority of
England fans defied calls not to jeer the
players as they took the knee before
their match against Croatia on Sunday,
although there were louder cheers from
a larger group. Johnson took a different
line in comments last week. “The prime
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minister respects the rights of all people
to peacefully protest and make their
feelings known about injustice,” his
spokesman said.
David Lammy, the shadow justice
secretary, said Patel’s comments were a
“shocking attempt to stir up division”.
He said: “We should all get behind the
team — politicians included.”
Fans urged to stay at home, page 11
Nato allies
join forces on
a new front:
war in space
Larisa Brown Defence Editor
Bruno Waterfield Brussels
Nato allies have agreed to defend each
other if war breaks out in space amid
fears that it could become a new front
line as China and Russia step up tests of
anti-satellite weaponry.
Jens Stoltenberg, the Nato secretary-
general, said that any attack on satel-
lites or other space assets could trigger
Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty,
invoking a collective military response.
Nato member states formally agreed
for the first time yesterday that such
attacks could be as damaging as a
conventional attack.
“We consider that attacks to, from, or
in space represent a real challenge to
alliance security, the impact of which
could threaten the prosperity, security
and stability of countries,” read a com-
muniqué agreed by leaders at the Nato
summit in Brussels.
Stoltenberg has warned previously
that anti-satellite weaponry could be
used to cripple communications sur-
veillance or navigation technology.
Mobile phones, banking, navigation
and commerce each rely on satellites in
space, as do satellite communications
that are essential for troops.
Russia and the United States have
been working on missiles designed to
destroy objects in space since the early
years of the Cold War but there is a con-
cern at the sophistication of these
weapons. China has created at least
three generations of the Dong Neng
hit-to-kill interceptor and carried out
five tests of the SC-19 missile, which
could hit objects in orbit. The Kremlin
has stepped up testing of its PL-19
Nudol system, thought to be capable of
striking targets in the low-earth orbit
range used for military reconnaissance.
China raising stakes, pages 12-13
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Today’s
highlights Make ministers sign contract
7.20am Michael Gove, chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster
8.15am Craig Hassall, chief executive of the
Royal Albert Hall
not to lobby, says watchdog
11am Matt Chorley discusses how to vaccinate Henry Zeffman the business appointment rules into of public office holders. “Government
Chief Political Correspondent employment contracts for civil ser- departments and Acoba [the appoint-
the world with Unicef’s vaccine lead Lily Caprani, vants and special advisers, and institut- ments watchdog] should be able to issue
right, and Dr Mary Stephen of the WHO Ministers should have to sign legal ing parallel legal arrangements for a lobbying ban for up to five years where
2pm War correspondent Anthony Loyd speaks agreements saying they would not ministers, it will be clear to those taking appropriate,” it added.
to Mariella Frostrup about his career lobby their old departments when they up public office what the government’s “If an applicant had a particularly
5.35pm Eden project founder Sir Tim Smit, left office, the government’s anti- expectations are of any post-employ- senior role, or where contacts made or
corruption watchdog has said. ment activity. Such contractual and privileged information received will re-
who recently had the Queen to dinner The recommendation of binding legal requirements should be binding.” main relevant after two years, a longer
arrangements to control what minis- The report added that “relying on ban may be necessary to ensure that
Listen on DAB | Smart speaker | Online at times.radio | Times Radio app ters do after leaving government is transparency alone . . . will not intro- former officials lobbying government
included in a report by the Committee duce a sanctions regime strong enough are not directly benefiting from their
on Standards in Public Life. to restore public trust”. time in office when they do so.”
Lord Evans of Weardale, the former As revealed by The Sunday Times, The committee named Cameron
T O D AY ’ S E D I T I O N director of MI5 who serves as the com- Evans called for some ministers and when it recommended that the lobby-
mittee’s chairman, said that the stan- officials to be banned from lobbying the ing of ministers through “informal
dards rules required significant reform. government for up to five years after channels” such as WhatsApp should be
Phone addiction BBC’s hiring of Divorced for At present ministers, political advis- leaving office. reported to civil servants.
ers and top civil servants are in effect There has been intense scrutiny of Cameron placed calls and sent texts
‘as bad as crack’ Bashir criticised working late banned from lobbying former col- David Cameron’s lobbying of ministers and emails to ministers and senior offi-
Mobile phones are as The BBC has been A woman was within leagues for two years after leaving. In for the failing financial firm Greensill cials as he tried to win access for
addictive as crack criticised over its her rights to divorce practice, the appointment rules are Capital, but his actions took place more Greensill to Covid support pro-
cocaine, the head of a transparency in her husband because advisory, without a statutory footing. than two years after he resigned as grammes. Appearing before the Trea-
school that intends to rehiring Martin Bashir he worked long hours In the report, the standards commit- prime minister. sury committee last month, he insisted
ban their use during despite controversy and missed holidays, tee calls for the government to “ensure The report said the “two-year ban that there was “absolutely no wrong-
the day has claimed. surrounding his 1995 according to a ruling in compliance” by “writing the business may be too short” as it could undermine doing” in his lobbying attempts, but ac-
Jane Lunnon, from interview with the High Court. appointment rules into relevant em- the seven principles of public life, the cepted that former prime ministers
Alleyn’s School, south Princess Diana. A Charles Ayeh-Kumi, ployment contracts”. It said: “By writing basis of the ethical standards expected must “act differently”.
London, said pupils report found he was 64, had argued that
could get “caught up offered the job after “easy” divorce laws
by poor decisions they “coffee meetings” with allowed his wife to continued from page 1
make”. Page 4 executives. Page 5 leave him. Page 19 Lockdown easing delayed Analysis

second doses. He said that the gap cases vaccination status. admission. Much of
COMMENT between doses for people in their 40s A virus is a complex Given the number of the rationale for
would be cut from 12 to 8 weeks, mean- self-replication vaccinations, this prolonging lockdown
Boris Johnson’s optimism has served him well, ing that everyone over 40 would have machine that evolved means that even if the is to get more second
been offered a second dose by the week over billions of years. variant is 85 per cent doses done. Delaying
but now he must explain the tough choices ahead of July 19. In addition, all adults would An exponential “worse” the nation is for four weeks would
WILLIAM HAGUE, PAGE 23 have been offered a first dose by July 19. function is a simple far better prepared to mean an estimated 73
Johnson’s MPs expressed concern concept created in a deal with it. per cent of adults, or
over the delay. Sir Charles Walker, vice- mathematician’s Sage now believes 38.3 million people,
Tourists in dark GSK pays $2bn Centre Court chairman of the 1922 Committee of head. It feels nothing that about one in 20 would have had their
Tory backbenchers, said it was now short of magical, of those currently second shot.
over migrants for therapy deal full for finals likely that “we will end up with some then, that the infected end up in
Nearly 1,200 migrants GlaxoSmithKline has The Wimbledon form of lockdown” for the rest of the behaviour of the first hospital. Those now contacts and
from north Africa agreed to pay a US singles finals will be year. can be described so being admitted tend reopening
landed on the Italian biotech company up to played in front of a full Jeremy Hunt, the former health perfectly by the to be younger, and The point of a
island of Lampedusa at $2.1 billion to Centre Court despite secretary, criticised the government for second. But it can partially protected by lockdown is to reduce
the weekend as the collaborate on an the delay in the easing claiming that the path out of restric- (Tom Whipple and vaccines. They spend contacts, to deny the
summer sailings began experimental cancer of Covid restrictions. tions would be irreversible. Rhys Blakely write). less time in hospital, pandemic the fuel to
in earnest. The treatment. The British They will be the first Coronavirus latest, pages 6-10 The number of and it is reasonable to blaze. If you don’t
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Meditating farmer is best in his field
John Butler has barely
heard of YouTube but
his soothing videos are
an online sensation,
Valentine Low writes
He has a beard, a tricycle that he uses to
get round the Derbyshire lanes and a
voice so soothing that it brings calm to
all who hear it.
John Butler, a retired farmer, has
become an unlikely YouTube star after
his videos on meditation and
spirituality became an internet sensa-
tion. A few years ago he barely knew
what the internet was.
Butler, 84, whose channel has
125,000 subscribers, has been interest-
ed in meditation almost all his adult life,
but few people had heard of him until
four years ago he gave an interview on
a channel called Conscious TV. It
focuses on people with experience of
higher consciousness. For Butler
everything started to change.
With the help of a friend who was a
cameraman he started to make his own
films and put them on YouTube under
the name Spiritual Unfoldment. Since
then he has made nearly 200 videos.
He offers his thoughts on
spirituality, space, peace and,
when asked, farming.
Now his most popular film, a
commonsense guide to medita-
tion, has been watched more than
a million times.
The pandemic has made him
more of a star as people whose anxi-
ety has increased because of lock-
down have found solace in Butler’s
soft but strangely reassuring voice.
He owes part of his fame to his
popularity among people who have
autonomous sensory meridian re-
sponse, a tingly sensation or minor
euphoria that some feel in response
to certain sounds, often soft, whis-
pery voices. Interest in the concept,
which many consider therapeutic,
has spawned its own YouTube genre.
Butler has taken his fame in his
stride. “I think if I was a younger man
I would have been more excited about
it,” he told the BBC. “I’d never heard of
YouTube. Hardly knew what internet
was.”
His musings have earned him fans
worldwide. Angela Storck, from the US
state of Georgia, said: “He’s always had
a message that makes me think and
that’s how he’s helped me cope during
the pandemic. I don’t know if he
understands how many lives that he’s
touching across the planet right now.”
Giovanni Walthart, from Vienna,
New tricks for deaf sheepdog who understands sign language
Arthi Nachiappan
An elderly sheepdog who had to retire
after becoming deaf is now working
with a shepherd again after learning
sign language.
Peggy, a nine-year-old border collie,
was signed over to the RSPCA after her
handler could no longer communicate
with her. He thought she could no
longer work because she was not able to
hear whistles or voice commands.
However, after being handed to the
RSPCA, Peggy was taken in by Chloe
Shorten, an animal welfare manager
from the organisation’s mid-Norfolk
and north Suffolk branch.
Shorten, 28, and her husband Jason,
34, a shepherd, taught Peggy to under-
stand hand signals and body language.
The couple trained Peggy with the help
John Butler was a pioneer of organic farming and took up meditation when a voice told him: “To make whole be whole”
said: “I think it is beyond words. If I
would see you John I would just give
you a hug. It brings tears to my eyes.”
Butler said: “So many people have
this problem with an agitated mind, a
restless mind. And because one instinc-
tively seeks for some sort of balance,
people look for rest or peace, don’t
they? Most of my life I’ve felt really a bit
of a sheepdog trainer and their two
other working dogs, Sid and Nora.
Shorten said: “We completely fell in
love with Peggy almost immediately,
and it soon became clear that she
wouldn’t be going anywhere. We knew
Peggy wanted to be working so we
started the long process of teaching her
how to herd and work with a shepherd
without relying on voice commands.”
The couple began by training Peggy
to look at them to receive hand signals.
“We used repetitive and positive re-
inforcement and instead of pairing a
verbal command with an action we’d
use a hand gesture. She reads our hand
signals and body language as a way of
telling what we’re asking for. For exam-
ple, thumbs up means ‘good girl’.” A flat,
outstretched palm means “stop”.
Shorten and her husband point in a
of a misfit in this world and I’ve felt
most people weren’t interested in me,
but I’m just quietly glad to be able to
share what I love.”
Butler is no stranger to the media. He
was a pioneer of what we now call
organic farming. In 1975 the BBC
made a film about his natural methods
of farming in Lincolnshire. His interest
certain direction to indicate where they
want Peggy to go and pat their knees to
summon her back to them. To ask her
to slow down, Shorten said she does a
waving gesture.
Shorten said it was not clear why the
sheepdog became deaf: veterinary
SPRITUAL UNFOLDMENT
in meditation began when he travelled
to Peru at the age of 26 “to make the
world a better place”.
He told The Star in Sheffield in April:
“It wasn’t so easy. But when I was there,
something very important happened to
me. Things had gone a bit wrong and,
one day, I was sitting on a mountainside
when a little voice seemed to say, ‘To
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Peggy can no
longer hear
that she is
being told
she’s a good
girl, so Chloe
Shorten gives
her the
thumbs up
checks did not reveal any lumps or
infection in her ears.
She said: “She’s still learning new
things and improving all the time. The
main thing for us was being able to tell
her that she’s a good girl and reassure
her she is going to be OK. It took her a
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Butler’s words of wisdom
“Feel your feet on the ground —
listen and look.”
“In order to be what we are, we have
to come out of what we are not.”
“What is it like when a carrot is
pulled from the ground? The ground
is left behind. And the carrot is lifted
into another realm. All the teaching
is left behind.”
“I’m just a quiet old man of regular
habits going up and down the hill to
church each day, sitting on a bench
when the weather is warm. I don’t
speak much. Adventures are inside.”
Asked on his recent 84th birthday
“What is a life well lived?” he said
that he would not change a thing.
“Everything — even ‘bad’ things —
are part of the wonderful schooling
we go through in this life, preparing
us for when it's time to come home.”
A growing trend
Autonomous sensory meridian
response is the name for a kind of
sensation triggered by stimulating
images and sounds (Nina Lloyd
writes).
The term originated online, where
it was coined in 2009 by Jennifer
Allen, a participant in a forum who
was trying to describe the tingling
feeling she felt when looking at
videos of space.
Some people describe the
sensation as a “low-grade euphoria”;
others say that it has relaxing
qualities that can lull them to sleep.
It hit the internet as a YouTube
trend in about 2013, and there are
now more than million videos of
people performing activities that
induce the sensation.
Within the genre there are
subgenres. In one trend participants
chew on pieces of honeycomb, in
another people shave bars of soap.
Clips that involve people
whispering into a large microphone
are consistently popular with
viewers.
make whole be whole’. By then, I’d
heard of meditation so, when I came
home, I looked for and found a school of
meditation in London. Immediately
after learning the practice it opened up
a whole new way of seeing, which I’ve
practised ever since. Meditation always
helps to open the situation up so you
connect with something bigger.”
while to learn that we loved her and to
gain her trust but it’s been so rewarding
knowing that she now understands our
praise.”
Peggy is not working full-time but
enjoys helping out in the fields. “It can
be difficult with a deaf dog, because you
have to wave at them to get their atten-
tion, and sometimes she doesn’t realise
straight away,” she said. “But she’s such
a happy little dog. She’s no spring chick-
en, and she is generally retired, but she
loves going out to work with us and
running around in the fields.”
Shorten said the couple fitted Peggy’s
collar with a GPS tracker in case they
were separated. She added: “She’s proof
that you can teach an old dog new
tricks, and is a wonderful example of
the capability of a dog, even if they do
lose a sense.”
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Mobiles banned to curb
sexual bullying at school
Nicola Woolcock Education Editor
Mobile phones are as addictive as crack
cocaine, a head teacher who intends to
ban them in school hours has claimed.
Jane Lunnon says that the type of
pornographic material and the volume
of images that children can access has
changed significantly in the past
decade.
After the outpouring of testimonies
on the anti-rape movement website
Everyone’s Invited, and a report from
Ofsted last week that said sexual abuse
and harassment had been normalised
among teenagers, many schools are in-
troducing new initiatives.
Lunnon, of Alleyn’s School in south
London, described as “chastening and
salutory” the discovery that it was
named on Everyone’s Invited, where
pupils from hundreds of schools posted
experiences of sexual harassment. She
said that it led to immediate action.
Her co-educational school has orga-
nised workshops for parents at which
No 10 will open civil service doors to talent
Oliver Wright Policy Editor
All senior jobs in the civil service will be
advertised externally under plans to
open Whitehall up to external talent.
Boris Johnson will today chair the
first ever joint meeting of cabinet min-
isters and their most senior officials to
launch the latest stage in the govern-
ment’s civil service reform plan.
The proposals include a new watch-
dog to assess the effectiveness of gov-
barristers warned of the consequences
for boys for behaviour such as not delet-
ing graphic pictures they were sent.
“They can get caught up by poor de-
cisions they make when they them-
selves are children,” Lunnon said.
The school ensured that all those
taking A-levels had attended a consent
workshop before they left this term.
A hundred volunteers have become
gender champions, to help to ensure
that girls are treated with respect, and a
mentor training programme for boys is
being set up in September with sixth-
formers talking to younger pupils.
All staff have undergone training
from UK Feminista, which tackles
sexual harassment and sexism. Teach-
ers are taught to ensure equal participa-
tion from boys and girls in lessons and
adopt zero tolerance to harassment.
Lunnon said that a whole-communi-
ty effort was needed to tackle the prob-
lem. “The phone is crack cocaine to
teenagers, they’re absolutely addictive,
we all know that,” she said. “That’s an
ernment programmes and potentially
halt failing initiatives. Ministers and of-
ficials will be given training in new
digital and data skills.
A new system of pay, reward and
performance management will also be
introduced for senior civil servants and
the prime minister and cabinet secre-
tary will both be responsible for the
performance of permanent secretaries.
To strengthen the union the govern-
ment wants to increase movement
area of focus for us and a conversation
to have with parents, how to have
healthy parameters around phone use.”
The new policy is to be launched,
after a consultation, in September.
Lunnon said: “This is not simply a
matter for schools. Porn has been
around for decades, but there is a world
of difference between the naked breasts
just about visible in the top shelf Play-
boy of my youth and the extreme, uni-
versally available, highly graphic online
porn industry, so easily within reach of
our teens and pre-teens. This changes
the way our kids think about sex and
about other genders.”
In Oxford the Magdalen College
boys’ school uses older pupils to educate
younger boys. It has a mixed sixth form
and boys and girls in year 13 have volun-
teered to take part in small-group in-
duction sessions for boys in year 11.
Helen Pike, the head, said the aim was
to target issues thrown up by Everyone’s
Invited, such as alcohol, parties and
“not treating girls as an alien species”.
between civil servants in England with
their Scottish, Welsh and Northern
Ireland counterparts.
Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office
minister, will announce the changes in
a speech today. He is expected to say the
pandemic makes it more urgent to
ensure Whitehall is more effective.
He will say: “The public demand we
build back better and . . . this govern-
ment is determined to deepen and
accelerate our programme of reform.”
KAREN MUNRO/SWNS
Ransomware
biggest threat
to UK security
Larisa Brown Defence Editor
Ransomware attacks by hackers pose a
greater risk to national security than
hostile states’ online espionage, a
cybersecurity chief has warned.
Lindy Cameron, head of the National
Cyber Security Centre, a branch of
GCHQ, said that high-end crime groups
were conducting “in-depth reconnais-
sance” on their targets.
She said they were identifying weak-
nesses among victims that they could
exploit and pretending to be internal
staff to get access to networks.
They are also trying to identify
embarrassing or business-sensitive
material so they could threaten to leak
it or sell it to others.
In a speech at the Royal United Ser-
vices Institute think tank, she said that
although her agency supports victims
of ransomware — where files are
locked until money is paid — every day,
turning up to an incident “feels like the
fire service turning up to a house that
has already burned down”.
Occasionally there might be a flaw in
the malware or its deployment but
hackers were more sophisticated and
“know what they’re doing”, she said,
adding that businesses needed to better
protect their systems.
Cameron described Chinese cyber-
attacks on UK industry as “something
our companies treat as business as
usual” and added that cybercriminals
were becoming ever more sophisticated
in their use of ransomware, and that
Britain must continue to improve its
response.
“A whole-of-government response”
was needed to meet the threat, she
added. “It starts with the efforts to pre-
vent the activities of the groups behind
these damaging attacks.”
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MP’s Commons apology
Daniel Kawczynski, the Tory MP
for Shrewsbury & Atcham, has
apologised in the Commons for
threatening behaviour when he
faced IT problems in April last
year. The Independent Expert
Panel found that he had
telephoned the manager of a
member of select committee staff
to complain after consuming a
“significant amount” of alcohol.
Kawczynski, 49, said he had been
under pressure during lockdown
and that, at 6ft 9in, he stood out
in public, attracting abuse.
18 years for neo-Nazi
A neo-Nazi who described
himself as a fan of Nigel Farage
has been sentenced to 18 years in
jail for possessing bomb-making
materials and other terror-related
items. Dean Morrice, 34, from
Bath, had edited film of himself
playing guitar over footage of the
Christchurch mosque shootings.
At Kingston crown court he was
convicted of ten charges.
Boyfriend found body
Adam Stone told an Old Bailey
jury that he fell to his knees when
he found the body of Nicole
Smallman, 27, his girlfriend, in a
park in Wembley, northwest
London. Danyal Hussein, 18,
denies murdering Smallman and
her sister Bibaa Henry, 46, in “a
pact with the devil” which he
believed would secure him a
lottery win. The trial continues.
Foul-mouthed news
An ITV reporter told a man
during a live broadcast “I will
f***ing bang you out” after the
man walked into shot. Callum
Watkinson, from ITV Central,
was trying to film a piece to
camera in Birmingham but went
into a rant that was posted on
Twitter. ITV has apologised for
any offence and said the matter
was being dealt with internally.
GB News beats the BBC
The news channel GB News had
an average audience of 262,000
for its first programme on Sunday
night, more than double the BBC
News channel’s 100,000 viewers
at the same time, the ratings
compiler Barb said. Andrew Neil
had 336,000 viewers in the first
few minutes. He said GB News
will “puncture pomposity”.
New views, Hugo Rifkind, page 25
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News

BBC rehired Bashir after ‘coffee chats’

David Brown UK news editor at the time and now the Panorama interview was broadcast

The BBC has been criticised over its

fairness and transparency in rehiring
Martin Bashir as a report found that he
was offered the job after informal “cof-
fee meetings” with senior executives.
An investigation into the presenter’s
appointment in 2016, despite contro-
versy over his 1995 Panorama interview
with Diana, Princess of Wales, and alle-
gations of sexism and political bias,
found shortcomings in the process.
The report by Ken MacQuarrie, a
member of the BBC board, found that
there was a lack of transparency in
Bashir’s appointment but no evidence
of a cover-up of his use of deceit in
securing the interview.
James Harding, 51, a former editor of
The Times who was director of news
and current affairs at the BBC at the
time, wanted to interview Bashir for the
job of religion correspondent.
Bashir, 58, met Jonathan Munro, the
head of newsgathering, who is now
deputy director of BBC News, for coffee
to discuss the role on June 23, 2016. He
met Harding and Richard Burgess, the
executive editor of UK news content,
for coffee to discuss the role on August
8 of that year.
The only internal candidate short-
listed for interview by Harding along-
side Bashir was warned by Burgess not
to expect to get the job as an external
candidate was “the favourite”.
MacQuarrie found: “Although
coffee meetings are frequently
used to discuss the scope of a role
and the appointment process, they
should not result in an unfair
advantage to any candidate.”
He said before the job was
advertised externally:
“James Harding had
already decided that he
wanted to interview Martin
Bashir.” MacQuarrie found
that Harding would have
informed Lord Hall of Bir-
kenhead, the director-
general at the time. Hall
was director of news when
Princess Diana in 1986
with a young Harry
Diana’s advice for Harry
Jack Malvern
A friend of Diana, Princess of
Wales, has suggested that she might
have sought to discourage her son
from speaking about his personal
life in a televised interview.
Dr James Colthurst, who helped
Diana to exchange secret messages
with Andrew Morton, her
biographer, believes that she
would have urged the Duke of
Sussex not to do the interview
with Oprah Winfrey in March.
“I’m not sure he would have
got to the interview stage,”
Colthurst told the Radio
Times. “I believe she might
have cautioned him to solve
things in some other way.”
Speaking to Winfrey in
their documentary
series The Me You Can’t
See, Harry said that his mother had
given him the freedom to step away
from the royal family by leaving him
money in her will.
“I have no doubt that my mum
would be incredibly proud of me,”
the duke said. “I’m living the life
that she wanted to live for herself,
living the life that she wanted us to
be able to live.”
Colthurst, 64, who was speaking
about his appearance in the
forthcoming ITV documentary
Diana, said that her decision to
collaborate with Morton in 1992 had
been a “controlled exercise” and
that it was distinct from her
interview with Martin Bashir for
Panorama in 1995.
Colthurst said that he could not
understand at the time why the
princess had agreed to speak to
Bashir — “now of course we know“.
and was criticised last month in Lord
Dyson’s report into Bashir’s use of deceit.
Harding said of Bashir’s appoint-
ment: “There was no nod. There was no
wink. BBC News hired him.”
Rumours within the BBC that Bashir
was appointed after a “cappuccino in-
terview” with Munro have always been
dismissed by the journalist’s friends,
who said he went through the three-
person BBC board that vets applicants.
A BBC official previously told The
Times: “We can confirm there was an
interview process for this position and
that Martin Bashir was interviewed as
part of that.”
Munro said he was aware of the con-
troversy surrounding Bashir’s com-
ments about “Asian babes” while a pre-
senter in the United States and his criti-
cism of the vice-presidential candidate
Sarah Palin. Munro said he recalled dis-
cussing both incidents with Harding.
Harding said he could not recollect the
“Asian babes” controversy.
MacQuarrie concluded there was no
evidence that Bashir was hired to cover
up events after the Panorama interview.

SIMON DACK NEWS/ALAMY; STEPHEN CHUNG/LNP; STORY PICTURE AGENCY

Beach-lovers packed
resorts including
Brighton; others
found space off the
coast of Heacham in
Norfolk and in the
Shropshire Hills

showers continuing in Three-day forecast Yellow warning thunderstorms potential for some more Hampden Park,
Scorching spell set the northwest.
The heat will continue Today Tomorrow Thursday
settled spells and some
warm weather is
Glasgow. Aberdeen had
a high of 17C; Glasgow
in the southeast until North 23C max North 22C max North 18C max possible later in the was a few degrees
to end with a bang the end of the week,
however. The Met Office
Dry day with some
sunny spells
Cloudy with
outbreaks of rain
Cloudy with
heavy showers
month.”
Marco Petagna, a Met
cooler. Northern Ireland
recorded a high of 17C
has warned people to be Office forecaster, said yesterday; in Wales it
South 25C max South 28C max South 24C max

B
ritain recorded
its hottest day of
the year so far
yesterday when
the temperature at
Heathrow reached
28.6C (Arthi
Nachiappan writes).
It is expected to stay
warm across the country
today with some rain
and strong winds in the
northwest. The dry spell
will break tomorrow,
when rain and thunder
are expected in England
and eastern parts of
Wales until Friday, with
prepared for high UV that temperatures were reached 24.4C.
and pollen levels across Overcast with Sunny to start, Warm with likely to cool as the 6 A woman died after
England and Wales. some sunny spells turning cloudy heavy showers month went on. falling from a cliff near
The Met Office has It was not so hot north Durdle Door in Dorset
issued yellow weather for all parts of England meteorologist, said: of the border, where yesterday afternoon.
warnings for apart from the “We’re likely to become Scotland were cheered Police said that the
thunderstorms, meaning northwest, from increasingly changeable on in their first Euro woman was pronounced
that travel disruption tomorrow until Friday. towards the weekend. 2020 match against the dead at the scene.
and flooding is possible, Dan Stroud, a There is still the Czech Republic at Full forecast, page 53
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News
News Coronavirus
Big weddings are back but stay
Eleni Courea, Oliver Wright
Boris Johnson scrapped the 30-person
limit on weddings last night in one of
just a handful of concessions to the
lifting of Covid restrictions.
In good news for future brides and
grooms who had booked to get married
in the next month, full-scale nuptials
will be allowed to go ahead, albeit with-
out singing and dancing.
Plans to lift other restrictions,
including social distancing and the rule
of six for indoor gatherings, have been
postponed after a rise in coronavirus
infections and hospital admissions.
Johnson said that now was the time
“to ease off the accelerator” and save
thousands of lives by vaccinating more
people before lifting restrictions. But he
said he was “pretty confident” that July
19 would be a “terminus date”.
june 21 delay
The government will postpone its plans
to end lockdown by four weeks to July
19. Most existing restrictions, including
the rule of six indoors and 30 outdoors,
will remain in place until then. Sir
Patrick Vallance, the government’s
chief scientific adviser, said this would
reduce the peak by 30 to 50 per cent.
Ministers will review the data after
two weeks and could decide to ease
restrictions entirely on July 5 if
infection and hospital admissions have
fallen sufficiently.
The delay means that limits on the
number of people who can attend large
events, including sports matches and
live performances, will stay capped and
nightclubs will remain shut. The
government will continue advising peo-
ple to work from home where possible.
care homes
Care home residents who leave to visit
family and friends will no longer have
to isolate for two weeks on their return.
Under the existing guidance, which
will be scrapped on June 21, care home
residents were not allowed to stay over-
night with loved ones unless they self-
isolated for 14 days on return. The rule
will remain in place for those returning
from an overnight stay in hospital.
sporting events
Ministers are planning to pilot about
10 to 15 events with large crowds under
the government’s events research pro-
gramme. Spectators will have to prove
they have had two doses of a vaccine or
a recent negative test to enter.
Under the plans, both men’s and
women’s finals at Wimbledon will take
place with a full Centre Court of 14,979
spectators, the first outdoor sports
events to be played in front of a full-
capacity audience since the pandemic
began. For the rest of the tournament,
the plan is for Wimbledon to operate at
50 per cent capacity — with 21,000
spectators a day.
Wembley will also be half full for the
last four matches it hosts in Euro 2020.
This will include the round-of-16 match
on June 29 — involving England if they
win Group D — as well as both semi-
finals and the final.
Royal Ascot, which starts today, will
have 12,000 people admitted each day.
cultural events
Ministers are in discussions to allow
Andrew Lloyd Webber to open his new
musical Cinderella with a larger audi-
ence than allowed at present, Johnson
said.
The existing moratorium on full
capacity in theatres and other cultural
events will continue past June 21 along
with additional restrictions.
Some 20 events including festivals
and theatres are in discussions about
taking part in pilots that mean they can
What’s changing?
The rule of six stays in
place indoors with a
limit of 30 outdoors
Pubs and restaurants
must continue offering
table service
The advice to work
from home if possible
remains
Social distancing and
mask-wearing guidance
stays the same
Theatres will keep
operating at half
capacity while
nightclubs stay shut
The 30-person limit on
weddings is scrapped
from next week but
dancing is banned indoors
Care home residents
who visit family will no
longer have to self-
isolate for 14 days on return
The vaccination targets
are being accelerated,
with all adults to be
offered their first dose by July
19 rather than July 31
Pilots of large sporting
events will go ahead.
Wembley will be at
50 per cent capacity for one
round of last-16 match at Euro
2020 as well as the semi-finals
and final, and Wimbledon will
operate at 50 per cent capacity
The traffic light system
for international travel
continues
Government support
such as furlough will be
phased out
Children can go on
overnight trips in
groups of 30
welcome larger audiences. If this went
ahead it would mark a significant
expansion of the scheme beyond one-
off or time-limited events such as the
World Snooker Championship and
could offer a long term way of
reopening London’s West End.
weddings and wakes
More than 30 guests will now be able to
attend wedding ceremonies, receptions
and other commemorative events such
as wakes, but the capacity of venues will
be limited by the requirements of social
distancing.
Venues must be Covid-secure and
may only offer table service for food
and drink. Stand-up drinks receptions
remain banned and risk assessments
must also be undertaken by venues in
order to calculate how many people can
safely be present.
Discos are out as is dancing indoors,
and dancing outdoors is also discour-
aged. This also applies to guests singing
hymns at wedding ceremonies. Musical
performances may take place, at a limit
of up to six performers indoors.
Tuesday June 15 2021 | the times
Quentin Letts
Keep still
children,
not far now
Political Sketch
R
ather than answer to
MPs, who were steaming
like Chinese dumplings,
Boris Johnson announced
the big disappointment
via a televised press conference.
“You’ve got to learn to be cautious,”
said The Man Who Lets You Down.
Indeed we have. He was postponing
Freedom Day. The idea now was to
have it on July 19. “I’m pretty
confident it will be a terminus
date,” he said in his blowy way.
From the back seat, the country
asks: “Are we nearly there yet?”
Dad at the wheel assures us it is
“not far now, children”. A month
later . . .
Another month of lockdown.
Another month for the attention-
seekers at Sage to give us all the
willies. Chris Whitty, chief medical
officer for England, kept saying “if ”.
Shades of Rudyard Kipling. Sir
Patrick Vallance, chief scientific
adviser, was taciturn. Clipped.
Coldly sterile.
Whitty is a figure quite different
now from the drainpipe-necked
gulper of a year ago. Beside our
prime minister, he was the more
authoritative figure. A dark suit and
dark tie these days. Brisker. A curt,
spanky manner. Has he bought a
sports car or something?
Johnson and these Brothers Grim
had to find a tricky balance. They
assured us that the vaccines were
“spectacular” yet they had to
explain that a problem persisted.
There was talk about “worst-
affected areas” and “worst-case
scenarios”. We were shown a map
of the danger areas. Cornwall was
quite a dark colour. Maybe that
beach barbecue at the G7 wasn’t
such a good idea.
Members of the public went first.
It’s like letting the paying guests Boris Johnson announced the widely known lockdown extension at a Downing
vaccinations delay would have a significant effect,
All adults will be offered at least one
coronavirus jab by the time all restric-
but a four-week delay is modelled as re-
ducing the peak in hospital admissions
Pupils could be
tions are lifted on July 19, the prime
minister said. The government is
bringing forward its target to offer
by around a third to a half.”
Edward Argar, a health minister,
warned against a “zero-Covid approach”
given jabs ‘to
vaccines to the entire adult population
by two weeks. Those aged 23 and 24 will
be able to book appointments starting
and said the country would have to get
used to living with the virus. save education’
tomorrow. international travel
Nina Lloyd
For over-40s, the gap between doses The prime minister refused to be drawn
will be reduced from 12 to eight weeks. on the consequences of the four-week Children may need to be vaccinated to
Johnson said the aim was to give both delay for restrictions on international prevent future disruption to their
doses of a vaccine to two thirds of adults travel. education that would have a “very neg-
by July 19. He urged the public to follow the ative impact” on their lives, England’s
traffic-light system, which divides chief medical officer has said.
infection data countries based on green, amber and Professor Chris Whitty said that
Government scientific advisers warned red categories. Eleven destinations are there might be a long-term risk to child-
that hospital admissions were on track on the green list, which allows quaran- ren’s physical and mental health if their
to reach a level similar to the first peak tine-free travel, and many of them ban education were disrupted multiple
of about 1,000 a day. British travellers from entering. times.
Modelling by the government’s Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, Britain has ordered enough doses of
Spi-M group suggested that there had blamed the delay in easing restrictions the Pfizer vaccine, which has been med-
been a rapid acceleration of cases of on the government’s “pathetic” borders ically approved for 12 to 15-year-olds, to
about 70 per cent week-on-week, and policy. inoculate all children aged 12 and over,
that hospital admissions were up by 15 Letters, page 26 according to Matt Hancock, the health
per cent week-on-week. The Spi-M A prudent postponement, secretary.
document said: “Even a two-week leading article, page 27 The head of the UK’s biggest teach-
the times | Tuesday June 15 2021 2GM
off the dancefloor, urges PM
Street press conference but MPs were furious that the House was not told first
ing union has called for the govern-
ment to inoculate all pupils before
schools return in September. Kevin
Courtney, joint general secretary of the
National Education Union, told The
Daily Telegraph that rising cases in
schools was a “big problem”. He said
that in an “ideal world” children would
be vaccinated with three weeks’ immu-
nity for the start of the autumn term, if
it is deemed safe.
At the Downing Street press confer-
ence yesterday Whitty said that the
decision would need to be taken with
caution and consideration of children’s
safety. He said that children who were
at high risk of Covid-19 should be vacci-
nated, and added: “The wider question
is around the effect on children’s educa-
tion and multiple disruptions that
might happen and are going to have a
very negative impact on their lives,
including the effect it will have on risk
of physical and mental ill health.”
A Department of Health spokesman
said: “No decisions have been made. We
will be guided by our expert advisers.
We will update in due course.”
JONATHAN BUCKMASTER/PA
dine before the servants. Andrew
from Worthing wanted university
students given jabs pronto. Tess, a
Bedfordshire bride-to-be, was fed
up about her wedding dreams being
wrecked. Boris is an old hand at
dealing with such women.
And what about Andrew Lloyd
Webber, or prisoner 54321 as he
may soon be known if he persists in
martyring himself as a protest
about the West End having to do
another month of social distancing?
Johnson said he had “colossal
admiration” for the composer. As
for the ruination of theatres, “it’s
broken everyone’s heart”. At which
point, in a musical, Whitty and
Vallance would have inclined their
heads, fruity-bowed their lips and
given us close harmonies.
Down the road MPs were in a
bate and Speaker Hoyle was on the
warpath. Why had Johnson not
made a statement to the House?
Peter Bone (C, Wellingborough)
noted that big policy
announcements should be made
first to parliament. This was a
requirement of the ministerial code.
“Are we a presidential system?”
asked an “astonished” Sir Edward
Leigh (C, Gainsborough). “Who
runs this country? Is it the media or
the House of Commons?” Leigh, an
old-fashioned right-wing rasper
whose idea of a well-run country is
Vladimir Putin’s Russia, has
represented his seat since 1983, or
possibly 1893. Reporters of the
Gainsborough Standard have long
learnt to stand to attention and take
a respectful shorthand note when
the old boy calls their newsroom.
Leigh suggested that the prime
minister would find it “much easier
to have a few patsy questions from
Laura Kuenssberg” rather than
being punctured by the, er, rapier
intellects of the Commons.
Hoyle did not join this slander of
the admirable Kuenssberg but did
agree it was “totally unacceptable”
that Downing Street was “riding
roughshod” over the House. No 10
had assured him “no decisions” had
been taken on extending lockdown.
Yet at the same time the No 10
photocopiers were churning out an
embargoed copy of the news. The
Speaker had a script but abandoned
it. He roared that both he and the
House had been “misled”.
Someone at No 10 has been telling
fibs. Very hard to believe, I know.
Beware — that summer cold
might be the Indian variant
Rhys Blakely Science Correspondent age groups accounting for a greater
share of infections.
A headache, sore throat and runny “People with cold symptoms should
nose are now the most reported symp- be tested to slow any possible spread of
toms of Covid-19, according to re- Covid,” he told the BBC.
searchers who are gathering data from His research team have been track-
thousands of people through a smart- ing the symptoms of the virus through
phone app. the Zoe app since March last year. A
Professor Tim Spector of King’s Col- cough was the most common symptom
lege London said that catching the In- at the start of the pandemic. In people
dian strain, which is also known as the under 40 it has been overtaken by
Delta variant, can feel “more like a bad headache, sore throat and a runny nose.
cold” for younger people. “People aren’t realising this change
The government recognises the and might think they have some kind of
main Covid-19 symptoms as being a seasonal cold,” Spector said. “It might
new continuous cough, a high tempera- just feel like a bad cold or some funny
ture and a loss or change in sense of ‘off’ feeling — but do stay at home and
smell or taste. do get a test.”
However, Spector’s team believe that GPs have called for people with
the disease is now affecting people dif- cold-like symptoms to be eligible for
ferently. That may be linked to younger coronavirus tests.
7
News
News
The national picture
Vaccines can
How many people have Covid-19?
There were 7,742 new cases reported
yesterday, bringing the total so far to
stop hospital
4,573,419 or 68.5 for every 1,000 people
Daily cases
45.5% increase from seven days ago
admissions
(based on seven-day
moving average)
Seven-day National
60,000
50,000
40,000
for new strain
average R number
30,000
1 to 1.2 Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor
20,000
Rhys Blakely Science Correspondent
10,000
0 Vaccines are about as effective at
A S O N D J F M A M J
preventing people needing hospital
How many are in hospital? care when they catch the Indian variant
There are 1,089 patients in hospital of the coronavirus as they were for the
being treated. 161 patients are on Kent strain, an analysis has concluded.
ventilators. An additional 187 patients A study by Public Health England
have been admitted, the latest daily found that a single dose of the Pfizer
figures show, up 15.2 per cent in the vaccine gave 94 per cent protection
seven days to June 8 when this data against a person being admitted to hos-
was last updated pital after catching the Indian strain.
This was similar to the 85 per cent pro-
Hospital admissions tection it gave against the Kent variant.
Seven-day average 5,000 For the Oxford-AstraZeneca vac-
4,000 cine, a single dose gave 71 per cent pro-
3,000 tection against the Indian strain, com-
2,000 pared to 76 per cent against the Kent
1,000
strain, according to an analysis of
14,000 cases of the Indian strain, of
0
which 166 ended up in hospital.
A S O N D J F M A M J
After a second dose, Pfizer’s
How many have died? protection rose to 96 per cent and
Yesterday, there were 3 deaths AstraZeneca’s to 92 per cent, similar to
reported, bringing the total number the 95 per cent and 86 per cent offered
of deaths in the past seven days to by each jab against the Kent strain.
66. The rolling average number of Because of the small numbers of
daily deaths is 9.4, up from 8.4 a day people in the study, the uncertainty
a week ago around the exact figures means that
protection from both vaccines is
Deaths regarded as broadly comparable
ge
Seven-day average
1,500 against the two strains.
PHE said that in unvaccinated
1,000 people for every 100 hospital admis-
500 sions with the Kent variant you would
expect 200 with the Indian strain.
0 However, if the same group had been
A S O N D J F M A M J vaccinated the result would be only
How does 2021 compare? eight hospital admissions with the Kent
There were 9,628 deaths from all strain and 12 with the Indian variant.
causes recorded in England and Wales Professor Chris Whitty, the chief medi-
in the week to May 28, of which cal officer for England, said the PHE
coronavirus accounted for 1 per cent. study was “very encouraging indeed”.
The number of weekly deaths was 312 Scottish research published yester-
lower than the five-year average for day in The Lancet showed that the
the same time of year Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioN-
Tech vaccines were less effective at
20,000 preventing people getting infected with
2020/21
15,000 the Indian strain.
10,000 However, the researchers said that
5,000 the jabs remained an effective tool
Five-year average because they stopped people develop-
0
Feb May Aug Nov Feb May ing serious disease, with their data
showing that a single dose cut the risk
of somebody being admitted to hospital
How Britain compares
Percentage of population who have
by about 62 per cent for the Indian
variant and by about 72 per cent for the
received at least one vaccine dose
(total doses administered in brackets)
Kent strain. This protection took about
a month to develop.
The Scottish study showed that
Malta 76.8% (587k) people with the Indian variant were
about 85 per cent more likely to be
Canada 64.7% (29m) admitted to hospital than those who
People
Israel 63.3% (10.6m) vaccinated caught the Kent strain.
in UK Two vaccine doses provided
UK 61.4% (71.7m) First dose protection against the Indian variant,
41.7m but the Scottish results suggest at a
Chile 60.8% (20.4m)
Second lower level than for the Kent strain. A
Hungary 55% (9.4m) dose fortnight after two doses, the
30m
US 52% (309.3m) First dose
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was found to
daily provide 79 per cent protection against
UAE 51.4% (13.68m) June 13 infection from the Indian variant,
147,228 compared with 92 per cent against the
Italy 48.5% (42.2m)
Second Kent strain.
Belgium 48.5% (8.5m) dose daily Two doses of the Oxford-AstraZene-
June 13 ca vaccine offered 60 per cent
Germany 47.8% (60.1m) 181,121
protection against infection with the
Spain 44.8% (32.3m) Indian variant compared with 73 per
cent for the Kent variant. This lower
France 44.8% (44.1m) vaccine effect may reflect the fact that it
Source: Our World in Data takes longer to develop immunity with
(latest figures available) and gov.uk. Note: Selected countries
AstraZeneca, the researchers said.
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firms to extend furlough

Steven Swinford Political Editor
Rishi Sunak has rejected calls from
business leaders and unions to extend
the furlough scheme despite the delay
in ending lockdown.
The scheme, which pays 80 per cent
of people’s wages, is due to start being
wound down at the end of this month.
From July 1 the government’s share
will fall to 70 per cent with employers
contributing 10 per cent as part of a “ta-
pered” withdrawal. The British Cham-
bers of Commerce has urged the chan-
cellor to delay the winding down
because the government has delayed
the easing of restrictions until July 19.
However, a Treasury source said that
the scheme was already “one of the
most generous in the world” and that
the timetable would remain the same.
Sunak is also resisting calls to extend
the business rates holiday for retail,
hospitality and leisure. The relief is due
to fall from 100 per cent to 66 per cent
on July 1, although it will remain in
place until next March.
Boris Johnson said that on the basis
of current data he did not see a need to
change the furlough support scheme,
due to run until September. The prime
minister was asked at a Downing Street
press conference if there could be a situ-
ation where there might be an exten-
sion of support to businesses.
“We always made sure that the fur-
lough scheme would continue until
September to take account of the whole
spread of the road map,” he said. “The
chancellor has always been very, very
clear about that. On the basis of what
we can see now . . . in the data, on the
basis of the vaccine effectiveness that
we can see now, we don’t think that
we’ll need to change that.”
The hospitality and arts industries
have been disproportionately reliant
on the furlough scheme, government
figures show.
About half of hospitality workers
were still on furlough at the end of
April, while four in ten employees in the
arts and entertainment sectors were
still having their wages supported.
The trade body UKHospitality called
for Sunak to keep the full relief in place
for three months until October.
Kate Nicholls, the organisation’s
chief executive, said: “There is no doubt
that any extension to the restrictions
will be challenging for sectors yet to
open and those still trading at a loss to
navigate.”
The Trades Union Congress said the
delay to the end of restrictions was a big
setback for many workers and busi-
Q&A
restaurant, hotel and bar furloughed. More than a Kurzarbeit scheme to the
workers are on furlough quarter of under-18s in work end of the year, while
and four in ten jobs in the are on furlough. However, France plans to keep its
arts and entertainment those aged over 65 have support in place until next
sector are supported by the comparable furlough rates June.
When will the furlough government. to those aged between 18
scheme come to an end? and 24, suggesting the Will furlough be extended
The scheme ends on What businesses are most people most impacted are again?
September 30, although reliant on furlough? those at the beginning or Rishi Sunak, the chancellor,
support will be withdrawn The highest furlough rates end of their careers. has already extended the
in stages. From next month, are among businesses with furlough scheme twice. The
the government will pay two to four employees, What parts of the country hospitality sector will put
70 per cent of the wages, where the proportion of have the highest pressure on him to do so
with employers obliged to furloughed employees is proportion of people on again following the delay in
make up the remaining 29 per cent. furlough? easing restrictions.
10 per cent. From August it London, which has a Yesterday Boris Johnson
will pay 60 per cent. What has been the cost to furlough rate of 14 per cent. strongly rejected calls for
the taxpayer? More than 550,000 people another extension.
How many people are still The scheme has cost are on furlough in the
on furlough? £64 billion. By comparison, capital. Parts of Cumbria, What other support
At the end of April there the annual schools budget Oxfordshire and measures will end?
were 3.4 million people on for England is about Cambridgeshire are among The government increased
furlough, representing £48 billion and the defence the least affected. benefits for claimants of
about a tenth of the total budget is about £52 billion. universal credit by £20 a
workforce. How are other countries week last year but the
Are employers more likely phasing out their temporary rise comes to an
Which industries are most to furlough young people? employment support end on September 30. The
reliant on furlough? The younger you are the schemes? stamp duty holiday ends at
Nearly half of pub, more likely you are to be Germany has extended its the end of the month.
Home workers want to keep flexibility
Gurpreet Narwan suggests that about a third of the be back in the office by the end of
Economics Correspondent workforce will continue working one summer. He called remote working
day a week from home. Andrew an “aberration that we are going to
The vast majority of home workers Bailey, its governor, said in March: “I correct as quickly as possible. This is
want to stay remote for at least part of would be very surprised if things went not ideal for us and it’s not a new
the week, according to the Office for back to how they were before Covid. normal.”
National Statistics. For many people there will be more of Many other businesses have started
In a survey of working adults it a hybrid model of working from home shedding office space in preparation
found that 85 per cent would seek a and working in a place of work.” for higher levels of remote working.
“hybrid approach” after the pandemic. About a quarter of all businesses in- The ONS said that online job adverts
The findings add to growing evi- tend to use increased home working in including terms related to “home
dence that suggests greater levels of the future, with the information and working” had increased at a faster rate
remote working will persist well into communication industry recording than total adverts, with home working
the future. Although workers are the highest proportion at 49 per cent, adverts in May three times above the
starting to return to their offices, the the ONS reported. February 2020 average.
proportion of people working from Not all businesses are convinced “When asked about home working,
home is still considerably higher than about the benefits of remote working. working adults stated work-life bal-
it was before the crisis, when only 5 per David Solomon, chief executive at ance was the greatest positive, while
cent of the workforce were remote. Goldman Sachs, told the bank’s challenges of collaboration were the
A report by the Bank of England 41,000 employees that they should all greatest negative,” the report said.
nesses. About 3.4 million people are still ing it to April before settling on the final Sunak will take away this temporary
on furlough, according to the latest September date at the budget. uplift at the same time that furlough
figures collected at the end of April. The The end of furlough will coincide ends.
furlough scheme has so far protected with the withdrawal of other support The government must explain their
11.5 million jobs at a cost of £64 billion. measures. Recipients of universal tough choices, William Hague, page 23
Sunak extended the furlough credit have been able to claim an extra Sunak’s claims are ringing hollow,
scheme twice before, initially stretch- £20 a week during the pandemic but Simon Duke, page 35

Fears breast cancer treatment could slip back years
Katie Gibbons
Decades of progress on breast cancer is
in jeopardy, a charity has warned, after
more than 10,000 fewer patients began
treatment in England in the past year.
Cancer Research UK said that a
“huge effort” was needed to clear the
cancer backlog caused by the coronavi-
rus pandemic to avoid “preventable
cancer deaths”.
The charity estimates that about
38,000 fewer people started treatment
for all cancer types in England in the
past year. This included 10,600 fewer
breast cancer patients who have not
started their treatment.
A combination of breast cancer
screenings being paused at the start of
the pandemic and fewer people seeking
medical care have contributed to the
change in the figures. The charity said
that breast cancer deaths reached an
all-time low before the pandemic but
this progress could now “slow”.
Michelle Mitchell, chief executive of
Cancer Research UK, said: “These
figures are worrying, and we could see
progress slow over the coming years as
the true effect of the pandemic is re-
vealed. The NHS is showing signs of re-
covery, but a huge effort is still needed
to clear the cancer backlog as quickly as
possible to help avoid preventable
cancer deaths as a consequence of the
pandemic. Government must make
sure there is enough funding for staff,
diagnostic equipment and the research
needed to improve cancer care across
the UK in the long term, so cancer
patients are given the best chance of
surviving their disease.”
Professor Charles Swanton, the char-
ity’s chief clinician, said: “Considering
the huge disruption to cancer services,
sadly these figures are not surprising.
And we’re seeing the impact of effec-
tively pausing breast screening which
detects almost a third of breast cancer
cases.”
“But it’s important to remember that
cancer screening is for people without
symptoms, so it’s vital that if people no-
tice anything usual for them, please
don’t wait for screening — get in touch
with your GP.”
Cancer services in England have
been rebounding from the pandemic.
More than 200,000 people were
referred for cancer checks in April,
according to NHS England figures.
Treatment rates for cancer are back
to usual levels, with nearly 25,000
people starting treatment in April, an
increase of more than 4,000 on the
same time period last year.
The NHS said: “The latest figures
show that treatment levels are now
back to pre-pandemic levels, with more
than 200,000 people referred for
cancer checks in April following a
record high the month before.”
Insurer says fake doctors
should face stiff penalties
Fake doctors should be given tougher
punishments, the Medical Defence
Union has said. There are concerns
that fraudsters are capitalising on the
coronavirus pandemic. The medical
insurer said the maximum penalty for
breaches of the Medical Act was a
fine, which it said put it “on the same
scale as a TV licence payment
evasion”. Dr Christine Tomkins, the
union’s chief executive, said: “A fine
does not reflect the seriousness of the
offence. We believe the courts should
have all sentencing options open for
offenders and that is what we have
urged the government to do.”
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coronavirus in brief
Novavax jab ‘prevents
100% of severe cases’
The Novavax vaccine could be used in
future booster campaigns after a
clinical trial showed that the jab was
100 per cent effective in preventing
moderate or severe cases of the
coronavirus. Britain has ordered
60 million doses of it, and Novavax
will apply for regulatory approval in
the third quarter of this year after
beginning a review process with the
Medicines and Healthcare Products
Regulatory Agency in January.
Results from a clinical trial with
30,000 participants in the US and
Mexico also showed that the vaccine
was 90.4 per cent effective overall.
Grieving families found
little help or a long wait
Most people who lost a loved one to
coronavirus and sought help to
handle their grief found it hard to get
an appointment with a bereavement
counsellor either because there was a
long waiting list or they were not
eligible. A study by Bristol University
and the Marie Curie palliative care
research centre at Cardiff University
found that other people were
uncomfortable asking for help and
were not sure how to get help. The
survey of 711 adults last year was
published on the MedRxiv website
and funded by the Economic and
Social Research Council.
KATIELEE ARROWSMITH/SWNS
Youngsters to get help
with long Covid effects
The NHS is to launch 15 paediatric
hubs offering long Covid services for
children and young people. Although
children are less likely than adults to
suffer severe effects from Covid-19,
some have felt long-term after-effects.
The hubs will draw together experts
on common symptoms such as
respiratory problems and fatigue who
can either directly treat young people,
advise family doctors and carers or
refer the patients to other specialist
services or clinics. More than one
million people have reported suffering
from long Covid, according to the
Office for National Statistics.
Spectacular views entice campers to the Skogafoss waterfall in southern Iceland
Israel and Iceland
ready for influx
of British tourists
Graeme Paton Transport Correspondent
Additional flights are being introduced
to countries on Britain’s dwindling
green list because of a surge in demand
for foreign travel this summer.
Countries and territories including
Gibraltar, Iceland and Israel — where
British holidaymakers can travel with-
out quarantining on their return —
have reported a big rise in bookings
from the UK.
Figures from Skyscanner, the price
comparison website, show that the
number of seats sold for flights to
Gibraltar increased by 115 per cent in
the first week of this month compared
with the previous week, while there was
a 40 per cent increase in demand to
Iceland.
British Airways, easyJet, Wizz Air
and Eastern Airways have announced
additional flights to Gibraltar. BA’s
CityFlyer network operated a new ser-
vice from London City airport to the
territory for the first time on Friday.
Icelandair, the country’s flag carrier,
will double the number of daily services
between the UK and Iceland from one
to two next month, with new direct
flights from Gatwick and Manchester
added later in the summer.
There are also additional flights to
Jersey, which is 14 miles from the coast
of France and the most southerly part
of the UK common travel area, which is
allowing quarantine-free travel.
Last week, Wizz Air announced that
it was launching twice-weekly flights
from Doncaster Sheffield airport and
Cardiff to the island from next month.
Israel, which expects to be opened to
UK holidaymakers on July 1 for the first
time since the pandemic began, also
said it had seen a rise in bookings. The
country’s tourist office said that a num-
ber of tour operators that had previous-
ly not listed Israel as a destination had
now approached it.
The government’s traffic light system
was introduced last month to provide a
risk-based mechanism for foreign trav-
el. People can travel back from green
countries without quarantining,
whereas up to ten days of self-isolation
is required for those arriving from am-
ber or red countries.
New research has shown that fewer
than one in 100 travel insurance poli-
cies provide complete cover for holi-
days cancelled and disrupted because
of coronavirus. An analysis of 263 poli-
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cies found that just two covered holi-
daymakers for all eventualities includ-
ing cancellations caused by lockdowns,
a positive test and a requirement to iso-
late after a close contact was infected.
The study by the consumer group
Which? said that many travel insur-
ance providers boasted of providing
“Covid cover” but warned that people
could be left out of pocket because of
holes in policies.
Researchers called on the Financial
Conduct Authority to monitor policies
and ensure that limitations were clearly
highlighted.
Thousands of British tourists cut
short their holidays in Portugal when
the country was suddenly removed
from the green list.
Gareth Shaw, head of money content
at Which?, said: “The government
should work with regulators to ensure
that travellers are given clear informa-
tion about what they will and won’t be
covered for and make sure that provid-
ers don’t make bold and confusing
claims about their cover without being
clear about the limitations.”
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South Africa
overwhelmed
by third wave
Jane Flanagan Cape Town
South Africa is battling the pandemic
on multiple fronts, with a third wave of
infections coinciding with the loss of its
health minister to a corruption scandal
and a stalling vaccination programme.
Intensive care beds in Johannesburg,
its biggest city, are filling fast because
the infection rate is greater than that of
the previous two waves.
Gauteng province, which includes
Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria,
accounts for 60 per cent of infections in
the country. As in the second wave,
these are being driven by the Beta vari-
ant, first identified in South Africa.
“We are feeling the pressure and the
positivity rate is increasing by the day‚”
Ashley Mthunzi, acting head of Tem-
bisa hospital in Johannesburg, said.
“The facilities are overwhelmed.”
Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane,
South Africa’s tourism minister, is lead-
ing the national response after the
health minister was put on “special
leave” while an investigation is carried
out into alleged corruption. Zweli
Mkhize, who is accused of signing off on
a government contract that allegedly
benefited family members and aides,
was coming under pressure about a vac-
cination programme that is languishing
behind that in Zimbabwe and Angola.
Opera fans enjoyed a live broadcast of La fanciulla del West by the Berlin State Opera, who performed for a reduced audience at the site of the Berlin Airlift South Africa has recorded Africa’s
biggest caseload of 1.7 million infec-

Germany looks to relax rules on

tions and 57,700 deaths, although ex-
cess mortality figures suggest that the
death toll is two or three times greater.
Just over 1.5 million doses have been ad-
ministered and 500,000 of its popula-

facemasks as infection rate falls

tion of 60 million are fully vaccinated.

India eases bed

Oliver Moody Berlin
Germany is considering phasing out
the requirement to wear facemasks in
public spaces as the infection rate con-
tinues to fall despite the loosening of
lockdown restrictions.
Denmark began to relax its facemask
rule yesterday. Jens Spahn, the German
health minister, said that he, too, would
like to see it lifted gradually.
In the first stage of lifting the restric-
tion Germans would no longer have to
wear facemasks in outdoor settings
such as busy streets, open-air markets
or outside restaurants and bars.
In areas where cases remain low and
the vaccination rate keeps rising,
Spahn, 40, said that the regulation
could soon be abolished for indoor spa-
ces but he did not set out a timetable.
He urged the population to continue
wearing facemasks in public spaces. “As
a recommendation, there is a simple
rule at any event: if in doubt, wear a
mask, especially when you’re travelling
or meeting people indoors,” Spahn told
the Funke media group. “There will
only be greater safety when everyone
present is either vaccinated or regularly
tested.”
The German government is under
pressure from right-wing parties to
abolish the facemask rule.
As of yesterday Danes will no longer
have to wear face coverings in super-
markets or libraries, although the coun-
try’s infection rate is more than four
times as high as Germany’s.
Denmark plans to relax the rule in
several stages over the coming months.
Facemasks will no longer be required in
cinemas or theatres from the beginning
of August. From September 1 the
regulation will be lifted in nearly all
public spaces, including trains,
buses, bars, restaurants and hair salons.
In Germany the libertarian Free
Democratic Party (FDP), which has
cast itself as the champion of civil liber-
ties during the pandemic, said that in-
fections had fallen to a point where
facemasks could no longer be justified.
Only 17 new cases for every 100,000
people have been registered over the
past seven days. On Sunday the Robert
Koch Institute (RKI), the government’s
infectious diseases agency, recorded
fewer than 1,000 infections, the lowest
daily figure in eight months.
Wolfgang Kubicki, 69, the deputy
leader of FDP, said that since the
infection rate had “clearly” dropped be-
low the 35 per 100,000 threshold set out
in German law, “the state may no
longer impose general limitations on
the fundamental rights of its citizens”.
The justice ministry has told Ger-
many’s 16 states, which mostly deter-
mine their own pandemic restrictions,
to check whether the mask rule is still
proportionate, particularly in schools.
The lockdown has steadily been loos-
ened across Germany in recent weeks
without any obvious surge in transmis-
sion. While the Indian variant has es-
tablished itself, it still makes up only
about 3 per cent of new cases, according
to a report by the RKI last week.
The government has lifted its warn-
ing against travel to most countries but
advises against non-essential journeys
to Britain because of the Indian variant.
Restrictions vary between German
states but in general bars and restau-
rants may serve limited numbers of
guests indoors; guests must either have
been vaccinated or have a fresh nega-
tive result from a lateral flow test.
At the weekend a number of night-
clubs in Berlin opened outdoor spaces,
although dancing is still banned.
shortages with
prefab hospitals
Amrit Dhillon Delhi
India plans to tackle its expected third
wave by sending prefabricated portable
hospitals by lorry to the hardest-hit
districts, offering hundreds of extra
beds within days.
The country is emerging from a
devastating second wave in which
thousands died without being given a
hospital bed, medicine or oxygen when
medical wards became overwhelmed.
Engineers at the Indian Institute of
Technology Madras in Chennai have
created portable, prefabricated hospi-
tals called MediCABs in three sizes for
20, 50 and 100 beds.
They are equipped with medical
devices, life support equipment, ICUs,

Macron digs in over curfew amid widespread breaches bathrooms and air conditioning. They
will function as hospital extensions and
in rural areas where there are no
hospitals they will be assembled near a
france Canyon of Heroes in Lower Manhattan primary health care centre.
The French government has resisted World update on July 7, following the route taken by “We don’t have wide roads in rural
pressure to abandon the 11pm curfew Charles Lindbergh after his solo flight areas so we have compacted the panels,
because of widespread breaches by out- Global cases Global deaths Deaths per million population over the Atlantic in 1927, by Winston making them five times smaller than
door revellers and football fans during 175,686,814 3,803,592 Rank Now Jan 31 Churchill in 1946 and the Apollo 11 as- usual so that they can be transported on
Euro 2020. Valérie Pécresse, conserva- 1 Peru 5,715 1,234 tronauts after their return from the smaller vehicles to reach villages,” said
Most new cases
tive president of the Paris region, led 1 Brazil 78,700 2 Hungary 3,089 1,296 (14) moon. More than 33,000 people New Shree Ram Ravichandran, an engineer
opposition demands for an immediate 2 India 70,421 8 Brazil 2,288 1,048 (24) Yorkers have died from Covid-19. New and co-founder of the start-up.
end to the curfew, which is due to be lift- 3 Colombia 29,998 11 Belgium 2,165 1,833 (3) York has now fully vaccinated 47 per The 20-bed hospital takes two days
ed on July 1. Police unions also called 18,057 12 Italy 2,101 1,460 (6) cent of its 8.3 million people and had to set up and units with 100 beds take
4 Argentina
for it to be dropped because of the 13 Croatia 1,986 1,225 (17) only 50 new Covid-19 related hospital seven days. They are already coming
5 Russia 12,721
difficulty of issuing fines to so many 14 Poland 1,970 982 (29) admissions yesterday. off the production line. By the end of
9 UK 7,742 15 UK 1,884 1,555 (4)
offenders. Countries reporting most deaths next week, the first ten portable hospi-
16 Argentina 1,882 1,057 (23) japan
1 US 594,496 17 Colombia 1,871 1,047 (25)
tals will reach the towns where hospi-
united states Athletes at the Tokyo Olympics will be tals were unable to cope during the past
2 Brazil 486,272 18 US 1,796 1,309 (11)
New York will hold a ticker-tape parade 3 India 374,305 19 Mexico 1,785 1,214 (18) given 150,000 condoms but instructed two months. A total of 50 will be used.
to honour essential workers fighting 4 Mexico 230,097 20 Spain 1,721 1,375 (9) to take them home unused in order to Since the venture is a start-up,
the pandemic. Floats bearing doctors, 5 Peru 188,443 21 France 1,678 1,156 (22) preserve strict rules about social dis- several corporations have offered to
nurses and paramedics will pass up the 6 UK 127,907 22 Portugal
Selected countries 1,670 1,194
Figures as of 6pm (21)
yesterday tancing inside the Olympic village. finance the manufacturing.
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Ticketless fans urged to stay at home
Andrew Ellson
Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Thousands of ticketless Scotland fans
are set to descend on London for the
England game on Friday amid growing
concern about the lack of a
Covid-secure fan zone.
Nearly 3,000 Scottish fans have
tickets for the Euro 2020 clash at Wem-
bley but the Scottish Football Support-
ers Association expects twice as many
will travel south. Some estimate that
the number could be as high as 20,000.
By yesterday, all 15 train services
direct from Glasgow to London on
Friday in time for the game were sold
out. Almost all of the 17 trains from
Edinburgh were also full although
there was some availability in first class.
Club’s defibrillator vandalised hours after footballer collapsed
Andrew Ellson
Vandals smashed a football club’s
defibrillator kit hours after the Danish
footballer Christian Eriksen suffered a
cardiac arrest in a Euro 2020 match.
Buxted FC in East Sussex said that
the incident, caught on CCTV early on
Sunday morning, was disgusting.
The club posted the video on Twitter
with an appeal for anyone with infor-
mation about the identity of the cul-
prits to call the police. Yesterday morn-
ing the video had been viewed a million
times and had 2,500 comments.
The film shows a young man and
woman pulling the defibrillator from a
Paul Goodwin, the founder of the
association, said: “There will be plenty
of tartan on display as we like coming
down and showing off. The fact we have
not been part of it [a major tournament]
for such a long time is a factor.”
He questioned why London was not
providing a fan zone for supporters
without tickets to watch the game.
Goodwin said: “Glasgow has a fan
zone that can take 6,000 people all seat-
ed with social distancing so why has
London not got one?”
Some Scottish fans have urged their
government to press Sadiq Khan, the
mayor of London, to provide one. Sven
Lister, a member of the Rosyth Tartan
Army supporters club, believes there
could be trouble if fans are unable to
watch the match. “I reckon there will be
cabinet on a wall, stamping on it and
throwing it to the floor. The van-
dalism came shortlyy after
Eriksen, 29, the former
rmer
Tottenham Hotspur ur
player, collapsed dur--
ing Denmark’s game
against Finland and
was resuscitated
with a defibrillator.
Eriksen, who now
plays for Inter Mi-
lan, released a state-
ment to the Italian n th
newspaper La Gazzetta ta
dello Sport via his agent
gent
Martin Schoots. It said:
about 20,000 or so turning out. It just
worries me that they’ve not done any-
thing. There’s going to be groups
wandering, possibly not getting to see
the football, which would cause
trouble,” he told the MyLondon web-
site.
Goodwin dismissed fears over any
problems. He said: “Don’t forget that at
the last two tournaments Scottish fans
won awards for their friendliness, good
behaviour and charity work so London
has nothing to worry about.”
Traditionally, Scottish fans have
gathered in Trafalgar Square when
they have played England but they will
not be able to do this on Friday
because it is being used as a socially-dis-
tanced fan zone for 750 key workers.
Instead, ticketless supporters are
“Thank you, I won’t give up. I feel better
now, but I want to understand
what’s haphappened. I want to
tha you all for what
say thank
you did
d for me.”
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Schoots told the
pa
paper that Eriksen
w in good spirits
was
in hospital. “We
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spoke this morning
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making jokes, he
wa in a good mood,
was
I thought he was well.
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ripped from a wall
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expected to congregate in Hyde Park. at Trafalgar Square but the licence from
Lister called on the authorities to turn Westminster [council] required social
this into a regulated event. He said: distancing so we could not do more.
“They’ve got a party organised in Hyde Central government would also have
Park, all they need to do is put a big needed to make an exemption to allow
screen up. They’ll tidy up after them- it to happen but they have not.”
selves, there won’t be a case of leaving Yesterday Scotland lost their first
rubbish around they’ll bring a black bin game of the tournament 2-0 to the
bag and pick it up.” Czech Republic. England opened with a
The mayor’s office urged Scottish 1-0 win against Croatia on Sunday.
fans without tickets to stay at home. A England’s game set a live viewing
spokesman for Khan said: “It is not record for iPlayer. It was streamed
possible to hold a fan zone for Scottish 3.9 million times, according to the BBC.
fans in London due to the Covid restric- It said that an average of 10.2 million
tions . . . fans should only travel to the people watched the match live on BBC
capital if they have a ticket or a safe One, with the audience peaking at
place to watch the match.” 11.6 million. Viewing figures are expect-
A source close to the mayor added: ed to rise further for the clash on Friday,
“We would have liked to put up a zone which kicks off at 8pm.
for Scottish fans and increased capacity Sporting events at full capacity, page 66
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Scotland fans, including one dressed as Chewbacca, head
for Hampden Park stadium in Glasgow for the European
Championship match against the Czech Republic. One
supporter killed time before kick-off and may have found his
book more enjoyable than the match, which Scotland lost 2-0
We all want to understand what would anyone think that’s OK?” He
happened to him, and he does too: the added that before the incident Buxted
doctors are making some in-depth tests had been celebrating winning the Mid
but we’ll need some time.” Sussex Division One trophy.
Sussex police said that a 17-year-old Thousands of people on social media
boy had been arrested on suspicion of condemned the vandalism, with many
causing criminal damage. offering to help pay for a replacement
Richard Turner, the chairman of defibrillator.
Buxted, an amateur club in the Mid One Twitter user summed up feel-
Sussex League, said: “Everyone at the ings when he wrote: “One of the most
club is a volunteer, we work hard for bizarre and psychopathic pieces of
what we’ve got, but now we’ll have to vandalism I’ve ever seen. This isn’t
raise funds to replace it. mindless . . . this is calculated. Cold,
“Those things save people’s lives and cruel and [callous].” Jo Shiner, the chief
someone has come and trashed it. The constable of Sussex police, asked that
whole world saw what happened to anybody with information about what
Christian Eriksen on Saturday so why happened come forward.
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China raising the

stakes ‘with new
world of warfare’ posed by organised crime and terrorist
Larisa Brown Defence Editor Analysis
Bruno Waterfield Brussels groups and cyberhackers.
A Ministry of Defence source said:

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China is “changing the nature of war-
fare” by investing heavily in modern
military capabilities such as robots,
facial recognition software and artifi-
cial intelligence, the head of Nato has
warned.
Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary-gen-
eral, said China’s military build-up and
coercive behaviour presented security
risks to the western alliance.
In a press conference following the
Nato summit yesterday in Brussels, he
said the alliance must spend more on
defence to beef up its defences and
counter threats from Beijing and
Russia. He also described relations with
Russia at their lowest point since the
end of the Cold War.
Boris Johnson, who travelled to meet
world leaders in Brussels, insisted that
the alliance did not want a new Cold
War with China, but said it did pose
“challenges”.
The meeting came as it emerged that
Porton Down, Britain’s top-secret re-
search laboratory, was hiring hundreds
of scientists, including specialists in
space and artificial intelligence, to
counter threats from China and Russia.
Over the next three months jobs will be
advertised for about 300 defence scien-
tists to work for Porton Down, also
known as the Defence Science and
Technology Laboratory, at its site near
Salisbury and other locations across the
country after it received extra funding.
The recruitment drive, the biggest in
the laboratory’s 20-year history, is part
of the government’s efforts to make
Britain a “science and tech superpow-
er” by 2030, with the ability to “monitor,
protect and defend” the country’s inter-
ests. Scientists specialising in artificial
intelligence and space are among those
being sought, as well as analysts and en-
gineers. More positions are expected to
be advertised next year.
It is understood the roles will include
a focus on the threats of the future such
as increased hostility and aggression
from Russia and China’s technological
advancements as well as the dangers
ilitary chiefs believe
the wars of the
future may be won
or lost in space and
it is why the
Ministry of Defence is pouring
billions of pounds into the new
domain (Larisa Brown writes).
The threat was illustrated in
July last year when Russia
test-fired a weapon-like projectile
in space that could have been
used to target satellites in orbit,
leading to condemnation from
the US and Britain.
Mobile phones, banking,
navigation, weather forecasts and
commerce all rely on satellites in
space, which is why their
protection is so important.
Secure and effective satellite
communications are also
essential for troops, although
increasingly countries are war
gaming the use of alternative
ways of talking to each other.
In addition to destroying
satellites in space by using
missiles, military intelligence
sources in Britain have also
warned that Russia has shown an
intent to jam communications
from satellites in space. Such a
move could have an equally
devastating effect.
Russia is already believed to
have tried to jam GPS signals to
aircraft taking off from RAF
Akrotiri in Cyprus, although the
British systems were able to
defend against the attack. There
are concerns that an attempt at
jamming communications could
soon be successful unless
defences are bolstered. To
mitigate the threat, Nato
announced last year it was
building a new space hub to track
Chinese and Russian anti-satellite
systems that it fears could try to
blind or disable satellites.
“These new recruits will be at the fore-
front of keeping the UK safe from a
huge range of threats.”
During the Nato summit in Brussels,
the allies focused on the threats coming
from China and Russia, as well as the
withdrawal of Nato troops from
Afghanistan. They agreed that China’s
behaviour was a “systemic challenge”
to the rules-based international order.
Stoltenberg said that China was
“coming closer” to the alliance and
would soon be the biggest economy in
the world and would have the second
biggest defence budget. He said that it
was investing in nuclear warheads and
new disruptive technologies, such as
artificial intelligence, and then putting
that software in weapons systems to
make them more deadly.
“They are really in the process of
changing the nature of warfare,” he said
in a press conference after the summit.
In a sign of tension President Macron
of France appeared to clash with Presi-
dent Biden of the US and Stoltenberg
over the language on China. At a sepa-
rate press conference Macron said:
“Nato is a North Atlantic organisation,
China has nothing to do with the North
Atlantic. We shouldn’t bias our rela-
tionship with China — it is much larger
than just military. We shouldn’t distract
from the many challenges we have
within Nato.”
Angela Merkel, the German chancel-
lor, stressed the need for the “right bal-
ance” when it came to Beijing.
Nato countries also agreed to defend
each other if war broke out in space
following Chinese and Russian tests of
anti-satellite weaponry.
Stoltenberg said that any attack on
satellites or other space assets could
trigger Article 5 of the North Atlantic
Treaty, invoking a collective military
response.
Nato member states agreed that such
attacks could be as damaging as a con-
ventional attack, adding that the re-
sponse to each incident would be con-
sidered case by case.

