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Johnson to
push Biden
on Afghan
withdrawal
PM will put pressure on US
president at G7 meeting to
extend Aug 31 deadline for
troops to leave the country
By Christopher Hope chief Political
correSPondent and Jamie Johnson
BORIS JOHNSON will tomorrow per-
sonally ask Joe Biden for a delay to
the withdrawal of US forces from
Afghanistan. The Prime Minister will
put the US president on the spot in front
of world leaders at an emergency G7
meeting tomorrow.
Ministers have been pressing the US
privately for days to consider delaying
the August 31 withdrawal and ease the
pressure on Kabul airport, where thou-
sands of Afghans who are trying to
escape the Taliban are still gathered.
Seven people died in a crush over the
weekend.
The Daily Telegraph understands that
unless Mr Biden relents, UK troops are
due to start to withdraw from Kabul air-
port towards the end of the week as
they are expected to step up efforts to
evacuate as many as 6,000 people.
will tell them, ‘We will see what we can
do’.”
Asked if he had discussed delaying
the withdrawal of troops with the Tali-
ban, Mr Biden said: “Obviously we’ve
discussed a lot with the Taliban.
“They have been co-operative in
extending some of the perimeter [of the
airport]. It remains to be seen whether
we ask that question.”
Announcing the G7 meeting, Mr
Johnson said: “It is vital that the inter-
national community works together to
ensure safe evacuations, prevent a
humanitarian crisis and support the
Afghan people to secure the gains of the
last 20 years.”
No 10 last night confirmed that
extending the withdrawal would be
raised at the video-link meeting of
world leaders.
One No 10 source said: “The main
focus of the G7 is on the long term of
Afghanistan but they will of course be
discussing the current evacuation
effort.”
Mr Wallace yesterday signalled in a
Sunday newspaper article that US
forces “will have our complete support”
if they are permitted to stay longer.
James Heappey, a junior defence
MOD

The UK government is now prepar- minister, confirmed yesterday that

ing for thousands of Afghans to try to
flee the country through its land bor-
ders with Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
Mr Johnson is expected to meet sen-
ior Cabinet ministers today to discuss
plans to set up “processing hubs” in
these countries before some refugees
go to the UK.
However, last night Russian Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin said he was
unhappy at the risk of letting extremists
enter Russia via former Soviet countries
that do not require visa checks.
Pressure is mounting on Mr Biden to
extend the deadline. Asked about the
issue during a press conference last
night, Mr Biden said: “There are discus-
sions going on about extending. Our
hope is that we don’t have to extend, but
there are discussions going on about
how far we are.”
Asked what he would tell G7 leaders
who pressed for a deadline, he said: “I
requests for a delay had been raised by
both Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secre-
tary, and Ben Wallace, the Defence Sec-
retary with their counterparts in the
Biden administration. Mr Raab spoke
with US secretary of state Anthony
Blinken on Saturday night.
One UK government source said the
US was “in listening mode rather than
making any commitments”. He added:
“Biden seems pretty dug in”.
Any extension would mean more
Afghans can be saved, the source said.
Foreign Office minister James Clev-
erly last night said: “Obviously the more
time we’ve got, the more people we can
evacuate. That’s what we’re pushing
for.”
Over the weekend more than 1,720
people were airlifted from Kabul by the
Royal Air Force. A total of 5,725 individ-
uals have been flown out since the oper-
ation began.
However, Mr Heappey warned that
A British soldier, any extension would have to be agreed
left, in conversation with the Taliban, who are controlling
with an American access to the airport. The only current
counterpart at contact with the Taliban is through the
Kabul airport Armed Forces on the ground.
yesterday He added: “If the programme is
extended, then there is the opportunity
to continue with flights. But the Taliban
get a vote in that too, it’s not just a deci-
sion made in Washington.”
Thousands of Afghans are expected
to try to head for the country’s land bor-
ders if the exit route from Kabul airport
is closed by the Americans. Under Mr
Johnson’s plans 5,000 Afghans and
their families would be flown from the
neighbouring countries in the first year,
rising to 20,000 after that.
The scheme – developed by Mr Wal-
lace and Priti Patel, the Home Secretary
– would operate in a similar way to the
Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme
which has brought 20,000 Syrian refu-
gees to the UK since 2015. Officials from
the UN High Commission for Refugees
oversaw the scheme on the ground,
helping to screen cases for the UK,
which was able to reject any refugee on
security grounds.
Under the scheme, Afghans would be
asked to prove they required urgent
medical treatment, were survivors of
violence and torture or were women
and children at risk. The alternative is to
prove they qualify for a scheme such as
the one for former interpreters who
helped British forces.
Explaining his unhappiness at the sit-
uation, Mr Putin said: “Does that mean
they can be sent without visas to those
countries, to our neighbours, while
they themselves [the West] don’t want
to take them without visas? Why is
there such a humiliating approach to
solving the problem?”
Mr Putin noted there were no visa
restrictions between Russia and its
INSIDE Central Asian allies.
Foreign Office officials were last
Reports night said to be trying to clarify Mr
Pages 4-6 Putin’s remarks. A source close to Ms
Patel told The Telegraph: “We will still
Nick make sure we can help those in need.”
Timothy In an attempt to quell fears about an
influx of unvetted people being flown
Page 16 into the country from Afghanistan, Mr
Biden said last night that “anyone arriv-
Editorial ing in the United States will have under-
Comment gone a background check.”
There was a further setback when
Page 17 Turkey warned that it cannot handle
the burden of Afghan migrants. Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish president,
said: “A new wave of migration is inevi-
table if the necessary measures are not
taken in Afghanistan and Iran.
“Turkey, which already has five mil-
lion refugees, cannot take an additional
burden of migrants.”

Covid emergency means flu jabs Not wrong to be a Nimby, says

may not be effective this winter Government housing adviser
By Sarah Knapton Science editor
THE influenza jab may fail to protect
people this winter because global Covid
surveillance prevented laboratories
gathering data on the dominant flu vari-
ants.
Health experts were already con-
cerned that coronavirus restrictions
had left people with little natural immu-
nity to flu, but now they fear the vaccine
may also be mismatched to the virus.
The World Health Organisation made
the recommendation about what to put
in northern hemisphere jabs in late Feb-
ruary, but vaccine makers say that
global genetic sequencing of flu fell by
up to 94 per cent preceding the deci-
sion. The cancellation of flights as coun-
tries closed their borders and imposed
travel restrictions has also led to a 62
per cent drop in shipments of influenza
surveillance samples, experts warn.
A mismatched flu vaccine, coupled
‘We saw quite a big
reduction in the labs
supplying the genetic
sequence data to WHO’
with waning immunity, high levels of
Covid and the NHS backlog, could
quickly lead to the health service being
overwhelmed this winter.
Dr Beverly Taylor, at Seqirus, which
provides Britain with seasonal flu jabs,
said: “We saw quite a big reduction in
the labs supplying the genetic sequence
data to WHO, and around September
last year we saw a 94 per cent drop in
the genetic sequence data that was
reported into the database. So this has
had a massive impact in the reporting.
“We could have reduced the oppor-
tunity to identify viruses as they
emerge. We certainly have reduced the
opportunity to look at which vaccines
would give the best overall protection
and the best coverage of all the circulat-
ing viruses.
“What we’re actually seeing is influ-
enza in geographical pockets, so it’s
very difficult to tell which one is going
to be the winner. We could see a mis-
match for at least one of the subtypes.
By Christopher Hope
chief Political correSPondent
NIMBYISM is an understandable “emo-
tional” response from local communi-
ties to new homes on their doorsteps, a
senior adviser to Robert Jenrick, the
Housing Secretary, has said.
Nicholas Boys Smith told the Bright
Blue think-tank seminar that people
were right to have an “emotional”
response to new homes and “no one
should condemn anyone for that”.
Nimbyism is shorthand for people
who have a “Not In My Back Yard”
response to proposed new develop-
ments.
Mr Boys Smith, chairman of the
board advising the Government’s new
“Office for Place”, has helped to draw up
a design guide for builders to ensure
that new homes are in keeping with
their surroundings. He told a seminar
300,000
The number of homes that will be built
every year by the middle of this decade,
according to a Government pledge
that Nimbyism was a “human response
to change” and will never go away
because people are right to fight against
unsightly development near them.
The Government is committed to
increase the number of homes built
every year from 240,000 to 300,000 by
the middle of this decade.
Asked if Nimbys were a “problem”, Mr
Boys Smith said: “A human response to
change to a place in which you live is nat-
ural and to condemn that, as some devel-
opers do, as emotional, is to miss the
point.
“Humans are emotional and home is
emotional. Where you live, where you
bring up your children, where you go to
see your mum – that’s an emotional
thing. It should be emotional, and no one
should condemn anyone for that.”
Last month, Mr Boys Smith said that
he wanted new homes to be built “in
beautiful and popular places ... we
should demand nothing less”.

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Overtime for teachers Cambridge to ‘explain’ Jane Shilling Panda cars get a Corruption tsar calls
Puzzles 18 to do catch-up tuition white plaster casts Whitby’s Dracula rainbow makeover for clarity on subsidies
Obituaries 33 School teachers will be offered
overtime pay to carry out one-to-one
Cambridge University’s archaeology
museum is to add signs to explain the
hunters show the Police are using rainbow-coloured
patrol vehicles called “hate crime cars”
The Government risks distorting the
economy and encouraging cronyism
TV listings 35 tuition with pupils under the “whiteness” of sculpture plaster casts haunting power to encourage people to report unless it opens up its new subsidies
Government’s latest education as part of the Classics faculty’s incidents such as social media system to more radical transparency,
Weather catch-up plans. Head teachers will also anti-racist strategy. Plaster casts of
36 be allowed to apply for funds from the Roman and Greek sculptures on of fine comments. Deputy Chief Constable its own corruption tsar has warned. In

Department for Education (DfE) to display at the Museum of Classical

literature Julie Cooke said that the police insignia
and rainbow liveries would patrol
an open letter backed by transparency
groups and free market think tanks,
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long as they meet the right quality
standards. Officials at the DfE are
drawing up a tranche of official
guidance on how the next phase of
catch-up cash can be spent.
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“misleading impression” of the “absence focus on “real” issues such as knife Kwarteng, the Business Secretary, to
of diversity” of the ancient world, the crime and rape, with the latest figures publish all subsidies given with a value
Classics faculty has said. It has faced a showing poor prosecution rates. An of £500 or more. Currently, the
backlash from dons after it said it official police Instagram video has Government plans to publish only
would install the signs later this year. been released explaining the livery. grants of more than £500,000.
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Facial recognition rollout criticised
Police and Home Office
accused of bypassing
Parliament by approving
wider use of technology
By Charles Hymas
HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
THE Home Office and police have been
accused of bypassing parliamentary
debate on the rollout of facial recogni-
tion by quietly sanctioning its wide-
spread use in new guidance.
In an open letter published today, 30
organisations say that the guidance
allowing police, local councils and
enforcement agencies to deploy face
recognition cameras across England
and Wales ignores court rulings against
“invasive” filming. A former govern-
Listening in the
rain Concert-goers
wear Union flag
waterproofs during
a spot of rain at the
Castle Howard
Proms, near York.
Held in the gardens
of the stately home,
the outdoor picnic
concert ends with a
rousing medley of
traditional
orchestral anthems,
popular classics
and songs from
musicals, played
by the London
Gala Orchestra.
Child arrests fall by 74pc as police opt for ‘soft justice’
By Charles Hymas
HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
CHILDREN are four times less likely to
be arrested than a decade ago, statistics
reveal, as police opt for “softer” justice
for the young.
Police figures, obtained through free-
dom of information laws, show the
number of children arrested has fallen
from 245,763 in 2010 to 63,272 last year,
a 74 per cent reduction.
The Howard League for Penal
Reform, which compiled the figures,
said police were targeting arrest and
Khan travels in
three-car convoy to
take dog for a walk
By Tony Diver
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
SADIQ KHAN has been accused by a
minister of “hypocrisy” after he was
spotted in a convoy of three cars that
drove him miles across London to take
his dog for a walk after raising conges-
tion charges for other drivers.
The Labour Mayor’s office issued a
report last week that warned of the dan-
gers of car pollution in the capital, and
pointed to policies like the expansion of
London’s ultra-low emission zone,
which charges non-compliant vehicles
£12.50 per day to drive in the capital.
But Mr Khan appeared to take an
unnecessary car journey to Battersea
Park last Thursday, despite living within
walking distance of one of London’s
largest green spaces, Tooting Common.
Paul Scully, the minister for London,
said: “It’s in everyone’s interest to pro-
mote walking, cycling and public trans-
port, but lecturing Londoners whilst
driving in a three-car convoy for a dog
walk is the height of hypocrisy.”
A spokesman for Mr Khan said: “The
Mayor receives round-the-clock protec-
tion from the Metropolitan Police in line
with the assessed threat to his safety.
“Due to the sensitivity of their nature,
it would be inappropriate to comment
on the detail of those arrangements.”
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Escapee caught hanging
about outside his prison
ment-appointed watchdog responsible ‘In a democratic society, it is groups have called for the use of the cameras should take into account any A man loitering around an open prison
for policing CCTV cameras has also facial recognition cameras to be halted. potential adverse impact on protected was an escaped inmate, a court heard.
warned that the guidance fails to spell imperative that intrusive The guidance follows a Court of groups, be justified and proportionate Anthony Cooke was spotted near
out safeguards to protect the public technologies are subject to Appeal ruling that the use of facial rec- and any unused biometric data should HMP Standford Hill on the Isle of
from intrusive surveillance by police. ognition cameras by South Wales as a be quickly deleted. Sheppey in Kent on March 26.
Facial recognition technology maps effective scrutiny’ pilot scheme before rolling them out However, the campaign groups said it He made a “half-hearted” attempt to
faces in crowds based on the co-ordi- nationwide breached privacy rights and failed to set out any specific protections flee when an officer arrived, having
nates of features like the nose, eyes and scrutiny. Police and the Home Office broke equalities law. against the identified breaches and absconded from jail three hours earlier.
mouth and compares them with images have, so far, completely bypassed Par- The case was brought by Ed Bridges, allowed intelligence gathering and use Cooke was jailed in 2012 after a
of people on a watchlist of suspects, liament on the matter of live facial rec- a civil liberties campaigner, who had of people’s social media images. double-shooting robbery attempt on a
missing people and other persons of ognition technology (LFRT). argued that the capturing of thousands Tony Porter, the former Surveillance tattoo parlour in Maidenhead, Berks.
interest to the police. If there is a match, “We are not aware of any intention to of faces by the Welsh force was indis- Camera Commissioner, who drafted a He was handed an indeterminate
officers are automatically alerted. subject LFRT plans to parliamentary criminate and disproportionate. 72-page set of guidelines, said the Col- sentence with a tariff of nine years.
The guidance was published last week consideration, despite the intrusiveness On two key counts the court found lege’s redraft was simply the “bare Cooke pleaded guilty to escape from
by the College of Policing during the par- of this technology, its highly controver- Bridges’ right to privacy under Article 8 bones” and “de minimis” – a legal term lawful custody at Maidstone Crown
liamentary recess and without any sial use over a number of years, and the of the European Convention on Human describing something too small to merit Court, Kent, on Friday and was given
announcement by it or the Government. dangers associated with its use.” Rights had been breached, and on consideration. another two months on his sentence.
The 30 organisations, including Lib- They said it also flies in the face of a another it found that the force failed to “I don’t think it provides much guid-
erty, Privacy International and Amnesty call by the all party science and technol- properly investigate whether the ance to law enforcement [or] a great
International, said: “In a democratic ogy committee for the use of the cam- software exhibited any race or gender deal of guidance to the public as to how Pilot injured after two
society, it is imperative that intrusive eras to be suspended until a legal bias. the technology will be deployed,” he
technologies are subject to effective framework is set out and agreed. The 30 The guidance said deployment of the said.
planes land ‘at same time’
A pilot was injured after two light
aircraft crashed after apparently
landing at the same time.
A yellow biplane ended up on top of
the other aircraft on Friday afternoon
at Dunkeswell aerodrome near
Honiton, Devon.
The pilot, in his 60s, was not
seriously injured and the Air Accident
Investigation Branch has begun an
inquiry into the runway collision.
A witness, Tom George, said both
planes were “landing on the same
runway, approaching from the same
direction”.
An investigation by Devon and
Cornwall police has been launched.
Man arrested after
homophobic attack
A man has been arrested on suspicion
of assault following a homophobic
attack, as police look for two other
suspects. A West Midlands Police
spokesman said a 31-year-old handed
himself in after an incident in
Birmingham’s Gay Village.
Two men were attacked with bottles
in the early hours of Sunday Aug 15
after homophobic abuse by a passing
car’s occupants in Bromsgrove Street.
Officers are searching for Sohail Khan,
24, and Ishaaq Ayaz, 21, both from
Birmingham. Anyone with information
can contact police on 101, quoting log
552 of Aug 15, or call Crimestoppers
anonymously on 0800 555111.
Lucozade hampered by
lorry driver shortage
Lucozade is the latest product to be
affected by Britain’s lorry driver
shortage, after the closure last week of
nearly 50 Nando’s restaurants. A
spokeswoman for Suntory Beverage &
Food GB&I told The Grocer: “The
deliveries of our drinks to some
customers are being affected by the
shortage of HGV drivers.”
It comes as the Government faces
calls to grant 10,000 EU lorry drivers
visas. Rising transport costs have also
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prompted fears that parents could face
higher toy prices and limited stock this
Christmas, while Waitrose warned
there could be a shortage of turkeys.
Children ‘terrified’ as
shots are fired at house
A house with a man, woman and two
young children inside was shot at on
Friday. Police are hunting a small black
hatchback seen in the area at the time.
Det Insp Bob Campbell said: “Shots
were fired indiscriminately with some
ricocheting off the wall into the
charging at more serious crimes instead number of youth arrests, with 79,681 Frances Crook, its chief executive, Nine police forces recorded reduc- garden. Children were playing in
of landing children with a criminal detained in 2017 and 72,475 in 2019. said: “Every child deserves the chance tions of 20 per cent or more in 2020: gardens nearby and there were people
record for minor offences. It follows the disclosure last week to grow and fulfil their potential, and we Cheshire (24 per cent); Cumbria (33 per in the street. The gunman has no
Police are now more likely to caution that the proportion of adult offenders must do all we can to ensure that they cent); Leicestershire (24 per cent); Mer- regard for anyone, including children,
children or opt for a community pun- not being taken to court has hit a record are not held back by a criminal record. seyside (22 per cent); Norfolk (34 per some of whom were really terrified.”
ishment rather than seek to bring them one in six, with most being given com- “Police forces have made giant cent); Nottinghamshire (31 per cent); Mr Campbell said a window was
before the courts for crimes. munity resolutions where they apolo- strides, diverting resources to tackling South Wales (27 per cent); Suffolk (24 damaged in the attack in Burdiehouse
Half a dozen police forces have also gise to their victims and in some cases serious crime instead of arresting per cent); and British Transport Police Drive, Edinburgh at 8.40pm on Friday
launched “diversionary” schemes for offer compensation. children unne cessarily and this (22 per cent). and the car made off towards
drug possession where teenagers The campaign to reduce the number approach will help to make our commu- The largest force, the Metropolitan Southhouse Broadway.
caught with small amounts of cannabis of children arrested has been led by the nities safer. Police, made 13,599 child arrests in
and even cocaine can avoid prosecution Howard League, which says it has “As we begin to emerge from the pan- 2020. This was a 4 per cent reduction
if they agree to attend health and educa- helped to ensure that hundreds of thou- demic, and as police forces recruit thou- on the previous year and a 70 per cent Harrison Ford wishes
tion programmes. sands of boys and girls have not had sands more officers, the challenge now reduction on 2010, when 46,079 arrests
It has led to a downward trend in the their lives blighted by a criminal record. is to build on this success.” were recorded.
retiring firefighter well
A member of the London Fire Brigade
was given a retirement present he is
SNP’s attacks on Westminster unlikely to forget – a surprise visit
from Harrison Ford.
The brigade’s Blue Watch had just
are ‘harming its campaign’ finished roll call at around 8pm on
Saturday evening when the Star Wars
actor got out of a car that happened to
stop outside the station. Ford, 79, spoke
By Simon Johnson dren were old enough to understand, with Andrew Shaw for a while and
SCOTTISH POLITICAL EDITOR but her condition was made public by wished him well with his retirement.
“dark forces in the party”. After the encounter, station officer
THE SNP leadership’s attacks on West- Ms MacDonald, also a former SNP Ryan Osborne said: “It was a pleasure
minster are damaging its independence deputy leader, succeeded in being to be able to say farewell to Andrew on
campaign, the party’s former deputy elected as an independent in the 2003 his last shift with the impromptu help
leader has said. election despite the leak. She died aged of Han Solo.”
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Cambridge explains ‘whiteness’ of plaster casts

Anti-racism strategy to
address colour of material
used to make replicas of
ancient marble sculptures
By Camilla Turner
EDUCATION EDITOR
CAMBRIDGE’S archaeology museum is
to add signs to explain the “whiteness”
of sculpture plaster casts as part of the
classics faculty’s anti-racist strategy.
Plaster casts of Roman and Greek
sculptures on display at the Museum of
Classical Archeology as well as around
lecture rooms give a “misleading
impression” of the “absence of diver-
sity” of the ancient world.
The classics faculty has said it will
“turn the problem into an opportunity”
by drawing attention to the diversity of
those figured in the casts, to the ways in
which colour has been lost and can be
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restored, and to the “role of classical
sculpture in the history of racism”. The
new information panels are due to go on
display later this year.
Ancient statues, and therefore the
plaster casts, are predominantly white
because white marble was the main
material sculptors had access to.
But the plans have prompted a back-
lash among dons who say the move is
“unhinged” and “extraordinary”. One
academic told The Daily Telegraph:
“The idea that this has been approved
by the faculty is as terrifying as it is
comical. It is so easy to laugh at this but
in laughing it is easy to overlook how
extraordinary it is that one of the finest
humanities departments in the Western
world is putting this stuff out with an
official institutional stamp.”
Another academic pointed out that
since the museum’s 600 plaster casts of
Roman and Greek statues are largely
depictions of Romans and Greeks, the
opportunities to highlight their diver-
Greek sculptures sity would be limited. Academics in the
in Cambridge faculty are understood to be aghast at
University’s the proposals published last month as
Museum of part of an “action plan” to combat accu-
Classical sations of racism.
Archaeology The plan was drawn up in response to
an open letter written last summer to
the chair of the classics faculty board
which called for “public acknowledge-
ment of the problems of racism within
classics and the need for active anti-rac-
ist work within our discipline”. The let-
ter, signed by dozens of students,
alumni and some staff members, made
a series of demands including “an
acknowledgement of the existence of
systemic racism within classics”.
From the start of this academic year,
dons will be encouraged to include
“content warnings” in material on
courses and lecturers will be encour-
aged to include these before lectures.
From October, new training will be
rolled out to classics tutors in how to
discuss sensitive topics and a review
will be launched into all language used
in course titles and materials.
All new and existing courses will
be reviewed to ensure there is sufficient
“diversity” on reading lists and bibliog-
raphies.
The action plan also contains a pledge
to work on promoting awareness of
‘The idea “harassment and micro-aggressions
and how to combat them” by running a
that this series of “race awareness” sessions.
has been All classics faculty members should
be given “implicit bias training” every
approved three years and this should be moni-
by the tored through the appraisal process, the
document adds.
faculty The action plan notes that engage-
is as ment with the “problematic past and
present of classics” has been insuffi-
terrifying cient, in particular its relationship to
as it is “ imperialism, colonialism and
entrenched racism”.
comical’ Dr Arif Ahmed, a fellow at Gonville
and Caius and lecturer in philosophy,
said the “only criteria” for putting some-
thing on a reading list should be its aca-
demic merit. “I have a general concern
that actually there is a threat of diluting
the academic interest and value of an
issue because of current political
trends,” he said. “Universities don’t
exist for any political purpose, even a
laudable one like anti-racism.”

Telegraph helps matchstick man Philip Warren,

above, began
making matchstick
models of military
matchboxes, a razor blade and glue to
make the scale 1:300 models, which he
has been constructing since the age of 17
and exhibiting for six decades.

keep his model hobby shipshape ships in 1948 and

By Olivia Rudgard
AFTER 72 years making intricate
matchstick models of military ships,
Philip Warren was running out of raw
materials.
But after the 90-year-old from Dorset
was featured in The Daily Telegraph
appealing for more wooden match-
boxes, his life’s work was saved by gen-
erous readers – and he has added three
brand new model warships to his col-
lection, currently on exhibition in Wey-
mouth in Dorset.
Collectors and their families sent him
around 300 wooden matchboxes,
which he has now used to construct a
three-foot model of the Gerald R Ford
US aircraft carrier.
Mr Warren said: “When I started
doing this in 1948, there were many
more people using matches and match-
boxes all the time. So there were liter-
ally hundreds of them just lying about.
“Matches aren’t a problem because
they are still useful for people camping
and things like that, as well as smokers.
But I would imagine the sales are only a
fraction of what they were years ago.”
He uses the traditional thin boxes,
made from aspen wood, to make the
hulls and decks of the boats. But
matches began to be sold in cardboard,
rather than wooden boxes, in the 1980s
and 1990s, limiting Mr Warren’s supply.
Luckily, the colourful images used to
decorate the wooden boxes meant they
had become collectors’ items, with
some fans amassing tens of thousands.
When they heard of his plight last
year these collectors and their families
began sending him spare boxes, which
he is rationing to ensure supply.
“Generally speaking, not the collec-
tors themselves, but their relatives –
they’re mostly grandad’s, or so on, and
were up in the attic for years, and they
wonder what to do with them.
“Luckily, [these] collectors kept the
whole box, not just the label,” he said.
As well as the Gerald R Ford aircraft
said he ‘counts
himself very, very
lucky’ to still be
doing his pastime at
the age of 90
carrier, Mr Warren made a two-foot
model of the new Type 26 Royal Navy
frigate and a 10-inch model of the HMS
Trent offshore vessel using the donated
boxes. He has around 150 boxes left.
He uses nothing but matchsticks,
Since he started he has constructed
more than 250 Royal Navy ships includ-
ing HMS Ark Royal, HMS Belfast and
HMS Sheffield as well as many Ameri-
can vessels and those of other nations,
building a total of 484 models and using
over a million matchsticks.
At the age of 90 he can still do the
intricate work, which includes painting
inch-long aircraft with tiny Royal Navy
lettering, and plans to continue until he
sees the quality of his work drop.
“It’s depending totally on the state of
my health – the dexterity of my fingers
and the keenness of my eye.
“I count myself a very, very lucky
man that at my age I can still do it,” he
Mr Warren said.
The exhibition at Nothe Fort contin-
ues until September 12.

Extremely rare Welsh flower grazed to Scientists may have found secret ingredients
near extinction blooms again in Snowdonia behind the special sound of a Stradivarius
By Olivia Rudgard
ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT
A RARE Welsh flower eaten almost to
extinction by grazing sheep has made a
comeback in Snowdonia after conserva-
tionists removed the animals from the
area.
The Snowdonia hawkweed, one of
the rarest plants in the world, had been
thought to be extinct for almost five
decades. But in 2002 a team of botanists
spotted the plant clinging to a cliff away
from grazing sheep and began conser-
vation efforts to revive it.
The perennial, also known as Hiera-
chium snowdoniense, has now doubled
its numbers from three to six after two
decades.
It can now be found on mountains
near Bethesda in Snowdonia and at the
National Botanic Garden of Wales in
Carmarthenshire.
Robbie Blackhall-Miles, a consultant
botanist, who is based in Snowdonia,
said: “If you’re Joe Public, you’d [think]
Botanists thought the Snowdonia
Hawkweed had been extinct for decades
it’s just another dandelion. In 2002 we
were down to three plants but by 2021,
six have been seen.
“After the Second World War, sheep
were left to roam the landscape and not
regulated by shepherds as they had
been historically.
“And if you’re sheep, you’re not going
to eat boring grass but nutritious flow-
ers, so herbs like the Snowdonia hawk-
weed got eaten.”
The sunshine-yellow flowers were
first identified in the 1880s and declared
a species in the 1950s.
Before they were rediscovered they
had last been recorded in 1953.
Conservationists have since removed
sheep from the immediate vicinity and
collected the plant’s seeds as an insur-
ance policy.
Mr Blackhall-Miles added: “It’s now
safe where it is. It’s been brought into
the National Botanic Garden of Wales
for conservation and is being protected
in the wild.
“It would be great to see them again
in all seven sites where it used to grow
but you’d have to control grazing for
that to happen.”
Earlier this year the plant was also
featured in Sherlock Holmes drama The
Irregulars on Netflix, where it was cred-
ited with properties which brought a
dead man back to life.
While this power was a fictional
invention, it has traditionally been used
as a treatment for respiratory and kid-
ney problems.
By Joe Pinkstone
SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT
SINCE the 18th century, violin makers
have desperately sought to re-create
the unrivalled sound of a Stradivarius
instrument.
Now, almost 300 years later, they
may finally have found a way.
Scientists trying to unlock the secrets
to the violins’ exceptionally smooth
sound have found that a special coating
of salt and potash could be the answer.
Modern manufacturing methods
have thus far been unable to produce a
violin to match the sublime sound pro-
jection and quality of Italian master
Antonio Stradivari, who made around
1,200 violins during the 18th century
before his methods were lost to history.
In an attempt finally to solve one of
the greatest musical puzzles, Prof
Joseph Nagyvary, Emeritus Professor at
Texas A&M University and the doyen of
Stradivarius research, along with Dr
Hwan-Ching Tai at the National Taiwan
Italian Antonio Stradivari made around
1,200 violins during the 18th century
University, obtained four extremely
rare wood shavings from Stradivarius
violins which were undergoing restora-
tion work to their maple backs and
spruce tops.
Such samples are in short supply due
to the scarcity of surviving instruments
and the reluctance to remove wood
from multi-million pound violins.
These samples were analysed along-
side four Stradivari cellos, a cello and
viola made by Stradivari’s possible men-
tor, Nicola Amati, and two violins from
Giuseppe Guarneri, another Amati
apprentice who worked in Cremona.
Chemical analysis of the fragments,
ranging in age from 400 to 270 years old
and weighing no more than 0.3 grams,
revealed all the craftsmen treated their
wood before they started building.
Amati, the originator of the method,
coated his materials in borax as well as
zinc and copper sulphates, the scien-
tists found, which Prof Nagyvary says
was to prevent worm infestation.
“Borax has a long history as a pre-
servative, going back to the ancient
Egyptians, who used it in mummifica-
tion and later as an insecticide,” Prof
Nagyvary said.
Amati’s descendents within his
multi-generational instrument-making
family adapted and intensified the con-
coction because they realised the treat-
ment also improved sound.
The new study is published in the
journal Angewandte Chemie Interna-
tional Edition.
4 ***
Woman gives birth on US evacuation plane
By James Rothwell and
Suddaf Chaudry Kabul
A QUICK-THINKING US pilot helped
to  save the life of an Afghan woman
who gave birth on board an evacuation
flight from Kabul by lowering the
plane’s altitude.
The US Air Mobility Command said
that the woman, who has not been iden-
tified, went into labour and had compli-
cations shortly before the US C-17 jet
touched down at Ramstein air base in
Germany. She subsequently gave birth
to a baby girl.
A spokesman for the military unit
wrote on Twitter: “During a flight from
Trump’s Doha agreement was a retreat dressed as peace deal, and it
means the Taliban will be celebrating on the 20th anniversary of 9/11
Analysiss
By Kate Clark
I
t seems likely that the 20th
anniversary of al-Qaeda’s 2001
attacks on the US – the event that
brought the American military to
Afghanistan – will be remembered for
the start of the second Taliban emirate.
Just how fundamentally flawed US
Special Representative for Afghanistan
Zalmay Khalilzad’s strategy for
negotiating with the insurgents was is
now laid bare. It was driven by the US
desire to withdraw its troops, meaning
the US had given away its bargaining
chip before it came to the table. More
dangerously, it gambled on the Taliban
wanting to negotiate an end to the war
rather than try for military victory.
Stemming from that came
Khalilzad’s caving in to Taliban
demands to exclude the Afghan
News
an Intermediate Staging Base in the
Middle East, the mother went into
labour and began having complications.
The aircraft commander decided to
descend in altitude to increase air pres-
sure in the aircraft, which helped save
the mother’s life.”
Giving birth at high altitude can be
dangerous for both mother and child
because of the low oxygen levels.
After the C-17 landed at Ramstein air
base, US soldiers boarded the plane and
assisted in delivering the baby inside
the cargo bay. “The baby girl and
mother were transported to a nearby
medical facility and are in good condi-
tion,” Air Mobility Command added.It
government from negotiations. From
those talks emerged the bilateral
US-Taliban deal signed in February
2020 in Doha, a Trump-era agreement
that Biden inherited.
To get that deal, Khalilzad prised
vague promises from the Taliban – on
their dealings with al-Qaeda and other
international jihadist groups, to begin
talking to the government – and just
one strong commitment: that they
would not attack the US and “its allies”.
In return, the US conceded a swift
timetable for the withdrawal of
international troops, that the Afghan
government would release 5,000
Taliban prisoners, and that it would
cease attacks on the Taliban. The US
also agreed to work for United Nations
sanctions to be lifted.
The Doha agreement bound the US
and the Taliban not to attack each
other while international troops
withdrew. There was to be no
ceasefire. Rather, the US had extracted
just a 10-day period when violence
generally was reduced in the run-up to
the deal being signed. The Taliban
came as the US ordered civilian airliners
to assist in the evacuation effort and the
UK said seven Afghans had died in the
crush outside Kabul airport, where
thousands have been desperately trying
to flee the country.
In a statement the defence ministry
said: “Conditions on the ground remain
extremely challenging but we are doing
everything we can to manage the situa-
tion as safely and securely as possible.”
A mother outside the gates told The
Telegraph that she was worried she
would run out of water in the blister-
ingly hot conditions.
“We have two bottles of water left, I
have to be so careful every time my two
were then free to attack fellow Afghans
again from March 1 2020 onwards.
Khalilzad’s strategy boosted Taliban
morale. It gave them legitimacy on the
international stage, leant not only by
the US but all the other countries
whose diplomats flocked to Doha.
US planning appeared not to have
allowed even for the possibility that
the Taliban might be playing a double
game – going along with the
negotiations, while actually intent on a
military solution, or that they might
redouble their efforts to capture
Afghanistan by force once the inter
national forces left.
After Doha, for example, the US
pressured the Afghan National
Security Forces (ANSF) to take an
“active defence” stance, i.e. the ANSF
would take, at most, pre-emptive
action. The ANSF was forced to wait
passively for the Taliban to attack them
and could only watch as the Taliban
consolidated territory and spoke of the
coming victory. Along with the
withdrawal of US air support, the
active defence stance was a disaster for
Clockwise from left,
medical staff helped
deliver the baby in
the plane’s cargo
hold at Ramstein air
base in Germany;
an Afghan family
arriive in Chaman,
Pakistan after
fleeing the country;
Sir Laurie Bristow,
the UK’s
Ambassador
to Afghanistan,
speaks with
members of 3 PARA
in Kabul
children ask. I wonder how I will get
more,” she said. “If we move from our
location we will be further away from
the front.”
One man, holding bloodied docu-
ments, told Euronews that his wife had
been shot dead as they tried to enter the
airport. “I went to the airport with my
wife and brother with our two kids. We
took all of our documents with us…
they fired at people,” he said.
“My kids and I were injured. They
shot my wife. I’m left with my two chil-
dren – what am I supposed to do now?”
he said, and broke down in tears.
However, yesterday eyewitnesses
told Reuters news agency that the Tali-
ANSF morale and further encouraged
the Taliban. One of many soldiers and
police interviewed by Andrew Quilty
in summer 2020 gave a typical
account: “The Taliban aren’t stressed
about air strikes anymore,” said the
deputy commander of an ANP check
post on the highway south of
Maidanshahr. “They walk around in
the open with their weapons… They’re
very relaxed, checking everyone
slowly and carefully.”
That last quarter of 2020, just after
“intra-Afghan talks” had finally begun
in Doha, was the most violent of any
last quarter that the United Nations
Assistance Mission in Afghanistan had
monitored. Over the winter, there was
also a campaign of unclaimed – but it
seemed clear, largely Taliban-
perpetrated – targeted killings of
off-duty ANSF, judges and lawyers,
government officials, journalists and
activists, in Kabul and other cities. It
appeared to be a systematic exercise to
dishearten the ANSF, a demonstration
that, even in the capital, there was no
place of safety. Killing journalists and
Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph
ban had imposed some order at the air-
port, with Afghans put into queues.
Taliban soldiers have also been firing
shots into the air and wielding batons in
an attempt to restore order.
French military planes over the
weekend fired flares as they took off
from Kabul airport, a precaution against
being fired at with missiles.
Antony Blinken, the US secretary of
state, says that 8,000 people have been
evacuated from Afghanistan via 60
flights in the past 24 hours, the highest
figure so far.
A Taliban official said on Saturday
that security risks could not be ruled
out. But they added that the group was
activists seemed aimed at silencing
voices and removing civic opposition
ahead of any attempted takeover.
All through this time, Khalilzad’s
assumption that the Taliban were
pursuing a negotiated peace informed
not only US policy but also that of its
allies. Internationally, many
institutions were commissioned to
look into “post-peace” scenarios –
studies looked at how a future
constitution might work, at
“disarmament, demobilisation and
reintegration”, women’s rights, the
economy and development.
But the Taliban’s attitude to the
intra-Afghan talks showed every sign
of their “running down the clock”, of
avoiding any discussion of substantive
issues and wasting time until foreign
forces left. Despite warm words from
the Taliban in Doha, on the ground,
there were no signs that the Taliban
were preparing for compromise. The
leadership did not embark on the sort
of work it would have to have done if it
had wanted to prepare for an end to
the “armed struggle” – quite the
AFP/GETTY IMAGES/REUTERS
“aiming to improve the situation” for
people trying to leave.
The Pentagon said on Sunday that 18
civilian aircraft from US airlines, includ-
ing American Airlines and Delta Air-
lines, were being ordered to assist in
evacuation efforts. President Joe Biden
yesterday confirmed civilian airlines
may be ordered to help get people out
of Afghanistan.
There are mounting concerns that
Islamic State terrorists are planning to
launch attacks on Western civilians as
they gather at the airport. Jake Sullivan,
the White House national security
adviser, said yesterday that the threat
was “real, acute and persistent”.
opposite: behind the scenes, they were
rallying fighters to re-take and
establish a new emirate in Afghanistan.
When President Biden announced
on April 14 2021 the full, rapid and
unconditional withdrawal of US forces,
he tied it to a US domestic political
event – the 20th anniversary of
al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks. As so often,
America’s Afghan policy was pegged to
what might sound good to a domestic
US audience rather than its
consequences for Afghanistan. That
gave the Taliban a timetable for action.
It means that on September 11 2021, not
only the Taliban but also the various
violent jihadist groups in the world
will be celebrating the 20th
anniversary of al-Qaeda’s attacks and
rejoicing in the second defeat of a
superpower by Afghan “mujahideen”.
Kate Clark is co-director of the
Afghanistan Analysts Network and this
article is republished from their website
with permission. In 2001, the Taliban
expelled her from Afghanistan, where
she was the BBC’s correspondent
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News

Islamists begin assault on resistance fighters

commanders had given the order to
Taliban commanders attack.
In a post on its Arabic-language Twit-
order attack on rebels in ter account, the Taliban said “hun-
province of Panjshir after dreds” of fighters were heading to
peace talks failed Panjshir after peace talks with the
rebels failed.
By James Rothwell and If the Taliban manage to seize control
Suddaf Chaudry in Kabul of Panjshir, a narrow and near-impene-
trable valley which lies 100 miles north
TALIBAN fighters last night launched of Kabul, it would be the first time they
an assault on the north-eastern prov- have done so.
ince of Panjshir in a bid to crush resist- The valley was never captured dur-
ance fighters who recently captured ing the Taliban’s first reign, thanks to
three districts in the area. the resistance of warlord Ahmad
A source familiar with the Taliban’s Shah Massoud, who was backed by the
military operation confirmed to The West.
Daily Telegraph last night that military The assault began after Afghan resist-
ance fighters recaptured three districts
from the Taliban in northern provinces,
which has created a dilemma for the
United States over whether it should
offer military support.
In the first major clashes since
Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, the
rebels claimed to have driven the insur-
gents away from the Pul-e-Hesar, Deh-
e-Salah and Bano districts.
The fighters, who are believed to be
remnants of Afghan security forces,
also said they had killed at least 30 Tali-
ban soldiers and captured a dozen oth-
ers.
The Taliban offered to negotiate with
the rebels about a political agreement
before beginning the assault, said Rus-
sia’s ambassador to Kabul. US officials
are said to be “wary” of supporting the
rebels because Washington is relying
on the Taliban to secure Kabul airport
as evacuations continue.
Any perceived US support for the
rebels could jeopardise a fragile agree-
ment with Taliban leaders who are
allowing Americans safe passage to
Kabul, US military officials told The New
York Times.
The New York Times added that the
resistance fighters had not made
any requests for US military support,
such as airstrikes, and that none had
been offered publicly by the US govern-
ment.
The Afghan army has all but col-
lapsed in the face of the Taliban’s light-
ning-speed takeover over the country,
though several thousand soldiers
remain on the battlefield.
Many have moved to the north-east-
ern Panjshir valley where they continue
the fight.
Among them is former Afghan vice-
president Amrullah Saleh, who claims
to be the leader of a unified anti-Taliban
movement.
Over the weekend, The Daily Tele-
graph interviewed one of the rebel
commanders, Ahmad Massoud, the
Sandhurst-trained and King’s College
London-educated son of the fighter
who held the valley in the 1990s.
“It is going to be a very bloody and
hard war because the people of Panjshir
are going to fight to the very last breath,”
he said.
According to the Pentagon, the rem-
nants of the Afghan army are not oper-
ating as “functional” units and there are
doubts that they will prove to be an
effective resistance movement.
Analysts say low morale – which was
compounded by the US withdrawal of
forces – was a key factor in so many
Afghan troops surrendering their posts
and weapons to Taliban fighters.
The removal of US air support from
Afghanistan, in particular, is said to
have convinced Afghan soldiers that
they stood no chance against the
advancing insurgents.

Young people
‘flogged by
extremists’ for
wearing jeans
By James Rothwell
A GROUP of young Afghans have said
they were flogged by Taliban fighters
for the crime of wearing jeans.
In a post widely shared on Facebook,
an Afghan youth said they were “walk-
ing with friends in Kabul”, when they
encountered a group of Taliban soldiers
who accused them of disrespecting
Islam. Two of the friends escaped, the
youth said, but the others were beaten,
whipped on their necks and threatened
at gunpoint.
The Afghan newspaper Etilaatroz
reported over the weekend that one
of its journalists had also been beaten
for not wearing “Afghan clothes”, such
as full-body gowns. There have been
other reports of Afghan youths being
targeted for wearing T-shirts. A Taliban
official told Etilaatroz that the move-
ment was still deciding on the dress
code for men.
Both incidents will increase concerns
that little has changed in the Taliban
since the late 1990s, when it was com-
monplace for Afghans caught without
religious clothing to be beaten or even
killed. During the first period of its con-
trol over Afghanistan, which ended
with the US invasion in 2001, the Tali-
ban was known for its misogyny, reli-
gious extremism and brutal
punishments. Women who broke the
Taliban’s rules were routinely flogged
or executed. Forced to wear a burqa
from the age of eight, they were also
banned from working and going to
school, or even from leaving the house.
In Kandahar, women who painted
their nails could have had their fingers
cut off, and there was a ban on them
wearing shoes with heels as “no stran-
BASHIR DARWISH/UPI/SHUTTERSTOCK

ger should hear a woman’s footsteps”.

Since taking power for the second
time in Afghanistan, Taliban leaders
have sought to present themselves to
Western observers as a more moderate
group. They claim, for instance, that the
Taliban will respect women.
However, there have been numerous
reports of female workers being
ordered to leave their jobs and to send a
male relative to take their place. Taliban fighters patrol the streets in the capital Kabul wearing traditional long gowns. A Taliban official said the movement was still deciding on the dress code for men

Taliban to be added to terrorist watchlist to ‘dissuade UK jihadists’

By Tony Diver Patel was “livid” the group had not
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
THE Home Office is planning to add the
already been officially banned, as MI5
warned the UK’s risk of being attacked
by jihadists had increased since the fall
Taliban to the UK’s list of proscribed of Kabul earlier this month.
terrorist groups to discourage Britons “Some will go and train under the
from joining it. Taliban and may come back to launch
Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, has attacks,” a source told the newspaper.
reportedly asked officials to add the Tal- “Others may take their families with
iban to the list, making it possible to them and live under the Taliban’s
prosecute British jihadists who train Islamic government.”
with the group in Afghanistan and then The Taliban has promised not to
return to the UK. allow al-Qaeda and other Islamic terror-
The Mail on Sunday reported that Ms ist organisations to operate within the
territory they control, under the terms
of a deal the group struck with Donald
Trump last year. The United States
agreed to withdraw from Afghanistan
but hoped to minimise the risk of secu-
rity threats on US soil.
Banning the Taliban under UK law
means that membership or support of
the group could land Britons with 14
years in prison.
But the move could conflict with the
UK’s diplomatic position, which appears
to have softened towards the Taliban
since they won Kabul from the demo-
14
Years in prison that membership or
support of the Taliban could result in
if the group are banned under UK law
cratic government of Ashraf Ghani on
August 15.
Earlier this week, General Sir Nick
Carter, head of the UK Armed Forces,
described the group as “country boys
with a code of honour”. Ben Wallace,
the Defence Secretary, stood by his top
general’s comments despite claims he
had “joined the Taliban PR team”.
The UK has said it will not rush to for-
mally recognise the Taliban as rulers of
Afghanistan, and will judge the group
by their actions, not words.
But one source told The Daily Tele-
graph that in a meeting with Tory
MPs this week, a Foreign Office official
referred to “the Taliban’s second term
in office”, suggesting that the Govern-
ment has already accepted their owner-
ship of Afghanistan’s government.
Yesterday, the former head of British
forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard
Kemp, said the UK’s terror threat level
should be raised to reflect the Taliban’s
control of the country. A move to
“severe” – which was last used in Febru-
ary – would mean intelligence officials
believe an attack is “highly likely”.
He told the Sunday Mirror: “Jihadists
everywhere have been celebrating the
Taliban victory. This will have re-ener-
gised them, encouraged them and moti-
vated them to strike.”

MPs’ hotline for constituents Pole

position
British school helps
trapped family get
to be rescued ‘not answered’ An Afghan
boy sells
to safety in Dubai
Taliban
By Tony Diver does nothing,” he said. “Lots of MPs’ flags at the By Olivia Rudgard
staff are in tears every day because they
A HOTLINE for MPs to request evacua- come home and they’re just not able to Karte A BRITISH family trapped in Afghani-
tions from Afghanistan for their constit- do anything. It’s just like knocking your Mamorin stan have fled to Dubai after a Notting-
uents goes straight to voicemail and head against a brick wall.” area of ham primary school stepped in to help
pleas for assistance are not followed up, Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign sec- Kabul them escape.
it is claimed. retary, has requested a meeting Their head teacher said they would
Chri s Br yant, Lab our MP for between Labour MPs and officials to be receiving counselling on their return
HOSHANG HASHIMI / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Rhondda in Wales, said staff were “in discuss the situation. to the UK having survived a terrifying
tears every day” because their attempts It is understood that some Conserva- ordeal to make it into a safe house at
to help British nationals do not receive tive MPs have already received a brief- Kabul airport and on to a flight out of
a response from the Foreign, Common- ing from Nigel Adams, an FCDO the country.
wealth and Development Office. minister. The siblings, a five-year-old boy and
The Government has said it is trying On Saturday, Mr Bryant wrote to his nine-year-old sister, had flown out
to evacuate 1,000 people a day, includ- Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, to to Afghanistan with their sister, 24,
ing some UK nationals and Afghans who ask how many staff have been diverted more than six weeks ago following the
worked with British forces during the to Afghanistan hotlines to assist Britons death of an uncle, but became trapped
20-year war, but have admitted not eve- stranded abroad. “You could argue that in Parwan province following the light-
ryone will be airlifted out. we’ve had time since Donald Trump did ning Taliban advance.
RAF planes are taking off from Kabul the deal with the Taliban to be putting Amanda Dawson, headteacher at
airport, which is currently under the all of this in place,” he said. Mellers Primary School, said she was
control of the US military. Taliban fight- “You just would have thought some- “absolutely overjoyed” that the family
ers are allowing Westerners to travel to body in the Foreign Office would be had managed to escape.
the airport to be repatriated.
MPs were given a hotline to the
going: ‘Right, what’s our emergency
evacuation plan?’”
Afghan women’s football captain fears players will be killed The Nottingham family had wit-
nessed frightening scenes as they tried
Foreign Office to report constituents A spokesman for the FCDO said: “Our to get to safety near the airport in an
who had been stranded in Afghanistan staff are working tirelessly to facilitate By Davide Zanelli Committee in an interview with The playing sport when they took over area packed with Taliban troops,
after the fall of the country to the the swift evacuation of British nation- Daily Telegraph. Now living in the Afghanistan in 1996. according to Ms Dawson. She said: “I
Taliban last Sunday. als, Afghan staff and others at risk. THE captain of the Afghan women’s United States, Ms Mobarez, described Ms Mobarez, who left Kabul for managed to get to direct them to the
But Mr Bryant, a former foreign “The scale of the evacuation effort is football team has appealed to the sport’s the fear engulfing women athletes. “All Copenhagen when she was seven, safe house by the airport.”
office minister, said the line does not huge and we have helped more than governing body for help in evacuating of them are currently hiding,” she said. recalled the brutality of the Taliban. She added that the school was
work and requests for assistance by 5,000 people leave Afghanistan since her teammates, who she fears could be The Afghan women’s football team “I remember my childhood being involved with a charity that provides an
other means are ignored. Sunday. killed for playing the game. was formed by the country’s National shattered,” she said. “They used to cut established counselling service that is
“It’s meant to be an MPs’ hotline, but “The line for UK nationals to request Shabnam Mobarez, 25, made her plea Olympic Committee in 2007. off thieves’ hands and then expose them “already working” on plans to support
it just rings dead. It goes nowhere, it consular support is working.” to Fifa and the International Olympic The Taliban had banned women from in places where people could see.” the children.
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Tugendhat denies ‘playground gossip’ that he is after Raab’s job
By Christopher Hope and Tony Diver
TOM TUGENDHAT has dismissed
claims that he hopes to usurp Dominic
Raab as Foreign Secretary as “play-
ground gossip,” after he criticised the
UK’s decision to withdraw from Afghan-
istan.
The Tory MP, chairman of the foreign
affairs committee, fuelled rumours he is
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hoping to replace Mr Raab at the next rage”, adding that “this is what defeat The key is to have a strong team, work- But insiders believe the timing of Mr something that as soon as Mr Tugendhat
Cabinet reshuffle when he told journal- looks like”. He then flew to Belarus with ing together on the same mission.” Tugendhat’s speech and the visit to made the speech he took a political
ists he would welcome a “leadership a Mail on Sunday journalist, who asked The comments drew criticism from Belarus suggest he hopes he may soon journalist to Belarus. He used to vote
role” in government. him if he wanted to be prime minister. allies of Mr Raab. One MP said: “[Mr be promoted. A Cabinet reshuffle could against the Government semi-regularly.
In a speech in the House of Commons Mr Tugendhat replied: “This is about Raab] has more integrity than anyone I come this autumn. He must be playing the long game but
last Wednesday, describing the fury of putting our people and country first. Of know in politics. No ego. Dom never It has been suggested that Mr Raab he is not doing himself any favours.”
Armed Forces veterans over the West’s course I want to try to shape decisions. thinks about himself. Everything is could be demoted after the debacle of Mr Tugendhat said: “I’m focusing on
withdrawal from Kabul, Mr Tugendhat “Of course, that means leadership always for someone else. There are very his late return from holiday in Crete doing what I can through the networks I
told MPs that the past week had been a positions, because that’s how you bring few MPs who have executive leadership during the fall of Kabul. built up over years in Afghanistan and
“struggle through anger, and grief and about change. But you can’t do it alone. abilities and Dom does.” A Whitehall source said: “It does say the Army.”

Militant Islam has

been given a huge
boost, says former
US ambassador
Ryan Crocker criticises
‘disaster’ in Afghanistan as
Joe Biden addresses nation
for third time in a week
By Jamie Johnson US CORRESPONDENT
JOE BIDEN’S chaotic withdrawal from
Afghanistan has “given a huge boost to
militant Islam everywhere”, a former
US ambassador to Kabul has said, in a
broadside against the president.
Ryan Crocker, who served as ambas-
sador to Afghanistan under Barack
Obama, described the situation as a “dis-
aster” and said it “flouted 20 years of
work and sacrifice”.
The 72-year-old, who was described
by former secretary of state Colin Powell
as “one of our very best foreign service
officers,” said that Mr Biden’s lack of stra-
tegic patience in Afghanistan has dam-
aged alliances, emboldened enemies and
increased the security risk to the West.
Last night Mr Biden addressed the
nation for the third time in a week in an
attempt to quell the growing chorus of
voices who have been critical of his
actions. “There is no way to evacuate this
many people without pain and loss and
the heartbreaking images you see on tel-
evision,” he said.
“My heart aches for those people you
see. Nothing about this effort is easy, but
the men and women of the United States
armed forces are acting bravely and with
professionalism and with basic human
compassion.”
But in an essay for the New York Times,
Mr Crocker blamed the chaos on “our
lack of strategic patience at critical
moments, including from President
Biden”. “It has damaged our alliances,
emboldened our adversaries and
increased the risk to our own security. It
has also flouted 20 years of work and sac-
rifice,” he said.
Mr Crocker, who served under four
presidents, from George HW Bush to Mr
Obama, added: “The American disaster
in Afghanistan that Mr Biden’s impa-
tience brought about is not a disaster just
for us. It has also been a huge boost for
the Taliban, whose narrative now is that
the believers, clad in the armour of the
one true faith, have vanquished the infi-
dels. Mr Biden’s strategic impatience has
given a huge boost to militant Islam eve-
former British prime minister Tony
Blair, who said that the decision to
withdraw from Afghanistan has “every
jihadist group round the world
cheering”.
Mr Blair accused Mr Biden of being
“in obedience to an imbecilic political
slogan about ending ‘the forever wars’,
as if our engagement in 2021 was
remotely comparable to our commit-
ment 20 or even 10 years ago”.
In America, Mr Biden is facing a bar-
rage of criticism from both Democrats
and Republicans.
“There’s no way to hide it. The situa-
tion in Afghanistan is another shame on
this administration,” said Vicente Gonza-
lez, a Texas Democrat and a foreign
affairs committee member.
“Withdrawal was never going to be
easy but it didn’t need to come to this.”
Chrissy Houlahan, a Democrat repre-
sentative and air force veteran, added:
‘Taliban narrative is that
believers, clad in the armour
of the one true faith, have
vanquished the infidels’
“These past few days have been difficult
to process, and not because the Taliban’s
progress was surprising. In fact, the
opposite. We sounded the alarm, and our
dire warnings fell on deaf ears.”
David Axelrod, who was a senior
adviser to Mr Obama, and worked with
Mr Biden, called it “a nightmare sce-
nario”.
“You cannot defend the execution
here. This has been a disaster,” Mr Axel-
rod said on CNN. “It is heartbreaking, it
is depressing, and it’s a failure. And he
needs to own that failure. He’s the com-
mander in chief.”
There is growing concern inside the
Democrat party about how the mishan-
dling will play out among voters, with
mid-term elections next year.
“Afghanistan definitely has entered
the conversation in a big way,” said State
Senator Jeff Jackson of North Carolina,
Joe Biden last night an army veteran who fought in Kanda-
spoke to the nation har and is now running for the US
and said that his Senate.
‘heart aches for “We’ve done six or seven town halls in
those people you the last week and Afghanistan has come
see’. He faces up in all of them,” he told the New York
growing criticism Times. “It’s pretty clear that there are
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rywhere.” for his withdrawal concerns. They’ve seen the images

This view was echoed on Saturday by from Afghanistan we’ve all seen.”

France ‘felt no need to liaise with US’ over evacuation of Afghans

By Rebecca Rosman in Paris
FRENCH officials have been praised for
their “anticipatory planning” to evacu-
ate more than 600 Afghans in May,
months before the UK and US, despite
widespread criticism of the strategy at
the time.
As a host of Western nations scram-
ble to get people out of Kabul, Jean-Yves
Le Drian, foreign affairs minister, said: following a “pessimistic analysis” of French government “just got on with it ground “in peril”, and “contradicted the regime, but with a country,” the diplo-
“France does not forget those who have Afghanistan’s future. without feeling the need to co-ordinate meaning of humanitarian action”. mat told Le Monde, defending Germa-
worked for us,” and highlighted the Lord Peter Ricketts, the former Brit- closely with the US”. Among those interviewed was a Ger- ny’s decision to keep its personnel in
government’s “anticipatory planning” ish Ambassador to France, told The Doing so, however, did not go down man diplomatic official who said Ger- the country.
in evacuations that began in mid-May. Daily Telegraph that unlike the UK, well in its initial stage. many planned to spend €400 million on In an interview with France 24,
Clément Beaune, the European the which has stronger ties to Washington, European officials and French NGOs co-operation with Afghanistan. Etienne Gille, the head of the French
Affairs Minister, was also quick to point France’s relative distance helped the with a foot in Afghanistan told Le Monde To make the investment work, the NGO Amité Franco-Afghan, echoed a
out the French government’s foresight, government act quickly on its own con- in May that France’s decision to begin diplomat said, Germany needed to keep similar disappointment with the French
sharing a May 14 article published in Le clusions. evacuations of Afghans who had all its Afghan personnel on the ground. government, criticising its decision to
Monde detailing the initial evacuations According to Lord Ricketts, the worked for France put their work on the “We are not co-operating with a evacuate Afghans as “premature”.

America’s messy exit from Afghanistan will

cause allies to reconsider future co-operation
bordering on fear, that unwinding its
Comment commitments in Afghanistan will
create ongoing instability rather than
facilitating a new strategic focus.
President Biden is one in a
growing line of US presidents that has
By Leslie Vinjamuri sought to reorient – or in the words of
President Obama, “pivot” – the US
crisis surrounding immigration.
The broader challenge for the US is
if its unilateralism in Afghanistan
impairs its ability to work with its UK
and European partners further afield.
Already Europe has wavered in its
commitment to working with the US
on China. The US has now made the
the goodwill his administration was
gradually rebuilding with partners
in Europe.
This matters, because Europe and
especially the UK are essential if the
West is to compete with China
economically.
Given the sense of urgency that

T
he US decision to exit
Afghanistan will have its gravest
long-term consequences on the
JAKUB PORZYCKI / AGENCJA GAZETA / VIA REUTERS
strategic focus to Asia. But this task of building a coalition to challenge surrounds America’s competition
requires the US to extract itself from China harder than it needed to be. with China, and the slow movement
the Middle East in a way that creates towards clarity on Biden’s China

people of Afghanistan.
But it has also set the stage for a
crisis of confidence in the US among
America’s closest partners, including
the UK. And President Biden will
depend on these partners to make
headway on his chief foreign
policy objectives – in particular,
confronting China.
In theory, the fact that the US is
winding down its presence in
Afghanistan should reassure its
partners by demonstrating its resolve,
especially since the US role in
Afghanistan had become one of choice
Solidarity A woman in Krakow, Poland, joins a rather than one of necessity. But by
demonstration in support of the people of Afghanistan. managing the exit so poorly, the US has
instead raised considerable doubts,
more, not less, stability and in a way
that is sustainable.
So far, the US withdrawal has
unleashed a massive humanitarian
crisis that will require Western
attention. But with the Taliban in
charge, and no American or British
presence on the ground, America’s
ability to solve it has been severely
compromised.
America’s failure to anticipate and
prevent the astonishing and rapid
takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban
is also dominating the US foreign
policy agenda. So much so that in the
past week, China has barely featured.
This also has the potential to
stoke an ongoing domestic political
The US exit will also raise
doubt among America’s
partners that dysfunction in
Washington is pervasive
Mutual interest is necessary but
rarely sufficient to sustain co-
operation. Trust is essential.
Biden’s ability to convince US
partners that they are being consulted
rather than informed is bound now to
deteriorate. Foreign policy co-
operation is always difficult, even
among allies, even when interests are
shared and even in good times. But
Biden’s unilateral exit has set back
strategy, further delay is no
trivial matter.
The domestic backlash in
America against Biden’s management
of the US exit from Afghanistan will
also raise doubt among America’s
partners that dysfunction in
Washington is pervasive.
Still, with few exceptions – and
Afghanistan is one – the Biden
administration has shown a
remarkable degree of coherence,
predictability and stability, all the
things that its predecessor was not.
Leslie Vinjamuri is director of the
US and Americas programme at
Chatham House
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One in four GP surgeries faces staffing crisis

Research shows that a
quarter of practices lose
between 10 and 40 per
cent of their staff each year
By Gabriella Swerling
SOCIAL AFFAIRS EDITOR
A QUARTER of GP surgeries are losing
up to 40 per cent of their staff every
year, researchers have warned, amid
fears that the pandemic will exacerbate
the “major crisis”.
In most NHS regions, GP staff resig-
nations increased steadily between
2007 and 2019, according to a study by
University of Manchester academics.
If a GP practice loses 10 to 40 per cent
of workers within a year, it is deemed as
having “high turnover”. If it loses more
than 40 per cent of staff, it has “very
high turnover”. The proportion of GP
practices with high turnover almost
doubled from 14 per cent in 2009 to 27
per cent in 2019. However, the propor-
tion of practices with very high turno-
ver remained stable, at 8 per cent.
Prof Evan Kontopantelis, co-author
of the peer-reviewed study, published
in the BMJ Open journal, said: “We
already know the GP workforce in Eng-
land is going through a major crisis.
“Rates of early retirement are
increasing, as are intentions to reduce
hours of working or leave their practice
in the near future.
“Though in 2015 the Government
promised 5,000 more doctors in pri-
mary care by 2020, the number of full-
time equivalent GPs per 1,000 patients
continues to decline.”
Prof Kontopantelis added: “Quantify-
ing GP turnover and understanding
how it is distributed is fundamental to
addressing challenges for the National
‘Rates of Health Service, and for ensuring that
early quality and continuity of care are avail-
able to patients. We reveal worrying
retirement trends in GP turnover. High levels may
are affect the ability to deliver primary care
services, and undermine continuity of
increasing, care which in turn may affect the qual-
as are ity of patient care.
“And healthcare received from multi-
intentions to ple GPs can lead to conflicting thera-
reduce hours peutic treatments and fragmented care.
“Differential turnover across prac-
of working tices and regions could also lead to a
or leave their maldistribution of GPs, exacerbating
retention problems and health inequal-
practice in ities.”
the near The research comes after the British
Medical Association published a survey
future’ in June that showed that more than a
third of GPs – and nearly two thirds of
those aged over 50 – planned to quit
within five years, even before the dam-
aging impact of the pandemic. Dr
Samira Anane, BMA GP committee
workforce policy lead, said at the time
that despite the figures being “alarm-
ing”, they “will certainly not come as a
surprise to many GPs as this has been a
long-standing concern”.
“This research was carried out before
the pandemic, and it is likely that the
experiences that GPs have gone
through over the last year has changed
their outlook further…
“This desire is largely driven by
unsustainable workload and the impact
this has on doctors’ own well-being.
GPs desperately need support from
Government and policymakers as they
face the most challenging time of their
careers.”
She added that without intervention
more doctors would be “forced to leave
the profession, creating a vicious cycle
where capacity is continuously out-
stripped by demand, threatening the
‘High levels level of care practices are able to offer”.
of GP Earlier this summer, the BMA, the
main doctors’ trade union, said many
turnover doctors were retiring early in order to
may affect avoid being hit with hefty pension tax
bills. While 401 GPs and hospital doc-
the ability to tors in England and Wales took early
deliver retirement in 2007-08, that number
rose to 1,358 in 2020-21 – an increase of
primary care 239 per cent in 13 years.
services, and The Government rejected calls to
reform GP pensions taxation, arguing
undermine that the problem had already been
continuity addressed. In March, the Government
raised the threshold income at which
and quality doctors see their tax-free pension allow-
of patient ance tap ere d, from £110,000 to
£200,000, and announced the mini-
care’ mum level for reduction of the tapered
allowance would be £4,000. However,
the BMA and pensions experts warned
the measures “do not go far enough”.

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Gambling premises 10 times Threat to Paralympics on Student medics campaign to

more prevalent in poor areas C4 if channel is privatised
By Charles Hymas
HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
POORER areas are 10 times more likely
to have betting shops, bingo halls or
amusement arcades than wealthier
areas, research shows.
The University of Bristol study found
21 per cent of gambling premises were
located in the most deprived areas,
compared with just 2 per cent in the
wealthiest 10 per cent of districts.
The researchers warned the geo-
graphical spread had serious implica-
tions for poorer families who were more
likely to gamble and fall into debt.
Even though gambling has increas-
ingly shifted online, betting at physical
venues still accounted for nearly half
(44 per cent) of the UK’s gambling yield.
As of Nov 2020, there were still more
gambling premises than stores run by
the largest eight supermarket chains in
Britain, who collectively account for 90
per cent of the market. The researchers
said this highlighted a mismatch in the
amenities for deprived communities
compared with the more affluent.
Areas with the highest number of
betting shops per capita included Glas-
gow, Liverpool, parts of London and
Middlesbrough, with on average one
betting shop per 3,000 to 4,000 resi-
dents.
Jamie Evans, Senior Research Associ-
ate at the University of Bristol, said:
“Rather than having greater access to
the facilities, services and opportunities
that help people to improve their lives,
those in more deprived communities
are disproportionately faced with
choices that can often prove harmful.”
By Gabriella Swerling
SOCIAL AFFAIRS EDITOR
CHANNEL 4 could drop its Paralympics
coverage if it is privatised, its former
chairman has warned.
The Government is in the process of
a public consultation regarding the sale
of the channel, publicly owned but
commercially funded. John Whitting-
dale, the media minister, has said
“increasing pressure” from streaming
had been a factor in the decision.
Now a former chairman and chief
executive of Channel 4 have said the
channel’s successful mission to make
the Paralympics a fixture on prime-time
TV could be axed by a new owner.
“The way Channel 4 was set up gives
it the ability to do things unlikely to be
achieved by any other broadcaster,” said
Lord Burns, who chaired Channel 4 at
the time the broadcaster poached the
Paralympic TV rights from the BBC.
In 2012 Channel 4 made a £30 million
loss, followed by a £15 million deficit in
2016, both of which were attributed to
costs associated with broadcasting the
London and Rio Olympics.
“The Government expects Channel 4
to keep investing in unprofitable remit-
delivering initiatives like the Paralym-
pics but hopes these can all be delivered
for another 40 years by a profit-maxim-
ising entity that either is, or can be, for-
eign-owned and controlled,” said David
Abraham, chief executive of Channel 4
from 2010 to 2017.
Channel 4 plans to record 1,300
hours of coverage of the Tokyo Games,
almost three times the amount the BBC
managed with its Olympic coverage.
fund studies with sex work
By Camilla Turner EDUCATION EDITOR
MEDICAL students are pushing to be
allowed to do sex work to fund their
studies. Trainee doctors have urged the
British Medical Association (BMA) to
work with universities to “recognise”
and “support” students working in the
sex industry.
The trade union’s student wing has
put forward a motion which is due to be
debated at the BMA’s annual conference
next month which says that the pan-
demic has “forced student sex workers
into more risky situations”.
They are calling on the body to
“lobby the General Medical Council and
Medical Schools Council to ensure med-
ical students engaging with sex work, of
whatever form, to support their studies
are not penalised for this and are safe
from expulsion and professional pro-
ceedings”.
The authors of a study which sug-
gested that one in 20 students was
involved in the sex industry have called
on universities to accept the practice
and offer support rather than stigma.
Prof Tracey Sagar and fellow Swan-
sea University academic Debbie Jones
said that students selling sex was “not
going anywhere”. Laura Watson of the
English Collective of Prostitutes told the
Mail on Sunday: “We have experienced
an increase in the number of students
considering prostitution.”
A spokesman for Universities UK said
that their institutions encouraged
“legal, healthy and safe behaviours and
support students to make the right
choices”. The BMA said it does not dis-
cuss motions before they are debated.
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Police hope that

rainbow vehicles
will drive up hate
crime reports
Officers’ focus on online
offences means they are
overlooking the dangerous
real-life variety, say critics
By Hayley Dixon
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
POLICE are using rainbow-colour
patrol vehicles called “hate crime cars”
to encourage people to report incidents
such as social media comments.
Deputy Chief Constable Julie Cooke
said that the police insignia and rain-
bows liveries are now “part of our fleet”
and will patrol daily.
vert. DCC Cooke, who works at Chesh-
ire Police, added that the “cars are there
in the communities on normal policing
patrol just to show the community that
we want you to come forward.
“It is there to try and give confidence
to our LGBT-plus community, but also
to other underrepresented groups.”
She said that the “cost is quite mini-
mal” but the impact is “huge”.
The number of hate crimes reported
to police have more than doubled in
recent years, with allegations of
transgender hate crime seeing the
sharpest rise.
But cash-strapped forces across the
country have faced criticism for focus-
ing on the allegations, a large number of
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Critics have said forces should focus
on “real” issues such as knife crime and
rape, with the latest figures showing
poor prosecution rates.
DCC Cooke, the National Police
Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) lead on LGBT-
plus issues, released a video through its
Instagram account explaining why
police have rainbow vehicles.
She said that forces are “always
replacing vehicles”. They will bear the
police insignia and “there will normally
be then something added to do with the
rainbow side of things”.
A spokesman for the NPCC said that
they did not have figures on how many
had been painted as forces operate
independently and it is up to individual
forces how many cars they want to con-
which stem solely from social media
comments.
Even where a crime has not been
committed, police record the allegation
as a “hate incident”, which could show
up on a person’s criminal record checks.
Harry Miller, a former police officer
and founder of campaign group Fair
Cop, said: “We don’t see the Met with
special cars for knife crime even though A patrol car in without fear or favour. They have liter- Dept Chief Constable Mark Hamil- ‘We don’t policing. However, this does not
the number of stabbings in London is rainbow colours for ally tied their colours to the mast and ton, who leads on hate crime for the detract from the service to victims of
appalling. the London Pride painted their cars with their political NPCC, said that responses to hate see the Met other crime types and anyone who has
“The problem is that the second that LGBT parade leanings. crime are a key priority after the with special been a victim of crime should report it
you see a rainbow car you know that it “They are painting rainbows on their inquiry into the murder of Stephen to the police,” said DCC Hamilton.
is a police force that has made its mind cars when we have figures showing that Lawrence. cars for “ Early inter ventions, such as
up about some very contentious issues. only 7 per cent of violent crime ended in He said the police have a legal duty knife crime’ responding to hate crime, is also one of
“You no longer see a police car or a a prosecution. They have moved from to protect victims under the Human the most effective actions to reduce the
police officer who is there to support policing crime to policing thoughts and Rights and Equalities Acts. escalation of violent crime and com-
everyone, from all political persuasions, speech, because it is easier.” “Tackling hate crime is a priority for munity tensions.”

Undertaker fined while waiting at hospital Car meet spectator fights for life after crash
By Daily Telegraph Reporter
A FUNERAL director has criticised a
hospital after he got a parking fine while
he was waiting to collect a body.
Jason Price, 50, was handed the pen-
alty after he stayed for over an hour at
Lincoln Hospital on Aug 9. A few days
later he received a letter informing him
he had been illegally parked outside the
pathology department.
Mr Price, who runs Price & Son Inde-
pendent Family Funeral Directors in
Grantham, Lincs, has since reluctantly
paid the fine. He said: “We were parked
at pathology and had to wait for the nec-
essary paperwork to be completed. We
are usually in and out within half an
hour but this time it took over an hour.
“We have been given a £70 fine
reduced to £42 if you pay straight away.
Our vehicle is a Mondeo ambulance, it
even says ‘private ambulance’ on the
back, so we were clearly not visitors.”
A United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS
Trust spokesperson said: “We work
closely with funeral directors and ask
that they provide us with their vehicle
registration details so that they do not
have to pay for parking.
“If we are not given this information
then unfortunately it will result in a
parking charge notice being issued.
“We look forward to hearing from
Price & Son so that we can organise a
refund of the charge.”
By Gabriella Swerling
A CAR meet spectator is fighting for his
life after a vehicle ploughed into
onlookers at a memorial event.
Police are appealing for witnesses to
the crash for information after a car
crashed into a parked vehicle at high
speed leaving one person fighting for
his life while four others were seriously
injured. The car then drove away.
The crash happened at a memorial
event in Lincoln and saw the speeding
vehicle plough into a crowd of specta-
tors at an event held in memory of a
fatal road crash victim.
Video footage shared on social media
over the weekend shows a light-col-
oured vehicle speed past a crowd before
hitting the parked vehicle and spinning
out as the shocked onlookers gasp.
Police closed the road and the injured
people were rushed to hospital for
treatment after the crash, which took
place in Whisby Road, Lincoln, at about
10pm.
It is understood the car meet was
being held in memory of 36-year-old
Damian Buckle who died in a motorbike
crash on the A46 on August 13, accord-
ing to The Sun.
The crash involved two cars, one of
which was parked, which hit the pedes-
trians before the driver of the speeding
car drove off and ended up in a ditch at
a second scene.
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Overtime pay
for teachers who
give one-to-one
catch-up tuition
By Camilla Turner
EDUCATION EDITOR
SCHOOL teachers will be offered over-
time pay to carry out one-to-one tuition
with pupils under the Government’s
latest catch-up plans.
Head teachers will also be allowed to
apply for funds from the Department
for Education (DfE) to employ retired
teachers as tutors.
Officials at the DfE are drawing up
guidance on how the next phase of
catch-up cash can be spent. It will set
out what funding is available to schools
to spend on education recovery during
the next academic year.
Schools will be encouraged to make
use of three possible ways of accessing
tutoring which could be via an accred-
ited company that is part of the National
Tutoring Programme, making use of
academic mentors or by paying their
own staff more money to work extra
hours as tutors.
The Prime Minister first announced
its tutoring programme last summer,
which was aimed at helping children
get up to speed on the work they have
missed during school closures.
It was initially envisaged that tutor-
ing would be subcontracted to private
companies but this was opposed by
teacher unions.
Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secre-
tary of the National Education Union,
said allowing schools to pay their own
staff overtime to act as tutors is an
“attractive” prospect.
“We have said for some time that
schools know best which pupils would
benefit most from tutoring,” she said.
Geoff Barton, general secretary of the
Association of School and College Lead-
ers, said allowing teachers to do the
tutoring “signals a greater trust” in
Home working leads to 10-year low in men taking paternity leave
By Gabriella Swerling
SOCIAL AFFAIRS EDITOR
WORKING from home has prompted
the decline of fathers taking paternity
leave because they are spending more
time with their children.
Paternity leave take-up is at a 10-year
low, with approximately a quarter of eli-
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them. But he added that the logistics of
the programme are still “incredibly
complicated” and many schools may
decide not to engage with it at all.
An analysis by the Institute for Fiscal
Studies (IFS) found that school closures
could cost each British pupil up to
£40,000 in lost earnings in their life-
time. The effects of the pandemic could
result in the UK’s 8.7 million school-age
children collectively missing out on
£350 billion of income during their
working lives, their study found.
Earlier this year, Sir Kevan Collins
quit as the Government’s catch-up tsar,
accusing ministers of a “half-hearted”
approach to helping children whose
learning has been disrupted by the pan-
demic. Following the announcement of
a £1.4 billion cash injection for tuition
and teacher training in June, Sir Kevan
said it represented just a tenth of the
£15 billion funding he felt was neces-
sary to help students catch up.
Meanwhile, the former chief execu-
tive of Ucas, the university admissions
service, has accused teachers of a “sys-
tematic bias” against boys with their
predicted grades.
In a paper published by the Higher
Education Policy Institute, Mary
Curnock Cook said the huge disparity
between boys’ and girls’ exam grades
this summer is a cause for concern.
She said the gender gap is more wor-
rying than the gulf in results between
private and state schools, rich and poor
students, or North and South.
Ms Curnock Cook added that the
increased lead that girls have in this
year’s A-level grades “goes further than
the usual concerns about boys’ undera-
chievement in education and needs a
convincing explanation to eliminate
what seems, on the face of it, to indicate
systemic bias against boys”.
gible fathers (27 per cent) taking pater-
nity leave after the birth of their child.
The research, published by the com-
mercial law firm EMW, found that just
176,000 men took paternity leave in
2020-21 (to the year end March 31 2021),
compared to 652,000 women who took
maternity leave over the same period.
Following an increase in the mid-
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2000s, the number of men using their
right to paternity leave has stalled and,
in recent years, declined from a peak of
221,000 in 2016/17.
Jon Taylor, principal at EMW, said:
“For a lot of men, taking paternity leave
has become a luxury they can’t afford
during the pandemic.
“At a time of huge pressure on house-
hold finances, volunteering for a pay
cut to £152 a week just isn’t viable for
many people.”
The law firm said that limited take-up
of paternity leave is likely due to the low
rate of Statutory Paternity Pay, which is
£152 per week.
The added financial pressure of the
pandemic will have increased the reluc-
NHS advert uses young people
with long Covid to promote jabs
By Tony Diver
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
YOUNG long Covid sufferers appear in
an NHS advert to encourage people of
their age to receive a vaccine.
The video features three previously
healthy people in their 20s and 30s,
including a man who thought he would
die from the virus in hospital.
The advert is to make the case that
coronavirus can cause serious harm
even if you are in a low-risk category
without underlying health conditions.
It comes as 16 and 17-year-olds in Eng-
land and “at risk” people aged 12 to 15
are offered jabs ahead of the return to
school next month.
And the Government has launched
“grab a jab” pop-up vaccination sites,
including ones at football stadiums, fes-
tivals and at London nightclub Heaven.
Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary,
said: “I encourage everyone to come
Australian council
shoots dead rescue
dogs over virus fears
By Giovanni Torre in Perth
AN AUSTRALIAN council fearful of the
spread of coronavirus has sparked out-
rage after shooting dead a number of
rescue dogs to stop animal shelter vol-
unteers ravelling to pick them up.
An investigation has been launched
into Bourke Shire Council, in New
South Wales, following an outcry from
animal rights groups. The council killed
“several” dogs last week in order to pre-
vent staff at a rescue centre in Cobar
travelling across the state and possibly
spreading Covid-19, the Office of Local
Government said.
The state government agency is now
examining the incident to determine
whether companion animal and cruelty
prevention laws were broken.
A source who is familiar with the
arrangement said the shelter volunteers
had Covid-safe measures in place to
handle the dogs, the Sydney Morning
Herald reported.
Animal Liberation regional campaign
manager Lisa Ryan said: “We totally
reject the council’s unacceptable justifi-
cations that this killing was apparently
undertaken as part of a Covid-safe plan,”
she told the newspaper.
The council has declined local media
requests for comment.
Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph
tance of some men to take time off work
with statutory paternity pay set at such
a low level.
Working from home has also likely
impacted these numbers, with many
men being able to see their children
while also working from home, discour-
aging them from taking paternity leave.
Furlough may also have allowed
forward for both their jabs as quickly as
possible as vaccines are the best way to
protect yourself and your loved ones
from serious illness.”
A total of 89,331,700 vaccinations
have been given in the UK, with 87.7 per
cent of the population aged 16 and over
having had a first dose and 76.7 per cent
having had a second dose.
People aged 18 to 34 now make up
more than one in five of those admitted
to hospital with the virus, which is four
times higher than the peak in winter
2020, the NHS has said.
Public Health England figures show
people aged 16 to 29 are most likely to
get long Covid, but vaccine uptake in
this age group is lower than average.
Support worker Quincy Dwamena,
31, describes himself in the advert as a
“healthy young guy” who “went to the
gym often” and delayed getting the vac-
cine – but became seriously ill.
“I ended up being hospitalised and
Javid gives ‘cowboy’ travel
test firms final warning
By Sarah Knapton SCIENCE EDITOR
MORE than 80 “cowboy” Covid testing
companies face being removed from the
Government’s website after misleading
travellers over prices.
A rapid review by the Government
found that nearly one in five recom-
mended providers of polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) holiday test kits adver-
tised lower prices on the gov.uk website
than they later charged customers.
Spot checks will now be carried out
and companies will be removed from
the list if they do not update their pric-
ing within the next three days, the
Health Secretary Sajid Javid confirmed.
A fur ther 57 companie s were
removed from the list after they were
found to no longer exist, or were unable
to provide the day two and day eight
testing needed to comply with test-to-
release requirements.
Mr Javid said: “It is absolutely unac-
ceptable for any private testing com-
pany to b e taking advantage of
holidaymakers and today ’s action
clamps down on this cowboy behav-
iour. Fifty seven firms will be removed
from the gov.uk list and a further 82 will
be given a two-strike warning – if they
advertise misleading prices ever again,
they’re off.
fathers to see more of their newborn
children, but even when taking this fac-
tor into account, the number of men
taking paternity leave is still “worry-
ingly low”, the law firm claimed.
Mr Taylor added: “The rise of work-
ing from home could signal a longer-
term decline in men taking paternity
leave.”
thought I was going to die,” he said. “My
advice is to get the vaccine: don’t put
yourself and others at risk.”
Megan Higgins, 25, and Ella Har-
wood, 23, were both healthy and active
but now suffer extreme fatigue due to
long Covid. Miss Higgins, a special
needs tutor from London, said: “It’s
now been eight months since I tested
positive, and I can’t even walk around
the shops without getting exhausted.
“Long Covid is debilitating, so please,
get vaccinated. I wouldn’t want anyone
else to go through what I have.”
Miss Harwood, an illustrator from
London, said: “I’m young and fit but I
was bed-bound for seven months with
Covid-19. Before I caught the virus, I
was superactive and had no health con-
cerns, but I now suffer with asthma
which I didn’t have before and a num-
ber of allergies. I fear I’ll never be the
same again but I’m making progress
and I’m very grateful that I’m still alive.”
“We are also introducing regular
spot  checks this week to make sure
that  all private providers follow the
rules and meet our high standards
of transparency.”
Although testing is free for people
with symptoms of Covid, all tests used
for travel have to be purchased.
Holidaymakers have complained of
high and inconsistent prices, with tests
on the government website ranging
57
The number of firms being removed from
the gov.uk list – a further 82 will be given
a two-strike warning
from £23 to £575. Some travellers said
they had not received test results or had
been sent damaged PCR kits.
Willie Walsh, the former boss of Brit-
ish Airways who now heads up the
International Air Travel Association,
has accused PCR firms of “profiteering”.
Mr Javid has also asked for a separate
inquiry by the Competition and Mar-
kets Authority and has also launched an
inquiry into pricing and reliability
problems among Covid test providers.
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Hidden immunity in our

bones means many of us
may not need booster jabs
and can quickly multiply on re-
Analysis exposure, providing a rapid response
to an invader.
T-cells may also have the added
benefit of being able to fight variants.
While antibodies only detect
By Sarah Knapton proteins on the outside of cells – such
SCIENCE EDITOR as the spike protein that the virus uses
to latch on to human cells – T-cells can
vaccinated against Covid produced
high levels of neutralising antibodies
against both viruses.
It suggests that memory regions of
the immune system were jogged into
action by the vaccine, raising hope
that coronavirus infection or
vaccination offers long-term
protection which can be easily

A
nyone keeping an eye on
coronavirus antibody levels in
Britain may have noticed an
alarming trend in recent months.
Since peaking in May, the
percentage of older people who are
hone in on proteins inside infected
cells. Crucially, many of these do not
change when the virus mutates.
Earlier this year, scientists at La
Jolla Institute for Immunology in
California found that people infected
ramped up if the virus re-emerges.
Certainly, we are not seeing any
indication that vaccinated people are
becoming more at risk for reinfection.
Although there have been some
breakthrough infections with the

JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES

testing positive for protective by Covid generate T-cells that target delta variant, the vast majority (82 per
antibodies has been steadily declining. at least 15 to 20 different fragments of cent) of people catching Covid
It rose to 95 per cent for the over-80s, coronavirus proteins, and would work currently have not had two doses.
and has now fallen to 92.4. even against worrying mutations such The Joint Committee on
In fact, only the under-50s are not as the 501Y.V2 mutation found in the Vaccination and Immunisation is
seeing a drop in antibody levels, South African (beta) variant. expected to advise that booster
according to the Office for National Infections from the original Sars vaccinations not be rolled out to the
Statistics. virus have also produced immunity in wider population, although some
This signal of waning immunity has recovered patients that has lasted more vulnerable people may be
led to calls for booster jabs ahead of a decades. A study by scientists in offered a third jab. For most of us, it is
Under pressure David Riegor, a paramedic in Houston, Texas, is pictured after his patient,
winter wave. Singapore, published last week, found likely we will be safe enough with a 65-year-old man with suspected Covid symptoms, died from a cardiac arrest.
But several studies have come out in that Sars patients who were just two.
the past few months that suggest we
may not need to be too worried after We can
all. Antibodies are not the only
indicator of immunity. generate a
In May, researchers at Washington
University School of Medicine, who
type of
studied 77 recovering Covid patients, dialled-
found that while antibodies declined down
over time, bone marrow plasma cells,
capable of producing antibodies protection
against the virus, remained stable. that could
It means that people who have
recovered from an infection have last decades,
immunity hidden away in their bones, or even a
ready to spring into action. This type of
dialled-down protection could last lifetime
decades, or even a lifetime, the
researchers believe.
The team also found patients were
carrying memory B-cells – a type of
white blood cell – which patrol the
blood looking for the virus.
In fact, the researchers noted that
the levels of B-cells found in recovered
Covid-19 patients were equal to people
vaccinated against tetanus or
diphtheria, vaccines that both provide
long-term immunity to those diseases.
Similarly, researchers from the
Rockefeller University, New York,
recently found that recovered Covid
patients still have immunity a year
after an infection, including antibodies
that were “exceptionally resistant” to
variants.
“The data suggest that immunity in
convalescent individuals will be very
long lasting and that convalescent
individuals who receive available
mRNA vaccines will produce
antibodies and memory B-cells that
should be protective against
circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants,” the
researchers concluded.
The problem with only looking at
antibodies is it gives a false picture of
the level of protection. The body is
efficient, and will not continue to
produce high-levels of antibodies
when they are no longer needed.
This is a good thing, as it prevents
the onset of autoimmunity which can
lead to a slew of debilitating
conditions. Instead, the blueprints for
making antibodies are squirrelled
away, while a casual surveillance is
mounted by the immune system.
But bone marrow and B-cells are not
all the body has stashed away for a
future fight. Last year, Imperial College
found that people who had recovered
from Covid still had memory T-cells
even after antibodies had waned.
T-cells are a kind of white blood cell
that store the details of a past infection

Jamaica and Morocco

‘next to go on red list’
By Charles Hymas
HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
FOUR Caribbean and African
holiday destinations are at
risk of UK travel bans being
imposed this week, sparking
a scramble by holidaymakers
to return to avoid hotel quar-
antine, an analysis suggests.
Jamaica, St Lucia, Domi-
nica and Morocco have seen
rising Covid rates that put
them on course to be red-
listed this week when Grant
Shapps, the Transport Secre-
tary, unveils the new traffic
light ratings for the final days
of summer.
The analysis by travel con-
sultancy the PC Agency also
indicates Covid rates in the
Balearics and Spain are high
enough to merit inclusion on
a red list. But the researchers
say they will not be added
because of the travel chaos it
would mean for Britons
forced to rush back and the
lack of hotels in the UK in
which to quarantine them.
Israel’s fourth wave of cor-
onavirus has also put it on
the cusp of the red list despite
its current rating as green.
But the researchers again
expect ministers to steer
clear of such a dramatic move
taking a country from green
to red and say they will
instead choose amber.
Five amber countries are
ex p e cte d to turn gre en
because of declining Covid
rates. They are Poland, Bhu-
tan, the Czech Republic,
Hungary and Saudi Arabia,
according to the analysis,
which is based on Covid
infection rates, the propor-
tion of tests coming back
positive and the level of vac-
cination.
However, eight green
countries including Israel
are expected to turn amber,
meaning anyone who is not
vaccinated will have to race
home before next Monday’s
deadline to avoid being
forced to quarantine for 10
days at home.
The other seven are popu-
lar holiday spots including
Croatia and Madeira, and the
Caribbean islands of
Anguilla, Antigua, and Turks
and Caicos, as well as Lithua-
nia and Montserrat.
Paul Charles, chief execu-
tive of the PC Agency, said:
“ Much of Europe won’t
change because the Govern-
ment would create utter
chaos at our borders during
the Bank Holiday weekend
and week if they chose to
turn some of the most popu-
lar countries red, such as
Balearics or Spain, and force
so many people into hotel
quarantine.”
Red-listed Turkey has
seen its Covid rates decline,
raising hopes that it could be
moved to amber.
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News
Lab-grown
blood vessels
give hope for
those with
heart issues
Creation means
waiting for a donor
RUSSELL SACH FOR THE TELEGRAPH
match may become
a thing of the past
By Sarah Knapton
SCIENCE EDITOR
LAB-GROWN blood vessel
transplants for people with
heart problems are on the
horizon after scientists cre-
ated contracting muscle cells
You wait all year for a bus... A fleet of old and new Routemaster double-decker buses provided a unique annual service in Wiltshire on from human blood.
Saturday, ferrying passengers on a 10-mile route from Warminster to the uninhabited village of Imber, in the heart of the Salisbury Plain. Researchers from Imperial
College successfully grew
smooth muscle cells in a dish
and showed they make a sim-
ilar pumping acting as natu-
ral blood vessels.
It opens the door for grow-
ing complete arteries or
veins in the lab which could
be transplanted into people
with circulation or heart
problems.
Currently, people who
need blood vessel replace-
ments must wait for a blood-
matched donor to become
available, or have an “auto-
graft”, where a vein is taken
from another part of the
body, such as in heart bypass
surgery.
But being able to grow ves-
sels in the lab could give an
unlimited supply, while also
halting damage to another
part of the body, and reduc-
ing the chance of rejection.
Around 14,000 people in
Britain need coronary artery
bypass grafting surgery each
year.
Dr Blerina Ahmetaj-Shala,
Research Fellow at the Brit-
ish Heart Foundation Centre
of Research Excellence, at
Imperial, said: “[We’ve] been
able to grow the individual
cells that make up a blood
vessel from blood samples.
“Next, we want to create
3D models of blood vessel
systems using blood samples
from both healthy volunteers
and people with heart and
circulatory conditions.
“This will allow us to com-
pare how blood vessels func-
tion in health and disease,
Strike threat over
Legionella on trains
By Mike Wright
L E G I O N E L L A has b e en
found in the lavatories of a
number of Thameslink
trains, leading to a rail union
threatening strike action
over the operator’s response.
The RMT union described
Thameslink’s decision to
drain and bleach seven toi-
lets on four trains that tested
positive as “half-hearted and
inadequate”.
It has now called for talks
with the operator’s manage-
ment and is preparing its
members for strike action.
Thameslink said “very low
levels” of the bacteria had
been found and the trains
had been taken out of service
while they were cleaned.
The bacteria can cause a
potentially lethal lung infec-
tion, known as Legionnaires’
disease if droplets containing
it are inhaled.
Thameslink said the
removal of the trains, which
are now back in service, had
not affected its timetable,
which is still running under
capacity following the pan-
demic.
After the positive tests of
Rugby player collapses
and dies during match
TRIBUTES have been paid to
an amateur rugby player who
collapsed and died during a
memorial game in Neath Port
Talbot, South Wales.
Alex Evans was playing for
Cwmllynfell RFC against
Crynant RFC when he fell ill
on Saturday. The flanker was
treated by first responders
and the ambulance service
but died.
The club wrote on Twitter:
“We have lost a brother on
the field and it is hurting so
much. RIP Alex. The whole
club and community are
which will reveal more about
the development of different
conditions.”
Smo oth mus cle cells,
found in the walls of blood
vessels, support the move-
ment of blood around the
body by contracting and
relaxing in resp onse to
chemical signals.
This helps to move blood
to the areas of the body
where it is needed most and
when it stops working it can
lead to a range of heart and
c i rc u l a t o r y c o n d i ti o n s ,
including high blood pres-
sure and diabetes.
To test whether the lab-
grown cells were contract-
ing, researchers exposed
them to thromboxane, a hor-
mone which causes cells in
the body to contract.
Shortly after exposure
they saw increased levels of
calcium in the cells – a signal
that the cells need in order to
contract.
The breakthrough will
also help scientists under-
stand the differences
between healthy and dis-
eased vessels.
Growing cells from blood
vessels in the lab usually
requires taking arteries or
veins from someone during
surgery or after death.
Labs across the world have
been looking for a way to
grow blood vessels artifi-
cially. Last year a team of
researchers at the University
of Minnesota Medical School
grew human-derived blood
vessels in a pig.
The breakthrough will
also help scientists under-
stand the differences
between healthy and dis-
eased vessels.
The team have started to
grow cells from patients with
type 1 diabetes, who are at
increased risk of heart and
circulatory complications,
and have shown that these
cells are also able to contract
in response to thromboxane.
The research was pub-
lished in the journal Fron-
tiers Cell and Developmental
Biology.
the lavatories, Mick Lynch,
the union’s general secretary,
said: “RMT has been raising
concerns for weeks now, and
the latest cavalier approach
from the company is pitifully
inadequate and is an outright
gamble with passenger and
staff health.
“We have now declared a
dispute and if we don’t get
serious action we will ballot
our [members].”
Responding to the com-
ments, Thameslink said it is
not uncommon for low levels
of Legionella to exist in
homes and offices as well as
public places.
It said no traces of the bac-
t e r i a , wh i c h i s s p re a d
through the air, were found
in its trains’ air conditioning
systems.
Following the positive
tests the facilities were “com-
pletely drained, bleached
and refilled” before the trains
were returned to service.
Rob Mullen, train services
director at Thameslink, said:
“A v e r y l o w l e v e l o f
Legionella was found to be
present during testing in a
small number of our Thames-
link Class 700 train toilets.”
shocked and saddened. Fly
high brother … fly high.” The
Welsh Rugby Union tweeted:
“Our deepest condolences to
Alex’s family, friends, team-
mates and all at the club.”
Club captain Chris Balfe
praised those who went to
help Mr Evans and offered
condolences to his family.
Writing on Facebook, he
said: “To play as part of a
team is more than a sport, it’s
to be part of a family.
“We went out today as a
team of mates and we came
off the field losing a brother.”
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Pot Noodles and no
TV: girl, 14, becomes
youngest sailor to
go around Britain
By Daily Telegraph Reporter
A S CHO OLGIRL has become the
youngest solo sailor to navigate Britain,
fuelled largely by Pot Noodles.
Katie McCabe, 14, arrived at her
home town of Devon on Saturday even-
ing after a 1,600 nautical mile anticlock-
wise voyage.
She came home to torrential rain and
a large crowd along Topsham Quay.
She beat the previous record holder
Timothy Long, who completed the trip
aged 15. After arriving, Katie said: “I am
overwhelmed.” Asked what she was
looking forward to doing next, she sim-
ply said: “Sailing.”
Following close behind her has been
David, her boatbuilder father, who had
to stay within a five-mile range of his
daughter for insurance reasons. Katie McCabe, left, sailed into the record
Katie set sail in her 26ft bull-hulled books on her 26ft wooden yacht, above,
wooden boat called Falanda on June 30 covering the 1,600 miles in seven weeks
and completed her voyage in seven
weeks. She had no TV and meals were in time for the start of her school term,
fairly basic, with pasta or Pot Noodles but joked: “I might carry on and go
being cooked on a single-ring stove. around again.”
Her grandparents Clive and Chris Katie has so far raised more than
Parnell said: “She had only sailed 400 £10,000 for the Sea Shepherd UK char-
miles solo before this. We are so proud.
She had some night sails, which are ‘I am looking forward to
very tricky in the dark.”
As Katie set off from Plymouth on the standing and stretching out.
last leg of her adventure, she said: “I am I really enjoyed it although
looking forward to standing up and
stretching out. I have really enjoyed it you are constantly tired’
although you are in a constant state of
tiredness. I was invaded by a swarm of ity, which targets illegal fishing and
hoverflies out at sea at one point. There clears the oceans of ghost nets.
was a big trip from south of Oban to Timothy, who completed the journey
Conwy in Wales which was 170 miles in 11 weeks in October last year, also had
and took 32 hours. And around the Mull to deal with the perils of the sea. During
of Kintyre we had a three-metre swell his trip he tackled large waves and gale-
for five to six hours.” force wind, sometimes sailing for 24
She wanted to complete the voyage hours straight.

Supermarkets ‘days apart in terms of freshness’

Online food deliveries last
longest from Tesco, staying
in date for a week and a half,
survey of six chains shows
By Mike Wright
SHOPPERS looking for the freshest
deliveries should order from Tesco over
Waitrose, a Which? study has found.
The consumer champion discovered
that groceries lasted on average two and
a half days longer when purchased from
Tesco when it tested deliveries from a
range of large supermarkets.
The findings come as Which? also
found some supermarket deliveries
included damaged items or produce
that was about to go off, such as cream
and meat.
Following the findings, Waitrose
said it trained its workers to pick prod-
ucts with the longest best-before dates
when packing deliveries. The results
come as Which? conducted a series of
“mystery shopper” purchases online
from six major supermarkets: Wait-
rose, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morri-
sons and Ocado.
Testers ordered more than 1,000 gro-
ceries looking at the same 16 perishable
items across the different services.
Which? then totalled up the number
of hours left from the time of the arrival
until midnight on the use-by date to cal-
culate the average freshness of the
deliveries.
The watchdog found Tesco came top
with its items lasting on average 11 days
after delivery, whereas Waitrose ranked
bottom of the six with an average of just
8.6 days.
Asda was found to have the second
freshest produce with its items lasting
on average 10.5 days and the online ser-
vice Ocado came third with 10.4 days.
The testers also found stark differ-
ences in the use-by dates of similar
products purchased from different
supermarkets. For instance, the longest
lasting mince came from Asda, with 13.4
days to eat it, compared with just 2.1
days for a packet of mince from Morri-
sons.
Best before Likewise, the freshest semi-skimmed
Average milk was bought online from Asda with
time left for 18.3 days left before it went off, whereas
testers received one bottle from Wait-
food bought rose with just 4.7 days left.
online Which? also received some products
that were already beyond their best-
Tesco 264 hours before dates in two separate pots of
(11 days) cream from Sainsbury’s and Ocado.
Asda 252 hours Three items from Asda, Morrisons
(10.5 days) and Sainsbury’s were delivered on their
Ocado 249 hours use-by dates and separate packets of
(10.4 days) minced beef from Asda, Ocado and
Sainsbury’s 230 Waitrose “appeared to have gone off ”
hours (9.6 days) despite technically being within their
Morrisons 221 best-before dates.
hours (9.2 days) Harry Rose, editor of Which? maga-
Waitrose 207 zine, said: “Our analysis shows that
hours (8.6 days) when it comes to delivering fresh food
and drink there can be a significant dif-
ference between online supermarkets.
Shockingly, our mystery shoppers
found some items that were already out
of date when delivered, as well as gro-
ceries that appeared to have gone off
before their use-by dates had even
passed.
“Use-by dates are about safety and
shoppers should not risk eating out-of-
date food. Anyone who is unhappy with
the freshness of their online groceries
should complain to their supermarket,
or switch to a supermarket with better
policies on food freshness if possible.”
Another issue uncovered by Which?
was items being delivered in damaged
or compromised packaging. Ten such
products were delivered in a state that
testers deemed not safe to eat, includ-
ing some bacon rashers from Morrisons
and an Ocado pasta salad which had its
plastic film torn.
Following the exercise, a spokesman
for Waitrose said: “We always train our
Partners to pick products with the long-
est best before date for online deliveries
– we’re sorry this fell short of our high
standards and are committed to making
this better for our customers.
“From time to time we sometimes
shorten the date codes on certain fresh
produce to ensure it’s at optimum qual-
ity – so this may also have been a factor
behind the results.”
‘Anyone who Sainsbury’s said the mystery shopper
results were “at odds” with research
is unhappy Which? had carried out earlier in the
with the year which dubbed the chain the UK’s
“favourite online retailer”.
freshness of Morrisons said it was “disappointed”
their online with the results of the test and was look-
ing into how to improve its delivery
groceries process.
should A spokesman for Ocado added: “We
work hard to ensure our supply chain is
complain to efficient and runs smoothly in order to
their deliver the freshest food with the long-
est shelf life, while maintaining the low-
supermarket’ est levels of food waste in the industry.”

Two pints of lager and a packet of olives –

pubgoers moving to healthier snacks
By Mike Wright
OLIVES and halloumi fries
are replacing salted peanuts
and traditional crisp flavours
as the nation’s favourite bar
snacks, data have shown.
Pubgoers in the North are
also leaning more towards
trendy snacks according to a
study of more than one mil-
lion table service orders.
The findings come as
punters have had to order
food and drinks online via
table service apps during the
pandemic, giving a clearer
picture of the nation’s evolv-
ing bar food preferences.
A study of 1.5 million
orders by ServedUp, a table
service app, found a marked
increase in purchases of
healthier snacks since pubs
started to re-open in April.
Purchases of baked crisps
rose by 23 per cent compared
with before the pandemic,
cashew nuts by 20 per cent
and popcorn by 12 per cent.
Meanwhile, demand for
gourmet flavoured crisps
shot up by 16 per cent and
olives by 8 per cent.
Purchases of snacks popu-
lar with adherents of low-carb
diets, such as the paleo and
keto regimes, also rose with
demand for cured Biltong
meat strips up 7 per cent.
Conversely, more tradi-
tional bar staples saw a
decline in popularity, with
purchases decreasing for
pickled onions, salted pea-
nuts, Mini Cheddars and
prawn cocktail crisps.
Data from the app also
noticed that upmarket snacks
were becoming increasingly
popular in northern towns
and cities such as Manches-
ter, York and Aberdeen.
In York, beer-battered fries
were among the most popular
snacks post lockdown and in
Manchester tempura prawns
rose in popularity.
H o w e v e r, t r a d i t i o n a l
snacks such as packets of
Monster Munch or Mini
Cheddars still remained an
popular accompaniment to a
pint in places such as Mid-
dlesbrough and Swansea.
Hugo Tilmouth, CEO at
ServedUp, said: “Obviously
our data reveals a snapshot of
life in Britain’s bars and pubs,
but could it be that the north
has overtaken the south and
is now the epicentre of the
upmarket bar room nibble?”
Editorial Comment: Page 17

River plague prompts

warning to dog walkers
By Gabriella Swerling
DOG walkers have been told
by the Environment Agency
to keep their pets away from
streams as they are spreading
a deadly crayfish plague.
The Environment Agency
issued the warning after
white-clawed crayfish were
found dead in two brooks.
T h e e n d a n g e re d a n d
native crustaceans died in
the Cinderford and Soudley
brooks in Gloucestershire.
Chris Bainger, a fisheries
technical specialist at the
Environment Agency, said:
“We’ve had a few outbreaks
over the years but this is the
first in that specific area.”
The plague is transferred
through the water and was
PA
or animals, it has killed
white-clawed crayfish to the
point where they are now an
endangered species.
“The whole of the Forest of
Dean is at risk because on a
day you might trudge
through the Soudley Brook
and before you know it
you’re in another water-
course quite quickly,” Mr
Bainger warned.
“You might still have dirty
boots or your dog’s been hav-
ing a run in that stream. It’s
important to think about that
bigger scale.”
The Wildlife Trust lists the
species as the UK’s only
native freshwater crayfish.
The white-clawed crayfish
inhabits small freshwater
streams of a depth less than