Email slip exposes FOI vetting unit Double child killer has to be
George Grylls Political Reporter
The government’s approach to
transparency has been called “a joke”
after a department mistakenly revealed
details about a secretive unit that vets
freedom of information requests from
journalists.
The Department for International
Trade (DIT) let slip that a Cabinet
Office body called the “clearing house”
collates information on titles that jour-
nalists work for before responding.
Freedom of information requests
should be handled without knowledge
of who submitted them to prevent the
government from treating journalists
differently to members of the public.
Last week, a tribunal criticised the
government for a “profound lack of
transparency” about the operations of
the clearing house and ordered the
disclosure of more documents about
the work of the unit.
Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office
minister, told MPs at the end of last year
that it was “not correct” that his depart-
ment was blacklisting journalists.
A series of emails mistakenly sent to
Politico, however, have shown that DIT
does note down when requests come
from the media — with the BBC and
The Guardian among the publications
identified. The emails also reveal that
officials in the clearing house worked to
block information from being released
to journalists.
Lord Clark of Windermere, the
Labour peer who authored the freedom
of information laws, described the gov-
ernment’s approach to transparency as
“a joke”. “I’m completely opposed to a
centralised department vetting re-
quests for information. Whether it’s a
journalist or just a general member of
the public, it’s all part of the democratic
process and it needs to be protected and
fought for,” he said.
Earlier this year 12 newspaper
editors, including the editor of The
Times, signed a joint letter condemning
the work of the clearing house.
The public administration and con-
stitutional affairs committee is expect-
ed to order an investigation into the
clearing house when MPs meet today.
A Cabinet Office spokesman said:
“All FOI requests are treated exactly the
same, regardless of who the request is
from and their occupation. It would be
unlawful for the Cabinet Office, or any
other public authority, to blacklist or vet
inquiries from journalists. Departments
may refer round-robin or requests for
sensitive information to the Cabinet
Office for advice on how to respond.”
released, says Labour leader
Matt Dathan Home Affairs Editor
Sir Keir Starmer has appeared to back
the Parole Board’s decision to free Colin
Pitchfork, who murdered two teenage
girls in the 1980s.
The Labour leader, a former director
of public prosecutions, said that there
came a point when offenders “have to
be released” if they are deemed safe by
the Parole Board.
The decision to release Pitchfork, 61,
the first murderer to be convicted with
DNA evidence, has been criticised by
the families of Lynda Mann and Dawn
Ashworth, from Leicestershire — who
were 15 when he raped and strangled
them — politicians and detectives in-
volved in the case. Starmer told LBC
Radio: “He has served a long sentence
and he served the sentence imposed on
him by the court, and under our system
that means there comes a point at
which he has to be released. That
doesn’t make it easier for you, it doesn’t
make it any easier for the families.
“There’s a great tendency politicians
are leaping on a particular case. Actual-
ly if we think the system is wrong or
sentences are wrong in general we
should change the law on sentencing
and look at whether it should be longer
sentences in some of these cases.”
The Parole Board cleared Pitchfork
for release this month, meaning that he
will be freed by the end of the month
unless the government successfully
appeals against the decision.
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World leaders
including Boris
Johnson and
Angela Merkel at
Nato headquarters
in Brussels for the
one-day summit;
left, President
Macron of France
spoke with
President Biden
over the alliance’s
position on China;
right, Johnson in a
meeting with
President Erdogan
of Turkey and his
ministers
PMs bash out trade deal with dinner
Oliver Wright, Henry Zeffman
Boris Johnson and the Australian prime
minister, Scott Morrison, will today
announce Britain’s first bespoke post-
Brexit trade deal.
With most of the deal already agreed,
one final key dispute was left to be
resolved by the two prime ministers at
a dinner in London.
The UK had offered Australia tariff-
and quota-free access for beef and lamb
exports but demanded a 15-year transi-
tion period to give British farmers time
to adapt to the increased competition.
However, Australia had rejected this
and called for the transition period to
be no longer than five years.
One source with knowledge of the
talks predicted that the disagreement
would not be a “deal breaker” prevent-
ing Morrison and Johnson from an-
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nouncing a deal in principle today. Late
last night it was reported by the BBC
that a compromise had been reached.
One sticking point that is under-
stood to have been resolved earlier was
a demand by the UK that Australia
remove a rule that enables British
citizens on a 12-month working visa in
Australia to extend it by another year
only if they work 88 days in the
agricultural sector.
This is controversial in Australia
amid claims that it could lead to a loss
of up to 10,000 farm workers a year
from the UK. However, the UK claims
that it is discriminatory because there
are no such stipulations on Australian
citizens working in the UK.
Under the terms of the deal agreed so
far, Australia would remove tariffs on a
range of British products including
whisky, which now has a tariff of 5 per
EU leaders turn
on each other over
Northern Ireland
Bruno Waterfield, Oliver Wright
Senior figures at the European Union
have clashed over its response to the
dispute with the UK over Brexit and
Northern Ireland.
Hardliners led by President Macron
of France and Ursula von der Leyen, the
European Commission president, insist
that the letter of EU single market law
applies, according to Brussels sources.
Others, such as Maros Sefcovic, the
commission vice-president in charge of
negotiations, are pushing for flexibility
on EU rules such as medicines approval
to achieve a compromise.
Tensions between London and Brus-
sels flared at the G7 summit in Cornwall
over the application of the Northern
Ireland protocol. Brussels wants Britain
to stick to the letter of the agreement,
including strict single-market rules.
London wants exemptions to protect
trade between Britain and the province.
A source in Brussels said “there are
real tensions” about how tough to be.
Under the protocol all medicines
must be approved by the EU, potent-
ially denying Northern Ireland resi-
dents access to life saving treatments
already cleared for use in the UK.
The issue, one of the most pressing in
talks between Sefcovic and Lord Frost,
the Brexit minister, has been made even
more difficult because at the end of
January Von der Leyen tried to suspend
the protocol, using Article 16, to block
vaccine exports to Britain.
In a victory for Sefcovic, European
governments led by Ireland and others
persuaded Von der Leyen that the
commission would have to bend to
prevent the disputes spilling over into
the NHS, according to sources.
One proposal is said to include a
derogation allowing the NHS in
Northern Ireland to use UK-approved
medicines. However, nothing has been
offered in writing to the government
beyond “oral commitments”.
Many on the EU side are rattled by
deteriorating dynamics domestically
after Boris Johnson threatened to
unilaterally suspend elements of the
protocol and Macron waded into the
dispute, stressing that EU single-
market law was not negotiable and
suggesting that Northern Ireland was
not a proper part of the UK.
“It is being used to help the Conserv-
atives at home. That is bad enough
when trust is at a premium. Now
Macron is making it worse. There is a
real problem,” a diplomatic source said.
“Sefcovic is caught in the middle,
cent. There would also be a reduction in between the UK and some in the EU.
tariffs on medicinal and pharma- He wants to be pragmatic and on medi-
ceutical products as well as cars, cines has made a big offer but the polit-
machinery and tractors, and greater ac- ical space is closing up fast.”
cess to Australian markets for services. President Biden is expected to re-
In return Australia wants tariff- and ceive assurances from Von der Leyen
quota-free access to UK markets for its and Charles Michel, the president of
agricultural exports. These are worth the European Council, that the EU is
$50 billion annually but only $700 mil- ready to be flexible to preserve the
lion goes to the UK. peace process. The White House con-
The real benefit for the UK would be firmed yesterday that Biden told John-
to pave the way for British membership son not to let disputes over Brexit un-
of the Comprehensive and Progressive dermine the Good Friday agreement.
Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partner- Business has appealed to the UK and
ship. This would reduce tariffs on the EU to sort out their difficulties. The
exports to a bloc that includes countries Northern Ireland Business Brexit
across the Pacific and south and north Working Group said that it was possible
America with a combined GDP of for the EU and UK to maintain the
£8.4 trillion. single market but minimise the impact
A spokeswoman for the Department on Northern Ireland.
for International Trade declined to Macron and N Ireland, letters, page 26
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Tensions were
never far from
the surface
Analysis
G
7 summits are
unpredictable affairs.
After the turbulence of
the Trump years, the
narrative of Cornwall was
getting the family back together and
that was achieved (Oliver Wright
writes). But getting the family to
agree on other things was a trickier
proposition. So how did they do?
covid-19
This was perhaps the most pressing
issue of the summit. Experts believe
that across sub-Saharan Africa,
Latin America and less developed
parts of Southeast Asia about five to
six billion doses will be needed.
G7 leaders yesterday pledged to
provide 870 million doses directly
over the next year, bringing the total
pledged since the start of the
pandemic to around a billion.
It is a start but was criticised by
campaigners for not being enough
to meet the scale of the challenge.
Another consideration is that
China and Russia are actively
engaged in vaccine diplomacy, using
their own vaccines to win influence
with governments across the world.
climate change
Boris Johnson identified
commitments around climate
change as being one of the key
objectives of the summit.
But again the rhetoric was more
impressive than the substance. For
example, in the final communiqué
the leaders did not set a specific date
to phase out the use of coal, merely
committing to “rapidly scale-up
technologies and policies that
further accelerate the transition
away from unabated coal capacity”.
china
Here splits between the EU and the
US became apparent. A reference to
human right abuses in Xinjiang was
omitted at the last minute after the
US had already sent out a briefing
note including it. While the UK,
Canada, France and Japan backed
the US, Germany and Italy did not
want to provoke Beijing.
global taxation
The leaders endorsed plans pushed
by the US to set a global minimum
rate of corporation tax of at least
15 per cent to prevent companies
from off-shoring their operations in
a desire to reduce their tax bill. In
return the US has agreed a new
global mechanism to tax the world’s
largest companies, many in the tech
sector, to ensure they pay more tax
in the countries where they operate.
It was a signal that the G7 was
more aligned than it has been for
some time and is prepared to take
steps — if they are small ones —
towards tackling some of the great
challenges of our time.
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Tea ladies Belvoir Castle in Grantham, Leicestershire, has released early tickets for its Regency-themed Christmas event, set to run from November 15 to January 5
Officers in the dock over axe murder case
Michael Gillard
Fiona Hamilton Crime Editor
An eight-year inquiry into Scotland
Yard’s handling of a notorious axe
murder will conclude that the
investigation was routinely hampered
by corruption.
The independent panel examining
the killing of Daniel Morgan, a private
investigator, is expected to criticise a
number of officers linked to the case.
The murder of Morgan, 37, who was
found with an axe embedded in his
head in pub car park in Sydenham,
southeast London, in 1987, is the most
investigated case in British history. The
initial inquiry was incompetent and
mired in allegations of police corrup-
tion. Despite five investigations costing
the taxpayer £50 million no one has
been brought to justice.
The inquiry by an independent
panel, chaired by Baroness O’Loan, was
ordered in 2013 by Theresa May, then
home secretary. The Times revealed
last month that the Met will be criti-
cised for stalling the inquiry.
Morgan’s family believe he was on
the verge of exposing police corruption
when he was killed. Four suspects were
eventually charged with murder,
including Morgan’s business partner
Jonathan Rees. A former Met officer,
Sidney Fillery, was charged with
perverting the course of justice.
Their trial collapsed at the Old Bailey
in March 2011 amid concerns about the
police handling of “supergrass” wit-
nesses and the Met’s failure to disclose
sensitive police files.
The judge ruled Dave Cook, a former
Met detective, breached guidelines in
relation to a supergrass witness in the
trial and probably prompted the same
witness to implicate two suspects.
Cook, who says he was made a “scape-
goat”, was investigated between 2012
and last year for perverting the course
of justice and links to a journalist.
The former detective, who has the
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support of the Morgan family and was
cleared last April, claims the Met has
used the investigation to “silence” him,
stopping him from revealing his know-
ledge about corruption. He gave evi-
dence to the panel, which is understood
to have uncovered failings in the way
the case was handled and an alleged
cover-up of those failings.
Daniel Morgan
was found dead
in a pub car park
Tuesday June 15 2021 | the times
Met hired
man accused
of assaults
Alexandra Heal, Sarah Haque
John Simpson Crime Correspondent
A trainee detective was hired by the
Metropolitan Police even though he
had been accused of domestic abuse.
His colleagues then pursued harass-
ment claims against the woman who
had complained about him.
The officer’s former girlfriend
accused him of about 20 incidents,
including assault, and he allegedly tex-
ted her mother to say: “I will probably
ended up killing your daughter.”
The man, who cannot be named, was
hired from his role as a special consta-
ble. Police crime logs and emails ob-
tained by the Bureau of Investigative
Journalism show that the woman was
pursued by Met officers for more than
two years and threatened with arrest.
The force has confirmed that col-
leagues from the man’s own station
investigated his claims but there is no
evidence that he knew those col-
leagues. The woman says that the
police did not take a formal statement
from her. The case against the officer
was closed within four months.
A Met spokesman said: “The allega-
tions against the officer were investi-
gated and declared as part of his vet-
ting. He was not charged or convicted
of the allegations.”
Rees and two other former suspects
brought a successful malicious prose-
cution claim against the Met and were
awarded damages in 2019. Fillery also
received damages after judges found he
was wrongly charged with perverting
the course of justice.
The panel’s remit was to investigate
police involvement in Morgan’s murder
and issues of corruption. It was also
asked to examine connections between
private investigators, police officers and
journalists at the News of the World, the
defunct Sunday tabloid owned by News
UK, as well as other parts of the media.
The report will be laid in parliament
at about midday today.
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Anger after Bank removes portraits of former governors
Jack Malvern
The Bank of England has removed
from public view ten artworks depict-
ing former governors and directors
because of their slave-trade links.
The decision, made after the Bank
undertook a review last summer,
angered campaigners, who say that
removing public art is an attempt to
erase history. One activist, from Save
Our Statues, described the removals as
a “latter day bonfire of the vanities” that
ran against the government’s policy of
“retain and explain”.
The artworks comprise eight oil
paintings and two busts that relate to
seven individuals. They include Gilbert
Heathcote, a founding member of the
Bank of England, who has not been
directly linked to the slave trade.
University College London’s Legacy
of Slavery Project, the most exhaustive
source giving people linked to the trade,
describes him as a “London merchant
and colonial trader with significant in-
volvement in early trade with Jamaica”
but that “he appears not to have owned
land or enslaved people there, and
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Churchill’s
dream tipple
Britain and the United States are
two nations divided by a common
language. We are also divided by
where people seek salvation. In
Greater, Penny Mordaunt’s new
book on the post-Brexit world, the
paymaster-general observes that
churches outnumber bars by six to
one in the US, while in Britain
there are many thousands more
pubs than churches. “If that is not
a source of national pride, nothing
is,” says Mordaunt, below. Churchill
was once ticked off about his
drinking by an American preacher,
who quoted from the Bible that red
wine “biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder”, to which
the PM replied: “I’ve been seeking
a drink like that all my life.”
Frank Gardner, the BBC’s security
correspondent, has discovered that
he is the ten-times great-grandson of
one of the key figures at the Tudor
court. “He was Keeper of the Stool,”
Gardner told LBC. “It means exactly
as it sounds. His job was to open up
the thunderbox and chat to Henry
VIII while he was squatting.” Makes
reporting on chemical attacks in the
Middle East look like a picnic.
quivering timbers
At a ceremony in parliament to
mark the 400th anniversary of the
return of the Mayflower, Greg
Hands, the trade minister, noted
that the boat that took the Pilgrims
to the New World had a sad
ending. It was broken up soon
after and some of its timbers
were used to make a barn in
Buckinghamshire where, 360
years later, the teenaged
Hands showed off his dance
moves at village discos.
Drawing a veil over his
youth, the minister simply
noted that those Puritan
beams would have been
shocked by what they
later witnessed.
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reportedly his brothers sold their own the past, or be party to the current depicting former governors and direc- Andrew Bailey, the governor, said in
such interests on their return to Britain”. vogue for reducing history through the tors, where we have been able to December that the Bank
A source at the Bank said that it had single lens of slavery,” Poll told The establish links to the slave trade, have had “no time for the so-
used the project’s database to check Daily Telegraph. been removed from display.” called values of [the] past in
whether any of the portraits’ sitters He described it as part of a “purging The works had been on display in the condoning slavery and the
were connected to the trade. of our art collections” that has followed Bank’s parlours, banking rotunda and slave trade” and that it
Another figure to have been removed the toppling of a statue of the slaver its museum. The Bank added that it had had to acknowledge
from view is Robert Clayton, who has Edward Colston in Bristol. It is now on appointed a researcher “to work in our “some of the pictures
also had a statue removed from Guy’s display in the city’s M Shed museum. museum to explore the Bank’s histori- of my predecessors
and St Thomas’ NHS Trust because he A spokeswoman for the Bank said: cal links with the transatlantic slave that sit on the floor
was an executive for the Royal African “In June 2020 the Bank of England trade in detail” and that the research above me”.
Company, which transported almost announced a review of its collection of would “inform future The Department
150,000 enslaved men, women and images of former governors and museum displays”. for Culture said:
children to the Americas. Clayton was directors, to ensure none with known “The government
director of the Bank from 1702-17. involvement in the slave trade remain James Bateman, does not support the
The other sitters are James Bateman, on display anywhere in the Bank. The governor 1705-07, removal of historic
governor of the Bank from 1705-07; review is now complete and artworks has been taken down objects.”
Robert Bristow, director 1713-20; William
Dawsonne, director 1698-1719; William
Manning, governor 1812-14; and John
Pearse, governor 1810-12.
Robert Poll, the founder of the Save
Our Statues campaign, said that the
Bank’s decision flew in the face of public
statements by Oliver Dowden, the
culture secretary, that institutions
should not hide depictions of slavers.
“The Bank should not be spending its
time pointlessly sitting in judgment of
bishop’s silver lining
Fans of velvet robes and
white-plumed hats were
disappointed yesterday as for the
fourth time in six years the annual
Garter Day procession was
cancelled. Rain stopped play in
2016, the first time since 1971 that
there hadn’t been the parade of
begartered knights and ladies
to their service in Windsor and
the whole thing was called off in
2017 because of the state opening
of parliament. For the past two
years, Covid got in the way,
unchivalrously. It is probably just as
well that this year was off since the
prelate of the order, the Bishop of
Winchester, is taking time off after
his diocesan synod threatened a
motion of no confidence in him.
The Sussexes may or may not have
sought the Queen’s permission to
call their daughter Lilibet but
Anneka Rice is anxious to get her
refusal in early. The broadcaster has
told her sons that they are not to
call any future grandchildren after
her childhood nickname. “Pudding
should stay on the plate,” Rice says.
tv channel stutters forth
GB News had a bumpy launch
technically on Sunday, leading the
media commentator Bill Rogers to
call it “off-mike conversations in a
dimly lit furniture showroom”, but
the benchmark for duff opening
nights remains April 20, 1964,
when a huge power cut struck
west London 26 minutes before
BBC Two was due to begin and
lasted all evening, denying viewers
Howard Keel in Kiss Me, Kate, a
routine by the Soviet Union’s
No 1 stand-up comedian and
live fireworks from Southend.
Michael Peacock, the
controller, did not mind the
bad publicity. “Had it not
happened, the nation
may not have known
that BBC Two had gone
on the air,” he reflected.
“As it was, everybody
knew that we hadn’t.”
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plankton, for which the

lagoon is known.
Scott told the Daily
Mail they had been told
not to swim in the sea
but that they could swim
in the river. Scott said:
“Someone asked, ‘Are
there any crocodiles?’
and the guide said, no, it
was safe.”
Shortly after 6pm the
tour guide rushed over
to them to tell them to
pack up their belongings
so they could leave
immediately.
Scott said: “Someone
else said words to the
effect, ‘there’s been a
Crocodile twins were crocodile attack’ or
‘someone’s got bitten’, so
I grabbed all the bags
told lagoon was safe and ran for the boat.”
The boat sped towards
where the twins had

T
ravellers who
were with the
twin sisters
attacked by a
crocodile in
Mexico have said they
were told by guides that
the river was safe for
swimming (Arthi
Nachiappan writes).
Melissa and Georgia
Laurie, 28, were
swimming in a lagoon as
part of an organised tour
near Puerto Escondido
when Melissa was
dragged underwater by
the reptile. Georgia
repeatedly punched the
crocodile until it
released her sister, who
had alerted the rest of
the travellers to the
danger.
“We saw the crocodile
and we tried to swim to
safety but unfortunately
my sister didn’t escape
that — so it took her
under,” Georgia told
ITV News yesterday.“We
tried to call her name
but there was no answer
. . . and then I just saw
been swimming and
members of staff helped
Georgia to lift her sister
on board. “That sight
will stay for ever in my
mind,” Scott said.
“Georgia was cradling
Mel and there was a lot
Melissa Laurie, left, is walking again and pictured for the first time after her sister Georgia saved her from a crocodile of blood.”
attack by repeatedly punching the animal. The twins were on an organised boat trip, top left, to a lagoon in Mexico The twins, from
Berkshire, who are
her body floating most injuries.” Georgia puncture marks on her among a group of 23 former British Airways
towards me. said that Melissa, who legs and abdomen, cuts tourists who had paid cabin crew members,
“The crocodile came had been placed in an to her stomach, a 300 pesos (£10) each for had been working and
back twice — so I beat it induced coma but is fractured wrist, and had a trip to see the volunteering at animal
off but the third time is starting to walk and water in her lungs. bioluminescence, caused sanctuaries during their
when I sustained the talk, was left with Elliot Scott, 28, was by phosphorescent travels.

Maddie suspect says prosecutors Father ‘killed

‘have turned public against him’
Oliver Moody Berlin
The prime suspect in the disappearance
of Madeleine McCann appears to have
protested his innocence in a letter from
prison, breaking his 12-month silence
on the allegations.
Christian Brückner, 44, was accused
last June of abducting and murdering
the British girl in the Algarve region of
Portugal in 2007, when she was three.
He is currently serving a seven-year
sentence in Oldenburg, northwest Ger-
many, for the 2005 rape of an American
pensioner and has yet to face any char-
ges relating to the McCann case.
German prosecutors have insisted
that they are confident of bringing
Brückner to trial but said they needed
more time to amass evidence.
Yesterday, however, Bild published
an image of what purported to be a
handwritten “press release” from
Brückner in which he complained of a
“scandalous campaign of prejudice”
against him and called for the prosecu-
tors leading his case to resign.
The letter, written in a childlike,
punctiliously neat script, argued that
the prosecutors had broken the princi-
ples of the rule of law in Germany with
their extensive public comments im-
plying Brückner’s guilt.
“Charging a guilty person is one
thing,” it said. “A wholly different thing,
in fact an unbelievable scandal, is when
a state prosecutor sets off a public cam-
paign of prejudice even before the start
of the main proceedings.”
The letter argued that the prosecu-
tors had abused freedom of expression
and failed to protect the “position of the
outsider”. “I call on the Braunschweig
state prosecutors [Hans-Christian]
Wolters and [Ute] Lindemann to re-
sign,” it said. “Both are making it evi-
dent around the world, through their
arbitrary judgments in the past and
through their scandalous campaign of
prejudice against an innocent person in
the present, that they are not fit for the
office of an ‘attorney for the honest
German people, who place their faith in
justice’, and are bringing shame upon
the German justice system.”
The message was apparently accom-
panied by a cartoon drawing of two
German state prosecutors — possibly
intended to be Wolters and Lindemann
– in a pizza restaurant. Gazing at a
menu, the male figure says: “I’ll have
the forensics fillet”, and the female
replies: “Delicious! Me too!”
This has been interpreted as a refer-
ence to the lack of compelling forensic
evidence against Brückner.
The authenticity of the letter, which
was dated May 8, could not be verified
independently. Up to now Brückner
has been solely represented in public
through his celebrity lawyers, Friedrich
Fülscher and Johann Schwenn.
Scotland Yard and German police
have said that Brückner’s mobile phone
received a 30-minute telephone call
near the McCanns’ apartment an hour
before Madeleine disappeared.
German prosecutors believe that
Madeleine was murdered but they have
not produced any evidence. Scotland
Yard has said there is still a possibility
that she may be alive.
Last month Wolters said his team had
received promising fresh evidence
against Brückner but said “now is not
the time” to share it with the suspect’s
defence lawyers. He said he hoped to
bring charges by the end of the summer
and that an important witness was
taking part in a reconstruction of the
crime scene at Praia da Luz, the resort
from which Madeleine disappeared.
“[The evidence] is not forensic, but it
is new circumstantial evidence which
all adds to the working theory that he is
responsible,” Wolters told The Sun.
daughter to
silence her’
A teenage photography student was
murdered by her father to silence her
claims that he sexually abused her,
before both parents sent messages from
her phone pretending to be her and say-
ing she had run away, Cambridge
crown court was told.
Bernadette Walker, 17, was last seen
alive on July 18 when her father Scott,
51, collected her by car from his parents’
house in Peterborough, where she had
stayed overnight, the court heard.
Lisa Wilding QC said that her father
and her mother, Sarah, 38, formed an
“unholy alliance”, in a nine-minute
phone call to cover up her death. Her
body has not been found.
On July 16 Bernadette told her
mother that her father “had been sexu-
ally abusing her over a number of
years” but her mother did not believe
her. “The following day, it was decided
that Bernadette should go and spend
the night with her paternal grand-
parents while things calmed down a
little,” Wilding said.
Her father picked her up the next day

Mother’s pain over reporter killed by drunk biker
Katie Gibbons
The mother of a foreign correspondent
who was killed by a speeding motor-
cyclist has condemned at the inquest
the senseless “act of reckless violence”.
Melissa van der Klugt, 34, who had
reported from south Asia and Africa for
The Times, The Sunday Times and the
BBC, was hit by the vehicle as it acceler-
ated to between 75 and 80mph in a
30mph street in Battersea, southwest
London, in August 2019, an inquest was
told. She died almost instantly from
multiple traumatic injuries, which in-
cluded fractures of her skull, ribs,
femur, tibia and fibula, and laceration of
the liver, a pathologist found.
The driver, Christopher Perry, 40,
was one and a half times over the alco-
hol limit and had traces of cannabis in
his system. He died the following day
from injuries sustained in the collision.
Westminster coroner’s court was told
toxicology reports showed that Perry
had 108mg of alcohol in his blood; the
legal limit is 80mg. He also had traces of
cannabis, which would have acted as an
accelerator to the alcohol.
Van der Klugt had worked at The
Melissa van der
Klugt had worked
for The Times
Times for almost ten years before leav-
ing to pursue her dream of working as a
foreign correspondent. She spent her
final afternoon working on the finish-
ing touches to her first novel, a child-
ren’s book, and had walked from her
house to Sainsbury’s to pick up food.
Her mother, Diana, paid tribute to her
“brave, accomplished and inspiring”
daughter and spoke of the unbearable
pain of waking up each day without her.
She said: “For someone to accelerate
into her on a motorbike at such extreme
speed imbued with alcohol and drugs in
an urban shopping street was an act of
reckless violence.”
Reaching a verdict of unlawful kill-
ing, Bernard Richmond, the assistant
coroner, said: “It is clear that on August
30, 2019, the world became a darker
place when one of its stars had her life
taken away from her.”
but she has not been seen since. She
added: “At 11.23am on July 18 Scott
Walker’s telephone, which was usually
in regular use, was off. It remained off
until 12.54pm and the prosecution say
that in that hour and a half he killed
[Bernadette].” When his phone recon-
nected to the network at 12.54pm his
first call was to his wife and it lasted for
more than nine minutes.
She said that “the only sensible con-
clusion that can be drawn from that
telephone call is that Scott Walker told
his wife that he had killed Bernadette
and needed her help”.
He denies murder and perverting the
course of justice. His wife denies per-
verting the course of justice.
The trial continues.
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City firm gives staff
£45k ‘fertility perk’
Jonathan Ames Legal Editor
A City law company is offering staff
£45,000 for fertility treatment as part of
a new “family-forming” perk.
The move at the London office of
Cooley, which is based in San Francisco
and counts tech companies on its
books, will give single men and women
as well as gay couples the chance to be-
come parents with the financial
support of their employer.
A partner at the London office told
The Times that the offer was in part a
recognition that large commercial law
firms had been “slow off the mark” in
adopting measures to boost the diversi-
ty in their businesses.
Cooley described the offer as a pack-
age for “personalised fertility care and
family-forming support” and said that
it was available to the spouses and part-
ners of its workforce as well as “single
parents by choice and LGBTQ+ indi-
viduals and couples”. It also said that it
would cover adoption expenses.
Similar benefits are rare among the
top domestic City law companies.
However, it emerged today that one of
the elite group of five so-called magic
circle practices, Clifford Chance, also
has a fertility scheme.
The Clifford Chance offer is far less
generous. A spokeswoman confirmed
that it would cover up to £15,000 for
“fertility investigations and treatment
such as IVF, ICSI, egg/sperm freezing,
donor eggs/insemination”. The Clifford
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Chance scheme is linked to its private
health care package, while the Cooley
offer is available to all its partners and
staff regardless of whether they are
members of that company’s existing
health insurance.
Cooley, which has 1,200 lawyers at 17
offices around the world, including 200
partners and staff in London, began of-
fering the scheme in the US at the be-
ginning of the year. It is understood that
the significant differential between its
scheme and that offered by Clifford
Chance is that Cooley’s UK partners
and staff are being offered the rough
equivalent of that made to their col-
leagues in the US.
Sascha Grimm, a Cooley partner in
London, said that the company “sup-
ports all paths to parenthood and we
are proud to enable employees and
partners to access the best fertility and Numbers game Anne Robinson is joining Rachel Riley and Susie Dent to host Countdown, Channel 4’s longest running show
family-forming services available”. She
said that several of the leading US com-
panies had similar schemes. Senior
partners consulted with its lawyers and
staff in London and found widespread
Whistleblower sues NHS transgender clinic
enthusiasm for the benefit, she added.
Cooley pointed out that in addition Katie Gibbons after warning that patients as young as unwritten directive from management
to its fertility scheme its London office 11 were at risk. that safeguarding concerns should not
provided three months of paid parental England’s first NHS child gender clinic Her action against the trust, which is be brought to her and that clinicians
leave for non-birthing parents. is being sued by an employee who being funded by donations of £117,000, were discouraged from reporting to her.
City law companies have a reputa- claims that she was unfairly penalised opened at the Central London Employ- Tavistock and Portman NHS
tion for demanding long hours of law- for raising concerns that patients’ ment Tribunal yesterday. Appleby, who Foundation Trust said: “The Trust
yers, leaving them vulnerable to sug- health and safety were endangered. is the safeguarding lead at the hospital strongly refutes the claims. The Trust
gestions that women who start families Sonia Appleby says that she was group, says that Tavistock misused pro- does not accept that it has penalised
are put at a disadvantage in practices, “subjected to detriments” by the cedures to “besmirch her” and jeopar- anyone for raising concerns.”
especially in relation to promotion. Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust dise safety. She also claims there was an The hearing continues.
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FIONA HANSON FOR THE TIMES

Wife entitled Josephine Philips, 23,

created the tailoring
app Sojo after finding
few second-hand
clothes that fit her
for second-hand clothes.
Finding ones that fit well
was a hurdle to a
sustainable wardrobe. “I
would find amazing

to divorce
clothes that I loved, that
just weren’t my size,” she
said. “Thank God for
feminism, but I don't
know how to sew. I was
like, ‘Well, what do I

husband who
do?’ ” The answer was
revolutionising the
centuries-old tailoring
industry by bringing it
into the digital age.
Sojo’s users are mainly

worked late aged between 20 and 28.

Jonathan Ames Legal Editor
A woman was within her rights to
divorce her husband because he
worked long hours and missed holi-
days, according to a High Court ruling.
Charles Ayeh-Kumi, 64, argued that
“easy” divorce laws allowed his wife to
leave him because he “worked too much
and never went on holiday”.
The technology consultant said that
Marion’s reliance on the ground of “un-
reasonable behaviour” when she di-
vorced him two years ago breached his
human rights. He argued that “un-
reasonable behaviour” was not suffi-
ciently defined in law and the lack of
clarity had made separation too easy.
The human rights challenge to
divorce laws was first brought in 2019
Charles Ayeh-Kumi said “easy” divorce
laws had allowed Marion to leave him
and government lawyers acting on
behalf of the lord chancellor applied to
the court to dismiss the claim. Mr
Ayeh-Kumi filed a counter-application
for summary judgment in his favour
but the judge, Master Victoria
McCloud, has now backed the govern-
ment, ruling that his former wife’s
Sewing for that age group
makes a change for the
seven London seamsters
who were recruited from
recommendations or
couple’s two daughters, claimed that the their social media. One of
Matrimonial Causes Act breached basic them, Hasan Sotodenia,
rule-of-law principles, the Human said: “They had an app
Rights Act and the European Conven- for everything:
tion on Human Rights. He told the restaurants, dry-cleaning,
court that in their divorce proceedings the only thing there was
Ms Ayeh-Kumi’s examples of his un- no app for was tailoring.”
reasonable behaviour were that he Philips graduated last
“worked too much” and “didn’t go on summer from King’s
holiday” with the family 20 years earlier. College London with a
She had argued: “My husband was Physics and Philosophy
absent in the evenings and at weekends. degree, before winning a
[He] did not come on any family holi- £5,000 grant as a finalist
days when the children were growing in the Mayor of London’s
up or come to any concert performan- Entrepreneur
ces that the children took part in.” competition. Her app is
Mr Ayeh-Kumi told the court that his available in London zones
former wife was referring to holidays 1 and 2, but aims to be in
that were taken when they were five UK cities by the end
struggling to pay the mortgage. “I am a of the year.
one-man band,” he said. “If I don’t work, Alterations cost
I don’t get paid. I admit that I missed a between £12
few family holidays and that I made and £40, and
myself available to clients 24/7.” repairs between
The government announced last £5 and £35.
week that implementation of radical “There’s a
reforms to divorce law will be delayed positive social
until next April. The Divorce, Dissolu- pressure to buy
tion and Separation Act 2020 — which responsibly,”
will create “no-fault divorce” and im- Clemmie
pose a 20-week cooling-off period on Pincott, a 25-
separating couples — received royal as- year-old loyal
sent last June and was set to be imple- customer of Sojo,
mented this autumn. said. Her
The Marriage Foundation, a cam- generation is
paign group, and The Times have long leading the way
campaigned to remove the obligation in sustainable
on separating couples to attribute fashion — an
blame for the marriage ending. estimated 46 per
Family law experts were broadly cent of
disappointed by the delay. Generation Z

T
reliance on those factors for her claim William Longrigg, a partner at the hirteen million Josephine shopped second
of unreasonable behaviour did not
breach his human rights.
law firm Charles Russell Speechlys,
said: “It is generally agreed amongst
Tailor-made items of clothing
end up in landfill
Philips, 23, launched Sojo
in January, since when it
hand in 2019, compared
to 37 per cent of
The judge considered whether there
were reasonable grounds for bringing
family lawyers that having to make
allegations of adultery or unreasonable
app fighting every week in
the UK. One
has been downloaded
thousands of times. After
millennials and just 18
per cent of Generation X.
the claim and found that “it is not a case
which can proceed on the footing of a
behaviour in the great majority of
divorces is a waste of time and money.”
wasteful woman is on a mission to
change that with an app
coming to believe that
the “fast fashion”
The clothing rental
market in the UK is
challenge to the human rights compli-
ance of the judgments of judges in the
He added that the latest decision in
Mr Ayeh-Kumi’s case “demonstrates
culture of that aims to be the
Deliveroo of clothes
industry was built on
exploitation, particularly
forecast to be worth
£2.3 billion by 2029.
divorce case itself”.
Mr Ayeh-Kumi, of Farnborough,
the challenge of defining the complex
and ambiguous terms which serve as
fast fashion repairs (Georgina
Roberts writes).
of women of colour,
Philips started shopping
A change for the better,
leading article, page 27
Hampshire, who is estranged from the grounds for divorce in current law”.

Nostalgia TV is unwelcome flashback ‘Cancelled’ DH Lawrence

David Sanderson
A television channel dedicated to films
and programmes from a bygone era has
built up a dedicated audience but it’s
not all plain sailing.
It may have Cliff Richard singing
amid vergers and vicars for some and
earthier Scotland Yard television
detectives for others but the problem,
according to the “purveyors of
nostalgia TV”, is that you cannot please
everyone, especially with the televisual
language of the past.
The founders of Talking Pictures
have said that while they received com-
plaints if they retained “offensive [and]
discriminatory” language on the his-
toric programmes and films they
broadcast, their viewers complained if
they cut the offending segments. “I try
to warn people, tell them the content
they’re about to watch contains out-
dated attitudes, offensive and discrimi-
natory language for today’s viewers,”
Sarah Cronin-Stanley, its managing di-
rector, told the Radio Times.
“I try to do that as much as possible
and preserve the original content,” she
added. If I cut things out I get moaned
at . . . but if I don’t cut the word or phrase
we also get complaints.”
Her father, Noel Cronin, set up the
channel six years ago with the help of a
library of old, unused BBC B-films. The
channel, which is on Freeview supple-
ments, mixes films with television
series from the mid-20th century, such
as Scotland Yard and Gideon’s Way.
Cronin said that it soon began hitting
3.5 million viewers a week because “the
BBC had moved on. If you’re over 28
there’s no room for you. ITV had com-
pletely lost it, so there was a niche.”
Ofcom closed an investigation into
Talking Pictures earlier this year after a
complaint was made over its broad-
casting of a “blackface” scene on the
1970s ITV series Rogue’s Rock. The
regulator said that the channel had
prefaced the broadcast with a warning
about the “outdated and offensive
nature of the material”.
“It’s so tough,” the founder’s daughter
told the magazine. “I don’t want to
rewrite history, to pretend it didn’t
happen.
“To be honest, there is always going
to be somebody out there, no matter
what I do, who will be offended.”
made writing even racier
David Sanderson
DH Lawrence’s latest biographer says
that the author’s “cancelling” during a
1915 obscenity trial at which his novel
The Rainbow was banned led him to
cause even more offence.
“Lawrence thought, ‘OK, if you’re
going to silence me, you may as well
silence me for a reason’,” Frances
Wilson told Radio Times. “And started
writing more audacious and much
more challenging novels.
“Look at Lady Chatterley’s Lover, his
last one. It actually had four-letter
words in it, which The Rainbow didn’t.
As he was dying, Lawrence thought, ‘I
may as well throw everything at this.
You accuse me of being a pornographer,
so bring it on.’ ”
His last novel was the centre of the
1960 obscenity trial.
Wilson, whose biography, Burning
Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence, was
published last month, said that the
author would have had some qualms
about the “wokeness” perceived by
many to be present in today’s society.
“Part of him would have been very
sympathetic to the urgency that the
younger generation feel about cleaning
things up and about not offending
people,” she said. “But part of him
would have been absolutely outraged.”
the times | Tuesday June 15 2021
Robot takeover
could halve law
jobs in 30 years
Jonathan Ames Legal Editor
Robot of the Bailey may sound like a fu-
turist’s joke but lawyers predict that ar-
tificial intelligence will halve the num-
bers working in law within 30 years.
A Law Society report forecasts that
lawyers will need to take “perform-
ance-enhancing medication” to keep
up with machines that will take over
work done by junior professionals.
“The legal profession is not immune
to a savage reduction in full-time em-
ployees,” said the report.
In models of the structure of the pro-
fession over the next 30 years, re-
searchers said that the most “disrupt-
ive” predicted that by 2050 there would
be 50 per cent fewer jobs.
It said: “Lawyers remaining within
the profession must work alongside
technology — and [will be] required to
take performance-enhancing medica-
tion in order to optimise their own pro-
ductivity and effectiveness.”
Kion Ahadi, a director of the society,
who oversaw the report, said that the
size of the profession had grown con-
siderably since 1990 — for example, the
number of solicitors rose by more than
165 per cent — but the combination of
technology and the pandemic would
throw that trend into reverse.
The report said that the number of
individual law firms in England and
Wales had begun to fall before the pan-
demic. The number of private practice
firms has fallen by 10 per cent since
2009 to 9,339 in 2019.
“We expect this trend to continue,”
said Ahadi, who predicted that if it did
so at the same rate there would be a
30 per cent reduction by 2050, which
would mean the closure of a further
2,800 firms. The report said that high-
street firms were most at risk of dis-
appearing and that consolidation would
be “particularly marked in commodi-
tised areas of the law” such as residen-
tial conveyancing, wills and probate.
A loss of high-street law firms will
raise concerns about the accessibility of
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legal services to ordinary consumers.
The report predicted that as smaller
firms fell out of the market the gap
would be filled by larger businesses that
could “fund and scale technology”.
Large corporate legal practices will
see “large swathes of routine legal ad-
vice either conducted in-house by
clients using technology solutions, or
outsourced to technology-enabled pro-
viders”. The researchers added that
“only the high value, complex or newest
areas of law will need human input”.
Ahadi anticipated that brain implant
technology, such as that being tested by
Elon Musk’s company Neuralink, could
be used by law firms.
Ahadi said that by 2050 “lawyers
could find themselves having informa-
tion and knowledge implanted directly
into their brains”, which would reduce
the need for advocates to shuffle
through piles of paper files when refer-
ring to precedents in court. The first café, not far from
“City firms could do well out of this,” Hungarian the Hungarian parliament,
he said. “The notion of trust will be- is filled with memorabilia
come increasingly important in a world coffee shop including books, records
of increased reliance on technology and a teapot donated by
and complex legal issues will still re- idolises UK the widow of Sir Roger
quire human experts.” Scruton, below
He added that “there will also be dis- philosopher
W
putes over the inappropriate use of arti- Scruton helped to
ficial intelligence” but that “these de- hen the smuggle banned western
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Lilibet is a power play
many will recognise
Melanie Phillips
Page 24
PM must level with us if he wants to level up
Infectious optimism has brought Boris Johnson a long way but to succeed he must explain the tough choices ahead
William
Hague
O
ne of my favourite Boris
Johnson stories is from
when I campaigned for
him in his first foray as a
parliamentary candidate,
in North Wales in 1997. “How are
you getting on, Boris?” I inquired.
“Oh,” he said, “it’s going to be
huge.”
“What’s going to be huge?”
“I’ve no idea, but whatever it is, it’s
going to be huge.”
It certainly was — the eventual
Labour majority was huge. But the
exchange stuck with me, in a
miserable election campaign, as
illustrating the infectious good
humour and irrepressible optimism
of the man who would display the
same traits in winning his own
landslide in 2019. The prime
minister’s ability to make people feel
good has served him well in more
than 20 years of campaigning.
Once in government, however,
that admirable ability needs to be
coupled with the setting of realistic
expectations, sometimes preparing
people for a long, hard slog. In the
pandemic, the PM and cabinet have
clearly learnt that lesson. This year’s
rhetoric is more careful than last
year’s, and whatever the
disappointments from yesterday’s
announcement of freedom
postponed, most of the country will
have been neither very surprised nor
strongly disapproving by the time it
came.
The other most urgent issue —
seeking agreement on how to
implement the Northern Ireland
protocol — is far less encouraging.
1GM
The expectation of Unionists in the
province that they could support
Brexit, then oppose the deal Theresa
May designed for their benefit, and
yet ultimately have no trace of an
economic border down the Irish Sea,
defies rational explanation. But they
were encouraged by this PM and
others to believe that there would be
no problem, while a deal they cannot
stand was solemnly signed with the
EU. Optimism is one thing, but false
expectations can lead to intractable
problems a few years down the track.
These are lessons worth taking to
heart as the government contemplates
where it will be in three years’ time,
when a general election will be due.
It is a classic rule of governing that
you should get bad news and difficult
choices out of the way in the first
couple of years of a parliament, but
ministers now have had no scope to
follow that playbook. Preoccupied
first with Brexit and then with a global
pandemic, the hard challenges they
With hard challenges
piling up it’s vital to set
realistic expectatations
were facing anyway are piling up for
the third and fourth years of their
term. It is important to retain the
bouncy, feel-good excitement of
global, high-tech, levelling-up, net-
zero Britain, but it will be even more
necessary than usual to set realistic
expectations, inform the public of
choices to be made and encourage
some understanding of why they are
needed. Voters do not like nasty
surprises.
In the 2017 election the majestic
cruise liner that was the
Conservative campaign collided with
the jagged iceberg of social care
policy and never recovered. What
many of us regarded as a sensible
answer to the intractable question of
who pays for our care in old age
went down disastrously with an
unprepared electorate.
Peer ahead into the political fog
and you can see the same iceberg
looming, except it’s got bigger. Two
years ago Boris Johnson was going to
“fix the social care crisis once and for
all”. Last year there were going to be
cross-party talks. This year the
briefing notes with the Queen’s
Speech said the government “knows
there is more work to do” and
promised proposals soon.
There are only a few realistic ways
of paying for the care of a rapidly
ageing population: a cap on costs with
insurance, a lot more state funding or
a basic entitlement topped up by
contributory schemes. None will be
popular. The more the ground is
prepared, the opposition consulted
and the media informed, the better.
Yet even this issue, well-known for
being unpalatable, might end up
seeming trivial compared with the
costs and implications of achieving
net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The transition to net-zero requires
perhaps the fastest and most
complete change to human society
ever brought about in a peaceful
democracy. The latest report of the
government’s climate change
committee talks of needing an
“accelerated shift in diets away from
meat and dairy products, reductions
in waste, slower growth in flights and
reductions in travel demand” along
with a rapid change in how vehicles
are powered and homes heated.
Take just one aspect of this: the
cost of £12,000 or more to retrofit
each household with new heating
systems. The discussion of how this
will be paid for needs to be started
very soon. Is the cost to fall on the
taxpayer or the homeowner?
Comment
Rishi Sunak will need to explain why
he cannot provide enough money
Wouldn’t it be a good idea to consult
on how low-interest loans might
help households to make the change,
as the Institute for Government
recently pointed out? And shouldn’t
we be investing now in creating the
skills and workforce needed for this
massive task so that we are not
facing supply bottlenecks and
inflation in a few years’ time? Setting
the right expectations is not just
about avoiding disappointment, it is
also vital for getting the right
resources in to place.
All this is meant to be happening
at the same time as “levelling up”.
Some of the finest minds in
government are now working on
what it means. It is absolutely the
right objective but it will require
choices to be made. What is the right
combination of infrastructure
spending, relocation of agencies,
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improved family care and revitalised
education that can truly level up the
regions of the UK? I would be
prepared to argue that education is
the ingredient that makes the
greatest difference — to the lives of
individuals, the productivity of the
economy, the cohesion of society and
the competitive advantage of the
country. But there is no perfect
answer and a lot of hard decisions.
These three sets of choices — on
Even an economic
boom will not pay for
everything we all want
social care, energy transition and
levelling up — join others, including
catching up with an NHS waiting list
five million strong. However much
Rishi Sunak can spare in the
forthcoming spending review, many
people will not consider it enough.
That too will need explaining in
advance. Even an economic boom, if
there is one, will not pay for
everything we all want.
If the government really can make
the breakthroughs needed on all
these issues it will be the 21st-
century equivalent of the greatest
reforming administrations — of
Attlee in the 1940s and Thatcher in
the 1980s. But neither Attlee nor
Thatcher shied away from explaining
that very difficult moments lay
ahead. Johnson is a historian as well
as an optimist. He would be well
advised to follow their example.
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Lilibet is a power play many will recognise
Names are personal and the Sussexes’ misappropriation of the Queen’s moniker is manipulative
Melanie
Phillips
@melanielatest
K
een supporter as I am of
the monarchy, it’s not
often that I find the home
life of our own dear Queen
actually mirrors my own.
Yet Her Majesty’s apparent
irritation over the gesture of giving
baby Sussex the name Lilibet has
struck a personal chord.
Nicknames or diminutives can be
used for very different purposes
depending on the context. What is a
term of affection in the mouths of
some can turn into something less
pleasant in the mouths of others.
Our names are personal to us. We
may call ourselves what we want;
and if others call us by names we
don’t want, either because this is
inappropriate or disobliging or worse,
this is tantamount to treating us with
disrespect. It can also be a way of
cutting someone down to size, which
is a form of aggression.
Such a tactic is sometimes
employed by powerful people. The
US president George W Bush
bestowed endless nicknames on
world leaders, politicians and
journalists. Thus, the White House
correspondents for NBC, Bloomberg
News and The Washington Times
were, respectively, dubbed “Little
Stretch”, “Stretch”, and “Super
Stretch”, according to their height.
They were put in their place, literally.
Giles Coren Notebook
The sun has
got his
LGBTQFO
on, hooray
I
witnessed an extremely rare
meteorological happening at the
weekend. Yes, ha, ha, the sun
shone for about an hour. But, no,
even rarer than that. The kids and I
were playing tradminton (our own
invention: three rackets, two
shuttlecocks, no net, lots of shouting)
when we noticed a colourfully
striped rhombus in the sky. A huge,
unattached shard of rainbow, as it
were. A vast, spectral, multicoloured
kite. Very high up, pinned to thin
wispy cloud like a badge.
“What is it?” said Sam, as we stood
there, squinting up, like extras in a
Superman movie.
“It’s an LGBTQFO,” said my ten-
year-old daughter, Kitty, who is into
queerness in all its forms.
Being more literal minded (and
straighter), I googled this thing and
discovered it to be a “fire rainbow” or
“circumhorizontal arc” and “one of
the rarest optical phenomena known
to Man”. It requires the sun to be at
I once worked for an editor who
used nicknames as a manipulative
means of control over his staff. Some
of these nicknames or diminutives
were his own invention, while others
were ones used by the individual’s
friends. When this man used them,
in meetings or within the earshot of
others, this often created a faint but
perceptible feeling of unease and
discomfort.
This was because it felt
inappropriate. He was our employer,
yet he was presuming a familiarity
that did not exist. The nicknames
sought to mask that difference in
rank and create instead an
impression of mateyness, of being
one of us. But he wasn’t. Moreover,
If others call us by
names we don’t want,
it is disrespectful
the jocular way he used these
nicknames often had an element of
mockery, which felt like malice. All
this vaguely disorientated us. Were
we his friends or his employees? Was
he being affectionate or undermining
us? It caught us off balance. And that
was the point.
He didn’t throw his weight around
by shouting or rows; indeed, he tended
to avoid confrontation. A subtle kind
of guy, he used more manipulative
means of control. Catching us off
balance, even mildly, was a way of
keeping us guessing about his
meaning and motives, and thus
preventing us from presenting any
challenge to him or disruption of what
he wanted to do. Using the terms of
an elevation of 58 degrees or greater
and shining on plate-shaped ice
crystals in high altitude cirrus clouds
at an angle so that light enters
vertically and leaves horizontally,
forcing this heart-stopping
separation of the spectral colours
that wafted above us for three or
four minutes before dispersing like a
gently interrupted dream.
“I don’t like the sound of ‘fire
m
rainbow’,” said Kitty. “I’m
sticking with LGBTQFO.” O.”
“But what does that
even mean?” said Sam,
who is eight, and not
remotely interested in
queerness or indeed
anything apart from
cricket, cheeseburgers
and the Beano.
“It means,” said
Kitty, “that the sun is
coming out.”
Which was a better
joke than anyone had
a right to expect.
Dreamland
I’
ve just finished
This Land: The
Struggle for the Left
by the young socialist
firebrand (and
remorseless Twitter
troll) Owen Jones —
newly out in paperback
address of a close relationship which
didn’t exist was a way of owning us.
It was a power thing.
To that editor, I was always Mel.
Some of my friends called me Mel,
but in his mouth it felt as if what was
intended by my friends as a sign of
affection had been hijacked and used
for a different purpose altogether.
Subsequently, this nominative hijack
developed a life of its own. I am
repeatedly addressed as Mel in print
by people I have never met but who
take issue with my opinions, and who
use this presumptuous familiarity as
a weapon of insult. Affection has thus
been repurposed as aggression, all in
the deployment of a name.
So when it was announced that
baby Sussex was to be called Lilibet,
it felt to me as if the Queen had been
punched in the stomach. Lilibet was
what she was called by her family as
a child — arising from how she had
mispronounced her name when very
young — and in later life by her
husband. It was a nickname borne
out of her unique experience and her
relationship with those closest to her,
and it was particular to her alone.
Yet now it had been appropriated
for use by someone else, denuded of
the personal associations it
represented for the Queen. This
amounted to the theft of a private part
of herself and its redeployment as an
exhibit, or trophy, in the public arena.
Of course, it’s possible that the
Sussexes believed they were paying
the Queen the highest compliment
in choosing this name. But it’s hard
not to conclude that at least one of
them was doing something similar to
what my old editor had done —
unconsciously and almost reflexively
with a postscript on the political
fallout of the pandemic. And I have
to say it is brilliant. I picked it up in
my local bookshop before half-term,
thinking “this will be good for a
pisstake” but found myself gripped
from the outset by his honesty, anger
and cracking way with a narrative.
The Corbyn era that was for so
many of us a period of low farce,
comical self-delusion and impotent
centrist hand-wringing
hand-wringing, has, in
Jones’s hands, a noble, tragicomic arc
that one simply cannot look away
from. The journey from dreams and
optimism (for Owen aand others like
him) through real belibelief in the
possibility of a once-in
once-in-a-lifetime
political earthquak
earthquake, towards
desp and then
growing despair
the heartb
heartbreak of
catastrop electoral
catastrophic
humilia
humiliation, is
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gripping, moving
and brilliantly
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rendered, like a
corkscrewing
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the end.
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stopped to think
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using their baby’s name as a form of
manipulative power-play.
For by choosing this particular
name, which purported to be an act
of homage, the Sussexes snatched
part of the Queen’s most private self
into their own orbit. By this stroke of
appropriation, they sought to own
the Queen herself and thus
effectively wipe out their own loss of
status within the royal family.
Except it hasn’t quite worked out
like that. The gesture appears instead
to embody arrogance, insensitivity
and insult in equal measure. After all,
true homage would have been to call
the baby Elizabeth. “A rose by any
other name would smell as sweet,”
said Shakespeare’s Juliet. Well
actually, not always. Juliet may have
wanted Romeo’s identity as a
Montague to be irrelevant to their
romance, but names matter.
Our names and nicknames anchor
our biography. They are markers of
our individual personhood and our
The gesture appears to
embody arrogance,
insensitivity and insult
sense of me-ness. They are how we
think of ourselves. If people get them
wrong, misspell or mispronounce
them, this can make us irritated or
angry. We are entitled not to have
them weaponised against us. We are
entitled not to have their unique
significance for our own lives
appropriated for someone else. We
are entitled to retain a part of
ourselves that is entirely personal and
protected. Even if one is the Queen.
who had dreamt of a Socialist Britain
all their lives. I was too busy lurching
between childish delight in the
ridiculousness of the Corbynites and
a mortal dread that they might, by
some terrible democratic fluke,
prevail. So to read the whole story
laid before me now, from start to
finish, with such lucidity and insight,
was fascinating. When the book
pages come asking for my “Top
Beach Reads” for Summer 2021, This
Land will be top of my list. Not least
because it has that sine qua non of all
jolly holiday books: a happy ending.
The reckoning
M
y bank wrote to me this week
to announce the launch of its
environmentally friendly
credit and debit cards in line with
“the bank’s wider ambition to drive
sustainability”. As someone who has
been endeavouring to go vegan for
some time, I very much welcome this
replacement of petroleum-based
polymers in the fabrication of my
payment cards with polylactic acid
(PLA) derived from corn. Not least
because I will be able to console
myself, when reviewing restaurants,
that while, yes, I did just devour a
juicy pork chop, I at least paid for it
with a card made of vegetables.
@gilescoren
Tuesday June 15 2021 | the times
Jo’s murder
couldn’t kill off
our optimism
Brendan Cox
J
o Cox was an optimist. By
nature, by demeanour and
from experience. Since she was
killed (it will be five years
tomorrow), that optimism is
something we as a family have tried
to emulate and channel. I see it in
our kids every day: their resilience,
capacity to love and appetite for
adventures.
Her political optimism has at times
been less easy to summon. The
vitriol of Brexit, the rise of Trump,
the import of US-style culture wars,
the political crises, not to mention
Covid. But five years on I find myself
resolutely optimistic. Why? Not as a
homage to Jo but because I think the
UK is steadily becoming a more
tolerant and inclusive place to live.
When you look at the changes in
public attitudes, they have been
astonishing. On homosexuality, for
example: the proportion of the
country thinking it was morally
wrong dropped from 75 per cent to
13 per cent in a little over 30 years.
On race, British Social Attitudes
surveys in the 1990s found 44 per
cent would be uncomfortable if their
We have also started
to weather the shocks
that felt so existential
children married across ethnic lines.
That is now less than 10 per cent.
Ninety-three per cent now disagree
with the idea that to be truly British
you have to be white. Only 3 per cent
agree. And on gender: in 1987, 48 per
cent felt men should work and
women should stay at home; now it
is about 10 per cent.
Clearly fundamental changes are
still needed. The threats of resurgent
antisemitism and anti-Muslim
prejudice need to be taken more
seriously. But the shift continues,
barely noticeable in any moment but
formative over time.
We have also started to weather
the shocks that felt so existential a
few years ago. Brexit divisions, while
still there, are much less motivating.
According to a recent poll for the
Together Coalition, only a quarter of
people now see their political
identity through a Brexit lens.
Perhaps the most important driver
of my optimism though is the quiet
revolution that Covid has caused in
many communities. Three times as
many people felt Covid made their
community more united as opposed
to divided; three quarters now say we
want to live in closer communities.
My hope is that if we harness our
newfound connections then the
period just endured might come to
be seen as the bottom of the curve
— a crisis that helped us to recognise
we really do have more in common
than that which divides us.
Brendan Cox is the widower of Jo Cox,
MP for Batley & Spen 2015-16
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Strong views are no substitute for news
The launch of GB News is welcome even though the channel becomes the latest media outlet to give up on impartiality
Hugo
Rifkind
@hugorifkind
W
elcome, said Andrew
Neil at 8pm on
Sunday, to the
launch of a new
news channel,
dedicated to “giving a voice to those
who felt sidelined or even silenced in
our great national debate”. After an
hour he gave way to Dan Wootton,
formerly of The Sun and TALKRadio,
whose own show featured the fresh
new voices of a chap called Nigel
Farage and another called Lord
Sugar. Gosh, but who are all these
hip young gunslingers? Wherever
have they been hiding? You wouldn’t
see that on the BBC.
Look, I wish GB News well.
Genuinely. And any journalists
resenting the expansion of their own
industry probably ought to be in a
different one. With my own small
role in the launch of Times Radio
last year, I remember how irritating
it is when people claim to know
exactly what you’re all about when
you’re yet to broadcast a moment.
Good luck to them. Absolutely.
And yet. Yesterday morning I
1GM
watched the breakfast show. So far I
do not really understand the
aesthetics of this new channel, with
its backdrop of what appears to be a
garden shed where somebody is
keeping the wine glasses, and I was a
little thrown by a recurring audio
reverb bug that made guests sound
like they were The Voice Of God
After You Ate Those Mushrooms On
Your Gap Year. Broadly, the overall
vibe was one of two presenters (Nana
Akua and Darren McCaffrey) trying
very hard to have views about things
that they didn’t, necessarily, while a
third (Kirsty Gallacher) appeared to
visibly regret her life choices.
These are teething problems, and
over time you can bet it will all get
smoother. The thing it intends to
The thing it intends to
smooth into, though, is
giving me trouble
smooth into, though, is giving me
some trouble. GB News presenters,
you see, are to share their own views,
as a break from the traditional, talk-
like-Lord-Haw-Haw newsreader pose
of inscrutability. In itself, this is not
particularly revolutionary, although it
is more common on radio (where I
do it myself) than it is on TV.
The slight oddity with GB News,
though, is that we will always already
know what these views are. Andrew
Neil made a point of telling us, the
moment the channel went live. GB
News is anti-woke. It is against the
“metropolitan mind-set”, against
“identity politics” and against “cancel
culture”. It is, come what may, “proud
to be British”. It is a channel with
views, and it will never keep them
hidden. This, literally, is the point.
There is a philosophy behind all
this. It starts from the idea that
traditional media (the BBC, Sky,
newspapers and so on) may claim to
be impartial, but ha, as if, what a
joke. Sometimes, the thinking is, they
may be simply lying, because they
are covert cultural Marxists/
Remainers/friends of the powerful,
etc, and operating insidiously, like
Freemasons, or alien lizards or an
ancient cult in a Dan Brown book.
Sometimes, though, it might just
be groupthink. This latter point was
made most famously (if, I think,
unfairly) by the linguist Noam
Chomsky, when interviewed by
Andrew Marr. “I’m sure you believe
everything you are saying,” Chomsky
told him, “but if you believed
something different, you wouldn’t be
sitting where you are sitting.”
Now. You might think that if the
objection here is media bias, the best
fightback would involve a media that
redoubles its efforts at impartiality.
Right? The idea behind GB News,
though — and really, I don’t think I’m
being unfair here — is to do the
opposite. It is to take the Chomsky
critique, which journalists usually
resent, and slap it proudly on the wall.
This has not come out of nowhere.
For the past five years, at least, the
idea that journalists, or indeed
anyone else, including economists,
MPs or even judges, might be
humanly capable of rising above
their own personal preferences in
any context has been met by
recurring, hollow laughter. This idea
The great partisan
Sorting Hat applies
everywhere else
— that impartiality is barely even a
credible aspiration — was
particularly evident over Brexit, but
it is not just on the right. The
leftwing Guardian columnist Owen
Jones doggedly maintains that all
journalists are as ideological as he is,
but that he alone admits it.
Certainly, newspapers have always
had views. This is what leader
columns are for. Frequently, those
views are pretty obvious elsewhere,
too. Almost all British newspapers
took a strong stance over Brexit, and
only a few of them (including this
one) seemed to have much interest in
making space for views that ran the
other way. Tabloids have always bled
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Comment
news and comment together, while
broadly denying it, but a newer
generation of journalism just dives
right in. Various newish leftwing
websites start very cheerfully from
the idea that anybody to the right of
Richard Burgon is basically a Nazi,
showing little interest in engaging
anybody who doesn’t already agree.
Scotland’s newest newspaper (The
National) has support for
independence as its defining mission
statement. Lest you should feel
inclined to get all Yeats about it —
“the centre cannot hold”, etc — there
is also now an equally partisan online
middle, with enough “passionate
intensity” to match either side.
With this as the backdrop, it is of
course absurd to suggest that GB
News is tilting against “the wasteland
to nowhere that is identity politics”
(as Neil has) when it is in fact
proudly building a citadel on its
rightmost flank. Perhaps it is also
absurd, though, to suggest that
television news should be somehow
immune to the great partisan Sorting
Hat that increasingly applies
everywhere else. All the same, I
cannot pretend to be anything other
than edgy at the further, unabashed
degradation of the idea that news is
one thing, opinion is another, and
that a journalist’s foremost job is to
comprehend the difference. Yes, we
fail. Perhaps always. Perhaps every
day. But God, at least we should try.
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Letters to the Editor
Lockdown delay
Sir, Your editorial (“Paradise
Postponed”, Jun 14) rightly concedes
that the government always said it
would “be driven by the data, not
dates”. Although the data may justify
the postponement, does it really
justify the extension of rule by diktat
as opposed to through, measured
parliamentary debate?
To suggest that an exit from what
might be the final lockdown will lead
us into “paradise” is to ignore the
catastrophic damage that will have
been done to so much of our
economy and to so many of our
population, young and old. To some
extent one can sympathise with the
difficult task facing ministers but their
persistent blindness as to how
businesses are actually run, and how
much time they need to plan ahead, is
deeply concerning.
SM Southall
East Horsley, Surrey
Sir, Your leading article states: “No
one can complain when the
government announces . . . a delay to
the lifting of lockdown restrictions.”
Well I am complaining, as are most
people I know. Either the vaccine
works or it doesn’t, in which case we
have all been conned by the
government. The Indian variant may
be more transmissible but so what, if
the number of deaths stays low? The
vast majority of those at risk are
either already, sadly, dead, or have
been double-vaccinated, and statistics
indicate that the young are not in
much danger from the coronavirus.
Given all that, where is the risk? Is
the whole country going to be held
hostage by those apparently in danger
because they have refused to be
vaccinated? We could go on like this
for ever.
Rupert Godfrey
Stert, Wilts
Soaked in sunshine
Sir, The superb taste of Toby Wynn’s
neighbour’s vegetables (letter, Jun 14)
is much more likely to be from the
intense and constant Tuscan sunshine,
something even witchcraft cannot
replicate (“Bio farming is no more
than witchcraft, say scientists”, Jun 12).
Narguesse Stevens
Gloucester
Corrections and
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2020 for cost reasons and continues to
support Stonewall’s work. We
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Macron and the row over Northern Ireland
Sir, Further to your report “Northern
Ireland row mars last day of G7”
(news, Jun 14), who has the better
understanding of Northern Ireland’s
“indivisible” status in the UK,
President Macron or Boris Johnson?
This is what the avowedly unionist
John Major said in his white paper
Frameworks for the Future in 1995:
“The British government reaffirm
that they will uphold the democratic
wish of a greater number of the
people of Northern Ireland on the
issue of whether they prefer to
support the Union or a sovereign
united Ireland. On this basis, they
reiterate that they have no selfish
strategic or economic interest in
Northern Ireland.”
It is hard to conceive of the French
government saying the same about
Toulouse.
Professor Robert Hazell
Constitution Unit, UCL
Sir, The prime minister missed a trick
when he explained Northern Ireland’s
relationship to Great Britain to
President Macron. Instead of drawing
a misconceived analogy with Paris
and Toulouse, he would have been
better comparing the relationship
between Paris and Corsica: the latter
Class barrier to a
career in medicine
Sir, Trevor Phillips once again
highlights the class divide that is alive
and thriving in the UK (“Race matters
but class is the biggest barrier”, Jun
14). A working-class medical student
will generally end up with a debt of
£100,000 after a five-year course,
which will have to be repaid alongside
high mortgage costs and modest
early-years earning. This could well
trigger increasing and substantial
wage demands and/or a reduction of
the individual’s work commitment to
below the threshold for repayment of
student debt. A medical career is fast
becoming out of reach for highly
motivated but financially poor
students, especially women, who will
probably also face high childcare costs
in the early stages of a very
demanding and stressful career.
These issues need to be addressed
urgently but I fear our ruling class is
out of touch with a working-class
electorate and unconcerned about
genuinely levelling the playing field.
Dr Christine Dewbury
Shawford, Hants
TALK
ABOUT THE
TEST MATCH
from the times june 15, 1921
Australia having won the second
Test Match by the comfortable
margin of eight wickets, England, in
the language of the golf course, is
two down and three to play. That is
not an enviable position either for
the players or for the Selection
Committee. It is true that all is not
yet lost. Ultimate victory, even, is
still a possibility, but only if each of
the remaining matches is won
outright. As to the likelihood of that
hope, though we decline to call it
forlorn, it can hardly be claimed that
the odds are in its favour. We must
be content to say, in the words of our
is still part of France despite having
some separatist tendencies and the
intervening presence of the Med.
Peter Mackay
Kincraig, Highland
Sir, It is depressing to witness, once
again, insults being hurled across the
table about implementation of this
Northern Ireland protocol. Attitudes
will only harden if the EU holds to a
purist view on implementation and if
the UK takes unilateral action to
renege on an agreement into which it
entered. Surely a more practical
approach would be to recognise that,
in their haste to complete a Brexit
agreement, both the EU and the UK
closed their eyes to the practical
difficulties that would arise in its
implementation? A proper approach
to forging a workable arrangement
would be for all parties to recognise
that such a protocol can only
practically be applied if all parties
directly affected by it understand, and
agree, the detail of its implementation.
The round-table discussion should
involve not only the UK and EU but
the government of the Republic of
Ireland and the main unionist and
nationalist parties in Northern
Ireland. Only with a true consensus
Sir, Further to Trevor Phillips’s article,
the way people respond to challenges
and choices in life is indicative of
their self-management, maturity and
determination. Hence their
background is often pertinent to
understanding what they may bring
to a job or whether they will succeed
in a chosen career. But questions
about background are easily
interpreted as, and may indeed be,
symptomatic of the interviewer’s
prejudice. Collecting such information
on application forms to analyse social
and career mobility is a mistake: such
knowledge is better gleaned by
anonymised sample surveys. In
interviews, probing an individual’s
history demands sensitivity.
Jim Jewell
Loxwood, W Sussex
Assisted dying bill
Sir, I read with sadness of Noel
Conway’s passing but was glad to
learn that he died peacefully (report,
Jun 12). He strove for dignity at the
end of life and I am heartened that
he achieved this within our existing
legal framework. I note that he lived
for six years after his diagnosis of
Special Correspondent, “Next time
— perhaps!” For this qualified
optimism he points to the fact that
for two hours on Monday England’s
bowlers proved that the Australians
are not the only people who can
attack so as to put batsmen on the
defensive. It is comforting, too, that
the English side showed better form
at Lord’s than at Nottingham and in
their second than their first innings.
Also there was, and is, Woolley, and
there may be Hobbs and Hearne,
and possibly one or two fresh
discoveries. There is probably
something in our Correspondent’s
opinion that Colonel Douglas is not
a lucky captain, and would be more
valuable to the side if he had not to
carry the extra weight of office on
his shoulders. In any case, if the
team, from the captain downwards,
play their own natural game, without
paying heed to outside criticism and
advice (except, it may be said, in the
all-important matter of fielding),
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can this problem be resolved.
Peter Elliott
Alairac, France
Sir, Vernon Bogdanor refers to the
constitutional implications of the
exclusion of Northern Ireland from
“Britain’s internal market” (letter, Jun
12). However, unlike the EU, the UK’s
union of states is not based on the
integration of national markets or the
prohibition of non-tariff barriers to
trade between component parts of the
UK. For example, English milk
products were prohibited from sale in
Scotland unless repackaged in
accordance with Scottish requirements
(which differed from the English
rules). That changed in about 1990 as
a result of EU legislation. Accordingly,
there is no constitutional enormity in
having restrictions on the movement
of British sausages to Northern
Ireland. The United Kingdom Internal
Market Act 2020 seeks to create a
single internal market after Brexit but
does not alter the basis on which
England, Scotland and Ireland formed
and entered the Union. The act could
be repealed in its entirety without
altering the constitutional position.
KPE Lasok QC
London N7
terminal illness. The present private
member’s bill on assisted dying would
have excluded him. I sincerely hope
that those advocating a tight,
six-month prognosis limit in assisted
suicide legislation will pause to
reflect. Such a law would still exclude
many who suffer and would be wide
open to further extension, as has
happened in Canada.
Dr Mark Pickering
CEO, Christian Medical Fellowship
Revising Rhodes
Sir, A solution to the problem of the
Rhodes statue (letters, Jun 14) would
be to place two QR codes at its base
linked to biographies of Rhodes. One
would be a five-minute read and the
other a longer and more complete one.
To avoid endless arguments about
their texts it should be left to the dons
at Oriel College to write them.
Anthony Stranger-Jones
London W9
Letters to the Editor must be exclusive
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there is no reason why they should
not give a much better account of
themselves in the remaining
matches. There has been too much
talk about the deadliness of the
Australian bowling. Good as it is,
Woolley and one or two others have
shown that it has no special terrors
for those who face it with confidence
and deal with it on orthodox lines.
After all, everyone, even Test Match
players and MCC Committee men,
must learn by experience. On the
first day the MCC authorities found
as much difficulty dealing with the
abnormal rush of spectators as the
English batsmen did in playing the
Australian bowling. By the second
day they had learnt their lesson. In
the coming matches the Selection
Committee and the England players
will, we believe, profit in the same
way by what they have learnt.
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Sick player footage
Sir, Further to your report “BBC is
criticised for ‘staggering decision’ to
show sick footballer” (Jun 14), why is
it wrong to watch someone’s life being
saved? Each year the NHS ambulance
services treat about 30,000 cases of
suspected cardiac arrest (mostly
unexpected, especially in the young)
but survival varies, largely because of
the time taken for trained help to
arrive. Wider awareness of cardio-
pulmonary resuscitation reduces the
stress one experiences when
confronted with a medical emergency.
There may yet be a silver lining to
what was a potentially fatal situation.
Vandals destroyed a public access
defibrillator in Buxted, East Sussex, at
the weekend. Appreciation of the value
of these devices and of CPR must
surely benefit the community at large.
Tim Williams, FRCS
Chairman, Heathfield and Waldron
First Responder scheme, E Sussex
Sir, The BBC has rightly apologised
for any distress caused by showing
images of Christian Eriksen receiving
treatment on the pitch. However, the
world’s media showed no such regret
at showing distressing images of
Covid funerals in India. It does seem
that pictures hurt more when the
events depicted are closer to home.
Dr Vineet Sukumar
West Bromwich
Royal trump card
Sir, Much as I am a strong supporter
both of the monarchy and the Union I
disagree with AN Wilson’s assessment
that using the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge “as unionist exemplars is a
good one”. If we are to trust the SNP’s
manifesto that the royal line will
continue as Scotland’s monarchs in an
independent kingdom, just as between
1603 and 1707 and just as the Queen
remains head of state in 15 other
dominions today, then the
continuation of a 1,500-year royal
heritage (in Scotland) should be safe.
For members of the royal family to
take a stance other than neutral on
the issue would only antagonise
independence supporters should
independence come about, not to say
jeopardise the Crown’s respected
neutrality on political issues.
Hamish Allan
Edinburgh
Circus in the sky
Sir, I agree with the view (letter, Jun
14) that the era of the Red Arrows is
over. Such display teams are found in
most first-world countries, and given
that there is little to choose between
the undoubted professionalism of
such teams their ability to impress
leaders at the G7 conference must
have been negligible. Purely in terms
of carbon emissions it is time to
dispense with these expensive circus
acts in the sky.
Jeremy Prescott
Lieutenant colonel, retired;
Southsea, Hants
The hole truth
Sir, I read in today’s Nature Notes
(Jun 14) that moths are in a steep
decline. I rather wish their cousins the
carpet moth and the clothes moth
could be the same. My local dry
cleaning shop cannot keep up with
the demand for anti-moth products,
and sticky traps laid in the house
provide daily evidence of yet more
unwelcome visitors.
Diana Franklin
Southsea, Hants
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Daily Universal Register
UK: The Office for National Statistics
publishes monthly unemployment figures;
the Royal Ascot race meeting begins.
Germany: France play Germany in Munich
at Euro 2020.
Nature notes
When asked by
theologians if there
was anything that
could be concluded
about God from the
study of natural
history, the biologist
JBS Haldane replied, “An inordinate
fondness for beetles.” Yet despite being so
numerous as to make up one in four animal
species, few can identify many in this order
beyond the ladybird or stag beetle. Thick-
legged flower beetles can be found on hot
summer days eating pollen on flowers such
as ox-eye daisies, hogweed and dog roses.
With their iridescent green wing cases and
the males’ swollen thighs, they’re easily
recognised even by amateur coleopterists.
melissa harrison
Birthdays today
Simon Callow, pictured,
actor, Four Weddings and
a Funeral (1994), and
writer, 72; Samira
Ahmed, BBC radio and
TV presenter, 53; Lord
(David) Alliance,
businessman, N Brown
Group and Coats Viyella, 89; Sam Billings,
cricketer, England and captain of Kent, 30;
Alan Brazil, broadcaster, talkSPORT, and
former footballer, Scotland (1980-83), 62;
Sir de Vic Carey, bailiff of Guernsey
(1999-2005), 81; Courteney Cox, actress,
Friends (1994-2004), 57; Ice Cube, rapper,
N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton (1988), 52;
Tom Curry, rugby union player, Sale Sharks
and England, 23; Brigitte Fossey, actress,
Quintet (1979), 75; Gavin Greenaway,
conductor, Gladiator (2000), and composer,
57; Noddy Holder, singer, Slade, Merry Xmas
Everybody (1973), 75; Alan Huckle, diplomat,
governor, Falkland Islands (2006-10), 73;
Helen Hunt, actress, As Good as It Gets
(1997), What Women Want (2000), 58; Peter
Kennaugh, professional racing cyclist,
Olympic gold medallist (2012), 32; Gary
Lightbody, musician, Snow Patrol, Final
Straw (2003), 45; Lord (James) Lupton,
treasurer, the Conservative Party (2013-16),
co-founder (1998) Greenhill London
investment bank, 66; Lakshmi Mittal,
executive chairman, ArcelorMittal
(steelmaker), 71; Tony Oxley, jazz musician,
83; Paul Patterson, composer, the
Millennium Mass (2000), 74; Sir John
Redwood, Conservative MP for
Wokingham, secretary of state for Wales
(1993-95), 70; Naomi Riches, adaptive rower,
Paralympic gold medallist (2012), 38;
Mohamed Salah, footballer, Egypt and
Liverpool FC, 29; Lord (Larry) Whitty,
general secretary of the Labour Party
(1985-94), 78; Xi Jinping, president of China,
Communist Party chief and chairman,
China’s Central Military Commission, 68.
On this day
In 1896 an earthquake of magnitude 8.5
struck the Sanriku coast of Japan and the
resultant tsunami killed more than 20,000
people; in 1979 the post-punk band Joy
Division released their debut album,
Unknown Pleasures, their only album issued
during the lifetime of the singer, Ian Curtis.
The last word
“Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a
temporary detour, not a dead-end street.”
William Arthur Ward, motivational writer,
Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words
of William Arthur Ward (1968)
Prudent Postponement
Delaying the lifting of restrictions on social contact by a further month will be a
disappointment to the public and a blow to the economy, but the alternative is worse
Having eased Covid restrictions in England last
month, the government was intent on lifting them
entirely on June 21. That timetable will not now be
met. Boris Johnson announced yesterday a delay
of four weeks in implementing the fourth and final
stage of the government’s route map out of lock-
down, which is now scheduled for July 19.
This decision will be a universal disappointment
and for some parts of the economy, notably the
travel and leisure sectors, a heavy blow. Yet it is the
right course. Lifting restrictions when epidemio-
logical evidence suggests doing so will unneces-
sarily cost lives would be an evasion of public duty.
The government’s own tests for lifting all re-
strictions are: continued advance in the national
vaccination programme, lower rates of hospitali-
sation and death due to Covid-19, a rate of infec-
tion that does not threaten the NHS’s ability to
handle the pandemic, and no heightened risk as-
sessment from new variants of the disease. The
first of these criteria is being met; the others are
either uncertain or going in the wrong direction.
The vaccination campaign is undoubtedly pro-
ceeding apace, with more than 70 million doses
dispensed in the UK and almost 30 million people
fully vaccinated against Covid-19, having received
both jabs. The average dosing interval between
A compromise over the Northern Irish protocol is in the best interests of all sides
“We will do whatever it takes to protect Britain’s
territorial integrity,” Boris Johnson insisted as the
row over the Northern Ireland protocol which
overshadowed the G7 summit in Cornwall fol-
lowed him to yesterday’s meeting of Nato leaders.
But the prime minister’s defence of the UK’s inter-
nal market would be more compelling if he had
not negotiated and signed the treaty that created
the very checks he now claims to find so objection-
able. For all the government’s complaints of Euro-
pean Union “legal purism”, the details of how trade
across the Irish Sea would be conducted are
spelled out in detail. There is little room for inter-
pretation. It is all there in black and white in a deal
hailed by Mr Johnson at the time as “oven ready”,
one so good that he refused to allow parliament
more than a day to scrutinise it.
Brussels is indeed being obstinate and tin-eared
in its insistence that the protocol is implemented
in full as agreed, particularly given the evident
political opposition from a vocal, and potentially
violent, subsection of the unionist and loyalist
communities. But the EU’s inflexibility hardly
comes as a surprise given it was one of the reasons
Second-hand clothes are reshaping the fashion industry for the better
As a child in 1950s Tennessee Dolly Parton was,
she sang, as rich as she could be wearing her coat
of many colours that her momma had stitched
together from rags. The same could be said for
today’s young people, who are discovering the joys
of handmade clothing, though not through lack of
funds. Generation Z, or those born from the mid-
1990s onwards, are championing second-hand
and handmade clothes in opposition to the dam-
age caused by fast fashion, an industry that com-
prises 10 per cent of global carbon emissions.
An estimated 46 per cent of people in this age
bracket shopped second hand in 2019, compared
jabs is being shortened, thereby improving cover-
age. But the so-called Indian or Delta variant,
being highly transmissible, has raised the rate of
infection nationally. The UK yesterday recorded
more than 7,000 new cases for the sixth successive
day. It is the highest rate since February. The
number of people being admitted to hospital
nationally is increasing by 15 per cent weekly, and
the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies
envisages a risk of it approaching the levels of the
first Covid wave.
Against this background, constraints on pubs
and restaurants, indoor entertainment venues
such as theatres, and nightclubs (which are closed
completely) will remain in place. The only
planned easing is on the numbers of guests who
can attend weddings. The damage to the revenues
of the hospitality sector in particular will be sub-
stantial during the current period of hot weather
and international football. Even so, the govern-
ment has rightly judged that the dangers of pro-
ceeding with the timetable outweigh the benefits.
The conundrum of the case argued by self-des-
ignated “lockdown sceptics”, including some vocal
Conservative backbenchers, is that they have bad-
ly misread public opinion. There is popular yearn-
ing for normal times to return, but also a wide-
Hard Border
advanced by Brexiteers such as Mr Johnson for
leaving in the first place. Rigid policing of its exter-
nal borders has always been the condition that
underpins free movement of people, goods and
services within the EU’s single market. No doubt
domestic politics are also in play. A year ahead of
an election in which his chief opponent is likely to
be the eurosceptic Marine Le Pen, President
Macron of France appears to have little interest in
making life easy for Brexit Britain.
Yet if Mr Macron is being intransigent, it is in
part because Mr Johnson has handed him an
opportunity to be so. The EU has signalled a will-
ingness to show some flexibility on some of the
troublesome aspects of the protocol, not least the
free flow of medicines between Britain and North-
ern Ireland. Yet one of the biggest obstacles to a
compromise appears to be a breakdown in trust.
Brussels complains that Britain has yet to fulfil
basic commitments under the protocol. For exam-
ple, the government is still not sharing customs
data, nor has work yet begun on building the per-
manent border inspection posts at Northern Irish
ports and airports. That has fuelled doubts as to
A Stitch In Time
with 37 per cent of millennials and 18 per cent of
Gen X. Naturally, an app has been created to cater
for them. As we report today Sojo, which was
founded by a 23-year-old and aims to become the
Deliveroo of clothes alterations, has been down-
loaded thousands of times since launching in
January.
Cynics will sneer that this generation’s idea of
sticking it to the man by rehemming an old pair of
trousers hardly compares to the anti-war marches
and civil rights sit-ins of previous eras of young
progressives. But it is starting to have an impact,
with big corporations cottoning on to the fact that
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spread understanding that this will not be possible
so long as lives are at risk from premature easing
of restrictions. The public have overwhelmingly
adhered to Covid measures, and expressed
support for them, despite early fears that such dra-
conian measures would spark non-compliance.
The government can be faulted on many
grounds for its handling of the pandemic, not least
confused messaging over travel restrictions and
tardiness in placing India on the travel “red list”.
But determination not to put at risk the progress
to date is simply sensible. A measure of how far out
of step is the supposed libertarian opposition to
these public health measures was a comment yes-
terday by Lord Sumption, the former Supreme
Court judge, that lockdown laws are “wicked” and
that there is no more compulsion to follow them
than Germans had in observing Nazi racial de-
crees. At this point, there is no longer a rational
debate about trade-offs to be had.
A pandemic costing millions of lives is a once-
in-a-generation crisis which requires a willingness
to make tough and urgent decisions in the public
interest. The government has not only the prerog-
ative but the obligation to ensure that when re-
strictions are finally lifted it will be irreversible
rather than a hasty prelude to another lockdown.
whether Mr Johnson has any intention of ever
implementing any version of the protocol, or whe-
ther his real aim is to create a pretext to repudiate
it. Those doubts will only have been reinforced by
the latest threats of unilateral action.
Nonetheless a compromise based on the proto-
col remains in the best interests of all sides, not
least the citizens of Northern Ireland. There is no
question that the protocol has caused disruption
for some businesses, as any solution to the border
conundrum was bound to do. But there is no evi-
dence of widespread support either within Stor-
mont or among the wider public for ditching it
altogether. That would bring its own instability
and create further uncertainty, possibly com-
pounded by a trade war with the EU and a rift with
allies. There is still time for both sides to reduce the
rhetoric and reach an agreement before new
checks are due to come into force at the end of the
month and the marching season gets under way.
Brussels will clearly need to make concessions to
ease political tensions in Northern Ireland. But a
deal will also require Mr Johnson to convince
Brussels that he is a man of his word.
they will need to change their ways if they are to
attract younger buyers. Primark, the brand that
became a byword for fast fashion, last year
launched a sustainable range of garments made
entirely from recycled materials. Depop, a trading
platform for used clothes, has become so success-
ful that it was sold this month for £1.1 billion.
This has widespread ramifications, improving
welfare standards for workers and reducing the
environmental harms created through produc-
tion. Just as Parton sung of her pride at wearing her
multicoloured jacket, so too can Gen Z-ers take
pride in their small acts of sartorial radicalism.
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World
Migrants resume a ‘deadly game’
Italy
Tom Kington Lampedusa
Tourists were back at the Italian island
of Lampedusa yesterday, happily lining
up to rent umbrellas at the town beach
as the Mediterranean glittered before
them.
What they could not see was another
queue forming yards away, just over the
harbour wall, as 20 exhausted African
men, women and children filed off a
police rescue vessel before being
packed into a van, some sitting on the
laps of others. As the van sped off into
the hinterland, the Africans caught a
brief glimpse of the sunbathers slapping
on oil, their first sight of Europe.
Picked up at sea from the rickety
wooden boat in which they made the
perilous crossing from Libya, they were
the latest group of migrants from north
Africa. The summer sailings have
started in earnest, with nearly 1,200
migrants landing on Lampedusa at the
weekend and a further 1,000 halted by
the Libyan coastguard.
That took arrivals in Italy to more
than 16,000 this year, up from 5,500 at
the same time last year, as Tunisians
escape their Covid-damaged economy,
Africans flee conflicts in the Sahel and
Libyan people-traffickers return to busi-
ness as fighting in their country fades.
So far, the quick shuttling of the new
arrivals from the port to Lampedusa’s
fenced migrant centre, tucked out of
town in a stony, cactus-filled valley, has
kept tourists in the dark. “We heard
about the migrants a lot before we came
but you don’t notice anything at all,”
said Stefania Fiora, 34, a building
manager from Asti, northern Italy.
At the migrant centre soldiers pa-
trolled the high metal fence, which has
replaced the old wire fence the inmates
used to slip through to go shopping in
town. Inside, a group of Tunisian teen-
agers had built a tent from blankets to
keep out the sun. “No money in Tunisia,
we want to go to Milan,” Ali, 15, said.
The Italian government has other
plans for them, using four large passen-
ger ferries it has rented to quarantine
new arrivals before they are dispersed
to migrant centres around the country.
On Sunday and yesterday two of the
Arrivals by boat
Top five countries
2021
of origin
16,000
Tunisia
2020
Algeria
5,500
Afghanistan
(to June 11, 2021 Syria
vs same period 2020) Bangladesh
ITALY
Sicily
Mediterranean
Sea
TUNISIA
Lampedusa
Tripoli Misrata
LIBYA
100 miles
MOROCCO
ferries docked at a quay on a quiet side
of the island, each loading 600 mi-
grants who will spend ten days moored
off Sicily, accompanied by Red Cross
staff, interpreters and psychologists.
“We explain their rights, help them
contact families to say they are alive
after the crossing and give psychologi-
cal counselling, since many have been
tortured in Libya or have survived
shipwrecks,” Francesca Basile, a Red
Cross official, said.
About 10,000 migrants have quaran-
tined on the ships this year, with 658
testing positive for Covid-19.
Lampedusa’s mayor, Toto Martello, is
banking on a busy tourist season,
particularly after a lightning vaccina-
tion campaign ensured that 85 per cent
of the 6,500 population have had both
jabs. “The problem is the headlines on
Italian TV still talk about a migrant
invasion in Lampedusa, which could
scare people off,” he said.
Italy is working hard to persuade EU
states to take a share of the new arrivals
and is urging Brussels to invest more in
Tunisia, helping the economy to en-
courage young people there to stay put.
Until that happens a bilateral deal al-
lows only 80 Tunisian migrants to be
repatriated each week. About one third
of the migrants arriving in Italy this
year have sailed from Tunisia, and two
thirds from Libya; a mix including sub-
Saharan Africans and Bangladeshis.
Half of the 11,000 sailing from Libya
have been turned back by the Libyan
coastguard.
“The Libyan traffickers are sending
more people to sea while the Libyan
coastguard are intercepting more
people, who may make three or four
attempts to get through. It is a kind of
game,” Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokes-
man for the International Organisation
for Migration, said.
It is a game with deadly consequen-
ces: more than 700 migrants have
drowned on the route to Italy this year.
The fate of those sent back is bleak.
“The number of migrants held in
official Libyan detention centres has in-
creased this year but the number does
not cover those picked up at sea. Where
did they go? Sold to militias and tor-
tured?” Di Giacomo wondered.
Concern for the plight of migrants is
falling again in Italy as the hard-right
politicians Matteo Salvini and Giorgia
Meloni denounce the new arrivals, but
in Lampedusa, where most make land-
fall, a strong vein of tolerance persists.
The first visitor in the mayor’s office
yesterday was Vincenzo Partinico, 57, a
local fisherman, who recounted how
before dawn on Saturday he got the
shock of his life as he was preparing to
cast his nets out. “Out of the darkness a
small wooden boat with 24 Nigerians
on board collided with my boat. Some
clambered on board and others fell in
the water,” he said.
Partinico and a colleague helped the
migrants on board his 30ft boat and
gave them water, food and dry clothes
before handing them over to a coast-
guard vessel.
“They had little fuel, they wouldn’t
have made it. They needed help and I
wanted to do all I could,” he said. Re-
turning to port, he was shocked to be
told that he faced arrest because the
coastguard had figured out he was fish-
ing in an area his licence did not cover.
Martello listened to the story and
promised to help, saying: “It makes no
sense that you save lives and get
punished instead of getting a reward.” A boat with 93 migrants on board drifts in the Mediterranean before members of