brought into the UK by the one metre, hiding under-

Testing time Supporters of Geronimo, the TB-positive alpaca, American signal crayfish. neath stones and rocks and in
demonstate at Shepherds Close Farm, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos. Although it is not fatal to small crevices where they
the invasive species, humans forage for food.
14 ***
Josephine Baker
to be first black
woman buried in
French Pantheon
Macron decides to honour
US-born performer for her
courage as a resistance
fighter against the Nazis
By Rebecca Rosman in Paris
FRANCE is to induct the first black
woman into a mausoleum for its most
distinguished citizens.
Josephine Baker, the American-born
dancer, Second World War resistance
fighter and civil rights activist, will be
reinterred at the Panthéon in an official
ceremony this autumn.
Activists celebrated President Emma-
nuel Macron’s decision to honour
Baker, who died aged 68 in 1975, by
placing her alongside national heroes
including Marie Curie, Alexandre
Dumas and Voltaire.
Josephine Baker was
born in Missouri,
United States, then
became a French
citizen, speaking of
her love for Paris
“When the president said yes, [it was
a] great joy,” said Jennifer Guesdon, one
of 38,000 people who signed a petition
calling for the reburial.
Mr Macron’s administration has
come under fire in recent months for its
approach to minorities, with police bru-
tality and a new law targeting Islamist
separatism sparking a backlash.
In reply, Mr Macron has been vocal in
his backing for France’s principle of
“universalism”, where citizens are
expected to place national identity over
ethnic or religious ties.
Laurent Kupferman, a writer who
launched the petition, said Baker sym-
bolised the principle, having credited it
with helping her escape the racism of
the United States.
In his petition, Mr Kupferman wrote
that Baker “should not be inducted just
because she was a woman or because
she was black … she should be inducted
Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph
World news
Unrest Fireworks
launched by anti-
government
protesters explode
over riot police in
Bangkok, Thailand.
The protesters have
for several weeks
been holding rallies
against the
government’s
failure to handle
coronavirus
outbreaks and the
pandemic’s impact
on the economy.
because of the acts of courage she per-
formed for the country.”
Baker, who became a French citizen
in 1937 and was buried in Monaco in
1975, was famous for saying she had two
loves, “my country and Paris”.
Born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1906,
she moved to Paris in 1925 as part of a
wave of black Americans who saw the
French capital as a welcome escape
from racial segregation and other kinds
of mistreatment in the United States.
In 1925, she joined the Théâtre des
Champs-Elysées to dance in La Revue
Nègre, where she introduced French
audiences to the Charleston, a jazz
dance named after the town in South
Carolina where it first originated.
Baker’s performance made her an
overnight success. Ernest Hemingway,
the writer who was a part of the famed
LAUREN DECICCA/GETTY IMAGES
“lost generation” of Americans that
lived in Paris in the Twenties, described
Baker as “the most sensational woman
anyone ever saw”.
In 1927, she became the first black
woman to star in a major motion pic-
ture, with the French silent film Siren of
the Tropics.
Her commitment to France was
cemented during the Second World
War, when she was recruited by the
Deuxième Bureau, the French military
intelligence agency, to use her fame and
charm to gather information on Ger- Sewage from Beijing ships a ‘catastrophe’ for the South China Sea
man troops at parties. “The Parisians
gave me their hearts, I am ready to give
them my life,” Baker famously told By Nicola Smith and A A Alegre ships often gather in batches. “When concluded. Ms Derr said: “The right Following Simularity’s July report,
Jacques Abtey, the French spy that the ships don’t move, the poop piles up,” thing to do, and this has been proposed the Chinese embassy in Manila denied
recruited her for these missions. HUMAN waste and sewage dumped in Ms Derr told an online conference. by a number of scientists, is to make the Chinese boats were dumping sewage
Once Germany invaded in 1940, the South China Sea is causing lasting “This is a catastrophe of epic propor- Spratly Islands a no-catch marine pro- overboard, accusing the company of
Baker moved to southern France where damage to fragile reefs and marine life, tions and we are close to the point of no tected area. Those coral reefs are criti- “maliciously spreading fake news
she housed members of General according to US experts tracking the return,” she said, warning that fish, cal to the lives of all the people who live against China”.
Charles de Gaulle’s Free French forces. environmental catastrophe from space. including migratory tuna, breed in the along the shore,” she said. But Ms Derr said satellite images over
De Gaulle later awarded her the Legion Liz Derr, of a software firm creating reefs that are being damaged and could The Spratlys lie at the centre of a ter- the past month suggested that more
of Honour medal. artificial intelligence for satellite cause fish stocks to decline in an area ritorial dispute between China, Taiwan, than 100 ships had moved away from
Even though she remained based in imagery analysis, said it was “highly that is a key regional food source. Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and the Union Banks and were no longer
France, Baker also became involved in probable” the effluent came from Chi- Another investigation contrasted Brunei, and Vietnamese forces have anchoring in long strips.
the US civil rights movement during the nese ships linked to Beijing’s maritime algae build-up in the Union Banks atoll also occupied some coral outcrops in Her company is working with the US
Fifties and Sixties. militia patrolling and anchoring in in the Spratlys with similar reefs that Union Banks. state department and embassy in
In 1963, she spoke alongside Dr Mar- politically sensitive reefs and atolls. were free from human activity. A diplomatic spat erupted this year Manila to help the Philippines govern-
tin Luther King Jr at the March on A Simularity Inc report used satellite “There is significant evidence that between the Philippines and China ment purchase its software and services
Washington. images over the past five years to show the Union Banks reefs are being dam- when Manila ordered hundreds of Chi- to help monitor the coastline.
Baker died in Paris in 1975 at the age how raw sewage had caused algae in aged by “excess nutrients” and have nese boats to leave the Whitsun Reef, She said she had been taken aback by
of 68 after suffering a cerebral haemor- reefs in the Spratlys archipelago where more reef degrading macroalgae than which it maintains is within its 200- the strength of the international
rhage. China has territorial claims and Chinese similar reefs which are not occupied,” it mile exclusive economic zone. response to the research.
The Daily Telegraph Monday 23 August 2021
Sri Lanka to
issue captive
elephants with
identity cards
By Louise Watt TAIPEI
ELEPHANTS kept in captivity in Sri
Lanka are to be given biometric identity
cards as a way of protecting them from
ill treatment.
Authorities have also banned owners
from riding them while drunk as part of
a host of measures that are contained in
a wide-ranging animal protection law.
The new law aims to address wide-
spread complaints of cruelty and ill
treatment against elephants that are
kept as pets in the South Asian nation.
There are around 200 domesticated
elephants officially recorded in Sri
Lanka. They are commonly kept by
Buddhist monks and wealthy people
who like to show them off.
Elephants are considered sacred in
the majority-Buddhist island and are
already protected to ensure minimum
standards of care, but prosecutions
have been rare. In one notorious case, a
particularly old elephant – a 70-year-old
domesticated Asian elephant – died in
2019 after being made to walk several
miles in an annual Buddhist pageant.
Now, as part of strict measures meant to
ensure elephants are properly cared for,
owners must send them for a medical
check-up every six months.
The new regulations also aim to end
harsh treatment of working elephants,
including at tourist sites where visitors
can feed baby elephants. Baby ele-
phants can no longer be put to work or
separated from their mothers.
Modern masterpiece: Berlin’s contemporary art gallery reopens after six-year revamp
By Jorg Luyken in Berlin
THE most important house of modern
art in Germany, Berlin’s Neue National-
galerie, reopened yesterday after a no-
expenses-spared refurbishment by
British architect David Chipperfield.
Some 1,500 visitors were able to enter
the modernist masterpiece after a six-
year renovation that cost €140 million
(£120 million). With the pandemic still
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Record rainfall leads to
10 deaths in Tennessee
Flooding in Tennessee has left at least
10 people dead and dozens missing as
record-breaking rainfall washed away
homes and rural roads
Twin toddlers are among at least 15
people killed in the state, where homes
were washed away, and left 30 people
missing. The flooding took out roads
and telephone lines, leaving families
unable to contact each other.
Up to 17in (43cm) of rain fell in
Humphreys County in less than 24
hours Saturday, shattering the
Tennessee record for one-day rainfall
Wildlife safaris are a major tourist by more than 3in.
draw in Sri Lanka, including elephant
rides. The new law says that no more
than four tourists can ride an elephant, Haitian gangster vows to
and they must sit on a well-padded sad-
dle to protect the animal.
assist earthquake relief
The measures call on owners of A Haitian gang leader has promised to
working elephants to make sure each assist in relief efforts following the
one has a two-and-a-half-hour bath devastating earthquake that officials
every day. Each elephant must also have now say killed 2,207 people.
its own photo identity card with a DNA It comes as relief operations are
stamp. In another new rule, a rider – expanding, but authorities have
known as a mahout – may not ride an struggled with security at distribution
elephant while drinking alcohol. points. Gangs have hijacked aid trucks
People who violate the new law will and ambulances, forcing relief workers
see their elephant taken into state care, to transport supplies by helicopter.
and they will face punishment of up to Yesterday, Jimmy Cherizier, leader
three years’ imprisonment. of the G9 Revolutionary Forces, said:
In other measure s, elephants “We invite all compatriots to show
engaged in hoisting logs and other work solidarity with the victims by trying to
in the logging industry cannot work for share what little there is with them.”
more than four hours a day, and they are
not allowed to work at night.
They are also banned from the film Swedish PM announces
industry – they cannot be used unless
they are government productions with
intention to step down
vets supervising their treatment. Stefan Lofven, the prime minister of
LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP
Compared with the 200 domesti- Sweden, caught many off-guard
cated animals, there are an estimated yesterday by saying he would resign in
7,500 elephants in the Sri Lankan wild, November ahead of a general election
although activists say the elephant pop- in September 2022 to give his
ulation is on the decline because of the successor a chance to improve the
destruction of their habitats. Social Democrats’ standing in the polls.
Some elephants who have been Mr Lofven has been leader since
forced to spread out further looking 2014, heading two coalition
for food have been killed in conflicts governments with the Greens that have
with farmers and others protecting lurched from crisis to crisis, unable to
their crops. Elephants in Sri Lanka are commonly kept by Buddhist monks. New measures aim to ensure they are properly cared for command a majority in parliament.
causing restrictions on entry, visitors Nationalgalerie was not universally nished, detracting from the impression “One would only be visible if one made
had to book time slots and the opening liked when first opened, but has since of a floating ceiling and obscuring the mistakes. It’s an intellectual challenge.
day was sold out weeks in advance. been one of the most iconic views in the view of the adjacent Philharmonie con- And that was the interesting thing for
Monika Grütters, Germany’s culture German capital’s cityscape. cert hall. me,” he told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung
minister, heralded the opening as a Its steel roof plane, weighing more Furthermore, the lack of accessibility newspaper.
“brilliant comeback as a pilgrimage site than 1,000 tons, is held up by eight thin for disabled people to the galleries on The interior of the building, includ-
for lovers of modern art and as a stage columns, giving the impression that it is the lower floor, plus the need for a new ing its marble columns, was painstak-
for contemporary artists”. floating. air ventilation system, meant that an ingly disassembled at the beginning of
Built on the edge of West Berlin in But wear and tear over the 50 years overhaul was long overdue. renovation work, which included add-
the 1960s by father of Bauhaus architec- since its opening in 1968 meant that the Chipperfield has spoken of his task as ing a lift, a modern LED lighting system
ture Mies van der Rohe, the Neue building’s glass facade had become tar- The Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany keeping “as much Mies as possible”. and underfloor heating.
16 ***
Whitby’s Dracula
hunters show the
haunting power
of fine literature
JANE SHILLING
C
ount Dracula is not
real. The sinister
Transylvanian
neck-nibbler had no
corporeal existence. Nor,
despite his preference for
resting in boxes of earth
from his native land, does he
lie buried anywhere – least
of all in the churchyard of St
Mary’s Church, Whitby, the
Yorkshire town where Bram
Stoker’s 1897 Gothic novel is
partly set. In fact, Stoker’s
narrative explicitly denies
the undead nobleman a final
resting place: after he is slain
by the vampire hunters,
Jonathan Harker and
Quincey Morris, Dracula’s
body crumbles to dust.
None of this has deterred
the hundreds of tourists
who make the pilgrimage
to St Mary’s in search of
Dracula’s grave, however.
Here, despite a leaflet
explaining “Sorry, it’s
not here! In fact it’s not
anywhere because Dracula
is fiction … ”, disappointed
vampire-fanciers have been
venting their frustration so
furiously that Father
Michael Gobbett, the priest
of St Mary’s, has written to
the Whitby Gazette, pointing
out that “the primary
purpose of a church is the
worship of God”.
A more significant local
figure, he has suggested, is
St Hild, the 7th-century
founder of Whitby Abbey
(and patron of the earliest
named English poet,
Caedmon).
Anyone who loves books
will be familiar with the
sense – sometimes so strong
that it feels like a haunting
– that a character in whose
story you have been
immersed has an existence
that continues somewhere
beyond the final page.
Lizzie Bennet, Elena
Ferrante’s Lenu and Lila,
Harry Potter – these are
personalities that seem too
powerful to be contained by
the bounds of their fictional
settings.
A lively tourist industry
nurtures the longing of fans
to engage with their literary
heroes and heroines. Yet
most of us remain capable of
recognising the border
Comment
between fiction and reality.
Perhaps the problem with
the troublesome tomb
tourists of St Mary’s is that
they are seeking the
numinous in a place where it
already exists – if only they
knew how to recognise it.
‘ In 2010, researchers
from Keele University
received the coveted Ig
Nobel Peace Prize for their
research into the analgesic
properties of swearing. “I
would advise people, if they
hurt themselves, to swear,”
said Richard Stephens, one
of the authors of the study.
Yet a recent analysis of the
sweary habits of Britons
discovered that the use of
expletives is in decline,
while our profanities of
choice have changed.
“Bloody” – in my
childhood a word of such
forbidden power that I still
remember the shock of
hearing my gently spoken
mother utter it – has fallen to
third place in the league
table of curses.
It didn’t make the cut in
Nicholas Cage’s recent
Netflix documentary on
the History of Swear Words,
which examined the
cultural background of
six popular profanities –
including the top two on
the current league table,
f--- and s---, as well as the
genteel “Damn!”, now so
anodyne as hardly to
count as a swear word.
In general, a disjunction
seems to exist between our
view of swearing by public
figures – shock and horror
if someone accidentally
lets slip a vulgar word on
a hot mic – and a more
relaxed attitude to what
you might call domestic
profanity.
As for the analgesic
effects, I still aspire to the
impregnable self-control
of a friend’s mother who,
on catching her hand in
the whirring blades of a
lawnmower, remarked only:
“Christmas crackers!”
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The Afghanistan debacle is just the
latest blow to the Western alliance
There is now no hiding the
deep cracks between the
US and Europe. How
leaders respond is critical
NICK TIMOTHY
THY
G
reat powers rise and fall,
and apparently
impregnable empires
eventually turn to dust.
Today China is on the
rise, power is shifting
from West to East, and the United
States suffers from domestic division,
strategic overreach and a crisis of
confidence. The Afghan war ended in
unmitigated defeat, the withdrawal
was a humiliation and the evacuation a
disgrace. Yet it is too soon to write off
American power. The US remains the
world’s greatest military force, its
economic superpower and instigator
of innovation and discovery.
But America is supposed to lead
the free world. And what we have
come to call “the West” – the liberal
democracies and open societies of
North America, Europe and Australasia
– is fragmenting. American leadership,
mostly unquestioned since 1945, is
now challenged in Europe and rejected
as a burden by many in America itself.
Afghanistan is the latest cause of
division. The decision, 20 years ago, to
remove the Taliban from power, was
made after 9/11 when the US invoked
Article 5 of the Washington Treaty.
Article 5 guarantees collective security
between Nato members: an attack on
one state means all must come to its
defence.
We must resist the normalisation of masks
Their adoption by zero-
Covid supporters as a kind
of talisman is no substitute
for rigorous research
COLIN AXON
T
he divide in the House of
Commons was striking last
week. Nearly all members of the
Opposition were wearing masks while
only a handful could be seen on the
Government benches. I do not know
whether this was an organised political
statement, a natural result of personal
choice, or a difference in the
implications drawn from the
scientific evidence. But whatever the
explanation, political posturing
over face coverings matters.
For a year or more, many
commentators have been suggesting
that the Government’s responses to the
pandemic owe more to politics and
polls than science. We must resist the
creeping normalisation of masks and
Afghanistan was a Nato mission. Yet
when President Biden withdrew US
forces he barely consulted his allies.
He claims he discussed his decision at
the G7 in Cornwall in June. But Britain
and others say that the nature of
withdrawal – failing to secure Kabul
and removing key logistical support
from Afghan soldiers – was not agreed.
As a European ambassador privately
says, “Our American allies played a
very nasty trick on us.”
Americans might counter that, with
Nato, the Europeans have played their
own trick for years. For it is not only
Donald Trump who’s furious about
European free-riding while the US
spends vast sums on its military. EU
countries spend on average 1.4 per
cent of annual income on defence,
compared with 3.4 per cent in America.
The free-riding does not end there.
Last year, as international pressure was
building on China over Covid-19, Hong
Kong and its treatment of the Uyghurs,
the EU signed a Comprehensive
Agreement on Investment with
Beijing. The problem was not only that
the incoming Biden administration
had asked the EU to wait before
signing the treaty; it was that European
negotiators took advantage of the
collective pressure on China, and the
eagerness of the Chinese to undermine
a post-Trump EU/US alliance, to win
concessions in the deal.
Add to this American concern about
Nord Stream 2, the pipeline that will
supply Germany with Russian gas
under the Baltic Sea, cutting out
Ukraine and making Kiev more
vulnerable to Russian aggression, or
European noises about not picking
sides – and indeed seeing equivalence
– between America and China, and the
extent of the differences between the
EU and US become even clearer.
But it would be a grave, tragic and
historic error to allow such differences
to form an unbridgeable chasm. In a
resist the way in which they have been
adopted as a talisman by the campaign
for the impossible state of zero Covid.
Does it matter that half of the MPs
were not wearing a mask in a large
enclosed space? The Office for
National Statistics estimates that more
than 90 per cent of adults have
antibodies anyway. The WHO advice
prior to 2020 was that cloth face
coverings and surgical masks were not
effective in preventing transmission of
viruses. Prof Chris Whitty has stated
that the evidence for using masks was
weak. It does not appear that any new
evidence has emerged in the last 18
months to overturn that consensus.
According to the scientific method,
it is not for those claiming the veracity
of an effect to expect others to disprove
their claim. The onus is on those
asserting that masks work to devise a
suitable experiment to prove it.
The best evidence would be from
randomised control trials (RCT), but
too few have been done. One Danish
RCT showed no statistically significant
difference in the infection rate
between those who used masks in the
community and those who did not. It
was not a perfect study: participants
had to self-report how well they used
masks once they had been shown how
to use them properly. But compliance
world demonstrating its
unpredictability and instability with
ever-increasing frequency, the West
needs to remember the values and
interests its members share.
The United States and Europe will
differ on many an issue, but as liberal
democracies and open societies, they
want to contain aggressive and
authoritarian rivals, uphold
international institutions, and
maintain the global trading system.
They want to protect individual rights,
commercial freedoms, their
democratic systems and their own
strategic autonomy. Sometimes these
issues will pit one against the other,
but as hostile states like Russia and
China become more assertive, Western
states will need to work together more.
Part of the problem is complacency
and a tendency to believe our own
rhetoric in the West. In Britain, we
seem to believe that there is such a
thing as truly free global markets. In
Europe, politicians act as though the
EU really has become a superpower in
its own right. In America, Democrats
especially talk of the rules-based
liberal international order, as
though such an order might exist
spontaneously. In reality the world
order is a global hierarchy enforced by
US economic and military strength.
But it is increasingly challenged by
others, and many American politicians
and voters are reluctant to keep paying
the bills.
Consider the mounting threats
against the West, and the need to
confront them together becomes
immediately apparent. On China,
Europe may be more mindful of its
desire to maintain exports, but like
America it has to contend with
industrial espionage, cyber attacks and
diplomatic pressure in international
institutions. If the West is serious
about Chinese cyber threats, it will
need to reform American and
will likely have been better than the
average we see around us.
In the absence of compelling RCTs,
we need to examine indirect evidence.
Looking at different countries, there is
little or no correlation between
changes in the infection rate and the
dates of implementation of mask
mandates. If the number of infections
was increasing when the mandate was
imposed, it carried on increasing at the
same rate. If the number of infections
was falling or stable, they continued on
that line. This statistic tells us nothing
about individual behaviour, but should
inform governments which have to
make decisions at the population level.
Also, the UK pilot study for large-
scale indoor and outdoor events found
no worrisome spikes in infection.
The real world has many variables
and picking apart these effects using
statistical methods is hard. That makes
it easier for the mask proponents to
argue that if mask-wearing saves just
one life and a few infections it is worth
it. But that is a value statement, which
takes no account of possible harms.
There are many downsides to using
masks. They stoke fear and anxiety,
reminding us that we are living in a state
of emergency. They are a hindrance to
communication, and can have a
significant impact on child
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markets to guarantee homegrown
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opinion pandemics. Factors like geography,
demography and relative economic
strengths and weaknesses will all
determine the extent of the danger
and the urgency of addressing it for
both sides. Nonetheless they are
threats we have a shared interest
in confronting.
Doing so requires restoring lost
trust, and an ambitious plan to build
new institutions, reform old ones, and
ensure that together Western
governments have the capabilities
they need to protect their citizens.
This may include new treaties on the
governance of the internet, reaffirmed
commitments to fighting terrorism, a
reformed World Trade Organisation,
a common understanding of how we
should approach Russia and China,
and new agreements to cooperate in
the fight against cybercrime,
pandemics and people smuggling
and illegal immigration.
On climate change, governments
should try to agree what is fair for
Western countries to take on over and
above targets for the rest of the world.
And there needs to be a clear
commitment to maintain capabilities
in the West: military and security
capabilities, but strategic economic
and commercial capabilities, too.
Front Bench The Afghan debacle might prove to
Everything you be another staging post on the way to
schism, decline and weakness. But it
need to know
could become the moment our leaders
from Westminster, realise they must revitalise the
every weekday Western alliance. Sometimes, failure
morning can breed further failure. But
telegraph.co.uk/ sometimes, from failure can emerge
front-bench new resolve, purpose and success.
development, particularly in relation
to social interaction.
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Axon on Twitter on reducing transmission was strong,
@cjaxon2; there would likely have been a signal in
READ MORE at the infection data. Overall, it seems that
telegraph.co.uk/ the best we can say about masks is that
opinion any effect on transmission they might
have is obscured by the effects of other
interventions, perhaps lost in the noise
below any readily observable level.
Responses to pandemics should
account for all factors that make for a
well-functioning society. The rules
and advice need to balance health,
economic, and human and social
factors. If face coverings do become a
political battleground in the UK, as
they have done in the US and
elsewhere, politicians will not be solely
responsible. The wider scientific
advice system and its relatively narrow
base of expertise must shoulder some
blame for failing to commission
systematic trials and transparent,
balanced risk-benefit analyses.
If the results of such research are
open to all, we can end those
remaining mask mandates and let the
public make up their own minds.
Dr Colin Axon is senior lecturer in
engineering at Brunel University. He is
writing in a personal capacity
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Tony Blair offers
a blinkered view
I
n a lengthy essay on the website of the
Institute for Global Change that bears his
name, Tony Blair sets out a case for
continued Western intervention to curb the
spread of radical Islam. He suggests this
threat is every bit as great as the efforts of the
Soviet Union to seed the doctrine of Marxism-
Leninism around the world and needs to be
countered in the same way as during the Cold War.
The criticism he levelled at Joe Biden for the
“imbecilic” withdrawal from Afghanistan has been
interpreted as a denunciation of the incompetent
manner of the departure. Donald Trump has
described the retreat from Kabul as a greater
humiliation than the fall of Saigon. But Mr Blair is
not talking about the logistical fiasco we are
witnessing as thousands of Afghans who worked
with Nato struggle to leave.
The former prime minister, who sent UK troops
to joint the action against al-Qaeda and the Taliban
in 2001, is making a geopolitical point about future
Western strategy.
Leaving Afghanistan, whether in an organised
way or not, he considers to be “tragic, dangerous,
unnecessary and not in their interests or ours.” He
asks: “Has the West lost its strategic will? Meaning:
is it able to learn from experience, think
strategically, define our interests strategically and
on that basis commit strategically? Is long-term a
concept we are still capable of grasping? Is the
nature of our politics now inconsistent with the
assertion of our traditional global leadership role?
And do we care?”
These are good questions but they come from a
former leader who arguably super-charged radical
Islam by backing the invasion of Iraq which
removed the bulwark against Iran, seen then, as
now, as the major threat to regional stability.
Where was the long-term strategy then? Mr Blair’s
essay mentions Iraq in passing, as a “lesson learnt”,
before reprising his well-attested belief in
interventionism.
We know this works in some circumstances, as
in the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone. But the
lesson to be learned from Afghanistan and the
Middle East is that Western involvement is
resented to the point of outright hostility. How is
that in our national interest? Mr Blair says that
“non-intervention is also policy with consequence”
and he is right. But it would be easier to take his
advice on these matters were he to acknowledge
that the consequences of the invasion over which
he presided were calamitous.
The flu threat
I
t has been apparent for some months that the
biggest health threat this winter will come not
from Covid but flu. Every year the vaccine
against influenza needs to be adjusted to account
for annual mutations in the virus. Usually scientists
in the northern hemisphere tweak their jabs about
now, based on the dominant strain in the southern
hemisphere’s winter, but there has been little flu
because of the actions taken to stop the spread of
coronavirus.
As we report today, this is alarming scientists.
The Government is promising the biggest ever flu
vaccination campaign aimed at ensuring the most
vulnerable are covered. Flu in a bad year will kill as
many as 30,000 people even with an effective
vaccine. Its impact if the jab does not work
effectively can only be guessed at. A mismatched
flu jab in 2015 contributed to a serious spike in
cases. A bad flu year on its own would put massive
pressure on the NHS. This happened in 1999/2000
when wards were full to overflowing, patients
were treated in corridors and there were 48,000
excess winter deaths, though no one suggested
locking down the country.
Successive governments have every year
endeavoured to maximise protection by offering all
over-60s a free jab but this is predicated upon its
anticipated effectiveness. People will be
encouraged this year more than ever to reinforce
the protection they have from Covid with a flu jab.
Some more vulnerable people will be offered
boosters against coronavirus as well. But the
reality is that scientists have no real idea whether
we will have a largely immunised population this
winter or one at greater risk than ever from a twin
respiratory virus threat.
Sophisticated snacks
W
e report today how the typical bar snacks
of crisps and peanuts are being replaced
by items that reflect a more sophisticated
and international palate, including halloumi fries
and olives. Drinkers have long suspected
innkeepers of tempting them with salty fare to
keep them thirsty and boost the sales of beer.
Whether a bowl of kalamata olives or even
popcorn, better left to cinema audiences, will do
the trick is anyone’s guess. Time was when any
self-respecting pub would have a jar or two of
pickled onions or pickled eggs on hand, though
the king of the nibble has always been the pork
scratching. Halloumi fries or biltong strips don’t
come close.
America’s unconvincing explanation of the operation in Kabul to save civilians from the Taliban
SIR – While serving with Isaf at Kabul
airport on the 10th anniversary of
September 11, during a period of
high-intensity combat operations
there, I was ordered to attend a
meeting at the US embassy in Kabul,
thinking it at the time, for obvious
reasons, a dangerous journey.
I was a fairly senior officer,
effectively under American command,
and I live to tell the tale despite having
made the return trip by road.
For the US secretary of state to
suggest that helicopter flights were the
normal means of making that trip is
contemptuously dishonest. We all
know why it’s now a helicopter
journey, as it was in Saigon.
Colonel James N Stythe (retd)
Pewsey, Wiltshire
SIR – Tony Blair (report, August 22)
might like to recall who committed
British troops to this 20-year war
before using the word imbecilic.
T T Weller
Newbury, Berkshire
SIR – It’s getting embarrassing. As
We accept letters an (ex) paid-up member of the
by post, fax and Conservative Party, I find myself
email only. Please agreeing with Tony Blair yet again.
include name, Garry Wiseman
address, work and Fordham, Cambridgeshire
home telephone
numbers. SIR – Following Margaret Thatcher’s
resolve to send a taskforce across the
111 Buckingham globe to recover the Falklands from
Palace Road, Argentine occupation in 1982, Britain’s
London standing in the world shot up, our
SW1W 0DT
FAX What the DVLA does
020 7931 2878
SIR – My sister and her husband run
EMAIL what was the family farm on an island
dtletters@ off Scotland. They had a letter from the
telegraph.co.uk DVLA informing them that a vehicle
registered in their name does not
FOLLOW comply with London emissions rules
Telegraph Letters and would not be allowed on the M25.
on Twitter They found the registration belongs
@LettersDesk to a 32-year-old tractor, kept as a
loader. My brother-in-law is quite
disappointed that he can’t go to
London on his tractor.
Incidentally, I am still waiting for my
driving licence to be renewed (Letters
August 20), and am worried as we plan
a trip to Spain in October. How can I
explain to a car-hire company that I am
allowed to drive, but don’t have proof
in the form of a driving licence?
John D Frew
Ipswich, Suffolk
The cat chooses
SIR – On the question of the pecking
order with cats in the house (Letters,
August 21), I heard my wife call out
from the kitchen: “Do you want beef or
chicken?” I replied: “Ooh, beef, please.”
To this the retort was: “I was talking
to the cat; you’re having soup.”
Dave Taylor
Manchester
Patients are told that no appointments are available to see a GP
SIR – You report (August 21) Professor
Martin Marshall, the chairman of the
Royal College of General Practitioners,
saying: “It’s a misconception that GPs
aren’t seeing patients face to face.”
Last week my wife attended hospital
for leg surgery and was told to arrange
an appointment with her GP for
examination after a week.
On contacting her surgery she was
told that no face-to-face appointments
were being made. Misconception?
Chris Davis
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
SIR – I am the mother of an extremely
hard-working GP. I am sick and tired of
GPs being constantly denigrated. They
are demoralised and short-staffed, and
constant carping in the Telegraph
The unspoken truth is that Joe Biden is too old
Age is only a number, but
it is obvious that the
president has exhausted
his once formidable talent
TIM STANLEY
EY
W
hen Joe Biden addressed the
press on Friday, slurring and
stumbling over his words, I
was reminded of the moment in 1985
when the Soviets dragged Konstantin
Chernenko, the terminally ill leader of
the USSR, out of his hospital bed to
vote in an election on TV. It wasn’t just
desperate, it was cruel.
Biden is too old to be president,
which isn’t to say that an old person
can’t lead. Donald Trump is only three
years younger, Pope Francis six years
older, and Moses’s death at 120 was
considered premature. Rather, in his
case Biden has simply exhausted his
once formidable talent and energy, and
attempts to pretend that he’s a spring
chicken have become a bad joke.
People are dying because of this man.
I happen to believe Biden did the
necessary thing in Afghanistan in the
worst possible way. The West should
never have been there; proof of failure
was the speed with which the state
collapsed when we started to leave. It
postwar decline was arrested and
would-be invaders of our allies were
deterred.
The catastrophic withdrawal of the
United States from Afghanistan has
already had the reverse effect on the
world standing of America, but also on
that of Britain. With China having
flouted the Joint Declaration in Hong
Kong and already sabre-rattling over
Taiwan, and with Russia’s Vladimir
Putin having seized part of Georgia in
2008 and Crimea in 2014, calculations
will be made that the West under US
leadership has lost the will to defend
its interests and its values. Overnight,
the world has become a much more
dangerous place.
The West must now declare that
Nato’s Article 5 remains firmly in force
and that any attempt to seize Taiwan
will be forcefully resisted.
Meanwhile, Britain must ramp up its
Armed Forces more than envisaged in
the recent defence review.
Sir Gerald Howarth
Minister for International Security
Strategy, 2010-12
Chelsworth, Suffolk
SIR – The unwelcome image of Taliban
leaders returning triumphantly to
Afghanistan from Qatar was made
more shocking by the fact that they
were filmed disembarking from an
aircraft of the Qatar Air Force.
The Taliban are a terrorist grouping
with no mandate to take control of
Afghanistan, but they have been given
a spurious status by this visible official
Experienced eyes inspect the scones and flowers in a tent at the annual village show
It’s cash that counts at the village flower show
SIR – This month our local
community hall has as usual held its
annual flower show. It was highly
successful and we took nearly £900.
But it was all in cash.
How do the banks and the
only reinforces this feeling.
The vast majority of GPs have
worked their socks off in the Covid
pandemic. They have been seeing
patients face to face throughout. If
they work from home, it is in addition
to long hours in the surgery.
Ruth Mays
Windsor, Berkshire
SIR – I recently had reason to enter a
building that houses two large GP
surgeries. I saw no one except a single
receptionist telling one caller after
another there were no appointments.
Karen Gwynn
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
SIR – I am 90 years old and live alone,
and have no health visitors. Last
was not cheap (final price tag more
than $2 trillion) or enlightened
(grievances against the state included
rape, corruption and torture), and if no
US service personnel had died in 18
months, as claimed by war hawks, it’s
probably because Trump had signed a
peace deal with the Taliban. Biden is
right: if he’d torn up that deal, it would
have meant a shooting war.
But why did Biden reject a
conditions-based approach to
withdrawal? Why was Bagram air base
abandoned? Why leave behind vital
supplies and equipment? Why did he
hide away in Camp David? Why ignore
phone calls from the PM for around 36
hours? And why take so long to take
questions from the press? The latter is
unsurprising given that Biden waited
three months into his presidency
before he gave a formal press
conference (the media might have
hated Trump but he was far more
accessible, and tweeted his opinions
from 4am onwards), an embarrassing
affair navigated with a cheat sheet.
The president lacks the necessary
acuity for this job, something brushed
away during the election as a symptom
of his lifelong stutter, an explanation I
bought into because I didn’t want to be
cruel. But go and watch videos of
Biden when he first ran for president
in 1987 and you’ll note the stutter is
almost undetectable. He also had less
hair, much of which has magically
grown back. The president is ageing
backwards. By the time he leaves the
White House, he’ll probably look 18.
What we’ve seen in the last two
Letters to the Editor
support from the Qataris. Questions
need to be raised, not just about the
venue of the 2022 World Cup.
Alexandra Wakid
London SW15
SIR – The article “Pakistan goes to the
root of Taliban support. Time to stop
treating it as an ally” by Kyle Orton
(telegraph.co.uk) includes the claim
that Mullah Omar died in Pakistan. By
all accounts, he died in Afghanistan.
In the past 20 years, more Pakistani
soldiers have died in confronting
terrorism than those of the United
States and Nato combined. Pakistan
has suffered over 80,000 casualties.
Pakistan’s intelligence cooperation
has been pivotal in decimating
al-Qaeda and other groups. Pakistan
continues to be a generous host to over
three million Afghan refugees.
It has been the consistent position of
Imran Khan, the prime minister, that
there was no military solution to the
conflict in Afghanistan, and that
dialogue was the only way forward. So
Pakistan played its part in bringing the
Taliban to the negotiating table. The
US, the Taliban and the Ashraf Ghani
government held direct talks. Failure
of intra-Afghan negotiations to make
headway speaks of the inflexibility of
various Afghan parties, rather than any
“duplicity” on the part of Pakistan.
Pakistan maintained that any
withdrawal of international forces
must be accompanied with a
negotiated settlement. Unfortunately,
the decision to withdraw forces was
HARRY HARRISON / ALAMY
Government suggest we achieve this
in future when they seem hell-bent
on phasing out this valuable
commodity?
Dick Arnold
Holditch, Dorset
Monday I found a large lump on my
shoulder blade close to my spine.
I rang the doctors and was given a
telephone appointment for some time
Wednesday morning the following
week. How will the doctor be able to
diagnose me? I cannot take a photo as
I have arthritis in both hands.
Roy Bottomley
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
SIR – Having had problems with
face-to-face consultations with
GPs, hospital consultants and
physiotherapists, and waiting six
weeks for an urgent MRI, I have
come to the conclusion that the NHS
was not saved, and is in fact dying.
Pamela Cox
Lichfield, Staffordshire
weeks are the consequences of the
Democratic Party’s cynical bargain in
2020. In a desperate bid to beat
Trump, they nominated the least
offensive candidate possible – either
because they have no faith in the
appeal of their own ideology or the
alternatives were so unlikeable – and
though the strategy paid off in the
short term, it meant that when they
needed transformative generational
leadership, they merely added one
more placeholder to the gerontocratic
pantheon.
The president is 78. The Senate
Majority leader is 70. The House
Speaker is 81. A striking element of this
uncharismatic administration is that
it’s hard to name off the top of one’s
head anyone working in it – there is no
Rahm Emanuel or James Carville – and
its freshest face is Kamala Harris
whose own ratings are down after she
admitted in an interview that despite
being in charge of fixing the migration
crisis she hadn’t yet been to the border.
“I haven’t been to Europe either,” she
joked, to everyone’s confusion. Before
the weekend, Harris boarded a plane
for a tour that includes Vietnam. Kabul
is such an embarrassment that
Democrats are fleeing to Saigon to
escape it.
Back to Friday’s press conference, at
which Biden reassured us that the
Titanic might be sinking but the
lifeboats were doing great. Americans
were being allowed to get to the
airport by the Taliban he said, which
was contradicted by local media
reports. I’ve heard “no question of our
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made without informing Pakistan.
In the last week, Pakistan has helped
hundreds of diplomatic staff of several
European countries and Afghans
working at organisations like the
World Bank and UN to evacuate safely.
Pakistan expects all stakeholders in
Afghanistan to respect fundamental
human rights, including the rights of
women, while fulfilling their
commitment to ensure that Afghan
territory is not used by international
terrorists against any other country.
Moazzam Ahmad Khan
High Commissioner for Pakistan to the
UK, London SW1
SIR – Which lessons of history will we
repeat at Kabul airport, where flights
are only possible by the acquiescence
of the Taliban?
Will the media-savvy Islamists put
us through a surrender and a repeat of
the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-81?
Or will it be a promise of evacuation by
land and then a massacre, as happened
to Major-General Elphinstone’s army
on the road to Gandamak in 1842?
We are past a military solution to
this problem. Bring our soldiers home
within hours, not days.
Otto Inglis
Crossgates, Fife
SIR – A strong sense of déjà vu makes
me wonder if, in 2035, a new musical
will take the West End by storm,
called Miss Kabul.
Paul Ryan
Smarden, Kent
McGreenery
SIR – After years of complaining that
Scotland does not get the government
it voted for, Nicola Sturgeon has just
added a Green dimension to her own
government that almost no one in
Scotland voted for. Her “landslide”
victory seems to have gone down
the drain.
Dr Gerald Edwards
Glasgow
SIR – I see that the Green Party in
Scotland does not believe growth is
a “sensible measure” of economic
success (report, August 21).
What might they believe is,
I wonder?
Simon Morpuss
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Selfish virus
SIR – It would appear that the cunning
coronavirus has a plan to frighten the
adult population into not educating its
children, thus ensuring that there are
no future scientists capable of devising
schemes for its elimination.
Anthony Singlehurst
London SE11
Star-crossed staging
SIR – I am 101 years old. When I sat for
the School Certificate in 1936, the set
Shakespeare play was Romeo and
Juliet. We were taken to see the
London production with Laurence
Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud,
and Edith Evans (as the Nurse).
I do not remember being
traumatised by the events in the play.
Was I hard-hearted, or just more
grown-up than today’s teenagers?
Mary Wilson
Sudbury, Suffolk
SIR – Oh dear! How could I have got it
so wrong all these years? I thought the
actors in Romeo and Juliet really did
die at the end of the play (“Woke
warning: Romeo and Juliet is not real,”
report, August 21), and a new pair of
actors were chosen for the next
performance.
Guy Williams
Nailsworth, Gloucestershire
credibility” from allies he claimed,
which was contradicted by Parliament.
Growing numbers of Republicans
say Biden looked unwell or unfit for
the job. It’s an open goal screaming for
a good kick. Accusations that Ronald
Reagan was over the hill were
accentuated by innuendo; this man’s
incompetence is displayed before our
very eyes.
The Democrats will deny it, of
course, partly because they suspect
that if they are forced to admit that this
candidate was a terrible mistake, then
they would have nothing else to offer
– and their pitch that “at least we’re a
safe pair of hands” is false because the
old establishment, the Democrats and
Republicans who intervened and
surged in Afghanistan, are just not that
competent. It was they who committed
America to building a foreign
democracy in the midst of a civil war
– a tall order for a nation that can’t even
free Britney Spears.
You know what was one of the most
radical, commented-upon aspects of
Trump’s administration? He was the
first president in memory not to have a
dog. Biden turned up at the White
House with two German Shepherds, as
if to hammer home the point. Within
weeks, one of the dogs had bitten a
member of staff. The return to
normalcy has been a return to chaos.
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Shane WATSON p.25

Ivan HEWETT p.24

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JJ CHALMERS p.23

Are you just tired fluctuating oestrogen and progesterone

levels can trigger a host of symptoms
throughout the body – including your
heart beating quickly or strongly,
trouble sleeping, feeling unhappy or
irritable, headaches, muscle or joint
Don’t wait to seek help: Dr Louise
Newsom, below, says it’s never too late
– or too early – to be perimenopausal

menopause. It eases symptoms and

helps protect against the long-term
no difference, and then beta-blockers
which left her feeling spaced out.
It was during a routine asthma
check-up for her son at the same
surgery that the penny dropped,
when she overhead a lady in the

…or could it be the

pain, hot flushes, night sweats, vaginal
dryness and a loss of interest in sex. A
list can be found on my website (tinyurl.
com/menopausedoctor-symptom-
sheet). If you suspect you might be
perimenopausal, keeping a record of
health risks of hormone deficiency,
which include osteoporosis and
cardiovascular disease. The earlier it is
taken, the sooner it will work to
improve your symptoms and boost your
future health.
waiting room talking about her
menopause. Tearfully, Claire told a
friendly nurse about her symptoms.
“You’re not going crazy – you’re
perimenopausal,” the nurse said,
explaining how her symptoms

perimenopause?
your symptoms, and how they change
over time, can help aid a diagnosis.
As with the menopause, if you are 45
or older, a healthcare professional
should be able to make a diagnosis on
account of changes to your periods and
any other symptoms that you may be
experiencing. You do not need a
hormone blood test (which will be
unreliable anyway).
In an extract from her new book, Dr Louise Newson reveals the There is a common misconception
that you can only start treatment once
telltale signs that are often dismissed as the stresses of a busy life you are actually in the menopause. This
isn’t true: if your symptoms are
For the majority of women, the
benefits outweigh any risks. Yet for
many years, women, healthcare
professionals and the media have been
given incorrect information about HRT
– for example, over reported links with
breast cancer.
‘Before I realised I
was perimenopausal,
I was forgetting the
were probably due to changing
hormone levels.
At first, Claire dismissed the idea
as she was only 41, surely too young
to be perimenopausal. She was
prescribed the progestogen-only
pill, but although this helped with
the migraines and the anxiety, it
caused heavy bleeding (the
progestogen-only pill is not a
treatment for the perimenopause).
It was at this point that Claire
came to see me. Looking at her long
list of symptoms, I could see that she

Y
ou bump into an old school
friend and feel embarrassed
when you can’t recall their
name. You put it down to a lack of
sleep – after all, it’s been weeks since
you managed a night without waking
up at least once, hasn’t it? Maybe you
don’t make the connection between
all these events, but one thing is for
sure: you don’t feel quite like “you”.
What I have described here is a
fairly typical experience of the
perimenopause, the stage directly
before the menopause. With so much
emphasis on the menopause itself,
you could be forgiven for not realising
how disruptive the perimenopause
can actually be. Not openly discussing
it can add up to a potential physical
and mental health timebomb for
women, both now and in later life.
ALEXANDER SIDOROV; ANDREW CROWLEY
control over their own bodies. I’m
passionate that women can have access
to clear, unbiased information and
support, whatever lifestage they are at.
It is never too late – or too early – to be
perimenopause, and menopause, savvy.
How to tell if you’re
perimenopausal
Your menopause occurs when your
ovaries stop producing eggs and, as a
result, levels of hormones called
oestrogen and progesterone fall and
your periods stop. During the
perimenopause, you experience
menopausal symptoms due to declining
levels of these hormones, but still have
your periods, which are changing in
nature or frequency.
This can last for many months or
years. Like the menopause, there is no
period one month, then it can be affecting your day-to day life, don’t names of medications’ was perimenopausal and I
heavier or is missed altogether, before wait. The earlier a woman receives prescribed HRT.
going back to normal again for a few treatment, the more benefits to her So often, women tell me their It has now been almost a year since
months. Things may settle down for a future health there will be. Many perimenopausal or menopausal Claire started taking HRT and she says
while, but a few months down the line symptoms of the perimenopause and symptoms have caused them to the difference has been incredible.
you may find it increasingly hard to menopause overlap, so this means that comfort eat and put on weight, stop Her symptoms have subsided, and
concentrate at work, and feel irritable you will usually benefit from the same exercising, or drink more alcohol. instead of feeling as if her best years
at home. You might generally feel that advice and treatments offered during Such lifestyle changes are associated were behind her, she is looking
life is a bit more of a struggle than it the menopause. Treatments might with a higher risk of developing forward to what the future holds.
used to be.. include the combined oral breast cancer than the risk involved in I witness such transformations
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our busy lives.
ves. or ring, or HR
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period in your hormones. The days of struggling on in silence
myself forgetting
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different medications and I well-being. A good diet and Regain your confidence your age or your symptom, if it is
was terrified ed of making an exer
regular exercise are an Claire, a patient of mine, had always affecting your life, please see a
error at work.
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Doctors frequently misdiagnose it.
Research has shown that more than
one-third of perimenopausal and
menopausal women in the UK wait at
least a year to receive adequate
treatment for their symptoms; and for
one in 10 women, it takes more than
nine doctor’s appointments even to
make the diagnosis.
We need to start destigmatising the
menopause, so that all women have a
better understanding of it and greater
set age at which the perimenopause hindsight, I realise it was menop
menopause. Don’t everything changed. For the first time unbearable. You are the expert when
will start. For most women, it is likely to all too easy y to put this neglec your mental
neglect in her life, she began suffering it comes to your mind and body.
be around 45 years of age, but many down to a busy work and health – book in regular
health unbearable migraines and heart
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time out palpitations. She had terrible anxiety Extract taken from Preparing for the
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even realising it. From headaches
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flow of your periods. But it isn’t always seek helpp the me
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hormone levels are fluctuating, many to your periods,
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The Surgery
D O C T O R’ S D I A RY MIND HEALING everyday conversations as
well. For relationships truly

Teenagers The benefits

of having an
to thrive, he recommends
that comments indicating
respect and showing
gratitude for your partner’s

need the argument

qualities should outnumber
negative comments by a
ratio of five to one.
Acknowledge your role in

facts, not maintaining the discord and

creating your own distress.
No one can make another
person feel upset: it’s

bribes entirely up to each of us how

we react to what happens.
Furthermore, chronic
disputes are almost never
attributable to the actions of
only one person.
Keep to the issues. Focus
Linda Blair on the issue of disagreement
rather than personal

E
veryone argues
sometimes – yes, even
on holiday together –
and few of us have done so
without ever losing our
qualities, and avoid
descending to insults.
Whenever you feel unclear
about something your
partner says, ask for

JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES

temper or saying things that
we regret.
You might think it’s
better, therefore, to avoid
arguing altogether. Not so.
John Gottman, professor
emeritus at the University of
Washington, refers to this as
Michael Fitzpatrick
clarification – and listen.
Take turns. Avoid
interrupting. If you feel
unable to control yourself,
ask for a break – 20 to 30
minutes is enough; longer is
fine if you think it necessary.
Take a walk, practise yoga

‘I
came in here really excited
to get the vaccine, and
now you seem to be trying
to put me off …” This
comment, overheard in
our Hackney Covid
vaccine clinic earlier this year, came
back to me this week in the kerfuffle
over extending vaccinations to 16
and 17-year-olds. With all the talk
about “vaccine hesitancy”, I fear
that the insecurity and
defensiveness of the medical
profession may be being
transmitted to our patients.
In fairness, my medical colleague
was merely following the
requirements of the official
guidelines to advise patients in
detail of the risks of rare adverse
consequences of vaccination.
But when patients not well versed
in classical languages are subjected
to earnest inquiries about prior
experiences of anaphylaxis,
thrombosis or thrombocytopenia, or
episodes of “capillary leak
syndrome”, a condition so rare that
only a few hundred cases have been
recorded in the half century since it
was identified, you wonder whether
common sense has been surrendered
to an obsessive commitment to
regulations and a concern to rule out
any future prospect of legal liability.
The programme to vaccinate
teenagers ahead of the return to
school next month has prompted
demands that our vaccinators
produce further evidence of
advanced qualifications in risk
aversion. These include high-level
police checks and familiarity with
child protection and specialised
paediatric resuscitation procedures.
We are also required to attend
teaching on issues of “capacity and
consent”, and “face to face” Send
(Special Education Needs and
Disabilities) training. If doctors
regard young people with such a
combination of fear and trepidation,
it is not surprising that they are not
in a strong position to reassure them
about vaccination.
In all the years we have been
vaccinating children and adults in
our surgeries, we have never felt
obliged to read out the small print
from the vaccine data sheets, listing
every possible adverse effect.
‘When vaccinating
children before, we
were never expected A free lunch
to read out every At the same time as they are being
possible side effect’ subjected to grim warnings about
Yet we are now expected to warn
teenagers of the risks of heart
inflammation that rarely occur with
some Covid vaccines. These
conditions cause mild and transient
symptoms, such as shortness of
breath, palpitations and chest pains
that are far more likely to be induced
by anxieties provoked by such
warnings.
The health authorities seem
determined to turn the simple
process of consent into a legal
contract. But if somebody walks
through a door labelled “Covid
vaccination centre”, sits down and
rolls up their sleeve, I think that a
reasonable person would interpret
this as consent to vaccination,
without subjecting them to
interrogation and instruction.
Even the simple matter of the
15-minute period of observation
required after the Pfizer vaccine
because of rare allergic reactions
has become a focus of anxieties
about the need for additional
measures to safeguard teenagers
from predatory adults.
“stonewalling”, and warns
it’s one of four strategies
Teenage vaccination: most young people (along with criticising,
grasp the balance of benefit and risk showing contempt, and
acting defensively) that can
rare side effects of vaccination, effectively predict the
young people are being patronised ending of a relationship.
by being offered diverse incentives Keeping communication
to get the jab. These include food lines open even when you
and travel discounts, clothing gift disagree – perhaps
cards and gym passes. I suspect that especially when you
these measures will not encourage disagree – is vital if you want
the hesitant, while irritating many to enjoy a fulfilling, lasting
who readily appreciate the case for relationship.
vaccination and are happy to attend When Joseph Grenny,
the clinic. co-author of Crucial
I find that most teenagers have a Conversations: Tools for
good grasp of the balance of the Talking When Stakes Are
(relatively small) benefit of High, asked 1,000 adults
vaccination in protecting about their relationship, he
themselves from illness and the found those who argued
(largely notional) risks of adverse (effectively) were 10 times
effects. Their main motivation, as more likely to have a happy
one boy told me, is that “this is relationship than those who
something I can do to protect my avoided dealing with
family and community”. disagreements.
An appeal to the good sense and The question, then, is not
altruism of our country’s teenagers whether to argue, but how.
seems more likely to improve Here are some suggestions:
vaccination uptake than attempting
to bribe them with pizzas and free
Start positively. Ensure
your opening comment
taxi rides. contains something
(sincerely) affirming about
your partner. According to
Email medical questions confidentially
to Dr Michael Fitzpatrick at
Prof Gottman, this is
important not only when
mike.fitzpatrick@telegraph.co.uk
you disagree, but in
or deep breathing –
anything that releases your
tension. If this happens
often, consider discussing
sensitive issues in a public
place such as a park or
outdoor restaurant. We’re
less likely to allow emotion
to swamp us if we’re in view
of others.
Prepare ahead. John Platt,
who was professor at the
University of Chicago, says
the way to look at a problem
isn’t simply to defend your
solution, but to think
through all possible
approaches and determine
why none of them works as
well as yours.
Expect to compromise.
No one has explained this
more clearly than French
essayist and moralist Joseph
Joubert, when he wrote:
“The aim of argument, or of
discussion, should not be
victory, but progress.”
Linda Blair is a clinical
psychologist and author of
Siblings: How to Handle Rivalry
and Create Lifelong Loving
Bonds. To order for £10.99,
call 0844 871 1514 or visit
books.telegraph.co.uk

Dirty truth about the state

Rosa Silverman on why a
quick paddle may be bad for
you, after a Sussex harbour
is polluted by sewage

O
ur appetite to holiday at home in
the UK has surely not been this
great since before cheap flights
took off in the 1990s. This summer,
amid ongoing uncertainty
surrounding the Covid pandemic and
the high cost of testing required for
foreign travel, many of us have chosen
instead the Great British “staycation”.
We have been reminded of the
spectacular scenery on our doorstep,
our numerous sandy beaches and
waters to bathe in, from Cornwall to
St Combs, depending on how hardy
you are.
But as we watch our children dash
headlong into the waves, should we
stop and consider how clean the seas
might be? Last week, it was reported
that discharges of raw sewage into
Chichester Harbour in West Sussex
were threatening to cause an
environmental catastrophe.
Campaigners allege such discharges –
which are legal – also threaten the
GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO

quality of local swimming waters.

Mike Owens, who lives on nearby
Hayling Island and set up the
campaign group Hayling Sewage
Watch about five years ago, believes it
is “inevitable” that bathing water
quality is affected when stormwater
containing effluent overflows into
local harbours during periods of heavy
rainfall (even if no one is swimming in organisation can single-handedly
the harbour itself). He says he and improve the quality of water in the
others were in the water off Hayling harbours. We convened a summit in
Island at West Beachlands the week May with 16 local and national
before last without realising sewage organisations to discuss the problem
had been discharged not far away. and find a solution.”
“Lots of people were in the water It isn’t just a problem in West
and nobody knew,” he says. “But you Sussex. According to the campaign
sensed something was going on. You group Surfers Against Sewage (SAS),
could smell it – and taste it.” untreated sewage and wastewater
Over the years, he says, there has frequently discharges from thousands
been anecdotal evidence that “lots of of sewer overflows around the UK,
people have been admitted to hospital, “sometimes significantly reducing
sick and infected” after swimming in to run-off from roads and farms after water quality”.
local waters. There is no proof their rain. “Bathing water quality is a vital Environment Agency figures
illnesses were caused by the sea, but metric for our environmental published in June revealed the amount
he says the link is “suspected”. stewardship, and we work with of raw sewage dumped into our rivers
He adds: “A local vet said he’s seen a partners around our 700 miles of coast and seas had increased by almost 40
lot of dogs come in with sickness and with 83 designated bathing waters to per cent in one year. Climate change,
infection after being in the sea.” improve and protect water quality,” as well as population growth, has been
Southern Water, which manages says a spokesman. blamed for making such discharges
water supply and wastewater A £25 million pipeline is currently more frequent.
treatment for East Kent, parts of under construction to take local Hugo Tagholm, SAS chief executive,
Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of wastewater from new developments to says: “The public can be much more
Wight, says everything humans do on wastewater sites with capacity to confident about water quality than in
or near beaches has an impact: handle the flow. the 1990s, but we still languish at the
anything from dog waste knocked But, says the spokesman: “This is a bottom of the European table for water
down drains and litter left on beaches collective problem and no one quality due to sewage and agricultural
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Health

following month, she was referred for
an X-ray specialist – but only, she was
informed, to try to ease her anxiety.
After a two-week wait for her X-ray,
Gill had no sooner got home from the
hospital than the telephone rang
asking her to come back at once for a
CAT scan. The NHS was finally kicking
in with the urgency required if cancers
are to be diagnosed early and survival
rates to remain high.
It was found that Gill had a tumour
in one lung, plus cancerous cells in her
lung fluid and in her lymph nodes.
“Why weren’t the signs spotted
earlier?” asks Lisa. “Why didn’t any of
those GPs ask her if she had any family
history of lung problems? I can only
think that their judgment was clouded
by the pandemic.”
At Christmas, Gill started
chemotherapy. “It was horrific,” says
Lisa, “and she was very, very poorly,
but we were not able to go in and see
her because of the Covid rules. We are
a very close family, and it was
heartbreaking not to be able to hold
her and hug her.”
Though Gill responded to her two
SEAN JUSTICE/ GETTY IMAGES
cancer is caused by a mutant gene
BRCA2, which runs a greater risk of
breast and ovarian cancers. “When
you have a diagnosis of BRCA2,” she
explains, “the usual recommendation
is a bilateral mastectomy”, removing
both the breast with the lump and the
other breast as a preventive measure.
However, that was not possible
because of Covid restrictions in
hospitals aimed at protecting both
staff and patients from infection by
keeping time spent in the operating
theatre to an absolute minimum by
prioritising only essential – and
therefore not preventive – surgery.
Carla therefore had to undergo two
separate operations, the first in May
2020 and the second in February of
this year. “It has meant two lots of
recovery time of six to eight weeks,

rounds of chemotherapy, she ended up

back in hospital in July with a chest
infection. Earlier this month, she died
at home, surrounded by her family.
“We are heartbroken to lose her and
still in shock,” says Lisa. “I can only
hope others don’t get treated as my
mum was, and that more people will
get the early diagnosis they need to be Bereft: Lisa McBlane with her mother,

‘If a GP had seen my mum, able to survive this horrible disease.”

In particular, she believes GPs need
to get back to face-to-face consultations
as soon as possible. “As midwives, we
have managed to find Covid-secure
ways of seeing patients. Without it, we
Gill Dutton. Gill was told in a GP phone
consultation that a cough was likely to
be long Covid; she had lung cancer

‘I can only think the

they’d have caught it sooner’

can’t read patients’ body language, so
that when they tell us they are fine, we
can see that they clearly aren’t. If a GP
had seen my mum face to face early on,
they would have known she was
worrying about something and sent her
for an X-ray sooner. We know that cure
rates with lung cancer are high if you
catch it early.”
The announcement by Health
As a campaign launches to persuade those worried about symptoms to go to a doctor, Secretary Sajid Javid that £10 billion is
being pumped into the NHS to “bust”
Peter Stanford meets a family who lost their mother after her tumour went undiagnosed
doctors’ judgment
was clouded by
the pandemic’
two lots of anxiety, and two lots of
trauma to my body.”
The Covid restrictions also ruled
out the reconstructive surgery that
would normally be done at the same
time as the mastectomy. It would

I
t couldn’t have happened at a
worse time. In April 2020, just
as Covid was causing the NHS
to focus all its energies on
tackling the emerging
pandemic, to the exclusion of
almost all of its usual activities, Gill
Dutton, a 65-year-old hospice
community care worker from
Tamworth in the Midlands,
developed a cough that just wouldn’t
go away.
She had enjoyed a lifetime of good
health, along with three children and
three granddaughters, and was a
keen walker with her husband in
whatever spare time she had. But the
cough worried her. “She didn’t say
anything to us at the time,” says her
daughter, Lisa McBlane, “but my
mum wasn’t a fusser. She wouldn’t
have wanted to waste the GP’s time
unless she was concerned.”
What Gill knew was that her mother,
father and aunt – the last two, like her,
non-smokers – had died of lung cancer.
The local surgery, though, wasn’t
offering any face-to-face appointments
because of lockdown. In the brief
phone consultation she had, no
question of any family history was
asked and she didn’t raise it.
She had probably had Covid already,
she was told, and the cough would
clear up in its own time. It was the start
of more than six months of delay
before it was diagnosed in October as
stage 4 lung cancer.
Gill had been due to retire that
December and had plans about how to
use her new leisure time. Instead, she
was given two and a half to three years
to live.
“It was devastating news for her and
for all of us,” says Lisa, an NHS midwife
from Belper in Derbyshire. “If only it
had been caught sooner.”
That is a realisation many other
families are also facing up to right now,
as the scale of the Covid cancer
backlog becomes clear. Almost three in
10 cancer patients had their treatment
disrupted by Covid, a recent survey by
Cancer Research UK found – and many
are still delaying seeking advice over a
fear of burdening the NHS.
Last week, the NHS launched a new
campaign urging the public to talk to
their doctor about worrying
symptoms, specifically of abdominal,
urological and lung cancer. Research
by the Institute for Public Policy
Research suggests that cancer survival
rates have been set back by up to eight
years because of the shutdown of
surgeries and services, and focus on
Covid treatment. It predicts an extra
4,500 avoidable deaths likely this year
as a result of late diagnosis, such as
happened in Gill’s case.
It took two more visits to the GP
– the second face-to-face – before Gill
was sent for a chest X-ray. That came
after she had been on a walking
holiday in September, when her
breathing had got so bad, she
described it to her daughter as
overwhelming. On her return, a GP
initially told her it was long Covid.
When she went back again the
its backlog caused by Covid came too
late for Gill Dutton and others like her.
The community diagnostic hubs and
new scanner units will, however,
benefit the seven million people who
some experts estimate failed to come
forward with worrying symptoms
during the lockdown for fear of having
to go into hospitals that were full of
Covid patients.
Carla Faria, a media consultant and
coach from south-west London, had a
much better experience of GP care
than Gill when, back in March 2020,
she found a lump in her breast. A
face-to-face consultation saw her
referred within five days to the Royal
Marsden Hospital.
“The care I have received has been
exceptional all the way through,” she
says, “but still Covid put a significant
spanner in the works.” Her breast
have required a 10-hour operation.
Instead, Carla was offered implants
because they took less time in
theatre.
“I was not thrilled, and hopefully
will be able to go back at a later date
for reconstruction when all of this is
over. But in a pandemic the reality is
there was no choice. So I prefer not to
see it as something personal,
something I didn’t want that
happened to me, but something that
just happened. That way I can deal
with it as best I can.”
For information and support on lung
cancer, visit the Roy Castle Lung
Cancer Foundation site (roycastle.org)
Carla tells her story on Victoria
Derbyshire’s podcast, And Then Came
Breast Cancer, at futuredreams.org.uk

of Britain’s coastal waters

experienced windsurfing coach based
in West Sussex, acknowledges there
are risks, but recommends we keep
them in perspective.
The potential to pick up bugs in the
water is “a concern and a
consideration”, he says, but adds: “We
want people to be in the water, and
considering how many have been this
summer, very few have been ill. I’m in
the water 200 days a year and
pollution has not really been an issue.
I’ve never been ill and very few people
I know have been either.
“It’s one of those things where it can
be painted in a very bad light,
deterring people from going in the
water, but once the tide has gone in
and out [after stormwater has flowed
into the sea], it’s all clear.”
There are, moreover, active steps we
can take to minimise the risk of
contracting an illness from swimming
or doing water sports in British seas.
Avoiding bathing shortly after heavy
rainfall means there is less risk of
stormwater containing sewage having
recently been discharged into the
waves. In England, you can also go
online and check the Environment
Agency’s classifications of bathing
water quality in designated bathing

‘A local vets said he’s

pollution. Many beaches can still be
affected by pollution from combined
sewer overflows and run-off.”
SAS’s 2020 Water Quality Report
described poor water quality as a
public health issue. The most common
illness suffered last year was found to
be gastroenteritis or infectious
diarrhoea, accounting for 64 per cent
of submitted reports. There were also
25 reports of ear, nose and throat-
related infections, and 10 non-specific
viral-associated illnesses experienced
by different water users. Two water
users needed antibiotics for their
gastroenteritis issues, and another
required emergency care.
Visitors to Hove Lawns beach in
Brighton reported the highest number
of episodes of ill health (seven said
they had contracted gastroenteritis-
related infections during the bathing
season), while Westward Ho! and
Croyde Bay in North Devon were each
the subject of six health reports.
However, Tagholm says the
explosion of wild swimming in rivers,
lakes and non-designated waters
Crest of a wave: children enjoying the sea
– but water quality can deteriorate after
heavy rainfall. Left, a sewage outlet spews
its contents into the open sea
might pose a far greater risk than
swimming in the sea.
“Last year alone, sewage pollution
was discharged into English rivers
400,000 times for over 3.1 million
hours,” he says. “Agricultural pollution
had an equal impact, which means
only 14 per cent of our rivers meet
Good Ecological Status.”
While many have sought out the
bracing experience of cold water
swimming during the pandemic, the
Rivers Trust points out there is
currently only one designated bathing
water in a UK river (a stretch of the
River Wharfe in Yorkshire), and even
this has been classed as poor quality.
Recreational river users are therefore
at risk every time they enter the water,
says the trust.
So what does all this mean for
families wanting to take a dip while on
holiday in the UK? Simon Bornhoft, an
seen a lot of dogs
come in with sickness
after being in the sea’
spots (environment.data.gov.uk/bwq).
The ratings tell water users whether
the quality is excellent, good or poor
based on weekly assessments between
May and September.
Meanwhile, SAS has produced a free
app (sas.org.uk/app) providing
real-time water quality information
across England, Scotland and Wales,
alerting users when untreated human
sewage has been discharged into the
sea and when heavy rainfall and
pollution has temporarily affected its
cleanliness.
Campaigners say there is plenty of
room for improvement, although
Owens acknowledges local authorities
and MPs have been responsive when
concerns are raised – which, as he says,
is “a start.”
But Bornhoft is clear there is no
single culprit to blame for the threat to
our waters.
“It’s all the development of the land:
the building of houses that puts a
strain on the water system locally,” he
says. “The infrastructure is overloaded.
Something more needs to be done.”
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On a mission: “a big step forward, but it would be

JJ Chalmers, right; wrong to say we fixed anything.
with Prince Harry at When we look at why people are
the Invictus Games, disabled, much of it comes from
in Orlando, Florida, wider society.
in May 2016, left; “Is it acceptable that businesses
JJ in Helmand don’t have disabled access? A lot of
Province, below people think it’s not their problem,
but anybody can become disabled.
We’re lagging behind on disability,
but we’re still a lot further along than
we were 10 years ago.”
Chalmers’s blossoming TV career
– forthcoming non-sporting projects
include Gardeners’ World, a history
series for Channel 5, and a CBeebies
bedtime story – started entirely
accidentally, when his relaxed and

‘It’s tough personable manner with a

microphone was noticed by
organisers of the Invictus Games.
One was his pal Prince Harry, who
remains heavily involved in the
veterans’ games.

when a thing
“I’d say with the Netflix
documentary that’s coming out about
Invictus, more than ever, he’s using
his platform and his connections to
bring the games to a wider audience,”
Chalmers says. “I don’t think we’d

that defines
have a Netflix deal if it wasn’t for him,
it’s as simple as that.”
Chalmers’s children are a couple of
years older than Harry’s, so they text

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about fatherhood. “He actually sent
me a copy of Meghan’s book for

you falls apart’

having low moments. “It has been
Paralympics presenter JJ Chalmers tells personally tough, because what we’re
seeing is utterly heartbreaking. It’s
Guy Kelly how he and other veterans are been very tricky to continue with life
when you see something which so
coming to terms with Afghanistan’s fall defines you falling apart,” he says.
keeping safe was better for it, and that
girls were going to school. We’d hoped
that would continue, but that probably
won’t be the case.”
Chalmers is, at least, grateful for the
distraction of his work. A fortnight ago,
Father’s Day, which was lovely. The
kids loved it.”
Maybe Chalmers will appear in
Harry’s own memoir, which is due
out next year? “Gosh, I forgot about
that, I meant to message him. Yeah,
maybe I’ll get a cameo appearance
and find out just how good friends we
really are… I mean, he’d be in my
book, in fairness.”
surgeon to ask whether he was at Chalmers’s book will be worth
greater risk than most from Covid-19.
His lungs weren’t damaged in the
reading one day. He’d love to become
a household name, he says,
Afghan blast, but the rest of his body
was battered.
presenting myriad different shows,
and intends to become a fixture on
“His answer was a bit of both: that, Olympics coverage for years to come.

F
or the past decade, J J Chalmers’s mantra led him to win
Chalmers has lived by a three medals and work as a spokesman
mantra: “I should make at the Invictus Games in 2014,
the best of any situation becoming firm friends with the games’
I’m in, because I could so organiser, Prince Harry.
easily have not had it.” He became a husband d to Kornelia
It’s something that’s served him mpeted in last
and father twice. He competed
well ever since the summer of 2011 ncing,
year’s Strictly Come Dancing,g and
when, aged 24, he was out on foot this summer became the he first
patrol eight weeks into a six-month he BBC’s
disabled presenter of the
tour of Helmand Province, Olympics coverage. He is
Afghanistan, with the Royal Marines, co-anchoring this year’ss
when one of his colleagues stepped Paralympic Games for
on an improvised explosive device. Channel 4, which begin n
Two of his friends died in the blast. this week.
Chalmers was airlifted to hospital to In person and on
have 30 operations, some lasting screen, you couldn’t
more than 12 hours. The explosion wish for a sunnier,
had crushed an eye socket, burst his more affable presence.
eardrums, destroyed his right elbow, Yet after a week in
blown off two fingers, and left him which all veterans of
with burns all over. Afghanistan have been
In the years afterwards, as he confronted by sadness,
rebuilt his body and resolve, even Chalmers has been n
“The number one concern is the
Afghan people, of course, but there are
a lot of [veterans] suffering in this
country, who like me are invested in
that country, because the mental
health battles they’ve had are built on
making some semblance of the good
we did. And we did – we did. did.”
Over the last week, since Kabul Kab
ffelll to the Taliban, Afghanistan
fel
veterans from all walks of life have
spoken movingly about seei seeing
their work undone.
“I’ve never felt our community
comm
sstronger
str onger than right now. I’ve I got
n shortage of people calling
no ca
m up to check if I’m OK
me OK,”
C
Cha lmers, now 34, says.
Chalmers, says
“The question of ‘W ‘Was it all
w
wor
worthth it?’ is bandied aaround
a lot, but most guys k know
they did what they c could.
And I can go to bed at night
k
kno wing that while I was
knowing
in Afghanistan, the small
p art I was charged with
part w thing Chalmers did was text his old
he finished his dream presenting job,
hosting Tokyo 2020 for the BBC (albeit
from Salford). It was, he says,
“absolutely amazing”, and he’s still not
quite over the fact that he landed the
gig on his 10th “bangiversary” – the
day of his being blown up.
“This is the absolutely wild thing. If
someone had appeared, like The Ghost
of Christmas Future at the end of that
hospital bed, and said ‘Listen, don’t
worry, just get through it, you’re going
to present the Olympics one day…’, I’d
have been like, ‘Er, what?’”
For the Paralympics, he is flying to
Tokyo. It won’t be the riskiest trip he’s
done in his life, obviously, but it still
carries some jeopardy.
“You’ve just got to not let your guard
down, which is where it’s similar to
[military tours] – because our health
is at stake and I’ve used my luck up.
So I’ll be cautious, but the show must
go on.”
When the pandemic started, the first
going by the scientific understanding “I picked a big dream and I worked
we have, I should be fine, but also that my a--- off. To Lance Corporal
people like me are scientific anomalies, Chalmers lying in that hospital bed,
having survived the unsurvivable.” this makes no sense, but when I look
Chalmers wasn’t put in a higher-risk at the last five years, this is the
group, but he knows from friends in natural progression of my career. I
the disabled community that there just hope it’s not the last one.”
remains a profound fear of the virus – The book Chalmers read on his
especially as society opens up, CBeebies Bedtime Stories slot, which
increasing the risk of transmission. will air this month, was James
“It’s a big thing. When we talk about Catchpole’s What Happened To You?,
Freedom Day, for the disabled about a child with a disability.
community in particular, and the It’s a question Chalmers has been
elderly and vulnerable, it’s the asked incessantly by strangers over
opposite of freedom. Lockdown starts the last decade – what happened to
again in some regard,” he says. you? – and while it’s a long answer, he
“The pandemic has shown a lot of doesn’t tire of it, and instead just
people what it’s like to feel isolated and refers to his mantra.
not able to leave their home, and What happened to him is
people should realise that’s how a lot of extraordinary – but what he’s done
disabled people feel all the time.” since is even more remarkable.
Part of the mission of the
Paralympics is to show how people Watch the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic
with disabilities can do extraordinary Games from tomorrow on Channel 4
things when given the opportunities. (paralympics.channel4.com)
Chalmers believes London 2012 was

T H R E E E A SY WAYS
E AT M O R E B E A N S ,
PULSES AND LEGUMES

A
s the saying goes, and season well. Stir the
beans, beans are yogurt mixture through
good for the heart... the beans, and serve.
We’ll leave it there, shall These days many
we? What is certainly true pre-cooked pulses come
is that most of us should in pouches that are
be eating far more of perfect for adding an
them. Not only does their extra dimension to salads
production have a low and side dishes. Black
environmental impact, beluga lentils make a
they’re rich in protein, dramatic base for a more
fibre, iron and potassium interesting salad. Just tip
and are a healthy a packet into a bowl, add
alternative to meat. a finely diced red onion,
According to the latest dress with 1 tbsp apple
government statistics, cider vinegar, 1 clove
nearly half of Brits are finely-grated garlic, 1
trying to reduce the tsp runny honey, 1 tbsp
amount of meat in their extra virgin olive oil and
diet and 13 per cent of top with roasted cherry
the population consider tomatoes (pour over any
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themselves “flexitarians”, juices from the pan, too)

defined as eating a mixed and crumbled feta cheese.

3
diet, mainly vegetarian,
with meat occasionally – Don’t forget
meaning more of us are frozen
reaching for legumes, Frozen pulses
pulses and beans for our are your friend
protein source. – not only super

2
Although the terms are convenient, but because
used interchangeably, Heart healthy: lentils cooked Throw in a tin they are picked and
legume refers to any plant with onions, garlic and spices You can add a frozen straight away
from the Leguminosae make a comforting dal tin of pulses to they often retain more
family and includes its almost anything, of their vitamin and
leaves, stems, seeds and If you’ve got a few including family mineral content than
pods. A pulse is the edible minutes to spare, and favourites like bolognese vegetables that have had
seed from a legume plant, packet of lentils to hand, sauce, cottage pie, curries a long journey to the
for example beans, lentils then a quick dal is one of and stews. Choose your supermarket.
and peas. the healthiest comfort favourite from lentils, Bean and pea mixes can
So now we know foods there is. Fry up a chickpeas, kidney, be eaten as a simple side
exactly what they are, diced onion, 2 cloves finely cannellini, flageolet, pinto dish but are also excellent
how do we go about grated garlic, 1 tsp finely or borlotti beans. defrosted and added to
eating more of them? grated ginger and 1 tbsp Another great idea is to salads. Podded frozen

1
curry powder for a few swap your regular mashed edamame beans are widely
Quick wins minutes on a high heat. potato for an easy white available these days and
You might be Add 200g red lentils, 1 can bean mash – it’s actually are an alternative to peas.
surprised how many chopped tomatoes, ¼ tsp quicker than boiling Or, for hummus fans,
vegetables you salt and 600ml water. Bring potatoes. Gently heat 2 try making this variety
already eat are, in fact, to a boil and reduce to tbsp olive oil and 3 cloves with an Asian twist. In a
legumes. Garden peas, simmer for 15 minutes. crushed garlic in a medium food processor, add 200g
green beans, sugar snap And if you don’t have saucepan and cook for defrosted edamame beans,
peas and mangetout, to time to cook, did you a minute or so until the 2 tbsp light olive oil, 1
name but a few. So, the know that peanuts are a garlic has softened. Add 1 tsp sesame oil, 1 clove of
first step is to increase legume? Like soybeans, tin of drained white beans crushed garlic, juice of a
your consumption of the lentils and chickpeas, (cannellini or butter beans) lemon, 2 tbsp water, ½ tsp
legumes you already enjoy. peanuts are edible seeds and mash lightly with a wasabi (optional), ½ tsp
Another quick win is that grow in pods. Peanuts fork. Add 30ml water and salt. Blend on high for a
the humble baked bean. are a fabulous snack, so bring to a simmer for 3-4 minute or until smooth.
A tin of beans is packed keep some handy for when minutes until the water has
with fibre and protein and the munchies call. But reduced almost completely. The Midlife Method: How To
is low in fat, but the sauce a word to the wise, they Take off the heat and set Lose Weight and Feel Great
can contain lots of added are calorific; a snack-size aside. Mix 2 tbsp plain After 40 by Sam Rice is
sugar, so buy a lower sugar portion is 30g, or a small yoghurt and a squeeze published by Hachette
variety if possible. handful. of lemon juice in a bowl
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Arts

‘We must view

classical music
in a more
global way’
For decades, George Lewis has been at the
cutting edge of music. Ahead of his Prom,
he tells Ivan Hewett that change is afoot

S
ome creative figures really
do “contain multitudes” as
the poet Walt Whitman put
it. They are so protean, it’s
hard to get a handle on
them. George Lewis is one
of them. The 69-year-old African-
American composer, whose brand-
new piece for the Proms will be
premiered this week, also plays jazz
trombone well enough to have joined
the Count Basie Orchestra in the
1970s. He’s collaborated with
Vietnam war when conservatives and
radicals were at loggerheads over the
experimental ethos and was not
content to stay within the
‘I wanted direction, by composing written out
pieces for classical ensembles like
liberal legacy of the 1960s. “Though it boundaries of “black music” as to capture trios, sextets and orchestras. Does he
was nothing compared to what we are traditionally conceived. agree with those who say classical
experiencing today. I suppose I’m “They were also into modern the idea, music needs to become less “white?”.
trying to create a musical image of the classical music,” says Lewis. “I used to “Well, maybe it could have a more
way our identities are now in flux. hang out with the founder of the
through mosaic identity, where it conceives of
“A lot of ideas people took for
granted are suddenly disappearing,
AACM Muhal Abrams, and he
would ask me, “What are you
music, itself not just as the music of the
European diaspora, but as the music
norms that we believed in have turned listening to?” and I would say “Elliott that ideas of the whole Earth. I do believe that is
out to be chimerical. We are ‘No Carter’s first string quartet” [Elliott coming, but it’s going to take a while,
Longer at Ease’,” he says, deliberately Carter was an American composer of people and for some people the prospect
referencing the title of a novel by fearsomely complex modernist music], took for arouses fear.
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luminaries of improvised music such
as Anthony Braxton, created his own
computer programmes to drive
improvising musical machines, and
made numerous recordings himself
as a performer. He’s a distinguished
professor in the music faculty of
Columbia University in New York,
where he lives with his sound-artist
wife Miya Masaoka and son Tadashi.
He’s laden with honours, including a
MacArthur Fellowship, and,
increasingly, a composer of elaborate
fully written-out “classical” scores,
including an opera, and now the new
Proms piece, intriguingly entitled
Minds in Flux.
When I ask whose minds they are,
and why they’re in flux, Lewis lets
forth a rumbling laugh I hear a lot
during our conversation. “Well, I
guess it’s really all of us. That title
comes from a sermon I heard from a
black evangelical preacher about 40
years ago, where he said “we’re
talking about minds in flux.” He was
referring to the very turbulent
political scene at that time.” Lewis is
referring to the tail-end end of the
Chinua Achebe, the great Nigerian and he would say “Great, let’s take a “Just saying, “don’t be fearful”
novelist. look” and fetch the score from his granted won’t of itself change much,
That might sound somewhat scary, library. But then the next day we because many people have a
but at one level his new piece is quite would all be together playing are vested interest in keeping things
traditional. “It’s scored for a fairly
standard symphony orchestra for
something like Blues Forever on
stage somewhere.”
suddenly just as they are. But it might
actually benefit them as well, to see
pairs of woodwinds and a reduced In flux: George Lewis, top; with the Association for the By the late 1970s Lewis was playing vanishing’ classical music in this more global
body of strings. I thought I would do Advancement of Creative Musicians in the 1970s, above trombone with the leading lights of way. In fact the change is already
that as I’m sharing the billing with free improvised music and was among happening; there are local variants of
Beethoven – not for the first time I was a big thing. My people had the first musicians to explore ways of classical music arising beyond
might add!” he says. On another level emigrated from the South of the programming computers to improvise Europe [such as the incredible
the piece is radical, as it involves United States, so they were really into music, in collaboration with live explosion of classical music in Asia],
reconfiguring the sounds spatially. country music.” musicians. I venture the obvious and the idea that people in these
“This is my largest experiment in Lewis’s musical talent carried him question – with so many new places have to swear eternal
moving sound around in space yet,” he all the way to Yale University, though underemployed musicians and fealty to classical music’s European
says. “There’ll be eight speakers in a he lived a dual life with constant composers in the world, why do we provenance doesn’t seem plausible
ring around the audience, which will returns to the black music scene in need computers to take on the job of George Lewis’s to me.”
redistribute the orchestral sounds.” Chicago. At Yale, he switched from improvising? “Well you might say, why Minds in Flux is Is he saying classical music has to
It’s an extraordinarily long road studying music to philosophy, which do we need self-driving cars, when we premiered by the divorce itself from its European
Lewis has travelled since his childhood Talking TV seems odd but actually was typical of have plenty of human drivers? It’s a BBC Scottish heritage? “No, no, I’m not going to
in a poor black area of Chicago. For the latest an era when creative artists were as relevant question, because a self- Symphony say that! It’s not a question of
“I believe the polite term for it was features, news and interested in concepts as much as driving car is actually a wonderful kind Orchestra divorcing anything. Remember my
‘ghetto’,” he says. “I didn’t grow up in a craftsmanship – the great minimalists of improvising machine. conducted by Prom concert is called “George Lewis
family of musicians. although
reviews direct to Steve Reich and Philip Glass also “It’s not really about what machines and Beethoven”. That doesn’t sound
your inbox, sign Ilan Volkov at the
everyone was very interested in music. studied philosophy. can do, it’s about researching what Proms on August like divorce to me,” he says. “It’s all
I started trombone at school where I up for our weekly He then returned to Chicago people can do. It allowed me to 26. Tickets: about adding things and opening up
had some very good teachers. I was TV newsletter where he found kindred spirits in the discover things about myself.” royalalberthall. to diverse influences so one day
raised on African-American popular telegraph.co.uk/ Association for the Advancement of In recent years Lewis has moved in com classical music will become a true
music, jazz, and also country music newsletters Creative Musicians, which had an what seems a more “classical” world music.”

A gloriously giddy, goofy evening

with indie rock’s next big thing

Seaside special:
SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

frontman Alex
Rice and the
band’s guitar
players on the
roof of the De La
Warr Pavilion

Pop since forming at Cambridge University unpretentious joy. Well, most of

in 2017. Their early shows often ended
with the band inviting the audience
Sports Team home with them, or out to the pub.
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea These days, fans are invited to join a
WhatsApp group and an annual bus
trip to Margate.
★★★★★ The dedication of a largely teenage
By Tristram Fane Saunders and refreshingly unblokey fanbase
– with a bit of support from Lewis
them do: Ben Mack, a po-faced
keyboardist/percussionist with a
black-and-white dyed buzzcut,
shakes a tambourine as if he’s
auditioning for a late Beckett play.
Rice frolicked around like a
clean-cut Iggy Pop (if that’s not an
oxymoron), strutting like a peacock,
prancing like a horse and

N
ext weekend, Sports Team
will perform to thousands at
Reading and Leeds Festival. To
warm up for that, they played to a
handful of devoted fans on a drizzly
Thursday evening on a rooftop in
Bexhill-on-Sea.
It wasn’t quite the ideal atmosphere
for sunny festival-ready anthems like
‘Long Hot Summer’, but it still felt like
a good spot for the six-piece band, for
two reasons. Firstly, because it
encapsulates the English mundanity
that their indie rock affectionately
mocks, in lyrics about Wetherspoons,
Aldershot Community Gardens and
motorways. (“He fails to notice a
mini-roundabout,” frontman Alex Rice
sings on ‘M5’, a giddy anthem that
would have raised the roof, if we
weren’t already dancing on it.)
The second reason is that it’s
through intimate gigs like this that
they have quietly developed an
extraordinary grassroots following
Capaldi – took their Mercury Prize-
shortlisted debut album to No 1 in the
midweek charts last year, until it was
narrowly beaten down from the top
Their lyrics dwell
affectionately on
mini-roundabouts
and Wetherspoons
spot by Lady Gaga. Somehow, a group
specialising in an unfashionable brand
of upbeat guitar rock has become
hotter than “a burning British neck/
on an August evening” (as Rice sings
on ‘Here It Comes Again’).
It’s true that there’s been a recent
resurgence in guitar music, but
the most prominent acts – such as
Irish post-punks Fontaines DC – take it
very seriously indeed. By contrast,
Sports Team radiate a goofy,
windmilling his arms in the air. At
one point he seemed worryingly
close to attempting a stage-dive.
Technically an “in-store” gig for a
record shop downstairs, a warm-up
before a UK autumn tour, this brief
one-hour set was more an amuse-
bouche than a full meal, but one that
bodes well for the future: ‘The Game’,
a new song from their as-yet-
unrecorded second album, sounded
as good as anything they’ve written.
Never short of self-belief, back in
2018, with just one EP to their name,
the band looked into booking
Wembley Arena for 2021. From a
Bexhill rooftop Wembley still looks
an awfully long way away, but Sports
Team are heading in the right
direction.
Sports Team play Reading Festival on
Aug 27, and tour from Oct 1,
sportsteamband.com
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Arts

Stravinsky’s morality tale can This Requiem had an

abundance of charm,
still teach us lessons today but lacked maturity
Proms 2021 It was fascinating to hear Bologne’s
David Kettle piece side by side with Rameau’s
CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC music: one could catch lingering
Britten Sinfonia/ echoes of the Baroque courtliness in
the new forward-moving dramatic
National Youth Choir Mozartian style of his own age.
Classical Royal Albert Hall, London SW7 Alongside the dances were two
tragic arias from Rameau’s operas,
sung with affecting but somewhat
The Soldier’s Tale ★★★★★ small-voiced tenderness by soprano
Edinburgh Academy Junior School By Ivan Hewett Samantha Clarke and tenor Nick
Pritchard. One’s ear was drawn more

G
T
rab the audience by the scruff is to the lovely bassoon accompanying
★★★★★ the first rule of showbiz, and the parts, eloquently played by Sarah
he Soldier’s Tale seems Proms certainly obeyed it on Burnett and Shelly Organ.
to have found a Friday night. The first sounds we heard After the interval the magic and
comfortable home in were a howling gale and the crash of make-believe of Rameau was set
many ensembles’ thunder, summoned by the aside for something on a different
concert programmes percussionists of the Britten Sinfonia level of seriousness: Mozart’s
over the past 18 months. on thunder-sheets and wind machines. Requiem. The orchestra was joined
You can see why. With opera thin on Was a musical storm in the offing? No, for this by the National Youth Choir,
the ground, this work about a it was just to give a bit of extra drama to and two more soloists, the contralto
violinist trading his instrument with a couple of rustic dances lifted from Claudia Huckle and bass William
the devil in return for untold riches the 1739 tragedy Dardanus by Jean- Thomas, who was much the most
offers a pint-sized music theatre Philippe Rameau. characterful of the soloists. His
experience using just seven This was the first in a sequence of opening flourish in the Tuba Mirum
instrumentalists and a couple of pieces by the great French Baroque was the performance’s highlight.
actors. Social distancing is a breeze. composer performed by the Britten It’s true the Requiem has its
But the work’s origins in trauma Sinfonia under David Bates. moments of drama as in the Dies Irae,
and turmoil give it a particular Heightening the drama of music is and Bates made these maximally
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resonance in our own pandemic always Bates’s aim and he uses an vivid, with sudden surges and
times, too: stranded in Switzerland extraordinary range of bodily gestures, retreats in dynamics. The problem
following the Russian Revolution, at one point standing arms pinned to was that he applied this small-scale
Stravinsky conceived it with writer one side and shaking his whole body, approach across the whole piece,
CF Ramuz in the wake of the First to give an effect of energy constrained with the result that the music lost
World War, and it’s a world apart before being released. much of its breadth.
from the lavish decadence of his In the first part where the music was The magnificent rising melody of
earlier music. A planned 1918 tour all on the small scale of “character” the Lachrimosa should feel like a
had to be cancelled because of the pieces, Bates’s approach worked well. continuity, despite the breaks in the
Spanish flu. Rameau’s dances had a thrilling line. Here it felt like a series of small
The Edinburgh International rhythmic bite and tangy orchestral explosions. The choir sang their
Festival’s performances formed the colour, and the performance of the hearts out, but I couldn’t help feeling
final panel in a triptych of concerts Second Symphony by Joseph Bologne, the piece was inappropriate for their
featuring violinist Nicola Benedetti. Chevalier de Saint-Georges, one of the light bright sound. Youthful lightness
Truth be told, Benedetti was here first black composers (his mother was a has its charm, but sometimes the
very much as first among equals, slave in the French colony of gravity of adult voices is
joined by an ad-hoc ensemble drawn First among equals: Nicola Benedetti was ably assisted by an ad-hoc ensemble drawn from Scottish and London orchestras Guadeloupe) also leapt into vivid life. indispensable.
from Scottish and London orchestras.
It felt, however, as though the septet fluttering waltz and brittle, clipped Michael Flanders and Kitty Black. Allen’s simple staging provided just the Small-scale
had been performing together for ragtime. Redmond, on the other hand, began level of theatricality that this approach:
years: their playing was perky and The more conventional theatre, with a sense of gleeful mischievousness unconventional work demands. You Claudia Huckle
propulsive, their ensemble so sharp however, took place out front, led by but revealed ever darker levels of could scarcely hope for a more was a soloist in
you might cut yourself on it, and their assured narration from Sir Thomas menace as the show progressed. spirited, energetic musical backdrop, Mozart’s Requiem,
evident delight in cueing each other Allen, erstwhile star of opera stages, There was, however, a problem with though even the instrumentalists’ with the National
and swapping ideas back and forth now a respected director, and here also amplification. On a particularly dreich, playing grew more sober as the tale Youth Choir
only added to the sense of theatre. responsible for the show’s modest drizzly Edinburgh afternoon, it wasn’t headed towards its concluding moral.
BBC SO principal Philip Cobb’s staging: a table, a chair, and a bit of easy to discern the dialogue from row Don’t try to get back what you once
cornet was a joy to experience, and movement from Anthony Flaum as F, let alone from 20 rows further back. had, intoned Allen’s narrator, and be
you could hear his years in brass the homecoming Soldier and a Thank goodness for the supertitles. happy with what you have today.
bands from his rich, vibrato-laden redoubtable Siobhan Redmond as the But this is a far from conventional There was a lesson there in 1918, and
Available for 30
tone. Benedetti came into her own, Devil who tricks him. Flaum balanced year, of course, and audiences are there is a lesson for us today, too.
days on the
too, in the three dances with which bravado and vulnerability nicely as the happy to make allowances. Sound
BBC iPlayer. The
the Soldier wakes a slumbering naive recruit, though in truth he issues aside, this was a gloriously
The Edinburgh International Festival Proms continue
princess, each beautifully doesn’t get much to go on, even in the vibrant, thoroughly committed yet
continues until August 29; eif.co.uk until Sept 11
characterised: a raw, gutsy tango, still witty 1950s English translation by nicely knowing performance, and

MODERN LIFE
S H A N E WAT S O N

The new
C
ouldn’t help noticing that
Ruby Wax (American,
rules of resident in the UK) now
Britishness identifies as English. “I feel
English, I even say w----r,” she
Here’s an told an interviewer, going on to
update on cite irony and authenticity as
getting it the qualities she most admires
in her adopted country.
right when This is excellent news;
it comes to people choosing to live here
always makes us feel
being one personally proud, and we’ve
of us been looking for an excuse
– post-Olympics and a rare
spate of guilt-free Union
flag-flaunting – to ruminate on
what being British means in
2021. So here goes:
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New chart entry: Showing

emotion
Not long ago, people were
debating whether Matthew
Pinsent sobbing after he won Podium time: Tom Daley is not afraid to shed a tear in the national cause
gold in Athens was seemly in a
male athlete. But this year’s conscious fop? Feels like Union flags is the main reason
Olympics was wall-to-wall we did, and they’re going he made it to No 10.) Incredible,
tears, and we’re all agreed it absolutely nowhere. but this is Britain.
was the most uplifting ever.
What we now have in Britain Up one place: Bubble-bursting Down four: Respecting
is a stiff upper lip plus well- For example, Kaleb in bonkers behaviour, providing
exercised tear ducts (see Tom Clarkson’s Farm became the it harms no one
Daley on the podium). star of the show because he The England fan who put a
was the round the-clock firework up his bum was
Up two places: Minding bulls--- detector who showed revolting and a public
disproportionately about our up Clarkson in every scene. nuisance. But if you’re British,
gardens and pets That’s top scores for Kaleb and you sort-of reluctantly knew
In what other country would Clarkson on our respectometer. where he was coming from.
the garden centres have
reopened before the Up three places: Zero patience Still holding its position: The
bookshops, and the plight of for entitlement weather
Geronimo the alpaca been You know how the Queen Specifically refusing to be
front-page news all summer? always looks taken aback defeated by it, buying a
We were mad about dogs and when a surprise special flypast waterproof poncho, setting
gardening before the is arranged for some our jaws and ploughing on
lockdowns, now we’re madder. anniversary? This is, in a with the sunny-day staycation
nutshell, what we love about plans while insisting our
Up one place: Loving the HM; she has never once been politicians do the same, even
unflash impressed by herself, and we when they have offers of
Peter Kay is beloved because can’t say that of everyone with yachts and villas in the Med
he’s funny, he came out of a title and a Netflix deal. We coming out of their ears.
retirement to raise money for also like a rock star’s wife who
In what a good cause and he’s worth an moonlights as a policewoman. Down three: Hangovers
other estimated £43 million but, so Take a bow, Penny Lancaster. Still the country where you can
country far as we can tell, still buys his be a serious person and ring up
clothes in Asda and gets his Same position: Being silly your host of the previous night
would the hair cut by his sister. Other men aim to be cool and and tell him you had to pull
garden desirable, but British men over the car to be sick on the
centres have Up two: Also loving a would rather play the fool to way to work. Ha ha ha. (Note:
certain sort of show pony make us laugh, and it seems to this one may not make the list
reopened Jack Grealish, Harry Styles, work as a general ruse. (Boris of being British traits for much
before the Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. dangling from the zipwire in longer. The younger ones are
bookshops? Did we invent the hair- that truss waving his plastic not so drinky.)
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107472.0 Unilever 4135½ 1.2 3.6 354.2 Fidelity Asian V 484 488 1.8 39077.2 Anglo Amer 2868½ 0.7 6.2 19058.7 Tesco 246½ 7.0 3.7 183122.1 Chevron $ 94¾ 5.7 0.4

1726.8 Fidlty Chna Sp Sits ● 335 344 1.4 13792.1 Antofagasta 1399 0.7 3.8 25787.9 Coca–Cola Euro $ 56¾ 3.5 0.9

to cut ‘jobs tax’ Government Securities

Gas & Water 1337.9

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Fidelity Japan Tst 219

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19440.5 Treas 6% 28 140.16 4.28 0.40 7388.3 Utd Utilities 1083½ 1.5 4.0 227.3 Hend High Inc 176¾ 178 5.6 747.2 Hochschild Mng ● 145⅜ 0.5 3.2 61.1 Carillion # 14¼ — 349259.1 Home Depot $ 328½ 2.0 2.1
By Tim Wallace another cost to think about in
an environment where find- 38709.2 Treas 4¼% 32 137.75 3.09 0.63 327.8 Hend Intl Inc 167¼* 177 3.6 452.1 Kenmare Res 412 1.0 2.7 5920.6 DCC 6004 1.9 2.7 157683.7 Honeywell $ 228⅜ 1.6 1.9
SMALL businesses have ing the right people is a 30407.9 Treas 4¼% 36 147.61 2.88 0.78 987.6 Hend Smaller Co ● 1322 1414 1.8 7186.5 Polymetal 1517½ 1.8 6.2 347.3 De La Rue 178 — 33935.5 HP $ 28¼ 2.7 3.7
urged ministers to cut the so- nightmare.” General financial
called “jobs tax” amid warn- Semiconductors are 25747.9 Treas 4¾% 38 162.81 2.92 0.84 110.2 Hend Opp 1395* 1593 1.9 65214.1 Rio Tinto 5226 0.7 12.0 853.8 Essentra ● 283 0.3 1.9 124866.4 IBM $ 139¼ 4.7 0.9
ings that soaring costs and among the materials in short- 2678.5 Ashmore ● 375¾ 1.6 4.5 1517.0 Herald Inv ● 2340 2662 — 29493.4 Experian 3199 1.9 1.1 209341.2 Intel $ 51⅝ 2.7 3.3
Index Linked Securities
staff and materials shortages est supply, posing a key prob-
267.2 Charles Stanley 512½ 1.7 2.3 1738.7 HgCapital ● 396 335 1.3 22586.5 Ferguson 10160 2.0 1.6 23059.2 Intl Paper $ 59 3.5 1.4
threaten to hamper Britain’s lem for manufacturers across Oil & Gas
economic recovery. the globe. Car companies are 6821.2 Treas 2½% IL 24359.67 0.70 0.00 7000.9 Hargreaves L 1476 1.2 3.4 3385.6 HICL Infrastructure ●174¾ 153 4.7 3138.3 Homeserve ● 933 0.4 2.8 462148.1 JP Morgan Ch $ 154⅝ 2.3 4.2
Two thirds of SMEs have among those worst affected,
4841.2 Treas 4⅛% IL 30382.28 1.08 0.00 4041.7 IG Group ● 936½ 2.3 4.6 17.8 Highbridge Tactical 264 275 — 58001.6 BP 287⅞ -4.6 5.6 8473.1 Intertek Group 5250 1.5 2.0 473504.5 Johnson&John $ 179⅞ 2.4 1.6
suffered rises in costs, a sur- forcing severe cutbacks in
vey by the Federation of production. 9084.0 Treas 2% IL 35 305.57 0.65 0.00 6328.2 IntermediateCap 2178 2.9 2.6 778.4 ICG Enterprise Tst ●1136* 1394 2.4 916.2 Cairn Energy ● 183½ — 2977.8 IWG ● 295⅝ — 49498.3 Keurig Dr Pep $ 34⅞ 2.1 1.6
Small Busine ss e s ( FSB ) It has been reported that
1979.0 Investec ● 284¼ 1.9 4.6 227.6 Invesco Asia Trust 340½ 377 4.4 430.0 EnQuest 22¾ — 658.8 Johnson Serv 148 — 6436.4 Manpower $ 118⅝ 2.1 1.8
found, with more expensive the Government is consider- The share prices, price-earnings ratios and dividend yields
raw materials, utilities bills ing increasing national insur- below are supplied by Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. The
yields are calculated using historic dividend payments divided
1371.0 IP Group ● 129 11.8 1.1 314.8 Invesco BondIncPlus186¾ 196 5.8 2933.9 Harbour Energy ● 317 — 288.6 Menzies J 314 — 8428.8 Marathon Oil $ 10¾ 1.4 4.6
and fuel all adding to pres- ance contributions – contrary by the closing share price multiplied by 100.
1384.3 Liontrust ● 2260 1.0 2.1 218.9 InvesPerp UK Sm Co647* 702 3.0 318.3 Hunting 193 2.6 3.5 1015.0 MITIE Gp ● 71¼ — 178694.0 McDonalds $ 239¼ 2.2 1.8
sure on firms which have to its manifesto pledge to
struggled throughout the keep the key levy on hold – to 12.2 Lon. Fin. & Inv. 39 -2.3 2.9 444.6 JPM Claverh’se 750* 746 4.1 340.0 Petrofac 98¼ — 10862.2 Rentokil 584¼ 1.3 1.3 199902.7 Merck $ 79 3.3 1.1
pandemic. fund social care reforms after 40668.7 Lon Stock Ex 8036 1.6 1.0 285.3 JPM ElecManGth 1025* 1087 1.6 57105.7 Royal D Shell A 1392⅜ -3.1 4.7 237.1 Ricardo Gp 381 -7.0 0.5 2289561.9 Microsoft $ 304⅝ 0.7 3.6
Ma n u f a c t u re r s’ i n p u t the pandemic. Aerospace & defence
prices jumped by almost one The 2019 manifesto also Mkt Cap
5459.8 M&G 210 2.4 8.7 78.1 JPM ElecManInc 103* 109 4.6 51183.6 Royal D Shell B 1387⅜ -3.1 4.7 519.2 Robt Walters 680 0.5 2.4 276942.4 Pfizer $ 49⅜ 3.2 1.4
tenth last month compared said the Government would (£m) Stock Price Cvr Yld
3090.2 Man Group ● 216¼ 1.7 3.8 7.7 JPM ElecManCsh 102½ 103 0.4 1559.1 Wood Grp (John) ● 226½ — 601.4 SIG 50⅞ — 353336.0 Procter & Gamble $ 145½ 2.4 1.6
with July last year, according seek to raise the threshold at
to the Office for National Sta- which national insurance 1797.9 Babcock Intl ● 355⅝ — 873.0 Provident Fin 344¼ — 266.4 JPM Eur Gwth 369½ 413 1.2 1665.0 Serco Group ● 136¾ 4.5 1.8 127068.9 Raytheon Tech $ 84¼ 2.3 0.9
tistics, while underlying pay would be paid. 18471.1 BAE Systems 573¾ 1.7 4.2 2521.7 Quilter ● 147¾ 0.9 3.6 132.6 JPM Eur Inc 154½ 171 4.3 3971.7 Travis P ● 1765 -0.8 0.7 36688.5 Rockwell $ 316¼ 1.4 2.6
Mr Cherry said: “This Gov- Pharmaceuticals
ernment was elected on a 1935.4 QinetiQ ● 334⅜ 3.2 2.1 1224.8 Rathbone Bros ● 1994 0.7 3.7 991.9 JPM Japanese ● 629 672 0.8 45884.6 Trane Tech $ 193⅛ 1.2 2.4

100,000 manifesto that rightly prom-

ised to cut the jobs tax, and
ministers must rediscover
9217.7

722.7
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110⅛

172¼
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358.3

8263.4
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Schroders
2950

3656
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1.5
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3.2
263.3

350.2
JPM Jpn SmCp G&I 483

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520

1492½ 1560
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2.0
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5784.2 Dechra Pharma ●

8731

5345
0.9

0.9
2.3

0.7
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317708.7 Walt Disney $

151⅜

174⅞
1.5

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2.0

Shortfall of lorry drivers in the that reformist zeal if they 2364.2 Ultra ● 3318 2.0 1.7 5273.4 Land Secs 711¼ 3.9 3972.1 Genus ● 6040 2.1 0.5 17198.4 BT Group 173⅜ 1.9 4.4 3969.5 Xerox Hldgs $ 22¼ 4.5 1.4
UK. Job vacancies topped 1m want to unlo ck grow th
376.9 Lowland Inv 1395 1437 4.3 76250.6 GlaxoSmKline 1515⅜ 1.4 5.3 819.3 Telecom Plus ● 1040 0.7 5.5
last month amid shortages within the small business Healthcare
community and secure our 121.7 Majedie 229½ 280 5.0 5972.1 Hikma 2580 3.5 1.5 33976.1 Vodafone 122⅝ 0.0 6.4
Banks Europeans
economic recovery.”
4547.2 ConvaTec Grp ● 225¾ 1.0 1.8 360.0 Mtn Currie Port 419½ 408 1.0 1402.8 Indivior ● 191⅞ —
growth is as high as 4.5pc. Businesses are struggling
Mike Cherry, national with a shortage of staff in 30396.7 Barclays 179⅜ 2.9 1.7 2157.2 Mediclinic Int ● 292⅝ — 2267.7 Mercantile InvTr ● 286½ 307 2.3 19242.0 AkzoNobel € 102⅝ 1.9 1.7
Tobaccos
chairman of the FSB, said the almost all parts of the econ-
2298.2 Close Bros ● 1524 1.3 3.8 12528.7 Smith & Nep 1425 1.4 1.9 661.7 Merchants Tst 530½* 534 5.1 46341.6 BMW € 77 2.5 3.0
Government should cut the omy, with more than 1m job Property
employer national insurance vacancies available last 80918.3 HSBC 396⅛ 0.9 4.1 64.3 MomentumM-A V 190½ 193 3.5 62218.9 Brit Am Tob 2711½ 1.3 8.0 13627.1 Carrefour € 17¼ 2.8 2.6
contributions to reduce pres- month – a record high.
31219.9 Lloyds Bk Gp 44 1.0 2.8 3329.3 Monks ● 1408* 1372 0.1 4.9 Alina Hldgs 21½ 29 — 14735.6 Imp Brands 1557 1.1 8.9 22472.7 Continental AG € 112⅜ — —
sure on companies and help Lorry drivers are particu- Household goods
them grow again now lock- larly hard to come by, with 24561.1 NatWest Group 212¾ -1.0 2.8 1088.5 Murray Income ● 930* 979 3.7 2080.0 Assura ● 77¾ 3.8 74770.9 Daimler € 69⅞ 1.9 2.5
downs are over. the industry claiming it 46498.9 Santander 268⅛ 7.3 0.9 7388.9 Burberry 1825 2.2 2.3 1453.1 Murray Intl ● 1132 1166 4.8 2825.3 Big Yellow Gp ● 1537 2.2 43733.9 Danone € 63⅝ 3.1 1.5
He said: “Small firms are needs as many as 100,000 Transport
emerging from lockdowns more staff because Covid has 13897.0 Standard Ch 447¾ 0.9 2.0 132.4 McBride 76 3.3 1.4 103.0 Northern 2 VCT 64* 71 5.5 4833.8 Brit Land 521⅝ 2.9 73612.5 Deutsche Post € 59⅜ 2.3 1.8
under the strain of spiralling stopped foreign workers 1061.1 PZ Cussons ● 247½ 0.8 2.3 1076.7 Redde Northgate ● 437½ 1.7 3.5 89582.1 Deutsche Tele € 18¾ 3.2 1.5
input and shipping costs, moving to the UK, and lim-
skills shortages, new export- ited the number of drivers Beverages 40188.9 Reckitt Benck 5627 1.0 3.1 4931.0 Royal Mail 493⅛ 3.1 4.1 52704.2 Heineken € 91½ 1.1 3.8
ing paperwork, emergency qualifying for their licence. 495.7 Wincanton 398 3.2 2.6 312949.5 LVMH € 620 1.0 1.6
debt repayments, rent accru- A Government spokesman
als and business rates. said: “Throughout the pan- 82262.4 Diageo 3523 1.6 2.1
Information technology 31621.8 LafargeHolcim SFr 51⅜ 3.9 1.4
“The Government should demic we have provided 774.0 Stock Spirits 387 1.0 2.2 5110.7 Lufthansa € 8½ — —
urgently move to mitigate businesses with hundreds of Travel & Leisure
cost pressures by reducing billions of pounds of support 352.1 Aptitude Sftwre 622 2.3 0.9 28893.8 Nokia OYJ € 5⅛ — —
employer national insurance including loans, grants, VAT 12327.8 Aveva Group 4093 0.3 0.9 2656.9 Carnival ● 1445 — 25111.7 Michelin € 140¾ 1.6 1.5
contributions, which are cuts, business rates relief and Chemicals
serving as a jobs tax and yet the furlough scheme.” 66.5 CML Micro 402 70.6 0.5 3649.4 easyJet ● 799 — 46024.8 Pernod Ricard € 175¾ 1.6 1.9

12888.7 Croda Intl 9238 1.6 1.0 7757.6 Sage Gp 735¼ 1.6 2.4 10827.6 Entain 1849 — 34810.7 Philips (Kon) € 38 2.2 1.5

TSB investigated 5761.5

2286.8
Johnson Mat

Victrex ●
2977

2630
1.5

1.1
2.4

2.3
1816.9 Spirent ● 297 2.3 1.5 1100.3

24056.4
FirstGroup ●

Flutter Entrtmt 13720

90 —

—
117793.0 Siemens €

21978.6 Societe Gen €

138⅝

25¾
2.5

2.1
1.4

1.9

by City watchdog
309.0 Fullers ‘A’ 796 — 53700.2 Stellantis € 17⅛ — —
Insurance
422.3 Go–Ahead Grp 978 — 12563.0 Suez Environ € 19⅝ 3.3 0.1
Construction
5757.1 abrdn 264 2.6 5.5 7883.8 IAG Intl Cons Air 158⅞ — 17901.4 Thales € 83⅞ 2.1 2.5

on debt ‘treatment’ 1878.4

7290.2
Balfour Beatty ●

Barratt Dev
289⅝

715¼
1.0

5.3
1.6

1.0
10918.5

16237.5
Admiral

Aviva
3676

414⅛
0.6

3.3
8.0

5.2
8193.4

1874.6
Intercont Hotels 4472

Mandarin 148⅜
—

—
96283.3

56313.8
Total €

UBS AG SFr
36½

15¼
7.2

2.2
1.1

5.0

4164.6 Bellway ● 3375 1.8 2.5 2423.5 Beazley ● 397¾ — 1700.3 Mitchells&But ● 285 — 82566.1 Volkswagen € 279¾ 1.7 3.5

By Ben Woods Barclays and Clydesdale 5926.6 Berkeley Grp 4870 37.2 0.2 4152.9 DirectLineIns ● 309⅛ 1.2 7.2 1618.7 National Ex ● 263⅝ —
Financial Services with a
TSB is under investigation by £26m fine in December over 375.9 Boot H 282 1.6 2.0 3227.4 Hiscox ● 931⅝ -8.5 0.9 1199.1 Playtech ● 391⅜ —
Recent issues
the City watchdog over the their treatment of consumer 167.7 Costain 61 — 1532.4 Lancashire Hldg ● 628 0.1 1.7 796.3 Rank Group ● 170 —
treatment of customers credit customers that fell Mkt Cap
(£m) Stock Price Cvr Yld
struggling to make their loan behind on loan repayments. 29268.5 CRH 3756 1.3 2.2 15671.0 Legal & General 262½ 1.5 6.8 899.7 Restaurant Gp ● 117⅝ —
repayments for the past Barclays moved to “proac- 3211.9 Grafton Gp ● 1342 3.1 1.1 6236.3 Phoenix 624 1.9 7.7 15364.7 Ryanair 1361⅜ — 14.6 BiVictriX Thera 22 —
seven years. tively redress” more than
The Financial Conduct 1.5m customers with a pay- 1177.7 Morgan Sindall ● 2540 1.4 2.8 38044.1 Prudential 1454½ 5.1 0.8 380.4 Stagecoach 69 — 59.6 Likewise Group 31 —
Authority (FCA) is examining ment of £273m. 9081.6 Persimmon 2846 0.9 8.3 8617.6 St James Place 1596½ 1.0 3.1 3414.7 TUI AG ● 310⅝ — 18.1 Southern Energy 5 —
whether the bank’s debt col- Meanwhile, Lloyds Bank, Mkt Cap Mkt Cap
(£m) Stock Price NAV Yld (£m) Stock Price Cvr Yld
lection service “fell short” Bank of Scotland and The 2386.4 Redrow ● 677⅝ 5.5 0.9 1439.4 Wetherspoon ● 1118 —

when supporting customers Mortgage Business were also 6396.1 Taylor Wimpey 175⅜ 0.8 4.7 106.6 Northern 3 VCT 97½* 107 4.6 1016.5 CLS Hldgs ● 249½ 2.5 3.0 6128.4 Whitbread 3034 —
between 2013 and 2020. slapped with £64m in fines Investment trusts
112.6 Nthn Venture 71¼* 73 6.3 74.9 Cap&Regional 67 —
Early findings from the Mkt Cap
(m) Stock Price NAV Yld
review suggest TSB’s behav- ‘We are conducting 412.5 Pacific Assets 341 369 0.7 4195.3 Derwent Ldn ● 3740 2.0
Electricals AIM
iour may have left some cus-
tomers out of pocket, a review to assess 12826.7 3i 1318 1042 2.9 1465.8 Pantheon ● 2710 3522 — 1976.4 Gt Portland Est ● 778½ 1.6

according to The Mail on if treatment fell short 117.1 Dialight 359 — 2866.0 3i Infrastructure ● 321½ 263 3.3 1671.1 Personal Ass ● 49500 48641 1.1 2136.0 Grainger ● 317 2.6 1.7 32.4 Afentra 14¾ —
Sunday.
The investigation, which is of what is expected’ 901.7 discoverIE Grp ● 1008 1.3 1.0 306.8 Aberdeen Diversified 99⅛ 121 5.6 30.7 PremierMitonGlb 168½ 187 4.2 1407.8 Hammerson ● 33½ 1.2 153.4 Arbuthnot 1030 -0.6 1.6

being carried out with the 11438.7 Halma 3013 3.0 0.6 352.5 Aberdeen New India 604 700 0.2 4057.8 RIT Cap Ptnrs ● 2590 2659 1.4 598.8 Helical 489½ 1.5 2.1 375.4 BrooksMacdonald 2320 0.8 2.4
b a n k ’s s u p p o r t , w a s from the FCA in relation to
3759.5 Renishaw ● 5165 0.0 0.3 3176.7 Alliance Trust ● 1014 1071 1.4 616.2 Ruffer Inv Pref 288 279 0.7 7148.4 H K Land 306¼ -5.2 5.3 1.6 Cambria Africa 0¼ —
launched last year and is mortgage customers
expected to be completed in struggling to make debt 1097.6 XP Power ● 5590 1.8 1.7 1272.1 Allianz Tech Trust ● 298 317 — 527.9 Schroder Asian TR 489½ 487 1.5 204.8 McKay Secs 222½ 3.7 404.0 Central Asia Met 229½ 1.3 6.1
2022. repayments. 614.7 Asia Dragon Trust 492 543 1.0 895.5 Scot American ● 517* 504 2.3 152.1 Raven Property 26⅞ — 2138.3 Ceres Power 1123 —
TSB has put aside £55m to A TSB spokesman said: “As
cover the costs should it be we set out in our annual Electricity 253.0 Baillie Giff China 408 398 1.8 493.6 Scot Invest 746 827 3.1 244.6 Raven Prop Prf 113 10.6 206.7 Churchill China 1875 0.1 0.4
forced to pay out millions of report in February we are 579.0 Baillie Giff Euro Gwth158¾ 161 2.2 19122.4 Scot Mortgage 1354 1331 0.3 2401.3 Safestore ● 1139 1.8 220.4 Cohort 537 1.2 2.1
pounds in compensation fol- currently conducting a
lowing a potential FCA fine. review of customers who 1661.0 Drax Group ● 416⅜ 0.0 4.5 1554.5 Bankers Invstmt Tst ●118¼* 117 1.8 219.5 Sec Tst of Scot 218½ 221 2.6 1971.6 Savills ● 1378 2.1 1.7 9.9 Deltex Medical 1¾ —
Payouts are expected to be were in arrears to establish 35409.3 Nat Grid 979 0.9 5.0 491.6 Biotech Growth 1178 1205 — 3086.1 Smithson Inv Tst ● 1894 1849 — 15459.2 Segro 1288* 1.8 102.6 Eleco 123½ 9.8 0.3
focused on the interest cus- whether our treatment fell
tomers may have missed out short of what they should 17385.8 SSE 1666½ 2.7 4.9 100.0 BlackRock Enrgy&Res86 94 4.7 1605.8 TR Property ● 506 516 2.8 69.6 Town Centre 131½ 2.7 120.0 Finsbury Food 92 —
on due to charges that should have expected. 228.6 BlckRock FroInv 120¾ 131 4.2 2100.2 Tmpletn Em Mt ● 177¾ 193 3.3 4054.0 Tritax Big Box ● 235⅝* 187 2.8 109.1 Futura Medical 38 —
not have been applied. “The review is due to con-
It comes after the FCA hit tinue until 2022.” Engineering / Industrial 642.0 BlckRck Grt Euro 678 659 0.9 744.7 Tritax Euro Box £ 121* 3.4 692.5 Warehouse REIT 163 136 3.8 75.1 Hornby 45 —

38.4 BlckRck Inc&Grth Inv178* 202 4.0 253.9 Troy Inc & Gr 78¾ 80 2.5 1758.6 Workspace Gp ● 971 1.8 1169.9 James Halstead 562 1.2 2.5

Vast Resources to shine with 1808.3

162.3
Bodycote ●

Castings
944½

372
0.0

0.6
2.1

4.1
140.2

149.0
BlackRock Latin 357

BlckRck SustAmerInc185¾* 197

404 5.7

4.3
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36.3
UIL Fin ZDP 2022 139½

UIL Fin ZDP 2024 121

137

119
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2508.9

10.3
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LPA Gp
1169

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Botswana mine diamond deal 1006.6 Coats Group ● 69¼ 0.9 2.0 1030.3 BlackRock Small ● 2110 2202 1.6 28.9 UIL Fin ZDP 2026 115½ 118 —
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Corruption
tsar claims
subsidy rules
risk cronyism
Business Secretary told to
publish grants worth more
than £500 to bring more
transparency to system
By Tim Wallace
THE Government risks distorting the
economy and encouraging cronyism
unless it opens up its new subsidies sys-
tem to more radical transparency, its
own corruption tsar has warned.
In an open letter backed by transpar-
ency groups and free market think
tanks, John Penrose MP, urged Kwasi
Kwarteng, the Business Secretary, to
publish all subsidies given with a value
of £500 or more.
Currently the Government plans to
only publish individual grants of more
than half a million pounds – up from the
€500,000 (£429,000) required under
the EU regime which is being replaced.
But Mr Penrose said ministers should
use Britain’s departure from the single
the Adam Smith Institute, which is also
a signatory, said: “Governments are far
too quick to forget they are spending
our money. We have every right to
know when the state is transferring our
money to private businesses. Transpar-
ency drives better policy making and
shines the light on poor behaviour and
corrupt dealings.”
Anna Powell-Smith, director of the
Centre for Public Data, said the £8bn
subsidies regime needs strict oversight.
She said: “Subsidies to businesses can
create harms, such as rent-seeking.
When subsidies aren’t made public,
these harms are much harder to spot.
“This Government has committed to
putting data and transparency at the
heart of policymaking – now is its
chance to prove it, with its flagship
subsidy policy.”
James Roberts, political director at
the TaxPayers’ Alliance, added: “When
it comes to taxpayers’ money, account-
ability is all. Ministers shouldn’t start a
stealth subsidy regime, which could see
hidden cash handed over with no ques-
AARON CHOWN/PA

market to shake up the current regime. tions asked.”

He said: “Leaving the EU creates a
golden opportunity to craft a simpler,
faster and more agile subsidy regime
that genuinely helps businesses, but
which doesn’t create rip-offs or blunt
Britain’s competitiveness either.
“But subsidies are a heady drug that
can prove impossible for businesses and
politicians to resist, so they need iron-
clad public oversight too.”
Mr Penrose wants subsidies from any
public body to be published within 30
days, rather than the six months cur-
rently proposed.
He said: “It would be simpler,
cheaper, would cut red tape burdens,
wouldn’t harm the efficiency and com-
petitiveness of British businesses, and
would match already-existing transpar-
ency rules elsewhere in the UK.”
In the letter, the coalition of groups
including Transparency International
UK, Spotlight on Corruption, the Centre
for Policy Studies and the TaxPayers’
Alliance, said transparency should help
prevent “attempted abuse of our sub-
sidy regime in future, either by direct-
ing taxpayers’ cash to commercially
hopeless political favourites, or simply
through fraud and error”.
Matthew Lesh, head of research at
Flagship policies including the drive
to net zero carbon emissions and level-
ling up the nation are expected to
involve significant subsidies to support
businesses, investment and jobs.
At the same time, the pandemic has Red alert Demonstrators let off flares from a ledge above the entrance to Guildhall, London, as Extinction Rebellion begins
ushered in an era of higher spending, two weeks of disruptive protests to highlight its demand that the Government halt all new investment in fossil fuels.
potentially raising the importance of a
more transparent system governing
subsidies.
Mr Kwarteng has called the post-
Brexit subsidies scheme “more agile
and flexible” than the EU version.
JP Morgan chief reschedules UK visit after Covid rule snub
The UK is proposing to set out a range
of principles which all local bodies must
follow. It hopes that this will create a By Lucy Burton headquarters in London while visiting ‘Imagine telling all the biggest bank, edges closer to targeting
simple system which stops different Europe, where he went to a “Choose UK households by launching its own
regions from using public cash to bid JP MORGAN boss Jamie Dimon is pre- France” event at the Palace of Versailles shareholders that Jamie online bank to take on challenger firms
against each other for investment. paring to visit London for the first time as Emmanuel Macron, the president of Dimon is in a hotel [under such as Monzo. His visit could also
A spokesman for the Department of since the pandemic hit after snubbing France, sought to lure global banks result in a fresh push for a return to the
Business, Energy and Industrial Strat- the capital on his last trip to Europe due away from the City. quarantine] for two weeks’ office in London, with the banker a
egy said: “The UK’s new subsidy control to UK quarantine rules. At the time, UK rules required all pas- vocal advocate of workers returning to
system marks a clear departure from Mr Dimon, Wall Street’s longest- sengers to quarantine for 10 days if they senior executives. Sources said that headquarters.
old, inflexible and bureaucratic EU state serving bank boss, is due to meet UK were travelling from amber list coun- there was consternation in Whitehall Mr Dimon is the only bank chief still
aid regime. clients and staff next month after spook- tries such as France and the US, which after Mr Dimon met Mr Macron in Paris in the same job since before the 2008
“The proposed thresholds for upload- ing Whitehall in June when he bypassed made business trips impossible. but did not visit the UK, with ministers financial crisis. He was paid $31.5m
ing subsidies to the public database a visit to the City due to strict quaran- One insider said at the time: “Imagine taking action to relax the rules because (£23.2m) in 2020 and was last month
strike the right balance between boost- tine restrictions and spent time in Paris telling shareholders that Jamie Dimon of concerns that the City could lose offered a “special award” by the bank to
ing transparency and reducing the instead. is in a hotel for two weeks.” major investment to rivals. stay in the role for longer.
administrative burden on public The billionaire banker was forced to Weeks later, the Government rein- Mr Dimon’s September trip to the UK A JP Morgan spokesman declined to
authorities to save the taxpayer money.” drop a visit to the bank’s European troduced quarantine-free travel for also comes as JP Morgan, America’s comment on his forthcoming visit.

Ultra Electronics private equity bidder loaded Cobham with debt

By Alan Tovey
THE US private equity firm seeking to
buy Ultra Electronics has loaded up
defence firm Cobham with $3bn
(£2.2bn) of debt following pledges to be
a “good custodian” of the business,
analysis has revealed.
After undertakings were given to the
Government that UK interests would be
protected, Advent International has set
about dismantling Cobham, giving
ammunition to critics who claim that an
acquisition by what they label a “vul-
ture firm” would see it asset stripped.
Advent bought Cobham in Sep 2019
for £4bn. Now there are concerns that
Ultra, a supplier of components vital to
Britain’s nuclear deterrent and military
assets, could face a similar fate.
Advent launched a £2.6bn bid for
Ultra last month, sparking warnings of
potential risks to national security and
damage to the UK’s manufacturing
base. It has taken Advent less than two
years to offload business large chunks
of Cobham, banking £3bn in the pro-
cess, Daily Telegraph analysis reveals.
According to the most recent annual
accounts filed by AI Convoy (Luxem-
bourg), the parent company which con-
trols the Cobham businesses Advent
acquired, the process began with the
disposal of the small Axell Wireless unit
which had less than 100 staff. Axell
makes antennas and the sale process
began in May, with it eventually
dumped at a $20m loss to UK turna-
round investor Rcapital.
In September, Cobham’s Aviation
Systems UK business which uses a fleet
of business jets to simulate enemy air-
craft for the RAF to train against was
sold to US-headquartered Draken Inter-
national for $238m.
Sales continued this year with aircraft
communications unit AeroConnectivity
sold to US aerospace parts business
TransDigm for $965m in January.
In February, Cobham’s Mission Sys-
tems business, which holds the in-flight
refuelling technology the company was
founded upon and which enabled the
RAF to bomb the Falklands in 1982, was
Ben Wallace, left,
the Defence
Secretary, has faced
calls to act to ensure
that Ultra Electronics
is protected
sold to Eaton, a US industrial manufac-
turer domiciled in Ireland. Cobham has
gone from 10,000 staff to 6,000.
AI Convoy’s accounts for the year to
the end of Dec 2020 reveal its heavy
borrowings, with the $3bn of debt 5.5
times Ebitda. Prior to its takeover, Cob-
ham’s debt to earnings ratio was effec-
tively nil. Revenue has also fallen, down
from £1.8bn when Cobham was a public
company, with the disposals having
reduced annual sales to £1.1bn in the
year covered by the accounts. The
report also notes no dividends were
paid, and it invested $115m in R&D.
John Spellar, a Labour MP and mem-
ber of the Commons defence select
committee, urged the Government to
ensure Ultra avoided a similar fate.
He said: “It’s likely to be the same old
story, with these asset strippers loading
up sound British companies with debt
and undermining their future and that
of the British defence industry.”
A spokesman for Cobham said: “Cob-
ham has performed strongly under
Advent, despite the pandemic, with 6pc
like-for-like revenue growth in 2020.
More than $350m has been spent on
research and development and strategic
investments. The disposals of the Mis-
sion Systems, Aero Connectivity and
Aviation Services UK business units
have been conducted in accordance
with our undertakings and with the
purview of the Ministry of Defence.
“The buyers of these business units
have been strategic, corporate owners,
within the Five Eyes community, who
are committed to growing and investing
in the businesses in the UK and abroad.
“Cobham has continued to comply
with all undertakings given to the UK
Government at the time of acquisition
by Advent.”

Global dividends to bounce back Biotech start-up defends takeover of Vectura

By Simon Foy
INVESTOR dividends will
return to pre -pandemic
highs within the next year
after payouts jumped by
26pc during the second quar-
ter, according to findings
from money manager Janus
Henderson.
Companies restarting pay-
outs that they cancelled dur-
ing the crisis contributed to
three quarters of the surge,
as firms worldwide handed
o u t $47 1 .7 b n ( £ 3 4 6 b n )
between April and June.
This was still 7pc below
the same period in 2019 but
Janus Henderson said it
expects payouts to return to
pre-pandemic levels in the
next 12 months.
It raised its forecast for
total payouts in 2021 to $1.39
trillion from $1.36 trillion.
UK dividends jumped 61pc
during the second quarter,
while European payouts
were up 66pc during the
Continent’s key dividend By Hannah Boland a deal with asthma technol- Health charities wrote to their Vectura partnerships.”
season. ogy firm Vectura. The pair Vectura’s shareholders last Rory McGoldrick, Inspira
Jane Shoemake, a fund A BRITISH biotech helping are working on creating an week saying they should co-founder and chief execu-
manager at Janus Hender- Vectura to develop an inhala- inhalable version of Inspira’s seize the opportunity to tive, said the company had
son, said: “Across the world, ble Covid-19 drug has issued Covid-19 treatment and are prove their commitment to been “initially concerned” by
the restart of cancelled divi- a staunch defence of the planning to kick off trials for ethical investing by blocking the deal. However, he said he
dends has driven the recov- company’s £1.1bn takeover the treatment next year. the takeover. was now supportive of the
ery so far, but we are also by Philip Morris Interna- The show of supp or t The letter said: “If PMI takeover.
seeing stronger dividend tional, claiming blocking the comes amid questions over takes over Vectura, collabo- Mr McGoldrick said: “A
growth than we expected.” deal would leave the tobacco Vectura’s commercial part- rators would have to choose tobacco company moving
Some of the FTSE’s biggest giant “no choice but to con- nerships and whether they between working with the into healthcare does not
dividend payers, such as oil tinue its bad practices”. could be put at risk by the tobacco industry – and thus sound like an obvious mar-
giant Shell, boosted their London start-up Inspira expected takeover by Philip be excluded from reputable riage but PMI has very pub-
payouts after axing them last Pharmaceuticals announced Morris, the world’s largest medical and scientific licly stated its strategy to
year. earlier this year it had signed listed tobacco company. communities – or dissolve move away from tobacco.”
28 *** Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph

Business

New Zealand’s crumbling zero-Covid strategy

Ardern’s policy is falling
apart as strict border
controls begin to take their
toll, writes Louis Ashworth

T
oilet paper shortages.
Compulsory masks. A nation
enthralled by the movements of
a single Covid-19 spreader.
Watching New Zealand’s current
news cycle is like taking a step into the
past. The country was plunged into a
snap lockdown last Tuesday after a
single virus case – the first in half a
year – was detected in Auckland, the
country’s biggest city.
The so-called “Auckland cluster”
threatens to end a period of almost
unbelievable control of the virus in the
world’s southernmost country.
Since Covid-19 first arrived in New
Zealand in late March last year, there
have been fewer than 3,000 cases, and
just 26 deaths. By any measure, that is a
huge success. For comparison, last
Wednesday alone the UK added 33,646
cases and 111 deaths.
The country is now the last real
holdout of the “zero Covid” strategy
shared with its near neighbour
Australia, which has seen its own
efforts fall apart amid similarly low
vaccination rates.

‘People are wondering how

honest the government was
initially about its reasons
for the slow vaccine rollout’
“We’re almost on the cusp here,”
says Sir Peter Gluckman, director at
Koi Tū, a think tank at the University of
Auckland and the country’s former
chief science adviser. “Can we get the
genie back in the bottle, and then hold
out for long enough to get the
population adequately vaccinated, and
then open the borders?”
Spirits appear to still be high. Where
lockdown fatigue kicked in across
many parts of the world, New
Zealanders on social media still seem management that saw it running off the sector, but the Reserve Bank of first shots arrived on the market, but suspicion that New Zealand’s tight “The government is giving thought
to see the novelty of empty business successive surpluses. New Zealand was forced to delay a hike just a fifth of Kiwis have been double- border controls played a major role. to how we can reduce the barriers of
districts and quiet streets. On video “We knew that there was going to be in the wake of the latest lockdown. vaccinated, with supply constraints a The loss carries a long tail for New the fortress … which we’re going to
app TikTok, a post mocking foolhardy a rainy day when we were going to Like Australia, New Zealand’s early major factor in the hold-ups. Zealand’s heavyweight tourism sector. have to do,” says Grimes. “It’s not as if
Covid-19 superspreaders has racked up have to spend up large fiscally,” says success has raised the stakes more “People are wondering how honest There’s a fear too that other major we can stay completely closed off to
over 100,000 “likes”. Arthur Grimes, senior fellow at Motu than ever. As an outbreak of the delta the government was initially about its companies may soon take similar steps the rest of the world.”
But the economic reality for some Economic and Public Policy Research, strain threatens to shatter normality, reasons for the slow vaccine rollout,” and put off investing in New Zealand Like their Australian neighbours,
businesses will still be tough, a research institute based in the country’s low vaccination rate says Prof Norman Gemmell, of the out of concerns over how difficult it is New Zealanders face a touch-and-go
particularly if temporary lockdowns Wellington. leaves it particularly vulnerable. University of Wellington. to get workers in. future. Widespread vaccination is
become a frequent occurrence. Of the “We always thought it was going to The low rates of inoculation show Ardern’s strategy was dealt a totemic There’s certainly no shortage of within reach by the early months of
country’s three major export sectors be a foot and mouth disease outbreak, the shortfalls of the “wait and see” blow earlier this month, when Amazon people wanting to enter the country 2022 if supply keeps up, but Ardern
– agriculture, tourism and education – but it turned out to be a Covid stance that Prime Minister Jacinda said that production of its Lord of the under the current system. The still faces a difficult decision over
the latter two are still being battered as outbreak.” Ardern’s government took last year. As Rings series, which has a budget of government’s Managed Isolation and whether the country should maintain
a result of tight border controls which But the virus has had impacts international peers more blighted by more than $1bn (£730m), would shift Quarantine booking system, under its “fortress” mentality and accept
include a mandatory quarantine elsewhere that could be harder to the coronavirus scrambled to secure from New Zealand to the UK, despite which arrivals can book hotel places, is becoming an economic pariah, or take
period for arrivals. tackle. House prices, a long-standing doses last autumn, Wellington was incentives totalling tens of millions of fully booked until the end of a gamble and join the rest of the world
Where other countries are trying to problem in the country, have jumped more ponderous, awaiting trial Kiwi dollars. November. For the roughly 1m Kiwis in accepting the virus as part of life.
rein in spending, New Zealand is still by around a fifth on average in the past information and calling for worse- Amazon has held back from living abroad, there will be question Sir Peter concludes: “How long can
packing fiscal firepower, a side product year. There are hopes that an interest affected nations to be prioritised. explaining the rationale for the marks over whether they can return we keep shutting ourselves off from
of decades of broadly prudent rate rise could begin to take pressure Most of a year has passed since the decision, but there is a widespread for Christmas in the current climate. the world? It’s not clear.”