Putin is a bright and worthy adversary, says Biden before meeting

David Charter Washington
President Biden called Russia’s leader
“tough”, “bright” and a “worthy adver-
sary” in advance of their face-to-face
encounter in Geneva tomorrow, as the
President Putin denied hacking attacks
on the US election.
Biden stressed that he would offer co-
operation on areas of common interest
despite their many disputes, suggesting
that he hopes to turn a corner with Pu-
tin, 68, after agreeing with him that
relations were at a historic low point.
The US president used a Nato sum-
mit in Brussels to gauge views from
allies including leaders of the Baltic
nations and Poland and said that every-
one believed he was doing the right
thing in sitting down with Putin.
“I will make clear to President Putin
that there are areas where we can
co-operate if he chooses,” Biden said at
Nato HQ. “If he chooses not to co-op-
erate and acts in the way he has in the
past relative to cybersecurity and some
other activities, then we will respond in
kind,” he said.
“I have met with him — he’s bright,
he’s tough and I’ve found that he is, as
they say when I used to play ball, a wor-
thy adversary.”
Asked by a journalist whether he
stood by remarks in a TV interview in
March agreeing that Putin was a killer,
Biden, 78, said: “The answer is, I believe
he has in the past, essentially, acknowl-
edged that he was, or certain things,
that he would do or did do. When I was
asked that question on air I answered it
honestly. I don’t think it matters a
whole lot in terms of the meeting we’re
about to have.”
Responding to a question about the
plight of the jailed Russian opposition
leader Alexei Navalny, Biden said: “Na-
valny’s death would be another indica-
tion that Russia has little or no inten-
President Biden said that the US could
co-operate with Russia if Putin wished
tion of abiding by basic fundamental
human rights. It would be a tragedy. It
would do nothing but hurt relations
with the rest of the world, and me.”
Asked how he could guarantee his
message that “America is back” against
a return of Trump era unpredictability,
Biden said he was sure that other
leaders believed “the vast centre” of
America was a “decent honourable
nation”. Biden said he believed that the
Republican party was “vastly dimin-
ished in numbers” with a leadership
that was “fractured”.
He added: “The Trump wing is the
bulk of the party but it makes up a sig-
nificant minority of the American
people. And we’ll see, we’ll see.”
Lamenting “President Trump’s pho-
ny populism”, he added: “At the end of
the day we’ve been through periods like
this in American history before . . . I
think this is passing. I don’t mean easily
passing, that’s why it’s so important that
I succeed in my agenda.”
The White House poured cold water
on an offer by Putin to negotiate a re-
ciprocal deal on handing over cyber-
criminals, which Biden initially wel-
comed as “potentially a good sign and
progress”. In an interview on Sunday,
Putin said: “If we agree to extradite
criminals, then of course Russia will do
that, but only if the other side, in this
case the United States, agrees to the
same and will extradite the criminals in
question to the Russian Federation.”
At the G7 in Cornwall Biden said: “If
there’s crimes committed against
Russia . . . and the people committing
those crimes are being harboured in the
United States, I’m committed to hold-
ing them accountable. I think that’s
potentially a good sign and progress.”
In a later briefing Jake Sullivan, the
US national security adviser, clarified
that Biden was not talking about a
prisoner exchange deal. “What he was
saying was that if Vladimir Putin wants
to come and say, ‘I’m prepared to make
sure that cybercriminals are held ac-
countable’, Joe Biden is perfectly will-
ing to show up and say cybercriminals
will be held accountable in America,
because they already are.”
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to reach holiday isle US states start
Médecins Sans Frontières transfer them onto a rescue vessel. Top: Vincenzo Partinico, a local fisherman, saved 24 Nigerians
Justice chief quits in snooping furore
Alistair Dawber Washington
The justice department’s top national
security official is resigning after
revelations that the phone data of
senior Democrats and journalists were
seized during the Trump era as part of
a leak investigation.
John Demers, one of the few leading
Trump appointees still in office at the
department, will leave next week,
according to the Associated Press.
His departure follows reports that
in 2018 the department secretly
subpoenaed the Apple data records of
Democratic members of the House
intelligence committee. Officials de-
manded the records of Adam Schiff and
Eric Swalwell, who were investigating
President Trump’s ties to Russia. At the
time Schiff was the top Democrat on the
panel, which was led by a Republican.
Apple eventually shared with
government officials the records of at
least 12 people connected to the House
intelligence panel, including aides and
family members. One of the 12 was a
child at the time.
The subpoena, issued on February 6,
2018, requested information on 73
phone numbers and 36 email addresses,
Apple said. It also included a non-
disclosure order that prohibited the
company from notifying any of the
people, which was renewed three times.
Demers has run the department’s
national security division since
February 2018, and was sworn in a few
weeks after the subpoena was issued.
At the time of the subpoena, the
Trump administration was enraged
about the investigations, conducted
firstly by Congress and by Robert
Mueller, the special counsel at the time,
into his campaign’s ties to Russia. Schiff
was frequently called out on Twitter by
Trump, who described the Mueller
inquiry as a witch hunt. As the investi-
AVRA FIALAS/MSF; TOM KINGTON FOR THE TIMES
gations mounted around him, Trump
demanded loyalty from the justice
department and details on any infor-
mation being leaked to the committee
and others, including reporters.
Don McGhan, a White House
counsel at the time, was one of those
whose records were sought. It is
unheard of for the justice department
to secretly collect information on a
sitting White House lawyer.
“These actions appear to be yet
another egregious assault on our
democracy” waged by the former presi-
dent, Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic
House speaker said after the New York
Times revealed the subpoenas.
President Biden has nominated
Matt Olsen, who has previously
worked at the justice department and
served as director of the national
counterterrorism centre, to be the next
assistant attorney-general for national
security.
The World at Five
What does Putin really
want from Biden?
In depth and online today at 5pm
thetimes.co.uk
to ban teaching
of race theory
United States
Will Pavia New York
Laws banning the teaching of “critical
race theory” are being proposed in state
legislatures all over America as part of
a new culture war.
The theory holds that racism is not
simply a personal prejudice but a
broader social disease, embedded in in-
stitutions and government policies.
Discussed for decades in academic
circles, it jumped into the national con-
sciousness last year after the police kill-
ing of George Floyd and a reckoning on
the issue that was felt on city streets, in
corporate boardrooms and in schools.
Parents protesting about critical race
theory regard it as an insidious and di-
visive ideology to which they were
alerted during the pandemic when they
happened to overhear their children’s
lessons during remote schooling. In
Virginia a mother named Xi Van Fleet
became a heroine for opponents when
she compared it to the doctrines she
had been taught as a child in Mao’s
China. “You are now teaching, training
our children to be social justice warriors
and to loathe our country and our his-
tory,” she said to cheers at a meeting of
the Loudoun County school board.
Six states have passed laws banning
its use in schools and a further 13 are
considering similar legislation. In Mon-
tana the theory was effectively blocked
by Austin Knudsen, the state’s attor-
ney-general, who released an opinion
declaring it “discriminatory”.
Some of the loudest arguments in the
battle over the theoryeory have
aching
erupted over its teaching
hich
at private schools, which
are freer to make ke
changes to their cur--
riculums, but which
have to answer to
wealthier, more
influential
parents.
Last week an
English teacher at a
private school in
New Jersey said she
had resigned because
n
he
use
the principal had begun
rding to
dividing staff according
ked to see my-
their race. “I was asked
i
self as a white woman primarily, il as th
the
most important defining characteris-
tics of myself,” Dana Stangel-Plowe
told NBC
The push, advanced by Republican-
held legislatures, has alarmed some
teachers who say the laws are so broad
that they could effectively ban discus-
sions of large sections of American his-
tory and literature. “This is an assault
on the craft of teaching,” Brittany Pas-
chall, an English teacher in Nashville,
said. Paschall, who is black, said the new
law passed in Tennessee was “asking
me to ignore parts of my own identity”.
The law bans teachers from “promot-
ing” the idea that “an individual, by vir-
Dana Stangel-Plowe resigned from her
teaching job when the school “began
dividing staff according to their race”
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What’s the big idea?
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic,
legal scholars at the University of
Alabama School of Law, co-authored
a widely used primer on critical race
theory first published 2001. The
theory holds that white supremacy,
and the racism that stems from it, is
deeply embedded in laws and
institutions and is not merely a
personal prejudice. It had its origins
in a recognition among academics
in the 1970s “that the heady
advances of the civil rights era of
the 1960s had stalled and, in many
respects, were being rolled back”.
Delgado and other scholars such as
Derrick Bell, the first African-
American to gain tenure at Harvard
Law School, argued that new
theories were needed to combat
“subtler forms of racism”. While
traditional discussions about civil
rights stress incremental change
and “step-by-step progress, critical
race theory questions the very
foundations of the liberal order”,
they write.
Critical race theory has ignited a
debate over equality of treatment
and equality of outcomes. In
education, this has led to arguments
over whether admissions tests for
elite public high schools enforce
inequality by effectively
discriminating against
disadvantaged students. Critics of
the theory say it does a disservice to
black p p by suggesting
pupils
that they sshould be held
to a low
lower standard.
tue of race or sex, is
in
inherently privi-
leged, racist, sexist,
le
or
o oppressive,
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whether con-
sc
sciously or subcon-
b
sc
sciously” or that
they bear responsi-
the
ility for actions com-
bility
mitted by others of the
rac in the past.
same race
It also ba
bars the idea that “a
meritocracy is in inherently racist or
i t” or might
sexist” i ht bbe ddesigned to exclude
others.
That is a hot topic in the broader de-
bate over the theory, which often pits
advocates of equality of opportunity
against those who seek to recognise
that some students are disadvantaged.
There have been disputes in school
board meetings about the use of tests
and selective admissions policies in
public schools.
Many conservatives see the fight
against critical race theory as a rallying
cry, but it has not been universally
adopted by Republicans. A bill target-
ing the theory in the classrooms of Ken-
tucky was opposed by Mitch McCon-
nell, 79, the Republican Senate minor-
ity leader, who said he did not believe
the government should “be able to dic-
tate, in effect, what’s taught”.
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World
Suu Kyi faces
life sentence as
her trial begins
in closed court
Myanmar
Richard Lloyd Parry Asia Editor
Matthew Camilleri Yangon
Aung San Suu Kyi, who was deposed as
democratic leader of Myanmar in a
military coup five months ago, ap-
peared before court yesterday on the
first of a number of charges. She faces
a life sentence.
The closed hearing in the capital,
Naypyidaw, was attended only by
guards, judges, prosecutors and Suu
Kyi’s own lawyers, who have been al-
lowed to meet her only twice.
Along with international organisa-
tions, foreign governments and her
many supporters, Suu Kyi’s lawyers in-
sist that the charges are politically mo-
tivated to justify the army’s seizure of
power on February 1 and its brutal sup-
pression of the opposition.
Suu Kyi’s legal team said that two
police officers gave evidence in support
of the first two least serious char-
ges — the illegal importation and
possession of walkie-talkies used
by her bodyguards, and breaking
social distancing rules during last
year’s election campaign.
One of her lawyers, Khin Maung
Zaw, said that she “paid keen atten-
tion” to the proceedings and
was in good health, apart
from a slight toothache.
“We are hoping for the
best but prepared for the
worst,” he said.
On trial with Suu Kyi,
75, are Win Myint, 69,
who was president while
Suu Kyi was in effect the
national leader, and Myo
Aung, 70, the former
mayor of Naypyidaw.
Tun Myint Aung, a
former local NLD official
Aung San Suu Kyi, 75, is
“prepared for the worst”
China ‘raised safety limit’ to Netanyahu snubs handover
keep nuclear plant running ceremony for his successor
China
Adam Sage Paris
Didi Tang Beijing
The US is investigating claims that
China responded to a leak at a nuclear
power station that posed an “imminent
radiological threat” by raising the
safety limit to keep it open.
Instead of shutting the new genera-
tion European Pressurised Reactor
(EPR) at Taishan in the southern prov-
ince of Guangdong, Chinese officials
increased the authorised level of radia-
tion, EDF, the French state energy
group, is said to have told Washington.
EDF, which designed the new reac-
tors, is also involved in a joint venture
with China General Nuclear Power
Group to build two EPRs at Hinkley
Point in Somerset.
Officials are said to have concluded
that there was no severe safety threat to
who left the party after being sent to
prison for his part in a fight, is due to
give evidence today claiming that Suu
Kyi broke social distancing rules.
Suu Kyi is also charged with breaking
the Official Secrets Act, spreading in-
formation that could cause alarm, and
corruption. Last week she was accused
of abusing her authority to gain favour-
able terms for properties rented by a
foundation that she led. Separately, a
convicted drug smuggler with connec-
tions to the junta claims to have paid
her bribes of more than half a million
dollars. Another former supporter, now
detained, claims to have given her
$600,000 and 11kg of gold.
“This is the opening salvo in a strate-
gy to neuter Suu Kyi and the National
League for Democracy party as a force
that can challenge military rule,” Phil
Robertson, of Human Rights Watch,
said. “With the restrictions on access to
her lawyers, and the case being heard
in front of a court beholden to the
junta, there is little likelihood
she will receive a fair trial.”
The US embassy in Yangon
tweeted a line from a statement
by the leaders of the G7 in Corn-
wall. It said: “We condemn in the
strongest terms the military coup
in Myanmar, and the vio-
lence committed by My-
anmar’s security forces,
and we call for the imme-
diate release of those de-
tained arbitrarily.”
Min Aung Hlaing, the
general who seized
power, insists the coup
was necessary because of
“voter fraud” and has
promised that free elec-
tions will eventually be held.
At least 863 opponents of
the coup have been killed by
soldiers and police, many
with sniper shots during
peaceful demonstrations.
China’s air
defence
CHINA
zone
Chunx
Shirab
gas fiel
Taishan
nuclear plant Taipei
Japan’s a
defence
TAIWAN
Hong
Kong
100 miles
workers or people living near the plant.
The Biden administration has decided
that the incident at Taishan has yet to
reach “crisis level”.
However, EDF hinted that informa-
tion was being withheld by the Chinese.
In a statement the French state group
demanded an extraordinary board
meeting of the joint venture running
the plant “for management to present
all the data and necessary decisions”.
Crash, bang, wallop Make-up artists have been busy preparing Anne Hathaway
for some bloody scenes as she films the mini-series WeCrashed in New York
Israel
Anshel Pfeffer Jerusalem
Binyamin Netanyahu snubbed his suc-
cessor, Naftali Bennett, by refusing to
attend a traditional ceremony marking
the transition of power.
Instead of attending the event at the
prime minister’s office in Jerusalem,
Netanyahu, who was in power for 12
years, held a perfunctory meeting with
Bennett that lasted half an hour.
According to David Bitan, a former
chief whip of Netanyahu’s Likud, it rep-
resented an effort to avoid giving “any
legitimacy to Bennett’s premiership”.
Netanyahu did, however, attend a
meeting of members of the parties that
were part of his last government, now
the opposition, where he promised to
“topple this dangerous left-wing gov-
ernment — a government of deceit”.
His reluctance to accept defeat was
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Political scientist to
avoid abuse charges
France A Parisian political
scientist who was accused in a
book this year of sexually abusing
his stepson will face no charges
because the alleged crimes fall
outside the statute of limitations,
prosecutors said. Olivier
Duhamel was accused by his
stepdaughter Camille Kouchner
in January of abusing her twin
brother when they were
teenagers in the late 1980s.
Kouchner’s book, titled La Familia
Grande, led to a major public
debate over the prevalence of
incest and child sex abuse in
France. Duhamel, 71, was
interviewed by police in April and
admitted “with difficulty” to the
allegations against him. (AFP)
Woman killed by car
driven into protesters
United States A woman aged 31
was killed and three people
injured when a vehicle hit
demonstrators during a protest in
Minneapolis. The driver, who has
not been named, was taken into
custody after being pulled from
the car and was being treated in
hospital. The protest was taking
place in a neighbourhood where a
black man being arrested was
fatally shot this month. (AP)
I’m fine, says reporter
removed from flight
Belarus Roman Protasevich, 26,
the journalist taken off a Ryanair
flight that was forced to divert to
Minsk, has told a news
conference that he was fine and
had not been beaten up in
custody. “I understand the
damage I have caused not only to
the state but also to the country,”
he said. The opposition said that
his statement had been made
under duress. (Reuters)
Veteran ex-president
admitted to hospital
Zambia The former president
Kenneth Kaunda, one of Africa’s
most respected elder statesmen,
has been admitted to hospital in
the capital, Lusaka. Kaunda, 97,
ruled Zambia for 27 years after it
gained independence from Britain
in 1964, ceding power in multi-
party elections in 1991. He went
on to mediate crises in Zimbabwe
and South Africa and became an
Aids campaigner. (AFP)
Police suspended over
free burgers demand
Pakistan Police detained staff at a
takeaway restaurant in Lahore
after they were refused free
burgers. All 19 workers were held
for hours as customers awaited
illustrated on Sunday when, after his their food. Nine officers were
rivals secured a confidence vote back- suspended after an outcry. The
ing the formation of a new government, Johnny & Jugnu chain said that it
Netanyahu returned to the prime min- was not the first time it had
ister’s seat in the Knesset. happened. Imran Khan, the prime
A Likud colleague then tapped him minister, has called for reform of
on the shoulder and led him to the the region’s police force. (AFP)
leader of the opposition’s seat, where he
had not been since 2009. Houses on sale for 11p
Netanyahu, 71, has accused Bennett,
49, of carrying out “the biggest election to fill emptying town
fraud in history”, since he promised Croatia Houses are on sale for
voters, during the last election cam- the equivalent of 11p to try to halt
paign, not to join a government with a decline in population. Leaders
the Islamist party Ra’am, or a govern- in Legrad say that 17 people have
ment that would make Yair Lapid, the bought so far. There is interest
leader of the centrist party, Yesh Atid, from abroad but buyers must
prime minister. be Croatian, under 40 and willing
Ra’am is a member of the new gov- to commit themselves to living in
ernment and under the coalition agree- Legrad for 15 years. Once a big
ment that Bennett has signed Lapid is trading town, Legrad became a
due to replace him as prime minister in backwater after the fall of the
two years. Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918.
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Green Beret veteran and son admit
helping Nissan chief to flee justice
Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry Tokyo
A US special forces veteran and his son
have appeared in court and admitted
helping Carlos Ghosn, the former head
of Nissan, to flee criminal charges in
Tokyo by hiding him in a box aboard a
private jet.
Michael Taylor, 60, and his son Peter
Taylor, 28, both US citizens, face up to
three years in prison after losing a bat-
tle against extradition to Japan to face
charges over Ghosn’s escape in 2019.
Defendants in Japanese courts do
not offer a simple guilty or not guilty
plea, but both men said “no” when they
were asked by the chief judge at the
Tokyo district court yesterday if they
had any objection to the charges of as-
sisting in the escape of a criminal. They
were led into court handcuffed and
with ropes around their waists.
Ghosn, 67, was arrested in November
2018 and charged with conspiring to
conceal from Japanese regulators plans
to pay himself tens of millions of
French motorists fume as more cities ban old diesel cars
France
Charles Bremner Paris
Motorists are rebelling against meas-
ures that could banish up to 70 per cent
of vehicles from cities by 2025.
The creation of ten low-emission
zones has caused anger over the plight
of poorer motorists similar to the
emotion over high diesel prices and
low-speed limits that led to the yellow
vest protests in 2018 and 2019.
The Paris area, Lyons and Grenoble
dog story The 145th Westminster Dog Show relocated from cramped Manhattan to roomy Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown,
pounds in income after his eventual re-
tirement as chairman of Nissan. He was
also accused of using the company to
cover personal trading losses with the
help of a Saudi businessman, and
paying about £3 million of company
money to himself, disguised as a reward
for a Middle Eastern car dealership.
He spent 130 days in pre-trial custody
and was bailed after his lawyers per-
suaded the court that he would not flee,
but in December 2019 the Taylors
helped him to do exactly that. They
took him from Tokyo to Osaka and
smuggled him on to a private plane,
hidden in a box that supposedly
contained musical equipment. Ac-
cording to the prosecution they
were paid $1.3 million.
The Taylors do not de-
ny involvement in the
escape, but insist that
they did not break Jap-
anese law.
The prosecutors said
the escape was six
months in the plan-
already bar older vehicles on weekdays.
In greater Paris, all diesel vehicles made
before 2005 are prohibited and the new
measure will banish all diesels from
January 2024. Next year the Marseilles
region, Toulouse, Strasbourg and
Rouen will join the low-emission list.
The law has been drafted to comply
with EU emissions goals, but a cam-
paign group called 40 Million Motor-
ists said: “The traffic restrictions im-
posed are discriminatory because they
will most penalise low-income house-
Peter and Michael
Taylor spirited
Carlos Ghosn
onto a private jet
ning. Peter Taylor was a regular visitor
to Lebanon and the pair were ap-
proached by Ghosn’s wife, Carole.
Ghosn spoke to them on a phone that
was concealed from the authorities
in Tokyo, who were monitoring
him as a condition of his bail.
They were allegedly assisted
by a third man, a Lebanese-
American named George-Anto-
ine Zayek, who like Ghosn
remains at liberty in
Lebanon, which does not
have an extradition trea-
ty with Japan. The three
met Ghosn the day
before his escape and
took him by bullet
train to Osaka, and
holds, the ones that do not have the
means to live in city centres and who
most need their vehicle to get around
every day.”
The group, which has asked drivers to
bombard politicians with protests, said
that the law would mean that “seven
out of ten people will no longer have the
freedom to move around in less than
four years’ time”. Their only sin was “to
have legally bought a car that suited
their needs and their budget”, it said.
Francis Bartholomé, president of an
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then to Kansai airport. Zayek is said to
have discovered that luggage too large
to be x-rayed in the private jet terminal
there would be checked by hand, but
that the pilot of a plane could waive this
requirement.
The Taylors fought for ten months to
avoid extradition but the American
courts rejected claims by their lawyers
that they would face torture in Japan.
Michael Taylor, a former Green Beret,
previously served 14 months in prison
in Utah for bribery connected to secur-
ity contracts in Afghanistan.
Greg Kelly, a former colleague of
Ghosn’s at Nissan, is on trial in Tokyo
on charges that could bring a ten-year
prison sentence. He denies wrongdo-
ing. In March a court in Turkey gave
suspended sentences to the two pilots
of the plane on which he made his es-
cape, as well as an airline employee.
In a recent interview, Ghosn declined
to comment on the case. “I don’t want to
make anyone’s life more difficult than it
is today,” he said, “particularly when
they are suspected of having helped me.”
organisation that represents working
drivers, predicted another uprising. “I
don’t know which protest colour the
government is going to create for us this
time if they stay on this path,” he said.
The new system imposes increasing
restrictions according to a vehicle’s age.
The environment ministry said that
every year in the Paris region 2,500
people died from atmospheric pollu-
tion and that France offered the most
generous aid of any European state to
people replacing an old vehicle.
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World
Priest blames
murders on
wife’s affair
Spain
Isambard Wilkinson Madrid
A priest has attracted widespread
revulsion in Spain by saying that a man
suspected of murdering his two young
daughters was a victim of their mother’s
infidelity.
Fernando Báez Santana, a parish
priest in the Canary Islands where the
girls lived, put the blame for the alleged
murders committed by Tomás Gimeno,
their father, on their mother, saying
that she had “reaped what she sowed”
by ending their relationship. He added
that forming a bond between her
daughters and her new partner
amounted to “stealing the children”.
On radio and on social media the
priest said that he considered that the
alleged killer was another victim of
marital breakdown and “infidelity”,
stating that the girls would be alive if
the mother had not ended the marriage
because “before, men put up with
women even if they went crazy”. The
bishop of the Canary Islands con-
demned the comments.
Gimeno, 37, disappeared out to sea in
his speedboat with his two daughters
aged one and six on April 27 after he
was allowed to take them out by their
mother, Beatriz Zimmermann, 35.
They were reported missing that night.
Gimeno and Zimmermann had
separated and he resented her relation-
ship with another man. He called her to
say that she would never see their
daughters or him again. Police found
the body of the six-year-old inside a bag
weighed down by the anchor of her
father’s boat on the seabed off Tenerife.
A second empty bag was also found,
raising concerns that it may have con-
tained the body of the one-year-old girl.
An international arrest warrant has
been issued for Gimeno.
King dragged
into Catalan
pardons row
Isambard Wilkinson
King Felipe of Spain has been dragged
into a fierce national debate over the
Socialist-led government’s plan to par-
don jailed Catalan separatist leaders.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the conservative
head of the Madrid region, implied that
the king would be made an “accom-
plice” as she demanded that the gov-
ernment of Pedro Sánchez, the prime
minister, clarify whether it would make
him sign a decree granting the pardons.
Under Spanish law the monarch has
a formal role in approving the govern-
ment’s decrees. “What will the King of
Spain do now? Will he sign those par-
dons?” Ayuso, of the Popular Party,
asked. “Will they make him an
accomplice to that?”
She was speaking at a rally in Madrid
where 25,000 people protested against
the planned pardon of 12 Catalan sepa-
ratists convicted for their role in an ille-
gal independence referendum in 2017.
Nine of them were handed jail terms of
between nine and 13 years in 2019.
Sánchez’s fragile coalition govern-
ment relies on the support of a Catalan
separatist party. Polls show that some
63 per cent of Spaniards oppose the
pardons. The supreme court has voiced
its disapproval in a report, saying it
would be “an unacceptable solution”.
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World
Father dies leaving 38
wives and 89 children
A
n Indian man
believed to
head the
world’s
largest family
has died aged 76, leaving
behind roughly 38 wives,
89 children and 33
grandchildren (Amrit
Dhillon writes).
Ziona Chana, whose
four-storey home in
Baktawng village,
Mizoram state, was
something of a tourist
attraction, would often
forget how many wives
and children he had.
He belonged to a
polygamous sect created
by his grandfather and
took his first bride,
Zathiangi, when he was
17. She still runs the
show as the “head wife”.
He claimed to
remember the name of
every family member
but one of his older sons,
Lianzuala, said: “That’s
not strictly true. He
often calls me by my
brothers’ names, but I
understand.”
Aside from married
daughters who live
elsewhere with their
husbands, the entire
family stay under the
same roof at New
Generation Home,
which is fitted with bunk
beds and plyboard
partitions for privacy.
Chana’s wives took it in
turns to share his bed.
The women do all the
housework while the
men look after their
farm and livestock. The
family runs a furniture
business for income.
Meals are cooked in a
common kitchen the
size of an underground
car park. A typical meal
involves boiling 100kg of
rice, plucking 30
chickens and peeling
60kg of potatoes.
Mysterious pink snow sends a
red alert over climate change
France
Adam Sage Paris
Aristotle was among the first thinkers
to become interested in the red snow he
is thought to have discovered on Mount
Parnassus in the 4th century BC.
The Greek philosopher ascribed the
colour to hairy worms living in freezing
conditions at high altitude. e. The phe-
nomenon has mystified climbers
and scientists ever since.
Now a team of French re-
searchers have attempted to
explain the strange red huee
of snow in the Alps and
other mountain ranges,
prompted by signs that
snow is getting redder all
the time.
Aristotle was not all
that far wrong, according
to the first findings of Al-
paga, the project which
has brought together scien--
tists from across Europe.
uced
The red is indeed produced
by organisms in the snow — not
croalgae
by hairy worms, but by microalgae
that inhabit ecosystems up to 3,000
metres above sea level.
Diplomats ‘made millions from bootlegging and bars’
South Africa
Jane Flanagan
More than 200 diplomats are facing
expulsion from South Africa for alle-
gedly running illegal alcohol and ciga-
rette rackets that cost £5 million a
month in lost taxes.
Representatives from ten African
countries are embroiled in the scandal,
in which one deputy ambassador alle-
gedly pocketed £1.85 million from boot-
legging during last year’s lockdown,
when sales of alcohol and tobacco were
banned.
Most staff at the missions from Mala-
1GM
Scientists believe “The snow is alive and populated
that microalgae in with microalgae,” says the Alpaga web-
the snow generate site. “It is a sort of ‘ocean’ at our door.”
pigments that act as The study focused on the Chloro-
a shield to protect phyceae class of microalgae, which in
them during the hot the winter are green and invisible to the
summer months naked eye. In the summer, the
Sanguina genus of the microalgae be-
comes loaded with pigments which
protect them from the sun, turning
the snow re reddish.
“It’s w when the sun’s rays
becom
become strong, from May
onwa
onwards, that the algae
crea
create a protective shield
of red molecules that are
lik
like a sun cream,” said
É
Éric Maréchal, director
o
of the Cell and Plant
P
Physiology Laboratory
at the French National
C
Centre for Scientific
Re
Research in Grenoble.
“
“That coincides with
the moment they multiply
and produce surreal land-
scapes on the summits.”
re
The researchers say on their
w ebsite: “T
website: “The appearance of ‘red
snows’, already known in antiquity,
seems to be mor more and more frequent at
wi and Lesotho have been given 72
hours to leave “after an intensive
investigation into their flouting of
diplomatic privileges”, Clayson Mony-
ela, of the Department of International
Relations and Co-operation, said.
Citing a breach of the 1961 Vienna
Convention, which defines diplomatic
relations between independent coun-
tries, he added: “There’s more, watch
this space. More expulsions will follow.”
South Africa allows 171 embassies
and international organisations in Pre- The diplomats were
toria to purchase from duty-free shops accused of running
established to service the diplomatic illegal bars in South
community. During a six-month period African townships
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Ziona Chana’s
family have a
four-storey
home in
Mizoram state,
northeast India
high altitudes, as well as in the Arctic
and Antarctic regions.”
One explanation for the spread of red
snows could be global warming, the sci-
entists say. Microalgae capture carbon
dioxide when exposed to light, turning
it into organic matter and placing them
at the foundation of ecosystems in soil,
water and snow.
With climate change, the amount of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is in-
creasing. “It is therefore expected that
certain microalgae respond positively
to this increase, behaving as markers of
climate change,” the website says.
Preliminary work using a technique
called metabarcoding enabled the re-
searchers to identify the microalgae’s
DNA, and to determine that the San-
guina genus is to be found mainly above
2,000 metres in the Alps.
Yet scientists are unsure about what
impact the microalgae have on melting
glaciers and snow. They suspect that
because the red pigments soak up the
heat they are accelerating environmen-
tal change.
“Even if it is marvellous to see micro-
algae developing in the snow, one of the
consequences is . . . the disappearance
of their environment,” Maréchal added.
last year — which included the lock-
down ban and a later limit on sales of
alcohol and cigarettes — 2,200 diplo-
mats allegedly spent an average of
£3.8 million between them every
month at the shops, just over £1,700 per
head.
The diplomats were not only selling
their allowances but also allegedly run-
ning illegal bars in townships. The liqu-
or said to be involved included Scotch
whiskies, high-end gins and vodka.
Treasury data shows that the govern-
ment lost £404 million in taxes during
the ban. Critics said that it fuelled the
illegal trade and cost thousands of jobs.
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Economists relaxed about impact of longer pandemic restrictions
James Hurley, Phil Aldrick
The government’s extension of pan-
demic restrictions in England for an
extra four weeks will have little impact
on the economic recovery, experts have
said.
As business leaders warned that the
night-time economy and the hospi-
tality sector were facing a “cliff edge” as
a result of the delay to the end of
measures meant to control the spread
Glaxo signs
$2bn cancer
therapy deal
Drugs group sharpens focus on cancer treatments
Alex Ralph
GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay an
American biotechnology company up
to $2.1 billion to collaborate on an
experimental cancer treatment.
The British drugs group, which is
seeking to revive its pipeline of medi-
cines amid pressure from investors, will
pay iTeos Therapeutics $625 million up
front to co-develop and commercialise
an immuno-oncology drug.
GSK will pay up to an additional
$1.5 billion in milestone payments if the
drug proves successful in clinical trials
and is approved for use by regulators.
The FTSE 100 company has
launched more than 20 deals since last
year as it invests in in its drug and
vaccines pipeline, with a number of
important products facing generic
competition this decade. The latest
iTeos deal means that it has more than
sixteen oncology assets, including
three approved drugs, which make up
about 25 per cent of its pipeline.
Analysts at Citigroup, its joint house
broker, questioned the cost of the tie-
up, saying that GlaxoSmithKline would
have enjoyed “superior economics
from its collaboration had it partnered
somewhat earlier”.
At a capital markets day event next
week, GSK will outline its focus on the
immune system and the closer inte-
gration of its pharmaceuticals and vac-
cines businesses after next summer’s
separation of its consumer healthcare
division. It has the potential for more
deals, with Goldman Sachs estimating
that it has more than $10 billion of fire-
power.
GSK is one of world’s largest drugs
commodities
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of Covid-19, economists predicted that
the move would have limited effect on
GDP.
The delay, confirmed by Boris John-
son last night, means that nightclubs
will stay closed for at least another four
weeks, while the rest of the hospitality
industry must continue to limit the
number of people that can be served
indoors.
Nick Mackenzie, chief executive of
Greene King, called the delay on the
companies, employing 94,000 people
and valued at about £71 billion on the
London Stock Exchange. Dame Emma
Walmsley, its chief executive, is under
pressure to develop more blockbuster
drugs and to improve returns and its
share price after Elliott Management,
the American activist hedge fund, took
a stake in April.
Shares in GSK, which are down by
15 per cent since 2017, closed up 4p, or
0.3 per cent, at £14.07½p. In New York,
iTeos rose by by 36 per cent to $27.30.
Walmsley, 52, has focused on re-
building the oncology franchise after
Sir Andrew Witty, her predecessor, sold
its marketed products to Novartis in
2015.
Hal Barron, Glaxo’s chief scientific
officer and president of research and
development, said that immuno-
oncology, which harnesses a patient’s
immune system to help to fight
tumours, had “transformed cancer
care”. However, he added that less than
30 per cent of patients responded to the
existing leading drugs, called check-
point inhibitors.
The monoclonal antibody treatment
for advanced solid tumours, known as
EOS-448, targets a part of the immune
system known as a checkpoint. It is
designed to inhibit a checkpoint called
TIGIT, part of a network of check-
points emerging as a promising target
for next-generation immunotherapies.
GSK and iTeos plan to start
combination studies of the drug with
Jemperli, the former’s recently
approved drug, next year. The British
group also is developing another drug
with 23andMe, a Silicon Valley-based
DNA testing company.
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lifting of most remaining restrictions
from June 21 to July 19 a “huge blow for
us and the entire hospitality industry”.
The Night Time Industries Association
said that it was “devastating”.
An extension of the advice for people
to work from home if possible will mean
that trade remains subdued for busi-
nesses that rely on commuters.
However, Paul Dales, at Capital
Economics, the consultancy, said that
Britain’s GDP would be back at its Feb-
A whole new ball game Visitor numbers to retail destinations fell by 6.7 per cent last week from the previous seven days,
according to Springboard, but there are hopes that football fans attending Euro 2020 gatherings will boost numbers
Vodafone rings changes on suppliers
Alex Ralph
Vodafone has selected a group of
largely American and Asian suppliers
to power its next-generation mobile
network as the industry prepares for
the ban on Huawei.
The telecoms operator has awarded a
contract to Samsung Electronics, NEC,
Dell and Wind River to build the first
open radio access network in Europe.
The deal boosts the emergence of
alternative suppliers to compete with
Ericsson and Nokia, the Scandinavian
groups that, along with the Chinese
company, have dominated the equip-
ment market for a decade.
Last year the government banned
the use of new Huawei equipment for
5G networks from the start of this year
Business
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9 May 14 24 June 1 9 May 14
ruary 2020 peak in August, rather than
July. “As long as any further delays can
be measured in weeks rather than
months, Covid-19 probably won’t leave
a big scar on the size of the economy,”
he said, adding that pubs and restau-
rants accounted for 2 per cent of GDP.
Paul Donovan, said that the eco-
nomic damage caused by the delay
would be “relatively slight”.
Even so, the government could be on
a collision course with business leaders
and for existing technology by the end
of 2027.
Vodafone’s UK business is based in
Newbury, where it has a test site for
open radio access network technology.
It allows mobile operators to mix and
match equipment from various ven-
dors, giving smaller suppliers the
chance to enter the 5G market.
The government has set aside a
£250 million fund to help to develop the
technology, which Johan Wibergh, 57,
Vodafone’s chief technology officer,
said was “reinvigorating” the industry.
“It will boost the digital economy by
stimulating greater tech innovation
from a wider pool of vendors,” he said.
He added that the network would be
automated, “meaning we can release
new features simultaneously across
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as the prime minister did not outline
additional support for employers.
Business groups said that hundreds of
thousands of jobs were being put at
additional risk. The pubs industry said
the delay would cost it £400 million.
Returning costs faced by businesses
include employer contributions to the
furlough scheme, the tapering down of
a business rates holiday for hospitality
and the end of a moratorium over
evictions linked with rental debts.
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multiple sites, add or direct capacity
more quickly, resolve outages instantly
and provide businesses with on-de-
mand connectivity”.
Vodafone also also selected Cap-
gemini, the French consulting group,
and Keysight Technologies, of the
United States, to work on the network.
The initial focus is in Britain, where
2,500 masts in southwest England and
covering most of Wales will be up-
graded.
James Barford, head of telecoms
research at Enders Analysis, said that
Vodafone was “taking quite a conserva-
tive approach” by choosing Samsung
and NEC, “who are significant players
globally but have struggled in Europe,
as opposed to newer specialists such as
Airspan”.
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Business

Need to know
1
Rishi Sunak has rejected a call
from business leaders to extend
Bitcoin rallies Kicking off

after Musk’s
furlough, despite the delay in
ending lockdown. The scheme,
which pays 80 per cent of people’s
wages, is due to start being wound
down at the end of this month. December 20
Page 8 Talk of hedging against
inflation boosts interest

2
The vast majority of staff who
are not going into the office
want to continue working
from home for at least part of the
week, according to a survey. The
Office for National Statistics found
tweet of faith in bitcoin

March 24 Tesla starts accepting

that 85 per cent of homeworkers
wanted to use a “hybrid approach”
in future. Page 8
Ben Martin, Callum Jones
The price of bitcoin rose above $40,000
at one point yesterday after Elon Musk
bitcoin as payment for its cars
been speculative trading. Supporters
argue that this is on the cusp of
changing, amid significant interest
from investors and consumers.

3
Additional flights are being
introduced to countries on the
dwindling green list, including
Gibraltar, Iceland and Israel,
because of a surge in demand for
foreign travel this summer. British
Airways, easyJet, Wizz Air and
Eastern Airways have all
announced additional flights to
Gibraltar. Page 9
denied turning his back on the world’s
largest cryptocurrency and manipulat-
ing its value.
The Tesla chief executive said that
the electric carmaker would accept
payments in bitcoin for its vehicles once
miners of the digital asset could show
that they were powered by renewable
energy.
“When there’s confirmation of
reasonable (50%) clean energy usage
Musk has become one of the most
prominent backers of bitcoin and other
digital currencies. As a result, all his
comments on the subject, no matter
how cryptic or lighthearted, are
watched closely by retail investors, who
have poured money into the digital
asset. Tweets from Musk often precede
big fluctuations in the currency.
Tesla helped to push bitcoin higher in
February when the carmaker revealed

4
GlaxoSmithKline has agreed
to pay iTeos Therapeutics, an
American biotechnology
company, up to $2.1 billion to
collaborate on an experimental
cancer treatment. The British
drugs group will pay $625 million
up front to co-develop and
commercialise an immuno-
oncology drug. Page 33
by miners with positive future trend,
Tesla will resume allowing bitcoin
transactions,” Musk tweeted.
His intervention on Sunday was
prompted by a suggestion from another
executive that he had committed “price
manipulation”, an allegation that he
dismissed as erroneous. Musk, 49, had
cooled on the idea of using the crypto-
currency for car payments last month
amid concerns about the environ-
that it had invested $1.5 billion in the
cryptocurrency and would start
accepting it for payments. A rally,
stimulated by signs of its shift from the
fringes of global finance to the main-
stream, resulted in its value of bitcoin
more than doubling in the first three
months of the year and peaking above
$60,000 in mid-April. Feb 8
However, Musk reversed his stance Tesla discloses $1.5bn
last month, accelerating a drop in the Bitcoin investment

5
The government’s extension
of pandemic restrictions in
England for an extra four
weeks will have little impact on
the economic recovery, experts
have said, but business leaders
warned that the night time
economy and hospitality are
facing a “cliff edge”. Page 33
mental impact of miners’ activity.
Bitcoin rose by 9.4 per cent to
$40,627.56 after the tweet before falling
back to be up 2.9 per cent at $39,695.45
in New York last night.
The price was bolstered further yes-
terday by an endorsement from Paul
Tudor Jones, 66, the prominent hedge
fund manager. “I like bitcoin as a
portfolio diversifier,” he told CNBC.
price. He said that he was concerned
about the energy consumption re-
quired for bitcoin mining, the intensive
computer-driven process through
which new bitcoins enter circulation,
and was reversing Tesla’s decision to
accept the currency as payment for its
vehicles.
A mysterious tweet from Musk this
month, in which he posted #bitcoin

6
Vodafone, the Newbury-based
operator, has selected a group
of largely American and
Asian suppliers to power its next-
generation mobile network as the
industry prepares for the ban on
Huawei, of China. Page 33
“Everybody asks me what should I do
with my bitcoin? The only thing I know
for certain: I want 5 per cent in gold,
5 per cent in bitcoin, 5 per cent in cash,
5 per cent in commodities.”
Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank
of England, said that the central bank
was asking big questions about digital
followed by a broken heart symbol,
further stoked fears among investors
that the billionaire was falling out of
love with the digital asset. May 12
In April Tesla reported a $101 million Tesla suspends
profit after selling some of its big bet in acceptance of
bitcoin, but Musk has suggested it is bitcoin over
unlikely to do so again soon. He wrote environmental

7
The price of bitcoin has risen
above $40,000 after Elon
Musk denied turning his back
on the world’s largest
cryptocurrency and manipulating
its value. The Tesla chief executive
said that the electric carmaker
would accept payments in bitcoin
for its vehicles once miners of the
digital asset could show they were
powered by renewable energy.
8
The third wave of Covid-19,
which is delaying the end of
social restrictions to later in
the summer, will help to put
another 8 per cent on the profits
of Serco. The test and trace
contractor has also won a deal to
look after a large chunk of the
nation’s military estate, worth as
much as £3.4 billion in this decade.
Page 36
currencies and was seeking answers.
Bitcoin, which was created by a
secretive software developer using the
name Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008, has
no physical form. While intended as an
alternative means of payment for goods
and services, the asset’s primary use has
Lordstown chiefs quit after warning over funds
Callum Jones
US Business Correspondent
The two most senior executives of
Lordstown Motors, one of the first
blank-cheque companies to go public
only eight months ago, have quit,
casting further doubt over its ability to
survive.
Steve Burns, Lordstown’s founder
and largest shareholder with a stake of
on social media this weekend that the
carmaker had sold only about 10 per
cent of its investment to confirm that
the cryptocurrency “could be liquidat-
ed easily without moving [the] market”.
Bitcoin remains up by more than a
third from where it started the year.
concerns
2020 2021
December January February
Source: Refinitiv
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
chairwoman until the company finds a
permanent chief executive. Becky Roof
has succeeded Rodriguez on an interim
basis during the search for a chief
financial officer.
David Hamamoto, a Lordstown
board member and founder of Dia-
mondPeak Holdings, thanked Burns
“for his passion and commitment” to
the business. Neither Burns nor Rodri-
guez were quoted in the stock market

9
Draper Esprit, an Aim-listed
venture capital firm, is raising
£111 million from investors and
is planning to move to the main
market of the stock exchange as it
seeks to capitalise on a “golden
era” of European technology
investing. Page 38
more than 26 per cent, resigned as chief
executive, along with Julio Rodriguez,
the finance director. Last week the
company flagged doubts over its ability
to continue as a going concern.
The Nasdaq-listed shares closed
down 18.8 per cent, or $2.15, at $9.26 in
New York last night after the depar-
tures were announced.
announcement.
Lordstown is one of several electric
vehicle start-ups to have gone public
via blank-cheque mergers in the past
year. Promises of record-setting reve-
nue trajectories raised questions
Steve Burns, right, with Donald Trump and an Endurance electric truck last year among industry veterans. In one case,
Nikola, the truck and lorry maker
lion sq ft factoryy would be capable of first reported “some challenges” with which went public through a Spac deal