State-backed firm’s diversity

drive branded ‘identity politics’
By Ben Gartside
A STATE-backed uranium enrichment
company is allowing its executives to
make hundreds of thousands of pounds
in bonuses a year by improving diver-
sity within the business.
Urenco, a joint venture between the
UK and Dutch governments has a bonus
scheme that means executives could
receive up to £700,000 each in
payments for diversity and inclusion
successes.
The British government owns a
33pc stake in Urenco, which was estab-
lished in 1971.
According to the company’s annual
report, 10pc of its long-term incentive
programme is based on successes in
promoting diversity and inclusion, with
the yearly figure decided by its remu-
neration committee.
Urenco declined to say the exact
figure paid to executives, but Daily
Telegraph analysis of the scheme
estimates that around £700,000 of
bonuses could have been awarded since
2018 if the remuneration committee
had given full points for diversity and
inclusion to executives.
Matthew Lesh, of the Adam Smith
Institute criticised the scheme, saying it
did not provide a good use of taxpayer
money.
“This is a bizarre programme. Tax-
payer money should be spent reward-
ing people for the merit of their work
‘Leaders have a business
and moral duty to drive
diversity and in an ideal
world this should be enough’
– not for activities related to the colour
of someone’s skin, gender or sexuality.
“Urenco should be entirely focused
on the safe enrichment of uranium not
playing identity politics.”
However, the approach was sup-
ported by a public sector-backed head-
hunter who specialises in hiring diverse
candidates. Suki Sandhu, chief execu-
tive of Audeliss, which is currently
leading the process to replace the Bank
of England’s chief economist Andy
Haldane said the scheme had a number
of merits.
Mr Sandhu said: “As the weight of
research shows, having diverse teams
and inclusive cultures within an
organisation increases innovation and
productivity.
“Leaders have a business and moral
duty to drive diversity and in an ideal
world this should be enough. However,
incentives can sometimes be one part –
although not all – of the solution.”
A Urenco spokesperson said: “Diver-
sity and inclusion is key for Urenco.
“To support this, several initiatives
have been launched to ensure we are
building an inclusive organisation and
that equality and diversity are cele-
brated and valued.
“To incentivise change there is a
diversity and inclusion element to the
long-term incentive plan ( LTIP )
arrangements of our executive remu-
neration.”

Careful process
Farmers lay
matting covers over
seedbeds to protect
young crops from
direct sunlight in
Munshiganj,
Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Seedbeds are used
before planting
winter crops, such
as cauliflower,
cabbage, tomatoes
and broccoli, so
that they grow
better once sown in
the fields.
RAYHAN AHMED/SOLENT NEWS
The Daily Telegraph Monday 23 August 2021
Channel 4 fights back with real-time bids for online advert space
By Ben Woods
CHANNEL 4 is to begin rapidly auction-
ing online advertising across its stream-
ing service as it battles the threat of
privatisation.
The Gogglebox broadcaster has cre-
ated a new platform where firms can
automatically bid for ad space around
the 14,500 hours of programmes on its
PayPal to let
users trade
crypto despite
‘bubble’ fears
The service is set to allow
people in the UK to buy
and sell virtual assets such
as Bitcoin and Ethereum
By James Titcomb
PAYPAL is to allow users in Britain to
buy and sell Bitcoin and other crypto-
currencies, making it among the largest
companies to embrace the controversial
virtual assets in the UK.
The company’s service will enable
customers to choose from four types of
cryptocurrency: Bitcoin, Ethereum,
Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash, which they
will be able to buy, hold and sell from
later this week.
It comes amid a wild ride for crypto-
currencies this year that has seen Bit-
coin’s price climb to an all-time high
before falling by almost 50pc and
rebounding again in recent weeks.
However, the surge has led to warn-
ings from financial regulators, with the
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) tell-
ing investors that they should be pre-
pared to lose their money.
PayPal allowed American users to
buy and sell cryptocurrencies last year,
and the UK is the first market outside
the US where the company has
launched the feature.
Unlike the online exchanges where
people buy and sell cryptocurrencies –
virtual assets that reside on an online
database known as the blockchain –
PayPal will not give users direct access
to the coins, which will be held by
Paxos, a US cryptocurrency company.
This means they will not be able to
spend the coins or transfer them out-
side PayPal.
However, by giving them exposure to
the coins’ price it could open up crypto-
currency to a new wave of customers
who are yet to dabble in Bitcoin.
Jose Fernandez da Ponte, head of dig-
ital currencies at PayPal, said: “Crypto
can be an intimidating environment,
people hear about hardware wallets and
private keys and this and that. So, for
Tech start-up for engineers to save money on R&D raises £8.5m
By Matthew Field
A BRITISH start-up developing artifi-
cial intelligence tools for engineers has
raised £8.5m from investors including
New York fund Insight Partners and the
founder of Formula E.
Monolith AI, founded in 2016 as a
spin-out from Imperial College London,
has built software that aims to save
engineering firms millions of pounds in
research and development costs.
Klarna leads way in ‘buy now, pay
later’ revolution, but at what cost?
Treasury and charities fear
popularity of firms giving
‘easy credit’ creates debt
problems, says Lucy Burton
F
rom marketing deals with Lady
Gaga to advertising featuring the
animated character Pingu –
Klarna is doing its best to promote
itself as a cuddly alternative to
traditional payday lenders.
Britain’s biggest “buy now, pay
later” firm is such a master in
marketing that its founder was
described as a “Disney version of a
tech entrepreneur prince” in an
interview published in a woman’s
magazine last year.
Klarna is now the most valuable
financial technology start-up in
Europe with a valuation of $46bn
(£34bn) and a string of celebrity
partnerships under its belt.
Others want in on the action, with
banking start-up Revolut last week
launching a service which allows its
16m users to drip-feed their wages
over the course of a month rather than
receiving it all at once.
But after online shopping boomed
during a string of lockdowns, critics
All 4 catch-up service. It claims the
launch of All 4 Private Marketplace will
make it the first UK broadcaster to
bolster its advertising income using
real-time bidding.
The move forms a key plank of a five-
year strategy to wean Channel 4 off
traditional television advertising in
favour of doubling All 4’s audience and
securing 30pc of sales from digital ads.
people who want to have their first
experience, they have that conduit of
doing it through us.”
The company has not said how many
of its 403m accounts are in the UK, but
the country generates just over 10pc of
its revenues.
PayPal said it would include “educa-
tional content” warning of the risks of
investing in cryptocurrency within its
app and said it encouraged customers to
research it before investing. Users will
also be limited to £15,000 per transac-
tion, and £35,000 per year.
The FCA has taken a tougher stance
on cryptocurrencies in recent months
as more consumers have invested. It has
repeatedly warned investors that the
assets are risky and cracked down on
brokers including the UK arm of crypto-
currency giant Binance.
Paypal’s European operation, which
is based in Luxembourg, is licensed by
the FCA and has said it does not need
extra approval in order to launch
cryptocurrency trading in Britain.
‘So, for people who want to
have their first experience,
they have that conduit of
doing it through us’
Financial technology companies
such as Revolut, Square and Robinhood
have added Bitcoin trading in an
attempt to cash in on surging interest
from retail investors.
After adding cryptocurrency invest-
ing in the United States late last year,
PayPal’s transaction revenues – the cut
it takes on certain payments, including
cryptocurrencies – rose by 33pc in the
first three months of 2021.
The company has said that users who
have invested in cryptocurrency more
regularly open the PayPal app, making
them more likely to use other services
such as paying through the app or send-
ing people money.
Bitcoin has traded at just under
$50,000 (£36,700) recently, up from
around $11,500 a year ago.
The start-up develops an artificial
intelligence programme that analyses
all of a company’s engineering data. It
can then apply this historic data to new
3D designs, giving engineers insight
into how their virtual creations will per-
form in the real world.
Better use of data could save industry
billions of pounds each year; the auto-
motive industry alone spends £100bn
on R&D annually.
Monolith’s technology is being used
are concerned that people who
embarked on spending sprees as a
result of the easy credit offered to them
online are now in an uncomfortable
cycle of debt. A review by the Financial
Conduct Authority (FCA) found earlier
this year that users could easily spend
more than £1,000 online with few
checks on whether they could afford
repayments. Christopher Woolard,
who led the study and was interim
$46bn
The valuation of Klarna, making it now
the most valuable financial technology
start-up company in Europe
chief executive at the time, said the use
of buy now, pay later quadrupled
between January and December 2020.
Typically 75pc of users were women.
Woolard recommended that the
sector is regulated for the first time
and the Treasury has agreed to bring
forward legislation. Industry sources
say they expect the Treasury to launch
its consultation on the matter within
weeks. Debt charities and campaigners
argue that the crackdown is taking far
Verica Djurdjevic, chief revenue officer
at Channel 4, said the platform repre-
sents the next generation of advertising
innovation for broadcasters.
Channel 4 wants to convince ministers
it is capable of surviving the age of
streaming despite fears it could be out-
muscled by the financial power of Netflix.
The Government has confirmed that
its “preferred option” was to “facilitate
Pass the popcorn Disney has raked in $125m (£92m) in streaming sales from Marvel movie Black Widow, starring Scarlett
Johansson (above). The takings were revealed in court files after Ms Johansson sued the company for breach of contract.
Private equity giant Apollo in takeover twist for Sainsbury’s
By Ben Woods
AMERICAN buy-out fund Apollo has
weighed a takeover approach for Sains-
bury’s as private equity giants seek to
cash in on Britain’s grocery sector.
The New York fund has reportedly
run the rule over the UK’s second-
biggest supermarket chain after its bid
for Asda was trumped last year by the
Issa brothers and TDR Capital.
Apollo appeared poised to join a take-
over consortium led by the investment
firm Fortress to buy Morrisons after
ruling out a solo bid for the Bradford-
based grocer. Apollo’s interest in Sains-
by aerospace giant BAE Systems to
speed up its design process, and is also
being used by carmakers BMW and
Honda and German engineering com-
pany Siemens.
The start-up, launched by Imperial
College researcher Richard Ahlfeld, last
year was one of the first recipients of
backing from the Government’s Future
Fund, its early stage rescue fund.
Mr Ahlfeld said many engineering
companies were grappling with ageing
too long. “Regulation needs to be
introduced as soon as possible to
ensure that companies offering “buy
now, pay later” properly assess
whether customers can afford to repay
in the first place,” says Jane Tully of
Money Advice Trust, the charity which
runs National Debtline and Business
Debtline. “Companies need to be as
clear as possible in their terms and
‘buy now, pay later’ should not be the
default way to pay at the checkout.”
Top executives are putting on a
brave face about the looming
shake-up. Klarna last year rejected
suggestions that the sector should be
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regulated by the City watchdog,
arguing that it does not need greater
scrutiny, but has now changed its tune.
“We’ve been very clear that we
believe it’s right to regulate this
sector,” insists UK head Alex Marsh.
Gary Rohloff, the co-founder of
Klarna rival Laybuy, echoes that
sentiment, saying he believes
“providers should conduct proper
affordability checks”.
But there are obvious concerns.
Marsh says a worst-case scenario for
the sector would be a “highly
prescriptive regulation” which would
force consumers “back to using credit
cards”. Yet studies have shown that
a change of ownership” when it
launched a consultation on privatisa-
tion last month. It believes a sale would
offer greater investment and financial
security amid fears over the future of its
ad-funded business model.
This prompted a sharp rebuke from
Charles Gurassa, the chairman of Chan-
nel 4, who claimed the plans would
have a “very harmful” effect on viewers.
bury’s is exploratory, according to the
Sunday Times.
Meanwhile, talks continue over
teaming up with Fortress for a fresh
swoop on Morrisons.
The takeover twist comes after for-
mer Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy burst
into the lead to buy Morrisons after a
£7bn offer from buy-out fund Clayton,
Dubilier & Rice was backed by the
supermarket’s board. Morrisons agreed
to a 285p per share takeover offer on
Thursday from CD&R, which counts Sir
Terry as a partner, following a bidding
war with rival suitor Fortress.
Sir Terry is now in pole position to
workforces and the risk that expertise
and knowledge could be lost as staff
retire.
He said programmes such as Mono-
lith helped gather that data into one
place, using software to cut down on
repetitive tasks and testing.
“Companies have these huge data
lakes that they are not using for any-
thing,” he added.
Dave Holmes, operations director at
BAE, said: “Our products create massive
One in every 25 credit card payments is by young customers on ‘buy now, pay later’ deal
consumers in a cycle of debt bail
themselves out of these types of loans
using credit cards anyway. Earlier this
year credit card provider Zopa said that
one in every 25 credit card transactions
made by its young customers is used to
pay off “buy now, pay later” debts.
A poll conducted around the same
time by Censuswide found that 30pc of
18-24-year olds using the schemes
were unaware how much they owed to
Business
Channel 4’s new platform will allow
advertisers to target All 4 viewers by
their age, gender or programme tastes.
They will also be able to monitor the
performance of their ad campaigns in
real-time and instantly increase their
spend if demand grows.
Real-time bidding has been used by
Google and Facebook to dominate the
market for online display advertising,
become the next chairman of Morrisons
should CD&R’s approach prove to be the
winning bid. He was at the helm of
Tesco for 14 years as chief executive.
Sainsbury’s shares have climbed by
nearly a third since the start of the year
to 294.7p on the prospect of a takeover
bid for the 152-year-old chain.
£7bn
The offer made by buy-out fund Clayton,
Dubilier & Rice for the Bradford-based
supermarket chain Morrisons
amounts of data throughout their entire
life cycle, bringing this data together
requires a new set of skills, no blueprint
exists yet because the ways of working
have changed significantly.”
The Future Fund was launched as a
£250m fund, but ultimately dishing out
£1bn in convertible loans to start-ups
throughout the pandemic. The Govern-
ment’s loans convert into equity when
one of its portfolio companies com-
pletes a funding round.
various providers. Marsh thinks such
criticism is unfair. “[Klarna] receives a
fee from the merchant, that’s where we
get our revenue – if you don’t pay me
back, we’ll lose that money from the
merchant. That gives us an incentive to
ensure we only offer the product to
[people who can afford it],” he argues.
“Credit cards’ business model is
dependent on keeping consumers in
debt with interest.” Critics are not
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which is worth £7.1bn in the UK alone.
The broadcaster has signed up Deliv-
eroo and advertising agencies Omni-
com Media Group and Publicis Media to
the new platform.
Channel 4 revealed in June that it had
bounced back from a pandemic adver-
tising plunge to post a record surplus of
£74m last year. Around 80pc of all 16-to-
34 year olds are now signed up to All 4.
Speculation has been mounting since
the Qatari Investment Authority (QIA)
ceded £300m worth of Sainsbury’s
shares in April to a billionaire investor
known as the “Czech sphinx”.
The swoop by Daniel Kretinsky’s firm
Vesa Equity Investments boosted his
stake in the grocer to nearly 10pc.
While the QIA – the Qatari state’s
$320bn (£232bn) sovereign wealth fund
– continues to hold a 15pc stake,
rumours are building that it could
prompt a further sell-off this year.
The QIA has been one of the biggest
shareholders in Sainsbury’s since it
mounted a failed takeover bid in 2007.
Mr Ahlfeld said: “This year, the Gov-
ernment is seeing excellent returns on
its Future Fund investment.”
Monolith’s funding is from Insight
Partners, a US private equity fund and
early backer of e-commerce company
Shopify and social network Twitter.
It has also secured funding from Ale-
jandro Agag, the founder of electric
vehicle racing franchises Formula E
and Extreme E. It takes Monolith’s total
raised to £10.6m.
‘As it stands it’s been a bit
of a wild west and these
firms have been left to
operate as they like’
convinced and fear the sector is now
too large to escape the same rules as
other providers. Around five million
people used the services last year,
spending a total of £2.7bn.
“As it stands it has been a bit of a
wild west and these firms have been
left to operate as they like,” says
financial campaigner Alice Tapper.
“It’s very evident that we can’t leave
this industry to self-regulate.”
Research by Credit Karma, a credit
report firm, found earlier this year that
48pc of “buy now, pay later” users
believed it was too easy to enter an
agreement without realising. Tapper
thinks the reforms must force firms in
the sector to have better quality
information so that shoppers go in
with their eyes wide open.
Klarna, which is considering a
listing, hinted earlier this year that it is
more likely to go public in the US than
the UK. Marsh insists that no decision
has been made and that the regulatory
crackdown will not put the company
off a London debut. “We’re not waiting
for anything coming out on regulation
– we’re [ just] in no rush to list or exit,”
he says. Much will emerge on the
direction of travel over the coming
months. In the meantime, the Disney
prince behind the $46bn business may
be wishing for a knight in shining
armour of his own.
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Business comment
Lucy
Burton
British firms
fearful of bids
must spin a
better story
Overseas buyers are snapping up
companies at a rate not seen for
years – so boards must ensure that
O
they are not seen as easy pickings
ver a lavish breakfast in a London
hotel last week, one chief executive
was asking an investor for some dis-
creet advice. Concerned about the
startling number of British compa-
nies being picked off by overseas
buyers, he wondered how his company could bet-
ter tell its story.
It was a smart thing to do. Storytelling is
important in the business world and judging by
the number of firms succumbing to overseas
takeovers, many are not very good at it.
Following Brexit and the pandemic, bargain
hunters have spotted a flash sale.
In this proverbial sale, some firms are the
equivalent of clothes scrunched up on the floor
covered in yellow sticker discounts. As one
seasoned investor puts it, companies are “more
vulnerable to bids when buyers think
management is under pressure and they can turn
them”. Some executives are now worried that
they have failed to spin a good yarn about their
business, leaving their shares trading at a
discount to US equivalents. Others are
questioning the advice they’re getting from
investment bankers. As companies across the UK
are snapped up at a rate not seen in years, nobody
wants to end up looking like the fool.
Of course the surging interest in UK business
from foreign buyers is no bad thing, but like any
sale there will be winners and losers. The
concern is that the rush of foreign takeovers,
while flattering, won’t boost Britain in the long
run. Boards could be signing off on cheap deals
that might land them and their advisers a quick
windfall now but could later impact UK jobs and
lead to seller’s regret.
There are fears that Britain’s footprint in
some sectors is being hollowed out, with
figures obtained by the BBC showing that
foreign, private buyers have spent more buying
UK-listed companies in the last eight months
than they have in the last five years put
together. There is nothing wrong with a
takeover, but bosses looking at how to sharpen
up their company’s image in light of this flurry
of foreign bids are doing the smart thing.
Boards should be in a
position of strength if an
‘The private offer crosses their desks
equity sector, rather than a target
heavy with because they were seen as
easy pickings. Subtly
cash and asking an investor for
eager to storytelling advice over
breakfast could end up
spend, has saving their bacon.
timed it well’ That’s because mergers
are often messy. A weak
board will lose its way
quickly as cash-rich bidders fight to outsmart
each other and grab the best deal. Recent
takeover talks have played out like a soap drama
involving investors publicly clashing on
valuations, counter bids, politicians stepping in
and dramatic moves from former colleagues.
Opposition against takeovers by US private
equity giants for firms such as Ultra, which
makes defence equipment for Britain’s nuclear
submarines, underlines the political and
economic threat that some of these deals pose
and the conundrum that chief executives could
find themselves in. Senior military chiefs have
attacked the potential deal, while at least one top
shareholder has said they are all for it.
Meanwhile the UK’s competition watchdog
has raised concerns about the potential £29bn
takeover of British microchip company Arm by
US tech titan Nvidia. And the back-and-forth
bidding war for UK grocery chain Morrisons
could mark a stunning comeback for former
Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy, who is a partner at
the US firm currently leading the race, Clayton
Dubilier & Rice, and used to work with
Morrisons’ chief David Potts and chairman
Andrew Higginson while at Tesco. Blockbuster
deals are rarely without politics, personal
dynamics and clashes.
Many could benefit from the latest rush of
deals – the latest offer for Morrisons has left
investors delighted, while City advisers are
cashing in on the flurry by pocketing huge fees.
Some takeovers will turn out to be for the best,
others will prove to be a disaster. Household
names including Debenhams, the AA, Saga and
Pizza Express, are among those to have been
burnt by private equity. Yet openness to foreign
investment is vital for the UK economy and City
investors do not have a blanket view on UK firms
being snapped up.
What they do want is boards to be able to stand
firm and sell their story properly when that bid
comes knocking. As one investor moans:
“Sometimes boards just want to get out, but the
UK market is undervalued and in some sectors
management is giving in too easily”. British
companies need to learn how to tell their story
better given so much of UK plc is being taken out.
Good storytelling is even more important if
activists are on the prowl. Corporate lawyers
have been warning for months that hostility is in
the air and that aggressive bids could be ahead,
particularly if differences in valuation cannot be
reconciled. This could take the form of outright
approaches against a board’s wishes or by using
more subtle so-called “bear hug” tactics, where a
bidder goes over directors’ heads with an
informal approach to shareholders.
“Bid defence preparation by targets is more
important now than ever,” Hogan Lovells partner
John Connell Partner argued in a recent M&A
report. The private equity sector, heavy with
cash and eager to spend it, has timed its shopping
spree well. Boards need to stand strong and work
out what their narrative is before it’s too late. A
takeover might be the right move, but they will
stumble without a convincing story.
A four-day working week isn’t quite
the crackpot idea that some think
ROGER BOOTLE
OTLE
The SNP is pondering the
move, but there is a key
debate to be had about the
effects on labour and costs
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very so often someone proposes
that the economy should move to
a four-day working week, with
the weekend extending across three
days. Indeed, this idea is currently
under active consideration by the SNP.
On the whole, when such
suggestions are made they are widely
condemned as the imaginings of
crackpots. Although there is an awful
lot of crackpottery around on this
subject, in general the recent
proponents of a shorter working week
have been eminently sane. But there is
a key debate to be had about the effects
and the costs.
In the past, proponents of a shorter
working week have often focused on
the supposed shortage of jobs. They
have argued that it would be fairer to
spread the limited amount of work
more equally over the population.
This idea is known by economists as
“the lump of labour fallacy”.
As anyone who has the flimsiest
knowledge of economic history will
readily acknowledge, the number of
jobs has risen dramatically over time
roughly to match the number of
people willing and able to do them.
This is not accidental. It goes to the
essence of how the economic system
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Silicon Valley’s driverless car dream is on track to fail
ANDREW
ORLOWSKI
Minimal progress has been
made on autonomous
projects despite the tech
titans investing huge sums
F
or years, the driverless car has
been a poster child for
technology-led disruption – the
very embodiment of the idea that
“software is eating the world”. But that
dream now looks all but dead. Another
nail was quietly hammered into its
coffin last week when the American
car safety regulator, the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA), announced an investigation
into Tesla’s Autopilot feature. Nothing
attracts the attention of the state like
rear-ending its hardware. The agency
noted 11 incidents in which a Tesla had
smashed into the back of an
emergency services vehicle, two of
which were parked at the time. So the
glitch had become rather hard to
ignore.
This didn’t stop Elon Musk, Tesla
chief executive, announcing plans for a
robot humanoid on Friday, claiming, in
carnival barker style, that his cars are
already “semi-sentient”.
When the obituary is finally written
for the autonomous car, we should ask
not why it failed, but why people ever
thought it would succeed. When the
public was asked what problems a
works. There are still some people who
argue for a shorter working week on
these grounds, often associated with
the supposed disappearance of jobs
because of robots and AI.
Yet, as I argued in my recent book
The AI Economy, in this respect there is
nothing different about this economic
revolution from the economic
revolutions that have gone before.
Yes, some jobs will disappear but
others will spring up to take their
place. Contrary to what you may have
heard elsewhere, we are not about to
experience “The Death of Work”.
The serious argument in favour of a
shorter working week is that, as the
economy becomes more productive
and we as individuals become better
off, we are able to afford to work less
– if we want to.
In essence, as the economy becomes
more productive we face a stark
choice. At one extreme, we could work
just as much as before and take the
whole benefit of our increased
productivity in the form of higher
incomes and consumption.
At the other extreme, we could
decide against any increase in income
and consumption and take the benefit
of our increased productivity wholly in
the form of reduced working hours
and an associated increase in leisure
time. And, of course, we could make
any choice between these two
extremes.
When I have suggested at
conferences and other gatherings that
we might be on the brink of moving
towards a shorter working week, the
general reaction has been one of
incredulity. Most people seem to think
that there is something inevitable or
God-given about working for five days.
Yet nothing could be further from the
self-driving car might encounter, the
concerns raised were sensible. No one
is more aware of danger than a driver.
But drunk on their sense of destiny, the
engineers seemed oblivious. As a
Bloomberg report last week drily
noted, “small disturbances like
construction crews, bicyclists, left
turns, and pedestrians remain
headaches for computer drivers”
adding that “right now, no driverless
car from any company can gracefully
handle rain, sleet, or snow.” Those “last
few details” as the report (possibly
sarcastically) calls them, remain
insuperable.
The NHTSA’s concerns with Tesla
give us a useful reality check into how
little progress has actually been made.
On the industry’s five-point scale in
which manual driving is Level 0, and
full automation, or hands off self-
driving, is Level 5, Tesla’s Autopilot
only offers Level 2. On its website, the
manufacturer points out that
“Autopilot does not turn a Tesla into a
self-driving car nor does it make a car
autonomous”, which is something of
an understatement. Autopilot merely
offers driver assistance when parking
or changing lanes, and adaptive cruise
control. But even that modest level of
assistance clearly has issues, and
judging distance is one of them.
Uber and Lyft have both sold off
their autonomous car divisions. Others
have shut down completely, notably
the truck start-up Starsky. Even Apple,
with its apparently bottomless
pockets, mothballed its own
autonomous car project Titan two
years ago. Established auto
manufacturers like BMW (which
predicted full autonomous driving for
this year but merely ships a Tesla-like
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‘Most people
seem to think
truth. If any length of working week is
God-given then it is six days and not
five, with the Sabbath acting as a day of
there is
something
rest, mirroring the day that God took
off during Creation. And six days was
indeed the normal working week until
inevitable or comparatively recently.
Moreover, if you look at history over
God-given long periods you see remarkable
about evidence on the variability of work
patterns. Average working hours in the
working UK peaked at the time of the Industrial
five days’ Revolution and have been trending
down since.
Most striking of all is the data on
average working hours going back to
medieval times. In the late
14th century there was a sharp drop in
the average number of hours worked
across the year.
What could possibly explain this?
The answer is the Black Death which
afflicted Britain and other European
countries in the middle of the 14th
century. It dramatically reduced the
workforce, perhaps by as much as a
third. The result, unsurprisingly, was a
sharp rise in real wages.
Medieval man reacted to this in a
particular way. He seems to have had a
target level of earnings in mind and
when he reached that target level more
easily because of higher real wages he
decided to work less.
Accordingly, the average number of
hours worked fell. So much for the idea
of set working hours.
The idea of a shorter working week
has recently received eloquent
endorsement from a new book called
Friday is the New Saturday by the
economist Pedro Gomes.
One of the striking things about this
book is that Gomes argues that
working as hard as people currently do
has such a deleterious effect on their
Level 2 assistance) stopped mentioning
dates at all.
The driverless car chimera has its
roots in a strange fantasy, one that
gripped US military theorists three
decades ago. Generals have long
dreamed of removing human soldiers
from the battlefield and replacing them
with machines. But in the 1990s, the top Economic
brass became obsessed with something Intelligence
much more ambitious. Drawing from
new ideas of complexity and biology,
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machines capable of self-organisation economic issues,
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Autonomous vehicles were one of Intelligence
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Strategic Computing Initiative. In Evans-Pritchard
2004, Darpa launched the Grand and Jeremy
Challenge, a competition to drive cars Warner
in the Mojave Desert in clear, dry telegraph.co.uk/
conditions and largely in straight lines. ei-newsletter
Google took a keen interest, and
adapted the work for its self-driving
car in 2014, boasting of the hours of
largely incident-free mileage. That
started an industry-wide panic, and
autonomous driving has since gripped
governments, researchers and the rest
of the car industry and consumed
billions in private and public money.
The most insuperable problem
eventually became apparent to the
boffins, by now the only people in the
world not to realise it might exist. This
is what the author and transport
commentator Christian Wolmar calls
the “Holborn problem”. When
pedestrians spill onto the pavement, as
they once did outside Holborn station
at 5pm every Friday evening, no
autonomous vehicle can move. Since
productivity that when working hours
are reduced, total output may not fall.
In some sectors it could actually rise. If
he is right about this, then there is no
trade-off between working hours and
incomes. We are faced with the
prospect of having more leisure
without losing any income.
I think Gomes is on to something for
some parts of the economy – but not
all. In major parts of the economy,
fewer hours worked is going to mean
less output. And that means lower real
incomes.
But that doesn’t mean that a shorter
working week isn’t going to happen. It
would be more readily accepted if a fall
in average working hours occurred
gradually at a time of rising
productivity.
In that case, an absolute drop in
output and income could be avoided.
They simply wouldn’t rise at the rate
that they would have done if working
hours had stayed the same.
Whether Gomes is right or not about
the effect on productivity, if we are to
work fewer hours then there are major
social and economic questions about
what we are going to do with the time
thereby released.
At the very least, the leisure
industries would have to expand still
further and this would offer many
opportunities for increased
employment – albeit, presumably, not
for five days a week.
The shape of our lives, including the
shape of the normal week, would
change dramatically. If Friday is the
new Saturday then Thursday is the
new Friday.
Roger Bootle is chairman of Capital
Economics
roger.bootle@capitaleconomics.com
Down to dust
The chimneys and
boiler house at
Ferry Bridge C
Power Station
collapse during a
controlled
explosion. The
former coal-fired
plant opened in
1966 and was
closed in 2016, with
demolition work
starting three years
later.
the computer can’t be programmed to
drive into a human without
bankrupting the manufacturer in a
subsequent lawsuit, it halts. Traffic
behind the vehicle halts too, and very
soon the city is gridlocked.
Lobbyists came up with an
ingenious demand: fence off all
pedestrians where the vehicles
operate, and dedicate lanes to the
clunky robot cars. These were “modest
infrastructure changes”, insisted
Andrew Ng, Google’s then artificial
intelligence guru. But in reality, these
required the fabric of the city to be
radically changed to compensate for
the shonky state of the tech. Destroy
the city, to save the self-driving car? No
thanks, said planners, and such
lobbying efforts were rejected.
Here in the UK, the Government has
approved Level 2 – so expect a shunt –
but our own publicly funded research
efforts are much more modest and
useful. We can expect to see
autonomous vehicles in agriculture,
for example, and in the fields of
Wiltshire and Dorset where trials are
taking place, you already can. These
are low-risk environments, largely free
of nasty surprises.
Interviewed for Sky News seven
years ago when Google unveiled its
first prototype autonomous vehicle –
this looked like an infant’s toy – I
mused that this may be an elaborate
joke by Silicon Valley to bankrupt the
established auto industry, wasting its
resources in pursuit of an
unachievable dream. But now the
joke’s on Silicon Valley.
Andrew Orlowski is founder of the
research network Think of X and tweets
@andreworlowski
The Daily Telegraph Monday 23 August 2021 *** 31

Business

Polymetal must prove itself a good bet against volatility

said margin improvement across the in net fees in the fourth quarter as
LOUISE MOON
ON business has been strong and kept hiring picks up. There are more than Economic week ahead
WEEK AHEAD
AD management’s full-year outlook 1m job vacancies in the UK.
unchanged. He is confident that With business all but certain, Wyoming, USA, Federal Reserve
trading momentum and a 6pc half-year analysts say investors’ attention will be might be best chair Jerome
rise in the order book, will push the on the cost line after the group cut known for Powell is likely to
group to return to growth in the costs by 13pc during the pandemic. laconic cowboys, be a highlight. At
second half of the year. With hiring picking up, this could be but once a year it one point, it had
The share price of the gold hard to maintain. serves as a looked like Mr
producer is down – but Interim results: Half-year numbers from Dublin- meeting place Powell might
PureTech Health, John Wood, Invesco headquartered CRH, meanwhile, will for some of signal the central
with uncertainty high, it Bond Income Plus give an insight into how the US society’s most bank’s support
could be a valuable hedge Economics: economy is faring. closely watched for tightening in
GDP (Germany); new home sales (US) More than half of the building speakers: central the months to
Today materials group’s business comes from bankers. come. But with
over the pond. In April the FTSE 100 The cowboys some economic

CHRIS RATCLIFFE/ BLOOMBERG

Wednesday
Interim results: firm said first half underlying profits might be pleased indicators
BATM Advanced Communications Full-year results: would be “well ahead” of those in to be left looking shaky,
Economics: Clipper Logistics 2020. Management said they expected undisturbed this and no sign of a
CBI monthly industrial trends survey Interims: “further normalisation” of its markets week as Covid-19 slowdown in
(UK); manufacturing, services PMI Costain, Grafton in the second half as the economy has forced the rising Covid
(UK, EU, US, Asia); existing home sales Economics: rebounds. Jackson Hole cases, the urge to
(US) CBI quarterly distributive trades symposium to go tighten looks
survey (UK); business sentiment Full-year results: Hays virtual for a likely to be
Tomorrow (Germany) The Cyprus-based company should benefit from the general rise in commodity prices Interim results: CRH, Polymetal Int, second year, a resisted – for
Hunting, Chesnara, Macfarlane Group last-minute now.
Engineering and consultancy firm Thursday precious metals could still be a which Polymetal has suggested will be Economics: change after Elsewhere, we
Wood Group reported half-year valuable hedge against further flat before increasing in 2022 – costs CBI quarterly service sector survey earlier efforts to will get “flash”
revenue through June was down 21pc FTSE 100 Polymetal’s share price is potential market volatility which and profits. The current forecast is for (UK); unemployment claims, GDP (US) pare down the purchasing
when compared with last year, to down by a quarter over the past year would prove a boon for the miner. In a full year pre-tax profit of $1.4bn, in agenda to a managers’ index
$3.2bn (£2.4bn), though highlighted which could be explained by gold and its last update in July, the Cyprus- line with last year and far higher than Friday domestic-only readings for
that momentum was improving in the silver stepping back from price peaks headquartered company reported 2019. affair. August, which
second quarter. Investors will be in August last year. The fall suggests increased revenue on the back of Separately, full-year results from Interim results: That doesn’t will be carefully
hoping for more details on that markets think there is less need to higher metal prices. Hays could be seen as a wider indicator Sopheon, BigBlu Broadband, BBGI stop it from watched for
performance in the first chunk of the turn to safe haven assets as the global It should benefit from the general of the global jobs market, and therefore Global Infrastructure being important. signs the
third quarter, and if earnings are on economy starts to emerge from the rise in commodity prices. Analysts are the differing economic recoveries, Economics: The agenda post-lockdown
track for the company’s full-year pandemic. The company is one of the looking for a $1.42 payout for the full with the recruiter posting about its Personal income and personal remains fairly recovery is
outlook. world’s top 10 producers of gold and year, up from $1.29 in 2020. They will business across the world. The FTSE consumer expenditure, goods trade mysterious, but a beginning to lose
Robin Watson, chief executive, has top five of silver. However, the also want guidance on production – 250 company reported a 39pc increase balance (US) speech by steam.

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UK Alpha A Acc†
SMI Index 12415.66
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Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph
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WEEK-END TICKETS.
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tickets, more especially to the seaside resorts nearest to London, E\DOO$SULYDWHIDPLO\EXULDOZLOOEH
has been phenomenal. “There are many figures I could give you,” KHOGRQWKHPRUQLQJRIVW$XJXVW
said a railway official to a representative of The Daily Telegraph IROORZHGE\DVHUYLFHRIWKDQNVJLYLQJDW
yesterday, “but I shall not do so, because they convey a very imper- 6W0DUN
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fect idea of what happened. The bare fact that between 30,000 and 2QOLQHUHI$
40,000 people left one station alone in twelve hours is a statement
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of last Saturday, the crowds surging round the booking offices, the IXQHUDOVHUYLFHWR:+6TXLUHV 6RQ
Pocock, former diplomat, 66;
Prof Simone Buitendijk,
Vice-Chancellor of Leeds
University, 63; Mr Patrick
Derham, Head Master,
Westminster School, 2014-20, 62;
Dr David Landsman, former
diplomat, 58; Mr Richard
Illingworth, ICC umpire; former
cricketer, 58; Mr Jim Murphy,
former Labour Government
rush to the departure platforms, the crowded trains as they 7HO
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behind the scenes, orders given and promptly carried out for
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the company, showing that the public appreciated the
Cabinet Minister, 54; and Ms
Saskia Clark, sailor; Olympic gold
medallist, 470 sailing class, Rio
2016; silver medallist, London
2012, 42.
Today is the anniversary of the
Battle of the Mons in 1914.
greater facilities for travelling that were now offered to 35((&(Ř$UWKXU3DWULFN-DPHV3DW
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Legal news
Ms Jennifer Claire Jones has
been appointed a Salaried
Employment Judge of the
Employment Tribunals (England
and Wales), assigned to the
Midlands (West) Region with
effect from Sept 1, 2021, and will
be known as Employment Judge
Jennifer Jones.
Inner Temple
Mr Justice Soole has been duly
elected as Reader-elect for 2022
of the Inner Temple.
Mr Andrew Desmond Smith has
been appointed an Assistant
Judge Advocate General, with
effect from Sept 6, 2021, and will
be known as Judge Advocate
Smith.
Mr Darren Keith Reed has been
appointed an Assistant Judge
Advocate General, with effect
from Sept 21, 2021, and will be
known as Judge Advocate Reed.
Judge McKenna retired as
President of the General
Regulatory Chamber of the
First-tier Tribunal with effect
from Aug 14, 2021.
Following an Expressions of
Interest exercise, Judge Edward
Richards will be appointed as
Designated Family Judge for
Cornwall with effect from Nov 1,
2021.
Bridge news
Virtual bridge clubs have held
heats of the British Summer
Simultaneous Pairs, writes
Julian Pottage, Bridge
Correspondent, and a different
set of boards was in play on each
of four days. The winners of the
Wednesday and Thursday
sessions are as follows:
Wednesday: 1st John Hawkins
and David Barrett (Hungerford,
Berkshire), 65.50%; 2nd Jake
Tredinnick and Bill Russell
(Hungerford), 65.46%; and 3rd
Allan Oddie and Giles Ip (Heritage
Coast, Suffolk), 65.30%.
Thursday: 1st Dodo Georgevic
and Denis Gough (Northfield,
Birmingham), 72.82%; 2nd Paul
Hazard and Jane Hazard (Patcham,
Sussex), 70.97%; and 3rd James
Dutton and Shirley Dutton
(Allendale, Dorset), 67.19%.
day, and issued at a cost of about a single fare and a third. The 6+$:Ř*LOOLDQQ¥H8OOPDQb'LHG
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speaking only of the Brighton line; different conditions may 3HWZRUWK&RWWDJH1XUVLQJ+RPH
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onerous condition. Otherwise, on the return journey on Sun- PDNHDGRQDWLRQLQPHPRU\
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day or Monday any train can be used. Passengers may take
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new facilities extend is much smaller than the pre-war list. Indeed,
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only a beginning The railway companies, just free from State con-
trol, have to proceed carefully, and an immediate resumption of all
the pre-war facilities was not to be expected. As the needs of the
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Obituaries

Marshal of the RAF Sir Peter Harding

Charismatic and imposing Chief of Defence Staff who despite his considerable strategic talents was brought down by a tabloid exposé

M
ARSHAL OF THE
ROYAL AIR FORCE
SIR PETER
HARDING, who has
died aged 87, served
as the RAF’s Chief of
the Air Staff before being appointed in
1992 as Chief of the Defence Staff, the
most senior British military post.
Fifteen months later he resigned,
however, following the exposure by
the tabloid press of his affair with the
wife of a former Conservative MP.
From the early days of his career,
Harding had been identified as an
officer with considerable potential,
and one likely to rise to the senior
ranks of his service. His career was
managed to give him an extremely
wide exposure to the various
operational and flying roles, and later
he filled some of the most demanding
and influential staff appointments both
in MoD and in Nato.
Peter Robin Harding was born in
Lambeth on December 2 1933. He lived
in the centre of London until the onset
of the Blitz in 1940 when his family
moved to Chingford, Essex, where he
attended the local grammar school. He
joined the RAF as a national
serviceman in March 1952 and trained
as a pilot.
After completing his two years he
signed on for further service. Having
converted to jets, he was posted to fly
the new Canberra bomber with 12
Squadron. During his time on the
squadron he deployed to Malaya for six MoD: these included acting as
months to conduct bombing
operations during the Malayan
Emergency.
He trained as a flying instructor, but exercise”, he recalled. Promoted to
being notably tall (well over 6 ft), he
could not fit into the current jet
trainer, the Vampire. So he was sent to
the RAF College Cranwell to instruct
on the Meteor, where his students
were equally tall flight cadets training three squadrons of Phantoms, fighter-
to be pilots. Cranwell had a profound
effect on him, and later in life he
maintained that “it was the first time
[he] became truly and deeply
interested in the Royal Air Force.”
In 1960 Harding left for a two-year
exchange appointment with the Royal
Australian Air Force, flying Canberras
from a base in Queensland. His flying
took him to Malaya, New Zealand and
Papua New Guinea. His time with his
family in Australia was a period he
particularly enjoyed.
He returned to the UK to attend the
RAF Staff College before going to MoD, His division dealt with strategy, which
responsible for the postings and career covered the whole of UK’s defence
management of junior officers, after
which his career took a very different
course and he trained on helicopters.
He took command of 18 Squadron
based at Gutersloh, the most forward
(nearest the East German border) of all Assistant Chief of Staff (Policy and
the RAF airfields in Germany. The
squadron provided support for the
Army’s 1st British Corps and it was in
this appointment that Harding began
to appreciate the vital role of the RAF
in the key Central Region of Nato. He
adapted to this new role quickly, and
– never lacking in confidence – he also
set about reviewing and reorganising
the whole modus operandi of the
support helicopter role.
In June 1970 Harding began a series
of high-profile staff appointments in
Harding in the cockpit of a vintage Mustang fighter on a visit to the US, 1991; and hosting the PM Mrs Thatcher at HQ Strike Command
the policy divisions of the RAF and
secretary to the Defence Policy Staff.
Working at this level in a tri-service
staff was “a very, very big learning
group captain at the age of 38, Harding
found that his career was being
accelerated, and after a further two
years he assumed command of RAF
Bruggen in Germany, the home to
ground-attack aircraft which could
carry nuclear weapons, and a
Bloodhound surface-to-air guided
missile squadron, making it one of the
largest operational bases in the RAF.
Harding’s appetite for flying never
wavered, and he operated regularly
with each squadron. He enjoyed the
strike/attack role and later claimed
that the Phantom was his favourite
plane.
After less than two years he was
again promoted to return to MoD as
one of the directors of Defence Policy.
posture and budget. His success in this
appointment led to promotion to air
vice-marshal and a posting to Supreme
Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
(SHAPE) at Mons in the key post of
Plans), an appointment usually
reserved for an RAF officer likely to
reach the highest ranks.
At SHAPE he worked for the
charismatic US General Al Haig, the
Supreme Allied Commander Europe
(SACEUR), whom he held in the
highest regard. Harding’s division was
responsible for nuclear policy and for
budgets and plans. This was an era
when arms control and the Mutual and
Balanced Force Requirements (MBFR)
were being discussed and negotiated
and to have a better understanding of
the pressures on aircrew flying combat
aircraft.
In November 1988 he took up his
appointment as Chief of the Air Staff
(CAS). He travelled widely, both to RAF
units and to foreign air forces where he
took every opportunity to promote the
Royal Air Force and the British aircraft
industry. He was widely admired for
his presence, charisma, confidence,
intellect and easy social manner. He
could easily grip the attention of a
lecture hall speaking without notes.
Harding was also able to
demonstrate his capability as a pilot,
and he accepted numerous invitations
to fly host foreign air forces’ aircraft.
On one occasion, flying in the first
pilot’s seat of a Soviet Sukhoi 27 fighter,
he exclaimed: “All the bloody
instruments are metric!” Nevertheless,
he still managed to fly a very
accomplished sortie.
Two years into Harding’s time as
CAS, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait
and for the next few months, the RAF
involvement in the area, and the Gulf
War that followed, occupied much of
his time.
With the appointment of Air Chief
Marshal Sir Patrick Hine, Commander
in Chief Strike Command, as the Joint
Commander of all British Forces
deployed to the Gulf, Harding’s
primary role in the MoD was to advise
ministers and the other service chiefs
at government levels. Harding found the reorganisation of the MoD, and the on air aspects of the campaign. He was
the international environment at resulting loss of individual vice chiefs particularly conscious of the role of the
SHAPE invigorating, and he from each service department. When media and its influence on the morale
established close relationships that the change occurred, Harding assumed of families.
were to prove valuable in his later the new post of Vice Chief of the Within the RAF he created a special
appointments. Defence Staff in the MoD central staffs. cell to keep families advised and he
He returned to become the Air His disappointment at leaving MoD visited every station that had aircrews
Officer Commanding No 11 (Fighter) after a few months, and where he serving in the Gulf. With the
Group, which gave him an opportunity believed he had much to contribute to invaluable help of his wife, Sheila, who
to fly the RAF’s latest fighters, the new organisation, was tempered accompanied him on visits and had
including the Tornado. He was also by his appointment as the private meetings with wives and
responsible for implementing the Commander-in-Chief at RAF Strike partners, he was able to identify
plans for a radical re-equipment Command. In addition to commanding concerns and problems, and offer
programme of modern radars and his many diverse squadrons and units, reassurance.
ground control systems for the UK air he also held the senior Nato post of Harding was particularly vexed that
defence region. Commander-in-Chief UK Air. he, with his fellow chiefs, had to
Harding joined the Air Force Board With the majority of the RAF’s conduct a study for the then Secretary
as Vice-Chief of Air Staff in 1982. He operational capability under his of State for Defence, Tom King, to
had strong feelings about the need for command, he pursued a “people first” identify savings and the disbandment
a more agile fighter to complement the policy, with a heavy programme of of units. He found it particularly
Tornado strike/attack aircraft and he visits when he was able to meet those distasteful that one of the Tornado
supported the idea of a European under his command, and they to meet squadrons flying in the war was
collaborative venture, the Eurofighter and talk with him. He also flew the identified for disbandment while still
that led ultimately to today’s Typhoon. wide variety of aircraft in use, so as to engaged in the theatre.
The other major issue at the time was keep abreast of tactics and capabilities On January 1 1993, Harding was
appointed Chief of the Defence Staff,
simultaneously being promoted to
Marshal of the Royal Air Force. During
his 16 months in post he identified
Northern Ireland, the conflict in the
Former Yugoslavia, and yet another
cuts exercise in the defence budget as
the main concerns that faced him.
Most of the Northern Ireland
activities were the responsibility of the
Army’s Chief of the General Staff, but
Harding found himself increasingly
involved in the early period of
discussions to find a peaceful solution.
After a flying visit to Bosnia he
recognised the complexities of the
situation in the former Yugoslavia.
Contingency plans for action on the
ground and in the air had to be made,
which were both militarily and
politically complex. He had to argue
strongly for the right force levels and
equipment, often in the face of
political opposition from those
ministers with different agendas.
The third question that exercised
him was the spectre of yet another cuts
exercise, which he later described as
“more teeth-to-tail nonsense, this time
dressed up as the civilian-isation of as
much as possible of our defence
capability”. He was not averse to
surrendering some support areas to
civilian contractors, but he fought hard
to maintain the fundamental command
structures with appropriate service
staffing.
On March 13 1994, Harding, and the
then Secretary of State for Defence,
Malcolm Rifkind, were alerted that The
News of the World newspaper was to
publish details of an affair that Harding
had conducted with Lady (Bienvenida)
Buck, the young wife of a former
Conservative MP, Sir Anthony Buck. In
a deal masterminded by the later
disgraced publicist Max Clifford, who
had obtained private letters, Lady
Buck invited Harding to lunch at the
Dorchester where an undercover
reporter was at an adjacent table
recording their conversation. On his
departure, Harding and Lady Buck
exchanged a kiss, which was captured
by a photographer lying in wait.
When the news broke, Harding
immediately offered his resignation. In
a letter to him, Rifkind paid tribute to
his “many years of dedicated service”,
and expressed regret that “we would
no longer have the benefit of your
advice and judgment”. Other senior
politicians saw no reason why he
should have resigned, although there
had been a suspicion that during the
affair he might have been discussing
military matters.
Harding’s departure created deep
divisions among some of the RAF’s
most senior retired and serving
officers, who believed he had done
great damage to the service. Having
resigned, his name was removed from
the Air Force List – but it was later
reinstated. Harding spurned the
limelight and led a quiet life, but the
manner in which he dealt with the
situation and his position attracted
considerable respect among his peers.
Peter Harding was appointed CB
(1980), KCB (1983), GCB (1988), and
Commander of the Legion of Merit
(USA) (1992). He received an Honorary
Doctor of Science (Cranfield
University), was elected a Companion
and Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical
Society and a Liveryman of the
Honourable Company of Air Pilots.
After leaving the RAF, he became
Deputy Chairman of GEC-Marconi Ltd
and served as chairman of some
international companies overseas. He
was a member of council of the
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
Tall, debonair and articulate,
Harding was also an outstanding
pianist, particularly in modern jazz, and
an avid bird watcher – his binoculars
and field guides accompanied him on
all his many visits.
Sir Peter Harding married, in 1955,
Sheila May, who survives him with two
of their three sons and a daughter.
Sir Peter Harding, born December 2
1933, died August 19 2021

Don Everly
One half of the Everly Brothers whose country-tinged harmonies influenced the Beatles and others

D
ON EVERLY, who has died aged 84, with his year they achieved three No 1s, with Walk Right Back, Ebony
brother Phil formed the influential pop duo the Eyes and Temptation.
Everly Brothers, whose breezy harmonies married In 1961 both boys joined the Marines for a short period of
the Nashville country style in which they had been service, then embarked on a European tour. It was while
brought up with the teenage romantic themes that came to they were performing in London that Don’s addiction to
define white pop music in the 1950s. amphetamines first made a serious impact. Twice in the
While they never embraced the raunchiness of rock and space of 12 hours he was carted off to hospital, unconscious,
roll, they became a significant influence on a host of acts, and he was flown back to the United States, amid stories in
among them the Beatles, Buddy Holly, Simon and the press that he had been struck down by food poisoning
Garfunkel, the Beach Boys and the Byrds. Even Bob Dylan or a nervous breakdown. Phil finished the tour alone. Later
claimed to have been “knocked out” when he saw the Don reflected: “I had some personal problems around about
Everlys live, and wrote a song for them called The Fugitive. ’62. Then I woke up and the Beatles were here.”
The brothers’ popularity waned in the early Sixties, but For three years the Everlys performed together only
they continued to record and perform until they fell out occasionally, although they continued to record, and their
spectacularly in 1973, the beginning of an estrangement singles The Price of Love and Love Is Strange did well in
that lasted for a decade. Britain. With the triumph of rock music, however, their best
Born into a mining family on February 1 1937 at Brownie, days were now behind them, and in 1968 the Everlys decided
Kentucky, Isaac Donald Everly was the son of Ike and to make a concept album in which their own country music
Margaret Everly, who formed a popular country singing act would be intercut with excerpts from old Everly Family radio
in the 1940s. Shortly after Don’s birth, Ike took his family to shows from the early Fifties. The album, Roots, was a flop.
Chicago, where Phil was born on January 19 1939. Their deal with Warner Bros came to an end, and they signed
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In 1944 the family moved to Shenandoah, Iowa, where
Ike and Margaret had a radio breakfast show on which their
two sons also sang, developing the instinctive harmonies
that would become a feature of their later careers. At the
age of eight, Don had a solo spot on radio, singing
commercials for a brand of rat poison.
Don and Phil, who attended high school at Shenandoah,
were treated more or less as twins despite the two-year age
gap: they were dressed alike and shared birthday parties,
and Don had to wait for his first sports jacket until Phil was
old enough to have one too.
By 1953 the family had moved to Knoxville, Tennessee,
where the brothers encountered the guitarist and producer
Chet Atkins, who signed Don to his small publishing
company, Athens Music. Don’s song Thou Shalt Not Steal was
given to Kitty Wells, who had a minor hit with it in 1954. The
brothers were then signed by Columbia to make their first
record, Keep a-Lovin’ Me; released in February 1956, it made
no impact on the charts and Columbia let them go.
The Everlys passed their time at Madison, near Nashville,
waiting for a break. “Finally, the guitar was cool,” Don later
recalled, “but Elvis didn’t have the kind of voice I liked, nor
a sound I liked. I was listening to Ray Charles, Brownie
McGhee and Sonny Terry, and Bo Diddley.”
Salvation came in the form of the pop label Cadence,
owned by Archie Bleyer, who was interested in getting into
country music. He signed the Everly Brothers, and in 1957
they recorded Felice and Boudleaux Bryant’s Bye Bye Love.
The arrangement used four guitars, played by Phil, Don,
the Nashville session man Ray Edenton and Chet Atkins,
and introduced the Everlys’ style of close country
harmonies over a rocking beat. The song was a smash hit,
Phil and Don Everly: their 1950s smash hits included Bye Bye Love
and established the brothers as the first successful pop act
to come out of Nashville. Don and Phil bought a new
Oldsmobile on the proceeds and embarked on a tour with
Johnny Cash. They began sporting matching suits, and
their growing army of fans had difficulties telling them
apart (Don’s hair was darker, and his the deeper voice).
In the same year they released a string of hits: Wake Up
Little Susie; This Little Girl of Mine; All I Have to Do Is Dream;
and Claudette. In 1958 they followed up with Bird Dog and
Devoted to You. They became close friends with Buddy Holly,
who originally wrote his song Not Fade Away for The Everly
Brothers before they suggested that he record it himself.
Following the release of Let It Be Me in 1959, the brothers
moved to Warner Bros Records. By now they were among
the most bankable stars in the pop business, alongside Elvis,
Pat Boone and Ricky Nelson. Cathy’s Clown, a single written
by Don, remained at No 1 in America for five weeks in 1959
and topped the British charts for seven, selling more than
eight million copies worldwide.
On the back of its success Cadence delved into its archive
to release When Will I Be Loved, which reached No 8 in the US
and No 4 in Britain. The Everlys’ popularity in America had,
however, begun to wane by 1960, although in Britain that
with RCA, recording the albums Stories We Could Tell (1972)
and Pass the Chicken and Listen (1973).
The relationship between the brothers had become
increasingly acrimonious, and it fractured completely on
July 14 1973 at the John Wayne Theatre in Buena Park,
California. Phil smashed his guitar and stalked offstage,
leaving Don to announce the duo’s evident break-up.
For a decade their worked apart, making solo albums.
Don returned to his country roots, finding success in
Nashville with his band Dead Cowboys and playing with
Albert Lee. In 1979 he recorded a duet with Emmylou
Harris, Everytime You Leave, for her album Blue
Kentucky Girl.
In June 1983 the Everly Brothers, to tremendous fanfare,
were reunited on stage at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
They recorded for Mercury in Nashville, and continued to
perform well into the new millennium.
They were admitted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
1986, and in 1997 received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award. They were inducted into the Country Music Hall of
Fame in 2001.
Don Everly’s first marriage, to Mary Sue Ingraham, was
dissolved, as was his second, to the actress Venetia
Stevenson. His third wife was Adela Garza. With Venetia
Stevenson, from whom he was divorced in 1970, he had a
son, Edan, a musician who owns a recording studio in
Atlanta; a daughter Erin, who was briefly married to the
rock singer Axl Rose (he wrote the Guns N’ Roses song
Sweet Child of Mine for her); and another daughter, Stacy.
He also had a child with his first wife.
Don Everly, born February 1 1937, died August 21 2021
34 ***
Television & Radio
Last night on television Anita Singh
gh
Ruby Wax’s nostalgia trip
turned into a therapy session ™
W
Wax lyrical: the interviewer had a strange encounter with OJ Simpson in the Nineties
hen was the last
time you watched
an entertaining
celebrity interview?
The most fun to be
had these days is
watching something like The Graham
Norton Show, where Hollywood’s
finest perch on the sofa to tell some
well-rehearsed anecdotes.
But it wasn’t always this way. In the
1990s, some of the most famous people
in the world agreed to be interviewed
by Ruby Wax. Her modus operandi
was to barge into their space (hotel
rooms, usually, but in Donald Trump’s
case a private plane with gold-plated
toilet fittings) and be loud, funny and
exhausting. The one that sticks in the
mind involved Wax rummaging in the
Duchess of York’s drawers, which were
covered in Post-it notes labelling the
contents (small white T-shirts, small
pink T-shirts): “You couldn’t open
a drawer? What, are you too lazy?”
The BBC could treat us all by
uploading the interviews to iPlayer,
allowing us to dip into the archive.
Instead, it has repackaged highlights
of them in an odd new series, When
Ruby Wax Met… (BBC Two).
The format involves Wax watching
old clips and telling us what she thinks
now – with the benefit of 25 years’
distance and a degree in cognitive
therapy. But what she concentrates on
is her own performance – and it was
a performance, she explained, a “loud
American” persona that she adopted
for an earlier comedy show and never
dropped. “I turned from the Ugly
Duckling into Joan Rivers overnight,”
she said. “It was a house style and it
worked and it worked and it worked.”
Wax uses the show as a means of
self-examination, pointing out that
she overdid the shtick in her Trump
interview because she was nervous
and mortified that he could see straight
through her. “I had a terrible father,”
she said at one point in an attempt at
quick-fire repartee. “I can tell,” Trump
replied. “Because you’re angry. You’re
aggressive with a smile.” Wax cringed
while watching it back: “It’s very
uncomfortable when someone doesn’t
like you.” She was almost apologetic
for her past behaviour.
All good therapy for Wax, I’m sure,
but that’s not why viewers were here.
We wanted to see the interviews again,
not hear the presenter dissecting her
own technique. Tom Hanks was a
delight, gamely getting in on the joke.
Carrie Fisher was whipsmart, OJ
Simpson grimly fascinating. And for all
of her angst about it, Wax’s encounter
with Trump made for great television
(and revealed a sweet side to Melania).
Trump called Wax “the world’s most
obnoxious reporter”. He was probably
right. But she delivered the goods.
I
f you missed the first series of
Serengeti (BBC One), you will
need a quick primer. It looks like
a regular natural history series, but it
isn’t. This is a “drama” starring a bunch
of wild animals. The show is the
brainchild of Simon Fuller – yes, the
man who brought you the Spice Girls
– and his take on the wildlife genre is
one step away from Johnny Morris
doing the voices on Animal Magic.
The animals all have names, and
soap opera storylines. Kali the lioness
has got a deadbeat partner, Sefu. He’s
“a male she could once depend on. But
when duty calls, he fails her.” Honestly,
ladies, what can you do? But Kali is also
hiding a secret from Sefu: he isn’t the
father of her kids. If he finds out,
there’ll be hell to pay. And a plot you
could easily transfer to an episode
of EastEnders.
Perhaps it’s the Spice Girls
connection that means there’s a
whole lot of Girl Power going on.
The elephants are cool because “the
sisterhood sticks together”. Zalika’s
“priorities have changed” because she
needs to raise a family. The baboons
have a male leader but he’s a “kinder
and gentler” New Man sort, so no need
to worry about the patriarchy. There’s
a zebra too, but we don’t get the chance
to find out its pronouns because it very
quickly becomes someone’s dinner.
It’s decent fare for kids (unless
they’re very fond of zebras) and looks
gorgeous, or at least gorgeously
expensive. But it feels so fake. It doesn’t
take long to notice that scenes involving
a leopard in a tree, and baboons
climbing the tree to intimidate it, don’t
include the leopard and the baboons in
the same shot. Sure enough, go to the
BBC website and you will find the
series director explaining: “At times,
the specially shot animal behavior [sic]
has been enhanced by previously shot
material, to build a clear and dramatic
narrative.” And: “The named
characters aren’t always the same
animal every time we see them.”
The BBC isn’t hiding this, but nor
is it singing it from the rooftops. Oh,
that’s the other thing: the singing.
Along with the syrupy voice-over from
Lupita Nyong’o, it adds to the feeling
that we’re being sold The Lion King-lite.
When Ruby Wax Met… ★★★
Serengeti II ★★
What to watch
Tsunami: Impact
CHANNEL 5, 9PM
Airing across the
next three nights
(subsequent instalments
are subtitled, with no
hyperbole, Destruction
and Devastation), this
cannily structured
documentary balances
human interest and hard
science to understand the
causes and effects of the
Boxing Day Tsunami that
killed more than a quarter
of a million people in 2004
as it hit the coasts of
Indonesia and Thailand.
Dr Xand van Tulleken
and Raksha Dave are our
guides to the catastrophe
through its earliest stages,
as two tectonic plates 19
miles beneath the Indian
Ocean, after millions of
years of increasing
pressure, finally ruptured.
The footage taken before
the tsunami itself, some of
it filmed by Van Tulleken’s
interviewees, is staggering
enough. Documentarian
Dendy Montgomery recalls
that “the land was a kind of
porridge” while the initial
earthquake rumbled on,
his film starkly illustrating
the reality; later, as the
ocean is sucked out to the
horizon in three minutes,
the seriousness of the
situation dawns on the
assembled tourists. Dave,
meanwhile, takes a seat in
Arts
A Shanghai Symphony
SKY ARTS, 9PM
‹ Sun Shuyun’s
documentary tells the story
of China’s leading classical
ensemble, the Shanghai
Symphony Orchestra,
founded in 1879 and whose
fate reflected the turbulent
modern history of China.
Documentary
China’s Magic Weapon
BBC TWO, 9PM
‹ A neat counterpoint to
A Shanghai Symphony, Jane
Corbin’s disturbing film
casts a light on one of many
shadowy examples of
Radio choice Charlotte Runcie
39 Ways to Save the Planet
RADIO 4, 1.45PM
‹ Produced in partnership
with the Royal Geographical
Society, this series
documents pithy ideas to
mitigate climate change.
Tom Heap and Dr Tamsin
Edwards from King’s
College London hear from
scientists, designers, and
Radio 1
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8.00 Radio 1’s Power Down Playlist
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Artists with Jack Saunders 12.00
Radio 1’s Drum & Bass Show 2.00am
Radio 1’s Decompression Session 3.00
Radio 1’s Workout Anthems 4.00
Radio 1 Dance 5.00 - 7.00am Radio 1
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2.00pm Steve Wright in the Afternoon
5.00 Anita Rani 7.00 Jo Whiley’s Shiny
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The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews.
New and classic blues tracks 10.00
Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00
Preeya Kalidas 3.00am Pick of the
Pops 4.00 - 6.30am Nicki Chapman
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6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential
Classics 12.00 Composer of the Week:
Beethoven – At the Keyboard 1.00pm
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Now 5.00 In Tune 7.00 In Tune
Mixtape 7.30 BBC Proms 2021. A
concert by harpist Catrin Finch and
kora player Seckou Keita 10.00 The
East Speaks Back. Jerry Brotton heads
to Turkey on the trail of 17th-century
Dr Xand van Tulleken guides us through the 2004 tsunami
Europe’s largest tsunami
simulator. It is an
emotionally gripping
and sensitive evocation
A Shanghai Symphony
malign Chinese activity
around the world: the soft
(and not so soft) power of
the United Front Work
Department, a political
strategy to advance Chinese
influence by non-political
means. With Australia
having acted as a canary
engineers working on
initiatives that could add up
to make a big difference to
the planet. Returning for
another 10-parter beginning
this afternoon, the series
sets off by exploring
innovative ways of using
solar power to heat water,
and bring cheap and
efficient hot showers to
the whole world.
Ottoman writer Evliya Celebi 10.45
The Essay: Mise-en-Scene. The political
and social settings of films from the
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World at One 1.45 ‹ 39 Ways to
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The Archers 2.15 ‹ Drama: Leni Goes
to Hollywood. See Radio choice 3.00
Brain of Britain 3.30 The Food
Programme 4.00 Planet Bach.
Clemency Burton-Hill charts the
playing of Bach around the globe 4.30
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6.30 The Unbelievable Truth. With
Rufus Hound, Fern Brady, Ria Lina,
and Tony Hawks 7.00 The Archers
7.15 Front Row. Arts programme 7.45
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives. A
profile of Indira Gandhi, India’s first
female prime minister 8.00 This
Union: The Ghost Kingdoms of England
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Extinction Compendium 9.30 How to
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Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph
of a natural disaster, the
shock waves from which
are still being felt by many
to this day. Gabriel Tate
in the coal mine for the UK,
tech espionage, campus
activism and business
interference are under
way on British soil.
Drama
When I’m 64
BBC FOUR, 9PM
‹ Just the sort of intriguing
repeat BBC Four may have
to make its trademark to
maintain its viability and
individuality as a channel,
this wonderful but largely
forgotten 2004 drama by
Tony Grounds follows
widowed cabbie Ray
(Paul Freeman) and lonely
retired teacher Jim (Alun
Armstrong); when their
friendship turns to romance,
Drama: Leni Goes to
Hollywood
RADIO 4, 2.15PM
‹ Elinor Coleman stars as
the German film-maker
Leni Riefenstahl, and
Gwendoline Christie (Game
of Thrones) plays Marlene
Dietrich, in this drama about
Riefenstahl’s attempt to
crack Hollywood. Written
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Alexander Armstrong 12.00 Anne-
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it is their children whose
innate conservatism
threatens their happiness.
The White Lotus
SKY ATLANTIC, 9PM
‹ Mike White’s excellent
drama packs more character
and story into this second
episode than others manage
in an entire series. Tonight,
the appalling students Paula
and Olivia (Brittany O’Grady
and Sydney Sweeney)
misplace their drugs stash
and newly-wed Rachel
(Alexandra Daddario) goes
looking for moral support.
Entertainment
Mastermind
BBC TWO, 7.30PM
‹ Clive Myrie makes his
debut as inquisitor and
proves a warmer presence
than his predecessor John
Humphrys, but otherwise
the formula remains
unchanged as the first
quartet of 96 hopefuls take
to the black chair. Specialist
subjects include Tsar
Nicholas II and Bruce
Springsteen.
The White Lotus: Connie Britton
Factual
Summer of Wild Weather:
Is Worse to Come?
CHANNEL 4, 9PM
‹ “Wild” is one word for it;
others you could apply to
this summer’s weather
range from “disappointing”
to “alarming”, as
temperatures have soared
and the summer has been
marked by devastating
wildfires and serious
flooding across the world.
It is, as reporter Morland
Sanders acknowledges, no
coincidence, with climate
change’s impact now
apparent to all. GT
by Colin Shindler (Lovejoy),
it’s a psychological portrait
of ambition and artistic
obsession in a glamorous
world, following the story of
Riefenstahl’s career after
making many Nazi
propaganda films in friendly
collaboration with Hitler.
She was never charged with
war crimes, and died in
2003 at the age of 101.
Question 8.30 Discovery 9.00
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Unbelievable Truth
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World (1963) Comedy starring
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(1963)
BBC TWO, 2PM ★★★★
‹ This chaotic, Oscar-winning road
movie about a group of colourful
eccentrics racing to collect $350,000
in stolen cash was Quentin Tarantino’s
favourite film while the director was
growing up (but don’t let that put you
off). Alongside a formidable principle
cast, it has more than 60 celebrity
cameos, including Jerry Lewis, The
Three Stooges and Buster Keaton.