10 Senior fund managers are

set to leave Aviva in a
shake-up that has sparked
speculation that part of its asset
management business may be
sold. Page 39
Lordstown, based in Ohio, is trying to
transform an old General Motors plant
in the state. It combined with
DiamondPeak Holdings Corp, a special
purpose acquisition company, or Spac,
in October in a $1.6 billion merger. At
the time it estimated that the 6.2 mil-
making “in excess of 600,000 electric
vehicles annually, with only modest
incremental investment”.
Production of its Endurance truck,
for which it said last autumn that it had
secured $1.4 billion of pre-orders, was
due to begin this year. The company
funding last month, when it cut its pro-
duction target for this year from 2,200
vehicles to 1,000. It has also conceded
that its pre-orders were non-binding.
Angela Strand, Lordstown’s lead
last summer, admitted in September to
filming one of its lorries rolling down-
hill for a marketing video. Its founder
later resigned as chairman.
High demand for such stocks has
independent director, is replacing subsided as the market frenzy around
Burns on an interim basis as executive Spacs has cooled.
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June 3
Musk makes light of his
criticism of bitcoin
March April
Shell considers ending its Permian era
Callum Jones
Royal Dutch Shell is considering what
to do with its holding in America’s
largest oilfield after saying that it would
take bold action to reduce carbon emis-
sions because of mounting pressure
from campaigners.
The Anglo-Dutch oil company is said
to be reviewing its interests in the
Permian Basin, located mainly in
Texas, and could sell its operations in
what has been deemed the world’s most
important oil and gas site.
The group could divest all or some of
its position in the region, with Reuters,
the news agency, citing sources who
suggested that the value of Shell’s Per-
mian operations could be more than
$10 billion. The assets generated about
6 per cent of its total output last year.
A spokesman for Shell declined to
comment. There is no guarantee that a
deal for its assets in the region will
materialise.
Shell is one of the world’s biggest
energy companies, producing the
June 13
Musk signals that
Tesla could resume
acceptance of
bitcoin
$70,000
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equivalent of 3.4 million barrels of oil a
day last year. It has more than 80,000
staff in 70 countries and can trace its
roots to 1833, when a London antiques
shop started to import seashells.
Having committed last year to cut its
greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by
2050, Shell is facing calls to go further,
faster. Last month a court in The Hague
ordered it to curb its carbon footprint
by 45 per cent this decade from 2019
levels after an action brought by
environmental groups led by Friends of
the Earth Netherlands.
While Shell plans to appeal against
the court’s order and has expressed
disappointment at being singled out by
a ruling that it claims will not help to
reduce global emissions, Ben van
Beurden, its chief executive, pledged to
“rise to the challenge” and to take
“some bold but measured steps over the
coming years”.
Two decades ago the Permian Basin,
which is partly in New Mexico, was
thought to have run dry. Now it produ-
ces 4.5 million barrels per day, about
Rolls-Royce
boss claims
workforce is
‘a bit too old’
Robert Lea Industrial Editor
The chief executive of Rolls-Royce has
described the engine maker’s work-
force as “frankly a bit too old”.
Warren East’s comments at an
industry conference have drawn criti-
cism in an era of workforce inclusivity
and for appearing to indicate that he
was blaming ageing Rolls’ workers for
the company’s struggles.
A spokesman for Rolls apologised to
those offended by the comments, say-
ing that East, 60, was making a point
that the company had to attract young
engineers to solve the problems of how
it decarbonises a business dependent
on building engines that run on fossil
fuels.
Speaking at a technology conference
in London, East said: “The lot of any
leader of a business such as ours is you
have to get the people on side. And to
me joining Rolls-Royce one of the
challenges I saw was our workforce was
frankly a bit too old. We’ve done a lot of
recruitment and even through Covid
we have kept up some, not all, but some
of our graduate recruitment. You need
to get the younger people engaged.”
Rolls builds engines for Airbus and
Boeing passenger aircraft and RAF
fighter jets, as well as propulsion sys-
tems for Royal Navy warships and
nuclear submarines. It has been burn-
ing through cash at a rate of £1 billion a
quarter during the pandemic and had
to shore up its balance sheet with a
£5 billion fundraising. Since East
became its boss six years ago, he has
cleared out more than 10,000 of the
workforce, 9,000 of them in a recent
cull ordered in response to the pan-
demic-induced aerospace recession.
In the past the Rolls boss has
criticised the company he inherited for
the “accounting fog” that confused in-
vestors trying to understand mis-
matched cashflows and earnings, as
well as the “mud in the machine” of
multiple layers of middle management.
He also compared Rolls to “an ivy-clad
mansion” in which creeper had got into
the pointing and guttering and said that
he had jumped on to “a ship going
through rough seas” and had jettisoned
bits to prevent the vessel from sinking.
40 per cent of America’s total output,
amid a boom in horizontal drilling and
hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
“We were very close to losing a very
powerful, great industry,” Donald
Trump, the former president, said while
visiting the area last July. “Now we’re
back and we’re just gonna keep
expanding.”
Shell produced about 193,000 barrels
of oil and gas per day from company-
operated and non-operated rigs in the
Permian last year.
Lydia Rainforth, oil and gas equity
research analyst at Barclays, said the
report was “quite a surprise”, adding
that a divestment would underline how
fast the industry was moving on emis-
sions. “This would mark a departure in
strategy, with the Permian having been
described in the past as [Shell’s] ‘sleep-
ing beauty’, with the company able to
ramp up production and lower break-
even over the years,” she said.
London-listed shares in Shell, a
member of the FTSE 100, rose by 38p,
or 2.7 per cent, to £14.58½ yesterday.
Sunak’s claims are
ringing hollow
business commentary Simon Duke
T
he Conservative Party has
always touted itself as the
defender of the small
business owner. In its 2019
election manifesto, it
hailed entrepreneurs, family firms
and the self-employed for helping to
“create the wealth of the nation”.
When the pandemic struck last
year, Rishi Sunak wrapped private
enterprise in a warm embrace.
Emergency loans, business rate
relief, furlough schemes and the
self-employment income support
scheme saved businesses that would
have been flattened by the
hurricane.
Is the fuzzy feeling reciprocated?
Not entirely. Several million
freelancers and recently self-
employed have fallen through the
holes in Sunak’s safety net. There’s
growing frustration, too, with the
chaotic decision-making, policy flip-
flops and ministers’ lamentably poor
communication skills. Without a
clearer “road map”, businesses and
consumers cannot make informed
decisions. The leisure and travel
industries are crying out for clarity.
The government’s claims to be the
champion of enterprise will ring
hollow after Boris Johnson delayed
freedom day by a month. It’s a
hammer blow for pub, restaurant,
theatre and cinema café owners,
who have opened their doors but
are still bleeding cash with social
distancing in place. As for
nightclubs, the delay could be fatal.
The first duty of any government
is to preserve the health of its
citizens. But wealth matters, too.
Sunak must extend help for
businesses or risk seeing viable firms
go bust. The chancellor cannot afford
to sit on his hands. Many of his
support measures will soon taper off,
leaving businesses with rising costs.
The VAT deferral scheme is
supposed to run out next week and
from next month employers will
have to pay more towards the wages
of furloughed staff. Many who
borrowed from Covid loan schemes
will have to start repaying soon.
But Sunak is no mood to dig
deeper, having already run up a
£407 billion bill. A month of extra
support is inconsequential when set
against investment already made in
protecting people’s livelihoods.
More difficult questions lie ahead
for Sunak and Johnson. How
quickly should they ask firms to pay
deferred VAT bills and emergency
loans? Too much forbearance would
prolong the lives of corporate
zombies. Too little and they could
kill off vibrant businesses.
When the lockdowns end, the
government will need plans to
revive the economy. All too often,
this administration has mistaken
empty rhetoric and gimmicks like
freeports for economic planning.
British entrepreneurs can prosper in
boom industries like green energy,
artificial intelligence and quantum
computing if conditions are right.
Flying on empty
S
tobart Air sees itself as a victim
of the pandemic, but the virus
merely hastened its demise. The
operator went bust at the weekend
after a fire sale to a 26-year-old
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Business
bitcoin speculator fell through. Who
would have thought it? Nearly 500
people lost their jobs and investors
in Esken, the former Stobart Group,
are licking their wounds.
Stobart Air’s prospects looked
dicey even before Covid struck.
Stobart Group bought the Irish
carrier from administration in 2010
when it was called Aer Arann. It
renamed the airline and in 2017 sold
it to Connect Airways, which
Stobart set up with Sir Richard
Branson’s Virgin and other investors
to rescue Flybe. By April last year,
Connect and Flybe had failed and
Stobart regained the controls of the
airline, which operated between the
UK and Ireland for Aer Lingus. It
was a fateful decision. Stobart Air
leases its aircraft and, with little
cash coming in over the past year, it
has sustained heavy losses. Unless it
can offload the leases, the airline
will leak £82 million of cash between
now and 2024.
The economics of regional
airlines are hard to stack up, even
for a razor-sharp board. But Esken’s
directors failed to get the basic due
diligence right. In April, it agreed to
sell Stobart Air for £2 to Jason
Scales, who runs a cryptocurrency
incubator on the Isle of Man.
Within weeks Scales’ funding fell
through, sealing the airline’s fate. He
said “issues were flagged to do with
an Ettyl funder”. Manx police are
looking into potential irregularities.
To their credit, Esken’s directors
found an investor for London
Southend airport. But the deal has
come at a price. Carlyle, the buyout
giant, is paying £120 million for a
30 per cent stake in Esken’s prize
asset. The perils of selling in distress.
Raffle ticket
I
nvesting in early stage tech
companies has been a one-way
ticket to riches. There’s a catch,
though; you have to be rich before
you’re allowed to buy a ticket.
Venture capital funds are strictly for
the high-net-worth crowd and the
most successful ones are able to
pick and choose their investors, like
a snooty private members’ club.
Draper Esprit is a more populist
establishment. It was the first
European venture capital fund to go
public when it listed in London five
years ago. As its boss Martin Davis
argues, it gives individual
shareholders the chance to get early
access to promising start-ups.
The fund is now looking to move
to the main market and with a
market value of £1.2 billion it will be
a shoo-in for the FTSE 250 (report,
page 38). Draper is raising a further
£111 million and is offering a few
million shares to ordinary punters
through PrimaryBid. Should they
take up the offer? Draper has a good
track record, having backed Cazoo,
Revolut, Graphcore and others.
The valuations of private tech
companies remain buoyant. But
signs that Spacs are losing their
lustre should concern potential
investors. Life could become harder
for venture capital funds looking to
cash in on shrewdly placed bets.
simon.duke@thetimes.co.uk
Alistair Osborne is away
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Business
Serco has raised its profit forecast and now believes that demand for its test-and-trace services, with revenues of about £50 million a month, will continue for longer
Defence deal adds shine as Serco
reaps reward from test and trace
Robert Lea Industrial Editor
The third wave of Covid-19, which is
delaying the end of social restrictions to
later in the summer, will help to put
another 8 per cent on the profits of
Serco, the test and trace contractor.
That — plus news that Serco has won
a contract to look after a large chunk of
the nation’s military estate, worth as
much as £3.4 billion this decade and
potentially beyond — helped to boost a
further recovery in the shares of the
government outsourcing specialist
yesterday.
The Defence Infrastructure Organ-
isation, part of the Ministry of Defence,
said yesterday that Serco, in a joint
venture with Engie called Vivo, had
been awarded contracts covering the
whole of England and Wales outside of
London and the southeast under the
Future Defence Infrastructure Ser-
vices programme.
Serco and Engie look after the day-
Number crunchers seek real-time data Eon calls for tougher rules
Gurpreet Narwan
Economics Correspondent
The national statistics agency is joining
forces with the Alan Turing Institute to
produce better and faster estimates of
changes to the economy.
Together they will produce econo-
mic statistics near to real time to track
the economy in a collaboration that
initially will run for two years.
The Alan Turing Institute, also
known as the National Institute for
Data Science and Artificial Intelli-
gence, was founded in 2015 with a
government grant. Its researchers
routinely collaborate with universities,
businesses and public sector bodies.
Economists and policymakers rely
on real-time data, such as restaurant
bookings and traffic flow, to ascertain
how the economy is performing before
to-day maintenance and site repairs of
bases from the Royal Navy air station at
Culdrose, Cornwall, to the naval dock-
yards at Plymouth and Portsmouth, the
Abbey Wood procurement head-
quarters near Bristol, RAF Brize Nor-
ton in Oxfordshire and the Catterick
garrison and RAF Fylingdales missile
radar base in North Yorkshire. The con-
tract covers 240 facilities and 20,000
buildings.
They are taking over from Amey, a
Spanish-owned rival that used to run
the contracts with Carillion before the
latter’s spectacular collapse in 2018.
Engie is the French company formed
from the merger of GdF, the gas com-
pany, and the Suez utilities group. In
Britain, Engie expanded its facilities
management interests with the
£200 million acquisition of Keepmoat
Regeneration in 2017.
The MoD contract is worth a basic
£900 million over seven years. Con-
tract extensions plus the possibility of
official statistics are published months
later. The Office for National Statistics
has been developing its capability in the
field. During the pandemic it started
publishing faster indicators, using rapid
response surveys and novel data
sources, such as motor vehicle traffic
and credit and debit card purchases.
Sir Ian Diamond, the national
statistician, said: “For some time now,
we’ve been combining ‘faster’ data from
multiple sources, allowing us to rapidly
track important changes in our eco-
nomy in near-real-time and produce
stats with deeper insight. The pandemic
has turbocharged this kind of work and
demonstrated just how vital it is.
“Our new partnership with the Alan
Turing Institute will be key as we
continue this journey to harness the
power of new forms of data. Together
we aim to provide higher-quality, more
big construction upgrades at the sites
could bring in a further £2.5 billion of
work, Serco said. The base contract will
be worth about £3 million a year to
Serco’s profits from 2022.
However, it was the news that Serco
continues to benefit from the pandemic
that helped to send its shares up 6¼p, or
4.64 per cent, to 142p last night.
In a trading update, Serco said: “Vol-
umes on both our testing and tracing
contracts have continued to be strong
and we now think it likely that demand
for these services will continue for
longer in the second half [of 2021] than
we previously anticipated. Accordingly,
we are increasing our guidance for
underlying trading profit in 2021 by
£15 million to around £200 million.”
Serco has enjoyed revenues of about
£50 million a month from test-and-
trace, from which it typically might
have earnings at a profit margin of as
much as 5 per cent. Before the advent of
the latest third wave, Serco had been
detailed and much faster estimates of
changes in our economy and society to
help inform policy and improve lives.”
The team starts with three projects.
The first will use data science
techniques to offer insights about
transactions between companies
almost in real time, “which will help the
ONS to better understand the impact of
seasonal patterns and events such as
the pandemic or Brexit on the eco-
nomy”.
Researchers will create economic
models that track changes in retail
prices, household spending and income
at a detailed local level and also will
develop tools to allow the sharing of
private sets of data. The team would
aim to create synthetic data generators,
which allow researchers to protect per-
sonal information when generating
and sharing data.
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HANNAH MCKAY/REUTERS
telling the City that it expected test-
and-trace revenues to begin to dwindle.
Test and trace brought in an unex-
pected profit boon of about £15 million
for Serco last year, a windfall that
helped it to pay back its Treasury
furlough support money across the rest
of the group and prompted bonuses to
50,000 staff. Profits this year of
£200 million would be 22 per cent
higher than last year’s £163 million,
itself up 36 per cent in 2019, before the
pandemic.
Of the Vivo contract, Rupert Soames,
62, chief executive of Serco, said:
“These are nationally important assets
and buildings across the MoD’s estate
and we recognise the confidence and
trust the MoD has placed in us and the
responsibility that comes with it.”
Serco shares are recovering from a
fall to as low as 108p, but they remain
below the 167p they commanded prior
to the pandemic and are 75 per cent
down on their peak in 2013.
to realise plans for net zero
Gurpreet Narwan
Britain will miss its 2050 carbon goals if
the government does not take action to
clarify policies, the country’s biggest
electricity provider has warned.
Eon yesterday called on policy-
makers to implement stricter regula-
tions and to make more effort to win the
“hearts and minds of consumers and
businesses”. Failure to do so would
cause Britain to miss the “net zero by
2050” target, it said.
The company made ten recommen-
dations. They included fixed dates for
all houses to meet minimum energy
performance standards and a sell-by
date for gas boilers. Eon also called for
rules to mandate that all new proper-
Tuesday June 15 2021 | the times
‘One in five
adults has
less than
£100 savings’
Times Business Reporter
Nearly one in five adults has less than
£100 in savings, according to a survey.
Indicating a widening gap in Britain’s
financial wellbeing, a similar propor-
tion of people — 20 per cent — have
increased their monthly savings during
the pandemic.
In a survey carried out for Yorkshire
Building Society, which has an ambi-
tion to help more people to save, it
emerged that 19 per cent of adults had
less than £100 in savings, while 21 per
cent of people were not saving,
compared with 12 per cent when similar
research was carried out in 2019.
Thirteen per cent of people have no
savings to fall back on at all and more
than a quarter (26 per cent) have less
than £500 put away.
More positively, nearly a fifth (17 per
cent) of people surveyed had reduced
their outstanding debt during the
pandemic.
Tina Hughes, director of savings at
Yorkshire Building Society, said: “Our
new research continues to highlight
just how fragile many people’s finances
are, with the shocking figure that nearly
a fifth of all UK adults have less than
£100 in savings.
“It also shows the further widening of
the financial wellbeing gap in the UK.
While we know it can be hard for
people to put money away, especially
with rising living costs and in a low-in-
terest environment, we mustn’t over-
look the impact saving has on people’s
financial and mental wellbeing.”
The society highlighted the impact
financial wellbeing has on people’s
mental health, with more than a fifth
(22 per cent) of people having sleepless
nights because of money worries.
Two fifths of those surveyed (40 per
cent) felt stress about their finances and
more than a third (35 per cent) felt that
the financial impact of the Covid-19
pandemic had increased their stress
levels.
Hughes said: “Now more than ever,
with current and potential future
economic uncertainty, it’s important
for people to try to build their financial
resilience and for us as a society to help
people to save.
“Money worries can make people
anxious, so we want them to know they
don’t have to suffer in silence and we’re
here to help them to manage their
money during difficult times.”
ties are built to zero-carbon standards
and more clarity about energy-effi-
ciency schemes that give small busi-
nesses an icentive to take early action
on the issue.
Michael Lewis, chief executive at
Eon, said: “The next decade will be
critical if we are to meet 2050 targets.
The decisions we take in the years
between now and 2030 will determine
whether we are able to gain sufficient
momentum to achieve success.
“Government has shown significant
commitment and the prime minister’s
ten-point plan gives a sense of the scale
of change needed, but the pace needs to
step up if we are to realise this ambition.
We don’t have to do it all immediately,
but we do have to get moving now.”
the times | Tuesday June 15 2021 1G M
Patrick Hosking
No reason why fund managers cannot
‘‘
reveal if they have skin in the game
It’s a perennial
complaint about
modern-day
capitalism. The
officer class are
lavished with lucre for their successes,
but are personally shielded from the
consequences of their mistakes. The
rewards asymmetry can be as
pronounced in fund management as
anywhere — as it is usually “other
people’s money” on the line.
Richard Wilson, chief executive of
Interactive Investor, one of the three
big retail investment platforms, has
launched a campaign to force
individual fund managers to disclose
how much they personally hold of the
funds they manage. He has written to
the Financial Conduct Authority
calling for a change in the disclosure
rules. His 350,000 retail clients in
funds and investment trusts deserve
to know how much “skin in the game”
the stewards of their money actually
have, he argues.
There’s little hard evidence that
portfolio managers personally
invested in their strategies do any
better than disinterested ones. It just
seems likely. And there’s certainly
plenty of evidence that the end-
investors like them to share in their
failure as well as their success.
It’s hard to disagree with the
instinct. Terry Smith, founder of
Fundsmith, one of the most successful
asset management groups with a
strong following of retail investors,
agrees. “Who would trust a chef who
wouldn’t eat his or her own cooking?”
he says.
It is remarkable that the very
people who insist that executives in
our biggest companies own shares
in them and disclose the fact — so
as to align their interests with the
stockholders — don’t apply the
same philosophy when it comes to
their own affairs.
Listed company bosses are
routinely required to own
large chunks of stock in the
businesses they manage.
Pascal Soriot is required to
own 650 per cent of his
salary in AstraZeneca
shares. The average
requirement for bosses
across the FTSE 100 is now
300 per cent of salary,
Hannah Rothschild and her
relatives are known to hold
£833 million in RIT Capital
according to Deloitte. Yet portfolio
managers, who preach the virtues of
alignment of interests and
transparency, are not required under
City rules to hold any units or shares
in the funds and investment trusts
they manage; nor generally do they
have to disclose what, if any, their
holdings actually are.
Some investment trusts disclose for
stakes below 3 per cent, though are
not required to. Smith and his
colleagues at Fundsmith disclosed a
2.2 per cent stake in Smithson
Investment Trust, personal stakes
worth about £53 million. Nick Train,
another popular money manager who
runs Finsbury Growth & Income,
owns a £31 million stake in the trust
with colleagues. James Anderson, the
co-manager of Scottish Mortgage, has
informally said that he owns just over
1 per cent, worth at least £177 million.
Trust board directors do declare
holdings, by law. And they are backing
their own judgment more. Alan
Brierley, an analyst at Investec who
has been tracking personal holdings in
investment trusts for years, says that
trust directors own stock worth
£4.8 billion in the companies they
preside over, seven times more than
the £687 million recorded ten years
ago. However, 8 per cent of directors
own not a solitary share.
A lot of investors take comfort from
director holdings. There is something
reassuring about the £833 million
stake held by Hannah Rothschild and
her banking dynasty relatives in RIT
Capital Partners. But it is the fund
manager, who rarely sits on the board,
not the directors, that really
determines performance in
most trusts.
Open-ended funds,
meanwhile, disclose
nothing. It’s hard to find a
single example of an open-
ended fund manager
disclosing. There’s
nothing in the rules to
stop them doing so.
And their employers
certainly know
precisely how many
units of a fund they
own because of
strict internal rules
designed to prevent
market abuse.
Even the few
managers who say
anything at all keep it
vague. Smith, for
example, says that the giant
Fundsmith Equity Fund will “always
be the main vehicle for his own
investments”. Neil Woodford was
equally inexact. “All my personal
financial investments are in funds we
run here,” he used to say before his
empire collapsed.
It’s a missed opportunity for the
industry. Most open-ended fund
managers are required to take part of
their bonuses in the form of units in
the funds they manage and are
required to hold them for at least
three years. Schroders, for example,
says that all its senior managers have
exposure to the funds they manage.
The arguments for publishing look
more compelling than those against. It
would cost nothing. It would show
how portfolio managers are aligned
with end-investors. It would reassure
clients and would be rather good
public relations: underperforming
fund managers would at least be able
to tell disappointed clients that they
shared their pain — in unfudgeable
pounds and pence.
No one seems to have a very good
reason why this hasn’t been done
before, beyond the excuse that this is
the way things have always been
done. There’s a privacy point, but
managers would be required only to
disclose their holdings in their own
funds, not their wider financial affairs.
It would not be very intrusive.
There is a faint danger that a
manager encouraged to be very
highly exposed to their own fund
might start to behave differently, for
example being excessively risk-averse
to preserve capital. Managers of funds
in niche asset classes might look
under-invested, but end-investors can
understand a need for diversification.
Skin in the game is crucial,
according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
the iconoclastic investment writer
who calls modern-day business
“pseudo capitalism” because the top
people so often take no risk with their
’’
own money. Taleb noted approvingly
how engineers in Roman times had to
sleep under the bridges they designed.
No one suggests money managers
need to go that far, but a little more
financial jeopardy
— and providing
hard evidence for it
— would be no bad
thing.
Patrick Hosking is Financial Editor
of The Times
Comment Business
Philip Aldrick
Markets aren’t panicking
about the threat from
inflation . . . at least not yet
W
hat on earth is going
on in the bond
markets? When
America’s inflation
hit 5 per cent last
week, more than double the target
rate and well above forecasts, bond
yields defied convention and fell.
“I’m surprised. I would have
expected that yields would have risen
more,” Larry Summers, the former
US Treasury secretary and present
prophet of inflation, said later.
His bemused reaction was
understandable. US ten-year
government bond yields soared from
0.95 per cent at the start of the year
to 1.75 per cent in March amid
mounting fears of a price spiral.
Markets reacted with what was
effectively three rate rises, even
though actual rates did not budge,
quantitative easing remained
Ten-year US Treasury yield
1.74%
1.70
1.66
1.62
1.58
1.54
1.50
1.48
2021 1.42
14 18 20 24 26 28 2 4 8 10 14
May June
unchanged and US inflation was
2.6 per cent.
Some of that 0.8 percentage-point
increase was a reflection of better
growth prospects — and the higher
interest rates that ought to follow —
but much was inflation protection, as
markets adjusted for the risk of
rising prices. Yet here we are, with
inflation at a 13-year high, and
markets could not be more
phlegmatic. In the past two weeks,
US ten-year Treasury yields have slid
from 1.63 per cent to 1.47 per cent.
For Paul Donovan, chief economist
at UBS Global Wealth Management,
the reason is clear: “The markets,
economists and [US Federal Reserve]
are not worried about inflation.”
They’re not worried because they
expect it to pass. Markets are guided
by narratives, with the most
compelling story determining
behaviour. In recent weeks, the
narrative has changed.
Summers was the persuasive
storyteller at the start of the year,
arguing that President Biden’s
$1.9 trillion Covid recovery plan was
excessive. Others joined the fray. In
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Britain, Andy Haldane, the Bank of
England’s chief economist, and Lord
King of Lothbury, its former
governor, have been reminding
people that putting the inflation
genie back in the bottle is harder
than corking it up before it escapes.
The dominant narrative now is the
one that central banks have been
pushing since the start of the year,
that the inflation spike will be
temporary. As prices for second-
hand cars, oil and commodities
stabilise, inflation will fall back to
target. What makes the argument
compelling is the post-pandemic
economic outlook, that “by the end
of the year growth will be slowing
and we will be back to the economy
we had before coronavirus”, Karen
Ward, a strategist at JP Morgan
Asset Management, said.
Think about it as if 2020 and 2021
hadn’t happened. Why would the
inflation outlook today be any
different to the outlook in 2019, when
advanced economies were dealing
with chronically weak productivity,
consistently poor investment and
deflation was the greater threat?
Gertjan Vlieghe, a Bank ratesetter,
said that while some people may be
tempted to call the recovery a boom,
“it’s more accurate to call it a return
towards normal”. Normal before the
pandemic wasn’t great, and it
certainly wasn’t inflationary.
Ward, a former adviser to the
chancellor, is not entirely convinced
by the latest narrative. Covid has
released fiscal spending, restraining
public sector pay will be tricky and
skills mismatches will create a tight
labour market, in some sectors, at
least. Above all, investment spending
may take off. There are reasons to
believe this time is different. But
central banks have the capacity to
respond. A higher-inflation, higher-
interest rate environment would be
welcome, after all.
There is one other reason why the
reaction in bond markets has been
muted. The Fed’s stance is that
inflation should overshoot 2 per cent,
which means that rates will remain
low for longer and higher inflation
will be tolerated. There is no need to
price for rate rises in the traditional
way. Inflation is coming, but for now
the markets do believe the narrative
that it won’t last. Until they don’t.
Philip Aldrick is Economics Editor of
The Times
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An Aim-listed venture capital firm is
raising £111 million from investors and
is planning to move to the main market
of the stock exchange as it seeks to
capitalise on a “golden era” of European
technology investing.
Draper Esprit, which has backed
technology success stories including
Trustpilot, said that it was tapping
investors for cash via a share sale to
boost its investments in new compa-
nies.
It also intends to switch from Aim,
London’s lightly regulated junior stock
market, in favour of a premium listing.
This will result in Draper entering the
FTSE 250 share index and will broaden
its pool of potential institutional
investors.
The moves come amid a pandemic-
induced boom in the technology sector.
Lockdowns have hugely accelerated
the adoption of technology, with more
people working remotely and shopping
online. Many of the businesses in
Draper’s portfolio stand to benefit from
such changes, including Manna, a
delivery company that uses drones to
transport groceries, takeaway meals
and medicines.
The pandemic was “accelerating
behaviours that we’d already seen quite
dramatically — and then, of course,
there are new ways of doing things”,
Martin Davis, Draper’s chief executive,
said. “Eighteen months ago, people
didn’t care about last-mile delivery, if
I’m honest, whereas now everybody
wants it.”
Draper, which was set up in 2006,
was listed five years ago and now has a
market value of more than £1.1 billion. It
focuses on young European technology
companies in the private market and
was an early backer of Trustpilot, the
Danish consumer reviews website that
was floated in London this year with a
£1.1 billion valuation. Other successful
bets have included Cazoo, the online
car retailer.
Davis, 58, who joined Draper last
November from Kames Capital, the
fund manager , said: “This is potentially
a golden era for European tech invest-
ing in the private space and our model,
we believe, is the right model for that.”
Draper announced the fundraising
and listing change alongside full-year
results that showed its gross portfolio
value climbing by about 40 per cent to
£983.8 million in the 12 months to the
end of March. It raised £206.3 million
by exiting some investments in the past
year, including Stripe and Wise, the
payments businesses.
The valuations of some technology
companies, particularly in the United
States, have surged during the pan-
demic, fuelling fears of a bubble. Davis
said that while there may be questions
about the valuations of some late-stage
publicly quoted businesses, the private
markets were not showing the same
exuberance.
Comparisons with the dotcom
bubble of the late 1990s were wide of the
mark, he said. “Unlike last time, where
everything was trading at nose-bleed
valuations, this time the majority of the
Shift away
private market is much more rational
because they’re delivering something from office
tangible. I think in the last boom and
bust it was all about people investing in
ideas, whereas now we’re investing in
doesn’t suit
ideas and delivery.”
The venture capital firm’s fund-
Ted Baker
raising is open to individual investors
through PrimaryBid.
Draper shares rose 23p, or 2.7 per
cent, to close at 862p.

Airport stake sale ‘in final stages’

Charlie Parker
The parent company of Stobart Air, the
regional airline that collapsed at the
weekend, has said that it is “in the final
stages” of closing a £120 million deal to
sell a stake in London Southend airport.
Esken said that it was “agreeing the
documentation” with Carlyle Group,
an American private equity firm. The
deal would give Esken a loan that
Carlyle could convert into a 29 per cent
stake in the airport. About £100 million
would be injected into the rest of Esken,
which has been struggling during the
pandemic.
Stobart Air collapsed on Saturday
after Esken pulled the plug on Ettyl, the
potential buyer of the airline that had
lost its funding to take over the busi-
ness.
When the deal fell through, Stobart
Air’s board was told that Esken would
London Southend airport served
about two million business and
leisure passengers during 2019
withdraw support from its subsidiary, a
move that disrupted the travel plans of
thousands of people in the UK and the
Republic of Ireland.
The board of Stobart Air terminated
its franchise agreement with Aer
Lingus, which had helped to operate
flights to and from Dublin, Belfast,
Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds,
among others. Aer Lingus flights to and
from Heathrow are not affected by the
cancellation of the contract.
Esken said that it would continue to
fund the leases on eight aircraft until
2023, but would try to sublease them to
another party. David Shearer, its execu-
tive chairman, said: “It is disappointing
for all stakeholders that we have been
unable to conclude the sale of Stobart
Air. The continuing impact of the pan-
demic in terms of lockdown and limited
travel has prevented us from achieving
a better outcome.”
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T
ed Baker counted
the cost of the
pandemic
yesterday with a
£108 million
pre-tax loss (Katherine
Griffiths writes). The
fashion retailer was hit
particularly hard as
customers shied away from
buying its office wear and
clothes for special occasions
and as shopper numbers fell
No getting away from the Aviva shakes up investment division
attraction of holiday parks
Dominic Walsh
Private equity’s love affair with holiday
parks continued yesterday when
CVC Capital Partners acquired Away
Resorts for an estimated £250 million.
The purchase of a majority stake
from Freshstream and LDC means that
the company has been through four
pairs of private equity hands, having
been set up thirteen years ago with
backing from CBPE Capital.
In 2015, CBPE sold to LDC, the
private equity division of Lloyds Bank;
then, in 2019, LDC sold a majority stake
to Freshstream, while retaining a
minority holding in the business.
The group expanded through the
purchase of the Cornwall holiday park
in St Ives Bay. Away was founded in
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sharply at its airport and
travel stores.
Revenues fell by 44 per
cent to £352 million in the
53 weeks to January 30. At
an underlying level, Ted
Baker fell to a £59 million
loss compared with a
Source: Refinitiv
£5 million profit in the
previous year. The statutory
loss, which included a
£45 million charge for the
reduced value of its assets,
2008 by Carl Castledine, whose grand-
father ran Britain’s first holiday camp, at
Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk, in 1905.
It runs nine parks, including Tatter-
shall Lakes, in Lincolnshire, and Sandy
Balls, in the New Forest, attracting
200,000 holidaymakers a year.
Castledine, 51, who with his team is
staying with the business, said that
CVC’s experience in helping compa-
nies to scale up would be “invaluable as
we take our growth to the next level”.
David Wells, managing director of
CVC, said that the firm planned to back
Castledine in accelerating its expan-
sion through investment and acquisi-
tions. “The business is well positioned
in a fragmented and growing market
that benefits from strong consumer
tailwinds,” he said.
TED BAKER
Ted Baker’s revenues
fell 44 per cent but
the retailer believes it
is in a stronger place
than 12 months ago
Out of fashion
Share price
2019 2020 2021
Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2
Katherine Griffiths Banking Editor
Senior fund managers are set to leave
Aviva in a shake-up that has sparked
speculation that part of its asset man-
agement business may be sold.
David Cumming, chief investment
officer for equities, who joined Aviva
from Standard Life Aberdeen in 2018,
resigned last Tuesday, while ten other
fund managers may leave the insurer’s
investment division.
Aviva said yesterday: “We have
mutually agreed with David Cumming
that he will leave Aviva Investors to
pursue other opportunities . . . A
number of roles have been put at risk in
our equities team and we have begun
consultations with the impacted indi-
viduals.”
Cumming, who directly managed
£215.6 million in Aviva’s UK-listed
Equity High Alpha Fund, has been one
restructuring and other
costs, grew to £108 million
from £78 million a year ago.
Its shares fell 13¼p, or
7.9 per cent, to 153¼p.
The first Ted Baker shop
was opened in 1988 in
Glasgow by Ray Kelvin. It
grew into a global fashion
brand, but has endured a
rocky three years. Kelvin,
65, resigned in 2019 amid
allegations about his
personal conduct. He has
denied acting improperly.
Rachel Osborne, the chief
executive since March last
year, set out a three-year
turnaround plan 12 months
ago. Ted Baker raised
£95 million in an emergency
fundraising last summer
and has cut nearly 1,000
jobs to boost its finances
and tide it through the
turmoil on the high street.
Ted Baker’s update for its
first financial quarter
showed revenue had
improved but was still down
17 per cent from a year ago.
Online sales rose by 22 per
cent in the year to the end
of January, but growth
slowed to 4.5 per cent
between February and
April as it cut back on
discounts and other
promotions.
Osborne, 56, said: “While
the impact of Covid-19 is
clear in our results and has
amplified some of the
legacy issues impacting the
business, Ted Baker has
responded proactively and is
in a much stronger place
than it was a year ago.
“We are a year into Ted
Baker’s transformation plan
and continue to believe that
we have the right strategy
and team in place to set the
business up for a stronger,
more sustainable future.”
Analysts at Liberum said:
“Management has delivered
impressively on the year one
targets set out in the
relaunch strategy. With the
foundations now fixed,
£10
there will be a shift of focus
8
towards growth
opportunities, which make
6 for an exciting outlook.”
Nick Bubb, an
independent retail analyst,
4
said that the results had
2 been handicapped by a poor
performance from stores in
0 cities and sites at airports
and other travel locations.
of the City’s most widely known fund
managers and spokesmen on corporate
governance. He is expected to resur-
face in another senior role, sources said.
The changes come after the depar-
ture of Euan Munro, who ran Aviva
£349bn
Assets managed by Aviva Investors
Source: Aviva
Investors, in January. Munro had been
chief executive of the division for seven
years and was well regarded, but he had
failed to expand the business as much
as had been hoped.
He also struggled with industry-wide
trends making it difficult to generate
healthy profits from the business.
Munro was replaced by Mark Versey,
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Business
Norton agrees
to release
auto-renewal
customers
Louisa Clarence-Smith
An American antivirus software group
has agreed to change its automatic
renewals policy after an intervention
from Britain’s competition watchdog.
NortonLifeLock customers whose
contracts auto-renew annually will be
able to end their contracts and seek
refunds for the outstanding months.
The company said that it would contact
customers who had not used its
products for more than 12 months to
tell them that they could disable the
automatic renewal or end their con-
tract and get a refund.
The Competition and Markets
Authority threatened NortonLifeLock
with legal action in March after the
company refused to hand over infor-
mation to assist with the regulator’s
investigation into auto-renewing con-
tracts in the anti-virus software sector.
The watchdog said that it was the first
time that it had needed to take such
action in a consumer protection case.
After the software provider’s com-
mitment to change its policy, the legal
action will be discontinued.
NortonLifeLock, formerly known as
Symantec, is a $16.5 billion cyber-
security software developer based in
Tempe, Arizona.
Andrea Coscelli, the watchdog’s chief
executive, said: “We’re pleased that
Norton’s commitments mean we no
longer need to go to court to enforce
our information request. However,
firms should be in no doubt that we are
ready to take this action in the future if
they fail to provide the information we
need to pursue our investigations.”
The authority’s investigation into the
antivirus software industry was
launched in 2018 after complaints
about long-term customers overpaying
for key services.
Last month, McAfee, another anti-
virus software provider, also agreed to
allow customers to end contracts that
auto-renew annually and to seek a
refund for the remaining months.
A spokeswoman for NortonLifeLock
said: “We continually strive to put our
customers first and remain confident
that our practices are fair and compli-
ant with UK consumer law. We look
forward to continuing to help protect
and empower consumers to live their
digital lives safely.”
49, a member of his team who joined
Aviva in 2014.
Versey has closed unsuccessful funds
in an attempt to focus on strong areas
in equities and is betting on climate-
related funds because of investors’
strong interest in the area.
Aviva Investors manages £349 billion
of assets. About 80 per cent are funds
from Aviva’s insurance and pension
clients. The company has long been
keen to boost the amount from external
customers.
An alternative plan, according to
industry insiders, is that Aviva could sell
part of the business, with the division
that manages external money the most
likely to be put on the block.
The move could free that part of the
business from being within Aviva’s
capital-intensive framework as a large
regulated insurer, boosting its chances
of making better returns.
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Business

Not just men are from Mars,

declares women’s champion
Fiona Dawson tells After three decades at Mars, Fiona
Dawson isn’t quite ready to give up on
Ashley Armstrong that her work, rest and play. The Dublin-
born boss is leaving the giant American
women can’t have it all confectionery group next month, but
has already secured non-executive
if they want to reach roles on the boards of Marks & Spencer
and the Lego Group.
the top in business As global president for Mars food,
multisales and global customers,
Dawson, 55, is one of the most senior
women in the corporate world. How-
ever, despite attempts to improve
matters , a report by Women on Boards
this week will show that there is still a
long way to go to improve diversity at
big companies.
Dawson is a founding member of the
Women’s Business Council, a govern-
ment-backed, business-led initiative
set up in 2012 intended to help to reduce
the gender pay gap and improve female
representation in the workplace.
According to Dawson, her career has
put her in a position to reflect on why
more women are not making it to the
top. One realisation is that the claim
that women can have it all — family,
home life and career — is nonsense. In
her view, “you have to have some trade-
offs”.
She also takes issue with the label
“superwoman” so often applied as
shorthand for successful women in
business that are held up as shining
examples of those who have juggled
their home and working lives. “I hate
the term because it puts someone on a
pedestal that can’t be achieved.”
Dawson joined Mars, which also
makes M&Ms, Maltesers and Dolmio
pasta sauces, as a graduate trainee in
1988. She rose up the ranks to become
head of the UK chocolate business
before taking on her global role in 2015.
“In the 1980s, women in business were
all Joan Collins — shoulder pads, sharp
elbows. There was this toughness that
was expected, you had to be that bit
better, work that bit harder to prove
yourself.”
After a brief stint at PepsiCo, she
returned in 1999 to run Mars’ Irish
business and shortly after becoming
pregnant with her eldest son was pro-
moted to become sales director for
Mars’ businesses. At the time, that
approach marked out Mars as company Fiona Dawson says she was fortunate
with a progressive company culture.
It also has a reputation as a breeding she now viewed as a mistake. “You can
ground for talent. Its “past Marsters” be your own worst enemy if you don’t
include Justin King, the former take opportunities if you think that you
Sainsbury’s supermarkets chief execu- can’t be perfect at them. I think women
tive who also is on the board of M&S, beat ourselves up endlessly, but we take
Richard Baker, the former Boots boss, for granted the confidence needed to
and Allan Leighton, who left Mars to ask for help.”
oversee the turnaround of Asda. Dawson is full of admiration for the
Existing staff are known in the industry Mars school of management and
as “Martians”. believes she was lucky to have had
Dawson said that for most of her mentors and male bosses ready to
career she had tried to do everything champion her. However, despite
herself and ensure it was perfect, which Archie Norman, the M&S chairman,

China deal puts more cargo

in hands of John Menzies
Greig Cameron
John Menzies has extended its pres-
ence in China by taking a minority
stake in a company handling cargo at
one of the world’s busiest airports.
The Scottish aviation services
provider will pay £3.4 million for the
holding in Guangzhou JFreight
Aviation Logistics Supply Chain Co.
Under the deal, John Menzies initially
will operate a new cargo terminal at
Guangzhou Baiyun international air-
port, a hub often listed among the top
ten in the world for passenger numbers,
as well as handling large volumes of
cargo.
The Edinburgh-based John Menzies
has been hit hard by the global down-
turn in passenger aviation caused by
Covid-19. It has been looking at oppor-
tunities in new markets and in freight,
which has been affected less by the
pandemic.
The FTSE 250 company handled
more than 1.2 million tonnes of cargo
last year. It has a workforce of 23,000
people in 200 airports in 35 countries. It
counts Air China among its customers
and already operates at Chinese air-
ports, including Beijing and Macau.
The new terminal at Guangzhou will
have the capacity to handle 120,000
tonnes of cargo annually, with the early
focus expected to be on products for the
Chinese ecommerce sector. There will
be the potential to expand into more
general air cargo on behalf of airlines in
future.
Philipp Joeinig, 45, chairman and
chief executive of John Menzies, said:
“We are very pleased to have found a
great partner in JFreight and I look for-
ward to developing our relationship
with them as we move forward.”
Zheng Xi Ming, the JFreight chair-
man, said tyhat he was looking forward
to working closely with a company that
had “expertise in cargo handling and
the wider aviation services market”.
Last month John Menzies raised
£22 million in a share placing to support
its acquisition plans. Shares in John
Menzies fell 4p, or 1.2 per cent, to 335p.
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to have mentors and male bosses who were ready to champion her. Inset, with the Queen at a Mars factory in Slough in 2013
calling Dawson a “trailblazer as the first
ever female general manager at Mars
UK”, Dawson insisted she was “pretty
risk-adverse. I wasn’t really that ambi-
tious, which might sound strange, but it
allowed me to take the pressure off. I
would just focus on winning and deliv-
ering results. But If I couldn’t be the
best, I didn’t want to do it.”
Her epiphany came quite late in her
career in 2013, when members of her
team told her that she could count on
others to support her. “Bringing other
Saga’s cruises
ready to sail —
when allowed
Dominic Walsh
The resumption of cruises and tours
remains “a priority”, Saga said yester-
day, as it seeks to build on a positive
opening to the year.
The provider of travel and financial
services to the over-50s said its cruise
business was ready to restart sailings
from June 27, subject to government
restrictions, with load factors of 77 per
cent for this year and 48 per cent for
next year.
Its initial plan is to sail the Spirit of
Adventure around Britain, with Euro-
pean sailing planned from mid-August,
although Saga said it had put in place
contingency plans amid the continuing
uncertainty over travel.
In the period from February to
June 13, it said its focus had been on re-
starting the travel business, while keep-
ing a lid on costs and preserving cash.
Its cash burn was at the lower end of its
guidance of £7 million to £9 million a
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people in to help was actually the
biggest period of growth for me, both
professionally and personally.”
Within Mars and her role on the
Women’s Business Council, she is now
an advocate for mentoring and pushing
women to take their opportunities, but
worries that, particularly during the
pandemic, a fear that women feel like
they have to prove themselves the
whole time may be backfiring.
“What I’ve found is that most women
are incredibly productive, what gets put
Saga’s travel bookings have reached 60 per cent of this year’s revenue target
month, with available cash of £78 mil-
lion at the end of last month. Net debt,
excluding its two separately financed
cruise ships, was £246 million. Total
debt was £757 million.
Saga revealed strong travel bookings,
with 60 per cent of this year’s revenue
target booked and 27 per cent of next
year’s, above pre-pandemic levels.
The business was founded by Sidney
De Haan in 1951 to sell holidays to
retired people. Sir Roger De Haan, his
son, took the reins 33 years later and
sold it to Charterhouse in a £1.35 billion
deal in 2004. Many of its customers
bought into its float in 2014. Last
on the backburner is themselves.” Last
year Mars introduced equal parental
leave in Britain, an initiative that
Dawson sees as even more important
given that studies have shown gender
equality has been set back by the
pandemic. The foods group also intro-
duced a Covid-specific family leave
policy and introduced flexible working
practices. “If we don’t have equal
opportunities for parental leave then
we can’t move forward,” she said. “It
needs to be seen from the top.”
ALAMY
autumn De Haan, 72, backed a £150 mil-
lion fundraising and became chairman.
Saga’s insurance division reported
motor and home policy sales 2 per cent
behind the previous year.
The company also said Steve King-
shott, the chief executive of Tesco Un-
derwriting and chief insurance officer
at Tesco Bank, was the new chief execu-
tive of the insurance business.
Separately yesterday Saga suffered a
revolt over its remuneration report by
shareholders speaking for 22.3 per cent
of votes cast.
Shares in Saga fell 9½p, or 2.3 per
cent, to 401p.
Computer chip
specialist rides
wave of orders
Robert Miller
Barely a month after floating on the
stock market in one of the largest initial
public offerings of the year so far,
Alphawave IP reported record results
yesterday, with total bookings in the
first six months topping $190 million
and with $15 million of estimated
royalties.
Shares in the computer chip com-
pany, which were listed last month at
410p and which promptly lost a fifth of
their value on the first day of trading,
closed up 4p, or 1.3 per cent, at 319p last
night, valuing the group at £2.1 billion.
The business sold stock worth
£856 million in May at a valuation of
£3.1 billion.
Alphawave, which was founded in
Canada four years ago, is moving its
head office to Cambridge, where it will
hire 100 staff. It develops signal-proc-
essing chip technology used to transmit
data rapidly over wired networks and
operates in high-growth areas such as
artificial intelligence and driverless
cars. It licenses its designs to semi-
conductor manufacturers.
The flotation crystallised fortunes
for Tony Pialis, Rajeevan Mahadevan
and Jonathan Rogers, the company’s
founders. They each cashed in shares
worth £71.5 million, leaving them with
individual stakes of 14.3 per cent. Sehat
Sutardja, an Indonesian-born Amer-
ican semiconductor billionaire, banked
£71.5 million and reduced his holding
from 17.1 per cent to 11.9 per cent.
In a trading update, the company
highlighted several new business deals,
with strategic design wins in North
America in 5G wireless communica-
tion products and with devices made
from component parts bought from
other organisations. It also said that it
had signed definitive agreements for its
China Product Partnership, with reve-
nues expected to be recognised in the
second half.
The company, which previously has
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predicted that sales would climb to as
much as $240 million by 2023, added
that its new bookings would underpin
revenue growth in the present financial
year and beyond.
Pialis, its chief executive, said: “I am
pleased that we have delivered another
record quarter of bookings in 2021,
driven by several strategic design wins
with new and existing tier one North
American customers in 5G wireless
communication products for our core
[internet protocol] and product IP
offerings.
“In addition, Alphawave was selected
On the crest
Share price
400p
380
360
340
Source: Refinitiv
320
300
280
May 16 23 30 June 6 13
by one of the largest hyperscaler com-
panies in the world to provide its
solutions. The team has done a great job
continuing to execute on our business
goals while successfully completing our
IPO on the London Stock Exchange in
May and raising $500 million in pro-
ceeds to fund the group’s continued
growth and global expansion.”
John Lofton Holt, executive chair-
man of Alphawave, said: “We are very
pleased to share our successes so far
this year and to deliver on the promises
that we made to the market and to our
investors earlier this year. The group is
continuing to scale and grow rapidly as
it solves the most difficult connectivity
challenges for the most technically
sophisticated companies in the world.”
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social media companies over
online adverts for scams if they
do not comply with the Financial
Services and Market Act 2000,
Mark Steward, executive director
£75 million and £100 million during for enforcement and market
gore street energy storage Assault on batteries its initial public offering, but oversight at the FCA, told MPs.
Portfolio Capital raised adjusted its expectations downwards Since Brexit, a rule that financial
capacity 520Mw (Apr 21) £135m Share price Top ten projects
115p Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire* amid tough market conditions. promotions must be issued or
80MW
Eventually, only £30.6 million was approved by an FCA-authorised

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uch like those selling Drumkee, Northern Ireland raised in May 2018 with shares firm applies to social media
picks and shovels 110 50MW priced at 100p as it made its debut on companies. “If they can’t comply,
getting rich in a gold Mullavilly, Northern Ireland the main market in London. It we’re going to have to do
rush, rather than the 105 50MW targeted a long-term annual something about it in a more
miners themselves, so Ferrymuir, Scotland* dividend equivalent to 7 per cent of formal way,” Steward said.
there are investment funds that 49.9MW its net asset value and an internal
100 Porterstown, Republic of Ireland*
believe they are similarly placed in rate of return of between 10 per cent Unilever buys brand
the field of energy infrastructure 30MW and 12 per cent on its assets.
(Greig Cameron writes). 95 Kilmannock, Republic of Ireland* Since the IPO, its fundraising has Unilever is to acquire Paula’s
Gore Street Energy Storage is one. 30MW been more successful and it has Choice, a skincare brand mainly
Hulley, Cheshire
Its focus is not on the consumer- 90 20MW
steadily added to its portfolio. It sold online, from TA Associates
Source: Refinitiv

facing front line of the drive to net Lascar, Greater Manchester

zero, the smart meters and electric
vehicle charging points that will
become commonplace over the next
decade or so, but on the “picks and
shovels” that will make it all possible.
In this case, the power that will drive
the technological revolution forward.
When it went public more than
three years ago, it claimed to be the
first renewable energy fund listed in
London focused solely on investing
in industrial-sized batteries. To date,
its projects stretch from Fife in
Scotland south to Essex in England’s
southeast. It has assets in Wales,
Northern Ireland and the Republic
of Ireland and a mandate to look
into other locations, such as Europe
and North America.
A few of the larger assets are still
being built, but many are operational
and generating revenue. The existing
batteries help to cover shortfalls in
energy generation for National Grid
in Great Britain or Eirgrid across the
sthree
Market cap net fee income
£620m First-half £164.3m
2018 19 20
Jul Jan Jul Jan
ADVICE Buy
WHY Managers are deploying
capital quickly to build a
portfolio capable of delivering
reliable income returns in a
growing sector
island of Ireland. They also can be
used to store excess power produced.
Batteries are seen as key to
decarbonising the grid as they can
help to balance out the intermittent
supply of wind and solar power.
According to Alex O’Cinneide, chief
executive of Gore Street Capital, the
which have greater exposure to
traditional job markets, such as
accounting and finance.
Moreoever, SThree’s fee income
returned to pre-Covid levels during
raised £60 million at 100p in for an undisclosed sum. Founded
20MW December last year and then in by Paula Begoun in 1995, the
85
Larport, Derbyshire April tapped investors for brand is widely known for its
21 19.5MW £135 million more, at 102p per share, “Ingredient Dictionary”, which
80 Lower Road, Essex to fund the next phase in its lists nearly 4,000 ingredients, and
Jul Jan 10MW *Projects still in construction “pipeline” of opportunities, which is for its cruelty-free products. Last
said to have 1.3 gigawatts of capacity. month Unilever announced plans
investment manager of the fund: “If The demand for shares has for a new venture, bringing plant-
you are a believer in the continuing pushed the company’s market based meat products to market.
growth of renewables and the capitalisation above £300 million, Shares in the London-listed
decommissioning of coal, gas and to with the share price flat yesterday at company closed up by 21½p, or
an extent nuclear, then you should 109½p. 0.5 per cent, at £42.95.
be a believer in the growth of battery The first deal from the most recent
storage. The real growth trajectory is fundraising was confirmed last Second term for Woods
ahead of us.” month — the purchase of an 80-
Gore Street has indulged in some megawatt storage project in Milton Sam Woods has been reappointed
energy trading, but the bulk of its Keynes, the fund’s largest to date. deputy governor of the Bank of
revenue comes from the balance it The £30 million construction project England for a second five-year
can offer to the grid. The contracts it is expected to take between 12 and 15 term. Woods, 47, holds the role as
has with grid operators, which can months. It also said last smonth that chief executive of the Prudential
range from one month to several it had secured exclusive rights to a Regulation Authority, where he
years, mean that the returns from further 300MW of UK assets and supervises banks and insurers
the portfolio are predictable and was conducting due diligence and and oversees UK financial
provide a reliable income source for that contracts for four sites in stability. He is leading plans to
investors. Ireland had been extended by a year improve regulation of the City
It hoped to raise between to 2024. after Brexit and was a driving
force behind the emergency loan
schemes set up for businesses at
remainder is largely down to the has access to a £50 million revolving the start of the coronavirus
sustained expansion in demand for credit facility. pandemic.
science, technology, engineering and The board intends to recommend
mathematics, the so-called Stem an interim dividend at its results on EasyHotel chief dies
skills — a phenomenon accelerated July 19. The dividend cover for the

I
f the money coming into your
business has dipped during the
pandemic, there at least can be
consolation in the knowledge that
you outperformed your rivals (Louisa
Clarence-Smith writes). So it was for
SThree yesterday.
Net income at the recruitment
agency, a specialist in hiring people
for roles in science and technology,
fell by 9 per cent in the year to end
of November, but that was better
than the double-digit declines from
the likes of Hays and Robert Walters,
its first quarter, which covers the by the pandemic and the resulting year will be in the range of 2.5 times François Bacchetta, who joined
three months to the end of February, new focus on technology — and in and three times, which analysts at easyHotel as chief executive in
and in a trading update yesterday it life sciences, further supported in its Panmure Gordon estimate will March last year, has died at the
said that quarterly net fees for the case by greater access to capital and amount to a full-year dividend of 7¼p age of 56. Harm Meijer, the
second quarter were up 22 per cent improved public sentiment. a share. Given SThree’s exposure to easyHotel chairman, paid tribute
year-on-year and were 8 per cent SThree said that life sciences hiring in the Stem market, there to the Frenchman’s “wealth of
higher than in the same period in accounted for 24 per cent of its should be further upside for investors. experience, passion for our
2019. Over the six months to the end income in the first half, while industry and dynamic leadership
of May, group net fee income rose by technology fee income accounted for style”. He spent 15 years at
10 per cent to £164.3 million on the 47 per cent. Moreover, the rebound ADVICE Buy easyJet before joining easyHotel
year. in hiring activity is happening in all WHY Exposure to Stem sector just as it was being delisted by the
Part of the uplift can be attributed SThree’s regions. The business was consortium of property investors
to an economic recovery that has sitting on net cash of about will drive growth that took control of the business
boosted the jobs market. The £48 million at the end of May and in 2019. Bacchetta leaves a widow,
Angela, and two children.

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ARDGOWAN

Analysts make their call

on Drahi’s arrival at BT
Tom Howard Market report

T
he market was in equal
measures surprised and natural resources
excited by last week’s
confirmation that Patrick
Drahi, the French-Israeli
billionaire, had bought a 12.1 per cent
Oil prices highest in two years
stake in BT. Investors had lots of

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questions about his stakebuilding. ondon’s big oil investment officer at
Would he agitate for changes? Would producers were Saxo Bank, said.
he try to break up the business? Was driven higher as Oil prices have
his ultimate aim to take full control? the price of a barrel of rallied by nearly
Analysts at JP Morgan had a go at Brent crude oil 50 per cent this year
answering some of the questions put yesterday topped $73 as part of the wider
to them by clients. They reckon that for the first time since “reopening” trade.
Drahi “seems likely” to take a seat on April 2019. Last spring, a barrel
BT’s board, as they find it “hard to Brent, the of Brent was selling
imagine Patrick Drahi being a passive international for little more than
investor”. They think that he will benchmark, rose by $19, while WTI briefly
need to strike up a “collaborative 0.7 per cent to $73.17 a The price for a barrel turned negative.
relationship” with existing barrel, while West of Brent Crude rose Tullow Oil, the
management if he is to “deliver Texas Intermediate 0.7 per cent to $73.17 Africa-focused
climbed 0.6 per cent explorer and producer
2023, as well as also expects to secure a to $71.31 a barrel, its International Energy leapt 5¼p, or 8.6 per
Grain leads welcoming tourists to debt package shortly. Wall Street report dearest in more than Agency to reach pre- cent, to an 18-month
its visitor centre. The new single malt two and a half years. pandemic levels late high of 64¾p. Royal
backers for Roland Grain, 47, an distillery will be on the The S&P 500 closed at another “Buyers are next year, and gradual Dutch Shell “B”
Austrian investor with Ardgowan Estate in record with a rise of 7.71 points, or switching exposure supply increases by gained 34p, or 2.5 per
distillery a range of interests in Inverclyde, west of 0.2 per cent, to 4,255.15, and so, too, from metals and Opec+ will keep the cent, to a three-
the drinks trade, Glasgow. did the Nasdaq, up 104.72, or 0.7 per agriculture in the market sufficiently month peak of £13.94,

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onstruction on a becomes the majority Grain believes that cent, at 14,174.14, but the Dow Jones belief that rising tight to support while BP rose 6p, or
new Scotch shareholder in the the distillery and industrial average fell by 85.85 global demand, higher prices,” Steen 1.9 per cent, to 330½p,
whisky distillery venture after putting in visitor centre will points, or 0.3 per cent, to 34,393.75. forecast by the Jakobsen, chief its dearest for a year.
is to begin this year £7.2 million. create up to thirty jobs
after it raised The remainder of the within five years of
£8.4 million from funding came from opening. Initially there change”. But what change might that joint venture with Openreach, BT’s unprecedented support that they have
investors (Greig existing shareholders. will be capacity to be? “We suspect [Drahi’s] initial dominant broadband network given over the past year.
Cameron writes). The company, which produce one million strategic focus will be on accelerating business. The shares were unmoved While the broader market shook off
The Ardgowan already produces litres of spirit annually, BT’s infrastructure monetisation at 191¾p, keeping them within any concerns about a delay to
Distillery hopes to be blended malts through although that could (towers and fibre) and “financial touching distance of the 19-month Britain’s lockdown exit, travel and
producing spirit in its Clydebuilt range, double over time. engineering” (moving capex off highs that they scaled on Thursday, leisure companies took another hit.
balance sheet),” the analysts said in when Drahi’s interest became known. The Restaurant Group, the owner of
their note. “Patrick Drahi has always Trading volumes were subdued, but Wagamama and Frankie & Benny’s,
Results in brief held ambitious return expectations that didn’t stop the FTSE 100 from fell 5½p, or 4.3 per cent, to 123½p;
Name Pre-tax figure Dividend for all of his investments. reaching its highest level since International Consolidated Airlines
Profit (+) loss (-) “We struggle to believe he bought February last year, when the Group, British Airways’ parent, fell
Draper Espirit (finance FY) £267.5m (£40.4m) nil into BT on the expectation of pandemic first rattled global stock 8½p, or 4.2 per cent, to 194¾p; and
Ted Baker (retail FY) -£107.7m (-£77.6m) nil delivering a ‘modest’ double-digit markets. The Footsie, home to JD Wetherspoon, the pubs chain,
6 Results in brief are given for all companies valued at more than £30 million. f = final p = payable return.” That should “reassure” any London’s biggest listed companies, slipped 51p, or 4 per cent, to £12.37.
investors nervous about the BT share nudged 12.62 points, or 0.2 per cent, However, SSP, the airport caterer,
The day’s biggest movers price, which has nearly doubled over up to 7,146.68, while the more UK- rose 10¾p, or 3.5 per cent, to 316p.
the past eight months. biased FTSE 250 edged 10.38 points, Esken was among the day’s biggest
Company Change Analysts at Jefferies were also in a or 0.1 per cent, higher to 22,744.51. losers after its Stobart Air business
Tullow Oil Oil prices hit their highest in two years 8.7% chipper mood about BT, having There was a record high for collapsed over the weekend. Its
Serco Raises profit guidance 4.6% spoken to the telecoms group’s Germany’s Dax index, while the pan- blushes were spared somewhat in the
Volution Ends eight-day losing streak 4.1% finance chief on Friday. Among the European Stoxx 600 also set a record, afternoon after it confirmed that it
SSP Best session in more than a month 3.5% key points: BT is “confident” that half rising for a seventh session in a row. was close to selling a 29.99 per cent
Petropavlovsk Attracts buyers with shares down 20 per cent this year 3.4% of its capital expenditure over the Investors have been emboldened by stake in London Southend airport to
CMC Markets Biggest daily drop since March -3.9%
next couple of years will qualify for economic data good enough to show Carlyle, the private equity group, for
JD Wetherspoon Lockdown restrictions extended by a month -4.0%
Rolls-Royce Jet engine maker tracks fortunes of travel sector -4.1% tax super-deductions, while there is that the recovery is on track without £120 million. The shares closed down
International Consolidated Airlines Market frets over chances of another summer washout -4.2% also said to be a “high level of interest being so good that central banks 2¾p, or 8.5 per cent, at 28¼p. Earlier,
The Restaurant Group Indoor restrictions to remain in place for a further month -4.3% from infrastructure investors” in a think about tapering some of the they had been as low as 24p.

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Eur (Ex UK) Eq A Acc ‡@1310.92 … +4.24 1.25 Mgd Income @ 77.80 77.80 +0.13 …
UK Index A Inc ‡@ 1423.81 … -5.83 3.01 Global Energy A Acc ‡@ 170.97 … -1.14 …
HALIFAX INVESTMENT FUND MGRS LTD Glob Brands A Acc ‡@ 12146.54 … +57.39 0.86
UK Mid Cap A ‡@ 6038.15 … +6.47 … Global Equity A Acc ‡@ 218.28 … +0.87 …
01296 386 386 UK Eq A Acc ‡@ 1184.53 … -0.02 1.66
Global Franchise A Acc ‡@296.22 … +1.47 …
Authorised Inv Funds Global Free Enterprise A Acc ‡@1251.21 … +4.07 …
Share Class `C JUPITER UT MGRS LTD
Global Gold A Acc ‡@ 205.33 … -2.27 … Fixed Income
020 7581 3020
Corporate Bond ‡@ 40.39 … +0.02 1.74 Global Special Situations A Acc ‡@305.14 … +1.59 … Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@ 2618.35 … -3.81 …
ARTEMIS FUND MGRS LTD Absolute Return ‡@ 41.61 … +0.14 0.47 Retail Shares (Class 1)
Ethical ‡@ 110.60 … +0.70 … Global Special Situations A Inc ‡@236.02 … +1.23 … UK Ind Lnkd A Acc ‡@ 1350.60 … -3.80 …
0800 092 2051 Distribution and Growth ‡@105.47 … +0.10 2.56
European ‡@ 110.40 … +0.20 0.62 Managed Growth A Acc ‡@289.44 … -0.14 0.30 UK Long Bd A Acc ‡@ 1288.90 … … … Stg Bd Ret Inc ‡@ 60.22 … … 0.56
Authorised Inv Funds Emg Euro Opps ‡@ 244.35 … -0.94 3.03
Far Eastern ‡ 126.90 … -0.30 1.17 Monthly High Income A Acc ‡@246.29 … +0.36 … Strat Bd Ret ‡@ 48.24 … +0.02 2.38
Capital R Acc ‡@ 1938.72 … +7.08 … Fund of Inv Tst ‡@ 148.80 … +0.70 0.62 Monthly High Income A Inc ‡@65.66 … +0.10 … Euro Special Sits ‡@ 501.78 … +2.19 … UK Corp Bond ‡@ 66.13 … +0.03 1.95
Euro Opps R Acc ‡@ 91.26 … -0.48 … Intl Gwth ‡ 116.00 … +0.50 … Multi-Asset Protector A Acc ‡@175.51 … +0.02 … European ‡@ 2965.20 … +9.19 … SANTANDER UNIT TST MGRS UK Corp Ret ‡@ 66.04 … +0.03 1.60
Euro Opps R Inc ‡@ 85.36 … -0.46 … Japanese ‡ 68.58 … +0.21 … Financial Opps ‡@ 874.08 … +12.27 … 08457 413002 UK Eqty Inc Ret ‡@ 97.75 … +0.22 2.57
Strategic Bond A Acc ‡@ 244.54 … +0.19 …
European Growth R Acc ‡@378.40 … +0.19 … North Amer ‡ 131.40 … +0.90 … Income Trust ‡@ 507.90 … +2.45 … Bal Pfolio Inc ‡@ 110.50 … +0.40 … UK Gwth & Inc Ret ‡@ 94.22 … … 2.02
Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 119.47 … +0.09 …
Global Energy R Acc ‡@ 27.42 … +0.16 2.49 Smaller Cos ‡@ 131.60 … -1.30 0.10 Merlin Bal (Acc) ‡@ 223.58 … +0.29 1.75 Bal Port Gwth Acc ‡@ 239.80 … +0.30 1.30 UK Hi Yld Bd 1 ‡@ 42.87 … +0.04 3.68
Target Return A Acc ‡@ 102.03 … +0.44 0.82
Global Growth R Acc ‡@ 335.86 … +1.55 … Special Sits ‡@ 51.83 … +0.08 … Merlin Gwth (Acc) ‡@ 515.97 … +0.73 … Equity Inc Inc ‡@ 233.40 … +1.00 … UK Inst Acc ‡@ 175.99 … +0.36 0.90
Target Return A Inc ‡@ 87.63 … +0.01 0.87
Global Income R Acc ‡@ 150.35 … +0.56 … UK Equity Inc ‡@ 86.79 … +0.26 3.11 Merlin Inc (Acc) ‡@ 348.28 … +0.76 … N&P UK Gwth Inc ‡@ 182.80 … +0.10 … UK Mnthly Extra Inc ‡@ 82.96 … +0.19 2.72
UK Alpha A Acc ‡@ 2783.62 … +10.58 0.93
Global Income R Inc ‡@ 101.34 … +0.38 … UK FTSE 100 IT ‡@ 62.77 … +0.19 … Merlin Wwide (Inc) ‡@ 378.41 … -0.04 … Stkmkt 100 Tkr @ 233.00 233.00 +1.00 … UK Mnthly Inc Ret ‡@ 70.49 … +0.28 3.37
UK Blue Chip A Acc ‡@ 770.11 … +3.15 …
Global Select R Acc ‡@ 151.45 … +0.83 … UK FTSE All-S IT ‡@ 74.09 … +0.23 … UK Growth ‡@ 248.93 … +0.25 … UK Growth Acc ‡@ 499.70 … +0.90 … UK Retail ‡@ 141.51 … +0.06 1.06
UK Smaller Companies A Acc ‡@7043.47 … +60.62 … UK Special Sits (Inc) ‡@ 197.26 … +0.83 …
High Income R Inc ‡@ 74.70 … +0.11 … UK Growth ‡@ 81.06 … +0.27 … UK Growth Inc ‡@ 280.50 … +0.50 … UK Sel Retail ‡@ 129.93 … -0.01 1.69
UK Smaller Companies A Inc ‡@6317.63 … +54.38 …
Income R Acc ‡@ 482.32 … +0.89 3.38 UK Smaller Cos ‡@ 486.62 … +2.77 …
Income R Inc ‡@ 224.45 … +0.41 3.48 UK Special Situations A Acc ‡@1348.43 … -1.62 …
Monthly Dist R Inc ‡@ 70.58 … +0.15 … UK Special Situations A Inc ‡@494.93 … -0.60 … SCOTTISH MUTUAL INV MNGRS LTD
HSBC GLOBAL ASSET MGMT (UK) LTD
Strategic Assets R Acc ‡ 81.31 … +0.13 … 0141 248 6100
Enq: 0845 745 6123 Dlg: 0845 745 6126 Mon-Fri 8-6
Strategic Bond R M Acc ‡@106.35 … +0.10 1.79 HSBC Index Tracker Investment Funds (OEIC) LEGAL & GENERAL (UT MGRS) LTD European Inc 1741.16 1835.80 +4.53 0.82
Strategic Bond R M Inc ‡@ 58.67 … +0.05 1.81 Enquiries: 0870 050 0955 Dealing: 0870 050 0956 Far Eastern Inc 584.69 617.09 -0.73 1.42
Strategic Bond R Q Acc ‡@106.16 … +0.10 1.83 Amer Ind Acc ‡@ 816.33 … +5.39 …
Equity Acc @ 2616.00 2639.00 -8.00 2.12 Intl Growth Inc 380.56 400.59 +0.02 0.75 For Resolution see Ignis
Strategic Bond R Q Inc ‡@ 58.55 … +0.05 1.85 Amer Ind Inc ‡@ 662.44 … +4.38 …
Equity Dist @ 893.80 902.00 -2.70 2.15 Japanese Inc 41.85 41.85 +0.43 0.56 TU FUND MANAGERS LIMITED
UK Growth R Acc ‡@ 727.93 … +1.09 … Euro Ind Acc ‡@ 1156.01 … +3.99 1.83
For ISIS Asset Mgmt see F&C Fd Mgmt Ltd (OEICS) Euro Ind Acc ‡@ 511.50 … +1.70 1.16 Mutual European 2789.98 2940.92 +7.26 0.81
UK Smaller Cos R Acc ‡@1991.02 … +14.26 … Euro Ind Inc ‡@ 756.69 … +2.62 1.73 British 935.80 935.80 +5.70 …
Euro Ind Inc ‡@ 348.00 … +1.10 1.18 Mutual Far Eastern 1101.69 1162.73 +0.92 0.64
UK Special Sits R Acc ‡@ 741.15 … -0.02 … FTSE 100 Ind Acc ‡@ 245.17 … +0.66 2.61 JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS European 210.70 219.40 +1.00 …
Fixed Int Acc ‡@ 160.00 … +0.10 1.71 Mutual North Am 1983.00 2092.88 +6.23 0.24
FTSE 100 Ind Inc ‡@ 117.04 … +0.31 2.16
Investors Serv: 0800 832 832 Dlng: 0845 946 4646 Fixed Int Dist ‡@ 77.21 … +0.02 1.72 Mutual UK Eq 1310.31 1382.91 +4.35 1.91
FTSE 250 Ind Acc ‡@ 326.03 … -0.71 …
Glob Gwth Acc @ 243.90 243.90 -1.30 1.15 Nth American Inc 1227.65 1295.67 -7.28 … * Yield expressed as CAR (Compound Annual Return);
FTSE 250 Ind Inc ‡@ 206.18 … -0.45 …
FTSE All-S Acc ‡@ 651.66 … +1.85 2.51 All Stks Credit A Inc ‡@ 142.90 … +0.10 1.51 Glob Health Acc ‡@ 94.61 … +0.27 0.76 UK Equity Inc 566.71 598.11 +1.89 1.94 † Ex dividend; ‡Middle price; . . . No significant data. #
AXA FRAMLINGTON UNIT MGMT LTD Asian Div Inc U Trst Inc ‡@95.39 … +0.11 8.51 Glob Tech Acc ‡@ 87.60 … +0.47 0.22 Periodic charge deducted from capital; @ Exit charge
FTSE All-S Inc ‡@ 345.90 … +0.99 2.51
Dling: 0845 602 1952 Priv Clients: 0845 777 5511 Jap Ind Acc ‡@ 143.53 … +0.72 … SCOTTISH WIDOWS UNIT TRUST MGRS
Equity Inc ‡@ 572.40 … -2.70 4.43 Jap Ind Inc ‡@ 114.47 … +0.58 … 0845 300 2244
Gilt Acc @
Gilt Inc @
201.30
74.35
211.80
78.24
+0.10
-0.39
…
1.09
Pac Ind Acc ‡@
Pac Ind Inc ‡@
523.61
338.29
…
…
+0.63
+0.40
2.06
0.44
Authorised Inv Funds (OEICs)
OEIC A Class
British funds
Health Acc ‡@ 2656.00 … +1.00 … Managed Investment Funds 12 month Price Int Yld Grs rd
Jap Smlr Co Ac @ 62.56 66.09 -0.19 … Bal Port A Acc ‡@ 237.20 … +0.20 0.01 High Low Stock (£) +/– % yld
Managed Inc ‡@ 138.30 … … 4.20 HSBC Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Share Class Caut Port A Acc ‡@ 206.80 … … …
Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 257.10 … +1.80 4.14 Index-linked
Balanced Acc ‡@ 243.00 … +0.68 … Caut Port A Inc ‡@ 151.70 … … …
UK Growth Inc ‡@ 252.90 … +1.10 0.44 111.74 108.50 Tr IL 1Y% 22 109.01 – .01 1.77 –4.15
Balanced Inc ‡@ 151.95 … -0.14 … Opps Port A Acc ‡@ 280.00 … +0.30 … 364.38 354.43 Tr IL 2K% 24 * 358.91 + .03 1.51 –3.07
UK Select Opps Inc ‡@ 2135.00 … +10.00 0.30 Prog Port A Acc ‡@ 266.30 … +0.20 … 112.37 109.56 Tr IL 0V% 24 110.27 – .03 … –3.38
Corp Bd Acc ‡@ 320.34 … +0.23 2.26
UK Sml Cos Inc ‡@ 421.00 … +1.90 … 120.25 115.74 Tr IL 0V% 26 116.88 – .04 … –3.13
Corp Bd Inc ‡@ 130.78 … +0.10 2.29
136.38 129.05 Tr IL 1N% 27 130.46 – .06 1.05 –3.01
Gilt & Fd Int Acc ‡@ 497.78 … +1.62 1.19 129.83 122.69 Tr IL 0V% 28 124.28 – .02 … –2.90
Overseas Growth Investment Funds
Gilt & Fd Int Inc ‡@ 74.17 … +0.24 1.58 131.98 124.01 Tr IL 0V% 29 125.56 – .02 … –2.80
Income Acc ‡@ 645.70 … +2.74 2.78 Eur Sel Gth A Acc ‡@ 3504.00 … -13.00 0.34 136.78 130.97 Tr IL 0V% 31 133.31 + .03 … –2.70
AXA FUND MANAGERS LTD Income Inc ‡@ 287.18 … +1.23 2.85 393.65 366.57 Tr IL 4V% 30 * 372.01 – .05 1.74 –2.60
Admin & Enq 0117 989 0808 163.88 149.94 Tr IL 1N% 32 152.60 – .02 0.82 –2.66
Monthly Inc Acc ‡@ 308.79 … +0.97 … Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds 161.19 146.68 Tr IL 0O% 34 149.88 – .04 … –2.53
AXA Trusts Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 135.04 … +0.43 … 310.44 284.82 Tr IL 2% 35 * 293.66 – .20 0.83 –2.43
UK Grth & Inc Ret B Acc ‡@134.51 … +0.54 … UK Trkr A Acc ‡@ 338.10 … +0.40 2.06 159.59 143.91 Tr IL 0V% 36 149.37 – .14 … –2.48
Gen Acc ‡@ 2101.00 … +6.00 …
UK Grth & Inc Ret B Inc ‡@64.17 … +0.26 … UK Trkr A Inc ‡@ 178.40 … +0.30 2.10 187.20 167.60 Tr IL 1V% 37 173.39 – .17 0.68 –2.47
Gen Inc ‡@ 1079.00 … -2.00 2.70 183.12 162.72 Tr IL 0X% 40 171.18 – .16 … –2.37
UK Gth & Inc Acc ‡@ 134.51 … +0.54 … 175.05 153.83 Tr IL 0V% 41 163.71 – .15 … –2.33
UK Gth & Inc Inc ‡@ 64.17 … +0.26 … UK and Income Investment Funds 195.05 170.46 Tr IL 0X% 42 182.02 – .20 0.34 –2.31
183.33 158.61 Tr IL 0V% 44 171.50 – .21 … –2.26
Corp Bond A Acc ‡@ 351.00 … -0.20 1.15 190.64 163.05 Tr IL 0V% 46 178.10 – .26 … –2.22
UK/Global Investment Companies Corp Bond A Inc ‡@ 134.30 … -0.10 1.16 222.83 190.09 Tr IL 0O% 47 208.28 – .30 0.37 –2.23
HSBC Specialist Investment Funds (OEIC) Envir Invtr A Acc ‡@ 381.50 … -1.90 0.53 200.53 169.38 Tr IL 0V% 48 188.11 – .27 … –2.22
Euro Acc A ‡@ 234.70 … … 1.18 223.34 187.79 Tr IL 0K% 50 209.02 – .35 … –2.20
American Index Retail Acc ‡@816.33 … +5.39 … Hi Inc Bond A Ac ‡@ 257.30 … +1.00 3.75
Extra Inc Inc B ‡@ 86.74 … +0.24 1.16 221.88 183.97 Tr IL 0N% 52 207.17 – .35 … –2.18
American Index Retail Inc ‡@662.44 … +4.38 … Hi Inc Bond A Inc ‡@ 82.85 … +0.33 3.84 296.98 243.63 Tr IL 1N% 55 276.21 – .46 0.50 –2.17
Global Gwth Acc R ‡@ 279.90 … +1.30 …
Asian Gth Acc ‡@ 147.77 … -0.07 … Hi Res A Acc ‡@ 379.60 … +0.10 2.72 239.65 192.25 Tr IL 0V% 56 222.47 – .45 … –2.16
Japan Acc A ‡@ 173.30 … +0.70 …
Asian Gth Inc ‡@ 130.99 … -0.06 … Hi Res A Inc ‡@ 125.50 … … 2.77 245.15 196.27 Tr IL 0V% 58 229.86 – .55 … –2.17
Pac Gwth Acc A ‡@ 569.60 … +0.60 … 282.43 223.37 Tr IL 0W% 62 265.63 – .82 … –2.15
Chinese Eq Acc ‡@ 513.81 … +0.27 0.40 Safety Plus A Acc ‡@ 40.49 … … …
291.55 224.55 Tr IL 0V% 65 273.49 – .95 … –2.17
Chinese Eq Inc ‡@ 434.76 … +0.22 … Strat Inc A Acc ‡@ 226.10 … -0.10 1.80 313.02 240.40 Tr IL 0V% 68 296.10 –1.11 … –2.23
Euro Gth Acc ‡@ 985.18 … +1.80 … Strat Inc A Inc ‡@ 104.20 … … …
Euro Gth Inc ‡@ 826.42 … +1.53 … UK Gwth A Acc ‡@ 190.00 … +0.10 1.52 Longs (Over 15 years)
CIS UNIT MANAGERS LTD UK Sel Gwth A Acc ‡@ 2380.00 … -7.00 0.89 158.28 140.76 Tr 4N% 36 143.51 – .42 2.96 1.05
08457 46 46 46 120.88 106.39 Tr 1O% 37 108.94 – .38 … 1.14
175.49 154.30 Tr 4O% 38 157.39 – .51 3.02 1.12
European Gwth ‡@ 204.30 … +0.60 0.20 IGNIS ASSET MGMT 168.47 147.55 Tr 4N% 39 150.73 – .51 2.82 1.16
OEIC B Class
Sus Leaders ‡@ 767.00 … +3.60 0.46 Dlg: 0141 222 8282 171.83 149.58 Tr 4N% 40 153.19 – .56 … 1.18
Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds
UK Growth ‡@ 644.10 … +3.30 … American Gth Inc @ 322.55 340.42 -3.34 … 113.86 97.05 Tr 1N% 41 100.18 – .44 … 1.24
UK Income ‡@ 217.60 … +0.60 3.65 UK Trkr B Acc ‡@ 372.60 … +0.40 2.48 158.62 135.48 Tr 3N% 44 139.37 – .57 … 1.25
Balanced Growth @ 262.17 276.69 -0.93 1.52 183.17 157.72 Tr 4K% 42 161.88 – .61 2.78 1.22
UK Trkr B Inc ‡@ 177.40 … +0.20 2.54
Balanced Growth Acc @ 393.13 414.92 -1.40 1.49 166.68 141.72 Tr 3K% 45 145.91 – .61 … 1.25
Corporate Bond ‡@ 99.69 … -0.89 4.77 189.87 160.09 Tr 4N% 46 165.00 – .70 2.58 1.26
European Growth @ 403.88 426.26 -3.57 2.18 101.07 87.91 Tr 0Y% 46 91.39 – .47 … 1.28
UK and Income Investment Funds 123.14 101.25 Tr 1K% 47 105.08 – .55 … 1.27
CLOSE FUND MANAGEMENT LTD European Growth Acc @ 475.71 502.07 -4.21 2.24 Corp Bond B Acc ‡@ 364.50 … -0.20 1.38 130.95 107.13 Tr 1O% 49 111.23 – .61 … 1.27
0870 606 6402 Glob Gwth @ 331.53 349.90 -3.09 0.12 Corp Bond B Inc ‡@ 134.20 … … 1.39 199.64 166.14 Tr 4N% 49 171.66 – .82 2.48 1.25
Higher Yield @ 83.98 88.64 -0.29 4.43 101.54 80.47 Tr 0X% 50 84.24 – .55 … 1.27
Beacon Inv ‡ 84.88 … +0.35 0.01 UK Gwth B Acc ‡@ 206.00 … +0.10 1.81 197.10 175.21 Tr 0V% 51 196.80 – .30 … –2.17
Higher Yield Acc @ 275.04 290.28 -0.92 … UK Sel Gwth B Acc ‡@ 2499.00 … -7.00 1.09 99.82 95.12 Tr 1N% 51 99.22 – .60 … 1.28
Japan @ 49.06 51.78 -0.03 0.94 Cautious Man Fd A Acc ‡@297.70 … +0.60 … Gwth Tst Acc @ 106.00 106.50 -1.00 0.17 99.82 95.12 Tr 1N% 51 99.22 – .60 … 1.28
Managed @ 130.89 138.15 -0.06 0.66 Cautious Man Fd A Inc ‡@154.10 … +0.30 … High Inc Acc ‡@ 145.10 … +0.20 4.44 194.87 158.62 Tr 3O% 52 164.20 – .84 … 1.25
Managed Trust @ 71.96 76.96 +0.17 … OEIC C Class 142.64 110.32 Tr 1O% 57 115.13 – .69 … 1.23
Dealing: 020 7426 6232 China Opp Fund A Acc ‡@1762.00 … +4.00 … Japan Ind Acc ‡@ 70.54 … +0.36 … 227.33 179.62 Tr 4% 60 186.31 –1.00 … 1.20
Mngd Pfolio Inc @ 95.54 100.84 -0.11 0.58 Emg Mkts Opps Fd A Acc ‡@250.70 … +0.60 … Pacific Ind Acc ‡@ 211.10 … +0.40 1.86 UK and Income Investment Funds
101.78 73.87 Tr 0K% 61 78.00 – .60 … 1.19
Winchester ‡ 3675.07 … +32.03 0.70 Pacific Grth @ 498.71 526.34 -2.81 1.34 Erpn Grth Fund A Acc ‡@ 286.50 … +1.20 0.41 UK 100 Ind Acc @ 180.90 180.90 +0.90 3.19 UK Gth C Inc ‡@ 130.60 … +0.10 2.28 182.62 139.05 Tr 2K% 65 145.28 – .93 … 1.18
Smaller Comp @ 756.24 798.14 +1.64 0.15 Erpn Sel Opps Fd A Acc ‡@2222.00 … +4.00 0.15 UK Active Opps Acc @ 249.90 252.90 -0.10 … UK Sel Gwth C Acc ‡@ 2616.00 … -8.00 1.29 134.30 105.36 Tr 1X% 54 109.93 – .66 … 1.26
Smaller Cos @ 628.94 663.79 +1.36 0.21 156.74 114.27 Tr 1X% 71 119.71 – .90 … 1.11
Fix Int Mnthly Inc Fd Acc ‡@34.36 … +0.03 4.14 UK Index Acc ‡@ 321.00 … +0.90 2.26 231.23 177.31 Tr 3K% 68 184.77 –1.15 … 1.16
Global Equity Fund Acc ‡@4444.00 … +26.00 … UK Index Dist ‡@ 162.60 … +0.50 2.30 221.30 178.26 Tr 4N% 55 184.52 – .89 2.30 1.23
STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS
EDENTREE INV MGMT LTD Global Equity Income A Inc ‡@63.86 … +0.21 … US Ind Acc ‡@ 732.50 … +1.50 …
INSIGHT INVESTMENT FDS MANAGEMENT LTD 0845 279 3003 Mediums (5-15 years)
0800 358 3010 Global Tech A Acc ‡@ 3169.00 … +21.00 … Worldwide Acc ‡@ 364.60 … +0.60 0.40
Client Servs: 0207 163 4000 Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Shares
Amity European A ‡ 316.20 … +0.70 … Instl UK Idx Opps A Acc ‡@107.27 … +0.29 1.86 102.69 101.42 Tr 0O% 23 101.46 – .03 … 0.05
Insight Investment Multi-Manager Funds M-Asset Abs Ret A Acc ‡@153.60 … … 1.72 AAA Inc CAT Acc ‡@ 101.30 … … 1.02 107.43 104.85 Tr 2N% 23 104.86 – .03 … 0.07
Amity International A ‡ 349.90 … +1.30 … M & G SECURITIES 100.64 99.72 Tr 0V% 24 99.95 – .03 … 0.14
Well Bldr Bal Acc ‡@ 96.05 … -0.32 … M-Man Active Fd A Acc ‡@264.60 … +0.50 … Enq: 0800 390 390 Dealing Line: 0800 328 3196 AAA Inc CAT Inc ‡@ 57.97 … -0.01 1.02
Amity Sterling Bond A ‡ 106.20 … … 3.56 104.35 102.40 Tr 1% 24 102.50 – .04 … 0.12
Well Bldr Gwth Acc ‡@ 93.79 … -0.36 … M-Man Inc Grth A Inc ‡@ 161.10 … +0.30 2.04 Authorised Inv Funds AAA Income Acc ‡@ 109.50 … -0.10 1.42 111.97 108.32 Tr 2O% 24 108.36 – .05 … 0.15
Amity UK A Inc ‡ 262.60 … +1.20 0.35
M-Man Inc Grth Fd A Acc ‡@198.50 … +0.30 2.01 Amer Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 204.80 … +1.20 … 123.75 117.87 Tr 5% 25 117.89 – .07 4.24 0.18
Higher Income A ‡ 136.30 … +0.30 … Charifund Inc ‡ 1571.72 … +9.51 …
Sterling Bond U Trst Acc ‡@250.00 … +0.10 1.20 Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 189.10 … +0.10 2.55 103.71 101.37 Tr 0X% 25 101.69 – .06 … 0.20
UK Equity Growth A ‡ 346.10 … +1.70 … 111.08 107.29 Tr 2% 25 107.48 – .07 … 0.22
Sterling Bond U Trst Inc ‡@69.94 … +0.02 1.20 Corp Bond Inc ‡@ 66.02 … +0.03 2.59
INVESCO FUND MGRS LTD Sterling Class A Investment Funds 1 101.14 98.61 Tr 0V% 26 99.17 – .07 … 0.31
Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 130.80 … +0.10 3.58 Euro Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 262.90 … +1.70 0.34 109.72 105.42 Tr 1K% 26 105.89 – .08 … 0.33
Dling: 0800 085 8571 Inv Serv: 0800 085 8677
UK Abs Ret Fd A Acc ‡@ 168.00 … +0.10 … Euro Smlr Cos Acc ‡ 529.04 … +4.47 … Glb Advtg CAT Acc ‡@ 159.60 … +0.60 0.59 109.23 104.13 Tr 1N% 27 104.86 – .13 … 0.44
Brkr Serv: 0800 028 2121
UK Alpha Fund A Acc ‡@ 171.50 … +0.80 0.26 Euro Smlr Cos Inc ‡ 468.75 … +3.97 … Glob Advtg Acc ‡@ 210.90 … +0.90 0.57 131.78 123.55 Tr 4N% 27 124.13 – .17 3.42 0.46
F & C FUND MANAGEMENT LTD (OEICS) INVESCO Funds 100.95 96.45 Tr 0V% 28 97.33 – .16 … 0.53
UK Irsh Sm Co Fd A Acc ‡@742.50 … -1.70 … Glob Eq Uncstrd Acc ‡@ 168.10 … +0.90 …
Enqs: 0870 601 6183 Dealing: 0870 601 6083 UK Str Inc N/Trl ‡@ 323.57 … -0.12 7.05 113.61 106.76 Tr 1X% 28 107.72 – .17 … 0.55
UK Property A Acc @ 236.12 247.55 +0.03 2.68 Higher Inc Acc ‡@ 153.00 … … 3.66 149.84 138.76 Tr 6% 28 139.57 – .22 4.30 0.58
Sterling Class A Investment Funds 2
Share Class 1 - Retail UK Property A Inc @ 96.44 101.10 +0.01 2.72 Higher Inc Inc ‡@ 50.78 … -0.02 3.74 107.70 100.42 Tr 0Y% 29 101.61 – .20 … 0.68
US Growth Fund A Acc ‡@1789.00 … +11.00 … Extra Income Inc ‡ 736.06 … +2.93 … Japan Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 119.90 … +0.90 … 102.60 94.93 Tr 0W% 30 96.43 – .19 … 0.77
Corporate Bd ‡@ 60.53 … +0.03 1.71
INVESCO PERPETUAL Funds Gilt & Fxd Int Inc ‡ 100.63 … -0.03 0.90 Managed Acc ‡@ 332.90 … +1.40 0.48 148.13 135.20 Tr 4O% 30 136.72 – .26 3.47 0.73
Emerging Mkts ‡@ 137.20 … +0.20 … 99.94 92.54 Tr 0N% 31 94.13 – .20 … 0.86
Gl Hi Yd Bd Inc ‡ 47.93 … +0.03 … Select Inc Acc ‡@ 97.59 … -0.10 2.39
Euro Gwth & Inc 1 ‡@ 1277.00 … +4.00 … Childrens Acc ‡@ 465.01 … +1.36 1.33 147.41 133.57 Tr 4N% 32 135.46 – .27 3.14 0.86
Index Linked Bd Inc ‡ 162.41 … +0.40 … Select Inc Inc ‡@ 56.15 … -0.06 2.43
Extra Inc Bond ‡@ 50.19 … +0.03 1.66 Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 226.88 … +0.10 … 157.76 141.18 Tr 4K% 34 143.53 – .36 3.14 0.98
Index Trckr Inc ‡ 74.48 … +0.24 2.62 UK Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 364.40 … +0.70 1.40 101.77 91.57 Tr 0X% 35 93.82 – .30 … 1.10
FTSE All-Shr Track ‡@ 415.80 … +1.70 2.13 High Income Inc ‡@ 321.40 … +0.91 … JP MORGAN ASSET MGMT Short Dated Corp Bd Inc ‡ 26.01 … +0.01 1.48 UK Eq Hi Alpha ‡@ 225.50 … +0.60 …
Global Gwth SC1 ‡@ 320.30 … +2.00 … Income & Grth Inc ‡@ 415.79 … +2.29 … OEIC UK Select A Inc ‡ 3267.45 … +8.87 2.07 UK Eq Hi Inc Acc ‡@ 250.20 … +0.70 … Shorts (under 5 years)
High Inc Trst @ 12.91 13.59 +0.02 … Income Inc ‡@ 1276.37 … +4.65 2.39
Asia A Acc ‡@ 322.00 … -0.30 … UK Eq Hi Inc Inc ‡@ 73.82 … +0.20 … 104.57 100.85 Tr 3O% 21 100.85 – .01 … 0.03
Max Inc Bond ‡@ 50.12 … +0.04 … Money Acc ‡@ 91.04 … … … 142.92 135.65 Tr 8% 21 141.44 – .10 5.66 1.19
Multi Man Caut ‡@ 70.41 … … 3.18 Emerging Mkts ‡@ 331.30 … +0.90 … Sterling Class A Investment Funds 3 UK Ethical Acc ‡@ 241.50 … +2.60 …
Monthly Inc Plus Inc ‡@ 108.05 … +0.09 … 101.25 100.52 Tr 0K% 22 100.52 – .01 … 0.03
Multi Man Distr ‡@ 60.44 … … 3.37 Eur Dyn (ex-UK) A Acc ‡@284.90 … +0.90 … UK Opps Acc ‡@ 323.90 … +2.10 … 104.03 102.10 Tr 1O% 22 102.10 – .01 … 0.04
UK Aggressive Inc ‡@ 154.28 … -0.24 … Corp Bd A Inc ‡ 41.36 … +0.01 …
North Amer ‡@ 735.40 … +4.40 … Euro Smllr Cos ‡@ 1058.00 … +7.00 … UK Opps Inc ‡@ 294.50 … +1.90 … 106.98 102.91 Tr 4% 22 102.91 – .01 3.89 0.01
UK Growth Acc ‡@ 733.36 … +2.13 … Dividend Inc ‡ 56.73 … +0.33 3.93
Europe A Acc ‡@ 1843.00 … +6.00 … UK Smlr Cos Acc ‡@ 1072.00 … +8.00 … 100.60 100.00 Tr 0V% 23 100.10 – .02 … 0.06
Pacific Gwth ‡@ 546.30 … +1.20 … UK Sml Cos Eqty Acc ‡@ 1734.31 … +5.46 … Recovery A Inc ‡ 127.65 … +1.10 … 99.92 99.18 Tr 0W% 26 99.83 – .08 … 0.41
Strategic Bd ‡@ 211.30 … -0.10 0.71 Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Acc ‡@ 128.60 … +0.10 4.40
UK Sml Cos Gwth ‡@ 82.54 … +0.04 … Sml Cos Inc ‡ 450.95 … +1.78 0.87
UK Equity ‡@ 3366.00 … +5.00 0.32 Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Inc ‡@ 35.99 … +0.03 4.51
Gl ex-UK Bd A Acc ‡@ 288.60 … -0.20 … SVS BROWN SHIPLEY FUNDS * maturities having an eight-month indexation lag.
UK Gwth & Inc Acc 1 ‡@ 658.50 … … … Sterling Class A Investment Funds 4 Enquiries: 0141 222 1151
UK Gwth & Inc Dist ‡@ 234.70 … … … Gl ex-UK Bd A Inc ‡@ 221.10 … -0.10 …
INVESTEC FUND MGRS Glb Fins A Acc ‡@ 1077.00 … +1.00 … Episode Allocation A Inc ‡@144.71 … +0.02 1.91 Balanced A Acc ‡@ 152.08 … +0.49 0.94 This is a paid for information service. For
UK Smaller Cos ‡@ 1214.00 … +3.00 … Broker Support and Dealing: 020 7597 1900 Global A Acc ‡@ 2182.00 … +16.00 … Balanced A Inc ‡@ 137.66 … +0.44 0.95 further details on a particular fund, readers
OEIC Series i,ii,iii, & iv Japan A Acc ‡@ 638.60 … +6.80 … Cautious A Acc ‡@ 124.35 … +0.35 …
MANEK INVESTMENT MGMT LTD should contact their fund manager.
American A Acc ‡@ 624.43 … +3.53 … Multi-Man Tst A Acc ‡@ 1433.00 … +5.00 … 0844 800 9401 Cautious A Inc ‡@ 109.97 … +0.30 …
Asia ex Japan A Acc ‡@ 915.67 … +0.68 … Multi-Man Tst A Inc ‡@ 1280.00 … +5.00 … Dynamic A Acc ‡@ 360.28 … +1.22 …
FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL Growth Fd Acc @ 41.47 43.54 -0.01 …
Capital Accumulator A Acc ‡@231.48 … -3.81 … Nat Resources ‡@ 741.70 … -1.00 1.86 Dynamic A Inc ‡@ 328.32 … +1.11 …
Private Clnts 0800 414161 Broker Dlgs 0800 414181 Data as shown is
Cautious Managed A Acc ‡@422.12 … -0.62 … New Europe A ‡@ 249.70 … -0.90 2.05 Growth A Acc ‡@ 375.18 … +1.28 0.82
Amer Spec Sits ‡@ 1979.00 … +11.00 … Cautious Managed A Inc ‡@274.40 … -0.40 … Portfolio ‡@ 319.30 … +0.40 … MARKS & SPENCER UNIT TRUST LTD Income A Acc ‡@ 271.95 … +0.90 1.39 for information
American ‡@ 5446.00 … +38.00 … Diversified Growth A Acc ‡@141.43 … +0.16 … Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@ 104.80 … … 1.09 0808 005 5555 Sterling Bond Acc ‡@ 242.37 … -0.28 … purposes only. No offer is made by
Euro Opps ‡@ 594.40 … +4.30 … Diversified Growth A Inc ‡@150.39 … +0.17 … Stg Corp Bd A Inc ‡@ 59.90 … +0.04 1.09 High Income 111.00 111.00 +0.70 3.78 Sterling Bond Inc ‡@ 97.00 … -0.11 … Morningstar or this publication
46 1GM Tuesday June 15 2021 | the times

Business Equity prices

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

company’s trailing 12-month dividend payments 187N 107K Man 187N + 2K 3.8 27.5 111W 68K Breedon Groupv 108 … … 54.2 63K 22 SIG 54X – X … -2.2 340 238 Dialight 283 + 3 … …
divided by the last month’s ending share price 9N 6N Manx Finv 8 … … 6.4 544O 322 Br Land 514O + 4K 1.5 -3.5 93 37K SigmaRocv 93 + 4K … 39.5 2237 1291W Electrolux 'B' 2010N + 19K 4.5 12.3

6V Y Marechale Capv 1K … … … 152K 110 Caledonian Tstv 140 … … … 105 71W Sirius Real Estate 105 + 1V 3.0 14.4 1K Y Feedbackv Y … … -6.0
12 month Price 12 month Price 9875K 7279V Marsh McLn 9834Y – 3Y 1.3 31.0 186N 99 Cap & Count Prop 175X + 4 0.5 -2.1 125K 111K Smart (J) 125K … 2.5 12.8 1500 972 Gooch Hsegov 1475 + 10 0.4 98.3
High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E
770 625 Mattioli Woodsv 740 … 2.7 20.1 105 34Y Cap & Regnl 79W + 1K 13.8 -0.4 53K 22K Steppe Cementv 48 … … 12.1 3580 2355 Goodwin 2960 … 2.7 33.2
191X 99V Taylor Wimpey 167N + O … 26.9 2791 2158 Halma 2791 + 56 0.5 59.8
141W 103V EFG-Hermes Hldg 127W + 3K … 7.0 32K 19 Metal Tigerv 31 + K … -0.5 1850 1720 Cardiff Prop‡ 1850 … 0.9 12.4
Automobiles & parts 374 167K EPE Special Oppsv 368 … … 3.1 149Y 58 Metro Bank 108 – Y … -0.6 47K 24K Carecapitalv 36K … … -4.4
144 81K Town Centre‡ 126O … 3.9 -2.4 1578 1170 Hill & Smith‡ 1466 – 20 0.6 48.8
791O 502K FBD 790 … … 73.5 1696 989 Travis Perkins 1630K + 5 … …
1506 910Y Nat Aust Bk 1442O – 8X 2.3 17.1 154K 79W Clarke T 133O – 1O 3.2 20.2 57 36K Holders Techv 57 + 2 0.8 -9.1
2273 919K Aston Martin Lag 1996K + 26K … -3.6
70 64 Fiskev 70 … … … 205 134K Tritax Big Box REIT 205 + 4 3.1 7.7
210 93N NWG 205 … 1.4 … 260 185 CLS Hldgs 247K – 2K 2.9 13.0 4N 1X Image Scanv 4 – N … …
53 40 Frenkel Toppingv‡ 51K … 3.8 50.4 507 171 Tyman 474 – 1 … 24.9
Banking & finance 636 345 Georgia Capital 615 – 3 … 3.3
398 280 Numisv‡ 371 + 1 3.2 13.9 544K 283W Countryside Prop 486W – 4K 2.1 …
98W 51K U + I 96 + 1 2.5 -1.4
1733 886 IMI 1703 + 1 1.9 27.2

494V 236 Onesavings Bank 477 + 2K … 11.2 74V 28Y Craven Housev 60V … … -0.3 V … Inspirit Energyv … … … -4.4
955 580 Gresham Housev 891 … 0.5 …
1178 809K Unite Group 1150 – 2 … …
3208 2240 Admiral 3110 + 43 3.5 18.2 1545 955 Gresh Hse Stratv 1505 + 15 1.5 … N … Origo Partnersv V … 51.3 … 3752 2636 CRH 3661 – 53 1.8 35.2 6680 4690 Judges Scientificv‡ 6300 – 100 0.8 48.9
83 11 ADVFNv 59K … … 35.6 1346K 529 Vistry Group 1249 – 8 … 35.9
340 198 H&T Groupv‡ 276 + 6 1.7 7.0 702 497 PayPoint 594 – 3 6.6 9.7 3578 2360 Derwent London 3547 + 30 2.0 … 96K 59 LPAv 70K – 1K … 15.1
475 375K AJ Bell‡ 428K – 5O 1.1 51.4 153 105 Warehouse REITv‡ 153 + 4V 4.0 7.4
65 29K Hansard Global 59K + 2 7.4 18.0 30K 17X PCF Groupv# 24 … 1.6 10.4 4K 2O Dolphin Capitalv 4 … … 5.0 515V 252 Meggitt 487O – 8V … …
223 152 Amryt Pharmav 167K … … -4.0
920K 482W Workspace Grp 880 + 14 4.1 …
18278Y 12724N Aon Corpn 17597X – 116V 0.7 26.5 1865 1348K Hargreaves L 1636K – 4 2.2 23.8
786V 625V Phoenix Gp 721K – 3 6.4 7.8 41 32 First Propv 35K + K 4.7 13.2 186O 85N Melrose 166K – 2N … …
46 24 Appreciate Groupv 40 … … 49.5 213Y 95 Helios Underv 172K … 0.8 8.6 660 565 Wynnstay Propsv 660 + 35 2.2 …
… … Plutus PowerGenv# … … … 8.3 37K 31K Fletcher Kingv 34K … 4.3 -6.9 358 210 Morgan Advanced 357 – K 0.5 …
1175 607K Arbuthnot Bkgv 990 + 35 … … 1108K 710 Hiscox 793W – 4W … …
15 6K Arden Partnersv 14 … … -2.8 324 164 Provident 237V – 1W 3.7 16.5 74V 32V Foxtons Group 56 … … … 592 209 Mpacv 510 – 15 … 31.4
23K 18K Argo Groupv 19K … … 6.6
455K
952K
283N HSBC
732K IG Group
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2K 2.4 20.9
6K 4.9 9.3 1585K 934W Prudential 1485 – 4 1.5 24.8 147W 70 Galliford Try 125 … … -3.3
Consumer goods 173 107K MS Intlv 162K … 2.1 -8.4
479K 342K Ashmore Gp 404V – O 4.1 14.4
1598K 901 Aus New Z 1540N – 23Y 2.1 16.8 1146 340 Impaxv‡ 1146 + 26 0.5 … 3O V Quantum Blockchain techv1N … … -4.8 659 396 Genuit Group 623 – 23 … 74.1 124K 66K Northbrdg Indv 124K + 6 … -4.4
6V 3O Agriterrav 4O … … -0.4
421O 256K Aviva 416Y – W 3.1 8.7 2340 1141 Intermed Cap 2340 + 51 2.1 43.1 2205 1240 Oxford Inst 2170 + 10 … 38.1
167O 120O Quilter PLC 155W – 2V 2.8 31.0 888 518 Gleeson (MJ) 842 + 8 … 48.8 36 26 Aireav 34K … … 34.5
300K 133 Banco Santander 295Y + 1N … -7.4 141O 44 IPF 127 + W … -4.3
191 147N Randall & Quilterv‡ 170 … 2.1 68.3 1250 617K Grafton Gp Uts 1135 – 15 … 25.1 4374K 3305X Philips El nv 3816Y – 165X … 32.5
1328 735 Bank of Georgia 1328 + 52 … 9.6 724 466 Anglo-Eastern‡ 628 + 16 … 10.9
176K 154V Intl Public Pntshp 170 – K 4.2 45.2
189V 91K Barclays 179W – 1 … 13.3 1922 1386 Rathbone Brs 1922 + 22 3.6 40.3 321W 259K Grainger‡ 295O + 4O 1.7 20.8 9W 4 PipeHawkv 7O … … …
311O 127 Investec 304O + 2Y 3.6 33.6 346 152K Animalcarev‡ 346 – 3 0.5 …
456W 293W Beazley 313W – 6W 2.4 … 113K 58 Pressure Techv 97K … … -0.9
315 265 Investment Co 315 … 2.1 -6.9 2N O RiverFort Global Oppsv 1O … … 63.7 755 543 Gr Portland‡ 750 … 1.6 … 2494 1639K AB Foods‡ 2292 – 65 … 45.3
N V Blue Star Capitalv V … … 3.2
134W 60 IP Group‡ 119O – 1 … … 2800 1475 S & U 2610 – 10 4.1 21.6 56W 15 Hammerson 44N + W 0.4 -0.5 140V 48K Bakkavor Group 136O … … 23.5 6900 3798 Renishaw 5375 – 5 … 86.2
319 217 BP Marsh&Ptnrsv 319 + 3 0.7 8.5
128K 12N Braveheart Invv 47 + 2 … … 305 137K Jarvis Securitiesv 265 – 4 4.1 20.8 3O 1O Sancus Lending Grpv 3V … … -0.7 147K 86O Harworth Gp 140K – 549 372K Barr (AG) 524 – 8 … 30.5 28K 7 Renoldv 25X + V … 18.3
K 0.2 17.5
369 225K Brewin Dolphin 366 – 2 4.4 23.0 306K 201V Jupiter Fund Mgmt 277V + 2V 6.1 13.3
47K 28X Schroder REIT‡ 46X + W 3.8 -5.2 385 200 Heath (Samuel)v 350 … 1.5 14.8 13 3Y Bidstack Groupv 4 + V … -2.4 134Y 38Y Rolls-Royce 107N – 4K … -2.0
94 45 Cenkos Secsv‡ 81 … 2.4 24.5 111W 41X Just Group 97Y – 1 … 6.1
370 220 Charles Stanley‡ 346 – 7 2.6 16.1 3665 2603 Schroders 3571 + 21 3.1 21.0 453K 246 Helical Bar 453K + 15K 1.9 40.4 187K 107K Brand Architektsv 173 … … -7.2 4 1 Ross Gp 2N … … 3.3
850 612K Lancashire Hdgs 626K – 4 1.7 …
310 258K Chesnara 276 – 2 7.7 23.0 3170K 2448 Brit Amer Tob 2795K – 10K 7.5 10.0 376K 263K Rotork 337V – 3O 1.1 31.5
296W 178 Legal & Gen 276Y – 1W 6.3 13.2 2680 1770 Schroders N/V 2655 + 5 4.2 15.6 855 610 Highcroft Invs 855 + 5 5.6 …
111K 64 City of Lon Gpv 77K … … -3.4
960 728 Britvic‡ 930K – 14 2.3 26.2 214 49K SDI Groupv 214 + 10 … 67.0
560 344 City Lon Inv Gp 528 – 10 5.6 19.2 38024K 358X Liberty Group 358X + 5N 6.0 … 201 87 Sigma Capv 201 … 1.0 24.5 371Y 255N HK Land 349V + X 4.6 -4.2
1685 946K Close Bros 1601 + 24 2.5 22.0 1618 1175 Liontrust 1598 – 14 2.0 87.0 2237 1252K Burberry Grp 2219 + 10 0.5 … 159 42O Senior 153W – 1W … -4.0
1455K 885K St James Place 1448 + 1K 1.3 29.7 242W 143 Ibstock 234 + 1O … …
538 259 CMC Markets 468K – 19 3.2 7.9 47O 34 Livermore Invsv 44K … 6.2 -3.1 298 135X C&C Grp 235V – 2O 2.0 … 80V 51O Severfield 79 + 1 3.6 13.0
521K 336O Stand Chart 491N – 2K 1.3 24.5 532 438 James Halsteadv 512 + 10 2.7 30.4
589Y 323V Commerzbk 552V – 7X … -3.2
50 23Y Lloyds Bkg Gp 47O – K … 19.1 24 5K Capital Metalsv 12O … … … 16K 7O Six Hundredv 15N … 1.6 …
1078Y 582Y Deutsche Bk 993N – 10O … 18.5 331 208Y Strd Life Aber 284O … 7.5 7.5 404W 273K John Laing Group 400O – W 1.3 …
37O 27X LMS Capital‡ 34K + 1 0.8 -6.3 158 94O Carr's Grp 146 + 4 3.2 16.2
342 263K Direct Line Ins 295 – 1O 2.5 11.5 2201 1382V SKF B 1865X – 12O 2.9 21.1
9910 6914 Lond Stk Ex Gp 7770 + 46 0.9 65.3 32K 11K Starvestv 18K … … 0.7 856 506 Keller‡ 805 + 17 4.1 13.7
55 52 Downing ONE VCT 53 … 7.5 -3.3 680 295 Character Grpv 680 + 5 0.7 18.2 300 72K Slingsby (HC)v 250 … … 0.9
O W Drumzv K … … -1.4 248K 144O M&G 244V – 1W 7.3 5.5 41 26 STM Groupv‡ 34 + 1 4.4 20.9 7126 4501 Kingspan Group 6739 … … 36.8
1750 960 Churchill Chinav 1627K … 0.6 33.9 1661 1245K Smiths 1602 – 6 2.1 85.2
2639 1755 Coca Cola HBC 2636 + 2 2.1 25.8 905 530 Solid Statev 865 + 5 1.4 22.2
Investment companies 540 355 Colefaxv 520 … … 20.2
476 205 Somero Enterv 476 + 13 2.6 19.7
4090 3200 Cranswick 4050 – 22 1.4 24.2
12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 3416 2380 Spectris‡ 3274 + 17 1.9 …
High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm 215K 132 Devro‡ 204 – K 4.4 14.8
13195 9570 Spirax-Sarco 13195 – 5 0.8 56.2
3460 2440 Diageo 3434K + K 2.0 70.8
79 20N Surface Trsfmsv 63K – 1 … …
1292N 773K 3I Group 1241K – 5K 3.7 31.6 425 256 Invesco Asia Tr 368 – 18 3.7 -6.2 3 1 Distilv 2W + V … 26.6
320 269V 3i Infrastructure 301 – 2K 3.6 13.2 203 163O Invesco BondInc 186K + 1K 5.1 -6.0 3K 1Y Tanfieldv 2N … … -6.5
103 85K Abrdn Div I&G 100K + K 4.6 -15.8 170 133 IPST Bal 165 … … -4.1 754 520 Evans (M.P.)v‡ 726 – 10 2.2 26.6
426 286 Thorpe FWv 426 – 3 1.3 37.3
1606 796 Aberforth Smlr 1548 + 2 1.9 -9.8 234 174 IPST Gbl Eq 228 … 3.0 -3.6 96 51V Finsbury Foodv 92K + 2O … …
997 732 Alliance 981 – 2 1.3 -5.9 103 101 IPST Managed 102K + K … -5.1 8X 4Y TP Groupv 5X … … …
12100 7100 Games Workshop‡ 11500 + 40 1.0 38.6
604 371N Asia Dragon Tr 522 + 4 0.8 -11.3 182 136 IPST UK Eq 180 + 4 3.5 -7.4
96K 47K Transense Techv 84 + K … …
260 141 Athelney Trust 250 … 3.4 -11.2 640X 363 IP UKSmallerCos 624 + 4 0.4 -6.9 1246V 670W Glanbia 1232V + 30 1.9 28.3
1026O 651W AVI Global Trust 980 + 3 1.5 -7.3 657 451X JPM American 640 … 1.0 -5.0 8K 5N Tricornv 8K … 2.2 -5.3
170O 89V Greencore 132V + K 2.8 …
658 387Y Baillie Gifford Ch Gr 475 – K 1.5 2.7 550 368K JPM Asia 505 + 4 3.6 1.4 2490 1856 Ultra Electrncs 2076 – 10 2.6 17.6
156 95W Baillie Gifford Eu Gr 153O + 1V 0.2 1.5 875Y 378W JPM Chinese 672 + 1 3.1 1.4 476 237 Headlam 458 – 9 … …
1136 747 Baillie Gifford Jpn Tr 1050 – 6 0.4 3.8 760 515 JPM Claverhs 750 … 3.9 0.4 590 374 Vesuvius 544 – 4K 0.5 35.7
50 10 Hidong Estate 50 … … 9.3
274K 171Y Baillie Gifford SN 233 + 1K … 2.5 105 100 JPM Elect Mg C 102K … 0.7 -0.7 1550 618 Vitec 1375 + 35 … …
249 165 Baillie Gifford UK Gr 242 … 1.3 2.9 1045O 752 JPM Elect Mg G 1035 … 1.5 -3.1 1294 996 Hilton Food‡ 1122 … 2.0 23.4
116W 89O Bankers 115X + W 1.9 0.5 111 76K JPM Elect Mg I 109K + 2 4.3 -0.8 371 129K Volexv 350 – 1 0.8 32.5
71K 31K Hornbyv 52 – 1K … …
2040 1724V BH Global 1945 – 5 … -2.3 152Y 91Y JPM Em Mkts 134 … 1.0 -3.9 2107 983O Weir 1874 – 20 … 35.4
3730 3139V BH Macro 3350 … … -2.0 365Y 250Y JPM Eur IT Gth 364 + 1 1.1 -9.3 1674 1219 Imperial Brands 1607K – 1 11.5 10.1
1750 1008 Biotech Growth 1400 + 34 … -1.5 160N 107W JPM Eur IT Inc 159 + 5 3.8 -10.2 1 W J Lewis Hfordv Y … … -3.0 5700 3490 XP Power 5320 + 40 0.7 33.1
110 54N BlckRck Com Inc 104 + 1 4.0 … 511 321 JPM Euro Smlr 505 + 2 1.1 -13.6 180 95 Zytronicv 167K – 7K 9.0 …
10516Y 8632V Kerry Gp 9265W – 94W 0.7 33.1
130 89W BlckRck Fro Inv 121K + K 4.2 -5.5 162 105 JPM GEMI 150 + 1 3.2 -7.3
632 390 BlckRck Grt Euro 624 + 4 1.0 1.4 435 310 JPM GG&I 428 … 3.1 2.5 94K 56Y McBride 85 + K 1.2 11.9
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204 142K BlckRck N Amer Inc 187 + 1 4.0 -5.5 744 501 JPM Japan# 630 + 6 0.7 -4.1 1640 982 Nicholsv 1605 – 10 1.7 …
1999Y 1141V BlckRck Smlr 1976 + 6 2.5 -5.0 1585V 824 JPM Mid Cap 1465 … 2.0 -0.3 330 136 Norcros 330 + 2 0.9 82.5 1719 1149 Abcamv 1316 – 11 0.2 …
918 507 BlckRck Throgmorton 915 + 7 1.1 1.3 105 80K JPM Multi-Ass G&I 103O – N 3.7 -5.0
342 219W Origin Entsv 287X … 0.9 17.6 295 192 AdvancedMedicalv‡ 292 + 1K 0.5 46.0
699V 335 BlckRck Wld Min 643 – 5 3.2 0.4 734 535 JPM Russian 730 … 4.4 -12.9
33 19 Blue Plan Int Fn# 26K … 6.7 -23.5 411 204K JPM Smllr Co 392 – 1 1.3 -7.6 58 37 Pittardsv 53 … … -3.0 25K 11O Allergy Therapv 24Y – K … 25.6
335 235X BMO Cap&Inc 319 – 1 3.5 -2.9 358 236O Keystone IT 296 + 6 3.7 -6.9
700 359 Portmeirionv 700 … … … 103 69 Allnce Pharmav‡ 99 + W 0.5 65.1
94 53K BMO Comm Prop 91O + X 2.6 -23.6 785 478 Law Debenture 776 + 1 3.5 1.8
168K 109Y BMO Glbl Smaller 164K – O 0.9 -7.2 1425 763 Lowland 1375 + 2K 4.1 -5.8 1 K Provexisv O … … … 139 39O Anglev 129K + 3K … …
425 250K BMO Priv Eq Ord 406 – 4 3.3 -14.5 253V 175 Majedie 223 – 12 4.0 -15.8
274K 180 PZ Cussons 246K + 1K 2.3 50.8 690 345 Anpariov 690 … 1.0 38.7
81K 50 BMO Real Estate 75 + 1V 3.0 -25.3 397 292 M Currie Port 384 + 3 1.1 -0.8
98 72K BMO UK HIT 97K + K 5.1 -7.7 124 89O Marwyn Val In 121 … 2.5 -33.6 68K 45W REA 56 + 2 … -5.0 … … Aqua Bounty … … … …
98 74V BMO UK HIT B 97 … … -7.7 281O 168K Mercantile IT 276 + K 2.2 -5.3 3921Y 2826W Sun Life Can 3701K – 43V 3.4 15.6 750K 489 Land Sec 718K + 6V 1.6 -3.5 5K 2K Real Gd Fdv 3V – N … -0.1 9320 6794 AstraZeneca 8348 + 8 2.4 38.0
390 285 BMO UK HIT UNIT 390 + 12 3.7 -10.1 537 325 Merchants 528 + 1 5.1 0.5 4X 1N Tavistock Invv 4X + 2 … -4.6
14 7K Lon & Assoc 11N … 1.6 -1.5 291 195W Stock Spirits‡ 267 … 3.0 30.2
1425N 868 Brown Advsr US Smlr1320 + 5 … -10.8 772 586 Mid Wynd 750 – 6 0.8 2.1 36Y 21K Circassia Groupv 33 – Y … -4.7
1338 747 TBC Bank Group 1100 … … 5.4
1020 712 Brunner 996 + 8 1.8 -10.5 1490 962N Monks Inv Tst 1344 – 4 0.1 … 242O 206V London Metric Prop‡ 238V + 3V 3.5 23.5 705 230 Tandemv‡ 610 … 1.0 9.4 247W 174Y Convatec Group 246W – 1N 1.6 60.1
3205 2118 Caledonia Inv 3160 + 10 1.5 -22.9 1806O 1070 Montanaro Eur Sml 1735 + 5 0.5 -1.6 30N 5O Ternv 23K – N … 78.3
203 163O Invesco BondInc 186K + 1K 5.1 -6.0 929 694 Murray Income Trust 919 + 1 3.7 -2.8 73 52K Macau Prop Op 69K … … -3.7 815O 595V Tate & Lyle 782W – 3O 3.7 14.8 92 46 Creighton 85 + 1 0.1 15.2
31O 15O Time Financev 30K + 1O … …
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Character actor who starred
in Superman and Deliverance
Ned Beatty
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Obituaries
Flight Lieutenant John ‘Freddie’ Nicoll
Hurricane pilot who photographed Rommel’s positions at El Alamein and was decorated for attacking German shipping in the Adriatic
In the late afternoon of May 23, 1944, an
intelligence officer debriefed two
Hurricane pilots from 6 Squadron
based on the Yugoslav island of Vis.
They had just returned from an armed
reconnaissance mission over the north
Adriatic.
The combat report written by an
unnamed officer is typed neatly; the
sentences are short and precise. As with
many RAF records from the Second
World War, the account can be found in
the files of the National Archives in
west London.
One of the two pilots interviewed that
May afternoon nearly 80 years ago was
Flying Officer John Nicoll, a boyish 24-
year-old who wore spotted cravats.
Flying a Mk IV Hurricane armed with
rockets, Nicoll had just attacked a large
enemy ship sitting in a Croatian harbour.
According to the combat report,
Nicoll and the other pilot, Flight Lieu-
tenant Robin Langdon-Davies, were
ordered to try to find two RAF officers
who were missing after attacking a
schooner that morning. The Hurricanes
took off at 2.30pm and were escorted by
Spitfires.
After a search of the area where the
pilots were last seen, Nicoll and Lang-
don-Davies took on a more aggressive
role, looking for enemy ships. They told
their intelligence officer that it was not
long before the Spitfires, flying north
Eschewing alcohol for
religious reasons, he
gave away his beer ration
over the Mali Kvarner channel, sighted
a large vessel in Cherso Harbour. The
target was a 5,000-tonne cargo ship,
which had steam up and was high out of
the water, with 20mm guns mounted
towards the stern and a black cross out-
lined in white paint on the side.
“At 15.30, the Hurricanes attacked at
nought feet,” records the combat
report. “Flt Lt RH Langdon-Davies
attacked first, machinegunning from
600 yards and releasing a salvo of RPs
[rocket projectiles] at 400 yards. Ob-
served to fall short, but Spitfires reported
seeing them travel along underwater
towards the target. Hits not observed.
“F/O FJ Nicoll machinegunned from
800 yards as first pilot was attacking
and released his RPs in salvo from 200
yards. Salvo observed by Spitfires to
strike dead centre above waterline
causing a considerable explosion.
“Both pilots broke to port after attack
and left target area at 0ft out of Cherso
Harbour. Target left in very heavy pall
of black smoke which could be seen
when aircraft were 6 to 7 miles away,
still at 0ft.”
On the way back to their base on Vis,
the Hurricanes and Spitfires found a
small motorboat flying the German
flag, which they machinegunned. “The
target was left stationary, facing west,”
the pilots told their intelligence officer
shortly after landing at 4.30pm.
In that month alone, 6 Squadron also
destroyed an armed schooner, a barge
and a ferry and damaged another 20
vessels that were supplying German
forces in the region. The British pilots
often flew two sorties a day, some at
night. Nicoll had joined the squadron
Nicoll was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for “courage and devotion to
duty”. Top: at the RAF memorial on Vis in 2011 and, below, at the Duxford air show
when they were based in southern Italy
and flew his first mission with the
squadron on April 2, 1944, during an
armed reconnaissance flight over
Corfu. In August he was promoted after
his squadron leader was shot down and
killed.
Two months later, on October 7, he
flew the last of his 55 combat sorties
after becoming only the second pilot in
the squadron to complete an operational
tour of 120 hours. He was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross for his
“courage and devotion to duty”.
Asked about his service with the
squadron years later, he responded in a
typically self-deprecating manner.
“While with 6 Squadron, a number of
small ships, and a few bigger ones, got in
the way of my rockets, which happened
to be carrying 60lb high explosive
heads. In appreciation of this, I was
issued with a piece of blue and white
ribbon.”
Fascinated by aircraft since he was a
boy, Nicoll had volunteered for the
RAF in 1940 and was sent to Bulawayo
in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe,
where he spent eight months learning
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daughters: Jonathan studied
d
mmedicine and became a con-
s
sultant oncologist; Penelope
b
became a lawyer, and Priscilla a
te
teacher. They are all retired.
Beryl died in the mid-1990s.
A few years later he met Ruth
H
Howe through a local music
g
group. She was his companion
fo the last 20 years of his life.
for
After being demobilised in
th spring of 1946, he worked as
the
a clerk in London by day and
s
studied quantity surveying on a
g
government training scheme at
th Brixton School of Building
the
b night. He later worked in
by
W
Wrexham, where he became
th borough surveyor, and
the
a scale
l nott seen
en before
before. He flew further Stevena
Stevenage, where he set up his own
sorties and on October 12 he reported company, which was called Wheeler,
more than 600 German transport Rumble and Nicoll. Rumble did not
vehicles dispersed on the edge of the exist, but Nicoll and his partner
Qattara Depression. He also photo- thought it sounded better with three
graphed Rommel’s forward positions. surnames. He was appointed a justice of
By the time the battle started on the the peace, became president of the local
night of October 23, Nicoll’s flight had Rotary Club, played golf into his
been withdrawn to defensive positions nineties and always enjoyed a party.
along the Suez Canal. He remained in Known for his lively sense of humour,
the Middle East for a further year he was an enthusiastic thespian, joining
before joining 6 Squadron.
John Frederick Nicoll was born in He played piano, clarinet
1920 in Walthamstow, east London, the
son of Daisy Nicoll, who occasionally and an accordion, which
worked as a tobacco stripper, and her
husband, Ernest, who was a bricklayer. he found in north Africa
Ernest lost his job during the
depression of the early 1930s, which the Lytton Players, and particularly
caused great hardship. enjoyed their annual music hall revue.
A deeply religious family, the Nicolls He played the piano, clarinet and an
were members of the Plymouth accordion, which he had found in north
Brethren, a non-conformist, evangelical Africa. When he had it serviced after
movement that preaches strict self- the war, a pound of desert sand was
reliance. John had two brothers, Bert discovered in its workings.
and Les, and a sister, Winifred. A third He and his wife eventually moved to
brother, Dennis, died in childhood. Cumbria, where he played the organ in
Although he was known as John to Wetheral Parish Church and St Paul’s in
his family, everyone associated with the Holme Eden.
RAF called him Freddie for the rest of According to his son, Jonathan, he
his life. As a member of the Brethren, he was proud of his wartime service and
eschewed alcohol and during the war believed it had been a “just war”. He
gave away his weekly ration of beer, maintained many links with the RAF,
which endeared him to his fellow pilots. which strengthened in old age. He
Whenever they met socially, he would rarely missed the annual reunions of
ask for a soft drink, which generated the the 6 and 208 Squadron associations in
to fly. He had boarded a troop ship in wartime nickname “Small Orange”. London even though he lived near
Liverpool and discovered his destina- After the war, he lapsed and in later life Carlisle, and made several visits to Vis,
tion only once in the Atlantic. had a glass of rred wine with which is now part of Croatia. In 2011 he
rned left
Ships either turned lunch almost
almo every day. joined other veterans there and laid a
for the Empiree Air In chchildhood, he wreath on the RAF Memorial.
Training Schemee in won a scholarship to Last year, on his 100th birthday, air-
South Africa or the Sir George men from nearby RAF Spadeadam
sailed straight onn Monoux
Mo Gram- formed an honour guard outside his
for Canada. He mar
ma School in home in Wetheral, where neighbours
was later sent to Walthamstow.
W watched as two Second World War
Syria to train He
H was an fighters, a Spitfire and a Mustang from
on Hurricanes academic
a pupil the Rolls-Royce Heritage Flight, flew
before being who excelled at
w overhead in a tribute instigated by the
posted to 208 Latin.
L 6 Squadron Association. He was also
Squadron at After return- granted honorary membership of the
Borg-el-Arab in ing to Britain in Spadeadam Mess. “He was an emotional
Egypt, just a 1944,
1944 he married man,” said Jonathan, “and there were
month before the he Beryl Cherry, a tears when he saw the fly-past.”
mein
Battle of El Alamein childhood
childho friend, On the day of his funeral, the RAF
in October 1942. during
during a short spell of paid tribute once again, providing an
st mission
He flew his first Christmas
Christmas leave.
le She had honour guard and pallbearers. A
on October 3, acting as a joined Women’s Auxiliary
joined the Wom Hurricane from the Battle of Britain
“weaver” or escortort to another Hurri- Air Force and served as a flight Memorial Flight flew over the church.
cane taking photographs of German mechanic on bomber airfields in York-
positions. Hampered by heavy rain and shire. When the war ended on May 8, Flight Lieutenant John “Freddie” Nicoll
electrical storms, it was nevertheless a 1945, they met at Doncaster station and DFC, wartime Hurricane pilot and
period of intense activity for the headed for London to celebrate VE quantity surveyor, was born on
squadron as Montgomery’s Eighth Army Day. November 5, 1920. He died on May 14,
prepared to attack the Afrika Korps on The couple had one son and two 2021, aged 100
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Ned Beatty
Prolific character actor best known for his harrowing screen debut in Deliverance and his Oscar-nominated role in Network
Ned Beatty’s cinematic debut could not
have been more shocking. Cast in
Deliverance (1972) as Bobby Trippe, a city
slicker vacationing in the backwoods of
Georgia, he was bound to a tree by two
hillbillies and sexually assaulted as they
demanded that he “squeal like a pig”.
Almost half a century on from the
movie’s release, the rape scene remains
one of the most disturbing and sadistic
in Hollywood history. “Most of the
people that were on the film did not
want us to do the scene,” Beatty admit-
ted, “but the scene was important.”
Despite its gruesome nature, the film
was a runaway success, both critically
and commercially. Deliverance was the
fifth highest-grossing film of the year,
spawned a No 1 hit record with its
theme tune, Duelling Banjos, and
earned an Oscar nomination as best
picture. It has since been added to the
Library of Congress’s register of films
that are “culturally, historically, or
aesthetically significant”.
Made on a minimal budget by the
director John Boorman, Beatty and his
co-stars Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight and
Ronny Cox were forced to do their own
stunts. Beatty almost drowned shooting
one scene while canoeing white water
rapids and in another Reynolds was
knocked out. Boorman’s cost-cutting
meant that he had not even taken out
insurance protection.
It was the start of a prolific career in
which Beatty appeared in more than
160 films in mostly character roles. The
trade journal Variety called him the
“busiest actor in Hollywood” and his
own motto was never to turn down
work when it was offered.
Playing supporting roles meant that
there was a lot of what he described as
“I know you! What have I seen you in?”
Yet his genial, crumpled face, which
could turn chillingly villainous when
required, was universally familiar, not
only through Deliverance but in brilliant
cameos in three other movies that
received Academy Award nominations
for best picture: Nashville (1975), All the
President’s Men (1976) and Network
(1976). He was later heard voicing
Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear in Toy Story 3
Friederike Mayröcker
Influential Austrian writer and ‘grande dame of experimental literature’ whose works spanned poetry, plays and children’s books
Living was writing: many said this
simple equation applied better to
Friederike Mayröcker than to any other
literary figure. The evidence was there
in her fifth-floor apartment in her
native Vienna. Out of the windows
woods could be glimpsed in the
distance for constant inspiration from
nature, inside was an intense concen-
tration of chaotic creativity.
There were hundreds of books, espe-
cially those of the authors who inspired
her, from Gertrude Stein and Samuel
Beckett to the French philosopher
Jacques Derrida. All around on every
surface, stored in various containers or
stuck on the walls were further layers of
paper. They were Mayröcker’s working
materials, on which she recorded spon-
taneously all kinds of observations and
impressions from her reading, daily life
and conversations and dreams that
might find their way into her writing.
She worked there at all hours, dressed
habitually in black, struggling to find
space to sit down, and admitted that she
could sometimes not remember where
she had left notes, nor read her own
writing if she had found them.
Mayröcker was once described as the
“grande dame of experimental litera-
ture”, her works a collage of all that she
experienced. Those experiences could
(2010). His only individual Oscar nomi-
nation came as best supporting actor
for Network, in which he played Arthur
Jensen, chairman of the TV company
who delivers the memorable “money is
the only true god” monologue to Peter
Finch’s mad newscaster, Howard Beale.
“It’s because you’re on television,
dummy,” Beatty told Finch in one of the
movie’s most famous lines.
On screen for only five minutes and
53 seconds, Beatty’s performance was
one of the shortest to earn an Oscar
nomination. His fellow stars, Finch,
Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight,
won Academy Awards as best actor,
best actress and best supporting actress
respectively, but Beatty missed out to
Jason Robards for his supporting role in
All the President’s Men.
He was not too disappointed. “I
worked a day on Network and got an
Oscar nomination for it,” he boasted.
His own supporting role in All The
President’s Men had been as the investi-
gator Martin Dardis, who passed on
‘Most of the people that
were on the film did not
want us to do the scene’
some of the information that led to the
uncovering of the Watergate conspiracy
and President Nixon’s resignation.
Beatty is survived by his fourth wife,
Sandra Johnson, whom he married in
1999. He is also survived by eight child-
ren from his previous marriages: Doug-
las, Charles, Lennis and Walter Beatty
from his first marriage between 1961 and
1970 to Walta Chandler; Jon Beatty, an
actor and director, and Blossom Beatty
from his second marriage between 1971
and 1979 to the actress Belinda Rowley;
and Thomas Beatty, a film director, and
Dorothy Beatty from his third marriage
between 1979 and 1998 to the writer and
producer Dorothy “Tinker” Lindsay.
He was not related to Warren Beatty,
telling one interviewer sarcastically,
“He’s my illegitimate uncle, but I don’t
really have anything against him”. The
comment was reported and his name-
ALAMY
Friederike Mayröcker in 1970
be auditory or visual as well (she also
exhibited as an artist). “I see everything
in pictures,” she said, “I transform
pictures into language by climbing into
the picture”.
There was often little conventional
narrative structure. A poem, translated
by Jonathan Larson and published in
Bomb magazine, conveyed the free-
flowing associations of observation and
memory typical of her work: Naturally
Beatty, right, with Jon Voight in Deliverance. He almost drowned during filming
sake was apparently unamused. “I
thought that was funny, but for some
reason I don’t think Warren did,” he
said.
Ned Thomas Beatty was born in
Louisville, the largest city in Kentucky, in
1937, the son of Margaret (née Fortney)
and Charles William Beatty, a travelling
salesman peddling fire hydrants. He
grew up fishing and working on a farm
and admitted that it was an unlikely
the camellias and the friend’s kisses, the
ascension of her voice (Maria Callas),
these grasslets in the Teutoburg Forest as
out of the train window I (fancied) amidst
liverwort floods (suchlike).
Her creativity ranged across poetry,
prose, plays, children’s books (about 100
book publications in all), which earned
her German-language literary prizes
and frequent mention as a potential
Nobel laureate.
Mayröcker became used to absorp-
tion in the often solitary life of a writer
at a young age. She was born in 1924 in
Vienna where her parents, a teacher
and a milliner, faced a constantly pre-
carious financial situation as a global
economic crisis intensified. Various
additional businesses they attempted
to establish failed and a beloved holiday
home had to be sold (its wildlife and
flowers recurring as wistful memories
in her writing). She recalled spending
much time confined at home in the
Austrian capital. As a teenager she also
witnessed the Nazi takeover of power
as Austria was annexed to the Third
Reich in 1938.
Her family’s difficulties and the
outbreak of war meant she could not
follow the academic path her abilities at
school promised. She was drafted for a
time to work as a secretary for the
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ALAMY
environment to encourage a career in
movies. Asked how he got into the busi-
ness he liked to answer, “By hanging
out with the wrong crowd.”
Initially he was drawn to music
rather than acting. He sang at his local
church and in barbershop quartets and
received a choral scholarship to study at
Transylvania University in Lexington,
Kentucky. He did not graduate and at 19
took to the stage as an actor, spending
Luftwaffe and also attended a trade
academy. Her gift for languages, pur-
sued at night school, led to a teaching
qualification and after the war she
worked for more than 20 years as an
English teacher in Viennese schools.
Her ambition, however, was always
to become a writer. One of her first
purchases from her teacher’s salary was
a Hermes typewriter, which became a
treasured possession. She began to
associate with avant-garde and
surrealist groups such as the Wiener
Gruppe and in 1946 had poems pub-
lished for the first time. Yet only much
later did her book publishing career
take off. She regretted that she had
spent too long on work that was “purely
experimental”, though her developing
style of borrowing from highly eclectic
sources, everything from fairy tales to
instruction manuals, was already
evident. A volume of prose, Larifari,
appeared in 1956 and a first volume of
poems, Death by Muses, in the 1960s.
Sustaining her as she slowly estab-
lished her reputation was her relation-
ship with another writer, Ernst Jandl,
whom she met at a literature festival in
1954. They collaborated on projects
such as a series of award-winning radio
plays, a genre Mayröcker also wrote for
extensively on her own. They were very
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ten years at the Barter Theatre in
Abingdon, Virginia, before moving on
to theatres in Pennsylvania, Houston
and Washington. He made his Broad-
way debut in 1968 and was in his mid-
30s by the time of his first Hollywood
movie.
When he was being considered for
Deliverance, Boorman invited him for
lunch and he spent the entire meal
making eyes at the wife of Boorman’s
assistant. “I was terribly married but
still terribly flirtatious,” he recalled. “I
was quite the heel and I think that’s
what John Boorman liked. He said he
thought I was the rudest person he had
ever met.”
After Deliverance, the movie roles
came thick and fast. He worked with
Burt Reynolds again in White Lightning
(1973) and WW and the Dixie
Dancekings (1975) and was superb as the
good ol’ boy Del Reese in Robert
Altman’s Nashville. He might have
teamed up again in Superman with
Reynolds, who was considered for the
lead role but it went instead to
Christopher Reeve. Beatty played Lex
Luthor’s bumbling assistant, Otis, in the
first Superman movie (1978) and in
Superman II (1980).
There was a nomination for a Golden
Globe as best supporting actor for Hear
My Song (1990) in which he portrayed
the Irish tenor Josef Locke and a rare
nomination as best lead actor at the
Emmys for the TV film Friendly Fire
(1979), about a family trying to discover
the truth about the death of their son in
the Vietnam War. His prolific list of film
credits left little time for the theatre, but
he retained a love of the stage and
earned a nomination for a Laurence
Olivier award for his appearance as Big
Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in the
West End in 2001.
He had no regrets about not having
more lead roles. “They’re more trouble
than they’re worth,” he said. “I feel sorry
for people in a star position. It’s
unnatural.”
Ned Beatty, actor, was born on July 6,
1937. He died of natural causes on June
13, 2021, aged 83
different writers, each needing space
(they did not live together, nor have
children) but provided mutual encour-
agement in shared commitment to the
writer’s life. In one poem she reflected
on standing companionably in a kitchen
together, looking out of the window,
both with poems in their heads, “but
not the same one”.
Jandl’s death in 2000 left Mayröcker
stricken with grief and initially unable
to write. “At first I was so distraught,”
she said, “that all I could do was run
around crying”.
She eventually addressed her grief in
a volume entitled Requiem for Ernst
Jandl, describing overcoming an over-
whelming sense of indifference to the
world around her she had previously
experienced so intensely, and resumed
writing in her indefatigable way into
her nineties.
She saw life, she once said, as “like a
surprise — you never know how it ends,
it’s an adventure that you create
yourself”.
Friederike Mayröcker, writer, was born
on December 12, 1924. She died on June
4, 2021, aged 96
Email: obituaries@thetimes.co.uk
the times | Tuesday June 15 2021
Law Report
Applications to set aside leave to apply
for financial relief after a foreign divorce
Court of Appeal
Published June 15, 2021
Potanina v Potanin
Before Lady Justice King, Lord Justice
David Richards and Lord Justice Moylan
[2021] EWCA Civ 702
Judgment May 13, 2021
When considering an applica-
tion to set aside the grant of
leave to apply for financial relief
in England and Wales after an
overseas divorce, the court
should adjourn the application
so it be heard at the substantive
application for financial relief
unless it was clear that the per-
son seeking to set aside could
conclusively resist the applica-
tion for financial relief.
The Court of Appeal so held
when allowing an appeal by the
wife, Natalia Nikolaevna Pota-
nina, a Russian citizen habitual-
ly resident in the United King-
dom, against the decision of Mr
Justice Cohen ([2020] Fam 189)
granting an application by the
husband, Vladimir Olegovich
Potanin, also a Russian citizen,
to set aside the judge’s earlier
order granting the wife leave to
apply for financial relief in
England after the parties’
divorce in Russia.
Charles Howard QC and
Deepak Nagpal QC for the wife;
Stewart Leech QC, Adam
Wolanski QC and Rebecca
Bailey-Harris for the husband.
Lady Justice King said that
Part III of the Matrimonial and
Family Proceedings Act 1984
provided (subject to jurisdic-
tional requirements set out in
section 15) for the making of an
application for financial relief
after an overseas divorce. An
order could be made notwith-
standing that an order for
financial relief had been made in
a country outside England and
Wales.
By section 13 no application
could be made without the leave
of the court and by sub-section
13(1) no leave was to be granted
unless the court considered that
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there was: “substantial ground
for the making of an application
for such an order”.
Chapter 6 of the Family
Procedure Rules 2010 governed
the procedure to be followed
when making such an applica-
tion, including at rule 8.25(1),
that the application for leave
had to be made without notice
and had to be determined with-
out notice unless the court
thought it appropriate for the
application to be determined on
notice (rule 8.25(3)). Where
permission had been granted ex
parte the respondent might,
within seven days of the making
of the order, make an applica-
tion under rule 18.11 to set aside
the order granting leave.
In the present case, on an ex
parte application by the wife, the
judge made an order granting
leave to make an application
under Part III. The husband
applied to set aside the order,
principally on the grounds that
the judge had been misled in
important respects as to the
facts, issues of Russian law and
the applicable principles of
English law.
Following two days of argu-
ment, the judge set aside the or-
der for leave and, on re-consid-
eration of the wife’s application,
refused to grant her leave. The
wife appealed against that order.
Any application under Part
III was decided by reference to
Agbaje v Agbaje (The Times
March 15, 2010; [2010] 1 AC 628)
and Traversa v Freddi ([2011] 2
FLR 272).
The principles were well
known: (i) The test was not high
for the grant of leave but there
had to be a “solid” case to be
tried; (ii) The power to set aside
could only be exercised where
there was some compelling rea-
son to do so. In practice it would
only be exercised where a deci-
sive authority was overlooked or
the court had been misled; (iii)
Unless the applicant could de-
50%
discount for
subscribers
liver a “knock-out blow”, an
application to set aside should
be adjourned to be heard with
the substantive application.
It followed that an application
to set aside should not be used as
an opportunity to explore mat-
ters properly to be litigated at
trial. If it was necessary to have
a very substantial or lengthy
hearing to determine, for exam-
ple, whether the court had been
misled and that the leave should
therefore be “set aside”, that
would usually be an indication
that there was not a readily
identifiable “knock-out blow”
and that the application to set
aside should be adjourned to be
considered at trial.
Instead, what happened in the
present case was that the judge
set down the application to set
aside the leave for two days of
argument plus a day for judicial
reading; a case management
approach which was contrary to
the approach set out in the case
law.
The task before the court was
not to conduct an appeal from
the granting of leave in the form
of a rehearing, but to hear a
short, sharp application to set
aside leave on the basis that
there was a “knockout blow”
demonstrated either by refer-
ence to the fact that a decisive
authority had been overlooked,
or that the court had been
misled.
The sort of jigsaw of informa-
tion pieced together over thou-
sands of pages and analysed
over a number of days which, it
was alleged, together added up
to a misleading presentation
made by the wife for leave, could
not be regarded as a “knockout
blow”. The application to set
aside should have been heard
together with the substantive
application. If there was, as
contended by the husband, a
compelling reason to set aside
permission, the court would do
so at that stage.
The judge’s analysis was
tainted by the procedure
adopted at the set aside hearing
which on the one hand was too
elaborate and lengthy, but on
the other hand led to the making
of serious adverse findings
against the wife without the
benefit of either oral evidence or
any expert evidence as to Rus-
sian law that either party might
have wished to call.
Having allowed the appeal
and the wife’s leave as a conse-
quence remaining undisturbed,
it was unnecessary for the court
to consider whether section
16(3) of the Act was capable in
law of providing the wife with a
safety net so far as her needs
were concerned. However, it
was to be noted that:
(i) Council Regulation (EC)
No 4/2009 on jurisdiction,
applicable law, recognition and
enforcement of decisions and
co-operation in matters relating
to maintenance obligations
referred to in section 16(3) con-
tinued to apply to applications
under Part III for financial relief
after overseas divorce issued
before 11.00pm on December 31,
2020;
(ii) Sub-sections 16(3) and (4)
had been repealed by
paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to the
Jurisdiction and Judgments
(Family) (Amendment etc) (EU
Exit) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019
No 519) as substituted by
regulation 5 of the Jurisdiction,
Judgments and Applicable Law
(Amendment) (EU Exit)
Regulations 2020 (SI 2020 No
1574); and
(iii) Regulation No 4/2009
was revoked by Regulation 4 of
the 2019 Regulations.
It followed that there were
likely to be few if any cases out-
standing to which section 16(3)
would apply after the UK’s exit
from the European Union.
There were several complex-
ities and challenges associated
with an application made under
Part III. It was important that
the persons for whom those pro-
ceedings were designed should
have access to a straightforward
and cohesive procedure. Those
complexities and challenges
could well benefit from consid-
eration by the Law Commission
in due course.
Lord Justice David Richards
and Lord Justice Moylan
agreed.
Solicitors: Hughes Fowler Car-
ruthers; Payne Hicks Beach.
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14th June, 2021
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Sir Tim Laurence, this evening
attended a Dinner for the
Woodland Trust at Fortnum
and Mason, 181 Piccadilly,
London W1.
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Weather
Today Plenty of warm sunshine, but some cloud will bring rain in the north and west. Max 26C (79F), min 6C (43F) Weather Eye
Paul Simons
Around Britain Five days ahead Wind speed Sea state Orkney
ney Shetland
Sh
Key: b=bright, c=cloud, d=drizzle, pc=partly cloudy Feeling fresher with 34 Calm
du=dull, f=fair, fg=fog, h=hail, m=mist, r=rain, (mph) 23 11
sh=showers, sl=sleet, sn=snow, s=sun, t=thunder showers or longer spells Slight 14
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Rough
Temp C Rain mm Sun hr* northeast 28 (degrees C)
10
midday yesterday 24 hrs to 5pm yesterday
11 10
16 PC 5.4 **
Tomorrow Flood alerts and warnings
Aberdeen
A mostly dry and hot day across
Aberporth 13 DU 0.0 ** At 17:00 on Monday there were no 15