Forrest Gump (1994)

SKY ONE, 9PM ★★★★

Ghosts: Jim Howick and Charlotte Ritchie
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pursuit of a 4x4 (S)
‹ Robert Zemeckis’s Oscar-winning
comedy drama is full of spirit – even if,
at times, it’s saccharine. Forrest (Tom
Hanks) is a simpleton with a heart of
gold, who, ever true to the homely
advice of his mother (Sally Field)
is reflecting on his improbable life
as a Vietnam War hero, table-tennis
champion and accidental millionaire.
How much you enjoy it will depend
on your sentimentality threshold.

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Boxing Day 2004 See What to
watch (S)
Thunder Road (2018)
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‹ The previously unknown Jim
Cummings makes a real splash in
this comedy-drama, writing, directing
and starring as a small-town Texan
cop in meltdown, struggling with
bereavement, a bitter divorce, and
a custody battle. If the supporting
characters feel like they are only
glorified props for his petulant
anti-hero, that’s somehow fitting for
this portrait of a manic narcissist.

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Rick Stein’s Secret France 6.00 QI XL Games
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More News for You 11.00 Taskmaster Noon The Outdoor Sports Show
12.00 Mock the Week 12.40am Have 12.30pm Vanarama National League
Highlights 1.00 Premier League
I Got a Bit More News for You 1.40
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5.30 Live: Serie A 7.30 Live: Serie A.
Sampdoria v AC Milan (kick-off
Sky Sports Main Event 7.45pm). Coverage of the Italian top-
Noon Live: Good Morning Football flight match at Stadio Luigi Ferraris
3.00pm Sky Sports News 5.00 The 9.45 BT Sport Goals Reload 10.15
Transfer Show 5.30 Sky Sports News Vanarama National League Highlights
7.00 Live MNF. West Ham United v 10.45 What I Wore 11.00 WWE Raw
Leicester City (kick-off 8.00pm). Highlights 12.00 WWE SmackDown
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The London Stadium 11.00 Sky Sports Monday Night Raw
Sky One
SKY 106 VIRGIN 110
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8.00 A League of Their Own
9.00 FILM: Forrest Gump
(1994) Oscar-winning
comedy drama starring Tom
Hanks See Film choice
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Decade
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Sky History
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American Pickers: Best Of 1.10
Counting Cars 2.05 Assembly Required
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UFO Investigation 4.05 Ancient Aliens
5.00 Pawn Stars 6.00 American
Pickers: Best Of 7.00 Forged in Fire
8.00 Lost Relics of the Knights Templar
9.00 WW2 Mystery: Foo Fighters
10.00 Robert Kirkman’s Secret History
of Comics 11.00 Vietnam: Lost Films
12.00 Search for the Lost Giants
1.00am Lost Relics of the Knights
Templar 2.00 Assembly Required 3.00-
4.00am Vietnam: Lost Films
Sky Arts
11.55am National Trust: National
Treasures 1.05pm Auction 1.30
Auction: David Bowie Collector 2.00
Discovering: Diane Keaton 3.00 Portrait
Artist of the Year 2017 4.00 Music
Icons: New Wave 4.30 Video Killed the
Radio Star 5.00 The Seventies 6.00
Discovering: Morgan Freeman 7.00
Raphael: In Search of Beauty 8.00
Andre Rieu: Welcome to My World 9.00
A Shanghai Symphony See What to
watch 10.00 Turandot on Sydney
Harbour 12.00 Comedy Legends
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FV Freeview FS Freesat (AD) Audio description (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) In-vision signing
Variations
Sky Atlantic Film4 Drama Northern Ireland
SKY 108 FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428 FV 20 FS 158 SKY 143 VIRGIN 130 BBC One: 7.00 - 7.35pm Suzie Lee:
11.10 am The Leftovers 11.00 am Alpha (2018) Adventure Noon The Bill Home Cook Hero 10.35 Chronicles of the
12.30 pm The Leftovers starring Kodi Smit-McPhee 1.00 pm Classic EastEnders Glens 11.05 Ladhood 11.35 Have I Got
a Bit More News for You 12.20am Shop
1.35 The Wire 12.55 pm Akeelah and the Bee 1.40 Classic EastEnders
Well for Less? 1.20 - 6.00am BBC News
2.45 The Wire (2006) Drama 2.20 Peak Practice BBC Two: 10.00 - 10.30pm Trad Ar Fad!
3.50 Elementary 3.05 Edward Scissorhands (1990) 3.20 Bergerac UTV: 8.00 - 8.30pm Mahon’s Way
4.45 Blue Bloods Fantasy with Johnny Depp 4.20 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
5.45 The Sopranos 5.10 The Pink Panther Strikes 5.20 Birds of a Feather Scotland
6.50 The Sopranos Again (1976) Crime comedy 6.00 Bread
7.55 Game of Thrones sequel starring Peter Sellers 6.40 ’Allo ’Allo! BBC One: No variations
9.00 The White Lotus See What 7.15 Bride Wars (2009) Comedy 7.20 Last of the Summer Wine BBC Scotland: 7.00pm Beechgrove
to watch starring Kate Hudson 8.00 The Coroner 7.30 The Great Food Guys 8.00 Born to
Be Wild 9.00 The Nine 10.00 Off the
10.10 In Treatment 9.00 The Old Man & the Gun 9.00 Luther Ball: Petty and Ill-Informed 11.00 The
10.45 In Treatment (2018) Light-hearted drama 10.20 New Tricks Karen Dunbar Show 11.30 Pity Party
11.15 Britannia starring Robert Redford 11.40 Bad Girls Midnight Close
12.15 am True Blood 10.50 Thunder Road (2018) 12.50 am Dalziel & Pascoe STV: 10.40pm Scotland Tonight 11.05
1.25 Californication Comedy drama starring Jim 2.40 - 4.00am Kavanagh QC It’ll Be Alright on the Night 12.05am
2.00 Britannia Cummings See Film choice The Jonathan Ross Show: Special Guests
3.05 Californication 12.40 - 3.00am Sweet Country 12.30 - 3.00am ITV Nightscreen
3.40 - 4.15am Californication (2017) Drama
Wales
Honours 2.20 The Last Voices of World Only Fools and Horses 6.40 Are You BBC One: 10.35pm Hayley Goes 11.05
Sky Cinema Premiere Ladhood 11.30 Have I Got a Bit More
War One 3.10-4.00am Europe’s Being Served? 7.20 Keeping Up
24 hours, including at: News for You 12.15am Shop Well for
Waterways Appearances 8.00 Only Fools and
11.25am The Craft: Legacy (2020) Less? 1.15 - 6.00am BBC News
Horses 9.20 Not Going Out 10.40 All BBC Two: 7.00 - 7.30pm Weatherman
Horror drama starring Cailee Spaeny Round to Mrs Brown’s 12.00 Peep
and Gideon Adlon 1.15pm Synchronic
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Show 12.35am Not Going Out 1.55
24 hours, including at:
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Yesterday
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11.05am Martin Luther King: Roads Gold Rush: White Water 3.00 Railroad 9.00 Con Passionate 10.05 Cegin Bryn:
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GOLD 5.00 Wheeler Dealers 6.00 Misfit
11.05 - 11.40pm Traed Lan
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SPORTS NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
Lukaku enjoys
dream debut
Silencer: Striker Romelu Lukaku goads the Arsenal supporters after announcing his return to Chelsea with a goal inside 15 minutes
City prepare a final bid to sign Kane after striker makes 18-minute appearance
By John Percy at Molineux
Manchester City are poised for a
final move to try to sign Harry Kane
this week, after the Tottenham
Hotspur forward made his first
appearance of the season yesterday.
Kane was introduced as a late
substitute in Tottenham’s 1-0 vic-
tory at Wolverhampton Wanderers,
P.2
with his future remaining uncertain
ahead of the transfer deadline a
week tomorrow.
City are set to table another bid
for the England international this
week, though Tottenham chairman
Daniel Levy is determined to avoid
selling him. Kane was given a warm
telegraph.co.uk/sport
reception by the travelling support-
ers, who chanted “he’s one of our
own” before he appeared as a 72nd-
minute substitute. He missed the
matches against City and Pacos de
Ferreira and head coach Nuno
Espirito Santo was unable to offer
any guarantees that Kane would
face the Portuguese club in the
Europa Conference League play-off
The Daily Telegraph
Fans turn on
Arsenal after
dismal start
By Matt Law at Emirates Stadium
hArteta’s team suffer worst
opening to season in 75 years
hSupporters vent their fury
following defeat by arch rivals
Mikel Arteta insists Arsenal’s sup-
porters are still behind his side,
even after they were booed off at the
Emirates Stadium as defeat by Chel-
sea condemned them to their worst
start to a season in 75 years.
First-half goals by Romelu
Lukaku and Reece James mean the
north London side have failed to
register a point or a goal in their first
two Premier League games.
Arsenal were jeered off at half-
time and full time and now face a
daunting trip to Manchester City on
Saturday, but Arteta is adamant
there were “positives” to take from
the reaction of the crowd.
“I saw a lot of excitement and they
tried to push the team,” the Spaniard
said. “At 2-0, nobody is going to be
happy, but in the second half they
tried to be positive and the players
talked about that. In the end, of
course, they showed they were dis-
appointed, but I saw a lot of posi-
tives with the crowd.”
New £50 million signing Ben
second leg. “Harry helped the team.
We are talking about one of the best
players in the world and we are very
lucky to have him,” Nuno said.
“It’s too soon to know if he will be
involved on Thursday. He is getting
back to fitness and still has to
improve. You could see the way he
helped the team in terms of posses-
sion and the fine lines.”
Monday 23 August 2021
White was missing through Covid-
19 and is unlikely to return in time
for the trip to the Etihad Stadium,
while Martin Odegaard had not
been signed permanently in time to
face Chelsea.
It means Arsenal were without
nine players.
“It’s really challenging,” Arteta
said. “We’re missing nine players.
We put out a team and we played
with a lot of courage in a situation
that is tough.”
Asked if things should improve
when players started to return,
Arteta replied: “One hundred per
cent.” Only once have Arsenal had a
worse record two games into a sea-
son, in 1946 when they accrued no
points and had a goal difference of
Continued on Page 2
Solskjaer cries
es ‘foul’
foul
Leniency of
referees is
turning game
into rugby
Pages 6-7
Spurs maintained their perfect
start to the league season with a sec-
ond successive win, after Dele Alli’s
penalty, his first goal for them since
March 2020. Tottenham are target-
ing signings before the deadline,
with Wolves winger Adama Traore
understood to be on Nuno’s list.
Alli on the spot: Page 5
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Chelsea underline title

Romelu Lukaku
taps in Chelsea’s
opening goal

credentials as ‘dominant’
Lukaku scores on return
to sink lacklustre Arsenal
Jason Burt
ALL
CHIEF FOOTBALL It was his first goal against who claimed it. The move began as
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at Emirates Stadium Arsenal, but his 114th in the Premier Chelsea worked their way down the
League – taking him ahead of Ian left, with Marcos Alonso’s pass
Wright in the all-time list. There will infield intended for Lukaku. Xhaka
be many more to come. It burst slid in, but the ball ran to Mason
Arsenal
0 Arsenal’s optimism, with the fans
back, money spent, their own young
tyros given their head and Granit
Xhaka apparently worthy of a new
Mount, who again found James
unmarked. The wing-back slammed
the ball high into the net. As the goal
was scored, Kieran Tierney could be
Chelsea
2
2-0
contract. The next pass backwards seen throwing himself to block
Lukaku 15, James 35 by them was booed and the frustra- James. Too late.
Att: 58,729 tion started to bubble over. It was game over. Yes, Arsenal
There were more boos at half- huffed and puffed and maybe
time – and again at full time – and should have had a penalty when
This was men against boys which, although some were directed at James appeared to bundle over
given Romelu Lukaku first arrived referee Paul Tierney, it was as if Bukayo Saka in the penalty area. Reece James
at Chelsea as a raw teenager 10 years those fans had never been away. The referee was unmoved and the smashes home
ago and returns as one of the world’s Arteta had summoned a siege decision stood after a Var check. Chelsea’s second
finest strikers, was accurate in more mentality, the manager saying Last season it probably would
ways than one. “they” (whoever they are) could not have been given, but the rules have
Chelsea were simply too good for break Arsenal’s “spirit”, although been loosened with the officials
Arsenal, with Mikel Arteta’s side here it had been clearly fractured. deciding there was insufficient con-
having now played two, lost two and Chelsea smashed straight through it tact. If Arsenal were unfortunate
with no goals scored. In 118 seasons and, although Arsenal improved then, they were lucky when an ugly
in English football it is the first time significantly in the second half, it lunge by Rob Holding on Alonso
that has happened to them at the was never enough. went unpunished. Last season that
start of a league campaign. Perhaps instead of worrying could have been a red card.
Thomas Tuchel’s side were too about outside noise, Arteta should Arsenal threatened twice more.
strong, too skilful, too well-organ- have organised his team better. First, Edouard Mendy tipped over a
ised and too competitive. They were Even the most basic of coaching fierce rising shot from Saka. Then,
just far better, and Lukaku now courses would have pointed out, for when Mari headed a corner back
gives them an even bigger edge. example, that James – who was across goal, it was met by Holding,
Asked to assess his performance, outstanding – needed to be stopped who could only send his own header
the Belgian was succinct and accu- d ow n th e r i gh t . I n s t e a d , h e wide.
rate. “Dominant,” he said. remained unmarked. It always felt like Chelsea had too
Lukaku got his goal inside 15 min- Arsenal were without £50 million much and when Tuchel turned to
utes, having not scored in 15 appear- signing Ben White after he tested N’Golo Kante – what a substitute to
ances for Chelsea during his first positive for Covid-19, as well as be able to bring on – it ended any
spell at the club that ended in 2014. other players, but that was not the flickering hope of a way back for
That summed up the difference he problem; it was simple organisation Arsenal.
made to Chelsea – who are bona and not being good enough. When The home side appeared to know
fide, genuine, daunting Premier Mari finally got close to Lukaku, he it, too, with Chelsea creating chance
League title contenders – and the was booked for bringing him down. after chance and with Lukaku at the
difference between them and Arse- And then Chelsea scored again centre of it all. He went closest when
nal. He called it “emotional”. Unfor- and – guess what? – it was James he met Mount’s cross, running in
tunately, it was for Arsenal also. front of a static Holding, only for
Following his £97.5 million move Bernd Leno to excel in turning his
from Inter Milan and on his second How they stand strong, close-range header onto the
debut, Lukaku did precisely what crossbar and away for a corner. Leno
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then also blocked from Kai Havertz,
chanted his name at a corner,
Lukaku tapped the club badge on
his shirt. This appears set to be a
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who was teed up by Lukaku and
should really have scored.
“Too easy,” shouted one angry
‘The table is not decided in August –
very, very happy reunion.
The 28-year-old held the ball up
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Arsenal fan. For Chelsea it was just
that. no one can feel sorry for themselves’
against Pablo Mari, like he was fend- Brentford 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 4 Lukaku undoubtedly gives them
ing off an over-eager puppy, and Man City 2 1 0 1 5 1 4 3 a far greater dimension, but does
released it back to Mateo Kovacic, West Ham 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 3 not make them predictable, with From Page 1 bles” side who won the title in 2003-
who picked out Reece James Aston Villa 2 1 0 1 4 3 1 3 Tuchel demonstrating their formi- minus seven. This year they have 04, fears that even the return of big
unmarked on the right. The wing- Leicester 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 dable attacking options by bringing conceded four goals. names such as Alexandre Lacazette,
back’s low cross was precise and for Watford 2 1 0 1 3 4 -1 3 on Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech. “I will try to give them [the play- Thomas Partey, Gabriel Magalhaes,
all Mari’s desperate efforts to Southampton 2 0 1 1 2 4 -2 1 Just like Lukaku, they are going ers] confidence and belief that foot- White and Odegaard will not be
impede him, Lukaku was in the six- Crystal Palace 2 0 1 1 0 3 -3 1 to take some stopping. Arsenal were ball changes quickly and the table is enough to address the malaise.
yard area to tuck the ball into the Leeds Utd 2 0 1 1 3 7 -4 1 never going to be up to the chal- not decided in August,” Arteta “Two games, two losses, you have
net. Mari ended up on the ground Wolverhampton 2 0 0 2 0 2 -2 0 lenge. Maybe Chelsea’s next oppo- added. “I don’t want to see anyone to somehow get the team working
having thrown his arms in the air. Burnley 2 0 0 2 1 4 -3 0 nents, Liverpool, will provide a feeling sorry for themselves.” properly,” Campbell said on Sky
Not a good look for Arsenal, but a Newcastle 2 0 0 2 2 6 -4 0 truer test with, on its own, Lukaku Arsenal legend Sol Campbell was Sports. “When you don’t have the
textbook example of what Chelsea Arsenal 2 0 0 2 0 4 -4 0 against Virgil van Dijk a contest to less optimistic. The former England quality you need to be solid. Be solid
hoped for from Lukaku. Norwich 2 0 0 2 0 8 -8 0 savour. defender, a mainstay of the “Invinci- first then start building.
The Daily Telegraph Monday 23 August 2021
“There are players to come back
in, but it seems when even players
come back in it’s the same situation.
I want to see that character.”
Lukaku described his second
Chelsea debut, coming a few days
short of 10 years since making his
first appearance for the club, as
“dominant”. The Belgian had failed
to score in 15 appearances during
his first spell at Chelsea, but made
the perfect start to his return by
scoring and being involved in the
second goal, netted by James.
“I try to improve every time,”
Lukaku, 28, said. “I have a long way
to go, but it was good to win and we
need to keep getting stronger
because the Premier League is very
McDermott opens up on
‘fight’ against dementia
By Jeremy Wilson
Terry McDermott, the former Liver-
pool, Newcastle and England mid-
fielder, has issued a heartfelt thank
you for the messages of support that
“will help me in the fight” following
the disclosure that he has been
diagnosed with dementia.
“I’m touched and overwhelmed
by them all – each one is appreci-
ated,” said the 69-year-old, who
admitted that a “frightening” num-
ber of former footballers had also
been diagnosed with neurodegen-
erative disease.
These include Denis Law, the for-
mer Manchester United and Scot-
land striker who went public with
his diagnosis last Thursday and
believes his condition was caused
by repeatedly heading a football.
Dawn Astle, the daughter of for-
mer England striker Jeff Astle, has
persistently warned that dementia
is endemic among former football-
ers and landmark research, led by
Dr Willie Stewart at the University
of Glasgow, recently confirmed that
outfield players were four times
more likely to suffer neurodegener-
ative disease.
hey are also five times more
They
likely to die of Alzheimer’s, four
times more likely to die of
motorr neurone disease
and att a doubled risk
rkinson’s.
of Parkinson’s.
“Nothing has
come to me easily,”
ermott said in a
McDermott
ment on the
statement
pool website.
Liverpool
“I’m not fright-
ened of taking it
on. Battling is second
re. The worst thing
nature.
was, until my condition was
nosed you don’t know
diagnosed
what’ss going on.
he number of ex-
“The
playersrs being diagnosed
with dementia or Alzhei-
mer’s is frightening.”
Dermott was both
McDermott
ssional Football-
Professional
Marseille’s Payet struck by bottle
as angry fans storm onto pitch
Former West Ham forward Dimitri
competitive, but we’re ready for the Payet was hit by a bottle before
Up next Arsenal’s forthcoming challenge and, hopefully, can throwing it back into the crowd as
Premier League fixtures improve.” Marseille’s game at Nice was aban-
Thomas Tuchel, the Chelsea head doned when the visitors refused to
Saturday v Oct 30 v Leicester coach, was delighted with Lukaku’s play on as French football
Manchester City (a) City (a) start. “It’s the package that’s so descended into mayhem.
Sept 11 v Norwich Nov 6 v Watford (h) exciting,” he said. “His age, his Payet was struck by the missile in
City (h) Nov 20 experience and he is a Chelsea fan. the 74th minute when he was taking
Sept 18 v Liverpool (a) It’s always been his dream to make it a corner only to spark wild scenes at
v Burnley (a) Nov 27 at this club. During his time away, the Allianz Riviera by returning it to
Sept 26 v Newcastle (h) his personality grew and now he the stands. He also appeared to
v Tottenham Nov 30 v Man trusts in himself. throw a second bottle.
Hotspur (h) United (a) “I am very happy with how he has The home crowd rushed to con-
Oct 2 v Brighton (a) Dec 4 v Everton (a) integrated already, a very smart guy front Payet and the match was
Oct 18 v Crystal Dec 11 who likes to be in the group. He is a halted with Nice leading 1-0 through
Palace (h) v Southampton (h) very democratic leader, talks to Kasper Dolberg’s goal, although
Oct 22 v Aston Dec 14 v West everyone, friendly and is totally Nice were eventually awarded a 3-0
Villa (h) Ham (h) competitive. He gives us something win with Jorge Sampaoli’s side
we did not have.” refusing to play on.
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Legend: Terry McDermott (centre) at Anfield
on Saturday and in his playing days (below)
ers’ Association and Football Writ-
ers’ Association player of the year in
1980 and, after returning to New-
castle in 1982, became assistant
manager alongside Kevin Keegan,
his former team-mate.
In a statement, Liverpool sent
their “love and best wishes” and
pledged “any and all support” to a
player whose career included three
European Cup wins with the club.
McDermott intends to remain a reg-
ular spectator at Anfield this season.
Stewart has called on football to
face up to the dementia crisis and
examine how to limit heading
and head impacts to mitigate a
continuous repeat
rep of the
nightmare that t hun-
dreds of foot
football fami-
lies are fafacing. His
study of almost
8,000 plplayers has
found no reduction
dementia rates
in demen
through th the genera-
tions betw
between the
1930s and 191990s.
The Footba
Football Associa-
ttion
ti published guid-
on has publish
recommends no
ance that recom
more than 10 training
headers per week in
grass-roots
g
gr ass-root football
maximum of
and a ma
“high-impact”
10 “high
headers among
header
professional
profes
playe
players.
The ugly scenes come just a week
after Marseille’s trip to Montpellier
was marred by incidents of bottles
being thrown at the visiting players.
That game was halted on 89 minutes
with Marseille leading 3-2 after Val-
entin Rongier was hit on the head.
In Scotland, Rangers have
launched an investigation after a
social media video showed fans
allegedly chanting a racist song
about Celtic’s Japanese forward
Kyogo Furuhashi.
The footage, from what looks like
a supporters’ bus, emerged yester-
day when the club were in Dingwall
for a 4-2 win over Ross County. A
club spokesperson said: “Those who
partake in such behaviour are not
representative of our club.”
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Arteta needs answers to lift gloom over Emirates

Matt Law their opponents were being suck-
ered in. Odegaard is a talented
FOOTBALL NEWSS player, but it is hard to see how he
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at Emirates Stadium
dium would have changed much about
this game, given he was part of
similar performances while on loan
at Arsenal last season.
hArsenal manager can no White is an upgrade on Holding,
but he was part of the defence who
longer plead poverty but must conceded two goals at newly pro-
find leaders among group of moted Brentford on the opening
weekend. These are early days, of
young summer signings course, but a trip to Manchester
City before the international break

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or the Arsenal fans, it must suggests that things will get worse
have felt like they had never for Arteta and Arsenal before they
been away. The pre-match get better.
excitement, heightened by the There were plenty of empty seats
reintroduction of Martin Odegaard, on view for Arsenal’s first match at a
was followed by a promising start fully open Emirates for 18 months,
under sunny skies. But, as was oh so and the Chelsea fans sang “Is there a
predictable, the sky quickly fell in. fire drill?” as the supporters who did
By half-time the supporters were turn up flooded out early.
booing and the clouds had gathered There could be even more tickets
over the Emirates. on general sale before the next
Those in red who stayed for the visitors, Norwich City, arrive, when
final whistle booed even louder, but Arsenal could easily still be stuck on
by then the majority of the home zero points.
fans had made for the exits. And who There are at least a couple of rea-
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could blame them? sons for optimism in the shapes of

Odegaard was not signed perma- Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith
nently from Real Madrid in time to Rowe, who had their moments
make his second Arsenal debut and against the European champions.
Ben White was the latest player to y g at the Emirates for the
Playing
be ruled out with Covid-19, so Albert first time sinc
since his European Cham-
Sambi Lokonga was the only one of Under pressure: ond-half display suggested Arteta back, including Thomas mas Partey and pe
pionship penalty shoot-out miss,
the club’s £125 million summer Mikel Arteta used the half-time break well, but it Gabriel Magalhaes, s, but this still Saka received a huge cheer from the
signings to start against Chelsea. watches his side was already too late by then and it is looks like a group of players short of Arsenal fans and generous applause
Goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale, struggle, while hard to fathom why he did not, or real leaders. from the Chelsea supporters
who cost more than the £20 million Pierre-Emerick could not, make tactical alterations With club captain ain Pierre- ahead of k kick-off.
Arsenal sold Emiliano Martinez for, Aubameyang (right) sooner from the touchline. Emerick Aubameyang ang starting It was the winger who pro-
was on the substitutes’ bench along came off the bench Arteta has big players to come on the bench, Granit nit Xhaka, a vided two nervous moments for
with Nuno Tavares. The left-back player Arsenal were e more than Chelsea, going down under a
may have helped to stifle Chelsea’s open to selling at thehe start of the challenge from James inside the
threat down the right through Arsenal’s miserable start transfer window, took ook the arm- penalty area towards the end of the
Reece James, which head coach band yesterday, but ut there was first half and an forcing Edouard
Mikel Arteta did nothing about Reece James’ first-half heat map shows Only once in history have Arsenal ponsibility on
nobody taking responsibility Mendy to tip a deflected shot over
how Arsenal were totally overwhelmed on fared worse in their opening two
during the first 45 minutes. their left side. By the time Mikel Arteta games of the season. the pitch after Chelsealsea had taken a
his crossbar after the break.
It is all very well spending a lot of could react, the game was out of reach. Points GD/GA the lead. Pablo Mari ri simply could Saka exited to a standing ovation
money and targeting young, hungry 1946-47 0 -7 not cope with Romelu elu Lukaku and when he was replaced by Aubamey-
2021-22 0 -4
players, but if the coach could not 1923-24 0 -4 was eventually booked oked for a foul ang, but the same generosity will
see that his team had major prob- 1928-29 0 -3 helsea’s record
from behind on Chelsea’s afford to Arteta if results
not be afforded
lems on the left side during a first 1954-55 0 -3 signing, before Rob b Holding fol- er
and p erformance s do not
1992-93 0 -3
half in which James assisted and 2018-19 0 -3 lowed him into the book at the end improv quickly. No longer
improve
scored, then there cannot be much This is the first time the London of the first half for a wild challenge able tot plead poverty, it is
hope for this Arsenal squad or their Direction of play side have lost their opening two on Marcos Alonso. Chelsea could f the coach to prove
time for
beleaguered fans. An improved sec- games without scoring. have barely believed ved how easily his cre
credentials.
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Kane returns to
bolster Spurs as
Alli hits the spot
By John Percy at Molineux

under Bruno Lage, their new head

Wolves
0 coach, but were ultimately tooth-
less. Tottenham, though, were still
fortunate to leave the Black Country
Tottenham
Alli 9 pen

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1 with their second successive league
The uncertainty around Harry Kane
will continue to swirl for another
eight days, but there remains little
doubt that Tottenham supporters
cannot envisage a future without
him.
Kane was introduced 18 minutes
from time at Molineux, in his first
appearance of the season, and given
a heroic reception by the travelling
fans despite the forward’s determi-
nation to join Manchester City.
It was Nuno Espirito Santo’s first
return to Wolves since his depar-
ture in May, with Tottenham secur-
ing a scarcely deserved victory
through a Dele Alli penalty, his first
league goal since March 2020. But it
was Kane’s appearance that will
dominate most conversations.
For 72 minutes there was a chill-
ing vision of how Spurs could look
without their talisman, with Son
g-min enduring an
Heung-min
win of the campaign.
If there were any fears over Kane
being subjected to hostility from
Tottenham’s fans, they disappeared
here. He was also given a warm ova-
tion at the final whistle as he went to
applaud them.
City remain determined to strike
a deal for the England international,
while Kane is also keen to pursue a
move to the champions. Tottenham
are refusing to sell but, on this evi-
dence, his legacy with supporters
will be untarnished if he does move
before Aug 31.
Spurs went ahead with their first
threatening moment on goal – and it
ultimately proved decisive.
Alli was released into the penalty
area by Sergio Reg uilon and
upended by Wolves goalkeeper Jose
Sa. With Kane on the bench, Alli was
given penalty duties and his deliv-
ery into the corner was clinical.
Nuno said: “Dele did a very good
job and he worked very hard. He
scored in the beginning of the
game and in the last min-
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afternoon
oon of frustration t
utes of the game he Back in the fold: Wantaway striker Harry Kane tussles for the ball with Leander Dendoncker after being introduced in the 72nd minute
in attack.
ck. r
was running all
Kanee was on the over the pitch, so Lage, meanwhile, will be wonder- Lage said: “This is the way we those incredibly rare afternoons
Tottenham
ham bench tha shows the
that ing how he has started life in Eng- want to play and the game stayed in where he was ineffectual.
for thee first time lev of fitness
level lish football with no points. our hands for 90 minutes. After 70 minutes, the away fans
since December th he has and
that Wolves were full of verve and vig- “We had 25 attempts to score one chanted Kane’s name and he was
fter missing
2018, after th belief that
the our, responding well after going goal, but I challenge the players to finally introduced to rapturous
the twowo game s he has. A huge, behind with their attacking intent play this way. The most important applause, with England manager
againstt Manches- hu help.
huge hinting at the approach Lage will be thing is to score goals. Gareth Southgate watching from
ter City and “A l l t h e trying to instill. “I believe in my work and the the stands.
Pacos de Fer- team worked Adama Traore was devastating on players believed in me from the first Kane was a menace in his brief
reira. He was v e r y h a rd . the wing, tormenting right-back day. We are confident with the pro- cameo, forcing a save from Sa after
sorely Y
You know it Japhet Tanganga, who had per- cess and we will continue to grow advancing into the area, and spark-
missed.. was not the best formed so well against City the pre- up as a team.” ing the visitors into some life.
ves
Wolves of ou
our games, but vious weekend and was given There was also a return for Raul Wolves finished strongly but
ated
dominated wh
when you can- another difficult afternoon. Jimenez, the Wolves forward mak- could not find the crucial equaliser,
for long not play as good Traore is a target for Tottenham ing his first home appearance in with Nuno completing a satisfactory
periodss as you want you and if he could finish then even big- nine months since sustaining a frac- return to the club he served for four
ne to do your
need ger clubs would be queuing up to tured skull. years.
Embrace: Nuno ta
tasks well and sign him. He wasted a glorious sec- Without Kane, Tottenham were A perfect start for Tottenham, but
Espirito Santo th boys did
the ond-half chance with only Hugo devoid of a threat going forward. there is more to come with the Kane
with Harry Kane am
amazing.” Lloris to beat. Son was isolated and having one of transfer saga.

Arsenal handed easier path into one of four sides (five teams were
seeded, but they could not meet
City) and they have been pitted
stage of the competition this term
after finishing second to Paris
St-Germain in last season’s French
path” for the sides who won their
leagues last season.
Five clubs will go through from

Champions League group stage against by far the least dangerous of

By Tom Garry WOMEN’S FOOTBALL REPORTER
Arsenal avoided the big hitters in
the Women’s Champions League
second-round draw, but Manches-
ter City face a high-profile meeting
with Real Madrid.
Relative newcomers to the wom-
en’s game, Real Madrid do not yet
pose the same threat in Europe as
they do in men’s football, and both
English clubs will be favourites to
progress through their two-leg ties,
albeit Real will be no pushovers.
Arsenal, who were unseeded for
the draw, knew they could only face
that quartet in Slavia Prague, whom
they thrashed 13-2 on aggregate in
2019.
The alternatives were seven-time
champions Lyon, five-time finalists
Wolfsburg or new Arsenal coach
Jonas Eidevall’s former club, Rosen-
gard, who reached last year ’s
quarter-finals.
Lyon are Europe’s most success-
ful and best-funded women’s side,
but they are entering at this early
top flight.
Only with victory in this second
round can teams join the group
stage, where clubs including
defending champions Barcelona
and last year’s beaten finalists,
Chelsea, will join the competition.
The Women’s Champions League
has never previously had this group-
stage format.
The qualification route was split
into a “league path” for non-domes-
tic champions and a “champions
the league path, plus seven from the
champions path, to join the four
already through, in the 16-team
group stage, which will be broadcast
live on streaming platform DAZN.
The new English league season
begins on the weekend of Sept 3-5.
League path, second-round draw Levante v Lyon,
Arsenal v Slavia Prague, Real Madrid v Manchester City,
Wolfsburg v Bordeaux, Rosengard v Hoffenheim.
Champions path Glasgow City v Servette FC Chenois,
Juventus v Vllaznia, FC Twente v Benfica.
First legs to be played on Aug 31/Sept 1; second legs to
be played Sept 8-9.
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United ‘lose way’ to give early ammunition
By Jeremy Wilson CHIEF SPORTS REPORTER at St Mary’s Stadium
Southampton
Fred 30 og 1 dismantled Leeds 5-1 the previous
Manchester Utd
Greenwood 55 1 statement of intent for the season.
From a 9-0 drubbing in February to
honours even in August. Football
moves quickly and, with some pride
restored for Southampton – whose
manager, Ralph Hasenhuttl, greeted
a first point of the season like a vic-
tory – it was an afternoon that also
prompted familiar questions for
Manchester United under Ole Gun-
nar Solskjaer.
An away draw to equal an all-time
Premier League record of 27 straight
games unbeaten on the road is
Rough ride: Jack
Stephens makes
his presence felt
with a robust
challenge on
playmaker Bruno
Fernandes, which
leads to Saints
scoring
Lenient referees must not turn
football into rugby, says Solskjaer
By Jeremy Wilson
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer expressed
alarm that English football had
veered from non-contact volleyball
or basketball to rugby with its leni-
ent refereeing approach following
what he thought was a clear foul in
the build-up to Southampton’s goal.
Jack Stephens stepped across
Bruno Fernandes, knocking him
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hardly cause for despair but, having
week, this was arguably an even
more significant chance to make a
United had fought back from the
concession of a controversial early
goal to equalise through Mason
Greenwood but then, with the game
at their mercy, faltered inexplicably
and only averted defeat when Adam
Armstrong missed two late chances.
Even Solskjaer, whose glass is
usually half full, rued how his team
“lost our way” and offered up
“maybe tiredness and sloppiness” as
potential explanations. “We gave
their crowd something to cheer
about and they had some dangerous
moments,” he said. United will
down, before Che Adams’s shot
deflected off Fred and past David de
Gea. The United players were furi-
ous as Fernandes lay on the ground,
and while Solskjaer was unhappy
with his team’s immediate reaction,
he joined Jurgen Klopp, the Liver-
pool manager, in questioning the
new refereeing approach.
clearly improve when Edinson
Cavani returns and their new sign-
ings settle, but this only reinforced a
feeling that they will again struggle
to deliver a serious title challenge.
Liverpool, Manchester City and
Chelsea have got used to winning
the biggest trophies since Sir Alex
Ferguson departed the main stage
in 2013 and, having got Southamp-
ton on the ropes, it would have been
hard to imagine any of those three
not landing the knockout blow.
Central midfield looked like Unit-
ed’s area of greatest concern and,
with Nemanja Matic rather than
Scott McTominay paired alongside
Fred, there was a distinctly work-
manlike feel to much of their play.
With new signings Jadon Sancho
and Raphael Varane on United’s
bench, Hasenhuttl huttl named two
“We can’t go from one extreme,
from volleyball or basketball last
year, to rugby,” Solskjaer said. “I like
the more lenient way – it’s more
men’s football – but it’s a clear foul,
he goes straight through Bruno. You
can see early on with the fans as
well, it gets the crowd going when
you fly into a few tackles, and we did
suffer a few tackles.”
Solskjaer also warned that the
added leniency would cause inju-
ries, and accused Southampton of
unfairly rough tactics. “You know
what they are going to do, kick our
players, and there are quite a few
fouls the referee has let go,” he said.
“If that is the way they want to go,
Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph
defensive regulars – Kyle Walker-
Peters and Jan Bednarek – among
the Southampton substitutes. It
meant a different back four from
most of last season and a lack of
familiarity felt significant early on as
Southampton wobbled. A cross by
Bruno Fernandes first bounced up
off Paul Pogba and onto the cross-
bar, with Mohammed Salisu then
producing a goal-line clearance to
deny Anthony Martial.
One home fan was holding a sign
that read, “JWP thanks for staying –
loyalty matters” and, with captain
James Ward-Prowse leading by
example after signing a five-year
contract last week, Southampton
began finding the tempo that is their
hallmark under Hasenhuttl.
Armstrong was supporting Che
Adams in his relentless pressing
we will get injuries. Hopefully we
can find a middle way.”
Of his team’s hesitancy and appar-
ent expectation that Craig Pawson,
the referee, would award a foul, Sol-
skjaer said: “We should do better. If
you don’t get a foul, we should make
a block, put a body on the line and
make sure there is no shot on target.
“We did well to get the goal, build
pressure, and we had another five or
six minutes with a good spell. Then
we lost our way a little bit.”
Klopp had suggested following
his team’s 2-0 win against Burnley
on Saturday that the Premier League
would turn into “wrestling”, after
highlighting a series of unpunished
of Harry Maguire and, while United
complained loudly, a greater accept-
ance this season from referees of
a  more physical approach was
clearly evident.
Jack Stephens stepped in front of
Fernandes to win back possession
Up and away: Manchester
United have now equalled
27 the top flight’s longest
unbeaten away run, set by
Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’
and, following a quick exchange of
passes between Moussa Djenepo,
Armstrong and then Adams while
United appealed for a foul, the ball
nestled into the corner of David de
Gea s goal. Replays
Gea’s R confirmed a
Che Adams then
the
takes his chance
chanc
to go through tthe
back of Fernand
Fernandes
to leave Ole
Solskjaer
Gunnar Solskjae
(left) fuming
challenges. “There’s no fouls any
more?” he said. “We have to stick to
protecting the players. Watch wres-
tling if you like those things.”
United striker Mason Greenwood
was adamant that Fernandes had
been fouled. “I think it’s come
through the back of him – if there’s a
foul, there’s a foul,” he said.
Ralph Hasenhuttl, the Southamp-
ton manager, said he supported the
new approach and hoped it would
reward what he called Southamp-
ton’s “aggressive, pressing” style.
“I’m happy not every touch is a
foul,” he said. “This is what the Pre-
mier League was famous for. It is
more robust – it is a good thing.”
The Daily Telegraph Monday 23 August 2021
to title doubters
decisive deflection off Fred follow-
ing Adams’s shot.
The hosts might have doubled
their lead when Tino Livramento,
their new 18-year-old full-back from
Chelsea, surged down the right but
his cross narrowly evaded Arm-
strong. Hasenhuttl later described
Livramento as one of England’s best
young players. “He has everything,
the physique, speed, quality on the
ball and the right mindset,” he said.
Southampton switched to five at
the back at half-time but remained
defensively fragile and, after 55
minutes, United produced the
equaliser that their control of pos-
session had increasingly threatened.
Pogba was the creator, linking
with Fernandes before teeing up
Greenwood, whose effort squirmed
through the legs of Salisu and South-
Apology as fans shut out of St Mary’s for kick-off
By Jeremy Wilson
Southampton have apologised after
a problem scanning tickets left
numerous fans unable to gain entry
to St Mary’s in time for kick-off.
The issue was unconnected to
any new Covid-19 procedures and
the club have pledged an investiga-
tion and a full refund to all general
admission ticket-holders following
their first game at a fully operational
stadium since the pandemic began.
“We know you have waited 16
months to be at a full stadium of fans
ampton goalkeeper Alex McCarthy.
With Sancho coming on and Green-
wood moving to a more central
striker’s position, United created a
further flurry of chances. Pogba
shot wide and Fernandes had a
header blocked by McCarthy, before
a mistake by Maguire gift-wrapped
Armstrong a clear sight of goal. De
Gea saved, but the hosts forced a
corner from which Armstrong was
unable to head them to victory.
Hasenhuttl still greeted the final
whistle with a clenched fist and a
cry of “yes”. He was later asked
about his new touchline look –
waistcoat, trousers and sparkling
white trainers – in place of the usual
tracksuit.
“When it brings [points], I’ll do
any thing – bathing shorts or
Speedos,” the Austrian replied.
Frustrated: Supporters outside the stadium
getting behind the team and today’s
issues will have tainted that experi-
ence for a large number of you,” said
managing director Toby Steele.
Referee’s view
By Keith Hackett
‘Light-touch’ officials can still get tough
J
urgen Klopp made a
characteristically outspoken
comment about his Liverpool
players having to endure a
“wrestling match” against Burnley
and the Premier League being in
danger of going backwards 10 to 15
years.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the
Manchester United manager, was
also aggrieved at the way his side
conceded a goal at Southampton
and used a rugby analogy to talk
about the home side’s rugged
approach.
Klopp was clearly making
reference to the new “lighter-
touch” approach that the
Professional Game Match Officials
Limited has adopted at the
top-flight clubs’ request after the
success of Euro 2020.
I have to say I am bemused by
the Liverpool manager’s outburst,
which I think was ill-informed and
unfair, and I think most observers
feel that way.
Klopp, like all managers in the
Premier League, will have attended
pre-season meetings where this
new approach will have been
discussed.
Mike Dean, the official in charge
of the Liverpool v Burnley game,
delivered a top-class performance
Leicester avoid need to sell in pursuit of top four
By John Percy
Since winning the Premier League
in 2016, Leicester City have often
been victims of their own success.
Perhaps, that is finally about to end.
Over the past five summers they
have sold N’Golo Kante, Danny
Drinkwater, Riyad Mahrez, Harry
Maguire and Ben Chilwell and raked
in nearly £260 million in transfer
fees.
Due to their resources being
smaller than the established “Big
Six”, the policy of selling a star
player every year has been the club
model, even if it was sometimes
difficult for supporters to accept.
This year, however, the Leicester
squad could finally survive a
summer unscathed.
Barring any unwanted and unex-
pected late drama, coveted players
such as Youri Tielemans, James
Maddison and Wilfred Ndidi will be
staying at the King Power Stadium
for the new campaign.
Maddison, the attacking mid-
fielder, had been on the radar of
Arsenal, but the signing of Martin
Odegaard from Real Madrid last
week has now totally closed down
any possibility of a deal taking the
player away from Leicester.
The impact of Covid-19 on foot-
ball’s finances cannot be overstated,
but Leicester are now in a far
stronger position than ever before.
Their growth and progress under
Brendan Rodgers is clear to see, and
the target of Champions League
and has certainly adapted to the
lighter touch.
Remember, in previous seasons
his average yellow card count was
in excess of four per game. This
weekend he did not reach into his
pocket once to produce a card of
any colour. I looked closely at
Dean’s performance and could not
find reasons for Klopp’s claims.
I agree with Gary Lineker’s
observation that the German’s
remarks may have been designed
to influence the match officials in
charge of next Saturday’s big match
at Anfield against Chelsea.
If Klopp ever has any concerns
about the referee’s performance he
can enter the official’s dressing
room 30 minutes after the game
and seek clarification on any point.
He can also telephone PGMOL
chief Mike Riley and discuss his
concerns.
There is no doubt in my mind
that when we get to the business
end of the season – and this might
be in less than two months – the
more relaxed style of refereeing
will come under pressure to
change. It is important for PGMOL
to hold regular meetings with
referees and club managers to get
a feel of any tweaks that need to be
made. Information from clubs
football is firmly in their sights.
Rodgers said: “Over the years those
players felt the need to move on and
further their careers, which is abso-
lutely fine as that’s the nature of the
game. Some of the biggest clubs in
the world will lose their players.
“You’ve always got to be prepar-
ing this pipeline of players so if
you  do lose them, you’ve got the
nex t one s coming in. That ’s
something we’re very clear on here
at the club.
“This summer, the players have
been able to reflect on where we are
at as a team and a club to move
forward, and they feel they want to
be a part of that. That’s great news.
“There’s obviously been things
around James this summer [the
links with Arsenal], but the reality is
In the money How club have
profited from big-name sales
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giving statistics on player injuries
will also need to be monitored.
We must also remember that this
entertaining light-touch approach
does not exonerate referees from
applying red and yellow cards
where appropriate.
Solskjaer had justification for
feeling aggrieved. There was a
clear foul on Bruno Fernandes in
the build-up to the Southampton
goal. Referee Craig Pawson should
have awarded a free-kick. It was an
outrageous call, but had nothing to
do with lighter-touch officiating.
That aside, I have to compliment
the referees this weekend,
especially those who, at the request
of the Var, visited the pitchside
monitors and were prepared to
change their minds having taken
another look at the incident.
This weekend we also witnessed
close offside calls, however when
the dual lines (what we refer to as
the broadcast and datum line) were
shown on screen, it was evident
they were not touching, so players
were correctly ruled offside.
So Riley, why not pick up the
phone today and have a chat with
Klopp after you have determined
who is going to referee Chelsea v
Liverpool? My choice would be
Michael Oliver.
West Ham v Leicester
8pm, Sky Sports
there was never an inquiry or a bid
made. There has been no drama
there.”
Tielemans, the Belgium interna-
tional, remains in talks over a new
contract and Leicester are quietly
confident he will commit his future
to the club. Leicester have also
recruited well again this summer,
with Patson Daka, Boubakary Sou-
mare, Jannik Vestergaard and Ryan
Bertrand the new arrivals.
After missing out on the top four
on the final day two seasons run-
ning, the objective will be to finally
make that next step under Rodgers.
This season, West Ham will rep-
resent one of the threats to that mis-
sion and Leicester lost both games
in the Premier League against David
Moyes’s side last season.
Maddison is one player who owes
ing the game in London last season
due to a breach of Covid regulations.
“I am pretty sure this will be a big
season for him,” Rodgers said. “He
was outstanding over the course of
pre-season, putting in a lot of extra
work.
“He is such a technical player
who has a wonderful view of the
game. If he stays clear of some of the
little niggles he has had, I am sure it
will be a great season for him.”
8 *** Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph

Total
Football

Jason Burt’s Team of the weekend

Aston Villa 2-0 Newcastle Attendance 41,964 Table
HOME AWAY NEXT GAME It has been an Potter, who has
Aston Villa Newcastle
6 P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts
Goalscorers Ings Subs Longstaff assured start to dealt well with
Martinez ■ 45, El Ghazi 62 pen (Hayden 46), 1 Chelsea 2 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 5 6 28/08 Liverpool (a) Lloris
6 6 7 6 the season for (Tottenham) the sale of Ben
Subs Philogene- Joelinton (Fernandez 2 Liverpool 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 0 5 6 28/08 Chelsea (h)
Cash Konsa Mings Young Bidace (Buendia 86), (g) 78), Fraser 3 Brighton 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 1 3 6 28/08 Everton (h)
Brighton. White for a
Tuanzebe (Douglas (Willock 90) Not Victories over remarkable
used Clark, Lewis, 4 Tottenham 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 6 29/08 Watford (h)
7 7 7 Luiz 89), Wesley Burnley, away, £50 million
(Ings 90) Not used Hendrick, Krafth, 5 Man Utd 2 1 0 0 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 4 4 29/08 Wolverhampton (a)
Livramento Van Dijk Stephens James
McGinn Douglas Luiz ■ Ramsey Targett, Steer (g), Gillespie (g), Gayle
6 Everton 2 1 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 2 2 2 4 28/08 Brighton (a) and at home to (Southampton) (Liverpool) (Southampton) (Chelsea) – and has even
Hourihane,
7 Brentford 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 4 28/08 Aston Villa (a) Watford are brought Shane
Nakamba, Hause,
5 8 6 Chukwuemeka 8 Man City 2 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 3 28/08 Arsenal (h) precisely the Duffy back into
Buendia ■ ★Ings★ El Ghazi 9 West Ham 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 2 2 3 23/08 Leicester (h) kind of games the fold. A
10 Aston Villa 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 3 28/08 Brentford (h) they have to win Bissouma Alli Elliott more consistent
(Brighton) (Tottenham) (Liverpool)
6 5 11 Leicester 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 23/08 West Ham (a) if they are to goalscorer – and
Referee D Coote (Nottinghamshire) 12 Watford 2 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 2 -1 3 29/08 Tottenham (a) continue to Brighton are
Saint-Maximin Wilson ■
2 Shots on target 1 13 Southampton 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 1 28/08 Newcastle (a) establish looking – would
5 6 5 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
9 Shots off target 8 14 Crystal Pal 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 -3 1 28/08 West Ham (a) themselves in Jesus Lukaku Ings make a
Almiron Willock Hayden ■ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 15 Leeds 2 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 5 -4 1 29/08 Burnley (a) the Premier
(Man City) (Chelsea) (Aston Villa)
significant
5 4 3 Corners 4
16 Wolves 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -2 0 29/08 Man Utd (h) League under difference and
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Ritchie
4 5 5 Murphy ■ 8 Fouls committed 17 17 Burnley 2 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 2 -3 0 29/08 Leeds (h) their shrewd might just turn
Lascelles Fernandez Schar ■ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 18 Newcastle 2 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 1 0 2 -4 0 28/08 Southampton (h)
3 Offsides 2 manager Manager: Graham Potter
them into a
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5 Graham (Brighton) top-half team.
49 Possession% 51 20 Norwich 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 5 -8 0 28/08 Leicester (h)
Woodman ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙

Brighton 2-0 Watford Attendance 29,485 Crystal Palace 0-0 Brentford Attendance 23,091 Leeds 2-2 Everton Attendance 36,293

Brighton Watford Crystal Palace Brentford Leeds Everton

6 6 8
Goalscorers Duffy Subs Hernandez Subs Ayew (Schlupp Subs Ghoddos Goalscorers Klich Goalscorers
Sanchez 10, Maupay 41 (Louza 46), King Guaita Meslier 41, Raphinha 72 Calvert-Lewin 30
6 6 7 7 68) Not used (Onyeka 70), Wissa
(Cathcart 65), (Mbeumo 77), 5 7 5 pen, Gray 50
Webster ■ Duffy ■ Dunk March ■
Subs Connolly
Deeney (Sema 78)
5 6 7 6 Matthews (g), Subs Shackleton
(Maupay 46), Butland, Tomkins, Bidstrup (Janelt 87) (Firpo 60), Roberts Subs Townsend
Not used Foster (g), Ward ■ Andersen ■ Guehi Mitchell Not used Fernandez, Ayling Struijk Cooper ■
Mwepu ■ (Trossard Mateta, Kelly, (Klich 60) Not used (Iwobi 75), Delph
8 6 8 72), Moder (Lallana Ngakia, Rose, Riedewald, Rak-Sakyi Goode, Forss, 8 Forshaw, Klaesson (Gray 83), Kean
80) Not used Fletcher, Sierralta, 6 Dervisoglu, 6 5
Trossard Lallana ★Bissouma★ Baah 7 6 Sorensen, Roerslev Phillips (g), Helder Costa, (Calvert-Lewin 90)
Alzate, Zeqiri, Steele Dallas Firpo Rodrigo, Cresswell, Not used Kenny,
Gallagher Kouyate McArthur 7
7 6 (g), Caicedo, Drameh, Holgate, Begovic (g),
Gross Mac Allister Roberts, Richards Klich Summerville Gbamin, Davies,
7 6 6 5 7 7 6
Branthwaite
Maupay Zaha Benteke ■ Schlupp Raphinha Bamford ■ Harrison

6 5 6 6
Bonaventure Referee A Taylor (Cheshire) Referee M Atkinson (West Yorkshire) Calvert-Lewin Referee D England (South Yorkshire)
Toney Mbeumo
3 Shots on target 1 2 Shots on target 3 8 6 7 4 Shots on target 8
6 4 6 6 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
6 6 ★Gray★ Richarlison Iwobi
Sema Louza Cleverley Sarr 10 Shots off target 9 7 7 7 5 Shots off target 11 13 Shots off target 9
6 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Henry Canos ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 7 7 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
7 Corners 2 Janelt Norgaard ■ Onyeka 3 Corners 5 8 Corners 5
Etebo ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Allan Doucoure ■ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
11 6 7 7 8 10 8 6 12
5 6 5 6 Fouls committed Fouls committed 6 5 4 6 Fouls committed
❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Pinnock Jansson ★Ajer★ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
Masina Kabasele Troost-Ekong Cathcart 1 Offsides 1 1 Offsides 2 Digne ■ Keane Mina ■ Coleman ■ 0 Offsides 0
5 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 7 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 6 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
55 Possession% 45 50 Possession% 50 66 Possession% 34
Bachmann ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Raya ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Pickford ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙

Liverpool 2-0 Burnley Attendance 52,591 Man City 5-0 Norwich Attendance 51,437 Arsenal 0-2 Chelsea Attendance 58,729