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England and Wales with sunny spells,
Anglesey 15 PC 0.0 ** but some showery rain in the north flood alerts or warnings in England, 10
Aviemore 14 PC 1.2 ** and west at times. Fresher with Wales or Scotland.
Barnstaple 16 DU 0.0 ** sunshine and showers elsewhere.
For further information and updates 29 C F unday was hot and sunny
Bedford 24 PC 0.0 ** Max 28C, min 4C Aberdeen 35 95
Belfast 13 B 3.8 **
in England visit flood-warning-
30 86
over much of the UK, with
information.service.gov.uk, for Wales
Birmingham 22 PC 0.0 **
naturalresources.wales/flooding and 25 77 the temperature peaking at
Bournemouth 25 S 0.0 ** 17 NORTH 28C at Heathrow and in
21 B 0.0 **
for Scotland SEPA.org.uk 20 68
Bridlington SEA 15 59 central London. It was also
Bristol 22 PC 0.0 **
Camborne 15 FG 0.0 ** 11 10 50
the hottest day of the year so far in
16 Edinburgh
Cardiff 17 PC 0.0 **
27
31 Glasgow 5 41
Wales, with 27.4C at Cardiff, and in
Edinburgh 16 PC 4.0 ** 0 32
Eskdalemuir 13 C 10.2 **
14 13 -5 23 Northern Ireland, with 25.3C at
Glasgow 14 PC 12.6 **
25
-10 14 Giant’s Causeway. None of this
Hereford 21 PC 0.0 **
Herstmonceux 24 S 0.0 ** ATLANTIC
Londonderry -15 5 would be especially remarkable
Ipswich 24 PC 0.0 **
Newcastle except for the mystery of June 13 —
OCEAN Carlisle
Isle of Man 15 PC 0.2 **
Thursday Belfast the only date in all the summer
Isle of Wight 24 S 0.0 ** 20
Jersey 22 S 0.0 ** Sunny spells and a scattering of 17 15 months when 30C has never been
showers in Scotland and Ireland. 13
Keswick 15 B 1.4 ** Mainly cloudy in England and Wales Yorkk recorded in the UK (Weather Eye,
Kinloss 17 PC 0.0 ** with rain spreading north, thundery June 12). After this Sunday failed
and heavy in places.
11
Leeds 15 PC 0.4 **
Lerwick 12 PC 2.8 ** Max 22C, min 3C Manchester Hull
again to reach 30C, the record
Leuchars 16 PC 3.0 ** ooo
Liverpool 22 continues, seemingly defying any
Lincoln 21 PC 0.0 ** Galway IRISH 4
18
scientific explanation, although it
Liverpool 17 PC 0.0 ** SEA 22 Sheffield
London 26 S 0.0 ** Dublin
LLlandudno
could simply be a statistical quirk.
Lyneham 22 S 0.0 ** So far this June has been notable
Manchester 17 PC 0.0 **
Margate 25 ** 0.0 **
16 18
Shrewsbury
Nottingham for blue skies and hot sunshine over
20 a large part of the UK, with
Milford Haven 16 DU 0.0 **
i h
Norwich
Newcastle 15 PC 0.6 ** 17 19 temperatures nearly 3C above
Nottingham 19 B 0.0 ** Birmingham
Orkney 14 C 1.1 ** 21
Cork
Cambridge average in central England. Hand in
Oxford 24 PC 0.0 ** 15 hand with the clear skies is a
Swansea Oxford 23
Plymouth
Portland
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0.0
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** Cardiff
marked lack of rain, with lawns
Scilly, St Mary’s 16 DU 0.0 **
Friday Channel Islands CELTIC 6
26 already turning yellow. All of which
Shoreham 25 S 0.0 ** Rather cloudy with areas of rain
SEA Bristol London raises the traditional curse of hot
spreading north over southern and
Shrewsbury 14 B 0.0 ** 23
Snowdonia 14 PC 0.2 **
eastern England. Sunny spells and the
risk of isolated showers elsewhere. Southampton
British summers — the hosepipe
9
19 ban. So far water supplies from
Southend 25 S 0.0 ** Max 20C, min 6C Exeterr
South Uist 11 PC 2.0 ** 8 Plymouth Brighton reservoirs, rivers and groundwater
Stornoway 12 PC 1.2 **
Tiree 12 PC 1.6 **
are largely at normal levels thanks
Whitehaven 16 ** 0.0 ** 17
21 to a fairly wet winter and the
CHANNEL 18
Wick 14 C 0.4 ** 3 torrential downpours of May. For
Yeovilton 22 PC 0.0 **
many places these rains were
16
17 General situation: Warm, sunny and he north and we
cloudy in the west with dry with sunny spells, but cloud especially important, such as the
The world dry over most of Britain and eastern outbreaks of rain. Moderate to fresh will thicken from the west in the southeast and East Anglia, where a
All readings local midday yesterday
Ireland, but cloudy with rain in southwesterly wind, perhaps strong afternoon, perhaps bringing some rain large part of the water supply comes
Alicante 28 S Madeira 23 B 19 northern and western areas. near the coast. Maximum 21C (70F), later. Light increasing to moderate or
Amsterdam 25 S Madrid 31 PC
from underground aquifers that act
SW Eng, Channel Is, E Eng, Midlands, minimum 9C (48F). fresh southwesterly wind. Maximum
Athens 23 B Malaga 30 S
Cen N Eng, NW Eng, Wales: A dry day SE Eng, Cen S Eng, E Anglia, London: 23C (73F), minimum 10C (50F). like sponges, soaking up water from
Auckland 17 R Mallorca 30 S
with plenty of sunshine, although Some thicker cloud around at first will Cen Highland, Moray Firth, Glasgow, rainfall in winter. Although Britain
Bahrain 35 S Malta 26 PC Saturday
Bangkok 31 PC Melbourne 15 B Some sunny spells, but most places
hazy at times. Light and variable soon clear to bring a dry and sunny day. NW Scotland, N Isles, NE Scotland, has a largely wet climate, London
Barbados 31 B Mexico City 21 C will be cloudy with areas of showery winds, becoming southwesterly during Light and variable winds. Maximum Argyll: Sunny at first, then soon has less rainfall each year than
rain, mainly in the south and west. the afternoon. Maximum 24C (75F), 26C (79F), minimum 11C (52F). turning cloudy with outbreaks of rain.
Barcelona 28 S Miami 31 R
Max 21C, min 5C minimum 7C (45F). NE Eng, Lake District, SW Scotland, Moderate to fresh southerly wind, Rome or Istanbul.
Beijing 24 R Milan 28 S
Beirut 27 PC Mombasa 28 PC Republic of Ireland, N Ireland: Dry with IoM, Edinburgh and Dundee, Borders, strong near the coast. Maximum There may be some relief for
Belgrade 19 S Montreal 28 B sunny spells at first, then turning Aberdeen: Most of the day will be 13C (55F), minimum 6C (43F). parched gardens later this week as
Berlin 23 S Moscow 25 PC stormy air sweeping up from Spain
Bermuda 28 B Mumbai 32 S 9
Bordeaux 31 S Munich 22 S Tides Noon today LOW
1008 and Portugal drifts towards us. This
Brussels 27 S Nairobi 23 PC Tidal predictions. 992
LOW will bring the prospect of thundery
Heights in metres
Bucharest 20 PC Naples 27 PC
14 1000
rain in many places, especially the
Budapest 21 S New Orleans 33 S Today Ht Ht
HIGH
Buenos Aires 20 S New York 21 B 20 Aberdeen 05:01 3.8 17:44 3.6 southeast and East Anglia, with
Cairo 28 S Nice 25 S Avonmouth 11:02 11.4 23:15 11.5 1024 1008 1008 some torrential downpours. That
27 T 29 PC LOW
Calcutta Nicosia
14 R 20
Belfast 02:48 3.4 15:12 3.0 LOW thundery breakdown ushers in a
Canberra 11 DU Oslo Cardiff 10:46 10.7 22:58 10.8 HIGH 1008
Cape Town 17 S Paris 27 S 09:36 4.7 21:44 5.0 1016
change to a slightly fresher and
Devonport
Chicago 29 PC Perth 17 PC
Dover 02:27 6.0 14:53 6.1
LOW wetter run of weather towards the
Copenhagen 19 S Prague 20 S 1000 HIGH end of the week and into next week,
Sunday Dublin 03:20 3.8 15:55 3.6 992
Corfu 26 PC Reykjavik 9 PC
Delhi 36 S Riga 19 S Mainly cloudy over England and Wales Falmouth 09:03 4.4 21:17 4.6 1008 a possible sign of the European
Dubai 38 S Rio de Janeiro 22 B with heavy and perhaps thundery rain, Greenock 03:55 3.5 16:41 3.0 1016 LOW Monsoon that typically brings wet
but some sunny intervals developing in Harwich 03:25 3.7 15:38 3.6 Cold front
15 B 39 S HIGH
Dublin
Faro 21 PC
Riyadh
Rome 28 S
places. Sunshine and the chance of an
Holyhead 01:57 5.1 14:27 4.8 LOW 1024 1016 Warm front weather in June (Weather Eye,
afternoon shower elsewhere.
Florence 30 S San Francisco 24 PC Max 20C, min 6C Hull 09:56 6.6 22:43 6.4 Occluded front June 12).
LOW
Frankfurt 25 S Santiago 17 S Leith 06:24 4.9 18:57 4.9 Trough
Geneva 25 PC São Paulo 17 PC Liverpool 02:50 8.5 15:19 8.3
Gibraltar 26 S Seoul 22 B 13 London Bridge 05:35 6.7 17:50 6.4
Synoptic situation Highs and lows Hours of darkness
Helsinki 20 S Seychelles 28 PC Lowestoft 01:19 2.2 13:24 2.4 24hrs to 5pm yesterday Aberdeen 22:35-03:42
Hong Kong 31 PC Singapore 31 B Milford Haven 10:04 6.0 22:20 6.1 An area of high pressure will Belfast 22:31-04:16
Honolulu 29 PC St Petersburg 20 PC build across the British Isles Warmest: Teddington,
17 Morecambe 02:50 8.4 15:18 8.1 London, 29.0C Birmingham 22:02-04:14
Istanbul 19 B Stockholm 19 PC leading to a dry and mainly Coldest: Bealach Na Ba, 3.5C
19 Newhaven 02:35 6.0 15:07 6.0 Cardiff 22:01-04:25
Jerusalem 28 PC Sydney 17 B sunny day over England, Wales Wettest: Dunstaffnage,
Newquay 08:57 6.0 21:13 6.2 Exeter 21:58-04:30
Johannesburg 19 S Tel Aviv 28 PC and southern Scotland. Low Argyll, 21.0mm
Oban 09:37 3.3 21:44 3.5 Sunniest: Weybourne, 15.7hrs* Glasgow 22:34-04:01
Kuala Lumpur 32 PC Tenerife 26 PC pressure to the south of Iceland
15 Penzance 08:29 4.8 20:50 4.9 Liverpool 22:12-04:12
Kyiv 24 B Tokyo 21 SH will push a set of fronts into
25 PC 17 C Portsmouth 03:01 4.3 15:43 4.3 Sun and moon London 21:49-04:12
Lanzarote Vancouver Ireland and Scotland, bringing For Greenwich Manchester 22:09-04:09
Las Palmas 24 PC Venice 24 PC Shoreham 02:37 5.6 15:08 5.6 Sun rises: 04.42
The Times weather Southampton 02:09 4.2 15:06 4.2
cloudy skies and outbreaks Newcastle 22:16-03:56
Lima 16 S Vienna 20 PC Sun sets: 21.18
of rain from the west. Warm Moon rises: 09.15 Norwich 21:50-04:00
Lisbon 27 PC Warsaw 20 S page is provided Swansea 10:09 8.1 22:22 8.2
conditions over most of Europe Moon sets: 01.00 Wed Penzance 22:03-04:41
Los Angeles 21 PC Washington 26 B Tees 07:24 4.8 20:02 4.7
36 S 24 S
by Weatherquest with high pressure in charge. First quarter: June 18 Sheffield 22:05-04:06
Luxor Zurich Weymouth 10:27 1.6 22:39 1.7
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Sport
‘It’s mad but retirement was boring’
Greg Rutherford, long
jump gold medallist at
London 2012, is aiming
to do same in bobsleigh,
he tells Rick Broadbent
G
reg Rutherford hopes to be
a man for all seasons and
follow in the footsteps of
an American boxer who
ascended the Olympic
podium alongside a Bentley-driving
war hero, a womanising cardsharp
and a failed actor whose career stalled
when arrested for possessing a pistol
and an opium pipe. It will not be easy
to live up to that sort of pedigree but
leaps of faith are his thing.
The 2012 Olympic long jump
champion wants to become only the
second person to win gold medals in
different sports at the summer and
winter Olympics. Rutherford, 34, is
part of a nine-man British bobsleigh
crew that will be whittled down
before the Winter Olympics, due to
be staged in Beijing in February. Only
Eddie Eagan has gone before him.
The American boxer hailed from a
poor family, took on Jack Dempsey,
fought in the Second World War and
set a record for navigating the globe
on scheduled flights. He also won the
light-heavyweight Olympic gold in
1920 and then formed part of the
Suicide Squad that won bobsleigh
gold in Lake Placid in 1932.
Great Britain’s chances of winning
bobsleigh gold are slim, not least
because the squad is not funded, but
the four-man team from the 2014
Winter Olympics were upgraded to a
bronze medal two years ago because
of Russian doping bans. Even making
the Games would put Rutherford in
an elite club. In 2010 Allyn Condon, a
sprinter who won world and
European relay medals, became the
only Briton this century to compete at
both Olympics when he was part of
the bobsleigh team that ended up
upside down after a 150km/h crash in
Vancouver in 2010.
“It’s mad and clearly retirement was
a bit boring,” Rutherford says. “But I
like a challenge and setting goals. In
2014 I gave the skeleton bob a go and
went down headfirst at Lillehammer a
few times. I loved that and the buzz
was amazing. The bobsleigh will be a
case of being driven down and having
my head tucked in, only seeing the
inside of the sled.”
McColgan: Special treatment for Farah Alistair Brownlee is left out
Rick Broadbent
Mo Farah will make a last-ditch
attempt to qualify for the Olympics at a
specially arranged race in Manchester
next week amid suggestions that he is
being given preferential treatment.
The four-times Olympic champion,
38, suffered badly when he slumped to
eighth place at the British 10,000m
trials in Birmingham ten days ago. He
was 22 seconds outside the qualifying
standard of 27min 28sec, but as he was
the second Briton home he will still
make the plane to Tokyo if he dips
under that mark at the Manchester
Regional Arena on Friday week. The
qualifying period ends on June 27.
Rutherford accepts it will be hard to
make the team, piloted by Grenadier
Guard Lamin Deen, who are using a
five-year-old sled owing to financial
woes — they want to raise £150,000
for a state-of-the-art one — but other
track and field athletes have
successfully made the switch. Lauryn
Williams, of the United States, won
relay gold at the 2012 Olympics and
then added a silver in the two-woman
bob in Sochi in 2014. With a lack of
money and the pandemic restricting
international practice, Rutherford has
been training by pushing an
“elongated shopping trolley” down a
track at the Lee Valley Athletics
Centre in east London and
undergoing a series of tests at army
barracks. Now he has just completed
The invitational race will include
pacemakers and an international field,
but Liz McColgan, who won the
10,000m world title in Tokyo 30 years
ago, tweeted: “What about the ladies?
Do they not deserve the same opportu-
nities?” McColgan’s daughter, Eilish,
and Jess Judd booked their Olympic
places at the trials, but Amy Eloise-
Markovc, the European indoor 3,000m
champion, is less than a second outside
the qualifying time.
Marc Scott is on the plane for the
men but Farah is not the only Briton
chasing a qualifying time. It remains to
be seen whether he is still troubled by
the ankle “niggle” that he cited in the
aftermath of his disastrous run in
CHRIS BEPATT/PA
his first session with the British
Bobsleigh squad at Aldershot.
“I hope that before Tokyo we will
get on the ice,” he says. “The idea of
trying to jump again would be
ridiculous, but I can still produce
speed and power and I’m learning
about the technique.”
He had plenty on his plate already.
Married with a third child, Daphne,
born in April, he was not one of those
athletes struggling with retirement.
He did Strictly Come Dancing in 2016,
won Celebrity MasterChef in 2019 and
had a gig lined up to work as part of
the presentation team for Eurosport
and Discovery+ at the Tokyo Games.
However, lockdown gave him time
to ponder and he is not one to live on
past glories. “There’s a coat hanger
Birmingham. He said he was “hurting
hard” with 15 laps to go, but put on a
defiant face afterwards.
“I have no fears,” he said when the
prospect of missing out on Tokyo was
raised. “You know this is part of the
sport. What makes us great is being able
to challenge yourself. So that is what
you have got to do as the next stage.
You’ve got to go out there each race and
mix it with the best.”
His run in Birmingham was his first
on the track in Britain for four years and
was only his third defeat over 10,000m.
Farah won the 5,000m and 10,000m at
the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games
during a period when he won ten global
titles in six years.
2GM
with the vest and flag from 2012 that I
have never got framed,” he says. “The
medals are in a safe somewhere and
rarely see the light of day. I don’t
watch Super Saturday back.”
Disappointed with a bronze medal
at the 2016 Olympics, he missed out
on a return to the Olympic Stadium
in London for the World
Championships in 2017 with an ankle
injury that prompted his retirement.
He had dragged the last vestiges of
his long jump talent and left with the
full set of Olympic, world, European
and Commonwealth gold medals.
“I was ready,” he says. “I’d see these
young guys bouncing out of the pit
and I’d be thinking, ‘My body hurts,
I’m not enjoying this.’ It was
exhilarating moving away because of
Jonny Brownlee is convinced it is his
time to shine in Tokyo after it was
confirmed that his brother Alistair will
not defend the triathlon gold medal he
won at the past two Olympics.
Alistair’s exclusion from the British
team for Japan was confirmed
yesterday when Alex Yee was named
alongside Jonny. Yee, 23, in effect sealed
the decision by storming to
victory in the World Triathlon Series
race in Leeds last week while Alistair,
33, who has been struggling with injury,
was disqualified during the swim.
Jonny said: “I have been fortunate to
have Alistair next to me on the start-
line in the past two Olympics and with-
out him it is going to feel very different.
Tuesday June 15 2021 | the times
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Rutherford,
ccontent with his
not
Super Saturday
S
ttriumph in 2012,
lleft, is now
ttraining by
““pushing an
elongated
shopping trolley”
down a track in
Stratford. It is
part of his quest
to make the
Great Britain
bobsleigh crew
for next year’s
Winter Olympics.
scheduled to be
held in Beijing
th freedom.
the f eedom If I wawanted a cream cake
at midnight I’d have one.
“It’s easy to get up to train when
it’s your job but it’s hard when it’s
not. When the bobsleigh came up I
was excited to have a reason to
train again.”
Knowing what sport you are cut
out for is a subject that fascinates
Rutherford. Craig Pickering is a
former British sprinter who ran at the
Olympics in Beijing in 2008 before
turning to bobsleigh. Forced to
withdraw from the 2014 Winter
Olympic team because of injury, he
has since studied the role of genes in
sporting success. His research was
published in the International Journal
of Sports Physiology and Performance
and tested the genes of Rutherford
and four other elite athletes against
500 ordinary members of the public.
Intriguingly, Rutherford
outperformed elite endurance
runners when it came to genes
associated with stamina, while 14 per
cent of a randomly selected group
performed better than the elite
athletes in terms of genes linked to
speed and power. From that it was
possible to deduce that gene-testing
is merely part of the picture and
lots of homegrown talent is being
overlooked.
“It could open up other horizons,”
Rutherford says. “ ‘Yes, I love playing
football but perhaps I should try
being a 400m runner.’ There are so
many other variables — enjoyment,
facilities, meeting the right people.”
Who knows if Rutherford is
genetically better suited to ice or
sand? What is clear is that his
enthusiasm and competitive instinct
have been rekindled.
Watch every moment of the Olympic
Games from Tokyo live on Discovery+
“But I like to think that I will be able
to deal with it and it will hopefully be
my time to shine now. These Olympics
are going to be so different and this is
just another little difference in the
grand scheme of things.”
Jonny, two years his brother’s junior,
had grown used to battling away in
Alistair’s shadow, first in London when
he had to settle for bronze and again in
Rio when he trailed his brother into the
silver medal position.
Increasingly, however, while Alistair
courted a future in the Ironman disci-
pline, Jonny has emerged as a greater
threat, culminating in his impressive
World Triathlon Series win in Italy last
month.
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7.10 Handicap (£3,036: 1m 100yd) (9) 1.50 Handicap Hurdle (£2,342: 2m 3f) (13) (2-Y-O: £3,289: 6f) (12)
4-1 Seas Of Elzaam, 5-1 Outrun The Storm, 6-1 Trinity Lake, 13-2 Cassy O, 7-1
2 (1) 0 NATIONAL STAR 18 J Butler 9-5 G Wood Lasting Legacy, 8-1 Eldelbar, Toussarok, 10-1 Challet.
1 (3) -0530 DONNELLY'S RAINBOW 10 (D) Harvey Bastiman 8-10-0 3 (7) 434 NOBLE ALBERT 18 A Murphy 9-5 S Cherchi (5) 1 21-13 NYE BEVAN 33 (P,T,BF) N Twiston-Davies 6-11-12 J Neild 2 CARDIFF 31 K Ryan 9-0 S Gray
1 (7)
O Stammers (5) 2 523-0 CHIEFTAIN'S CHOICE 45 (P,CD) K Frost 12-11-11 A Edwards
2 (6) -4444 KYLIE RULES 12 (CD) R Carr 6-9-9 T Eaves
4 (2) 5 NORDIC GLORY 70 M Attwater 9-5 W Carson 2 (11) 0 COAXING 11 T D Barron 9-0 C Beasley 4.30 Novice Stakes (£3,132: 7f) (10)
5 (4) 423 AMBER DEW 10 (V,BF) R Beckett 9-0 R P Downey 3 2P65- IF KARL'S BERG DID 55 M Harris 6-11-7 M Bastyan
30 DIAMOND PEARL 31 (BF) K Burke 9-0 C Lee
3 (6) 1 (6) 5 ROYAL PARTNERSHIP 22 S bin Suroor 4-9-12 R Dawson
3 (2) 42-40 NATURAL VALUE 14 M Johnston 3-9-7 J Peate (7) 4 04P1- RONDE DE NUIT 55 P Hobbs 4-11-6 B R Jones (3)
6 (8) 055 BONITA B 36 M Channon 9-0 G Bass (5) 4 (1) 3 HI MEH DARLING 12 I Jardine 9-0 A Mullen 2 (9) 1 ASJAD 17 R Varian 3-9-9 D O'Neill
4 (8) 31-50 CRANE 14 (D) M Bell 3-9-5 D E Hogan (3) 5 551- DUTCH ADMIRAL 258 D Bridgwater 4-11-6 A Bellamy (5)
7 (6) MACKENZIE ROSE M Johnston 9-0 D Probert 5 (10) 65 JUST A CLAIM 11 R Fell 9-0 Megan Nicholls 0 BOLD TERRITORIES 46 M Dods 3-9-2 C Beasley
5 (9) 4-220 CROWN PRINCESS 17 O Pears 3-9-5 G Lee 6 34-04 BILLY'S ANGEL 23 (B) A Murphy 9-11-6 C Todd 3 (10)
8 (5) 05 MAYFAIR STROLL 13 C Hills 9-0 J Watson 6 (12) 2 MAGNOLIA STATE 25 R Fahey 9-0 B Garritty (3) 0 DEBATED 64 Phillip Makin 3-9-2 C Hardie
6 (5) 40-2 SOLAR JOE 38 R Fahey 3-9-5 C Murtagh (3) 7 P/0-P TAKBEER 16 (P) Mrs N Evans 9-11-6 J Dixon (3) 4 (4)
11-8 Amber Dew, 5-1 Mackenzie Rose, 6-1 Magic Warrior, 7-1 Noble Albert, 7 (2) 30 MAY PUNCH 14 T Easterby 9-0 D Allan 5 (5) MALTBY RAIDER D O'Meara 3-9-2 S Gray
7 (1) 200- WISE JUDGEMENT 223 M Johnston 3-9-1 J Fanning 8 /00P- CUT AND RUN 196 M Keighley 8-11-1 P Cowley
Bonita B, 8-1 Mayfair Stroll, 14-1 Nordic Glory, 50-1 National Star. 8 (3) 00 MISS WOMBLETON 12 R Fell 9-0 B Sanderson (3)
8 (4) 504-0 POSSIBLE AMBITION 24 (P) J J Quinn 3-8-12 B Robinson 9 5305- THE LONGEST DAY 66 (T) Mrs S Leech 5-10-11 L Williams 6 (1) 0-3 TROMSO 67 K Ryan 3-9-2 K Stott
9 (8) NAJAT S & E Crisford 9-0 J Mitchell 7 (7) 5 YOJAARI 17 W Haggas 3-9-2 L Jones
9 (7) 446-3 KENTUCKY KITTEN 13 T Easterby 3-8-12 Ella McCain (5) 6.50 Handicap (£2,862: 6f) (5) 10 /00-2 OXFORD BLU 21 M Young 7-10-8 Tabitha Worsley
10 (9) RENAISSANCE D O'Meara 9-0 D Nolan 8 (8) CAMERATA S & E Crisford 3-8-11 J Mitchell
3-1 Kylie Rules, 9-2 Kentucky Kitten, 5-1 Solar Joe, 6-1 Wise Judgement, 7-1 11 21-23 JESSICA RABBIT 16 (D) G McPherson 7-10-8 M Kendrick (3)
Crown Princess, 8-1 Crane, 12-1 Possible Ambition, 14-1 others. 1 (2) 61110 KENDERGARTEN KOP 3 (B,CD) D Flood 6-9-7 S Osborne 11 (5) TRUELY ACLAIMED J J Quinn 9-0 JP Sullivan 9 (3) 0- HEART THROB 238 B Smart 3-8-11 H Shaw
12 263-1 SHANANDOA 5 D Brace 10-10-5(7ex) J Tudor
2 (1) 21341 DOC SPORTELLO 28 (B,E,D) A Carroll 9-9-7 D Probert 12 (4) WHO'S UR DANDY M Walford 9-0 J Garritty 10 (2) 0 LOVE SENSATION 45 D Carroll 3-8-11 Megan Nicholls
13 4R0-5 TELEKINETIC 22 A Carroll 6-10-1 N Slatter
7.40 Maiden Stakes (£3,140: 5f) (7) 3 (4) 10553 SHOOT TO KILL 13 (P,D) G Scott 4-9-6 D Muscutt
100-30 Dutch Admiral, 7-2 Ronde De Nuit, 5-1 Nye Bevan, 13-2 Jessica Rabbit,
9-4 Cardiff, 5-2 Magnolia State, 11-2 Najat, 8-1 Diamond Pearl, 10-1 5-4 Asjad, 5-1 Royal Partnership, 11-2 Yojaari, 6-1 Tromso, 13-2 Camerata,
4 (5) 13403 SIR OLIVER 18 (P,D) C Dwyer 4-9-6 S Cherchi (5) 7-1 Shanandoa, 12-1 Oxford Blu, 14-1 Billy's Angel, 16-1 others. Renaissance, Hi Meh Darling, 16-1 May Punch, Just A Claim. 12-1 Maltby Raider, 25-1 Bold Territories, 50-1 others.
1 (4) 00 GLEAMING MAIZE 12 F Watson 5-9-7 O Stammers (5)
5 (3) 50530 REAL ESTATE 21 (P,D) M Attwater 6-8-12 W Carson
2 (1) 02222 YUKON MISSION 18 (B,BF) J J Quinn 4-9-7 B Robinson
3 (5) 03-2 AVA GO JOE 47 T Easterby 3-9-5 D Fentiman
15-8 Sir Oliver, 3-1 Doc Sportello, 100-30 Shoot To Kill, 5-1 Kendergarten Kop, 2.20 Handicap Chase (£2,505: 2m 1f) (12) 1.40 Handicap 5.10 Handicap (£2,322: 5f) (12)
8-1 Real Estate. (£4,347: 6f) (11)
4 (7) 4-5 MOTORIOUS 38 S C Williams 3-9-5 P Mathers 1 13P-3 PARDON ME 28 (H) M & D Easterby 8-11-12 H Bannister 1 (4) 21123 TRUE HERO 47 (B,BF,D) D Brown 5-10-1 R Dawson (3)
5 (2) THE COOLER KING R Fahey 3-9-5 T Hamilton 2 00-21 AUTHORIZO 35 (P,T) O Greenall 6-11-10 H Brooke 1 (10) 1/00- THE BELL CONDUCTOR 223 Phillip Makin 4-10-0 S Gray 2 (12) 00201 VAN GERWEN 19 (C,D) P Midgley 8-9-12 K Stott
7.20 Handicap (3-Y-O: £2,322: 7f) (6)
6 (6) 00 VAL DE TRAVERS 15 (H) L Mullaney 3-9-5 G Lee 3 2646- GETABUCK 75 (W) A Stronge 8-11-10 J Bowen 2 (3) 11246 RESTLESS ENDEAVOUR 14 (D) G Tuer 4-9-12 S James 3 (9) 14365 DEBAWTRY 21 (D) B Smart 6-9-12 H Shaw
1 (6) -4401 ELVIC 8 (D) A Watson 9-13(6ex) Joanna Mason (3) 4 U32-P TIDAL WATCH 40 (P,T) Jonjo O'Neill 7-11-9 Jonjo O'Neill Jr. 3 (7) 02265 NORTH WIND 11 (D) T D Barron 5-9-11 C Beasley 4 (7) 06264 PAVERS PRIDE 7 (V,BF,CD) P Midgley 7-9-12 J Garritty
7 (3) 5-6 LOLA REBEL 20 D Loughnane 3-9-0 Laura Pearson (5)
6-4 Ava Go Joe, 13-8 Yukon Mission, 6-1 The Cooler King, Motorious, 25-1 Val 2 (5) 3402 MELLYS FLYER 55 (H,BF) G Scott 9-9 D Muscutt 5 3U4-5 ROSTELLO 36 (P) Dr R Newland 6-11-7 S Twiston-Davies 4 (11) 45402 DICK DATCHERY 12 (B,T,D) D O'Meara 4-9-10 D Nolan 5 (3) 60-06 REQUIEMS DREAM 13 (P,D) P Midgley 4-9-7 B Garritty
De Travers, Lola Rebel, 200-1 Gleaming Maize. 3 (3) 0-514 GRANARY QUEEN 8 (CD) E J-Houghton 9-7 E Greatrex 6 F20-0 POSTMAN 33 (B) Seamus Mullins 8-11-7 M G Nolan 5 (5) 0-603 STRONGBOWE 12 T Easterby 5-9-8 D Allan 6 (11) -2250 SAMBUCCA SPIRIT 31 (P,CD) P Midgley 5-9-4 C Hardie
4 (1) 25063 EMJAYTWENTYTHREE 7 R Hannon 9-6 Doubtful 7 4U-25 BADNESS BACKFIRES 17 (T) Henry Oliver 7-11-6R T Dunne 6 (9) 611- J R CAVAGIN 315 P Midgley 3-9-7 K Stott 7 (1) -0463 BOUDICA BAY 21 (B,BF,D) E Alston 6-9-0 H Russell (5)
8.10 Handicap (£2,592: 1m 2f) (10) 5 (4) 0-044 KHUFU 14 (P) S P C Woods 9-6 S Woods (5) 8 255-3 SIR TIVO 35 (T) G Hanmer 7-10-12 B Carver (3) 7 (4) -0221 MUTANAASEQ 12 (CD) R Carr 6-9-6 JP Sullivan 8 (10) 40023 ALBEGONE 21 T Easterby 3-8-13 D Allan
6 (2) 00-30 LADY SUSIE 22 J Boyle 8-3 T Heard (5) 9 60/0- SECRET BERI 336 (H) B Summers 7-10-11 C Hammond 8 (2) 5-025 THE ARMED MAN 12 (CD) C Fairhurst 8-9-6 Paula Muir 9 (8) 000-6 CUPPACOCO 59 (B,D) Mrs A Duffield 6-8-10 S Gray
1 (7) 23433 ACT OF MAGIC 12 J Mackie 5-9-7 G Lee
13-8 Elvic, 3-1 Mellys Flyer, 7-2 Granary Queen, 9-2 Khufu, 14-1 Lady Susie. 10 64-05 ECLAT DES MOTTES 20 (V) M Keighley 7-10-9 J Best 9 (1) 6-060 FLAVIUS TITUS 32 (B,D) D Brooke 6-9-6 J Garritty 10 (2) 63445 SUWAAN 13 (P,D) R Carr 7-8-7 A Mullen
2 (2) 00-03 BAWAADER 20 D Thompson 6-9-7 P Mathers
3 (5) 0-000 GLOBAL EXCEED 14 (B) K Tutty 6-9-4 Gemma Tutty (3) 11 15-21 MAWLOOD 16 (T) P W Middleton 5-10-7 Tabitha Worsley (5) 10 (8) 30000 WATER OF LEITH 20 (D) R Menzies 3-9-5 H Shaw 11 (6) 00500 ANGEL EYES 11 (T) J Riches 6-8-7 A Breslin (5)
7.50 Handicap (3-Y-O: £2,322: 1m 4f) (5) 12 00-P0 FULL SPES 16 (P) W Greatrex 5-10-6 G Sheehan 11 (6) 014-0 KHABIB 15 (P) R Craggs 3-8-11 C Hardie 12 (5) 0-520 ELZAAL 29 P Midgley 3-8-5 S James
4 (9) 60-66 EBQAA 12 (V,D) J Unett 7-9-4 L Morris
5 (3) 654-6 POINT OF HONOUR 17 (P,CD) Phillip Makin 6-9-4 1 (4) 0-602 KEEPER 8 (B,BF) R Charlton 9-7 J Watson 5-2 Authorizo, 7-2 Mawlood, 13-2 Pardon Me, 8-1 Badness Backfires, 10-1 7-2 Dick Datchery, 9-2 Strongbowe, 5-1 J R Cavagin, 6-1 Mutanaaseq, 7-1 Restless 4-1 Boudica Bay, 9-2 Albegone, 6-1 Van Gerwen, Debawtry, 13-2 True Hero,
Laura Pearson (5) 2 (1) 3-053 TANGLEWOOD TALES 22 A Balding 9-6 D Probert Rostello, Sir Tivo, 12-1 Getabuck, 14-1 Tidal Watch. Endeavour, 8-1 The Armed Man, 10-1 North Wind, 14-1 The Bell Conductor. 12-1 Pavers Pride, Elzaal, Cuppacoco.

Yesterday’s racing results

Carlisle 4.15 (1m 3f 39yd) 1, Betty Grable (Joanna
Mason, 5-2); 2, Iolani (13-2); 3, Puckle (13-8 fav).
Going: good (good to firm in places)
1.25 (5f 182yd) 1, Riversway (P Hanagan, 11-1);
2, Eternal Glory (25-1); 3, Bungle Bay (10-1).
10 ran. NR: Bungley. 1Kl, ns. R A Fahey.
1.55 (5f 182yd) 1, Verreaux Eagle (Kevin Stott,
4-7 fav); 2, Earn Your Stripes (16-1);
3, Masquerading (100-30). 7 ran. 4Ol, 2Nl.
E A L Dunlop.
2.30 (5f 182yd) 1, Langholm (Connor Beasley,
6-4 fav); 2, French Red (50-1); 3, Shackabooah
(2-1). 11 ran. 3Nl, Ol. M Dods.
3.05 (5f 182yd) 1, Fircombe Hall (Billy Garritty,
5-1); 2, Rebel Redemption (9-1); 3, Cool Dandy
(9-1). 10 ran. NR: Lady Artela. 4l, nk. P A Kirby.
3.40 (1m 3f 39yd) 1, Dreams Unwind (B A
Curtis, 16-1); 2, Dr T J Eckleburg (7-4 fav);
3, Carrigillihy (5-1). 6 ran. NR: Carn A Chlamain.
2Nl, 1Nl. M Johnston.
5 ran. NR: Molinari. Kl, 1Ol. W Storey.
4.50 (6f 195yd) 1, Tellmeyourstory (B A
Curtis, 12-1); 2, Party Rebel (6-1); 3, Golden
Melody (9-2). 11 ran. NR: Lady Artela. Hd,
4Nl. M Johnston.
5.20 (7f 173yd) 1, Arranmore (D Tudhope,
5-2); 2, Detective (5-1); 3, Little Ted (16-1).
9 ran. 1Kl, 1Nl. D O’Meara.
Placepot: £816.90. Quadpot: £33.10.
Lingfield Park
Going: standard/slow
1.00 (1m 2f) 1, Cayman Moon (L Morris, 11-1);
2, Largo Bay (6-4 fav); 3, Pump It Up (25-1).
13 ran. NR: Weardiditallgorong. 2Ol, 1l.
W J Knight.
1.35 (1m 2f) 1, Passion And Glory (Oisin
Murphy, 6-5 fav); 2, High Commissioner (5-1);
3, Final Voyage (13-2). 7 ran. 4l, 1l. S bin Suroor.
2.10 (7f 1yd) 1, Melodramatica (David
Probert, 16-1); 2, Silver Kitten (8-1); 3, Rouge Et
Noir (9-2). 12 ran. Ol, Kl. Rae Guest.
2.45 (6f 1yd) 1, Adaay In Asia (Oisin Murphy,
11-4); 2, Golden Rainbow (2-1 fav); 3, South
Audley (10-1). 10 ran. NR: Diligently Done,
True Force. Hd, 3l. H J L Dunlop.
3.20 (6f 1yd) 1, Tomouh (Oisin Murphy,
15-8 fav); 2, Billy Mill (2-1); 3, Epsom Faithfull
(22-1). 7 ran. NR: Baba Reza. 2Nl, 1Nl.
S bin Suroor.
3.50 (1m 7f 169yd) 1, Bailarico (Thomas
Greatrex, 16-1); 2, Yagan (4-5 fav); 3, Bird For
Life (10-1). 11 ran. 1Kl, 1l. W Greatrex.
4.20 (5f 6yd) 1, Kim Wexler (P Cosgrave, 5-1);
2, Lucky Ava (12-1); 3, Campachoochoo (80-1).
8 ran. 1Kl, Kl. D Loughnane.
Placepot: £22.50. Quadpot: £6.80.
Nottingham
Going: good to firm
5.50 (6f 18yd) 1, Little Prayer (Hayley Turner,
11-4 jt-fav); 2, Roystan Girl (11-4 jt-fav);
3, Chanson D’amour (5-1). 13 ran. 3Nl, 3l.
R Spencer.
6.20 (6f 18yd) 1, Merry Secret (Harry Russell,
7-2); 2, The First Hurrah (8-1); 3, Out Of The
East (17-2). 7 ran. NR: As If By Chance. Kl, Ol.
M Appleby.
6.50 (5f 8yd) 1, Saluti (Ben Robinson, 3-1);
2, Nibras Again (17-2); 3, Eeh Bah Gum
(5-2 fav). 9 ran. Nk, Kl. P T Midgley.
7.20 (1m 2f 50yd) 1, Smokey Malone (D E
Hogan, 5-1); 2, Boy George (12-1); 3, Manfadh
(11-1); 4, Alioski (33-1). 16 ran. Ol, 2Ol. Miss
J Feilden.
7.50 (1m 2f 50yd) 1, Tregony (L P Keniry,
7-4 fav); 2, Lady Ziana (40-1); 3, Twilley (5-1).
9 ran. NR: Gurkha’s Surprise, Harrier Hawk.
1l, 2Kl. C G Cox.
8.20 (1m 75yd) 1, Eponina (Erika Parkinson,
5-2 fav); 2, Takeonefortheteam (9-2); 3,
Eevilynn Drew (14-1). 11 ran. NR: Vocatus. Hd,
2Nl. M Appleby.
8.50 (1m 6f) 1, Cherry Cola (T E Whelan, 18-5);
2, Nakeeta (2-1 fav); 3, Hidden Depths (11-2).
6 ran. NR: Dereham. 3Nl, 3Ol. Miss S West.
Placepot: £53.30.
Quadpot: £11.20.
Windsor
Going: good to firm
5.25 (1m 3f 99yd) 1, Steel An Icon (Rose
Dawes, 6-5 fav); 2, Suns Up Guns Up (11-4); 3,
Teemlucky (13-2). 7 ran. 1Nl, 1l. M R Channon.
6.00 (5f 21yd) 1, Canonized (Tom Marquand,
1-4 fav); 2, Dark Tulip (12-1); 3, Arboy Will (5-1).
4 ran. 1Kl, 1Kl. W J Haggas.
6.30 (6f 12yd) 1, Sweet Pursuit (Rob Hornby,
6-1); 2, Clashaniska (3-1 fav); 3, Knockabout
Queen (10-1). 14 ran. NR: Deception Valley,
Ooh Is It. Ol, Ol. B R Millman.
7.00 (6f 12yd) 1, Rhythm (Thore Hammer
Hansen, 40-1); 2, Chipstead (8-1); 3, Alphonse
Karr (10-1). 11 ran. Hd, 1Kl. R Hannon.
7.30 (6f 12yd) 1, Edraak (Tom Marquand,
3-1); 2, Tinto (4-1); 3, A Sure Welcome (5-2
fav). 7 ran. NR: Indian Creak. 1Ol, Kl.
M Appleby.
8.00 (1m 31yd) 1, Mr Tyrrell (James Doyle,
17-2); 2, Strawberry Jack (4-1); 3, Vasco Da
Gama (28-1). 9 ran. 1l, sh hd. R Hannon.
8.30 (1m 2f) 1, Dantora (James Doyle, 15-8
jt-fav); 2, Pertemps Sia (6-1); 3, Into The Fire
(15-8 jt-fav). 7 ran. NR: Schwartz. 6l, 1Nl.
H Palmer.
Placepot: £230.50.
Quadpot: £170.20.

Results Fixtures
Dunn 1-0-20-0; S M Curran 2-0-25-1; Clark Gloucestershire 3 1 2 0 2 -0.45 75, 70, 64; J Shin (S Kor) 72, 69, 70, 70; J
Football Cricket 4-0-30-1; T K Curran 4-0-33-1; Batty 3-0-16-0. Hampshire 3 1 2 0 2 -0.95 Coleman (US) 71, 69, 71, 70. Leading British: Football
Surrey (balls) Somerset 2 0 2 0 0 -1.47 282 J Ewart Shadoff 74, 70, 73, 65.
European Championship Vitality Blast: South group Middlesex 2 0 2 0 0 -1.75 European Championships; Group F France v
J J Roy c Lloyd b Labuschagne 64 (35)
Group D Surrey v Glamorgan W G Jacks c Lloyd b Douthwaite 10 (8) Tennis Germany (8.0, Allianz Arena, Munich); Hungary
Scotland (0) 0 Czech Rep (1) 2 Kia Oval (Surrey won toss): Surrey (2pts) beat L J Evans c Weighell b Sisodiya 39 (26) Golf ATP Cinch Championships
v Portugal (5.0, Puskas Arena, Budapest).

9,847 Schick 42, 52 Glamorgan by five wickets S M Curran lbw b Salter

J Overton c Cooke b Labuschagne
1 (4)
9 (6) US PGA Palmetto Championship Queen’s Club, London: First round J Millman Cricket
Glamorgan (balls) †J L Smith not out 35 (24) Ridgeland, South Carolina: Leading final (Aus) bt R Opelka (US) 7-6 (7-4), 5-7, 7-6 (8-6); V Vitality Blast (6.30 unless stated): North
(at Hampden Park) N J Selman c Roy b Moriarty 43 (28) scores (United States unless stated): 273 G Troicki (Serbia) bt L Sonego (It) 6-4, 6-4; C
J Clark not out 6 (7) group: Derby Derbyshire v Lancashire (7.0).
Group E D L Lloyd c Overton b S M Curran 10 (7) Extras (lb 1, w 2) 3 Higgo (SA) 68, 69, 68, 68. 274 C Hadley 65, 66, Norrie (GB) bt A Ramos-Viñolas (Sp) 4-6, 6-3, 6- Emirates Riverside Durham v Notts Outlaws.
M Labuschagne c S M Curran b Clark74 (51) Total (5 wkts, 18.2 overs) 167 68, 75; T Hatton (GB) 71 68, 67, 68; D Redman 4; A Mannarino (Fr) bt L Broady (GB) 6-4, 6-4; J Northampton Northants Steelbacks v
Poland (0) 1 Slovakia (1) 2 C A Ingram c Overton b Moriarty 4 (6) T K Curran, M P Dunn, *G J Batty and D Moriarty 65, 72, 70, 67; H Swafford 68, 70, 70, 66; B Van Draper (GB) bt J Sinner (It) 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-2); F Birmingham Bears. Emerald Headingley
Linetty 46 Szczesny (og) 18 *†C B Cooke c Clark b Moriarty 6 (8) did not bat. Pelt 69, 71, 66, 68; J Vegas (Ven) 66, 72, 69, 67. López (Sp) bt I Marchenko (Ukr) 6-1, 7-6 (8-6); A Yorkshire v Leicestershire. South group:
12,862 Skriniar 69 K S Carlson run out 23 (13) Fall of wickets 1-60, 2-88, 3-90, 4-101, 5-139. 275 R Armour 71, 69, 71, 64; D Lipsky 71, 70, 67, Karatsev (Russ) bt A Tabilo (Chile) 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. Chelmsford Essex v Sussex (7.0). Radlett
D A Douthwaite c Roy b T K Curran 0 (2) Bowling Sisodiya 4-0-38-1; Salter 4-0-40-1; 67. 276 M Fitzpatrick (GB) 71, 70, 69, 66; D WTA Viking Classic
Sent off: G Krychowiak (Poland) 62 Johnson 65, 68, 73, 70; P Perez 70, 66, 71, 69; E Middlesex v Hampshire (5.30). Taunton
W J Weighell run out 3 (5) Weighell 2-0-19-0; Van der Gugten 2.2-0-22-0; Edgbaston Priory: First round C Vandeweghe Somerset v Kent.
(at Saint Petersburg Stadium) A G Salter not out 0 (0) Douthwaite 2-0-16-1; Labuschagne 4-0-31-2. van Rooyen (SA) 65, 71, 72, 68.
(US) bt Kristyna Pliskova (Cz) 6-4, 7-6 (7-1); D
Spain (0) 0 Sweden (0) 0 Extras (w 3)
Total (8 wkts, 20 overs)
3
166 Surrey
P W L T Pts
3 3 0 0 6 1.94
RR LPGA Mediheal Championship Vekic (Cro) bt F Jones (GB) 6-1, 6-3; C Garcia (Fr) Tennis
Daly City, California: Leading final scores: 274 bt H Dart (GB) 7-5, 4-6, 6-4; T Martincova (Cz) bt
T van der Gugten and P Sisodiya did not bat. Kent 3 3 0 0 6 0.98 M Castren (Fin) 71, 69, 69, 65. 276 Min Lee S Stosur (Aus) 6-3, 6-4; H Watson (GB) bt V Queen’s Club, London ATP Cinch
(at Estadio La Cartuja, Seville) Fall of wickets 1-47, 2-62, 3-68, 4-104, 5-156, Sussex 2 2 0 0 4 1.62 (Taiwan) 70, 69, 68, 69. 280 H Green (Aus) 72, Golubic (Swi) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; M Bouzkova (Cz) bt Championships.
6-157, 7-166, 8-166. Glamorgan 3 1 2 0 2 -0.13 71, 71, 66; Ryu Som Yeon (S Kor) 73, 73, 67, 67. Hsieh Su-wei (Taiwan) 3-6, 6-1, 6-2; C Giorgi (It) Edgbaston Priory, Birmingham WTA Viking
6 Tables on page 11 of The Game Bowling Jacks 2-0-16-0; Moriarty 4-0-26-3; Essex 3 1 2 0 2 -0.21 281 D Kang (US) 71 66, 74, 70; C Boutier (Fr) 72, bt G Gatto-Monticone (It) 6-3, 6-0. Classic.
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Sport

Every race, runner and silk

Royal Ascot 17 (3) 1 KAUFYMAKER 61 (B) 76
W A Ward (USA) (Mr Gregory Kaufman) 8-12 J Velazquez
Rob Wright Bolted up on debut and held in high regard by top US trainer
2.30 Palace Pier 5.00 Cape Gentleman (nb)
3.05 Caturra 5.35 Juan Elcano 9-2 Kaufymaker, 5-1 Dhabab, 6-1 Gisburn, The Acropolis, 8-1 Masseto, 10-1 Ebro River, Tolstoy,
3.40 Oxted 6.10 Global Storm 12-1 Berkshire Shadow, 16-1 Caturra, 20-1 The Organiser, 25-1 others.
4.20 Chindit (nap) Wright choice: Caturra won despite seeming ill-at-ease on softer ground at Bath;
Going: good, good to firm in places should relish this trip and can spring a surprise Dangers: Kaufymaker, Gisburn
Draw: no advantage Sky Sports Racing

2.30 Queen Anne Stakes ITV 3.40 King's Stand Stakes ITV
(Group I: £226,840: 1m str) (11 runners) (Group I: £198,485: 5f) (16)

1 (5) 5450-4 ACCIDENTAL AGENT 31 (CD) 106

1 (15) 00-161 ARECIBO 24 (D) 110
R Cowell (Mr T W Morley) 6-9-5 J P Spencer
E J-Houghton (Mrs R F Johnson Houghton) 7-9-0 C Bishop
Dual winner in handicaps this year but faces a big rise in class
Won this race in 2018 but hard to see him doing so again
2 (2) 154632 BLESS HIM 53 (H,CD) 109
2 (9) 0/111- BATTAASH 298 (CD) - 134
C Hills (Shadwell Estate Company Ltd) 7-9-5 J Crowley
D M Simcock (Tony Perkins & Partners) 7-9-0 J P Spencer
Last year’s winner and the dominant force in the division
Largely consistent sort but likely to be outclassed at this level
3 (8) 003-10 LOPE Y FERNANDEZ 31 (D) 117
3 (5) 4-2221 EXTRAVAGANT KID 80 (B,D) 124
Brendan Walsh (USA) (Darrs Inc) 8-9-5 L Dettori
A P O'Brien (Ire) (D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor) 4-9-0J A Heffernan
American raider who cannot be dismissed under Frankie Dettori
Disappointed in the Lockinge but should improve for faster ground
4 (4) -13164 LORD GLITTERS 31 (CD) 114
4 (12) -10362 HARRY'S BAR 50 (D) 115
A McGuinness (Ire) (Shamrock Thoroughbreds) 6-9-5 R Whelan
D O'Meara (Geoff & Sandra Turnbull) 8-9-0 D Tudhope
Useful Irish sprinter but difficult to fancy at this level
Struck gold here in 2019 and returns with each-way claims
5 (7) 11016- ORDER OF AUSTRALIA 184 (B,D) 119
5 (16) 02-321 KING'S LYNN 17 (D) 117
A Balding (The Queen) 4-9-5 O Murphy
A P O'Brien (Ire) (D Smith/Mrs Magnier/M Tabor) 4-9-0 R L Moore
Progressive sort who carries the colours of the Queen. Respected
Breeders’ Cup Mile winner and a definite player on seasonal debut
6 (11) 113-11 PALACE PIER 31 (CD) - 125
6 (6) /160-1 MAVEN 61 (B,T,D) 111
W A Ward (USA) (Mr Richard Ravin) 4-9-5 J Velazquez
J & T Gosden (Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum) 4-9-0L Dettori
An American challenger who could make his presence felt
Dominant in the Lockinge last month and will prove hard to beat
7 (6) 352-10 POGO 31 (D) 112
7 (11) 441400 ORNATE 10 (D) 106
D C Griffiths (Kings Road Racing Partnership) 8-9-5 A Kirby
C Hills (Gary and Linnet Woodward) 5-9-0 K Shoemark
Veteran sprinter who is likely to find this company too hot
Five-time winner but faces a huge task in this company
8 (10) 4200-2 PRINCE EIJI 48 (C) 108
8 (14) 15-023 OXTED 34 (BF) 124
R Teal (S Piper, T Hirschfeld, D Fish & J Collin) 5-9-5 C Fallon
R Varian (Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum) 5-9-0 A Atzeni
Last year’s July Cup winner and a major player dropping in trip
Narrowly beaten here in April but this is much tougher
9 (3) 65132- REGAL REALITY 263 (V,D) 108
9 (13) 10-023 STONE OF DESTINY 10 (CD) 115
A Balding (King Power Racing Co Ltd) 6-9-5 W Buick
Sir M Stoute (Mr Peter Done) 6-9-0 R Kingscote
Course and distance winner but this looks a bridge too far
Useful performer but place claims at best back at Group 1 level
10 (9) 204-34 SIR BUSKER 22 (CD) 105
10 (2) 6460-0 GLAMOROUS ANNA 45 (P,D) 98
C Mason (Robert & Nina Bailey) 4-9-2 W Cox
W Knight (Kennet Valley Thoroughbreds Xi Racing) 5-9-0 O Murphy
Looks certain to struggle against the best sprinters around
Silver Royal Hunt Cup winner who faces a big step up in class
11 (1) 316-13 TOP RANK 31 (D) 113
11 (3) 2325-5 KEEP BUSY 24 (D) 101
J J Quinn (Mrs Doreen Tabor) 4-9-2 R L Moore
J Tate (Mr Saeed Manana) 5-9-0 P J McDonald
Talented filly who is more than capable of running into a place
Third in Lockinge and remains open to further improvement
2-5 Palace Pier, 6-1 Order Of Australia, 10-1 Lope Y Fernandez, 16-1 Top Rank, 20-1 Lord Glitters,
12 (10)2403-1 LIBERTY BEACH 24 (D) 119
25-1 Regal Reality, Prince Eiji, Sir Busker, 33-1 others. J J Quinn (Mr Philip Wilkins) 4-9-2 J Hart
Temple Stakes winner who merits another crack at Group 1 glory
Wright choice: Palace Pier was a impressive in the St James’s Palace Stakes here last
year; again has his ideal conditions Dangers: Order Of Australia, Lope Y Fernandez 13 (4) /1320- QUE AMORO 275 (P,D) 123
M Dods (Mr P Appleton & Mrs Anne Elliott) 5-9-2 P Mulrennan
3.05 Coventry Stakes ITV Nunthorpe runner-up last summer and should not be overlooked
(Group II: 2-Y-O: £59,200: 6f) (17) 14 (8) 0-2330 ACKLAM EXPRESS 33 (BF,D) 118
1 (9) 311 ANGEL BLEU 18 (D) 71 N Tinkler (Mps Racing And M B Spence) 3-8-12 T Marquand
R Beckett (Mr Marc Chan) 9-1 H Crouch Talented but needs to bounce back from abject display at York
Improved with each start to date and rates a live outsider today 15 (1) 1013-0 UBETTABELIEVEIT 56 (D) 112
2 (17) 1 BERKSHIRE SHADOW 60 65 N Tinkler (Martin Webb Racing) 3-8-12 R Scott
A Balding (Berkshire Parts & Panels Ltd) 9-1 O Murphy Group 2 winner and another who could reward each-way support
Won nicely on debut and likely to improve for this extra furlong 16 (7) 1011-1 WINTER POWER 33 (T,D) 124
3 (13) 41 CATURRA 25 71 T Easterby (King Power Racing Co Ltd) 3-8-9 S De Sousa
C Cox (Mr Saeed Bin Mohammed Al Qassimi) 9-1 A Kirby Impressive at York last month and could give Battaash a fright
Justified cramped odds at Bath and should relish this extra furlong 2-1 Battaash, 9-2 Winter Power, 6-1 Extravagant Kid, 8-1 Oxted, 10-1 Liberty Beach, 16-1 Maven,
4 (15) 0322 DASHING RAT 22 (BF) 61 Que Amoro, 16-1 King’s Lynn, 25-1 Keep Busy, 33-1 others.
W Stone (Ron Spore And Sheryl Meldram) 9-1 M Ghiani Wright choice: Oxted won the group one July Cup at Newmarket last year and has
Still a maiden after four starts and difficult to fancy here been shaping as though a drop to this trip will suit Dangers: Battaash, Acklam Express
5 (11) 1 DHABAB 14 (D) 71
J & T Gosden (Poseidon Thoroughbred Racing) 9-1 R Havlin 4.20 St James's Palace Stakes ITV4
An impressive debut winner and could be a big player today (Group I: 3-Y-O colts: £198,485: 1m) (13)
6 (1) 611 EBRO RIVER 19 - 79 1 (2) 5112-0 BATTLEGROUND 45 (T,BF,C) 109
H Palmer (Al Shaqab Racing) 9-1 James Doyle A P O'Brien (Ire) (M Tabor, D Smith & Mrs J Magnier) 9-0 R L Moore
Won easily at Listed level latest and deserves a crack at this Could bounce back from 2000 Guineas flop on this faster surface
7 (2) 2 ELDRICKJONES 12 (BF) 57 2 (13) 211-13 BULLACE 26 (D) 105
R Fell (Nick Bradley Racing 42,salthouse&Partn) 9-1 D Tudhope R Beckett (Mr A D G Oldrey & Mr G C Hartigan) 9-0 H Crouch
Made a promising debut but could be outclassed in this event Has won three of five starts to date but much more is required
8 (7) 41 GISBURN 32 (D) 63 3 (8) 110-15 CHINDIT 45 (C) 115
R Hannon (Michael Kerr-Dineen & Martin Hughes) 9-1 P Dobbs R Hannon (Mr Michael Pescod) 9-0 P Dobbs
Improved massively from his first to second start and one to note Not beaten far when fifth in the Guineas and should not be far away
9 (8) 2 GOLDEN WAR 25 57 4 (12) 2-1112 HIGHLAND AVENUE 26 (BF,D) 110
C Hills (Lady Bamford) 9-1 J P Spencer C Appleby (Godolphin) 9-0 W Buick
Should have learnt from his debut second but still vulnerable Touched off by Mostahdaf when bidding for fourth win. Respected
10 (10) 12 MASSETO 24 (BF,D) 73 5 (5) 115-26 LA BARROSA 24 (C) 110
Donnacha O'Brien (Ire) (Mr Leonard Green) 9-1 G M Ryan C Appleby (Godolphin) 9-0 James Doyle
Didn’t have much luck last time and may prefer better ground here Sixth in Irish Guineas and looks to have place claims at best
11 (14) 241 SECRET STRENGTH 10 71 6 (11) 152-34 LUCKY VEGA 24 (BF) 118
R Hannon (Amo Racing Limited) 9-1 T Marquand J Harrington (Ire) (Zhang Yuesheng) 9-0 S Foley
Made it third-time lucky at Musselburgh but much more needed here Has run well in both the English and Irish Guineas. Solid
12 (4) 41 THE ACROPOLIS 9 (D) 68 7 (9) 210-22 MAXIMAL 40 (D) 102
A P O'Brien (Ire) (Mrs J Magnier/M Tabor/D Smith) 9-1 R L Moore Sir M Stoute (Juddmonte) 9-0 C T Keane
Impressive Listowel scorer and demands respect for a top team Runner-up twice this year and drops in trip. Up against it
13 (12) 1254 THE GATEKEEPER 17 63 8 (1) 111 MOSTAHDAF 26 (D) 108
M Johnston (Middleham Park Racing XIV) 9-1 B Curtis J & T Gosden (Shadwell Estate Company Ltd) 9-0 J Crowley
A little disappointing since his debut win and up against it here Three from three for a top team and should make his presence felt
14 (6) 1 THE ORGANISER 24 (D) 65 9 (10) 216-11 NAAMOOS 53 (D) 114
J Tuite (Highclere T'bred Racing-the Organiser) 9-1 David Egan M Johnston (H H Shaikh Nasser Al Khalifa & F Nas) 9-0 B Curtis
Made a big impression at York and shouldn’t be underestimated Won successive handicaps in April, thrown in at the deep end here
15 (5) 1 TOLSTOY 27 (D) 66 10 (3) 225-30 ONTARIO 40 (B,D) 107
J & T Gosden (Sir Robert Ogden) 9-1 L Dettori A P O'Brien (Ire) (Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor & D Smith) 9-0 W M Lordan
A debut winner who represents top connections. Must be respected Could ensure a strong pace for his better fancied stablemates
16 (16) 411 VINTAGE CLARETS 50 74 11 (7) 1-1162 POETIC FLARE 24 (D) - 119
R Fahey (Mr A Tattersall & Partner) 9-1 P Hanagan J S Bolger (Ire) (Mrs J S Bolger) 9-0 K J Manning
An improving colt but this could be asking too much of him Won the Guineas at Newmarket and that form sets the standard
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9 (16) 02-321 KING’S LYNN 17 (D)

A Balding (The Queen) 4-9-5
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107
11 O Murphy
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12 (6) 113-0 THUNDER MOON 45 111 7 (7) 0551-1 DAWAAM 47 (P,D) 104
J P O'Brien (Ire) (Mrs C C Regalado-Gonzalez) 9-0 L Dettori Owen Burrows (Shadwell Estate Company Ltd) 5-9-3 J Crowley 8 9 10
Guineas run was too bad to be true and he should not be dismissed Looks to have improved for wind surgery and cheekpieces now go on 1 Jockey’s silks 7 Timekeeper’s speed rating —
2 This is the number on the information how fast the horse has run in
13 (4) 122-00 WEMBLEY 24 (T) 110 8 (12) 1-1130 FATHER OF JAZZ 80 (D) 100 horse’s saddlecloth while Key W: horse has had wind the past
A P O'Brien (Ire) (M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier) 9-0 J A Heffernan R Varian (The Gredley Family) 4-9-3 C Shepherd his/her stall number is
Well beaten in the English and Irish Guineas. Plenty to prove Gelded since disappointing at Doncaster in March. Hard to dismiss
surgery. Horse is wearing B: 8 Trainer
displayed in brackets blinkers;
4-1 Poetic Flare, 5-1 Battleground, 6-1 Lucky Vega, 8-1 Chindit, Highland Avenue, Mostahdaf, 9 (8) 1-1223 FELIX 80 (T,D) 112 3 Six-figure form guide T: tongue strap; 9 Owner
10-1 Thunder Moon, 16-1 La Barrosa, 20-1 Maximal, Naamoos, Wembley, 33-1 others. M Botti (K Sohi & Partner) 5-9-3 O Murphy Key F: fell; P: pulled up; V: visor; P: cheekpieces; 10 Age of horse and the weight
Wright choice: Chindit was drawn towards the unfavoured stands’ side when fifth in Fine effort in Group 1 company latest. Big chance down in class U: unseated rider; B: brought H: hood; E: eyeshield. Horse has it is going to be carrying — in
the 2000 Guineas at Newmarker; capable of better Dangers: Battleground, Poetic Flare down; S: slipped up; R: refused; won previously: C: at this this case the horse is four and
10 (9) 056-23 FOX TAL 19 (H,D) 110
course; D: at this distance; CD:
A Balding (King Power Racing Co Ltd) 5-9-3 S De Sousa D: disqualified; 0: unplaced; will be carrying 9st 5lb
5.00 Ascot Stakes ITV4 Dash is the cut-off from course and distance. BF: beaten
Not the most straightforward and slightly disappointing latest
favourite last time out. Going 11 Jockey plus allowance (in
(Handicap: £35,100: 2m 4f) (20) previous season brackets), which is given to
11 (5) 5430-6 JUAN ELCANO 80 (W) 114 4 Horse name on which horse has won (F:
novice riders and represents
1 (6) 21/21- CAPE GENTLEMAN J45 - 101 K Ryan (Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum) 4-9-3 A Atzeni firm, good to firm, hard; G:
Emmet Mullins (Ire) (Mrs M O'Rourke) 5-9-10 Rachael Blackmore Not disgraced on his return and has undergone wind surgery since
5 Days since latest outing good; S: soft, good to soft, the weight in pounds
Talented dual-purpose performer and ridden by Rachael Blackmore 6 Conditions and equipment heavy) advantage that they are given
12 (11)234-23 PALAVECINO 39 (H,D) 110
2 (12) 31-456 ISLAND BRAVE 48 (C) 92 B Meehan (Araam) 5-9-3 M Dwyer

Love returns for O’Brien

H Main (Mr Donald M Kerr) 7-9-10 C Hutchinson (7) Ran well at Group 2 level latest and has a place chance here
Course winner but looks to have his work cut out in this company
13 (3) 1302-2 PATRICK SARSFIELD 13 (T,D) - 118
3 (16) 153360 LUCKY DEAL 39 (B) 83 J P O'Brien (Ire) (Mrs C C Regalado-Gonzalez) 5-9-3 T Marquand
M Johnston (Mr Kai Fai Leung) 6-9-10 J Hart Group 3 winner last year and made a fine comeback. Big player
Fitted with blinkers for the first time and needs to up his game
14 (13)12-312 VICTORY CHIME 11 (V,D) 108 Rob Wright Love, with Seamie Heffernan taking the
4 (7) 50400/ LETHAL STEPS J17 (T) -- R Beckett (Mr A Nevin) 6-9-3 R Hornby mount on O’Brien’s other runner, Armory,
Mrs D Foster (Ire) (E A Collins, Bronx Boys & Ptnrs) 6-9-9 J P Spencer No match for Blue Cup last time and has plenty on his plate today Love, the brilliant filly who carried all who is offered at 100-30.
Has not run on the Flat for a long time but represents a top yard
7-2 Patrick Sarsfield, 9-2 Solid Stone, 11-2 Forest Of Dean, 6-1 Felix, 10-1 Blue Cup, Euchen Glen, before her last year, is the 13-8 favourite Lord North, who won this prize 12
5 (20) 6213-0 SOLO SAXOPHONE 60 (V) 100 14-1 Juan Elcano, Fox Tal, Dawaam, 16-1 others. with William Hill to make a winning months ago, will be ridden by Frankie
B Haslam (Golden Equinox Racing) 7-9-7 P Mulrennan Wright choice: Juan Elcano was fifth in the 2000 Guineas last season and, having had return in the group one Prince of Wales’s Dettori as he attempts to retain his title.
Won three times last term but appears badly handicapped at present a breathing operation, could outclass this field Dangers: Felix, Patrick Sarsfield Stakes at Royal Ascot tomorrow. John Gosden’s charge won the valuable
6 (3) 1600-0 RESHOUN 39 (P) 86 Trained in Ireland by Aidan O’Brien, Dubai Turf at Meydan on his reappear-
I Williams (Dr Marwan Koukash) 7-9-7 W Buick 6.10 Copper Horse Stakes ITV4 Love won the 1000 Guineas at ance in March.
Last few runs have been disappointing and he looks best watched (Handicap: £33,501: 1m 6f) (16)
Newmarket, the Oaks at Epsom and then Dual group one winner Audarya, from
7 (9) 24122/ RAYAPOUR J32 (P) -- 1 (19) 2210-2 ON TO VICTORY 24 (D) - 110 the Yorkshire Oaks in only three starts last the James Fanshawe stable, also figures in
A King (HP Racing On To Victory) 7-9-10 T Marquand
W P Mullins (Ire) (McNeill Family) 5-9-7 A Kirby
Good effort in Listed company last time and should run well
year. Stable jockey Ryan Moore will ride a field of only seven.
Useful Flat form in France and could make his presence felt
8 (10) 20040/ M C MULDOON J46 (H) -- 2 (7) 1665/1 SALDIER 9 101
W P Mullins (Ire) (Mrs Mullins/D Manasseh/R Brown) 6-9-6 R L Moore W P Mullins (Ire) (Mrs S Ricci) 7-9-9(4ex) R L Moore
Looks the first string of three runners for Willie Mullins Bolted up at Listowel recently and the one to beat for a top team

9 (2) 112-65 TRUMPET MAN 39 94 3 (18) 052-13 THEMAXWECAN 52 (BF,C,D) 105

M Johnston (Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum) 4-9-6 F Norton M Johnston (Mr Douglas Livingston) 5-9-8 James Doyle
Strong stayer and it would be no surprise to see him run well Consistent course winner who could reward each-way support

10 (4) 2/3-15 ELYSIAN FLAME 39 (P) 100 4 (12) 443-65 SEXTANT 24 (C) 105
M & D Easterby (Mr J Blackburn & Imperial Racing P'ship) 5-9-6 B Curtis K Dalgleish (Straightline Bloodstock) 6-9-8 C Rodriguez
Had no luck at Chester last time and looks a definite each-way player Useful sort but would be a surprise winner at this level

11 (14) 1-122 LOSTWITHIEL 24 97 5 (16) 6-4334 BRILLIANT LIGHT 101 (V) 101
G Boughey (Al Asayl Bloodstock Ltd) 4-9-5 H Doyle S bin Suroor (Godolphin) 4-9-7 O Murphy
Lightly-raced gelding who has done little wrong. Merits respect Performed well in Dubai and interesting in a first-time vi

12 (1) 31-12 UNTOLD STORY 24 96 6 (13) 0230-1 SLEEPING LION 71 96

S bin Suroor (Godolphin) 4-9-4 O Murphy R Charlton (Merry Fox Stud Limited) 6-9-7 K Shoemark
Won twice from four starts. Interesting if stamina lasts out Won at Kempton on his first start for Roger Charlton. Respected

13 (8) 0/6D3- ROYAL ILLUSION J72 (T) 99 7 (4) 11240- DUBIOUS AFFAIR 241 (D) 97
W P Mullins (Ire) (Ballylinch Stud) 9-9-4 T Marquand C Fellowes (Mr Mohamed Obaida) 5-9-6 J P Spencer
Irish Cesarewitch winner and another contender for team Mullins Has been set some stiff tasks of late and reverts to handicapping

14 (5) 100-04 COEUR DE LION 39 (V,CD) 93 8 (6) 12-123 THRONE HALL 34 103
A King (The Barbury Boys) 8-9-4 T Hammer Hansen (3) K Ryan (Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum) 4-9-6 A Atzeni
Last year’s winner and could go close again off 3lb higher mark Has done little wrong in six starts and holds strong claims

15 (15)31-224 POSTILEO 24 96 9 (8) 0143-0 GOLD MAZE 38 96

R Varian (Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum) 4-9-3 A Atzeni R Varian (Teme Valley) 4-9-5 David Egan
Consistent profile and unexposed over this marathon distance One-time Derby hope makes his handicap debut for Roger Varian

16 (18)6130-0 MANCINI 39 (P) 74 10 (11)2-1120 CARDANO 39 (P) 103

I Williams (Dr Marwan Koukash) 7-9-3 R Kingscote I Williams (Mr R S Brookhouse) 5-9-5 R Kingscote
Finished in midfield 12 months ago and a similar result is likely Disappointed in Chester Cup but previous form gives him a chance

17 (17)4-4030 ROCHESTER HOUSE 39 (C) 88 11 (5) 301235 HOCHFELD 24 (D) 98

M Johnston (John Brown & Megan Dennis) 5-9-3 S De Sousa M Johnston (Kingsley Park 23 - Ready To Run) 7-9-5 B Curtis
Course winner who could run into the money if producing his best Usually runs well but has no secrets from the handicapper at this stage

18 (19)1020-3 JUST HUBERT 24 93 12 (3) 36-021 GLOBAL STORM 24 (D) 98

Muir & Grassick (Foursome Thoroughbreds) 5-9-2 D Tudhope C Appleby (Godolphin) 4-9-4 W Buick
Ran well on Haydock comeback and could go well for in-form yard A 4lb rise for winning at Newmarket does not look insurmountable

19 (11)421-24 GOLDEN RULES 32 (BF) 88 13 (14)520-53 HYANNA 24 99

J & T Gosden (Mr A E Oppenheimer) 4-9-2 L Dettori E J-Houghton (Mr G C Vibert) 6-9-2 R Hornby
Steps up in trip for Gosden-Dettori axis. Obvious contender Creditable third at Goodwood last time but this is much tougher