Liverpool Burnley Man City Norwich Arsenal Chelsea

7 Goalscorers Jota Subs Rodriguez
6 7 Subs Aubameyang
Goalscorers Krul 7 Subs Mumba Goalscorers Lukaku
Alisson 18, Mane 69 (Wood 75), Pieters Ederson og, Grealish 22, (Giannoulis 46), Leno (Saka 61), Tavares 15, James 35
(Gudmundsson 79) (Tierney 66),
7 8 8 7 Subs Thiago (Keita
Not used Hennessey 8 7 7 6 Laporte 64, Sterling McLean (Rupp 46), 4 5 4 6 Balogun (Martinelli
Subs Kante (Kovacic
81), Firmino (Jota 71, Mahrez 84 Sargent (Pukki 77) 72), Ziyech (Mount
Alexander- ★Matip★ Van Dijk Tsimikas 81), Gomez (g), Collins, Norris, Walker Dias Laporte Cancelo Not used Dowell, Cedric Holding ■ Pablo Mari ■ Tierney 79) Not used
Subs Sterling 82), Werner
Arnold Bardsley, Thomas, Tzolis, Sorensen, Maitland-Niles,
(Tsimikas 90) Not
Richardson, Dodgson (Torres 61), Palmer 6 5 Chambers, Nelson,
(Havertz 90) Not
8 7 7 used Konate, Adrian, 7 7 7 (Gundogan 69), Gunn (g), Idah,
Sambi Lokonga ■ Xhaka Elneny, Kolasinac,
used Arrizabalaga
Jones, Minamino, Omobamidele (g), Thiago Silva,
Elliott Henderson Keita Robertson, Kelleher
Gundogan ■ Rodri Bernardo Mahrez (Grealish 75) 6 Ramsdale (g)
Not used Ake, Chalobah, Zouma,
(g) Zinchenko, Steffen
5 Smith Rowe 6 Hudson-Odoi,
7 8 7 9 6 6 (g), Mendy, Pepe 5 Saka Chilwell
★Jesus★ Torres Grealish Fernandinho, Doyle
Salah Jota Mane Martinelli

6 6 8
Wood Referee M Dean (Wirral) 5 4 5 Referee G Scott (Oxfordshire) Referee P Tierney (Lancashire)
Barnes Lukaku
Cantwell Pukki Rashica 7 7
8 Shots on target 3 4 Shots on target 0 3 Shots on target 5
❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Havertz Mount ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
7 5 5 5 19 Shots off target 6 5 5 3 12 Shots off target 1 3 Shots off target 17
McNeil Brownhill Cork Gudmundsson ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Lees-Melou Gilmour Rupp ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 7 7 7 9 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
8 Corners 4 6 Corners 1 Alonso Kovacic Jorginho ★James★
9 Corners 8
❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
6 6 6 6 6 Fouls committed 12 3 4 4 5 13 Fouls committed 6 7 7 7 10 Fouls committed 3
❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Giannoulis Gibson Hanley Aarons ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Rudiger Christensen Azpilicueta
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Taylor Mee Tarkowski Lowton 3 Offsides 7 2 Offsides 3 5 Offsides 0
6 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 6 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 7 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
66 Possession% 34 67 Possession% 33 37 Possession% 63
Pope ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Krul ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Mendy ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙

Southampton 1-1 Man Utd Wolverhampton 0-1 Tottenham Attendance 30,368 West Ham v Leicester Tonight 8pm
Southampton Man Utd Wolverhampton Tottenham TV Sky Sports
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Goalscorer Fred 30 Goalscorer Subs Dendoncker Goalscorer Alli 10 Probable teams
McCarthy Jose Sa (Joao Moutinho 72), pen Fabianski
og Greenwood 55
7 7 6 6 Subs Bednarek Subs Sancho 7 7 6
Silva (Saiss 84), Ait
Subs Lo Celso (Lucas 5 15 21 3 West Ham
Nouri (Trincao 84)
Livramento Stephens ■ Salisu Perraud (Walcott 46), Diallo (Martial 59), Moura 67), Kane ■ Coufal Dawson Ogbonna Cresswell
Kilman Coady Saiss Not used Hoever,
(Djenepo 70), McTominay (Fred (Son 72), Winks
Gibbs-White, Ruddy
Walker-Peters 76), Lingard (Matic (g), Cundle,
(Bergwijn 90) Not 41 28
6 7 7 5 (Perraud 79) Not 86) Not used Mata, 7 6 8 6 Marques, Campbell
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Walcott Ward-Prowse Romeu Djenepo ■ used Long, Varane, Dalot,
Nelson Joao ★Neves★ Marcal Sessegnon, Gollini
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Redmond, Tella, James, Heaton (g),
van de Beek Semedo Moutinho (g), Davies, Scarlett Bowen Benrahma Fornals Out Masuaku (knee).
Elyounoussi, Valery,
7 6 Forster (g) 6 6 7 9
★Adams★ Armstrong Trincao Jimenez ■ Traore Antonio

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Martial Referee C Pawson (South Yorkshire)
Bergwijn Son Lucas Moura
Referee S Attwell (Warwickshire) Vardy Leicester
7 6 6 3 Shots on target 3 6 Shots on target 6 7 10 17
Pogba ■ Bruno Fernandes ■ Greenwood ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
5 12 6 6 6 19 2 Barnes Maddison Perez
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Shots off target
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Shots off target
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6 6 6 6 12 Fouls committed 10 6 7 6 5 9 Fouls committed 7 33 4 18 25 (coronavirus), Evans (foot).
Shaw Maguire ■ Lindelof Wan-Bissaka ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Reguilon Dier Sanchez Tanganga ■ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Thomas Soyuncu Amartey Pereira
0 Offsides 2 2 Offsides 0
6 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 7 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 1
35 Possession% 65 60 Possession% 40 Referee M Oliver (Northumberland)
De Gea ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Lloris ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Schmeichel
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Plymouth (7), Watford v Crystal Palace, Wigan v Peterboro’ 4 1 1 0 4 3 0 0 2 0 4 -3 4 Lincoln City 4 1 0 1 2 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 4 Port Vale 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 -1 3 Livingston 1-2 Motherwell
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Blackpool 4 0 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 3 3 -3 2 Crewe 4 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 3 -4 1 Salford City 4 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 2 -2 2 (5,295)
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Godden 90 (4,187) (1,564) Inverness 3 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 9
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Edinburgh City v Elgin.
Carvalho 34 Johnson 81 May 87 Vernam 61 Hamilton 3 0 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 4 4 -3 1
Kick-off 3 unless stated Morris 90 (2,392) (6,058) Cook 87
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Dunfermline 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 2 2 -3 1
Premier League Roberts 7 Carayol 4 Stockton 25 Guthrie 21 Taylor 17
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Sky Bet Championship
(9,952)
(18,622)
O’Riley 75
(3,496)
Chilvers 12 League 1
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QPR 2-2 Barnsley
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Event), Fulham v Stoke, Huddersfield v Reading, Hull v Austin 90 Woodrow 27 Gregory 77 (2,229) Montrose 4 1 1 0 3 2 2 0 0 5 0 6 10
AFC Bournemouth, Luton v Sheffield Utd, (11,522)
Falkirk 4 2 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 3 2 5 10
Middlesbrough v Blackburn, Millwall v Blackpool, Sheffield Utd 1-2 Huddersfield Shrewsbury 0-3 Plymouth Scunthorpe 1-1 Sutton Utd
Preston North End v Swansea, QPR v Coventry, Sharp 90 Koroma 75 Hardie 24, 65 Scrimshaw 51 Wilson 84 Queen’s Pk 4 2 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 2 2 5 8
Peterborough v West Brom (8, Sky Sp Main Event). Colwill 90 Jephcott 50 (2,429) Cove Rangers 4 1 1 0 6 3 1 0 1 3 3 3 7
(28,036) (5,737)
Sky Bet League One Alloa 4 1 1 0 4 2 0 0 2 1 4 -1 4
Cambridge Utd v Bolton, Charlton v Crewe, Ipswich v Stoke 1-0 Nottingham Forest Sunderland 1-0 AFC Wimbledon Stevenage 1-1 Port Vale
Tymon 66 Winchester 64 Norris 33 Rodney 20 Dumbarton 4 0 1 1 3 5 1 0 1 3 3 -2 4
AFC Wimbledon, Milton Keynes Dons v Accrington,
(21,346) (29,093) (2,727) Airdrie 4 0 0 2 1 5 1 1 0 5 4 -3 4
Morecambe v Sheffield Wednesday, Oxford Utd v
Lincoln City, Plymouth v Fleetwood, Rotherham v Clyde 4 1 0 1 2 4 0 1 1 2 5 -5 4
Doncaster (1), Shrewsbury v Gillingham, Sunderland v Bristol City 0-1 Swansea Wycombe 1-0 Lincoln City Tranmere 0-1 Newport Co
Piroe 19 Vokes 3 Fisher 60 Peterhead 4 1 0 1 4 3 0 0 2 1 3 -1 3
Wycombe, Wigan v Portsmouth. (20,139) (6,160) East Fife 4 0 1 1 1 3 0 0 2 3 8 -7 1
Sky Bet League Two (Friday)
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Fife 0 Montrose 2-Falkirk 3 Clyde 0-Peterhead 2
Green v Port Vale, Harrogate Tn v Exeter, Hartlepool v Airdrieonians 3.
Carlisle, Leyton Orient v Bradford, Salford City v Vanarama League
Newport Co, Scunthorpe v Tranmere, Sutton Utd v League 2
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Ayr v Raith, Dunfermline v Arbroath, Kilmarnock v Forfar 4 1 1 0 4 2 1 1 0 3 1 4 8
Altrincham 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 2 3 Spennymoor 2 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 2 1 2 6 Bath City 2 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 6
Inverness CT, Partick v Morton, Queen of the South v
Chesterfield 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 3 Brackley 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 6 Stirling 4 0 0 1 1 3 2 0 1 5 3 0 6
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Braintree 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 4
Airdrieonians v Alloa, Clyde v Cove Rangers, East Fife v Maidenhead 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 3 Farsley Celtic 2 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 4 Cowdenbth 3 1 0 0 3 1 0 1 1 1 3 0 4
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Peterhead, Falkirk v Queen’s Park, Montrose v Woking 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 3 Albion 4 1 1 1 4 3 0 0 1 0 3 -2 4
AFC Telford 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 Hamp & Rich 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 5 0 4 3
Dumbarton. Edinburgh C 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 5 -4 3
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Dorking 2 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 3
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10 ***
Klopp answers the
Wijnaldum question
with teenage talent
By Chris Bascombe at Anfield
hHarvey Elliott revels in his
key role as Liverpool overcome
Burnley 2-0 to suggest Dutch
midfielder may not be missed
I
t is a measure of Liverpool’s
serene start to the Premier
League season that the club’s
hierarchy are yet to face what
might be called “the Georginio
Wijnaldum question”.
Apprehensive supporters have
asked why the void in the centre of
their midfield was not filled follow-
ing Wijnaldum’s contentious depar-
ture to Paris St-Germain.
When Liverpool lined up against
Norwich City without Jordan Hen-
derson and Fabinho, and then called
up an 18-year-old for Saturday’s visit
of Burnley, you can imagine
thoughts were drifting towards the
much-admired Dutchman.
To lose such an established player
on a free transfer might have been
considered careless; to fail to replace
him with a player of comparable
pedigree looked negligent.
Instead, laments for Wijnaldum’s
absence have been drowned out by
the appreciation of the performance
of teenager Harvey Elliott.
He is not a direct replacement for
Wijnaldum, though. Elliott’s profile
is significantly different, playing
higher up the pitch and more likely
to pick a pass for overlapping full-
backs than to slot into a defensive
role to cover their runs.
And anyone expecting an 18-year-
old to easily replace a Holland inter-
national who featured in all but 11 of
Liverpool’s 190 Premier League
games – as Wijnaldum did over his
five years – is being unreasonably
ambitious. But should Elliott’s
promise be realised, Liverpool’s
recruiters can expect more credit.
They signed Elliott from Fulham
when he was 16, helped by a combi-
nation of their scouting and the fact
the youngster and his father are
Liverpool fans who followed the
club around Europe.
Elliott’s arrival, in a deal which
may rise to £4.3 million, was offi-
cially confirmed in July 2019. Klopp
has been nurturing him in readiness
for Saturday’s full Premier League
debut, transforming him from a
wide attacker to a deeper, more ver-
satile midfielder.
A recurring criticism of Liver-
pool’s midfield has been that too
many players brought similar quali-
ties; more adept at dominating and
controlling than creating.
Whether Klopp prefers Elliott,
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Thiago
Alcantara or Curtis Jones, the signs
are that his midfield unit is evolving
again.
Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph
Total
Football
Just like Wijnaldum? Anfield’s new star
Harvey Elliott’s completed passes v Burnley Completed passes in the
attacking third vs Burnley
Elliott
19
Henderson and Salah
17
Alexander-Arnold
16
Liverpool's most frequent pass Alexander-Arnold Henderson Elliott
combinations all featured Elliott to Elliott 18 to Elliott 15 to Salah 15
Elliott, responsible for more for-
ward passes than any other Liver-
pool player on Saturday, was denied
the sweetest of assists, when his
perfectly weighted pass fell to a
narrowly offside Mohamed Salah.
But he will have enjoyed playing
a part in the game’s second goal
when he received Virgil van Dijk’s
diagonal ball and linked with Trent
Alexander-Arnold to tee up Sadio
Mane.
Elliott grew into the game. There
SIMON STACPOOLE/OFFSIDE VIA GETTY IMAGES
were some tricky moments, of
course, such as losing out to a thun-
derous 50-50 challenge with Josh
Brownhill on the edge of his own
penalty area, which led directly to
Shaqiri deal Dwight McNeil forcing Alisson
Lyon in talks Becker into a save. There was
another occasion with a clever six-
Xherdan Shaqiri yard pass to a team-mate diced with
is poised to move danger, inviting an interception
to Lyon after deep in the Liverpool half.
Liverpool These can be attributed to inex-
accepted a perience, and were overshadowed
£9.5 million offer
from the French
side.
Liverpool had
rejected an initial
by the more eye-catching qualities
which ensured Elliott was such a
menace that he was the most fouled
Liverpool player.
And Klopp’s message to Elliott
Jesus masterclass gives Gua
bid for the afterwards may have been that, hav- By Jim White at the Etihad Stadium
29-year-old ing emerged unscathed against
Switzerland
international but
Sean Dyche’s physical team, every-
one else might seem like light-
hManager hails efforts of his Eyes on the prize:
Gabriel Jesus was
But even if Kane does arrive, of
one thing we can be sure: Gabriel
Shaqiri will now weights. ‘incredible’ players as Brazilian involved in three of Jesus is going nowhere.
hold talks with When Klopp suggested he had dazzles on the wing during City’s goals in the For many observers it seemed
the Ligue 1 club, already signed a “new midfielder” – win over Norwich as likely that were City to bring in Kane
who yesterday following Elliott’s return from a loan thumping 5-0 win over Norwich he impressed as a long-term replacement for
drew 3-3 at home spell at Blackburn Rovers and the playing on the wing Aguero it would be Jesus who made
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with Clermont. signing of an extended deal – that ep Guardiola appears in no way. On Saturday he demonstrated
Shaqiri joined remark prompted more rolling of hurry. After Manchester City his value to the cause with a brilliant
Liverpool in 2018 eyes than any expectation that the brushed aside Norwich with performance, which saw him
in the wake of teenager was ready to be immedi- an ease that approached involved in three goals, with
former club Stoke ately thrust into a title-challenging disdain, he was asked, not for the another assist ruled out by Var. His
City’s relegation. team. first time, whether he was going to manager heaped praise on him, say-
Jurgen Klopp At such an early stage, it would be buy Harry Kane. His answer did not ing his parents should be proud. The
described the premature, dangerous and plain suggest a manager with a pressing interesting thing was that Jesus was
£13 million move wrong to portray Elliott as the natu- need to spend. not playing as he previously has as
as a “no-brainer”, ral, like-for-like successor to Wijnal- “When we decide to not sign a a central striker: he dazzled out on
but Shaqiri has dum. But his emergence does contract for [Sergio] Aguero and the wing.
fallen out of demonstrate to critics of Liverpool’s people say what we’re going to do, I Guardiola has always liked to
favour in recent transfer policy that perhaps, just said many times: it will depend on attack from the flanks. Already able
seasons and last perhaps, the club knew what was the market; the options,” the City to call on the services of Raheem
year was coming when they terminated the manager said. “Maybe we buy or Sterling, Riyad Mahrez and happy to
restricted to only contract negotiation with a midfield maybe we’ll not. We still have 10 play Phil Foden out there, he has
five league starts. veteran and successfully concluded days in the transfer market, we’re added Jack Grealish to his wing
the other for a precocious teenager. going to see what happens.” resources. Now Jesus has
 The Daily Telegraph Monday 23 August 2021 *** 11

Ings stunner is straight

from playbook of Villa’s
new ‘set-piece specialist’
By John Percy at Villa Park

hWonderful scissor kick and

El Ghazi penalty seal 2-0 home
win but Newcastle left to rue
two crucial refereeing decisions

T
he acrobatics and predatory
instincts of Danny Ings
cannot be coached, but the
strategy behind his wonder-
ful goal on Saturday was devised at
Aston Villa’s training ground.
Ings’s scissor kick was a sublime
moment of invention, yet the set-
piece routine was the work of a new
appointment who Villa are hoping
will further the club’s progress.
After the departure of former
England captain John Terry and
Dean Smith’s long-serving deputy
Richard O’Kelly, Austin MacPhee
was recruited this summer.
A 41-year-old Scot, MacPhee has
worked with the Mexico and North-
ern Ireland national teams and is
Villa’s “set-piece specialist”, doing
his job alongside Smith and Craig
Shakespeare. For the Ings goal, it
was MacPhee’s decision to make
more of defender Matty Cash’s long
throw, with Tyrone Mings told to
head the ball back into the danger
area. Ings was then presented with
the opportunity to deliver a brilliant
overhead kick into the top corner,
admitting after the game that the
build-up was all down to the work of
MacPhee. Villa are also close to
appointing another first-team
coach, who will effectively be the
No 3 behind Shakespeare.
The new coaching set-up under-
lines Villa’s focus on innovation and
the recognition that the key ingredi-
ent in coaching and fitness is data
and analytics.
MacPhee was also involved in the
New addition: Austin MacPhee has been
recruited to help with Villa’s set plays
upgrade for the back four, while
Ings and Ollie Watkins – who missed
Saturday’s win with a knee injury –
are effectively replacing the goals of
Jack Grealish.
Leon Bailey, the £25 million
signing from Bayer Leverkusen, was
also absent with a hamstring issue
so Smith has a variety of options.
There is no doubt that Ings is
already paying back his own
£25 million fee, with two goals in as
many games since moving from
Southampton.
Smith said: “He has a great
personality. You speak to coaches he
has worked with and everyone is
very complimentary about the sort
of lad he is.
“He has settled into our dressing
room and the standards he has will
lift the dressing room.
“I’m not only pleased with Danny
Ings the player, but Danny Ings the
person. He is a regular goalscorer at
this level, regularly up in the top
goalscorers’ chart.
“We also have Ollie, who has
missed the first couple of games, but

ardiola faith with or without Kane
The all-action Brazilian
Gabriel Jesus’ touches shows how active
he was across the pitch for Man City
Direction of play
announced himself as a more than
effective occupant of the wider
areas, he has in his squad more wide
boys than a convention of City of
London traders.
Playing on the right of a front
three with Grealish on the left and
Ferran Torres in the middle, the
Brazilian spent his afternoon driv-
ing Norwich to distraction. Not least
their manager, Daniel Farke, who
pointed out rather forlornly that his
side had somehow managed to con-
cede the same goal four times. A
Canary Groundhog Day it may have
been, but it was a very aesthetically
pleasing goal. With Torres dropping
deep, the ball would be played to
Kyle Walker. Apparently telepathi-
cally able to judge precisely where
and when Jesus was going to run,
the full-back passed in behind Nor-
wich’s hapless defenders. Here,
gifted more space than he should
have been allowed, Jesus took pos-
session, advanced a couple of strides
and whipped a devilish cross into
the box.
Guardiola talked afterwards of
the manner in which Jesus liked to
position his body being better
adapted to playing on the wing, and
whatever it was he was doing with
his hips and thighs, it worked.
Frankly it did not matter who or
what connected with his crosses –
Grant Hanley’s shin, Tim Krul’s
shoulder or Grealish’s inner thigh –
they were so precise a goal was
almost certain to be the outcome.
Watching from afar, Kane must
have been drooling at the thought of
how he might exploit that kind of
service. But even if he does not
arrive, City fans will be assured that
a position has been found for Jesus
to cause significant problems to
opponents. Maybe Sterling could be
used more often centrally, as he was
here when he came on as a substi-
tute and found himself perfectly
able to convert yet another Jesus
cross. Guardiola did not seem con-
cerned about the idea of sticking
with the hand he already has.
“If the team is the same, I’m more
than pleased with the team,” Guardi-
ola said. “The group of people are
fantastic, the players have incredi-
ble quality, so I cannot complain.
But of course, the club have an obli-
gation to look forward, to get better,
and this is what we are going to do.”
City get better than this? The rest
have been warned.
thinking behind Villa’s second goal,
again from a set-piece, which
resulted in Newcastle’s Jamaal Las-
celles handling a Mings header in
the penalty area.
Anwar El Ghazi put away the pen-
alty to secure a comfortable victory
for Villa, who performed badly at
Watford in their first match of the
season. With Villa spending £93 mil-
lion this summer on new players, it
will take time for Smith’s team to
gel, but they undoubtedly possess a
broader and deeper squad than
before. Ashley Young and Axel
Tuanzebe are already a huge
Here’s one we prepared earlier... striker’s perfectly executed goal
Ings
3 2
1 Tyrone Mings rises high
2 Mings
scored 16 goals last season.
“I expect him to be up there as
well. Hopefully we will have him
back for next week.”
This was a difficult afternoon for
Newcastle and manager Steve
Bruce, with referee David Coote the
focus of his ire after two crucial
decisions went against them.
Callum Wilson was harshly
judged to have been offside late in
the second half, after he was
upended by Villa goalkeeper Emil-
iano Martinez in the area, and Bruce
had a point when demanding more
consistency from officials.
Throw 1
Header
Matty Cash aims a long
Shoot
throw in to the box
to flick it backwards
3
Cash Danny Ings’ scissor kick
sends the ball into the net
12 ***
Weekend tactical talking points
Positive Benitez gets to
grips with fiery Leeds
Leeds United 2-2
By Arindam Rej
at Elland Road
Rafael Benitez’s first
away Premier League
test as Everton manager
was a challenge against
Marcelo Bielsa’s ener-
getic Leeds – and the
Spaniard mixed pragma-
tism with positivity to
earn a point.
Leeds had 70 per cent
of possession, but both
t e a m s h a d 17 s h o t s
apiece. Everton, though,
had twice the number of
shots on target: eight.
Benitez and Bielsa
shared a long embrace
after full time, their
Gray is pure gold
Everton winger’s tour-de-force
Goals 1 Touches
Recoveries 2 Points
Passes Successful
Shots on target,
Total (inc. Blocks)
1
Successful Passes,
ending in Final third
Clearances 3
6 2
Chances Created Dribbles Success Rate
1 0
(inc. assists)
mutual respect clear.
Their methods may dif-
fer, but both had players
willing to work hard for
them. The former Liver-
pool manager will not
have much time to win
over the sceptics – so it
was intriguing to see
how he dealt with Biel-
sa’s 3-3-1-3 in front of a
b ay i n g E l l a n d R o a d
crowd that made it hard
to get his instructions
across.
Everton had initial dif-
ficulties creating any-
thing clear-cut, but they
gradually started to look
slick on the break.
Towering trio crucial
to Brentford survival
Crystal Palace 0-0
By Sam Dean
at Selhurst Park
Two games played, zero
goals conceded. Brent-
ford’s Premier League
adventure has started
wonderfully, and their
early promise has been
built on the solidity
Total
Football
Everton
Early promise: Demarai Gray
scored Everton’s second goal
Twice they went in
front, but twice they
were pegged back; the
first from a Michael
Keane error and the
second after a consistent
problem – the inability to
contain Raphinha.
Dominic C alver t-
Lewin was denied twice
by Illan Meslier at 2-1.
The fact Calvert-Lewin
kept being fed by the
likes of Demarai Gray
and Alex Iwobi showed
Everton’s attack was
again built around him.
Calvert-Lewin won a
Interceptions
31 1 Tackles Interceptions Recoveries
Passing
11 Accuracy
50 91.67%
penalty, that he scored.
Gray, Everton’s other
scorer, made a contribu-
tion that was also credit
in the bank for bargain-
hunting Benitez.
G r a y ’s m o v e m e n t
reflected the way Ever-
ton played; with flexibil-
ity. Benitez appears to
have recruited a signifi-
cant wide threat for an
outlay of just £1.7 million.
After this clash of two
obsessive students of
management, Benitez
did not re ceive full
marks, but still chalked
up a commendable
outcome.
Brentford
of their gigantic back
three.
There are few top-
flight defences more
physically robust than
Thomas Frank’s. For the
first two matches of this
campaign, he has called
on Kristoffer Ajer (6ft
6in), Pontus Jansson (6ft
4in) and Ethan Pinnock
(6ft 4in) at the base of his
team.
On Saturday, the tow-
ering trio were forced to
cope with the considera-
ble aerial threat of Crys-
tal Palace’s Christian
Benteke. They shut
down the Palace front-
man, aside from one sec-
ond-half chance, and did
the same to Jeffrey Sch-
lupp and Wilfried Zaha.
Ajer was especially
impressive in his duels
with Zaha. The Norwe-
gian, who joined from
Celtic for about £13 mil-
lion last month, is decep-
tively quick for a player
of his gangly physique.
Brentford are a flexible
side, capable of flitting
between strategies
within matches, and the
centre-backs play a key
role in their approach.
They can fight for the
ball, dominate in the air
and play out from the
back. In Pinnock, they
have a player who has
already proved capable
of dribbling out of oppo-
sition pressure.
The three also bring a
mix of personalities,
Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph
hGray shows early promise
hPotter finally reaps rewards
hAjer shuts door on Palace
Bissouma epitomises
Brighton’s evolution
Brighton
By John Aizlewood
at the Amex Stadium
Twenty-five yards from
his own goal, the ball at
his feet and seemingly
with the time and space
to launch a Watford
attack, Tom Cleverley
did not see Yves Bis-
souma bearing down on
him like a thief in the
Brighton night. In an
instant, the visiting cap-
tain was robbed and Neal
Ma u p ay h a d s c o re d
Brighton’s game-sealing
second goal.
It was Bissouma’s most
obviously eye-catching
moment but, as he was
Impressive Brighton on the up
How Bissouma sparked win over Watford Seagulls’ flying start
for so much of last sea-
son, the Mali interna-
tional was outstanding
against Watford. He,
more than anyone, epito-
mises Brighton under
manager Graham Potter.
It has not been an easy
path since he arrived in
2018. In a bumpy first
year, manager Chris
Hughton preferred the
more prosaic Davy Prop-
per and Dale Stephens.
In Potter’s maiden sea-
son, Bissouma played
fewer games still as
Aaron Mooy prospered.
Last term, though,
n o b o d y m a d e m o re
Brentford stand tall
How Bees’ ‘Big Three’ shut out Palace
Pontus Jansson
Passes
Kristoffer Ajer Ethan Pinnock
40
30
49
Tackles Clearances Headers Won
2 3
1 1 3
0 3 2
Passing Accuracy
80% 70% 79.6%
2-0 Watford
appearances for
Brighton than Bissouma,
who became a midfield
linchpin as Potter’s nur-
turing bore fruit.
An enabler rather than
a solo act, on Saturday
Bissouma pulled all the
midfield strings. He had
more guile than Clever-
ley, that most intelligent
of footballers. He was too
physical for Watford
strongman Peter Etebo
and, finding time where
others only found trou-
ble, he sprayed passes to
Pascal Gross on the right
and Solly March on the
left. All that is lacking is
an eye for goal – just two
PL 20-21 PL 21-22
6
4
Games 2 4 6 8
Premier League strikes
in total – and an aerial
presence. Potter lauded
Brighton’s start, with
two straight wins, recall-
ing that last season they
did not reach six points
until November. He also
claimed he was doing
nothing different and
Brighton’s evolution was
a result of the team
embarking upon a third
season together.
And Potter is building
that team around Bis-
souma – if the growing
list of suitors can be
rebuffe d b efore the
transfer window closes.
with Pinnock naturally
quiet and Ajer a natural
leader. He was only 16
when he was given the
captain’s armband at his
first professional club, IK
Start in Norway.
Tougher tests await
for Brentford, but four
points from two games is
7
as good a start as they
could have realistically
hoped for. If their three-
man defence can remain
as formidable as they
have been so far, Brent-
ford should have more
than enough to stay in
the division.
The Daily Telegraph Monday 23 August 2021
Nordqvist holds nerve to end four-year major wait
By James Corrigan GOLF
CORRESPONDENT at Carnoustie
hBritain’s Georgia Hall has to
settle for share of second place
hKoerstz Madsen drops back
after bunker nightmare on 18th
Anna Nordqvist established her
place among Europe’s greats and
Carnoustie confirmed itself as a
major venue with the unrivalled
penchant for unexpected drama.
This was a Women’s Open Sunday
that had it all – including seagulls
stealing balls and protagonists
shanking wildly on the 18th – and at
the end of it, Britain could take sol-
ace in not only hosting such a grip-
ping spectacular, but also coming so
close to glory.
England’s Georgia Hall had to
watch in something approaching
competitive agony as Nordqvist
two-putted the last green to win by
one shot and so join Annika Soren-
stam and Dame Laura Davies as the
only female players from her conti-
nent to win three or more major
titles.
That is rich company to keep for
the 34-year-old, but in weeks like
this – when her putter matches the
blessed consistency of her ball-
ACTION IMAGES
striking – it is easy to envisage Nor-
dqvist making further inroads into
the legacies of the two grand Mad-
ames of European golf.
Through all the usual Carnoustie
madness, Nordqvist maintained her
composure and even if it was tough
for Hall, the 2018 champion, to see
her own attempt fall short by a sin-
gle stroke after her brilliant 67, there
could be no doubt that Nordqvist
deserved to add the Women’s 2021
Open title to her 2009 Women’s
US PGA and 2017 Evian Champion-
ships. The latter, remarkably for
such a high-quality performer, was
her last piece of silverware of any
kind.
“I’ve been waiting for this for a
long time,” Nordqvist said. “There
have been a lot of downs since then,
which makes it even sweeter. My
husband was brought up 20 min-
utes away from here, and that makes
this even more special.” Her hus-
band is Kevin McAlpine, the current
caddie to PGA Tour professional
Martin Laird.
Nordqvist produced a final-round
Victory song heard for first time
after Leigh win at 17th attempt
Rugby League
Leigh 32-22 Salford
Leigh won their first Super League
game of the season, at the 17th
attempt, to finally give interim
coach Kurt Haggerty something to
smile about
“I always thought we would get a
first win,” Haggerty said, as 12 points
in a three-minute spell late on
sealed the club’s long-overdue suc-
Sport
Long wait: Anna Nordqvist kisses the trophy after winning the AIG Women’s Open, edging out Georgia Hall (below)
69, for a 12-under total, which meant
she collected £642,000 and so guar-
anteed herself a sixth appearance
for Europe in next month’s Solheim
Cup. Captain Catriona Matthew will
Unwanted birdie Check the rules
Ball tampering: An inquisitive seagull
moved Madelene Sagstrom’s ball back
about 15 yards on the first fairway
cess against lacklustre neighbours
Salford at Leigh Sports Village.
“I didn’t know where it was going
to come or at what point, but I knew
we would win a game. So, I am
happy and really pleased for the
lads. They have worked really hard
through all the adversity.
“In the second half we have been
known for falling away from games,
but we have been getting better and
be just as delighted to have Nor-
dqvist on her team in Toledo as she
will to have Hall.
There were two eagles on the
25-year-old Briton’s scorecard as she
came so near to replicating her tri-
umph at Lytham three years ago.
“Even to have had a chance to win
is very special at Carnoustie,” Hall
said. “I’m very happy with the way I
played. That’s all I could ask.”
Hall knows it could have been far
worse – she could have been Nanna
Koerstz Madsen.
The Dane arrived at the last hole
in a tie with Nordqvist – and then
the ghosts of Jean van de Velde came
visiting.
The 26-year-old pushed her
approach into a greenside bunker
and then, from an admittedly awk-
ward lie, played a catastrophic
shank. The resulting double bogey
better. In the first half there was a
chance we could have got a few
more points on the board, but to
come in at half-time being in the
lead was a good feeling for the lads.
“I believe in the players and
believe in everything we have been
doing. The hard work was rewarded
today.”
Leigh captain Liam Hood and for-
mer Salford prop Adam Sidlow
scored decisive late tries, and Craig
Mullen added both conversions to
finish with 16 points from eight suc-
cessful kicks, five of them penalties.
Non-playing squad member Tom
Spencer led the victory song and
Haggerty admitted: “He was the
only one who knows the words
because we haven’t won for that
*** 13
Final scores
GB & Ireland unless stated
276—A Nordqvist (Sweden) 71 71 65 69;
277—G Hall 68 69 73 67; L Salas (US) 69 69
70 69; M Sagstroem (Sweden) 67 73 69 68;
278—M-J Lee (Australia) 71 69 72 66; N
Koerstz Madsen (Denmark) 70 69 68 71;
279—P Tavatanakit (Thailand) 71 72 69 67; L
Harm (Germany) 70 73 69 67; 280—M
Jutanugarn (Thailand) 72 67 71 70; 281—A
Jutanugarn (Thailand) 71 71 68 71; L Duncan
68 73 68 72; M Steen (US) 73 70 69 69;
282—S Kyriacou (Australia) 72 70 71 69; L
Maguire 72 67 72 71; M Harigae (US) 70 67
76 69; S-Y Kim (S Korea) 67 71 72 72; B
Henderson (Canada) 71 69 70 72; N Korda
(US) 67 73 70 72; Y Noh (US) 70 69 71 7;
283—A Hewson 73 70 71 69; A Furue (Japan)
74 70 67 72; M Castren (Finland) 73 68 72
70; A Thompson (US) 69 70 70 74; 284—W
Meechai (Thailand) 71 68 73 72; P Reto (S
Africa) 72 70 72 70; 285—S Nuutinen
(Finland) 70 71 68 76; E Szokol (US) 72 72 71
70; N Hataoka (Japan) 70 72 71 72; 286—S
Lewis (US) 73 71 71 71; A Valenzuela
(Switzerland) 70 73 73 70; L Ko (NZ) 72 71 72
71; G Lopez (Mexico) 70 73 71 72; H-J Kang
(S Korea) 73 72 72 69; 287—H Shibuno
(Japan) 70 70 72 75; A Yin (US) 73 72 70 72;
P Delacour (France) 73 71 71 72; S-H Oh
(Australia) 71 69 71 76; C Ciganda (Spain) 69
75 72 71; 288—Y Saso (Philippines) 68 71 74
75; B Lincicome (US) 71 72 69 76; M Khang
(US) 77 66 71 74; 289—E K Pedersen
(Denmark) 71 74 72 72; B Altomare (US) 70
75 74 70; J Shin (S Korea) 71 71 71 76; E-H Ji
(S Korea) 72 69 73 75; L Walsh 74 69 76 70;
N Broch Larsen (Denmark) 75 68 74 72; 290—
J-G Lee (S Korea) 72 72 70 76; G Piller (US) 72
70 73 75; A Thitikul (Thailand) 71 73 68 78;
H Green (Australia) 73 70 71 76; 291—Ind-
Bee Park (S Korea) 70 75 77 69; J Coleman
(US) 72 69 77 73; P Anannarukarn (Thailand)
72 72 68 7 79; 292—A Lee (US) 68 75 80 69; M
Alex (US) 772 70 75 75; K MacDonald 75 70
ow)) 71 76.
meant that shehe 2
21-year-old from West Kil-
did not even n finish bride
b who birdied the first
second alongside a
and, for stages on the front
rican’s
Hall and American’s n
nine, looked sure to con-
Lizette Salass and t
tend. Alas, Duncan fell
another Swede, a
away on the back nine and
Madelene Sag- h
had to settle for a tie for
nstead
strom, but instead 1
10th and top amateur hon-
dropped into a tie for ou
ours. “This experience has
ustralian
fifth with Australian bee pretty surreal and, yeah,
been
Minjee Lee. just dead exciting,” the Stirling
Sagstrom was another Univ
University student said.
plagued by those Angus D
Duncan plays for Great Brit-
demons. She bogeyed the ain and Ireland against the
ut on a play-off
18th to miss out Unite States in the Curtis Cup
United
and was later informed that, w
this weekend, and she would be
ole, her ball had
on the first hole, a
well advised to concentrate on
been moved back at least 15 sho
that showdown in Conwy and not
verly-inquisitive
yards by an overly-inquisitive look at what she would have won
t’s a first for me,”
seagull. “That’s here. IfI she had been a profes-
she said. sional, she would now be more
layed with Lou-
Sagstrom played £8
than £80,000 richer.
ise Duncan, the amateur Carno
Carnoustie: cruel until the end.
long. The new boys don’t even know
what it sounds like.”
Leigh remain bottom of the table
and Harvey Livett crossed over, and
Krisnan Inu added the extras.
Richard Marshall, the Salford
and are still odds-on favourites for
relegation.
coach, said: “We must congratulate
Leigh on their efforts. They played
well and deserved to win. It was a
tough ask. There was a decent crowd
Happy day: Kurt Haggerty, and they got behind their team.
Leigh’s interim head They were going to win a game, and
coach, says he is pleased unfortunately it was against us.
his players’ hard work has
“I am bitterly disappointed, not
been rewarded with a win just because it’s Leigh but about the
way we played and how we man-
aged the game.”
“We just go forward to the next Leigh Brand, Elliot, Stone, Thornley, Mullen, Mellor, Bell,
game and will try to win again,” said Ashworth, Eaves, Sidlow, Hellewell, Foster, Gerrard.
Haggerty, whose side face champi- Subs Hood, Ioane, Gee, Butler.
Salford Lolohea, Sio, Inu, Sarginson, Williams, Hingano,
ons St Helens on Thursday. Brown, Johnson, Ackers, Ormondroyd, Livett, Greenwood,
Ken Sio scored a brace of tries for Addy. Subs Norman, Taylor, Lannon, Burke.
Salford after winger Rhys Williams Referee Marcus Griffiths.
14 *** Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph

Sport
Cricket

Exclusive interview
‘I felt I could hit the ball
wherever I wanted’
By Tim Wigmore

hTwenty years on, Mark talent, Butcher

just retaining
her was worried about
ng his county spot. In
Butcher recalls pummelling the the summer of 2001, the changes
Australian attack for 173 to win began to help p but, while he was
averaging an unremarkable 34.3
a Test he almost did not play in the season’s’s County Champi-
onship, an n injur y cri si s

B
efore the Headingley Test of opened up a Test berth.
2001, Mark Butcher was The startt of Butcher’s
almost dropped. During the Ashes return n was inauspi-
previous Test, when Aus- ived for train-
cious: he arrived
tralia thrashed England to retain the ing 24 hours rs late. After
urn at Trent Bridge, Butcher had riend’s spare
living in a friend’s
been out drinking late. Nasser Hus- room, he had d planned to
sain and Duncan Fletcher, England’s uesday; at the
move on a Tuesday;
captain and head coach, seriously time, he had not even con-
considered discarding him. sidered thatt it was two
Instead, on his drive home from days before the first Test.
Lord’s to Chelmsford, Hussain asked When David d Graveney,
England’s senior players for their Match England’s chairman of
views; they convinced him to retain summary led him to tell
selectors, called
Butcher, who had taken a tumultu- him ab out hi s re call,
ous route to just be playing in the Fourth Test Butcher said: d: “I’ve got to
2001 Ashes. After making his Test (Headingley, Aug move in on thishis day. Is it all
debut in 1997, he had scored centu- 16-20, 2001) n up late?”
right if I turn
ries against South Africa and Aus- Australia 447 After hittingng 38 and 41 on
tralia the following year. But he was (Ponting 144; hi s re call at Edgbaston,
far too inconsistent and, with his Gough 5-103) & Butcher was the lone England
marriage disintegrating, floundered 176-4 dec player to haveve a night out with
on the tour of South Africa in (Ponting 72; the Australian n players. “It taught
1999-2000. “I had a few flashes Gough 2-68). me that they’re’re not superhuman –
where I played pretty well and felt England 309 they have the e same hang-ups and
comfortable,” Butcher recalls. “By (Stewart 76 not foibles as you u do. If more of
that South Africa tour, my personal out; McGrath our lads had known that,
life was in an absolute state.” 7-76) & 315-4 things mightt have been
With an average of 25.1 from 27 (Butcher 173 not t.” By the
a bit different.”
Tests, he was dropped. It was the out; Gillespie 2-94) fourth Test, Butcher
prelude for Butcher to work with his was England’s d’s top
father – former England batsman 2001 Ashes run-scorer in the
Alan – on rebuilding his technique. 1st Test series, after hitting
In his first incarnation as a Test (Edgbaston) econd
83 in the second
cricketer, Butcher had become Aus won by an rd’s. It
innings at Lord’s.
“stodgy” and “quite easy to bowl at”. inns & 118 runs had not been
At Surrey’s indoor school, begin- 2nd Test (Lord’s) enough to stop a
ning in January 2001, the two Aus won by 8 wkts magnificentt Aus-
remodelled his technique. The 3rd Test tralian side e from
tweaks aimed to help Butcher (Trent Bridge) cruising to o a 3-0
become “more neutral” at the Aus won by 7 wkts lead. The Ashes
crease, more fluent scoring through 4th Test ustralia had
retained, Australia
the off side and have “a scoring (Headingley) designs on a 5-0
option for the ball wherever it was”. Eng won by 6 wkts whitewash. After
None of this was done with an 5th Test rain disrupted d the
England recall in mind. “It was with (The Oval) fourth day, Adam
a view to not walking away from Aus won by an ustralia’s
Gilchrist – Australia’s
playing the game altogether,” he inns & 25 runs ptain, with
stand-in captain,
says. With Surrey’s array of batting Steve Waugh gh injured –
declared, to o set England
315 runs in 11010 overs. After
rain returned,d, they needed
another 311 from 90 overs
on the final day.
England had ad only success-
fully chased more once in their
Test history. Yet when Butcher was
interviewed on the final morning,
he said: “It’s very important you go
out there with th a positive attitude,
‘I learnt Australia were
and look to tryry to win the game.”
vival looked beyond
Even survival
not superhuman – they
England as they slipped to 33 for
two after 10 overs, losing both open-
have same hang-ups
ers on a pitchh with uneven bounce. and foibles as you do’
The Daily Telegraph Monday 23 August 2021 *** 15

Conquering hero:
Mark Butcher after
hitting the winning
runs off Shane
from short
scramb
sh leg, allowed him to
scramble back into his crease
after a full-length dive. After
Butche
Butcher clipped Warne for
How the Hundred could improve
Warne (bottom three ttowards the Western
right) and Terrace
Terrace, he could revel in his
dominating Glenn Te century for three
first Test
McGrath (far left) years; the
th only shame was that, Ten-ball sets would build pressure
after his near run-out, he had “a
massive streak of dirt all over Gladiatorial duels are what crowds want, writes Scyld Berry
the pad aand up my trousers” as
he celebr
celebrated. For Butcher, what
followed was w a glorious blur. Each 10-ball block has drama. If one bowler, This physical pressure gladiatorial cricket, with present. Turn Welsh Fire
“It all h
happened in a flash – by to be delivered by a however, delivers every and mental stress will be no hiding place after five – and it is not as if they
then, ever
every ball’s a coconut and single bowler set of 10 balls, the too much for some balls. Cricket at its most have set Wales on fire
I’m just having
h to go at every- The Hundred needs to be tension builds, especially bowlers, but this is confrontational, even – into Western Fire,
thing.” H His shot-making had simpler, quicker and far if the batsmen get after professional sport. brutal. A series of 10 playing at Cardiff, Bristol
reached res resplendent levels. more dramatic him. Under pressure, he The best will improve, duels of 10 balls. and perhaps Taunton.
Most of T Test batting is about cop- At the moment, after bowls a wide and a no ball the worst will disappear. And after nobody has
ing with whwhat Butcher calls “impos- almost every block or set and suddenly the The pace bowler will hit a century in the App
tor syndro
syndrome – where you just of five balls, one bowler is parameters of the game need a whole range of existing version, batsmen Add some human interest
think I’m no not really good enough”. replaced by another. change: the batsmen can slower balls to get will be able to score a by telling the life stories
Now, as England
Eng hurtled towards Just as it is getting score 20, 30 or even 40 through his 10-ball set. hundred in the Hundred. of the women who have
their target, Butcher felt invincible. interesting and a pace off one 10-ball block. The spinner will have become celebrities
“All of those hours facing 100 mph bowler is under pressure, Hundred totals at to turn it both ways: no Regional change overnight.
tennis balls in the indoor school at it is all change in the present are poor man’s more flat offies. The number of teams When the teams for a
the Oval camcame together. It was just field, a flat off-spinner T20 totals, like 140 for Then, for the first time does not have to be game are announced, just
brilliant. It wasw the greatest feeling bowls a few darts and the seven. Make this simple in the game’s history, the increased from eight: the click on a player’s name
in the world that you could hit the tension is dissipated (with rule change and they will bowler will perhaps talent is spread thinly to find out who these
ball whereve
wherever you wanted.” good reason, the five-ball escalate. If Liam become the most valuable enough as it is, although new role models are.
Sports scientists
sci talk of the zone: over was binned in the Livingstone or Jason Roy player, even the most the standard should rise if
a state of min
mind where athletes attain 1890s). takes down a bowler or idolised and highest paid. Covid-19 restrictions Party starter: Tymal
such fierce concentration and The Hundred is all two, the totals will reach Make each set last 10 ease. But the South West Mills lifts the trophy as
immersion in i what they are doing action and not enough 200, even 300. balls and you will have is completely excluded at Southern Brave celebrate
that they rrise to a higher plane.
Butcher offoffers a lucid description.
“One of tthe issues that all per-
formers h have is that you can be
quite sel
self-aware – you can be
aware of y your movements, your
body and lots of external things.
When youyou’re in the zone, you just
feel nothi
nothing. Your eyes are doing
all the wowork for you and then
transferring information to your
body. And your body has been
trained in su such a way that you can
do all this st stuff automatically. It’s a
very cool p place to be, because it
occurs to yo you in that sort of state
that you can pull off pretty much
whatever yo you fancy. The only thing
is to stop you
yourself from being overly
confident an and taking the p---, really.”
Butcher got off Only whe
when he punched Warne
the mark when a for three thrthrough point – high-fiv-
delivery from Glenn ing the spin
spinner on his way back to
McGrath reared up, completing his 173rd run to clinch
hit his bat handle and victory – did Butcher release him-
soared over the slips; he self from his state. “The concentra-
was also dropped behind by tion had beebeen so, so fierce up until
Gilchrist. Yet with Australia that momen
moment, I just lost it a bit, just
striving for wickets and deploy- wide-eyed aand mouth open. It was a
ing aggressive fields, England pretty magi
magical moment.” His only
reached 118 for two at lunch, with regret was that, in the euphoric
Butcher on 55, supported by Hus-
sain. Australia had a default for how
post-match ttelevision interview, he
forgot to th thank his father: “The
Give it some big-name stardust
to respond: bowl McGrath and whole thin thing was only possible
Shane Warne in tandem at the start because of the old man.” Butcher Attract the best to compete with IPL, writes Nick Hoult
of each session. But after lunch, need not havhave worried. Watching on
McGrath was uncharacteristically TV, a proud father saw his son play,
awry to Butcher, the England bats- as Gilchrist h hailed “one of the great- Better overseas players women’s game, so expect them on the road to all the batsman who hits the the culture if there were
man taking 23 from 21 balls across est Ashes Te Test innings of all time”. Yes, Covid-19 complicated more India players next the first-class grounds, most sixes and a big more alcohol-free options
five overs. When Brett Lee came on, the situation this year, year, which is great news. spreading the word? bonus for anyone who at grounds? There is a
Butcher greeted him with consecu- but the tournament But if the men’s game It would be politically hits five in a row off the lairiness to the
tive boundaries – a regal off drive lacked stardust. To be wants to attract the best difficult to do that for the same bowler (from balls atmosphere for the men’s
and then a crisp flick from outside honest, it was just the it will have to pay bigger men’s game because it one to five) and even 10? matches later in the
off stump of such nonchalance and Blast with fewer teams salaries to tempt the likes would rival the Blast, but Also, it would be nice evening that does scare
timing that, Butcher says jokingly, it and a concentration of of AB de Villiers to the women’s matches to hear from the players some children. One dad
could have been played by Brian county talent. It did not commit to more cricket in would not have that on the field. How about spoke to me after a game
Lara. “I sort of flipped it, Lara style, matter much this their schedule. problem. Also, standalone wiring up the captains so at the Oval about his
over square leg for a one-bounce summer, but in future women’s games at the they can talk us through son: “He has had a great
four. And I’m walking down the years it will have to Take women on tour Test grounds in the latter their decisions? Yes they time, but learnt a lot
pitch to Nas with a bit of a Cheshire attract the biggest names The women’s tournament stages can work, too, it will moan it is too quick, about life tonight.” It is
Cat grin on my face. And he went, to really stand up against was the big success. The just needs confidence in but this tournament is hard to change societal
‘F------ concentrate’.” A raucous the Indian Premier Hundred elevated it above the product. about fun. Let us try to habits and the
final-day Headingley crowd began League. The England and any other domestic delay the stattos and the tournament does not
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to sense what was possible. Wales Cricket Board women’s tournament in Player awards seriousness of it all from want to become a nanny
“They were loud and boisterous believes it is a long way this country, the men’s It happens at the IPL so sucking the joy out of the state telling people how
and the Aussies started to make the from persuading the competition less so. The why not here? A cap worn competition for as long as to behave, but perhaps
odd fielding mistake,” Butcher says. Board of Control for women’s teams attract a by the leading run-scorer, possible. subtle changes to what
The most significant was when Cricket in India to release family audience and are leading wicket-taker and people can buy in the
Butcher was on 97, and charged its male cricketers, but it great role models for boys six-hitter. Why not have a Alcohol-free sponsor grounds could make a
down for a single to mid-on: the is different for the and girls, so why not take big financial reward for Would it help to change difference.
fielder’s throw, and a slow pick-up
16 ***
Interview Tai finds ‘silver linings’ in surgery
By Fiona Tomas
hSwimmer takes positives
from giving up dream of Tokyo
gold to have an operation on
nerve damage in both elbows
P
ara-swimmer Alice Tai was
tipped to be Britain’s poster-
girl at the Paralympics in
Tokyo, where she looked des-
tined for more success in the pool.
At the age of 22, she already holds
titles across European, world, Com-
monwealth and Paralympic level
and, in a nod to the dominant force
she has become in the world of
para-sport, takeaway chain Papa
John’s even created “The Alice Tai”
pizza to mark what would have been
her second Paralympics.
But Tai will not be flavouring
Japanese culture this summer. Last
month, she announced her with-
drawal from the Games to prioritise
surgery for long-term nerve damage
in both elbows.
Born with club foot, a condition
which affects her movement and for
which she had over a dozen opera-
tions during childhood, Tai has used
crutches for more than a decade.
But recently, her reliance on them
surfaced in the cruellest of ways –
the nerve damage is the result of
years of pressure that has been
forced through her elbow joints.
“Medically, I know I need this
surgery,” says Tai, who has recently
stopped using crutches for fear of
her condition deteriorating. “Even
mentally, I don’t think I could have
put up with the pain it’s causing me.
My lack of independence up until
the Games, I think that would have
really affected my mental health.
Coming to terms with it was quite
difficult, but after I considered
everything, it seemed like the most
sensible option.”
A keen musician, Tai cannot even
play her beloved guitar, such is the
pain caused by her nerve damage,
which began festering in the weeks
after her record haul of seven titles
at the London World Champion-
ships in 2019.
In a testament to her positive out-
look, the Ealing swimmer is upbeat
when we chat on the phone –
Organisers to tighten Covid rules after two cases
By Gareth A Davies in Tokyo
Two athletes tested positive for cor-
onavirus in the competitors’ village
yesterday leaving Paralympics
organisers to consider ramping up
restrictions and rules on the eve of
tomorrow’s opening ceremony.
The names of the two athletes
have not been revealed by the
organising committee for the
Games, but neither is understood to
be British.
With Covid-19 cases rising in
Japan, Hidemasa Nakamura, the
delivery officer for Tokyo 2020, has
stated that anti-virus measures put
in place for the Olympics may have
to be ramped up for the Paralympics.
Sport
Paralympic Games
Cool by the pool: Alice Tai was expected to be one of the stars of Tokyo after a record haul of seven titles at the World Championships
emphasising how the plant-based
pizza made in her honour is better
enjoyed with pineapple – before
reflecting on her current
circumstances.
“Crutches in general aren’t
designed for long-term use,” she
explains. “There are a lot of athletes
Great Britain has a team of 228 com-
petitors, with support staff taking
the number to more than 500 in
Tokyo. Mike Sharrock, chief execu-
tive of the British Paralympic Asso-
ciation, said: “For us, it is about the
safety and well-being of the ath-
letes. That is always our top priority.
In this case, that is especially so.
“We are very clear at the BPA that
in terms of the team our absolute
priority is to get them there safely,
create the environment where they
can compete at their best, and then
get them home again.”
Penny Briscoe, the chef de mis-
sion of Paralympics GB, said: “The
14-day run-in was obviously a really
robust series of testing and with us
who use them in para-sport and
people day-to-day who use long-
term mobility aids. If we can figure
something out that may be more
suitable for long-term use, then the
application of that could really ben-
efit those who need to use crutches.
Even though my circumstances
being a Delta nation at that time
there was even more testing
expected of us.
“But we also took responsibility
to limit exposure to environments
that could be a risk.
“As a team, we also want to look
out for ourselves and each other.
There have been lots of innovative
ways of having an additional sophis-
ticated level of risk mitigation.”
However, with cases on the rise, it
could mean increased testing
frequency and greater restrictions
on movement.
“We are looking to be stronger on
behaviour management. We are
under a state of emergency in
Japan,” Nakamura said. During the
Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph
“We are not 100 per cent sure
what the outcome is going to be
because it’s a very grey area,” admits
Tai, who used a Zimmer frame and
wheelchairs between her foot sur-
geries during childhood.
“We’re looking into designs with
an innovation team that may cause
less problems for me. It will be really
cool and I’m excited for that.”
Tai knows there are advantages to
her present situation, even if she
will have to wait for her first individ-
ual Paralympic title, having claimed
a gold in the 4 x 100 metres medley
relay gold at the 2016 Rio Paralym-
pics. As a neuroscience student at
Middlesex University, the opportu-
nity to understand her injury and
human biomechanics has kept her
mentally engaged.
“I [recently] spent a day at the EIS
after a physio appointment,” Tai
says. “I bought Gray’s Anatomy, the
textbook, and I just sat with this
skeleton there called Harry, just
‘My lack of independence
up to the Games would
have really affected
my mental health’
learning about anatomy. That’s
been the extent of my entertain-
ment, it sounds so sad!”
Part of Tai’s enthusiasm is driven
by the fact that she is treading a
relatively unknown path in the
world of para-sport. “What’s inter-
esting is the literature I’ve read
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around my injury and the applica-
tion of that in different sports,” she
says. “On top of the fact I’m a crutch
user, there’s no one who really fits
my case. The majority of people who
develop this injury are from over-
head sports, where they throw
things overhead.”
It is little wonder the prospect of
being a textbook example for future
personally suck, there are a lot of sil- generations of athletes yields a
ver linings.” degree of contentment from Brit-
Never one to be disconsolate, Tai ain’s most successful para-swimmer.
is being supported by a team of “It’s cool knowing that if there’s
“brilliant minds” at the English anyone in the same situation in the
Institute of Sport, which is aiming to future, then they can use me as a bit
design a new, sustainable mobility of a case study,” Tai says. “I quite like
aid which she can rely on long term. that.”
Olympics, there were restrictions
on individuals for the first 14 days.
“For the Paralympic Games with
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
Facts and figures
the IPC and stakeholders, we will
need to further discuss this before Opening ceremony Nations
finalising,” Nakamura added. “It is Tomorrow competing
not an ethical or moral-based rule, 163
but it is a necessary measure to Closing ceremony
ensure safety.” Sunday, Sept 5 Athletes
Meanwhile, plans are reportedly taking part
p
afoot to allow up to 140,000 4,500
end the Tokyo
schoolchildren to attend
Paralympics despite the spread of GB athletes
ong teenagers
the Delta variant among 2
228
and those even youngerer who are not
vaccinated. G captain
GB
Tokyo recorded a total of more H
Hannah
than 5,000 cases for a third straight C
Cockcroft
onally, Japan
day yesterday. Nationally, (le
(left)
topped 25,000 for the
second successive day, y,
with a record 25,876 6
positive cases.
The Daily Telegraph Monday 23 August 2021 ** 17

Sport

Raducanu’s super run

falls at the final hurdle
By Simon Briggs
TENNIS CORRESPONDENT
hTeenager misses out on her
first WTA title win in Chicago
hBriton heads for her maiden
US Open qualifying in fine form
It was an agonisingly close-run
thing, but Britain’s biggest tennis
hope Emma Raducanu could not
quite manage a title on the eve of her
maiden appearance at the US Open.
Raducanu, who now moves into
the world’s top 150, is due to play in
the qualifying event in New York
this week – which will be the first
time that she has participated in any
grand slam, even at the preliminary
stage, outside Wimbledon.
Had she been able to sneak the
extra few points she needed for vic-
tory over fellow 18-year-old Clara
Tauson last night, it would have
been a huge morale boost, for this
was a $125,000 (£92,000) tourna-
ment, and thus much stronger than
the $25,000 and $15,000 events she
has won in the past.
But Raducanu can hardly be too
disappointed with her first four
weeks in the United States, which
have already delivered eight wins as
against only three defeats – one of
which came after she suffered heat-
stroke in Pennsylvania last week.
Last night’s match was her first
final in one of these Challenger-
level events, and it came against a
woman she has faced several times
in the junior ranks, as they were
born less than six weeks apart in
2002.
So close: Emma Raducanu (above) returns in
a keenly fought contest with Clara Tauson
Tauson has been touted as the
next Caroline Wozniacki, even
though she plays a more aggressive
style than the former world No 1.
Raducanu has not really been linked
with any particular British anteced-
ent, given that we have not had a
world-beater since Virginia Wade in
the 1970s. But she is achieving
things at a young age which evoke
the prodigious talent of Laura Rob-
son – even though Robson’s career
took a swift downturn after she suf-
fered the first tinglings of what
would become a debilitating wrist
issue in 2013.
During last week’s run in Chi-
cago, Raducanu had already des-
patched a pair of top-100 opponents
in world No 58 Alison Van Uytvanck
and world No 93 Clara Burel, results
that offered further evidence of the
star quality she displayed during
her recent run to the fourth round
of Wimbledon.
Against Tauson, she started
slowly in gusty, windy conditions
that caused one of the courtside
umbrellas to be carried out of its
stand. Neither woman felt confident
on their serve, such was the move-
ment of the ball-toss in the air, and
there were more breaks than holds
in the early stages, which found
Raducanu dropping the first set 6-1
before recovering to send the match
into a decider.
A healthy crowd had gathered at
the XS Tennis Village – a trailblazing
centre in downtown Chicago which
has arguably done more than any
other club to bring diversity to
American tennis, in defiance of its
old “Country Club” image. This was
a truly urban setting, as demon-
strated by the deafening rattle of a
train along the neighbouring tracks
every few games.
Raducanu took a 2-0 lead in the
third set and seemed to have Tauson
at the end of her tether, judging by
much banging of the Danish racket
on the court surface and a lengthy
argument with the umpire at the
end of that second game. But she
narrowly failed to break again for
3-0 – which might have been deci-
sive – and Tauson began to ramp up
her aggression. Despite some ath-
letic and determined defence from
Raducanu, these tight matches usu-
ally go to the player who is prepared
to be more assertive, and so it was as
Tauson closed out a 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 vic-
tory in a little over two hours.
Earlier, world No 1 Ashleigh Barty
had clinched her fifth title of the sea-
son – the most prestigious being
Wimbledon – with a thumping 6-3,
6-1 victory over Jil Teichman at the
Western and Southern Open in Cin-
cinnati. The match lasted only 76 Video nasty Daniil Medvedev knocks over a camera at
minutes and confirmed Barty’s
status as a leading contender for the the Western and Southern Open before kicking the unit
US Open when the tournament and raging the collision “could have broken” his hand
proper starts in a week’s time.