20 (13)1000-0 DALTON HIGHWAY 23 (V) 82 14 (2) 1110-2 GALATA BRIDGE 13 93

D K Weld (Ire) (Dr R Lambe/Dr J Climax) 8-9-1 C T Keane Dr R Newland (The Imperium Syndicate) 4-9-2 D Tudhope
Pick of his form offers hope but latest effort was disappointing Has done all his winning on the all-weather. Looks up against it

4-1 M C Muldoon, 6-1 Cape Gentleman, 7-1 Golden Rules, 10-1 Coeur De Lion, Just Hubert,
15 (1) 1240-4 ARTHURIAN FABLE 24 (D) 94
Rayapour, 14-1 Lostwithiel, Postileo, Rochester House, 16-1 Elysian Flame, 20-1 others. B Meehan (Mrs Perle O'Rourke) 4-9-2 J Crowley
Decent effort at Newmarket on seasonal bow. Worth a second look
Wright choice: Cape Gentleman was a grade two winner over hurdles over the winter
and remains unexposed on the Flat Dangers: M C Muldoon, Dalton Highway 16 (9) 13-216 AMTIYAZ 74 (D) 96
J & T Gosden (Mr Imad Alsagar) 4-9-1 H Doyle
A three-time winner and must be a player for top connections
5.35 Wolferton Stakes ITV4
(Listed: £44,400: 1m 2f) (14) 11-4 Saldier, 5-1 Global Storm, 15-2 On To Victory, 8-1 Throne Hall, 10-1 Arthurian Fable, Sleeping
Lion, 14-1 Themaxwecan, Amtiyaz, Dubious Affair, Brilliant Light, 16-1 others.
1 (10) 10-001 EUCHEN GLEN 19 (C,D) 115 Wright choice: Global Storm won on his first try at this trip at Newmarket last time
J Goldie (Mr W M Johnstone) 8-9-8 P Mulrennan and a 4lb rise in the weights looks reasonable Dangers: Saldier, Brilliant Light
Great servant for Jim Goldie and won readily at Sandown latest
2 (1) 0/3313 FOREST OF DEAN 74 (D) 111
J & T Gosden (Godolphin) 5-9-8 L Dettori Course specialists
Won at Group 3 level on his penultimate start and demands respect Ascot: Trainers M Dods, 5 winners from 18 runners, 27.8%; Mrs J
Harrington, 4 from 19, 21.1%; A King, 5 from 25, 20%. Jockeys C Rodriguez,
3 (14) 5-6210 VOLCANIC SKY 80 (P) 106 4 winners from 12 rides, 33.3%; L Dettori, 34 from 144, 23.6%; W Buick,
S bin Suroor (Godolphin) 6-9-8 P Cosgrave 28 from 172, 16.3%.
Better than showing last time and may improve for cheekpieces Beverley: Trainers Sir M Prescott, 4 from 13, 30.8%; C Hills, 4 from 16,
25%; Michael Bell, 11 from 44, 25%. Jockeys A McNamara, 3 from 15, 20%;
4 (4) 123-51 SOLID STONE 36 (D) 113 Laura Coughlan, 3 from 15, 20%; Faye McManoman, 13 from 71, 18.3%.
Sir M Stoute (Mr Saeed Suhail) 5-9-6 R L Moore Brighton: Trainers G Scott, 4 from 8, 50%; Rae Guest, 8 from 21, 38.1%;
Produced a career-best at Windsor latest and should go well here C Dwyer, 4 from 13, 30.8%. Jockeys Saffie Osborne, 4 from 8, 50%; Seb
Woods, 3 from 13, 23.1%; J Watson, 25 from 111, 22.5%.
5 (6) 60-221 STORMY ANTARCTIC 24 (T,D) 112
Stratford: Trainers H Daly, 7 from 20, 35%; K Frost, 3 from 9, 33.3%;
E Walker (Mr P K Siu) 8-9-6 Doubtful N Henderson, 8 from 24, 33.3%. Jockeys B Hughes, 16 from 54, 29.6%;
Declared a non-runner yesterday H Skelton, 28 from 99, 28.3%; J O’Neill Jr, 5 from 18, 27.8%.
Thirsk: Trainers W Haggas, 16 from 41, 39%; W Haggas, 16 from 41, 39%;
6 (2) 15-501 BLUE CUP 11 (H,D) 104 R Varian, 6 from 30, 20%. Jockeys D O’Neill, 4 from 8, 50%; D O’Neill,
D Menuisier (Michael Watt, Gerry Ryan & Roy David) 5-9-3 W Buick 4 from 8, 50%; K Stott, 16 from 121, 13.2%.
Won easily at the Epsom Derby meeting and could go close here
558
Sport Royal Ascot
The greatest race
meeting of them all
embraces new era
Brough Scott
Bob Dylan has never come to Royal Ascot
but his most famous anthem could ring
true this week. Time was when references
to women at the meeting were confined to
who would win the Ribblesdale and silly
puns about “flighty fillies in fashion”. But if
Hollie Doyle wins Friday’s Sandringham
Stakes on the Queen’s horse Companion-
ship, there will be smiles, not shock. Even
at Ascot, the times they are a-changin’.
It is a cause of celebration that punters
have long stopped bothering about Doyle’s
gender. They laud her because she has
repaid them with more winners this year
than any other jockey. They will prick up
their ears when they are told that, on
Friday, Companionship is set to carry a
mere 8st, at which weight Doyle, 24, is a
match for any rider on the planet. And no-
body gets within 20 lengths of the owner.
If ever there was an example of how to
move into the modern era without losing
the strengths of tradition, it is the astonish-
ing old lady who has reigned over us for the
past 69 years. To say Her Majesty is a mar-
1GM Tuesday June 15 2021 | the times
vel is serious understatement. On Friday
she took the train to Cornwall to charm the
G7 leaders. On Saturday she presided over
a special version of Trooping the Colour.
On Sunday she hosted the president of the
United States and today, at 95, she is likely
to be present to watch her King’s Lynn take
on Battaash in the King’s Stand Stakes at
what, do not forget, is her own racecourse.
There will be no royal procession,
because of the pandemic. But you can be
sure that when the Queen goes to see her
horses in the paddock she will be as warm
and informed as in the days when she and
the Windsor Castle guests would gallop up
the Ascot straight of a morning.
Looking at King’s Lynn, she will not only
be admiring the prick of his ears and the
sheen of his coat. As his breeder she will
remember his dam, Kinematic, winning at
Chester in 2014, and recall the brilliant
promise of his grandam, Spinning Top, and
her victory on debut at Lingfield, before
injury cut short her career two races later
when favourite in the Pretty Polly Stakes
at the Curragh. Her horses are the work of
a lifetime — and what a lifetime.
In many ways Britain is unrecognisable
from the drab, socially rigid greyness of
that immediate postwar era, and Ascot’s
development can be seen as a metaphor of
our changing times. It may have once been
the ultimate of social gatherings but in
many respects it, and British racing, was
old-fashioned in the worst of ways.
To think that there was no photo-finish
until the late Forties, no race commentary
until the Fifties and no starting stalls until
the late Sixties, which had all been in use in
the United States before the war. The
exclusivity of the Royal Enclosure is now a
statement of style rather than an assertion
of pedigree, and if you opt for the general
grandstand you can visit the paddock with-
out facing the tunnel beneath the paths of
the privileged. The new grandstand was
completed in 2006 and it is hard to think
why non-Royal Enclosure racegoers put
up with that dreadful tunnel for so long.
Royal Ascot still sets its standards but it Going to Ascot? Here’s what visitors can expect this year
now wears a welcoming face more
necessary than ever as racing’s grip on the How many people can attend? No. It has not been confirmed but
interest of the nation continues to erode Having been chosen as part of she is expected to be at Ascot at
with the years. To that end its greatest the government’s Events least on the days when she has a
achievement has been to enhance its Research Programme, the runner. Last year was the first
status as the greatest race meeting of them meeting has special dispensation time she missed a day at the
all. Forget about all the royal and social to welcome 12,000 people each royal meeting since ascending to
connections — no other nation puts on day — the biggest attendance at the throne in 1952.
five consecutive days of the highest class of a racecourse since the 2020
racing as Ascot gives this week. Cheltenham Festival. What about the racing?
Nowhere else gives you the mix of top There are seven races each day —
classic horses, seasoned handicappers, What will be different once it has traditionally been six but
dour stayers, flying sprinters and super they’re inside? that was expanded last year
potential two-year-olds — two today The smaller enclosures res provide more
to prov
brought from Florida by Wesley Ward — will be closed but the e opportunities in the
oppo
that we will see through to Saturday. main two — the Covid-ravaged
Cov
Human and equine personalities have an Royal Enclosure and d schedule. The extra
sc
impossible job against football and the Queen Anne races have been
ra
Euros, but Doyle and her fiancé, Tom Mar- Enclosure — will retained.
re
quand, are the most admirable of players, operate largely as
as is the present champion, Oisín Murphy, usual. “It’s going to Who are the names
W
and the master that is Ryan Moore. look and feel, for to llook out for?
But all of them are likely to be upstaged those that are here, Wesley Ward brings a
Wesle
by a 50-year-old jockey and a colt who, in quite normal,” Nick Smith, typically competitive crop
horse terms, is equally aged. If Stradivarius director of racing andnd public over from AmAmerica, while the
forgets his future stallion duties and buck- affairs at Ascot, said. There will
will, usual suspects — Aidan O’Brien,
les down with Frankie Dettori to win a however, be no royal procession Charlie Appleby, John and Thady
fourth consecutive Gold Cup, the cheers at the start of each day. Gosden — ought to compete for
will be heard in the top tower of the Castle. leading trainer honours. The top
By the way, you can still get 20-1 about Does that mean the Queen is jockey is likely to be Frankie
Companionship on Friday. If she wins, not attending? Dettori or Ryan Moore.
even my tipping will be a-changin’.
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TV
All seven races today will
be shown live on ITV — the
first three on the main
channel before coverage
switches to ITV4 to
accommodate
Euro 2020
You can do a Carrie and rent – but dress to impress
Fashion Editor Charlie
Gowans-Eglington helps
unpick the style guide for
this year’s meeting and
offers some sage advice
Something old, something borrowed
Ascot regulars are often known to buy a
new frock and hat for each day of the
meeting, but this year’s style guide has
other ideas. Former Vogue staffer Bay
Garnett advocates wearing second-hand
and vintage fashion come race day,
which at least means that no one else
will arrive wearing the same thing.
Or you could pull a Carrie and rent
something for the day — Mrs Johnson’s
wedding dress would have cost £2,870 to
buy but was only £45 to rent, so you
could find a real corker. I use peer-to-
peer fashion rental site Hurr Collective,
while MyWardrobeHQ, By Rotation,
OnLoan, and Endless Wardrobe all have
Ascot-ready options available to rent
(dry cleaning before and after is
included, so there’s no faff).
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King’s Lynn
is the only
runner owned
by the Queen
at Ascot today
Chindit can get back on track
Rob Wright Racing Editor
Chindit had a valid excuse when only fifth
in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket and is
fancied to bounce back to form to land the
St James’s Palace Stakes (4.20) on the
opening day of Royal Ascot.
The draw had a big effect on the result of
the Newmarket classic, with the first three
home being in stall two, three and
four. Chindit raced on the unfavoured
stands’ side of the track having been drawn
in 14, while his tendency to race keenly in
the early stages also hampered his chance.
He had looked set for a good season
when making a successful return in the
Greenham Stakes at Newbury in April,
staying on strongly to lead late on over
seven furlongs in a style that suggested
this mile trip would be much in his favour.
Chindit won on his only previous start at
Ascot, taking a red-hot listed race in fine
style last July. He should have his ideal
conditions here and rates good value at the
8-1 generally on offer this morning.
Poetic Flare won the 2000 Guineas at
Newmarket and has been kept busy since
then, finishing sixth and second in the
French and Irish equivalents. He is a solid,
rather than spectacular, performer and
may struggle to justify favouritism here.
Frankie Dettori has already had 73
winners at the royal meeting — the best
among those still riding — and can get his
week off to a flying start on Palace Pier in
the opening Queen Anne Stakes (2.30).
This brilliant miler has been beaten just
once in eight starts, his only defeat coming
under much more testing conditions at this
track last October. He is difficult to oppose.
Battaash will be a warm favourite to
repeat last year’s win in the King’s Stand
Stakes (3.40). He has a good record when
fresh and is much respected but he will face
plenty of competition for the early lead and
could be vulnerable late on. Preference is
for Oxted. The latter won the July Cup
over six furlongs at Newmarket last year
but has a high cruising speed and shapes as
though a strongly run race at this shorter
trip could be ideal. He can take this.
Lambourn trainer Clive Cox sprang a
massive surprise when saddling 150-1 win-
ner Nando Parrado in the Coventry Stakes
(3.05) a year ago. He can strike again at
decent odds through 20-1 chance Caturra.
This colt was a warm favourite on his
debut at Newmarket but seemed to
become unbalanced where the track dips
approaching the final furlong and could
never land a blow. He easily broke his duck
at Bath last month and should improve
now that he steps up to this six-furlong trip.
More is more
After a year of working from home in
tracksuits, you can expect racegoers to
go dressier than ever (no mean feat if
you’ve ever visited the Royal Enclosure
on Ladies’ Day).
Only the Royal and Queen Anne
enclosures will be open this year, which
are the two with the strictest dress codes,
so even the most casually dressed
women must wear hats in the former
and fascinators in the latter, while men
need suits, ties, and socks that cover
their ankles. Speaking from past
experience, what feels de trop on
the train journey there will feel
understated inside the gates.
Mask matching
They’re not mentioned in this
year’s dress code, but they are
pictured on models in the
style guide and it’s likely you’ll
be required to wear a mask to
the loos or when placing a bet
inside. Not only would a
disposable paper one be at odds
How not to do it: racegoers will need to
choose masks that match their outfits
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ROB WRIGHT’S RACE OF THE DAY
ST JAMES’S PALACE STAKES 4.20PM, ITV4
PACE GOING GOOD TO FIRM CLASS
Highest level each horse has won at
Ontario
Lucky
Maximal Vega
Poetic
Bullace
Flare Battle-
Naamoos Thunder ground
The ground remains officially Moon Chindit
The Mark Johnston-trained good, good to firm in places but La Barrosa
Naamoos is a confirmed front- with hot weather forecast it is
runner so this should be a true expected to be good to firm by
test at the trip. this afternoon. GROUP 1 GROUP 2 GROUP 3
TRACK STAT OF THE DAY ROB’S FINAL WORD
One mile Wins in this group one race for Chindit has plenty going for him.
Frankie Dettori, who is the most He was drawn on the unfavoured
successful active jockey taking stands’ side of the track when
part today, when finishing fifth behind Poetic Flare
4
he will ride in the 2000 Guineas at
Thunder Newmarket, having also pulled
Moon. Mick too hard early on and ruined his
Run over a mile on the round Kinane, with chances. This test will suit him
track. Previous Ascot form is an six wins, and he can turn the tables, with
advantage — Chindit, La Barrosa holds the Battleground and Lucky Vega
and Battleground have won here. record. looking best of the rest.
Rachael Blackmore can continue her
remarkable year by riding a first Royal
Ascot winner on board Cape Gentleman
in the Ascot Stakes (5.00). Blackmore
carried all before her over jumps in the
spring, claiming the top jockey title at the
Cheltenham Festival before becoming the
first woman jockey to win the Grand
National. She is much better known for her
exploits in that sphere but has 11 winners to
her name on the Flat and Cape Gentle-
man, who easily won the Irish Cesarewitch
at the Curragh last October, has the class
to defy top weight here.
Juan Elcano has been given an opera-
tion to help with his breathing since a
below-par sixth on his reappearance at
Doncaster and he can take the Wolferton
Stakes (5.35). Fifth in last year’s 2000
Guineas, he is bred to be more effective at
this longer trip and can outclass this field.
The Copper Horse Stakes (6.10) can go
to Global Storm. Charlie Appleby, his
trainer, is having a terrific season having
landed a second Derby through Adayar,
while his runners are operating at a 31 per
cent strike rate. Global Storm appreciated
a step up in trip when winning at Newmar-
ket last time and he remains unexposed.
with this year’s eco-conscious push, it
would also look naff. Choose one that
matches your frock, or the colour of your
hat; The Vampire’s Wife, Emilia
Wickstead and Yolke have lovely printed
and ruffled silk iterations, and men could
choose a silk mask from Vince in navy,
black, or grey, to match their suit.
High hats
With masks to consider, a wide-
brimmed hat that shades the top
half of your face isn’t the best
choice (ditto sunglasses).
Follow the chaps and go
up instead of out, adding
height or opting for a
headpiece (with a four-inch
base diameter) instead.
Lock & Co Hatters has some
beautiful smaller hats or
larger styles with upturned
brims that don’t cover your
eyes. Fenwick, Royal Ascot’s
official millinery sponsor, has
the biggest hat department
around, and if you can make it
to the London flagship, the
famous — and indefatigable — Mr Tony
will be on hand to help you navigate it.
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Sport Rugby union
Widening appeal of game for all sizes
Owen Slot
Chief Rugby
Correspondent
T
he most influential team in
New Zealand right now may
not actually be the All
Blacks. It may not be the
Blues or the Highlanders,
who have been pulling their Aussie
opposition apart on a weekly basis
and who will now face each other in
Saturday’s Super Rugby Trans-
Tasman Cup final. The most
influential team in the country may
actually be a club you haven’t heard
of, called the Eden Lizards.
When the Eden Lizards won their
cup final, at Eden Park in November,
they did so without having a single
player over the weight of 85kg (13st
3lb). The team they beat 27-24 in a
cliffhanger final were the Auckland
University Squids; they didn’t have a
player over 85kg either and there is a
reason for this — because the
competition they were contesting was
the inaugural NZ Barbarians Under
85kg Club Cup.
The thinking here was
straightforward. Rugby, as we like to
say, is a game for all shapes and sizes.
When we say that, we tend to think
about the players who are short and
wide or maybe tall and slow. And if
you are smaller, well, you can do
some time in the gym and play No 9
or we’ll hide you on the wing.
The Under 85kg Cup asks a good
question about the all-shapes-and-
sizes cliché: what if there are actually
loads of smaller players who are lost
to the game? This is a variation on a
broader question that New Zealand
Rugby (NZR), like many other unions,
has been asking for some time now:
why are our playing numbers falling?
One of the solutions NZR came up
with was their Under 85kg Cup. There
were a load of entries in its first year,
2020, and numbers have doubled this
time round. NZR didn’t know if it
would be a solution but the thinking
there is: why not try?
This is interesting in itself because
rugby and rugby’s traditions are so
deeply ingrained in Kiwi culture. You
In the New Zealand cup final between Auckland University Squids and Eden Lizards, no player weighed more than 85kg
may have thought, therefore, that
they would be a kind of last bastion of
the game and that they would defend
rugby, and the way it has been, rather
than challenge it. In fact, they are not
at the back of the queue, here; they
have barged their way to the front.
For years, like many in rugby, the
Kiwis have been proud of the game
they have loved and, when player
numbers started dwindling, they
would ask: what’s wrong with
everyone? Why aren’t they
participating? How can we change
their minds?
Recently, though, there has been a
very distinct change in thinking. It’s
not so much: how can we change
their minds? It is more: how should
we change the game? In other words,
it is maybe not the customer that is
the issue, it might be the product.
This is the view of Steve Lancaster,
the former Crusaders lock, who is
now the NZR head of participation. “I
can’t think of anything in modern
society that looks the same as it did
30-40 years ago,” he says. “Yet here
we are with a community rugby game
that looks every bit the same.”
Indeed, the laws are largely the
same. Players are still expected to
train Tuesdays and Thursdays after
work and give up half a weekend for
half the year to play — and if that’s a
deal you don’t like the look of, tough.
So NZR have decided to tinker with
the product. Just one new version of
the product is the Under 85kg Cup
and it is flying off the shelf.
Likewise, they realised that some
children didn’t like tackling, and that
ten-year-olds who are stuck out on
the wing just because they are fast
can get easily bored. So now they
have different versions of the game
which introduce tackling later and
ten-year-olds can’t now play on the
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wing because wings and the 15-a-side
game are not introduced until they
are older.
Lancaster says that a lot of their
thinking has been learned from the
RFU, which they regard as having
been ahead of them with the
junior game. Where they themselves
are pushing ahead is with the
community game.
They are at present trialling a
tackle height law variation where the
height limit is the sternum. They also
have a trial where no one is allowed
to contest the ball in the air; to make
a catch you have to have both feet on
the ground and, to prevent the
catcher being lined up and flattened,
you cannot be tackled until you have
taken a step.
Lancaster sees these trials as a
conservative start. He expects NZR to
go further in the seasons to come.
There is another element of these
Tuesday June 15 2021 | the times
trials to note here. Traditionally,
changes to the game are trialled at
senior professional level and then, if
approved, they filter down to the rest
of the game. Again, NZR have been
asking: why does it have to be that
way? Why can’t we find a game that
works for community rugby and, if
the professional end happens to like
it, then they can have it too?
This was the French approach
when they started trialling a lower
tackle height. This, too, is now the
case in England where, the RFU
announced this morning, different
tackle-height limits will be trialled in
junior rugby next season.
This means that three of the biggest
and most senior unions in the game
are now taking a serious look at the
product and asking: should it be
changed and, if so, how?
If you like rugby and you have been
paying attention recently, you will be
aware of Steve Thompson, one of
England’s 2003 World Cup winners,
and the news that broke in December
that he and a number of others
retired professional players have been
diagnosed with early onset dementia
and are pursuing a legal case against
the game’s authorities.
The Thompson case was the
ultimate statement of a truth that
many have feared: that the dangers of
the game are increasingly
unacceptable. This was a concern
already faced by many rugby schools.
In this newspaper, we described it as
“an existential crisis” for the game.
Too often, it has seemed that the
game has stood still. Now, though, it
feels like it is properly moving.
It needs to continue to do so and, of
course, there will be trials along the
way that do not work. Who knows
where it will end up, but if the
destination is a place where rugby is
safer for all and more marketable to
many, a reasonable guess is that the
community game will start to look
less like the professional game and
the junior game will look more
different still. And that will be
absolutely fine.
Children in New Zealand will
always grow up to admire the All
Blacks but at some point most of
them come to know that they will
never be one. It will be great for
rugby, though, if they can decide to be
an Eden Lizard instead.
the times | Tuesday June 15 2021 2GM
Bubble will bond us, claim Lions
Covid conditions could
boost team spirit, writes
Owen Slot – but squad’s
late arrivals will have
some catching up to do
The first full day on
duty with the British
& Irish Lions, in
Jersey yesterday, was
full of the get-to-
know-you traditions,
the traditional bond-
ing and, who knows,
maybe even the trad-
itional get-to-know-
you pint, or seven.
“It’s hugely impor-
tant just getting to
know each other’s
little traits,” Ken
Owens, the Wales
hooker, said, ex-
plaining that they
were set for crucial
meetings last night
to work out who
were going to be the
leaders of the Lions ns chhoir, who
hoir
choir,
ertainment
would be on the entertainment
committee and who would ould get
the cushy job of being on the
laundry committee.
Apparently life on the
laundry committee is a
doddle, because among ng
Dan Biggar’s strengths iss
his skill at ensuring thatt
everyone is reunited with
their clean underwear
and matched-up socks,
and it therefore follows
that if Biggar is on the job,,
then the rest of the laundryy
team can really just put ut
their feet up.
They are also yet to work ork
out the protocol for watchinghing
Euro 2020. The Lionss are
supposed to be ditchingg their
national loyalties but, forr the first
time in the professional era, a tour is
national foot-
overlapping with an international
ball tournament, and, with ith England,
eaturing, that
Scotland and Wales all featuring,
could be divisive. As Owens said, said
brightly: “Scotland lost earlier, so Ali
Price isn’t looking too happy.”
While this is very much the usual
light-hearted backdrop to the early
days of a Lions tour, this is a very
unusual iteration of the Lions and the
all-for-one spirit in the camp is more
important than ever.
Because of Covid restrictions,
whether they like it or not these Lions
are going to spend even more time in
each other’s company than they
Froome will not lead his new team in Tour de France
Cycling Chris Froome, the four-times
Tour de France champion, has been
overlooked as his new team’s leader
for this year’s race.
Israel Start-Up Nation signed
Froome, 36, to a lucrative deal last
year. But they have not been
persuaded that he is the man to lead
them at this month’s event. The
honour will instead fall to the
Canadian rider Michael Woods.
“I am honoured to be given this
position, especially considering the
quality the team have,” Woods said.
There were doubts over Froome
even being part of the eight-man
squad for the race, with concerns over
the lasting effect of the multiple
fractures that he suffered in a crash at
the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2019.
Tour starts
here – inside
Jersey camp
normally would, and that extends to
the ten-day quarantine they are due to
serve on their return home.
In that respect, there is a lot of focus
on “the bubble”. Owens yesterday
offered a cunning take on the
constraints of bubble life, arguing that,
actually, it would be good for the Lions
and their bonding.
Due to Covid, he explained, there is
to be no room-sharing on this tour, so,
unless you fancy spending the next
However, he is expected to be
included, but in a support role.
Froome recently said that he did
not expect to be competing for
victory at the Tour after spending the
past season working as a domestique
in an effort to ride his way into form.
But he has struggled in each race he
has taken part in.
When they signed him last year,
after Ineos Grenadiers declined to
renew his contract, Israel Start-Up
Nation had hoped that Froome would
recover in time to lead the team at
this year’s race, which starts on June
26 in Brest.
Ineos are expected to field the 2018
Tour winner, Geraint Thomas, as well
as last year’s Giro d’Italia winner, Tao
Geoghegan Hart, in their squad.
Anthony Watson, main, enjoys a cryotherapy session, Louis
Rees-Zammit spars with conditioning coach Jon Clarke,
top left, after getting a Covid test with the mascot, left,
and Duhan van der Merwe gets under the high ball, right
eight weeks in your own company, you
will be embracing the social life of the
team room.
Indeed, it is almost impossible for
national or club cliques to evolve
because, as Owens said, “You don’t have
people drifting off here, there and
Doris and Carbery back fit
for Ireland summer Tests
Rugby union The fit-again Ireland
duo Caelan Doris and Joey Carbery
have been recalled for summer Tests
against Japan and the United States.
Andy Farrell’s experimental squad
includes 11 uncapped players.
Leinster lock James Ryan will
captain the 37-man group in the
absence of the fly half Johnny Sexton,
who has been left out despite being
overlooked by the British & Irish
Lions.
Backs W Addison, R Baloucoune, C Blade,
B Burns, H Byrne, J Carbery, C Casey, A Conway,
S Daly, T Daly, C Farrell, J Gibson-Park, H Keenan,
J Larmour, S McCloskey, G Ringrose, J Stockdale.
Forwards R Baird, F Bealham, P Boyle, E Byrne,
G Coombes, U Dillane, P Dooley, C Doris, John
Ryan, D Heffernan, R Herring, R Kelleher, James
Ryan, D Kilcoyne, R Molony, P O’Mahony,
T O’Toole, N Timoney, J van der Flier, F Wycherley.
DAN SHERIDAN/INPHO/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
everywhere.”
It takes a glass
half-full kind
of guy to see
the positives
in Covid, but
here you
West Brom face ‘setbacks’
in appointing manager
Football West Bromwich Albion have
“faced setbacks” in their search for a
new manager, their chief executive
has admitted. Xu Ke said the club had
not yet made a formal offer to any
candidate as they look to replace Sam
Allardyce, who left after the club was
relegated from the Premier League.
He declined to set a deadline for
appointing a new manager, saying it
was “not a simple search”. To add to
the uncertainty, the sporting and
technical director, Luke Dowling, left
the club by mutual consent yesterday.
The owner, Guochuan Lai, vetoed a
move for Chris Wilder, the former
Sheffield United manager, while the
club’s former coach Michael Appleton
is reportedly no longer in contention.
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Exeter may lose key men
Exeter Chiefs could be without a couple
of key forwards in the play-offs this
weekend after Dave Ewers and Sam
Skinner were both cited following
Chiefs’ victory over Sale Sharks on
Saturday (Owen Slot writes).
Skinner was given a red card and was
automatically cited. Ewers, however,
was shown only a yellow for a
dangerous tackle on Simon
Hammersley, the Sharks’ full back.
Both players could find that their
season is brought to an untimely close
just at the point of the campaign when
Chiefs need them most. Chiefs play Sale
again in the Premiership semi-finals on
Saturday.
Ewers has been one of Chiefs’ most
consistent players this season. Jacques
Vermeulen, another Exeter back-rower,
has been struggling with injury.
Who is missing from camp?
There are 12 British & Irish Lions yet
to join up with the touring squad
because of end-of-season club
commitments:
Elliot Daly, Owen Farrell, Jamie
George, Maro Itoje, Mako Vunipola
(all Saracens), Stuart Hogg, Luke
Cowan-Dickie, Jonny Hill, Sam
Simmonds (all Exeter Chiefs), Tom
Curry (Sale Sharks), Kyle Sinckler
(Bristol Bears) and Finn Russell
(Racing 92).
have it from Owens: “We are lucky in
some ways, because we are in a bubble
and very tight together.”
Whether such optimism remains will
be a huge test of these tourists. The
excitement of their collective mission
is clear, for now, but the squad is not yet
fully assembled, with some English club
players still away on club duty.
Josh Adams said that he was looking
forward to playing with Stuart Hogg.
When Hogg will arrive in camp,
though, is another matter. How
quickly Hogg et al can
then get up to
date with the
work that the
Lions are do-
ing in Jersey is
also a matter
to be resolved.
The Jersey
Lions are get-
ting a head
start, and they
appear to be en-
joying it. The rest
have got a game
of catch-up to play.
Liverpool extend Adrián’s
deal but may offload Grujic
Football Marko Grujic could make a
permanent move from Liverpool to
Porto after a successful loan spell at
the Portuguese club last season.
The Serbia midfielder made two
Carabao Cup appearances for
Liverpool last autumn — his first for
the club since December 2017 —
before he moved to Portugal.
Grujic, 25, has spent the majority of
his five years at Liverpool on loan to
other clubs — Cardiff, Hertha Berlin
and Porto — and the club are happy
to offload him this summer.
Liverpool’s back-up goalkeeper
Adrián is staying at Anfield after
signing a contract extension. The
Spaniard, 34, played only six games
last season, but is happy to remain.
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Sport Cricket
Root must
be given his
best team
Mike Atherton
Chief Cricket
Correspondent
James Bracey’s catching: discuss. In
the reaction to Bracey’s performance as
a wicketkeeper, which was uniformly
critical, can be seen, in microcosm,
the reaction to England’s first defeat in
a home series for seven years. Let me
explain.
Bracey had a difficult, even horrid,
introduction to Test cricket. He scored
nought, nought and eight and looked
out of his depth with the bat. He had
two difficult patches as a wicketkeeper:
one at Lord’s and one at Edgbaston,
where the wobbling Dukes ball created
some fumbles. He dropped a catch.
The numbers suggest a more
nuanced story. At Lord’s, statistics
suggested Bracey caught 98 per cent of
balls; at Edgbaston, that fell to 96 per
cent. I checked those with CricViz, the
analytics company, which had him at
98 per cent and 97 per cent. An overall
rate of 97 per cent puts him squarely
between county standard (96 per cent)
and elite (98 per cent). Pretty good.
My guess is that as many people
would be as surprised by those numbers
as I was. We all suffer from biases and
heuristics. Because Bracey is an inexpe-
rienced ’keeper, because he does not
look a natural catcher (or mover) and
because he is a manufactured batsman-
wicketkeeper, the fumbles stay in our
mind. They become exaggerated. We
forget, perhaps, that one of the most
natural wicketkeepers of all, Jack
Russell, dropped a catch on his debut (a
much easier one, as it happens).
We may have been
irritated by the
decision not to pick
Jos Buttler, paid about
£1 million a year by
the ECB but rest-
ing because of
a pusillanimous
attitude to the
Indian
Premier
League or
an over-
thought
Thorpe: Blame batsmen, not county pitches ‘Give women red-ball’ games’
Elizabeth Ammon
Graham Thorpe has dismissed
suggestions that county cricket and
county pitches are not preparing
England’s batsmen for what they will
face in the international arena.
After the shambolic batting display
against New Zealand, resulting in their
first home Test series loss since 2014,
England’s assistant coach said that it was
too simplistic to blame pitches and that
good batsmen should be able to adapt to
whatever surface they were playing on.
“I’ve seen plenty of pitches on the
selection policy. We may be irritated by
the sight of Jonny Bairstow, a world-
class wicketkeeper-batsman until
messed around by the selectors, playing
in the Vitality Blast for Yorkshire
instead. Examples of Bracey fumbling
the ball heighten our irritation and rest
in our memory for longer as a result.
A fair assessment of Bracey would
stand somewhere between the num-
bers and the impression. He did not
look a natural ’keeper to me, and a lack
of experience meant it was harder for
him to cope with those small passages
of play when the ball wobbled, but he
caught most things that came his way,
even if he looked surprised occasionally
when he clung on. So with Bracey, so
with England.
A heavy series defeat (but for rain at
Lord’s, England would have lost 2-0 in
all likelihood) confirms long-held
biases. We may have views about Joe
Root’s leadership or Chris Silverwood’s
style of management. We may have
views about the domestic structure, the
relevance of the county game, or the
effectiveness of the ECB as a governing
body. Defeat encourages these to come
spewing forth, like a geyser. When
England win, they remain under-
ground.
England’s defeat was a bad one. Let’s
start with New Zealand, though, an
excellent side. This is a golden age of
New Zealand cricket, the best in their
history and they are worthy finalists in
the World Test Championship. They
looked a better-organised, more skilful
side. When beaten by a better side, that
reality must be openly acknowledged.
England were obviously missing
some key players. Of 12 red-ball con-
tracted players, five were missing
because of injury or non-availability —
Jofra Archer, Sam Curran, Ben Stokes,
Chris Woakes and Buttler. Other
white-ball contracted players were
unavailable too, along with the best
bowler from the Lord’s Test, Ollie Rob-
inson. Clearly, this was far from
England’s strongest team. That
should be Root’s starting point:
England were beaten by a bet-
ter team, and must improve,
but are stronger than they
showed.
Bracey’s
failings were
overstated
county scene and many of them are
good pitches,” he said. “It comes down
to being able to adapt to whatever
surface you play on. The best players
make the adjustments needed on
whatever pitch they play on.”
After England’s defeat in India this
year both Joe Root and Chris
Silverwood called on counties to
produce better pitches that encourage
batting for long periods of time. While
the ECB does not dictate to counties
how their pitches should be prepared,
there is evidence that this summer’s
pitches have been better for batting and
Root will need to maintain a sense of perspective in the face of rampant criticism
Root should avoid getting drawn into
areas over which he has no control.
County cricket, county pitches, the
structure of the championship, Dukes
or Kookaburra, the Hundred, the Blast,
the points system. The England captain
is right to have a strong view — and
these areas are important — but they
are deeper, more complicated structur-
al problems to which there will be no
easy solution, as the game tries to
balance commercial and cricketing
imperatives. He has limited time and
energy and that should be spent on
things he can influence now.
less seamer-friendly — though the
benefits for England won’t be apparent
for some time.
England have five Tests against India
and an away Ashes series coming up
and it is unlikely there will be sweeping
changes in the make-up of the squad.
Thorpe believes that teaching players
to cope with the intensity of Test cricket
is the most crucial part of the job of
England’s support staff.
“It is a mental skill to be able to train
the brain to do these things and we have
been lacking in consistency in that
area,” he said.
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PETER CZIBORRA/ACTION IMAGES/REUTERS
Three main things need his consider-
ation: selection, the batting line-up and
attitude. Since the start of the Sri Lanka
series in January, England have used 21
players. Astonishingly, only Root and
Dominic Sibley are ever-presents. There
have been some mitigating factors (a
pandemic springs to mind) but Root has
rarely had his best side available. Silver-
wood is now in charge of selection: Root
should tap him on the shoulder and de-
mand the best team play against India
and Australia this summer and a return
to some common sense and stability.
After beating India in the opening
Elizabeth Ammon
The England and Lancashire seamer
Kate Cross has called for the introduc-
tion of red-ball cricket into the domes-
tic women’s schedule to help them
“learn the real skill of cricket”.
The England Test side are preparing
for a one-off Test against India in Bris-
tol that starts tomorrow, but Cross, 29,
who played the most recent of her three
Tests six years ago, also wants the
opportunity to play more Test matches.
Women’s Test matches are a rare
occurrence. India have played once
Tuesday June 15 2021 | the times
England’s recent Test players
In eight Tests in their past three
series (v Sri Lanka, India and New
Zealand), England have used 21
players.
8 Tests, Joe Root, Dom Sibley
7 Dan Lawrence
6JamesZak Crawley Jack Leach,
Anderson, Ollie Pope
5 Stuart Broad
4MarkJonny Bairstow, Dom Bess,
Wood, Rory Burns, Ben Stokes
3 Jos Buttler, Ben Foakes
2OllieSamStone,
Curran, Jofra Archer,
James Bracey
1 Moeen Ali, Ollie Robinson
Test of the winter tour, in Chennai in
February, England made five changes
and were duly eviscerated. Woakes,
also paid close to a seven-figure sum by
the ECB, has not played since Septem-
ber. Buttler is resting after playing 22
days’ cricket for his employers in that
time. If this is a golden age for New Zea-
land cricket, then it is also a golden age
for being an England cricketer — paid
handsomely in some cases for very
little. Trent Boult’s last-minute arrival
in Birmingham showed the value of
flexibility and common sense. A return
to that would be welcome.
Clearly, the batting was the principal
cause of defeat against New Zealand,
and Root and Silverwood need to make
some clear choices now about which
young players they are going to back.
Ollie Pope is a hill on which I’d be pre-
pared to die; I can’t believe Zak Crawley
can play so well against Pakistan and
not come again. Sibley’s position as
opener is vulnerable: is there enough
upside to his game? I’m not sure there
is, but if Root and Silverwood believe in
him, they must back him.
It was deeply frustrating to hear Root
talking about using the final day against
New Zealand at Lord’s as batting prac-
tice and that, having considered the
matter again, he would have done ex-
actly the same thing. Some observers
have misunderstood my criticism of
England’s approach there: I’m not talk-
ing about going down in flames. It was
incumbent upon England to show
some intent, to suggest to New Zealand
that the challenge was at least under
consideration, and to show everyone
else that their focus was on the present.
England have nearly two months
before they play Test cricket again, and
although there is not much first-class
cricket between now and then, the pas-
sage of time and return of key players
will ensure a different feel in August.
There are things for Root to focus on,
and things to ignore. It pays to remem-
ber, too, that when criticism is rampant,
not everything, a bit like Bracey’s catch-
ing, is always as bad as it seems.
(against South Africa in 2014) since
beating England at Wormsley in 2012
and England have played in only three
since then. At present, all domestic
women’s games are either 20-over or
50-over formats but Cross thinks there
is an appetite to play red-ball cricket.
“The longer format is where you
learn the real skill of cricket. How to
defend good bowling, and how to bowl
for longer periods of time and be relent-
less on line and length. And maybe
within the next five years we might be
able to get to a point where we can do
that,” Cross said.
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‘Feud? Brooks and Bryson are just
playing like boxers before a fight’
Rick Broadbent speaks
to Koepka’s coach to get
an insight into the ‘spat’
with DeChambeau that
dominates US Open talk
B
rooks Koepka does not
really care what you think.
His feud with Bryson
DeChambeau has been the
talk of golf, with heckles
aired and hackles raised. Opinion,
opprobrium and even free beer have
been spilt. Some say it is good for the
game and they are pushing the
needle, others believe it is bad and the
needle is pushing it.
Given that DeChambeau, 27, is the
US Open champion and Koepka the
winner in 2017 and 2018, this is high-
grade sniping as golf heads to Torrey
Pines in San Diego for this year’s
staging. To recap: a video clip of
Koepka rolling his eyes as
DeChambeau interrupted an
interview at the US PGA
Championship looked like prime-time
contempt. Fast-forward to the
Memorial Tournament in Ohio,
where DeChambeau was taunted
with cries of “Brooksy” and several
spectators were ejected. Koepka, who
was not competing, played to the
gallery and went on social media to
reference the incidents and offer beer
to the fans who were kicked out.
“Brawn v Brawnier” may be making
a mountain out of a molehill, or
perhaps an anthill given Koepka cried
“oh no, an ant” in Memphis last July
in tribute to DeChambeau having
cited the Dangerous Animal
Condition in an ill-fated quest for
relief. However, Brandel Chamblee,
the Golf Channel analyst, has accused
Koepka of bullying. Paul McGinley
said it looked like “an orchestrated
campaign to troll”. Steve Stricker, the
United States Ryder Cup captain,
groused that it was “not making my
job any easier” and said he hoped
they could “put their differences
aside” and “be big boys” come
September.
One man with an insight into what
is going on with Koepka is Pete
Cowen, his Yorkshire-born coach. “It’s
a bit of banter, isn’t it?” he says. “They
don’t dislike each other — that’s
rubbish. It started with the slow-play
thing [in 2019] and it’s carried on, but
then social media comes in and takes
it to a different level. They play along
with it like two boxers before a fight.
“In that clip I’m actually standing
in the background,” Cowen says.
“Bryson never even said anything to
Brooks. He was just walking past and
speaking really loud when he was
doing that interview. Brooks thought
that was out of order and he lost his
train of thought and rolled his eyes.
Then people start putting things on
the internet with the rolling eyes, and
all that crap compounds it.”
Koepka, 31 and ranked No 10 to
DeChambeau’s No 5, seems content
with how this is playing out. “It’s a
good thing,” he said before missing
the cut at the Palmetto
Championship in South Carolina last
week. “I get the traditionalists who
don’t agree with it. I understand that,
but to grow the game you’ve got to
reach out to the younger generation.”
Brooks Koepka
All of which has perhaps
overshadowed his achievement in
finishing runner-up to Phil Mickelson
at the US PGA. Lest we forget,
Koepka underwent knee surgery in
mid-March and had missed two
consecutive cuts before Kiawah
Island.
What was Cowen’s assessment?
“Brooks should have won,” he says.
“Simple as that. He knows it. If he
misses the tree on the 2nd after he
birdied the 1st then he wins the
championship, without a shadow of
doubt. That stopped him in his tracks.
Getting the lead straight back gave
him [Mickelson] impetus and then he
holed that bunker shot on the 5th.
He’s a great bunker player but you
don’t expect him to hole out from that
distance in a major championship. It
was his day, that was it.”
Nevertheless Koepka, who won
four majors in eight attempts up to
the 2019 US PGA and who can boast
ten more top-ten finishes, including
three second places, had done
something hugely impressive. “I told
him, ‘I know you’re disappointed but
three months ago we thought the
year was a write-off,’ ” Cowen says.
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Koepka’s eye-roll as DeChambeau
walked past at Kiawah Island
created a social-media storm
with that confidence but
inwardly you’re not sure,”
C
Cowen says. “You wouldn’t
believe it if you meet him off the
course, but he can switch it on. He’s
like Novak Djokovic. I’m told he’s one
Bryson DeChambeau of the nicest blokes off the court, but
on it he’s ridiculous. You have to have
that killer instinct to achieve
what people perceive as
greatness — Lewis
Hamilton, Michael
US Open Jordan, Usain Bolt,
Torrey Pines, California
the mindset is very
similar. Brooks has
Thursday to Sunday a different mindset
TV: Sky Sports Golf at majors.”
from 3.30pm You might think
Cowen would have a
one-eyed view on golf’s
simmering spat, but he
likes DeChambeau. It may not
be the party line, but Cowen always
goes his own way and says he admires
DeChambeau’s innovation.
“They are totally different, but
Bryson has decided ‘it’s my way or the
highway’ and he has gone off the road
map and found a new way,” he says.
“People get called cranks for being
like that but sometimes it’s good to be
called a crank.”
Cowen’s other horses in the US
Open race include the 2019 winner,
Gary Woodland, and McIlroy. He
knows every poor result vents a new
legion of McIlroy-watchers voicing
their scepticism.
“The one thing I like is he has got
his enthusiasm back,” the coach says.
Koepka overtaken “Everybody has Rory down as the
How their world rankings compare since mid-2016 best ball-striker in golf — and at his
best he is, but Dustin Johnson at his
Koepka DeChambeau best is very good and so is Brooks.
5
1 That’s an asset and we have to look at
where we can make improvements.”
June 2017 Sept 2020 10 The scrutiny has surprised him:
Koepka wins Aug 2018 50
US Open Koepka wins DeChambeau “Coaches, punters, everyone says you
PGA Championship wins US Open should do this; the media is quick to
June 2018 100 say it’s not working.” He stressed that
Koepka wins May 2019 McIlroy’s long-term coach, Michael
US Open Koepka wins
Bannon, is still in the background.
PGA Championship 150
Koepka and DeChambeau will be
questioned about their relationship
200 this week, but if mind-games form
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 part of the US Open preamble, the
Source: owgr.com physical side may be more telling
come Sunday. “At the PGA Brooks’s
“He’d shattered his kneecap, but he February’s car crash, the Koepka will legs were tired from walking through
doesn’t like losing, especially majors. is perhaps peerless. He may not be all that sand and that’s why he started
He’s like Tiger [Woods] in that the first to suggest the majors are the doing a few pulls,” Cowen says. “But
respect. Ask Tiger how many easiest to win, but his arithmetic is he never underestimates himself.
tournaments he would like to play a still anathema to the likes of Rory “At Augusta he was badly injured
year and he’d say four. Brooks is the McIlroy who have struggled in recent but tried because his brain was saying,
same. It’s hard to play top golf injured years. Koepka reasons he is good ‘I can do this, I can do this,’ but he
but he almost managed it. It was enough to beat half the field, and was doing seven hours a day [of]
almost what Tiger did when he won then half of the remainder will play rehab. The good thing is he’s willing
at Torrey Pines [in 2008 with stress poorly. That leaves about 35 and to go through the pain barrier. He’ll
fractures in his left leg].” pressure will derail some of them. do what it takes. You see it in his face
With Woods now recovering from “Outwardly you get a lot of players sometimes.” And in the rolled eyes.
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Sport Tennis

Murray: I still love it

Draper pulled
off a big upset
at Queen’s by
beating world
No 23 Sinner

but body may fail me

The double Wimbledon The long road back
“The reason I’m still playing is
because I love playing tennis,” Murray
champion has no plans Jan 2019 Murray tells Antwerp, beating Stan withdraw from
said. “I spoke to a number of my ex-
coaches who were players and asked
to retire, even as injury media at Australian Wawrinka in final Australian Open after them about what it was like at the end of
Open that he will play Nov 2019 Hip injury positive Covid-19 test their careers. Unanimously they were
continues to affect him, until Wimbledon that forces him to miss Feb 2021 Reaches final all, like, ‘Look, it was extremely difficult
summer, then stop. to stop playing, and our advice would be
writes Stuart Fraser Undergoes hip
multiple tournaments,
including Australian
of ATP Challenger event
in Biella to play as long as you can, as long as you
resurfacing operation Open Mar 2021 Withdraws are still enjoying it and providing your
Andy Murray will make his long-await- Jun 2019 Wins doubles Aug 2020 Beats world from Miami Open with body can still do it.’ They were like,
ed return to singles on a grass court title at Queen’s with No 7 Alexander Zverev groin injury ‘Nothing replaces it. It’s difficult to re-
this afternoon for the first time since Feliciano López on comeback in place being out there, competing on a
2018, but the prospect of any May 2021 Returns to tennis court and playing sport at the
Jul 2019 Reaches third Cincinnati Masters court as late addition to
heroics at the Queen’s Club and round of Wimbledon highest level.’
Wimbledon was quickly tempered by Sept 2020 Wins US doubles draw in Italian “I want to keep playing as long as I
mixed doubles with Open first-round match Open, where he and
a downbeat update on his fitness Serena Williams can. I know that I can still compete with
yesterday. but is thrashed by Liam Broady reach the best players in the world. I have
The bad news for Murray’s many Aug 2019 Returns to Wawrinka in French second round — but been doing it consistently in practice
supporters is that he is short of where singles action, losing to Open Murray skips French over these last six or seven months, and
he had hoped to be fitness-wise after a Richard Gasquet in Dec 2020 Pulls out of Open with groin injury certainly on the grass I don’t see why
series of practice sessions at the All Cincinnati Masters Delray Beach Open, June 2021 Plays at not.
England Club over the past fortnight. Oct 2019 First title since citing Covid-19 concerns Queen’s today against “I want to keep trying and still have
He has still not fully shaken off the operation: ATP 250 in Jan 2021 Forced to France’s Benoît Paire the desire to go out there, compete and
groin injury he suffered before the train every day to try and improve and
Miami Open in give myself a chance to keep going,
March, which he create more memories on the court and
believes to be linked Day two at Queen’s Murray’s difficult spell get more wins. Let’s wait and see what
to the hip resurfac- Singles matches since start of 2019 - happens but my goal and priority is to
ing operation he had Cinch Championships Centre Court how he compares to the big three be healthy.”
in January 2019. schedule (noon start) Matches Win percentage Much will depend on who is standing
The good news is M Berrettini (It, No 1) vs S Travaglia (It) across the net. Murray has been given a
N Djokovic
that Murray is still relatively kind opener at this week’s
willing to give this D Evans (GB, 6) vs A Popyrin (Aus) 144 87% Cinch Championships at Queen’s
summer’s grass- A Murray (GB) vs Benoit Paire (Fr) R Nadal against the volatile Frenchman Benoît
court season a go. 126 86% Paire, who is ranked No 47 and has won
And beyond that D Shapovalov (Can, 2) vs only one of his past 13 matches. But
A Vukic (Aus) R Federer
the 34-year-old 75 83%
Murray’s lowly ranking of No 123 leaves
appears to have no TV BBC Two and Amazon him vulnerable to the draw gods at
intention of hang- Prime A Murray Wimbledon, where he could potent-
ing up his racket 27 56% ially be pitted against Roger Federer,
anytime soon, de- Source: ATP Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic in the
spite the various set- first round.
backs he has experi- It understandably comes with much Murray admitted to feeling some
enced in recent and I can’t say with frustration for Murray that he is not at envy while watching the latter two do
years, any great certainty full fitness. Playing singles on a grass battle in that epic French Open semi-
whether it be inju- right now whether that’s going to court again has been a motivating goal final on Friday evening. Once upon a
ries or the bout of happen or not, because I have for him throughout his struggles, as it is time it was he who was going up against
Covid-19 that been feeling good at different the surface on which he is most likely to the members of the “big three” and
forced him out of points throughout the last nine enjoy some form of success again. As a pushing them hard at grand-slam tour-
the Australian months or so, practised really two-times Wimbledon champion he naments. Now he is something of a by-
Open in February. well and felt good going into has generally played most of his best stander.
“I feel OK,” Mur- tournaments. Then some- tennis on grass, and the faster courts “It was an incredible match,” Murray
ray said. “I don’t feel thing’s happened. make for less gruelling points. said. “There is a bit of me that’s jealous
perfect, but have “I hope I will be OK It feels as though all the work Murray watching that, like I would love to be
been practising because I have seen has done on and off the court since his playing in those matches, I would love
well over the enough again in practice left hip was resurfaced has been geared to still be competing with them in the
last month or that my tennis is fine and towards him walking out again as a sin- semis of slams. I’m not going to try and
so and pretty in a good place. But physi- gles player on British soil in front of a hide that.

Britain’s
consistently. cally I need to hold up home crowd, and yet still he is having to “Fair play to those guys that they are
The question playing matches.” deal with niggling pain. Some will still out there doing it. But I don’t look at
mark is ob- understandably wonder how long that match and think about what this
viously Murray practised Murray can carry on if even the grass means for me really. You can still do
whether yesterday at does not bring better fortunes, but it things on the court outside of winning
the body Queen’s before appears the end is not nigh whatever slams or competing with those guys, Stuart Fraser
holds up his first match the outcome of the next few weeks. which you can enjoy.”

Home crowd wills Watson to victory in Birmingham What a difference 2½ months has made
for Jack Draper. At the end of March
the 19-year-old Briton suffered a chas-
tening experience during the first set of
Stuart Fraser Tennis Correspondent day when she lost st the first Viktorija is really tough to after recovering from a full-body cramp his ATP tour debut in Miami, collapsing
illed on
set but she was willed play. I am happy to come in Nottingham last week, but the on the court with heat exhaustion. Yet,
Heather Watson battled back from a set pport
by the home support throug that. I was
through British No 4 was well beaten in a 6-1, 6-3 on the hottest day of the year in the UK,
down to claim her first win against a at Edgbaston Priory
ory nerv
nervous at the end loss to the former top-20 player Donna he was excitably bounding about the
top-100 player for four months at the to turn the matchch clos
closing it out. I’m Vekic, of Croatia. Harriet Dart, the Brit- Queen’s Club centre court and hitting
Viking Birmingham Classic. The Brit- around. jus really glad I
just ish No 3, ran France’s Caroline Garcia winners for fun in a stunning straight-
ish No 2 defeated Viktorija Golubic, the “It is just so he
held my nerve close in a 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 defeat. sets upset against one of the best young
world No 71 from Switzerland, 3-6, 6-2, great to play in an
and came up Tournament organisers yesterday talents in the sport, Jannik Sinner.
6-2 in her opening match. front of a crowd [w
[with] some of postponed a first-round match involv- Admittedly the stifling humidity in
Watson, who has slipped to No 70, again,” Watson m
my bigger serves ing Belgium’s Elise Mertens and Aus- Florida made conditions there more
has struggled for consistency on the said. “It was so th
there.” tralia’s Alja Tomljanovic after one of the challenging in the spring but it was still
tour this year and had not got the better enjoyable andd Francesca players received an instruction from striking to see the difference in Draper
of a player ranked above No 100 since that’s what got mee Jon
Jones made a NHS Test and Trace to isolate as a close yesterday in London.
her victory against the Czech Kristyna through that matchch retu
return to action contact. The match will be played today Playing in a temperature of 28C
Pliskova in the first round of the Austra- in the end. after Public Health England deemed it during the middle of the day, he looked
lian Open. It looked as if the 29-year- “It [was] a really Watson beat Golubic of low risk and cleared the player to com- at ease once he had overcome a shaky
old was about to fall short again yester- good match for me today. Switzerland in three sets pete, subject to daily testing. start, recovering from 4-0 down in the
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ELLA LING/BPI/REX

County chiefs
fear losses of
£500k a game
Elizabeth Ammon
Cricket chiefs are concerned that push-
ing back “freedom day” could cost some
counties about £500,000 in lost reve-
nue for each Vitality Blast match.
The government’s decision yesterday
to extend Covid-19 restrictions by
another four weeks is likely to have an
impact on attendances, which may be
limited to 10,000 spectators or 25 per
cent of capacity, whichever is smaller.
The T20 Blast is the biggest source of
ticket income for most counties, who
had hoped that the “freedom day” on
June 21 would allow them to have near-
full grounds for the rest of the group
stage, which finishes on July 18.
The limitations mean that, for the
most part, only county members, who
pay an annual fee and are therefore
being given priority, are being admitted
and no tickets can be sold to the general
public. The present regulations also
remove the possibility of selling hospi-
tality and corporate boxes.
Crucially, to help to protect each
county, the ECB has given counties a
minimum guaranteed income of 75 per
cent of their ticket income, based on
2019 figures.
Surrey, who consistently sell out the
Oval for their Blast matches, report
that a limit of 25 per cent capacity
(about 6,000 people) would cost them
about £500,000 a match in lost income.
Five of Gloucestershire’s seven home
matches in the Blast had been due to
take place after June 21. Capacity for
these matches will be reduced from
Grass-court season events 10,000 to about 3,500.
Most counties also have annual deals
Last week with breweries that are predicated on
Nottingham Open, UK selling a certain number of barrels. This
Won by Johanna Konta (GB) year’s deals were made on the expecta-
Stuttgart Open, Germany tion of full crowds. Next year’s deals
Won by Marin Cilic (Cro) with those breweries are expected to
cost counties more per barrel.
This week
Queen’s Club Championships, UK
Birmingham Classic, UK continued from back
Halle Open, Germany Centre Court will be full for finals
Berlin Open, Germany
to permit attendances that are well
Next week above the usual 10,000 limit.
Eastbourne International, UK The Rugby Football League is in talks
Bad Homburg Open, Germany with the government about securing
Mallorca Championships, Spain test-event status for the Carnegie
Challenge Cup final on July 17. The
June 28-July 11 Open at Royal St George in Sandwich
Wimbledon, UK on July 15-18 is expected to also have
test-event status, as is Formula One’s
British Grand Prix at Silverstone on
July 18.

best hope Draper delivers on promise

first set to defeat Italy’s Sinner 7-6 (8-6),
7-6 (7-2).
As Great Britain’s best male hope,
this could ultimately prove to be a
symbolic moment for Draper. He has
followed in the footsteps of Andy
Murray 16 years ago by claiming his
first ATP win at the Cinch Champion-
ships and there are parallels between
the pair in the way they have both had
to overcome physical difficulties in the
early stages of their careers to allow the
natural ability to flourish.
Draper vowed after the worrying
scenes in Miami to improve his training
regime, and he has lived up to his word.
He has made changes to his diet and
started working with a new fitness
trainer, Ian Prangley, an experienced
Australian who was a member of Kyle
Edmund’s team for several years.
“Miami was a bit of a wake-up call for
me in terms of getting my fitness levels
back to where they should be at for this
level, so I worked really hard,” Draper
said. “I did a training block for four
weeks before heading out and playing
some [second-tier] $25k events in the
Czech Republic where I got quite
a few good matches.
“In the second week I strained
and tore my ab, so my prepara-
tion for this tournament actually
has not been excellent.
I only started
serving about
three days
ago, but I was
able to hit pretty
soon after. Hope-
fully from now I can
stay on the court and get my body
right. I have looked more and more
at my diet and what I’m eating more
professionally.”
Draper, the son of the former
LTA chief executive Roger and
the tennis coach Nicky, is an
attacking left-hander with powerful No 309 but it furthers his case for a
spin-heavy groundstrokes, and he is Wimbledon main draw wild card, for
not afraid to use them even when his which the selection meeting is being
back is against the wall. He saved two held today at the All England Club. This
set points in the first-set tie-break would guarantee him a cheque of at
and broke serve at 5-4 down in the least £45,000, in addition to the £21,000
second set on his way to complet- he earns for winning at Queen’s. Before
ing the upset against Sinner, who this week his career earnings totalled
is already ranked No 23 in the £61,000.
world at the same Cameron Norrie, 25, continued his
age. run of good form at the start of his
Not only will grass-court campaign. The British
this win result No 2, who is the 14th-best player in the
in Draper world based on performances this year
moving up alone, fought back from a set down to
about 45 see off Spain’s Albert Ramos-Viñolas
places in 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
the rank- Roger Federer also made a winning
ings from start to his grass-court season. The
his present 39-year-old beat Ilya Ivashka of
position of Belarus 7-6 (7-4), 7-5 in the first round of
the Halle Open, his traditional warm-
Federer won on up event before Wimbledon, where he
grass yesterday will be chasing a ninth title next month.
The grand prix could even operate
with a capacity of 70,000 given that it
has a 550-acre outdoor site with seats
spread around the circuit.
Oliver Dowden, the culture secre-
tary, said: “We want to gather further
evidence on how we can open up all big
events safely and for good. The expan-
sion of trials of the NHS app and lateral
flow testing will mean that bigger
crowds will be able to attend a limited
number of major sporting and cultural
events early this summer as part of our
Events Research Programme.”
Royal Ascot this week falls under the
ERP — 12,000 people will be admitted
for each of the five days, starting today
— but the announcement of the
four-week delay to “freedom day”
brought disappointment from racing
chiefs.
David Armstrong, chief executive
of the Racecourse Association, said:
“This will have a significant commer-
cial effect on racecourses that had
sold many thousands of tickets for
events after June 21 — we estimate
a loss of between £15 million and
£20 million.”
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Scots concede We can’t be

from 50 yards snobs, says
Scotland lose
their opening
game after
Southgate
Patrik Schick
catches out Paul Joyce, Henry Winter
goalkeeper
David Marshall Gareth Southgate has told his England
in 2-0 win for side not to be “football snobs” and risk
Czech Republic. jeopardising their European
The Game, Championship ambitions by recklessly
inside Times2 pursuing style over substance.
The warning to his players came as
his focus turned towards Friday’s show-
down with Scotland, who suffered a 2-0
defeat by the Czech Republic yesterday
that was sealed by a wonder goal from
near the halfway line by Patrik Schick,
who also scored the opener.
England’s 1-0 win against Croatia on
Sunday was marked by an apparent
first-half disagreement between the
defender John Stones, who wanted to
play out from the back, and the goal-
keeper, Jordan Pickford, who preferred
to play long towards Harry Kane.
The presence of Luka Modric and
Ante Rebic on the edge of England’s
penalty area, waiting to pounce on any
mistake, prompted Pickford to adopt a
safety-first approach. Southgate,
though, made the point that England
should not feel conflicted over utilising

Centre Court full for final

Wimbledon climax next month to be first outdoor event at peak capacity since pandemic began
Martyn Ziegler Chief Sports Reporter
The Wimbledon singles finals will be
played in front of a full Centre Court,
despite the government’s delay in
lifting Covid-19 restrictions, and there
will be 45,000 fans at Wembley for the
climax of Euro 2020.
The tennis finals will be staged in
front of 14,979 spectators on Centre
Court and will be the first outdoor
sports events to feature a capacity
crowd since the pandemic struck in
March last year. Euro 2020 matches
will boast the largest crowds in the UK
for 15 months. For the rest of Wimble-
don, the plan is to operate at half capa-
city — 21,000 spectators a day across
the whole site — and Wembley will be
half full for the last four Euro 2020
matches staged there.
Those games will be the second
round-of-16 match to be held at the
stadium — involving England if they
win group D — both semi-finals and
the final. For the group matches and
first knockout-phase match there will
be 22,500 fans, a quarter of capacity.
The delay of “freedom day” from
June 21 until July 19 will have an impact
on attendances at some sports events,
however, including cricket matches,
which will be limited to 10,000 specta-
tors or a quarter of capacity, whichever
is smaller. Spectators at the tennis and
the football events are likely to have to
show vaccine passports — proof of both
vaccinations — or negative Covid test
results.
The Times revealed the plan for
Wimbledon and the Euros on its
website yesterday and it was confirmed
by ministers last night. A government
statement read: “These pilots will
involve a significant increase in trial-
ling the use of the NHS app and lateral
flow testing, to be used as proof of Covid
status. Trials of the NHS app will be run
to assess whether it can also be used to
display a user’s natural immunity
status.”
The government also confirmed that
other events will be included in the
Events Research Programme (ERP)
that gives ministers the flexibility
Continued on page 65
the strengths of Kane.
“We give them possible patterns
depending on how the opposition are
pressing. There was a spell where we
went long and we just talked about that
at half-time,” Southgate said. “We
didn’t want to do that every time. But
there are moments to go longer. We’ve
got a centre forward [in Kane] who wins
more [than] his share of the ball.
“And we shouldn’t be football snobs.
It’s great to play out from the back but
it’s just as effective to go to the centre
forward and be in control of the ball and
be able to play from there.”
Scotland’s defeat leaves them bottom
of group D but John McGinn, the Aston
Villa midfielder, said: “We played all
right, 2-0 flattered them a wee bit, but
they found quality at the right
moments. We need to find it on Friday.
It’s important we don’t sulk too much.
We need to do it the hard way now.”

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France and
Germany
ready to
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international tournament since 1998
evaporated in the face of a crushing defeat
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David Marshall
is left in a heap
in the net after
Patrik Schick’s
second goal
that left fans,
left, and players
such as Andy
Robertson
in despair
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HOW SCHICK SCORED GOAL OF THE TOURNAMENT
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1
49.7 yards 2.51
The longest-range goal in Euros Seconds the ball was in the air
history since records began between leaving Schick’s boot
in 1980 and dropping into the goal

Schick Marshall

HENDRY
MARSHALL

1 Jack Hendry attempts
a rash shot from
distance, which
cannons off a Czech
defender and allows
them to break. David
Marshall, the Scotland
goalkeeper, is stranded
2
some 40 yards off his
goalline.
2 The ball falls to Patrik
Schick, the Czech
forward, who spots
Marshall off his line
and whips the ball
towards the open goal ends up in a rather
with his left foot. ungraceful heap in the
back of the net.
3 Despite a leap of
desperation, Marshall 4 Schick runs off to
cannot prevent the ball celebrate his second
from dropping in under goal of the game with
the crossbar and he the Czech fans.