Septuagenarian Maslin jumps at chance for GB’s Paris defence

Modern Pentathlon
By Marcus Armytage
hRetirement is not an option
for legendary riding coach who
helped French and Choong
claim historic golds in Tokyo
both brought home gold, is a legend. says. “But the comedian Harry got to be able to ride different horses
When I was a boy being dragged Worth wrote to my parents asking if – it’s tough, they’ve got 20 minutes
round the show-jumping circuit in they minded him calling his daugh- and a few jumps to get acquainted.
the south mainly as company for my
sister, I invariably had four faults in
ter Jabeena [he actually named her
Jobyna].”
They need to have good hands and
good energy. It’s like building a
the first round and had to wait half She was already competing at the house; if the foundations aren’t
the day for her to compete in a Royal Windsor Show, meeting the right, it will fall down.”
jump-off. Often taking part in the Queen aged five, and represented French, 30, has been having
adult classes in the next-door ring Great Britain on junior and young coaching sessions with Maslin
was one person who stood out for rider teams. The British pentathlon pretty much once a week since she

O
f all the coaches at the Tokyo
Olympics, who would have
predicted that the most
two reasons other than her great team first came calling in 1974 at the was put on the modern pentathlon
affinity with horses; her unique and behest of Capt Jim Fox, one of the programme aged 16 and, if it really
unforgettable name, Jabeena Mas- founding fathers of the sport here was a lottery, then French would not
DALE CHERRY

intense scrutiny would fall
upon a person responsible for only a
fifth of one event?
After the now-infamous melt-
down of Annika Schleu, as she
tensely and tearfully tried to get an
ounce of co-operation out of Saint
Boy in the show-jumping round of
the modern pentathlon, her riding
coach, Kim Raisner, was thrown out
for telling her to hit the horse harder
and “punching” it.
In contrast, Team GB’s riding
coach for the modern pentathlon, in
which Kate French and Joe Choong
lin, and her trademark bowler hat –
which offered about as much
protection as a paper napkin in the
event of a fall.
When, in a semi-nod to health
and safety, the British Showjumping
Association made chinstraps com-
pulsory, David Broome even tried to
instigate a campaign for Maslin to be
allowed to keep wearing her distinc-
tive headgear.
“I was taken to Patey’s in London,
but none of their hats ever fitted, so
I stuck with the bowler,” Maslin, 76,
recalls. “But I eventually had to give
Unbridled enthusiasm: Jabeena Maslin
it up because it looked so awful with
a harness attached.”
Adopted at an early age by a farm-
ing family from Wantage, her older
sisters’ best friend at school was a
South African called Gabeena and
when their new sister arrived they
changed the G for a J and, thus, she
became Jabeena.
“I’ve never met another,” she
and a part of the three-man team
who won gold at Montreal in 1976.
The management, believing rid-
ing a random horse drawn from a
hat was more down to luck than
skill, wanted him to be sent to the
local riding school for lessons. He,
however, insisted on Maslin and she
has been involved one way or
another for approaching 50 years.
“Back in those days they did not
take the riding seriously and treated
it as if it’s a lottery, but it’s not,” she
explains. “A show jumper is one-on-
one with a horse, a pentathlete has
consistently keep winning.
Maslin might be pushing for
oldest coach at the Olympics but,
having helped the team to an
unprecedented double gold, she is
only just hitting her stride.
Having survived breast cancer
and had her knee replaced in 2018
and spent her life “married to
horses”, she still mucks out 30 some
mornings and retirement is not on
her agenda. “They asked me to stay
on and I said if I can’t do it, I’ll tell
’em,” she says. “After all, it’s only
three years.”
18 ** Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph

Sport

Charlie Brooks destroy democracy – what else are

the bot farms for? – is perhaps the
most insidious weapon because it
causes otherwise peaceful,
law-abiding people to turn on each
other.
Take, for example, the manner in

Racing’s triple threat which jockeys and trainers are

getting attacked through this
medium. We have seen only the tip
of the iceberg as to the mental

and why Westminster damage it is causing them, and we

glibly assume that this abuse is
coming from within our country.
But is it? How can we be sure that
Nationwide issue: Racecourses need to up their game to combat the scourge of drugs

“disco biscuits” and who knows

what else are fuelling violence at
There also has to be a serious
attempt to profile the dealers. A few

should see big picture China is not silently seeding our

hPandemic has dealt the
sport a financial blow but
social media abusers and
drugs are equally insidious
in Westminster could be bothered
to listen to it.
The three weapons of attack that
I am running through the prism are
pandemics, social media
manipulation and narcotics.
Racing has not been financially
turmoil in the same manner that
Russia stirs up strife during
democratic elections?
Until the Government forces
social media companies to unveil
the online offenders, or shut them
down, we should not make any
assumptions as to the source of the
abuse.
In the meantime, the British
Horseracing Authority should
utilise the closed intranet to
big sporting gatherings where
young men “let their hair down”.
Racecourses need to up their
undercover officers in the pubs
around York last week, for
instance, would have identified
game on this front. The threat of either those well worth stopping as
sniffer dogs and pocket searches they entered the racecourse or
will not be sufficient to act as a people with very weak bladders.
serious deterrent and safeguard the
image of racing as a harmonious
I hasten to add that there is no
reason to believe York or any other
place for a civilised family day out. racecourse has a particular
But racecourse security problem. This is a nationwide issue.
But there is no point in blanket
personnel alone cannot win this
battle. At the moment all dealers searching the handbags of 90-year-
have to do to evade the cursory old ladies or Jockey Club members’

T
here is a theory that
China is still trying to
destroy Western
democracy. And it turns
out that horse racing is a very
good prism through which to
“war-game” this proposition.
Racing is, after all, the
second-biggest sport in the UK
and sustains huge employment
across the breadth of the
country.
It could be considered the
“canary in the mine” if anyone
sustainable during the pandemic.
Eighteen months down the line,
that may sound pretty obvious. But
could our country survive another
pandemic financially? Probably.
But could the racing industry
maintain a semblance of its current
self? Definitely not.
The combined havoc that social
media and drugs are going to wreak
on the sport is evident and yet I do
not see anyone getting to grips
with either problem.
The use of social media to
communicate with its participants
and make racing a social media-
free sport. The “cost” of not
building up large online fan bases
is a price well worth paying.
Narcotics are an even bigger
threat to the peaceful enjoyment of
racing. It should come as no
surprise that the drug binge that
has seemingly swept across the
country during lockdown is now
spilling onto racecourses.
One has only to watch football
fans to realise that cocaine, ecstasy,
searches is to hide the drugs in underpants.
their underpants. Any fear of I would not for one moment
getting caught is also nonexistent. blame China for our current drug
There is no jeopardy. wave. The South Americans have
So the “woke” concept that police done that part of the job for them.
stopping and searching suspected But worse is yet to come. Once
dealers outside racecourses and addicted, a generation of our young
marching them off to a portable will be at the mercy of an
building for a proper search is too organised, hostile nation should it
heavy-handed must be abandoned. choose to mix debilitating poison
Racecourses need to become a “not into the drugs.
worth the bother” zone for those Let us just hope the World
who are pushing drugs. And that is Health Organisation makes sure
not the case at the moment. that does not happen.

Database

Baseball S Lowry (Rep of Ireland) 71 67 62; 201—C Rugby League

MLB: NY Yankees 7 Minnesota 1-Tampa Bay 8
Chicago White Sox 4-Chicago Cubs 2 Kansas City
4-Toronto 3 Detroit 0-LA Dodgers 4 NY Mets
3-Milwaukee 9 Washington 6-Oakland 5 San
Francisco 6-Cleveland 5 LA Angels 1-Houston 15
Seattle 1-Cincinnati 7 Miami 4-Baltimore 4
Atlanta 5-Boston 1 Texas 10-St. Louis 4
Pittsburgh 5-Colorado 5 Arizona 2-San Diego 4
Philadelphia 3 (10 Innings).
Boxing
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA.-WBA Super Welterweight
Title: Yordenis Ugas (Cuba) bt Manny Pacquiao
(Philippines) UD 12th rd.
Cricket
SECOND TEST.-Kingston: Pakistan 302-9dec
(110 overs; Fawad Alam 124; Babar Azam 75);
West Indies.
Cycling
VUELTA A ESPANA.-Stage 8 (Santa Pola - La
Manga del Mar Menor, 173.7km): 1 F Jakobsen
(Holland) Deceuninck-QuickStep 3hrs 56mins
5secs; 2 A Dainese (Italy) Team DSM; 3 J
Philipsen (Belgium) Alpecin-Fenix; 4 J Meeus
(Belgium) Bora-Hansgrohe; 5 JS Molano
(Colombia) UAE Team Emirates all at same time.
Stage 9 (Puerto Lumbreras - Alto de Velefique,
188km): 1 D Caruso (Italy) Bahrain Victorious
5hrs 3mins 14secs; 2 P Roglic (Slovenia) Jumbo-
Visma +1-05; 3 E Mas (Spain) Movistar Team
+1-06; 4 J Haig (Australia) Bahrain Victorious
+1-44; 5 MA Lopez (Colombia) Movistar Team; 6
A Yates (GB) Ineos Grenadiers both at same time.
Overall: 1 P Roglic 34hrs 18mins 53secs; 2 E
Mas +28s; 3 MA Lopez +1-21; 6 A Yates +2-07.
TOUR OF NORWAY.-Stage 4 (156.5km): 1 M
Walls (GB) Bora-Hansgrohe 3hrs 25mins 16secs.
Final Overall: 1 E Hayter (GB) Ineos Grenadiers
15hrs 15mins 0secs.
Golf
D+D REAL CZECH MASTERS (Prague).-Final rd
Scores (GB & Ireland unless stated): 273—J
Veerman (US) 71 66 68 68; 275—S Crocker
(US) 68 67 70 70; T Pulkkanen (Finland) 68 69
66 72; 276—H Stenson (Sweden) 67 69 69 71;
P Peterson (US) 68 70 68 70; 278—D
Burmester (S Africa) 68 69 72 69; 279—S
Kjeldsen (Denmark) 70 67 73 69; B Poke
(Denmark) 73 71 67 68; J Kruyswijk (S Africa)
69 68 72 70; D Perrier (France) 72 68 69 70; M
Baldwin 73 69 69 68; 280—B Stone (S Africa)
72 69 70 69; J Luiten (Holland) 71 71 68 70; F
Mruzek (Czech Rep) 72 71 70 67; O Fisher 70
72 71 67; M Siem (Germany) 71 68 69 72;
281—S Soederberg (Sweden) 70 64 73 74; J
Lagergren (Sweden) 70 70 69 72; A Meronk
(Poland) 68 67 72 74; A Cockerill (Canada) 69
72 70 70; N Hoejgaard (Denmark) 68 71 69 73;
D Young 70 70 72 69.
USPGA THE NORTHERN TRUST, (Jersey City,
New Jersey).-3rd rd leaders (US unless stated,
Final Round postponed until today): 197—J Rahm
(Spain) 63 67 67; C Smith (Australia) 69 68 60;
198—E van Rooyen (S Africa) 69 67 62; 199—T
Finau 67 64 68; J Thomas 63 69 67; 200—T
Hoge 69 64 67; V Hovland (Norway) 68 67 65;
Conners (Canada) 70 69 62; H Varner III 66 67
68; 202—S Burns 71 67 64; B Koepka 70 64
68; K Mitchell 68 64 70; X Schauffele 70 62
70; H Swafford 71 65 66; C Tringale 67 68 67.
Motor racing
WTCR RACE OF HUNGARY (Budapest).-Race 1: 1
G Magnus (Belgium) Audi 30mins 41.529secs; 2
M Azcona (Spain) CUPRA +2.127secs; 3 Y
Ehrlacher (France) Lynk & Co +2.682. Race 2: 1 S
Urrutia (Uruguay) Lynk & Co 28:53.853; 2 F
Vervisch (Belgium) Audi +2.328; 3 M Azcona
(Spain) CUPRA +3.387. Championship
Standings: 1 Y Ehrlacher 103pts; 2 S Urrutia
101; 3 J-K Verney (France) 87.
LE MANS 24-HOUR (Circuit de la Sarthe): 1
Toyota (M Conway (GB), K Kobayashi (Japan), JM
Lopez Argentina); 2 Toyota (K Nakajima (Japan), S
Buemi (Switzerland), B Hartley (New Zealand) +2
laps.
Motorcycling
BRITISH SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP (Cadwell
Park).-Race 1: 1 P Hickman (GB) BMW 20mins
21.062secs; 2 J O’Halloran (Australia) Yamaha at
2.080secs; 3 T Bridewell (GB) Ducati at
3.729secs. Race 2: 1 P Hickman 26mins
10.023secs; 2 J O’Halloran +0.155; 3 T Bridewell
+0.817. Championship Standings: 1 J
O’Halloran 342pts; 2 C Iddon (GB) Ducati 223; 3
T Mackenzie (GB) Yamaha 223.
WORLD SUPERBIKES GP OF NAVARRA (Spain).-
Race 1: 1 S Redding (GB) Ducati 37mins
50.793secs; 2 J Rea (GB) Kawasaki at 2.519secs;
3 T Razgatlioglu (Turkey) Yamaha at 5.894; 4 A
Locatelli (Italy) Yamaha at 9.405; 5 A Lowes (GB)
Kawasaki at 16.219. Race 2: 1 T Razgatlioglu
(Turkey) Yamaha 36mins 09.492secs; 2 S
Redding (GB) Ducati at 1.105secs; 3 J Rea (GB)
Kawasaki at 3.715; 4 A Locatelli (Italy) Yamaha
at 10.758; 5 T Sykes (GB) BMW at 14.437.
Championship Standings: 1 T Razgatlioglu
311pts, 2 J Rea 311, 3 S Redding 273; 4 A Lowes
169; 5 A Locatelli 151.
Rugby Union
The Rugby Ch’ship
Argentina 10 South Africa 29
Argentina: J Mallia, I Mendy, S Chocobares, J de la
Fuente (L Cinti 60), S Carreras, D Miotti (N Sanchez
61), G Bertranou (F Ezcurra 78), N Tetaz Chaparro
(F Gigena 56), J Montoya (F Bosch 74), F Gomez
Kodela (S Medrano 57), M Alemanno, T Lavanini, P
Matera, G Petti (J Gonzalez 65), R Bruni (M Kremer
47). T: Matera. C: Sanchez. P: Miotti.
South Africa: W le Roux (D Willemse 64), C Kolbe,
L Am, D de Allende, M Mapimpi, H Pollard, C
Reinach (J Hendrikse 63), T Nyakane (S Kitshoff
15), M Marx (B Mbonambi 56), T du Toit, M Orie (N
Van Rensburg 52), L De Jager (K Smith 61), S
Kolisi, F Mostert, J Wiese (D Du Preez 54). T:
Mapimpi, Marx. C: Pollard (2). P: Pollard (5).
HT: 3-15. Referee: Karl Dickson.
Australia P New Zealand P
P W D L B F A Pts
South Africa 2 2 0 0 1 61 22 9
New Zealand 1 1 0 0 1 57 22 5
Australia 1 0 0 1 0 22 57 0
Argentina 2 0 0 2 0 22 61 0
Betfred Super League
Castleford 23 Wakefield 18
Castleford—T: Eden (2), Holmes, Olpherts. G:
Richardson (3). DG: Richardson. Wakefield—T:
Arona, Johnstone, Kershaw. G: Lino (3). HT: 19-6.
Hull 23 Hull K R 22
Hull—T: Swift, Faraimo (2), Tuimavave. G: Sneyd
(3). DG: Sneyd. Hull K R—T: Keinhorst, Milnes,
Crooks, Vete. G: Crooks (3). HT: 16-10.
Leigh 32 Salford 22
Leigh—T: Mellor, Brand, Hood, Sidlow. G: Mullen
(8). Salford—T: Williams, Livett, Sio (2). G: Inu
(3). HT: 14-10.
P W D L F A Pts Win%
Catalans D's 18 16 0 2 525 312 32 88.89
St Helens 16 13 0 3 398 140 26 81.25
Warrington 16 11 1 4 478 275 23 71.88
Wigan 20 12 0 8 337 353 24 60.00
Hull K R 15 8 0 7 369 332 16 53.33
Hull 16 8 1 7 347 332 17 53.13
Leeds 19 10 0 9 462 344 20 52.63
Castleford 18 9 0 9 342 434 18 50.00
Huddersfield 19 6 0 13 324 388 12 31.58
Salford 17 5 0 12 283 465 10 29.41
Wakefield 19 5 0 14 343 461 10 26.32
Leigh 17 1 0 16 288 660 2 5.88
BETFRED CHAMPIONSHIP: Batley 56 Sheffield
12-Bradford 30 Swinton 26-Featherstone 64
Dewsbury 6-Newcastle P London Broncos
P-Oldham 6 Toulouse 34-Widnes 25 Halifax
6-York 30 Whitehaven 12.
Snooker
BRITISH OPEN (Leicester).-Semi-finals: G
Wilson (Eng) bt E Slessor (Eng) 4-3; M Williams
(Wales) bt J Robertson (England) 4-1. Final: M
Williams bt G Wilson 6-4.
Squash
BRITISH OPEN (Hull).-Men’s Semi-finals: A
Farag (Egypt) bt M Rodriguez (Colombia) 11-5
11-4 11-6; P Coll (Australia) bt M ElShorbagy
(Egypt) 11-8 11-7 11-5. Final: P Coll bt A Farag
6-11 11-6 11-6 11-8. Women’s Semi-finals: N
El Sherbini (Egypt) bt A Sobhy (US) 11-7 9-11
11-2 11-6; N Gohar (Egypt) bt H El Hammamy
(Egypt) 11-8 11-5 11-9. Final: N El Sherbini bt
N Gohar 9-11 13-11 5-11 11-7 11-2.
Tennis
ATP & WTA T’MENT (Cincinnati, Ohio).-Men’s
Semi-finals: A Rublev (Russia) bt D Medvedev
(Russia) 2-6 6-3 6-3; A Zverev (Germany) bt S
Tsitsipas (Greece) 6-4 3-6 7-6 (7-4). Final: A
Zverev bt A Rublev 6-2 6-3. Women’s Semi-
finals: A Barty (Australia) bt A Kerber (Germany)
6-2 7-5; J Belen Teichmann (Switzerland) bt K
Pliskova (Czech Rep) 6-2 6-4. Final: A Barty bt J
Belen Teichmann 6-3 6-1.
WTA CHALLENGER T'MENT (Chicago).-Final: C
Tauson (Denmark) bt E Raducanu (GB) 6-1 2-6 6-4.
Sport on TV
CRICKET: West Indies v Pakistan, 2nd Test - BT
Sport 2 3.45. FOOTBALL: Premier League, West
Ham v Leicester - Sky Sports Main Event, Sky
Sports Premier League 7pm.
The Daily Telegraph Monday 23 August 2021 *** 19

Sport
Racing

Fahey ‘panic’ over as Perfect Power storms home Racing results

5.45 (1m6f h’cap): Oceanline (W Buick 17-2) 1; Sovereign
Brighton Going: Good-good to firm in places
2.20 (5f60yds h’cap): Ocean Wilde (D Keenan 5-1) 1; Joli’s Duke (66-1) 2; Cormier (4-1) 3. Praiano 11-4F. 12 ran. 1¼, hd.
By Marcus Armytage when he came to us, but he came Legacy (10-3) 2; Campachoochoo (5-2) 3. Lasting Beauty 9-4F. (A King). NRs: Single, Viaduct.
RACING CORRESPONDENT back to earth after a couple of 6 ran. ½, 1l. (J Ryan). 6.15 (1m1f h’cap): Yorkshire Lady (Joanna Mason 15-2) 1;
2.50 (5f60yds mdn): Lucky Shake (M Ghiani 7-2) 1; Thefastnthecurious (33-1) 2; Strawberri (11-4F) 3. 14 ran.
weeks. That’s what the breeze-up Goldenhurst (5-2F) 2; Suanni (9-1) 3. 7 ran. 1½, hd. (S & E 1¼, 2¼. (M & D Easterby). NRs: Lady Reset, Zulu Girl.
Richard Fahey might have had a lads have to do. He soon learnt and Crisford). NR: Ridicule. 6.45 (1m h’cap): Farasi Lane (T Marquand 13-2) 1; Give It
3.20 (5f215yds h’cap): Endowed (M Ghiani 11-8F) 1; Some Teddy (8-1) 2; Baby Steps (12-1) 3; Tommy G (10-1) 4.
quieter Ebor meeting than he usu- he’s been very simple since.” Touchwood (5-2) 2; Sands Of Time (15-2) 3. 5 ran. ½, 4l. (A
Bucephalus 9-2F. 16 ran. 2¾, 1¼, ¾. (T Ward). NR: Dalanijujo.
ally does on the Knavesmire last Audarya, James Fanshawe’s filly Carroll). Jackpot: Not won, pool of £21,277.30 carried over.
Placepot: £632.90. Quadpot: £101.40.
week, but the Yorkshire trainer who won last year ’s Prix Jean 3.50 (7f216yds h’cap): Magnetised (H Turner 11-2) 1; Goddess
Of Fire (85-40) 2; Dark Company (11-4) 3. De Vegas Kid 2-1F.
claimed the prestigious Prix Morny Romanet before going on to tri- 4 ran. ½, ¾. (D M Simcock). Worcester Going: Good
at Deauville with Perfect Power yes- umph at the Breeders’ Cup, was nar- 4.25 (7f216yds h’cap): Sam Bellamy (J Fanning 6-1) 1; 1.00 (2m7f h’cap nov ch): Rhythm Is A Dancer (H Cobden
Thunderoad (9-2) 2; He’s Our Star (9-4F) 3. 9 ran. nk, 1l. (M 14-1) 1; Oscar Montel (16-5) 2; Streets Of Doyen (6-5F) 3. 5
terday. rowly denied a second win in the Johnston). ran. 9½, 5l. (P Nicholls).
The colt, ridden by Christophe race by 33-1 outsider Grand Glory. 5.00 (1m1f207yds h’cap): Dartington (C Fallon 9-4JF) 1; 1.35 (2m7f h’cap ch): Head On (T J O’Brien 7-2) 1; Hoot At
Midnight (10-3F) 2; Mr Jim (16-1) 3. 14 ran. 1½, nk. (I Williams).
Soumillon – always a good man to “She ran very well and the last Contingency Fee (9-4JF) 2; Long Call (8-1) 3. 5 ran. 2¼, 3¾. (M
2.10 (2m nh flat): Operation Manna (J J Burke 11-4) 1;
Tregoning). NRs: Derek Duval, National Treasure.
have on your side in a French Group 100 metres seemed a long way,” Fan- 5.30 (1m3f198yds h’cap): Eton Blue (Mr S Walker 15-8F) 1; It’s
Fifrelet (9-1) 2; Turpin Gold (9-1) 3. Wild Breeze 9-4F. 9 ran. ½,
2¼. (T Lacey).
One face – was settled at the back Yorkshire winner: Perfect Power leads way shawe said. “It’s good to see her How We Roll (11-2) 2; Hooves Like Jagger (11-4) 3. 5 ran. 5½,
2.40 (2m7f mdn hdle): Not At Present (K Woods 7-2) 1;
and then proceeded to scythe in the Group One Prix Morny at Deauville back after Goodwood [she disap- shd. (G Baker). Seinesational (6-5F) 2; Cardboard Gangster (9-4) 3. 6 ran. ½,
Placepot: £72.20. Quadpot: £16.90.
through the field. pointed in the Nassau]. She’s run 11l. (B Pauling).
3.10 (2m h’cap hdle): Champagne City (C Gethings 6-1) 1;
He hit the front 60 yards out and imagine he’s a nice horse to ride at really well and it’s just annoying she Sandown Going: Good to soft-good in places Solstalla (4-1) 2; Constancio (18-5) 3. Fix Sun 10-3F. 6 ran. 3¾,
beat the French colt Trident by a the races because you wouldn’t feel got beaten.” 3.55 (7f mdn): King Of Conquest (W Buick 6-4F) 1; Paradias 7l. (T R George).
(20-1) 2; Shut Up Michael (28-1) 3. 11 ran. 2½, nk. (C Appleby). 3.40 (2m7f h’cap hdle): Do Ya Feel Lucky (T Scudamore 10-1)
length and a quarter. Asymmetric – he was ever going to get flustered.” Lady Bowthorpe, who beat her 4.20 (1m1f209yds h’cap): Silver Gunn (D E Hogan 11-1) 1; 1; Get An Oscar (6-1) 2; Dynamic Kate (6-1) 3. Midnight
trained by Alan King, who is getting That was in contrast to the comprehensively in the Nassau, fin- Maiden Castle (7-1) 2; Mascat (11-2) 3. Sweet Reward 5-1F. 15 Aurora 5-1F. 11 ran. shd, 4l. (D Pipe). NR: Kalinda.
ran. nk, 1½. (M Botti). NRs: Civil Law, End Result. 4.10 (2m7f h’cap hdle): Czech Her Out (T Scudamore 6-1) 1;
a taste for Group One Flat races – trainer. “I was panicking there – ished down the field. “She hasn’t 4.50 (5f10yds h’cap): Amazonian Dream (O Murphy 5-2F) 1; Mini Crest (4-1JF) 2; Chosen Shant (11-2) 3. Ballymilan 4-1JF.
was a close-up third. maybe Christophe wasn’t, but he’s a run to her Goodwood form,” said Whistledown (7-1) 2; Vince Lombardi (40-1) 3. 10 ran. ns, 2½. 10 ran. 1½, 3¼. (M Scudamore). NR: Mabela.
“He’s a laid-back character, but I better jockey than I ever was or will trainer William Jarvis, who could (B Millman). 4.45 (2m4f h’cap nov hdle): Duc De Bourbon (L Williams 15-8F)
5.20 (5f10yds h’cap): Be Proud (W Buick 11-4F) 1; Global 1; Faitque De L’isle (9-4) 2; King’s Proctor (3-1) 3. 4 ran. 10l,
always thought he was pretty be – but it was just great to see him find no immediate reason for the Prospector (9-1) 2; Beyond Equal (8-1) 3. 13 ran. ½, 1¾. (J 5½. (P Nicholls). NR: Sufi.
smart,” Fahey said of the winner. “I coming through. He was very buzzy poor performance. Goldie). NRs: Aljady, A Pint Of Bear, King Of Stars, Royal Birth. Placepot: £178.70. Quadpot: £34.90.

Racecards

Brighton 4.15 Maiden Stakes (5) 6f £3,672 3.00 Casumo Handicap (5) 3YO 6f £3,240 6.55 Visit ripon-races.co.uk Handicap (4) 1m £4,752 5.05 Visit racingtv.com Juvenile Hdl (Div 1) (3) 3YO 2m £5,991
1 28 Giveit Some Orange (20) R Brisland 4 9 8 D Keenan 5 1 174 Danzart [H](46) (D) (BF) M Channon 9 7 C Bishop 4 1 204 Poet’s Dawn (9) (C)(D) T Easterby 6 10 0 Ella McCain (5) 3 1 411 Scrappy Jack (36) W G M Turner 11 8 H Kimber (7)
2 5 Blackthirtyone (68) A West 3 9 5 J Haynes 1 2 041 Maajdah (18) (D) W Haggas 9 6 T Marquand 2 2 483 Safran [H](9) (D) D O’Meara 4 9 12 D Tudhope 2 2 Colden’s Passion (F39) C Tizzard 10 12 B J Powell
Marlborough 3 6- Dusky Lord (334) R Varian 3 9 5 A Atzeni 6 3 915 Wudashudacuda (60) (D) R Teal 9 5 G Rooke (3) 3 3 339 Eton College (29) M Johnston 4 9 11 J Fanning 4 3 Devious Dreamer [T](F42) D P Quinn 10 12 J Bowen
1.45 - Summer’s Day 4 320 Imperial Force [V](25) A Balding 3 9 5 4 111 Russco (16) D McCain 9 5 J Crowley 5 4 132 Mars Landing (15) (D) (BF) Sir M Stoute 4 9 10 4 422 Fred Bear (25) (BF) Miss S West 10 12 M Goldstein
2.15 - Porterinthejungle 3.45 - Hot Scoop C Hutchinson (5) 2 R Kingscote 10
5 1-4 Shrara (14) (CD) R Beckett 9 4 R Hornby 1 5 Nayon [H](F35) R Eddery 10 12 F Gregory (3)
2.45 - Fille De La Lune 4.15 - Tawaazon 5 00- Iron Wolf (350) A Carroll 3 9 5 Mollie Phillips (5) 4 5 216 Malhoob (90) (D) R Varian 3 9 6 D O’Neill 9
6 611 Portelet Bay [V](24) (D) P Evans 8 11 H Crouch 6 6 173 Challet [H](10) (CD)(D) (BF) M Dods 4 9 6 C Beasley 1 6 Rhythmic Blues (F29) M & D Easterby 10 12 T Midgley (7)
3.15 - Junoesque 4.47 - Shamshon 6 64 Tawaazon (11) (BF) Owen Burrows 3 9 5 W Buick 3 S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Maajdah, 3-1 Russco, 4-1 Portelet Bay, 6-1 Danzart, 7 223 Six Strings (19) (D) (BF) G Tuer 7 9 6 S James 6 7 Scots Gold (F114) D Skelton 10 12 H Skelton
S.P. f’cast: 2-1 Tawaazon, 9-4 Imperial Force, 3-1 Dusky Lord, 5-1 13-2 Shrara, 10-1 Wudashudacuda. 8 Sir Taweel [T](F59) N King 10 12 Bryony Frost
Giveit Some Orange, 16-1 Blackthirtyone, 100-1 Iron Wolf. 8 826 Trinity Lake (22) D Carroll 5 9 5 Z Wheatley (7) 5
Going: Good-good to firm in places TV: Sky Sports Racing 9 Aliomaana [H](F19) M Harris 10 5 M Bastyan (3)
Draw: In sprint races low numbers tend to have an advantage over five 3.30 Join Casumo Today Handicap (6) 5f £2,700 9 468 Carnival Zain [H](16) (D) M Hammond 4 9 3 B Garritty (3) 7
furlongs, high best over six furlongs. 4.47 Apprentice Handicap (5) 5f £3,240 1 265 Handytalk (11) (D) B Millman 8 9 9 R Coakley 2
10809 Fennaan (12) (D) Phillip Makin 6 9 1 R Scott 11 10 Fiamette [V](F161) Miss J Davis 10 5 J M Davies
[B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] Cheekpieces 1 242 Boom The Groom (19) (D) A Carroll 10 9 5 11977 Al Erayg [P,T](21) (D) T Easterby 8 9 1 D Allan 8 11 Lanika (F24) G Brown 10 5 Paul O’Brien (3)
Mollie Phillips (3) 2 2 311 Secret Potion [P](13) (CD)(D) R Harris 7 9 7 T Whelan 8
S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Mars Landing, 6-1 Six Strings, 7-1 Challet, Malhoob, S.P. f’cast: 11-4 Scots Gold, 3-1 Scrappy Jack, 10-3 Fred Bear, 7-1
1.45 Maiden Fillies’ Stakes (5) 2YO 6f £3,780 2 537 Batchelor Boy [B](17) (C)(D) J Gallagher 4 9 3 3 513 Bellevarde (13) (CD)(D) (BF) R J Price 7 9 7 A Villiers (5) 9 Poet’s Dawn, 15-2 Trinity Lake, 8-1 Safran, 10-1 Others. Aliomaana, 10-1 Devious Dreamer, Colden’s Passion, 16-1 Others.
1 Darcy’s Rock S Durack 9 0 T P Queally 3 C Hutchinson 4 4 85- Rocking Reg (423) R Teal 4 9 6 G Rooke (3) 6
2 99 Maison Beau (15) A Carroll 9 0 M Ghiani 6 3 143 Street Parade [P](11) (D) M Attwater 5 9 2 5 152 Atty’s Edge (11) (CD)(C)(D) C Mason 5 9 5 W Cox (3) 1 7.25 Titanium Racing Handicap (6) 3YO 1m 4f £2,322 5.35 Visit racingtv.com Juvenile Hdl (Div 2) (3) 3YO 2m £5,991
3 7 No More Tiers (47) C Hills 9 0 K Shoemark 4 Molly Presland (5) 3 6 226 Fard [B](10) M Blake 6 8 11 T Greatrex (3) 5 1 122 King Viktor (8) (D) (BF) B Ellison 9 8 B Robinson 4 1 1 Caramelised (25) (CD) A King 11 4 T Cannon
4 7 Sense Of Security (21) R Hughes 9 0 S W Kelly 5 4 531 Shamshon (19) (CD)(D1) S C Williams 10 9 2 7 916 Blue Venture (19) (CD) A Carroll 4 8 10 T Marquand 7 2 651 Raqisa (17) (D) J O’Keeffe 9 7 J Garritty 5 2 Aggagio [H](F45) Mrs S Leech 10 12 S Bowen
A Farragher 1 3 321 Out Of Sight (23) Alex French 9 7 S Cherchi (3) 6 3 6 Crane (25) N Henderson 10 12 N De Boinville
5 42 Summer’s Day (21) C Appleby 9 0 W Buick 2 8 -48 Edge Of The Bay (19) C Mason 4 8 6 S Hitchcott 4
S.P. f’cast: 15-8 Shamshon, 2-1 Boom The Groom, 3-1 Street 4 367 Blue Honey (22) M Dods 9 2 C Beasley 3 4 Gavin [H](F86) Joe Ponting 10 12 C Hammond
6 224 Tadita Twitch (9) E Dunlop 9 0 S Osborne (5) 1 Parade, 11-2 Batchelor Boy. 9 837 Hot Hot Hot (17) (D) A Carroll 4 8 2 K O’Neill 3
S.P. f’cast: 6-5 Tadita Twitch, 5-4 Summer’s Day, 10-1 No More 5 675 Hellenista (6) T Easterby 8 11 D Allan 1 5 Gonna Go Viral (F74) J Farrelly 10 12 B J Powell
S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Secret Potion, 7-2 Bellevarde, 6-1 Handytalk, 7-1
6 532 Oot Ma Way [P](14) I Jardine 8 2 A Mullen 2
Tiers, 14-1 Sense Of Security, 20-1 Darcy’s Rock, 50-1 Maison Beau.
Chepstow Blue Venture, Atty’s Edge, 8-1 Fard, 12-1 Edge Of The Bay, Rocking
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2.15 Handicap (5) 7f £3,240 Ma Way, 15-2 Hellenista, 12-1 Blue Honey.
8 Von Melas (F20) M & D Easterby 10 12 T Midgley (7)
1 465 Velvet Vista [B,T](12) (CD)(D) M Murphy 5 9 10
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D Muscutt 7 7.55 Handicap (6) 3YO 6f £2,322 9 Addosh [H](F24) S Edmunds 10 5 C Gethings
1.00 - Kath’s Toyboy 2.30 - Fieldsman 1 643 Cometh The Man [B,E](8) D O’Meara 9 8 D Tudhope 13 10 7 Baby Sham (36) Seamus Mullins 10 5 A Thorne (5)
2 764 Kendergarten Kop [B](1) (CD)(C)(D) D Flood 6 9 9 1.30 - Almost An Angel 3.00 - Russco (nb) Marlborough
S Osborne (5) 2 2 541 Mr Trevor [H](17) (D) Mrs A Duffield 9 7 S Gray 7 11 5 Free Degrees (29) S-J Davies 10 5 W T Kennedy
2.00 - Rani Of Jhansi 3.30 - Blue Venture 3 Blazing Son (17) B Smart 9 6 G Lee 8
3 217 Aweemaweh [P](5) (CD)(D) M Channon 4 9 7 S M Levey 6 5.25 - Willard Creek 6.55 - Mars Landing (nap) 283 S.P. f’cast: 8-11 Caramelised, 6-1 Crane, 8-1 Addosh, 10-1
4 436 Ireland’s Eye [V](17) D Carroll 9 5 H Shaw 10 Aggagio, 14-1 Von Melas, 16-1 Prey For Glory, Sabre Jet, 20-1 Others.
4 111 Porterinthejungle (18) (CD)(D) R Brisland 5 9 3 5.55 - Wade’s Magic 7.25 - King Viktor
K Shoemark 3 Going: Good to soft-soft in places TV: Sky Sports Racing 6.25 - Notation 7.55 - Oh So Hot 5 197 Ginato [B](17) (CD) (BF) R Fell 9 5 J Hart 1
5 563 Madrinho [B](4) A Carroll 8 9 0 M Ghiani 5 Draw: High numbers have a slight advantage in races up to a mile. 6 354 Miss Bella Brand (24) Mrs I G-Leveque 9 4 G Wood 4 6.05 Bet At racingtv.com Handicap Chase (5) 2m 3f £2,505
[B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] Cheekpieces 7 446 Albegone [B](12) T Easterby 9 0 D Allan 6 1 -32 Makety (39) O Sherwood 7 12 0 J J Burke
6 926 Kick On Kick On [P,T](15) I Williams 6 9 0 David Egan 4
Going: Good to soft TV: Sky Sports Racing 2 244 Pointed And Sharp [T](36) (D) P Hobbs 9 11 12 T J O’Brien
7 481 Rhyme Scheme [P,T](18) (CD) M Appleby 4 8 11 W Buick 1 1.00 Casumo Bet 10 Get 10 Handicap (5) 3YO 5f £3,240 Draw: Low numbers favoured on the sprint course.
8 226 Oh So Hot (18) (BF) Adrian Nicholls 8 12 B McHugh 3
9 103 Miss Trixie (17) (D) Steph Hollinshead 8 10 3 53U Bagan [P](25) (C) T R Gretton 7 11 9 J Best
S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Porterinthejungle, 3-1 Rhyme Scheme, 5-1 1 311 Blue Moonrise (4) (CD)(D) P Evans 10 3(12ex) [B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] Cheekpieces
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Aweemaweh, 6-1 Madrinho, 8-1 Kick On Kick On, 10-1 Kendergarten Gina Mangan (7) 5 4 302 Chapati (27) J Coulson 7 11 8 F Gregory (3)
Kop, 12-1 Velvet Vista. 2 441 Kath’s Toyboy [B](18) (D) R Hughes 9 7 J Crowley 4
5.25 Maiden Stakes (5) 1m £3,510 10339 Keepherlit [P](17) N Tinkler 8 8 R Scott 9 5 4-4 Moans Cross (36) D Bridgwater 7 11 4 M Bastyan (3)
1 7 Colleague (23) E Alston 4 9 11 J Hart 5 11740 Suntory Star (47) B Haslam 8 8 A Mullen 5 6 214 Air Hair Lair (25) (CD) (BF) Miss S West 5 10 12 M Goldstein
3 212 Glamorous Breeze [P](9) (CD) (BF) C Mason 9 6
2.45 Nursery (6) 2YO 1m £2,700 W Cox (3) 1 2 /2- Liberation Point (322) M Appleby 4 9 11 K Stott 1 12058 Desert Cat (39) E Alston 8 7 S Cherchi (3) 12 7 4P7 This Breac [H,T](25) J Frost 10 10 3 C Quinn (7)
1 788 Lark Lane (10) M Channon 9 9 W Buick 4 4 727 Bluebird Day (30) R Beckett 9 0 H Crouch 3 3 76 Ryton (18) T Easterby 4 9 11 D Fentiman 4 13008 Lady Artela [P](21) Ewan Whillans 8 7 C Hardie 2 8 74P Alburn [H,T](48) R Armson 11 10 0 P Armson (7)
2 635 Dashing To You (20) W Stone 9 7 Laura Pearson (3) 1 5 234 Mahale (69) M Channon 8 13 G Bass (5) 7 4 Charlesishere Mrs A Duffield 3 9 5 S Gray 6 S.P. f’cast: 7-2 Mr Trevor, 4-1 Cometh The Man, 6-1 Oh So Hot, 8-1
Blazing Son, 10-1 Ginato, Miss Bella Brand, Ireland’s Eye, 12-1 Others. S.P. f’cast: 15-8 Bagan, 7-2 Air Hair Lair, 4-1 Makety, 6-1 Chapati,
3 455 Fille De La Lune (10) K Burke 9 6 P-L Jamin (5) 5 6 525 Tenth Century (84) M Blake 8 12 T Greatrex (3) 6 5 38 Cragside (18) T Easterby 3 9 5 D Allan 2 15-2 Pointed And Sharp, 12-1 Moans Cross, 20-1 Others.
4 389 Pretty Green [T](12) S C Williams 9 5
5 643 Twistaline (12) B Millman 8 7
M Ghiani 7
N Currie 3
7 657 Toptime (4) B Millman 8 12 R Coakley 2 6 3 Willard Creek (18) T D Barron 3 9 5 C Beasley 3 Stratford 6.35 Dr Robert Davies 50th Birthday Hcap Hdl (3) 3m 2f £4,956
S.P. f’cast: 11-4 Blue Moonrise, 3-1 Kath’s Toyboy, 9-2 Glamorous 7 33 Angel Amadea (13) (BF) W Haggas 3 9 0 D Tudhope 7
6 007 True Company (10) S Kirk 8 7 Shariq Mohd (7) 2 Breeze, 6-1 Bluebird Day, 8-1 Tenth Century, Mahale, 12-1 Toptime. 1 -32 The Bull Mccabe [T](55) (C) K Bailey 7 11 12 D Bass
S.P. f’cast: 13-8 Angel Amadea, 5-2 Liberation Point, 3-1 Willard
7 007 Ribble Bridge (40) S Kirk 8 7 David Egan 6 Creek, 8-1 Cragside, 20-1 Charlesishere, Ryton, 33-1 Colleague. Marlborough 2 801 Ballon Onabudget [P](29) (D) T R George 8 11 8 J J Burke
S.P. f’cast: 15-8 Twistaline, 9-4 Dashing To You, 4-1 Pretty Green, 1.30 Casumo Best Odds Guaranteed Hcap (5) 3YO 7f £3,240 3.55 - Tynecastle Park 6.05 - Bagan 3 -11 Wbee (36) (CD)(C) G Hanmer 6 11 2 S Bowen
7-1 Fille De La Lune, 12-1 Lark Lane, 20-1 Ribble Bridge, 25-1 True 1 107 Marselan (18) (D) E J-Houghton 9 7 C Bishop 1 5.55 Handicap (5) 5f £2,862 4.30 - Cape Robin 6.35 - Wbee 4 4-P Dr Des [P](115) (C) P Bowen 10 11 0 J Bowen
Company. 2 241 Almost An Angel (4) (CD)(C)(D) P Evans 9 7(6ex) 1 106 Dapper Man [P](6) (CD)(D11) R Fell 7 9 11 J Hart 2 5.05 - Fred Bear 7.05 - Captain Cobajay 5 6-1 Tel’art [P](25) (CD)(C) B Pauling 7 10 11 K Woods
Gina Mangan (7) 3 2 623 Buniann (30) (D) P Midgley 5 9 11 K Stott 6 5.35 - Caramelised 7.35 - Div Ine Tara S.P. f’cast: 2-1 Wbee, 5-2 Ballon Onabudget, 7-2 Tel’art, 4-1 The
3.15 Handicap (6) 1m 2f £2,700 3 775 Arcadian Nights (12) M Channon 9 4 T Marquand 5 3 354 Big Thanks [P,T](12) Phillip Makin 3 9 9 P Mulrennan 5 Bull Mccabe, 12-1 Dr Des.
1 634 Cafe Sydney (6) (C)(D) A Carroll 5 9 9 Mollie Phillips (5) 10 4 134 Duke Of Prussia (8) (D) Sir M Prescott 8 11 R Tate 4 4 Thrilla In Manila [P](11) (D) P Midgley 5 9 8
2 431 Mahanakhon Power [V](2) (D) M Appleby 4 9 12(5ex) 5 645 Mountain Ash [P](34) B Millman 8 3 K O’Neill 2
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7.05 Racing TV Handicap Chase (5) 2m 1f £2,505
W Buick 8 1 -53 Costly Diamond [T](9) G Hanmer 7 12 1 W Shanahan (7)
S.P. f’cast: 2-1 Duke Of Prussia, 9-4 Almost An Angel, 4-1 Marselan, 5 443 Canford Bay [T](19) (CD)(D) A Brittain 7 9 8 C Hardie 3
3 804 Catch My Breath [P](10) J Ryan 5 9 7 D Keenan 5 6-1 Mountain Ash, 7-1 Arcadian Nights. 6 613 Harrogate (10) (CD)(D) P Midgley 6 9 7 G Lee 7
3.55 Join Racing TV Now Maiden Hurdle (4) 2m 3f £4,084 2 P4P Steeles Terrace (1) A Carroll 9 11 12 H Bannister
4 223 Platinum Prince [V](18) G L Moore 4 9 5 T P Queally 2 1 4 Allsfineandandy [P](28) C Tizzard 5 11 4 H Kimber (7) 3 -53 Guns For Hire [P](56) E Williams 6 11 1 C Ring (3)
7 237 Wade’s Magic [P](6) (D) (BF) T Easterby 4 9 6
5 211 Junoesque [P](19) (CD)(C)(D) J Gallagher 7 9 5 2.00 Download The Casumo App Novice Stks (5) 1m £3,672 Ella McCain (5) 8 2 323 Edinburgh Castle [T](41) (BF) Jonjo O’Neill 5 11 4 4 -30 Genever Dragon (24) (D) D McCain 4 11 1 T Gillard (5)
G Buckell (3) 3 1 5 Twiggys Pride (26) J Flint 5 9 8 W Cox (3) 4 T Scudamore
8 418 Twice Adaay [P](21) (D) A Keatley 3 9 1 3 Grenadier Guard (F35) D Shaw 5 11 4 J M Davies 5 PP1 Captain Cobajay (9) (D) Justin Landy 8 10 11 C Bewley
6 475 Cap D’Antibes (20) M Roberts 4 9 3 C Shepherd 7 2 Mujtaba W Haggas 3 9 2 J Crowley 7 Ryan Sexton (7) 4
4 Kyllachy Castle (F13) C Tizzard 5 11 4 T J O’Brien 6 4F0 Gaia Vallis [P,T](25) D Bridgwater 5 10 7 A Bellamy (7)
7 047 Azor Ahai [T](79) G Baker 5 9 2 S W Kelly 9 3 Ship To Shore P Chamings 3 9 2 C Bishop 5 9 532 Qaaraat [V](13) (D) A Brittain 6 8 10 K Schofield (5) 1
5 P53 Lisronagh Stone [B,T](25) P Henderson 8 11 4 N Scholfield 7 44P Kapsize [P,T](42) (BF) P Bowen 7 10 0 S Bowen
8 535 Selecto [P](19) M Channon 4 8 13 Rose Dawes (7) 6 4 0 Undercover Agent (11) M Gillard 3 9 2 R Hornby 3 S.P. f’cast: 10-3 Qaaraat, 5-1 Harrogate, 11-2 Buniann, 6-1 Wade’s 8 224 Babytaggle (9) G Brown 10 10 0 Shane Quinlan (5)
Magic, 15-2 Big Thanks, 8-1 Canford Bay, Twice Adaay, 10-1 Dapper
6 24/ On The Meter [WS](735) D Bridgwater 7 11 4 B J Powell
9 352 Thunderoad (1) A Carroll 5 8 7 M Ghiani 1 5 323 Rani Of Jhansi (22) D M Simcock 3 8 11 T Marquand 8 9 -8P St Merryn (25) (CD) B Summers 10 10 0 D Burton (5)
Man, 14-1 Thrilla In Manila. 7 522 Percy’s Word (40) (BF) D Skelton 7 11 4 H Skelton
10863 Teemlucky [V](19) I Williams 5 8 7 David Egan 11 6 90 Ruby Lily [T](19) S Lycett 3 8 11 10573 Trio D’ecajeul [P](27) M Blake 7 10 0 D Noonan
8 3P- Sir Canford [P,T](F39) A Stronge 5 11 4 J Bowen
11087 Champagne Highlife [P](33) J Flint 4 8 7 T Heard (5) 4 Elisha Whittington (5) 2
7 77P Sovereign Point (13) P Webber 3 8 11 S Hitchcott 6
6.25 Best Odds Guaranteed At ne-bet.com Hcap (4) 2m £4,752 9 5P/ Tynecastle Park (F33) R Eddery 8 11 4 F Gregory (3) S.P. f’cast: 5-4 Captain Cobajay, 9-2 Costly Diamond, 13-2 Kapsize,
S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Mahanakhon Power, 3-1 Junoesque, 7-1 Platinum 10 5 Alioski (1) G Brown 4 11 0 Paul O’Brien (3) 7-1 Babytaggle, 12-1 Guns For Hire, Steeles Terrace, 14-1 Others.
Prince, 10-1 Thunderoad, Cap D’Antibes, 12-1 Teemlucky, Azor Ahai, 1 589 Notation (11) M Johnston 4 9 10 J Peate (7) 3
8 9 Where’s The Dog (19) R Brotherton 3 8 11 W Carver (3) 1
Selecto, 14-1 Others. 2 064 Eagle Court [H](30) D O’Meara 4 9 7 D Tudhope 1 11 F Catbird Seat (48) A King 4 11 0 T Cannon
S.P. f’cast: 4-5 Mujtaba, Evens Rani Of Jhansi, 20-1 Ship To Shore,
12 94 Ottavio [H](36) Dr R Newland 4 11 0 C Hammond
7.35 Mares’ Open NH Flat Race (5) 2m £1,906
50-1 Twiggys Pride, 66-1 Undercover Agent, 100-1 Sovereign Point, 3 218 Let Me Be (29) (CD)(D) K Dalgleish 5 9 6 J Fanning 5 1 -62 Div Ine Tara (42) F O’Brien 6 10 12 L Harrison (5)
3.45 Selling Handicap (6) 6f £2,700 Where’s The Dog, Ruby Lily. 4 156 Au Clair De Lune (18) G Scott 4 9 5 R Kingscote 2 S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Percy’s Word, 4-1 Edinburgh Castle, Catbird Seat,
5-1 Sir Canford, 10-1 Ottavio, 12-1 Tynecastle Park, 14-1 Others. 2 553 Gerritzen [T](22) T Bulgin 6 10 12 M Kendrick
1 637 Haidarah [T](18) M Bell 4 9 7 K Shoemark 8 5 281 Dance To Paris [V](30) (D) L Wadham 6 9 5 DOUBTFUL 6
2.30 Apprentice Handicap (4) 7f £4,590 3 U Annie’s Dream (22) C Hobson 4 10 9 Tabitha Worsley (5)
2 807 Hot Scoop [B,T](13) (D) J Osborne 3 9 7 S Osborne (5) 1
1 601 Cold Stare [P,T](16) (D) D O’Meara 6 10 4 DOUBTFUL 7
6 9-3 Land Of Winter [P,T](41) (D) R Guest 5 9 4 D Allan 9 4.30 Novices’ Handicap Chase (4) 2m 5f £3,594 4 5 Checkitsme (31) M Harris 4 10 9 M Bastyan (3)
3 550 I’m Mable (23) Darryll Holland 3 9 5 W Buick 2 7 422 Ghadbbaan (30) (BF) B Ellison 5 8 5 C Hardie 7 1 U31 Umndeni [P](2) P Hobbs 7 12 0 T J O’Brien
2 886 Gloves Lynch [P](20) M Wigham 5 9 12 H Russell 1 5 Joyful Song A Newcombe 4 10 9 H Kimber (7)
4 846 Split Elevens [P](13) (D) J Butler 3 9 3 David Egan 5 8 247 Nakeeta [H](21) I Jardine 10 8 5 A Mullen 8 2 693 Goa Lil (24) N Twiston-Davies 5 11 11 S Twiston-Davies
3 432 Miquelon [P](11) (BF) A Watson 4 9 6 Joanna Mason 6 6 Pennymaze S A Harris 4 10 9 H Nugent (5)
5 320 Jack Ryan [B](10) J Ryan 4 9 1 D Keenan 3 9 255 Bollin Neil [P](21) (D) T Easterby 5 8 4 D Fentiman 4 3 7/1 Royal Ruby (36) (C) N Henderson 9 11 8 N De Boinville
4 112 Bolly Bullet [P](3) (D) (BF) J G O’Shea 4 9 5 7 3 Puffin Bay (41) O Sherwood 4 10 9 J J Burke
6 536 Starchant (30) J Bridger 5 8 8 T Heard (5) 7 S.P. f’cast: 7-2 Ghadbbaan, 4-1 Let Me Be, 13-2 Au Clair De Lune, 4 4F1 Fat Sam [H](25) (C) C Down 7 11 8 J M Davies
L Browne (7) 4 8 72 Shantou Champagne (22) P Bowen 4 10 9 S Bowen
7 006 Whistling Sands (83) R Brisland 5 8 8 15-2 Eagle Court, 8-1 Bollin Neil, Nakeeta, 10-1 Land Of Winter, 5 -1P Don’t Ask [B,T](29) A Hales 8 11 7 K Woods
Mollie Phillips (5) 6 5 254 Delta River (40) P Evans 6 9 4 Gina Mangan (5) 5 14-1 Notation. 9 Splashing Wave R Curtis 4 10 9 B R Jones
6 U21 Cape Robin [T](54) T Vaughan 7 11 5 Charlie Price (5)
8 857 Urban Highway (173) (C) A Carroll 5 8 8 M Ghiani 4 6 704 Sir Plato [V](31) (CD)(C) B Millman 7 9 2 A Villiers (3) 2 10 Tearaway Tilly M Walford 4 10 9 J Hamilton
7 122 Grageelagh Girl [P](36) (C) (BF) F O’Brien 10 11 0
S.P. f’cast: 7-2 Split Elevens, 4-1 Haidarah, 5-1 I’m Mable, 6-1 Hot 7 692 Fieldsman (18) (CD)(D) A Carroll 9 9 2 Emma Taff (7) 3 Whistler’s Nap L Harrison (5) 11 Triptothecity [T]N King 4 10 9 Bryony Frost
Scoop, 7-1 Starchant, Jack Ryan, 8-1 Urban Highway, 12-1 Whistling S.P. f’cast: 7-4 Bolly Bullet, 3-1 Miquelon, 6-1 Sir Plato, 8-1 Delta Bagan (6.05 Stratford) is today’s nap for Whistler (Marcus Armytage) S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Royal Ruby, 3-1 Umndeni, 5-1 Cape Robin, 11-2 S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Div Ine Tara, 10-3 Puffin Bay, 7-2 Shantou
Sands. River, Fieldsman, 10-1 Gloves Lynch. of The Sunday Telegraph. Grageelagh Girl, 6-1 Fat Sam, 12-1 Don’t Ask, Goa Lil. Champagne, 7-1 Joyful Song, Splashing Wave, 14-1 Others.
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Sport
Final whistle
Alan Tyers
Beeb raises bat for
maiden Hundred
A
n entire Saturday An immediate time machine for under the same few non-
afternoon and early
Loving it: Georgia
Adams and Sarah older viewers to the days of Tony negotiables it always has done. The
evening of cricket on
BBC television; and it
Bryce, of Oval
Invincibles, meet
Lewis, and although it is hard to
imagine AR Lewis of Glamorgan
weather is often poor, there is no
substitute for a close contest, and
began with the following
comfortingly familiar piece of
Love Island alumni
Chris Hughes and
and England sporting the silver
parachute trousers of his BBC
there are periods when the TV
coverage will have to fill in for rain,
information: “The good news
here from Lord’s is that we had
Josh Denzel presentational successor Isa Guha,
a reminder that no matter what
light, and times where not a lot is
happening on the field.
a bit of drizzle earlier but we
are due to start on time.”
bastardisations inflicted upon it,
cricket in this country operates
Neither the men’s nor women’s
Hundred final was able to deliver
much of a match in terms of
sporting excitement. In both
contests, the side batting second
were never seriously in it as the
replies limped to a close with the
chasers 32 and 48 runs short
respectively.
Whether that matters is hard to
judge right away. Would a brace of
thrillers have converted more
agnostics flicking through the TV
channels on a drizzly Saturday in
August? Perhaps, but no cricket
match can guarantee a result, other
than the ones those clever
bookmakers in the Far East take
such an interest in.
And as for the levels of cricket,
this column will leave the question
of the standard of the women’s
game to the experts – actual and
self-appointed – and note only that
the evidence of one’s own eyes
suggests professionalism is raising
the bar apace. As to the men’s
game, the number of franchises
seems about right without diluting
the talent pool too much.
To address the Hundred as an
entertainment spectacle is an
easier task: cricket fans in this
country have clamoured for years
that we want the sport back on
terrestrial TV, and by putting 7½
hours of it on BBC2 on a Saturday,
the England and Wales Cricket
Board has belatedly delivered.
As a competition, the Hundred
has been better than anyone dared
to hope, although that is not saying
much, given the bungled launch.
Correctly, the broadcasts on
Sport in brief
Boxing
Manny Pacquiao suffered a
surprise defeat by Cuban
Yordenis Ugas in Las Vegas
and admits he may now quit
boxing for good to focus on
his political career. Pacquiao,
in his first fight since July
2019, lost by unanimous
decision as Ugas retained his
WBA (super) welterweight
title. “In the future, you may
not see Manny Pacquiao in
the ring,” said the 42-year-
old Filipino, a senator in his
homeland.
Monday 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph
Saturday, particularly the women’s
It has been event, were packaged as a family
better than entertainment product. A battery
of children’s TV types and excitable
expected. young people with microphones
vox-popped kids in the crowd, and
But that is grabbed cricketers for a chat.
Everyone universally agreed that
not saying everything was amazing and
brilliant, be it the day out, the
much, entertainment, the batting, the
progress being made by women’s
given its cricket.
As Anya Shrubsole began
bungled proceedings with her hooping
medium-paced inswingers through
launch the smoke that lingered in the
murky Lord’s air from the pre-
match fireworks, one could not
help be reminded of Ian “Bully”
Austin at the 1999 World Cup
opening match on this ground.
This was a better TV day than that.
The much-vaunted innovations
of the Hundred have, as it turns
out, been the weakest bits of it. Few
bowlers have opted to send down
the 10 balls in a row that they are
permitted to, meaning that it is
effectively a contest of 20 overs
(sound familiar?), except with five
deliveries per set. This has not
increased the pace of matches
Readers’ significantly.
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Primoz Roglic, who finished final. “I should have gone out
second, increased his overall several times. Unfortunately
lead. The Italian led for for Gary, this was the best I
much of the 188km stage played all week,” he said.
across the mountains of
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