Nervy Scotland undone by

Scotland Czech
MICHAEL
Republic
GRANT
02
Scottish Football
Correspondent
at Hampden
Schick 42, 52
It turns out there is an upside to not
POSSESSION qualifying for anything for 23 years.
It spares a nation and its footballers
58% 42% deflation and crushing anticlimax in
front of an audience of millions. And
SHOTS ON TARGET when a team’s moments of weakness
are ruthlessly punished, it means
4 7 there is less at stake than, say, a
FOULS country’s most important game in
almost a quarter of a century.
6 6 For veterans, old memories were
rekindled. This was a fifth defeat from
RATINGS Scotland’s six opening games at major
Scotland (3-5-1-1): D Marshall 7 — J Hendry 5 tournaments, with that old chestnut
(C McGregor 67min, 5), G Hanley 5, L Cooper 6 — — post mortems on the goalkeeper’s
S O’Donnell 6 (J Forrest 79), S McTominay 6,
J McGinn 6, S Armstrong 6 (R Fraser 67, 4), performance — thrown in too. David
A Robertson 6 — R Christie 7 (C Adams 46, 6) — Marshall made excellent saves but
L Dykes 5 (K Nisbet 79). was way out of his area as the Czech
Czech Republic (4-2-3-1): T Vaclik 8 — V Coufal 7, Republic’s Patrik Schick sailed the
O Celustka 7, T Kalas 7, J Boril 6 — T Soucek 7, ball into his net from 49 yards for 2-0.
A Kral 6 (T Holes 67, 6) — L Masopust 6
(M Vydra 72), V Darida 7 (P Sevcik 87), J Jankto 6 Already the mental gymnastics are
(A Hlozek 72) — P Schick 9 (M Krmencik 87). under way about how hope can be
Referee D Siebert (Ger). salvaged in group D.
Attendance 9,844. Scotland revelled in being back at
the top table on the day, make no
mistake about that. Hampden Park
throbbed with colour, excitement and
anticipation, and no one could have
guessed that the official attendance
was only 9,487. But Scotland’s
nervous yet spirited side received a
brutal lesson in finishing from Schick,
whose headed opener was special too.
This stylish Bayer Leverkusen
forward made Scotland’s attacking
look agricultural.
Steve Clarke’s men showed energy
and movement. They created ample
chances and were entitled to be hurt
by the score, but in truth they lacked
quality or composure, and too many
players were short of their best.
John McGinn, Scott McTominay
and Ryan Christie could not impose
themselves, Stuart Armstrong was
quiet and Lyndon Dykes passed up
too many opportunities. Scotland
missed Kieran Tierney’s driving runs
and end product, and any control and
authority in central midfield. And
they too often played it long to Dykes.
Still, the Czechs did get opened up.
Scotland would have them in trouble
only to take the wrong option, being
too elaborate or shooting into a
defender. Schick’s execution was on
another level.
At full-time the crowd booed for a
few seconds before breaking into
Clarke: I don’t blame keeper
MICHAEL GRANT
Steve Clarke put a brave face on
Scotland’s crushing Euro 2020
opening defeat by the Czech
Republic, insisting the team will
regroup and be ready to take on
England at Wembley on Friday.
Scotland had been rocked by an
injury which kept Kieran Tierney
out of the match but the Arsenal star
should make the game in London.
Yet Scotland are in poor shape with
England and Croatia to come.
“I think the breaks went against us
at the wrong time,” Clarke said.
“Obviously losing a goal five minutes
before half-time — from the second
applause. Group campaigns feel like
they are over in a flash and suddenly
Scotland’s remaining games, against
England at Wembley on Friday and
Croatia at Hampden next Tuesday,
seem much more daunting than
before. Bring the same heart and
commitment and they will make their
phase off a set play — was
disappointing for us. We normally
defend that quite well so that was a
blow. It’s disappointing but we are
ready for the next one.”
Clarke refused to blame his
goalkeeper, David Marshall, for
being too far off his line to stop
Patrik Schick’s shot. “If he’d been on
his line he would have caught it. In
normal circumstances he’s looking to
sweep up behind the defence. But it
was a fantastic finish. Rather than
looking to apportion blame all the
time sometimes you’ve got to credit
the goalscorer.”
Clarke was upbeat about Tierney’s
prospects: “We’ll work on him but
he’s got a chance of being fit.”
opponents work for whatever they
get. But look so impotent in front of
goal, concede from a cross into the
heart of their penalty area — like
they did for Schick’s first — and leave
themselves wide open to a shot into
an open net from 45 yards — as they
did for his second — and England
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What we learnt of
England’s rivals
space for Patrik Schick to lob him
TONY from 50 yards, but I don’t go along

CASCARINO
Robertson key to Scottish threat
England will have been encouraged to
see that Scotland only really offered
an attacking threat in two areas
against the Czech Republic: through
the pace and crossing of Andrew
Robertson on the left and the drive
of Che Adams down the centre, after
he came on at half-time. Robertson
with that. Such goals are extremely
rare, whereas goalkeepers regularly
snuff out danger by intercepting the
ball from well outside their box.
Besides, Marshall also made some
decent saves, so will be a tough
barrier for England to break down.
Schick needs close attention
England will need to keep a close eye
on Schick, and not only because of his
two goals yesterday, the first of which
was a fine header. The Czech striker
led the line with guile, controlling
long balls and retaining possession to
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had a terrific game at wing back but
Gareth Southgate will be confident
that his team can deal with the
Fouls conceded in Liverpool player because Kyle Walker
the match, the will never be outpaced by him. Adams
fewest in a match showed speed and invention and will
at the Euros since surely start at Wembley. On the
records began in opposite flank to Robertson, Stephen
1980 O’Donnell struggled, doing little
going forward and at times getting
Czechs created plenty of chances like
this, but England have the centre
backs to cope.
Beware Czech set pieces
The Czechs were very methodical,
playing direct, simple football. Time
and again the defenders knocked
long balls forward to try to turn
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ripped to pieces at the back, so
Raheem Sterling can capitalise.
Years since Czech More to come from midfield
Republic had Midfield is Scotland’s strongest area
beaten Scotland, yet their central trio were mediocre
losing three times yesterday. Scott McTominay, John
and drawing once McGinn and Stuart Armstrong were
since 2010 often bypassed, with both teams
playing long, high balls. Those three
set pieces. This is where they are
dangerous: Vladimir Coufal, the right
back, can throw it a long way, while
his team are also very effective at
corners. England should hold a high
line when the Czechs have possession.
Going low could bring reward
Adams demonstrated that the Czechs
are very one-paced at the back, which

10
players are all capable of passing
and moving but they had little
opportunity to settle into any rhythm.
Goals Schick has I expect the Scotland midfield to fare
been involved in better at Wembley, possibly with Billy
for Czech Republic Gilmour coming in for Armstrong.
in his past nine
starts (eight goals, Marshall not at fault
two assists) David Marshall, the Scotland
goalkeeper, has been criticised for
straying far from goal and leaving the
England can exploit through their
quick players, such as Sterling and
Walker. Southgate’s men must also
be inventive at corners because the
Czechs are adept at clearing high
balls delivered towards their penalty
spot; short corners can be effective,
allowing attackers to run across
defenders to meet the ball. Crosses
with a lower trajectory are also more
likely to bring success.

wonder strike Passionate to the point of

and Croatia will lick their lips. This
is what it means to be in with the
big boys.
Tierney may return for Wembley,
his absence because of what was
described as a minor niggle causing
consternation among the support
when the news broke before kick-off.
Tierney is arguably the most
influential Scotland player of all.
Oh, the nerves were palpable.
Every time Scotland went forward,
Hampden hyperventilated. Every
time the Czechs did, the same.
Marshall’s place in the side has been
questioned but he demonstrated his
worth with a fine save to get down
and block Schick’s shot, low to the
foot of the post.
Scotland were doing OK, but
it was rushed, other than a neat
McTominay-Armstrong-Robertson
move that allowed Dykes a near-post
shot, just wide. They needed
composure. Christie skilfully slipped
through two Czech defenders, only
to crash into Stephen O’Donnell.
Robertson turned to McTominay at
the end of one Czech move and
shouted: “Calm, calm,” gesturing with
his palms down.
There was nothing in it at that
point. Scotland would have a spell of
ascendancy, then it would be the
Czechs, and then it would turn again.
After 32 tense minutes Scotland had
an overload down the right and
Robertson raced into freedom on the
other side. Christie found him and the
Scotland support were on their toes,
but Robertson shot too high and
Tomas Vaclik’s touch helped it over.
The first blow to the solar plexus
came just before half-time. Czech
corners bombarded the Scotland box
and eventually one of them brought
the opener. Scotland cleared a
delivery from their right but the
Czechs came again down the left.
O’Donnell could not close down
Vladimir Coufal, and the West Ham
United man’s cross found Schick,
rising between Grant Hanley and
Liam Cooper to connect with a
wonderful header and beat Marshall’s
dive to the back post.
Marshall made big saves, including
a couple from Schick and then from
Vladimir Darida at the start of the
second half. It is harsh that the
enduring image from the day will
be of the goalkeeper scampering
backwards into his net as the second
strike sailed over him.
On came Che Adams to form a
front two as Clarke shook things up to
give Dykes support. Jack Hendry hit
the bar with a shot, Armstrong broke
through and had an effort deflected,
and Dykes lacked conviction when he
jabbed at a great chance, which Vaclik
saved. McGregor, Ryan Fraser, James
Forrest and Kevin Nisbet were added
to the mix, Forrest coming closest
when he beat two defenders, only for
a third to deflect his shot.
By then their thoughts were
scrambled at being 2-0 down.
Scotland had been pressing when
the ball fell for Hendry about 30 yards
from the Czech goal. He had the
option to play it wide or shoot and,
summing up Scotland’s day, he chose
the wrong one by having a crack
when there was no defensive cover
behind, and Marshall was inexplicably
almost up at the centre circle.
The drive was blocked and
suddenly the Czechs were away.
Schick’s vision and technique were
exemplary, unloading a left-footed
shot that looked to be heading well
wide but curled beautifully —
horribly, for Scotland — inside and
under the woodwork for one of the
goals of the tournament. Marshall
raced back helplessly before crashing
into his own net.
There were shades of Jim Leighton
scrambling back against Morocco
at France ’98. It all felt like the
resumption of a familiar old story.
delusion, pity about the result
TV REVIEW
GEORGE LEWIS
Scotland’s first game in a major
tournament in 23 years was covered
by the BBC and they made the
decision to make the broadcast
100 per cent Scottish. The host, the
pundits, the reporters, the
commentary team, and even the
voiceover man before the programme
were all from Scotland.
Only featuring people who are
from the host nation is a great way of
building the atmosphere and I’ll be
very interested to see if this approach
is used for Hungary’s opener in
Budapest today.
As we’re coming to expect from the
BBC, we got a decent helping of
montages, the most memorable of
which was a look back over the past
few decades for the Scottish national
team. It featured a topless
performance from the Scottish band
Biffy Clyro, shots of drummers playing
in an empty stadium and photographs
of Scotland’s past failures burning on
a bonfire.
I know this sounds naff and I was
sceptical when it started, but by the
time it finished, I was trying to track
my family history to see if I could lay
any claim to being Scottish. We had a
recorded interview with the Scotland
captain, Andy Robertson, who
apparently handed out hampers
(worth over £900 each) to all of the
squad. These included a litre of Irn-
Bru, a can of Tennent’s, shortbread
and a bottle of whisky. In the film, he
stood in a field and looked at
photographs of his career that were
stuck to a tree. Presumably the
director of the Biffy Clyro film wasn’t
available for this one.
Unfortunately, the scoreline didn’t
play along. Not that you could tell
from listening to the Scottish
commentary team who were wearing
their thistle-tinted glasses. They never
gave up hope or seemed to even
acknowledge things weren’t going
well. I especially liked that it took
them a good ten minutes to admit
what a wonderful goal the Czech
Republic’s second was. No one really
wants impartiality and it’s great to
hear commentators who are
passionate to the point of delusion.
When the broadcast finished, I
went to tell my wife all about the
match and Robertson and the
hampers and she looked at me
quizzically and asked why I was
speaking with a Scottish accent.
The most passionate broadcast
we’ve seen so far.
Coverage rating 9/10.
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or snobbery – this
is England United
HENRY
WINTER
Chief Football Writer
At Wembley
The sight of John Stones arguing with
Jordan Pickford over why the
goalkeeper was continually kicking
long in the first half against Croatia
would have been depicted as
revealing divisions in the England
team at some previous tournaments.
Given the harmony and camaraderie
in the present camp, and the relative
absence of real drama going into Euro
2020, the Pickford-Stones exchange
simply came across as two senior
internationals deciding what was best
for the team.
Gareth Southgate insisted
yesterday that England would go long
at times, as Pickford, the Everton
goalkeeper, attempted with five kicks
downfield towards Harry Kane at
Wembley on Sunday. “We shouldn’t
be football snobs,” Southgate said.
Pragmatism, peace and progress
define his management.
The Pickford-Stones chat was
instructive. Stones plays for Pep
Guardiola at Manchester City and is
used to taking the ball from his
goalkeeper, although Ederson can
launch deliveries downfield, as his 70-
yard assist for Ilkay Gundogan
against Tottenham Hotspur on
February 13 proved. But Stones
clearly wanted to build from the back
against Croatia, especially as
opposition pressing was intermittent.
“Those guys are able to make those
decisions,” Southgate said. “We give
them pictures and possible patterns
depending on how the opposition are
pressing, and there were times where
it was on to take one [long]. We don’t
have as long to work on those
patterns, playing from goal kicks, as
you do at a club, and we’re one
mistake away from it being more
costly — across 38 games that’s
different. There was a little spell
where we went long and we just
talked about that at half-time. There
are moments to go longer, we’ve got a
centre forward [Kane] who wins more
of his share of the ball and we
shouldn’t be football snobs.
The variety is important
against top opposition.” England
So what could have
been shaped as a v Scotland
negative narrative was a Friday, 8pm, Wembley
positive. The 1-0 win
helps, of course, but so Radio: talkSPORT
does the mood going into
the tournament. During his
eight-year England career,
Southgate observed close-up the
turmoil of build-ups to four
tournaments: from the fallout from
the “dentist’s chair” and aircraft antics focus on the fitness of Jordan
before Euro ’96 to Paul Gascoigne’s
splenetic reaction to being omitted
from France ’98 and the brawl
between fans in Marseilles as the
tournament opened; and from the
hooliganism scarring England’s arrival
and stay at Euro 2000 and the
questioning of Kevin Keegan’s tactics
to the David Beckham metatarsal
saga going into the 2002 World Cup.
Before the 2018 World Cup,
Southgate had to deal with the
disconnect between fans and players,
security concerns and then, on arrival
in Volgograd, swarms of flies. Russia
worked out well, the run to the semi-
finals giving Southgate credit in the
bank, which still lasts, making sure
that every possible drama isn’t
headlined as a crisis.
The image of England now is of
Declan Rice sitting on an advertising
hoarding 20 minutes after the 1-0 win
over Croatia, laughing with his great
pal Mason Mount and joined by
Harry Maguire. West Ham United,
Chelsea and Manchester United as
one. The presence of so many young
players, especially those with age-
Pickford and Stones were praised for
discussing the best route to success
11.5
Per cent of England’s
passes that went
long against Croatia.
Stones and Pickford argued about this
approach — in England’s previous
games in 2020-21, 8.7 per cent of their
passes went long
group relationships, also means club
rivalries have yet to build. This is
England United. No cliques, no
tension. It’s been the most peaceful of
build-ups for the dozen tournaments
I’ve covered England.
All the usual caveats apply: bigger
challenges lie ahead, Croatia were
disappointing, Belgium and Italy have
hit the ground even more
impressively. There is a long way to
go and Southgate has to get
Kane more involved. But
there is a unity and united
sense of direction with
England. There is an
absence of drama. There
is a deeper squad and an
TV: ITV understanding that
rotation will occur, that
most will get a chance. We
wanted to get to the start line
in a healthy place with no
dramas,” Southgate said. Largely,
England have. There was the
deliberation over four right backs, the
Henderson and Maguire, the timing
of the return of the European club
finalists, and the debate about taking
a knee, but it has largely been a
breeze compared with the storms of
MR Tuesday June 15 2021 | the times
previous tournaments. Raheem
Sterling and Henderson were even
appointed MBEs on the eve of the
Euros; before the last tournament,
Sterling was fielding questions about
a gun tattoo.
“We’ve had a calm and good
preparation and the win means
there’s less drama for the next week
and we can focus calmly on our
training and preparing,” Southgate
added as he concentrates on the game
with Scotland on Friday. “But we’ve
got to have the same hunger, the
same desire, and find that same state
going into that game.” Totally
different challenge. Big opposition.
“Expectations are always going to
be there,” the manager added. “We
have to handle that. But as long as
that’s realistic, you saw the age of the
team [26 to Croatia’s 29], the number
of caps compared to the opponent, LAND OF HOOPS AND
we’re still growing and learning and
to be able to bring boys like Jude
GLORY . . . AND YOGA
[Bellingham] into that environment is Mason Mount shows off his lay-up skills on the basketball court
hugely encouraging.” yesterday, right, as England’s stars enjoy a day of recovery at
The 17-year-old came on after St George’s Park. Some preferred to take their ball games to
Marcus Rashford and before Dominic the pool, above, with Tyrone Mings, top, in the thick of the
Calvert-Lewin as Southgate injected aquatic action. Below, Phil Foden steps out of yoga pod after a
energy and closed down the game, stretching session to get him ready to go again on Friday.
making sure they did not fall for the
old failing of sitting deep.
Given that England performed with
intelligence and occasional
inspiration, with Kalvin Phillips
outstanding, it would be harsh to
change a winning side too much.
Southgate will need to draw again on
his considerable man-management
skills to keep the non-starters happy.
He can relate from his experience of
spending 34 days at the 2002 World
Cup finals; he played in the two
warm-up games in Jeju and Kobe, but
then sat on the bench for all five
competitive matches in Japan.
So he understands how difficult it is
for players to kick their heels on the
bench or even, like Ben Chilwell and
Jadon Sancho, in the stands [with
only 23 allowed in the match-day
squad and Maguire injured]. “With
Ben and Jadon, this was the downside
of a squad of 26 to have to have
conversations with boys that don’t
deserve to be left out,” Southgate said.
In keeping with the peaceful mood,
Chilwell and Sancho haven’t made
any fuss. “They haven’t because of
Secrets of opening success?
how professionally they took those
discussions and how much respect
they’ve shown for the whole group.”
Throw-ins and hard running
There are still issues to address,
such as the absence of deliveries into third on Uefa’s stat list with pass-
the area from out wide, barring one ANALYSIS PAUL JOYCE completion rates of 97 and 96 per cent
great ball from Mount to the far post. respectively.
Kieran Trippier and Kyle Walker ACCURACY OF PASSES Croatia’s Luka Modric was joint third,
were focused on defensive duties, and It was no surprise to see that by finding a team-mate with 64 of his 67
Southgate was full of praise for Sunday evening, the best passing stats attempted passes. However, England
Trippier. “People are still seeing the from the opening matches — which will be pleased with how they curbed
lad that was at Spurs a couple of years featured 177 players — belonged to Modric’s influence. Croatia’s front three
ago and not the defensive animal that three centre backs. Croatia’s Duje were limited, with Modric finding Ivan
has grown at Atletico Madrid, trusted Caleta-Car was the most accurate, with Perisic only four times, Ante Rebic on
by one of the best coaches in the 98 per cent of his passes against three occasions and Andrej Kramaric
world,” Southgate said of Trippier’s England finding their target as he tried ten times. Steven Gerrard, the former
flourishing under Diego Simeone. to build from the back with short Liverpool and England midfielder,
“He gets his distances right on passes into midfield. Andreas always used to want context with
cover, he’s good in one-v-one to stop Christensen of Denmark and Belgium’s passing statistics. For example, what
crosses, and his talking is really good.” Dedryck Boyata were second and sort of passes had the midfielder with
As was the Pickford-Stones confab.
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EDDIE KEOGH/THE FA/GETTY IMAGES
Southgate opted not to use his full
complement of five substitutes. Phil
Foden was the first player replaced,
with Marcus Rashford coming on,
while Jude Bellingham replaced Harry
Kane and Dominic Calvert-Lewin
appeared for Sterling. The trust
England showed in 17-year-old
Bellingham to shore up proceedings
demonstrated how highly he is
regarded within the set-up. Gareth
Southgate, the England coach, could
have opted for the experience of the
vice-captain Jordan Henderson despite
his lack of recent minutes, but
Bellingham impressed in the build-up.
Expect more opportunities to follow
for the Borussia Dortmund teenager.
THROW-INS
England do not work with a bespoke
throw-in coach. Yet Trippier’s clever
release, one that set Sterling
scampering infield in the attack that
ended with Foden hitting the post,
could have come straight off the
training ground. Throw-ins are
discussed during England’s set-piece
meetings and that in itself reflects a
trend belatedly recognising their
importance. Writing in The Times prior
to the tournament, David Moyes, the
TRIPPIER'S KILLER THROW
Trippier passed 12 times to Sterling
but the most deadly was a throw in
the sixth minute, which allowed him
to scamper clear and set up Foden,
who hit the post
Direction of play
West Ham United manager, said:
“Coaches are now looking very closely
at throw-ins. You might get five or six
corners in a game but you are likely to
take — and defend — something like 20
throw-ins over the 90 minutes. There is
so much work being done now with
throw-ins to retain possession or make
tactical moves. In the past, it was, ‘Just
throw it down the line and try to get a
flick on.’ ”
KANE
Steve Holland, England’s assistant
manager, revealed that as part of the
preparation for the Euros, a study had
a completion rate in the high 90s been conducted on France’s World
MOST DISTANCE RUN taken? It speaks volumes that the pass Cup-winning campaign in 2018. It was
Total distance run Modric favoured was to right back noted that Antoine Griezmann’s
100km 96.6km Sime Vrsaljko (12 times). workload was limited in the group
stages to ensure he was fresh in the
England Croatia
DISTANCE COVERED later rounds. The observation came
K Phillips (Eng) Kalvin Phillips tackled, he conjured an with a nod and a wink towards Harry
10.3km assist for Raheem Sterling and also Kane, who had appeared tired in the
D Rice (Eng) covered the most ground of any player World Cup semi-final defeat by Croatia
10.1km in the searing heat at Wembley. The in 2018. On Sunday, Kane was replaced
K Trippier (Eng) Leeds United midfielder ran for 10.3 in the 82nd minute, although one
9.8km kilometres, which placed him 20th on could argue that the England captain
M Mount (Eng) the list of players who had played in deserved to be substituted and not
9.6km the tournament by the end of day just rested — his passing accuracy (11
S Vrsaljko (Cro) three. For further context, Declan Rice successful passes from 17 attempts)
9.2km covered 10.1km and was ranked 24th, was the second-lowest of anyone on
J Gvardiol (Cro) Kieran Trippier 9.8km (32nd) and the pitch, with Vrsaljko at 64 per cent.
9.2km Mason Mount 9.6km (39th). Vrsaljko Understandably, Southgate remains
M Kovacic (Cro) put in the most yards for Croatia with unconcerned by the striker. “He brings
8.9km 9.2km (53rd). so much more to our team than the
I Perisic (Cro)
goals,” he said. Perhaps, but Kane will
SUBSTITUTIONS be eager to get off the mark against
8.9km
Despite temperatures reaching 27C, Scotland on Friday.
‘Kalvin knows what
it’s like to be right at
the bottom of the pile’
ROSS HEPPENSTALL
“I can see Kalvin’s house from where
I’m stood now — he doesn’t live up in
Wetherby in a £2 million mansion,”
Ian Thackray says of Kalvin Phillips,
whose development he nurtured for
seven seasons at Wortley Juniors, the
Leeds amateur club. “He’s never lost
touch with his roots and has always
stayed so grounded. Family is
everything to Kalvin.”
Stories of Phillips’s ascent from a
council estate in inner-city Leeds to
his emergence as a key player for
England have a common theme.
The 25-year-old Leeds United
midfielder was a triplet, alongside his
sister Deren and another sister who
died at an early age; he has a tattoo
on his arm to honour her memory.
He is close to Deren and their
younger siblings, Terrell and Tasiana,
and while his father, Mark, has spent
time in prison, his mother, Lindsay,
has been a constant pillar of support.
Paul Hatfield, who, alongside
Thackray, coached Phillips at Wortley
and has been involved at the club for
27 years, says: “Lindsay had two jobs,
she worked a lot of hours, but she
always made sure that Kalvin got to
training and matches.
“She would then take Terrell to his
game, so she never stopped, and her
love and support was brilliant to see.
“As a family they’re all really close
and two of their cousins play for
Wortley’s open-age team now.”
Thackray adds: “They didn’t have a
right lot when they were kids. Lindsay
used to cart Kalvin and Terrell
around in a car that probably
shouldn’t have been on the road.
“Kalvin knows what it’s like to be
right at the bottom of the pile and
that, and the support of his family, is
why he has never changed. He knows
where he’s got to has come from sheer
hard work and dedication.”
Thackray and Hatfield are Leeds
season ticket holders and were
overcome with pride on Sunday when
Phillips took centre stage for England
in the 1-0 win over Croatia in their
opening match of Euro 2020.
“The surprise was that Kalvin
played so far forward, but it was just
like him being at Wortley back again,”
Thackray says. “He was first or second
in the goalscoring chart every year.
“One year the age group above
were struggling so they asked Kalvin
to play and he finished top scorer for
both teams. It was calming him down
that was our problem. We’d say, ‘We
don’t always
need to go 100
miles an hour.
Get the ball and
pass it.’ ”
Phillips was
playing for
Wortley in a
tournament in
August 2010
when his talent
was spotted by
Walter “Sonny”
Sweeney, a
Glaswegian
scout who
enjoyed a
successful
playing career and still works
for Leeds. “Kalvin had been away on
holiday and he turned up with Terrell
5
about three quarters of the way
through,” Thackray remembers.
“They started nattering to play and, in
the end, I gave in and Kalvin played.
We won the next game. Sonny,
wearing his Leeds jacket, strolled over
and asked if anybody stood out.
“Then Kalvin tackled a kid, who
went flying, dragged the ball back
with his left foot round his right heel,
like Johan Cruyff, and then played the
‘Kalvin pass’ 50 or 60 yards to the far
touchline. It dropped to our winger’s
feet and off he went down the line.
“Sonny then said to me, ‘Who’s this
kid with No 7 on?’ I said, ‘It’s Kalvin
Phillips.’ He asked me for Kalvin’s
number, but I gave him Lindsay’s.
I said to Sonny, ‘If you take Kalvin
to Thorp Arch [the Leeds training
ground] for six weeks, would it do any
harm?’ Less than three weeks later
Kalvin signed on the dotted line.”
Sweeney remains in close contact
with Phillips. “Kalvin’s a great passer
and now he is starting to become
established in the England team, he
will become a world-class player,”
Sweeney says. “You could see that on
Sunday. I texted him after the game
to congratulate him and he replied
straight away, like he always does.
“The thing with Kalvin is that
people underestimate him. I was quite
confident he would start for England
against Croatia — he was the star
man but he could [still] do better.
“He hit that volley in the first half,
and goals is one thing he could add to
his game. But Kalvin showed his
versatility and his run and pass for
Raheem Sterling’s goal was brilliant.
“The more Kalvin gets settled in
the team, the more confidence he will
take. One day he will captain Leeds.
“In 1971 I played for Cork
Hibernians in the European Cup
against Borussia Mönchengladbach
and faced the great Günter Netzer
in midfield. Kalvin reminds me of
him, but he’s a great person as well as
a great footballer.
“I have had bowel cancer and have
to go back [to hospital] next month
for a CT scan. Kalvin messaged me
saying, ‘All the best, let me know how
you get on.’ That shows what a caring
person he is. He’s a smashing bloke.”
Phillips’s beloved grandmother —
who became known to Leeds fans as
Granny Val after playing a cameo role
in the Amazon docu-series Take us
Home — died in February, but the
loss has brought the Phillips family,
and his childhood sweetheart,
Ashleigh Behan, closer.
Hatfield adds: “Losing his grandma
hit Kalvin hard but he’s determined to
do her proud
at the Euros.
“He’s a
massive source
of inspiration
to kids in
Leeds.
Everyone at
Wortley is so
proud of him
and seeing him
doing so well
brings tears to
my eyes. He
deserves
everything that
comes his way.”
Phillips with Granny Val, left, and his
mum attending the Amazon premiere
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EUROS IN
NUMBERS

Problems mount for

BY BILL EDGAR

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

Mexico have played in 23
continental tournaments or
World Cups since Scotland
previously appeared at a major
Spain Sweden chances even though they had a lot of
tournament, the 1998 World possession,” Andersson snapped, and

0 0 he was just about right. Spain rarely

Cup, 23 years ago: 11 Concacaf
Gold Cups, seven Copa Americas
(invited as “outsiders”) and five
World Cups. Scotland’s starting
XI are at 11 clubs (Jack Hendry’s
loan at Oostende from Celtic
ends at the end of this month).
MEN OF LETTERS
At Euro 2020 Italy have had
two “I” scorers (Immobile and
Insigne), Holland two “W”
scorers (Wijnaldum and
Weghorst) and Ukraine two “Y”
scorers (Yarmolenko and
Yaremchuk). In consecutive
RATINGS
Spain (4-3-3): U Simón 6 — M Llorente 6,
A Laporte 6, P Torres 6, J Alba 7 — Koke 6
(F Ruiz 87min), Rodri 6 (T Alcântara 65, 6),
Pedri 7 — F Torres 6 (M Oyarzabal), A Morata 4
(P Sarabia 65, 6), D Olmo 6 (G Moreno 74).
Sweden (4-4-2): R Olsen 7 — M Lustig 5 (E Krafth
75), V Lindelöf 7, M Danielson 5, L Augustinsson
6 — S Larsson 6, K Olsson 5 (J Cajuste 84),
A Ekdal 5, E Forsberg 6 (P Bengtsson 84) —
M Berg 3 (R Quaison 69, 6), A Isak 7 (V Claesson
69, 6). Booked Lustig.
Referee S Vincic (Slovenia). Attendance 12,517.
PAUL
looked like beating the excellent
Robin Olsen in the away goal. Not
when Álvaro Morata was on the
pitch anyway.
This has been a tough week for
Morata. A section of Spain fans
heckled the striker last week during
the 0-0 friendly against Portugal,
crying “How bad are you?” in their
mother tongue from the stands.
Last night there was no heckling,
but a sizable portion of the crowd in
Seville did whistle the former Chelsea
striker when he was removed towards
the end of the second half.
Morata had spurned two chances,
the easiest of which came in the first

games yesterday Scotland (to
the Czech Republic) and Poland
(to Slovakia) each lost to one
half of former European
champions, Czechoslovakia
having lifted the trophy in 1976.
HIRST
half. A defensive error had given the
striker half the goal to aim at, but
instead he shot wide. Another
snatched shot in the second half
sealed his fate and he was soon
Seville replaced by Pablo Sarabia.
It was telling that the biggest cheer
Spain attempted just shy of 1,000 of last night’s poor-quality encounter

EUROS AT passes, they racked up 17 shots, but

the two most significant numbers
came when Gerard Moreno, the in-
form Villarreal striker, stepped onto

A GLANCE from last night’s match against

Sweden sat at the top of the
scoreboard in La Cartuja, and they
were both zeros.
GOALS SCORED When the final whistle sounded,
the pitch. The man who scored his
32nd goal of the season in the Europa
League final against Manchester
United last month almost snatched it
for Spain in stoppage time, but again

24
Luis Enrique got to his feet, slipped
on his red face mask and sauntered
over to the dry grass to shake hands
with Janne Andersson and nod to the
Sweden head coach.
Enrique was less complimentary
WHEN GOALS about his opposite number when he
WERE SCORED appeared in front of the television
cameras a few minutes later. “The
0-15MIN 1 opposition has decided to defend,
defend and defend,” he huffed. “It has
16-30 2 been a very unjust game.”
31-45 1 Enrique can be something of a
45+ 0 volatile character so it came as no
surprise that his moaning did not
46-60 6 stop there. “The pitch has not helped,”
61-75 3 he fumed.
“The players complained about it in
76-90 6 the dressing room.”
90+ 0 This reeked of a diversionary tactic
from Spain’s head coach. The problem
was not the state of the pitch in
CARDS Seville’s third stadium, which does not
host club football. The defensive
tactics of the Swedes were not the
Olsen stood strong.
Spain’s head coach refused to admit
he got his selection wrong even
though Morata’s confidence is clearly
low and he will surely now be
dropped for Saturday’s match against
Poland. “I thought Álvaro had a great
game,” Enrique said.
“There were fans who applauded
him [when he was substituted].”
There were mitigating factors to
last night’s sub-par display, of course. Spain kept the ball and waited
Spain had trained together for only patiently for an opening but when
two days last week because of a Covid one appeared they could not finish.
scare that ruled Sergio Busquets, the The worst miss of the first half
combative midfielder, out of this belonged to Morata. Marcus
game, but improvement is required if Danielson misjudged the flight of a
Spain are to go deep into the Jordi Alba pass, leaving Morata with
European Championship. an age to pick his corner from
Enrique’s team, which boasted only 12 yards out. The striker instead
231 caps between them, started stroked the ball wide of the far post.
steadily enough. The white boots of Dani Olmo found space in the box, Spain had 79 per cent of the
18-year-old Pedri, the youngest player but Olsen, the former Everton possession by half-time, but they
to represent Spain in a major goalkeeper, reacted instinctively to somehow nearly went behind in
tournament, skipped across the deny the winger after he had stoppage time. Aymeric Laporte dived

19 1
problem either. “It wasn’t raining goal surface early on. connected with Koke’s cross. in as he tried to dispossess the

TOTAL TACKLES
Holland hoping hero can give story a
204 TOM RODDY

On the front page of yesterday’s

Voetbal International, the Dutch
sports magazine, the image of
Holland’s hero sliding on his knees in
celebration was printed above the
FASTEST PLAYERS headline “Energieke”. For a boy who
(KM/H) had not set foot in a professional
football club until he was 18, “energy”
LEONARDO SPINAZZOLA IT was an apt way of summing up
33.8 Denzel Dumfries’s rapid ascent.
DANIEL JAMES WALES Dumfries is the footballer bringing
Hollywood to Holland. Named after
33.5
the actor Denzel Washington, his tale
RAHEEM STERLING ENG is inspiring a new generation. “It is
His parents would send him to the
stairs of their family home when he
misbehaved. “That was a punishment
for him — sitting still,” his father,
and Boris moved from there to
Rotterdam in the 1960s.
They returned in 2006 with
Dumfries, aged 10, his two sisters,
Boris, once said. “I even put him Demelza and Danielle, and younger
outside in the middle of winter. I brother, Donovan, with the intention
closed the sliding door in front of him: to make the move permanent. But the
‘You go and cool down, literally!’ ” family home in the village of Rhoon,
Holland’s previous appearance at a in Rotterdam, did not sell and the
major tournament before Sunday’s family returned after a year.
3-2 victory against Ukraine came at “Denzel is very happy about that
the 2014 World Cup. That year now,” Marleen, who works in
Dumfries was representing Aruba, an education, said during an interview
island north of Venezuela in South in 2018.
America, 5,000 miles from Aged 18, he signed for Sparta
Amsterdam. The right back was 17 Rotterdam after returning from
years old and playing for Barendrecht, Aruba, then moved to Heerenveen in

33.1 what we call a ‘boy’s book’ in Holland
KONRAD LAIMER AUT because it is every boy’s dream what
32.4 is happening with Denzel,” Alex
Pastoor, who coached Dumfries at
Patrik Schick CZ Sparta Rotterdam, told The Times.
32.4 As a boy, Dumfries was so lively
Stats by uefa.com that the family GP suggested that he
should be tested for ADHD.
a non-League club near Rotterdam,
when Giovanni Franken invited him
to represent Aruba.
Dumfries, who shares a surname
with a Scottish market town, qualified
to represent Aruba, a constituent
country in the Kingdom of the
Netherlands, as his mother, Marleen,
2
2017, and within a year he was playing
in the famous red and white stripes of
PSV Eindhoven, establishing himself
Caps Dumfries won as the first-choice right back.
for Aruba, scoring Dumfries only accepted the
once in a friendly invitation to represent Aruba as the
against Guam in two games were unofficial, meaning
March 2014 he would still be able to play for
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unsettled Spain MARCELO DEL POZO/REUTERS

Disciplined Slovakia
shackle Lewandowski
to deliver first shock
Poland Slovakia Mak was surrounded by two Poles but
one of them, Kamil Jozwiak, was too

It was an evening of bad misses
for both teams in Seville. Berg,
main and left, blazed over the bar
with the goal at his mercy, while
Morata, right, missed two great
chances for Spain
impressive Alexander Isak, who
struck the post before the ball
nestled safely into the arms of a
relieved Unai Simón in the Spain
goal.
The hosts should have gone
behind at the start of the second
half. Sebastian Larsson found
1
Linetty 46
2
Szczesny (og) 18,
Skriniar 69
RATINGS
Poland (4-3-3): W Szczesny 5 — B Bereszynski 5,
K Glik 5, J Bednarek 5, M Rybus 5 (T Puchacz,
74min) — K Linetty 6 (P Frankowski, 74),
G Krychowiak 4, M Klich 5 (J Moder 85) —
K Jozwiak 5, R Lewandowski 5, P Zielinski 5
(K Swiderski 85). Booked Krychowiak.
Sent off Krychowiak.
Slovakia (4-2-3-1): M Dubravka 6 — P Pekarik 6
(M Koscelnik 79), L Satka 7, M Skriniar 8, T
Hubocan 7; J Kucka 7, J Hromada 7 (P Hrosovsky
79) — L Haraslin 7 (M Duris 87), M Hamsik 7, R
Mak 7 (T Suslov 87) — O Duda 8 (J Gregus 90+1).
Booked Hubocan. Referee O Hategan.
PAUL ROWAN
The search for a dark horse who can
go deep into the championship will,
for many, stop with Slovakia, who
produced a disciplined defensive
performance and were clinical in
front of goal when chances were
presented to them, with the centre
half Milan Skriniar striking an
excellent winner in the 67th minute.
Poland were flat, their most
dangerous player, Robert
Lewandowski, was isolated
throughout and their cynicism was
punished when Grzegorz Krychowiak
was sent off half an hour from the
end, causing the game to swing
Slovakia’s way.
Mikael Lustig with a curling best chance of the match. Isak’s “Milan put in a great performance,
cross but he miskicked in an twinkle toes sent his three markers but the whole team played very well,”
embarrassing fashion. moving in different directions. That Stefan Tarkovic, the Slovakia
The finishing was not allowed him to roll the ball to Berg at manager, said. “I was very happy that
much sharper at the the back post but he shanked his shot himself and his team-mates managed
other end. Again wide from less than five yards before to neutralise such a great player.”
Morata dragged falling to the ground, presumably out Poland started positively, but it was
another shot wide. of embarrassment. the veteran Marek Hamsik who got
The small Moreno looked threatening Slovakia moving, producing a lovely
Swedish as soon as he came on and he almost pass to Ondrej Duda, who cut in from
contingent in the grabbed a winner at the death the left and shot narrowly wide. It was
crowd turned with a downward header, but down that left-hand side that Poland’s
their anger on Olsen clawed the ball away and stolidity was quickly punished shortly
Marcus Berg after Sweden had the draw they had afterwards, when Tomas Hubocan fed
he squandered the fought so hard for. Robert Mak close to the touchline.
passive and the other, Bartosz
Bereszynski, got too close and was
nutmegged. Mak then sped into the
Poland box and shot from a narrow
angle. The ball took a slight deflection
off Kamil Glik, hit Wojciech
Szczesny’s near post and came back
off the goalkeeper and into the net.
It was registered as an own goal but
Szczesny was unfortunate; for the rest
of the first half, his team-mates were
playing as if they were down on their
luck, lifeless and placid, despite the
quality in their ranks.
It was best summed up when
Krychowiak was booked for pulling
back the fleet-footed Jakub Hromada.
Krychowiak’s effort late in the first
half, which flew just over the bar, was
the closest Poland came to scoring
before the interval. However, the
second half was only 30 seconds old
when a clever ball by Mateusz Klich
got Maciej Rybus in behind the
Slovakia defence and his cross was
side-footed in by Karol Linetty.
Poland no longer looked passive
and momentum seemed to swing in
their favour. Then there was a twist.
Krychowiak again went in illegally on
Hromoda just after the hour mark
with a late and clumsy challenge and
there was no argument when the
Romanian referee, Ovidiu Hategan,
showed a second yellow card.
Slovakia quickly punished Poland
when an outswinging corner was
brilliantly pulled out of the air by the
boot of Skriniar. The centre half then
picked his spot and shot through
several legs into the net.
Skriniar and Peter Pekarik
did a brilliant job of marshalling
Lewandowski, though the Bayern
Munich striker did have a half-chance
from a corner, which he headed wide,
and in stoppage time Jan Bednarek
screwed a shot past the post.
“We worked on marking Skriniar
from corners during the week and
I don’t know how we lost him,” Paulo
Sousa, the Poland manager, said.
“I am very disappointed. I thought
we were the more creative team.”

Hollywood ending I am not a racist, says Arnautovic MARTIN HARDY

THE OTHER DUMFRIES
The Scottish town of Dumfries sits
astride the river Nith, which flows into
the beautiful Solway Firth. Some say the
town’s name comes from the Gaelic Dùn
Phris, meaning “Fort of the Thicket”. The
local football team is Queen of the
South, and the town, with a population
of almost 50,000, is the former home of
the poet Robert Burns, the novelist J.M.
Barrie, the DJ Calvin Harris and the
missionary Jane Haining.
Holland. He scored in that first game
in 2014 for Aruba, against Guam, with
a superb strike from 35 yards out.
A seven-year wait began for
Dumfries to score another
international goal but the significance
when it came was incomparable. At
Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Arena he
delivered a late winner, having been
the most influential player in the
European Championship’s most
entertaining game so far.
Now the story of Dumfries’s rise is
helping to inspire belief in Frank de
Boer’s side. He has sparked a fire
within a national team that has such a
vulnerable core that it is essential
they continue to attack this
tournament with vigour.
Many expect that the story will get
a new chapter this summer with
Dumfries continuing his climb to
greater heights through a move to a
more prominent European club.
“He reminds me of players like Jaap
Stam, Phillip Cocu and Kevin
Strootman,” Pastoor, 54, said.
“They are players who made a step
every one or two seasons, every step a
bit higher, they adjusted to that level
and then, after a period of time, they
got better and outplayed the others.”
Certainly, Holland do not want him
to ease up now. Dumfries provides
what they require: “Energieke”.
Marko Arnautovic has apologised for
his angry goal celebration against
North Macedonia but has denied
using racist language towards them.
The former West Ham United and
Stoke City forward came off the
bench in Austria’s group C game on
Sunday night and scored in the final
minute to seal a 3-1 victory.
It has been claimed that
Arnautovic’s rant was directed at the
Leeds United player Ezgjan Alioski,
who is of Albanian heritage. The
Serbian newspaper, Informer, alleged
that the 32-year-old Arnautovic said
to Alioski: “I f***ed your Albanian
mother.” The pair were seen talking
to each other at the end of the game.
Koha Ditore, the leading daily
newspaper in Kosovo, has claimed
that Arnautovic, who has a Serbian
father, addressed Alioski in Serbian so
that he would understand him.
David Alaba, the Austria captain,
Alaba, the Austria captain, tried to
stifle Arnautovic’s angry outburst
grabbed Arnautovic’s mouth in an
attempt to stop him and pushed him
down to further muffle his outburst.
Arnautovic issued an apology
through Instagram. “There were some
heated words yesterday in the
emotions of the game for which I
would like to apologise ,” he said.
“Especially to my friends from North
Macedonia and Albania. I would like
to say one thing very clearly: I am not
a racist. I have friends in almost every
country and I stand for diversity.
Everyone who knows me is aware of
that . . . It had nothing to do with
politics at all. There was a battle of
words in the emotion, from both
sides. To all those people who felt
addressed: I’m sorry.”
A Uefa spokesman said: “There are
no disciplinary proceedings opened
following the three Euro matches
played yesterday [Sunday].”
Austria’s sporting director Peter
Schöttel said: “Trash talk is part of
football. The most important thing is
that Marko has made it clear he has
nothing to do with politics. The
second thing is that it was cleared up
after the game. The topic has been
resolved.”
Serbia does not recognise the
independence of its former province
Kosovo, while there is historic tension
between Serbia and North
Macedonia.
Arnautovic plays for Shanghai Port
in China, having left West Ham in
2019 after scoring 22 times in two
seasons for the club.
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coaches to take bold risks
JAMES
T
GHEERBRANT
When the whistle blows at the
Allianz Arena in Munich tonight,
probably 12, possibly 13, of the
players standing on the pitch will
have finished on the victorious
team in a World Cup final. The
starting line-ups of France and
Germany could have as many as
23 Champions League winners’
medals between them.
Nine of the likely starters played
when these giants collided in a
World Cup quarter-final in Rio de
Janeiro seven years ago. Oh, and
one of these two countries has
contested six of the past nine
European Championship finals. To
borrow a line from José Mourinho,
this is football heritage.
Group-stage curtain-raisers
don’t come bigger than France
v Germany, and it is not only
the might of the teams that
amplifies this occasion, it is
also the height of the
stakes. With the defending
champions Portugal —
arguably stronger than they
were five years ago — also
lurking ominously in this group,
defeat in this opening game would
put the losing team in peril of
failing to reach the knockout phase,
the lifeline for the best four third-
place teams notwithstanding.
For Joachim Löw, in his final
hour as Germany head coach
having narrowly survived the 2018
World Cup debacle, to exit on such
a sad note would be unbearable. For
Didier Deschamps, whose team
won that World Cup and who has
at his disposal one of the strongest
national squads assembled for
any recent major tournament,
France it is simply unthinkable.
Löw and Deschamps are
v Germany not, ordinarily, men given
Group F, Munich to desperate measures, and
Today, 8pm yet the intensity of this
TV: ITV competition has forced
Radio: talkSPORT steady hands into sharp turns.
For Löw, that has meant
bringing back into the fold Thomas
Müller and Mats Hummels, two key
players who were dispensed with
after the 2018 World Cup in a
symbolic break with a supposedly
bygone era, which as a gestural
response to disaster turned out to
be roughly equivalent to sawing off
your right arm after a car crash.
After 2½ years of distinctly
underwhelming results, Müller and
Hummels were recalled and both
appear likely to start.
For Deschamps, perhaps even
more uncharacteristically, it has
meant a rapprochement with Karim
Benzema, who could play his first
tournament game for Les Bleus
since that July day in Rio. Benzema
is 33 and had appeared to be in
permanent exile from the national
team amid claims that he was
involved in an alleged plot to
blackmail his erstwhile
international team-mate Mathieu
Valbuena over a sex tape. Quite
unexpectedly, Deschamps has
risked the delicate harmony of his
squad by bringing the Real Madrid
striker in from the cold.
France’s rearmost seven is likely
to be almost unchanged from the
team that won the World Cup, with
Hugo Lloris in goal, N’Golo Kanté
partnering Paul Pogba in central
midfield, and only Presnel
Kimpembe supplanting Samuel
Umtiti in the back four. Kylian
Mbappé and Antoine Griezmann
are also certain to start, but Blaise
Matuidi’s retirement has opened a
vacancy in the XI, likely to be filled
by Kingsley Coman or Adrien
Rabiot, and Deschamps has a
Baku heat and hostile
crowd add to size of
task for Page’s men
GARY JACOB
There is plenty that Wales must
improve if they are to earn the win
against Turkey tomorrow that they
will realistically need if they want to
get beyond the group stage. As well
as rectifying a puzzling, flat display
against Switzerland, they face new
obstacles against a Turkey side who
were seen as dark horses but are
fighting to stay in the tournament
gigantic decision to make up front,
between Benzema and the
dependable Olivier Giroud.
Benzema may have disparagingly
likened his rival to a go-kart (in a
convoluted simile in which he was a
Formula One car), but Giroud is
highly effective in Deschamps’s
system. In France’s final warm-up
friendly, against Bulgaria, Benzema
went off with a knock shortly
before half-time and Giroud
delivered a potent reminder of his
qualities, scoring the 45th and 46th
goals of his international career.
To complicate matters, Giroud
has been embroiled in a minor feud
with Mbappé. After that friendly,
the striker said in a TV interview:
“Sometimes you make a run and
the balls just don’t arrive,” which
was read by some as a thinly veiled
dig at Mbappé. The Paris Saint-
Germain forward admitted that he
was annoyed that Giroud hadn’t
raised the issue with him face to
face. Hugo Lloris was in bomb-
defusal mode when asked about the
controversy yesterday, saying: “It
made a lot more noise outside than
within the camp. It’s behind us.”
France will be favourites against a
Germany team who have slipped to
12th in the world rankings and
vacillated between systems since
the 2018 World Cup, but Löw’s team
will be slightly buoyed by their final
warm-up game, against Latvia, in
which Müller and Hummels were
integrated into the team and they
finally appeared to have hit on
something with a 3-4-3.
That line-up has Hummels and
Antonio Rüdiger flanking Matthias
Ginter in a back three, Toni Kroos
and Ilkay Gundogan in a double
pivot, and Müller and Kai Havertz
ghosting into the half-spaces behind
Serge Gnabry in the front three. If
there is a trade-off, it’s that Joshua
Kimmich, a world-class defensive
midfielder, plays as a wing back, but
Löw said: “Like Philipp Lahm, he
can be played in all positions
without any problems and always
delivers the same performance.”
Leon Goretzka, the influential
Bayern Munich midfielder who has
been sidelined for a month with a
muscle tear, could be fit to take part.
after a 3-0 defeat by Italy in their
opening game. With Wales ending
the group stage against Italy in
Rome on Sunday, it could be a
decisive match for both countries.
DEFENCE
Robert Page surprised many by
switching to a back four. He had
nearly always used a wing-back
system and a false nine in his
previous eight matches in charge
Tuesday June 15 2021 | the times
ANATOMY
OF KYLIAN
MBAPPÉ
BY TOM WILLIAMS
Already a World Cup winner and
four-times Ligue 1 champion, Kylian
Mbappé heads into the European
Championship with France hoping to
cement his reputation as the most
exciting young footballer in the
world.
Ludovic Batelli, who coached
Mbappé to victory with France at the
Under-19 European Championship in
2016, breaks down the 22-year-old
Paris Saint-Germain striker’s game.
AERIAL ABILITY
If there is an area of finishing
where he needs to progress, it is
his heading. It is perhaps his
Achilles’ heel. He needs to
improve on that, particularly
when he is playing through
the middle. He has so many
different ways of finishing,
whether with his right
foot or his left, but when
you look at his stats, he
scores few goals with his
head. That is maybe one
thing he needs to
improve.
STRENGTH
He was 18 when I
worked with him and his
upper body has filled out
since then. There’s much
more harmony between
the different parts of his
body. He was always very
quick and powerful, with
very powerful thighs, but
now his upper body is in
harmony with that so he can
show more resistance in
physical duels and when he’s
protecting the ball. He has
progressed a lot in that respect.
FINISHING
Kylian’s extraordinary speed gives
him an extra half a second to
analyse the situation when he gets
into goal-scoring positions. He
always gives himself time and
space. He can look at the positions
of the goalkeeper, the defenders
and his opponents and decide on
the correct action, whether that’s a
shot or a pass. Technically, his
posture is very good and his
standing foot is always close to the
ball. He is a finisher of great quality
and he can finish just as well with
his right foot as with his left. He has
a complete range of finishes.
because he wanted to play on the
counterattack against superior
sides. This time he partnered Chris
Mepham and Joe Rodon at centre
back, with Connor Roberts and
Ben Davies as full backs.
“You’ll feel a bit more secure and
safe with the extra defender, but
what’s more important is that we’ve
got extra players up the pitch trying
to score goals,” Rodon said.
Without the protection of an
extra central defender, Mepham,
in particular, was badly exposed by
the pace of Breel Embolo and in
one instance was fortunate not
to concede a penalty for tugging
the Switzerland forward’s shirt
on Saturday.
Mepham lost his starting place
at Bournemouth this season, and
when injuries to others handed
him a chance in the second leg of
their Sky Bet Championship play-
off semi-final against Brentford,
he made a horrible mistake that
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resulted in him being sent off.
Worryingly for Wales, Mepham
plays on the side that Burak Yilmaz
likes to attack. The Turkey striker’s
preference is to run and receive
the ball towards the left, and even
though he is now 35, he scored 16
Ligue 1 goals for Lille this season
and has 29 for Turkey.
It may be a risk for Page to
change the system again, but if he
does, he could move Davies across
as a third centre back and bring in
Neco Williams at left-wing back.
But that would mean either
sacrificing an attacking player or
playing Aaron Ramsey in front of
the back four, which Wales have not
tried, largely because the midfielder
has missed so many matches
through injury this season.
BLUNT ATTACK
Wales have managed 11 goals in
14 matches since September and
Kieffer Moore had the best two
chances, scoring with one. The
defence were very deep and there
was little intensity or energy in
front, forcing Ramsey to help out
with defensive duties and Dan
James to try to carry the ball from
his own half, which sapped energy.
The other issue was that there
was no support for Moore when he
competed for longer balls. Moore
was booked for leading with his
elbow and if he picks up another
tomorrow — which is entirely
possible, as he has nine yellow
cards for club and country this
season — he would be suspended
for the match against Italy.
HOSTILITY
Most of the 31,000 available seats
at the Baku Olympic Stadium
in Azerbaijan will be taken by
travelling Turkey fans or locals
supporting them, making it feel like
a hostile away match for Wales.
It will be in sharp contrast to
the 8,782 mostly neutral
supporters who watched the
1-1 draw with Switzerland.
There are close ties
between Turkey and
Azerbaijan; the entrance to
Wales’s training base in Baku
has been decorated by fans with
the Cymru banner and the Turkey
flag. The Turkey president, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, is due to visit
Shusha, a city in the disputed
Nagorno-Karabakh region today.
The venue will add to the
pressure for Wales’s players,
many of whom will not have
faced a crowd of that size since
before the pandemic. “It could
be a shock, but we have played
in front of crowds before,”
Ethan Ampadu, the Wales
midfielder, said. “Everyone
Wales centre back Rodon
is saying it is going to be
hostile. But games have been
Turkey without fans for so long now
v Wales that we are looking forward
Tomorrow, 5pm, Baku to having an atmosphere,
TV: BBC1; even [if it is] hostile. We
Radio: talkSPORT, know what to expect.”
BBC 5 Live One aspect of fans not
being at matches was that
players were better able to hear
each other and their manager.
“I think you just have to shout a
bit louder really, simple as that,”
Ampadu said, drily. “Hopefully
they can hear. It would be good
if we all had a megaphone on
the pitch!”
HEAT
The Wales players were
flagging towards the end
of the game with Switzerland,
in part because the match kicked
off at 2pm, during the hottest
part of the day, and because a
number are short of match fitness
after being on the periphery at their
clubs or returning from injury this
season. Stoke City’s Joe Allen, for
example, had a calf and hamstring
injury and missed the last three
months of the season, while Rodon
made only eight league starts for
Tottenham Hotspur.
The temperature in Baku is
forecast to be 32C tomorrow, falling
to about 29C for the 8pm kick-off.
“The conditions are always going
to make it that bit more difficult,”
Rodon said.
Ensuring the squad are
sufficiently hydrated is down
to Tony Strudwick, the newly
appointed Arsenal head of academy
performance and a former key
lieutenant of Sir Alex Ferguson at
Manchester United. The players are
handed slush drinks after training,
will have a specially cooled dressing
room and use ice baths to aid their
recovery process.
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THE INTRIGUING SUBPLOT
BAYERN MUNICH’S ATTACK V DEFENCE
FRANCE V GERMANY, 8PM
France’s heavyweight encounter with
Germany may end up resembling a
game of attack v defence in a Bayern
Munich training session. That’s
because two Bayern wingers in Leroy
Sané, right, and Serge Gnabry
are likely to go head-to-
head with two Bayern
full backs in Benjamin
Pavard and Lucas
Hernandez.
In fact, the whole
clash will have a
distinct Bavarian
feel to it. Four
Bayern players
started Germany’s
last warm-up friendly
against Latvia, while
France have two other
stars for the Bundesliga
giants in their squad in the
midfielder Corentin Tolisso and the
winger Kingsley Coman.
Pavard has already been asked how
he will approach the tie against his
ON THIS DAY IN EUROS HISTORY
ENGLAND BEAT SCOTLAND 2-0 AT EURO ’96
The game that spawned a thousand nostalgia pieces for England fans and leaves
Scotland with a score to settle 25 years later. Will another player “empty a
saltmine” into Scottish supporters’ wounds at Wembley on Friday, or will Steve ve
Clarke’s men get the party started with a win against the Auld Enemy?
How The Times
reported the win
A new dimension was brought to the
tales of suffering so often carried
north from Wembley when the man
voted Footballer of the Year in
Scotland buried the nation in gloom
at the old stadium yesterday with a
goal of glorious impertinence and
utter decisiveness. When Paul
Gascoigne, moving on to a pass from
Anderton, hooked the ball over
Hendry’s head with his left foot and
then rammed it low past Goram with
his right, he emptied a saltmine into
the deepest wound any sporting
experience can inflict on the Scots.
It was an instant, if less than
comprehensive, answer to the sense
of injustice that was welling in the
breasts of a tartan army who had seen
a Durie header clawed away
desperately by Seaman and then
watched the goalkeeper make another
Eriksen ‘won’t give up’ as he searches for answers
MARTYN ZIEGLER
Christian Eriksen has said that he
“wants to understand” what happened
to him after he suffered a cardiac
arrest and collapsed on the pitch.
The 29-year-old Denmark and
Inter Milan midfielder is in hospital in
Copenhagen having tests after being
resuscitated with a defibrillator on the
pitch on Saturday night during the
match against Finland.
In a message to fans via his agent,
and reported by the Italian newspaper
Gazzetta dello Sport, he said: “Thank
you, I won’t give up. I feel better
now – but I want to understand
what’s happened.”
There are doubts over whether
team-mates at club level. “The firstt
game against Germany in Munich is
something special,” the 25-year-old d has made a record 21 appearances in
told Bild. “I’m meeting a lot of friends
nds
from the club. But during the game, e,
they are my opponents. There re
are no gifts there.”
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no surprise: the
football rivalry
between the two
nations is a fiercee
one. The most
recent time the two
nations met at an n
international
tournament, Francence
beat Germany 2-0 in
the Euro 2016 semi-
finals — the first time
they had done so in a
competitive fixture since the 1958958
World Cup. Those tensions will be
renewed tonight in Munich, where
there will be no room for camaraderie erie
between Bayern team-mates.
ves
alty
heroic save from a McAllister penalty
that was driven hard but placed too o
close to the goalkeeper and too far
above the turf.
Today, English morale will be
deservedly high and, after the
draining build-up to this fraught
renewal of the most historic domesticstic
d to
dispute in football, they are entitled
let their minds go blissfully blank for
a few hours before they contemplate te
ots,
the next assignment. As for the Scots,
they must take encouragement from m
the spirited competitiveness they
offered here and go seeking a clearr
victory over Switzerland on Tuesday ay
in the hope that England-Holland
produces the kind of Dutch defeat
that could put them through. It is an
unlikely script but when did
Scotland’s footballers ever contrivee a
simple route to success, or even
survival? The odds, obviously,
suggest that yet again they have
reached one of the game’s great
parties only to be bundled into the
street after the first dance.
Eriksen, who played for Tottenham
Hotspur, will be able to play again,
and in Italy at least that appears very
unlikely given that there are strict
laws in the country about playing
competitive sport with such a serious
medical condition.
Eriksen has spoken to his Denmark
team-mates via a video link from the
hospital and has urged them to look
forward to their next match against
Belgium on Thursday. The players
have expressed dissatisfaction at
having to decide on Saturday whether
to finish the match.
Kasper Schmeichel, the Leicester
City and Denmark goalkeeper who is
a close friend of Eriksen, said: “We
were put in a position which I don’t
think we should have been put in.”
MOST INTERNATIONAL
GOALS
Ali Daei (Iran)
109
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)
104
Mokhtar Dahari (Malaysia)
89
Ferenc Puskas (Hungary)
84
Godrey Chitalu (Zambia)
79
13
Portugal are
unbeaten in all 13
meetings against
Hungary, winning
nine and drawing
four times
Schmeichel has been able to visit
Eriksen in hospital and he added:
“That’s helped me a lot. To see that
he’s OK after he was lying there like
that. We talked about everything and
nothing. That he’s doing well, that’s
the most important.”
Schmeichel’s father, Peter, the
former Manchester United ‘keeper,
claimed the players had not been
given a real choice about finishing the
game, though Uefa denied that it had
told the players they would forfeit the
match if they did not play.
“They were left with three options,
one was to play immediately and get
the last 50 minutes played,” he said.
“The next was to come in yesterday
[Sunday] at noon and the third option
was to forfeit the game, 3-0.
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“So work it out for yourself. Is it the
players’ wish to play? Did they have
any choice? I don’t think they had.”
Jonas Baer-Hoffmann, the general
secretary of international players’
union Fifpro, said the decision should
not have been made in the immediate
aftermath and that it would be
conducting a review with Uefa.
“It would have been better to cancel
the game that evening. Take a bit of
time, look at what are the options to
carry on with the game or not, and if
the game can’t be replayed then I
think also that would not be very
important in comparison to what
happened there to Christian,” he said.
“The players were probably not
given a real option in terms of taking
a good decision that was in that
Tuesday June 15 2021 | the times
STAR PLAYER
CRISTIANO RONALDO
HUNGARY V PORTUGAL, 5PM
In a group brimming with star quality,
the Portuguese stands tallest. Ronaldo
European Championships and needs
one more goal to overtake Michel
Platini’s record of nine goals at the
tournament. More significantly, Ali
Daei’s all-time international goals record
is in Ronaldo’s sights. The Juventus
veteran is on 104 goals, only five behind
the Iran forward’s 109. A fast start today
and Ronaldo will start to reel him in.
TODAY’S MATCH DETAILS
HUNGARY V F PF
PORTUGAL
Group F Puskas Arena, Budapest
Kick-off Today, 5pm (6pm local time)
Coverage
TV ITV
Radio talkSPORT, BBC 5 Live
Possible line-ups
Hungary (3-5-2):
P Gulacsi — A Fiola, W Orban, Attila
Szalai — G Lovrencsics, L Kleinheisler,
A Nagy, A Schafer, F Holender — R Sallai,
A Szalai
Portugal (4-2-3-1):
Rui Patrício — N Semedo, Pepe, R Dias,
R Guerreiro — Danilo, W Carvalho —
B Silva, B Fernandes, D Jota —
C Ronaldo
Tony Cascarino prediction
Hungary 0 Portugal 2
FRANCE V
GERMANY
Group F Allianz Arena, Munich
Kick-off Today, 8pm (9pm local time)
Coverage
TV ITV
Radio talkSPORT, BBC 5 Live
Possible line-ups
France (4-3-3):
H Lloris — B Pavard, R Varane,
P Kimpembe, L Hernández — N Kanté,
A Rabiot, P Pogba — K Mbappé,
K Benzema, A Griezmann
Germany (3-4-3):
M Neuer — M Ginter, M Hummels,
A Rüdiger — J Kimmich, I Gundogan,
T Kroos, R Gosens — K Havertz,
T Müller, S Gnabry
Tony Cascarino prediction
France 3 Germany 1
moment in balance with where they
were mentally.”
Uefa said it had dealt with the
matter as carefully as it could. “Uefa
is sure it treated the matter with
utmost respect for the sensitive
situation and for the players,” it said.
“It was decided to restart the match
only after the two teams requested to
finish the game on the same evening.
“The players’ need for 48 hours’
rest between matches eliminated
other options.”
Inter Milan’s doctor Piero Volpi said
no tests previously carried out on
Eriksen had flagged up any concerns.
“There had never been an episode
that even remotely hinted at a
problem, neither when he was at
Tottenham, nor at Inter,” he said.
GROUP STAGE
ROUTE TO THE FINAL The top two in each group, plus four best third-placed teams go through

A P W D L F A GD PTS
B P W D L F A GD PTS
C P W D L F A GD PTS
ITALY 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 3 BELGIUM 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 3 AUSTRIA 1 1 0 0 3 1 +2 3

SWITZERLAND 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 FINLAND 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 3 HOLLAND 1 1 0 0 3 2 +1 3

WALES 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 DENMARK 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0 UKRAINE 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0

TURKEY 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 0 RUSSIA 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 0 NORTH MACEDONIA 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0

FRIDAY JUNE 11 TOMORROW SATURDAY JUNE 12 THURSDAY JUNE 17 SUNDAY JUNE 13 THURSDAY JUNE 17
8PM, ROME 8PM, ROME, ITV 5PM, COPENHAGEN 5PM, COPENHAGEN, ITV 5PM, BUCHAREST 8PM, AMSTERDAM, BBC
Turkey 0 Italy Denmark 0 Denmark Austria 3 Holland
Lainer 18, Gregoritsch 78, Arnautovic 89

Italy 3 Switzerland Finland 1 Belgium North Macedonia 1 Austria

Demiral 53 (og), Immobile 66, Insigne 79 Pohjanpalo 60 Pandev 28

SATURDAY JUNE 12 SUNDAY JUNE 20 SATURDAY JUNE 12 MONDAY JUNE 21 SUNDAY JUNE 13 MONDAY JUNE 21
2PM, BAKU 5PM, ROME, ITV 8PM, ST PETERSBURG 8PM, ST PETERSBURG, BBC 8PM, AMSTERDAM 5PM, BUCHAREST, ITV
Wales 1 Italy Belgium 3 Finland Holland 3 Ukraine
Moore 74 Lukaku 10, 88, Meunier 34 Wijnaldum 52, Weghorst 58, Dumfries 85

Switzerland 1 Wales Russia 0 Belgium Ukraine 2 Austria

Embolo 49 Yarmolenko 75, Yaremchuk 79

TOMORROW SUNDAY JUNE 20 TOMORROW MONDAY JUNE 21 THURSDAY JUNE 17 MONDAY JUNE 21
5PM, BAKU, BBC 5PM, BAKU, ITV 2PM, ST PETERSBURG, BBC 8PM, COPENHAGEN, BBC 2PM, BUCHAREST, ITV 5PM, AMSTERDAM, ITV
Turkey Switzerland Finland Russia Ukraine North Macedonia
Wales Turkey Russia Denmark North Macedonia Holland

D P W D L F A GD PTS
E P W D L F A GD PTS
F P W D L F A GD PTS
CZECH REPUBLIC 1 1 0 0 2 0 +2 3 SLOVAKIA 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1 3 FRANCE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

ENGLAND 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 3 SPAIN 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 GERMANY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

CROATIA 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0 SWEDEN 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 HUNGARY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

SCOTLAND 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0 POLAND 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0 PORTUGAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

SUNDAY JUNE 13 FRIDAY JUNE 18 YESTERDAY SATURDAY JUNE 19 TODAY SATURDAY JUNE 19
2PM, LONDON 8PM, LONDON, ITV 5PM, ST PETERSBURG, ITV 8PM, SEVILLE, BBC 5PM, BUDAPEST, ITV 5PM, MUNICH, ITV
England 1 England Poland 1 Spain Hungary Portugal
Sterling 57 Linetty 46

Croatia 0 Scotland Slovakia 2 Poland Portugal Germany

Szczesny (og) 18, Skriniar 69

YESTERDAY TUESDAY JUNE 22 YESTERDAY WEDNESDAY JUNE 23 TODAY WEDNESDAY JUNE 23

2PM, GLASGOW, BBC 8PM, LONDON, ITV 8PM, SEVILLE, BBC 5PM, ST PETERSBURG, ITV 8PM, MUNICH, ITV 8PM, MUNICH, BBC
Scotland 0 Czech Republic Spain 0 Sweden France Germany
Czech Republic 2 England Sweden 0 Poland Germany Hungary
Schick 42, 52

FRIDAY JUNE 18 TUESDAY JUNE 22 FRIDAY JUNE 18 WEDNESDAY JUNE 23 SATURDAY JUNE 19 WEDNESDAY JUNE 23
5PM, GLASGOW, BBC 8PM, GLASGOW, ITV 2PM, ST PETERSBURG, BBC 5PM, SEVILLE, ITV 2PM, BUDAPEST, BBC 8PM, BUDAPEST, BBC
Croatia Croatia Sweden Slovakia Hungary Portugal
Czech Republic Scotland Slovakia Spain France France

KNOCKOUT STAGE
ROUND OF 16
SATURDAY JUNE 26 - MATCH 1 SUNDAY JUNE 27 - MATCH 3 MONDAY JUNE 28 - MATCH 5 TUESDAY JUNE 29 - MATCH 7
5PM, AMSTERDAM 5PM, BUDAPEST 5PM, COPENHAGEN 5PM, LONDON
2A 1C 2D 1D
2B 3D/E/F 2E 2F

SATURDAY JUNE 26 - MATCH 2 SUNDAY JUNE 27 - MATCH 4 MONDAY JUNE 28 - MATCH 6 TUESDAY JUNE 29 - MATCH 8
8PM, LONDON 8PM, SEVILLE 8PM, BUCHAREST 8PM, GLASGOW
1A 1B 1F 1E
2C 3A/D/E/F 3A/B/C 3A/B/C/D

QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINAL FINAL

FRIDAY JULY 2 - QF1 SATURDAY JULY 3 - QF3 TUESDAY JULY 6 - SF1 SUNDAY JULY 11
5PM, ST PETERSBURG 5PM, BAKU 8PM, LONDON 8PM, LONDON
WINNER 6 WINNER 3 WINNER QF2 WINNER SF1
WINNER 5 WINNER 1 WINNER QF1 WINNER SF2

FRIDAY JULY 2 - QF2 SATURDAY JULY 3 - QF4 WEDNESDAY JULY 7 - SF2

8PM, MUNICH 8PM, ROME 8PM, LONDON
WINNER 4 WINNER 8 WINNER QF 4
WINNER 2 WINNER 7 WINNER QF3
Portugal are aiming to defend the crown they won five years ago
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T TheEuros
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER MARC ASPLAND

How street views its

famous son after his
goal 523 yards away
TOMAS HILL
LOPEZ-MENCHERO
Neeld Crescent is only an
11-minute walk from
Wembley Stadium, which
has long since fallen quiet
after Raheem Sterling’s
goal gave England victory
in their opening match at a
European Championship
finals for the first time.
From the statue of
Bobby Moore it is a short
walk past the London
Designer Outlet and two
hotels and over the tracks
of Wembley railway station
to the bustling Wembley
Hill road, which connects
to Harrow Road.
You pass a few takeaway
outlets and then
a left turn on to
Oakington Manor
Drive brings you
into residential
territory. The
Wembley arch
comes in and out
of view behind
blocks of flats.
Then you
find yourself
on Neeld
Crescent
with the
clearest view yet
of the ground —
not only the arch,
but half the
90,000-seat
stadium too.
The road slopes
upwards to Wembley,
making it seem as if all
roads lead there.
It is easy to see how the
young Sterling dreamt of
representing his country
here, imagining the wall
against which he kicked a
football was the Wembley
goal. This is where Sterling
spent some of his
formative years, going to
Copland Community
School — now the Ark Elvin
Academy — playing
football for his first club,
Alpha & Omega FC, and
honing his technique.
It is the day after
England’s 1-0 win against
Croatia at Euro 2020, and
the residents of Neeld
Crescent still can’t believe
it. It is quiet, there are few
people about and the only
noise comes from a group
of workmen at the top
of the avenue. Almost
exactly 24 hours ago
and 523 yards
away in Wembley
Stadium, The gently sloping Neeld responded to those who Where he scored his first influence. Last year his son he even bought 550 FA
Sterling — the Crescent, where Sterling, criticised his selection by England goal Theo wrote a piece for his Cup semi-final tickets for
self-titled “Boy left, honed his technique Gareth Southgate in an school, entitled Your his old school in Harlesden
from Brent” from the age of 8 to 14 emphatic manner. favourite sportsman, about in 2019.
— latched “He had a point to prove Sterling. “To see where he’s come
on to a Sterling has remained a and he did,” Michael According to Brown, the from to what he’s doing
Kalvin role model to those in the Brown, a Wembley Manchester City player now is inspirational,”
Phillips area and beyond. On resident, says. “He’s a good 523 yards heard about the tribute Zeshan Raja, who lives
pass to kick- Saturday it was announced human being. The boy’s and promptly sent tickets near Neeld Crescent, says.
start England’s that the Manchester City good for the community, to an England friendly for “We’re so close to the
campaign. Rarely and England forward for where he’s playing and the boy and his mother. It stadium. To know that one
have the words “Football’s would be appointed MBE how he’s a role model.” Where he fits the general picture of a of the players making a
coming home” seemed for his services to racial Brown has first-hand grew up footballer who has stayed big difference is from here
more apt. equality. Then Sterling experience of Sterling’s connected to his roots — means a lot.”

‘No pressure. No tension. Just pure joy’
Watching the England
game through his son’s
eyes made the occasion
even more special
for Adam Lallana
It has been a while since I have truly
lost myself at a football match, at least
when I have not been directly
involved. But when Kalvin Phillips
burst beyond Croatia’s defence and
slipped a clever pass for Raheem
Sterling to score, the emotion of being
a fan kicked in.
I was out of my seat at Wembley,
punching the air and, for a moment,
in my own little world.
The contrast between that rush of
euphoria and the feeling of anxiety I
had watching the World Cup in
Russia in 2018, having not made the
squad through injury, was stark. Back
then the fear of missing out on
something had left me conflicted, but
this was like a release.
There was no pressure. No tension.
I could just enjoy the game. Three
years after my last cap against Italy in
the same stadium, it was almost like
being transported back to the start of
my career, watching England in the
pub with my mates, singing “It’s
coming home” and believing this was
the year the team will win a trophy
again.
After a couple of seconds I looked
to see how my eldest son, Arthur, had
reacted. He was jumping around and
we had a big fist-pump together.
I understand I was in the privileged
position of being able to attend the
game thanks to Jordan Henderson,
my former Liverpool team-mate, who
sorted out tickets. Being there with
Arthur made the day extra special.
Covid restrictions mean that we
have not been to a club game
together since I moved to Brighton. If
we did at Liverpool, it might have
been because I was injured, or left out
of the squad, and the experience is
completely different. Your mind is in a
different place because you are
thinking about when you will be back
fit again and maybe who is playing in
your position. It’s wrong, but in those
circumstances you feel like you’re
letting your team down, so it’s not
easy to compare.
England-Croatia reminded me of
the father-son trips to matches I used
to have as a kid. Going to Dean Court
to watch Bournemouth, or travelling
up to Goodison Park because we were
Everton fans. I wouldn’t swap the
time we spent together on Sunday
for anything.
My first memory of a major
tournament was of Paul Gascoigne
scoring at Euro ’96 when I was eight.
Arthur is at the same age now and
Raheem’s goal is one he will
remember for the rest of his life.
It would be hard to say who
enjoyed the day more. An England
shirt we ordered with Jordan’s name
on it had not arrived in time for
Arthur, but he had another one he
wore instead.
Driving over, I explained that
England’s players would be taking a
knee and asked him if he knew what
it meant.
He said: “Is it like a minute’s
silence? Because someone has
passed away?”
And so we talked about the
difference and why players have been
taking the knee to fight against
racism. I told him, in general terms, it
was about showing support for an
issue that affects us all. That
regardless of our background, our
skin colour, our religion or where we
are from, that we all deserve equal
and fair treatment. He’s so inquisitive
that it was important to explain as
much as I could, in a manner he
would understand. I’m not ashamed
to say it was a humbling experience as
a parent.
It was a poignant moment when
the players knelt just before kick-off
and while there were some boos, the
applause quickly drowned them out.
Arthur cheered and clapped loudly —
TIMES PHOIOGRAPHER MARC ASPLAND
Lallana explained the importance of
taking the knee to his son, Arthur
I was so proud of him. The
importance of the crowd getting
behind England cannot be stressed
enough. When you are playing in a
game, and especially a big
international, you feel, rather than
hear, the noise. There is a difference.
Sometimes you cannot even hear
the instructions your manager is
shouting to you on the pitch, but if
there is a big wave of sound then you
can feed off that.
Look at the goal. The stadium
erupted and straight away, England
were quicker. There was a spring in
the step of the players. That is the
benefit of getting behind this team.
Jamie Redknapp was sitting not far
from us with one of his boys; Wayne
Rooney was there with his children
and they were getting into it as well.
It just shows how there is
something about the national team
that galvanises the nation and when
you hear people say that the players
don’t care about England you should
disregard it as utter nonsense.
Nothing is further from the truth.
Arthur has a good understanding of
the game, so he was telling me that
England started well before saying
Croatia were coming back and
enjoying more possession. His man of
the match? Tyrone Mings. He was
excellent and I thought he stood out
along with Phillips and Declan Rice.
But there were lots of good
performances and there are a lot of
players who supporters can have a
connection with. That is important
and credit to Gareth Southgate for
cultivating that bond.
The experience and the buzz of
being an England fan again means
that I will try and go to more games if
I can. I would like to go with my
mates and my dad as well because
this could be an iconic tournament.
I genuinely believe we can go all
the way. Yes, some big teams will lie
in wait, but as I have said previously
this is a team that now thinks “why
can’t we win?”
6 Adam Lallana has asked for a fee
from his columns to be donated to
Rowans Hospice